Paul roughs up Obama
in swing state polling
Ron Paul may not be quite such a long-shot candidate after all, if the latest Gallup poll is to be believed.
According to the poll, registered voters in 12 key swing states showed Paul in a real horse race with President Obama. Paul, the pollster found, would gain 46 percent of the vote, while the incumbent president would have 49 percent.
And, a 3 percent difference is close enough to mean Paul might well obtain a victory in November.
It's true that Romney and Gingrich did a bit better than Paul, but only by a point or two. (Santorum trailed the field.)
Considering that the mainstream media have consistently marginalized Paul and brushed him off as an interesting phenomenon who is nevertheless unlectable, the Texan has overcome a great deal.
Anyone who could overcome as much as he has should certainly not be counted out. He may well have some more surprises in store for the naysayers.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Which conspiracy theory is right?
Rick Santorum has his answers
Rick Santorum chooses his conspiracy theories with care. The presidential candidate and energy company consultant sees a conspiracy of liberals to push their agenda via a global warming "hoax" but condemns the notion that the government was untruthful about what occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
Santorum's conspiracy theory: "They don’t trust you to allocate resources in a way that they believe is best, and so they want to have a system that forces you to do what they think you should do in running your business and your lives."
He reiterated that position during last night's presidential debate in Florida, blasting rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for buying into "the global warming hoax."
Though Santorum, recently on the payroll of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, was not registered as a lobbyist for Consol Energy, based in his home state of Pennsylvania, he nevertheless received a $142,500 consultancy fee from the firm.
Santorum, in a previous debate, stood behind Washington's story line about the events of 9/11 as he attacked Ron Paul thus: “On your website, on 9/11, you had a blog post that basically blamed the United States for 9/11– on your website yesterday," adding, "You said that it was our actions that brought about the actions of 9/11.”
Calling that position “irresponsible,” Santorum said a presidential candidate “should not be parroting what Osama Bin Laden said on 9/11,” as the attacks are not a result of our behavior, but because “we have a civilization that is antithetical to the civilization of the jihadists.”
It is not clear what Santorum meant by bin Laden's comments. The first comments attributed to bin Laden disclaimed any responsibility for the attacks.
At any rate, Paul replied that U.S. meddling in other nation's affairs stirred up resentments and that that's what he was getting at.
He has also strongly denied believing that 9/11 was an inside job, calling the notion "nonsense."
In this respect, either Paul has not done any real homework on the subject, or he -- like other politicians -- is intimidated by the media's ability to throw ridicule on those who publicly question the government on this matter.
However, rather than ducking there is an effective counterattack: Focus on the fact that scientists have been highly skeptical of the FBI's anthrax conclusions; if someone other than Bruce Ivins was involved, the possibility of a coverup of a conspiracy within the Pentagon looms large.
A McClatchy report on the anthrax probe
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
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Rick Santorum has his answers
Rick Santorum chooses his conspiracy theories with care. The presidential candidate and energy company consultant sees a conspiracy of liberals to push their agenda via a global warming "hoax" but condemns the notion that the government was untruthful about what occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
Santorum's conspiracy theory: "They don’t trust you to allocate resources in a way that they believe is best, and so they want to have a system that forces you to do what they think you should do in running your business and your lives."
He reiterated that position during last night's presidential debate in Florida, blasting rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for buying into "the global warming hoax."
Though Santorum, recently on the payroll of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, was not registered as a lobbyist for Consol Energy, based in his home state of Pennsylvania, he nevertheless received a $142,500 consultancy fee from the firm.
Santorum, in a previous debate, stood behind Washington's story line about the events of 9/11 as he attacked Ron Paul thus: “On your website, on 9/11, you had a blog post that basically blamed the United States for 9/11– on your website yesterday," adding, "You said that it was our actions that brought about the actions of 9/11.”
Calling that position “irresponsible,” Santorum said a presidential candidate “should not be parroting what Osama Bin Laden said on 9/11,” as the attacks are not a result of our behavior, but because “we have a civilization that is antithetical to the civilization of the jihadists.”
It is not clear what Santorum meant by bin Laden's comments. The first comments attributed to bin Laden disclaimed any responsibility for the attacks.
At any rate, Paul replied that U.S. meddling in other nation's affairs stirred up resentments and that that's what he was getting at.
He has also strongly denied believing that 9/11 was an inside job, calling the notion "nonsense."
In this respect, either Paul has not done any real homework on the subject, or he -- like other politicians -- is intimidated by the media's ability to throw ridicule on those who publicly question the government on this matter.
However, rather than ducking there is an effective counterattack: Focus on the fact that scientists have been highly skeptical of the FBI's anthrax conclusions; if someone other than Bruce Ivins was involved, the possibility of a coverup of a conspiracy within the Pentagon looms large.
A McClatchy report on the anthrax probe
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
One journalist's pointed question
broke habeus corpus teleblockade
Commentary:
Kudos to Kelly Evans, a Wall Street Journal columnist, for bringing up the issue of peremptory detention of Americans during the South Carolina presidential debate on Jan. 17.
