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David Gutierrez Natural News September 23, 2008

A California appeals court has ruled that homeschooling of children is illegal unless their parents have teaching credentials from the state.

“California is now on the path to being the only state to deny the vast majority of homeschooling parents their fundamental right to teach their own children at home,” said Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The court overturned a lower court’s finding that homeschooling did not constitute a violation of child welfare laws. Continue Reading »

Finally! A ray of light through the storm clouds! A sign of life in the body politic. Thank the Great Mystery that there’s some spark of dignity still left in the American people and they’re not totally willing to give up all rights in the name of security. Now, how far are they willing to go to defend those rights? What must a president do before they’ll take action to defend liberties.

Read about the American colonist, those folks sneered at tyranny and carried thick canes in case they needed to riot against the Redcoats. When soldiers came to take their guns, the militias would run out and take them right back. When King George decided to raise their taxes on imports, they decided to stop importing anything other than lead and gun powder.

Americans aren’t dead yet. TV hasn’t sucked out every drop of dignity. Good. Now it’s time to prove it. Responding to a poll doesn’t make you free. Everyday actions make you free. Liberty need be exercised constantly to remain healthy. Splash some water on your face America, there’s work to do. Prove your beliefs with bold action.

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WASHINGTON - Americans strongly oppose giving the president more power at the expense of Congress or the courts, even to enhance national security or the economy, according to a new poll.

The Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll of views on the Constitution found people wary of governmental authority after years of controversy over the Bush administration’s expansion of executive power, and especially skeptical of increasing the president’s powers.

“There is clearly a concern about executive power and the balance of power that comes out in a couple of different ways,” said Joseph Torsella, president of the Philadelphia-based organization. The nonpartisan center is dedicated to educating the public about the Constitution.

Torsella said he believes the polls reflect long-standing skepticism of presidential power. “I think it’s a basic chord in the American song and it gets louder and stronger depending on what’s happening in the headlines,” he said.

The survey also found overwhelming opposition to the government’s power to take private property for redevelopment and to amending the Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens to be president. Americans are divided over government recognition of gay marriage, but younger people are far more likely to support it. Continue Reading »

SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Associated Press August 27, 2008

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer. Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make it through school while flipping burgers until 1 a.m.

But the U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn’t see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they’re ready to begin basic training.

And so, the Army formally opens its first prep school Wednesday.

“It’s academic immersion,” explained Col. Jeffrey Sanderson, chief of staff at Fort Jackson, home of the Army’s largest basic training school. “Our studies show that with only three out of every 10 people of military age being capable of joining the Army, we are going to have to do something different.”

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 23, 2008

(AP) Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets using satellite technology.

But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets, with Global Positioning System monitoring, will infringe on students’ privacy.

Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the peace, said she anticipates that about 50 students from four San Antonio-area school districts - likely to be mostly high schoolers - will wear the anklets during the six-month pilot program announced Friday.

“We are at a critical point in our time where we can either educate or incarcerate,” Penn said, linking truancy with juvenile delinquency and later criminal activity. “We can teach them now or run the risk of possible incarceration later on in life. I don’t want to see the latter.” Continue Reading »

We live in a world run by psychopaths creating psychopaths. I can’t stress this enough. Our rulers really are insane; they lack the normal restraints that binds humanity together, and instead claim the Law of Power. CIA/Nazi mind control projects create killers. Like Manson. Think about that: the power elite direct government projects that create serial killers. Our own government programs ordinary citizens into zombies and aggressive beaasts. And we fret about elections. Anarchy is nothing to fear; unchecked power is the enemy. The state hijacked by the privileged minority is the threat, not the individual. Madness is a product of the Control Grid. Collective madness is the aim of the Power Elite.

Ron Paul July 22, 2008

The Latin term “fiat” roughly translates to “there shall be”. When we refer to fiat money, we are referring to money that exists because the government declares it into existence. It is not based on production or earnings, and not backed by any commodity. It is solely based on trusting the government. Fiat money is exchanged in the economy as long as there is faith in the government that issues it.

Some are blaming the recent shakeup in the markets to “whining” or financial fear-mongering, which misses the whole point. History has shown that fiat money, or “faith-based currency” always fails, because when governments claim this power, they always behave irresponsibly.

When government has the ability to create and spend all the money it wants, priorities shift, and the concept of budgeting, as most Americans know it, loses all meaning. Hand a teenager a credit card, and tell him there is no limit and no accountability for what he spends, and the effect would be the same. You see, this problem is not unique to our government. It is a predictable outcome based on human nature, and we’ve seen variations of what we are experiencing now happen over and over throughout history. I didn’t have a crystal ball or a fortune teller when I predicted this 3, 7, or even 30 years ago. Actions have logical consequences. The government becomes the reckless teenager with the credit card, and in the end, the taxpaying citizens get the bill. What happens after that is never pretty.

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By Rev. Ted Pike

Are you an unintentional anti-Semite? The U.S. State Department’s “Office of Global Anti-Semitism” in its 2008 report to Congress warns not just of conscious, intentional anti-Semitism but of another lurking form of potential bigotry: unintentional anti-Semitism.

