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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Constitution, Schmonstitution
Post Date: 2006-10-26 12:12:14 by Horse
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Oct. 24, 2006 (CBS) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and http://CBSNews.com. Suddenly, the most sacred text in America is under attack from all sides. The Constitution was never meant to be a "suicide pact," says eminent judge and author Richard Posner. It's "undemocratic," says University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson. In this time of terror we need a new one — an "emergency Constitution" — says Yale Law School guru Bruce Ackerman. And Richard Labunski, in his fine and timely book about James Madison, pretty much destroys the myth that the Founding Fathers were motivated solely by noble impulses when they crafted ...
When Lawyers Are War Criminals
Post Date: 2006-10-26 12:00:17 by aristeides
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When Lawyers Are War Criminals, by Scott Horton Scott Horton is a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and chair of the International Law Committee of the New York City Bar. As chair of the City Bar’s International Human Rights Committee, Mark Shulman has been working with Mr. Horton and others to develop and articulate the City Bar’s positions on the treatment of people detained by the US in the pursuit of the “global war on terrorism.” Over the years, Mr. Horton has been a forceful advocate for human rights, first in the Soviet Union and more recently to ensure that the US adheres to its values and the laws governing the treatment of people under its control. ...
The Fault Line in Ourselves
Post Date: 2006-10-26 04:52:14 by Zoroaster
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October 26, 2006 The Fault Lies in Ourselves by Paul Craig Roberts During my professional lifetime, liberals and the left wing have focused on failures and misdeeds of the private sector, while libertarians and conservatives have focused on the failures and misdeeds of the public sector or government. It turns out that both sides are right. The Enron case and the other accounting scandals of this new century are testimony to misdeeds driven by private sector greed, just as the unjustifiable war in Iraq is testimony to the abusive behavior of government. Justice demands that we be always on guard against a prosecutor's case. However, the devastation wrought by fraud committed by a few ...
Lani Kass: Israeli Defense Force veteran heading up Air Force Cyberpace warriors. (WMR)
Post Date: 2006-10-26 00:20:51 by robin
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October 24, 2006 -- US Air Force official's past raises eyebrows. On December 7, 2005, the US Air Force officially recognized "cyberspace" as one of its warfare domains -- along with air and outer space. In early November, Air Force officials will gather in Washington to form a new US Air Force Command -- the Air Force Cyberspace Command. It will have authority to launch wars in cyberspace. The new command is largely the brainchild of Dr. Lani Kass, director of the Air Force Cyberspace Task Force. Kass' past has many US government computer security officials puzzled and concerned. From 1979 to 1981, Kass served as a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces. This was at a time when ...
FBI trains its own civilian "Stasi" force.
Post Date: 2006-10-26 00:10:11 by robin
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October 25, 2006 -- FBI trains its own civilian "Stasi" force. Across the United States, private citizens have been deputized to "assist" the FBI in counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence activities. They are graduates of the little-known FBI Citizens Academies, 25 training academies across the United States that have trained citizens in firearms use, collection and preservation of physical evidence, FBI organization, communications, counter-intelligence operations, and drug enforcement. Participants in the program must obtain a security clearance, be a recognized business, civic, religious, or community leader, be 21 years of age with no prior felony conviction, and ...
Bush's Absolute Power Grab
Post Date: 2006-10-25 10:11:56 by Zoroaster
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Bush's Absolute Power Grab By Carla Binion October 21, 2006 Editor's Note: Many Americans are in denial about what is happening to the United States. They don't want to believe that a totalitarian structure could be put in place in their own country. They don't want to view the various pieces of George W. Bush's "anti-terror" system in that broad a context. They hope that someone or something -- the Supreme Court maybe -- will strike down the excesses of the Republican-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch. Though there are still obstacles that stand in Bush's way -- the Nov. 7 elections, for instance -- America's march down a road to a new-age totalitarianism has ...
Sibel Edmonds Vindicated?
Post Date: 2006-10-25 09:13:15 by Eoghan
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On October 10, 2006, FBI spokesman Bill Carter confirmed that matters raised by Sibel Edmonds and shielded form public view by the invocation of the US States Secret privilege were still under internal investigation by the Bureau. "Due to the fact that the allegations of Sibel Edmonds reflect internal administrative and investigative matters it would not be appropriate to respond to your inquiry. I will point out that the DOJ Office of the Inspector General has reviewed this matter and released a public report. I would refer this report to you for your review. The Inspector General's report concluded that the FBI did not adequately investigate allegations Ms. Edmonds made regarding a ...
ACLU Returns to Court to Defend Right to Online Free Speech
Post Date: 2006-10-23 11:42:11 by Brian S
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Trial Opens Today in Long-Term Fight Over Government’s Attempt to Censor the Internet PHILADELPHIA -- The American Civil Liberties Union today presented opening arguments in federal district court in its longstanding challenge to an Internet censorship law, ACLU v. Gonzales. The censorship law was signed by President Clinton in 1998 and has never been enforced. "The right to free speech is one of the core values of this country," said ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Chris Hansen, who is lead counsel on the case. "Congress does not have the right to censor information on the Internet. Americans have the right to participate in the global conversation that happens online ...
