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Why "Hate Crime" laws ban Biblical Christianity
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December 2010
Overcriminalizing everyday life: "Criminal penalties traditionally were applied when offenders had a 'guilty mind,' meaning they knew they were committing an offense. Unknowing technical violations often could be punished with monetary fines without creating a criminal record....
"There's no way ordinary citizens can be cognizant of all these [recent] regulations, which is why so many unintentional, relatively harmless acts lead to horror stories.... such as the seafood importers thrown in jail for eight years for packing lobster tails in plastic instead of cardboard."
See Washington's Farewell AddressDoes the Constitution Mean Anything? "It has been years since the Constitution has had any meaningful impact on what is done in Washington. True, no one challenges the structural provisions -- there are a hundred senators, presidential elections are held every four years, etc. ...But most congressmen pay little, if any, attention to their authority under the Constitution before they pass legislation....[A]dvocates of a 'living' Constitution prefer lawmaking by zeitgeist. If it feels good, interpret it....
"With this form of judicial make-believe there's no need even to pass a bill if you have organized a 'movement.' After all, these 'organized communities' are sort of mini-constitutional conventions, even if the rest of us weren't invited to attend."
A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care law unconstitutional: "Federal Judge Henry Hudson has ruled the federal health care bill’s individual mandate unconstitutional, but said that does not kill the entire bill....While the lawsuit is expected to go to the Supreme Court eventually, Cuccinelli and now Rep. Eric Cantor have suggested it be fast-tracked to that court, and bypass the appeals court that would normally be the next step."
More states enter debate on sharia law: "Muneer Awad's opponents label him 'a foreigner' trying to change Oklahoma's laws.... At issue is an amendment to Oklahoma's constitution passed overwhelmingly on Election Day that bars judges from considering Islamic or international law in Oklahoma state courts. Awad sued, and last week a federal judge temporarily blocked the law from taking effect while she determines whether it violates the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits establishment of a state religion.
"...legislators in at least seven states, including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, have proposed similar laws, the National Conference of State Legislatures says. Tennessee and Louisiana have enacted versions of the law banning use of foreign law under certain circumstances."
Last-minute Democratic treachery: "...in the waning few days of the 111th Congress, the Democrats seem obsessed with forcing... one monstrosity after another upon us: amnesty for millions of illegal aliens (DREAM Act); tax hikes on job creators during a recession with at least 17 percent real unemployment; a treaty with Russia (New START) that will hobble America's prospects for missile defenses in an increasingly dangerous world; and forcing open homosexuality on the U.S. armed forces despite compelling evidence it will undermine and weaken our military." See God's Warnings for our Times
November 2010
Pastor on trial for witnessing to Muslims [in U.S.]: "Police were called when Islamists witnessed [Pastor ] Holick and 13 others handing out packets that included the Gospel of John, the Book of Romans in English and Arabic, and a DVD with testimonies of former Muslims who have converted to Christianity.
"Holick claims he was basically ignored by the arresting officer. 'I asked him, 'What am I being charged with?' -- and he wouldn't answer me,' the pastor [said]. 'And I asked him a second time and I asked him a third time...and neither time would he even respond to me.'" See Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules
Court Blocks Oklahoma Sharia Ban: "In yet another indication of the increasing alienation of the political elites from the popular will, U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange on Monday granted a temporary restraining order blocking Oklahoma’s brand-new anti-Sharia law. Seventy percent of Oklahomans voted for the measure, but who cares? The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued that the measure was 'anti-Islam,' and that was enough to prevail in today’s multiculturalist environment....
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The idea of the Oklahoma Sharia ban is to prevent judges from making decisions based on a legal system that contradicts the principles of American law..." See The Power and Perversions of Laws
CAIR sues Oklahoma for banning Islamic law [Sharia]: "The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced today it will file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state ballot measure that bars judges from considering Islamic law in any ruling.... .[That amendment] was approved by 70 percent of Oklahoma voters.
"But ...CAIR-OK Executive Director Muneer Awad called the measure unnecessary and offensive. ...Awad was joined at the news conference by...deputy director of ACLU-Oklahoma; Imad Enchassi, imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City; and ...director of the Central Oklahoma Human Rights Association....
"CAIR, whose national office is in the nation's capital, describes itself as a civil-rights group, but FBI evidence points to its origin as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas....Gabriel called Shariah, which stipulates punishments ranging from chopping off the hand of a thief to death for infidelity, 'is an oppressive, discriminatory law system. It suppresses religion, speech.'"
October 2010
The first three links illustrate the Muslim war on America's laws and values:
Muslims claim Sharia "rights". Minnesota - Next Somalia? [Video]: Will Minnesota be the first Somali Muslim state? Somali Muslim cab-drivers are demanding the right to refuse service to customers who bring possession that violate Sharia law.... Target has agreed to accommodate employee who refuse to handle pork because it clashes with Sharia laws. On the other hand, they want to use Khat, a mildly hallucinogenic drug that would be illegal in America. So, "how open-minded" are the liberal Minnesota citizens? Are they willing to trade US laws for Sharia? The growing Somali community is forcing them to choose!
Sharia Law. New Cartoon Brings Muslim ‘Indoctrination’ to Your Kids: “'Hide your face and grab the kids. Coming soon to a TV in your child’s bedroom is a posse of righteous, Sharia-com pliant Muslim superheroes — including one who fights crime hidden head-to-toe by a burqa.' ...'The 99,' a new animated show featuring Islamic superheros set to debut in January on The Hub, formerly Discovery Kids. In April, President Obama praised the character’s creator... saying that his 'superheroes embody the teachings of the tolerance of Islam'....
"It‘s the comic’s strict adherence to Sharia law, and that...'a secular nation' could 'endorse a children’s show aimed at pushing one religion,' that has her sounding the alarm of 'indoctrination.'
"...the cartoon has met the approval of a “Sharia board — which polices Muslim law — affiliated with an Islamic bank from which the show received financing.' ...a Times of London columnist... wrote last year that the show’s mission was 'to instill old-fashioned Islamic values in Christian, Jewish and atheist children.” See Why "Hate Crime" laws ban [complaints about Sharia]
Muslims "rights"? CAIR-MN: Protect Legal Rights of Somali Muslim Students (See article in column on the right side): "The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-MN, says it's received an increasing number of reports from students who say they have been interrogated by the FBI on Minnesota campuses. ...the interviews focus on allegations that Somali men have left Minnesota to go to Somalia and fight in that nation's civil war [nothing said about the Jihad training camps in Somalia].... CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director Taneeza Islam said, 'Students' legal rights need to be upheld and they aren't currently being afforded the only true legal protection....'"
Imagine what would happen if Christians in Pakistan would keep broadening their claims for "rights." Instead many Christians are tortured and killed, while local police refuse to act! See
PersecutionSharia law being used in Germany in Muslims' domestic disputes: "A leading law professor has contradicted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement that Sharia law was not practiced in Germany, saying a variety of Sharia-based rulings were being made all the time. 'We have been practising Islamic law for years, and that is a good thing,' [according to] Hilmar Krüger, professor for foreign private law at Cologne University." See Glossary of Islamic terms
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer slams 'foreign interference' in immigration lawsuit: "In a new twist in the fight over Arizona’s immigration law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday asked a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to overturn the law." See The UN Plan for Global Migration
September 2010
Army judge tells officer: Shut up and be punished! "An Army judge has made it 'impossible' for a career medical officer to get a fair hearing on charges he refused to deploy to Afghanistan because of concern that obeying orders in the chain of command under an ineligible commander in chief would be illegal [according to military law], his attorney says.... Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin... faces up to four years at hard labor if convicted in his case [compare that to the cushioned imprisonment of many Muslim prisoners in America]....
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Lakin believes any order issued under Obama's authority as commander in chief of the armed forces may not be valid because his eligibility to serve as president is unproven. After fruitlessly requesting the Army to verify Obama's eligibility to serve as president, Lakin wrote directly to Obama asking for proof of eligibility. But without a response, Lakin decided it was his duty to refuse an order to deploy with his unit as part of Obama's Afghanistan surge." Please see the video -- and listen to its facts at the end of this article.
August 2010
Save the Republic from Democracy! "The genius of the American system of governance is the carefully developed balance of power between the states and the federal government, the various branches of government, and between conflicting philosophies of governance. When the minority is driven from the debate, or ignored, tyranny reins." See Purging the Memory of Our Christian Roots
Sharia for Dummies: 1- Jihad, defined as to war against non-Muslims to establish the religion, is the duty of every Muslim and Muslim head of state...
2- A Caliph [ Muslim head of state] can hold office through seizure of power meaning through force.
3- A Caliph is exempt from being charged with serious crimes....
4- A percentage of Zakat (charity money) must go towards jihad.
5- It is obligatory to obey the commands of the Caliph, even if he is unjust.
6- A caliph must be a Muslim, a non-slave and a male.
7- The Muslim public must remove the Caliph if he rejects Islam.
8- A Muslim who leaves Islam must be killed immediately.
9- ....honor killing is acceptable.
12- Sharia dictates death by stoning, beheading, amputation of limbs...
ICE Union employees: ICE Director won't let us enforce U.S. immigration laws: "While ICE reports internally that more than 90 percent of ICE detainees are first encountered in jails after they are arrested by local police for criminal charges, ICE senior leadership misrepresents this information publicly in order to portray ICE detainees as being non-criminal in nature to support the Administration's position on amnesty and relaxed security at ICE detention facilities." See Scriptures on Lawlessness
Nationalizing marriage: "A federal district judge in California has ruled that it's unconstitutional to define marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman." See Webster's definition for marriage
Who Makes the Laws, Anyway? "...a draft memo surfaced from the Homeland Security Department suggesting ways to administratively circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation.... This was being proposed 'in the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.' In other words, because Congress refuses to do what these bureaucrats would like to see done, they will legislate it themselves."
July 2010
Obama says he still supports climate legislation: "Last week, Senate Democrats abandoned plans for a sweeping measure that would cap greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.... Instead Democrats hope to pass a narrower bill that responds to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and takes steps to improve energy efficiency."
DOJ adopts socialist logo, slogan: "The logo at the Department of Justice used to feature red, white and blue motifs. ...the classic pattern has been replaced with an all-black backdrop, and now virtually every page of the DOJ website features a quote from a man who believed in the global 'workers rights movement' and did everything in his power to facilitate a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N. ....If your definition of justice is 'social justice' as defined by Marxists and socialists, you’ll love Obama’s Department of Justice."