The fact that she had the gumption to raise the issue is commendable. But her question does not diminish by much the fact of the enormous media brown-out on such a tremendously important matter. There was little or no mention of the reactions of Romney, Paul or Santorum in followup coverage. Broadcast coverage of the issue has been virtually nil.
To his credit, the hawkish Santorum stood up for the right of a detained citizen to reach out to a lawyer and appeal his detention via federal court. Paul of course is strongly opposed to the detention law.
Romney rejected the basic right of an American to resort to the courts if he is deemed by the Pentagon to be a bad person.
Here is the relevant excerpt of the debate:
EVANS: Governor Romney, when President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, he enacted a provision allowing him to indefinitely detain American citizens in U.S. military custody, many, including Congressman Paul, have called it unconstitutional. At the same time the bill did provide money to continue funding U.S. troops.
Governor Romney, as president, would you have signed the National Defense Act as written?
ROMNEY: Yes, I would have. And I do believe that it is appropriate to have in our nation the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country, who are members of al Qaeda.
Look, you have every right in this country to protest and to express your views on a wide range of issues but you don't have a right to join a group that has killed Americans, and has declared war against America. That's treason. In this country we have a right to take those people and put them in jail.
And I recognize, I recognize that in a setting where they are enemy combatants and on our own soil, that could possibly be abused. There are a lot of things I think this president does wrong, lots of them, but I don't think he is going to abuse this power and I that if I were president I would not abuse this power. And I can also tell you that in my view you have to choose people who you believe have sufficient character not to abuse the power of the presidency and to make sure that we do not violate our constitutional principles.
But let me tell you, people who join al Qqaeda are not entitled to rights of due process under our normal legal code. They are entitled instead to be treated as enemy combatants.
EVANS: Senator Santorum...
[Romney interjects a criticism of the Pentagon budget.]
EVANS: Senator Santorum, 30 seconds to you, sir. Same question: would you have signed, as president would you have signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law as written?
[Minor chatter.]
SANTORUM:
First off, I would say this, what the law should be and what the law has been is that if you are a United States citizen and you are detained as an enemy combatant, then you have the right to go to federal court and file a habeas corpus position and be provided a lawyer. That was the state of the law before the National Defense Authorization Act and that should be the state of the law today.
You should not have -- you should not have -- if you are not an American citizen, that's one thing. But if you are a citizen and you are being held indefinitely, then you have the right to go to a federal court -- and again, the law prior to the National Defense Authorization Act was that you had the right to go to a court, and for that court to determine by a preponderance of the evidence whether you could continue to be held. That is a standard that should be maintained and I would maintain that standard as president.
[More minor chatter.]
PAUL: I think we are going in the wrong direction for the protection of our liberties here at home. They are under deep threat. The Patriot Act has eliminated the fourth amendment. We now have a policy of preemptive war; you don't have to declare war and you don't even have to have an enemy. We can start the wars, that's what preemptive war is all about.
Now with the military appropriations defense act, this -- this is -- this is major. This says that the military can arrest an American citizen for under suspicion, and he can be held indefinitely, without habeas corpus, and be denied a lawyer indefinitely even in a prison here.
Let me give you one statistic. You're worrying about all these -- all these -- where we're going to try people, where are they going to do it, we have to do it secretly, because our rule of law is so flawed. We have arrested 362 people related to Al Qaida-type operation; 260 of them are in prison. They've been tried and convicted. So don't give up on our American judicial system so easily, I beg of you.
Just wondering...
why Google's cached pages are no longer highlighted, thus reducing their value in quickly searching for relevant data. Am I missing some technical change? Why would Google reduce the effectiveness of its service? Or is some software program masking out the highlights?
I had no trouble with Yahoo's cached pages.
I don't bother to follow all the latest internet arcana, and so it's possible I'm missing some new wiggle. If you know what's going on, shoot me an email to krypto78@gmail.com.
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broke habeus corpus teleblockade
Commentary:
Kudos to Kelly Evans, a Wall Street Journal columnist, for bringing up the issue of peremptory detention of Americans during the South Carolina presidential debate on Jan. 17.
The fact that she had the gumption to raise the issue is commendable. But her question does not diminish by much the fact of the enormous media brown-out on such a tremendously important matter. There was little or no mention of the reactions of Romney, Paul or Santorum in followup coverage. Broadcast coverage of the issue has been virtually nil.
To his credit, the hawkish Santorum stood up for the right of a detained citizen to reach out to a lawyer and appeal his detention via federal court. Paul of course is strongly opposed to the detention law.
Romney rejected the basic right of an American to resort to the courts if he is deemed by the Pentagon to be a bad person.
Here is the relevant excerpt of the debate:
EVANS: Governor Romney, when President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, he enacted a provision allowing him to indefinitely detain American citizens in U.S. military custody, many, including Congressman Paul, have called it unconstitutional. At the same time the bill did provide money to continue funding U.S. troops.
Governor Romney, as president, would you have signed the National Defense Act as written?
ROMNEY: Yes, I would have. And I do believe that it is appropriate to have in our nation the capacity to detain people who are threats to this country, who are members of al Qaeda.
