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June 30, 2005
The Supreme Court, God, and Us by William Murchison
And, well, what if in 10 years a reconstituted court does proclaim the right of a county to display the Mosaic law? It strikes me—correct me if I am wrong—that cultures, not courts, set constitutional tone; that the incoherence of our church-state jurisprudence proceeds less from the court’s incoherence than from society’s unwillingness to say what its own will is.
June 29, 2005
Symbols, slogans and spin by Tibor S. Friedman
"The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes."
Trashing the Constitution in the name of "terrorism" by Meria Heller
These are not partisan issues. They are American issues. They affect every one of us, except the millionaire Congress and the millionaire administrators. It is time for Americans to raise their voices, get educated and demand representation from their government before it's too late. We must demand answers to September 11, the war on "terror" (never-ending war at our expense), an end to an illegal immoral war, and punishment for those who have lied to the people they have sworn to protect.
June 28, 2005
Diminishing Property Rights Will Lead to a Higher Rate of Mortgage Defaults by Eric Englund
With respect to property rights, 1913 was a terrible year. This was the year when the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified – allowing the federal government to directly tax its citizens. To add insult to injury, the Federal Reserve was established and the fiat-banking cartel was born. Therefore, in 1913, the federal government was empowered to tax its citizens in two ways. One way, of course, is via direct taxation. The other, and more pernicious method of taxation, is through inflation – by the Federal Reserve debasing the dollar.
June 27, 2005
What Have We Done to Ourselves America? by Nolan K. Anderson
These people have been allowed to assume positions of “trust” within our governing structure. Not only are these positions of trust, but these are also positions of control over our lives. If we add to the present “war cabal” in the White House and the Pentagon this collection of tyrants, we Americans have a formidable “axis of evil” germinating in “Pyongyang on the Potomac”.
Government as Mass Psychosis by Anthony Gregory
Everything about the government is an illusion. Constitutions, flags, laws, uniforms, borders – these constructs are artificial. They may have strong cultural manifestations and incite people to behave in distinct ways toward each other, but in the end it is people, and not nations, that act. In the end, the ways they decide to act cannot be qualitatively categorized as good or bad, just or unjust, simply by virtue of being called “government.”
June 26, 2005
How They Get Away With It by Scott McConnell
And thus, in the developed world’s most devout country, Christian witness against war “became less effective than in countries thoroughly and probably irreversibly secularized.” Evangelicals have in great part transformed the Christian view of Just War into a crusade theory in which the United States is believed to embody God’s will and its enemies are “God’s enemies.”
June 24, 2005
The Need for a New Individualism by Edward Hudgins
But America's individualism is disappearing and with it our political freedom and the moral foundations of our society. This is because the economic and political manifestations of individualism—freedom and capitalism—cannot stand on their own; they require sound moral ideas of rational self-interest that are manifest in sound moral character. Those moral ideas justify this freedom, and that moral character requires the support of the culture and of institutions based on those ideas.
June 23, 2005
The Rights of the Accused by Jacob G. Hornberger
Our ancestors bequeathed to us the finest criminal justice system in history, a system in which every American should take great pride. As the great criminal defense attorney Edward Bennett Williams put it, “Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.”
June 22, 2005
The Politically Incorrect Guide To American Immigration by John Zmirak
The chief villains of American history, for Woods, are power-hungry centralists and the Supreme Court justices who heed them. As an historian with four Ivy League degrees, Woods demonstrates that the creators of our Republic were not engaged in a quest for universal equality, distributive justice, or even an "ownership society," but rather for a limited, decentralized government meddling as little as possible with the lives of individual families. Having seen what tyrannical governments could do, the Founders tried to tie Leviathan down—like Gulliver—with thousands of constitutional strings that would prevent the growth of tyranny.
