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Who Would Trust Them After This?… “Judge Andrew Napolitano called the situation “a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we’ve ever seen in American history.” The government is looking for a select group of people, and instead of obeying the Constitution and simply getting a search warrant for their phones, the judge says, “They got a search warrant for a 113 million phones!”” | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano called the situation “a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we’ve ever seen in American history.”
The government is looking for a select group of people, and instead of obeying the Constitution and simply getting a search warrant for their phones, the judge says, “They got a search warrant for a 113 million phones!”
“Who would trust them after this?
The Constitution doesn’t trust them!” Napolitano told Shepard Smith.
The clearly impassioned judge shouted, “This is just a shortcut to make it easier for America’s spies to spy on Americans.
Shep, they spied on the West Wing, they spied on the Pentagon, they spied on the Supreme Court, they spied on the CIA!
Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State | Global Research
By Greg Guma
Global Research, June 07, 2013
Excerpts from Vanguard Press feature story, April 29, 1980
constitution
Political rights are so easily taken for granted – until they’re threatened or curtailed by repressive laws. In the United States, they are usually most vulnerable when people are anxious about some outside threat.
After World War II, for instance, dissent became risky as relations with Russia hardened into Cold War I. Hysteria about domestic Communist subversion led quickly to state and congressional investigations of “un-American activities.” And in 1951, a Supreme Court decision led to the imprisonment of eleven Communist leaders, not for any overt acts threatening national security, but rather for trying to organize a political party and teach Marxism.
Today the threats to political liberty are no less imminent.
Retail Parasites and the Online Sales Tax
Retail Parasites and the Online Sales Tax
American Thinker ^ | 5/14/13 | William A Levinson
Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:09:31 PM by Winged Hussar
The Senate recently approved legislation that would allow states to require out-of-state businesses to collect and remit sales tax. The argument in favor of this legislation is “fairness” to brick and mortar retailers, who must collect sales tax in the states in which they are physically present.
Advocates of the Marketplace Fairness Act like to conjure the image of shadowy Internet businesses competing unfairly with the little Mom-and-Pop store on the street corner. The truth is, however, that these Internet businesses are far more likely to compete with entities such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy, all of which have their own websites but will not set their online prices so as to undercut in-store sales.
Selective Constitutional Deafness… “Meanwhile, the South Carolina House just passed a law criminalizing the enforcement of ObamaCare within its state borders, a move that critics will also attack with talk of the Supremacy Clause. Speaking of supremacy, AG Holder also told Brownback that the feds would litigate if necessary “to prevent the State of Kansas from interfering with the activities of federal officials enforcing federal law,” which means that the case would end up before the Supreme Court.”
Selective Constitutional Deafness
American Thinker ^ | 6 May 2013 | Selwyn Duke
Posted on Monday, May 06, 2013 9:15:11 AM by Politically Correct
Kansas governor Sam Brownback heard something recently. He received a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder stating that Kansas’ newly enacted legislation prohibiting government agents from enforcing federal gun laws in the state “directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional.” Unconstitutional, Eric? My, how antebellum of you.
Meanwhile, the South Carolina House just passed a law criminalizing the enforcement of ObamaCare within its state borders, a move that critics will also attack with talk of the Supremacy Clause.
Speaking of supremacy, AG Holder also told Brownback that the feds would litigate if necessary “to prevent the State of Kansas from interfering with the activities of federal officials enforcing federal law,” which means that the case would end up before the Supreme Court.
Is Justice Kennedy finally waking up?
For conservatives who revere the constitutional separation of powers, it’s an understatement to say this Ronald Reagan appointee has been a disappointment.
Considered a “swing vote” on the court, he often swings the wrong way. He’s something of a switch-hitter – sometimes swinging right and sometimes swinging left depending on who’s pitching.
But he made a statement earlier this month that was somewhat encouraging.
Scalia on Gay Marriage: ‘No Scientific Answer’ About Effects on Children (Audio)
Scalia on Gay Marriage: ‘No Scientific Answer’ About Effects on Children (Audio)
CNSNews.com ^ | March26, 2013 | Perry Starr
Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:41:46 AM by lbryce
During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday over the constitutionality of a California law that reserves marriage as a union between one man and one woman, Justice Antonin Scalia said that the effects on children who are raised by same-sex couples is not confirmed by experts or science.
ANTONIN SCALIA: ‘When Did It Become Unconstitutional To Exclude Homosexual Couples From Marriage?’
ANTONIN SCALIA: ‘When Did It Become Unconstitutional To Exclude Homosexual Couples From Marriage?’