Kagan promoted sharia law at Harvard: "At Harvard, Elena Kagan 'proceeded to forge the law school's 'Islamic Finance Project.' It's purpose, according to McCarthy, was 'to promote Shariah compliance in the U.S. financial sector.' Indeed, when Harvard President Larry Summers -- now in the Obama administration -- accepted a $20 million donation for the creation of a program of studies of Islam's history and Shariah Law, Kagan raised no objection."
Challenged! Court using 'feelings' as case decider: "A district judge's decision that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional is being challenged on the argument...that never before has any court decided that 'hurt feelings' are grounds for making a claim'..." Why "Hate crime" laws would ban Biblical Christianity
Investigation of 'anti-white bias' grows: "The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today suggested it is expanding its review of claims that the Department of Justice has implemented a ban on prosecuting defendants who are black....[R]ecent Obama administration DOJ appointees have reinforced this notion by making such racial discrimination a formal departmental policy. ...an Obama appointee at the top of the department, announced at a policy meeting that 'the voting section will not bring any other cases against blacks and other minorities.'...
"...Kirsanow asked Adams 'to what extent' the department believes equal treatment before the law applies to all voters. 'That's the problem,' replied Adams. 'They assume Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act doesn't apply to white voters.'...'Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law. Others still within the department share my assessment."
Judge agrees to grant asylum to ex-Israeli spy [Mosab Hassan Yousef]: "The son of a Hamas founder who became a Christian and an Israeli spy will be granted U.S. asylum after he passes a routine background check.... Mosab Hassan Yousef [32] got the news during a 15-minute deportation hearing after a U.S. Department of Homeland Security attorney said the government was dropping its objections. The agency denied Yousef's asylum request in February 2009.... 'I will keep fighting the ideology that is behind terrorists because I know how they think,' he said outside the courtroom." Background information at Homeland Security
Kagan's Commerce Clause: "...with the Obama Administration's radical expansion of government, fundamental questions about the limits of federal power deserve to come to the fore. The Supreme Court has a vital role to play in defending individuals and the states against excessive Washington control. If Ms. Kagan believes the Commerce Clause can justify nearly any Congressional decision, this is reason alone to justify a vote against her confirmation."
Schlafly: Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected: "Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained... that the Earl Warren Court wasn't 'radical' enough because 'it didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution' in order to allow 'redistribution of wealth.' Now that Obama is president, he has the power to nominate Supreme Court justices who will 'break free' from the Constitution and join him in 'fundamentally transforming' America....
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When Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School, she presented a guest speaker...: [Judge Aharon]Barak has written that a judge should 'make' and 'create' law, assume 'a role in the legislative process,' and give statutes 'new meaning that suits new social needs.' Barak wrote that a judge 'is subject to no authority' except himself." : "In too many areas where the daily life of commerce intersects with public policy, people feel they are flying blind, uncertain of what a law or regulation requires, uncertain of how the bureaucracies empowered to enforce this morass will interpret them. One sensed it was heading this way when landowners were prosecuted under the Endangered Species Act for violating the 'habitat' of odd creatures found on their property.... If the Supreme Court can demand clarity on behalf of convicted felons, how about adopting it on behalf of everyone else, who until their luck runs out, remain innocent?" See Ban truth - Reap tyranny
June 2010
: "...lawyer, J. Christian Adams, had been ordered by his Justice Department superiors, quite improperly, to ignore a subpoena by the commission. Mr. Adams instead resigned from the department effective two weeks ago, largely in honorable protest over its handling of the Black Panther case. ...Mr. Adams' testimony surely will shed light on how the unreasonable decision was made.Kagan’s Abortion Distortion: "When President Obama promised in his inaugural address to 'restore science to its rightful place,' he never explained what that rightful place would be." [Perhaps his hindering rather than helpful responses to the people most affected by the oil spill gives us a clue.]
"...the case involved two New Black Panther Party members - one a local Democratic Party official and poll watcher - who used racial epithets and threats while standing at the entrance to a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day, 2008. One Panther brandished a nightstick like a weapon. ...political appointees of President Obama's dismissed or reduced all charges or sanctions against the defendants, and then they stonewalled multiple inquiries about the case from Congress, the media and the Civil Rights Commission....
"...much of Justice's Civil Rights Division rejects the notion that any discrimination case should be filed against black defendants' for any reason. In short, a double standard exists in which only whites and Asians can be guilty of illegal discrimination.... while blacks can only be victims but never charged as perpetrators....If Americans of different races cannot receive equal justice from the Justice Department, there is no real justice."
Police, firefighter unions see chance to expand collective bargaining rights: "...a House Education and Labor Committee subpanel held a hearing on legislation that would direct federal authorities to review state laws and issue regulations regarding collective bargaining rights for public safety officers." See Stepping stones to tyranny?
DeMint: Over 90 Percent of Bills Passed Secretly With No Debate, No Vote: "U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) voiced concerns that the Senate passes over 90% of legislation without any debate, without amendment, and without a roll call vote.
"Comment: 'The issue is that they're spending the people's money, acquiring debt in the people's name, and threatening the people with force if we don't go along with it. The people have a limited amount of money, they're losing jobs, their assets are becoming worthless, and the Government thinks their presumed authority allows them to spend even more, to tax even more, to acquire more debt (in our name), and to initiate additional forces in order to coerce and collect."
Meanwhile, instead of saving money to help pay America's huge dept,
Obama Pledges New Aid for Palestinians: "President Obama promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday." Gaza and the Hamas actually have plenty of supplies. See Signs of the Times.Crisis and Corruption? ‘Major Part’ of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill ‘Essentially Written by BP’: “The problem for Democrats is that debating the Democrat cap-and-trade bill might not fit neatly into the White House messaging plan since it’s been widely reported that a major part, a major part of the Kerry-Lieberman bill was essentially written by BP,' McConnell said on the Senate floor on Wednesday...
"'...we see the administration using a crisis--in this case the disaster in the gulf--as an opportunity to muscle through Congress another deeply unpopular bill that has profound implications for small business and struggling households.'” See Rules for Radicals
Obama Admin May Have Illegally Spent $10 Million Promoting Abortion in Kenya: "...the Obama administration has spent $10 million potentially illegally promoting a pro-abortion constitution in Kenya.... Lobbying for or against abortion is prohibited under a provision of federal law known as the Siljander Amendment." (Actually, he spent over $23 million for the new corrupt Kenyan constitution.
Kenya: Abortion in the Draft Constitution: "Opponents of the clauses on abortion in the draft constitution have not drawn attention to the extraordinary process by which the majority of traditionally anti-abortion Kenyans have suddenly been convinced that dramatically increased accessibility to abortion is in the nation's best interest. ...almost two-thirds of Kenyans are ready to endorse a document that will, for all practical purposes, introduce abortion on demand in Kenya.
"...in their revision of 23 February, abortion is permitted for health reasons, which in effect amounts to abortion on demand.... Moreover, 'health' is a term open to ready change, easy expansion, and widely variant interpretations. Just consider the famous WHO definition of health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.... From a November draft with no mention of abortion, we have moved to a draft that allows abortion on the basis of mental well-being....The media are not interested in informing Kenyans about the incontrovertible consequences.... And the politicians are the politicians." See The UN Plan for Your Mental Health and the next link:
Obama promises to visit Kenya after referendum: "...US President Barack Obama has finally disclosed he will visit Kenya....Obama urged Kenyans to take part in the August referendum on the Proposed Constitution. He observed the new constitution could help establish the rule of law, protect human rights, and reduce the possibility of ethnic violence that erupted after the disputed 2007 presidential election."
May 2010
The First Amendment under 'progressive' siege: "Once upon a time we could count on lawyers and law school professors to defend the First 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..."]
[Elena Kagans] argued that the government can employ Orwellian restrictions on speech if it thinks such speech might 'harm' others, either by direct action or inciting someone else to take direct action. Who gets to decide when such restrictions are imposed for the greater good? Why, the government, of course....
"She does not identify, exactly, what speech the government could regard as inflicting such 'harm' as to justify suspending the Constitution, but she offers as examples incitement to violence, 'hate speech' and 'fighting words.' Since certain friends of the White House have suggested that 'tea party' activists may have already been guilty of sedition, we can imagine what some of the violations might one day be." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Kagan: Some speech can be 'disappeared': "President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, argued certain forms of speech that promote 'racial or gender inequality' could be 'disappeared.' In her few academic papers, Kagan evidences strong beliefs for court intervention in speech, going so far as to posit First Amendment speech should be weighed against 'societal costs.'... In a 1996 paper, 'Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine,' Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government." Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
Powerful forces calling for a Constitutional Convention: "Today there is massive ignorance among the American people about the Constitution. Worse, there are powerful forces who consider that document to be antiquated and a hindrance to their vision of an all powerful government.... After a convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the convention if we don’t like its agenda....
"So, what will the criteria for eligible delegates be? All of these choices would be made by Congress – that same one now controlled by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.... Keep in mind, these are the people who just managed to ram through a health 'reform' bill that the overwhelming majority of Americans opposed.... Do you think Pelosi and Reid would pass up an opportunity to set their own rules to guarantee a Constitution to their liking? Do you think for one minute that they would take any steps to protect our Constitution?
"We live in an era when the Supreme Court looks to foreign laws to assure our own laws are worthy. We live in an era when many believe that the Constitution is out of date ....These are the reasons why I, and many others around the nation, adamantly oppose a Constitutional Convention at this time....The Con Con delegates could literally put the Constitution on an operating table and use their scalpels to slice it up, creating an entirely new form of government."
Muslim daubs war memorial with 'Islam will dominate the world': [UK] "A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming 'Islam will dominate the world' walked free from court after prosecutors ruled his actions were not motivated by religion. Tohseef Shah, 21, could have faced a tougher sentence if the court had accepted that the insults - which included a threat to kill the Prime Minister - were inspired by religious hatred.... Roy Whenman, 78, who fought in the Korean War, said: 'If what he wrote on the memorial wasn't evidence of racial or religious hatred then what is? 'The memorial commemorates people of my generation who died for our freedom...
"The case comes after a senior judge ruled on Thursday that Christian beliefs had no right to protection by the courts....Gary McFarlane he had no right to appeal after he was sacked for refusing to give sex therapy to a gay couple."
April 2010
Justice Clarence Thomas: We're 'evading' eligibility Does testimony hint at division behind Supreme Court's doors? "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a House subcommittee that when it comes to determining whether a person born outside the 50 states can serve as U.S. president, the high court is 'evading' the issue." See Election 2008
March 2010
Roberts: Scene at State of Union 'Very Troubling': "U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the scene at this year's State of the Union address by President Obama was 'very troubling.'... Roberts told law students at the University of Alabama that anyone is free to criticize the court, but he was troubled the remarks came during that setting. Roberts says the State of the Union address has 'degenerated to a political pep rally.'"