'Enabling' the Patriot Act by Doris Colmes
This rejection was based on an edict formulated by the German "Enabling Act" of 1933, which gave the Nazi government incalculable powers over individuals, groups, and targeted population components. As a matter of fact, the German "Enabling Act" of 1933 is remarkably similar to our current Patriot Act, which – according to an Associated Press release to the Portland Oregonian of June 4, 2005 – is currently up for revisions not only giving it expanded powers well beyond those it already has, but making it permanent, just like the German Enabling Act was made permanent. (The more one compares the Nazi Germany "Enabling Act" with the U.S.A. "Patriot Act," the more they appear to be Siamese twins.)
June 21, 2005
Where Is Accountability? by Sibel Edmonds
For almost four years since Sept. 11, officials refused to admit to having specific information regarding the terrorists' plans to attack the United States. The Phoenix Memo, received months prior to the 9/11 attacks, specifically warned FBI HQ of pilot training and their possible link to terrorist activities against the United States. Four months prior to the terrorist attacks the Iranian asset provided the FBI with specific information regarding the "use of airplanes," "major U.S. cities as targets," and "Osama bin Laden issuing the order."
June 20, 2005
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Police State Poster Boy
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County Arizona is the best example of everything that's wrong with the police force today. He is the epitomy of the way in which police are being trained to see the general public as their enemy.
June 17, 2005
Attack on America - Beginning of the End by Dean Stier
The intent of this attack, this invasion, is the total occupation of America by the armies of foreign nationals loyal to their countries of origin or other malevolent ideals. Our elected representatives, President Bush and his appointees, Congress and the Courts are openly demonstrating their treasonous contempt for America and her citizens by brazenly and willingly serving the participants of this invasion. I never thought I would see the day that our elected representatives, who pledged to represent American Citizens and defend America, would idiotically allow America to be literally taken over by masses of nationalists of foreign governments. This is, indeed, a very sad day and time in our history.
Remembering The Lessons Of Germany's Past by Chuck Baldwin
Much is being made over the fact that on Wednesday of this week, the House of Representatives removed some "sneak and peek" features regarding public libraries from the Patriot Act. Of course, President Bush is livid and is threatening to veto the bill without that segment of the Act included. However, what few people seem to notice is that a host of egregiously unconstitutional abridgments of freedom remain intact in the Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act (like Hitler's "Enabling Act") expunges our Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures and our right to be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects.
Furthermore, the Patriot Act (like Hitler's "Enabling Act") destroys our Fifth Amendment right to be held for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, without an indictment of a grand jury. The Patriot Act also eviscerates a citizen's constitutional right of Habeas Corpus.
June 16, 2005
The high cost of nuances by Thomas Sowell
For decades, judges have allowed the federal government to expand its powers by saying that it was authorized by the Constitution to regulate "interstate commerce." But how can something that happens entirely within the borders of one state be called "interstate commerce"?
June 15, 2005
The Destruction of the Dollar from Mother Earth News
Here then, based on Paul and Lehrman's book [The Case For Gold], is a brief history of the rise and fall of our American currency.
Roosevelt and His Critics by Joseph Sobran
[W]hy this endless celebration of FDR? The Germans are expected to repent the Hitler era everlastingly; the Japanese are supposed to apologize for their role in the same war, while they are also being hounded by the Chinese for their impenitence about invading the mainland. The Russians are repudiating the Soviet era. Everyone is issuing apologies for history these days. . . . Why are Americans still treating this monster [Roosevelt] as a hero?
A Libertarian View of the Worst Catastrophe by Jim Powell
World War I was one of the worst catastrophes in human history, and everything about it underscores the folly of the neocon view that smart guys can make wars turn out as intended, and that war can be a controlled, rational basis for American foreign policy.
The Truth About the "Good War" by David Gordon
[Roosevelt] knew that he could never ram through Congress a declaration of war against Germany, in the absence of German moves against the United States. Most Americans, however hostile to the Third Reich, opposed entry into the European War. According to the revisionists, this situation did not prove too much for the ingenuity of the wily Roosevelt.
