Written by Who’s making intimidating phone calls to voters in Minnesota? The answer might surprise you.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie released an affidavit describing a phone call linked to Minnesota Majority a far right-wing issue advocacy group. The caller indicated that the voter in question was listed twice on the public voter rolls. The voter (who moved addresses but kept their telephone number) asked who the caller reported to. They indicated Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority. Davis co-founded Minnesota Majority with Republican Mary Kiffmeyer – the former MN Secretary of State before Democrat Mark Ritchie.
Monthly archives for October, 2008
Right Wing Group Accused Of Voter Intimidation
You Can’t Vote Here
September 2008 – The story of Phil Lindsay who tried to legally vote in August, and was not allowed to vote has become a captivating short film. Please send this link to everyone who may be able to help get this story out there. Read the full account at:
www.ShowMeTheVote.org
HIV-positive travellers still refused entry to US
Three months after a change in the law HIV-positive travellers to the US are still being turned back at the border.
US law may now say there is no ban on people with HIV, but the regulations in place remain the same.
“Until the regulations change, nothing has changed in terms of HIV-positive people visiting the US,” says Victoria Neilson, the legal director of New York-based Immigration Equality. “HIV is still on Health and Human Services’ list of communicable diseases.”
In July US president George W Bush signed into law a bill extending $50-billion in funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2013. Along with it an amendment eliminated the ban on people living with HIV from visiting the United States.
US Raids Ignore International Law
Washington – While US officials continue to avoid discussing the weekend strikes that killed eight people in eastern Syria, Middle East experts have condemned the attacks as a violation of international law that threatens to further destabilize US-Syria relations.
Sunday, special operations forces carried out a cross-border raid from Iraq into Syria. Press reports quote one unnamed US official who claims that the strike was successful in killing Abu Ghadiya, a terrorist leader in the region. Details of the strike have not yet been released by the US government.
However, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said the attack killed eight unarmed civilians in a farming village. Ahmed Salkini, spokesman for the Syrian Embassy in Washington, DC, condemned the strike, calling it a “criminal terrorist attack” that “intentionally targeted innocent civilians.”
CIA Can Hide Torture Allegations, Court Rules
The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review the government’s assertions that the allegations of torture from men held in the CIA’s black site prisons — whether truthful or not — would put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public.
“The Court, giving deference to the agency’s detailed, good-faith declaration, is disinclined to
second-guess the agency in its area of expertise through in camera review,” Lamberth wrote (.pdf), referring to a procedure where a judge looks at evidence in his chamber without showing it to the opposing side.
The ruling comes in a case where the ACLU filed a government sunshine suit to force the government to unredact allegations from statements from so-called High Value Detainees such as 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheihk Muhammed that the CIA kidnapped and tortured them.
THE GREAT “MARTIAN INVASION” PANIC: The Halloween hoax that terrified America
Halloween, 2008 marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most notorious broadcasts in Entertainment history, The Mercury Theater on the Air’s radio presentation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.”
Certainly, the story of the terrifying alien invasion is well-known to most people now. After all, it was the subject of two major motion pictures (one directed by no less than Steven Spielberg). And, of course, the seeds of this tale can be found in many lesser “they came from outer space” endeavors.
But, nothing matches the effect that the original radio play written, produced and directed by the motion picture industry’s master craftsman, Orson Welles had on an unsuspecting public.
Stock Market Recap
Rick Mercer reviewing the recent global financial crisis.
Rusty Humphries confronted about Sarah Palin 9/11 bomshell
Matt Kazee calls in to tell Rusty Chumphries about Sarah Palin supporting a new 9/11 Investigation
Taser firm loses first libel battle
A FIRM that imports and distributes Taser stun guns in France has lost the first in a series of high court battles over claims that the supposedly safe police weapon can be lethal.
SMP Technologies sought damages from a human rights group, RAID-H, after it published material arguing against the pistol’s use, including a cartoon of a Taser-wielding robot emblazoned with the image of a dead body.
The firm, which supplies Tasers to the French police and military, insists the weapon is safe, and has responded to complaints about its introduction with a series of legal challenges and allegedly an illegal surveillance campaign.
The Paris high court, however, threw out the claim, ruling that RAID-H’s leaflets had contributed to an international debate on health and safety that was in the public interest and had not abused its right to free speech.
Single vaccine ‘safety’ warnings
UK researchers have raised concerns over the monitoring of the safety of single measles and rubella vaccines.
It comes after an unexpectedly high number of cases of anaphylactic shock after single vaccines given at private clinics in South West England.
Although the figures are likely to be an anomaly, poor data on vaccines given at private clinics is preventing proper scrutiny, they warn.
Anaphylaxis is rare, the Archives of Diseases in Childhood study stressed.
Public confidence in the triple MMR vaccine dipped following research – since discredited – which raised the possibility that the jab may be linked to an increased risk of autism.
In one week, America will have it’s first black president elect …
… barring some unforeseen event or the Republicans doing what they know what to do best every four years – stealing an election. It’s easy to use the typical and lazy argument that black people support Obama simply because he is black. Naturally, blacks will be proud of him, just like women would have been of Hillary Clinton had she won the nomination instead of Obama. As were Catholics when JFK beat Nixon.
To claim that his skin colour is the only reason black people want him to be president is an insult. That statement assumes that blacks are an unthinking herd that is only governed and motivated by colour. Besides, this simplistic view omits the fact that 88% of black voters voted for John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore got a whopping 90% in 2000. Blacks vote Democrat idiot! If they recall, before the Democratic primaries black people all over America were saying that Obama was not black enough. Of course now he is too black.
