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Date Sent: 2009-05-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, May 23, 2009 Saturday edition |
Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you...President Obama -- IRS leaks your sensitive docs
President’s Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition -- Preble,
Hornberger: US Out of Afghanistan -- Officer was driving 109MPH.
Flashing lights, siren were off. -- Police won't release arrest record
in alleged brutality case -- Winter Soldier Southwest - "Just Another
Tuesday" -- Peter Schiff On the Dollar, Stocks and Bonds going down at once! -- US scraps airport bomb detectors as ineffective -- California faces its day of fiscal reckoning
AZ: Freedom Ride for the 4th Amendment today
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News Link • Torture
Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you... President Obama
05-22-2009
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Youtube
In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. (h/t Antiwar.com blog)
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS leaks your sensitive documents
05-22-2009
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Reuters
Sensitive documents about U.S. taxpayers were found in trash outside all Internal Revenue Service sites visited in a investigation, putting the people at risk of identity theft, an inspector's report says.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
President’s Detention Plan Tests American Legal Tradition
05-22-2009
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NY Times
President Obama’s proposal for a new legal system in which terrorism suspects could be held in “prolonged detention” inside the US without trial would be a departure from a place where people in the grip of the government face criminal charges or wal
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Preble, Hornberger: US Out of Afghanistan
05-22-2009
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Antiwar blog, BlipTV video
Watch Christopher Preble (Cato) and Jacob Hornberger (Future of Freedom of Foundation) stand up for morality and truth in the face of Max “(Your) Blood and Guts” Boot and some other loser. Heroic. And overdue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
EFF 1, Boston College Police 0
05-22-2009
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Wendy McElroy.com
You may recall my post regarding the Boston College Police's outrageous seizure of a computer science student's computer and other devices because, well, he knew about computer science. The Electronic Frontier Foundation took on
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Steven Anderson - Checkpoint Arrest
In the Future, Everyone Will Be Tazed for Fifteen Minutes
05-22-2009
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Micheal Moore
A Valley pastor is claiming border patrol agents beat him and stunned him with a Taser at a checkpoint, but he said he had done nothing wrong.
Steve Anderson, a preacher at Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, said the incident happened Wednesda
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Officer was driving 109MPH. Flashing lights, siren were off.
05-22-2009
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Las Vegas Review Journal (h/t The Agitator)
In the moments before officer James Manor plowed into a pickup attempting a left turn, he was driving his patrol car 109 mph without flashing lights or siren. [in a 45MPH zone...and they arrested the driver of the car that was hit!]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police won't release arrest record in alleged brutality case
05-22-2009
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The Gazette (h/t The Agitator)
The Colorado Springs Police Department is refusing to release the arrest report of a man who claims he was punched by a decorated policeman after he filmed officers kicking another man.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Winter Soldier Southwest - "Just Another Tuesday"
05-22-2009
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Youtube
From Ryan Endicott, formerly a United States government Marine stationed in Iraq. This is the testimony of Ryan Endicott about his experiences in Iraq.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"2081" The Movie
8-15-2008
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Movie website (h/t LewRockwell)
[Ernie will be soooo pleased! A remake of his favorite movie.] 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is finally equal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff On the Dollar, Stocks and Bonds going down at once!
05-22-2009
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Youtube
Major change in markets -- bonds and dollar both fall with stocks on same day -- flight to quality now means flight from dollar and treasuries. This may well be the start of the next leg of the economic collapse -- stay tuned.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
US scraps airport bomb detectors as ineffective
05-22-2009
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AP
WASHINGTON " The government is scrapping a post-Sept. 11, 2001, airport screening program because the machines did not operate as intended and cost too much to maintain.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California faces its day of fiscal reckoning
05-22-2009
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AP
...state spending cuts so deep and so painful that they could rewrite the social contract between California and its citizens. They could also force a fundamental rethinking of the proper role of government in the Golden State.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Family
Mary Kay Letourneau hosts 'Hot for Teacher' night at bar
05-22-2009
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AP
SEATTLE - A teacher who became notorious in the 1990s for having an affair with a sixth-grader is hosting a "Hot for Teacher" night at a Seattle bar - along with the former student, now her husband.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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