Friday, December 30, 2011
LIBERTY LEGAL FOUNDATION: Busy December, Busy Year Coming
This year has been increasingly busy and next year looks to continue the trend. Here's the latest:
Certification News
This week the Georgia Court of Administrative Hearings granted our motion for a separate hearing and set a hearing date of January 26th in our bid to prevent Obama from appearing on the Georgia ballot. The Court’s order and our motion can be viewed on our web site HERE. Other cases will be presented after ours, but we will be going first. This is important because our arguments are very short, simple, and different from the arguments being made by others.
The hearing will be held at 9 AM in Room G-40 of the Fulton County Justice Center Building, 161 Prior Street, Atlanta, Georgia. We don’t yet know whether the public can attend. We will find out soon and let you all know. We would like to pack the courtroom to let the judge know that the public supports our efforts.
Also in January the National Democratic Party and DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz have a deadline to respond to Liberty Legal Foundation’s Certification Class Action federal lawsuit and preliminary injunction. They will almost certainly file a motion to dismiss and attempt to avoid the substantive Constitutional issue raised by our lawsuit. We’ll update you as soon as any response is filed by the Defendants.
We will be setting a hearing date in mid-February for our preliminary injunction motion filed in the Tennessee state CCA lawsuit. That hearing will be held in Memphis, Tennessee. We will let you all know as soon as a time and date is set.
Obamacare News
We are currently working on our Supreme Court amicus brief in support of the State of Florida against Obamacare. As you know we will be the only group arguing for the complete overturn of Wickard v. Filburn.
Illegal Immigration News
As soon as our Obamacare amicus brief is filed we will be preparing another Supreme Court amicus brief in support of the State of Arizona in U.S. v. Arizona. Again, we will be the only group making the argument we’re presenting. In that case we’re the only group pointing to existing Federal Law that is being violated by the Department of Justice and the Obama administration.
State's Rights News
Earlier this month I met with the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Sheriff’s Association to gain their support for a Liberty Legal Foundation re-drafted Tennessee bill that will set the groundwork for nullification with teeth in Tennessee. This bill allows for arrest of any federal agents that attempt to enforce any unconstitutional law within the state of Tennessee. (TN SB1108/HB959 Campfield/Dunn). This bill gives teeth to its companion bill, which was also supported by Liberty Legal Foundation and introduced in the Tennessee legislature last year. (TN SB620/HB 1212 Campfield/Ragan). The companion bill establishes a committee within the Tennessee legislature to review all existing federal laws for Constitutionality, and to submit a list of all unconstitutional laws to the Tennessee legislature for nullification. After it was introduced earlier this year national radio talk show host Neal Bortz discussed this bill and said that he thought it was a great idea. Since then a Utah organization has begun forwarding an identical bill to conservative state legislators across the country. Liberty Legal representatives will be meeting with at least a dozen Tennessee legislators over the next several weeks to shepherd the passage of these bills.
As you can see, December has been a busy month, and next year is already looking to be even busier.
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In Liberty, 
Co-Founder, Lead Counsel
NC teenager defends himself and his sister by shooting/killing intruder
Via Cousin John
"This just tickles me to Death. Three cheers go out to the teenager for killing the intruder. Maybe other scumbags will think twice before breaking into private property."
Good man!
The Vance County Sheriff's Office has arrested a second suspect in a Thursday home invasion where a teenager defended himself and his sister by shooting an intruder.
Sheriff Peter White said Anthony Henderson Jr., 19, had crossed the threshold at 586 S. Lynnbank Road, where two teens were home alone. The boy shot him, and he stumbled outside to the lawn, where deputies found him.
Henderson was taken to Maria Parham Medical Center, where he died.
Later Thursday, deputies apprehended Andrew Terry, 23, of 113 N. Woods Drive, and charged him with felony breaking and entering, conspiracy to commit breaking and entering and injury to real property.
Terry was also wanted in a break-in Nov. 14 at a different Vance County home.
Foreigners Dumping US Treasurys in Record Numbers
Foreign investors are selling Treasury positions in record numbers, even at a time when such assets are performing well.
In the week ended Dec. 28, foreign investors sold the second-highest amount of U.S. bonds in history at $23 billion, Zero Hedge reports, citing Federal Reserve data.
In the last month alone, foreigners sold a record $69 billion in U.S. paper. The numbers really defy logic.
"The euro plunges and the market refuses to follow, with risk assets rising on speculation the ECB (and/or Fed) are about to restart printing yet gold collapsing ... and finally with Treasurys soaring to near all time highs," Zero Hedge reports.
In the week ended Dec. 28, foreign investors sold the second-highest amount of U.S. bonds in history at $23 billion, Zero Hedge reports, citing Federal Reserve data.
In the last month alone, foreigners sold a record $69 billion in U.S. paper. The numbers really defy logic.
"The euro plunges and the market refuses to follow, with risk assets rising on speculation the ECB (and/or Fed) are about to restart printing yet gold collapsing ... and finally with Treasurys soaring to near all time highs," Zero Hedge reports.
