What’s really disgusting is all these fucking pussies who stand by and watch a man have his rights violated. There are way more people then cops, yet when they tell people to get back in preparation for their assault everyone is quick to follow orders.

Fuck Orders!!

When someone gets their rights violated it’s no different then you having your rights violated.

I really wish people would stop saying “Congress legalizes spying” or “Congress passes Bush Spy Law”

Here’s a crazy one from Wired:

Four days after President Bush signed controversial legislation legalizing some warrantless surveillance of Americans, the administration is citing the law in a surprise motion today urging a federal judge to dismisss a lawsuit challenging the NSA spy program.

Come on. By saying that the bill actually legalized activities that can never be legal under our Constitution they give undue credit to the Bush Administration’s argument. This is the propaganda right here, the really good stuff. This is how they get you, by legitimizing a ridiculous statement with another in the media.

The headline I want to see is “President Bush and Congress attempting to ILLEGALLY violate the 4th Amendment”

That is what has happened. Our Congress has once again demonstrated its complicity in enabling the Bush Administration to run completely amok.

Of course, so have I, and so have you, and so has everyone else. I’m fed up with the blatant disregard for anything besides their masters wishes. It’s time to dethrone the people behind the curtain, the ones who have so completely controlled America for the last 100 years that hardly anyone even speaks of them anymore.

Denying the truth, that America has literally been taken over, and our entire Government is an act, there to let us believe we have a Republic is what they want, it’s what they need. Without that their whole charade comes to a halt.

That’s right, our Congress has rubber stamped a bill written by the Bush Administration that is supposed to make warrantless wiretapping okay, even though the Congress has no Authority to grant Unconstitutional powers to the Executive.

From the article:

“After months of prodding by House Republicans, Congress has finally closed the terrorist loophole in our surveillance law — and America will be the safer for it,” declared House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.

The terrorist loophole? Is this guy for real?

Face it folks, our country is basically gone. Every Congressman and Senator that voted yes on this bill is a traitor, point blank.

The questions is what are we going to do about it?

Want to know when Congress is really fucking you?? When they say they’re doing it to ‘protect children’ from the dangers of this scary world we live in. Yeah, the same people who protected Mark Foley when they knew what he was up to.

Here are a few excerpts from Press Esc

US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children at the end of a Senate hearing for which civil liberties groups were not invited.

And, from Ted “series of tubes” Stevens:

“While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their child’s online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material,” Sen. Inouye said. “In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections.”

“Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether,” Sen. Stevens said. “The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are difficult, I believe Congress has an important role to play to ensure that the protections available in other parts of our society find their way to the Internet.”

The Center for Democracy and Technology released a statement on this issue:

Constitutional Issues Critical in Online Child “Protection” - As the Senate Commerce Committee debates how best to protect children on the Internet, lawmakers must take special care to avoid overly simple solutions that would do more harm than good. In its zeal to protect kids from predators and potentially inappropriate content, Congress must not trample the First Amendment rights of Internet users, CDT said in a statement submitted to the Committee today. The Committee is holding a hearing entitled “Protecting Children on the Internet,” that features no representatives from the civil liberties community. July 24, 2007

This is how they will get their foot in the door, with regards to censoring the web. If we allow this to happen, we can kiss our First Amendment goodbye, as protecting children will quickly become censoring any content they deem undesirable, whether it be political speech, religious messages, or news they don’t want reported.

Call your Representative and Senators in Congress, and tell them we will not accept any form of censorship of the internet by the Government.

Here’s the local news report on the raid:

Notice the newscaster says the the DEA claims Federal Law supersedes State law. Even though the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Feds on this issue DOES NOT make them right.

In reality, our Founding Fathers did everything they could to prevent the centralization of power in the nations capitol. There is no mention in the US Constitution of the US Government being able to restrict what substances people may ingest, whether it be for medicinal or recreational purposes. The biggest thing that I think everyone ignores is the 9th and 10th Amendment.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Often referred to as the forgotten Amendments, these would seem to me to protect such self evident rights as deciding how to medicate yourself, or what you choose to ingest, whether it be food, or intoxicants. Even if you don’t want to go as far as to say these rights were retained by the people, then surely they should be decided by the local State level, rather than in DC.

One other thing that people often forget is that they had to pass a Constitutional Amendment (the 18th)to enact the Prohibition, what is the difference with the war on drugs?

Some people point to the Commerce Clause in Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution as the place where such authority is derived:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Probably one of the most abused sections of the Constitution, as far as it has been used by the Congress to power grab and justify legislating activities clearly not included in Congress’s enumerated privileges. But in reality, the medical marijuana distributed in California is grown here, and sold here, and doesn’t have a thing to do with interstate commerce, no matter how liberal you are in the application of the term.

