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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Colorado's Oath Requirement
Post Date: 2006-09-06 09:49:42 by bluedogtxn
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'I Pledge Allegiance…' (May I Teach Now?) by Mark R. Crovelli It would appear that the State of Colorado has suddenly developed a new-found appreciation for the Constitution of the United States. At least, that’s the impression the State legislature is trying to give with its new law requiring professors and teaching assistants at state colleges and universities to take an oath promising to "uphold the constitution of the United States and the State of Colorado." Last week, as a teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, I was required by state law to sign this "oath" and have it officially notarized. Since I have never taken an oath before (nor have I ...
Republican Rift Over Wiretapping Widens; Party at Odds on Surveillance Legislation
Post Date: 2006-09-05 23:26:14 by Brian S
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Wednesday, September 6, 2006; Page A03 Deepening Republican divisions over the future of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may jeopardize GOP leaders' hopes of making terrorism surveillance legislation a centerpiece of their final legislative push this month. House and Senate Republican leaders plan to focus congressional attention almost exclusively on national security, hoping to draw clear distinctions between Republicans and Democrats ahead of the November elections. Topping the to-do list is passing legislation officially sanctioning the National Security Agency's secret wiretapping of suspected terrorist communications. The eavesdropping has been carried out without ...
Wiretap Program Justified, Government Lawyer Says
Post Date: 2006-09-05 22:50:45 by Brian S
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(09-05) 19:23 PDT New York (AP) -- A government lawyer used a dramatic scenario of a nuclear attack on Washington to illustrate his arguments Tuesday in defense of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. Anthony Coppolino, a special litigation counsel based in Washington, said the Constitution gives Bush the right as commander in chief to do what is necessary to surveil terrorists and stop them from attacking the United States, including interrogating someone who might have information about an imminent attack. "Suppose for example the president obtains intelligence that a nuclear bomb was planted ... right there in Washington, and the only way he was going to find out ...
Government Secrecy Under Bush Unprecedented
Post Date: 2006-09-05 19:42:58 by Zipporah
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Government Secrecy Under Bush Unprecedented Surprising no sentient being (but offering lots of good evidence), a new report from openthegovernment.org shows "a continued expansion of government secrecy across a broad array of agencies and actions." Reminding that information created by or for the federal government belongs to the American public, the exec summary notes, "The current administration has exercised an unprecedented level of restriction of access to information about, and suppression of discussion of, the federal government’s policies and decisions."Among the report's highlights:For every dollar spent declassifying old secrets, federal agencies ...
George W. Bush On Osama bin Laden: "I truly am not that concerned about him,"
Post Date: 2006-09-05 17:11:14 by Uncle Bill
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It's Election Time! Yee-haw! September 5, 2006: Bush compares Bin Laden to Hitler and Lenin FBI says, “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11” Click The Photo: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html"I truly am not that concerned about him." "The most important thing is for us to find Osama Bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."George W. Bush, Sept. 13, 2001. "I don't know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."George W. Bush, March 13, 2002. George W. Bush Video It only took cutting edge Joseph Farah of ...
Republicans Press Votes on Surveillance, Taxes to Reverse Slide
Post Date: 2006-09-05 11:55:37 by Brian S
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Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans seeking to stem an erosion of political support threatening their control of Congress will use votes this month to try to paint Democrats as soft on terrorism and eager to raise taxes. Topping the agenda is legislation authorizing President George W. Bush's secret eavesdropping on suspected terrorists without court warrants. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee also may seek a vote to permanently reduce taxes on multimillion-dollar estates. The Senate returns from a monthlong recess today and the House reconvenes tomorrow, as polls suggest that Democrats are poised to gain seats and possibly seize majorities in the Nov. 7 elections. The ...
Anti-Federalist #2
Post Date: 2006-09-05 04:14:47 by omerta
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Toward the end of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the 13 colonies joined together under the Articles of Confederation (1781–1788), which was succeeded by the U.S. Constitution in 1788. The Constitution created the Federal government and the United States of America. Several of the Founding Fathers (John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton) in 1787–1788 launched a campaign to get the new Constitution adopted by the 13 states. Their essays, collected in the Federalist Papers, contain powerful and persuasive arguments by writers who were skilled users of rhetoric. The Federalist Papers helped launch the ship of American state on its voyage. The entire ...
GOP Congress blocked Clinton push for anti-terror legislation
Post Date: 2006-09-04 19:20:36 by robin
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GOP Congress blocked Clinton push for anti-terror legislation by John in DC - 9/04/2006 11:10:00 AM CNN, July 30, 1996Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial provisions that the [Clinton] White House wants. Some they're not going to get." ....[Hatch] also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.So Bill Clinton, rather than just breaking the law as Bush did (then again, perhaps this is why Bush broke the law - he knew from history that the Republicans controlling the congress would oppose his efforts to expand wiretapping), decided to go to the ...