Hearing Delayed for Obama Judicial Nominee Who Supported Serial Killer: "U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny gained notoriety in 2005 for his role in trying to fight the execution of convicted serial killer and rapist Michael Ross, also known as The Roadside Strangler, whom Chatigny had described as a victim of his own 'sexual sadism.'"
February 2010
Muslims Exempt from Death Penalty in U.S.? "Last October there was another in the growing number of Islamic honor killings in the United States when a Muslim in Peoria, Arizona... ran down his twenty-year-old daughter Noor, as well as her boyfriend’s mother, Amal Khalaf.... If a cold-blooded, premeditated murder doesn’t warrant the death penalty, what murder does?...
"...Islamic groups in the U.S. were working in the courts, businesses, and educational institutions to secure special privileges for Muslims, in accord with Sharia provisions that give them a place above non-Muslims in Islamic societies." Honor Killing and Sharia Law
The Census and the Constitution: "The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation's history....The Census Bureau tells us that this year, it will use a shorter questionnaire, consisting of only 10 questions. From what I see, only one of them serves the constitutional purpose of enumeration."
Geert Wilders and the Death of Free Speech: "Wilders, the Dutch Parliamentarian who produced the film Fitna, went on trial January 20 for charges including having 'intentionally offended a group of people, i.e. Muslims, based on their religion.' Fitna is a film which compellingly links images of terrorist attacks with passages from the Koran which incite Muslims to jihad. The idea that intentionally offending someone is a criminal offense should be a matter for Kafka or comic opera, but such is the advance of multiculturalism in the Netherlands today, and the rest of Europe is not all that far behind.
" The real purpose of the Wilders trial is twofold: first, the Dutch political establishment hopes to use it to stop the meteoric rise of the upstart Wilders, who challenges so many of the core assumptions upon which current Dutch and European Union policy are based.... Wilders has stated the problem plainly: 'I am being prosecuted for my political convictions.... If a politician is not allowed to criticise an ideology anymore... it will lead to the end of our freedom.' And not just in the Netherlands." See Seeds of Persecution
Anti-Islam Dutch Lawmaker Says He’s Being Denied a Fair Trial: "The Amsterdam District Court ruled that Geert Wilders could only call three witnesses.... In a statement released after the brief hearing, Wilders said, 'This court is not interested in the truth. This court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial.... This court would not be out of place in a dictatorship.' ....Wilders and his supporters say the case is much more than the trial of one man accused of discrimination and inciting hatred. They say the right of Europeans to speak what they believe to be the truth about Islam is at stake. 'This is not merely a lawsuit against Geert Wilders [but] … a trial against all freedom-loving people.'" See Wilders' video Fitna
Parents of Muslim-turned-Christian teen back out of deal: "The parents of teenager Rifqa Bary, who fled from her family after abandoning Islam to become a Christian and warned authorities in Florida she might be killed... are demanding permission to back out of an agreement they reached with child protective services in Ohio over her custody....
"'Children's Services is endangering the family's chance at reconciliation by allowing Rifqa to have contact with the [Christian] people who helped her run away,' the parents have submitted in a motion to the court.... But instead of 'helping' her run away, they responded to the emergency needs of a teen who already had fled....
"Bary's Muslim parents gave up their fight, according to Ohio court documents, avoiding a trial that could have put Islam's law barring 'apostasy,' on penalty of death, in the national spotlight." See Glossary of Islamic terms
Whose Rights? Mosque University: "I’m also glad I don’t teach at Temple University in Philadelphia, where students now have to pay an unconstitutional after-the-fact security fee levied by the university... for hosting none other than Geert Wilders....
"The notion that it is permissible to charge a student group extra fees for security simply because a speaker's views are controversial (read: not approved of by university administrators) might be acceptable at the University of Havana or the University of Beijing. But it should never happen in America....
"Geert Wilders came to Temple University on October 20, 2009. Wilders was invited in the wake of a controversy surrounding his film 'Fitna' which was released in 2008. The film was controversial because it features passages of the Koran interspersed with scenes of violence on the part of Muslims."
January 2010
Moderate Muslim wife beheader says the beheading was justified because his wife was mean to him: "'He [the founder of an Islam-oriented television station] chopped her head off. ...Mr. Hassan's apparent defense that he was a battered spouse.'... 'The spouse was the dominant figure in this relationship,' attorney Frank Bogulski said outside the courtroom. 'He was the victim. She was verbally abusive. She had humiliated him.' Nancy Sanders... was skeptical of the abuse claim, noting the stocky Hassan stood over 6 feet tall and 'filled a doorway,' while Aasiya was slender and several inches shorter. 'I never ever heard her disparage him in the workplace at all,' Sanders said. 'It just did not seem to be in her nature. She was very gentle.'"
White House Chief of Staff Emanuel's Joke - 'The First Amendment: Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, "When you think about the First Amendment, you think it's highly overrated." Watch it on this video.
"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 a redress of grievances."The First Amendment of our Constitution:
TORTURE: Where’s the Conservative Skepticism? "Many Americans might not particularly care whether torturing terrorists produces any useful information or not... For some, torturing the occasional innocent bystander might be the price we have to pay to keep America safe. But that line of reasoning -- the end justifies the means -- is a treacherous road to go down. It might start with the ticking time-bomb hypothetical: Would you torture one guilty person to save a million innocents? Most people would say yes. (How about a thousand innocents? Fifty? Two?) It ends with the organ-donation hypothetical: Would you kill one innocent person to harvest his organs and save five others? Most people would say no. Yet it's hard to draw a bright line that stops movement from one pole to the other."
Facebook Fatwa on Rifqa: "Facebook is full of death threats and other vicious material about Rifqa Bary, the teenage convert from Islam to Christianity who is in a fight for her life in juvenile court on Franklin County, Ohio.
"...the first Rifqa Bary Facebook Fatwa: a Facebook group... said openly, 'we need to kill her,' and was full of Muslim members. Now add this to the list of fatwas and death threats against Rifqa Bary: a Facebook group, again with numerous Muslim members, proclaiming, Don’t save Rifqa Bary, let them kill her.'... It has 64 members, all of them apparently Muslims.... Imagine, these are just the ones we catch....
"Another Facebook group screams, '[A profanity]...RIFQA BARY !!! SHAME FOR ISLAM !!!!' It has 57 members – once again, all Muslims. This one openly admits what CAIR and other front groups in America lie about: 'In Islam, yes, apostasy is the death penalty.'...
"Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas front CAIR has found out where Rifqa is living. ... How? What Islamist enemy leaked her location to CAIR? She must be moved at once....
"All communication to Rifqa was cut off. It was decided that a counselor would determine if she could have contact with friends. The counselor said she could, but nothing has happened. She is literally being treated like a prisoner.... This isolation is a form of psychological torture. ...why is a girl in America, guilty only of freedom of religion, allowed to be psychologically tortured?... Rifqa’s parents are fighting dependency with every dishonest crooked tool in the Islamist toolbox....The nature of the conflict is Islam, yet Rifqa’s lawyers will not present any religious evidence. Ex-Muslims such as Wafa Sultan, Nonie Darwish... would testify. None are being called." Why?
New council to advise on 'military activities' in U.S.: "The recent order, posted on the White House website, was accompanied by the explanation that the group is to work 'to protect our nation against all types of hazards.' It comes just weeks after the president issue a similarly obscure order vastly expanding INTERPOL's privileges in the U.S. ...Can the council recommend 'military activities' and can the governors, who already are in command of their own state guard units, mandate activities outside of their areas of jurisdiction?..."'...it was the 'first step towards martial law in America' because it sets up the 'use of federal troops and the combination of state and federal agencies under the Defense Department.' ...the order appears to be in defiance of posse comitatus, which restricts U.S. military action within the United States."
Elected officials bail on U.S. marriage law: "In a case with implications for the entire country, California's Proposition 8 defining marriage as between one man and one woman goes on trial Monday." See Cultural Corruption
Interpol Given Immunity in U.S. - Why? "...a White House executive order was signed that gives Interpol complete immunity from American law.... Interpol is the International Criminal Police Organization, which was first established in 1923. It operates in 188 nations around the world - and has had limited privileges in the U.S. up until now....Interpol investigates international crimes like human trafficking and smuggling, which on the face of it is a good thing. But they also work closely with international tribunals like the International Criminal Court [ICC]. Up until now, the United States has refused to join the ICC due to the provisions that would cause us to surrender much of our sovereignty.
"Brett D. Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation wrote back in 2005: ...'The U.S. opposes the ICC because it is an international legal body that lacks prudent safeguards against political manipulation, possesses sweeping authority without accountability to the Security Council, and violates national sovereignty by claiming jurisdiction over the nationals and military personnel of non-party states.
"...current top White House officials are in favor of our joining up with the ICC.... In other words, the U.S. Constitution, the foundation of the laws of this nation, must take a back seat to international law.... (Koh also, by the way, believes that in certain 'appropriate' cases, Sharia law has a place in the United States.)" See Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules
December 2009
Illinois town welcomes plan to house detainees: "The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists. Many people in this rural community are hopeful that their willingness to house the prisoners in a nearly empty penitentiary will offer an economic boost."
November 2009
Corruption? State can take, keep newborns' data -- 'Blood samples are biological, not genetic, information': "A judge in Minnesota has ruled the state can routinely collect, analyze, store and retrieve biological samples that include DNA from all newborns even though a state law specifically requires prior written authorization.... 'After my grandchild was born, a different nurse took the baby. My daughter heard my granddaughter start crying. She found out her heel was getting pricked...'" See Ban Truth - Reap TyrannyJudge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits: "A federal judge today ordered compensation for a Los Angeles couple denied spousal benefits by the federal government because they are gay men.... Levenson married his longtime partner, Tony Sears, on July 12, 2008, during the five-month period when same-sex marriage was legal in California." See Human Nature
Italians Outraged As European [regional] Court Rules Against Crucifixes in the Classroom: "Italians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education.... Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the Christian cross was a symbol of the country's Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity.....
"The influx of foreigners has led to deep-seated tensions.... Schools in Spain, France, and Britain have also debated whether crucifixes should be allowed in public schools. The landmark ruling could prompt a Europewide review of the use of religious symbols in state-run schools....