Look, you have every right in this country to protest and to express your views on a wide range of issues but you don't have a right to join a group that has killed Americans, and has declared war against America. That's treason. In this country we have a right to take those people and put them in jail.
And I recognize, I recognize that in a setting where they are enemy combatants and on our own soil, that could possibly be abused. There are a lot of things I think this president does wrong, lots of them, but I don't think he is going to abuse this power and I that if I were president I would not abuse this power. And I can also tell you that in my view you have to choose people who you believe have sufficient character not to abuse the power of the presidency and to make sure that we do not violate our constitutional principles.
But let me tell you, people who join al Qqaeda are not entitled to rights of due process under our normal legal code. They are entitled instead to be treated as enemy combatants.
EVANS: Senator Santorum...
[Romney interjects a criticism of the Pentagon budget.]
EVANS: Senator Santorum, 30 seconds to you, sir. Same question: would you have signed, as president would you have signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law as written?
[Minor chatter.]
SANTORUM:
First off, I would say this, what the law should be and what the law has been is that if you are a United States citizen and you are detained as an enemy combatant, then you have the right to go to federal court and file a habeas corpus position and be provided a lawyer. That was the state of the law before the National Defense Authorization Act and that should be the state of the law today.
You should not have -- you should not have -- if you are not an American citizen, that's one thing. But if you are a citizen and you are being held indefinitely, then you have the right to go to a federal court -- and again, the law prior to the National Defense Authorization Act was that you had the right to go to a court, and for that court to determine by a preponderance of the evidence whether you could continue to be held. That is a standard that should be maintained and I would maintain that standard as president.
[More minor chatter.]
PAUL: I think we are going in the wrong direction for the protection of our liberties here at home. They are under deep threat. The Patriot Act has eliminated the fourth amendment. We now have a policy of preemptive war; you don't have to declare war and you don't even have to have an enemy. We can start the wars, that's what preemptive war is all about.
Now with the military appropriations defense act, this -- this is -- this is major. This says that the military can arrest an American citizen for under suspicion, and he can be held indefinitely, without habeas corpus, and be denied a lawyer indefinitely even in a prison here.
Let me give you one statistic. You're worrying about all these -- all these -- where we're going to try people, where are they going to do it, we have to do it secretly, because our rule of law is so flawed. We have arrested 362 people related to Al Qaida-type operation; 260 of them are in prison. They've been tried and convicted. So don't give up on our American judicial system so easily, I beg of you.
Just wondering...
why Google's cached pages are no longer highlighted, thus reducing their value in quickly searching for relevant data. Am I missing some technical change? Why would Google reduce the effectiveness of its service? Or is some software program masking out the highlights?
I had no trouble with Yahoo's cached pages.
I don't bother to follow all the latest internet arcana, and so it's possible I'm missing some new wiggle. If you know what's going on, shoot me an email to krypto78@gmail.com.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
- Major media black out Paul's effortto repeal law on interning AmericansPresidential candidate Ron Paul's bill calling for repeal of a just-enacted law giving the president and the Pentagon authority to detain Americans indefinitely on mere suspicion was ignored by the mainstream media, as a Google news search (below) shows.
No major media touched the story. Previously such media went to extreme lengths to avoid the controversy, which has raised the hackles of people on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Major media similarly played down -- to the point of brown-out -- the Stop Online Privacy Act controversy and only relented when the new media, in the form of Wikipedia and Google, mobilized netizens to contact lawmakers.
One of the things that the old media hold against Paul is his effective use of the new media, which -- to their commentators -- doesn't strike them as legitimate for a presidential contender.
Although Newt Gingrich played to a debate audience about being abused by the press, it is Paul who is consistently chiseled and maligned by the old-line media. Gingrich, on the other hand, got into an ethics uproar over taking an outlandishly large book advance from media mogul Rupert Murdoch, known for his proclivity for manipulating lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- Ron Paul introduces bill to repeal NDAA indefinite detention clause
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Paul warns colleagues of peril
of indefinite detention measure
We have to go to Russian media to get a story on Ron Paul fighting indefinite detention of Americans.
RT.com
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or the NDAA, was inked by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve, despite immense opposition from Americans who were concerned by vague language that could allow the commander-in-chief to use military forces to domestically police the United States. Under Section 1021 of the NDAA, any person, US citizen or not, can be held without trial by American armed forces if they are suspected of being engaged in hostilities against the country by al-Qaeda or associated forces.
Opponents of the act — and there are many — have questioned the language of the specific section, as it could be written to allow the president to enforce the law to imprison anyone suspected of any crime that could be considered by the right person in office to be an act of terror. President Obama said that he would not abide by this rule, but despite a signing statement that his administration won’t act in that manner, it does not mean that the promise will be upheld.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero called Obama’s approval of the legislation is "a blight on his legacy,"insisting that “he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” and the Council on American-Islamic Relations called the bill an “ill-conceived and un-American legislation” that will “forever be seen as a stain on our nation’s history — one that will ultimately be viewed with embarrassment and shame.” Additionally, this week RT reported that noted journalist Chris Hedges has filed a lawsuit against the White House over the legislation, questioning the legality of the authorization and calling it “a catastrophic blow to civil liberties.”
