Archive for August, 2011
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
QUARTZSITE, AZ—Saturday’s Quartzsite Liberty Festival made its mark on Quartzsite Saturday as planned, despite temperatures of 114 to 117 degrees.
The rally was arranged to protest the actions of the town’s council and police chief, most conspicuously the treatment of Quartzsite police officers who were suspended or fired in what the protestors say was retaliation for bringing formal allegations against Chief Jeff Gilbert.
Marchers chanted “Quartzsite Ten, oath-keeping men” as they walked over 2.5 miles from an RV park south of I-10, over the freeway bridge and along the streets of Quartzsite to Town Hall.
Several politically active groups were in attendance, including Oath Keepers, the Tea Party Patriots, the Sons of Liberty Riders and campaigners for Ron Paul for President 2012.
Many attendees carried flags, banners and signs. Some were armed with pistols or rifles, and cameras of all sorts. Law enforcement and other authorities were largely absent from the demonstration.
Read more at Parker Live
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher widely considered the father of
liberalism. He wrote widely on Democracy and had a profound influence on our founding fathers. Especially Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Liberalism, today, does not mean what it did, however.
“Classical liberalism is a philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets.”—WikiPedia
Locke Democracy is not like Marxist Communist “Democracy” that the Democratic party and Unions practice today. Under the liberty of individuals is, also, the right to fully own your property that you purchase with no government “rent” or regulation.
Marx wanted government to own everything, enslave the people and pay for his home and food without having to work. Locke, unlike the lazy Marx, actually worked for a living.
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
On this day in 1779, at what is modern-day Elmira, New York, near the state’s southwestern border with Pennsylvania, Continental forces led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton defeat a combined force of Loyalists and Indians commanded by Captain Walter Butler and Chief Joseph Brant.
The Continental commander in chief, General George Washington, gave Sullivan orders to attack the Iroquois of the Finger Lakes region, who were allied with the British, in what is known as the “Sullivan Expedition.” Washington had first requested General Horatio Gates to challenge the Iroquois, but Gates refused. Washington then turned to Sullivan, who accepted the challenge. Sullivan traveled up the Susquehanna River from Easton, Pennsylvania, to the Chemung (or “big horn”) Basin, named for a mammoth tusk found in the Chemung River by Native Americans. The river provided both a means of transport and sustenance for the Iroquois of the surrounding region.
The Continentals discovered a breastwork of 80 rods erected by the combined Iroquois-Loyalist force that hoped to ambush the Patriots as they marched north towards Lake Erie and the British forts at Oswego and Niagara. The Patriots then managed to use their artillery to drive off the Indians. Sullivan subsequently embarked on a scorched-earth campaign against the Iroquois in retaliation for their continued raids against frontier settlements. At least 40 of the tribe’s villages were destroyed, along with valuable supplies. As a result, the winter of 1779 was particularly brutal for the Iroquois. Nonetheless, they managed to increase their pressure on frontier settlements in 1780.
Despite the best efforts of the Iroquois, the Chemung Valley fell into the hands of American settlers following the war. As a result, Iroquois attached to Chief Joseph Brandt followed him in a resettlement to Canada.
The Battle of Chemung is re-enacted annually at Newtown Battlefield State Park in Elmira, New York.
History Channel
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
When the mainstream media is reporting stories like this, you know it is so serious that it cannot be ignored, even if they wanted to.
Today Bloomberg has revealed that the “Wall Street Aristocracy” received a staggering $1.2 trillion in loans. Yes, you read that right: $1.2 trillion.
The private Federal Reserve calls these hand-outs to their corporate cronies “emergency loans” but in reality they are nothing more than friends giving friends unfathomable amounts of money in order to “keep the economy from plunging into depression”.
Of course Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Bloomberg opt to characterize the giveaway of public funds as legitimate “unprecedented efforts” to help our withering economy, when this is far from the case as we have seen from the entire “stimulus” package that has just driven American deeper into the black hole of debt.
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Eric Holder
Investigations into a gunrunning sting gone horribly wrong are creeping closer to the top of the U.S. Justice Department and its head,
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
A congressional report released last month revealed that top DOJ officials knew about the sting, known as Operation Fast and Furious, in which U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents allowed more than 2,000 firearms to “walk” across the U.S. border to Mexico and into into the hands of Mexico’s brutal drug cartels.
As many as 1,700 of those weapons have since been lost, and more than 100 have been found at bloody crime scenes on both sides of the border, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona last December. In a letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times yesterday, Justice Department officials acknowledged that Fast and Furious weapons have been linked to at least 11 other crimes in the U.S.
