By Coalition, on 25-08-2008 22:31

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In recent years an alarming trend has taken place in America and is continuing to destroy the social fabric of our Nation. Our lawmakers have begun making unconstitutional laws targeting hundreds of thousands of people they have deemed unworthy through viscious propaganda. The lines between branches of government have become more blurred as Executive, Legislative, and Judicial actions attempt to undermine the separation of powers principle. The Government and media has begun a campaign to call for the persecution and discrimination of various types of people previously convicted of crimes. Anyone who's ever dealt with our justice system knows that the truth is unimportant, and that the political agenda supercedes civil and human rights. Our Nation is being ripped apart socially, much like the Nazis did in Germany decades ago. Our government is employing the very same tactics.

Recently, the Department of Justice, using a tactic of fear, declared an emergency and bypassed the Authority of our Constitution in declaring a legislative act retro-active, impacting hundreds of thousands of Americans, both individuals and families. Congress appears to be suspending the rules for the passage of unconstitutional draconian laws that will eventually extinguish the lives of people the government doesn't approve of.

Both State and Federal Legislatures have enacted laws they claim are Regulatory, but the only result is a loss of liberty, which is a punitive consequence forbidden by our Constitution. These laws violate double jeopardy provisions and the courts have upheld these laws as regulatory, completely ignoring their burdens and punitive consequences in the alleged interest of public safety. These Regulatory acts are entirely based on grossly inaccurate and unsupportable claims made by politicians and small special interest groups to serve unamerican interests. Any interest in undermining the plain and simple meanings of the words in our constitution by politicians, is treason.

Last update: 22-10-2008 03:53

We Are the Heirs of the First Revolution

We Are the Heirs of the First Revolution

By John W. Whitehead
11/3/2008

"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."--Thomas Paine

The year was 1961. I was fourteen years old, the only child of blue-collar workers living in Peoria, Illinois. Lacking any great understanding of the winds of change that were blowing through our nation and the world, I sat transfixed in front of our small black-and-white television as John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address as the nation's 35th president. The sound might have crackled and the picture wavered, but Kennedy's message came through loud and clear. It was a message of hope, challenge and faith in an America that could be a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.

Kennedy called us the "heirs of that first revolution" and spoke of rights that come not from the state but from God. "Let the word go forth," he said, "that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world."

What Seven Years Have Taught Us

The insightful Suzanne Spaulding has a great Op-Ed in the Guardian on Thursday. Spaulding is the former Assistant General Counsel at the CIA and has spent the last 20 years handling national security issues for Congress and the Executive Branch. She argues that in order to effectively fight terrorism, the U.S. will have to abandon the politics of fear that characterized a September 12, 2001 mentality.

Last update: 21-09-2008 18:34

Opinions on Law!

By Walter Howard, on 30-08-2008 22:33

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Published in : News, Current News

"Law in the sense of enforced rules of conduct is undoubtedly coeval with society; only the observance of common rules makes the peaceful existence of individuals in society possible. ... Such rules might in a sense not be known and still have to be discovered, because from 'knowing how' to act, or from being able to recognize that the acts of another did or did not conform to accepted practices, it is still a long way to being able to state such rules in words. But while it might be generally recognized that the discovery and statement of what the accepted rules were (or the articulation of rules that would be approved when acted upon) was a task requiring special wisdom, nobody yet conceived of law as something which men could make at will. It is no accident that we still use the same word 'law' for the invariable rules which govern nature and for the rules which govern men's conduct. They were both conceived at first as something existing independently of human will. ... they were regarded as eternal truths that man could try to discover but which he could not alter. To modern man, on the other hand, the belief that all law governing human action is the product of legislation appears so obvious that the contention that law is older than law-making has almost the character of a paradox. Yet there can be no doubt that law existed for ages before it occurred to man that he could make or alter it. ... A 'legislator' might endeavor to purge the law of supposed corruptions, or to restore it to its pristine purity, but it was not thought that he could make new law. The historians of law are agreed that in this respect all the famous early 'law-givers', from Ur-Nammu and Hammurabi to Solon, Lykurgus and the authors of the Roman Twelve Tables, did not intend to create new law but merely to state what law was and had always been."

— F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty

Last update: 30-08-2008 22:34