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Monday, August 2nd, 2010

 

Aug 02 12:43

Bringing the Extremes into the Middle.

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I tell myself I’m not going to write anything today. I’ll take the day off …but this is what I do with my days. If I take the day off then that’s probably what I will do for recreation. It’s important to me to communicate with you because I’m always being communicated with and it has to go somewhere if I start to overflow. This relationship of mine isn’t easy a lot of the time.

Aug 02 12:26

Your Choice: Thomas Jefferson or the Status Quo

By: kdtroxel
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Nullification isn’t constitutional, Tucker rushes to assure everyone, since he doesn’t see it mentioned anywhere in the U.S. Constitution itself. But that’s the thing about the powers of the states: they don’t have to be mentioned explicitly. Only the powers of the federal government (as well as the restrictions on the states) are to be specifically enumerated. That’s the nature of a limited, federal system. And as I show in the book, the power of nullification was indeed assured to the people at the state ratifying convention of Virginia, the state from which so many of our most important statesmen and thinkers hailed. Add to this the obvious, commonsense point that a federal government allowed to have a monopoly on determining its own powers will continuously discover new ones, which happens to be precisely what has occurred, and you have a logically unassailable case for state nullification. (For that matter, where in the Constitution is the federal government granted the exclusive, monopoly power to judge its own powers infallibly? Assigning certain kinds of cases to the Supreme Court is not the same thing, and the Supremacy Clause, as I show in the book, merely begs the question.)

Some of us are a little tired of electing do-nothing plastic men who intensify our fiscal problems, and then hope the rubes fall for their pretty talk about limited government. We’re also impatient with the equally failed strategy of waiting for the federal government’s own courts to roll it back – a foolish approach Jefferson viewed with contempt, since he knew the federal courts would simply rubber-stamp federal usurpations. Forgive me if I remain unconvinced that the best strategy for rolling back government is to wait for a good Supreme Court, perhaps in the year 2874, or to keep writing to my bought-and-paid-for congressman.

Two dozen states nullified the REAL ID Act of 2005, and the federal government had to back down. California persisted in its medical marijuana policy after the Supreme Court said to cut it out. (Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana wrote amicus briefs in support of California, by the way, since even though those states disagreed with its policy, they also believed in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.) Several states have already nullified various federal gun regulations. Cap-and-trade nullification is being drafted as we speak.

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Aug 02 12:23

First Web-based Jailbreak for iPhone 4 arrives; here’s how to do it

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A recent court ruling has declared that jailbreaking your own equipment is not a violation of the DMCA. So have fun, but remember that once you step past Apple’s boundaries, you are on your own and if you do not know what you are doing, you can wreck your phone. Final note is that this web system is VERY busy and it will probably take a while to complete the process.

Aug 02 12:09

Obama On The Iraq Drawdown: ‘As Promised and On Schedule’

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“As a candidate for President, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility. And I made it clear that by August 31, 2010 America’s combat mission in Iraq would end. That is exactly what we are doing—as promised, and on schedule.”

The president says that by the end of the month more than 90,000 troops will have come home from Iraq since he took office.

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Actually, when Obama was campaigning, he said nothing about waiting until August 1, 2010. He said "first thing" and "you can take that to the bank."

Now we are in another campaign season and Obama is crowing how 90,000 troops have been brought back home from Iraq since he took office … without mentioning how may have been sent, and mopre to the point, how many were sent back two and three times.

The fact is that this is Obama’s "Mission Accomplished" moment; an election season hoax underscored by the admission that at least 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq, just under a different name, so they don’t count as combat troops.

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Aug 02 11:28

PHOTO ESSAY OF ILLEGAL SETTLER’S LATEST CRIMES

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On Friday, 30 July, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian fields in the town of Burin in the West Bank. They set the fields on fire and assaulted a number of citizens who attempted to defend their land. Hundreds of dunums (one dunum equals 1,000 square meters) of land near the Hawara military checkpoint were also set ablaze, destroying hundreds of olive trees.

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Aug 02 11:26

Wall Street Journal: We know better than the CIA about Iran’s nookular bombs. Really!

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A pathetic pro-war propaganda piece by Edward Jay Epstein who insists that because of the "secret intelligence" that he and his friends know that Iran has nuclear weapons even though every US intelligence agency says otherwise.

Aug 02 11:07

CLIMATEGATE – Arctic cooled to pre-industrial levels from 1950-1990

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New research by German and Russian scientists indicates that summer temperatures in the Arctic actually fell for much of the later 20th century, plunging to the levels seen at the beginning of the industrial revolution.…

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Aug 02 09:30

Jewish groups angered by churches’ boycott call

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AUSTRALIA’S leading church group has called on Australian churches and the public to boycott Israeli goods made in occupied Palestinian territories.

The National Council of Churches in Australia – which includes the Catholic, Anglican, Uniting and Orthodox churches among its members – passed the resolution last month.

Aug 02 09:25

UN panel to fully investigate Gaza flotilla incident

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A four-member UN panel was appointed Monday to fully investigate the Israeli interception of an aid flotilla off the coast of Gaza Strip, which resulted in nine people killed.

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Including a 19-year old boy, born in New York, carrying a US passport, and shot to death while lying helpless on the deck of the aid ship.