I like what Chris Rock says about people who say America can’t have a black president, “Why not? We just had a retarded one.” My second favourite quote about Obama’s candidacy is from comedian and talk show host, Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s Real Time (I watch the programme on the “internets”). He said, “Don’t lie and say you won’t vote for Obama; it’s because he’s smarter than you. That’s why you won’t vote for him. That’s why you voted for Bush twice!”
The Election is Over, We Lost, Time For Revolution
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Yes, I know, the election is still a couple of days away. It doesn’t matter. Perhaps I’m a little cynical, but I believe this election was decided long ago, maybe even as long as two years ago. At the very least, about a year ago we were already hearing about John McCain and this newcomer named Barack Obama as likely candidates for their respective parties. Even as Ron Paul was surging in the polls and gaining support of the masses, we were being told by the corporate media that he was unelectable. We saw others like Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton also put forward as possible candidates. The best choices, those candidates most opposed to war and in favor of preserving government’s recognition of individual rights, were quickly marginalized by the powers that be and their media lapdogs.
Only now, in the closing days of the election, have I started to hear either of the candidates make any kind of argument even remotely relating to the innate human desire for freedom and self reliance. Only recently has John McCain come out to accuse Barack Obama of being a socialist and a proponent of wealth redistribution. This is not an inaccurate description of the Democrat candidate and yet, given John McCain’s voting record, this is like the pot calling the kettle black. Mr. McCain has certainly voted for his share of social programs that steal money from this nation’s working class.
Both the Democrat and the Republican candidates can be classified as collectivists. Both have policies that disregard the rights of individuals in favor of the state. They both seek power over others in order to further their personal agendas. Neither one of these men have any new ideas, just old ones rehashed for the modern American who likely knows little about history and understands its significance even less. It really doesn’t matter which of these two win, assuming one of the two major party candidates win, they were both picked by virtually the same corporate interests and they’re both beholden to those same special interests and not the people of this great nation.
I don’t believe these are the types of men we need in office right now. I believe we need someone who is willing and able to stand up to all special interests. I believe we need someone who puts the constitution above all else. If either of these two major party candidates win, and I believe one will, the American public loses. In fact, I believe the world loses, for the further socialization of the American Empire dims the already fading vision of the beacon of freedom the world used to flock to.
But, as I stated in the title, I believe the election is already over. After all, the media has been telling us who we were going to vote for all along. We’ve been told who to like and who to dislike. We’ve been told whose ideas were good and whose were “crazy,” who was electable and who was unelectable, and who others voters were attracted to. In short, we’ve been told what to think and greatly curtailed in our efforts to think for ourselves.
The issues have become secondary. They are no longer discussing relevant solutions to the problems our nation faces so much as they are discussing personalities and how to best lock down government control over our system. These candidates are not talking about getting rid of taxes all together but who should be taxed more and who the stolen money should go to. They are not talking about abolishing the Federal Reserve and introducing a new monetary system, they are talking about the best way to prop up a system destined to fail by its very nature. They are not talking about pulling our military out of all the countries and bringing them home as a way to save money, they are talking about how we can continue our empire and win wars we shouldn’t be involved in. And they are both talking about how to best grow the government to provide for its citizens, as if the citizens of this nation are all children that can’t provide for themselves, rather than how best to shrink the size of government and let the citizens keep what they earn and provide for their own needs. In short, neither the Republican candidate nor his Democrat counterpart are friends of liberty as both want government involved in every aspect of everyone’s lives rather than allowing the citizenry to live free.
The time has come for the citizenry of this country to start the process of taking it back. We may likely have lost a battle, so what shall we do now? Do we simply give up and accept our fate? Do we simply stay quiet and move along to get along while our nation becomes a cesspool of socialistic corruption? Do we silently bow our heads and ignore the police state as our friends and neighbors become victims of bankrupt political policies? I say no. There remains hope. Freedom and self reliance are states of nature men were meant to live in. Deep down, we all know this. Most of us long for independence. The struggle between collectivism and individualism goes on, as it has for centuries now. We are all sovereigns of our own lives, and it’s time we started acting as such. The more of us who recognize this and live our lives independent of government, the better off everyone becomes.
Peaceful revolution is still possible. We still have the basics necessary to put pressure on those in power to do the right thing. While the executive branch of the federal government may be beyond the reach of the common man, and the senate might be equally entrenched, we can still influence the House of Representatives. Take action. Join groups like Downsizedc.org and Ron Paul’s Campaign for Freedom. Get involved. Pay attention. Make your representative accountable for his actions. Or you can try some peaceful activism and non co-operation.
The justice system can be influenced by citizens acting on juries to rid ourselves of tyrannical laws. We need not make crimes of victimless behavior and we should express this view in the jury box by not convicting our friends and neighbors who engage in victimless crimes. Bench judges may tell you that the bad laws cannot be judged, but that is a lie. It was jury nullification that rid us of prohibition and jury nullification can rid us of other unconstitutional laws. When we start living like freemen, behaving like freemen, and demanding to be respected as freemen by those who would exercise power over us, then we will once again become freemen. Otherwise, we are destined to remain the sheeple those in power long for us to be.
Keep educating your neighbors and anyone else who may think poorly of the concept of freedom. The more who awaken to its light, the more empowered we all become. There has been a stirring in the populace as more and more the whispers of these concepts can be heard in the taverns and other places where people gather. A nation of freemen is not something to be trifled with. Don’t let a small defeat like this election cycle bring you down and fill you with doubt. The peaceful revolution is gaining traction. The sleeping spirit of freedom inside us all is once again flexing its muscle, and those who would try to keep it down may soon find out it is a force to be reckoned with.