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Date Sent: 2011-09-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 AM edition |
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines
Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax -- Where Is Grover Cleveland When You Need Him? -- Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List -- CIA Madness -- Illinois Will Likely Appeal Dismissal of Charges Against Michael Allison -- Internet trolls, anonymity and The First Amendment -- What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran -- Seattle Police Department Sued by KOMO News for Not Releasing Dash-Cam Videos -- Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad -- Netanyahu proved Israel doesn't want peace -- Senator Lautenberg’s Facebook Page Overrun By Second Amendment Supporters -- Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years -- Veterans attempt citizens arrest of Rumsfeld in Boston (VIDEO) -- Ron Paul: 8000 Americans Have Died In These Wars That Are Illegal! -- In GOP Race, Romney, Perry, Paul Are the Money Men -- New York's
proposed subterranean garden -- Rand Paul Slams Congressional “Circus”
Over Deadlines And Shutdown Threats
AZ: John Stuart Trial Under Way
CA: Libertopia in San Diego October 21-23
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
As Federal Crime List Grows, Threshold of Guilt Declines
09-27-2011
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online.wsj.com
For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty. The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a "guilty mind."
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Greek Vote Approves a Despised Property Tax
09-27-2011
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NY Times
The Greek Parliament voted late Tuesday in Athens to back a hugely unpopular property tax, one of a series of new austerity measures. The vote could clear the way for a crucial injection of international financing meant to at least temporarily stave
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Where Is Grover Cleveland When You Need Him?
09-27-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Congress passed a bill that included spending on disaster relief. Clearly unconstitutional, like 99% of everything Congress does. Obama will certainly sign the bill. There was a time when a Democratic president would do no such thing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List
09-27-2011
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NY Times
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Madness
09-27-2011
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Lew Rockwell
So, we have more people looking for terrorists than there are terrorists. This reminds me of the 100,000 troops we have in Afghanistan looking for, in the words of CIA Director Leon Panetta, fewer than 50 al Qaeda fighters.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Illinois Will Likely Appeal Dismissal of Charges Against Michael Allison
09-27-2011
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The Agitator
The judge who dismissed Michael Allison’s case last week won’t have the final word.
An appeal by prosecutors is likely in the works, Crawford County State’s Attorney Tom Wiseman said Wednesday.
On Sept. 15, Second Illinois Judicial Circuit Judg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Internet trolls, anonymity and The First Amendment
09-27-2011
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Washington Times
Anonymity has become counterproductive and even damaging. If you’re willing to stand up and render a public opinion, you should reveal your identity. The time has come to limit the ability of people to remain anonymous.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran
09-27-2011
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay; they'd remind us of CIA prisons in other parts of the world; and conditions that Iranians and others experience in prison
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Seattle Police Department Sued by KOMO News for Not Releasing Dash-Cam Videos
09-27-2011
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Finally it claimed that even if it could search for videos, the law prevents it from releasing videos less than three years old (this despite the fact that the department deletes videos that are older than three years).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad
09-27-2011
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NY Times
Abu Elias sat beneath the towering stairs leading from the Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya, a church high up in the mountains outside Damascus, where Christians have worshiped for 1,400 years. “We are all scared of what will come next,” he said, turn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Netanyahu proved Israel doesn't want peace
09-27-2011
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www.haaretz.com By Gideon Levy
Netanyahu needed thousands of years of history to obscure reality, but Abbas' sense of history proved to be much more developed: He had no need to call up distant memories to elicit sympathy; all he needed was to soberly depict current events in orde
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
South Africa Firms Build Niche Plane
09-27-2011
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online.wsj.com
Ahrlac is a multipurpose alternative that's marketed for perform military and civilian reconnaissance. It will cater to African governments involved in combat, peacekeeping and humanitarian work
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senator Lautenberg’s Facebook Page Overrun By Second Amendment Supporters
09-27-11
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AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
It seems that the speed and reach of social media is biting the 87 year old anti gun Senator on, shall we say .. the rear.
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Fredy Riehl
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Video update: Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years
09-27-2011
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projects.newsobserver.com
"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on th
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Veterans attempt citizens arrest of Rumsfeld in Boston (VIDEO)
09-27-2011
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www.rawstory.com/
Members of Veterans for Peace were escorted out of the Old South Meeting House in Boston Monday night after they attempted a citizen’s arrest of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. “I went down in front and looked Donald Rumsfeld in the eye and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ron Paul: 8000 Americans Have Died In These Wars That Are Illegal!
09-27-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Judge Napolitano speaks with Ron Paul under the shadow of the national debt clock. VIDEO
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
In GOP Race, Romney, Perry, Paul Are the Money Men
09-27-2011
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www.myfoxphoenix.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Ron Paul have banked millions, but the rest of the Republican presidential hopefuls are struggling or broke four months before the first nominating contests take place.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
New York's proposed subterranean garden
09-27-2011
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www.gizmag.com
Three New York entrepreneurs have unveiled plans to turn a long abandoned underground train terminal into a lush and thriving garden.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
Rand Paul Slams Congressional “Circus” Over Deadlines And Shutdown Threats
09-27-2011
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www.prisonplanet.com
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul appeared on CNN last night to inject some sense into the latest stand off between Republicans and Democrats over government spending and the deficit.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Palestine -- Israel
A Palestinian State? - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
I believe that we can no longer police the world. We can no longer bribe the Israelis and Palestinians to continue an endless "peace process" that goes nowhere. It is not in our interest to hector the Palestinians or the Israelis, or to "export" demo
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