Israel may well have felt that they could hijack foreign-flagged ships in international waters and murder foreign citizens without cause and evade the consequences because they have gotten away with it before. 34 Americans on board the USS Liberty were murdered by Israel in a failed attempt to trick the US into war against Egypt, and not only did then-President Johnson not hold Israel to account; he actively aided the cover-up of that crime!

So here we are with Israel again committing acts of piracy or acts of war (take your pick) on the high seas against American-flagged ships. 19 people are dead, 60 wounded, and 9 American citizens briefly taken prisoner. So far, President Pussy Obama, like President Johnson, is bowing and scraping to help get Israel off of the hook for their barbarous actions.

Quite a far cry from 1904 when Ion Perdecaris was kidnapped by Mulah Raisuli and President Teddy Roosevelt sent 7 battleships to invade Morroco if need be, stating, "This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead."

The time has come for the American people to demand to know the nature of the "Special Relationship" between Israel and the United States; to demand to know why Americans are impoverished while Israel is enriched on our taxes, why our government still refuses to admit Israel has nuclear weapons even as the British press publishes proof of Israel’s attempted nuclear sale to South Africa, how it is that Israel can attack and kill Americans during the Lavon Affair, USS Liberty, USS Cole, Beirut, 9-11, and finally how Israel can so often trick America into war on Israel’s enemies such as Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. and not arouse the anger of the US Government.

All this election season I have been saying that American needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third. This crisis precipitated by Israel is a test of the resolve of America’s leaders to take care of America and Americans and so far the entire government right up to the Oval Office is clearly wanting for the courage and resolve to deal with this latest atrocity. Ever ready to invade the unoffending nations Israel wants invaded, the US Government stands mute and impotent before a real attack on Americans in international waters.

The voters need to demand why.

Aug 02 09:19

Are the American people obsolete?

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The richest few don’t need the rest of us as markets, soldiers or police anymore. Maybe we should all emigrate.

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Or revolt.

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Aug 02 09:17

ZERO TOLERANCE AT GROUND ZERO

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NOT surprisingly, the ADL was one of the most vocal forces of opposition regarding the proposed building of a mosque at the site of Ground Zero….

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See The Five Dancing Israelis
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Aug 02 09:14

BRITISH PUBLIC REJECTS APARTHEID

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Outgoing British ambassador to Israel, Tom Phillips, has been quoted as saying that the British public is drifting away from Israel due to negative impression about Israeli criminal policies against Palestinians.

Speaking during an interview with the right-wing newspaper, the Jerusalem post, Philips acknowledge that as far the British public was concerned, things for Israel were not what they used to be.

“There is a drift of opinion away from Israel. This is not government. This is happening with the popular mood.”

Aug 02 09:13

PALESTINE’S FRIENDS AND FOES…

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Despite our political differences, we can only feel pity for Abu Mazen whose two open choices are both bad: a) negotiate while Israel continues to colonize and ethnically cleanse what remains of the occupied areas and thus lose what little credibility remains among the Palestinian public, OR b) insist on reference to International Law (and thus a settlement freeze) and lose hundreds of millions in funding and lucrative positions of power over the now de facto self-rule areas. In either case there will be no end to the occupation and no real or sovereign Palestinian state in the foreseeable future.

Aug 02 09:08

Israeli airstrike injures 42 in Gaza

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Israeli warplanes targeted the home of a senior Hamas military leader in the central Gaza Strip early Monday leaving 42 civilians injured, medics said.

The Israeli army has denied involvement, with an Israeli military spokeswoman saying there was no army or air force activity overnight.

Aug 02 09:01

Palestinian loss of land 1946 – 2000

By: malterwitty
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Aug 02 08:40

HSBC makes £7BILLION profit in just six months… then vows to hand its bankers £6BILLION in pay and bonuses

By: malterwitty
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Global banking giant HSBC unveiled bumper half-year profits of £7billion today – then outlined plans to hand more than £6 billion ‘compensation’ to its staff.

But HSBC bosses immediately risked stirring public fury when they revealed that ‘just over 20 per cent’ of revenue had been allocated for pay and bonuses.

Aug 02 08:38

£1.2bn spent to beat swine flu… and just 26 lives saved

By: malterwitty
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The £1.2billion spent on tackling the swine flu pandemic that never was may have saved as few as 26 lives at a cost of up to £46million each, an astonishing study has found.

The vast sum spent on vaccinations, anti-virals and facemasks prevented such a paltry number of deaths because the virus turned out to be far less deadly than normal flu.

The £46milllion cost of saving each life is enough to pay the salary of almost 2,000 nurses.

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Aug 02 08:36

Nasa loses touch with hibernating Mars Rover which may never call home again

By: malterwitty
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One of the Mars Rovers has not woken from its winter hibernation, sparking fears that it may never move again, Nasa has confirmed.

The agency’s mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22nd,

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Aug 02 08:36

Shimon Peres denies calling British ‘anti-Semites’

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"And anyone who says I did is an anti-Semite!!!"

Also, this quote currently appears in the article (but will probably be changed quickly).
“The president did express concern that some people in Britain do not fully appreciate the difficulties of facing an onslaught of terror whilst adhering to democratic practice, as Israel does,” the statement read. “Israel civilians have endured over 10,000 missiles fired on them from Israel.”