On Wednesday this week, however, Ron Paul spoke from Capitol Hill, not South Carolina where the rest of his Republican Party rivals were campaigning before the state’s primary scheduled for this weekend. While in Washington to vote against raising the debt ceiling, Congressman Ron Paul also used the opportunity to go after Obama for signing the NDAA and offered a proposal that, if passed, would strike Section 1031 off the Act.
The move makes Paul not just the first frontrunner in the race for the GOP nomination to speak out against the act, but the first congressman to openly offer a solution to the legislation since it was authorized into law.
Paul began his address on Wednesday by noting that the National Defense Authorization Act was “quietly signed into law by the president on New Year’s Day,” sarcastically saluting it by adding, “and what a way to usher in a New Year.”
“Section 1021 provides for the possibility of the US military acting as a kind of police force on US soil, apprehending terror suspects – including Americans — and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely,” said Paul.
“No right to attorney, no right to trial, no day in court.”
While GOP contender Mitt Romney said during a debate from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last week that he would have also authorized such legislation, Congressman Paul went over his time limit on stage in urging Americans to pay attention to the dangerous provisions included in the Act. In front of the debate crowd, Paul told the US not to lose faith in the country’s judicial system. From Washington only a week later, Congressman Paul asked his peers to think about America’s past once more, asking, “Have we not tried in civilian court and won convictions of hundreds of individuals for terrorist or related activities?” He added to his fellow legislature that this transformation away from a country founded on the ideals of the Constitution would soon lead America on the road to a place no one would wish it goes.
“This is precisely the kind of egregious distortion of justice that Americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas,” said Paul, comparing it to the gulag system of the Soviet Union.
“Is this really the kind of United States we want to create in the name of fighting terrorism?” asked the congressman from Texas.
“Some have argued that nothing in Section 1021 explicitly mandates holding Americans without trial, but it employs vague language radically expanding the detention authority to include anyone who has ‘substantially supported’ certain terrorist groups or ‘associated forces,’” said Paul. “No one has defined what those two terms mean. What is an ‘associated force’?” he asked.
In a statement explaining his lawsuit against the president, Chris Hedges addressed the same concern earlier this week, calling into question the countless conversations he has had with people that the US government has labeled as terrorists. As a foreign correspondent, Hedges says, he met regularly with leaders from groups such as Hamas, the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Revolutionary Guard in Iran.
“What would this bill have meant if it had been in place when I and other Americans traveled in the 1980s with armed units of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas in El Salvador? What would it have meant for those of us who were with the southern insurgents during the civil war in Yemen or the rebels in the southern Sudan?” asked Hedges. “I have had dinner more times than I can count with people whom this country brands as terrorists. But that does not make me one.”
While Hedges attacked Obama in drafting his explanation of the lawsuit, Paul spoke from the Capitol that his own peers in Congress are just as responsible for crafting the NDAA and corrupting others lawmakers into signing it, even as they themselves openly acknowledged the dangers of the act.
“Sadly, too many of my colleagues are too willing to undermine our Constitution to support such outrageous legislation,” said Paul. “One senator even said about American citizens picked up under this section of the NDAA, ‘When they say, “I want my lawyer,” you tell them, “Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.”’ Is this acceptable in someone one who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution?” he asked. The congressman in question was Senator Lindsay Graham, who did indeed have such vile words in encouraging others to sign the Act. “For those American citizens thinking about helping al-Qaeda, please know what will come your way: death; detention; prosecution,” explained Senator Graham while the Act was originally up for discussion.
Sadly, prosecution could very well be the last step in an instance where an American is imprisoned under the NDAA. In Section 1031, citizens can indeed be held indefinitely, and as we’ve learned with the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that term of detainment could easily extend a decade, if not longer, without a trial ever being ordered. Over 170 prisoners are still held at Gitmo, including some that have been there without charge since the US began installing suspected war criminals there more than ten years ago. Under Section 1031, your neighbor, uncle or yourself could be the next person to don an orange jumpsuit and Ron Paul recognized how detrimental this is to American liberty.
In his closing remarks Wednesday, Paul explained that he was without a doubt opposed to acts of terrorism. “I recognize how critical it is that we identify and apprehend those who are suspected of plotting attacks against Americans. But why do we have so little faith in our justice system?” he asked.
Paul added that he wished to continue going after terrorists, but said, “let us not abandon what is so unique and special about our system of government in the process.”
“I hope my colleagues will join my effort to overturn the shameful Section 1021,” concluded the congressman.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Spooky coincidence
On Sept. 7, Jeb readied martial law
as general spoke of trade center hit
On Sept. 7, 2001, Gen. Tommy Franks told intelligence staff members that his greatest fear was that a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center would result in martial law against American citizens, he says in his autobiography, American Soldier. Meanwhile, on the same day Florida Governor Jeb Bush prepared for martial law.
