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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Marc Stevens on corpus delecti
Post Date: 2007-03-13 00:58:15 by Simmering Frog
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Attorneys and Bureaucrats - Always Non-responsive Print E-mail Written by Marc Stevens Wednesday, 28 February 2007 Attorneys, especially the one's acting as government, are always non-responsive; and with good reason, they usually have no case. In traffic court, they never do because it's all a scam. One reason they get away with it is because the mainstream media will not report on it. They are not interested and don't care. That's why you get non-responsive pleadings from attorneys as presented in this article. Not that you'll get attorneys or other statists to agree the linked pleading is non-responsive though; attorneys and bureaucrats will deny the pleading is ...
Disaster Management Plans Kept From Public Sight
Post Date: 2007-03-12 13:53:01 by Brian S
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Citing the 9/11 attacks and security concerns, officials have limited public access to emergency preparations. Inquirer Staff Writers After the Bhopal chemical leak in India killed thousands in 1984, Congress decided public safety required openness about the chemical plants in our midst. Now, some officials have decided secrecy is better. Officials across the United States, including some in the Philadelphia region, have ended public access to information about facilities with hazardous materials, a new survey shows. Citing the 9/11 attacks and security concerns, they refuse to release the information despite a 1986 federal law called the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know ...
Ron Paul: The DC Gun Ban
Post Date: 2007-03-12 13:22:10 by Brian S
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March 12, 2007 Last Friday a federal appeals court in Washington DC issued a ruling that hopefully will result in the restoration of 2nd Amendment rights in the nation's capital. It appears the Court rejected the District of Columbia 's nonsensical argument that the 2nd Amendment confers only a "collective right," something gun control advocates have asserted for years. Of course we should not have too much faith in our federal courts to protect gun rights, considering they routinely rubber stamp egregious violations of the 1 st, 4th, and 5th Amendments, and allow Congress to legislate wildly outside the bounds of its enumerated powers. Furthermore, the DC case will be ...
The Future Has Caught Up With Us
Post Date: 2007-03-12 05:27:24 by Zoroaster
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Home | About | Columnists | Blog | Subscribe | Donate The Future Has Caught Up With Us by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and ...
Drug Raids, Related Trauma, On Rise
Post Date: 2007-03-11 15:53:50 by Brian S
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 Witnesses say the police burst into the house around 5 a.m., pointing submachine guns and wearing full SWAT uniforms -- fatigues, helmets, black hoods and body armor. They were looking for drugs and the young man who lived there. His parents, asleep in their bed in a Paterson suburb, opened their eyes to the sight of weapons aimed at their heads and an officer shouting, "Don't move." The young man was upstairs playing video games with two friends after a night out. They threw their hands into the air when SWAT officers thundered into the room. In the moment that it took one teen to give his companions a look like, "What's going on?" ...
40th year of law falls in period of secrecy
Post Date: 2007-03-11 10:28:08 by Eoghan
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It's been used to reveal how many times disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff visited the White House, to search for previously undisclosed details on President John F. Kennedy's assassination and to aid UFO buffs in their never-ending effort to find out what's really happening in Roswell, N.M. The Freedom of Information Act, which gives citizens access to federal government files, turns 40 this year. Born during Lyndon Johnson's presidency, FOIA came of age after the Watergate scandal and is a vital tool for individuals, journalists, corporations and academics who seek information that the government may be reluctant to release. This week, the American Society of Newspaper ...
Feel Safe: The Game of Homeland Security
Post Date: 2007-03-10 22:50:46 by kiki
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this is an actual board game: http://www.feelsafethegame.com/ Welcome to the Department of Homeland Security shell game. Hand over your Rights and the DHS will protect you from the bad guys. Although the Department of Homeland Security cannot actually protect you from terrorists and random acts of violence, they sure can make it look like they’re doing something (or, in the face of hurricane Katrina, maybe not). A façade of security so you can feel safe (without actually being safe). Feel Safe, The Game of Homeland Security is a satirical board game in which players start off with ten Rights (as per the Bill of Rights) and must exchange those Rights for perceived security and ...
FBI Misuse Could Prompt Congress To Limit Patriot Act
Post Date: 2007-03-10 20:09:09 by Brian S
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Irate lawmakers threaten to rein in the bureau after reports of improperly obtained bank and phone data.By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff WriterMarch 10, 2007 WASHINGTON — Angry lawmakers on Friday threatened to amend the USA Patriot Act and limit the FBI's powers in the wake of a disclosure that agents had improperly obtained confidential records of people in the United States.A scathing report issued Friday by the inspector general of the Justice Department found widespread problems in how the FBI has used a form of administrative subpoena — known as a national security letter — to gather phone, bank and credit information on thousands of citizens without court ...
