• could face up to 5 years in prison for reading his wife’s email.
• The officers thought that her little dog had left some poop that she didn’t clean up.
• she was thrown to the floor, put in handcuffs and arrested.
• fined $500 for swearing on a public bus.
• was actually arrested by police for opening up a Christmas present early against his family’s wishes.
• Back in 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was actually arrested by police for farting in class.
• #10 A few years ago a 10-year-old girl was arrested and charged with a felony for bringing a small steak knife to school.  It turns out that all she wanted to do was to cut up her lunch so that she could eat it.
• #11 On June 18th, two Christians decided that they would peacefully pass out copies of the gospel of John on a public sidewalk outside a public Islamic festival in Dearborn, Michigan and within three minutes 8 policemen surrounded them and placed them under arrest.
• Unfortunately, history has shown us that once a free nation starts to lose that freedom it is hard to reverse that slide.  Perhaps we will be different.  Perhaps the American people will stand up and demand that we restore the principles of liberty and freedom that this country was founded on.
• Francis Marion Says: 
    December 28th, 2010 at 8:03 am  

  There is a relatively small group of unelected bureaucrats who are responsible
   for these ridiculous “scofflaws” perpetrated on honest citizens.
   We fault local “law enforcement” who help foster and cash in on the depravity.
   The more warm bodies arrested and processed into the system the more funds,
   so the entire popcorn stand should be DE-FUNDED by Congress, at both state
   and national level.
   Of course its worth next to nothing, but the great majority of the population
   has HAD IT with these monkey shines, but any politician against the crimes
   either disappears or gets paid off and we find them in the enemy camp.
   I have offers to teach in several nations where there still exists more than a
   modicum of liberty, but this is, or WAS, my country and that of my ancestors
   back 300+ years.
   But I remember THIS is exactly the reason they left their original “Homeland”,
   to escape TYRANNY and persecution, so I doubt they would stay here much
   longer under the circumstances either.
• TennWalt Says: 
    December 28th, 2010 at 8:21 am  

  This could be stopped simply by banding together and when they come with the local task farce to arrest grandma just wait until they bust into the home then surround it with more guns than they brought and arrest them then march to the judges house that issued the warrant and arrest his ass then procede to the local sheriffs dept and throw that bum out as well but this will never happen until its too damn late to even try such a tatic.
    Already even here in this small town when someone is pulled over for a traffic violation every cop and state trooper in the area comes to the scene i guess in hopes that an evil “citizens” that broke the speed limit will try to resist so they can beat the living hell out of them.

   

  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead
• we all need to become Creditors in Commerce
• Many law enforcement officers have lost there badges and even their homes when they try to wrongfully arrest a Creditor in Commerce.
   When you learn how to put a lien on an officer’s bond you change the whole dynamic of the game.
   LEO can’t work without a bond… No public official can for that matter
   I encourage you all to learn about the UCC and how to use it to stop this tyranny that we are heading towards.
   The American justice system was set up to protect us but did you really think they were going to tell us how to use it?
   Look up Gordan Hall to get started on your journey

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• Nearly a decade has passed, with our nation's influence and infrastructure crumbling by the hour, and yet those of us who have been so fortunate as to actually live the American dream--rather than merely dream it--have been spared every inconvenience. Now we are told that we will soon receive a large tax cut for all our troubles. What is the word for the feeling this provokes in me? Imagine being safely seated in lifeboat, while countless others drown, only to learn that another lifeboat has been secured to take your luggage to shore...
• a person should enjoy the full fruits of his or her labors, however abundant. In this light, taxation tends to be seen as an intrinsic ev
• It is worth noting, however, that throughout the 1950's--a decade for which American conservatives pretend to feel a harrowing sense of nostalgia--the marginal tax rate for the wealthy was over 90 percent
• average net worth of the richest 1 percent of Americans has doubled (to $18.5 million)
• Since 1982, however, it has come down by half.
• while that of the poorest 40 percent has fallen by 63 percent (to $2,200).
• top U.S. executives made about 50 times the salary of their average employees. In 2007, the average worker would have had to toil for 1,100 years to earn what his CEO brought home
• bottom 40 percent (120 million people) owns just 0.3 percent of the wealth
• And yet over one million American children are now homeless. People on Medicare are being denied life-saving organ transplants that were routinely covered before the recession. Over one quarter of our nation's bridges are structurally deficient. When might be a convenient time to ask the richest Americans to help solve problems of this kind? How about now?
• Consequently, our government wastes an extraordinary amount of money.
• also seems uncontroversial to say
• But I can't imagine that anyone seriously believes that the current level of wealth inequality in the United States is good and worth maintaining
• that our government's first priority should be to spare a privileged person like myself the slightest hardship
• as this once great nation falls into ruin.
• And yet Republicans in every state can successfully campaign on a promise to spend less on luxuries like education, while delivering tax cuts to people who, if asked to guess their own net worth, could not come within $10 million of the correct figure if their lives depended on it.
• The truth, however, is that everyone must favor the "redistribution of wealth" at some point
• directly to the issue of education
• Who will pay for this? There is only one group of people who can pay for anything at this point: the wealthy.
• This is, without question, a false view of the human condition. Consider the biography of any "self-made" American, from Benjamin Franklin on down, and you will find that his success was entirely dependent on background conditions that he did not make, and of which he was a mere beneficiary.
• How much credit do I deserve for not having Down syndrome or any other disorder that would make my current work impossible?
• And yet devotees of self-reliance rail against those who would receive entitlements of various sorts--health care, education, etc.--while feeling unselfconsciously entitled to their relative good fortune.
• but it seems only decent at this moment to admit how much luck is required to succeed at anything in this life
• often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research
• Well, then he should say so--and rather than devote hundreds of thousands of dollars to stoking anti-tax paranoia in his state, he should direct some of his vast wealth toward improving education, like his colleague Bill Gates has begun to do.
• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, recently invited their fellow billionaires to pledge the majority of their wealth to the public good
• asking those who have pledged, along with the rest of the wealthiest
• to immediately donate a percentage of their net worth to a larger fund.
• Something tells me that anyone with a billion dollars could safely part with 25 percent of his or her wealth--without being forced to sell any boats, planes, vacation homes, or art.
• Would a one-time donation of 5 percent really be too much to ask to rescue our society from the maw of history?
• But such solitary sacrifice would be utterly ineffectual,
• if Gates and Buffett created a mechanism that bypassed the current dysfunction of government, earmarking the money for unambiguously worthy projects
• here are the two areas of investment that strike me as most promising:
• Education: It is difficult to think of anything more important
• hey will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion
• Clean Energy: As Thomas Friedman and many others have pointed out, our dependence on nonrenewable sources of energy is not only bad for our economy and the environment,
• obliges us to subsidize both sides of the clash of civilizations.
• What politician would object to our immediately spending a trillion dollars on improvements in education and energy security?
• repaving our roads, the dilapidation of which causes $54 billion in damage to our cars every year

