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Can you prove you’re not a terrorist?

March 11th, 2010  | 

The REAL ID Act has punished innocent Americans with red tape, higher fees, and lost privacy. Some in Congress want to add to these burdens.

Let’s stop them! Please tell Congress to repeal REAL ID and oppose any further attempts at creating a national ID card.

You may borrow from or copy this letter . . .

What is the purpose of REAL ID?

* to prevent terrorists from boarding planes, even though there are an infinite number of other ways to engage in terrorism
* to prevent illegal immigrants from getting driver’s licenses – which only increases the likelihood they will drive without ever being tested, creating more dangerous roads http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/02/24/symbols-security-and-collectivism/

Why should either (misguided) goal interfere with an American citizen’s attempt to renew a driver’s license?

REAL ID is working exactly as I thought it would. It punishes innocent Americans like me with red tape and higher fees by forcing us to “prove” we’re not terrorists or illegal immigrants.

In Florida . . .

* the driver’s license fee jumped from $25 to $48
* a woman was denied a license for failing to produce certified documentation of her first marriage, held in 1958 in Minnesota http://www.theledger.com/article/20100308/NEWS/3085041/1410?Title=Dozens-See-License-Renewal-Effort-Stall-Over-New-Federal-Documentation-%20%20Guidelines

* and a 68 year-old man’s Rhode Island birth certificate that had been used to get into the Air Force, and to get a Florida license 20 years earlier, was rejected http://www.theledger.com/article/20100224/EDIT01/2245000/1398

Nevada has also been plagued by long lines with applicants turned away. http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?S=12112849

Meanwhile, two New York DMV workers were recently arrested for selling “authentic” ID’s to criminals. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/02/23/2010-02-23_1m_ring_that_sold_crooks_legitimate_drivers_licenses_identity_packages_busted.html

This hardly inspires confidence that a nationalized ID system will stop terrorists and criminals from getting driver’s licenses!

And yet the Administration and Congress are considering a replacement to REAL ID, the PASS ID Act, which will make it even easier for corrupt state employees to get access to my identity documents! http://www.realnightmare.org/about/114/

In addition, Sens. Lindsay Graham and Chuck Schumer want to force all American workers to carry a biometric ID card. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/09/national-worker-id-card-proposed-for-immigration-plan/

In other words, to hold down a job, I would have to be fingerprinted, enrolled in a national database, and possibly tracked.

I have had it! This is America! Americans shouldn’t have to prove we’re not terrorists, or that we’re not illegal immigrants. I have the right to travel. I have the right to earn a living. I resent and reject any government program that presumes I must ask for permission.

I demand that you repeal the REAL ID Act and do everything in your power to oppose the PASS Act, the Graham-Schumer card, and all forms of national ID.

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WE are not the enemy, but we are about to be treated like we are. Keep sending the faxes on Obama care, but spare a few on this bill that is in committee and has at least nine cosponsors already

McCain and Lieberman have introduced this bill
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3081/show
by Pat Armstrong of Campaign for Liberty

This bill scares the fluff out of me.


The “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, “sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning,”

The bill does not distinguish between U.S. citizens and non-citizens, and states that “suspected belligerents” who are “considered a “high-value detainee” shall not be provided with a Miranda warning.”

A person is considered a “high value detainee” if they fulfill one of the following criteria.

(1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the U.S. or U.S. facilities abroad; (2) poses a threat to U.S. military personnel or U.S. military facilities; (3) potential intelligence value; (4) is a member of al Qaeda or a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda or (5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate.

Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center and the federal government, via the MIAC report and innumerable other leaked documents, now consider virtually anyone with a dissenting opinion against the state as “posing a threat,” millions of peaceful American citizens could be swept up by this frightening dragnet of tyranny.

However, according to the bill, an individual doesn’t even have to pose a threat to be snatched, detained and interrogated – they can merely be deemed to be of “potential intelligence value” or come under the vague and sweeping mandate of “such other matters as the President considers appropriate”.

This last designation hands Obama dictator powers to have any American citizen kidnapped, detained, and interrogated on a whim.