Business Insider ^ | 03/26/2013 | Brett LoGiurato
Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:41:44 PM by SeekAndFind
English: Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia testifies before the House Judiciary Committee’s Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on Capitol Hill May 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. Scalia and fellow Associate Justice Stephen Breyer testified to the subcommittee about the Administrative Conference of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
During oral arguments today at the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia and attorney Ted Olson had a pointed exchange over whether same-sex marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Scalia’s argument, which was advanced by Chief Justice John Roberts before him, was that when the institution of marriage developed historically,
it was not done with the explicit intent of excluding gay and lesbian couples. “We don’t prescribe law for the future,” Scalia said. “We decide what the law is. I’m curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868? When the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted?”
WHEN WERE WE WRONG — THEN OR NOW?
WHEN WERE WE WRONG — THEN OR NOW?
boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/26/13 | Bob Lonsberry
Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:34:25 AM by shortstop
This morning in Washington, the Supreme Court will begin its deliberation of gay marriage.
In some three months time, this august body will tell us what the Constitution does or does not say about a supposed right of homosexual people to marry one another.
In one regard, it will be a momentous decision.
In another, it will be completely meaningless.
Eric Holder instructs Justice Department to defraud Supreme Court…
Eric Holder instructs Justice Department to defraud Supreme Court
Coach is Right ^ | 3/19/13 | Doug Book
Posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:11:08 PM by Oldpuppymax
In yet another testament to the corrupt if inventive workings of the liberal mind, Attorney General Eric Holder recently decided to defraud the United States Supreme Court in the hope of preventing sections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) being ruled unconstitutional.
Section 5 of the VRA requires 9 Southern states and a number of jurisdictions in 7 others—all charged with a history of voting rights abuses–to obtain “preclearance” from the DOJ or the District Court of DC before making any changes to state election policies or procedures. Passed into law in 1965, Section 5 was enacted as an “emergency provision” designed to “promote full access to the voting process” and expire in 5 years. (1)
Did the Department of Justice Say that the Government Would NOT Assassinate Americans????? | Washington’s Blog
EXCERPT…..
What Holder is saying, in substantive terms, is that the President does have the supposed authority to use a drone to kill an American who is engaged in “combat,” whether here or abroad.
“Combat” can consist of expressing support for Muslims mounting armed resistance against U.S. military aggression, which was the supposed crime committed by Anwar al-Awlaki, or sharing the surname and DNA of a known enemy of the state, which was the offense committed by Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdel.
Under the rules of engagement used by the Obama Regime in Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan, any “military-age” male found within a targeted “kill zone” is likewise designated a “combatant,” albeit usually after the fact [update: children too]. This is a murderous application of the “Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy,” and it will be used when — not if — Obama or a successor starts conducting domestic drone-killing operations.
Police on Home Invasion: “You’re on Your Own”
Police on Home Invasion: “You’re on Your Own”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/03/06/police-on-home-invasion-youre-on-your-own-n1527007 ^ | Mar. 6, 2013 | Katie Pavlich
Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:43:59 AM by EXCH54FE
Project Veritas is out with a damning video showing police officers from multiple departments saying “you’re on your own” when it comes to home invasions. The video focuses on New Jersey and New York, where it is nearly impossible to obtain a firearm. In New Jersey you must obtain a permit to purchase a Biden approved shotgun. Some officers are seen offering advice about how to fight off an intruder: throw bleach, yell, hide with your cell phone and call the police, etc.
Officers steered clear from suggesting the man in the video obtain a firearm to protect himself, his family and his property. The video also points out painfully long response times, sometimes over 30 minutes, of many police departments.
Kelleigh Nelson — Internet Sales Tax Coming…
“All the world should be taxed” —Caesar Augustus
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. —Mark Twain
The power to tax is the power to destroy. —John Marshall – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican from Tennessee, joined fellow lawmakers in reintroducing a bill that would allow all states to require online retailers to collect sales tax just like their “Main Street” rivals.
The idea isn’t a new one. However, a 1992 Supreme Court decision stated that a business must have a physical presence within the state in order for the state to collect sales tax when someone purchases from that business.
Secession Talk: Interview with Professor Donald Livingston Part 1 | Mike Church
Livingston about the legality of secession, be sure and check out the rest of the interview in today’s transcript, “What happens with secession in America, if it’s constitutionally done, a state, being a sovereign political society, has a convention of its people and they vote an ordinance of secession to withdraw the compact with the United States and to secede.
Of course, if they do that, then they have to deal with their share of the public debt and other obligations they incurred in the union. Once they’ve done that, they’ve seceded. The Supreme Court has no say over this. After all, they’re an independent country.
From the American Revolution to Idle No More | Veterans Today
Dan George as an Icon of Aboriginal Resistance. Dan George as Law Giver.