Franks, who wrote that he instantly assumed that Osama bin Laden was the culprit upon learning of the first strike on the World Trade Center, evidently found a need to include the Sept. 7 incident in his book, written with Malcolm McConnell, after he was questioned about it during a classified session of the 9/11 commission in April 2004.
http://books.google.com/books?id=UabGPLhbGckC&lpg=PT874&ots=KDTs-OLCMZ&dq=tommy%20franks%20sept.%207%2C%202001&pg=PT874#v=onepage&q=tommy%20franks%20sept.%207,%202001&f=false
On the day Franks, chief of the U.S. Central Command, gave that assessment at MacDill Air Force Base, Governor Bush promulgated an executive order giving him authority to prepare for martial law, which he quietly implemented on Sept. 11.
On the day Franks, chief of the U.S. Central Command, gave that assessment at MacDill Air Force Base, Governor Bush promulgated an executive order giving him authority to prepare for martial law, which he quietly implemented on Sept. 11.
In his book, Franks talks about the "excesses of Reconstruction after the Civil War, which had resulted in the enactment of Posse Comitatus, the law that prevents military forces from serving as policemen within the United States."
His comment in the 2004 book is reflected by similar comments found on the proLiberty web page reproduced below. This reporter was unable to verify the date of the posting of the "historical note" below but the url makes it appear to have been posted in 2001.
From the October 2001 Idaho Observer:
His comment in the 2004 book is reflected by similar comments found on the proLiberty web page reproduced below. This reporter was unable to verify the date of the posting of the "historical note" below but the url makes it appear to have been posted in 2001.
From the October 2001 Idaho Observer:
Bush brother declares martial law in Florida
“I hereby declare that a state of emergency exists in the state of Florida...The Authority to suspend the effect of any statute or rule governing the conduct of state business, and further authority to suspend the effect of any order or rule of any government entity...The authority to seize and utilize any and all real or personal property as needed to meet this emergency...The authority to order the evacuation of any or all persons from any location in the State...The authority to regulate the return of the evacuees to their home comunities...I hereby order the Adjutant General to activate the Florida National Guard for the duration of this emergency.” ~Florida Governor Jeb Bush, September 11, 2001TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed Executive Order 01-261 September 7, 2001, four days before the WTC tragedy of Sept. 11, which paves the way for a declaration of martial law in his state. The governor, in his EO, delegated to, “...the Adjutant General of the state of Florida all necessary authority....to order members of the Florida National Guard into Active Service.”
Immediately after the second WTC tower fell, Governor Bush signed EO 01-262 to make Florida the first state to declare a state of emergency though his state did not experience any terrorist events that day. Governor Bush is reportedly the only governor in the U.S. outside of NY and D.C. to make a declaration of martial law in the wake of the WTC tragedy. Interestingly, Governor Bush's declaration came before authorities in New York or Washington, D.C. declared states of emergency.
The text (see italics above) of the little reported declared state of emergency that exists in Florida leaves little doubt that the state is currently functioning under martial law.
The Florida national Guard, like the national guard units in the several states, is operated under the authority of the state government. The national guard can also be called up under the orders of the federal government.
There is no sunset clause to this EO. Jeb Bush, the son of former President Bush and the brother of current President Bush, has signed an EO that will keep Florida in a perpetual state of martial law until the EO has been revoked.
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Historical note:
During the Civil War and the era known as Reconstruction, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a state of martial law. The authority President Lincoln gave himself at that time through executive order was not unlike the authority Governor Bush gave to himself September 11, 2001.
President Lincoln and his military government arrested and tried civilians in both military and civilian courts (which were operating under similar if not identical rules). The writ of habeas corpus was suspended.
The flagrant abuses of unchecked authority during the Civil War era led to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act. The Act was intended to prohibit the use of federal military forces in domestic law enforcement.
The Posse Comitatus Act was hotly debated during the infamous siege at Waco. Janet Reno's Department of Justice rationalized itself out of being subject to the act because of alleged drug violations by the Branch Davidians.
The government theorizes that with a declared “war” on drugs, the military can be used in domestic actions.
We can see how these precedents have been used to justify the placement of armed and uniformed federal troops at airports all over the nation.
History has shown that declarations of martial law and the suspension of due process are followed by heinous abuses of that authority.
The following copy of the order is found on the Prison Planet website.
The following copy of the order is found on the Prison Planet website.
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER
01-261 WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to provide support to law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the responsibility to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must train to meet such responsibilities; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard is funded for any such training by budgetary appropriation or grants before any such training; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must conduct such training in active service of the state, as defined by Section 250.27, Florida Statutes (also known as active military service and state active duty) for members of the Florida National Guard to be covered by Section 250.34, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, as Governor, I may delegate the authority contained in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to order training to help respond to civil disturbances, natural disasters, and counter drug operations to The Adjutant General of the State of Florida; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the State of Florida that I delegate such authority, so that the Florida National Guard is adequately trained to meet its obligation to help respond to civil disturbances, natural disasters, and counter drug operations and so that members of the Florida National Guard performing such training are covered by Section 250.34, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Governor may order the Florida National Guard to provide extraordinary support to law enforcement upon request and such a request has been received from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to assist FDLE in performing port security training and inspections.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEB BUSH, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, and by Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, and all other applicable laws, do hereby promulgate the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:
Section 1.
