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June 30, 2004
Thinking About Dependence on Independence Day by Fred Cederholm
We need almost one and a half billion dollars a day in new foreign capital to keep the American ball rolling and "growing." While this in part is due to the dependence on foreign oil and products, we also look to foreign "investors" to fund the rollovers of our existing debt. We even borrow to pay the interest we owe on the debt we already have! This "capitalizing interest" is illegal for banks; but not so for the US Government.
Ashcroft calls for tougher Patriot Act
Ashcroft also claims prosecutors and cops should be allowed more sweeping investigative powers on terrorists that are now used to get information from organized crime figures and drug dealers.
America's Black Budget and Manipluation of Markets
Investors benefit from understanding the federal budget, credit policies and covert intervention that drive markets -- often overriding fundamental economics. How has the US governmental apparatus become so powerful in the marketplace and what does it mean to the health of our economy?
June 29, 2004
One Step Closer to a Police State by John W. Whitehead
Politicians love to boast about how far we’ve come since 1776. Yet sadly, we seem to have lost the love of freedom that laid the groundwork for the American Revolution. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th have further confused the situation. In fact, it is common to hear both our elected officials and citizens state rather bluntly that it’s time to relinquish some of our freedoms in order to feel more secure.
June 28, 2004
House Bill Would Enforce Patriot Act Secrecy Clause by Jessica Azulay
In recent months, signs of public outrage have begun to surface over the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs) to secretly demand information from business and public agencies about their clientele. Under one of the most controversial section of the USA PATRIOT Act, third party record holders who receive NSLs requesting information about their patrons are forbidden from telling anyone about the Letter.
Michael Peroutka's Acceptance Speech for the Constitution Party Nomination as President of the United States
Michael Peroutka formally accepted the nomination of the Constitution Party for President in Valley Forge on June 25th. His acceptance speech, aired on C-SPAN, is worth examining and pondering.
Activists cry foul in electronic voting furore by Andrew Gumbel
According to the staff of one candidate, who were present in her office on election night, Ms Townsend inexplicably halted the count for about an hour while two Sequoia employees were observed typing at a computer terminal with access to the ballot tabulation software.
Before the counting stopped, candidate Linda Soubirous looked likely to qualify for a run-off with the man she was challenging, county supervisor Bob Buster. When it resumed, she fell steadily behind and eventually failed to qualify for the run-off by less than one-10th of one percentage point.
Voting: When low-tech beats high-tech by Bev Conover
While it is unlikely that election fraud can be entirely eliminated, the only way to reduce it to a fraction is with paper ballots, pencils and honest election officials. A truly free people don’t turn over their most precious right—the right to vote and have their votes counted as cast—to private corporations, which is precisely what has happened in the name of expediency and convenience.
Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution by Ralph Raico
Today, self-styled conservatives slander as "anti-American" anyone who is in the least troubled by Truman’s massacre of so many tens of thousands of Japanese innocents from the air. This shows as well as anything the difference between today’s "conservatives" and those who once deserved the name.
June 24, 2004
Alan Keyes warns: 'Republic is dying'
"It's no doubt we could be living in the last days of the American republic." As far as recourse, Keyes said the public can remove judges through impeachment for the high crime of "stealing your right to include God. Our founders didn't provide for judicial supremacy. That's not what they had in mind."
June 23, 2004
Say Good-bye to the Attorney-Client Privilege by Paul Craig Roberts
Conservatives who prattle about Americans living under a rule of law are speaking of a bygone era. The rule of law came to an end during the New Deal when President Franklin Roosevelt turned Congressional statutes into authorization bills for federal bureaucrats to legislate via regulations.
June 22, 2004
Zero Down for the American Dream by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
The American dream cannot be lived courtesy of taxpayer handouts. The experience of working hard, saving for a downpayment, and buying a home is the essence of the true American dream. Eventually the beneficiaries of government programs stop thinking of themselves as independent citizens, and start viewing themselves as wards of the state. It is impossible to maintain a free society when more and more people look to the state to provide what Americans used to provide for themselves.
June 20, 2004
The Coming Preemptive Strike on Iran, A Coming American Military Draft, and A Man Named Michael Anthony Peroutka by Mark Dankof
The dreaded American preemptive military strike against Iran may be only weeks away, to be followed by a wider Middle Eastern war and the resumption of an American Military Draft. Michael Anthony Peroutka of Baltimore, who will accept the Presidential Nomination of the Constitution Party in Philadelphia this coming week, warns America generally, and the American Right specifically, that only tragedy can result.
