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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'?
Post Date: 2006-10-02 09:27:32 by Zoroaster
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October 2, 2006 Are You an 'Unlawful Combatant'? Maybe so… by Justin Raimondo There has been a great deal of discussion about the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [.pdf], recently passed by both houses of Congress, and most of it has to do with the provisions allowing torture of alien detainees, that is, of non-citizens apprehended in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, and their treatment at the hands of their American captors. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner, all Republicans, grandstanded for weeks over the torture provisions, then capitulated. Another "Republican maverick," Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real issue, however, when he said the bill would set ...
The Constitution of the United States 2.0
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:11:32 by Zipporah
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As there have lately been so many changes to the basic functioning of the United States -- a shift of powers here, a whittling away of rights there, it seems a good time to issue a revised version of the basic operating document. This is the real Republican Contract with America. We the Republicans of the United States, in Order to prevent any challenge to our continued Supremacy, free ourselves from the Confines of Justice, placate the Tranquil masses, degrade the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of War Profiteering for ourselves and our Friends, do ordain and establish Constitution 2.0 for the United States of America. ARTICLE ISection 1 All legislative Powers are hereby ...
CNN's Lou Dobbs: Alarming Congressional Testimony On The Threat Of Electronic Voting Machines
Post Date: 2006-10-01 20:07:51 by Zipporah
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CNN's Lou Dobbs: Alarming Congressional Testimony On The Threat Of Electronic Voting MachinesDobbs Says, 'This country has got to think about going to paper ballots…If an election is close, we're in deep, deep trouble." Guest Blogged by John Gideon "Congress today heard alarming testimony on the threat of electronic voting machines and experts at the hearing testified that e-voting machines are vulnerable to tampering, outright fraud, and political manipulation. They also testified it's uncertain whether the votes of millions of Americans will count on election day," said Lou Dobbs at the top of yesterday's report. Thursday's Lou Dobb's Tonight Democracy at Risk ...
The Antifederalists Were Right
Post Date: 2006-09-30 20:20:00 by buckeroo
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September 27 marks the anniversary of the publication of the first of the Antifederalist Papers in 1789. The Antifederalists were opponents of ratifying the US Constitution. They feared that it would create an overbearing central government, while the Constitution's proponents promised that this would not happen. As the losers in that debate, they are largely overlooked today. But that does not mean they were wrong or that we are not indebted to them. In many ways, the group has been misnamed. Federalism refers to the system of decentralized government. This group defended states rights — the very essence of federalism — against the Federalists, who would have been more ...
HATE CRIME: COLLEGE REPUBLICAN ALLEGEDLY BEATEN BY LIBERAL THUGS
Post Date: 2006-09-30 16:30:31 by Mind_Virus
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09/27/2006 HATE CRIME COLLEGE REPUBLICAN ALLEGEDLY BEATEN BY LIBERAL THUGS This is disturbing. Justin Zatkoff, the executive director of the Michigan College Republicans, was brutally beaten after leaving a party in Ann Arbor on Saturday night. The Oakland University junior from Bloomfield Hills, Mich. was rumored to be targeted by militant leftist groups. Zatkoff, pictured above, did not know his attacker, and no money was stolen. A source close to Zatkoff reports: Justin may have been 1. randomly attacked (but not robbed??), 2. attacked by BAMN (well known for violence andstrong in Ann Arbor), or 3. attacked by a homosexual rights group (Justin received an ...
More Blonde Jokes II
Post Date: 2006-09-30 14:29:49 by richard9151
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More Blonde Jokes Now that I have your attention, I would like to take this opportunity to explain a couple of things. However, so that the one-legged-man and Jethro can not say that I sailed a ship under a false flag; Blonde in a Car A blonde walked into a gas station and said to the manager, ''I locked my keys in my car. Do you have a coat hanger or something I can stick through the window to unlock the door?'' ''Why sure,'' said the manager, ''we have something that works especially well for that.'' A couple minutes later, the manager walked outside to see how the blonde was doing and he heard another voice. ''No, no! A little to the left,'' said the other blonde inside the car. ...
U.S. of A. vs. U.S.: The Loss of Legal Memory of the American State
Post Date: 2006-09-30 10:56:20 by AngelSpawn
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http://usofavus.com/index.htm : Welcome to the Official Web Site of the book series U.S. of A. v U.S. The first installment in the series, entitled U.S. of A. v U.S., The Loss of Legal Memory of the American State, introduces the reader to the principles of how the current U.S government, a federal corporation operating as a legislative democracy, was created by some Supreme Court slight of hand in concert with the Roosevelt administration. The American state, which we all lovingly call the United States of America, has known five distinct foundations of government and law. The first was colonial rule under the King of England. The colonists are believed to have thrown off the Crown for ...
