We Are All Forrest Gumps

Observers of an increasingly totalitarian government.
Article by Karen Kwiatkowski.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski154.html

The High Price of American Gullibility

by Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9216

Government Keeps People Poor

by Sheldon Richman
Future of Freedom Foundation
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606j.asp

The Conservative Index

Our third look at the 109th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, including foreign aid, immigration, and the Patriot Act.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/uploads/ci-109-3.pdf

Global Gun Control

Having failed in the US, the disarmers try the UN.
Article by Ron Paul.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul330.html

Jefferson Was Right

About owning a gun, says Charley Reese.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese289.html

The Surveillance State Unveiled

by Thomas R. Eddlem
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_3991.shtml

American's For Constitutional Enforcement

As we are responsible for the current condition of our nation, we have a lot of soul searching to do. Our landslide votes, which were cast by the unethical influence of what we now realize is a completely controlled media, created the monster that we now call “government.” Our American dreams, way of life, our primary religion.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy46.htm
by Nancy Levant

Americans for Constitutional Enforcement
http://www.a4ce.org/

Schoolhouse Philosophy

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known as UNESCO, designs much of the curriculum preparing your child to be a dumbed down, obedient Global servant who has to work on a team and cannot think for himself....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Morrison/joyce33.htm
by Joyce Morrison

Supreme Court: No-Knock Evidence OK

High Court Rules Police With Warrant Can Enter A House Without Knocking

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006

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"It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection."Justice Stephen Breyer


(CBS/AP) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police armed with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence even if they don't knock, a huge government victory that was decided by President Bush's new justices.

The 5-4 ruling signals the court's conservative shift following the departure of moderate Sandra Day O'Connor.

The case tested previous court rulings that police armed with warrants generally must knock and announce themselves or they run afoul of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches.

"The Supreme Court has been gradually upgrading police search powers," CBS News correspondent Barry Bagnato says. "This is another step in that direction."

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said Detroit police acknowledge violating that rule when they called out their presence at a man's door then went inside three seconds to five seconds later.

"Whether that preliminary misstep had occurred or not, the police would have executed the warrant they had obtained, and would have discovered the gun and drugs inside the house," Scalia wrote.

But suppressing evidence is too high a penalty, Scalia said, for errors by police in failing to properly announce themselves.

The outcome might have been different if O'Connor were still on the bench. She seemed ready, when the case was first argued in January, to rule in favor of Booker Hudson, whose house was searched in 1998.

O'Connor had worried aloud that officers around the country might start bursting into homes to execute search warrants. She asked: "Is there no policy of protecting the homeowner a little bit and the sanctity of the home from this immediate entry?"

She retired before the case was decided, and a new argument was held so that Justice Samuel Alito could participate in deliberations. Alito and Bush's other Supreme Court pick, Chief Justice John Roberts, both supported Scalia's opinion.

Hudson's lawyers argued that evidence against him was connected to the improper search and could not be used against him.

Scalia said that a victory for Hudson would have given "a get-out-of-jail-free card" to him and others.

In a dissent, four justices complained that the decision erases more than 90 years of Supreme Court precedent.

"It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for himself and the three other liberal members.

Breyer said that police will feel free to enter homes without knocking and waiting a short time if they know that there is no punishment for it.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, a moderate, joined the conservatives in most of the ruling. He wrote his own opinion, however, to say "it bears repeating that it is a serious matter if law enforcement officers violate the sanctity of the home by ignoring the requisites of lawful entry."

The case is Hudson v. Michigan, 04-1360.


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CRACKS IN THE WALL OF INDEPENDENCE

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin307.htm

All Representatives Must Be Held Publicly Accountable

Nancy Levant http://www.sierratimes.com/06/06/15/70_224_250_18_70086.htm

Reach Out and Tap Someone

The NSA’s surveillance program undermines the rule of law without producing real gains in security.
By James Bovard
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_06_19/article.html

KATRINA FRAUDSTERS COST U.S. A BILLION

PORN, CHAMPAGNE & RITZY RESORTS
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/14/060614184720.2qyv5mm1.html

FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060614/D8I7RQ7O1.html

Where Have All The Men Gone?

The men of this country will go to extraordinary lengths to find the right fishing hole, but they refuse to lift a finger to ensure that their women and children will not be forced into global citizenship under the UN. Why is this?....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd196.htm
by Devvy Kidd

Is the U.S. a communist country?

Jeff Adams
http://leagueofthesouth.net/blog/more.php?id=1800_0_1_0_M

The Annual Foreign Aid Rip-Off

by Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst060506.htm

Dying for Freedom?

Not quite, says Charley Reese.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese286.html

Signs of an Emerging Police State

As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution and individual liberty.... http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin305.htm
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

What Exactly Is 'The Mission'?

Charley Reese on the Iraqi debacle.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese285.html

Rousing Young Visionaries For Radical Social Change

by Debra Rae
http://www.newswithviews.com/Rae/debra6.htm

What Would the Framers Think

Of Bushian America? Charley Reese thinks he knows.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese284.html

A House Undivided Cannot Stand

Thomas J. DiLorenzo on the framers vs. Lincoln.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo102.html