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LIBERTY: Free Speech and the British
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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LIBERTY: Independent?
Saturday, July 4, 2009I invoke my right to remain silent.
I do not give my consent to search
Live free or die!
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LIBERTY: The Gooferment is in charge!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98NEVL80&show_article=1
High court won’t block Chrysler sale
Jun 9 06:27 PM US/Eastern
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Chrysler’s sale to Fiat, turning down a last-ditch bid by opponents of the deal.
The court said late Tuesday it had rejected a plea to block the sale of most of Chrysler’s assets to the Italian automaker. Chrysler, Fiat and the Obama administration had warned that the high court’s intervention could have scuttled the sale.
A federal appeals court in New York had earlier approved the sale, but gave opponents until Monday afternoon to try to get the Supreme Court to intervene.
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The bondholders really couldn’t expect “justice” from a gooferment court.
Talk about a stacked deck!
The President’s plan taken before the Government’s Court. And, you expected a different result.
Watch the bond markets now! Nothing is safe from gooferment manipulation.
Now what happens to the Indiana pensioners who just got screwed?
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LIBERTY: They did what they were asked to do
Saturday, June 6, 2009http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_day
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The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which the Invasion of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
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One thing is for sure, many good men died this day.
Was it worth it? Only history will tell. Only God knows what might have been.
(Remember “It’s a wonderful life”?)
If we as a society truly value our soldiers and veterans, then we would not allow the gooferment to treat them so badly.
Let’s bring the troops home. Now! (Remember I told you that Ron Paul was that only true anti-war candidate.)
Let’s have the courage to demand, and pay for, the VA.
Let’s beware of the politicians who risk our troops for ill defined, venial, or (yes, sometimes) personal reasons.
Remember the 6th of June and all these days that good men died.
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LIBERTY: Parents; not gooferment
Thursday, June 4, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99054
Hands off our children!
Barbara Simpson
Posted: May 25, 2009
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The real issue is when can the state can intervene into family issues and how “neglect” is defined?
Does a 13-year-old boy, with parental agreement, have the right to refuse chemotherapy?
If not, why does a 13-year-old girl, without parental consent (or notification), have the right to birth control or an abortion? In reality, her right to abortion is subtle state permission for her to have sex – although sex with a minor is illegal.
Yet the same girl can’t get an aspirin from the school nurse without parental consent.
Perhaps that’s to make the parents feel they have some authority.
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I’m hard pressed to take the control of children from parents and give it to the gooferment.
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LIBERTY: Really READ the bills act
Thursday, June 4, 2009Seed: Democrats Hire Speed Reader To Read Cap And Trade Bill Aloud – Levin Fan (Source: The Washington Post)
One sign that long days of debating may have gotten to the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: they were briefly transfixed by a demonstration of speed-reading.
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Does anyone else find this strangely upsetting?
DownsizeDC (http://www.downsizedc.org/) champions the idea of “read the bills”. The congresscritters makes a joke out of the idea of “reading” whatever the hell they’re voting on. It’s a joke. AND, the joke’s on us!
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LIBERTY: Who runs the banks?
Monday, June 1, 2009http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUKN2941127620090529
U.S. FDIC restricts interest rates at weak banks
Fri May 29, 2009 3:38pm BST
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – U.S. banks that are struggling to stay afloat will not be allowed to aggressively ratchet up interest rates to attract customer money, a top bank regulator said on Friday.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp voted to bar a bank with insured deposits from paying interest rates that “significantly exceed” prevailing market rates if the bank is deemed not well capitalized. The new rule better defines what constitutes normal market rates, the FDIC said.
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Let’s dispose of any doubt that this is a “free market” economy!
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LIBERTY: Government Motors is a demarcation
Monday, June 1, 2009http://lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster153.html
Obama to Government Motors: ‘Let’s Roll’
by Karen De Coster
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As the Chrysler resuscitation continues and GM morphs into Government Motors, we can expect that the government will prepare to churn out its environmentally correct greenmobiles that the market has rejected over and over again. Freedom, choice, and capitalism will pay a dear price because a group of government bureaucrats, on the receiving end of political favors, will run a major sector of the US economy and foist a prescribed lifestyle upon American consumers.
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The USA of the American Revolution died during the War of Norther Aggression.
The USA was started on a road to somewhere by WW1 and WW2. The Depression gave FDR the “reason” to start it on the road to socialism.
Now, we have turned to Mussolini’s fascism. The government OWNS businesses. IT ACTUALLY owns the biggest business of the nation — the banks and car makers! By regulation, it owns in fact, the railroads, the airlines, the phone, the drug makers.