The Imperial Mythology of World War II by Richard Drayton
We least like to remember that our side also committed war crimes in the 1940s. The destruction of Dresden, a city filled with women, children, the elderly and the wounded, and with no military significance, is only the best known of the atrocities committed by our bombers against civilian populations.
Unleashing the Resistance by Karen Kwiatkowski
The mass state, while obscenely expensive, dangerous and even ridiculous, is the present reality of the United States. Imminent federal biometric ID cards courtesy of the REAL ID Act are just one more symbol of this ongoing massification and American totalitarianism. The Congress won’t impeach – to impeach its heart, its hands, or its head is to commit suicide.
June 14, 2005
The Pentagon Papers: 34 years later by By Mickey Z
Ellsberg's courage had opened the eyes of a nation blinded by wartime propaganda. As the wounded marine-turned-author, W.D. Ehrhart, wrote in his memoir, Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War, about reading the Pentagon Papers: "Page after endless page of it. Vile. Immoral. Despicable. Obscene . . . I'd been a fool, ignorant and naive. A sucker. For such men, I had become a murderer. For such men, I had forfeited my honor, my self-respect, and my humanity. For such men, I had been willing to lay down my life."
To that, Daniel Ellsberg said: Not in my name.
From Communism to Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger
A front-page article in the June 10, 2005, issue of the Los Angeles Times reported another disturbing feature about the 9/11 attacks:
Whatever else might be said about U.S. officials, you can’t say these people are dumb. In fact, I’d say they are brilliant.
June 13, 2005
Patriot Act Is Helping Dismantle Constitutional Liberties by Chuck Baldwin
The idea that we must fight terrorism by dismantling the constitutional liberties of the American people is fraught with fallacy! America has fought a revolutionary war, two world wars, and numerous conflicts and, until now, has mostly held the Bill of Rights to be sacred and irrevocable. Suddenly, it asks its citizens to relinquish their liberties in the name of security.
CIA and FBI reach new agreement
A congressional official who was briefed on the agreement by CIA and FBI representatives said the memorandum marked a major step toward implementing the interagency coordination and information-sharing reforms enshrined in two main post-Sept 11 laws – the USA Patriot Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
June 12, 2005
Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right by Tom Hamburger
The conservatives, including former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) and political activists who have been long-standing critics of the anti-terrorism law, lashed out with particular force last week against the White House, members of Congress and Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales. They said they had expected a more open review of the Patriot Act in which lawmakers considered some limits in order to safeguard civil liberties.
Campaign Finance Reform: The law of unintended consequences? by Mark Alexander
The boondoggling duo of McCain and Feingold sued the FEC, insisting that regulations on political speech did in fact apply to the Internet and to e-mail. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed: "The commission's exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated-communications regulation severely undermines" the purpose of the campaign-finance law. The Commission's three Republicans couldn't convince any of the three Democrats to appeal the ruling, with the net result being that Big Brother is on his way to policing the cybersphere.
June 10, 2005
The Democratic Delusion by Justin Raimondo
The liberal guarantees encoded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have always been fragile, and it took only 19 hijackers wielding box-cutters to inflict a large and rapidly growing crack in their very foundations. The "right" of government agents to spy on and detain us without showing probable cause before a judge, or even charging us, is now returning as a routine method of operation. The infamous "PATRIOT" Act, instead of being curtailed, as formerly proposed, is not only coming back with a vengeance – it is being expanded even as I write.
June 9, 2005
The End of Freedom by Nancy Levant
The greatest mistake that the American people ever made, and so contrary to the history of this nation, was to elect the elite into office. The corporate ownership of media, and the corporate contributions to political campaigns all but guaranteed that their elite would be our only options for candidates. And we fell for it – hook, line, and sinker.
June 8, 2005
Inside Job: How Nixon Was Taken Down by Gary North
But the person who actually made the difference – the one who brought Nixon down – says nothing. The press says nothing. The greatest Watergate secret of all remains a secret.
