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POPS"My First-Hand Experience with Gov't Spies" America's new government, including the states, in action: Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the ACLU, we now know that "Lucy" was only one part of a vast, insidious project. The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security devoted near 300 hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars from 2005 and 2006 to harassing people whose only crime was dissenting on the question of the war in Iraq and Maryland's use of death row.
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POPSLawsuit to Counter Spy Bill Promised The constitution is supreme law over all legislation, period. ACLU promises a needed legal challenge. No tyranny permitted even if legislated. A legislative act, contrary to the Constitution, is not law.--Supreme Court Justice John Marshall
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POPSFBI Pushes for Internet Dragnet FBI wants to go Big Brother versus the limits of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. The excuse includes the doctrine of "preemption", the plea of "necessity".
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POPSNYC Goes Totally Paranoid, "Torches" Liberty for Security Homeland Tyranny: Insane pretense of security at high cost to taxpayers that would prevent nothing from someone determined. Welcome to propaganda in "real time", acted out to reinforce and justify more of the same. Between total surveillance and this it does not look or feel like freedom, but fascism, and it is. Americans are more of a threat to each other (read crime statistics) and the mathematical probability of terrorism is microscopic in comparison. So all this is for NOTHING BUT SHOW! Not only Iraq, but now New York City is officially under Occupation.
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POPSNAO: Homeland Security Launches New Domestic Spy Program Unbelievable and right in our faces. Brazen domestic spy program launched based upon satellite technology and furthering military involvement in domestic police operations. This is a tyranny matrix, contrary to the 4th amendment of the Constitution, again.
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POPSPost-9/11 Memo Shows Disdain for Constitution Bush's "Justice" Dept had written memo claiming that 4th amendment of the Constitution "did not apply". The administration now disavows this position, it claims, yet we see little evidence of their disavowal in regard to civil liberties when it comes to domestic spying, the PATRIOT ACT, REAL ID, or a host of other examples. It was Bush who blurted out that the Constitution is "just a g--damned piece of paper" , when legal challenges were warned of.
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POPSPush Congress on Enumerated Powers Act--Restrain Rogue Fed Powers Restrain the government within the Constitution! This powerful proposed law would require Congress to explain (i.e. enumerate) where in the Constitution each proposed piece of legislation is authorized. Consider their inability to justify REAL ID, PATRIOT ACT, Military Commissions Act, domestic spying, and even War with Iraq (without a declaration of war)! The "plea of necessity" is the tyrant's plea, as the founders and early Americans noted well, which has been employed liberally with the Bush administration (as well as many before it). "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce." James Madison, Federalist No. 45
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POPSTIME Says Americans Don't Care about "Big Brother" Sounds like propaganda to me. People are noticing, they only feel impotent to stop it. They need to get raving mad about it, and fight it now (beginning in the courts and thru law) before it gets embedded. Government usurps more power every day while Americans watch American Idol and entertain themselves to death (even Clipmark trivia), and are becoming like animals in a zoo, where "freedom" is very limited and controlled. Indolence leads to slavery. Only vigilance and zealous action leads to liberty.
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POPSBush Claims Feds Can Open Mail w/o Warrant In case you missed it, like many of us did, Bush in a "signing statement" (i.e. Executive fiat legislation) claimed that Feds can open mail ("search and seize") of Americans under the plea of "necessity" without warrant. Amazingly his spokesperson said he was claiming "no new authority" in doing so and that the Constitution authorizes it. (Have they read the 4th amendment:?!) Though dated in January, what is not well published needs to be made known.
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POPSCongress Finally Challenges Bush on Spying Finally the fear-mongering is being proven overblown and that there is plenty of latitude within the Constitution for even domestic spying, with a WARRANT ISSUED UPON PROBABLE CAUSE. Question: If there is plenty of means by which to conduct LAWFUL domestic spying, then why does Bush government REALLY want greater lattitude? The only answer is to enable spying without accountability or any record of doing so...against any citizens they want!