Did Peres just admit that Israel is firing the rockets used to justify the attacks on the Palestinians?

See IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza

Aug 02 08:35

Astronauts forced to shut down part of International Space Station after cooling system fails

By: malterwitty
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Astronauts on the International Space Station have been forced to shut down equipment after one of the station’s two cooling systems broke down overnight.

Aug 02 08:34

A fantastic look at Hummingbirds using High Definition cameras.

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Aug 02 08:34

Sea Ice News #16

By: malterwitty
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Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the coldest on record. So far, there have only been a small handful of days which made it up to normal temperatures. The Arctic is one of many places described by climate scientists as “the fastest warming place on earth.”

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Aug 02 08:32

NOAA graphs: 62% Of Continental US Below Normal In 2010

By: malterwitty
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Despite the second strongest El Niño on record, 62% of the US has had below normal temperatures for the year so far.

Aug 02 08:20

Obama says his ‘modest’ Afghan aims can be achieved

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Under pressure over the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama underlined the limited nature of his "fairly modest" objectives and insisted they can be achieved.

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Obama’s "modest" aim is to stick out the war until after the election, then admit we lost! (And of course, another couple months of Opium won’t hurt either!)

Aug 02 08:17

BP executive ‘absolutely’ would eat Gulf seafood

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BP’s chief operating officer sought to give the southern US fishing industry a much-need boost Sunday, saying he’d "absolutely" eat Gulf of Mexico seafood after the massive oil spill devastated the region.

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Well, let’s just fly this guy and his whole family out to the Deepwater Horizon site, catch some fish and serve it up fresh all on live TV!

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Aug 02 08:12

Alex Jones Banishes Mike Rivero

By: Saladin
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I think most of us will have some disagreements with Rivero on certain issues, that’s to be expected when folks are passionate about finding truth, but once again the bottom line is whether one has the courage to challenge Israel, their lobbyists and supporters in the media and both in and out of government Doing so can be dangerous to your health … both economically and possibly otherwise.

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Aug 02 08:10

Afghanistan: The unsustainable in pursuit of the unbeatable

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At midnight last night, the United States formally recorded its most lethal month in the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan. Some 66 servicemen died – at least two a day, every day, for 31 days. That was July. June was the deadliest for the coalition as a whole, and the first six months of 2010 were among the bloodiest for civilians since records began in 2007. What will August bring? Or September and October, months which, General David Petraeus, the US commander, has warned may well bring even more intense fighting? By that time, the war will have gone into its 10th year, and so will move towards, and beyond, the landmark when it will have lasted longer than the First and Second World Wars combined.

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In Afghan fields the poppies grow.
Between the crosses.
Row on row.

Aug 02 08:08

Pentagon’s vanishing act

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Forgetting to deduct an expense from a checkbook, a temporary lapse in accountability, is something ordinary Americans can relate to. But their government losing track of how billions of dollars were spent in Iraq is impossible to comprehend.

What makes the lapse infuriating as well as unfathomable is the U.S. Defense Department’s inability to explain, let alone correct, the continuing irresponsibility. The scope of the Pentagon’s laxity in accounting for money designated to rebuild a war-ravaged Iraq is astounding.

Aug 02 08:08

Elite Cyber Group Comes Over Ground To Recruit Hackers

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A private contractor wrapped in the flag is hiring hackers to attack websites the government does not like.

Aug 02 08:05

HOW ISRAEL CREATES A CASUS BELLI FOR ATTACKING THE GAZA STRIP AND A POSSIBLE TRIGGER FOR THE FINAL CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN.

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Israel always claim that they are acting only in retaliation to Palestinian attacks against Israel. This is not the case. Invariably Palestinians launch their weapons against Israel in response to Israeli attacks against them in the first place.

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In this case, even the IDF is admitting that the rocket claimed to justify Israel’s air strikes did not appear to actually originate in Gaza!

Aug 02 08:01

BP Oil Spill: URGENT UPDATE! Corexit Operations Still In Progress 2 weeks after oil leak supposedly stopped.

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Aug 02 07:56

Hey Peres look at your so called English speaking anti-semetic terrorists which your country killed

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Aug 02 07:53

The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues

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In 1993, the District of Attorney of San Francisco released 700 pages of documents implicating the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens who were opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa and passing on information to both governments.

Under great political pressure, Smith later dropped the charges. One wonders what would have happened had an Arab-American or Muslim organization been caught spying with the names of 10,000 people and 600 organizations in their files.

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See Israeli Spying:
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Aug 02 07:51

40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy

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Most Americans still appear to be operating under the delusion that the "recession" will soon pass and that things will get back to "normal" very soon. Unfortunately, that is not anywhere close to the truth. What we are now witnessing are the early stages of the complete and total breakdown of the U.S. economic system. The U.S. government, state governments, local governments, businesses and American consumers have collectively piled up debt that is equivalent to approximately 360 percent of GDP. At no point during the Great Depression (or at any other time during our history) did we ever come close to such a figure.

Aug 02 07:50

CLIMATEGATE – Peru declares state of emergency amid plunging temperatures

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Hundreds die from extreme cold in remote mountain villages.

