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Peedom Isn't Free In Yankee Stadium

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:09:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rights? You don't need no rights.

The Brilliance of Thomas Jefferson

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:53:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He'd tear King George The Deciderer a new one, just as he did 200+ years ago.

Clip Source: quotes.liberty-tree.ca

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

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Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

Tags: damn, straight!

Seven Paths To Sensible Privacy

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:37:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction."

—George Washington, letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, 1784

That is one view of privacy. Here is another:

"We must all watch one another."
—Rev. Robert Browne, guiding principles, 1582

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Those two deeply rooted but antagonistic approaches to privacy have simmered together for centuries, but today converging forces in politics, technology, commerce and law have brought them to a boil. We offer seven policy recommendations that would help preserve Washington’s idyllic picture of private life without having to endure Browne’s nightmare.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

1. Restore the role of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in issuing warrants for wiretapping.

2. Deny the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s proposal to require all “telephone” capabilities of the Internet to be “wiretap-ready.”

3. End the secrecy surrounding the Cyber Initiative.

4. Grant people control over their own medical information.

6. Regulate the use of RFID tags.

7. Develop educational curricula about the risks to privacy in the online world.

Prophet Dogbert

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:57:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I read it in the funny papers!

Clip Source: www.dilbert.com

What Are YOU Waiting For?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:05:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Remember who we are!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:39:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Professor

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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The New American Empire

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:56:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is a very sorry state.

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

Congress no longer chooses to read new legislation before voting it into law. Bills are switched at the last minute for unread, substitute legislation. New laws say ANYONE can now be followed and watched - for ANY reason... or for NO reason. .... and the list goes on... http://www.washingtonyourefired.com/

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Holy Apparition Appears In Lights In The Sky!

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:15:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonderful!!!

Clip Source: www.venganza.org

WikiLeaks - Changing The World Through Openness

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:29:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It is time for less civil society and more civil disobedience." - Walden Bello

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Julian Assange co-founded Wikileaks, the net's premiere document-leaking site last year

after 18 months of publishing government, industry and military secrets that have sparked international scandals, led to takedown threats and briefly gotten the site banned in the United States, Assange says Wikileaks is just getting started changing the world.

"In every negotiation, in every planning meeting and in every workplace dispute, a perception is slowly forming that the public interest may have a silent advocate in the room,"

Wikileaks was conceived as a safe place for whistle-blowers to reveal their secrets to the world.

Wikileaks published never-before-seen operating manuals for the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, revealing that the United States had a policy for hiding some detainees from the International Red Cross

"It is time journalists and publishers starting actually engaging in 'fearless journalism' rather than simply placing the words on their mastheads,"

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:41:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Change the world.

Clip Source: www.bfi.org

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Bucky had it right. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

What the Fourth of July Really Means

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:26:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You have to read what comes between these two paragraphs.

Clip Source: www.populistamerica.com

In America, the Fourth of July is the day we celebrate the announcement, to the world, that a new kind of governing ideal had come to stay. It celebrates a letter, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, sent to King George III and the rest of the world telling them a new way of life has proven itself in America, and Americans want to retain that way.

Today, Americans are on the verge of cancelling that letter. Too many today prefer to be managed riff-raff and no longer responsible for themselves. The task of living free is too difficult. We have arrived at a time when Americans are rejecting the contents of that letter, the Declaration of Independence, and want to return to the Old World ways, where the few elite rule the many. In the coming election, we are looking for the return of the elite few who will shape and manage our lives as they see fit.

King George: 1776 Or 2008?

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:59:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You make the call.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

Alive In Independence Hall: The Declaration of Independence

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:46:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: DO NOT MISS THIS!!!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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FBI To Join The "Presumption of Guilt" Parade BushCo Favors

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:28:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Civil rights become a fond memory.

Clip Source: www.suntimes.com

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation.

Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons — like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated — to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.

Critics say the presumption of innocence is lost in the proposal.

Hitler Chats With Nietzsche

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:20:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Stand-up comedy from the great Ricky Gervais.

Clip Source: youtube.com

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