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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Carol Gotbaum's Message To America
Post Date: 2007-10-07 05:47:22 by robin
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There are a number of people aligned with law enforcement who become disappointed when police don't receive the benefit of the doubt. You should know that the issue we have covered here is why this no longer is a given, as once Americans gave the benefit of the doubt to those serving them in Congress and public service. Nevertheless, we make our case by connecting dots normally invisible to others but in Gotbaum right in front of everyone's noses. Respectfully submitted, it becomes more apparent when articulated and expressed correctly. Carol Anne Gotbaum 1. A 45 year old woman dies when in police custody. ... 6. A 45 year old woman showing emotional distress over missing a ...
Gotbaum Death By Police?
Post Date: 2007-10-05 20:05:09 by robin
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On Carol Ann Gotbaum, one of our valued readers noted to me this morning that the reason they allow police to use tasers is due to the fact that so many of those police need to control die as a result of choke holds.Email receivedOne of the thugs used a choke hold on her. she was probably screaming and cursing them and one of them got angry and put the choke hold on her to shut her up...but got carried away and killed her. It's extremely easy to do. Many have died from this maneuver...that was one of the reasons tasering became so popular... choke holds can kills quickly...ask any cop. Choke Hold Use In Law EnforcementThe law-enforcement lateral vascular neck restraint (also called ...
The White House defense for torture: UPDATED with video
Post Date: 2007-10-05 19:22:30 by Zipporah
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(h/t Scarce) The debate over U.S. torture policy erupted yesterday on the Hill, in the wake of yesterday’s NYT blockbuster, highlighting secret legal opinions from the Bush administration, which endorsed “the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.” The president’s aides fanned out to deny, defend, and spin the revelations, but for my money, the most impressive argument came by way of Frances Fragos Townsend. White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend also dismissed objections to the CIA program yesterday, saying during an appearance on CNN that al-Qaeda members are trained to resist harsh interrogations. She ...
U.S. Confiscates AP Footage At Scene of Bloody Baghdad Bombing
Post Date: 2007-10-05 19:19:19 by Zipporah
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BAGHDAD A daring ambush of bombs and gunfire left Poland's ambassador pinned down in a burning vehicle Wednesday before being pulled to safety and airlifted in a rescue mission by the embattled security firm Blackwater USA. At least three people were killed, including a Polish bodyguard. American authorities confiscated an AP Television News videotape that contained scenes of the wounded being evacuated. U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl told AP that Iraqi law make it illegal to photograph or videotape the aftermath of bombings or other attacks. The attack — apparently well planned in one of Baghdad's most secure neighborhoods — raised questions about ...
Woman Told to Ditch Bra to Enter Court
Post Date: 2007-10-04 23:38:21 by Brian S
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(10-04) 19:47 PDT COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector. Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm. "I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn't have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available," Plato said Wednesday. "They said, 'No.' "I wasn't carrying a shank in my bra. If it's so dangerous, why did they give it back and let me put it on?" Patrick ...
CLINTON WON'T COMMIT TO RENEW CONSTITUTION...
Post Date: 2007-10-04 21:15:26 by Horse
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...Illinois Senator Barack Obama Ò8; has finally signed the American Freedom Pledge, joining his fellow Democratic presidential candidates in encouraging the restoration of basic Constitutional principles after the battering they have taken during the Bush-Cheney era. All the Democrats, that is, except New York Senator Hillary Clinton Ò8;. The effort to get presidential contenders to sign on the American Freedom Pledge has been promoted by organizations ranging from the Center for Constitutional Rights to Human Rights Watch, MoveOn.org , Amnesty International USA, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ...
CHENEY'S LAW!!!! Coming to FrontLine
Post Date: 2007-10-04 17:04:15 by Mekons4
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Blackwater to guard FBI team probing it
Post Date: 2007-10-03 20:50:12 by robin
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WASHINGTON - When a team of FBI agents lands in Baghdad this week to probe Blackwater security contractors for murder, it will be protected by bodyguards from the very same firm, the Daily News has learned.
Half a dozen FBI criminal investigators based in Washington are scheduled to travel to Iraq to gather evidence and interview witnesses about a Sept. 16 shooting spree that left at least 11 Iraqi civilians dead.
The agents plan to interview witnesses within the relative safety of the fortified Green Zone, but they will be transported outside the compound by Blackwater armored convoys, a source briefed on the FBI mission said.
"What happens when the FBI team decides to go ...
Abu Ghraib prisoners accuse US companies of torture
Post Date: 2007-10-03 19:54:58 by Zipporah
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by Fanny Carrier Tue Oct 2, 1:20 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two US Army subcontractors accused of torturing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail go to court Wednesday in a case that highlights the murky legal status of private US companies in Iraq. Titan and CACI International were hired by the Army to provide interrogators and interpreters at the notorious prison, the scene of well-documented abuses of detainees following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. One former Iraqi prisoner now living in Sweden says that under the companies' watch, he was sodomized, nearly strangled with a belt, tied by his genitals to other detainees, and given repeated electric shocks. "This ...