Aug 02 07:43

Passengers not pleased as Spirit Airlines adds fee for carry-on bags

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Spirit Airlines on Sunday began charging passengers to carry luggage on flights, an industry first.

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I wonder when the3y will start charging people for the clothes they are wearing on board!

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Aug 02 07:42

Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’

By: johnu78
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Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government.

Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than helping law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally over its southern border in Arizona, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel…

Aug 02 07:41

Cluster Crimes: Israel and Cluster Bombs

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On August 1, 2010, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland in May 2008, took effect worldwide. 108 countries have signed it, 38 of them have already ratified it. Among these societies, are former users, producers and victims of cluster munitions. Two countries are notorious for their absence in this honorable list: the USA and Israel.

Aug 02 07:36

IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza

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A military official told Ynet he did not believe Hamas had fired the Grad rocket that exploded in Ashkelon Friday morning, though it remains unclear who was responsible.

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Aug 02 07:35

Raiding and Regulating the New Enemies in the War on Drugs: Rawesome ‘Foodies’

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Eric Blair
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As if the prohibition of non-corporate drugs wasn’t already enough of a tragedy of liberty, the Feds are now increasingly arming themselves to raid peaceful organic farms, food Co-Ops, and even Amish dairies over raw milk.

This past week the Los Angeles Times reported that policeman, with guns drawn, raided a private organic food store in Venice California called Rawesome Foods:

"With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

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Aug 02 05:27

Iran’s Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama

By: Tian Shan
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Saddam Hussein (Feb. 26, 2003) tried the same thing. (Transcript, page 3)

"Rather: Are you speaking about a debate?

Rather: This – this is new. You– you are suggesting, you are saying, that you are willing, you are suggesting, you’re urging a debate with President Bush? On television?

Translator For Saddam Hussein: Yes. That’s my proposal."

(Transcript, page 3)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/26/60II/main542155.shtml?tag=co…

Aug 02 05:07

Fury as Israel President Claims English are ‘Anti-semitic’

By: Elias
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strong>Israel’s president has accused the English of being anti-semitic and claimed that MPs pander to Muslim voters.
Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.”

Aug 02 04:55

Big Banks Fund Cluster Bombs

By: 911insidejob
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Over ninety countries have promised to ban cluster bombs, whose mini explosives often fail to explode and lie like land mines for years. But campaigners say its the banks driving the trade now, with financial institutions showing few qualms about funding the world’s weapon makers.

Aug 02 04:24

Palestinian Detainee Abuse During Operation Cast Lead

By: Elias
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Detainees, including children, were taken from their homes, held in large pits (two – three meters deep), unsheltered from the bitter cold for days, each pit holding 60 – 70 prisoners, their hands shackled and eyes covered. They couldn’t even leave their pits to relieve themselves. The sanitary conditions were appalling, the amount of food, water, and blankets negligible.

Aug 02 01:40

"TALIBAN TRAINED BY ISRAEL AND INDIA"

By: poorrichard
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Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, revealed in a recent interview:

"The Pakistani Taliban is in close cooperation with, supplied, financed, armed and trained by Israel and India to attack Pakistan."

Duff’s claims are based on a February 2010 fact-finding tour of Pakistan, where he was briefed by the highest levels of the country’s military and intelligence establishment, including Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, former Director-General of the ISI, Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff.

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Aug 02 00:36

Gilad Atzmon: Israel Cannot Handle Its Past

By: poorrichard
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Israel cannot handle its past. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu decided this week to extend from 50 to 70 years the time state archives remain classified. Israel realizes that it has too much to hide.

August 1, 2010

Aug 01 23:51

George Carlin -"Who Really Controls America"

By: kdtroxel
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Aug 01 21:11

Israeli Military Shoots Palestinian Prisoner

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Aug 01 21:10

If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED!

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Aug 01 21:08

The Tragic Death of a Night Porter

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In fact, Dariusz Ratajczak’s troubles began with the publication of his booklet, “Dangerous Topics,” in March, 1999. The treatise was self-published and limited to only 320 copies, but gave credence to the old maxim that the ‘pen is mightier than the sword. Ratajczak’s essay provoked a firestorm of criticism among his contemporaries. In the month following the book’s publication, a rather surprised Ratajczak was summoned to the editorial offices of the Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish newspaper, where he was sneeringly told, “We’ll trample you into the ground for the little book, and the little sub-chapter on the Holocaust.”

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Aug 01 20:33

Israeli High Schoolers Assist Razing of Bedouin Town

By: My Catbird Seat
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By Michael Leon – Editor – Veterans Today

EDITORS NOTE: Veterans Today condemns State Sponsored “Hitler Youth” of Israel — Vicious and bigoted forcing non-Zionist peoples out of their homes for Zionist Settlers to move in.

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Aug 01 20:13

Obama’s Middle East Moment of Truth

By: Elias
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The new Middle Eastern diplomatic detente leaves Obama only one way forward. If he wants to succeed, he will have to make it clear to the far-right Israeli government that it must stop settlements, return to its 1967 borders and accept a viable, contiguous Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Aug 01 19:02

NOW THEY TELL US? Static "Kill" a MISNOMER; What BP’s "really doing" is conducting "test"

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Aug 01 18:15

If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing!

