February 06, 2006

The People are the Problem
By Lady Liberty

There are few activists out there - myself included - that don't blame politicians in large part for most of the trouble we're in. It's politicians who raise taxes and who make laws infringing on liberty. It's politicians who spend other people's money and who exempt themselves from many of those liberty-infringing laws. Sometimes we lament that a government "by the people" and "of the people" isn't more so. After all, the the people in general are likely not so power hungry or poll driven as are politicians in general.

That supposition isn't wrong. The problem, though, is that it's never-the-less much mistaken. And that mistake is only making matters worse even as some work so tirelessly to make matters better. Where the focus is concerned, our aim is true. But even when we hit the target, we're missing it entirely. At the risk of still more mixed metaphors, I'll explain in connection with a friendly get-together I enjoyed one day after work last week. (Read the rest here)

Does the Constitution Grant the Federal Government the Power to Legislate over Land within the Several States?
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

If the federal government had been granted general legislative authority, as many believe, then that government would have exclusive jurisdiction over all persons and things throughout the United States. That would include all land within the several States. The American people might be surprised to learn that the Constitution bars the federal government from exercising legislative jurisdiction over any land, within the several States, unless it first obtains permission from the legislature of that State. This little known fact is simply another component of the federal system of government established by the Constitution.

In order to understand the federal government's limited power concerning land within the several States, it is first necessary to review the proceedings in the Federal [Constitutional] Convention of 1787. On September 5, it was proposed that Congress should have the power: (Read the rest here)

"The FISA Farce"
by James Bovard

President Bush proudly announced in December that he is violating federal law. Bush declared that, in 2002, he had ordered the National Security Agency to begin conducting warrantless wiretaps and email intercepts on Americans. Bush asserted that the wiretaps would continue, regardless of the law.

Bush claims that he must ignore the law because the secret federal court created to authorize such wiretaps moves too slowly to protect U.S. national security. Amazingly, Bush's claim has been treated with respect, if not deference, by much of the nation's media. Much of the media has groveled to Bush's claim the same way that the special court grovels to federal agencies. (Read the rest here)

Public Propaganda Pundits - Only approved talk will air!
By SARTRE

Lord Haw-Haw is alive and well. He takes to the broadcast microphone everyday. You know his name. Actually there are many talk show Nazis that preach their doctrine of the ‘State Makes Right’. But before you think that nothing has changed from when - Talk Radio has Mellowed – was written, you probably have not been listening to the AM air waves lately. Talk Radio has become worse. The Goebbels’ school of broadcast propaganda has graduated to a new level of insufferable anti-intellectualism. The plastic flag has replaced reason and the evil Islamic fascists have become worse then the blood sucking Jew. America resembles the bastion of a goosestep global blitzkrieg ready to pounce on any foe that opposes the Reich of the Fuhrer. (Read the rest here)

J.A.I.L. News Journal
J.A.I.L. Causing National Systemic Upheaval

Few could have fathomed the enormous upheaval placing J.A.I.L. on the ballot could have caused. It is shaking and awaking the entire nation beyond comprehension. Industries and businesses spend untold millions of dollars for a chance to gain the eyes of the beholder if but for a few seconds of prime-time TV. Advertisement is very expensive, and often absorbs up to 25% or more of every company's budget in order to induce you to buy their services or trinkets.

Along comes a straight-forward Initiative called J.A.I.L. that simply "No immunity shall extend to any judge of this State for any deliberate violation of law, fraud or conspiracy, intentional violation of due process of law, deliberate disregard of material facts, judicial acts without jurisdiction, blocking of a lawful conclusion of a case, or any deliberate violation of the Constitutions of South Dakota or the United States, notwithstanding Common Law, or any other contrary statute," and the earth quivers below the feet of every bureaucrat. (Read the rest here)

Debt Limit - We're Not There Yet
By Ed Henry

It’s nice to see so many people interested in the national debt, but it also seems that some of them are taking baby steps into an arena where it’s easy to get lost or misdirected.

In the last week, several good hearts have broadcast the news that the Bush administration has broken through the statutory debt limit of $8.184 trillion, even that it’s now operating in “technical default,” and that the nation is literally in a world of trouble because of this. It just isn’t true. Not yet, anyway.

Not Subject to the Debt Limit (Read the rest here)

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