February 2, 2012
FBI "Communities Against Terrorism" Suspicious Activity Reporting Flyers 02-02-12
Interesting list, and you can download any or all to read at your leisure. I read a few and, like I said, they're interesting. A little disconcerting, too!
BLOG ENTRY It's All About the Courts 02-02-12
This warning about a Mitt Romney presidency is one we'd do well to heed. We don't want another term from Barack Obama for obvious reasons, but some of those same — some of the most important! — reasons apply to Romney!
February 1, 2012
- COMMENTARY Obama no better than Bush concerning civil liberties 02-01-12
I don't excuse George W. Bush for things like the USA PATRIOT Act. But despite his promises and in the face of a supporting base that typically abhors attacks on liberty (at least those liberties they pick and choose), the truth is that erosion of liberty has dramatically increased under Obama's watch. ACTA, the NDAA, "Obamacare," and more can all be laid directly at Obama's feet, not those of his Republican predecessor. So, given that civil liberties is an issue (and ought to be), why are some of you still supporting a man who's proved his promises have no value, and that his thirst for power at least matches that of those you call tyrants? 
Ron Paul draws hundreds at CSU rally 01-31-12
You know why we keep losing our freedoms? Because Ron Paul, the one candidate from either party I'd trust to actually roll back incursions and restore freedoms is any number of delegates behind two men who I wouldn't trust and who won't do either.- PRESS RELEASE VICTORY! "One Subject" Introduced in Congress 01-31-12
I've long supported this DownsizeDC project, and I hope you will, too. It's a great idea whose time is past coming. So let's get it done now!
January 31, 2012
- Obama administration lawyers file brief in support of health law 01-31-12
That is, of course, as expected. It's also immaterial to the constitutionality of the law (it isn't) or to the freedom-stealing provisions of its many parts and pieces! - House advances bill terminating the CLASS Act 01-31-12
That's good, but far from sufficient. Even so, there's one quote in the report that really says it all. A Democrat who voted against considering getting rid of the CLASS Act said that just because there's no way it will work doesn't mean we should get rid of it. I think that pretty much says it all, don't you? - TSA Agents Reportedly Wait 6 Hours Before Alerting Cops About Potential Bomb 01-31-12
The good news is that the TSA apparently caught something suspicious. The bad news? They did nothing about it for hours. Please explain to me again how searching kindergardners and grandmas is necessary to protect Americans, but dealing with possible bombs is not. - Gary Johnson addresses ACLU National Staff Conference: Repeal PATRIOT Act now 01-30-12
I'm rarely a fan of the ACLU, but in this instance, their focused opposition is all too warranted, and Johnson sums it up perfectly.
January 30, 2012
- COMMENTARY Romney's Disconnect on Romneycare and Obamacare 01-28-12
There is disconnect so broad, in fact, that it's impossible to see Mr. Romney broaching it. In fact, I don't believe he'll even try if he's elected. He's telling you what you want to hear right now, folks, and the tune will change should he gain the Oval Office. All you need to do is review his past history as Governor of Massachusetts and take note of his ongoing defense of "Romneycare," and predicting the future becomes easy for even the least perceptive of us!
January 27, 2012
- Active duty cop: "The war on drugs is a war on people" 01-27-12
This is both surprising and unsurprising. I'm not taken aback that some of the police know what they're doing in the "War on Drugs," but I'm more than a little pleased that some of them actually understand what they're doing. Good for this cop, whoever he is, and may there be many, many more of him on our streets! - No refuge from US Patriot Act 01-27-12
Apparently, you don't need to be a rural-living gun-clinging American to recognize the threat! Just as important here, though, is the clear damage it's doing America both economically and as concerns the loss of respect — or even fear — from other countries around the world.
January 26, 2012
- Shock Docs: Total Federalization of Police Under New Homeland Security Mission 01-25-12
I'm pretty sure I don't need to tell you that this is very, very not good... - COMMENTARY The SOPA/PIPA/USA Patriot conundrum 01-25-12
No conundrum as far as I'm concerned: They're all freedom stealers (or tyranny enhancers, if you prefer...)
January 25, 2012
- COMMENTARY Controversial law lays waste to much of the Bill of Rights 01-23-12
It does, indeed. I have been, and remain, appalled by the NDAA. Of special and critical note here: Only two of the GOP presidential candidates have spoken out against NDAA. That says something about them. More important, it says something about Mitt Romney (who actually spoke in favor of this nightmare of tyranny) and Newt Gingrich. If you're a supporter of either, you may want to rethink what that means for liberty!
January 24, 2012
- Romney adviser Norm Coleman predicts GOP president won't repeal health law 01-24-12
If what Coleman says is true, that's yet another good reason that Mitt Romney should absolutely, positively not be the nominee. (For the record, I suspect that it is true. After all, Romney continues to defend "Romneycare," the acknowledged — and already failing! — basis of "Obamacare.") - BLOG ENTRY If the TSA Will Treat Senator Rand Paul Like A Scumbag, What Will
They Do To YOU? 01-24-12
I have some ideas. And none of them are pretty! The columnist says one thing that strikes me as even more urgent than his other admittedly critical comments. He says, "Wake up!" We'd better.
January 23, 2012
- High court turns aside recusal request on health care challenge 01-23-12
While I agree that the court shouldn't against any of its membership act on such requests, I really wish that Kagan would hurry up and exhibit some of the "integrity" and "character and fitness" described by the Chief Justice and recuse herself from the "Obamacare" hearings. There's no question in my mind whatsoever that she is singularly biased in the matter and that any judgment rendered by her in the case is a foregone conclusion. - COMMENTARY Police State USA and the NDAA: Creating American Terrorists 01-22-12
Exactly! And who outside of Washington doesn't think this is a serious problem, eh?
January 20, 2012
- COMMENTARY The Proposed Enemy Expatriation Act: Sending American Citizens
into Exile 01-20-12
The "War on Terror" become the "War on Liberty?" With measures like this one, the answer is all too clearly "yes." - BLOG ENTRY How Sebelius Plans to Save Obamacare: Creating Dependence 01-20-12
The worst part? Sebelius is right. Look at all of the other entitlement programs that people jump up and down and scream to keep, and consider that this could happen to "Obamacare" if we let it. - BLOG ENTRY Obamacare Is Losing CLASS Fast 01-20-12
Despite the fact that this is good news, it's not yet a done deal. Even if it becomes a done deal, it will be just one step on the road to getting rid of the rest of the tyrannical monstrosity known as "Obamacare!"
About the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten Admendments to the U.S. Constitution. These ten Amendments, ratified in 1791, were quickly appended to the Constitution by the framers so as to clarify that they considered certain rights unlienable, and that those rights were not to be infringed upon by the government. To hedge their bets even further, the Ninth Amendment was written to let everyone know—government official and citizen alike—that just because a right isn't specifically mentioned doesn't mean it's not a right held by the people.
The Bill of Rights can be seen in its original form online at the Website of the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States. The document can be read online as well, also courtesy of the National Archives. (Although not considered a part of the Bill of Rights, there are additional Amendments to the Constitution. You can read these amendments online—Amendments 11-27—again courtesy of the National Archives.) An interactive Constitution is available online at the National Constitution Center website.
Please take note of the fact
that I've effectively added one thing to The Bill of Rights here at Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House: the right to privacy. While not specifically delineated within either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights (court decisions have been made concerning privacy based on the Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments; arguments can be made that the First and Third Amendments have some direct application to privacy as well), the right to privacy may be the single most important of all rights for a free people. Encroachments on privacy by government are often the beginning of the end of real liberty.
Want to help preserve the liberty? Educate yourself, and then take action!