What’s left?
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LIBERTY: “Too big to fail” is a gooferment failure
Saturday, May 30, 2009http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12177
Break Up These Banks
by: Mike Lux
Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 17:00
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I also fundamentally agree with David Sirota that if these corporations are too big to fail, then they are too big to exist: a proposition also agreed to by the populists and progressives of the late 1800s/early 1900s, by Abe Lincoln, by Teddy Roosevelt, by FDR, by Harry Truman. Progressives of all eras have understood that corporations that grow too enormous threaten our economy and our democracy, and should be woken up into smaller entities that can’t do so much damage when they are mismanaged. The era of bank consolidation has to come to an end, and these monsters need to be broken into smaller companies just like Standard Oil was in the early 1900s.
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Very good point.
“To big to fail, then they are too big”
It would seem that’s a great principle of regulation!
Wonder why none of the “brains” ever thought of it?
Could it be that the politicians need things big to get political contributions?
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LIBERTY: The video camera is the new gun of the Liberty Army
Thursday, May 28, 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0YAghdHSY&feature=player_embedded
Fifteen minute video as Judge N helps rally the People against the power of the overbearing State.
Highly recommended on several levels.
Obviously, the Judge was impressed with the use of technology.
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LIBERTY: Search by the FCC?
Thursday, May 28, 2009http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fcc-raid/
FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
* By Ryan Singel Email Author
* May 21, 2009 |
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You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.
That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device.
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Sure, the Fourth Amendment no longer applies in Amerika!
Argh!
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LIBERTY: Memorial Day; very sad
Monday, May 25, 2009http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day
A lot of good men, and even some women, paid the ultimate price getting us to where we are now. Memorial Day remembers them.
And, that their sacrifice should not be in vane.
Sigh, sadly, I’m not so sure we appreciate it.
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LIBERTY: Repeal the “Direct Election of Senators” aka Seventeenth Amendment
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98184
The death of shame
Posted: May 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
Hal Lindsey
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Speaker Pelosi’s press conference yesterday had to rank as one of the most bizarre political implosions since Richard Nixon’s infamous “I’m not a crook” press conference in April 1974.
Pelosi called the press conference to offer her fifth separate explanation for why she never knew about the application of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” despite the release of CIA memos and the recollection of other participants who clearly recall her being extensively briefed.
As press conferences go, it was painful to witness. Noted one observer, if Pelosi was not lying, she deserved an Academy Award for appearing as though she were. When questioned by reporters, she actually re-read her prepared statement – several times – stumbling over it as if she were cold-reading the description of an event involving someone else.
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I would attribute us to the “Direct Election of Senators” Seventeenth Amendment 1913. (The same year they created the Federal Reserve!)
Before that they were responsible to the State Legislatures and much more insulated from the public pressure. And, much more dignified!
It’s time to repeal that amendment and a few others!
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LIBERTY: Friends?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009http://lewrockwell.com/north/north714.html
California’s Day of Reckoning: May 19 by Gary North
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Decades ago, my friend M. Stanton Evans came up with a law, comparable to Murphy’s Law. I came across it in a delightful compilation of these laws, a book titled “The Official Rules.” It is designated as Evans’ Law of Political Perfidy. “When our friends are elected, they aren’t our friends any more.”
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I like this! We have no “friends” in the halls of power. We never do it seems. Argh! I’ve formed the opinion that we have to “kill” the overreaching gooferment. No other solution can put the genie back in the bottle. No way to limit its power. No way to keep it from escaping its supposed “chains of the Constitution”. Lysander Spooner was right!
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LIBERTY: We need nuke power to be free!
Sunday, May 17, 2009http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/deming2.html
Death of a Civilization
by David Deming
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While Western Civilization sits confused, crippled with self-doubt and guilt, the Chinese are rapidly building an energy-intensive technological civilization. They have 2,000 coal-fired power plants, and are currently constructing new ones at the rate of one a week. In China, more people believe in free-market economics than in the US. Our Asian friends are about to be nominated by history as the new torchbearers of human progress.
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Al Gore and his liberal pals will kill us.
We should be building nuclear reactors for power like there is no tomorrow. There won’t be. Why can France do it, but we can’t?
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LIBERTY: gay marriage affect you?
Friday, May 15, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/how_does_gay_marriage_affect_y.html
How does gay marriage affect you?
from American Thinker
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If past is indeed prologue, the organized, concentrated and continuous assault by a small percentage of zealots will ultimately wear down the resistance of the larger, less focused, non-committed majority.
