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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Doolittle berates the FBI over raid on his Va. home
Post Date: 2007-05-08 10:43:43 by aristeides
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Doolittle berates the FBI over raid on his Va. home By Jackie Kucinich May 08, 2007 Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) called the FBI raid on his home unnecessary, unjust and possibly politically motivated in an op-ed published Saturday in a California newspaper. “The search occurred after my attorney had a meeting with the government, and I now believe that the search of our home was in large measure an attempt to strong arm my wife in order to get me to admit to a crime — a crime that I did not commit,” Doolittle wrote in the Auburn Journal. Doolittle was not home during the April 13 search, but said his wife, Julie, was confined to the kitchen as federal agents searched ...
Left and Right: Peas in a Pod
Post Date: 2007-05-08 09:55:22 by bluedogtxn
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Left and Right: Peas in a Pod by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. DIGG THIS Whatever other problems mainstream conservatives have these days, the most pronounced is what we might call their readiness to hysteria. To wit: just launch a military offensive, justifying it however you like – on behalf of national security, the liberation of an oppressed people, simple revenge, whatever – and they’ll promptly leap to its defense. Everyone who supports the mission will be a great patriot, while opponents should be censored, jailed, or even executed. (Those people are probably in league with the terrorists anyway.) Certainly anyone who believes in alternatives to ...
Ron Paul: Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms
Post Date: 2007-05-07 20:16:07 by Brian S
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May 7, 2007 Last week, the House of Representatives acted with disdain for the Constitution and individual liberty by passing HR 1592, a bill creating new federal programs to combat so-called “hate crimes.” The legislation defines a hate crime as an act of violence committed against an individual because of the victim’s race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Federal hate crime laws violate the Tenth Amendment’s limitations on federal power. Hate crime laws may also violate the First Amendment guaranteed freedom of speech and religion by criminalizing speech federal bureaucrats define as “hateful.” There is ...
THE IRS, AMERO AND THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LIBERTY
Post Date: 2007-05-07 14:32:09 by christine
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"Taxation follows public debt, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kerchival, Monticello, 1816 I have been deluged with requests to cover IRS indictments or injunctions filed against individuals, i.e., last month the U.S. Department of Justice moved against Bob Schulz and his We the People Foundation; see court filing here. Many wonder why I didn't do my annual April 15th slave day column. So many wonder what has happened to the "tax movement." The IRS is systematically picking off individuals who fully understand the fraud being perpetrated against the American people and shipping them off to jail. Wonderful, decent Americans ...
Basic Articles of Impeachment
Post Date: 2007-05-07 03:47:03 by Zoroaster
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Basic Articles Of Impeachment By Ted Lang Exclusive to http://Rense.com 5-6-7 Many articles have been written concerning the egregious violations perpetrated by the Bush regime, and many of these efforts have cited specific sections of the nation's rule of law that have been violated. But like our founding documents, a general impression predominates that seemingly reduces existent Bush impeachment proposals as being "too complicated" for the average person. And postures have also been articulated asserting impeachment as indicative of mere vindictive partisan politics. Yes, there are foreign terms to be found in our founding documents: "corruption of blood" ...
Lon Horiuchi For President
Post Date: 2007-05-06 23:32:17 by IndieTX
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All too frequently, I read at American web sites of the "danger" that the USA "might" or "could become" a police state. This is proof, if any be needed, that even supposedly libertarian Americans live in a mental and emotional La-La Land. The United States of America has been a police state for many decades already, (if not even since at least 1861). The establishment of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DEA, the BATF, and now the OHS and TIPS are not the work of anything other than a police state. That the situation grows worse all the time does not mean that there is a "danger" of a police state, but that such entities always progress in just this ...
www.EnemiesOfTheRepublic.org is ready for test drives [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-05-05 20:51:12 by Critter
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I just finished (well, mostly finished) a new website called EnemiesOfTheRepublic.Org ( http://www.enemiesoftherepublic.org ) It will essentially be a database of persons and entities that stand accused of treason against the people and against the several states. It was born out of a discussion on freedom4um the other day where it was decided that we really need to start taking down names. It is ready to rock and roll, but I would like to see if anyone here cares to submit some "suspects" to be reviewed by our admin team, before we really start promoting it. Please submit your favorite villain, but please, don't all go after GWB. I already did him. :) You will need to be ...
A Liberal Case for Gun Rights Helps Sway Judiciary
Post Date: 2007-05-05 15:58:50 by DeaconBenjamin
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In March, for the first time in the nation’s history, a federal appeals court struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. Only a few decades ago, the decision would have been unimaginable. There used to be an almost complete scholarly and judicial consensus that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias. That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns. In those two decades, breakneck speed by the standards of constitutional law, they have ...