If the Constitution doesn’t grant the Government a job, then they have no right to do it. Unfortunately this idea has been greatly overlooked, especially since the early part of the 20th Century, with such programs such as the New Deal, and the Federal Reserve being implemented.

Nowadays Congress simply rights a law declaring new powers for itself, and people simply accept it. This is unacceptable in a free society. The Government is our servant, it’s sole purpose in existing is to protect our rights as sovereign individuals. I believe it’s safe to say we’ve strayed pretty far from this ideal. That doesn’t mean it has to be that way.

One thing we can do is elect a true statesman in 2008, a true champion of liberty. That man’s name is Dr. Ron Paul.

The Bush Administration has once again declared itself above the law. Of course this is a conclusion you have to come to by yourself, as you won’t hear that from the mainstream media. Instead they say the President has claimed “executive privilege” as if this actually means something.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

The idea that the media plays along with this nonsense is proof itself that they are working in collusion with the Bush Administration to give the idea of executive privilege legitimacy. By doing so they are guilty of treason against the US Constitution, by colluding to turn our Republic into a Dictatorship.

You can’t argue that Bush isn’t acting like a dictator. Here are the definition:

dic·ta·tor (dĭk’tā’tər, dĭk-tā’-) pronunciation
n.

1.
1. An absolute ruler.
2. A tyrant; a despot.
2. An ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to deal with an immediate crisis or emergency.
3. One who dictates: These initials are those of the dictator of the letter.

ty·rant (tī’rənt) pronunciation
n.

1. An absolute ruler who governs without restrictions.
2. A ruler who exercises power in a harsh, cruel manner.
3. An oppressive, harsh, arbitrary person.

des·pot (dĕs’pət) pronunciation
n.

1. A ruler with absolute power.
2. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
3.
1. A Byzantine emperor or prince.
2. An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.

You can’t really sum it up any better than that.

Is this American? Is this what we want our children to grow up with? The longer we as a people, as Americans, put off dealing with this situation, the bigger losses we’ll suffer when we do finally address it.

Enough is enough.

I saw this in the comments on another site, and I’m reposting it here, as this deserves a post all on its own.

Victoria’s Secret underwear will generally say it is made in one of two places: the U.S.A. or Israel. If they’re made in the USA, they are made by prisoners, and that’s that. If they say “Made in Israel”, they weren’t. The US has a very unique trade agreement with Israel. See, GENERALLY a label must say what country the garment was actually ASSEMBLED in. So, if (and this happens a lot) the material is cut in Country1 and shipped to Country2 to be stitched together, then the label must say “Made in Country2.”

HOWEVER this is not so under our agreement with Israel. You look at that label, you think “Made in Israel. Well, they have pretty good labor conditions and a fairly well-off population, so labor conditions can’t be that bad there.” Well, sure, they probably aren’t that bad. But that underwear was not made in Israel. Under this agreement, material can be cut in Israel and shipped elsewhere (to any of the impoverished 3rd world nations near Israel) to be assembled, and it can still say “Made in Israel.” So regardless of where your Vickie’s underwear says it was made, you know people were exploited.

So I looked up the Trade Agreement Between Israel and the USA, and here’s what it says about country of origin:

4. For the purposes of this Agreement; “country of origin” requires that an article or material, not wholly the growth, product, or manufacture of a Party, be substantially transformed into a new and different article of commerce, having a new name, character, of use, distinct from the article or material from which it was so transformed.

Now as much as there’s some ‘lawyerese’ in there this sounds pretty loose to me.

Let us compare this to the equivalent rules of the trade agreement between Australia and the USA:

Article 5.1 : Originating Goods

For the purposes of this Agreement, an originating good means:

(a) a good wholly obtained or produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties;

(b) a good produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties where

(i) each of the non-originating materials used in the production of the good undergoes an applicable change in tariff classification specified in Annex 4-A (Textile and Apparel Specific Rules of Origin) or Annex 5-A (Product-Specific Rules of Origin); or

(ii) the good otherwise satisfies any applicable regional value content; or

(iii) the good meets any other requirements specified in Annex 4-A or Annex 5-A; and

the good satisfies all other applicable requirements of this Chapter or Chapter 4;

(c) a good produced entirely in the territory of one or both of the Parties exclusively from originating materials; or

(d) a good that otherwise qualifies as an originating good under this Chapter or Chapter 4.

Wow, that sounds much more strict.

The bottom line? I believe the message from the comments on the other site was an accurate representation of what we allow Israel to get away with. Of course we all know these sweet deals are bought and paid for by AIPAC, the lobbying group for Israel that bribes, oops, I mean “lobbies” our elected officials to do favors for Israel.

Am I the only one who has a huge problem with that?

I never really understood this concept. Other countries are contributing to the political campaigns of the candidates running for President of our country.