"The decision was handed down by a panel of seven judges ... [who] said that the display of crucifixes, which is common but not mandatory in Italian schools, violated the principle of secular education and might be intimidating for children from other faiths." See International Courts Mock Sovereignty
October 2009
War Memorials and the Constitution: "Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in ... a case that will determine the fate of another moving monument to our fallen soldiers—a 75-year-old veterans' memorial located on public land in the vast Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, Calif. ... In 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued to have the memorial taken down....
"Far more is at stake than a single memorial. If the Supreme Court allows this cross to be destroyed, it could presage the destruction of thousands of similar memorials nationwide, inflicting sorrow on millions of Americans, especially veterans and their families. The theory being advanced by the ACLU is that no religious symbol can be allowed on public land. That is a radical notion that is contrary to the text of the Constitution." See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
September 2009
Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents: "One of these courts is in New Hampshire, where a judge recently ordered that home-schooled Amanda Kurowski be sent to public school. ...
"...a state court in Florida was considering what to do with 17-year-old Rifqa Bary. Miss Bary fled to Florida from Ohio a few weeks back, where she sought refuge with a Christian couple ... She says she ran away from home because her father discovered she'd become a Christian—and then threatened to kill her. On Thursday, Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson ordered the girl and her family to try mediation." See Persecution
July 2009
Sonia [Sotomayor] Isn't Joe: "...her thinking is consistent and expresses a deeply-held belief that the law is fundamentally meant to be interpreted and applied in a non-constitutional, non-static and sociological manner. Later on in her speech at Seton Hall Law School, she does not rule out that women and people of color have 'different perspectives' because 'we have differences in logic and reasoning.' How can there be differences in logic? Logic, by definition, doesn't differ from one person to another. It uses set evidence, set assumptions and set relationships to reach a logical conclusion. Otherwise, the result is not logical conclusion, but an interpretation, an opinion." See New Emphasis in Schools and Culture
June 2009
County apologies for citing pastor's home Bible studies: "San Diego County has rescinded its citation and apologized to a pastor who was warned that he needed a permit to hold weekly Bible studies in his home. David Jones and his wife Mary had been warned that they could be fined $100 to $1,000 if they held religious assemblies without a major use permit.... Chief Administrative Officer Walter Ekard apologizes and assures the couple that steps are being taken so that similar religious gatherings won't be issued citations in the future."
May 2009
Lawyers tag nominee as 'terror on the bench': "Lawyers who have argued cases before Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor call her 'nasty,' 'angry' and a 'terror on the bench,' according to the current Almanac of the Federal Judiciary.... The withering evaluation of Judge Sotomayor's temperament stands in stark contrast to reviews of her peers."
Sonia Sotomayor 'La Raza member': "As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a 'racist,' Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police. ... Sotomayor has been heavily criticized for her racially charged statement: 'I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.'" See Aztlan and LaRaza
Sotomayor: "Empathy" in Action (Thomas Sowell): "Nothing demonstrates the fatal dangers from judicial 'empathy' more than Judge Sotomayor's decision in a 2008 case involving firemen who took an exam for promotion. After the racial mix of those who passed that test turned out to be predominantly white, with only a few blacks and Hispanics, the results were thrown out. ... Apparently she didn't have 'empathy' with those predominantly white males who had been cheated out of promotions they had earned.... That kind of empathy would for all practical purposes repeal the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees 'equal protection of the laws' to all Americans."
California Supreme Court Yields to 'We the People': "The California Supreme Court has finally yielded to the will of the majority of Californians who have voted consistently to preserve marriage for the union between one man and one woman. The Court also held that same-sex couples who wed in the state prior to the ruling will still be considered to be married." Listen to this video and see America's Spiritual Slide
Sotomayor Video: Judges Make Policy, Latinas Better Than Whites: "Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to become the newest Supreme Court justice, is on the record with some controversial remarks about 'diversity,' 'judicial activism' and female judges vs. male judges.... 'Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,' she said later, regarding non-white, female judges, 'our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.'
"...there is a 2005 video of Sotomayor, speaking with potential law clerks, saying that a 'court of appeals is where policy is made.' She added: 'And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it...”
H. R. 1966: Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act: Introduced in the House of Representatives, this bill includes these statements: Sec. 881. Cyberbullying `(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. `(2) the term `electronic means' means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.'"
Like "Hate crimes," such a law would probably affect any website that criticizes any politically correct religion or lifestyle -- whether or not there is any intention to intimidate. See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
A question of allegiance: [Harold Koh, awaiting confirmation as legal adviser to the State Department. ] "The position of State Department legal adviser is unique. The person holding it helps formulate and carry out U.S. foreign policy; advises the Justice Department on cases with international implications; influences U.S. positions on issues considered by international bodies; represents the United States at treaty negotiations and international conferences; and has input into the drafting of Security Council resolutions and the interpretation of treaties.
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...[Koh] is an activist lawyer who knows what he wants the law to be. ...it is apparent Mr. Koh wants U.S. jurisprudence to be shaped by international law, European courts, foreign governments and international organizations such as the United Nations. ... He wrote, 'Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system.' ...The will of the American people will no longer matter if it is contrary to that of the world community.""Empathy" Versus Law: Part III by Thomas Sowell: "There is a reason why the statue of Justice wears a blindfold. There are things that courts are not supposed to see or recognize when making their decisions -- the race you belong to, whether you are rich or poor, and other personal things that could bias decisions by judges and juries. It is an ideal that a society strives for, even if particular judges or juries fall short of that ideal.
"Now, however, President Barack Obama has repudiated that ideal itself by saying that he wants to appoint judges with 'empathy' for particular groups. This was not an isolated slip of the tongue.... Nor is this President Obama's only attempt to remake American society....
"Appointing judges to the federal courts-- including the Supreme Court -- who believe in expanding the powers of the federal government to make arbitrary decisions, choosing who will be winners and losers in the economy and in the society, is perfectly consistent with a vision of the world where self-confident and self-righteous elites rule according to their own notions, instead of merely governing under the restraints of the Constitution. If all this can be washed down with pious talk about 'empathy,' so much the better for those who want to remake America." See next link:
"Empathy" Versus Law - Part 1 - by Thomas Sowell: "That President Obama has made 'empathy' with certain groups one of his criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a dangerous sign of how much further the Supreme Court may be pushed away from the rule of law and toward even more arbitrary judicial edicts to advance the agenda of the left and set it in legal concrete, immune from the democratic process. Would you want to go into court to appear before a judge with 'empathy' for groups A, B and C, if you were a member of groups X, Y or Z?...
"Appoint enough Supreme Court justices with 'empathy' for particular groups and you would have, for all practical purposes, repealed the 14th Amendment, which guarantees 'equal protection of the laws' for all Americans....
"If you were German, would you be in favor of a law 'to relieve the distress of the German people and nation'? That was the law that gave Hitler dictatorial power.... He was not elected on a platform of war, dictatorship or genocide. He got the power to do those things because of a law 'to relieve the distress of the German people.' When you buy words, you had better know what you are buying." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Hawaii Lawmakers Create 'Islam Day': Hawaii's state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate 'Islam Day" — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn't want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.... The bill seeks to recognize [Islam's] 'rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions'..." See Spreading Islam through Christian & Public Schools
April 2009
Obama Nominee Wants U.N. Committees Setting U.S. Social Policy: "[Koh, top lawyer in Obama's Dept. of State] believes 'the only way most states can realize and express their sovereignty is through participation in the various regimes that regulate and order the international system.'... Koh sides with those Justices on the Supreme Court that he calls Transnationalists.... 'The Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive power to promote the development of a global legal system.'...
"['...faceless U.N. committees that monitor compliance with U.N. treaties'] routinely take it upon themselves to reinterpret hard-law treaties.... Radical lawyers and judges around the world accept these personal views as 'decisions' like legal writ." See Trading US Rights for UN Rules
March 2009
Obama Nominee Wants U.N. Committees Setting U.S. Social Policy: "[Koh, top lawyer in Obama's Dept. of State] believes 'the only way most states can realize and express their sovereignty is through participation in the various regimes that regulate and order the international system.'... Koh sides with those Justices on the Supreme Court that he calls Transnationalists.... 'The Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive power to promote the development of a global legal system.'...
"['...faceless U.N. committees that monitor compliance with U.N. treaties'] routinely take it upon themselves to reinterpret hard-law treaties.... Radical lawyers and judges around the world accept these personal views as 'decisions' like legal writ." See Trading US Rights for UN Rules
Nigeria: The Battle for Shari'ah Supremacy: "In January 2000, Governor Ahmad Sani Yarima Bakura defied the Nigerian Constitution and enacted Shari'ah Law in his north western state of Zamfara. Other northern and middle-belt Muslim-majority states soon followed and it was not long before all 12 northern states were under Shari'ah Law: the constitution of the Islamic State. In religiously mixed middle-belt states such as Kaduna and Plateau, thousands -- mostly Christians -- died in Shari'ah riots and anti-Christian pogroms." See Her All for Him
Why I Hate "Hate-Crimes" Legislation: "...hate crimes legislation is the statutory framework for the forceful imposition of a political and social religion. The so-called liberals mean to institutionalize intolerance, even as they loudly proclaim Holy Tolerance as their all in all. Because we seek to protect a form of human life that they despise, they defame as bigots or religious fanatics people working to re-establish respect for the law against abortion. Meanwhile they move boldly to use the force of law to punish the thoughts and attitudes of any who move against the sacred untouchables of their new cult of sexual pleasure and self-indulgence." See Why "Hate Crime" laws ban Biblical Christianity
February 2009
Design for Despotism: "What struck me more was the unnecessarily arrogant fashion in which the Obama faction declared control over an activity that the Constitution clearly states shall be determined by law. Existing law places the Census bureau under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce.... The Constitution's famous system of checks and balance works only on the assumption that the different branches of government will jealously guard their own Constitutional prerogatives....There will be a special danger in this regard if the executive in question has enough support in the Congress to make him confident that his abuses will not be challenged." See Washington's Farewell Address
December 2008
Beware Article V (on amending the U.S. Constitution): "...the absence of any mechanism to ensure representative selection of delegates could put a runaway convention in the hands of single-issue groups whose self-interest may be contrary to our national well-being." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
President-elect would seek changes in Supreme Court -- 'Constitution a living, breathing document: "President-elect Barack Obama believes the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted through the lens of current events, and the U.S. Supreme Court needs to include empathy for the plight of minorities in its opinions.... Obama believes the Constitution is flawed, because it does not mandate redistribution of wealth, and he says the Supreme Court should have intervened years ago to accomplish that. ...In the 2001 interview, Obama said:'... It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted.... [G]enerally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."' See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
November 2008
Amending the natural born citizen requirement: (February 2006) "The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the 'stupidest provision' in the Constitution,1 'undecidedly un-American,' 'blatantly discriminatory,' and the 'Constitution’s worst provision.' ... policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligible for the presidency."