This consists of criticisms of Israel, which, though true, might be manipulated by others to Israel’s detriment. To avoid assisting Israel’s enemies, the State Department recommends that every comment about Israel (including its leaders and military) first be scrutinized for whether it could put Israel in a bad light. If so, it shouldn’t be said. Only then can we consider ourselves “free from anti-Semitism.”

What if you defy the government and go ahead and speak truthful criticisms of Israel, knowing that Israel’s detractors will probably use it against her? According to the Office of Global Anti-Semitism, one who assists anti-Semites is an anti-Semite.

However, people who don’t face reality hold back part of the truth. They consider too much truth to be potentially dangerous. Christian Evangelical leaders believe they protect Jews from possible persecution by censoring truth about Jewish supremacism and creation of Christian-persecuting hate laws. In reality, protection of Jewish anti-Christian activists empowers them to flourish and expand their corruption of society.

This, in turn, only increases criticism and resentment of all Jews—most of whom are innocent of such evil. Many bitterly resent the Anti-Defamation League, architect of hate laws, for the bad reputation it gives the Jewish people.

Evangelicals think that by only speaking well of Jews they are beyond the reproach of ever being labeled anti-Semitic. Wrong. The State Department says that if Christians believe the New Testament account that Jewish leaders had Christ crucified they are the very worst kind of anti-Semites: “classical” anti-Semites. That’s what Hitler was.

To please both Jews and the government, evangelicals must now fulfill two criteria: Never say true but unflattering things about Israel and abandon belief in the New Testament.

Will evangelicals accommodate the State Department’s new requirement of philo-Semitic correctness? Countless followers of John Hagee already do. They agree with his book, In Defense of Israel, that the New Testament testimony that Jews killed Christ is an anti-Semitic lie that birthed the holocaust.

Yet, an increasing number of Americans are no longer content to be insulated from truth. Many visiting the Internet and www.truthtellers.org… in particular are rediscovering an enormous reality: We don’t have to fear the whole truth. Truth can be trusted entirely. Truth doesn’t beget error and evil; rather, it bears the good fruit of knowledge, wisdom, moderation, and guidance in a darkened, confused world.

Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization. This article has been shortened for space. The entirety of this article is available at www.truthtellers.org…. Please visit the site.

(AmericanFreePress Issue # 27, July 7, 2008)

Mike Whitney Information Clearing House July 21, 2008

Obama’s candidacy is over; kaput. He’s already stated that he has no intention of stopping the war, so he has disqualified himself. That’s his prerogative; no one put a gun to his head. His op-ed in Monday’s New York Times just removes any lingering doubt about the matter. What Obama proposes is moving the central theater of operation from Iraq to Afghanistan. Big deal. Why is it more acceptable to kill a man who is fighting for his country in Afghanistan than in Iraq?

It’s not; which is why Obama must be defeated and the equivocating Democratic Party must be jettisoned altogether. The Democrats are a party of blood just like the Republicans, they’re just more discreet about it. That’s why people who are serious about ending the war have to support candidates outside the two-party charade. The Democrat/Republican duopoly will not deliver the goods; it’s as simple as that. The point is to stop the killing, not to provide blind support for smooth-talking politicos who try to mask their real intentions. Obama made his choice, now he can suffer the consequences.

Nancy Pelosi is a perfect example of what the Democrats are all about. Just look at the way she brushed aside the people who got her elected. They mean nothing to her. In a matter of months, the “San Francisco liberal” has achieved what former-Speaker of the House Hastert could only dream of; she’s driven the Congress’ public approval ratings into single digits for the first time in history making her the worst speaker of all time. She rubber-stamped the FISA bill, concealed what she knew about the CIA’s global torture programs, and vowed to stop any public effort to hold the administration accountable for its war crimes. (No impeachment) She has betrayed her most ardent supporters and singlehandedly transformed an already-emasculated congress into a purely ceremonial body incapable of doing the people’s work.

At least Bush never betrayed any of his supporters. Never. Pelosi is worse than Bush, much worse. Whoa, Bush absolutely betrayed many of his supporters. Anyone remember “no nation building”? - admin

And yet, liberals still insist that we should vote the Democratic ticket. In your dreams! Continue Reading »

Village Voice

Nat Hentoff

July 16, 2008

Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, the Democratic Congressman who represents portions of Brooklyn and Queens, told The New York Sun recently that “to a large degree,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg “gets a pass from the press corps.” (Not here at the Voice, he doesn’t.) But another seeker for the office in 2009—one with much more name recognition than Anthony Weiner—will very likely be Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has deserved, and unaccountably avoided, much more sustained investigative scrutiny by the press.

The exceptions, again, are this newspaper and the Daily News, whose police reporter, Tamer El-Ghobashy, in a tiny June 13 story that was buried on page 24, wrote: “A coalition of anti-police brutality activists are today starting a ‘Cop Watch’ program to patrol the city’s high-crime neighborhoods with video cameras, and monitor police actions.” Latanya White of People’s Justice adds that Cop Watch will hand out flyers telling New Yorkers their specific rights when stopped by the NYPD.

This is in addition to the other New York City citizen patrols by people exercising their First Amendment rights not only to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” but also to document those abuses of power. (I would welcome information from any of these descendants of Samuel Adams on what they’ve found during their public service.) Continue Reading »