How Bush Rules: And How Sonny Bono Predicted the Downfall of the GOP Congress
Post Date: 2006-10-23 11:36:33 by aristeides
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How Bush Rules: And How Sonny Bono Predicted the Downfall of the GOP Congress As the fortunes of the Republican Party in the Congress collapsed, I found myself in the middle of a book tour in Palm Springs, California. Promenading down Palm Canyon Drive, I stopped by the larger than life statute of a smiling mustachioed man with an open collar sitting on the edge of a fountain in the center of town. Sonny Bono, singer, songwriter and mayor, was perhaps the most unlikely person elected in the self-proclaimed Republican "revolution" of 1994. To mark his rise to power, the new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, "held a mad celebration featuring people dressed as the cartoon ...
THE SHAME OF THE NATION: A COLLECTIVE PERVERSION
Post Date: 2006-10-23 08:54:01 by Stephen Lendman
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The Shame of the Nation: A Collective Perversion - by Stephen Lendman The daily headlines about a single congressman's online pedophiliac behavior obscure the greater issue of a nation off its moorings and afflicted by the collective perversion of defiling the foundational equity and justice-for-all letter and spirit of what the nation long-claimed to stand for but no longer does if it ever did. Nearly everyone in the administration, Congress and courts share the collective guilt and shame and by their actions destroyed Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address "resolve....that this nation....shall have a new birth of freedom (in a) "government of the people, by the people, for the ...
CAFRs Government Control And You
Post Date: 2006-10-22 12:07:38 by robin
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CAFRs Government Control And You From Walter Burien walterburien@cafr1.com10-21-6 By Thomas Paine Revisited This is for my FELLOW PIGMIES if they didn't get the above. OH, please see CAFR1.COM http://cafr1.com/ after this and read the story about Pigmies. http://cafr1.com/Plunder.htmlParaphrasing Ronald Reagan, "Here we ----throughout the centuries----go again. If you didn't get it, perhaps this will shine out the unrepentant unreflective clearer not truly ever seeing enough of themselves in the mirror.Simply, THE UNITED STATES is nearly "A COMMUNIST NATION in all BUT APPEARANCE if what Walter Burien says is true"COMMUNISM BEING DEFINED AS GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. Well, I,m ...
GOODBYE USA, HELLO NEW WORLD ORDER
Post Date: 2006-10-20 21:11:48 by IndieTX
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A small crowd presses forward, listening attentively to a spell-binding orator, who is exciting them with his vision of a NEW WORLD ORDER. Who is this man? Adolf Hitler. When he was preaching this concept, the vast majority of Germans refused to take him seriously, considering him to be a far right-wing lunatic. But, he miraculously seized control, proceeding to systematically implement his vision. How was he able to defy all odds in achieving his vision? Hitler was backed and possessed by super-natural spiritual power--Satan, and the Holy Spirit allowed him limited power to fulfill part of his NWO Plan. At this point, we must emphasize that the nations are today marching lock-step toward ...
Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases
Post Date: 2006-10-20 20:28:32 by Brian S
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Friday, October 20, 2006; Page A18 Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that "no court, justice, or judge" can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone ...
LSD Mystery: Denials Aside, Terror Suspects Get Drugged
Post Date: 2006-10-20 15:03:21 by Zipporah
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LSD Mystery: Denials Aside, Terror Suspects Get Drugged By Justin Rood - October 20, 2006, 10:44 AM Was terror detainee Jose Padilla drugged by his U.S. government captors? His lawyers say yes. Government officials have said they do no such thing, but reports on other detainees tell a different tale. "Of course not," snapped Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in response to a reporter who asked him if the military ever used truth serums on high-value terror detainees, at an April 2002 news conference. The CIA has also denied employing drugs in interrogations. "[T]he agency is closemouthed about such matters, other than denying that it uses truth serum," the Wall ...
YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos
Post Date: 2006-10-20 14:00:51 by Mind_Virus
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YouTube Adds “Hate Speech” Flag To Its Videos Posted by Noel Sheppard on October 20, 2006 - 11:33. Just in time for the holidays, the gang over at YouTube has added a new flag to their videos to assist their “community” in determining “inappropriate” content. Our friend at Ms Underestimated has created the following capture of the new screen being put into effect: Frankly, this is every liberal YouTuber’s dream: the ability to flag a video as inappropriate due to it containing “Hate Speech”. After all, what we have seen from Google and YouTube lately quite suggests that hate speech is anything that speaks out against terrorism. As such, now ...
How to Make a Power Grab Mundane
Post Date: 2006-10-20 10:03:12 by bluedogtxn
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How to Make a Power Grab 'Mundane' By James Bovard (October 18, 2006) -- How will we know when a dictatorship has arrived? Not from reading the Washington Post. The Post’s story today -- “Bush Signs Terrorism Measure” -- looks like just another routine report on the approval of a piece of legislation, accompanied by the usual “he said/ she said” balancing quotes. The Military Commissions Act is widely seen as legalizing torture, but the article avoids any such mention of the T-word. Though the act revolutionizes American jurisprudence by permitting the use of tortured confessions in judicial proceedings, the Post discretely notes only that defendants will face ...