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose: "The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.... Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return. ...the central bank has stepped into a rescue role that was also the purpose of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailout plan -- without safeguards put into the TARP legislation by Congress."
September 2008
Denver cops get T-shirts that mock DNC protesters: "Denver's police union is facing criticism for printing a commemorative T-shirt that makes light of the use of violence by police.... 'We get up early, to beat the crowds,' the shirt reads...The words flank a grinning police officer holding a baton and wearing a hat with a crossed-out number '68.'... Detective Nick Rogers of the Police Protective Association said that the union predicts sales of about 2,000 shirts in addition to the ones given free to Denver police officers." [What an shameful reminder of Hitler's brutal brownshirts!] See Picture of the shirt and Human Nature
June 2008
Dad grounds daughter, but court ungrounds her: "The father had ordered the daughter, who was not identified by the report, to remain off the Internet. She didn't, chatting on websites her father had tried to block and then posting 'inappropriate' pictures of herself online, using a friend's Internet portal. As punishment, the father refused to let her go on a scheduled school trip, so the 12-year-old went to Canada's judicial system to get her way. ...the 12-year-old had access to the courts using a court-appointed attorney representing her in her parents' custody dispute." See What Happened To Parental Rights?
March 2008
[Good news!] International Law: "...its sordid origins trace to 1993, when José Medellín, a Mexican national, murdered two Houston teenagers. He was sentenced to death by a Texas jury, but his lawyers argued on appeal that he hadn't had access to Mexico's consulate before he confessed to his crimes. ... Mexican authorities made the case a referendum on capital punishment and international legal norms, ultimately suing the U.S. in the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The ICJ ruled in Mexico's favor.... The question before the Supreme Court was whether such international dictates must be enforced by sovereign state courts....
[Reversing the Clinton administration's shift toward compliance with international law, the current Supreme Court decision upheld national sovereignty!] "Treaty obligations, in other words, do not necessarily take on the force of law domestically. Rather, Congress must enact legislation for whatever provisions -- such as consular notification -- that it wants to make the formal law of the land. This distinction matters because it establishes a fire wall between international and domestic law. It also protects the core American Constitutional principles of federalism and the separation of powers. As Justice Roberts points out, the courts must leave to the political branches 'the primary role in deciding when and how international agreements will be enforced.'" See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Clarence Thomas Mr. Constitution: "Interpreting the Constitution is the Supreme Court's most important and most difficult task. An even harder question is how to approach a Constitution that, in fact, is no longer in pristine form -- with the Framers' design having been warped over the years by waves of judicial mischief. There is an obvious temptation to redress the imbalance, which Associate Justice Thomas decisively rejects." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
February 2008
A Craven Canterbury Tale: "...Rowan Williams -- the archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Church of England, symbolic leader of the international Anglican Communion -- called for 'constructive accommodation' with some aspects of sharia law, and declared the incorporation of Muslim religious law into the British legal system 'unavoidable.'...
"What one British writer called the 'jurisprudential kernel' of his thoughts is as follows: 'In the modern world, we must avoid the 'inflexible or over-restrictive applications of traditional law' and must be wary of our 'universalist Enlightenment system,' which risks 'ghettoizing' a minority. Instead, we must embrace the notion of 'plural jurisdiction.' ... This was a call for the evisceration of the British legal system as we know it. ... Many explanations for the archbishop's statements have already been proffered: the weakness of the Church of England, the paganism of the British, the feebleness of Williams's intellect, the decline of the West..." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
January 2008
Remarks on Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, HR 1955 (by Ron Paul, 12-5-07): "..this legislation was brought to the floor for a vote under suspension of regular order. These so-called 'suspension' bills are meant to be non-controversial, thereby negating the need for the more complete and open debate allowed under regular order.... The legislation specifically singles out the Internet for 'facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process' in the United States.... Are we, for our own good, to be subjected to the kind of governmental control of the Internet that we see in unfree societies?...
"This legislation will set up a new government bureaucracy to monitor and further study the as-yet undemonstrated pressing problem of homegrown terrorism and radicalization. It will no doubt prove to be another bureaucracy that artificially inflates problems so as to guarantee its future existence and funding... at great further expense to our civil liberties.
"...it leaves the door wide open for the broadest definition of what constitutes 'radicalization.'... Legislation such as this demands heavy-handed governmental action against American citizens where no crime has been committed. It is yet another attack on our Constitutionally-protected civil liberties." 5 December 2007 Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. See Why "Hate crime" laws would ban Biblical Christianity
November 2007
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America: "...a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act... is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate." We will read the bill and learn more about it. Meanwhile -- see Why "Hate Crime" laws ban Biblical Christianity
October 2007
'Mom' and 'Dad' banished by California: "'Mom and Dad' as well as 'husband and wife' have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose."
Case Pits Texas Against International Court, Bush: "Mexican citizen Jose Medellin has been on death row in Texas for the past 13 years. He admitted to the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls. But Mexico, which opposes the death penalty, sued in the United Nations International Court of Justice, claiming the United States violated the Vienna Convention.... President Bush, who supports the death penalty, has sided with the international court....If Texas ignores the ICJ ruling, it could damage the U.S. internationally and Bush's ability to conduct foreign policy. It would also endanger U.S. citizens who commit crimes abroad. See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
September 2007
Senate Passes Hate Crimes Bill: "...the Senate voted 60-39 to end debate on the Matthew Shepard Act , which expands federal hate crimes laws to include violence based on a victim's sexual orientation, gender, disability, and other factors.... The Senate attached hate crimes legislation to a must-pass Pentagon spending bill Thursday, but opponents predicted it ultimately would fail. 'The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the defense authorization bill.... This bill will get vetoed." See Why "Hate crime" laws would ban Biblical Christianity
July 2007
[in contrast to traditional moral values] a legal expert has proposed.... 'When a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics,' [said] Jean Edward Smith, a biographer and political science professor at Marshall University.....Supreme Court 'Dangerously Out of Balance'? "The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is 'the most conservative in memory,' and the Senate should not confirm another nominee to the bench from President Bush 'except in extraordinary circumstances,' in the view of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).... Schumer's comments coincided with a new ABC News-Washington Post poll in which 31 percent of respondents said the Supreme Court was 'too conservative'....
"Ed Whelan... sharply criticized Schumer.... Whelan characterized the court's rulings this term as rather modest - 'a small step towards the right, and towards the center.' 'After decades of liberal judicial activism on so many issues, the court's position remains decidedly on the left.'" See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Proposal to Expand Size of Supreme Court Draws Fire: "The number of justices on the Supreme Court should be increased because the 'current five-man majority persists in thumbing its nose at popular values,'
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'The left is apoplectic at the idea that they don't get to dictate what I would call mis-interpretation of the Constitution anymore.'...He also disputed Smith's notion that the conservative majority was infringing on 'popular values.' 'It seems to me that the five-justice majority has actually come down on the side of popular values,' he said. 'Huge majorities of the population think that states should be able to restrict partial-birth abortion. Huge majorities think that government should treat [ethnicities] equally. Huge majorities think that the government should not be actively-hostile to faith in the public square.'" See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
'Hate Crimes' Bill Opposed by 'Religious Zealots,' Activists Say: "As the Senate prepares to vote on legislation that would expand the categories of 'hate crimes,' a group of civil rights leaders on Tuesday called opponents of the measure 'right-wing fundamentalists' with 'often-bigoted agendas.' Participants in the conference call voiced support for the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was introduced on March 20 by Sen. Edward Kennedy.... However, given the full Senate calendar, Henderson urged that the measure be attached to the Department of Defense authorization bill rather than trying to get the Kennedy bill approved separately."
May 2007
North Carolina Debates Use of Koran, Other Non-Christian Texts During Court Hearings: "A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of North Carolina challenges a state policy that allows only the Bible to be used in such court procedures. 'If the state is going to get into the religious oath business, the state has to be fair,' said Seth Cohen, the ACLU's lead counsel on the case.... Filed in July 2005, the lawsuit argues that state law is unconstitutional because it favors Christianity over other religions."
Gender LAW. Bill requires hiring 'gays': "H.R. 2015, the 'Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007,' would be a disaster.... 'Its passage would both overtly discriminate against and muzzle people of faith...' Rendall said. The proposal, from Rep. Frank, D-Mass., follows H.R. 1592..."
Bush Expected to Veto 'Hate Crimes' Bill: "'...the administration believes that H.R. 1592 is unnecessary and constitutionally questionable,' the release stated. 'If H.R. 1592 were presented to the president, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill.'... 'In addition, almost every state in the country can actively prosecute hate crimes under the state's own hate crimes law.'"
U.S. House passes [Hate Crimes] bill: "Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by U.S. government hate crimes law.... Similar legislation is also moving through the Senate, setting the stage for another veto showdown with President George W. Bush.... Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat and the only openly gay man in the House, presided." See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
May 3
was the National Day of [Interfaith] Prayer. It was also the day the House voted and passed the Hate Crimes Prevention Bill! An interesting coincidence?Cultural Depravity. European Parliament Passes Resolution Vowing to Take 'Homophobic' Countries to Court: "Members of the European Parliament from France, the Netherlands and Italy, among others, vilified Poland as 'hateful' and 'repulsive' for refusing to allow promotion of homosexuality in schools. A vote was held today to approve an EP resolution chastising Poland for 'homophobia.' ... At issue was a proposed law in Poland which would forbid 'homosexual propaganda' in schools. ...
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France's MEP Rour Martine called statements in defense of the traditional family by Polish parliamentarians, 'diatribes' and noted that they 'must stop', adding that they were 'repulsive' and 'hateful'. ... The statements from France were supported by Sophia in't Veld of the Netherlands who also accused the Polish government of 'hatred'.... Italy's Giusto Catania joined in the attack on Poland adding an attack on the church as well which he said never stopped in expressing hatred toward homosexuals."...the most powerful response came from Poland's Bogdan Pek. 'This was an artificial piece of theatre,' he said. 'An attempt to carry out an assault on a particular member state that a bunch of liberals and lefties disapprove of.... [I]n the recent histories of your countries there has been persecution - persecution of Jews for example who took refuge in Poland.... Poland is a tolerant, hospitable country. It is absurd to suggest that Poland is an island of intolerance in Europe.... A cynical manipulation which is designed to pull the wool over the European public's eyes."