White House Sought L.A. U.S. Attorney's Removal
Post Date: 2007-05-04 22:20:01 by robin
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Today's Must ReadBy Paul Kiel - May 4, 2007, 9:36 AM Adam Cohen, writing in a The New York Times op-ed,breaks news: There is yet another United States attorney whose abrupt departure from office is raising questions: Debra Wong Yang of Los Angeles. Ms. Yang was not fired, as eight other prosecutors were, but she resigned under circumstances that raise serious questions, starting with whether she was pushed out to disrupt her investigation of one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress.... Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Ms. Lam and most of the other purged prosecutors were fired on Dec. 7. Ms. Yang, in a ...
NRA Says Banning Gun Sales To Terror Suspects An Infringement
Post Date: 2007-05-04 15:41:28 by Brian S
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The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects. In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat." "As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word ...
Neocon Fascism
Post Date: 2007-05-04 10:22:36 by bluedogtxn
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Neoconservative Fascism by William Norman Grigg DIGG THIS “Law consists of two lines above my signature.” ~ Saddam Hussein "I'm the commander in chief, see, I don't need to explain, I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting part about being president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." ~ George W. Bush Harvard Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's May 2 Wall Street Journal essay “The Case for the Strong Executive” is a remarkable brief on behalf of unreconstructed fascist rule through an Executive emancipated from the ...
ONE LAND GRAB STOPPED - ANOTHER IN PROGRESS
Post Date: 2007-05-04 06:18:00 by gengis gandhi
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ONE LAND GRAB STOPPED - ANOTHER IN PROGRESS By: Devvy May 3, 2007 © 2007 - http://NewsWithViews.com "The extent of our country was so great, and its former division into distinct States so established, that we thought it better to confederate as to foreign affairs only. Every State retained its self-government in domestic matters, as better qualified to direct them to the good and satisfaction of their citizens, than a general government so distant from its remoter citizens and so little familiar with the local peculiarities of the different parts." --Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823. ME 15:483 Two things: There is another victory for the people regarding the effort ...
America's Coming Dictatorship
Post Date: 2007-05-04 05:52:20 by Ada
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The theory and practice of oligarchical "conservatism" The Iraq war and the inquiry into its origins has provoked interest in a number of subjects formerly considered obscure, the discussion of which was once limited to the rarified aeries of academia and specialty journals. Some examples are neoconservatism, just war theory, and, most surprisingly, the theories of Leo Strauss, the philosophical avatar of a cynical Machiavellianism that promotes the idea of the "noble lie." As the disaster in Iraq unfolded, subjects once considered abstruse were introduced into the pages of the popular press, so that, at one point, we were treated to a long explanation of the doctrines ...
Who wants to volunteer to help with EnemiesOfTheRepublic.Org? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-05-03 17:22:33 by Critter
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bluedogtxn and I have been discussing the idea of creating a website, tentatively named EnemiesOfTheRepublic.Org that would serve as a searchable database of, well, enemies of the republic. Users will be able to nominate candidates for inclussion in the database. They will have to be public figures with a verifiable record of violating constitutional rights, conspiring to violate constitutional rights, violating their othes of office, or commiting other acts of treason. Submissions would have to be reviewed by volunteers with admin access to the site and approved before they will be included. The database will be searchable by state, city, job description, etc. I'm not sure of the ...
THE PLAN IS FOR YOU TO DIE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY
Post Date: 2007-05-03 16:41:08 by christine
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The United States Constitution: Section 3. “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” Illegals Are Enemy Invaders Who Kill, Rob, Rape And Molest Thousands of Americans With Support Of Democrat And Republican Politicians for Money. Democrat and Republican politicians want open borders and plenty of cheap illegal labor for their business supporters. After illegals steal our jobs, reduce our wages and benefits, we are forced to pay benefits to illegals so criminal employers and politicians can enjoy blood money from slave wages. It is blood money because Americans were killed to ...
Hagel: There are ways to deal with' a president who says 'I don't care'
Post Date: 2007-05-03 15:03:10 by Ada
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Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is considering running for president in 2008, stopped just short of threatening impeachment against President George Bush on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning. Hagel has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and recently referenced impeachment in an interview published in April's edition of Esquire Magazine, telling Charles P. Pierce, "The president says, 'I don't care.' He's not accountable anymore. He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I ...
DoJ Official to Lam: Leave in "Weeks, Not Months" (ORDER FROM "HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVT")
Post Date: 2007-05-02 17:29:42 by aristeides
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DoJ Official to Lam: Leave in "Weeks, Not Months" By Paul Kiel - May 2, 2007, 2:52 PM Those who are suspicious of U.S. Attorney for San Diego Carol Lam's firing just got a lot more cause for suspicion. In her written answers to questions from Congress, Lam recounted a conversation with Justice Department official Michael Elston after she was fired in which Elston made it clear to her that she would be gone within "weeks" regardless of the fate of certain cases, and that this order came "from the highest levels of the government." Elston also told her that someone from outside her office would most likely to come in to take over. Lam had good reason to ...