The Ambiguous Enemy is Us
Post Date: 2006-09-30 10:41:28 by Zoroaster
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The Ambiguous Enemy is Us by Dave Trotter by Dave Trotter DIGG THIS Most readers of this site will agree that no libertarian worldview can be complete without including these two foundational premises: one, that power corrupts, and two, that government, which always attempts to consolidate power motivated by self-interest and self-preservation, will certainly abuse whatever power it is allowed. These are laws of nature, as they’re derived from observations of human behavior. And government has consistently demonstrated, since the inception of its very idea, that it is replete with human fallibility. No further justification should be required to oppose the adoption of permanent ...
Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering [With Bush's Torture Legislation]
Post Date: 2006-09-30 03:36:34 by Morgana le Fay
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime. He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime," the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center. "Judges must ...
More blond jokes
Post Date: 2006-09-30 01:35:47 by richard9151
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More Blonde Jokes
Now that I have your attention, I would like to take this opportunity to explain a couple of things. However, so that the one-legged-man and Jethro can not say that I sailed a ship under a false flag;
Blonde in a Car
A blonde walked into a gas station and said to the manager, ''I locked my keys in my car. Do you have a coat hanger or something I can stick through the window to unlock the door?''
''Why sure,'' said the manager, ''we have something that works especially well for that.''
A couple minutes later, the manager walked outside to see how the blonde was doing and he heard another voice. ''No, no! A little to the left,'' said the other blonde inside ...
Detainee Bill and the Dawning of a Fascist America
Post Date: 2006-09-29 21:52:28 by Arator
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Detainee Bill and the Dawning of a Fascist AmericaFriday September 29th 2006, 1:37 pm As Steve Douglas notes, “the Schmittian drives for the arrogation of all power into the hands of a ‘unitary executive’ Presidential dictatorship,” in the case of both Hitler and Bush, are “essentially, identical.” In the wake of the Reichstag fire in early 1933, blamed on the Comintern, Hitler and the Nazis, with “the support of a terrified populace … suspended civil rights and civil liberties, fattened their war machine and rode the fascist tide into a full-blown dictatorship,” writes Harvey Wasserman. After the Reichstag fire, Paul von Hindenburg signed ...
El Pee is Dying
Post Date: 2006-09-29 21:13:10 by SKYDRIFTER
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Take a look - Except for the juicy "dirt" articles, activity on El Pee is incredibly minimal. The last I looked, there is a long string of articles with less than ten comments; many good topics with zero. (Goldi-Lost deserves what she gets.) Nada-Minus!
Court Challenge to New Detainee Law May Come In "Days"
Post Date: 2006-09-29 17:30:32 by Brian S
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September 29, 2006, 1:02 PM With President Bush poised to sign the White House-backed detainee treatment bill into law, groups are promising to challenge it in court "in days." “I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in ‘H’ that this will be found constitutional,” Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Congressional Quarterly (sub. req.). CCR represents a number of Guantanamo prisoners. Strangely, some senators who voted for the bill weren't convinced of its constitutionality. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who voted for the bill even after his amendment to preserve certain rights for detainees was defeated, ...
Gonzales Cautions Judges Against Second-Guessing The President In Wartime
Post Date: 2006-09-29 12:33:06 by Brian S
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9/29/2006 12:01 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime. He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime," the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law ...
US Legal System Decimated by Congress
Post Date: 2006-09-29 11:56:36 by bluedogtxn
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Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 29, 2006; A13 The military trials bill approved by Congress lends legislative support for the first time to broad rules for the detention, interrogation, prosecution and trials of terrorism suspects far different from those in the familiar American criminal justice system. President Bush's argument that the government requires extraordinary power to respond to the unusual threat of terrorism helped him win final support for a system of military trials with highly truncated defendant's rights. The United States used similar trials on just four occasions: during the ...
Army disavows Blackwater work
Post Date: 2006-09-29 03:42:42 by Eoghan
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The service says it didn't approve the N.C. military contractor's 2004 mission in Fallujah, Iraq, during which four men died The world watched in horror when an Iraqi mob killed four Blackwater contractors guarding a convoy and dragged their mutilated bodies through the streets of Fallujah in March 2004. On Thursday, the Army said that Blackwater was not authorized to guard convoys or carry weapons. The revelation came at a congressional hearing that offered a window into the murky world of private contracting in Iraq. Representatives fumed about billions in misspent money, shoddy construction projects and the hiring of unqualified political operatives to rebuild Iraq. One unsolved ...
