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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Cop Sexually Assaults 19 Year-Old and Only Sentenced on Misdemeanor Charges
Post Date: 2015-04-16 18:55:45 by Deckard
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A cop took a deal in relation to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl and will not receive a felony conviction, will not have to register as a sex offender, will only serve a year in jail, and still currently has his law enforcement certification. The rapist cop used a small amount of marijuana found during a traffic stop to extort a young woman into performing sexual acts. The officer made her boyfriend walk down to a nearby lake and wait for him to finish assaulting the young woman. The former deputy, Cory Cooper, is 31 years old. The victim is 19. The plea deal means he won’t have to go to trial on the charge of first-degree sexual assault. That was a felony that could have ...
Even the 3rd Amendment is Dead: Police “Forcibly Occupied Home to Gain Tactical Advantage Against Suspect”
Post Date: 2015-04-16 11:41:47 by Deckard
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The extent of the police state is already vast and creeping ever closer to where you live. Across the nation, increasingly militarized police have employed not only SWAT teams, but tank-like vehicles, weapons of war and ever-more sophisticated technologies for surveillance and tracking. The game has changed significantly. Now, there is growing concern about the “quartering” of police in private homes during investigations – but courts don’t see police as the same as military. So there may be no protection… A federal judge just ruled that the Third Amendment to the Bill of Rights – which guards against quartering of troops – would not apply to police ...
AF general who said protesting A-10 decision was ‘treason’ removed from post
Post Date: 2015-04-10 18:10:14 by nolu chan
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AF general who said protesting A-10 decision was ‘treason’ removed from post By Travis J. Tritten Stars and Stripes Published: April 10, 2015 WASHINGTON — The Air Force general who told airmen that speaking to Congress about plans to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt amounts to treason has left his command position and been reprimanded, the Air Combat Command said Friday. The service’s inspector general found that the comments by Maj. Gen. James Post, then the ACC vice commander, had a “chilling effect” and caused airmen to feel constrained about their right to speak to lawmakers about important issues, according to the command. Post was issued a letter of ...
Principles of constitutionalism: negative rights versus positive rights
Post Date: 2015-04-09 20:04:09 by tpaine
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http://www.renewamerica.com Principles of constitutionalism: negative rights versus positive rights By Tim Dunkin It has previously been shown that constitutionalism, by which is meant the general proposition that government should be restrained by well-defined principles and structures under which it operates (whether written or unwritten), depends up a recognition of the rule of law as reflecting natural law. From this natural law arises the recognition, in turn, of the natural rights of individual citizens, which ought to be acknowledged and protected by just government, but which are not granted by any government. These principles, perhaps, find their purest distillation in the ...
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama
Post Date: 2015-04-07 12:01:39 by tpaine
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mobile.nytimes.com Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama WASHINGTON — Laurence H. Tribe, the highly regarded liberal scholar of constitutional law, still speaks of President Obama as a proud teacher would of a star student. “He was one of the most amazing research assistants I’ve ever had,” Mr. Tribe said in a recent interview. Mr. Obama worked for him at Harvard Law School, where Mr. Tribe has taught for four decades. Mr. Tribe went on to serve in the Justice Department during Mr. Obama’s first term and has argued in favor of the legal standing of Mr. Obama’s signature health care law and executive orders on ...
The Root of Support for the Drug War
Post Date: 2015-04-04 13:43:51 by Deckard
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Although many states have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes, some states have decriminalized the possession of certain amounts of marijuana, and four states (Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington) have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, bipartisan support for the drug war throughout the United States continues unabated and unquestioned. Why? Why do so many Americans think that the property of other Americans should be confiscated, and that some of their fellow Americans should be fined, arrested, put on probation, subject to no-knock SWAT team raids, be treated as criminals, or locked in a cage for growing, manufacturing, processing, buying, selling, ...
Recording Abusive Border Patrol Conduct Becomes a Thing Among Fed-Up Americans
Post Date: 2015-04-03 06:24:37 by Deckard
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Border Patrol agents' bad behavior—not just at the international boundary but at checkpoints as much as 100 court-endorsed miles away within the "Constitution-free zone"—is easy to document both because it's so damned common, and because of the willingness of some brave souls to record their encounters and post the results online. Terry Bressi, a University of Arizona staff engineer, is something of a pioneer in the field of documenting encounters with armed and abusive federal agents. When Reason TV interviewed him in 2013, he'd already recorded over 300 such meet-and-greets. Maybe his example inspired others, or perhaps the impossibility of transiting many ...
U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
Post Date: 2015-03-31 18:59:08 by Tooconservative
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If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court clarified and affirmed that law on Monday, when it ruled on Torrey Dale Grady v. North Carolina, before sending the case back to that state’s high court. The Court’s short but unanimous opinion helps make sense of how the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, interacts with the expanding technological powers of the U.S. government. “It doesn’t matter what the context is, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a car or a person. Putting that ...
What will the Indiana religious freedom law really do?
