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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
The Orwellian Bush Administration
Post Date: 2007-10-30 06:30:22 by Ada
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The Bush administration continues to insist that it alone must decide whether a judge is allowed to hear a case that might harm national security. When Judge Harry Pregerson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, listened to Deputy Solicitor General Gregory Garre telling him that, he responded: "The bottom line here is the government declares something is a state secret, and that's the end of it. The king can do no wrong," the Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 16. I have, however, found clear and feasible ways to end the absoluteness of the government's use of the "state secrets" bludgeon. A Washington-based independent think tank called ...
AT&T's guilt-by-association algorithm for finding "terrorists"
Post Date: 2007-10-29 21:08:15 by Zipporah
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AT&T Explains Guilt by Association October 29th, 2007 by Andrew Appel According to government documents studied by The New York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it didn’t have any such technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse. What is the “communities of interest” technology? It’s spelled out very clearly in a 2001 research paper from AT&T itself, entitled “Communities of Interest” (by C. Cortes, D. Pregibon, and C. Volinsky). They use high-tech data-mining algorithms to scan through the huge daily ...
EZ Pass is out to get you.......................REAL SOON
Post Date: 2007-10-29 20:47:39 by Jethro Tull
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EZ Pass is out to get you.......................REAL SOON EZ Pass Information New York State started a pilot program upstate north of Albany on the Northway to catch speeders using the Easy Pass system. Recording devices were installed at intervals along the highway. Once an Easy Pass equipped vehicle passes, the device registers the account number and the time. Same is again registered at the next "check-point". Based upon the distance between the register points and the posted speed limit, the state is sending speeding tickets in the mail to the guilty persons. Because every driver does not have Easy Pass, the State is "perplexed" as what to do to impose the ...
Is Bush Administration Planning Martial Law? Congressman DeFazio Denied Access to Government Documents
Post Date: 2007-10-29 19:01:57 by Horse
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The Bush Administration shocked lawmakers and analysts two months ago when it denied a member of the House Homeland Security Committee permission to examine classified plans for maintaining the functioning of the government in the event of a major natural disaster or terrorist attack. In order to alleviate concerns that the White House has plans for martial law, Representative Peter DeFazio, (D-OR), asked to see the plan for government continuity. As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio has the required security clearance to view such a plan. In the past, he has entered what is known as a "bubble room" to view classified documents, and his requests have never been ...
The fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
Post Date: 2007-10-29 18:28:16 by Zipporah
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Hamid Sayadi with his wife, Gulsum. Courtesy Hamid Sayadi Hamid Sayadi with his son, Cameron. Courtesy Hamid Sayadi In the beginning, 9/11 was a local story — it was the intimate grief and shock and incomprehension that so profoundly shook us those first days and weeks. Over time it morphed into something political, and we came to see the tragedy through the wide-angle lenses of foreign policy and law and the other spasms of governance it inspired. But even as the specific event blurred into unspecific politics and symbolism over the years, it continued to affect individuals in concrete ways — ways that Fremont resident Hamid Sayadi claims he paid a price for. His story is ...
Waterboarding is Torture… Period (MASTER SERE INSTRUCTOR MALCOLM NANCE)
Post Date: 2007-10-29 15:37:41 by aristeides
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Waterboarding is Torture… Period Posted by Malcolm Nance on October 29, 2007 12:30 AM I’d like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define waterboarding terror suspects as torture. On the same day MSNBC television pundit and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough quickly spoke out in its favor. On his morning television broadcast, he asserted, without any basis in fact, that the efficacy of the waterboard a viable tool to be sued on Al Qaeda ...
WHY HR 1995 WAS RAMMED THROUGH UNDER COVER OF FIRE
Post Date: 2007-10-29 06:12:00 by robin
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WHY HR 1995 WAS RAMMED THROUGH UNDER COVER OF FIREBy: Devvy October 29, 2007© 2007 - NewsWithViews.com "Paper is poverty, .... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1788 Last week while the horrific fires were burning up Southern California and every major news network, including cable were providing non-stop coverage, a very dangerous bill to liberty and freedom was passed by 404 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Called the 'Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007', this bill is perfectly summed up here:"First let's take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and ...
Medical marijuana advocate kills herself
Post Date: 2007-10-28 17:31:41 by freepatriot32
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Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded. After her earlier attempt failed, Prosser wound up in even more trouble after investigating police found marijuana in her home. She used the marijuana to help cope with pain. That marijuana charge was eventually dropped in an agreement with the city of Missoula, and Prosser had reason to rejoice in 2004 when Montanans passed a law allowing medical use of the drug. She was a high-profile campaigner for the Montana Medical Marijuana Act, and like others, she was dismayed when the ...