Read more at the Business Insider.
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Last week I commented on the Republican Presidential candidates’ knowledge of the Constitution. In that message I made the statement that the Constitution prevents an Obamacare-style individual mandate regardless of whether it’s implemented by the Federal government or a State government. Many of you responded with the same question: “What part of the U.S. Constitution prevents a State government from imposing an individual mandate?” This message is my response to that question:
The U.S. Constitution imposes upon the Federal government a duty to protect certain rights of individual citizens against intrusion by State government. This duty arises from at least two places in the Constitution: Article IV section 2, and the 14th Amendment.
Article IV section 2 states: “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.”
The 14th Amendment section 1 states: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
These sections unquestionably do impose upon the Federal government a duty to protect individual citizens from State violations of certain rights. But, the question is: what rights are protected from State intrusion? That question has been debated since the Constitution was ratified. We fought a war over it, and the question is still being hotly debated. When it’s answered poorly States lose sovereignty, millions of babies are murdered, private property is stolen by States, and many other rights are violated. When it’s answered properly States are prevented from denying free speech, prevented from imprisoning individuals without a jury trial, prevented from disarming their citizens, and prevented from stealing private property.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The requirement would have forced farmers to obtain commercial driver’s licenses for equipment
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
By JOEL TURNER – Staff Writer
Fifth District Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Chatham) said that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has dropped a proposal to require farmers to obtain commercial driver’s licenses to use and transport farm vehicles and equipment.
Due to pressure from Congress and the agricultural community, Hurt said, the DOT announced that it would not pursue any new rules or regulations governing the transport of agricultural products.
“Thankfully, this nonsensical concept has been abandoned,” the congressman said.
The regulatory burden that the federal government places on America’s farmers is already staggering, he said.
“Unnecessary rules restricting the use of farm vehicles or imposing excessive regulatory requirements would only make these burdens more onerous and impede farmers’ ability to bring their crops to market at a time when they can least afford it,” Hurt said.
Read more at the Franklin News Post
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
©2011 by Glen C. Davis
When first I began this intellectual exercise, I did not anticipate being deluged by information concerning the topic. Particularly recent SCOTUS decisions. On June 16th, the SCOTUS returned their surprising decision in the case of Carol Anne Bond v. United States (564 U.S.______(2011)). This case seems to be a significant departure in the thought of the Supreme Court of the United States, as I read it. We will explore that later in this article.
The main purpose for the addition of these few introductory lines is simply to let you know that I will endeavor to be as accurate and coherent as possible for the purposes of this article despite this deluge. Yet mistakes may creep in. In addition, I continue to caution that I am not a lawyer, but a scholar seeking some truth to this particular Constitutional division of power.
In this article I reference the USC or United States Code. The USC is the actual book of federal laws as passed by Congress. These are not to be confused with the Federal Register which is a list of “regulations” or “laws” set forth by people whom you did not vote for. These are usually based on the desires of corporate entities. Sounds somewhat “undemocratic” for such a “democratic” society.
Let us begin…
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
O Unions! Where art thou?
NY Post
President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built — in Canada, The Post has learned.
The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.
It’s a VIP H3-45 model, the company’s top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands.
“That’s the more luxurious model,” Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post.
Read more and see photos at the NY Post.
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
LAMBERTVILLE, MI (WTOL) – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department is working to solve a case of vandalism that turned life-threatening.
John King was shot in the arm last week when he surprised a man trying to slash the tires on the truck at his Lambertville home.The word “scab” was also scrawled on the side.
King says he became suspicious when he saw an outside security light outside go on.
When he stepped out of his front door, the man fired one shot and ran off.
King is the owner of the largest non-union electrical contracting company in the area.
Anyone with information should call the Monroe County Sheriff’s office at 734-240-7530.
See Video at WTOL.
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Veterans In Defense Of Liberty denounces the Veterans Administrations encouragement and support of Huston National Cemetery, Director Arleen Ocasio as morally corrupt.
Veterans In Defense Of Liberty explicitly calls for the resignation of Huston National Cemetery Director, Arleen Ocasio as well as those above her, within the Department of Veterans Affairs, that support and encourage this desecration of our brothers and sisters in Arms laid to rest there. The actions of the VA and Ocasio are nothing short of the defilement of The Constitution that all veterans pledged their lives to protect and defend.