By: My Catbird Seat
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AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

Must listen interview with former Republican Congressman Paul Findlay:

Findley speaks out about the Israeli lobby and its manipulation of US foreign policy in the Middle East, resulting in thousands of American deaths and tens of thousands of Muslim deaths

http://www.wsradio.com/internet-talk-radio.cfm/shows/CNI:-Jerusalem-Ca…

Paul Findley in following youtube with nearly 3 million views :

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Aug 01 17:03

i am frigin pissed now really pissed

By: coastnsea
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this is not about Mike not fitting in because he is atheist, or denies chemtrails…if you would take a few minutes and listen to the show that comes after Mike’s show in GCN, well, let me tell ya, every time those yuppie pieces of shit talk, makes me go scope in my rifle…sorry, i wont hurt anyone, but just making a point. this is nothing but hurting Mike because he DARES speak out about israel.

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Aug 01 16:57

ZIONISM’S ‘RIGHTS’ OR WRONGS

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re: Ms Glick’s stating: ‘Zionism after all is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. To say that Jews – uniquely among all the nations – have no right to freedom and self-determination is obviously anti-Semitic.’

First off, this infers that Jews cannot be ‘free’, nor enjoy ‘self determination’ in countries other than Israel, which judging by their great success and pre-eminence in the US and in many other countries wherein they reside, is near to nonsense.

Unique to Zionism’s notion of the Jewish State is the claim that Israel belongs, and is home to, ALL Jews worldwide, no matter where they reside and regardless their citizen status elsewhere.

No other modern nation state is comprised on grounds of such specific ethnocentrism.

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Aug 01 15:40

IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza

By: Saladin
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A military official told Ynet he did not believe Hamas had fired the Grad rocket that exploded in Ashkelon Friday morning, though it remains unclear who was responsible.

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Aug 01 15:38

In memory of 9/11 victims, church to burn Qurans

By: bLaKouT
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New York, Jul 31: A US church has sparked off a huge controversy by mulling an ‘International Burn a Quran Day’ to observe the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.

The Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, will be hosting the event to remember the victims of the Sep 9, 2001 attack and has extended a invitation to all the Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at its premises from 6 pm to 9 pm.

Ah… the religion of Peace and Love strikes again.

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Aug 01 15:36

Flashback: Osama Is Under Your Bed

By: Saladin
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In the days leading up to the mandated Congressional debate regarding said legislation, terror warnings suddenly bloom like nightshade. The White House or the FBI or the CIA, or all three in concert, ratchet up the national tension level with forecasts of doom and death and fire from unknown quarters. Said legislation passes without so much as leaving a wake in its path, nothing explodes, and everyone goes on with their lives in the belief that they just narrowly dodged a bullet. At the conclusion of the process, the foundations of American freedom have been redacted, edited, clipped and round-filed.

Aug 01 15:18

County justice of the peace arrested for jailing kids with unpaid ‘truancy’ fines

By: Kelly Thomas
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An Hidalgo County Judge finds herself on the other side of the bench after being indicted.

Judge Mary Alice Palacios is accused of sending kids to jail for months at a time, because they couldn’t pay their truancy fine.

Aug 01 15:06

Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa’s Leaning Tower

By: Saladin
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Professor John Burland has spent the last two decades striving to save – and understand – the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After defying gravity, Italian bureaucracy and accusations of corruption, it seems he’s finally cracked the case.

Aug 01 14:47

Controversy over South Korea’s sunken ship

By: malterwitty
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"South Korea should reopen an investigation, and the parliament should open an investigation into the JIG on suspicion of fabricated data," Suh told Nature. "They failed in their task of proving that this was done by North Korea, and so it is quite likely that they fabricated data."

Aug 01 14:35

“HUGE discrepancies”: 1.8 million gallons of dispersant “now in question”, “Either BP was lying to Congress or to the Coast Guard”

By: malterwitty
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For example, in one approval request, one of BP’s top executives, Doug Suttles, claimed that the maximum daily application of dispersants on the surface in the days preceding June 16, 2010 was 3,360 gallons on June 12. However, an examination of the dispersant totals BP provided to congressional staff in its daily “Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Updates” indicates that on June 11, BP said it applied 14,305 gallons of the chemical on the surface; on June 13, 36,000 gallons; and on June 14, 10,706 gallons.

According to publicly disclosed amounts on DeepwaterHorizonResponse.com, more than 1.8 million gallons of toxic dispersants were used to break up the oil as it came out of the well, as well as after it reached the ocean surface. The validity of those numbers are now in question.

Aug 01 13:48

Judge ‘inundated’ with death threats after Arizona ruling

By: jackrabbit
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The increase in threats coincides with more online use and the proliferation of blogs, he said. A quick scan shows many sites and discussion forums where Bolton is called a traitor or other, unprintable names.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn!

Liberty is not Just About Economics

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

by Phil Russo

There is a very important and interesting conversation taking place amongst tea party groups right now. It can sometimes be uncomfortable and awkward but we, as tea partiers, are not afraid to tackle big issues, right? The conversation I’m referring to is about civil liberties, how important they are, and their relationship to the Constitution.

When I wrote a blog post about the Times Square bomber and how he should have been read his rights I expected to be blasted by my fellow tea partiers – but I wasn’t. Most people agreed that John McCain was wrong.