Post Date: 2015-03-31 16:41:37 by tpaine
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The Volokh Conspiracy What will the Indiana religious freedom law really do? By Jonathan H. Adler Indiana Gov. Mike Pence vigorously defended the state’s new religious objections law. Businesses and organizations including the NCAA pressed concerns that it could open the door to legalizing discrimination against gay people. (AP) The enactment of a state religious freedom law in Indiana has provoked a firestorm of protest. Although the law is quite similar to those on the books in over a dozen other states, as well as the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), some claim that the law authorizes discrimination against homosexuals and same-sex couples and trumps ...
Stand Up for Indiana–Against Liberal Sharia Law!
Post Date: 2015-03-31 11:01:33 by nativist nationalist
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In what has been called the “Catholic moment” in America, in the late 1940s and 1950s, Catholics were admonished from pulpits to “live the faith” and “set an example” for others. Public lives were to reflect moral beliefs. Christians were to avoid those “living in sin.” Christians who operated motels and hotels did not rent rooms to unmarried couples. Fast forward to 21st-century America. Indiana just enacted a law, as have 19 other states, to protect the rights of religious people to practice their beliefs in how they live their lives and conduct their businesses. And the reaction? Nearly hysterical. The head of the NCAA, the founder of Apple, ...
Equal Rights for All
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:19:01 by tpaine
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http://www.libertylawsite.org Equal Rights for All Who would argue with the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal”? But one immediately runs into trouble. What about the Declaration limiting it to “men”? Are women equal? They did not have the right to vote at the beginning. Yet, Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders certainly believed women were morally equal and were covered under the generic term “men,” for mankind. Was that enough? What about slaves—African Americans, in particular? Even Aristotle believed in natural inequality and slavery. As President Barack Obama noted at this year’s religious ...
Wisconsin Voter ID Law Upheld by US Supreme Court
Post Date: 2015-03-26 15:11:18 by CZ82
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Wisconsin Voter ID Law Upheld by US Supreme Court March 25, 2015 by Dave Jolly If you want to buy a car, you have to have a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance. If you open a bank account you need some sort of identification. If you enlist in the military you need ID. If you travel outside the US you need a valid ID. If you apply for a job, most of them require an ID. If you run for any political office you need a valid ID, unless your name is Barack Obama. If you apply for any form of government assistance such as welfare, housing assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security, etc., you need an ID. So why are so many liberals working so hard to fight any kind ...
Police Kill “Lovable Guy” Felon Attempting To Run Down Police Officers In Georgia
Post Date: 2015-03-26 14:56:23 by CZ82
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Police Kill “Lovable Guy” Felon Attempting To Run Down Police Officers In Georgia Posted by Bob Owens on March 25, 2015 at 11:31 am Felicia Thomas is irate that police shot her son as he attempted to run down a police officer with a stolen car to avoid arrest for a parole violation. To hear Felicia Thomas tell the story, her son Nicholas Thomas was a “lovable guy,” who “would do anything for anybody.” That “lovable guy” was a violent felon with a history of assaulting police officers, including a previous attempt to run over an arresting officer. When six police officers arrived to take Nicholas Thomas into custody for a parole violation ...
Where’s the Outrage? Amendment by Consent
Post Date: 2015-03-26 05:41:01 by Deckard
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Here is a short pop quiz. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress earlier this month about the parameters of the secret negotiations between the United States and Iran over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions, how did he know what the negotiators were considering? Israel is not a party to those negotiations, yet the prime minister presented them in detail. When Hillary Clinton learned that a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives had subpoenaed her emails as secretary of state and she promptly destroyed half of them — about 33,000 — how did she know she could get away with it? Destruction of evidence, particularly government records, ...
Pocan & Massie Introduce Legislation to Repeal PATRIOT Act
Post Date: 2015-03-24 22:15:39 by Hondo68
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Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act. The legislation would repeal dragnet federal surveillance laws, while overhauling the NSA’s domestic surveillance program. “The warrantless collection of millions of personal communications from innocent Americans is a direct violation of our constitutional right to privacy,” said Rep. Pocan. “Revelations about the NSA’s programs reveal the extraordinary extent to which the program has invaded Americans’ privacy. I reject the notion that we must sacrifice liberty for security- we can live in a secure nation which also upholds a ...
Walter E. Williams --- What's Gone Wrong With Democracy [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-23 14:35:49 by tpaine
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Walter E. Williams What's Gone Wrong With Democracy? The Economist magazine recently published "What's gone wrong with Democracy ... and what can be done to revive it?" The suggestion is that democracy is some kind of ideal for organizing human conduct. That's a popular misconception. The ideal way to organize human conduct is to create a system that maximizes personal liberty for all. Liberty and democracy are not synonymous and most often are opposites. In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison explained, "Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and ...
INDIVIDUAL POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND PRESUMED CONSENT
Post Date: 2015-03-23 13:17:48 by tpaine
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INDIVIDUAL POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND PRESUMED CONSENT Randy Barnett In Restoring the Lost Constitution, I identify a path to legitimacy in which laws imposed on nonconsenting persons can be binding in conscience. For the “consent of the governed” to matter in the first instance, we must assume (and there is also good reason to conclude that “first come rights, then comes government.” As the Declaration of Independence stated: “We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It then affirmed: ...