Federal Hate-Crimes Bill Imperiled [Link deleted since this is a homosexual website. It shows their hatred toward resisters]: "Saying that right-wing opponents of proposed federal protection against hate crimes have spread an 'avalanche of lies,' the Human Rights Campaign issued an urgent call to action to its membership May 1, drawing attention to the controversial hate crimes bill, which is scheduled for a vote May 3.... 'If there ever were a time for our community to act to pass hate crimes legislation, now is that time," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. 'As expected, the anti-gay, extremist organizations have geared up their machines of hate....' Nothing in this act would prohibit the lawful expression of one’s deeply held religious beliefs.' [Not true!] .... 'It’s no surprise the religious right is so concerned about hate speech--for them hate appears to be a cottage industry."
April 2007
CWA: Hate Crimes' Bill Moving to Full House: "The House Judiciary Committee passed a 'hate crimes' bill Wednesday night, all 23 Democrats in favor, all 17 Republicans opposed. Every Republican attempt to amend the bill was defeated. Critics call it a 'thought crimes' bill.
"The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1592) would expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include violence against a person because of his or her 'actual or perceived' sexual orientation or 'gender identity.' Under the bill, people who attack others out of 'hatred' for their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability would be committing a federal offense. The bill is now headed to the full House for a vote, probably next week." See
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health
"Hate Crimes" Law - Congress denying equal protection: "Last week, some schools suspended students who objected to the pro-homosexual advocacy of the Day of Silence. This week Congress moved forward with legislation that would drastically undermine the equal protection of heterosexual and traditional marriage advocates.... The so-called hate crimes bill, H.R. 1592 was debated by the full House Judiciary Committee on April 25 and is expected to be voted on the House floor next Thursday, May 3rd or as early as Tuesday." See The War on Hate Bans Christian Values
Texas soldier who wouldn't serve U.N. mission loses Supreme Court case: "Michael New, a Texas soldier who refused to serve on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia, lost an appeal of his bad-conduct discharge at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.... Michael New, a former Army medic, had argued he was not afforded all his legal rights in the course of the court-martial that stemmed from his refusal to wear the U.N. insignia on his Army uniform in 1995.... The justices, without commenting, declined Monday to hear his case."
February 2007
Bill would limit religious free speech (scroll down to title): "Exodus International is voicing opposition to a federal 'hate crimes' bill introduced in the House.... This is an expansion of current federal hate crime law.... This type of legislation led to limiting speech that is offensive to protected groups. The result is that a sermon or lesson taught in church or Christian schools cannot mention that the Bible says that homosexuality is a sin.... There are many accounts of people being charged with hate crimes in Canada based on the slightest evidence that they said something which put homosexuality in a bad light." See From U.S. Sovereignty to Global Conformity and Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
January 2007
No-spank bill on way: "The bill, which is still being drafted, will be written broadly... prohibiting 'any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching, any of that.' Lieber said it would be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine up to $1,000.... Beyond the debate among child psychologists -- many of whom believe limited spanking can be effective -- the bill is sure to face questions over how practical it is to enforce and opposition from some legislators who generally oppose what they consider 'nanny government.'...
"Professor Robert Larzelere, who has studied child discipline for 30 years, said his research shows spanking is fine, as long as it's used sparingly and doesn't escalate to abuse. 'If it's used in a limited way,' the Oklahoma State University professor said, 'it can be more effective than almost any other type of punishment.''' See How Human "Rights" Crush Individual Freedom
Congressional Lobbying Reform Legislation (Senate Bill 1) threatens Freedom of Speech: "...There are too many people watching them [lawmakers] carefully and reporting through the relatively inexpensive medium of the internet. Now it seems some congressmen want to fight back." See The Intelligent Student's Guide to the New World Order
Let There Be 'Blight': "The city of Burien, Wash., recently decided that a piece of property owned by the seven Strobel sisters that had long housed a popular diner-style restaurant was not upscale enough for the city's ambitious 'Town Square' development, which will feature condos, shops, restaurants and offices. Rather than condemn the property for a private developer and risk a lawsuit, Burien came up with a plan -- it would put a road through the property, and the city manager told his staff to 'make damn sure' it did. When a subsequent survey revealed that the road would not affect the building itself... the staff developed yet another site plan that put the road directly through the building. A trial court concluded that the city's actions might be 'oppressive' and 'an abuse of power' -- but allowed the condemnation anyway.... Welcome to the post-Kelo world.... When it comes to governmental abuse, 'it can't happen here' really means 'it is happening right now.'" See
Guide to the New World Order
December 2009
Illinois town welcomes plan to house detainees: "The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists. Many people in this rural community are hopeful that their willingness to house the prisoners in a nearly empty penitentiary will offer an economic boost."
November 2009
Corruption? State can take, keep newborns' data -- 'Blood samples are biological, not genetic, information': "A judge in Minnesota has ruled the state can routinely collect, analyze, store and retrieve biological samples that include DNA from all newborns even though a state law specifically requires prior written authorization.... 'After my grandchild was born, a different nurse took the baby. My daughter heard my granddaughter start crying. She found out her heel was getting pricked...'" See Ban Truth - Reap TyrannyJudge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits: "A federal judge today ordered compensation for a Los Angeles couple denied spousal benefits by the federal government because they are gay men.... Levenson married his longtime partner, Tony Sears, on July 12, 2008, during the five-month period when same-sex marriage was legal in California." See Human Nature
Italians Outraged As European [regional] Court Rules Against Crucifixes in the Classroom: "Italians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education.... Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the Christian cross was a symbol of the country's Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity.....
"The influx of foreigners has led to deep-seated tensions.... Schools in Spain, France, and Britain have also debated whether crucifixes should be allowed in public schools. The landmark ruling couldprompt a Europewide review of the use of religious symbols in state-run schools....
"The decision was handed down by a panel of seven judges ... [who] said that the display of crucifixes, which is common but not mandatory in Italian schools, violated the principle of secular education and might be intimidating for children from other faiths." See International Courts Mock Sovereignty
October 2009
War Memorials and the Constitution: "Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in ... a case that will determine the fate of another moving monument to our fallen soldiers—a 75-year-old veterans' memorial located on public land in the vast Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, Calif. ... In 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued to have the memorial taken down....
"Far more is at stake than a single memorial. If the Supreme Court allows this cross to be destroyed, it could presage the destruction of thousands of similar memorials nationwide, inflicting sorrow on millions of Americans, especially veterans and their families. The theory being advanced by the ACLU is that no religious symbol can be allowed on public land. That is a radical notion that is contrary to the text of the Constitution." See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
September 2009
Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents: "One of these courts is in New Hampshire, where a judge recently ordered that home-schooled Amanda Kurowski be sent to public school. ...
"...a state court in Florida was considering what to do with 17-year-old Rifqa Bary. Miss Bary fled to Florida from Ohio a few weeks back, where she sought refuge with a Christian couple ... She says she ran away from home because her father discovered she'd become a Christian—and then threatened to kill her. On Thursday, Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson ordered the girl and her family to try mediation." See Persecution
July 2009
Sonia [Sotomayor] Isn't Joe: "...her thinking is consistent and expresses a deeply-held belief that the law is fundamentally meant to be interpreted and applied in a non-constitutional, non-static and sociological manner. Later on in her speech at Seton Hall Law School, she does not rule out that women and people of color have 'different perspectives' because 'we have differences in logic and reasoning.' How can there be differences in logic? Logic, by definition, doesn't differ from one person to another. It uses set evidence, set assumptions and set relationships to reach a logical conclusion. Otherwise, the result is not logical conclusion, but an interpretation, an opinion." See New Emphasis in Schools and Culture
June 2009
County apologies for citing pastor's home Bible studies: "San Diego County has rescinded its citation and apologized to a pastor who was warned that he needed a permit to hold weekly Bible studies in his home. David Jones and his wife Mary had been warned that they could be fined $100 to $1,000 if they held religious assemblies without a major use permit.... Chief Administrative Officer Walter Ekard apologizes and assures the couple that steps are being taken so that similar religious gatherings won't be issued citations in the future."
May 2009
Lawyers tag nominee as 'terror on the bench': "Lawyers who have argued cases before Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor call her 'nasty,' 'angry' and a 'terror on the bench,' according to the current Almanac of the Federal Judiciary.... The withering evaluation of Judge Sotomayor's temperament stands in stark contrast to reviews of her peers."
Sonia Sotomayor 'La Raza member': "As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a 'racist,' Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police. ... Sotomayor has been heavily criticized for her racially charged statement: 'I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.'" See Aztlan and LaRaza
Sotomayor: "Empathy" in Action (Thomas Sowell): "Nothing demonstrates the fatal dangers from judicial 'empathy' more than Judge Sotomayor's decision in a 2008 case involving firemen who took an exam for promotion. After the racial mix of those who passed that test turned out to be predominantly white, with only a few blacks and Hispanics, the results were thrown out. ... Apparently she didn't have 'empathy' with those predominantly white males who had been cheated out of promotions they had earned.... That kind of empathy would for all practical purposes repeal the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees 'equal protection of the laws' to all Americans."
California Supreme Court Yields to 'We the People': "The California Supreme Court has finally yielded to the will of the majority of Californians who have voted consistently to preserve marriage for the union between one man and one woman. The Court also held that same-sex couples who wed in the state prior to the ruling will still be considered to be married." Listen to this video and seeAmerica's Spiritual Slide
Sotomayor Video: Judges Make Policy, Latinas Better Than Whites: "Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick to become the newest Supreme Court justice, is on the record with some controversial remarks about 'diversity,' 'judicial activism' and female judges vs. male judges.... 'Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,' she said later, regarding non-white, female judges, 'our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.'
"...there is a 2005 video of Sotomayor, speaking with potential law clerks, saying that a 'court of appeals is where policy is made.' She added: 'And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it...”
H. R. 1966: Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act: Introduced in the House of Representatives, this bill includes these statements: Sec. 881. Cyberbullying `(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. `(2) the term `electronic means' means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.'"
Like "Hate crimes," such a law would probably affect any website that criticizes any politically correct religion or lifestyle -- whether or not there is any intention to intimidate. See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
A question of allegiance: [Harold Koh, awaiting confirmation as legal adviser to the State Department. ] "The position of State Department legal adviser is unique. The person holding it helps formulate and carry out U.S. foreign policy; advises the Justice Department on cases with international implications; influences U.S. positions on issues considered by international bodies; represents the United States at treaty negotiations and international conferences; and has input into the drafting of Security Council resolutions and the interpretation of treaties.
