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Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 865 Comments: 7 Franken reads 4th Amendment to DoJ Kris Franken reads 4th Amendment to DoJ Kris Feingold and Franken hearing with Dept. of Justice Official David Kris in the Judiciary Committee. User: BoogeBoogieston Sep 25, 2009 3:45 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 248 Comments: 6 Feingold and Franken: The Patriot Act Feingold and Franken: The Patriot Act David Kris, a high level DOJ official gets undressed by Senators Russ Feingold and Al Franken. User: spam_vigilante Sep 25, 2009 1:54 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 910 Comments: 1 Unconstitutional: The War on Our Liberties Unconstitutional: The War on Our Liberties The United States has refused to abide by the Geneva Conventions. They are the rules of war that were developed after World War II. Basically what they say is when you capture people during a war, you have to treat them humanely. You have to give them medical assistance. You have to, first of all, decide who they are. They get this left to this tribunal that decides: Are you a prisoner of war? Are you a civilian? Do you have nothing to do with this war whatsoever? Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films that follows Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. True to their legacy, Unconstitutional provides the facts and stories that illuminate administration lies, wrongheaded policies, and the real victims of these actions – the American people. Here, you’ll get the real story behind the USA PATRIOT Act and other administration policies and the gut wrenching stories behind those affected-from law-abiding store clerks to United States Olympians unable to travel. It’ll remind you of what America used to stand for and what it seems we’re falling for now. In short, this one-hour film will affirm why you’re angry and give you a tool to help others join your ranks. User: spam_vigilante Aug 6, 2009 10:00 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 441 Comments: 0 Colbert Report: Hardcore Teabagging Colbert Report: Hardcore Teabagging Perverts sully the patriotic act of a taxpayer rising up, standing over his government, and delivering his opinion into the mouth of power. From The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. User: RabidMadness Apr 18, 2009 10:44 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 172 Comments: 0 American Liberty Imperiled American Liberty Imperiled Gene Healy and Judge Andrew Napolitano both give speeches about the now severely endangered ideals of liberty that were introduced by the Founding Fathers. Healy includes some sickening stories in his speech, and Napolitano is especially adept at digging up (once) obscure facts about such monstrosities as the Patriot Act and holding them up to the light of day. Napolitano's speech is, in essence, practically the same as the one he presents in http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/147609/detail/. Still recommended to watch the two versions. Includes Q&A. User: White_Wolf Feb 9, 2009 7:29 AM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 1793 Comments: 8 One Nation Under Siege (Full) One Nation Under Siege (Full) From documentary filmmaker William Lewis comes a bone-chilling documentary on the spying, tracking and control of the American public. Parental guidance suggested, RT 87:15. Prepare to be instantly propelled into a world dominated by hi-tech surveillance and old fashioned spying as you go behind enemy lines drawn in our own backyards. One Nation Under Siege presents disturbing facts never before disclosed to a majority of the sleeping American public. Through the research of over a dozen internationally distinguished authors, journalists, physicians, and ex-military - you will begin to understand the massive and ceaseless control projected onto an unsuspecting populace by a government that has finally crossed the line to fascism. User: spam_vigilante Jan 4, 2009 5:28 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 557 Comments: 0 The Daily Show: Power of Attorney The Daily Show: Power of Attorney John Ashcroft goes on the road to defend the surveillance tactics employed by the Patriot Act. User: TheNextDylan Oct 28, 2008 3:35 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 181 Comments: 0 The Right to Assemble: ACLU on RNC Police Action The Right to Assemble: ACLU on RNC Police Action The American Civil Liberties Union is representing dozens of protestors arrested at the RNC. Chuck Samuelson, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, says much of the police repression during the RNC was based on law coming out of the Patriot Act. This video was produced by Geraldine Cahill of The Real News Network: http://therealnews.com/ Sep 11, 2008 12:15 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 126 Comments: 0 Political Lunch 07-10-08: Bob Barr Snack Political Lunch 07-10-08: Bob Barr Snack A Libertarian run for the White House means Bob Barr has reconsidered issues like marijuana, gay marriage, and the Patriot Act. How does a one-time Republican hero take on John McCain? Rob looks at why it may not be so hard. Jul 10, 2008 3:14 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 369 Comments: 1 Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election? Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election? Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election? by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis Published on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org It is time to think about the "unthinkable." The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election. The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know. But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention. The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them. In Florida 2000, Team Bush had a game plan involving a handful of tactics. With Jeb Bush in the governor's mansion, the GOP used a combination of disenfranchisement, intimidation, faulty ballots, electronic voting fraud, a rigged vote count and an aborted recount, courtesy of the US Supreme Court. A compliant Democrat (Al Gore) allowed the coup to be completed. In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount. As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed. For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters. This carefully choreographed campaign is complemented by the widespread use of electronic voting machines. As reported by the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and others, these machines can be easily used to flip an election. They were integral to stealing both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Efforts to make their source codes transparent, or to require a usable paper trail on a federal level, have thus far failed. A discriminatory Voter ID requirement may also serve as the gateway to a national identification card. Overall, the GOP will have at its command even more weapons of election theft in 2008 than it did in Ohio 2004, which jumped exponentially from Florida 2000. The Rovian GOP is nothing if not tightly organized to do this with ruthless efficiency. Expect everything that was used these past two presidential elections to surface again in 2008 in far more states, with far more efficiency, and many new dirty tricks added in. But in Ohio 2006, the GOP learned a hard lesson. Its candidate for governor was J. Kenneth Blackwell. The Secretary of State was the essential on-the-ground operative in the theft of Ohio 2004. When he announced for governor, many Ohioans joked that "Ken Blackwell will never lose an election where he counts the votes." But lose he did....along with the GOP candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney-General and US Senate. By our calculations, despite massive grassroots scrutiny, the Republicans stole in excess of 6% of the Ohio vote in 2006. But they still lost. Why? Because they were so massively unpopular that even a 6% bump couldn't save them. Outgoing Governor Bob Taft, who pled guilty to four misdemeanors while in office, left town with a 7% approval rating (that's not a typo). Blackwell entered the last week of the campaign down 30% in some polls. So while the GOP still had control of the electoral machinery here in 2006, the public tide against them was simply too great to hold back, even through the advanced art and science of modern Rovian election theft. In traditional electoral terms, that may also be the case in 2008. Should things proceed as they are now, it's hard to imagine any Republican candidate going into the election within striking distance. The potential variations are many, but the graffiti on the wall is clear. What's also clear is that this administration has a deep, profound and uncompromised contempt for democracy, for the rule of law, and for the US Constitution. When George W. Bush went on the record (twice) as saying he has nothing against dictatorship, as long as he can be dictator, it was a clear and present policy statement. Who really believes this crew will walk quietly away from power? They have the motivation, the money and the method for doing away with the electoral process altogether. So why wouldn't they? The groundwork for dismissal of both the legislative and judicial branch has been carefully laid. The litany is well-known, but worth a very partial listing: The continuation of the drug war, and the Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act and other dictatorial laws prompted by the 9/11/2001 terror attacks, have decimated the Bill of Rights, and shredded the traditional American right to due process of law, freedom from official surveillance, arbitrary violence, and far more. The current Attorney-General, Alberto Gonzales, has not backed away from his announcement to Congress that the Constitution does not guarantee habeas corpus. The administration continues to act on the assumption that it can arrest anyone at any time and hold them without notification or trial for as long as it wants. The establishment of the Homeland Security Agency has given it additional hardware to decimate the basic human rights of our citizenry. Under the guise of dealing with the "immigration problem," large concentration camps are under construction around the US. The administration has endorsed and is exercising its "right" to employ torture, contrary to the Eighth Amendment and to a wide range of international treaties, which Gonzales has labeled "quaint." With more than 200 "signing statements" the administration acts on its belief that the "unitary executive" trumps the power of the legislative branch in any instance it chooses. This belief has been further enforced with the administration's use of a wide range of precedent-setting arguments