President Bush Discusses War on Terror, Economy with Associated General Contractors of America ("I'M THE COMMANDER GUY")
Post Date: 2007-05-02 16:47:31 by aristeides
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President Bush Discusses War on Terror, Economy with Associated General Contractors of America Willard Hotel Washington, D.C. 9:44 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all; please be seated. Steve, unlike you, I have trouble finding the front end of a front-end loader. (Laughter.) Thanks for having me. I'm proud to be here with the AGC. It's the oldest and largest construction trade association in our country. I understand I'm not the first Bush to have ever addressed the AGC convention -- a person I now refer to as "41" addressed you. (Laughter.) And I appreciated your hospitality to him then, and I appreciate your hospitality to me today. I want to talk about -- a ...
Unhappy Digg users bury site in protest-User Revolt Against Censorship Cripples Site
Post Date: 2007-05-02 14:04:46 by gengis gandhi
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714898-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Unhappy Digg users bury site in protest Posted by Steven Musil http://Digg.com users, very upset at the news aggregate site for deleting articles containing an encryption key that could be used to crack the digital rights management on HD DVDs, have inundated the site with thousands of recommendations to pages that contain the code. The protest was apparently heard by Digg administrators, who later reversed the ban. On Tuesday night, the "All topics" category contained several pages of the most popular articles recommended by Digg readers populated only by links to sites that ...
2,176 Secret Warrants Issued in 2006
Post Date: 2007-05-02 12:34:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A secret court approved all but one of the government's requests last year to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies, according to Justice Department data released Tuesday. In all, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court signed off on 2,176 warrants targeting people in the United States believed to be linked to international terror organizations or spies. The record number is more than twice as many as were issued in 2000, the last full year before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. One application was denied in part, and 73 required changes before being approved. The disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the ...
New Tape Suggests Kennedy Assassination Inside Job
Post Date: 2007-05-02 12:04:57 by Ferret Mike
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An audio file serving as the final testimony of CIA veteran and convicted Watergate conspirator, E. Howard Hunt on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has surfaced. It has been distilled down from a 20-minute tape made by Hunt at his home in Miami, according to his oldest son with whom E. Howard Hunt had enjoyed a good relationship in later life. The unmarked cassette was received in the mail by his oldest son, Saint John Hunt, in Janurary 2004. At the time, the 86-year-old E. Howard Hunt was not well. According to Saint John Hunt, his father's only request was that the information not be released until his death. Shortly thereafter, he recovered from his illness and he ...
Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement [no pledge to seek warrants for wiretaps]
Post Date: 2007-05-02 11:14:50 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, May 1 — Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January. Rather, they argued that the president had the constitutional authority to decide for himself whether to conduct surveillance without warrants. As a result of the January agreement, the administration said that the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program has been brought under the legal structure laid out in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires court-approved warrants for the wiretapping of American ...
Who Killed Cryptome.org?
Post Date: 2007-05-02 10:42:12 by aristeides
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Who Killed >http://Cryptome.org? It's the one secret radical open information activist John Young can't crack: what drove his ISP, Verio/NTT, to finally pull the plug on his website, http://Cryptome.org, where for years he's posted every sensitive document, photo or map he could get his hands on. Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York -- has hosted countless government documents with the "For Official Use Only" markings intact; exposed the names of long-ago CIA collaborators; the alleged identities of current British intelligence agents; compiled a travelogue-style guide to the Pennsylvania mountain believed to be the vice president's "undisclosed ...
"Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
Post Date: 2007-05-02 09:38:11 by Stephen Lendman
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"Worthy and Unworthy Victims" - by Stephen Lendman Economist and media critic Edward S. Herman and social and political critic Noam Chomsky note two kinds of victims in their classic 1988 book "Manufacturing Consent." So does journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger in his writings. "Unworthy" ones are the many unmentioned tens of thousands killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and all other places by US, Israeli and other rapacious imperial waring and occupying forces. "Worthy" ones, however, are those prominently mentioned who died or were hurt on September 11, 2001 in the US, on July 7, 2005 in a dubious London "terrorist" ...
Senators wary of Bush's wiretap proposal
Post Date: 2007-05-02 00:51:04 by kiki
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WASHINGTON - Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general's troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans. Senate Intelligence Committee members said the Bush administration must provide more information about its earlier domestic spying before it can hope to gain additional powers for the future. "Is the administration's proposal necessary, or does it take a step further down a path that we will regret as a nation?" asked Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-V.Wa., as he convened a rare public hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee he chairs. For two hours, ...
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