Constitutional Convention / Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America
Post Date: 2007-10-03 15:28:24 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Constitutional Convention Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America This transcript of the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America was transferred from Col. Arch Roberts' website at Committee to Restore the Constitution. [DEFUNCT: www.webaccess.net/~comminc/ Not Found The requested URL /users/comminc/ was not found on this server.]. When possible, we transfer whole files — always giving credit to its source — in the event a website with pertinent information may be discontinued. — Jackie A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA, from the book, THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell, published 1974 (Harper & Row: $20.00) ...
Questions Raised Over Terror Exercise
Post Date: 2007-10-03 11:06:41 by Eoghan
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The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever next week when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Yet even as this drill begins, details from the previous national exercise held in 2005 have yet to be publicly released - information that's supposed to help officials prepare for the next real attack. House lawmakers were expected to demand answers Wednesday, including why the "after-action" report from 2005 hasn't been made public. Congress has required the exercise since 2000, but has done little in the way of ...
Rice calls for "360-degree look" at Blackwater scandal
Post Date: 2007-10-03 10:02:11 by Eoghan
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she wanted a no-holds barred probe into the affairs of private security company Blackwater USA accused of involvement in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq. Rice ordered the probe following fatal shootings by the company's staff in charge of protecting US diplomats in Iraq. "I have been very clear with people that I expect it to be probing, I expect it to be a 360-degree look, and I expect it to be unvarnished from these outside experts and I'm sure it will be," Rice said of the probe in an interview Monday with the New York Post. Blackwater has been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, according to a US Congress ...
Who Actually Attended The NSA's Secret Reporter Seminars?
Post Date: 2007-10-02 20:07:49 by Zipporah
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Who Actually Attended The NSA's Secret Reporter Seminars? Last week, Josh Gerstein explained how the information control freaks at the National Security Agency conducted secret "seminars" for reporters—basically, little classes on how and when the government would like them to keep their mouths shut about top-secret and not-so-secret information. What's funny is that no one seems to remember the sessions, which went down at NSA headquarters between 2002 and 2004. Maureen Baginski, who was listed as a presenter at the seminars, said she had no recollection of being present. Why would she? She was only the FBI's "intelligence czar" back in 2004, ...
AMERIKA - Arrested For Reading From U.S. Constitution
Post Date: 2007-10-02 19:34:04 by Uncle Bill
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Arrested For Reading The Constitution Only pro-war groups are allowed freedom of speech in police state Amerika as cops kidnap people who recite the very document they swore an oath to protect and uphold Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Peaceful onlookers were arrested by police for reading the Constitution while a pro-war group was allowed full freedom of speech in Washington DC recently in another flagrant example of how American cops are now the enforcers of a tyrannical police state. Police are required to swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution but this didn't stop them from kidnapping members of the Code Pink group, who gathered on a ...
New domestic intel plans
Post Date: 2007-10-02 18:34:55 by Zipporah
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1. NSA 'Protection' for Commercial Computer Networks This is an NSA project that gives it control of commercial computer networks, ostensibly to protect the systems from hackers. The Baltimore Sun reports that "the plan calls for the NSA to work with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to monitor....networks to prevent unauthorized intrusion, according to those with knowledge of what is known internally as the "Cyber Initiative." What are these "networks?" Apparently, any internet or intranet used by a business designated (or self-designated) as "critical infrastructure." That is a vast and poorly defined category. As ...
The Draconian Becomes the Norm
Post Date: 2007-10-01 23:20:32 by kiki
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Sometime during the demonstrations against the Republican National Convention, which renominated George W. Bush in August 2004, I went on a media protest march down the Valley of the Imperial Media, Sixth Avenue, in the Big Apple. I had certainly been on enough marches in my life, but I was amazed. Back in the Vietnam era, when the police photographed peaceful demonstrators, they tended to do it surreptitiously and out of uniform. Here, police in uniform with video cameras were proudly out in the open shooting what looked like continuous footage of us all. And that was the least of it. We demonstrators were surrounded by a veritable army of police, on horseback, on motorbike, on foot. As I ...
You gotta fight for your right (to vibrate)
Post Date: 2007-10-01 21:33:34 by Zipporah
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You gotta fight for your right (to vibrate)October 1st, 2007 by Steve
Talk about vibrators is once again the buzz around Alabama. The United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Alabama sex toy case, ending a nine year battle for the right to keep and bear (well, more accurately, purchase) sex toys in the state. Sherri Williams provided the money quote in this AP article:
An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.
Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, ...
Gotbaum kin's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist!