Are “we the people” really that pathetic that we just accept this? Other countries get people elected who in turn give our tax money (and the money they create out of thin air) to that country in the form of “foreign aid”.

Call me crazy, but I don’t remember seeing anything about “foreign aid” in the US Constitution.

So I was reading the LA Times and I saw this little blurb about an American Citizen who was arrested in the US, declared an “enemy combatant” and put in a military brig where he was tortured for 44 months without being charged with any crime.

Then, just before the Supreme Court was going to rule on whether or not you can declare an American Citizen who is arrested in the US an “enemy combatant” the Bush Administration had Padilla transferred into federal custody and charged with a crime.

It turn out his lawyers brought up Padilla’s Constitutional right to a speedy trial, believing that that they had been violated. Turns out they weren’t:

Accused Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla was held in military detention without charges as an enemy combatant for three years and eight months, but his constitutional right to a speedy trial has not been violated, a federal judge ruled in Miami.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke refused to scrap the terrorism charges that Padilla faces, saying, “Dismissal of the indictment is not appropriate at this time.”

Padilla was arrested May 8, 2002, and declared an enemy combatant by President Bush the next month. During the following years at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., Padilla was repeatedly interrogated about terrorism activities, but he was not formally charged until November 2005. His trial is set for April 16.

This guy is an American Citizen. He has all the same rights you and I have. That means they can do this to you and me.

They can arrest you and hold you indefinitely without charges.

They can torture you.

They can use evidence gained through torture against you.

They can use secret evidence against you.

They can try you without a jury of your peers.

They can execute you, even without trying you.

How did this happen in America? Anyone remember the Military Commissions Act of 2006?

Add that to Operation Falcon and things start getting scary.

Throw in the John Warner Natinoal Defense Authorization Act

What if the war was against us?

I recently wrote an e-mail to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) concerning his bill, the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY) of 2007. In my e-mail to him I explained my opposition to the bill and requested that he stop promoting the bill and instead support the people’s right to privacy online.

In response I received this:

Dear Mr. Henderson,

Thank you for your letter regarding the data retention provision of the “Internet SAFETY Act of 2007,” which I introduced earlier this year. We agree that unrestricted monitoring of law-abiding citizens’ online activity would be a troubling intrusion of privacy.

The data retention provision of this legislation is intended to provide law enforcement officials an additional tool to identify pedophiles and child pornographers on the Internet. The provision does not give law enforcement officials unfettered authority to monitor and track Internet activity.

When law enforcement officials locate and shut down a child pornography website, they have no information about the operator or users of the site. They must subpoena the Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) records to identify these offenders. Unfortunately, many ISPs only retain their records for as little as 24 to 72 hours.

For more information on my work in Congress, please visit the 21st District’s web site, www.lamarsmith.house.gov.

Sincerely,

Lamar Smith
Ranking Member
Committee on the Judiciary

Confirmation# 1253490

DISCLAIMER
The integrity of the text of this email cannot be guaranteed if it was not sent to you directly from my Congressional Email Account: Tx21.LS@housemail.house.gov. If you have any questions about the validity of this message, call Congressman Lamar Smith’s Washington, DC office at: 202-225-4236.

This mailbox is unattended. If you would like to contact me, please visit my Congressional website at http://lamarsmith.house.gov/

Some people might say okay, he’s just trying to protect kids. Unfortunately that is not the case. This bill will make it so everything everyone does online is recorded in a permanent database. The ways this could be abused are immeasurable. Even if Mr. Smith’s intentions are pure and he really just wants to help kids this isn’t the way to do it.

He acts like he’s never heard of “function creep.”

However, this bill and it’s implications are not the reason I am advocating a revolution. Please note the last line of his response.

This mailbox is unattended. If you would like to contact me, please visit my Congressional website at http://lamarsmith.house.gov/

How can our representatives in Congress represent us without the ability to engage in dialogue with them? Don’t these people understand that we send them to Congress to do what we want? Right now their attitude is that they’re going to dictate to us what they’re doing and we aren’t allowed to question their answers to our questions/comments.

That’s not the kind of Government that is outlined in our Constitution. We live in a Constitutional Republic, where we send people to Washington to do our bidding. When those people are no longer functioning in that capacity then it is time to start anew. The Founding Fathers understood that, and the enshrined that idea in the Declaration of Independence.

Our Government has degenerated to the point where the vast majority of the people of this country can be opposed to a certain issue and the people in power will just keep on pushing it with completely disregard. When they run into resistance they spend billions of dollars of our money on propaganda to lie to us about the issue.

It’s called “manufacturing consent” and it does not serve the people, it only serves special interests i.e people with a lot of money.

This is not America. We’re not going to get America back without a fight, that’s just the way it is. I know it’s not fun to think about but that’s just too damn bad. Accept it, deal with it, and get off you ass and do something about it!