Cop punches handcuffed suspect (twice) on camera- Mayor's response is priceless
Post Date: 2007-10-28 14:41:09 by Artisan
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My comments: Shaved-head black T shirt wearing mayor responds (paraphrasing):"you gotta remember this was someone who was ARRESTED for BURGLARY, he is not an innocent person,.. there was acrimony between the suspect and officer,.. you can't see his face when he was hit... oh, i don't excuse this.. the officer is human.." priceless. The mayor's bizzare ideas about freedom and law enforcement become glaringly apparent.
How the Media Shape Elections
Post Date: 2007-10-28 12:04:47 by aristeides
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How the Media Shape Elections By Dotty Lynch | OCTOBER 22, 2007 "George, I’ve been standing here for the last 45 minutes, praying to God you were going to call on me.” This was Representative Dennis Kucinich’s answer to a question posed by George Stephanopoulos in a debate on ABC News this summer in Iowa, asking the candidates whether they believed prayer can alter events. Kucinich spent much of the miniscule amount of airtime he got at the forum complaining about the miniscule amount of airtime he was getting. Dark-horse candidates like Kucinich will have to offer a lot of prayers this year to break through the media firewall, which has effectively declared only ...
Imaginationland (ANDREW SULLIVAN ON TORTURE AND CHENEY REGIME)
Post Date: 2007-10-28 11:45:59 by aristeides
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Imaginationland I posted an email earlier today trying to understand the extraordinary powers that president Bush has accrued to himself since the 9/11 attacks. No president has ever had so much power over the citizenry of the United States in American history - the permanent power to name anyone an enemy, detain them indefinitely and torture them into confession anywhere in the world. My reader suggested that this extraordinary shift in America's constitutional balance - the creation of an extra-legal dictatorship within a putatively democratic society - was explicable only if you believe that the very existence of the U.S. is in peril. I believe Cheney believes that. In the hours ...
I Was a Pain Ray Guinea Pig
Post Date: 2007-10-28 11:16:45 by Zipporah
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Today, I broke my cardinal rule of defense reporting: never be a test subject for a supposedly "nonlethal" weapon. I adopted this rule some time back at a trade show, when I saw somebody pick up a dazzling laser from a booth and point it as his own face at close range. Basically, untrained people are prone to do stupid stuff around nonlethal weapons and I'm really fond of my central field of vision, so why take the risk? But today, the military offered the second opportunity ever for reporters to be blasted by the Active Denial System, a millimeter wave beam weapon designed to heat up the very tippy top layer of skin. Considering that they've blasted the thing some 10,00 ...
Dodd Speech on the Constitution & Rule of Law
Post Date: 2007-10-28 09:52:49 by Zipporah
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Chris Dodd speaks on the floor of the Senate about FISA, the rule of law, and defending the Constitution from retroactive immunity. http://chrisdodd.com/constitution
Officials balked on '05 Blackwater inquiry {State Department e-mails obtained by ABC News discuss how to deflect a Times reporter's questions about a civilian shooting death.}
Post Date: 2007-10-28 09:19:43 by Zipporah
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Officials balked on '05 Blackwater inquiry template_bastemplate_bas State Department e-mails obtained by ABC News discuss how to deflect a Times reporter's questions about a civilian shooting death. By T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 26, 2007 View email PDF Even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended her department's oversight of private security contractors, new evidence surfaced Thursday that the U.S. sought to conceal details of Blackwater shootings of Iraqi civilians more than two years ago.In one instance, internal e-mails show that State Department officials tried to deflect a 2005 Los Angeles Times inquiry into an ...
Drunken-Driver Checkpoints: Every Driver Guilty
Post Date: 2007-10-28 08:26:04 by Kamala
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Drunken-Driver Checkpoints: Every Driver Guilty by James Bovard by James Bovard DIGG THIS Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are stopped each month at police checkpoints that treat every driver as a criminal. These checkpoints, supposedly started to target drunk drivers, have expanded to give police more intrusive power over citizens in many areas. The demonization of alcohol is leading to a growing nullification of the constitutional rights of anyone suspected of drinking – or anyone who might have had a drink anytime recently. In 1925, the Supreme Court declared, It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on ...
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity Dozens of 'Ghost Prisoners' Not Publicly Accounted For
Post Date: 2007-10-27 14:08:40 by Zipporah
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, there has been no official accounting of what happened to about 30 other "ghost prisoners" who spent extended time in the custody of the CIA.Some have been secretly transferred to their home countries, where they remain in detention and out of public view, according to interviews in Pakistan and Europe with government officials, human rights groups and lawyers for the detainees. Others have disappeared without a trace and may or may not still be under CIA control.The bulk of ...