Post Date: 2007-10-01 18:30:01 by Zipporah
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Gotbaum kin's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist! BY SOO YOUN in Phoenix and ETHAN ROUEN and ADAM LISBERG in New YorkDAILY NEWS WRITERS Monday, October 1st 2007, 9:31 AM Print Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, at corner of 81st St. and Central Park West, reads statement on the death of Carol Anne Gotbaum (below). The daughter-in-law of one of New York's top officials screamed, "I'm not a terrorist!" and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News ...
We're paying $440,000 a year for each Blackwater guard
Post Date: 2007-10-01 15:22:54 by Mekons4
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Panel: State Department suggested Blackwater pay off dead Iraqi's family Q1x00075_9 Feeling the financial pinch? There's always Iraq. The House Government Reform Committee reports in a new memo that the U.S. government is paying Blackwater USA $1,222 a day for each of the company's guards. (That adds up to $445,000 a year for each of the private security firm's guards, according to the committee.) Chairman Henry Waxman, the Democrat who has been leading an investigation into the controversial private military contractor, says Blackwater USA has averaged 1.4 shooting incidents a week since it started protecting U.S. officials. In about 80% of cases, Waxman says the ...
"I'm A Sick Mom I Need Help" Dead After Airport Arrest (MEMBER OF PROMINENT NYC FAMILY)
Post Date: 2007-10-01 14:59:57 by aristeides
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"I'm A Sick Mom I Need Help" Dead After Airport Arrest by FishOutofWater [Subscribe] Mon Oct 01, 2007 at 10:01:14 AM PDT I am not a terrorist." The daughter-in-law of one of New York's top officials screamed, "I'm not a terrorist!" and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yesterday. She said she was sick but she was handcuffed, arrested and left alone in a holding cell. She was found dead minutes after being left alone in the cell. I am not afraid of flying. I am in terror of airport security. I drove to Chicago, rather than fly because I feel fear ...
Blood and Religion: Unmasking the Jewish and Democratic State
Post Date: 2007-10-01 00:59:55 by richard9151
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Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He has regularly published articles on the Middle East in international newspapers, English-language Arab publications and specialist magazines since 2001. This interview took place in Nazareth, Israel, on December 28th, 2006. To order a DVD copy of this program, please contact pdxjustice Media Productions at pdxjustice@riseup.net Click>www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18481.htm">Click for Full Text!
U.S. Detention Centers are Part of Long-Term DHS Plan: "ENDGAME," Part I [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-09-30 12:21:35 by Zipporah
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U.S. Detention Centers are Part of Long-Term DHS Plan: "ENDGAME," Part I by Residentcynic [Subscribe] Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 04:41:55 AM PDTI recently spent some time on the web researching the Bush Doctrine and neocon (Straussian)-based policy. What I didn’t expect to find was an operational government program which targets immigrants and "potential terrorists" on a grand scale. Never missing an opportunity for Orwellian titles, the Department of Homeland Security has named this little gem "ENDGAME." Its goal is "the removal of all removable aliens, (including illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers required ...
Officer ordered to pay racial-slur damages
Post Date: 2007-09-29 18:46:37 by freepatriot32
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A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Friday ordered a North Little Rock police officer to pay a former tow-truck driver $ 7, 500 in civil damages for using a racial slur. Judge Willard Proctor Jr. ruled that Lt. Terry Wilkins had violated Selma Jermaine Robinson’s civil rights. “I do believe the statement was made,” the judge said. “I do believe if [Robinson ] had been white, [Wilkins ] would not have directed that comment to him.” In affidavits, Wilkins was accused of calling Robinson a “nigger” during a quarrel when Robinson was called by police to tow a vehicle. The judge said he would also award unspecified attorney fees to Robinson’s lawyers ...
Chicago's finest under fire for brutality
Post Date: 2007-09-29 15:07:56 by Esso
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Chicago's finest under fire for brutality Story Highlights Lawyer: From '02-'04, only 18 of 10,000 complaints got "meaningful" results One victim says officer attacked when she refused to sign blank incident report Victim's lawyer: Chicago Police Dept. "doesn't do a good job of policing itself" Chicago police refused CNN's interview requests From Randi Kaye and Ismael Estrada CNN CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Robin Petrovic, a college English teacher, was out dancing at a popular Chicago nightclub, the "Funky Buddha Lounge," when she got into an altercation with the bouncer and called police for help. But according to Petrovic, the ...
WTF?! Court rules school officials acted properly in forcing 13-year-old to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area
Post Date: 2007-09-29 06:46:31 by Kamala
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Friday, September 28, 2007 WTF?! Court rules school officials acted properly in forcing 13-year-old to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area Update A reader advises there is a history of child abuse regarding the school in question. I found the following, FORMER SAFFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ACCUSED OF FILMING TEENAGE GIRL If readers find and send in related stories, I'll add them here. --- Court rules school officials acted properly in strip search By Diane Saunders, Staff Writer Safford Middle School officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while ...
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