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POPSNon-REAL ID Citizens to be Treated Like Suspects This "homegrown fascism" begins May 11th at an airport near you. After all, "membership has its privileges" and you must be a federally-approved citizen and accept the Federal "mark" to be treated like you are "free". The new extra-constitutional Dept. of Homeland Tyranny plans to "make an example" of the citizens of Maine and New Hampshire for their states' (absolutely justifiable) rejection of REAL ID. TSA will be their deployed mercenaries to harass law-abiding free citizens for their nullification of this federal legislation. There should be open and public protests and lawsuits filed to stop this second class citizen "handling". Both REAL ID and the Dept of Homeland Security should be rescinded and abolished, being contrary to the Constitution, if Americans expect to be free indeed.
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POPSExecute Branch Continues Domestic Spying Despite Sunset of PAA The "Protect America Act" expired last Sat, but the White House, complicit with the new AG Mukasey and National Intel Director McConnell (both neocons) says it will continue (law-breaking) domestic spying "for now", along with help from the Telecom fascist corporations under the pretense of defending against "terrorists who want to kill us all" --while there is no evidence of credible threats or attacks, and the Constitution and law is trampled. This is nothing less than Federal Anarchy! Why should citizens obey the law, if the feds and Executive in particular, do not?
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POPSNew Road Cameras Detect Blood & Human Count How Orwellian in the UK! US is next, unless everyone resists and makes State and Federal governments uphold the 4th amendment of the Constitution. Either that or repeat after me, "I love Big Brother".
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POPSRon Paul, West Virginia Republican Convention Click the link to watch Ron Paul's speech at the West Virginia Republican Convention, Feb. 5th, courtesy of Charleston Newspapers and the Charleston Gazette. "I do not consider the neoconservatives republicans at all" --Congressman Ron Paul
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POPSWesley Snipes vs. Income Tax and IRS Wins Big This will draw more attention to legit Income Tax resistance. See also Aaron Russo's film (online at Google Video and YouTube) "America: Freedom to Fascism" for more on this subject. It is legally impossible to prove criminal intent upon those who sincerely believe that the Income Tax is illegal, unconstitutionally, and fraudulently extracted from the American public. Ron Paul is the only candidate who would fix this by eliminating it (if Congress approved), and the so-called "Fair Tax" proposal's purpose is to abolish the IRS while INCREASING AND CEMENTING mandatory national sales tax on everyone. (Do not fall for that fraudulent scheme either). The Income Tax was setup originally as a "temporary" war tax to fund WWI, and that is its primary purpose since. The Income Tax is also one of the 10 planks of Communism. The government existed without an Income Tax up until 1913 with no problem, or property taxes for that matter.
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POPSTell Congress NO on "Protect America Act"; Domestic Spy Powers Cowardly Congress extended the anti-constitutional legislation for 2 weeks before it expires so they can work on a "compromise" with White House to permit domestic surveillance on any Americans who make phone calls, emails, IMs, etc. internationally--without a warrant or probable cause. It is a deceitful provision and is UNNECESSARY in order to protect Americans against the mythical "terrorists" (who have not attacked in over 6 years). THE GOVERNMENT HAS PLENTY OF POWER WITHIN CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS TO PROTECT AMERICA. Email and write your Senators and Reps NOW and tell them NOT TO EXTEND the Protect America Act and to obey the Constitution like they swore to when taking office! See links in article for how to easily do this.
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POPSHomeland Security Expanding Big Brother Homeland Tyranny, where everyone is suspect. End of freedom, unless people resist, making use of nothing less than the Constitution and Bill of Rights, through law. This is all contrary to the 4th amendment and presumption of innocence, to electronically "search and seize" every person without a warrant.
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POPSHomegrown Terrorism Act Unmasked--Tyranny 101 This is the foundation of fascism in America. Such laws are written to be used, and use the broad definitions like "force" for a reason, i.e. so that Congress would pass it, and then they can enforce it however they wish. This is Tyranny 101, where expressed dissent becomes suspicious or criminalized.