Based upon the foregoing, I hereby find that the public welfare requires that the Florida National Guard train to support law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters and to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations.
Section 2.
I hereby delegate to The Adjutant General of the State of Florida all necessary authority, within approved budgetary appropriations or grants, to order members of the Florida National Guard into active service, as defined by Section 250.27, Florida Statutes, for the purpose of training to support law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters and to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations.
Section 3.
The Florida National Guard may order selected members on to state active duty for service to the State of Florida pursuant to Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to assist FDLE in performing port security training and inspections. Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port security training and inspections is "extraordinary support to law enforcement" as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes.
Section 4.
The Adjutant General shall not place members of the Florida National Guard into active service for longer than necessary to accomplish the purposes declared herein.
Section 5.
This Executive Order supersedes Executive Order Number 01-17. Executive Order Number 01-17 is hereby revoked.
Section 6.
This Executive Order shall remain in full force and effect until the earlier of its revocation or June 30, 2003.
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must train to meet such responsibilities; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard is funded for any such training by budgetary appropriation or grants before any such training; and
WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard must conduct such training in active service of the state, as defined by Section 250.27, Florida Statutes (also known as active military service and state active duty) for members of the Florida National Guard to be covered by Section 250.34, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, as Governor, I may delegate the authority contained in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to order training to help respond to civil disturbances, natural disasters, and counter drug operations to The Adjutant General of the State of Florida; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the State of Florida that I delegate such authority, so that the Florida National Guard is adequately trained to meet its obligation to help respond to civil disturbances, natural disasters, and counter drug operations and so that members of the Florida National Guard performing such training are covered by Section 250.34, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Governor may order the Florida National Guard to provide extraordinary support to law enforcement upon request and such a request has been received from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) to assist FDLE in performing port security training and inspections.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEB BUSH, as Governor of Florida, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Article IV, Section 1(a) of the Florida Constitution, and by Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, and all other applicable laws, do hereby promulgate the following Executive Order, to take immediate effect:
Section 1.
Based upon the foregoing, I hereby find that the public welfare requires that the Florida National Guard train to support law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters and to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations.
Section 2.
I hereby delegate to The Adjutant General of the State of Florida all necessary authority, within approved budgetary appropriations or grants, to order members of the Florida National Guard into active service, as defined by Section 250.27, Florida Statutes, for the purpose of training to support law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters and to provide training support to law-enforcement personnel and community-based organizations relating to counter drug operations.
Section 3.
The Florida National Guard may order selected members on to state active duty for service to the State of Florida pursuant to Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes, to assist FDLE in performing port security training and inspections. Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism, and inhibiting the smuggling of illegal drugs into the State of Florida, the use of the Florida National Guard to support FDLE in accomplishing port security training and inspections is "extraordinary support to law enforcement" as used in Section 250.06(4), Florida Statutes.
Section 4.
The Adjutant General shall not place members of the Florida National Guard into active service for longer than necessary to accomplish the purposes declared herein.
Section 5.
This Executive Order supersedes Executive Order Number 01-17. Executive Order Number 01-17 is hereby revoked.
Section 6.
This Executive Order shall remain in full force and effect until the earlier of its revocation or June 30, 2003.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed at Tallahassee, the Capitol, this 7th day of September 2001.Newz from Limbo is a news site and, the hosting mechanism notwithstanding, should not be defined as a web log or as 'little more than a community forum'... Write News from Limbo at Krypto78=at=gmail=dot=com... The philosophical orientation of Newz from Limbo is best described as libertarian... For anti-censorship links: http://veilside78.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-censorship-spectrum_23.html (If link fails, cut and paste it into the url bar)... You may reach some of Paul Conant's other pages through the sidebar link or at http://paulpages.blogspot.com/
Friday, January 6, 2012
More and more school kids
sentenced to years of prison
By Danny Weil, Project Censored
A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) indicates that children in poor urban neighborhoods need more chances for old-fashioned playtime in their daily lives.
A number of experts in the report have raised concerns that in the current climate of treating youth not as if they were at risk, but as the risk themselves, children have little time for unstructured play — which, AAP says, is important for kids’ physical and mental development. Perhaps the lack of play is due to the fact that more and more students are spending all day in school classes, hunched over desks preparing for standardized tests under the corporatized Obama educational policy, Race to the Top. The (AAP) report seemed to think this was the case noting that even U.S. suburban children are “over-scheduled” with formal classes and lessons, leaving them little time for simple play (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011).
A 2009 report by the Alliance for Childhood surveyed kindergartens in New York City and Los Angeles and found that children had less than 30 minutes a day, on average, of “choice” time, in which kids could do whatever they wanted. Kids in L.A. had only about 19 minutes of free time each day. The rest of the kindergarten day was filled with the tyranny of functionalist learning and standardized test preparation. According to the American Association for the Child’s Right to Play, as many as 40 percent of school districts in the United States have reduced recess in the aftermath of the No Child Left Behind act, which emphasizes testing scores over anything else. ((Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
In Belmont, Massachusetts, on November 3, 2011, Superintendent Thomas Kingston closed playgrounds at the Daniel Butler Elementary School, and the town’s Recreation Department closed the playground near Winn Brook Elementary School. The recent closing of two elementary school playgrounds in Boston for safety reasons has exasperated parents and exposed a bigger problem in Belmont, one which exists throughout the nation — chronic under-funding of playgrounds for children (or no funding at all) that leave schools unable to maintain play equipment without hefty parental fundraising and out of pocket expenses, local officials and residents say (Evan, A (November 13, 2011) Playground closings bare larger issue: Schools rely on parents to raise funds for upkeep. Boston.com. http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-13/news/30394828_1_playground-parental-involvement-school-budget).