It is Boxing Day, 2012, as I begin this essay introducing Dan George’s speech at the Vancouver Coliseum on July 1st, 1967, the day billed as the main birthday celebration of Canada’s Centennial Year. By highlighting a First Nations perspective on law and legitimacy I seek to draw a contrast with the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada as articulated, for instance, in its rulings on the Sparrow and Van der Peet cases.
Dan George’s words have particular poignancy in this context because he was the head of the family that adopted Kwitsel Tatel after she was orphaned at the age of thirteen. I have been publishing in Veteran’s Today a running report on the case of Kwitsel Tatel, a proceeding that resumes in the Law Courts of Chilliwack British Columbia on January 14. Many of the major arguments being brought forward in this case of Kwitsel Tatel, which began in 2004, add background and depth to the major contentions of the Idle No More movement.
March To Arrest The President And Congress | Politics
November 5th 2013 we the people will march on Washington DC peacefully and unarmed to arrest all members of congress, the president, and all supreme court justices where they will be held without bond until a full independent investigation and trial have been completed. We must re-elect our government within 90 days in order to stave of unrest.
The rEVOLution to Restore the Republic of the United States
First of all please know that this is not a Protest!!!!
…This is a Citizen Action.
We need to organize a citizens arrest of all parties involved in the various criminal acts that have put our country as well as our world in jeopardy. This is going to be a lot of people but none the less it must be done. Hopefully there are some Sheriffs, US Marshals, and military personnel that will remember their oaths to this country upon the taking of this action by the people and lend their support and expertise in bringing known criminals to justice.
MARCH ON DC – Citizens Action – November 5th, 2013
Historical Parallels to 1775… (“I have sensed that we are nearing a time when a majority of patriotic, liberty-loving, God-fearing Americans say, “Enough is enough.” Certainly this person is already there. Let me know your thoughts:”)
A friend found this posted on Facebook. I have sensed that we are nearing a time when a majority of patriotic, liberty-loving, God-fearing Americans say, “Enough is enough.” Certainly this person is already there. Let me know your thoughts:
Historical Parallels
What the Founding Fathers Did
What we should start doing–NOW
Then
Totally corrupt monarchy, parliament and courts
Stamp Act to suppress communication between the colonies
Oppressive taxes to drive colonies to their knees
Mandatory quartering of British soldiers in private homes
Attempts to seize guns and ammo from the colonial militias (Lexington & Concord)
Attempt to divide rebels from the loyalists
Today
Totally corrupt White House, congress and federal court system (will get worse after Obummer appoints
Holder, Clinton and Moochelle to the Supreme Court)
Our Constitutional Republic died death on November 6, 2012 – Uncle Sam’s America is no more
Our Constitutional Republic died a peaceful death on November 6, 2012. Having reached the point of no return in a comatose state after years of progressive and illegal immigration assaults, the fabric of conservative society is now completely unraveled and Uncle Sam’s America is no more.
PING LIST: Agenda 21 Action Thread…AGENDA 21 Roundup…
Agenda 21 Action Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2863065/posts
Monday, October 01, 2012 10:22:00 PM · 174 of 175
TEXOKIE to Twotone; VitacoreVision; Iron Munro; PHloon; blam; PapaNew; w4women; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; …
AGENDA 21 Roundup
Here are some of the Agenda 21 and related articles and issues which have come to my attention. If you know of others of urgency, please post them on the thread and/or alert me to them for highlighting.
If you want to read more, be sure to do a keyword search on “agenda21” …. and please be sure to try to remember to tag relevant articles with the keyword as well!
From Justice Thomas, a Little Talk About Race, Faith and the Court
WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the bench in more than six years, and he seldom appears in public in Washington, a city he says is full of cynics, smart alecks and people who have agendas rather than convictions.
But he opened up last week in a public interview at the National Archives, talking about his race, his faith and relations among the justices after a term that ended with bitter divisions.
For the most part, Justice Thomas spoke somberly about the weight of history and the burdens of his job. But he allowed himself the occasional bit of rueful humor.
FlyoverPress.Com… Down With the Presidency by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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Liberty Knows No Compromise
This is a little long but well worth the effort. After all, this is the weekend and you are looking for an excuse to weasel out of your “honey dos” anyway. Right? lol
Joking aside, there is some really “good” history here. In this case, “good” is defined as NOT the crap and bullshit lies we were fed at the Mandatory Government Propaganda Camps we have escaped from. – jtl, 419
The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to Hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.