I have also heard others talking about the Obama decision to assassinate American citizens and how unconstitutional it is. And, there’s plenty of talk about denying people on the “terrorist watch list” their second amendment rights even though they have not been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime. The progress being made on the right with respect to civil liberties is very encouraging.

Many tea partiers ask me how they can reach out to younger people like myself and I have been telling them that younger people are with us on economics; it is when we get to civil liberties that they look at the GOP and they see big government, Big Brother, unconstitutional hypocrites.

One of the reasons Ron Paul’s following was so young was for this exact reason. Young people don’t want higher taxes or bigger government. They believe in free markets. What they also don’t want are things like a national ID card, even if the Republicans say it is needed to “fight terrorism.” In fact, many young people don’t want to give up their constitutional rights for any reason.

I am with Patrick Henry, “I know not what course others may choose but as for me, give me liberty or give me death”! A lot of folks my age, who would vote Republican on economic issues, look at the constitution and don’t see anything about gay marriage. They see no power granted to Congress to create a Federal Reserve Bank. They see no power in the Constitution giving congress the power to regulate marriage. Similarly, they see no power there giving Congress the power to prohibit pot smoking.

There is a thick libertarian streak in the under-30 crowd and especially in the under-20 crowd. If we tell them that freedom means the government staying out of the economy, they rightly think that the government should also stay out of their homes, personal lives, and bedrooms. They also think that the bill of rights should apply to every American citizen regardless of the charges against them. This should make sense even to my post-40 tea party friends.

If we allow the government to assassinate an American citizen overseas the next step will be assassinating American citizens on our own soil. If we allow the government to assassinate American citizens accused of “terrorism” the next step is allowing them to assassinate anyone accused of being a “threat to national security.”

Imagine if Obama had decided to assassinate the members of the “Christian” militia that was busted a few months back. They were “terrorists” – they were going to use a bomb to kill a police officer and then set off more bombs along the funeral route. That’s a tactic straight out of Bin Laden’s playbook. Should these men be held without charge in Gitmo and tried before a military tribunal?

I obviously don’t speak for all young people, but I do talk politics with a lot of them. There are neo-cons that are under 30, less of them under 20, and they think that if you have brown skin and the government (that they claim to distrust so much) deems you are a terrorist, it is ok to suspend your constitutional rights for “national security.”

I find this particularly ironic since these neo-cons claim to hate socialism and collectivism so much but then they preach about the “greater good” which is textbook socialism talk. Giving up our constitutional rights in the interest of security is no different from the commies that used to say “better Red than dead.”

So to answer the question – how do you reach the younger people in this country? The answer is simple – if we really want to reach them we should continue this conversation about civil liberties and we should not shy away from it because it makes us “uncomfortable.”

When I think of my favorite Founding Fathers like Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, I see those men more in Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and Jim Demint than I do in George W Bush, John McCain, Eric Cantor and the others.

If we present young people with a consistent message of economic and personal liberty, and if we elect people who follow the constitution and repeal the tens of thousands of pages of laws that are unconstitutional, we will not have a problem turning young people to our side. That will happen naturally.

Phil Russo is a grassroots activist and co-host of the radio show, “Tea Party Patriots Live” which can be heard on Saturdays on 660 WORL in Orlando, FL. Visit his website at www.teapartypatriotslive.com.

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Three Deadly Weapons

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

by Timothy Reeves, Oregon Tenth Amendment Center

killed-the-constitutionAny honest reading of the US Constitution gives the impression that the Federal Government is but a lackey to the states. However, when it comes to the way it has been interpreted (incorrectly), there are three clauses which are widely cited as authority to usurp power which belongs elsewhere. In this article, I intend to delve into these and examine how they are true or false. I also intend to highlight the impact that the abuse/use of these clauses has had.

Commerce Clause

Article I Section8 Clause3 of the Constitution states that Congress has the power:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

This obviously means Congress has the right to regulate how much grain you can grow on your land for your own consumption, right? If you said no it does not (like any other thinking person), you are out of step with the US Supreme Court. This also means that the Congress can force you to purchase health insurance, right? If you said no, you are out of step with the Congress. Surely the Commerce clause means that if a migratory bird (that is hunted in another state) lands on your property, then your property can be seized by the Federal Govt. due to it’s part in interstate commerce right? No?

How about this one; The Federal Government can make gun laws (in direct contravention of the US Constitution) because they are sold over state lines. Obviously the ambiguous verbiage above allows them the authority to ignore the clearly unambiguous verbiage of “shall not be infringed,” right?

Well, there is the Government’s case, now how about the governed? For our case I will focus on some quotes from the founders:

How about that James Madison (the acknowledged father of the Constitution)?

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

So… the way I read James Madison here is that the Commerce clause is to keep the states themselves from interfering with commerce (laying tariffs between states, placing restrictions on imports, etc…). It seems that Madison did not want the Federal Government using the Commerce clause to control… well.. everything.

How about Thomas Jefferson? Here is the quote I found from him-

“[The commerce clause] does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen) … but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.”

Hmmm… I think Thomas Jefferson agreed with me. The Commerce clause was intended only to regulate resale.

