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March 31, 2004
New 'Emergency Health Powers Act' is dangerous
The Illinois version is almost a word for word copy of the draft Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), written by the Centers for Disease Control, is designed to help state governments cope with a sudden outbreak of smallpox, anthrax, or other bioterrorism attack. Health experts predict that every state will consider the 40-page model legislation at some point this year.
Related BATR article: Health care from your Governor
The Founding Scam by MARK SCARAMELLA
Hamilton's circle knew they stood to make ten times their money when Hamilton's clever plans were implemented. The main opposition to Hamilton was Thomas Jefferson who thought that Hamilton's financial schemes were too royal, too British, and therefore too corrupt. Jefferson and James Madison hoped that the nascent government would be less centralized and more democratic.
More to U.S. citizenship than address on birth certificate by Phyllis Schlafly
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
March 30, 2004
Utopia and Reality by Butler Shaffer
A belief in constitutional government remains nothing but a collection of undigested reveries . . . When top-down coercion replaces the autonomous patterns of horizontal connectedness, we lose all sense of respect for the inviolability of ourselves and others. Look at how easily the state was able to sever our connectedness with others immediately after 9/11.
Right to Refuse ID Rejected
By a 4-3 vote, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected Mr. Hiibel's appeal, ruling any privacy right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is "outweighed by the benefits to officers and community safety" by allowing police to force people to provide ID, anywhere.
March 29, 2004
Kiss The Fourth Amendment Goodbye! by Jon Christian Ryter
On the heels of a US Supreme Court decision that now allows police to fully arrest and handcuff American citizens for misdemeanor violations of traffic law that are generally punishable with a ticket and a fine in traffic court, the usually conservative US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled on Friday, March 26, 2004 that police officers can briefly search homes and commercial buildings and use any evidence found in those warrantless searches in the trials of those charged with violating the law--even if police had no suspicion those being detained had violated laws for which they were consequently charged based on the evidence discovered in the warrantless search.
Repeal every law enacted since 1912 by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
The problem with proposing "pragmatic" solutions that might help the statists out of the hideous swamps in which they have bemired themselves is that we're surrounded by proud government-school graduates with little historical perspective, who therefore assume everything our government now does is historically "normal," and who are equally likely to denounce as either a failed comedian or a "nut" anyone who proposes anything radically different.
March 28, 2004
March 27, 2004
Clauses, Constitutional Disarray, and the Preservation of Liberty by Harry Goslin
The invention of the "takings clause" has been a favorite method of the government to steal the property of Americans to further the cause of environmentalism. Goaded on by adherents to this crackpot religion, government has continuously reinterpreted the Fifth Amendment, turning it on its head to legalize what is referred to as theft when committed by an individual.
March 26, 2004
de Grand Prix interview on Alex Jones
This interview shows how the North Dakota Air National Guard (stationed at Langley, Va.) threw a monkey wrench into the 911 plans of the Mossad/CIA insiders who demolished the WTC towers and blew a hole in the Pentagon. He maintains that the four Boeings that day were hijacked probably by AWAX high flyers, using remote control to ditch the planes in the Atlantic while missile-armed drones did the diversionary work on the buildings. The Adjutant General of North Dakota didn't worry about NORAD inefficiency but ordered his planes to take out the Boeing over Pennsylvania, which they did, probably preventing a fourth drone from being slammed into the Capitol building, or the White House.
The Knives Are Out For Harvard Immigration Critic by Sam Francis
The tactics of smear almost always tell us that the smear's target has offered facts and arguments that can't be answered on their merits—and the only way to answer them at all is to attack the person who brings them up in the first place.
March 25, 2004
Politics As Voter Self-Esteem by Gary North
Bush has sold out the conservatives in these areas: the deficit, privacy rights, Medicare, and international law prohibiting offensive war . . . This means that political loyalty to ethical principles no longer exists in America . . . Political loyalty upward from the voters no longer exists because political loyalty downward no longer exists. CFR Team A exists. So does CFR Team B.
Nowhere to Hide by Fred Reed
In a society in which reasonable responsibility was culturally mandated, people took laws as guidelines. There were far fewer laws in the first place. The United States is now a country in which personal responsibility is attacked as elitist and electronic control of behavior seems set to become a substitute.
March 24, 2004
The Revival of the American Blood Cult by Joyce Walker
Through their program of indoctrination, this ruthless coalition seems to have beguiled the public into a state of compliance that is unbelievable, given our historical background.
Socialists Fail at Censoring Alex Jones - Joey Dauben
UT journalism professor Robert Jensen and other socialist activists tried to silence the anti-New World Order crowd of Alex Jones and Infowars.com at the March on Crawford event. So much for mob rule.
