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HR 1955: More threatening to the Constitution than the Patriot Act
Here come the thought police By Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson, Blatimore Sun With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s (D-CA) “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since the…
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A Blueprint for Impeachment;:The Constitution Still in Crisis
by Cindy Sheehan, OpEdNews.com The Democratic leadership has made a mockery of our Constitution by excising “awkward” parts out of it. For example, by invoking “Title X” (Contempt of Congress) which is a harsher punishment against protesters that leads to harsher penalties, such as being banished from Capital Hill for a determined amount of time,…
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Why Human Rights are More Important than National Security
Jane Smiley, Huffington Post …Guess what? There is no such thing as “national security”; it’s a concept that not only hasn’t been defined, it can’t be defined. It is a psychological state. The very phrase describes an impossibility. All boundaries in the U.S. and in every other country are porous. Planes come and go, as…
