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  • IMPORTANT FOR ALL AMERICANS TO KNOW THEIR CONSTITUTION LAWS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IMPORTANT FOR ALL AMERICANS TO KNOW THEIR CONSTITUTION LAWS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
    Constitutional Concepts Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the concept of teaching the American Public the precepts, concepts, and principles that guided our Founding Fathers in their creation of this great nation.
    From: Jim Barrus To: "George Bush" <president@whitehouse.gov
    When our Founding Fathers put together our Federal Government they envisioned 4 Branches.
    1.. The Legislative (…)

  • Daily Show Spoof Leads To Firing Of Broward Art Guild Chief
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Daily Show Spoof Leads To Firing Of Broward Art Guild Chief By Jamie Malernee, Staff Writer July 22 2005
    Once again, there’s controversy over "Controversy," the Broward Art Guild’s May exhibit — this time brought by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
    The guild’s board of directors on Wednesday fired executive director Susan Buzzi, who has worked there at least 10 years, after she appeared in a Daily Show spoof on an explicit art piece without consulting them.
    "They called a secret (…)

  • Patriot Act violates First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to Constitution
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich On The PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
    Washington, Jul 21 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement on the PATRIOT Act Reauthorization bill before the House of Representatives today:
    “Today, the House of Representatives is turning back the clock on over 200 years of progress in the protection of civil liberties in this nation.
    “The PATRIOT Act Reauthorization bill threatens the civil liberties of every citizen of this nation, and is a full frontal (…)

  • The most ominous transformation in American life since our nation’s inception
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The most ominous transformation in American life since our nation’s inception
    Editor’s comment. In my opinion, one should be damn afraid of the miltarization happenning around us. I’ve recently come across direct personal experience of a miltary matter that raises serious concern for us. I’m looking in to it. If my suspicions are correct we are in deep shit, correction, as we are already in deep, let me use the word plunging into the deepest shit. Thursday, July 21, 2005
    Hornberger’s (…)

  • Corruption: Falling away from or not returning to the first principle
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I am a philanthropist by character,” wrote Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, “and a citizen of the great republic humanity at large.” Washington to Lafayette, August 15th, 1786.
    Principle - the basic truth on which all truths depend, in a republic is virtue. Returning to principles has always been the saving grace of republics, but what kind of republic are we talking about. As an American author who loves France for many reasons, I question why there is not much respect for our (…)

  • On the Net: With John Perry Barlow
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A prominent champion of civil liberties in cyberspace, John Perry Barlow is best known to thousands of netizens as co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (). The EFF, which was founded in July of 1990, garnered particular attention after legally challenging the Communications Decency Act, a law passed by Congress in February of 1996 which outlawed the dissemination of "indecent material" over the Net. The non-profit organization aims to protect Internet users’ privacy, freedom of (…)

  • From Dictatorship to Democracy - A Primer for Freedom
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro democracy? Learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of goverments that act more like dictatorships than so-called democracies. Velvet Revolution: An interview with Gene Sharp
    Laura Secor has an interview in the Boston Globe Ideas section with Gene Sharp, the author of a pamphlet, From Dictatorship to Democracy, that has been used by pro democracy groups from Serbia to Ukraine, to learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of dictatorships. Sharp’s (…)

  • America is led by a brutal, mocking, heedless Caligula
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Killing Joke: The Day the American Republic Died
    Bob Herbert, who has been incandescent for months now , usefully reminds us of the comedy routine that Bush performed for a sycophantic audience of TV and radio "journalists" back in March 2004: the infamous "hunt for WMD" in the Oval Office. As you’ll recall, this was a series of cutesy shots showing Bush peering behind the office curtains, looking under the rug while cracking wise: "No weapons of mass destruction under here! Maybe they’re (…)

  • London : government wants email and phone data kept for intelligence
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three days after the London bombings, Britain said on Sunday it would seek new EU rules to make telecoms companies store records for much longer showing who their customers are calling and emailing.
    Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he would raise the issue on Wednesday at a meeting of European Union interior ministers which he has called in Brussels to discuss a joint response to the bombings by suspected Islamist militants.
    "We believe that telecommunications records, whether of (…)

  • Who’s Watching the Watch List?
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can’t find out what I’m accused of or why, let alone defend myself.
    Heading for Oakland from Seattle to see my grandkids last week, the Alaska Airlines check-in machine refused to give me a boarding pass. Directed to the ticket counter, I gave the agent my driver’s license and watched her punch keys at her computer.
    Frowning, she told me that my name was on the national terrorist No Fly Watch List and that I had to be (…)