Battle flag at center of Supreme Court free speech case
Post Date: 2015-03-22 09:21:37 by cranky
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Texas commemorates the Confederacy in many ways, from an annual celebration of Confederate Heroes Day each January to monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol in Austin. Among the memorials is one that has stood for more than a century, bearing an image of the Confederate battle flag etched in marble. But you’re out of luck if you want to put that flag on your license plate. Texas says that would be offensive. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the state can refuse to issue a license plate featuring the battle flag without violating the free-speech rights of Texans who want one. The justices hear arguments Monday in a challenge brought by the Texas division of the Sons of ...
Tough NJ Gun Laws Seen Entrapping Legal Gun Owners
Post Date: 2015-03-21 16:05:52 by Dead Culture Watch
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New Jersey's strict gun laws are leading to the arrest and in some cases incarceration of people for possessing guns they are legally entitled to own. Shaneen Allen, a 27-year-old mother of two from Philadelphia, Pa., with no prior criminal record, was driving to Atlantic City in neighboring New Jersey in October when she was pulled over by police. She was carrying a gun she had purchased legally a week earlier for protection after being robbed twice, and had a concealed carry permit from Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, Allen was arrested in New Jersey for unlawful possession of a weapon and is facing three years in prison. "I'm very much worried because I have two kids who ...
France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels
Post Date: 2015-03-20 12:47:25 by Willie Green
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Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones in France must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a law approved on Thursday. Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the amount of energy needed to heat a building in winter and cool it in summer. They also retain rainwater, thus helping reduce problems with runoff, while favouring biodiversity and giving birds a place to nest in the urban jungle, ecologists say. The law approved by parliament was more limited in scope than initial calls by French environmental activists to make green roofs that cover the entire surface mandatory on all new buildings. The Socialist government convinced activists ...
Thug Border Patrol Agents Rip Man from his Car for Asserting His Constitutional Rights (This is what life in a police state looks like)
Post Date: 2015-03-19 07:34:32 by Deckard
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A shocking video posted to youtube Monday shows what life in a police state looks like. A family was on their way back from a doctor’s appointment when they drove through a checkpoint that was staffed by tyrants. Rick Hebert was simply traveling through the checkpoint and lawfully refused to tell the agents where he was going. This checkpoint was well inside the US border on Highway 89 North. At these constitutionally questionable checkpoints, you are not required to answer the agent’s questions (usually starting with “Are you a United States citizen?”). Nor can the agents require you to consent to any searches. Apparently the agents at this checkpoint are ...
The New Nuremberg Defense
Post Date: 2015-03-18 19:00:17 by tpaine
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The New Nuremberg Defense Liberty Legal Foundation ^ | 27 April 2012 | Van Iron A large part of Liberty Legal Foundation’s mission has become, by necessity, educating citizens and politicians alike about the foundational tenets of our Constitutional republic. America’s public school system has apparently been failing us for so long that we now have Congressmen and State legislators that don’t understand the basics about our form of government. This week I witnessed yet more proof of this fact. This week the Tennessee legislature unanimously passed a bill that seemed to be blatantly unconstitutional. When constituents e-mailed their state senators asking why they voted ...
He (Edward Snowden) Just Gets Better and Better!
Post Date: 2015-03-18 05:33:07 by Deckard
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“Edward Snowden issues ‘call to arms’ for tech companies … to foil spying with better privacy tools.” Absolutely! As those bozos on Capitol Hill dither over how much to increase the NSA’s espionage against us, Heroic Ed continues to exploit the amazing brain God gave him. The State and its evil spawned the NSA; how irrational to look to that same government for restraints on the spooks. No, Mr. Hero goes to the tech companies and inspires them to build NSA-proof telecommunications. Meanwhile, savor these quotes from our champ, all delivered during the address in which he “issue[d his] ‘call to arms'”: [regarding the NSA’s ...
Lawyers say Canadian-born Cruz eligible to run for president
Post Date: 2015-03-14 09:30:11 by cranky
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference and Presidential Forum in Washington. While questions about Canadian-born Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be president haven’t drawn much attention, two former Justice Department lawyers have weighed in with a bipartisan verdict: Cruz, they say, is eligible to run for the White House. Neal Katyal, acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, and Paul Clemente, solicitor general in President George W. Bush’s administration, got out in front of the issue in a Harvard Law Review article. “There is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth ...
Texas Representative Proposes Bill to Make Filming the Police Illegal for Everyone But MSM
Post Date: 2015-03-13 07:34:14 by Deckard
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Austin, Texas – On Tuesday, a bill was filed by Texas Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), which would turn private citizens who film police into criminals. The bill attempts to usurp citizens of the ability to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions by negating people’s ability to create an accurate and impartial record of police interactions. If passed, the bill would amend the current “INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC DUTIES” statute (Sec. 38.15), to include language only allow filming of police (within 25ft) by “news media.” The term “news media” is then defined as such: (A) a radio or television station that holds a license issued by the ...
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