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Rules of Engagement: Before you start shooting the bastards
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"Why throw in the towel at a time when your families, your community, your country may need you the most? You're making the mistake of thinking your government has gone totally insane, and that New World Order is coming soon to a town near you. That’s where you’re wrong. Washington has gone over the deep end, but regardless what side of the political fence you stand on, if you even think this is your government in Washington, then we’d all better go find a rock to hide under." |
Key Bills in Congress
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Especially check out...
S.2452 "National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002"
S.625 "Hate Crimes" bill
S.RES.140 "National Civic Participation Week"
H.R.4660 "National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act of 2002"
H.R.4628 "Intelligence Authorization" bill FY2003
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Homeland Insecurity: Abuse of wiretaps isn't a good sign
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"The hope is that the FBI will use its new surveillance powers wisely, but a case in New Orleans makes you wonder."
"Over the course of a wiretap warrant obtained 13 months ago, 10 FBI agents listened in to more than 5,000 phone calls, producing over 200 pages of transcripts. ... And the target of this heavy-duty federal probe? A popular local brothel." |
NRA Pushes For NICS Reform
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"Regardless of how the anti-gun community wishes to try to spin H.R.4757, the bill should help to improve NICS performance. By making sure the system has instant access to any relevant and legally permissible records necessary to determine if an individual is prohibited from possessing a firearm, law-abiding gun purchasers should experience fewer delays, while firearms can be successfully denied to violent criminals and those adjudicated mentally incompetent." |
MO: Widow of man killed at Jack in the Box files suit
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"The widow of a man slain by law officers during a drug bust in June 2000 at a Jack in the Box restaurant in Berkeley filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, claiming her husband's civil rights were violated."
"The two officers, Dellwood's police chief and a DEA spokeswoman could not be reached for comment." |
Medical Privacy Lost
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"The new regulations allow government employees claiming an undefined "national priority" purpose to look at your most private medical information without your consent or even your knowledge. A tiny, paperwork fig leaf in the earlier rules hid the government's desire to completely ignore your desire for privacy. The new rules rip off even that fig leaf." |
Whose property is it anyway?
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"Violation of property rights by government hardly raises objections. If it did, the appropriate reaction to the banning by John Magaw of firearms in the cockpit would be: "Whose property is it anyway?" |
IL: Guns: The Great Equalizer
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"Nearly 700 homicides happened in Chicago last year, and three-quarters of those were gun-related, according to AP. With fewer guns in fewer hands, Georges is confident the murder rate will drop."
"Actually, it's the other way around." |
IN: Local militia here to help, leader says
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"Many people view militiamen as gun-toting right-wing fanatics, but the Brown County citizens militia leader says they’re neighbors and friends, preparing to help in times of national and local disaster."
"Chief Deputy Sheriff Jim Hupe said he would expect his department and militia to work together ... Town Marshal Jack Dorsett said he wouldn’t. "It would all depend on what it was in the emergency before I would want them (involved)." |
UK: Teens 'jailed' for park killing
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--More "knife violence."
"Two teenagers who stabbed to death a youngster playing football in the park were each jailed for nine years."
KABE NOTE: NINE YEARS for MURDER? Why bother jailing them at all? |
WA: State Patrol begins random searches at ferry docks
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"I think if I was sitting next to a guy in a car that wouldn't let the police officer search it, I'd be concerned what he's hiding in there," Koivu said later.
"Cramer said extraordinary times call for unusual measures. "But everybody's understanding that it's for the good of all concerned."
--Let's just correct the errors: They are saying 'state security' and 'police state' - not the inverse. Here's to the 'good of all.' |
NSA joins offices blamed in Sept.11
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"A secretive U.S. eavesdropping agency monitored telephone conversations before Sept. 11 between the suspected commander of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and the alleged chief hijacker, but it did not share the information with other intelligence agencies, U.S. officials said yesterday." |
TX: Officers cleared in arrestee death
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"Three Baytown police officers have been cleared of violating any department policies or other rules in their arrest of a Mexican national who died a short time later, the city's interim police chief said Thursday."
"Two of the officers returned to regular duties Thursday while the third remains on desk duty because of a continuing probe into his use of force in a separate case, Chief Byron Jones said." |
CA: Boy sentenced for gum wrapper spitball
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"A 13-year-old boy was sentenced Thursday for hitting another boy in the eye with a gum wrapper spitball. Jeffrey Figueroa was sentenced to six days in juvenile hall, put on probation and ordered to contribute 150 hours of community service at an eye bank. He also was ordered not to make any more spitballs, according to his mother, Yvette Figueroa." |
The Ethics of Revolution
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"he accused me and other freedom-loving writers of spending too much time on words and not enough on action. Considering that individual rights are now being violated in means more significant and systematic than they were in the time of our revolutionary forefathers, I concede he has a point."
"And yet, it is worth considering what forms of action are appropriate for those who would see a return to a constitutional government respectful of individual rights and freedom." |
IN: Tax protest staged in Indiana
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"About 200 anti-tax protesters staged a demonstration in Indianapolis, Ind., yesterday to voice opposition to a tax increase bill being pushed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon and other state Democrats." |
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of men and women. — Thomas Paine, The Crisis, Intro. (Dec. 1776). |
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