The only proviso that even hints at some form of check or balance is the measure that states, “The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must make a preliminary determination whether the detainee is an unprivileged enemy belligerent within 48 hours of taking detainee into custody.”

“The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team must submit its determination to the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General after consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General make a final determination and report the determination to the President and the appropriate committees of Congress. In the case of any disagreement between the Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General, the President will make the determination,” states the bill.

The ACLU has expressed its vigorous opposition to the legislation, labeling it nothing less than a “direct attack on the Constitution”.

“Indefinite detention flies in the face of American values and violates this country’s commitment to the rule of law,” states Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.

Of course, such positions from the ACLU as well as Amnesty International will only be used as grist for the neo-con propaganda mill about how the bill ought to be passed in order to avoid being “soft on terrorists,” a piece of spin still being swallowed whole by millions of conservatives who are blissfully unaware of the fact that the apparatus of the war on terror is now being aimed squarely at politically active American citizens.

“Torture, indefinite imprisonment, secret trials and limited staged hearings are the stuff of cheap dictatorships,” writes Ian McColgin. “They are the sort of idiocy we scorned in the Soviets, the Koreans and the Vietnamese. It is astonishing that we have senators and citizens even discussing this bill which is not a capitulation to terrorism – it’s the triumph of terrorism.”

IN THE NEWS
CORPORATE POLITICS

Marlboro man Philip Morris sues Norway over cigarette ban
http://bit.ly/cywibU

CENSUS 2010

The Census and History: It Is Not a Pretty Picture!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett18.1.html

Census: A Little Too Personal
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/paul/2010/0308.html

ECONOMIC NEWS

Bank of America junks overdraft fees for debit cards
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/03/bank-of-america-junks-overdraft-fees-for-debit-cards.html

Bank Padlocked Wrong House and Took Parrot
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704655004575113872190094934.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

U.S. Sales Tax Rates Hit Record High
http://finance.yahoo.com/taxes/article/109012/us-sales-tax-rates-hit-record-high

Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC Seeks Cash
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601014&sid=aaBSS5oKjb80

Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35767727/ns/us_news-life/

REAL ID & PRIVACY NEWS

Worker ID Card at Center of Immigration Plan
http://bit.ly/9xBS1K

Oops! Citibank prints 600,000 customer Social Security numbers
on envelopes with tax info
http://bit.ly/9JfEyG

LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and
35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/lifelock.shtm

OBAMA NATION

Oh my: 68% now oppose passing ObamaCare without Republican support
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/09/oh-my-68-now-oppose-passing-obamacare-without-republican-support/

Program to pay homeowners to sell at a loss
Obama administration’s latest attempt to stem the housing crisis
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35756755/ns/business-the_new_york_times/

The Source of Obama’s Trouble
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/opinion/09herbert.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Obama to Ban Recreational Fishing?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2775034/obama_to_ban_recreational_fishing.html

Obama Locks Public Out of Health Care Event
http://www.thefoxnation.com/health-care/2010/03/09/obama-locks-public-out-health-care-event

Join the President and Senator Claire McCaskill for a Grassroots Reception
http://www.actblue.com/page/mccaskillpotuseventgrassrootsreception

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Eric Massa calls Rahm Emanuel son devils spawn quits Congress
http://bit.ly/9td1VJ

Counter-protest the Obamacare Road Show; St. Louis Oba-Kabuki event is closed-door, invitation-only
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/08/make-your-voice-heard-counter-protest-the-obamacare-road-show/

POLICE STATE NEWS

Patients' medical records go online without consent
http://bit.ly/99UDoX

A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/print/2010/03/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/37116/

Cops Taser, kill gay porn star Dustin Michaels as video cameras roll
http://bit.ly/9c9Ne1

Crackdown on dangerous dogs to make microchips compulsory for all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/09/dangerous-dogs-microchips-insurance

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NEWS

Amnesty - when the people disapprove, ram it through
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=928088

CHRISTIANITY NEWS

Christian's speech deemed 'hateful propaganda
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=928020

YOU TUBE

Jesse Ventura Slams Tea Party Movement Supports Socialized Medicine

Jesse Ventura - tea party 'a laugh' - destroying the left vs right paradigm

HEALTH NEWS

John Mccain's bill s-3002 is an overkill on dietary suppliments
http://www.newswithviews.com/Tips/scott104.htm