Part of the problem is that there is simply no money for playground equipment due to austerity measures designed to bail out Wall Street banksters, hedge fund operators and financial capitalists who have now turned to working people to belly up money or shoulder cuts in social services to pay for the banksters’ crime sprees. The Wall Street criminals are now going through our children’s pockets. Our children are being asked to sacrifice public space devoted to childhood play and physical education to assure that Wall Street investors and banksters suffer no loss of their own “play time” — gambling in the casino economy they created for us to we live in.
For poor children who do not live in suburbs but reside mainly in cities in particular, they complain they experience problems such as a lack of safe places to play, parents who are busy trying to pay for housing and other basics and schools that are cutting out recess and physical education to make more time for the ubiquitous and mind numbing standardized testing. Although schools nationwide have been reducing time for recess and physical education for many years, those students in poor areas, in particular, are feeling pressure by administrators and politicians to labor to narrow disparities in student performance and this means they must give up playtime for the “chain gang” of testing. The attack on youth extends to denying them the kernel of the very essence their childhood.
In close to one-third of schools with the highest poverty rates, recess has actually been completely eliminated. That AAP study also found that kids who lacked regular recess time were more likely to be black, low-income and live in large cities, versus kids who routinely had recess (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011).
Despite the increasing amount of ‘forced, tube feeding’ now called ‘learning’, schools are trying to cram into their day (a 2008 study published in The Elementary School Journal reported that up to a quarter of elementary schools don’t even schedule recess regularly for all grade levels), some humane advocates are now advocating expenditures designed to improve kids’ playground experiences (Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
For the AAP, playtime is vital for children’s development (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011). Yet, Children’s free playtime has dropped over the years, replaced by structured activities and screen time, including television and computer use. A 2003 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that a quarter of kids under age 6 watched TV for at least two hours a day; these same kids spent 30 minutes less per day playing outside than kids who didn’t spend so much time in front of a screen (Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
At a time when unstructured childhood time is vanishing in favor forced regimentation and militarization, a pair ofUniversityofMarylandstudies of children’s time use found that in 1981, kids ages 6 to 12 had about 57 hours of free time per week. By 2003, kids had only 48 hours in which to choose their own activities. Time spent outdoors was especially hard-hit as children were ‘benched’ in the new learning incarceration (ibid).
Of course if Newt Gingrich has his way, children at public schools would be busy cleaning toilets, mopping floors, and otherwise doing janitorial work in their early ages which would mean playtime would be replaced with forced child labor.
Dr. Milteer, of AAP, also indicated that unstructured play has its own unique benefits, like sparking children’s imaginations, and teaching them social skills and “negotiation (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011). Arne Duncan and the venture capitalists and hedge fund operators who now work assiduously, paid for by your tax money, to privatize public schools, close public schools and force desk time over play time seem to disagree. The Dickensian miscreants wish to steal not just taxpayer funds in their unquenchable quest to privatize schools; they also wish to steal childhood itself. These ‘businessmen’ are not interested in ‘sparkling children’s imagination’ but instead advocate tethering students to the carpet loom of structured, functionalist-based testing where imagination suffers capital punishment. All of this while obesity rates rise, child poverty increases and opportunities to even access public spaces such as playgrounds or public parks shrink.
In fact, more and more schools seem to resemble such Super-maximum security prisons like Pelican Bay, where prisoners are let out in the ‘yard’ for only one hour per day. At least high-max prisoners get one hour a day of exercise; many children, the majority of them minority and lower class youth, don’t even get this.
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sentenced to years of prison
By Danny Weil, Project Censored
A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) indicates that children in poor urban neighborhoods need more chances for old-fashioned playtime in their daily lives.
A number of experts in the report have raised concerns that in the current climate of treating youth not as if they were at risk, but as the risk themselves, children have little time for unstructured play — which, AAP says, is important for kids’ physical and mental development. Perhaps the lack of play is due to the fact that more and more students are spending all day in school classes, hunched over desks preparing for standardized tests under the corporatized Obama educational policy, Race to the Top. The (AAP) report seemed to think this was the case noting that even U.S. suburban children are “over-scheduled” with formal classes and lessons, leaving them little time for simple play (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011).