to keep its functionaries from testifying before Congress. There is much more. In all instances, the 109th Congress?and the public?have rolled over without significant resistance. Most crucial now are Presidential Directive #51, Executive Orders #13303, #13315, #13350, #13364, #13422, #13438, and more, by which Bush has granted himself an immense arsenal of powers for which the term "dictatorial" is a modest understatement. The Founders established our government with checks and balances. But executive orders have accumulated important precedent. The Emancipation Proclamation by which Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the South, was issued under the "military necessity" of adding blacks to the Union Army, a step without which the North might not have won the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order #8802 established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Harry Truman's Executive Order #9981 desegregated the military. Most to the point, FDR's Executive Order #9066 ordered the forcible internment of 100,000 people of Japanese descent into the now infamous concentration camps of World War II. There is also precedent for a president overriding the Supreme Court. In the 1830s Chief Justice John Marshall enshrined the right of the Cherokee Nation to sovereignty over its ancestral land in the Appalachian Mountains. But President Andrew Jackson scorned the decision. Some 14,000 native Americans were moved at gunpoint to Oklahoma. More than 3,000 died along the way. All this will be relevant should Team Bush envision a defeat in the 2008 election and decide to call it off. It's well established that Richard Nixon?mentor to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney?commissioned the Huston Plan, which detailed how to cancel the 1972 election. Today we must ask: who would stop this administration from taking dictatorial power in the instance of a "national emergency" such as a terror attack at a nuclear power plant or something similar? Nothing in the behavior of this Congress indicates that it is capable of significant resistance. Impeachment seems beyond it. Nor does it seem Congress would actually remove Bush if it did put him on trial. Short of that, Bush clearly does not view anything Congress might do as a meaningful impediment. After all, how many divisions does the Congress command? The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, would almost certainly rubber stamp a Bush coup. If not, like Jackson, he could ignore it as easily as he would ignore Congress. What does that leave? There is much idle speculation now about what the armed forces would do. We also hear loose talk about "90 million gun owners." From the public side, the only conceivable counter-force might be a national strike or an effective long-term campaign of general non-cooperation. But we can certainly assume the mainstream media will give lock-step support to whatever the regime says and does. It's also a given that those likely to lead the resistance will immediately land in those new prisons being built by Halliburton et. al. So how do we cope with the harsh realities of such a Bush/Cheney/Rove dictatorial coup? We may have about a year to prepare. Every possible scenario needs to be discussed in excruciating detail. For only one thing is certain: denial will do nothing. HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is at www.solartopia.org, along with SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030. The FITRAKIS FILES are at www.freepress.org (where this article was originally published), along with HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, which Bob and Harvey co-wrote. Jul 8, 2008 8:23 AM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 478 Comments: 0 ACLU: Beyond the Patriot Act (2005) ACLU: Beyond the Patriot Act (2005) Through personal stories of ordinary Americans, Beyond the Patriot Act tells how a misguided law and other government overreactions to September 11 are restricting our most basic constitutional freedoms and threatening America's system of checks and balances. User: spam_vigilante Nov 11, 2007 9:21 AM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 210 Comments: 0 Napolitano: Unconstitutional Patriot Act Napolitano: Unconstitutional Patriot Act Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses the Constitution, the Patriot Act, and Ron Paul. Clips are from The Future of Freedom Foundation. Jul 19, 2007 9:46 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 1735 Comments: 0 Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act Salient comments from Sheriff Andy Taylor regarding one of the bulwarks of a free society: lawyer-client confidentiality, now under attack via provisions of the Patriot Act. Jan 25, 2007 11:44 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 5195 Comments: 0 Daily Show: So You're Living in a Police State Daily Show: So You're Living in a Police State The Daily Show and Steven Colbert do a report on the Patriot Act. User: Dosetaker Apr 5, 2006 6:47 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 515 Comments: 0 Patriot Act: The Home Version Patriot Act: The Home Version The board game that brings the thrill of trampling the Constitution right into your home... newly updated for 2006 to include NSA wiretaps and renewal of provisions! User: hypersloth Mar 27, 2006 9:58 AM
 
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