"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
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FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including ''Shoot to Kill'' WITHOUT REPERCUSSION
From The Progressive - Sunday, February 10, 2008 By Matthew Rothschild The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they're being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion. The parallels between our current police state and Nazi Germany are way to numerous to be mere coincidence! Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm. RELATED: Our Imperial Emperor, Lord Bush! - Hitler George Bush Movie Documentary Tags: LORD BUSH Read More [ permalink ] |
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PROOF: Plans for North American Union (NAU) are REAL
Monday, January 21, 2008 By Your-Rights.com On January 22, 2007, Rep. Virgil H. Goode, Jr. introduced H.CON.RES.40 titled "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada." This bill has 43 co-sponsors. After campaigning to have the North American Union artlcle restored in Wikipedia, it is back! Thanks to all who helped! Alex jones and his crew has compiled a long list of news articles that mention the North American Union. We have witnessed a congressional bill describing the North American Union. We have Alex Jones' huge list of news articles about it, yet people still won't believe it is real! Professor Robert Pastor says the North American Union is JUST A CRISIS AWAY. Pastor "believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada." ( Dr. Robert A. Pastor served as co-chair and a member of the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations' Independent Task Force on the Future of North America.) Now that you know who Dr. Robert A. Pastor is, do you believe what he is saying? If ANYONE on this planet knows about what is going on, this is the person! Rep. Cynthia McKiney said that she believes the Federal Government is controlled by a criminal syndicate. This might sound like a conspiracy theory, until you EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE! More not so SECRET GOVERNMENT PLANS Exposed: To clarify... These are the Exposed Secret plans of the criminal cartel operating within the secrecy of the Bush administration, Cocaine Import Agency (a.k.a. CIA), Congress, Council on Foreign Relations, etc. The Protect America Act (search) New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture "There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security." -- ACLU The Real ID Act (search) Montana Governor Foments Real ID Rebellion States to Track Drivers Through Licenses "A federal program promotes driving license technology that allows the tracking of motorists even WHEN THEY ARE NOT DRIVING."The RFID chip would be voluntary under the proposed legislation, but if the past is any indication, it may not be for long. "Seat belt legislation started with child-restraint laws, then secondary enforcement, and finally a full-on mandate in the majority of states. Why does this legislative escalation occur? It's simple. The federal government just incentivizes their proposal so that each state, and by extension its citizens, feel like they have no choice but to go along with their program."REAL ID Action Required Now Tags: cocaine, CIA, Read More [ permalink ] |
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ACLU: Bush's wiretap bill violates Fourth Amendment
From RAW STORY - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 By Adam Doster The Senate plans to take up legislation as early as this week to rein in the Bush Administration's spying powers by reforming the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), says that when Congress rushed through wiretapping legislation this past August, they made a grave mistake. "The Administration bill basically writes August's mistake in stone," she wrote in a press release Tuesday. "It does nothing to protect Americans' communications and violates the Fourth Amendment requirement that courts supervise any spying on American soil." "The surveillance program began in February of 2001. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks of 9/11. These phone companies are cooperating with the government, not out of a sense of patriotism, but because they're being paid to do so. They're profiteers, not patriots. "If the Congress grants these companies retroactive immunity it will mean they have no regard for the rule of law they took an oath to uphold. I've taken no oaths. The rule of law will mean absolutely nothing to me if this comes to pass." -- A comment from a Digg.com user Tags: aclu, fisa, nsa, surveillance, wiretapping Read More [ permalink ] |
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Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - And Face Charges If Necessary - To Any Major Media Television Network That Will Let Her
From 911blogger.com - Monday, October 29, 2007 By Brad Friedman Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you. If you want it. Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds, originally on October 27th, 2002, when she was not allowed to tell you everything that she heard while serving as an FBI translator after 9/11 because she was gagged by the rarely-invoked "States Secret Privilege"? Well, she's still gagged. In fact, as the ACLU first described her, she's "the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America". But if you'll sit down and talk with her for an unedited interview, she has now told The BRAD BLOG during an exclusive interview, she will now tell you everything she knows. Everything she hasn't been allowed to tell since 2002, about the criminal penetration of the FBI where she worked, and at the Departments of State and Defense; everything she heard concerning the corruption and illegal activities of several well-known members of Congress; everything she's aware of concerning information omitted and/or covered up in relation to 9/11. All of the information gleaned from her time listening to and translating wire-taps made prior to 9/11 at the FBI. Read More [ permalink ] |
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ACLU Launches Voter Protection Initiative
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Friday, November 3, 2006 The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it is poised to respond to voting rights infringements across the country this upcoming Election Day. The organization has launched a toll free hotline so voters can report voting rights violations and irregularities on Tuesday, November 7. Voters with complaints are encouraged to call the organization's toll-free voter hotline, 1-877-523-2792. The hotline will operate from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. EST. "The right to vote is essential to our democracy," said Laughlin McDonald, Director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project. "To deny any eligible voter that opportunity is to undermine the fundamental freedoms that define who we are as a nation." Read More [ permalink ] |
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Youth Speak - The ACLU Freedom Files