Terror War’s Legal Cost by Paul Craig Roberts
The Bush administration’s claim to the right to conduct its war on terror outside the framework of US law is before the Supreme Court. If the Court fails to preserve habeas corpus, the ancient right dating to the Magna Carta in 1215 will be vitiated. In Silverglate’s words, "Tyranny will be clothed in the garments of legitimacy."
March 23, 2004
Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers by Emma Rothschild
Madison's view of political security was founded, in the end, on a series of expectations about human beings— that their interests and opinions are various and that their passions are moderate, or transient, or inconsistent. The most insidious of all the risks of empire was that it would contribute, over time, to transforming these psychological conditions for what Madison called self-government.
March 22, 2004
Burning Books Before They Are Written by Laura Dawn Lewis
House Resolution 3077 Passed the House…Will the Senate Save our First Amendment, or will debate in our Universities become the Occupied Territory of a foreign government?
In the Heart of Darkness
In the Heart of Darkness A journey to the Texas death capital reveals a sad little town with some strange coping mechanisms.
March 20, 2004
Willful Ignorance
Willful Ignorance It's taken a year, but the intelligence shows-and the world knows-just how weak Bush's claims for war were.
March 19, 2004
What Will You Do When They Come for You? by Douglas Herman
Those who make policy that affects us all are immune from the ills they cause. There is no "cause and effect." They are the virus and you and I are the host, the lab rat, whether citizens of Angola, America or Zimbabwe. A citizen has more to fear from the idiocy of his own state than from invaders, because too often the very policy that prompted an invasion or act of "terror" like 911 began with an ill-conceived or oppressive policy, or an abuse of power.
March 18, 2004
Blacks Shift to the Center
Blacks Shift to the Center: "What more do you people want?' strikes most black Americans as a naive question."
Resistance - The Moral Imperative by MIKE WHITNEY
The founders of this country anticipated a time when liberty would be in jeopardy. They provided us with their tacit endorsement of further action. The "alter or abolish" clause in the Constitution is their summons to revolution.
March 16, 2004
March 15, 2004
'Government' vs. 'State' by Tibor R. Machan
To equivocate between “government” and “state” is wrong and even dirty pool. It would be similar dirty pool if those critical of anarcho-libertarians referred to what the latter advocate as “chaos,” recalling not the arguably esoteric conception of anarchy individualist and libertarian anarchists have been developing but the position of those old fashioned, classical anarchist who meant by the term “lawless society.”
Beware The Bushwomen
Beware the Bushwomen: "You can tell when the Bush Administration is rattled. George W. chats up Tim Russert on NBC and Bush's women sit down for a talk with Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times."
March 14, 2004
Michael Peroutka: The Presidential Candidate of the Constitution Party
OK, American conservatives--had enough of Bush and his 12 million new illegal aliens; the ongoing destruction of the American manufacturing sector with NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and PMFN trading status for Communist China; a $7 trillion national debt with $550 billion budget deficits and multi-billion dollar trade deficits; human stem-cell research and Gay Log Cabin Republicans complete with federal subsidies for their activities; a preemptive, un-Constitutional war in Iraq with billions of dollars expended, thousands of Iraqi civilian casualties, and hundreds of American dead and wounded with no end in sight; and a USA Patriot Act which jettisons every 4th Amendment Constitutional protection in favor of endless warrantless searches, break-ins, and electronic surveillance without judicial oversight?
Get the word out in all 50 states: MICHAEL PEROUTKA OF THE CONSTITUTION PARTY FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004. Forward this memo to your contacts nationwide; donate money for Mr. Peroutka's campaign and ballot access proposals and petitions where needed. Tell every Paleo; every Constitutionalist; every orthodox Christian from evangelical Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Eastern Orthodoxy; every moral traditionalist and pro-lifer; and every American worried about the destruction of our economy and the onset of the global New World Order to help Mr. Peroutka--and help him now.
As the late Washington Redskins coach, George Allen, once told the faithful, "THE FUTURE IS NOW." And the future of America is straight downhill if American conservatives and Christians continue to pull the lever for the fraudulent package being sold to us by the Bush Empire and the Republican Establishment. You can make a difference--make the choice for your family, your churches, your friends, and yourself while you can. Contact the Peroutka campaign at his www.Peroutka2004.com immediately. AND SPREAD THE WORD LIKE PAUL REVERE IN THE NIGHT.
Mark Dankof
Mark Dankof's America
www.MarkDankof.com
March 13, 2004
America Constitutional or Militarist by Rodney J. Marshall
Those forfeiting true liberty for a state-preserved personal peace and prosperity or to support powerful multinational businesses for temporal gain are too blinded by their own desires to see that their new god cannot protect them any more than Brutus and Cassius could save the Republic.