Creeping fascism by S. Rowan Wolf, Ph.D.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has eliminated the restriction that the Department of Defense no longer has to comply with the Privacy Act (the CIA is also exempt from this restriction). What is frightening here is that both the CIA and the military are only tasked to operate outside the Untied States, that is, until the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, and the merging of departments and agencies under the Homeland Security Act, and the various intelligence reorganization policies. Now both of the non-domestic tasked agencies can (and do) operate inside the US.
Pentagon Seeks US Spy Powers
The bill would allow Pentagon intelligence agents to work undercover and question American citizens and legal residents without having to reveal that they are government agents.
June 18, 2004
Dispatches from a Libertarian Localist by James Ostrowski
"Progress was the idol of the cohort that gave us urban renewal and IBM and regarded long hair and pot smoking and Jefferson Airplane as sinful but sending your sons halfway around the globe to die for Robert McNamara as a supreme act of patriotism."
June 17, 2004
Pledge dismissal by Alan Sears
By taking the easy way out and dismissing Elk Grove v. Newdow without deciding it on the merits, the high court has ignored history and precedent. When another "Pledge" case arises, the court could very well use it to reconstruct yet another part of the First Amendment's meaning or even to apply some version of international law. Then, instead of each person deciding on his own whether to say the words that nine out of 10 Americans want in their pledge, the court could further belie the spirit and the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
June 15, 2004
Post-9/11 laws expand to more than terrorism by LANCE GAY
If the government gets its way, even routine transactions of buying or selling American homes could soon come under the scrutiny of money-laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act.
Declarations of Independence by Nat Hentoff
Seldom before has there been so widespread a refusal to trust the national government—cutting across political, religious, ethnic, and other divisions—as the current rising refusal, even during a war on international terrorism, to yield to the Bush administration's subversions of the Constitution in the urgent cause of national security.
June 14, 2004
The Son Of Patriot Act Also Rises by Kim Zetter
The bill, known as the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003, or HR 3179, was introduced last September by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) and was co-sponsored by Rep. Porter Goss (R-Florida), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a possible contender to replace departing CIA chief George Tenet.
You Have Rights -- if Bush Says You Do by Jonathan Turley
We have lost that moral distinction between ourselves and our enemies if we believe that our success is measured by the confessions that we coerce rather than the civil liberties that we defend. We are left with the one question not asked at the press conference: Once the president declares victory over our enemies, what will we be other than victorious?
June 9, 2004
If Voting for Peroutka is Fruitless Adherence to Principle, Voting for Bush is the Lake of Fire by Mark Dankof for Dixie Internet.com
Lutheran pastor and paleo-con commentator Mark Dankof respectfully tangles with Bill Sizemore of News With Views over the electoral options for Christians and conservatives in the first Tuesday of November. Terry Compton, Editor of the major Southern heritage and commentary site, DixieInternet.com, thoughtfully posts the Dankof rebuttal with the inclusion of a fair link to Mr. Sizemore's original observations.
Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants
It's a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business. The decision in United States v. Kelly Gould, No. 0230629cr0, was made March 24 by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
How Big Brother Is Watching, Listening and Misusing Information About You by TERESA HAMPTON & DOUG THOMPSON
But information from TIA will be used the DHS as a major part of the proposed CAPSII airline passenger monitoring system. That system, when fully in place, will determine whether or not any American is allowed to get on an airplane for a flight.
The Great Matrix Revealed - But Who Will Notice! by John V Panella
The Internet is indeed the MATRIX come alive from behind the hidden secret places into the open consciousness of the world. It is the controller. Yet even after me saying all of this, I know that it will be instantly mixed with the 5%, which will cause it all to be discarded, as your minds continue to take hits by the real weapon's of mass destruction, the GREAT ERADICATOR OF TRUTH- THE TRUTH MIXED WITH ERROR!!!
The Reluctant Anarchist by Joseph Sobran
The essence of the state is its legal monopoly of force. But force is subhuman; in words I quote incessantly, Simone Weil defined it as “that which turns a person into a thing — either corpse or slave.” It may sometimes be a necessary evil, in self-defense or defense of the innocent, but nobody can have by right what the state claims: an exclusive privilege of using it.