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Young people in America are often treated as if the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to them. In many schools, for instance, students' writings are censored, backpacks and lockers are searched without reasonable suspicion, and low-income students are expected to learn in wretched conditions. Read More [ permalink ] |
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NSA Lawsuit - Stop Illegal Surveillance
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Friday, September 1, 2006 The ACLU is suing the National Security Agency for violating the U.S. Constitution. The illegal NSA spying program authorized by President Bush just after September 11, 2001, allows the NSA to intercept vast quantities of the international telephone and Internet communications of innocent Americans without court approval. Without a system of checks and balances, the government can monitor any phone call or e-mail they want, and they can collect and disseminate any data they find however they like. Just knowing that the government is spying without cause on innocent Americans sends a chilling message to all of us that our conversations are not our own. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Undeniable Evidence Against Bush Administration
From Your-Rights.com - Monday, August 28, 2006 This is the "Official Opinion" of Your-Rights.com about the Sept. 11 (9/11) world trade center attacks and the War on Iraq. Learn the facts about what is REALLY going on in Iraq, watch this video! Your-Rights.com believes that elements of the United States government have intentionally ordered the Sept. 11 (9/11) world trade center attacks in order to have a good reason to justify the war on Iraq. Please don't just take our word for it, watch these video's and you will most likely agree! Your help is urgently needed to obtain your region's federal candidate responses to the following election questionnaire. Please divide the polling chores among your friends and allies, and submit your candidates' answers to our central clearinghouse at www.911truth.org. Please use the following form to standardize results and maximize the accuracy and impact of this unprecedented poll. Politics 911 Questionnaire (Final Version) Your-Rights.com believes there is enough evidence on the following web pages that give very good cause to both Impeach the President, Vice President and other members of the Bush administration and charge them with the crimes that they have commited. Your-Rights.com believes most people would consider this to be a confession from President George W. Bush that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 WTC attacks. Just recently, A U.S. Army intelligence analyst has suggested that there be a new independent 9/11 investigation. Just read the news in the illegal domestic spying cases where a federal court has ruled that the Bush administration's NSA wiretapping spy program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. Is this enough evidence to Impeach both the President and the Vice President? Maybe you didn't get "The Memo"?? Did you hear about the Bush Impeachment Resolution Introduced In Illinois? Can you remember hearing anything about House Joint Resolution 125 in the media? Here are some great words from Al Gore (MP3 audio file) This is just a very small collection of evidence that Your-Rights.com has discovered. More info. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Geography Teacher Quits over Flag Dispute
From The Progressive - Saturday, August 26, 2006 By Matthew Rothschild Colorado going down the Saddam Hussein Road... You may only display symbols approved by the Government. A geography teacher prepared his classroom by displaying the flags of Mexico, China, and the United Nations, as he has in previous classes without incident. The Assistant Principal came into his class the day before school was to begin, and saw the flags, she told him to take them down. "That surprised me and caught me off guard," he says. "I asked her why I had to take them down, and she said it was Jefferson County School District policy. I said I'd had the flags up before in Jefferson County, and if that was the policy, I had some issues with it. She left, and about an hour later she returned and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry I was wrong. It isn't district policy. It's actually state law,' and handed me a copy of a Colorado state statute." That statute says: "Any person who displays any flag other than the flag of the United States of America or the state of Colorado or any of its subdivisions, agencies, or institutions upon any state, county, municipal, or other public building or adjacent grounds within this state commits a class 1 petty offense." "Any person who displays any flag other than the flag of the United States of America or the state of Colorado or any of its subdivisions, agencies, or institutions upon any state, county, municipal, or other public building or adjacent grounds within this state commits a class 1 petty offense." Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado ACLU, questions the validity of the state statute and the school's interpretation of it. "I have a hard time understanding how the state of Colorado's interests are threatened by someone displaying a foreign flag in some state building," he says. "Especially by a geography teacher using foreign flags as part of the instruction about different parts of the world. The statute itself represents legislative overreaction to a nonproblem, and the principal's decision was an overreaction to the statute." Read More [ permalink ] |
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ACLU of Massachusetts Renews Call for Public Hearing into Role of Phone Companies in Illegal Domestic Spying
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Wednesday, August 23, 2006 BOSTON - Rejecting wildly overblown assertions that private phone companies can hide behind a "state secrets" argument, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts today said it has filed legal papers with the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (DTE) calling for a prompt public hearing on a May 2006 complaint against Verizon and AT&T for their reported role in facilitating illegal government spying on ordinary Americans. "This case is about transparency and telling people the truth about what the phone companies are doing with our records," said Carol Rose, Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "Massachusetts residents have a right to know how the phone companies respond to requests for private phone records when there is no warrant or court order." The ACLU filing comes on the heels of a federal court ruling last Thursday that the Bush Administration's program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. Read More [ permalink ] |
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News in the Illegal Domestic Spying Cases
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Wednesday, August 23, 2006 List of articles about the Illegal Domestic Spying Cases from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Read More [ permalink ] |
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VICTORY ... If we can keep it. Act Now.