Govt to warn on baby slings because of deaths
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100309/ap_on_bi_ge/us_baby_slings_warning

INTERNET & GOVERNMENT CONTROL

Microsoft warns of new Internet Explorer vulnerability
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/7412750/Microsoft-warns-of-new-Internet-Explorer-vulnerability.html

US lawmakers seek action on Internet freedom
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3shVd9_MwvX8UAUCwMYunM0VlyQ

Our View: Free Internet too tempting for FCC
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/expand-92524-government-fcc.html

Just in time for the Internet Control Bill - PA Woman charged with recruiting jihadists
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/statenews/local_story_068225952.html

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Senator John McCain has introduced S. 3002, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA).

This bill will . . .

* control your ability to use vitamins,
* for the benefit of the major sports leagues

The following welfare queens endorsed McCain's bill within hours of its introduction . . .

* The National Football League
* The National Basketball Association
* Major League Baseball
* National Hockey League
* The NCAA
* The Professional Golf Association
* The U.S. Olympic Committee

Nearly all of these entities receive tax funding to build the stadiums they play in. Now they want to make your supplements more expensive so that none of their rich athletes will accidentally ingest anything banned by league rules. But you can take action to kill this bill.

It's crucial to understand that most vitamins and supplements aren't drugs. Your food that grows in the ground, or on the hoof, is full of these substances. That's one reason why previous government attempts to label these nutritional supplements as drugs, and regulate them, have met with fierce public opposition. Indeed . . .

Prior to the Internet, one such government power grab generated what may have been the biggest barrage of letters to Congress in American history. That power grab failed, because public pressure works!

Instead of regulating supplements Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 DSHEA).

That law states that most nutritional substances do not require FDA pre-approval before going to market, and cannot be re-classified as drugs.

Now, John McCain seeks to repeal key provisions of the DSHEA. Yet in his remarks introducing S.3002 . . .

* he provides no evidence that the relatively free-market approach of the DHSEA has failed

* he cites no evidence that dietary supplements(PDF), consumed by 150 million Americans, are unsafe or a threat to public health

And the DSSA is completely unnecessary to address the (minor) steroid problem. In fact, the problems McCain does cite were already addressed by current law, which has not been competently enforced by the FDA!

* the FDA already has authority to ban any substance containing anabolic steroids
* and products are already required to list all their ingredients

To make matters worse, ". . . the bill reverses "common law, which assumes all is legal unless restricted. DSSA would allow only what is permitted to be legal."

The DSSA is nothing but regulatory "corporate welfare" for major sports leagues (and multi-national drug companies). It will put the FDA in the business of helping the NFL, Major League Baseball, etc. enforce their substance policies -- at your expense.

This bill will deny you freedom of choice, place expensive burdens on small enterprises, and do nothing to protect your health. It will actually make you less healthy, by causing nutritional substances to be less available and more expensive.

Please use these talking points to tell your Representative and your two Senators to oppose S. 3002, John McCain's Dietary Supplement Safety Act.

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IN THE NEWS

POLICE STATE NEWS

How just 0.3% of solved crimes are due to DNA database
http://bit.ly/93z7Zd

Drug industry pays for Mo. cold medicine database
http://bit.ly/c9Sp6b

TASER NEWS

Man laughed off Taser jolt while battling Rochester cops
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100305/NEWS01/3050331/1002/NEWS

OBAMA NATION

Obama eyeing your retirement account
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127284

Obama to nominate retired Army general for TSA: source
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6270Z820100308

ECONOMIC NEWS

Think You're Getting A Tax Refund? Better Read This
Cash-Strapped States Delay Paying Income-Tax Refunds
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/CashStrapped-States-Delay-cnbc-3787752102.html?x=0&.v=1

Banks shuttered in Fla., Ill., Md., Utah
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Banks-shuttered-in-Fla-Ill-Md-apf-2958911227.html?x=0

Employers vs. Consumers: Who will blink first?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100307/D9EA0HM80.html

