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The state doesn’t care what you think
In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks – and the finding that some terrorists entered the United States using phony passports – the State Department proposed mandating that Americans and foreign visitors carry “enhanced” passport booklets, with microchips embedded in the covers.
In February 2005, when the State Department asked for public comment, it got an outcry: Of the 2,335 comments received, 98.5 percent were negative, with 86 percent expressing security or privacy concerns, the department reported in an October 2005 notice in the Federal Register.
Did the 98.5 percent of responses in opposition force them to scrap the idea? Between this and the fall 2008 “TARP” bill also overwhelmingly opposed by the American people, it’s difficult if not impossible to argue that America is even a functioning democracy, let alone a Constitutional republic. It seems to me that a government that acts against the will of 99% of the people is something closer to a dictatorship.
Key Obama advisor: eugenicist?
President Obama’s top science and technology advisor John P. Holdren co-authored a 1977 book in which he advocated the formation of a “planetary regime” that would use a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian measures of population control, including forced abortions, mass sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, as well as mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children.
Holder Considering Torture Probe?
Contrary to White House wishes, Attorney General Eric Holder may push forward with a criminal investigation into the Bush administration’s harsh interrogation practices used on suspected terrorists.
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The probe would focus in part on whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001.
Maybe AG Holder will interview Binyam Mohammed as part of the “probe”.
Greenspan: Fed answers to no one
Lehrer: What should be the proper relationship between the Chairman of the Fed and the President of the United States?
Greenspan: Well first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency. That means basically that there are no other agencies of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place, and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.
Mass. Mom Pleads Not Guilty To Denying Son Meds
Woman Charged With Attempted Murder – July 6, 2009:
A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son by not filling prescriptions and misleading his doctors pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge in the 9-year-old boy’s death.
A prosecutor outlined the allegations against Kristen LaBrie, but offered no details on her alleged motive in repeatedly failing to follow doctors’ instructions in how to care for her son, Jeremy Fraser. She was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail on attempted murder, child endangerment and other charges.
School Bullying, Once A Silent Battle, Now A Crime
In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.
“Don’t do it again or this is going to happen to you again,” a witness says he heard one of the boys say in the April attack.
Two decades ago, the attack may have stayed a secret. Victims of hazing, bullying and sexual assault are still often too terrified to report their attackers — though officials say that’s starting to change.
Police are called to investigate everything from cyber-bullying and schoolyard fights to brutal hazing rituals, and tormenters can be prosecuted under anti-bullying laws in dozens of states. Proactive parents aren’t afraid to confront school officials or take the matter to court, and schools are training students and teachers alike to spot and report bullying.
“Back in the old days it was, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,’” said Kevin Quinn, a school resource officer in Arizona and regional director of the National Association of School Resource Officers. “In today’s day and age, words do hurt and that’s how a lot of the bullying begins.”
Calif. Regulators Warn Of Pot’s Cancer Capability
State environmental regulators last month voted to place marijuana smoke on its list of hundreds of substances known to cause cancer. The decision could lead to warning signs in medical marijuana dispensaries and labels on packaged pot within a year.
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Tucumcari police chief Tasers 14-year-old
A 14-year-old Tucumcari girl is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after being shot in the head with a Taser dart by Tucucmari Police Chief Roger Hatcher.
Springfield Mass Officer Face Jail Time For Stealing
A Springfield police officer convicted of stealing $2,000 during a traffic stop is set for sentencing.
Officer Steven Buzzell faces a maximum five years in state prison on each count during sentencing Thursday, a day after the Hampden Superior Court jury found him guilty of three counts of larceny over $250.
A second officer, Leonardo Matos, was cleared of those same charges after the jury determined that he was not in a joint venture with Buzzell.
Prosecutors said Buzzell and Matos were partnered on a special detail when the money was stolen from the wallets of three tobacco workers during a traffic stop in June 2008.
Buzzell’s bail was revoked after the verdict.
Maine State Government To Close Monday
Unfortunately, the looting will recommence in full force on Tuesday. Perhaps the depression will become so severe that government offices will be forced to close 20 working days each month.
No walk-in service at motor vehicle offices. No tours of the State House. The nearby state library and museum won’t be open, either.
Maine state offices and agencies that closed Friday to mark the Fourth of July holiday will remain closed Monday for the first of 20 shutdown days scheduled over the next two years.
Maine employees not required to work because their departments, agencies and offices are closed must take the days off without pay, saving the state about $14 million.
The $5.8 billion general fund budget that went into effect July 1 also freezes state employee merit and longevity pay for additional savings of close to $12 million. And it requires state workers to begin making contributions toward their health insurance.
After years in U.S. custody, Guantánamo detainee returns to Britain
A Guantánamo detainee at the center of a long standoff between the United States and Britain was freed and returned to Britain on Monday after almost seven years in American custody.
The detainee, Binyam Mohamed, was captured in Pakistan in April 2002. American officials said he had been part of a conspiracy to detonate a dirty bomb on American soil, but all charges against him were eventually dismissed. He has said he was held for 18 months in Morocco, where he says he was tortured, then was moved to Afghanistan and then to the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
No change in NSA domestic spy policy
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.
The agency’s monitoring of domestic e-mail messages, in particular, has posed longstanding legal and logistical difficulties, the officials said.
Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.
Both the former analyst’s account and the rising concern among some members of Congress about the N.S.A.’s recent operation are raising fresh questions about the spy agency.