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• Hendrik Fulda, 39, is on the board of the Wau Holland Foundation, one of WikiLeaks' main funding channels. Registered as a charity under German law, the group was founded by friends of the late German hacker Wau Holland, the co-founder of the influential hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
• A pro-WikiLeaks demonstration in Madrid on Saturday: "Donations were never as strong as now.
• Hendrick Fulda is a board member of Germany's Wau Holland Foundation, one of the whistleblowing platform's main funding channels.

• SPIEGEL: The Ebay subsidiary PayPal justified halting donations by saying that WikiLeaks supports illegal activities.

    

   Fulda:  That is far-fetched and we took legal steps against it. PayPal reacted quickly and released the frozen donations.
• A time lapse of 251,287 documents: The world map shows where the majority of the cables originated from, and where they had the highest level of classification. View the atlas ...

• SPIEGEL: In response, hackers have targeted the websites of Mastercard and Visa, temporarily putting them out of action. What do you think about such attacks?

    

   Fulda: We have nothing to say on that subject. We do not encourage people to take such action, nor do we have anything to do with it.
• • WikiLeaks and Press Freedom: Is Treason a Civic Duty? (12/13/2010)
  •   SPIEGEL 360: Our Complete Coverage of the WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cables
• Fulda:  I haven't checked every single hotel but, based on the receipts I've seen, that is nonsense. Assange flies economy class and often stays with friends and acquaintances.
• Fulda:  Every new publication by WikiLeaks has unleashed a wave of support, and donations were never as strong as now. More than €80,000 was contributed in one week via PayPal alone. We will have to see what impact the removal of PayPal has on our incoming funds.

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• 854,000 people in the US government, or more than one-and-a-half times the population of Washington, DC, hold top-secret security clearances
• An estimated 16 million government documents a year are stamped "top secret," or not intended for the eyes of ordinary citizens.
• But then along comes someone who is still playing the part of the revolutionary.  Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing platform  WikiLeaks, is playing with the fire of anarchy. He is constantly threatening new, increasingly dangerous disclosures, which should indeed be of great concern to those affected. But the hatred he reaps in return is beneath all democracies.
• has until now been taken for granted that disclosures of confidential government information must be measured by the yardstick of the law.
• real government secrets has always been against the law,
• But because the courts abided by the law, and freedom of the press was ultimately considered to be worth more than politicians' outrage, it wasn't the press but the government that felt the heat.
• The Washington Post, whose reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein once exposed the Watergate affair, describes WikiLeaks as a "criminal organization."
• so far, no one has managed to find a law that these whistleblowers have actually broken.
• Even the post 9/11 period wasn't quite as bad. In 2005, when the New York Times planned to publish a story about an illegal global wire-tapping program operated by the US National Security Agency (NSA), the paper's senior editors were summoned to the White House to meet with then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The most powerful government in the world was forced to resort to moral pressure.
• Isn't it true that what legitimizes the work of the press is the responsible handling of data, as well as the acts of considering the consequences, applying emphasis and explaining the material?
• hat's the way it should be. The ethics of journalism is what makes the products of the press credible to readers.
• The worst penalty they can impose is to simply not read a newspaper or a collection of data on the Internet.