" ...[Koh] is an activist lawyer who knows what he wants the law to be. ...it is apparent Mr. Koh wants U.S. jurisprudence to be shaped by international law, European courts, foreign governments and international organizations such as the United Nations. ... He wrote, 'Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive powers to promote the development of a global legal system.' ...The will of the American people will no longer matter if it is contrary to that of the world community."
"Empathy" Versus Law: Part III by Thomas Sowell: "There is a reason why the statue of Justice wears a blindfold. There are things that courts are not supposed to see or recognize when making their decisions -- the race you belong to, whether you are rich or poor, and other personal things that could bias decisions by judges and juries. It is an ideal that a society strives for, even if particular judges or juries fall short of that ideal.
"Now, however, President Barack Obama has repudiated that ideal itself by saying that he wants to appoint judges with 'empathy' for particular groups. This was not an isolated slip of the tongue.... Nor is this President Obama's only attempt to remake American society....
"Appointing judges to the federal courts-- including the Supreme Court -- who believe in expanding the powers of the federal government to make arbitrary decisions, choosing who will be winners and losers in the economy and in the society, is perfectly consistent with a vision of the world where self-confident and self-righteous elites rule according to their own notions, instead of merely governing under the restraints of the Constitution. If all this can be washed down with pious talk about 'empathy,' so much the better for those who want to remake America." See next link:
"Empathy" Versus Law - Part 1 - by Thomas Sowell: "That President Obama has made 'empathy' with certain groups one of his criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a dangerous sign of how much further the Supreme Court may be pushed away from the rule of law and toward even more arbitrary judicial edicts to advance the agenda of the left and set it in legal concrete, immune from the democratic process. Would you want to go into court to appear before a judge with 'empathy' for groups A, B and C, if you were a member of groups X, Y or Z?...
"Appoint enough Supreme Court justices with 'empathy' for particular groups and you would have, for all practical purposes, repealed the 14th Amendment, which guarantees 'equal protection of the laws' for all Americans....
"If you were German, would you be in favor of a law 'to relieve the distress of the German people and nation'? That was the law that gave Hitler dictatorial power.... He was not elected on a platform of war, dictatorship or genocide. He got the power to do those things because of a law 'to relieve the distress of the German people.' When you buy words, you had better know what you are buying."See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Hawaii Lawmakers Create 'Islam Day': Hawaii's state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to celebrate 'Islam Day" — over the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn't want to honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.... The bill seeks to recognize [Islam's] 'rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions'..." See Spreading Islam through Christian & Public Schools
April 2009
Obama Nominee Wants U.N. Committees Setting U.S. Social Policy: "[Koh, top lawyer in Obama's Dept. of State] believes 'the only way most states can realize and express their sovereignty is through participation in the various regimes that regulate and order the international system.'... Koh sides with those Justices on the Supreme Court that he calls Transnationalists.... 'The Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive power to promote the development of a global legal system.'...
"['...faceless U.N. committees that monitor compliance with U.N. treaties'] routinely take it upon themselves to reinterpret hard-law treaties.... Radical lawyers and judges around the world accept these personal views as 'decisions' like legal writ." See Trading US Rights for UN Rules
March 2009
Obama Nominee Wants U.N. Committees Setting U.S. Social Policy: "[Koh, top lawyer in Obama's Dept. of State] believes 'the only way most states can realize and express their sovereignty is through participation in the various regimes that regulate and order the international system.'... Koh sides with those Justices on the Supreme Court that he calls Transnationalists.... 'The Transnationalists believe that U.S. courts can and should use their interpretive power to promote the development of a global legal system.'...
"['...faceless U.N. committees that monitor compliance with U.N. treaties'] routinely take it upon themselves to reinterpret hard-law treaties.... Radical lawyers and judges around the world accept these personal views as 'decisions' like legal writ." See Trading US Rights for UN Rules
Nigeria: The Battle for Shari'ah Supremacy: "In January 2000, Governor Ahmad Sani Yarima Bakura defied the Nigerian Constitution and enacted Shari'ah Law in his north western state of Zamfara. Other northern and middle-belt Muslim-majority states soon followed and it was not long before all 12 northern states were under Shari'ah Law: the constitution of the Islamic State. In religiously mixed middle-belt states such as Kaduna and Plateau, thousands -- mostly Christians -- died in Shari'ah riots and anti-Christian pogroms." See Her All for Him
Why I Hate "Hate-Crimes" Legislation: "...hate crimes legislation is the statutory framework for the forceful imposition of a political and social religion. The so-called liberals mean to institutionalize intolerance, even as they loudly proclaim Holy Tolerance as their all in all. Because we seek to protect a form of human life that they despise, they defame as bigots or religious fanatics people working to re-establish respect for the law against abortion. Meanwhile they move boldly to use the force of law to punish the thoughts and attitudes of any who move against the sacred untouchables of their new cult of sexual pleasure and self-indulgence." See Why "Hate Crime" laws ban Biblical Christianity
February 2009
Design for Despotism: "What struck me more was the unnecessarily arrogant fashion in which the Obama faction declared control over an activity that the Constitution clearly states shall be determined by law. Existing law places the Census bureau under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce.... The Constitution's famous system of checks and balance works only on the assumption that the different branches of government will jealously guard their own Constitutional prerogatives....There will be a special danger in this regard if the executive in question has enough support in the Congress to make him confident that his abuses will not be challenged." See Washington's Farewell Address
December 2008
Beware Article V (on amending the U.S. Constitution): "...the absence of any mechanism to ensure representative selection of delegates could put a runaway convention in the hands of single-issue groups whose self-interest may be contrary to our national well-being." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
President-elect would seek changes in Supreme Court -- 'Constitution a living, breathing document: "President-elect Barack Obama believes the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted through the lens of current events, and the U.S. Supreme Court needs to include empathy for the plight of minorities in its opinions.... Obama believes the Constitution is flawed, because it does not mandate redistribution of wealth, and he says the Supreme Court should have intervened years ago to accomplish that. ...In the 2001 interview, Obama said:'... It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted.... [G]enerally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."' See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
November 2008
Amending the natural born citizen requirement: (February 2006) "The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the 'stupidest provision' in the Constitution,1 'undecidedly un-American,' 'blatantly discriminatory,' and the 'Constitution’s worst provision.' ... policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligible for the presidency."
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose: "The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.... Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return. ...the central bank has stepped into a rescue role that was also the purpose of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailout plan -- without safeguards put into the TARP legislation by Congress."
September 2008
Denver cops get T-shirts that mock DNC protesters: "Denver's police union is facing criticism for printing a commemorative T-shirt that makes light of the use of violence by police.... 'We get up early, to beat the crowds,' the shirt reads...The words flank a grinning police officer holding a baton and wearing a hat with a crossed-out number '68.'... Detective Nick Rogers of the Police Protective Association said that the union predicts sales of about 2,000 shirts in addition to the ones given free to Denver police officers." [What an shameful reminder of Hitler's brutal brownshirts!] See Picture of the shirt andHuman Nature
June 2008
Dad grounds daughter, but court ungrounds her: "The father had ordered the daughter, who was not identified by the report, to remain off the Internet. She didn't, chatting on websites her father had tried to block and then posting 'inappropriate' pictures of herself online, using a friend's Internet portal. As punishment, the father refused to let her go on a scheduled school trip, so the 12-year-old went to Canada's judicial system to get her way. ...the 12-year-old had access to the courts using a court-appointed attorney representing her in her parents' custody dispute." See What Happened To Parental Rights?
March 2008
[Good news!] International Law: "...its sordid origins trace to 1993, when José Medellín, a Mexican national, murdered two Houston teenagers. He was sentenced to death by a Texas jury, but his lawyers argued on appeal that he hadn't had access to Mexico's consulate before he confessed to his crimes. ... Mexican authorities made the case a referendum on capital punishment and international legal norms, ultimately suing the U.S. in the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The ICJ ruled in Mexico's favor.... The question before the Supreme Court was whether such international dictates must be enforced by sovereign state courts....
[Reversing the Clinton administration's shift toward compliance with international law, the current Supreme Court decision upheld national sovereignty!] "Treaty obligations, in other words, do not necessarily take on the force of law domestically. Rather, Congress must enact legislation for whatever provisions -- such as consular notification -- that it wants to make the formal law of the land. This distinction matters because it establishes a fire wall between international and domestic law. It also protects the core American Constitutional principles of federalism and the separation of powers. As Justice Roberts points out, the courts must leave to the political branches 'the primary role in deciding when and how international agreements will be enforced.'" See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Clarence Thomas Mr. Constitution: "Interpreting the Constitution is the Supreme Court's most important and most difficult task. An even harder question is how to approach a Constitution that, in fact, is no longer in pristine form -- with the Framers' design having been warped over the years by waves of judicial mischief. There is an obvious temptation to redress the imbalance, which Associate Justice Thomas decisively rejects." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
February 2008
A Craven Canterbury Tale: "...Rowan Williams -- the archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Church of England, symbolic leader of the international Anglican Communion -- called for 'constructive accommodation' with some aspects of sharia law, and declared the incorporation of Muslim religious law into the British legal system 'unavoidable.'...
"What one British writer called the 'jurisprudential kernel' of his thoughts is as follows: 'In the modern world, we must avoid the 'inflexible or over-restrictive applications of traditional law' and must be wary of our 'universalist Enlightenment system,' which risks 'ghettoizing' a minority. Instead, we must embrace the notion of 'plural jurisdiction.' ... This was a call for the evisceration of the British legal system as we know it. ... Many explanations for the archbishop's statements have already been proffered: the weakness of the Church of England, the paganism of the British, the feebleness of Williams's intellect, the decline of the West..." See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
January 2008
Remarks on Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, HR 1955 (by Ron Paul, 12-5-07): "..this legislation was brought to the floor for a vote under suspension of regular order. These so-called 'suspension' bills are meant to be non-controversial, thereby negating the need for the more complete and open debate allowed under regular order.... The legislation specifically singles out the Internet for 'facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process' in the United States.... Are we, for our own good, to be subjected to the kind of governmental control of the Internet that we see in unfree societies?...
"This legislation will set up a new government bureaucracy to monitor and further study the as-yet undemonstrated pressing problem of homegrown terrorism and radicalization. It will no doubt prove to be another bureaucracy that artificially inflates problems so as to guarantee its future existence and funding... at great further expense to our civil liberties.