REPORT: "Republican officials now concede they could lose a net of 23 to 27 seats in the House"
Post Date: 2006-10-20 00:49:06 by Uncle Bill
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How Republicans Hope to Hold the Senate Time Mike Allen October 18, 2006 By holding their breath, for starters. With party strategists increasingly afraid the Senate is slipping away, Republican officials are moving money around in high-stakes triage. Republican officials are trying to project confidence about keeping the Senate by spending heavily, and forcing Democrats to do the same, in blue states like Michigan, Maryland and New Jersey. But: Florida in 2000. Ohio in '04. Virginia in '06? Strategists in both parties tell TIME that they now believe control of the Senate could turn on a race that wasn't on anyone's toss-up list two months ago -- the Democratic challenge by former Navy ...
Keith Olbermann & Constitutional Law Prof Jonathan Turley On Military Commissions Act
Post Date: 2006-10-19 22:16:54 by robin
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Keith Olbermann & Constitutional Law Prof Jonathan Turley On Military Commissions Act MSNBC 10-18-6 To assess what this law will truly mean for us all, I'm joined by Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University. As always, sir, great thanks for your time. JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR: Thanks, Keith. OLBERMANN: I want to start by asking you about a specific part of this act that lists one of the definitions of an unlawful enemy combatant as, quote, "a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy ...
Judge: American to go to Iraq, his death
Post Date: 2006-10-19 17:25:33 by aristeides
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Judge: American to go to Iraq, his death MATT APUZZO Associated Press WASHINGTON - An American citizen facing a death sentence in Iraq lost a court challenge Thursday that would have prohibited the military from turning him over to Iraqi authorities. Mohammad Munaf was convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge last week on charges he helped in the 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Baghdad. Munaf, who was born in Iraq and became an American citizen in 2000, sought an emergency order blocking U.S. military officials from turning him over to Iraq. He claimed his trial was flawed and his confession was coerced. Those would normally be grounds for American citizens ...
Bush Says He May Ignore New War-Funding Law
Post Date: 2006-10-19 12:17:43 by Brian S
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Congress said it wants next year’s defense budget to include funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but President Bush has indicated he may ignore that request. In a “signing statement” released when he signed the 2007 Defense Authorization Act on Oct. 17, the president listed two dozen provisions in the act that he indicated he may or may not abide by. Among the provisions is Section 1008 of the Authorization Act, which requires the president to submit defense budgets for 2008 and beyond that include funding for the wars and contain “a detailed justification of the funds requested.” The Bush administration has frequently ignored requirements that it does ...
Source Reveals CIA Electro-Shock Torture in Secret Detention Camps
Post Date: 2006-10-19 05:43:44 by Kamala
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Source Reveals CIA Electro-Shock Torture in Secret Detention Camps "The electro shocks are administered without warning. This process is called 'loosening up'. When the person is screaming constantly between the shocks, the interrogators start talking to him in Arabic" Memo by former British Army Officer Peter Wright, Recording Testimony of US Army Officer John Peirce, US Army Airfield Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, Germany The Death of Democracy. CIA-style. It's here folks. And it's official. The final nail in the coffin comes with the instituting of the Military Commissions Act 2006, yet another draconian piece of anti-terrorism legislation that ...
The man who always wears a scary Halloween mask warns about "radicals" using the Internet. (WMR)
Post Date: 2006-10-19 00:55:03 by robin
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October 18, 2006 -- America's KGB chief derides the Internet as breeding ground for the development of radical ideologies. Speaking in Boston Monday before the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a longtime front for the CIA, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned about radicals using the Internet. Chertoff said, "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet." It is clear that the Internet is the final target of the neocon fascists to seize total control over information dissemination here and abroad. One of the first acts of a Democratic Congress should be to change the name of the fascist-sounding Department of Homeland ...
Military Commissions Act of 2006 - Video of Senators who voted "Yes"
Post Date: 2006-10-18 22:58:36 by Brian S
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Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America
Post Date: 2006-10-18 21:38:50 by Zipporah
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Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a warning call that many of the historical precursors of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization—are ascendant in America today.By Stan Goff 10/18/06 "TruthDig" -- -- When I was 18, before student tracking in the public schools had been formalized, an informal tracking system was nevertheless in place: the university track, the craft track, the poultry worker track, and the prison track. I was somewhere between the last two. Both my parents were ...
Year One of the Empire Bush: Resistance is Illogical
Post Date: 2006-10-18 21:35:13 by Zipporah
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Year One of the Empire Bush: Resistance is IllogicalBush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of a court review (habeas corpus) for some classes of suspect. Suspect, mind you, not proven criminal.In other words, we have to be confident that George W. Bush is so competent, all-knowing, and inherently just that we can just trust him. If he says someone is an enemy combatant, then he or she is. No need to check with a judge about why he or she is being held. And then Bush can have the suspect tortured to make him confess, and can convict him on the basis of the coerced confession, all in secret.This law creates two classes of persons ...
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