A new voice in the American conversation continues to gain strength as Veterans in Defense of liberty” concurs with Jeff Mateer, Esq., general counsel of Liberty Institute “The hostile and discriminatory actions by the Veterans Affairs officials in Houston are outrageous, unconstitutional and must stop.” Veterans in Defense of Liberty will file an amicus, friend-of-the-court, brief in support of American Legion Post 586, VFW District 4 and the National Memorial Ladies. The grounds of Houston National Cemetery belong to “We the People.” Our brothers and sisters in Arms interned herein represent (as do all veterans) a very special part of “We the People.” They and their families unalienable rights shall not be abridged by this creeping atheism and a Socialistic administration that believes that first amendment rights applies to all but Christian beliefs. Not on our watch!
Veterans in Defense of Liberty Opinion Statement:
When Jefferson penned the often abused line regarding the need for “a wall of separation between church and State,” it was in response to the fears of religious minorities that government might one day establish a particular religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof. In short, such a wall was intended to protect the church from the State, not the other way around. When the free expression of one’s core essence becomes the target of governmental control, there is no liberty for the citizens of such a land, for the essence of a person is all that he has, all that he controls, all for which he must ultimately answer before his God. The idea that the Director of the Houston VA National Cemetery, or any governmental official or body, would attempt to halt the free expression of essential liberty is fundamentally abhorrent to a free people, and must not be tolerated by those who have taken the oath to protect and defend the Constitution. That such an atrocity is being undertaken upon hallowed ground reserved for the remembrance of our honored brethren in arms, is but insult added to the central injury, yet it shows the lack of recognition of our God-given rights and must serve as the rallying cry to all who would still answer the call of a nation in need of defense.
Veterans in defense of liberty will not abide this creeping Socialism aimed at the destruction of our religious freedom, our constitution and our republic. Next we will see the VA remove all American flags from Veterans cemeteries.
The VA is denying any Christian discrimination and claims to be responding to complaints by members of the family of deceased service members.
Representative Ted Poe, of Texas, and other lawmakers are asking for an investigation by the VA to determine if the allegations are true.
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Ron Paul Say Americans “Deserve Some Answers”
Jeff Flake is also a co-sponsor–obviously trying to gain TEA party votes after voting for homosexuals in the military. David Schweikert is also a co-sponsor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-01) announced that he is co-sponsoring H.R. 459, the “Audit the Fed” bill primarily sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul. The bill, if enacted into law, would require a thorough audit of Federal Reserve Board operations and make public information that is currently not released.
Congressman Gosar said, “the Federal Reserve Board plays a key role in our current monetary policy. Its operations and decision making should be transparent to the American people, whose lives are impacted by the Fed. I am proud to stand by Ron Paul in his efforts to shed light on this important institution. We cannot make improvements to the system if we do not have all available information about that system.”
Congressman Ron Paul stated, “The Federal Reserve has overseen a 98% drop in the value of the dollar since its inception in 1913. The American people deserve some answers regarding their currency and the activities of the Fed. I am glad that my colleague, Congressman Gosar is standing up for transparency and accountability of the Fed and demanding a full audit.”
The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 and operates as the central banking system of the United States. It assists with the nation’s monetary policy, supervises and regulates banking institutions, and provides financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions. Currently, the public does not have the right to inspect or review most Fed activities.
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
By Elisha Dorfsmith
CD-1 candidate Wenona Benally Baldenegro has recently focused a lot of time and energy accusing Congressman Paul Gosar of being an extreme tea party Republican. The Huffington Post even covered her campaign with an article titled Arizona’s New Democrats: Wenona’s Bid Inspires Bipartisan Campaign Against Radical Tea Party Rep. Gosar.
Interesting campaign strategy but there’s a huge problem with the premise. Congressman Gosar is anything but a tea party Republican. Yes, he was endorsed by Sarah Palin and yes, he was elected largely due to tea party support but that is where his tea party credibility ends.
Having been very involved with the tea party during the 2010 election, I know firsthand that many in the tea party gave Gosar their complete support based solely on his opposition to the national healthcare bill (and the fact that he waved a pocket Constitution around and promised to consult it before every vote). Few bothered to check any further. If they would have, they would have realized that Gosar is your average status quo Republican who will vote party over principle every single chance he gets. It also would have been clear that Gosar has zero respect for the Constitution, individual rights and personal freedom (perfect example: Gosar was part of a movement a decade ago that tried to force fluoride on the residents of Flagstaff ).
Gosar’s recent vote to raise the debt ceiling along with his votes to extend the “Patriot Act” fly in the face of his supposed tea party principles. These votes (and others) have led to tea party members abandoning the Gosar ship in droves.
Read more at the Flagstaff Liberty Blog
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