Ron Paul Has Already Won
What happens if Ron Paul wins Iowa? ... Paul seems to have a natural ceiling among GOP voters: A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found that nearly half of Republican voters feel Paul's foreign policy views are a major reason not to vote for him. Indeed, the primary reason Paul has an opening to win in Iowa is that no consensus candidate has emerged among social conservatives, which dominate the GOP electorate here – a situation that allows Paul to potentially win with less than 30 percent of the vote. Still, a Paul win in Iowa would have significant ramifications. It would go a long way toward pushing his Libertarian views, long dismissed as outside of Republican mainstream, to the center of the conversation. The resultant media coverage would allow Paul to further spread his message – and potentially win a host of new supporters. And if Paul can do well in New Hampshire on January 10, where he is currently tied for second place with Gingrich, Paul could even move to shared front-runner status with Romney, who is now ahead by more than 20 points in New Hampshire. – CBSNews
Dominant Social Theme: Paul is a crank and will never light up the sky.
Free-Market Analysis: The Internet Reformation is a process not an episode. US GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul shows us the accuracy of this statement. Ron Paul and his libertarian allies are winning the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans by the millions. In fact, they have already won. More on this below.
What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down? Who will hire them?
Via Looking in the Mirror
Summary: Again we turn harsh lights on the future of America. The US government has created a pool highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained). What will these people do when our wars wind down? To create serious trouble only a few need sell their knowledge and experience to unfriendly regimes and criminal gangs. Executive Outcomes has its roots in the Apartheid-era South African Special Forces. A more disturbing warning comes from Mexcio. Their gang wars went into hyperdrive with the formation of the Los Zetas Cartel from Mexico’s Special Forces, followed by the arrival of the Kaibiles (ex-Guatemala Special Forces). This post summarizes previous posts about mercs.
For good reason mercenaries have been called ”the dogs of war”. Since the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 the major western nations have worked to eliminate the scourge of mercenaries. But changing circumstances have brought them back, as they have the ability to adapt more quickly than conventional military forces.
Roberts made the interesting observation that the great military revolutions throughout history generally coincided with the predominance of mercenaries. They possessed the necessary discipline and professional skill to create a revolution …
— from the entry on “Military Revolution” in the Oxford Companion to Military History. Refers to Michael Roberts (1908-1996), historian and author of The Military Revolution 1560-1660 which described the ”revolution in military affairs”.
Under the stress of the Long War, the Bush Jr Administration thoughtlessly accelerated the resurgence of mercs (aka Private Military Corporations). The dangers of this are obvious to anyone watching events in Mexico.
Our finest troops now have an alternative market in which to sell their skills, one paying far more than America. We have created a conflict between our soldiers’ patriotism and their families’ needs, a challenge whose dimensions cannot yet be seen – only imagined. At the very least, we now bid against ourselves for their services. This will likely move beyond our control, as markets usually do.
Preamble to the “Bill of Rights”
Via What Would The Founders Think?
Today, it’s generally forgotten that when the “Bill of Rights” was ratified in A.D. 1781, that it included a “preamble” from Congress that explained fundamental purposes for those first ten Amendments.
Understanding these fundamental purposes is important since those purposes constitute evidence of the intent of the Amendments/law. The law is the legislators’ intent. In the case of the Constitution and Amendments, the “legislators” are We the People. The preamble to the “Bill of Rights” explains the People’s/sovereign’s intent behind the Bill of Rights and thus explains the fundamental “law” of those Amendments.
For example, once you understand this “preamble,” you’ll see that the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms was intended to protect the people of the several States of the Union—but not against invasion by foreign enemies—but rather, from despotism imposed by our own federal government.
If you google “Bill of Rights preamble” you’ll find several sources for this document.
Here’s the Preamble’s text:
The First 10 Amendments to the
Constitution as Ratified by the States
December 15, 1791
Preamble
Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday
the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
The previous “preamble” is then followed by the first ten Amendments (“Bill of Rights”).
The fundamental “purposes” for the Bill of Rights is seen in the first paragraph/sentence of the Preamble:
“THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.”
Fifty-nine words. One sentence. Let’s take it apart, piece by piece:
Church of England: Memorialize Occupy Who Vandalized St. Paul’s Cathedral
Attitudes towards protesters show depth of our moral vacuity
WHEN Time magazine proclaimed that 2011 was the year of the protester, it lent its prestige to the recently constructed prejudice that believes a loss of moral and cultural purpose can be recovered through the actions of people on the streets.
Communities have always honoured those who made sacrifices to help others. Throughout history, acts of outstanding heroism and duty served as moral exemplars for others. In very rare instances, such deeds have been represented as saintly and memorialised by generations to come.
Today, little is required of potential moral role models. All that is asked is that they complain, voice their emotion and make a public statement.
The occupiers of St Paul's Cathedral were still eating their Christmas pudding when Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, the third most senior cleric in the Church of England, told them their deed should be memorialised and turned into a spiritual legacy for the future.
"We are looking for ways of honouring what has been said when the camp moves on," he said. One suggestion is to erect a tent in the church itself so that worshippers could come together and discuss how to make the world a better place.
