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Obama co-sponsers national finger-print database bill

Monday, June 9th, 2008
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Senators Mel Martinez and Diane Feinstein along with 11 co-sponsors include Barack Obama have authored a bill creating a national finger-print registry according to analysis of the bill.  Yet another step towards a surveillance society.  And another hint of the type of “Change” that Barack Obama will support - fewer freedoms.
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Martinez press release: http://martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsReleases.View&ContentRecord_id=89001ad0-4718-47ed-8145-7c7398179489&IsTextOnly=False
Heritage Foundation on the [...]

Commander in chief of our economy? How about Freedom?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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“It’s time for a president who is ready on day one to be the commander in chief of our economy. ” Hillary Clinton, March 27, 2008
 ”I don’t want to run the national economy!  I want your national economy runners to leave me alone!”  Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged  
The nature of freedom is being in charge of [...]

Spying Upon Ourselves

Monday, January 14th, 2008
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United States Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, is drafting a plan that is supposed to protect America’s cyberspace. The plan, according to The New Yorker (January 14, 2008) is that “the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States.” Yes, you read [...]

Hillary and the Law

Friday, January 11th, 2008
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“No woman is illegal,” Clinton said, to cheers. (http://www.lvrj.com/news/13702902.html)
From someone sworn (as a United States Senator) to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States, this is disgraceful.  Yet again Hillary Clinton shows her disdain for the laws that she expects everyone else to obey. 

A pragmatist is someone who would have compromised with [...]

Utah Highway Patrol Officer Tasers a Man for refusing to sign

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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Check out this video of a Utah Highway Patrol Officer tasering a man for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. (Video on YouTube) Abuse of power, the officer needs to be in jail and certainly in no position of power.  If you wish to talk the the Utah Highway Patrol and let them know your thoughts, the [...]

Quotations on Tyranny and Power

Thursday, February 13th, 2003
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Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.  Thomas JeffersonObserve that any social movement which begins by redistributing income, ends up by distributing sacrifices.  –Ayn RandMost of the presidential candidates’ economic packages involve ‘tax breaks,’ which is when the government, amid [...]

Quotations on Tyranny and Power

Wednesday, January 10th, 2001
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Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.  Thomas JeffersonObserve that any social movement which begins by redistributing income, ends up by distributing sacrifices.  –Ayn RandMost of the presidential candidates’ economic packages involve ‘tax breaks,’ which is when the government, amid [...]

Bill of Rights of the United States

Monday, July 4th, 1994
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The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights:

AMENDMENTS
1st Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for [...]