D.C. Second Amendment Ruling !!!
Post Date: 2007-03-10 09:28:27 by noone222
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http://www.drudgereport.com/04-7041a.pdf
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Not all the way dead constitution ... yet !
The Tragic Case of Jose Padilla
Post Date: 2007-03-10 08:30:56 by Ada
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Incompetence and Egregious Government Misconduct Last week, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled that American citizen Jose Padilla, who is now facing terrorism charges in Miami, Florida, is competent to stand trial. In spite of the troubling legal and moral aspects of this case, Judge Cooke's ruling was in line with what many other judges would have done in her position. In order to put the competence issue in context, it is necessary to review the long and unprecedented history of the U.S. government's cases against Jose Padilla. Cases involving Padilla have been before federal courts in New York, South Carolina, and now Florida, and back and forth to the U.S. Supreme Court ...
U.S. Attorneys: Republican hitmen (Krugman)
Post Date: 2007-03-10 07:43:27 by Mekons4
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Score since Bush putsch: Investigations and/or indictments -- 67 Republicans, 298 Democrats, 10 Independents. What a coincidence. Paul Krugman this morning, on the Department of Injustice: For those of us living in the Garden State, the growing scandal over the firing of federal prosecutors immediately brought to mind the subpoenas that Chris Christie, the former Bush “Pioneer” who is now the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, issued two months before the 2006 election — and the way news of the subpoenas was quickly leaked to local news media. The subpoenas were issued in connection with allegations of corruption on the part of Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat who seemed to be ...
Gonzales, Mueller Admit FBI Broke Law
Post Date: 2007-03-09 23:08:53 by Brian S
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The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against FBI agents or lawyers who improperly used the USA Patriot Act in pursuit of suspected terrorists and spies. The FBI's transgressions were spelled out in a damning 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. He found that agents sometimes demanded personal data on people without official authorization, and in other cases improperly obtained telephone ...
Chertoff defends new computer project
Post Date: 2007-03-09 21:22:39 by Diana
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HOOVER, Ala. - A new Homeland Security program aims to analyze existing, legally collected computer data, not gather new personal information on U.S. citizens, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday in defending the program from congressional critics. The project, still in pilot stage, will help investigators understand evidence gathered through subpoenas but won't troll computers for new, private information, Chertoff said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's an experiment to see how you can better analyze data that you already have, that you've already legally collected, to see if you can understand it, sort it and make use of it more readily than simply ...
Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban
Post Date: 2007-03-09 14:01:14 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Appeals court overturns D.C. gun ban 6 minutes ago The District of Columbia's long-standing ban on handguns was overturned Friday by a federal appeals court, which rejected the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals. In a 2-1 decision, the judges held that the activities protected by the Second Amendment "are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued intermittent enrollment in the militia." A lower-court judge told six city residents in 2004 that they did not have a constitutional right to own handguns. The plaintiffs include ...
TWO 'ACTS' OF TYRANNY ON THE SAME DAY!
Post Date: 2007-03-09 13:56:55 by intotheabyss
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TWO 'ACTS' OF TYRANNY ON THE SAME DAY! By Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D. December 7, 2006 Updated January 20, 2007 On October 17, 2006, 'a date which will live in infamy' . . . there were two acts of tyranny committed. The first was a public signing of the 'Military Commissions Act of 2006' which suspended habeas corpus allowing the president to declare you an 'enemy combatant' and end your rights to seek legal or judicial relief from unlawful imprisonment. The second act of tyranny took place in a private Oval Office ceremony, in which the president signed into law the 'John Warner National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2007' which ...
Washington, D.C. Circuit Court Strikes Down 30-Year Old D.C. Gun Ban
Post Date: 2007-03-09 13:49:38 by Brian S
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'We Conclude that the Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms' WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a ground-breaking opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today overturned the D.C. gun ban, a three-decade old prohibition on possession of firearms within the Nation's Capital. Senior Judge Lawrence H. Silberman, joined by Judge Thomas B. Griffith, a recent Bush appointee, concluded that "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms." Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson filed a dissenting opinion. The case, Parker v. District of Columbia, was brought by six D.C. residents -- ...