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The Constitution’s Tenth Amendment reserves that to Several States. Thus the Federal Government should have NO role in the definition of marriage.
The States really should not have any role in defining marriage either since it’s a “church” thing.
The heritage of marriage licensing is racial discrimination.
So, “marriage” should be left to the civil society; the gooferment should MYOB and butt out.
imho!
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LIBERTY: Rights are inalienable
Thursday, May 14, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124223286506515765.html
News Alert from The Wall Street Journal
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The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.
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Another campaign issue / promise up in smoke.
Don’t real;y care about the lying.
BUT!
THe Bush Admininstration had Gitmo to keep the prisoners from getting Fifth Amendment and other rights.t us, next it
(Using my Judge Judy law degree and reading the Constitution, I think rights are inalienable regardless where on the Earth the government is operating. But my opinion matters not.)
The Obama Adminsitration seems to have a new reading of the Fifth and where it applies.
That scares me!
As Pastor Martin Niemîller taught us, next it woon’t apply to us as they herd us to the camps.
Remember my previous blogs. Just take out the first one and the they will soon run out of thugs.
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LIBERTY: Buchanan points the way for the GOP
Monday, May 11, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97455
The winning issue for GOP
Pat Buchanan
Posted: May 08, 2009
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Why is the party in trouble? Simple. Dubya got a hold of the keys, got high on neocon hooch, and crashed and rolled the family SUV.
He launched an unnecessary war against a country that had not attacked us. With his utopian No Child Left Behind scheme and his Medicare drug plan, he did his passable imitation of LBJ, and blew a hole in the budget.
Touting globalism, he presided over the loss of one in every four U.S. manufacturing jobs and ran up $5 trillion in trade deficits. He refused to defend the Mexican border against an invasion, then pushed an amnesty for the invaders.
This was no Reaganite. This was the neocons’ apprentice.
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If the Republican Party wants a future, it will become again the party that stands on the principle that “No discrimination means no discrimination,” that stands with the victims of state bigotry, and that stands up to hypocrites like the Jim Crow liberals of New Haven.
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To return to power, the GOP has to return to the Taft – Reagan wing of the party. Principles of smaller government will win. We can’t afford the nonsense that substitutes for wisdom in DC.
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LIBERTY: Can snap that pic?
Sunday, May 10, 2009http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/san-francisco-muni-b.html
San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 7, 2009 6:45 PM
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The blogger at What I’m Seeing is a prolific photographer of San Francisco’s rapid transit system, and thus has fallen afoul of its imaginary no-photos policy, with a threatened arrest:
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What happened to the First Amendment?
The rapid transit is part of the gooferment.
No doubt about that!
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LIBERTY: The Betsy Ross flag
Friday, May 8, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96590
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What flag will you fly on Memorial Day?
While in Obama’s liberal America we still have one!
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LIBERTY: GM along with the banks equals AMTRAK aka fascism
Wednesday, May 6, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/amtraking_automakers.html
May 02, 2009
Amtraking Automakers
By J. Robert Smith
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The odds that the federal government will ever get its hooks out of Chrysler or General Motors are slim to none, regardless what President Obama says. Why? In one word, Amtrak.
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Doesn’t anyone else see that this is fascism?
Government Motors and the banks becoming like the post office!
Argh!
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LIBERTY: Schiff on the Chrysler bankruptcy
Monday, May 4, 2009
Peter Schiff on the Chrysler bankruptcy.
In a seven minute video, he makes some excellent points: turing Chrysler into the Post Office or Amtrak while trying to keep the jobs. Unfortunately, those resource tied up in Chrysler must be freed up. And, the government’s bankruptcy court will be at the end of it all the government’s bankruptcy court.
I agree that we have to stop the government from guarantying things — car warranties is another unwarranted intrusion.
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LIBERTY: Imaginary property sparks a bloggers revolt
Tuesday, April 28, 2009There is a new comment on the post “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language)”.
Author: James
“Riling the blogosphere is akin to poking a hungover tiger with a sharp stick, except instead of mauling you, it will leave thousands of negative reviews against your products on Amazon.”
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At risk of some type of infringement, (read the post and you’ll understand), this is a great realization!
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LIBERTY: The Betsy Ross flag
Saturday, April 25, 2009
http://politicalclassdismissed.com/?p=5929
How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot
Written by James Ostrowski on April 15, 2009 – 8:41 pm -
How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot
A Tea Party Manifesto
by James Ostrowski
Ladies and Gentlemen
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To sum up, here’s a 12-step program for how you can start to restore the American Republic.