All the news that fits the Bush agenda
Post Date: 2006-09-03 07:44:12 by robin
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All the news that fits the Bush agendaBy Ernest PartridgeOnline Journal Guest Writer Sep 1, 2006, 00:33 It is difficult to understand how anyone with even a modicum of critical intelligence, can still believe the right-wing complaint that the mainstream media (MSM) "has a liberal bias." Evidence to the contrary is overwhelming, and new evidence appears almost daily.The persistent belief in "the myth of the liberal media" is still more evidence of the efficacy of "the big lie." The myth is repeated so often and forcefully that, among the "true believers," it is accepted despite the evidence. "They wouldn’t say it, if it weren’t true, ...
FBI Role in Terror Probe Questioned
Post Date: 2006-09-02 09:10:59 by Eoghan
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Lawyers Point to Fine Line Between Sting and Entrapment Standing in an empty Miami warehouse on May 24 with a man he believed had ties to Osama bin Laden, a dejected Narseal Batiste talked of the setbacks to their terrorist plot and then uttered the words that helped put him in a federal prison cell. "I want to fight some jihad," he allegedly said. "That's all I live for." What Batiste did not know was that the bin Laden representative was really an FBI informant. The warehouse in which they were meeting had been rented and wired for sound and video by bureau agents, who were monitoring his every word. Within a month, Batiste, 32, and six of his compatriots were ...
Great Keith Olberman rant - Slams Rumsfeld but good :) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-01 18:01:02 by Jethro Tull
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Was Homeland Security Behind Bollyn Incident?
Post Date: 2006-09-01 04:56:32 by Eoghan
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The "undercover tactical unit" involved in the assault and TASERing of a 9/11 investigative journalist at his Chicago-area home was most likely an operation ordered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to a former high-ranking police official. Since the bizarre and brutal attack against me by three heavily-armed agents at my family home in Hoffman Estates , Illinois , a number of people have commented on the seemingly odd use of an "undercover tactical unit" to respond to a non-emergency 911 call. Some of the most insightful comments have come from a former senior police official from Illinois , who spoke to a source close to AFP. The former police chief ...
Critic: Americans in danger of 'slavery'
Post Date: 2006-09-01 03:09:08 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Multiple NAFTA-related superhighways could slice the United States into economic and social regions, facilitate crime including drug trafficking and illegal immigration and shift huge amounts of money to the rich, critics of the paving plans have told WorldNetDaily. One leader even likens the prospects to "slavery" for the American people, because of the loss of control they would experience. "I don't have time to mince words about this. This is subjugation," William Gheen, a spokesman for Americans for Legal Immigration, told WND Wednesday. "What I'm trying to communicate is this: if you're not enforcing our immigration laws, you've nullified millions of votes. ...
New World Lies
Post Date: 2006-08-31 23:26:16 by Jethro Tull
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WHO WAS PHILANDER KNOX? (Ya Might Want To Read This)
Post Date: 2006-08-31 22:45:52 by tom007
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Philander Chase Knox was born in 1853 in western Pennsylvania, son of a bank cashier. While attending college in Ohio, he became closely acquainted with William McKinley, then the local district attorney, who was prosecuting a local tavern owner for selling alcohol to the college students. Knox took McKinley's advice and became a lawyer. McKinley, having chaired the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in Congress, was elected governor of Ohio in 1891. Although he owed his election to support from both business and labor, he quelled the labor strike called by Eugene V. Debs against the Great Northern Railroad in 1894 by summoning federal troops. McKinley won the 1896 presidential race ...
HOW TYRANNY CAME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Post Date: 2006-08-31 22:27:06 by BTP Holdings
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HOW TYRANNY CAME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA By Greg Evensen August 30, 2006 http://NewsWithViews.com "Get somebody else to do it!" "I'm to busy and don't care about all of that." "Listen, I do my best to get my kids to school and myself to work." "Don't bother me with this!" And so it is with Americans today. We began our country with a real sense of freedom, granted by a constitution that is recognized as the finest written work organizing government in world history. In the 217 years since Philadelphia, we have reduced that supreme, lawful, and revered document to worthless parchment. Many see it as a piece of ancient history or as an ...
Bush is a dick ... tater.
Post Date: 2006-08-31 11:02:57 by bluedogtxn
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A Democratic Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Amidst all the discussion and debate about whether President Bush has violated the law by ordering the National Security Agency (NSA) to record telephone conversations, we must not overlook an important fact: the United States is now traveling in uncharted waters, ones in which the ruler of the nation is exercising omnipotent power over the American people. A more appropriate word would be one that offends some Americans when it is applied to their system of government: dictatorship. But as uncomfortable as that term might make Americans, the fact is that ever since 9/11 Americans have been living under dictatorial rule. What is a ...