Pogo Was Right by Edgar J. Steele
Those responsible for 9/11 and other atrocities, both here and abroad, do hate our freedom. And we do need to be afraid of them. Problem is, they are us - our own government, actually. Otherwise, why would our own government be taking away our freedoms at such a rapid pace? Why are they so afraid of us and in such a hurry to regiment us, lock us down and throw so many of us into jail? What is going to happen that they need such tight control of us? What, exactly, is it that they plan next to do to us?
June 7, 2005
'Secret' Senate meeting on Patriot Act by Tom Regan
In a move that could expand the police powers in the Patriot Act, the Senate Intelligence Committee will meet behind close doors to discuss, among other things, "a little-discussed provision to enlarge the FBI's ability to wiretap people who it suspects are national security threats." The bill they will discuss is called the Patriot Reauthorization Act (PAREA).
June 6, 2005
What's the Point! by Jim Kirwan
The longer this continues: the more bold and fearless the Outlaws have become, yet “the people” do not raise their voices. All the states are flirting with bankruptcy, the infrastructure of the nation is in shambles, and government’s solution is to pack the courts with sympathetic judges who will overrule the public and increase the license for the criminals to continue their desecration of our national resources, while they intensify their drive to imprison or murder any who might even think about resisting them.
A Great American President by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson
The war of invasion and conquest that followed was unparalleled in its scope and intensity. The President’s courage and determination never wavered in the life-and-death struggle with a power with four times the resources. A British prime minister avowed that the President and his people had made a nation. The struggle for independence succumbed finally, after leaving much of its territory in ruins and a fourth of its men dead. But that struggle gathered (and still gathers) the admiration of the civilized world.
Nathan Hale, American Martyr by Andrew Cline
IT IS UNCLEAR EXACTLY where young Nathan Hale of Coventry, Connecticut, the best-known spy of the American Revolution, first encountered Joseph Addison's famous play, Cato, one of the literary works that fanned the fires of revolution in colonial America, and which helped make Hale an American hero. From a prosperous family, Hale might have read it at home or during his secondary education. Or he might have been introduced to it at Yale, where he enrolled at age 16. Wherever the introduction took place, it was historic, for it planted the seed of martyrdom in Hale's young breast. His paraphrase of Cato's speech above -- "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" -- transformed him from a little-known Continental Army captain into a martyr whose service to his country was greater in death than it had been in life.
June 5, 2005
Emergency Preparedness against the "Universal Adversary" by Michel Chossudovsky
A recent Report of the Homeland Security Council entitled Planning Scenarios describes in minute detail, the Bush administration's preparations in the case of a terrorist attack by an outside enemy called the Universal Adversary (UA).
June 2, 2005
Post-Mortem for the 4th amendment by Mike Whitney
The Senate Intelligence Committee is working behind closed doors to expand the powers of the Patriot Act and deliver another withering blow to the 4th amendment. This time the constitutional broadside comes in the form of "administrative subpoenas"; an Orwellian expression which indicates that law enforcement agencies, like the FBI, will be able to circumvent the courts to subpoena records. To understand the breadth of this new classification, we need to grasp the basic inconsistency in the terminology itself.
Why Do They Hates Us So Much? by Harry Browne
So why do billions of people around the world hate America so much?
Obviously, it’s because of our freedom, our prosperity, and our democracy.
How do I know? Because George Bush told me so.
What other reason could foreigners have for resenting America?
Destroying Companies and Countries by Paul Craig Roberts
Don’t expect Bush, who admits no mistake, to make restitution for the criminal actions of his US Department of Justice (sic). The remedy is a civil suit by all the partners and employees of Arthur Anderson against the US government for damages. I think one trillion dollars is a good number. It is a figure demanded by justice. And it will serve the cause of peace by bankrupting the war-mongering Bush administration and applying the brake to Bush’s wars of empire.
June 1, 2005
America by the numbers by Michael Ventura
An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors in order to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable. We're No. 1. Well...this is the country you really live in:
Deep Throat
The man who leaked key information that brought down the corrupt Nixon administration steps into the light.
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