1. Decide that you’ve had enough. You want to do something to reverse America’s economic collapse. That something is nothing less than restoring the American republic. America’s problems of today were caused by the abandonment of that Republic slowly over a long period of time. Pledge allegiance to the principles of the American Revolution.
2. Write a letter to your family, friends and neighbors declaring your support for restoring the American Republic.
3. Invite them to a meeting.
4. Educate yourself on American history, politics and economics.
5. Hold the meeting and explain to them what you have learned and urge them to do the same and then hold their own meeting with their own social circle.
6. Display the symbol of the restoration of the republic, the Betsy Ross flag.
7. Patronize businesses that display this flag.
8. Boycott businesses that bankroll the political class.
9. Educate yourself on the rights of jurors. If you are called for jury duty, understand that the founding fathers designed the system as a check on government power. Remember that when you are in the jury room deliberating.
10. Patronize books, blogs, websites, newspapers, magazines, think tanks, and political groups that were right about the economic collapse. Mises.org., IlanaMercer.com and others. See our page for a complete list.
11. For political activism, join an existing Patriot group. Don’t reinvent the wheel. See our page for recommended groups. While I believe that politics is not our best field of battle at the moment, as our movement grows, we will soon be able to launch a successful frontal assault on the political class.
12. Follow these websites for continuing developments:
PoliticalClassDismissed.com
FreeNewYork.org
BuffaloLiberty.com
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LIBERTY: Who will be the “minutemen”?
Friday, April 24, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/cooper/cooper14.html
Are You Kidding Me?
by Don Cooper
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Where have all the heroes gone? Where are all the pioneers? Where are the visionaries? Where are the true statesmen? Where are the defenders of freedom? What has happened to the American Spirit of life and liberty? I guess they’re all at the mall or Starbucks and are too fat to get up out of their chair and fight. Or they’re looking forward to retirement and the “good life” after spending their life being a good soldier and playing by the rules and saving for the “golden years” while their real golden years of youth were passing them by. Certainly they can’t be asked to risk all that for something as silly as their children’s futures. How selfish of me.
Or maybe we don’t want to risk our children’s well-being now, so we defer it until they’re adults and let them deal with the fact that they can’t afford college or health care or a home without going into enormous debt and we never teach them the importance of things like: character, honor, integrity, truth and freedom but rather teach them how to live in fear and how important it is to get a “good job” and play by the rules and to go along to get along and that will be safe.
We’re pathetic.
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We ARE pathetic.
Who will be our minutemen that assemble on the town green and say to the “King’s troops”: “NO!”?
With a mix of rifles and pitchforks, who drives the thugs out of the “capitals”?
Or do we just pray that the “chains” lay lightly?
Argh!
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LIBERTY: You have to fight for your rights
Friday, April 17, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95045
City lampooned for ‘banning Constitution’
Officials mocked in mural for going after local businessman
Posted: April 15, 2009 3:31 pm Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
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CLEARWATER, Fla. – A businessman outraged by perceived government attempts to silence free speech is turning the tables on city officials by posting a giant mural depicting their banning of the First Amendment.
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You have to love an American that won’t “roll over” to the government!
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LIBERTY: What percentage of a slave are you?
Monday, April 13, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94199
A Minority View Walter Williams
Government deception: The rule not the exception
Posted: April 08, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
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Today’s politicians are not likely to take measures to avoid the coming chaos because senior citizens, the major beneficiaries of Social Security and Medicare, vote in large numbers and will exact a high political price. Plus, neither today’s senior citizens nor today’s politicians will be alive in 2050. I’d be more optimistic if my fellow Americans were simply suffering from congressional deception as opposed to their not caring about the economic calamity that awaits tomorrow’s Americans. I’d be even more optimistic if today’s seniors started putting heat on Congress to allow those Americans who want nothing to do with Social Security to opt out.
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Like that is ever going to happen. Politicians and bureaucrats will never release the “wage slaves” without a fight.
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LIBERTY: Rutgers violates all women’s Fourth Amendment rights
Sunday, March 22, 2009After 9/11, Rutgers University instituted “security”. Theater at its best!
Some how the Cure Insurance company advertising SUV is allowed to park right outside. And, I see the handicap bus blocked from dropping off at the front door. And, all those folks have to hike in.
Patrons have their bags searched. All patrons. Mostly women. Men gat a pass. I’ve put Frau’s bag under my coat when she’s forgotten to leave it home or in the car.
Security theater!