Man Wants to Trade 50-Year Baseball Card Collection for House
http://bit.ly/bJweCh

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Missouri Sovereignty Project
http://www.missourisovereigntyproject.com/

HEALTH NEWS

Don't let the NFL take your away your vitamins
http://www.livefreeradio.net/index.php/don-t-let-the-nfl-take-your-away-your-vi

Tax soda, pizza to cut obesity, researchers say
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6275T720100308

Sleep wrong and you'll feel the bad fat
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527504.700-sleep-wrong-and-youll-feel-the-bad-fat.html

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

Appeals for calm after Nigerian sectarian slaughter
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h9mUhpdN3aBNC7zA7AgyCwUaOIDA

Do not call your legislators at the state and local level. They are busy people and are working hard to make sure you and I are all kept safe and secure from threats abroad and at home. they don't have time to listen to you or I so just sit down and shut up.

Do not go to protests, it is a waste of money and resources when extra police have to be called, plus all the litter and noise is just annoying. Besides it wont do any good. it's not like anyone really cares about a bunch of people who are upset over silly things like the Constitution and the truth.

Do not run for office at any level, after all the system is broken and cannot be changed from within. just sit down and shut up. Our leaders know what is best for us.

Do not worry about who to vote for, just choose the name that sounds the most familiar. Do stay away from those with radical ideas who speak about liberty, freedom, government accountability, ethics, limited government and the like. Those are merely outdated and antiquated ideas brought about by radicals in the 1700's.

Do not complain about health care legislation. Our legislators know what we need and we should just be grateful for the extra taxes we will have to pay even though it will be less than we are used to, at least everyone will get some kind of care. Yes the legislators need better health care then you or I, indeed after all they are the decider's, so sit down and shut up.

Do not complain about taxes. So what if it takes nearly six months to pay for one years of all taxes combined. We should all be so lucky to be able to have six months of tax free income. We need to pay taxes to help pay for the great health insurance and salaries of our leaders. We need to pay to help them take trips around the world and dine on exotic meals. They deserve it after all for all the hard work they do to protect us.

Do not complain about national id's or full body scanners. They are there to protect us. A few extra x-rays should not cause too much damage to our bodies and besides if it does, we have our free health care to rely upon to fix it.

Do not complain about cameras on the street corners and in nearly every building you enter. They are their to help keep you safe and help police figure out who may have attacked and mangled you in the middle of the night.

Do not complain about the police taking your blood at checkpoints. They have to make sure no one is drunk or on drugs to help keep us all safe on the roads. So what if they put the blood in DNA databases. Perhaps they can use those samples to help find cures for current and future diseases. It's not like they would ever abuse their authority and misuse the information.

Do not worry about what is in your food. Genetically modified food is good for you. The Europeans do not understand the benefits of this type of food and have banned it, but our FDA says it is good and thus it must be so, because they would never approve a food or drug unless it has been fully tested to ensure that it is safe now and will not have any long term negative side affects.

Do not take vitamins or bother eating organic or unprocessed foods. Again all food approved by the FDA must be safe for you and vitamins can be more dangerous than FDA approved medications and besides, your free health care panel may not allow the consumption of non FDA approved supplements.

Do not worry, it causes too much stress. Let your mind and bodies go free. Sit back enjoy an hour or ten of TV. You can escape into the lives of others real or imagined without the stress of utilizing your own brain cells. Just sit down and shut up. All is well.

IN THE NEWS
PENTAGON SHOOTER

Pentagon shooter was a top SJSU engineering student but also 'troubled' with drug problem
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14519258?source=most_viewed

Pentagon gunman was 9/11 conspiracy theorist acting alone, say officials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/05/us-national-security-usa

Pentagon Shooting Coincides with Supreme Court Second Amendment Case
http://www.infowars.com/pentagon-shooting-coincides-with-supreme-court-second-amendment-case/

POLICE STATE NEWS

Homeland Security begins to install full-body scanners
http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/05/news/companies/body_scanners_airports/

Two Women Refuse Full-Body Scans, Coming Soon To An Airport Near You
http://bit.ly/9RO5qF