Usually, rendering an experience sacred does not occur while it is unfolding. Such haste in pronouncing an act worthy of memorialisation betrays a loss of historical time. There is also something tawdry about a senior cleric promising a group of would-be saints that their acts would soon be honoured by Britain's national church.
It is worth recalling that St Paul's has traditionally served as the site of state funerals of British military leaders, including the Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson and the wartime prime minster, Winston Churchill. This is a church where those who have made an outstanding contribution to the life of the nation are celebrated and laid to rest. St Paul's contains the tombs of such distinguished figures as the architect Christopher Wren, the scientist Alexander Fleming and the sculptor Henry Moore.
One does not need to be a worshipper of great individuals to find repulsive the suggestion that the current occupation should be sanctified as a national legacy for future generations. So what has driven senior church leaders and politicians to represent this year's acts of protest as possessing such elevated moral authority? And why is it that political figures across the ideological divide find it difficult to question or criticise the groups of demonstrators that occupy urban spaces in many parts of the Western world?
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Spendthrift Bush, Blackface Bush and waiting in the wings, Tinman Bush.
All bush, all the time. Why bother having elections when the electable candidates of both parties all follow the same policies once in office? Why not just crown Bush king and let him rule until his compassionate corpse turns the country to fucking dust.
It’s not like we need to correct any major problems in America. The economy’s going gangbusters, the budget’s balanced with a nice surplus sitting in the coffers, our three major entitlement programs are well-managed and solvent, especially Medicare Part D and goodness knows we can handle another trillion dollars in new war costs and futile nation building in the backwaters of a few more Muslim theocracies.
Our public schools, thanks to No Child Left Behind, are the envy of the world, busy churning out first class, creative STEM minds. The massive scourge of illegal immigration has been solved, unemployment is almost nonexistent and the emerging third world is snapping up our excellent, US manufactured trade goods at a fast pace on the open market.
We enjoy getting patted down at airports and don’t mind at all giving the FBI, NSA or CIA the power to poke into our phone, banking and online activities or wiretap us without justifiable cause or a warrant.
The Bill of Rights should naturally take a backseat to our fundamental liberties in the name of safety from terrorism. It’s no bother for Homeland Security to give us a grilling before boarding a Greyhound bus or let their dogs sniff our pants on the subway platform. Cameras on every street light, recording our faces and identities, the data filed into national security banks is no big deal. Being detained indefinitely without charges or access to legal council is the right way to go in these frightening times. Nobody really believes our government would just willy-nilly arrest or assassinate anyone who didn’t actually deserve it.
Seriously, what do you have to worry about if you’ve done nothing wrong?
Our political class is corruption free, the taint of moneyed special interests influencing, writing and subverting legislation is a relic of the past. Wall Street abides by an honorable code of fiduciary ethics, the federal reserve doesn’t print money out of thin air and congress would never countenance the reek of fascist taint by bailing out and going into business with failed private entities. High morality and constitutional rigidity permeates all levels of our financial and political classes.
The war on drugs has been highly successful, next to no one uses or sells illegal substances anymore. The billion dollar, tax funded police state to eradicate illegal mind-altering substances was well worth the money spent. Prison costs are minimal and plenty of space is available to incarcerate truly violent reprobates. Our local constabulary are still Mayberry friendly, a community of neighborly people we trust to maintain the peace and openly welcome in times of trouble.
So unlike those third world, jack-booted storm troopers armed with extensive military hardware who shoot first and expect complete oversight when they murder innocent people and sweet family pets. We still trust our police.
Criminal Federal offenses now number in the mere hundreds, citizens and business know exactly where they stand within the limited number of government agencies tasked with enforcing compliance, including the IRS. Navigating government regulations has never been easier or more citizen friendly.
Starting a business has become a breeze, entrepreneurship is exploding across the nation, new start-ups are sending GDP through the roof and offering more avenues for employment. Low corporate tax rates are feeding this trend, filling the nations treasury with enough revenue to fund expensive old age entitlements into the next millennium.
Our most important one percent, the military personnel who volunteer to do the nation’s most terrible bidding, are treated like gold. We would never dream of subjecting them to multiple deployments for irrational nation building projects in muslim cesspools, give military foreign aid to countries who are actively fighting our soldiers or leave them helpless to IUDS, bullshit Nato directives or State department insanity. Of course, we pay them extremely well for their hard service and provide excellent financial comfort in their retirement. We treat our true blue one percent like Goldman Sachs executives, drape them in golden parachutes and all that other soft, public monetary jazz.
We seem to have very few problems in our land of prosperous plenty that can’t be handled by a continuing course of big spending, government growth, liberty hating, neo-conservative ideological platforms.
So why bother replacing a center-left, big state president if the electable center-right, big state republican candidate is another diced version of the same song which lead to us to this sorry result in the first place?
Because that’s what Conservatives do, kick out one filthy asshole in order to elect his dirty brother.
Of course, everything in America is going just fine. No need to consider any real change in management.
That would be insane.
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