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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
White House Rehearses for a Domestic Attack
Post Date: 2007-02-23 17:53:41 by Eoghan
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The White House is staging a high-level exercise on Saturday to test responses to the prospect of a massive domestic terrorist attack involving Improvised Explosive Devices or IEDs—the same deadly roadside bombs that have been used by insurgents against the U.S. military in Iraq. White House Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend will preside over a group of senior officials—including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell—as they attempt to deal with the latest nightmarish scenario cooked up by government counterterrorism planners. As part of the exercise, the officials will be ...
In the Great Counter-Revolution of 1968 the United States unofficially ended
Post Date: 2007-02-23 12:01:32 by intotheabyss
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Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. (left) and Robert F. Kennedy (right) who were leaders of a "Second American Revolution", who were genuine and passionate champions against oppression and fascism in general, were both assassinated in 1968. Most readers will immediately wonder how it can be argued that the United States as a "Great Experiment in Democracy" could have actually ended in 1968. This can be readily illuminated. If Americans had effective control in their own society, there would be no pre-emptive Iraq War based upon 'well-documented' evidence. Furthermore, Americans would now be living in peace in the world, having ready access to such social programmes as ...
The Missing 13th Amendment [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-02-23 11:44:51 by intotheabyss
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This article first appeared in the August, 1991 issue of the Antishyster. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Norman Adask, creator and proprietor of the AntiShyster News Magazine. For further information see http://www.antishyster.com or write to adask@gte.net. "TITLES OF NOBILITY" AND "HONOR" In the winter of 1983, archival research expert David Dodge, and former Baltimore police investigator Tom Dunn, were searching for evidence of government corruption in public records stored in the Belfast Library on the coast of Maine. By chance, they discovered the library's oldest authentic copy of the Constitution of the United States (printed in 1825). Both men were ...
America, Now Without the Revolution
Post Date: 2007-02-23 11:37:08 by bluedogtxn
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America, Now Without the Revolution by Arthur Silber by Arthur Silber DIGG THIS From my essay, "Understanding the Significance of Guantanamo: The Symbol of Omnipotent Power," written almost two years ago, in May 2005: And that, in brief, is why Guantanamo is so crucial to the Bush's administration's goals in its war, a war that will be never-ending if it has its way: Guantanamo symbolizes the Bush administration's desire for omnipotent power – for the administration to be able to do whatever it wants, with no oversight or interference by anyone, including the federal judiciary and including those restraints imposed by the Constitution itself. In this manner, ...
Bearing False Witness: A New Tool for Authoritarians
Post Date: 2007-02-23 06:50:52 by Ada
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Florida Bill Would Make It Legal To Falsify Court Records (Winter Patriot) Our friend and colleague Winter Patriot unearths a disturbing new innovation in law enforcement now being pushed down in JebWorld: giving public officials the authority to create phony documents and plant them in public record. This includes court documents and other official papers, all created out of whole cloth in "covert ops" kept secret from other agencies and from – surely it goes without saying – that worthless gaggle of teeming rabble known as "the people." This astounding proposal – in a bill now being dangled like so much dripping red meat before the rightwing Florida ...
Students told to shun Muslims ( told to Wake County Public School system by Christian evangelist)
Post Date: 2007-02-22 18:40:29 by Zipporah
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Yonat Shimron and Kinea White Epps, Staff Writers RALEIGH - A national Muslim advocacy group has rebuked the Wake County Public School system for allowing a Christian evangelist to speak at Enloe High School and distribute pamphlets denouncing Islam.The Council on American Islamic Relations said the school system will have created a "discriminatory, hostile learning environment," violating federal civil rights law, if it does not investigate the incident and apologize to students.The complaint stems from a guest appearance last week in several classes by Kamil Solomon, a Raleigh-based Christian evangelist, who urged students to shun Muslims."When you bring in somebody to ...
Without Security there is no Freedom
Post Date: 2007-02-22 18:29:04 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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While on the way to the grocery store, I found myself behind a eunich with a bumbersticker that had the above statement on it. Not surprising, the eunich also had a "W - The President" bumper sticker. My how the great have fallen. Benjamin Franklin, who said that, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," is spinning in his grave. The citizens of the United States are like the immoral, degenerate, and pampered nobility of 16th and 17th nobility, who were noblemen only because of the bravery of their earlier medieval relatives. I am truly ashamed and embarrassed.