In fact, the federalist papers used the term “commerce” dozens of times, and they all amounted to the resale of things by merchants and shippers, not one time did it mean growing of agriculture or manufacturing of products for sale. If this context was examined, then this would be the original intent of the Constitution.

Necessary And Proper Clause

Article I Section8 Clause18 states that Congress has the power:

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Most school children are taught that this clause was added so that Congress could legislate on issues that would come with new inventions. (My teacher used to say that there were no autos in 1789, so they needed to put this clause in).

Surely this clause means that Congress can make any law they want, right? The problem with this view is that at the end of this clause the Constitution clearly limits the power to making laws necessary to carry out the other laws in the Constitution. In other words, Congress has the power to raise and support a navy, so they have the power to train sailors and commission ships.

These powers are referred to as “incidental powers.” They must be smaller than the power they are used in conjunction with. That is, they may regulate interstate commerce, but may not regulate state governments or laws.

Some examples of “necessary and proper” overreach are:

In 1896, it was ruled that it was legal for the Federal Government to condemn a railroads property to build a national park on the basis that it was necessary to the national defense that the citizens are proud of their country.

Now, I love my country as much as anyone else alive, however, I love the freedoms more than the national park, and this just illustrates what freedoms we do not have. The necessary and proper clause was also used to justify the national bank as necessary to conduct the borrowing and national defense powers of Congress. But lets look at some other input:

Joseph Story (an early Supreme Court Justice) said-

“The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant.”

This about spells it out. The debate for McCullough Vs. Maryland is another source for quotes from Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson.

General Welfare Clause

To promote or to provide for the general welfare, appears in two places in the US Constitution;

First in the preamble, which is just a listing of reasons and gives no powers whatsoever, and then Article I Section8 Clause 1 where it states:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

Does this clause mean that Congress has no limits except what they believe will advance the “general welfare?” Is it just the Supreme Court which determines the general welfare, but the federal government may do anything that the court does not forbid? This is the primary opinion of the elite and the elected. It has been used to justify welfare, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and a host of freedom-destroying legislation. But what did the founders think of this?

Take James Madison-

“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress… Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”

or this one:

“With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”

Or this one from Thomas Jefferson

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”

In reality, the “General welfare” clause is a qualifier. Congress may only lay taxes for revenue to be used for the general welfare (as opposed to the special welfare) of the states, for example, they may lay taxes to build postal roads, but they may not lay taxes for building postal roads in New Hampshire, to the detriment of the rest of the states. So, ironically, the way that Congress horse-trades favors for votes in Congress makes most legislation unconstitutional.

There’s More

In addition to these gross misconceptions by the Federal Govt., they add the Supremacy clause, which states:

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwith-standing.”

This is pointed to anytime the Federal Government wants to escape criticism from people saying they have exceeded their authority. However, a careful reading of the passage above makes it clear that only laws in pursuance of the US Constitution are supreme. Anytime the Federal Govt. goes beyond the Constitution, citizens are not bound to obey them.

The preceding examples of intentional misconstruction of the Constitution are examples of our Federal Government out of control. They pit the citizens against each other; they take from the hand of labor to give to the hand of not only the needy, but the banks and corporations as well.

They make people perpetual slaves by addicting them to handouts and then denying them the escape from this perpetual misery by over-regulating prospective employers for these people. They have bogged us down in perpetual wars overseas for over a period of 70 years, ignoring the appropriate method of war-making under the Constitution.

pcg-constitutionThey have criminalized multiple forms of commerce, suspended Habeas corpus in absence of properly declared wars, and they have systematically denied due process rights for the people.

Indeed, this list could go on for pages. Most of these transgressions against the natural rights of man are done in the name of the good intentions (saving people from themselves). These need to end, and our country needs to return to the republican form of government it was founded on. Our states need to resume pushing back at the Federal Government and interposing on our behalf.

Tim Reeves is an 11 year veteran of the U.S Navy, and is now an engineer, He grew up in Michigan, but has resided in the Pacific NW since 1992. He’s the State Chapter Coordinator for the Oregon Tenth Amendment Center.

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Hijacking Thomas Jefferson

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Andy Quesnelle, Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center

On May 1, 2010, President Obama delivered the commencement speech to the Class of 2010 at my alma mater, the University of Michigan.  In the address, the President noted Thomas Jefferson’s statement that “with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times,” and extrapolated it into a defense of robust government activity and intervention in almost every area of our lives:

our government must keep pace with the times.  When America expanded from a few colonies to an entire continent, and we needed a way to reach the Pacific, our government helped build the railroads.  When we transitioned from an economy based on farms to one based on factories, and workers needed new skills and training, our nation set up a system of public high schools.  When the markets crashed during the Depression and people lost their life savings, our government put in place a set of rules and safeguards to make sure that such a crisis never happened again, and then put a safety net in place to make sure that our elders would never be impoverished the way they had been.  And because our markets and financial systems have evolved since then, we’re now putting in place new rules and safeguards to protect the American people.

The President, in other words, used Thomas Jefferson as a springboard to advocate for government power.  I suspect that there is little in the world more full of irony than a defense of big government using the mantle of Jefferson.  What would Jefferson have thought about the federal government building the railroads, regulating public education, dominating the financial system, and involving itself in health care?