House Approves Warrantless Wiretap Law
Post Date: 2006-09-28 22:55:58 by Brian S
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(09-28) 19:34 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House approved a bill Thursday that would grant legal status to President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program with new restrictions. Republicans called it a test before the election of whether Democrats want to fight or coddle terrorists. "The Democrats' irrational opposition to strong national security policies that help keep our nation secure should be of great concern to the American people," Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement after the bill passed 232-191. "To always have reasons why you just can't vote 'yes,' I think speaks volumes when it comes to which party is better able and more willing to take ...
1. Brewster Jennings cover blown 6/2001 by interests involved with ATC, AIPAC, and JINSA. 2. Israeli made 2 U-turns 3. Lockstep McCain
Post Date: 2006-09-28 22:12:10 by robin
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Sep. 28, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT. CIA counter-proliferation front company's cover blown by State Department official two years before White House leak to media. U.S. intelligence sources, speaking on conditions of strict anonymity, have told WMR that the cover status of Brewster Jennings & Associates, the counter-proliferation front company that Valerie Plame Wilson and her CIA counter-proliferation non-official cover (NOC) colleagues used as a front for their operations, was blown in two phone calls placed in June 2001 to two foreign intelligence agents in Washington, DC by then-Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman. The calls were intercepted by the FBI, which ...
Senate Endorses President Bush's Plans to Prosecute, Interrogate Terror Suspects
Post Date: 2006-09-28 19:31:57 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism. The 65-34 vote means the bill could reach the president's desk by week's end. The House passed nearly identical legislation on Wednesday and was expected to approve the Senate bill on Friday, sending it on to the White House. The bill would create military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects. It also would prohibit blatant abuses of detainees but grant the president flexibility to decide what interrogation techniques are ...
Bush urges senators to send him detainee bill (What's the rush?)
Post Date: 2006-09-28 14:58:18 by robin
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Bush urges senators to send him detainee bill By Vicki Allen Reuters Thursday, September 28, 2006; 2:06 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a cliffhanger vote, Senate Republicans on Thursday beat a key challenge to a bill setting rules for interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects shortly after President George W. Bush went to Capitol Hill urging them to deliver the bill. Voting 51-48, the Senate rejected an amendment that would have restored the rights of foreign suspects deemed as enemy combatants and mostly held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions. That cleared a major hurdle and the Senate was expected to pass the bill later in the day and ...
Domestic spying program gets 7-day extension from Detroit judge (JUDGE TAYLOR REFUSES FURTHER EXTENSION OF STAY)
Post Date: 2006-09-28 14:30:13 by aristeides
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Domestic spying program gets 7-day extension from Detroit judge September 28, 2006 FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER The Bush administrations domestic spying program that intercepts international phone calls and e-mails of suspected Al-Qaeda members without court orders can continue for seven more days, a federal judge in Detroit ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Anna Digga Taylor, who declared the National Security Agencys program unconstitutional on Aug. 17 on grounds that it violates Americans constitutional rights to free speech and privacy, said she would delay enforcement of her decision for seven days to give government lawyers time to ask the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of ...
Republicans Hell-Bent on Passing Bush Torture Bill
Post Date: 2006-09-28 13:56:25 by Brian S
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In an almost straight party-line vote, the Republican-led U.S. Senate yesterday shot down an effort by Democrats to substitute legislation for the White House's Military Commissions Act of 2006, which passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The White House-backed bill will allow the Bush administration to continue down the path of secret prisons, cruel treatment of prisoners and allowing evidence obtained through torture to be used against detainees. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) proposed S.Amdt. 5086 -- which passed the Senate Armed Services Committee by a bipartisan 15-9 vote -- to replace the Military Commissions Act, but Levin's bill was swept aside by a vote of 54-43. Every ...
Voting next month? Why??
Post Date: 2006-09-27 22:41:46 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:E-voting....please....
Video: Congressman says detainees already have 'boatload' of rights
Post Date: 2006-09-27 19:49:12 by Zipporah
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In a statement on the House floor, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) claimed that lawmakers have already "given a boatload of rights" to detainees. The Congressman cited, among other things, presumption of innocence in claiming terror suspects had been given enough rights. Hunter concludes his statement saying, "So, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is alleged to have designed the attack on 9/11 that killed thousands of Americans, will have a greater body of rights, as Mr. Lundgren has said, in his trial than anybody under a similar tribunal system has every had."
House OKs Terrorism Detainee Bill In Victory For Bush; Senate Nears Approval
Post Date: 2006-09-27 17:11:31 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The House approved legislation Wednesday giving the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving the president to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terror plan. The 253-168 vote in the House came shortly after senators agreed to limit debate on their own nearly identical bill, all but assuring its passage on Thursday. Republican leaders are hoping to work out differences and send Bush a final version before leaving town this weekend to campaign for the Nov. 7 congressional elections. For nearly two weeks the GOP have been embarrassed as the White House and rebellious Republican senators have fought ...
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