Return of the C ampus Witch Hunts, David Horowitz and the Thought Police
Post Date: 2007-03-09 06:18:19 by Zoroaster
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March 8, 2007 Return of the Campus Witch Hunts David Horowitz and the Thought Police By DANA CLOUD David Horowitz is a self-appointed general of the right-wing thought police. In 2006, he published The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. In it, he named me and 100 other professors as threats to national security akin to terrorists. This spring, he is coming out with the next salvo in the war over the academy--a book called Indoctrination U, in which he has taken special aim at University of Texas (UT), where I teach, among others. On February 17, the Daily Texan student newspaper published his op-ed claiming that there are two Universities of Texas--one a ...
Guantanamo is not a prison
Post Date: 2007-03-09 05:50:34 by Ada
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Once upon a time, our offshore prison at Guantánamo was the sort of place where even an American National Guardsman, only pretending to be a recalcitrant prisoner "extracted" from a cell for training purposes, could be beaten almost senseless. This actually happened to 35 year-old "model soldier" Sean Baker, who had been in Gulf War I and signed on again immediately after the World Trade Center went down. His unit was assigned to Guantánamo and he volunteered to be just such a "prisoner," donning the requisite orange uniform on January 24, 2003. As a result of his "extraction" and brutal beating, he was left experiencing regular ...
MSNBC: Congress to investigate CIA leak, Plame to testify
Post Date: 2007-03-08 15:55:40 by Mekons4
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Waxman calls hearings, Plame to testify March 16. This oughtta be GOOOOOOOD.
Homeland Security revives supersnoop [TIA]
Post Date: 2007-03-08 12:57:00 by Eoghan
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Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations ...
The Fraud that is American Conservatism
Post Date: 2007-03-08 10:09:17 by bluedogtxn
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The American Right's Memory Holes by Gary North DIGG THIS Conservatives traditionally have wrung their hands about lost traditions. As far as I'm concerned, it's mostly for show these days. If those on the Right were really concerned about lost traditions, they would begin to recover their own lost traditions. A generation has come to maturity without any notion of what preceded them. Today, you can buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro for about $250 and a $70 scanner. With these simple tools, you can scan in a page from a magazine or a newsletter. You can post this on the web. The page can be made searchable by Google or any other search engine. It looks very close to the ...
Axis of Logic: Bush as Caligula
Post Date: 2007-03-07 16:50:33 by aristeides
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If there's such a thing as “world opinion”, I got a bellyfull on my recent trip. The overwhelming unanimity of media comment on America's role in the world took me by surprise, coming as I do from a country that has been slow to face up to the bastardry of the Bush era. From Chile to Mexico, from the Caribbean to Cuba (of course!), in Britain, Dubai and Bangkok, the song was the same - the nation of law is a cesspool of lawlessness, exporting murder and mayhem, while blaming the victims. Now back in Australia, I find the electorate is waking up, largely because of the mistreatment of David Hicks. For the first time in his life, Prime Minister Howard is being forced to face ...
Domenici Hires Top Attorney for Ethics Investigation
Post Date: 2007-03-07 16:46:53 by aristeides
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Domenici Hires Top Attorney for Ethics Investigation By Paul Kane and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 4:00 PM Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) has hired a top defense attorney to handle the pending ethics investigation into allegations that he pressured a federal prosecutor to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats on the eve of the 2006 elections. Lee Blalack, who recently represented former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who is now serving time in prison for bribery and other offenses, said today that he has signed on as Domenici's attorney in the wake of allegations from fired U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias. ...
Hicks lawyer gagged by breach claims
Post Date: 2007-03-07 16:03:09 by aristeides
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Hicks lawyer gagged by breach claims Ian Munro March 8, 2007 DAVID Hicks' military defence lawyer has been gagged by claims that he breached military rules in his sweeping public defence of his client. Major Michael Mori refused to comment on Hicks' case yesterday as the Law Council of Australia launched a scathing attack on the Howard Government's legal justification for allowing the Australian terror suspect to be tried by the United States. Council president Tim Bugg said Hicks was facing the prospect of a trial before an "ad hoc military tribunal" in breach of the Geneva Convention. Hicks should be released and returned to Australia, he said. Mr Bugg said that ...
Secret Guantanamo Tribunals Begin Friday
Post Date: 2007-03-07 15:58:51 by aristeides
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Secret Guantanamo Tribunals Begin Friday U.S. military will conduct first secret tribunals of terror suspects Friday at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. military will conduct first secret tribunals of terror suspects Friday at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Previous tribunals were open to the media. There are 14 men who will face separate three-officer panels which will determine if they are enemy combatants. Among them is Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, aircraft attacks on New York and Washington, Washington Post said. If judged as such, the men will be held and entitled to annual reviews of their status until they ...
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