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Prison Planet.com » Rep. Landry Offers Amendment to NDAA to Protect Civil Liberties

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

The National Defense Authorization Act will be made law with the stroke of President Obama’s pen (perhaps autopen from Hawaii?). With the enactment of the NDAA, Americans suspected by the President of having committed a “belligerent act” may be apprehended by the military and detained without recitation of charges and without access to an attorney until such time as the President decides that the “War on Terror” is over.

Pro-Paul PAC to combat ‘racist claims’ in web ad

Pro-Paul PAC to combat ‘racist claims’ in web ad

thehill.com ^ | 12/24/2011 | Jonathan Easley

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Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 3:19:18 PM by TBBT

A pro-Ron Paul group called Revolution PAC will combat the charges of racism against the Texas Republican in an internet advertisement next week.

Gary Franchi, the head of the PAC, told The Daily that the web ad will “put an end to these racist claims.”

“I don’t think it is fazing anybody,” Franchi said. “This is a cyclical history that is visible, based on past elections, and it (will be seen) as just a media ploy to try to get something to stick on the guy.”

Paul has said that he only endorsed the investment portions of controversial newsletters circulated in the 1980s and 1990s which were published under his name and occasionally contained conspiratorial, racist and homophobic content. Paul says he didn’t write the newsletters, didn’t read them at the time, and disavows them now. Still, the Paul campaign seems to have been taken by surprise that the issue has resurfaced in this election cycle, as the newsletters were also an issue for the candidate during his 2008 campaign.

Do We Need Big Government?

Do We Need Big Government?

CATO / National Review ^ | 2011-12-24 | Michael D. Tanner

Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:58:30 PM by rabscuttle385

AAs Congress nears approval on a series of 2011 appropriations bills (only three months late, a near-record for recent history), Rep. Sander Levin (D., Mich.) told Fox News that he was encouraged by progress on the bills because “we’re dealing with the lives of people. Those appropriation bills relate to the daily lives of people in middle class of America, and that’s really what this is all about.”

Yet, if that is true, and so many Americans have become dependent on the decisions of federal appropriators in Washington, there seems to be something distinctly wrong.

During the 2011 debate over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama noted that the U.S. federal government sends out 70 million checks every month. Unfortunately, that is probably an underestimate. According to the Washington Post, the president’s estimate included Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and spending on non-defense contractors and vendors. But he did not include reimbursements to Medicare providers and vendors, or electronic transfers to the 21 million households receiving food stamps. (Nor did he include most spending by the Defense Department, which has a payroll of 6.4 million active and retired employees and pays nearly 1 million invoices and 660,000 travel-expense claims per month.) The actual number of monthly federal checks might be closer to 200 million.

If America Is the Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights

If America Is the Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights

CATO / The Washington Examiner ^ | 2011-12-19 | Gene Healy

Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 1:00:33 PM by rabscuttle385

Last Thursday — which happened to be the 220th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights — the Senate passed a defense bill that demonstrates just how cavalier Congress can be with our fundamental liberties.

Given the opportunity to clarify existing law and confirm that American citizens are not subject to indefinite military detention at the order of the president — Congress punted.

After a debate in which key members seriously contemplated empowering the president to “Gitmo-ize” Americans suspected of terrorist activity, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 leaves the question open. Maybe he can, maybe he can’t, so let’s let the courts sort it out.

The legislation is ready for President Obama’s signature, the president having caved on his earlier veto threat. Happy Bill of Rights Day!

It could have been even worse. An earlier version of the bill would, according to one of its cosponsors, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have allowed the president to use the U.S. military to seize American citizens on the home front and ship them to Guantanamo.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cheered the provision, because it would “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield.” He added that “I believe our military should be deeply involved in fighting these guys at home.”

(DiLorenzo writes. Ron Paul is devoted to the Constitution and that’s why Steyn and the neocons detest him) Mark Steyn: Ron Paul’s Support of Constitution is “Stunted Parochialism”

Mark Steyn, the Canadian columnist who writes about American politics and is a close friend of the convicted criminal Conrad Black, has labeled Ron Paul’s political views “sheer stupid half-witted parochialism” in The Daily Caller.

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“So we’re getting here into what is the problem with Ron Paul, which is the sheer stupid half-witted parochialism of his view of what’s going on out on the planet,” Steyn said on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday. “And that’s why this is — this is a kind of utopian isolationism that fantasists on the right have embraced and at its darkest side, it meets the left coming around the other way in 9/11 truther conspiracy theories.”

Ron Paul has never declared 9/11 to be an inside job. Steyn’s attempt to portray him as a “truther” is more evidence that the neocon faction of the ruling elite is running scared as they confront the prospect of Paul winning the Iowa caucus.

Bill O’Reilly ambushes Ron Paul and FAILS 8-29-1011 – YouTube

Bill O’Reilly ambushes Ron Paul and FAILS 8-29-1011

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Ron Paul on Morton Downey Show in 1988 (Part 1) – YouTube

Ron Paul on Morton Downey Show in 1988 (Part 1)

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Ron Paul Can’t Be Allowed To Win Iowa

Ron Paul Can’t Be Allowed To Win Iowa

Townhall.com ^ | December 24, 2011 | Matt Mackowiak

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Fox News commentator calls Obama a ‘skinny, ghetto crackhead’ on air

Fox News commentator calls Obama a ‘skinny, ghetto crackhead‘ on air

Daily Mail UK ^ | Dec.23, 2011 | Meghan Keneally

Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 9:32:43 AM by COUNTrecount

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Mr Bozell took issue with the fact Mr Matthews said that Mr Gingrich ‘looked like a car-bomber’ in a video clip this past March.