The presidency – by which I mean the executive State – is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while it steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power unto itself, and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, business, charity, and the community. I’ll go further. The US presidency is the world’s leading evil. It is the chief mischief-maker in every part of the globe, the leading wrecker of nations, the usurer behind Third-World debt, the bailer-out of corrupt governments, the hand in many dictatorial gloves, the sponsor and sustainer of the New World Order, of wars, interstate and civil, of famine and disease. To see the evils caused by the presidency, look no further than Iraq or Serbia, where the lives of innocents were snuffed out in pointless wars, where bombing was designed to destroy civilian infrastructure and cause disease, and where women, children, and the aged have been denied essential food and medicine because of a cruel embargo. Look at the human toll taken by the presidency, from Dresden and Hiroshima to Waco and Ruby Ridge, and you see a prime practitioner of murder by government.
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The Daily Bell – Judge Napolitano on the Virtues of Private Justice… (“I think these are bad days for freedom and unless a Ron Paul, Rand Paul or Gary Johnson is in the White House they will continue to get bad. I just couldn’t imagine a President Romney dismantling the security state, not enforcing the Patriot Act…”)
…..Daily Bell: You were negative about the freedom trend in the USlast time we spoke. Are you more hopeful now?Judge Napolitano: No, not at all. No. The government keeps getting larger and more in our faces. There is less outrage than there used to be.
The Air Force predicts that in ten years there’ll be 30,000 drones in the sky at any given moment and that some of them will be the size of golf balls and some will be the size of mosquitoes, and nobody is complaining about that. People seem willing to give up their privacy in exchange for safety.
People forget they need protection from the government.People are confusing freedom and safety. Freedom does not promote safety; freedom promotes unfettered choices, free from government interference. It accepts the fact that there will be some dangerous things in society but it assumes that risk from danger without is a more desirable state of affairs than an authoritarian government than within.
I think these are bad days for freedom and unless a Ron Paul, Rand Paul or Gary Johnson is in the White House they will continue to get bad. I just couldn’t imagine a President Romney dismantling the security state, not enforcing the Patriot Act, disregarding the National Defense Authorization Act, stopping all the drones.
Business community will fight the left’s attempt to silence us
Serious efforts are speeding down the political pike from leftists, to curtail the free political speech of businesses. They are trying to pass laws and regulations that limit or eliminate a business’ or corporation’s ability to contribute to political candidates or PACs that support candidates. The left frets and whines about evil businesses trying to “buy” elections, yet it’s OK with them if unions do the buying. Huh? Say again?Let’s start with what the U.S. Constitution and the highest court in the land say about this issue.
Correcting a Massive Typo by USA Today
Although this line is attributed to many people, Wikiquotesays that Gideon Tucker was the first to warn us that “No man’s life, liberty, or
property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
This cartoon about Keynesian economics sort of makes the same point, but not with the same eloquence.
DEVVY’s EMAIL ALERTS: I find this frightening to say the least: Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already Born – How Will They Alter Human Species?
I find this frightening to say the least:
Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already Born – How Will They Alter Human Species?
All Three Branches of Government Plan to Dismantle the Second Amendment | revisedhistory
By Al Benson Jr.
Infowars.com put up an article on July 29th that I had not yet seen anywhere else. Upon checking it out I did find it on
several other Internet sites, but you can be sure the average American gun owner will miss it because it will probably not show up anywhere in your morning or evening “news” paper.
(“In his book Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, George P. Fletcher, a Marxist Columbia University School of Law professor, describes how the mission of Abraham the Destroyer was not to preserve the constitutional union, but rather to impose a new order – one created through aggression by the central government against the states that created it, and the people from whom it supposedly derived its powers.”) Obamacare and the Revenge of the ‘Secret Constitution’ by William Norman Grigg
Thus it was exquisitely appropriate that the Supreme Court’s ratification of “the most important piece of social welfare legislation since the 1960s” came in a majority opinion written by a Bush-appointed Republican conservative. After all, we should expect adherents of the Party of Lincoln to be doing the works of Abraham.
In his book Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy, George P. Fletcher, a Marxist Columbia University School of Law professor, describes how the mission of Abraham the Destroyer was not to preserve the constitutional union, but rather to impose a new order – one created through aggression by the central government against the states that created it, and the people from whom it supposedly derived its powers.

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 02: Judge Andrew Napolitano attends the Greater Talent Network 30th anniversary party at the United Nations on May 2, 2012 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Fight over Bible-study prison term escalates
The Phoenix, Ariz., fight over a Bible study in a man’s home has spilled over into the state Supreme Court, with a writ of habeas corpus filed by Rutherford Institute asking the justices to intervene and release Michael Salman, who was jailed after repeatedly holding Bible studies at his home.
































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