Correcting Dr. Will
Post Date: 2007-02-22 06:22:00 by Ada
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George Will’s curt dismissal of Rep. Ron Paul in Will’s recent Newsweek editorial requires further examination. According to Will, Paul "believes, with more stubbornness than evidence, that the federal government is a government of strictly enumerated powers." Will rightly points to Article I, § 8 as the enumeration of the powers of Congress. What does the august Mr. Will mean, exactly, in claiming that Rep. Paul’s position is based on "more stubbornness than evidence"? He does not say. But he should. As John Taylor of Caroline noted in New Views of the Constitution (1823), the Philadelphia Convention (in which the federal Constitution was drafted) ...
Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help
Post Date: 2007-02-21 16:03:00 by Eoghan
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Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit. Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The U.S. Attorney's Office ...
Guantánamo captives can't sue in U.S. courts
Post Date: 2007-02-20 20:12:01 by scrapper2
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Setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown, a federal appeals panel sided 2-1 with the Bush administration Tuesday and denied Guantánamo Bay captives the right to challenge their detention in lower federal courts. The Justice Department hailed the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia as a victory in its campaign to close the files on hundreds of Guantánamo captives' challenges at the U.S. District Court in the nation's capital. Amnesty International USA urged Congress to quickly pass new legislation that would effectively reverse the decision, and attorneys for detainees urged the Supreme Court to take up the issue promptly. ...
LET ALIENS VOTE: ACTIVISTS
Post Date: 2007-02-20 14:53:45 by Horse
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February 20, 2007 -- Immigrant-rights activists yesterday renewed their push to allow legal noncitizens to vote in the Big Apple. A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year. "More than 50,000 adult noncitizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws," said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today's special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), the sponsor of the Voting Rights Restoration Act, said that years ago, when ...
An Orwellian solution to kids skipping school
Post Date: 2007-02-20 13:48:53 by angle
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Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. A Washington area politician thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down. "It allows them to get caught easier," said Maryland Delegate Doyle Niemann (D-Prince George's), who recently co-sponsored legislation in the House that would use electronic surveillance as part of a broader truancy reduction plan. "It's going to be done unobtrusively. The chips are tiny and can be put into a hospital ID band or a necklace." Excuse me. But that is obscene. Electronic monitoring is used by criminal court ...
Pentagon investigates Blackwater's expense tab
Post Date: 2007-02-20 10:48:25 by Eoghan
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A two-year investigation has finally begun to shed some light on the trail of taxpayer dollars that paid for Blackwater USA's famously ill-fated security mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004. Blackwater's contract was less than a month old when four of its security operatives were ambushed and killed, some of their bodies mutilated and hung from a bridge in an incident that changed the course of the Iraq war. Blackwater was at the bottom of a four-tiered chain of contractors. The Moyock, N.C.-based company says it billed the next company up the chain $2.3 million. At the top of the chain was KBR, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former employer, Halliburton ...
Will vs. Paul on the Constitutional Limits of Government
Post Date: 2007-02-20 06:26:54 by Ada
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George Will’s current Newsweek column is garnering a lot of attention in the right-wing blogosphere. (See here and here, for example.) The article discusses Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and his potential run for the GOP presidential nomination. Since the big three candidates, McCain, Romney, and Giuliani, are getting all the coverage, Will’s decision to cover a dark horse candidate like Rep. Paul is interesting. I guess Rep. Paul and his supporters could take heart in the old adage that there is no such thing as bad press, although that applies to Hollywood more so than it does to Washington, DC. The article is superficially flattering. It portrays Rep. Paul as a man of firm convictions. ...
9/11 Truth: How Think Tanks Took Control of U.S. Government
Post Date: 2007-02-20 00:52:38 by robin
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From Halifaxion A new and important component of the mil A new and important component of the military industrial complex is the private right-wing think tank. These are paid policymakers who work in secret to create the Bush Administration's propanda, disseminate talking points to corporate media, and set U.S. foriegn policy -- all without being known by or held accountable by the American people. This clip features interviews with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Centrury (PNAC), Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, Dan Rather, and a man who lost his son in the WTC on 9/11. It tells the story of how PNAC created falsehoods and fantasies in the wake of 9/11 to ...
PBS 1987: "The Secret Government"
Post Date: 2007-02-19 13:03:50 by robin
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From Halifaxion Prophetic documentary from 1987 that details the history and crimes of the CIA up to that point, the disturbing trend toward secrecy in government, and the Republican push to turn America into a warfare state fueled by perpetual fear. It's useful to watch this in order to put the evil dictatorship we live under today into context. The blueprints for 9/11 were being laid decades earlier. PBS 1987: "The Secret Government" - Part 1 Part 2 of the prophetic PBS documentary from 1987. This part focuses on how the Reagan administration was trying to take America further and further away from the constitution and promote more and more secrecy in government. You ...