March 12, 2004
POLITICAL SPECTRUM BY THE YARD
If you lay out a yardstick with Zero off on the Left, and 36 to the Right, you'll have a fairly accurate numerical political spectrum.
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This is what our political yardstick looks like. As a people we can suffer at the left end of the scale, or prosper at the right. The first step is in understanding the scale and second is in throwing off the delusions offered by political opportunists who would manipulate the public's cupidity to their favor. At the moment our civilization is about to fall off the zero end of the yardstick. It is incumbent upon the people to educate themselves in preparation for their assuming control next time around.
Americans are Tools
Why do we all put up with all this social engineering, especially coming under the official watch of conservatives, who have long touted the virtues of individual responsibility? Is legislating our way to good health any more legitimate than litigating our way to it?
Fundamental Mistakes in Fundamental Law by William J. Watkins, Jr.
If the Iraqi interim Constitution "reflects the best aspirations for humanity under the law," then humanity is in serious trouble. It is bad enough that the United States has abandoned a foreign policy based on peace and nonaggression in favor of the imperial adventures in Iraq, but it has also infected Iraqi institutions with the same poisons corrupting our government.
March 11, 2004
A Treatise of His Own by Joseph Stromberg
Hazlitt concluded: "It is in fact the most important general treatise on economic principles since Ludwig von Mises's Human Action in 1949."
Where's Luther, We Need Reformation
Where's Luther, We Need Reformation: Now that the world has flocked to see the Passion, we need a new Reformation. I guess the old one has worn off. Have we forgotten about the crusades, inquisitions, and the sex scandals? Look at the Catholic Church today almost completely taken over by sodomites. After priests abuse children and women, they threaten their souls if they tell! Our local bishop has threatened a woman to keep her quiet. He said it would be harmful to her, her husband and her children if she told anyone. Her soul was also threatened by her priest. The bishop and priest are still 'serving Christ' here in Alabama.
'Godless Americans' launch political group
Enemy Watch: "Now, atheists, freethinkers, secular humanists and other nonbelievers have another alternative in giving voice to our concerns . . . "
America Is Not a Free Country by Fred Reed
It is possible to become so inured to being told what to do, and how to do it, and who to do it with – to become so accustomed to being told what we can say, what we may publicly believe, what we must seem to think, how we must manage our affairs – that we cease to notice just how regimented we are.
Whatever Happened To The American Dream? by Geela
Whatever Happened To The American Dream? by Geela: "Do you ever wonder what happened to the average citizen's ability to achieve The American Dream? Is there something about the pursuit of THE AMERICAN DREAM that contributes to failing systems and institutions (from an Enron economy to failing education, the deterioration of the family unit, social ills such as senseless violence, suicide, substance abuse and perversion. "
Nikolai Berdyaev & The 8th Day Of Creation
Nikolai Berdyaev & The 8th Day Of Creation The capacity to select evil is always an option when people have the ability to decide. If truth stands independently from individual consciousness, can the same be said for evil?
March 10, 2004
Crackdown overrode liberty: security chief by Mark Baker
"To suggest there is a trade-off between security and individual freedoms - that we must discard one protection for the other - is a false choice. You do not defend liberty to forsake it."
Libertarians and the left
Roderick Long has organized a series of links for a very interesting debate that has been going on over at the Liberty and Power group blog on the subject of libertarians and the left.
March 9, 2004
Smuggling Hope
Smuggling Hope: "Her father was dying, and the drug company wanted $47,000 for his medication. So she did what any daughter would do: She became a liar and a fraud."
The Revolution’s Forgotten Hero by David A. Merrick
It is perhaps due to George Mason’s reluctance to compromise the moral principles he stated in his Virginia Declaration of Rights that the Bill of Rights even exists today.
Diebold's Political Machine
Diebold's Political Machine: "Political insiders suggest Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida was four years ago. Which is why the state's plan to use paperless touch-screen voting machines has so many up in arms. "
The Enemies of Religious Liberty
FT February 2004: The Enemies of Religious Liberty
Extreme separationists justify restraints on religious liberty on the grounds that religion tends to foment divisiveness. But they impose no such restraints on divisiveness of a secular kind.
March 8, 2004
Top Ten Phrases Martha Stewart Told To Prepare For
Top Ten Phrases Martha Stewart Told To Prepare For
Toward a Generally Censorious Climate by Marcus Verhaegh
What I would argue, to the contrary, is that most Americans need guidance from their cultural betters; and that that guidance should involve efforts to create higher prices for those artifacts that the cultured judge to be un-worthy (relative to other cultural goods that might be offered instead), and lower prices for those artifacts that the cultured judged quite worthy.