Missouri legislators look at an outright ban of red light cameras
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100304/NEWS01/3040404/1007

Class-action lawsuit filed over red-light cameras
http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12082126

Missouri Supreme Court Rules on Red Light Cameras
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/Missouri-Supreme-Court-Rules-on-Red-Light-Cameras-9242.php

Red light camera ban gets a yellow light
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=159208

New Jersey Family Asked to Cover Up Nude Snow Woman
http://bit.ly/d9Nslb

OBAMA NATION

Is Obama buying votes?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=923972

OBAMA CARE

Hobby Lobby - a heart for health
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=923916

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Plan for a Freedom President *** Put the..
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978085396

Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Terrorizing Decent American Patriots?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20662

CNN Omits 'Coffee Party' Founder's Past as Obama Volunteer
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/03/03/cnn-omits-coffee-party-founders-past-obama-volunteer

MILITARY NEWS

Levin urges Pentagon to rethink plans for $1 billion in new Blackwater contracts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030405044.html

Don't ask, don't bleed
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=925102

Soldiers left out of policy change debate
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=923992

RECALL NEWS

FDA recalls some foods with flavor enhancer HVP
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/04/flavor.enhancer.recall/index.html?hpt=T2

Unintended Acceleration Not Limited To Toyotas
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124276771

Obama once again ignores the will of the people and demands that congress runs an up or down vote on the health care control bill.

I should be amazed at being ignored by those who were elected to represent me, but I like most Americans have become numb to it. Not numb as ignoring it though.

Americans will affect some change come November, but in the mean time the Democrats are forgetting that many of their own constituents do not agree with the health care scheme they are plotting. Yet they want to blame the Republicans for trying to stall it.

How about they quit trying to point fingers and accept the fact that a majority of Americans despite their political views do not want this health care control bill no matter what they call it?

if they continue to ignore us, they will find find themselves looking at a massive influx of third party candidates come November.

Stand up, Speak up, Live Free!

OBAMA CARE

Obama takes charge, demands vote on health care
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100303/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

ObamaCare: What happens now?
www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/aub/opinion/86245172.html

Obamacare: Still a Threat to Your Life
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/03/obamacare-still-a-threat-to-yo

ECONOMIC NEWS

California Delays Payments, Ponders IOUs Again, Demands 80% of Income Tax Paid Before It's Even Earned
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/02/california-delays-payments-ponders-ious.html

ADP: January Job Losses Were Actually TRIPLE What We Thought,
And No, We Won't Blame The Snowicane
www.businessinsider.com/adp-the-economy-2010-3

REAL ID & PRIVACY NEWS

Idaho House Passes Revamped Voter ID Bill
www.newwest.net/city/article/idaho_house_passes_revamped_voter_id_bill/C108/L108/

Personal data susceptible to hackers
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/04/Personal-data-susceptible-to-hackers/UPI-63481262581405/

Police: Hackers infected 13 million PCs
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/03/03/Police-Hackers-infected-13-million-PCs/UPI-54821267630722/

POLICE STATE NEWS

2 women banned from flight for refusing scan
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35689565/ns/travel-news/

U.S. Senate vote in favor to extend Patriot Act spy provisions
www.digitaljournal.com/article/288108

Fusion Centers: A locally owned and operated Intelligence Machine
www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n4/intelligence-fusion-centers.html

Facebook Glitch Sends Wrong Messages, Raises Privacy Questions
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/26/facebook-glitch-sends-wrong-messages-raises-privacy-questions/

Facebook Federal Human Data Mining Program
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnTWZ1-UWY

Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, 24 Feb 2010
http://spktruth2power.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/microsoft-spy/


POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Throw The Bums Out? - Not In Texas
www.rense.com/general90/bums.htm

Globalist Perry Wins Texas Primary
www.prisonplanet.com/globalist-perry-wins-texas-primary.html

Winners and Losers in the Texas primary
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/governors/winners-and-losers-in-the-texa.html?wprss=thefix

Charles Rangel temporarily steps down as Ways and Means chairman
/www.latimes.com/news/la-na-rangel4-2010mar04,0,5003518.story