First, let us address the quote that the President used as the commencement of his ideas: “with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”  The quote is taken from a July 12, 1810 letter from Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval and is inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial. 

But what was Jefferson actually saying?  This was not, as President Obama claimed, a statement in defense of activist government.  Rather, it is a statement evidencing one of Jefferson’s lesser-known and more radical ideas – the concept of “generational tyranny.”  Jefferson believed that, just as one nation has no right to impose law or regulation on another, so one generation has no right to impose law on generations to follow:

That our Creator made the earth for the use of the living and not of the dead; that those who exist not can have no use nor right in it, no authority or power over it; that one generation of men cannot foreclose or burthen its use to another, which comes to it in its own right and by the same divine beneficence; that a preceding generation cannot bind a succeeding one by its laws or contracts; these deriving their obligation from the will of the existing majority, and that majority being removed by death, another comes in its place with a will equally free to make its own laws and contracts; these are axioms so self-evident that no explanation can make them plainer; for he is not to be reasoned with who says that non-existence can control existence, or that nothing can move something.

Letter to Thomas Earle, 1823.  Far from Jefferson’s comment about institutions keeping pace with the times reflecting faith in big government as the President stated, it actually reflects just the opposite.  Jefferson, for example, would not have believed that the Depression-era financial regulations could justifiably be imposed on the current generation.  He would have been opposed to any federal regulatory structure that persisted over generations as the outdated vestiges of long gone majorities which have no place in today’s society.

President Obama then went on to express exasperation at those who believe “that all of government is inherently bad.”  Based on this comment, Jefferson must provoke much exasperation from the President.  Jefferson valued resistance to government authority above almost all else.  In a 1787 letter to Abigail Adams, he remarked “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.  I like a little rebellion now and then.  It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” 

In fact, Jefferson thought that anti-government rebellion should be contemplated as often as once every twenty years: “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion [as the American Revolution].”  Letter to William S. Smith, 1787.  Rebellion is described by Jefferson as “medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”  And almost everyone is aware of one of Jefferson’s most famous quotes:

What signify a few lives lost in a Century or Two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Let’s call a spade a spade: Jefferson was radically anti-government.

Jefferson’s anti-government ideas had one primary focal point: the federal government. If Jefferson were alive today, he would certainly be a regular contributor to the Tenth Amendment Center, for he considered the Tenth Amendment to be the focus and the foundation of the entire Constitutional structure. In opposing Alexander Hamilton’s plan to establish a National Bank in 1791, Jefferson noted:

I consider the foundation of the [Federal] Constitution as laid on this ground: That “all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.” [10th Amendment]  To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.

Virginia’s American Revolution

This, then, is not a man who would appreciate seeing his words twisted into a method of supporting a federal government which “built the railroads,” “set up a system of public high schools,” put in place “a set of rules and safeguards” to regulate the financial system and put the “safety net” of social security in place.  Jefferson would have reviled these intrusions as more than a mere “single step” beyond the boundaries “specifically drawn around the powers of Congress.”  And he would also have noted that such intrusions are nothing that a rebellion every couple of decades couldn’t fix.

Thomas Jefferson is an American hero who spoke truth to power and was unafraid to say exactly what he thought, no matter how radical or crazy his ideas seemed.  His legacy should never be used – especially by the President of the United States – to support the principles of government intrusion and activism that he so deeply abhorred.

Jefferson “swor[e] upon the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”  It is unfortunate that many Americans are not so hostile.  If they were, “liberty” today might mean more than a word on a coin.

Andy Quesnelle spent most of his early childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1992. He has lived in Pittsburgh ever since, except for the 7-year period during which he was in college and law school. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 2003 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. His primary areas of concentration were Colonial American History, 20th Century U.S. History, and American politics and government. He received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 2006. Since then, he has practiced as a labor and employment attorney, representing management and employers, in Pittsburgh. He has always been a very strong advocate of states’ rights and decentralized government. He believes that Thomas Jefferson was absolutely right — government power is not to be trusted, and the more centralized government power becomes, the less it is to be trusted.

Author’s Update, May 15, 2010:

In my most recent article, “Hijacking Thomas Jefferson,” I explained why President Obama’s invocation of Thomas Jefferson to support government intrusion and intervention is unsupportable. My intention was to illustrate Jefferson’s thinking on these issues, which was the most radical of the Founders and was obviously colored by his unique experiences and the time in which he lived. I do not think that Jefferson’s literal views as to resistance to government are well-suited to our experiences and the time in which we live.

Thus, at the end of my article, I stated that if more Americans were “hostile” to “tyranny,” liberty might mean more than a word on a coin. The hostility to which I refer should be understood in the context of our times, not Jefferson’s. What I mean by this is that Americans should express their hostility to big government through persuasion, argument and the ballot box, not through literal armed rebellion as Jefferson spoke of. Indeed, one of the cornerstones of our country is that we all have the right and the means to use persuasion and argument to facilitate the victory of our points of view. This is what it means to be American.

Jefferson was, as I said, an American hero. He was an American hero because he helped establish liberty for all of us using means appropriate for his circumstances and times. American heroes today are those who use means appropriate for our times — argument, persuasion, campaigning and election — to advance their ideas.

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