June 8, 2004
Peroutka Says "No" to Draft; "No" to Foreign Adventures; "Yes" to Freedom and Republic: by Michael Peroutka
Michael Peroutka brings the traditional American Right back into the level playing field of Presidential politics by saying No! to King George Bush's War and Coming Draft for Empire.
June 8, 2004
Dear Friends of our Constitutional Republic:
On February 11, 2004, the Selective Service Agency's Director, Lewis Brodsky, issued this statement to the Pentagon:
In line with today's needs, the Selective Service System's structure, programs and activities should be re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills. Seattle Post Intelligencer, May 1, 2004.
Will the draft be reinstated, we do not yet know, but I do know that men, and women (who by nature are not eligible for military service, even if called), are not "inventory" to be held at the disposal of the federal government.
There are many people, from many points of view, who oppose the draft, so I will take this occasion to demonstrate to you why I oppose conscription of men for foreign wars. I am running for President of these United States on the Constitution Party ticket, so I ought to start with the Constitution in demonstrating my opinions.
In Article I, s.8, cc.12, 15, the States gave to the general government's Congress the power "To raise and support Armies" and "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Unions, suppress Insurrections and repel invasions." There is a difference between these two powers. A militia was, at the time of the founding, involuntary. They were state citizens "drafted" to protect the State. Such militiamen were mostly kept near home, but were most certainly kept with other militiamen from their area. An army was volunteer, and consisted of citizens of the several states.
Now, whether a draft to the service of the State is sound policy is not my call, Constitutionally, but I can recognize that drafted soldiers would only come under my direction as Chief Executive for three limited purposes: 1. to execute the Laws of the Union; 2. to suppress Insurrections; and 3. to repel Invasions. No where in the Constitution is the Congress given authorization to draft men into foreign service, and thus I may use no such man for that purpose---my oath is to the Constitution, not the Congress.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for a strong American military to help me protect and defend the Constitution and these United States, but I will use our military only for Constitutional aims, namely to repel the invasion at our Southern Border and to execute the constitutional Laws of the Union. I will not, however, violate the Constitution and the Law of God by permitting the use of drafted men to achieve the imperialistic goal of Pax Americana.
As Samuel warned sinful Israel when they begged for a "King ... like all the nations," "This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen." A Godly ruler is not to amass military might to himself, lest he see his forces and itch to use them. See Deut. 17:16. It is not sound Constitutional policy, and it is not Christian, to view people as mere inventory to be expended at the whimsical fancy of the Chief Executive Officer of these United States.
For God, Family and the Republic,
Michael A. Peroutka
Peroutka for President in 2004
www.peroutka2004.com
States’ Rights Suffer Under Hate Crime Bill by Cheryl K. Chumley
What H.R. 4204 creates is a police state, with the U.S. Justice Department and attorney general making the bulk of law enforcement and prosecution decisions for the entire nation.
June 6, 2004
No More Excuses! Why a Vote for Michael Peroutka over George Bush is Not a Wasted Vote by Michael Harrison
Michael Harrison tells Dave Black On Line why voting for Michael Peroutka for President is the logical choice after examining the chronicle of the Bush Presidency.
June 4, 2004
The House of Representatives Must Be Elected! by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
I call upon my colleagues to reject H.J.Res. 83, since it alters the Constitution to deny the people their right to elect their representatives at a time when having elected representation may be most crucial.
June 2, 2004
It Is Time to Naderize the GOP by Ron Holland of Dixie Daily News
Dixie Daily News, statistically the nation's leading Southern heritage website, has taken the leap of faith. Editor Ron Holland announced today that the Bush-led GOP is worth Naderizing with a vote for Michael Peroutka and the Constitution Party in the fall election.
Freedom vs. Security: A False Choice by Rep. Ron Paul
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist is.
RWYouth.com by Gene Ritter
The present state of affairs in the United States reflects the lack of instruction on these vital and basic principles. Honesty, morality, respect for property, federalism, separation of powers, and the belief that rights come from God are principles and values that helped to secure liberty for the Founding Fathers and can help us to restore our constitutional republic today.
June 1, 2004
Skull and Bones in Bush's Foreign Policy Closet by Paolo Pontoniere
Amidst the debate over the impending US-led war against Iraq, some European media, mostly in Italy and Germany, took note of the publication of Secrets of The Tomb: Skull and Bones, The Ivy League and The Hidden Paths of Power.
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