A 2009 report by the Alliance for Childhood surveyed kindergartens in New York City and Los Angeles and found that children had less than 30 minutes a day, on average, of “choice” time, in which kids could do whatever they wanted. Kids in L.A. had only about 19 minutes of free time each day. The rest of the kindergarten day was filled with the tyranny of functionalist learning and standardized test preparation. According to the American Association for the Child’s Right to Play, as many as 40 percent of school districts in the United States have reduced recess in the aftermath of the No Child Left Behind act, which emphasizes testing scores over anything else. ((Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
In Belmont, Massachusetts, on November 3, 2011, Superintendent Thomas Kingston closed playgrounds at the Daniel Butler Elementary School, and the town’s Recreation Department closed the playground near Winn Brook Elementary School. The recent closing of two elementary school playgrounds in Boston for safety reasons has exasperated parents and exposed a bigger problem in Belmont, one which exists throughout the nation — chronic under-funding of playgrounds for children (or no funding at all) that leave schools unable to maintain play equipment without hefty parental fundraising and out of pocket expenses, local officials and residents say (Evan, A (November 13, 2011) Playground closings bare larger issue: Schools rely on parents to raise funds for upkeep. Boston.com. http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-13/news/30394828_1_playground-parental-involvement-school-budget).
Part of the problem is that there is simply no money for playground equipment due to austerity measures designed to bail out Wall Street banksters, hedge fund operators and financial capitalists who have now turned to working people to belly up money or shoulder cuts in social services to pay for the banksters’ crime sprees. The Wall Street criminals are now going through our children’s pockets. Our children are being asked to sacrifice public space devoted to childhood play and physical education to assure that Wall Street investors and banksters suffer no loss of their own “play time” — gambling in the casino economy they created for us to we live in.
For poor children who do not live in suburbs but reside mainly in cities in particular, they complain they experience problems such as a lack of safe places to play, parents who are busy trying to pay for housing and other basics and schools that are cutting out recess and physical education to make more time for the ubiquitous and mind numbing standardized testing. Although schools nationwide have been reducing time for recess and physical education for many years, those students in poor areas, in particular, are feeling pressure by administrators and politicians to labor to narrow disparities in student performance and this means they must give up playtime for the “chain gang” of testing. The attack on youth extends to denying them the kernel of the very essence their childhood.
In close to one-third of schools with the highest poverty rates, recess has actually been completely eliminated. That AAP study also found that kids who lacked regular recess time were more likely to be black, low-income and live in large cities, versus kids who routinely had recess (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011).
Despite the increasing amount of ‘forced, tube feeding’ now called ‘learning’, schools are trying to cram into their day (a 2008 study published in The Elementary School Journal reported that up to a quarter of elementary schools don’t even schedule recess regularly for all grade levels), some humane advocates are now advocating expenditures designed to improve kids’ playground experiences (Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
For the AAP, playtime is vital for children’s development (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011). Yet, Children’s free playtime has dropped over the years, replaced by structured activities and screen time, including television and computer use. A 2003 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that a quarter of kids under age 6 watched TV for at least two hours a day; these same kids spent 30 minutes less per day playing outside than kids who didn’t spend so much time in front of a screen (Pappas, S. (August 14, 2011). As Schools cut recess, Kids’ learning will suffer, experts say. Live Science. http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html).
At a time when unstructured childhood time is vanishing in favor forced regimentation and militarization, a pair ofUniversityofMarylandstudies of children’s time use found that in 1981, kids ages 6 to 12 had about 57 hours of free time per week. By 2003, kids had only 48 hours in which to choose their own activities. Time spent outdoors was especially hard-hit as children were ‘benched’ in the new learning incarceration (ibid).
Of course if Newt Gingrich has his way, children at public schools would be busy cleaning toilets, mopping floors, and otherwise doing janitorial work in their early ages which would mean playtime would be replaced with forced child labor.
Dr. Milteer, of AAP, also indicated that unstructured play has its own unique benefits, like sparking children’s imaginations, and teaching them social skills and “negotiation (Poor kids miss out on playtime, pediatricians say, http://bit.ly/udH1U2 Pediatrics, online December 26, 2011). Arne Duncan and the venture capitalists and hedge fund operators who now work assiduously, paid for by your tax money, to privatize public schools, close public schools and force desk time over play time seem to disagree. The Dickensian miscreants wish to steal not just taxpayer funds in their unquenchable quest to privatize schools; they also wish to steal childhood itself. These ‘businessmen’ are not interested in ‘sparkling children’s imagination’ but instead advocate tethering students to the carpet loom of structured, functionalist-based testing where imagination suffers capital punishment. All of this while obesity rates rise, child poverty increases and opportunities to even access public spaces such as playgrounds or public parks shrink.
In fact, more and more schools seem to resemble such Super-maximum security prisons like Pelican Bay, where prisoners are let out in the ‘yard’ for only one hour per day. At least high-max prisoners get one hour a day of exercise; many children, the majority of them minority and lower class youth, don’t even get this.
Newz from Limbo is a news site and, the hosting mechanism notwithstanding, should not be defined as a web log or as 'little more than a community forum'... Write News from Limbo at Krypto78=at=gmail=dot=com... The philosophical orientation of Newz from Limbo is best described as libertarian... For anti-censorship links: http://veilside78.blogspot.com/2010/12/anti-censorship-spectrum_23.html (If link fails, cut and paste it into the url bar)... You may reach some of Paul Conant's other pages through the sidebar link or at http://paulpages.blogspot.com/
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