From TrueMajority - Saturday, August 19, 2006 By Matt Holland Thursday was a bright day for those of us who believe in the principles America's founders put into the Bill of Rights. We want to say a big "THANK YOU" to our friends at the ACLU, whose lawsuit led to the first court decision putting the brakes on the Bush Administration's [Pentagon's NSA] ever-expanding spying program.[1] There's more to do, though. Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, some Senators are preparing to end-run the decision, and permanently strip away some of our rights in the process. Tell the Senate to Reject the Cheney Spying Plan The Administration's warrantless wiretapping program violates some of the basic rights America was founded on. Ever since the program was uncovered, patriotic Americans have been protesting that we aren't willing to give up those rights. Now a U.S. District Court judge has agreed that the domestic spying violates the Constitution itself. Instead of working harder to carry out their responsibility as a check on Presidential power, though, some members of Congress are ready to erase those very rights so that the spying program would be OK after all. The Cheney-Specter [2] and Cheney-Wilson [3] bills, currently in the Senate, would expose our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes to new kinds of spying that are currently completely illegal. Tell the Senate not to erase our rights Matt Holland TrueMajority Online Director Footnotes: [1] Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html [2] National Security Surveillance Act of 2006 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2453: [3] ACLU's page on this issue http://www.aclu.org/hadenough Click here to take action! Read More [ permalink ] |
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Federal Court Strikes Down NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Thursday, August 17, 2006 DETROIT -- In an American Civil Liberties Union case, a federal court today ruled that the Bush administration's program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. This is the first ruling by a federal court to strike down the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program. "Today's ruling is a landmark victory against the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of the Bush administration," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Government spying on innocent Americans without any kind of warrant and without Congressional approval runs counter to the very foundations of our democracy. Now Congress needs to do its job and stop the president from violating the law." Today's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor agreed with the ACLU that the NSA program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, and runs counter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed by Congress. Judge Taylor also rejected the government's argument that the case could not proceed because of state secrets, saying that facts about NSA wiretapping have already been conceded by the government. Read More [ permalink ] |
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COURT DECLARES NSA SPYING UNCONSTITUTIONAL
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Thursday, August 17, 2006 ACLU wins federal court challenge to White House spy program The ACLU is challenging the Bush administration's illegal spying, which violates the Fourth Amendment and other constitutional protections guaranteed to every American. In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration's NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional. Calling for a halt to this abuse of presidential power, Judge Taylor states that "[t]here are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution," so all the president's "inherent powers" must derive from the Constitution. Read the landmark decision from Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision Read More [ permalink ] |
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California's Medical Marijuana Law Under Attack
From The American Civil Liberties Union - Friday, July 7, 2006 ACLU and Others Step In To Defend California's Medical Marijuana Law From Rogue Counties' Attack The Law is Clear: States Can Allow Medical Marijuana Even if the Federal Government Disagrees, Say Groups The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Safe Access, and the Drug Policy Alliance moved today to intervene in a lawsuit brought by several California counties that seeks to overturn the state's Compassionate Use Act, which makes medical marijuana legal for patients with a doctor's recommendation. "These counties are putting politics over the lives of seriously ill patients," said Allen Hopper, an attorney with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "The law is clear: federal marijuana laws do not trump California's ability to make medical marijuana legal under state law. County officials are thumbing their noses at state law and in the process harming patients and creating unnecessary chaos and confusion." Read More [ permalink ] |
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On Independence Day, ACLU Notes Cause for Celebration and Concern
From American Civil Liberties Union - Monday, July 3, 2006 By Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director On the Fourth of July 230 years ago, a group of brave Americans launched a bold experiment in freedom - the United States of America. Among the reasons they cited for their unprecedented break with the British Empire was a king who had 'obstructed the Administration of Justice' and 'refused his Assent to Laws' the American colonies had freely passed to assure their safety and prosperity. These days, we in America face a presidential administration that insists on its right to engage in unprecedented and widespread abuses of power. The Bush White House has consistently ignored the rule of law -- authorizing surveillance programs that fly in the face of the Constitution and our laws; permitting the illegal kidnapping of individuals; holding prisoners without trial; allowing and engineering the torture of detainees; and repeatedly ignoring its duty to enforce laws passed by Congress. Read More [ permalink ] |
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