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• Koch brothers panel! We're looking forward to sharing our panel on January 30, 2011 at 11 a.m. PST

• Laws will be one of  the speakers when more than 400 union and civil rights activists gather at Cincinnati’s City Hall to condemn Republican Gov. John Kasich’s plan to strip Ohio child care and home health care workers of their right to bargain for a better life. The event is part of the annual AFL-CIO King Day celebration, which began yesterday in Cincinnati.

• Ella Hopkins, a Cincinnati child care provider who also plans to attend the gathering, adds:

   

  I struggle every day to get by in this tough economy, just like every other Ohio working person, and do the best I can for my family, and for the Cincinnati families who depend on me to care for their children while they are working. Why does Gov. Kasich want to make it harder for all of us to support our families and do the right thing for the parents and children we serve?
• that King’s vision for the nation included not only civil rights but also an economy that served all Americans—a vision that is far from fulfilled.  

• Holt Baker quoted King who once said:

   

  What will we tell our sisters and brothers in need?  Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

   

   We must choose in this crucial moment of human history. 

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  We want taxing capital, not workers and their families, in order to pay for the cost of the global crisis, 

   

  We want to abolish foriegn debts of the 3rd world / developing countries, 

   

  We want immediate stop of social cuts globally, 

   

  We want to establish 4 hours work day and 20 hours work week for all workers, without any decrease in exisiting wages,    

   

  We want immediate abolution of child labour and all other forms of forced labour, human trafficing globally,  

   

  We want to stop every kind of oppression and discrinmination based on race, gender and sexual preference, 

   

  We want abolition of intellectual propoerity rights, patents over genes, ownership on natural resources, rivers, lakes and costal lines,  

   

  We want to see immediate mesurement taken targeting zero-carbon world,  

   

  We want ending all military occupations, abolition of all foreign miliraty bases, and nuclear arsenals, 

   

  We want keeping internet free and common information source for all, 

   

  We want recognition of immigrants and domestic workers as workers globally,  

   

  We want to keep water, education, healt, energy, telecommunication, transporation public, 

   

  We want free ublicly maintaned social security for all, 

   

  We want to a global minimum wage, 

   

  We want full transparency on corporate lobbying over national and local decision making, and on foreign doplomacy between state elits, 

   

  We want to open all decision making processes for citizens, workers, consumers participation globally.       

   

   

• Rank      Countries       Amount         Date             # 1      San Marino:   47.35 per 1,000 people    1990  

       # 2      Cuba:   5.91 per 1,000 people    2002  

       # 3      Monaco:   5.81 per 1,000 people    1995  

       # 4      Saint Lucia:   5.17 per 1,000 people    1999  

       # 5      Belarus:   4.55 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 6      Greece:   4.4 per 1,000 people    2001  

       # 7      Russia:   4.25 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 8      Italy:   4.2 per 1,000 people   
• 12      Belgium:   3.9 per 1,000 people    2002  

       # 13      Israel:   3.82 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 14      Andorra:   3.7 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 15      Uruguay:   3.65 per 1,000 people    2002  
• 21      Kazakhstan:   3.54 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 22      Czech Republic:   3.5 per 1,000 people    2003  

       = 23      Austria:   3.4 per 1,000 people    2003  

       = 23      Germany:   3.4 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 25      France:   3.37 per 1,000 people    2004  

       = 26      Portugal:   3.3 per 1,000 people    2003  

       = 26      Sweden:   3.3 per 1,000 people    2002  

       # 28      Korea, North:   3.29 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 29      Lebanon:   3.25 per 1,000 people    2001  

       = 30      Hungary:   3.2 per 1,000 people    2003  

       = 30      Spain:   3.2 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 32      Malta:   3.18 per 1,000 people    2003  

       # 33      Estonia:   3.16 per 1,000 people    2001  

       = 34      Norway:   3.1 per 1,000 people    2003  
• # 52      United States:   2.3 per 1,000 people    2002  

       # 53      Slovenia:   2.25 per 1,000 people    2002  

       # 54      Qatar:   2.22 per 1,000 people    2001  

       = 55      New Zealand:   2.2 per 1,000 people    2003  

       = 55      United Kingdom:   2.2 per 1,000 people    2003  

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• that we will not stand for having our constitutional rights for redress be taken from us, or have our children be used as experimental subjects in a run away vaccine program that is not accountable for killing and maiming children.
• yesterday morning to learn of the Supreme Court's ruling in Bruesewitz v Wyeth. The 6-2 decision forecloses civil lawsuits for vaccine design defects and further tilts the already unfair playing field of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which consistently decides against vaccine-injured famlies after years of venomous litigation.
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent, in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined, arguing that the majority appears more concerned about shielding industry than about the welfare of our children
• Many safety and autism advocacy organizations have joined to express their condemnation, as reflected by the Coalition for Vaccine Safety's press release issued yesterday.
• Earlier this month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates stated on a CNN interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta that so-called "anti-vaccine efforts" -- which are, in truth, efforts to raise science-based concerns about vaccine safety -- "kill children."

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