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POPSStates' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal For all the conservatives out there foaming at the mouth about faulty registrations, let me hear your outrage about this. Hmmm, bet I'll be waiting for a while. Who am I kidding? Conservatives HATE it when people vote.
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POPS"Caging" Voters
(cont.)In addition, Michigan law allows people vote at their old precinct if they lost their home within sixty days of the election. Bauer told the Wall Street Journal that the Michigan suit against the Republicans was meant to send a message to Democrats around the country to be on guard against voter-supression tactics. "This can't be just an isolated event," he said. Republicans use these tactics "where they expect the vote to go to the other side. They're not caging in Beverly Hills. By filing the suit, we are assuring people they can be allowed to vote." Carol Guzman, director of ACORN's Financial Justice Center, said foreclosure lists would be unreliable indicators of who had been forced to leave their homes. Because state law allows a redemption period of up to a year after a foreclosed home has been sold, "you could still legitimately and legally be in your home and be challenged," she told the Lansing State Journal. But she believed that the GOP was trying to intimidate
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POPSFree Speech in Hawaii? Now imagine the weeping and wailing and knashing of teeth if the Bush Administration were doing this. Why no outcry? Well its Hawaiian Natives and Democrats and such.
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POPSPOLICE THUGS RAID PEACEFUL PRESS CONFERENCE The fascistos are out early to keep the truth about the WH criminals from the media. A small non-violent press conference to promote the coming Sept. 15th mass anti-war demonstration in DC. Listen at the beginning for the thug who says, "this is a danger to National security" !!? The cops excuse for this crap is that THE GLUE WAS TOO STRONG! YIKES!
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POPSFive Ways Bush's Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11
More: The government can hold you in preventive detention for months on end as a "material witness." If you're not a citizen the government can deport you on a technicality or for mere political association. If you're not a citizen the government can label you an "enemy combatant" and send you to secret prisons around the world, where you may never see the light of day again -- much less a lawyer or a judge. And even if you are a citizen, the government can label you an enemy combatant and hold you in solitary confinement here in the United States. Under George W. Bush's interpretation of the president's powers during the so-called war on terror he can do just about whatever he wants. He cites the Authorization for Use of Military Force bill, which Congress passed on September 18, 2001, as the justification for this enormous leeway. "Congress gave me the authority to use necessary force to protect the American people, but it didn't prescribe the tactics,"Bush said in a s
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