Making Martial Law Easier
Post Date: 2007-02-19 13:01:06 by Brian S
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A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law. The provision, signed into law in October, weakens two obscure but important bulwarks of liberty. One is the doctrine that bars military forces, including a federalized National Guard, from engaging in law enforcement. Called posse comitatus, it was enshrined in law after the Civil War to preserve the line between civil ...
It could happen here
Post Date: 2007-02-19 11:52:26 by Zoroaster
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It could happen here In an excerpt from his new book, Salon's columnist explains why, for the first time since the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, Americans have reason to doubt the future of their democracy. By Joe Conason Print Email Digg it Del.icio.us My Yahoo RSS Font: S / S+ / S++ Feb. 19, 2007 | Can it happen here? Is it happening here already? That depends, as a recent president might have said, on what the meaning of "it" is. To Sinclair Lewis, who sardonically titled his 1935 dystopian novel "It Can't Happen Here," "it" plainly meant an American version of the totalitarian dictatorships that had seized power in Germany and Italy. Married ...
The merger of America with Mexico and Canada - The North American Forum
Post Date: 2007-02-19 06:19:13 by Jethro Tull
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/POLADBoltonNotesBanff.pdf The merger of America with Mexico and Canada The North American Forum Sept 12-14 Banaff, Alberta For Immediate ReleaseJan 29, 2007Contact: Press Office202-646-5188Judicial Watch Releases Pentagon Records from “North American Forum” MeetingsDefense Secretary, Senior Military and Staff Met with Mexican & Canadian Officials over “Continental Prosperity in the New Security Environment” (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained November 2006 under the provisions of the Freedom of Information ...
Malkin:Michelle Malkin: “I’m skeptical of anything with ‘Bill of Rights.’”
Post Date: 2007-02-17 21:07:25 by Zipporah
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Right-wing author and pundit Michelle Malkin filled in for Bill O’Reilly tonight on The O’Reilly Factor. During a segment on a newly-proposed Airline Passengers Bill of Rights, Malkin said, “So you’re behind this Passengers’ Bill of Rights move. I have to tell you, in general, I’m skeptical of anything that has Bill of Rights tacked on to it.” Watch it: You don’t say?
To Restore Democrac y: First Ab olish Corporate Personhood
Post Date: 2007-02-17 19:27:07 by Zoroaster
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To Restore Democracy : First Abolish Corporate Personhood By Thom Hartmann For twenty years corporate personhood was debated. Across America, politicians were elected repeatedly on platforms that included the regulation of corporations, particularly the railroads. But the legal fight continued - and in 1886 the railroad hit paydirt. “It has been thought,” he wrote in The Rights of Man in 1791, “…that government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed; but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, ...
U.S. Govt. Says Torture & Warrantless Searches are Legal
Post Date: 2007-02-17 15:53:19 by robin
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Bush and other top officials in the United States Government flat out lie to the American people about what the Constitution says, and promote torture and warrantless searches as "reasonable". Are we living in an open dictatorship in the United States? http://belowgroundsurface.org
Yesterday's COINTELPRO and today's ECHELON
Post Date: 2007-02-17 14:14:51 by robin
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Short video that introduces the FBI's "COINTELPRO" operation, which was behind the assassinations of many civil rights leaders in the 1960s and 1970s. Also discussed is today's "Echelon" program that monitors every phone call, email, and fax in the United States. Please do a google search for each of these terms.
Bob Barr: Privacy or protection? Loss of privacy threatens civilization
Post Date: 2007-02-17 09:06:06 by Zipporah
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While probably more often remembered for his prescient warning that America must beware the too-powerful "military-industrial complex," former five-star general and president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, also possessed a deep understanding of the folly of over-reliance on government power to deliver security to a populace. In 1949, three years before his election to the presidency and while serving as president of Columbia University, Eisenhower dryly remarked that if security were the ultimate goal of Americans, then "prison ... [where] they'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads," should be their abode of choice. While not as ...
Press Ignores FBI Study Saying Gun Laws Ignored by Cop Killers
Post Date: 2007-02-17 00:48:06 by Dakmar
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For more than two months, a damning report on a five-year study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation about how cop-killing criminals ignore gun laws and where they get their guns has languished in the shadows, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms revealed today. "The public has a right to know the contents of this report, which was revealed to the International Association of Chiefs of Police last year," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. "According to the Force Science News, research focused on 40 incidents involving assaults or deadly attacks on police officers, in which all but one of the ...
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