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Why You Should Never Talk to the Police
This
is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James
Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a
criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or
any other government agent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or
innocent, if you have an alibi or not -- it isn't possible for anything
you say to help you, and it's very possible that innocuous things you
say will hurt you.
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Schneiner on SecurityObama, The Prince of Bait and Switch
On 12 July, The Times (UK) devoted two pages to Afghanistan. It was mostly a complaint about the heat. The reporter, Magnus Linklater, described in detail his discomfort and how he had needed to be sprayed with iced water. He also described the “high drama” and “meticulously practised routine” of evacuating another overheated journalist. For her US Marine rescuers, wrote Linklater, “saving a life took precedence over [their] security”.
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Dissident VoiceReentry: Reversing mass imprisonment
The British sociologist T.H. Marshall described citizenship as the “basic human equality associated with full membership in a community.” By this measure, thirty years of prison growth concentrated among the poorest in society has diminished American citizenship. But as the prison boom attains new heights, the conversation about criminal punishment may finally be shifting.
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Boston ReviewWhat Will It Take to Defeat the War?
On June 28-29, an “Open National Antiwar Conference” was held in Cleveland, called by a newly minted National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation. Over objections from the conference organizers, centrally Socialist Action, the assembly voted to change the name to include reference to the war on Afghanistan, and to emphasize the connection with U.S. backing for the Zionist occupation of Palestine. (The sponsors of the confab were so right-wing that they feared losing “unity” with Democratic Party supporters of Israel and the Afghanistan war!) What did not change at all was the popular-front character of the new outfit, tying it to the bourgeois parties despite the fig leaf of electoral “independence.” Making this utterly clear, it was decided not to call a national antiwar mobilization prior to the November elections explicitly in order to court those forces who wish to aid the Democrats (and therefore want to avoid making problems for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama). Here is the leaflet issued by the Internationalist Group at the conference.
What Will It Take to Defeat the War?
Not Another Popular-Front “Peace
Movement,”
Mobilize the Working Class to Fight for
Power!
Break with All the Capitalist Parties – For a Revolutionary
Workers Party!
For Workers Strikes Against the War
Defeat U.S. Imperialism – Defend the Iraqi and Afghan Peoples
The following leaflet was issued by the
Internationalist Group
at the antiwar conference called by the National Assembly to End the
A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet
Sa'di of Shiraz, a 13th-century Iranian poet, was a man for all seasons. Distinct among his peers for a rare poetic talent and a sharp humor, he was a traveler, teacher and master ghazal writer all in one. But, above all, he loved to tease and to question. In a most serious love poem, he warned the beloved: "I was ruined by your love. I will not go to others to get well." And lest the beloved get all the credit for uniqueness, he added: "Broken gold vessels cannot be repaired with glue."
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Post DispatchINNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS !
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****
The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Compare Text in “Hitler’s Laws” with Pending U.S. Senate Bill S.1959
"The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act." Below are “Adolf Hitler’s fascist laws:
by, Dan Scott
It is absolutely striking how language in pending S.1959, "The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" appears to mirror some of Hitler’s Discriminatory Laws the Fuhrer signed in 1933.
Below this article are “Adolf Hitler’s fascist laws: To compare any similarity of language found in “Hitler’s Laws” with U.S. Senate bill S.1959, you may access:
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.1959:
U.S. Senate Spy Bill—Locked and Loaded to Shoot Down 1st and 4th Amendments
More frequently U.S. Senators can be seen on Television reading sections of HR 6304 that they claim will protect lawful persons in the U.S. from being targeted by government wiretaps. Not mentioned by the Senators, is that THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 includes a low level of “probable cause” that will permit Government to wiretap U.S. phone calls, faxes and emails.
The U.S. House of Representatives on June 20th, 2008 sent to the U.S. Senate, THE FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008, HR 6304.
H.R. 6304 EH may be found at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
As most of us know, several Telecoms have gotten caught helping U.S. Spy Agencies—illegally wiretap millions of U.S. and International phone calls, faxes and emails.
Will U.S. Government’s illegal Spy-Wiretaps be made available to U.S. and International Criminal & Civil Courts after HR 6304 is Passed?
Who Would Be So Low as to Attack a Man's Wife?
(Call it a character portrait.)
As the presidential race deteriorates into a mudslide, there is an early sense of desperation among conservatives. With so many disaffected factions (Seniors here, Evangelicals there, Fiscals scattered everywhere), the GOP doesn’t exactly have a consensus candidate. In the meantime, the battling Democrats have congealed much faster and with less rancor than anyone anticipated.
Defending 9/11 Truth Leaders-- Dr. Fetzer and Dr. Barrett --
Captain Eric H. May, the Internet inteligence writer, supports Dr. Jim Fetzer and Dr. Kevin Barrett, two of the 9/11 Truth Movement's most important leaders.
Defending 9/11 Truth Leaders
-- Dr. Fetzer and Dr. Barrett --
By Captain Eric H. May,
Military-Political Editor
The Lone Star Iconoclast