March 7, 2004
Vote Rigging
Hi-Tech computer voting is now the order-of-the-day in America. In October 2002, the US Administration passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which authorised the funding of $4 billion for states to use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act ) by the year 2006, at which point, they (the states) will be under obligation to have purchased said new equipment.
March 4, 2004
No Hijackers For 911
· There were no hijackers on the 9/11 killer jets. And he said the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Richard Myers) agrees with him.
In response to a caller to Alex Jones' radio show, de Grand-Pre noted: "...
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs himself has agreed, there were no
hijackers. There were no cell phone calls. Everybody aboard that aircraft,
pilots and crew, were unconscious within 8 to 18 minutes after take-off. And
you can take it from there. I've got it covered in books 2 and 3, what
actually happened."
"These planes were being piloted by remote control, probably an AWACs
aircraft taking over that airplane or airplanes or drones, unmanned drones.
And flying them at 5 and 8 G-force that no pilot could withstand. So, in
short, and if you read books 2 and 3, you will discover how and why this
came about."
· The 9/11 planes that took off full of passengers are now at the bottom of
the Atlantic Ocean. "And I'm telling you that we are knowledgeably
speculating," said de Grand-Pre in response to another caller. "Those
aircraft carrying crew and passengers went over the Atlantic and that was
all she wrote."
March 3, 2004
Diamond Bar Allotment Laney case may force Constitutional showdown
The brag by the enviros that if the FS doesn't evict the Laneys, THEY WILL,
is really drawing the line in the sand. Is the homeland security crowd
listening?????? This is the voice of eco-terrorism telling USGov that they,
the Forest Guardians are in charge and to hell with the FS or the ranchers
or local governments.
There was an incident back in the '50s when Jackson was over-run by hippies
and helpful ranchers from around Wyoming drove their stock trucks up there
and roped and loaded up truckloads of hippies and dropped them off at the
state line. How close are we to seeing something like this again, and not
just in Wyoming????????????? Just curious!
If our legislative clowns had any guts, they'd have already placed a bounty
on wolves in Wyoming. Maybe not on eco-hippies, but on wolves, for a
starter. (Actually the Wyoming legislature did attempt to place a bounty on wolves when the feds brought them in in 1995 but the governor vetoed the bill).
Making Votes Count: Editorial Observer: The Results Are in and the Winner Is . . . or Maybe Not
Making Votes Count: Editorial Observer: The Results Are in and the Winner Is . . . or Maybe Not
Keeping an eye on electronic voting.
March 2, 2004
Guarding Against the Eyes and Ears of Government by Harry Goslin
The protections guaranteed by the Third Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights were never intended to be abridged by government judges so that government agents (cops, soldiers, tax collectors, regulators) could do their jobs easier. In "conflicts" between the rights of the individual and the supposed needs of government to enforce the law, the individual should win – always. Otherwise, the Petition of Right, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, are nothing more than worthless parchment.
Eliminate Federal Court Jurisdiction by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Throughout the 20th century, the relentless federalization of state law served the interests of the cultural left, and we should not kid ourselves that the same practice now can save freedom and morality. True conservatives and libertarians should understand that the solution to our moral and cultural decline does not lie in a strong centralized government.
The Real Churchill by Adam Young
With his lack of principles and scruples, Churchill was involved in one way or another in nearly every disaster that befell the 20th century. He helped destroy laissez-faire liberalism, he played a role in the Crash of 1929, he helped start WWI, and by bringing in America to help, prolonged the war and created the conditions for the rise of Nazism, prolonged WWII, laid the groundwork for Soviet domination, helped involve America in a cold war with Russia, and pioneered in the development of total war and undermining western civilized standards.
Chris Matthews described Churchill as the "man who save[d] the honor of the 20th century." Rather than this great accolade, Winston Churchill must be ranked with Karl Marx, Woodrow Wilson, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt as one of the destroyers of the values and greatness of Western civilization.
And it is fitting that the Library of Congress exhibition is entitled "Churchill and the Great Republic" because few men have done more to overthrow the American Republic(s) and institute the great centralized global war machine that has taken its place.
March 1, 2004
The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole: Powers Formerly Reserved Only for Kings by Nat Hentoff
"The idea that you could theoretically keep someone locked up forever under these circumstances is reprehensible. . . . It's nothing to do with law as any person should understand it, at least since the Magna Carta. How do you know without a trial that these people are even dangerous? It all depends on the military's word."
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