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's defense of Rep. Charles Rangel is tepid at best
www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/01/2010-03-01_pelosis_defense_of_rangel_is_tepid_at_best.html

Senate Approves Jobless Aid, Road Funding
www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/02/senate-breaks-impasse-extending-jobless-benefits/

ACORN workers cleared in NYC pimp video
www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=919646

CHILE EARTHQUAKE

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

HOMESCHOOLING NEWS

Homeschooling: German Family Gets Political Asylum in U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100302/us_time/09171196809900

Yes, Obamma said "You Have No Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy". Does he want all of our movements tracked? Does he want everything we do tracked? Open medical, cell phones, health, financial and education records. Everywhere we go and everything we buy should be an open book?

I find it a bit ironic that obama has not releases his school records or birth records, yet he expects all Americans to do so. This type of attitude and mindset is that of a dictator and not a leader. He needs to lead by example if he wants the people to follow.

Meanwhile all children born in the Untied States are forced to submit DNA for testing. This DNA is given to other agencies, including the federal government without parental consent to be stored in a permanent national database.

Now, rember people, Obama is a Constitutional Scholar. He knows the Constitution and how to manipulate it, but we have some clearly defined rights under that document.

U.S. Constitution: Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Under this document, we have the right to private phone calls, we have the right to keep our documents of any kind under our own control, but it seems more and more politicians are using it as a document to loaaht rather than to protect and defend.

2010 will be the year to elect those who will honor this document and not try to twist it for their own agendas or the agendas of their handlers. The real change is coming and don't be surprised to see a huge shift in numbers in both the house and senate this year along with state parties as more and more Americans not only show their disdain for the current political agenda but are getting involved at every level of government to help bring this nation back to the glories of limited government as it was intended and away from the intrusive monster it has become.

GET INVOLVED RUN FOR OFFICE! Get behind someone who will reverse much of the legislation passed that is unconstitutional and allow us all to be able to Live Free.

IN THE NEWS

CENSUS 2010

Census Bureau under fire for multi-million dollar ads
http://bit.ly/bNA9df

REAL ID & PRIVACY NEWS

E-Verify Misses Half of Illegal Workers, Report Finds
http://bit.ly/aOmfM0

Contractors outnumber full-time workers at DHS; lawmakers 'astounded'
www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/24/dhs.contractor/

Your Papers, Please: What the Real ID Act Means for New York
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9uw_PRYc7Y&feature=player_embedded

RFID chips reports hand washing habits to the boss
http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/rfid-chips-reports-hand-washing-habits-to-the-boss/

OBAMA NATION

Barack Obama: You Have No Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy
www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/12/barack-obama-you-have-no-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy/

White House to push ACORN pet project
www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126510

Obama plan favors unionism 3/1/10
www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=915812

Doctors tell Barack to quit smoking
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/01/barack-obama-told-to-quit-smoking/print

White House social secretary Rogers resigning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_white_house_desiree_rogers

OBAMACARE

White House: Simple up-or-down vote on health care
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100228/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

Video - Mysterious Bush-Bush-Obama Meeting at Oval Office
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12GDCpjhOPM

Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us
www.infowars.com/sibel-edmonds-the-traitors-among-us/

Bottom line on health care summit: Dems push ahead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100226/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

Sen. Charles Rangel makes remarks on benefits of White House health summit
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022504569.html

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Senate Votes to Create U.S. Tourism Agency
http://adage.com/article?article_id=142320

Blanche Lincoln Faces Protesters on Rowdy Filing Day
www.kfsm.com/news/kfsm-news-ark-blanche-filing-day,0,6646987.story

Dodd Consumer Proposal Would Create Bureau of Financial Protection
http://bit.ly/9Ep2UN

Ex-Congressman opens consignment shop
http://bit.ly/bW5MIC

States may ban credit checks on job applicants
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100301/ap_on_bi_ge/us_banning_credit_checks

Senate impasse puts federal employees out of work
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100301/ap_on_bi_ge/us_transportation_furloughs

The Education of John Jay
www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_urb-john-jay.html

Rangel Defies Bipartisan Calls to Resign Powerful Chairmanship
http://bit.ly/cPudBu