The Gap in Mulkasey's Testimony
Post Date: 2007-10-27 08:07:55 by Ada
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When is the president authorized to break the law? During his recent confirmation hearings, Michael Mukasey, the former federal judge nominated to be the next attorney general, conceded that "the president doesn't stand above the law." Yet Mukasey, who is expected to be easily confirmed, also suggested that the president is entitled to ignore certain laws. Since the law "starts with the Constitution," he said, the president need not obey a statute that interferes with his inherent constitutional authority "to defend the country." Now that the War on Terror has replaced the Cold War as a reliable rationale for extending executive power, the breadth of this ...
Bernie Sanders: Why I Will Vote "No" on Mukasey
Post Date: 2007-10-26 23:18:42 by kiki
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The attorney general of the United States must be a defender of our constitutional rights. Because President Bush thinks he can do whatever he wants to do in the name of fighting terrorism, we need an attorney general who can explain to the president what the Constitution of this country is all about. We need an attorney general who does not believe the president has unlimited power. We need an attorney general who will tell President Bush that he is not above the law. We need an attorney general who clearly understands the separation of powers inherent in our Constitution. Regretfully, I have concluded that Michael B Mukasey would not be that kind of attorney general. That is why I will be ...
Statement of GORDON KAHL shortly before he was relieved of his hands and feet and murdered by the US Government
Post Date: 2007-10-26 21:45:35 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Gordon Kahl was killed in a massive assault on Ginter's farmhouse in Lawrence County, Arkansas, on June 4, 1983. The events described below are from a typed statement by Kahl, probably written on the day of the described events, February 14, 1983. I, GORDON KAHL, a Christian Patriot, and in consideration of the events which have taken place within the last few hours, and knowing to what-lengths the enemies of Christ, (whom I consider my enemies) will go to separate my spirit from it's body, wish to put down on paper a record of the events which have just taken place, so that the world will know what happened. I feel that the awesome power which will be unleashed, to silence ...
Bolten, Miers in Dems' contempt crosshairs
Post Date: 2007-10-26 16:08:01 by aristeides
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Bolten, Miers in Dems' contempt crosshairs By John Bresnahan Oct 26, 2007 06:09 AM EST Updated: October 26, 2007 01:06 PM EST House Democratic leaders have begun privately surveying their members to determine their support for a criminal contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for shunning congressional subpoenas in the U.S. attorney investigation. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said the contempt motion could be brought to the House floor “as early as next week,” but Democratic leadership aides cautioned that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not yet made any final ...
GRAVEL EXCLUDED FROM NBC DEM DEBATE: WHY? (GRAVEL'S LETTER)
Post Date: 2007-10-26 15:03:10 by aristeides
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GRAVEL EXCLUDED FROM NBC DEM DEBATE: WHY? Posted by: Christopher Brown | October 26, 2007 at 07:44 AM A few weeks back Phil [Weiss] wondered who would be the first presidential candidate to discuss the power of the Lobby; he thought it might be Ron Paul. To my knowledge the first to break the taboo was Sen Mike Gravel in an interview on PBS with Ray Suarez a couple weeks ago, where he mentioned the role of AIPAC in drafting an anti-Iran resolution for Congress. Now comes news that Gravel will be excluded from future presidential debates. What follows is the text of a letter Gravel sent out to supporters a couple days ago: In the past year, I have attended 11 national Democratic debates ...
Invoking ‘Speech or Debate’ to Sidestep Subpoenas (CONGRESSCRITTERS DODGING SUBPOENAS)
Post Date: 2007-10-26 11:14:07 by aristeides
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Invoking ‘Speech or Debate’ to Sidestep Subpoenas By Alan K. Ota, CQ Staff The Justice Department’s crackdown on congressional corruption is meeting a new form of resistance. Since federal prosecutors began pursuing lawmakers and aides tied to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to jail for bribery and raided another lawmaker’s office, House officials have frequently invoked the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause to refuse cooperation. The stack of subpoenas arriving from federal prosecutors is growing by the month, and in many cases the House is resisting rather than sending documents or providing ...
FEMA staff portrayed reporters at phony press conference
Post Date: 2007-10-26 10:00:09 by aristeides
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FEMA staff portrayed reporters at phony press conference by UncommonSense [Subscribe] Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 06:28:05 AM PDT This gives a whole new meaning to the expression "Faux News." The Bush administration has taken news manipulation to a new low. The Washington Post's Al Kamen reveals that the "reporters" who lobbed softball questions at FEMA Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson on Thursday were, in fact, employees of FEMA. The first questions were about the "commodities" being shipped to Southern California and how officials are dealing with people who refuse to evacuate. He responded eloquently. He was apparently quite familiar with the reporters ...
Pregnant Woman Forced to the Ground (Cops gone wild, part 856)
Post Date: 2007-10-26 09:55:47 by Jethro Tull
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The worst part of their behaviour is that their bosses back them up
House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill
Post Date: 2007-10-26 06:47:10 by Kamala
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ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM EXPOSING GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill 10-25-2007 www.roguegovernment.com Lee Rogers The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States ...
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