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POPSHomegrown Terrorism Act Creates Citizen Suspects
Introducing crimes of belief. This is liberty of conscience being attacked where political-correctness becomes unwritten law and anything else is deemed suspicious or dangerous. The first amendment, along with the fourth, hangs in the balance. Another important warning from Paul Craig Roberts, and another piece of tyrannical legislation that requires protest. A domestic war is being waged through law to establish a matrix against citizen resistance of the powers that be. This is very close to a KGB secret police and citizen watch system to report dissent or suspicious activism. You could be considered a "threat to domestic security" and reported such by others. The ADL has already deemed and propagandized to the FBI that "civil libertarians" and patriots who consider the Constitution as a restraint on government as potential terrorists. (Yet every government official who swears to uphold the Constitution is promising to be a civil libertarian). The entire article is wort
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POPSLegal Argument Against Surveillance and Homeland Tyranny The expansion of surveillance camera, which record "free citizens", particularly on public roads and intersections is on the increase while Americans are distracted by frivolous entertainment, sports, and trivial pursuits. It threatens our very liberties and will not go away unless it is directly and forthrightly challenged based upon the supreme law designed to restrain such government encroachments imbedded in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. I just researched this document and found it a very compelling legal argument, presented by a law professor in an open forum to the Dept. of Homeland Tyranny (aka Security). It is well worth reading, passing on, and making use of in your own city, state, and county governments to defend your freedom from a rising fascist police state that represents Totalitarianism under the plea of "security".
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POPSFirefighters Become Big Brother Spies In order to circumvent obtaining warrants! Sneak and peek part two. This is just another example of the Federalization of local authorities (contrary to 10th amendment state's rights) toward a New Gestapo. Is this "defending freedom" or treating Americans like criminals?
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POPSBush -- Hypocritical Defender of the Constitution The entire article is worth reading. This is a typical neo-republican message where "judges that legislate from the bench" really is against judges who uphold the Constitution versus anti-Constitutional legislation or Executive usurpation of powers. Orwell would call this "newspeak". Parry calls it, justly, "cognitive dissonance", but it apparently applies as well to too many other Americans also in a stupor and blind denial of the facts.
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POPSDomestic Spying Legal? Court Rules Against 4th Amendment This is an example how one case sets precedent. The legal case is extraordinary. Yet the Constitution is not to be violated, and the previous FISA laws even permit domestic spying in "emergency", and that a warrant can be obtained post facto. Question: If there is probable cause (as this particular case might be)--THEN WHY NOT GET A WARRANT? The Constitution only forbids "warrantless" spying. No need to trample it. Here is the 4th amendment, which every American should want to safeguard, it prevents tyrannical government powers: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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POPS'Big Brother' Watching at School--Live Police Feed Welcome to 1984. Home schooling is definitely better than the government schools, and you will not be treated like a criminal suspect. Also, when security becomes common place it also becomes neglected, something the corporate world knows already with even private security guards. The police cannot watch tv every hour.
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POPSWill Supreme Court Uphold Right to Bear Arms? The case in particular revolves around a Washington DC (unconstitutional) ordinance that bans handguns, or requires their disassembly. But upholding what a federal judge has ruled, that such an ordinance is unconstitutional, the principle of course (though plain to all) has ramifications on all gun measures that states and the federal government have (unconstitutionally) passed--i.e. mandatory registration, IDs, concealed carry, transportation between states, etc. The current gun laws would have been immediately decried by the founders which included this in the Bill of Rights. "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." Tenche Cox, 1789 on the 2nd Amendment
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POPSTerrorist Threats? Tell Congress "I'm Not Afraid"! Want to restore real freedom in America? This great program makes it easy for EVERYONE to contact Congress to drive down the terrorism "fear factor". The odds of you being killed by terrorists is microscopic. (See my Clipmark on "OVERBLOWN"). Use this DownsizeDC.org website to send messages to Congress to restore the Constitution, drive down the pressure they get from neocon propaganda that leads to anti-constitutional measures which destroy our legitimate government and is driving America from freedom to fascism--the real threat everyone should be afraid of. IT'S SIMPLE--ACT NOW, JOIN THE MOVEMENT!
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POPSJoin the American Freedom Campaign -- Restore the Constitution This is a practical way through action alerts to contact Congress on various issues. Included now is Ron Pauls legislation and a call for the Senate to vote no on Mukasey for A.G. this week. Act now to save your freedoms. (This is not the same as Bruce Fein's "American Freedom Agenda", very similar name, that is more conservative, yet both are addressing presently the abuse of the Constitution. The one above has allies like ACLU and Moveon.org, which might differ on other grounds from this pledge above. The Constitution is not a partisan document and deserves to be defended by all).
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POPSRon Paul on Jay Leno Film speaks for itself. Ron Paul is on a roll. Restoring constitutional and limited government from the establishment usurpers is catching fire. "I could win", says Paul, and he is right!
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