Supreme Court to Weigh Key Patriot Act Provision; Critics Argue
'Material Support Law' Violates First Amendment Rights to Free Speech
http://bit.ly/9KI2aH

Congress approves Patriot Act extension absent new privacy measures
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2010/02/congress-approves-patriot-act-extension.php

The Next Jobs Bill - Politics - The Atlantic Includes Patriot Act Extension
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/02/the-next-jobs-bill/36579/

Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists
http://bit.ly/d2Cyen

2ND AMMENDMENT

Supreme Court to hear gun-rights case that reaches beyond 2nd Amendment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1165

POLICE STATE NEWS

Know Your Rights: What to Do If You're Stopped by the Police
http://bit.ly/3RQsod

MORAL DECLINE

Tulsa Restaurant Patrons Step Over Shooting Victim To Reach Pick-up Window
www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12058604

College students urged: Trade Bible for Playboy 2/27/10
www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126441

The short life and long tortured death of Laura Cummings
www.buffalonews.com/2010/02/26/970986/mother-son-indicted-in-hate-crime.html

Police escort student out of class after refusal to recite Pledge of Allegiance
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/student-escorted-class-police-refusing-recite-pledge-allegiance/

Watford man's campaign to ban airport body scanners
http://bit.ly/biNnLO

There's an app for that, too — Tampa cops find stolen iPhones with GPS
www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/tampa-police-track-down-iphone-thief-with-gps/1075489

Supreme Court sets aside strict ruling on Miranda 'right to remain silent'
www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-court-miranda26-2010feb25%2C0%2C4258665.story

Police covered for fellow officers who killed two people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
http://bit.ly/bjrtai

When You Should, Shouldn't Give Out Your Social Security Number
http://bit.ly/bx8M1c

What Microsoft knows and keeps about you
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail??blogid=150&entry_id=57956

CORPORATE POLICIES

Apple admits using child labour
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7330986/Apple-admits-using-child-labour.html

ECONOMIC NEWS

We need green money, not green jobs 3/1/10
www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=915692

Why the Fed won't stop printing money
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/currency/why-the-fed-wont-stop-printing-money.aspx

Short Selling Restrictions "A Great Indicator of Imminent Market Crashes"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/02/short-selling-restrictions-great.html

AIG posts $8.9 billion loss on loan repay, reserves
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AIG-posts-89-billion-loss-on-rb-4019897031.html?x=0

The Great Recession of 2011-2012
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/23/the-great-recession-of-2011-20

Pound Could Collapse Within Weeks, Predicts Billionaire Financier Jim Rogers
http://media.einnews.com/article.php?pid=73800

Blockbuster Collapses: Shutting Down 500 Stores In Desperate Bid To Save $200 Million
www.businessinsider.com/blockbuster-closes-500-stores-to-save-200-million-2010-2

Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
www.rense.com/general89/slav.htm

Housing market shows weakness for 2nd month
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Housing-market-shows-weakness-apf-1993954776.html?x=0

CHINESE TAINTED PRODUCTS

Chinese fluoride is a homeland security matter 2/27/10
http://times-news.com/letters2/x1004927893/Chinese-fluoride-is-a-homeland-security-matter

HEALTH NEWS

Fruit juice cancer warning as scientists find harmful chemical in 16 drinks
http://bit.ly/9BhXxV

CHRISTIANITY IN THE NEWS

Dissident Lutherans forming new denomination 3/1/10
www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=918274

GLOBAL WARMING IDIOCRACY

Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents' 'global warming suicide pact'
http://bit.ly/d4xRLm

PUBLIC EDUCATION

U.S. Secretary of Education Lauds Decision to Fire Entire School Staff
http://bit.ly/bT1RrW

PANDEMIC 2010

Children and obese hard hit by swine flu: experts
www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2419902520100224

CAP & TRADE

Arizona backs out of western cap-and-trade program
http://bit.ly/9gPDmQ

Clean energy doesnt need Cap-and-Trade Tax
http://othellooutlook.com/?p=8784

John Deere Executives Challenged Directly Over Company Support for Cap-and-Trade
www.nationalcenter.org/PR-John_Deere_022510.html