Let anyone forget. RU is NOT a private business. It’s a State- funded “entity”. As such, it’s gooferment.
Note, when we went to Seton Hall, there was no such “bag check”.
How do we get our rights back, once they are taken away by gooferment?
I don’t know. Do you?
And, do get me started about the ongoing policy of selling bottles of soda but removing the cap. Students once threw them on the court.. After a few spills, smart repeat visitors just bring caps from home. Soda manufacturer put the prizes under the cap. I’ve seen the the vendors checking them. I guess they get to keep the caps that win. So they will be real diligent about “seizing ” the caps. Argh!
Students once staged a sit in on the court. We still have the absurd barriers up to prevent that from reoccurring. Hard on the handicapped and elderly who sit down court–side. Of course, there’s now VIP seating on the other side of that barrier.
It’s absurd!
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LIBERTY: Hold the ‘Catastrophe’: Obama Says He’s ‘Highly Optimistic’ About Economy
Friday, March 13, 2009http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96SP30G5&show_article=1
Obama: Economic crisis ‘not as bad as we think’
Mar 12 05:49 PM US/Eastern
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
Hold the ‘Catastrophe’: Obama Says He’s ‘Highly Optimistic’ About Economy
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is “not as bad as we think” and his plans will speed recovery.
Challenged to provide encouragement as the nation’s “confidence builder in chief,” Obama said Americans shouldn’t be whipsawed by bursts of either bad or good news and he was “highly optimistic” about the long term.
The president’s proposals for major health care, energy and education changes in the midst of economic hard times faced skepticism from both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, as senators questioned his budget outlook and the deficits it envisions in the middle of the next decade.
But Obama, speaking to top executives of the Business Roundtable, expressed an optimistic vision and called for patience.
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Well, “they” have passed the PORKULOUS bill and the various versions of TARP.
Guess they have always stampeded us into giving up more of our money and our liberty.
So much for “change”. Guess I’ll just have to “hope”.
So what are they going to repeal and cut.
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LIBERTY: If you used the system to change the system
Monday, March 9, 2009http://freekeene.com/2009/03/02/a-story-about-change/
A Story about Change
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Hopefully you understand why I no longer believe in using the system to change the system. I’ve found the problem to be “the system”. The process for adding, changing and removing laws of any significance in the direction of freedom and liberty is hopelessly broken. Laws still work great for giving an edge to your friends, setting up barriers to entry, consolidating power to a few large players in a given industry (power, water, telephone, cable, autos, banks, etc. . ), or punishing others with unprofitable mandates.
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A well said response to the challenge; “You and the other people who agree with you could accomplish so much more if you used the system to change the system.”
The system is broken and biased against freedom and liberty!
Just try and get a third party on the ballot. Just try and get a Ron Paul as the nominee of one of the two major parties. Just try and change ANYTHING!
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LIBERTY: With or against the Federal Government?
Sunday, March 8, 2009http://www.freestateproject.org/node/16405
Do you stand with or against the Federal Government?
By Russell Kanning
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The 400+ men and women that meet in the NH State House this time of year are discussing whether or not NH should remain a part of the U.S. no matter what the Feds do. A handful of reps decided to put forth a bill, HCR6 that proposes that if the government in Washington DC decides to implement measures like mandatory national service, then NH will leave the union. That seems very reasonable to me. Upon entering the US, NH like the majority of other states, left themselves room to voluntarily leave the arrangement, and this bill is patterned after similar resolutions and declarations penned by Thomas Jefferson. So I am asking you, would you prefer to stand with or against the current incarnation of the US Government?
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Frankly, I don’t think it matters.
It’s like asking if the slave master will let the serf go. Ain’t going to happen.
Unless the terrorists are landing on the shore, I’d say “against”.
Looking at the Obama acts and quotes, I’d say against.
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LIBERTY: the Right to Prove One’s Innocence?
Thursday, March 5, 2009http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132008.html
New at Reason: Radley Balko on DNA Testing and the Right to Prove One’s Innocence
March 2, 2009, 6:50pm
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If a convict can establish irrefutable proof of his innocence with a simple DNA test, does he have a constitutional right to that test, even if he has exhausted his legal appeals? As Senior Editor Radley Balko writes, the answer to that question may depend on how the Supreme Court rules in the case of District Attorney’s Office v. Osborne, which it heard today.
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The state of Alaska and its supporters are arguing in Osborne that once a defendant has exhausted his appeals, those values switch, making the protection of a conviction more important than achieving actual justice.
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Of course, “justice” to the gooferment is a relative term. Not to the DOWG or us little L libertarians!]
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