"...it leaves the door wide open for the broadest definition of what constitutes 'radicalization.'... Legislation such as this demands heavy-handed governmental action against American citizens where no crime has been committed. It is yet another attack on our Constitutionally-protected civil liberties." 5 December 2007 Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. See Why "Hate crime" laws would ban Biblical Christianity
November 2007
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America: "...a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act... is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate." We will read the bill and learn more about it. Meanwhile -- see Why "Hate Crime" laws ban Biblical Christianity
October 2007
'Mom' and 'Dad' banished by California: "'Mom and Dad' as well as 'husband and wife' have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose."
Case Pits Texas Against International Court, Bush: "Mexican citizen Jose Medellin has been on death row in Texas for the past 13 years. He admitted to the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls. But Mexico, which opposes the death penalty, sued in the United Nations International Court of Justice, claiming the United States violated the Vienna Convention.... President Bush, who supports the death penalty, has sided with the international court....If Texas ignores the ICJ ruling, it could damage the U.S. internationally and Bush's ability to conduct foreign policy. It would also endanger U.S. citizens who commit crimes abroad. See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
September 2007
Senate Passes Hate Crimes Bill: "...the Senate voted 60-39 to end debate on the Matthew Shepard Act , which expands federal hate crimes laws to include violence based on a victim's sexual orientation, gender, disability, and other factors.... The Senate attached hate crimes legislation to a must-pass Pentagon spending bill Thursday, but opponents predicted it ultimately would fail. 'The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the defense authorization bill.... This bill will get vetoed." See Why "Hate crime" laws would ban Biblical Christianity
July 2007
Supreme Court 'Dangerously Out of Balance'? "The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is 'the most conservative in memory,' and the Senate should not confirm another nominee to the bench from President Bush 'except in extraordinary circumstances,' in the view of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).... Schumer's comments coincided with a new ABC News-Washington Post poll in which 31 percent of respondents said the Supreme Court was 'too conservative'....
"Ed Whelan... sharply criticized Schumer.... Whelan characterized the court's rulings this term as rather modest - 'a small step towards the right, and towards the center.' 'After decades of liberal judicial activism on so many issues, the court's position remains decidedly on the left.'" See Adapting the Constitution to a Global Consensus
Proposal to Expand Size of Supreme Court Draws Fire: "The number of justices on the Supreme Court should be increased because the 'current five-man majority persists in thumbing its nose at popular values,' [in contrast to traditional moral values] a legal expert has proposed.... 'When a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics,' [said] Jean Edward Smith, a biographer and political science professor at Marshall University.....
"'The left is apoplectic at the idea that they don't get to dictate what I would call mis-interpretation of the Constitution anymore.'...He also disputed Smith's notion that the conservative majority was infringing on 'popular values.' 'It seems to me that the five-justice majority has actually come down on the side of popular values,' he said. 'Huge majorities of the population think that states should be able to restrict partial-birth abortion. Huge majorities think that government should treat [ethnicities] equally. Huge majorities think that the government should not be actively-hostile to faith in the public square.'" See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
'Hate Crimes' Bill Opposed by 'Religious Zealots,' Activists Say: "As the Senate prepares to vote on legislation that would expand the categories of 'hate crimes,' a group of civil rights leaders on Tuesday called opponents of the measure 'right-wing fundamentalists' with 'often-bigoted agendas.' Participants in the conference call voiced support for the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was introduced on March 20 by Sen. Edward Kennedy.... However, given the full Senate calendar, Henderson urged that the measure be attached to the Department of Defense authorization bill rather than trying to get the Kennedy bill approved separately."
May 2007
North Carolina Debates Use of Koran, Other Non-Christian Texts During Court Hearings: "A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of North Carolina challenges a state policy that allows only the Bible to be used in such court procedures. 'If the state is going to get into the religious oath business, the state has to be fair,' said Seth Cohen, the ACLU's lead counsel on the case.... Filed in July 2005, the lawsuit argues that state law is unconstitutional because it favors Christianity over other religions."
Gender LAW. Bill requires hiring 'gays': "H.R. 2015, the 'Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007,' would be a disaster.... 'Its passage would both overtly discriminate against and muzzle people of faith...' Rendall said. The proposal, from Rep. Frank, D-Mass., follows H.R. 1592..."
Bush Expected to Veto 'Hate Crimes' Bill: "'...the administration believes that H.R. 1592 is unnecessary and constitutionally questionable,' the release stated. 'If H.R. 1592 were presented to the president, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill.'... 'In addition, almost every state in the country can actively prosecute hate crimes under the state's own hate crimes law.'"
U.S. House passes [Hate Crimes] bill: "Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by U.S. government hate crimes law.... Similar legislation is also moving through the Senate, setting the stage for another veto showdown with President George W. Bush.... Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat and the only openly gay man in the House, presided." See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
May 3 was the National Day of [Interfaith] Prayer. It was also the day the House voted and passed the Hate Crimes Prevention Bill! An interesting coincidence?
Cultural Depravity. European Parliament Passes Resolution Vowing to Take 'Homophobic' Countries to Court: "Members of the European Parliament from France, the Netherlands and Italy, among others, vilified Poland as 'hateful' and 'repulsive' for refusing to allow promotion of homosexuality in schools. A vote was held today to approve an EP resolution chastising Poland for 'homophobia.' ... At issue was a proposed law in Poland which would forbid 'homosexual propaganda' in schools. ...
"France's MEP Rour Martine called statements in defense of the traditional family by Polish parliamentarians, 'diatribes' and noted that they 'must stop', adding that they were 'repulsive' and 'hateful'. ... The statements from France were supported by Sophia in't Veld of the Netherlands who also accused the Polish government of 'hatred'.... Italy's Giusto Catania joined in the attack on Poland adding an attack on the church as well which he said never stopped in expressing hatred toward homosexuals.
"...the most powerful response came from Poland's Bogdan Pek. 'This was an artificial piece of theatre,' he said. 'An attempt to carry out an assault on a particular member state that a bunch of liberals and lefties disapprove of.... [I]n the recent histories of your countries there has been persecution - persecution of Jews for example who took refuge in Poland.... Poland is a tolerant, hospitable country. It is absurd to suggest that Poland is an island of intolerance in Europe.... A cynical manipulation which is designed to pull the wool over the European public's eyes."
Federal Hate-Crimes Bill Imperiled [Link deleted since this is a homosexual website. It shows their hatred toward resisters]: "Saying that right-wing opponents of proposed federal protection against hate crimes have spread an 'avalanche of lies,' the Human Rights Campaign issued an urgent call to action to its membership May 1, drawing attention to the controversial hate crimes bill, which isscheduled for a vote May 3.... 'If there ever were a time for our community to act to pass hate crimes legislation, now is that time," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. 'As expected, the anti-gay,extremist organizations have geared up their machines of hate....' Nothing in this act would prohibit the lawful expression of one’s deeply held religious beliefs.' [Not true!] .... 'It’s no surprise the religious right is so concerned about hate speech--for them hate appears to be a cottage industry."
April 2007
CWA: Hate Crimes' Bill Moving to Full House: "The House Judiciary Committee passed a 'hate crimes' bill Wednesday night, all 23 Democrats in favor, all 17 Republicans opposed. Every Republican attempt to amend the bill was defeated. Critics call it a 'thought crimes' bill.
"The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1592) would expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include violence against a person because of his or her 'actual or perceived' sexual orientation or 'gender identity.' Under the bill, people who attack others out of 'hatred' for their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability would be committing a federal offense. The bill is now headed to the full House for a vote, probably next week." See The UN Plan for Your Mental Health
"Hate Crimes" Law - Congress denying equal protection: "Last week, some schools suspended students who objected to the pro-homosexual advocacy of the Day of Silence. This week Congress moved forward with legislation that would drastically undermine the equal protection of heterosexual and traditional marriage advocates.... The so-called hate crimes bill, H.R. 1592 was debated by the full House Judiciary Committee on April 25 and is expected to be voted on the House floor next Thursday, May 3rd or as early as Tuesday." See The War on Hate Bans Christian Values
Texas soldier who wouldn't serve U.N. mission loses Supreme Court case: "Michael New, a Texas soldier who refused to serve on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia, lost an appeal of his bad-conduct discharge at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.... Michael New, a former Army medic, had argued he was not afforded all his legal rights in the course of the court-martial that stemmed from his refusal to wear the U.N. insignia on his Army uniform in 1995.... The justices, without commenting, declined Monday to hear his case."
February 2007
Bill would limit religious free speech (scroll down to title): "Exodus International is voicing opposition to a federal 'hate crimes' bill introduced in the House.... This is an expansion of current federal hate crime law.... This type of legislation led to limiting speech that is offensive to protected groups. The result is that a sermon or lesson taught in church or Christian schools cannot mention that the Bible says that homosexuality is a sin.... There are many accounts of people being charged with hate crimes in Canada based on the slightest evidence that they said something which put homosexuality in a bad light." See From U.S. Sovereignty to Global Conformity and Ban truth - Reap Tyranny
January 2007
No-spank bill on way: "The bill, which is still being drafted, will be written broadly... prohibiting 'any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching, any of that.' Lieber said it would be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine up to $1,000.... Beyond the debate among child psychologists -- many of whom believe limited spanking can be effective -- the bill is sure to face questions over how practical it is to enforce and opposition from some legislators who generally oppose what they consider 'nanny government.'...
"Professor Robert Larzelere, who has studied child discipline for 30 years, said his research shows spanking is fine, as long as it's used sparingly and doesn't escalate to abuse. 'If it's used in a limited way,' the Oklahoma State University professor said, 'it can be more effective than almost any other type of punishment.''' See How Human "Rights" Crush Individual Freedom
Congressional Lobbying Reform Legislation (Senate Bill 1) threatens Freedom of Speech: "...There are too many people watching them [lawmakers] carefully and reporting through the relatively inexpensive medium of the internet. Now it seems some congressmen want to fight back." See The Intelligent Student's Guide to the New World Order
Let There Be 'Blight': "The city of Burien, Wash., recently decided that a piece of property owned by the seven Strobel sisters that had long housed a popular diner-style restaurant was not upscale enough for the city's ambitious 'Town Square' development, which will feature condos, shops, restaurants and offices. Rather than condemn the property for a private developer and risk a lawsuit, Burien came up with a plan -- it would put a road through the property, and the city manager told his staff to 'make damn sure' it did. When a subsequent survey revealed that the road would not affect the building itself... the staff developed yet another site plan that put the road directly through the building. A trial court concluded that the city's actions might be 'oppressive' and 'an abuse of power' -- but allowed the condemnation anyway.... Welcome to the post-Kelo world.... When it comes to governmental abuse, 'it can't happen here' really means 'it is happening right now.'" See Guide to the New World Order
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