Mr Matthews repeated the comparison several times, adding that he thought Mr Gingrich has ‘got that crazy Mephistophelian grin of his. He looks like he likes torturing.’ Feud: Mr Bozell brought up his remarks when he was talking about an insult Chris Matthews (pictured) made in March

Feud: Mr Bozell brought up his remarks when he was talking about an insult Chris Matthews (pictured) made in March

Ron Paul’s Truther Squad Includes Everyone Who Votes For Him in Iowa

Ron Paul‘s Truther Squad Includes Everyone Who Votes For Him in Iowa

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Townhall.com ^ | December 23, 2011 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 9:14:24 AM by Kaslin

Columnist-to-the-World Mark Steyn and I chat on air almost every week. The transcript of those interviews are always posted, both at HughHewitt.com and SteynOnline.com. Here’s a lengthy excerpt from yesterday’s conversation about Ron Paul, which begins as I play a tape of a question asked of the would-be Iowa upset winner about 9/11:

Q: Okay, and one more question. Why don’t you come out and tell the truth about 9/11?

RP: Well, I can’t handle the controversy. I have the IMF, the Federal Reserve to deal with, the IRS to deal with, because no, I just have more, too many things on my plate, because I just have too much to do.

HH: “Why won’t you come out on 9/11? Ron Paul?” He has too much controversy, Mark Steyn, too many things on his plate. What do you think about that?

MS: Yeah, I mean, that is a very cowardly answer. One of the rare occasions on which I’ve applauded Bill Clinton was 2008, four years ago. He was in Keene, New Hampshire, and some Ron Paul supporter asked him about the truth about 9/11 being an inside job. And Clinton slapped that guy down, as he well should have. This, by the way, is not an irrelevant thing, because it gets to the heart, to the most disfiguring aspect of Ron Paul’s campaign, leaving aside his unpleasantness to Michele Bachmann the other night, and all the rest of it, which is this stunted parochialism. Let’s say, for a moment, that 9/11 was an inside job. Does that also mean, then, that the Bali nightclub bombing was an inside job, that the Madrid train bombings was an inside job, that the Beslan school shootings were an inside job, that the London Tube bombings were an inside job? Because in that case, that’s one hell of a sum to be hiding somewhere within the darkest recesses of Dick Cheney’s non-specific line items. So we’re getting here into what is the problem with Ron Paul, which is the sheer stupid, half-witted parochialism of his view of what’s going on out in the planet. And that’s why this is so pathetic. This is a kind of utopian isolationism that fantasists on the right have embraced. And at its darkest side, it meets the left coming round the other way in 9/11 truther conspiracy theories.

HH: Now can someone, do you think it’s right for someone to go to the Iowa Caucus and say I agree with Ron Paul on the Fed, so I’m going to put aside this nuttery, and I’m going to ignore his newsletters, and I’m going to ignore his other baffling and incoherent positions on issuing letters of mark and reprisals and all the rest of it because I want to make a statement? Is that a right way to conduct yourself, Mark Steyn?

Prison Planet.com » Alex’s Final Thoughts on This Christmas Weekend

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Alex breaks down the latest news as the mega-banking elite switches into overdrive to implement their world government totalitarian system.

Prison Planet.com » Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints

Fears over burgeoning police state increase after passage of NDAA

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Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill.

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The increase in funding has nothing to do with the TSA’s role in airports – this is about creating 12 more VIPR teams to add the federal agency’s 25 units that are already scattered across the country and responsible for manning checkpoints on highways, in bus and train terminals, at sports events and even high school prom nights.

Prison Planet.com » Pundit: “If Ron Paul Wins Iowa, We Just Take It Out”

Establishment petrified of Texan Congressman building momentum for future primaries

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According to Politico’s chief columnist Roger Simon, even if Ron Paul wins the crucial Iowa primary, the result will simply be ignored and the establishment media will instead concentrate on the order in which Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney finish.

Simon tries to downplay the significance of Iowa by pointing out that “exotic” candidates have won in the past, yet fails to mention how two of the last three successful Republican nominees started the campaign trial with a win in Iowa.

He then denigrates the importance of August’s Ames straw poll, which is normally seen as a key barometer, simply because Paul almost won it.

“The media’s not going to be blown away” by a Paul win, states Simon. In other words, if Paul wins, the media will simply continue to ignore his existence in a desperate effort to prevent him from building the kind of momentum that would increase his chances of performing well in New Hampshire, Florida and subsequent primaries.

“If Ron Paul wins Iowa, we just take it out,” remarks Simon.

Prison Planet.com » Gingrich Labels Ron Paul’s Entire Support Base As “People Who Want To Legalize Drugs”

The allegation is clear, Newt Gingrich’s latest assertion that Ron Paul’s “volunteer base is people who want to legalize drugs” is designed to create the impression that anyone who votes for Paul is at best socially irresponsible or at worst a crack addled junkie.

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The former speaker of the House made the remarks in an interview with conservative commentator John McCaslin yesterday, also taking a swipe at Paul over his foreign policy outlook.