Destruction of Ohio's 2004 ballots will be delayed for investigation
Post Date: 2006-08-31 10:33:10 by aristeides
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Destruction of Ohio's 2004 ballots will be delayed for investigation New York Times Aug. 31, 2006 12:00 AM With paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio scheduled to be destroyed next week, the secretary of state in Columbus, under pressure from critics, said Wednesday that he would move to delay the destruction at least for several months. Since the election, questions have been raised about how votes were tallied in Ohio, a battleground state that helped deliver the election to President Bush over Sen. John Kerry. The critics, including a gubernatorial candidate and a team of statisticians and lawyers, say their ballot inspections indicate signs of more widespread ...
Taxi Driver In London Acquitted in Terror Case
Post Date: 2006-08-31 08:14:24 by aristeides
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Taxi Driver In London Acquitted in Terror Case By Mary Jordan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page A15 LONDON, Aug. 29 -- An Iraqi taxi driver, accused of helping make two videos of London landmarks that terrorists could use to carry out an attack in the capital, was acquitted Tuesday. Rauf Mohammed, 26, wept when the verdict was read in a London court. He had said the footage, shot in 2003, was "harmless," a tourist souvenir. His attorney, Lawrence McNulty, argued that his remarks on tape about killing Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush were made in an obviously joking manner and that the government had no proof Mohammed had any connection ...
Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (HOME PAGE)
Post Date: 2006-08-30 16:50:20 by aristeides
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Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing. This trilateral initiative is premised on our security and our economic prosperity being mutually reinforcing. The SPP recognizes that our three great nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions. The SPP provides the framework to ensure that North America is the safest and best place to live and do business. It includes ...
FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database
Post Date: 2006-08-30 11:43:56 by Brian S
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page A06 The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents, FBI officials said yesterday. The FBI demonstrated the database to reporters yesterday in part to address criticism that its technology was failing and outdated as the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks nears. Privacy advocates said the Investigative Data Warehouse, launched in January 2004, raises ...
Political Union or Political Chaos?
Post Date: 2006-08-30 11:38:05 by BTP Holdings
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Political Union or Political Chaos? by Ed Wahler I would like to have conversation with my fellow Americans on the current political state of affairs as it relates to the people of the fifty States known as the United States of America -- contrasted with the federal corporation, its agencies, entities and instrumentalities known as the United States (meaning the territory over which the jurisdiction extends). Talk to virtually any person on the street about the political, economic, legal or court situation within the United States and you may get an earful about "what is wrong with America." The speaker may even speculate about when the train went off the tracks, so to speak. ...
Welcome to the One-Party Police State
Post Date: 2006-08-30 06:06:04 by Zoroaster
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August 29, 2006 Welcome to the One-Party Police State War? What War? By DAVE LINDORFF As co-author of The Case for Impeachment, the most common question I get besides "Why hasn't Bush been impeached yet?" comes from right-wing critics, who ask some variant (usually laced with profanities) of: "How can you criticize the president when the country's at war?" It's understandable that people might ask such a thing, given that we have some 140,000 American troops fighting in Iraq, and another 10,000 or so in Afghanistan, but the truth is that these conflicts aren't what people have in mind (most people don't even think about those wars). They're talking about the ...
NSA DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE OPINION TEXT
Post Date: 2006-08-29 23:24:25 by leveller
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American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency/ Central Security Service, No. 06-CV-10204 (E.D.Mich. 08/17/2006) [1] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION [2] Case No. 06-CV-10204 [3] 2006.EMI.0002179< >http://www.versuslaw.com> [4] August 17, 2006 [5] AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION; AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION; AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN; COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS; COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS MICHIGAN; GREENPEACE, INC.; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS; JAMES BAMFORD; LARRY DIAMOND; CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS; TARA MCKELVEY; AND BARNETT R. RUBIN, PLAINTIFFS, ...
Raw (Story) acquires Bush wiretap subpoena
Post Date: 2006-08-29 22:24:14 by Zipporah
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United States President George W. Bush is due to receive a subpoena for a wide range of information relating to National Security Agency wiretaps recently ruled illegal, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY. Two attorneys--one a Green Party nominee for Senate--earlier told RAW STORY that the subpoenaes, which may be read below, have already been dispatched, and should be arriving at the White House in the coming days. Aside from their accounts, RAW STORY cannot yet verify that the documents were actually sent. However, authorities in New Jersey have confirmed that activist attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who say they represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against ...
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