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Fascism came to the USA in the second decade of the Twentieth Ce
ntury
By: AGelbert Date: October 17, 2014, 9:18 pm
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[quote author=Golden Oxen link=topic=559.msg58769#msg58769
date=1413436286]
[quote]police state definition. A nation whose rulers maintain
order and obedience by the threat of police ;D or military
force; one with a brutal, arbitrary government. The American
Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.[/quote]
Dear Attorney General AG, Would you consider a nation that
publicly orders billions of hollow point bullets for it's use on
a nation of around three hundred million citizens, including
woman, children and the elderly, indicative of a nation that
would come under this heading.??
Thanks in advance for your reply. :icon_scratch: :exp-laugh:
:icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:
[/quote]
GO,
We are in the throws of Inverted totalitarianism. Chris Hedges
explains that in detail. I think you are familiar with that but
if you want to refresh your mind, just Google it and Chris
Hedges.
And YEP, it IS a police state but it is CLOAKED with the Color
of LAW (see definition of Color of Law) with all the trappings
(pure theater) of a representative republic.
Around the year 1800, the power of a (white, land owner)
American citizen's vote was reasonable (if all the adult
citizens had been allowed to vote). At that time a NEW Rep could
be added to a state if the Congressional district exceeded
60,000 population. In 1918-19 the COUNT of reps was
UNCONSTITUTIONALLY frozen. You'll never get a lawyer to fight
that, either. The historical record is quite accurate as to the
unconstitutionality of that legislation. You probably know all
about how the unconstitutional income tax was pushed on us. But
the BIG BETRAYAL was the frozen rep count. This assured a
fascist takeover because corporations would get MORE influence
while the individual voter would get less. At present your vote
is worth one SIXTEENTH of what it was in the year 1800!
Representative Republic, my ARSE!
And if some learned counsel would pound the table about the
"progressive reform" of electing senators during the same period
(early 20th century) so state legislators couldn't be bought by
big wig money bags types, then tell them that it was a FICTION.
Why? because it was ACCOMPANIED by freezing the rep count!
What's that got to do with it? Tell said learned council to look
up the word "senate". The senate is NOT, and never was, a
democratic, representative or otherwise, of the PEOPLE; it is a
representative of TPTB.
It is BALANCED (at least in theory) by the HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES. Remember it has the SAME power as the House
(except it isn't supposed to be able to INITIATE legislation -
like it unconstitutionally DID in 2008 with the bailout!) with
one third less members when this country got started.
As the number of reps got greater and greater from a population
increase, the elite influence increased on a senate with less
and less members in relation to the exploding population of the
states. I.e. LESS DEMOCRACY in an already undemocraric senate -
concentration of POWER in fewer hands!
In order for the proper balance to have been preserved with the,
admittedly more democratic process of electing senators instead
of having state legislators "elect" them, they HAD TO keep the
same ratio of senators to representatives! They did not do that!
They pulled a fascist one-two punch (one-two-three if you count
the Federal Reserve ripping the power to print money away from
the gooberment).
Keeping the, already pro-elite senate at two per state made it
EASIER to BUY THEM. Freezing the house count did the same thing.
:evil4:
I wrote an article explaining all that several years ago. Here
it is.
I'm talking about the sound bite of all sound bites, "No
taxation without representation". We can all agree that
representation is essential in a representative form of
government, right? Yes, we are a republic and the founding f'rs
abhorred pure democracy. But they did write into the
Constitution that for every 30,000 citizens, NO MORE THAN ONE
representative would be elected to the House (but AT LEAST ONE
per state). You can see this is dated stuff. The constitution
needs to be CLARIFIED to reflect modern technology.
The constitutional clarification/amendment would be:
1) AT LEAST ONE representative for every 31,000 citizens.
2) The 'AT LEAST ONE representative per state' can be dropped
because it is ridiculous and outdated to even consider a state
with less than 30,000 citizens.
The corporatocracy would fight this tooth and nail because this
amendment would make our House of Representatives a democratic
organization for the first time EVER (in 1787 Native Americans,
women and African Americans were excluded - In 1911 when they
UNconstitutionally froze the rep count at 436, Native Americans,
women and most African Americans could not vote).
Since 1911 we have been in a time warp where corporate power
grew as our population grew. The fix was IN.
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Now do the math. Assuming 2/3 of the population can vote, that
means 200,000,000 votes. If you get one rep for every 31,000
voters, the House gets 6451 representatives.
Consider, for a moment, how your vote has been watered down
through the years. The 65 reps back in 1787 represented about 2
million white men. In 1911 the 337 or so that voted to freeze
the upper bound of the number at 436 represented 90 million
mostly white men - NO WOMEN.
Now DAMNIT, PEOPLE! That was one of the most corrupt congresses
we have ever had! That was THE Rockefeller congress! That was
the Railroad baron congress! That was the congress that, in
1913, brought the federal reserve crooks into being!
We went from one rep for every 30,000 white men in 1787 to one
rep for every 500,000 voters in 2010. Think about that. YOU and
15 other voters have the same power that ONE WHITE MAN had in
1787! And with the Citizens United Supreme treason, you are
ACTUALLY getting one rep for every (assuming 10,000 public and
private large corporation pacs) 22 rich corporations. THIS IS
THE REALITY.
There is no valid argument for limiting the number of reps.
NONE.
We want a representative republic. We don't have one. This is
not a 'progressive' issue. This is about DEMOCRACY!
agelbert November 3rd, 2010 10:12 pm
I wish to add that every single issue of importance to the
people in the USA which has been ignored, disdained, ridiculed
or trashed by the media and/or the government owes its'
continued repression to our lack of representation in congress.
The single argument against it is very old. [i]I cede the floor
to Patrick Henry:[/i]
[quote]
"But we are told that we need not fear; because those in power,
being our representatives, will not abuse the powers we put in
their hands. I am not well versed in history, but I will submit
to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most
often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of
rulers.
I imagine, sir, you will find the balance on the side of
tyranny. Happy will you be if you miss the fate of those
nations, who, omitting to resist their oppressors, or
negligently suffering their liberty to be wrested from them,
have groaned under intolerable despotism!
Most of the human race are now in this deplorable condition; and
those nations who have gone in search of grandeur, power, and
splendor, have also fallen a sacrifice, and been the victims of
their own folly. While they acquired those visionary blessings,
they lost their freedom." [/quote]
I imagine that Patrick Henry, who is famously quoted as saying
he smelled a rat in Philadelphia (the constitutional
convention), would have preferred one elected representative for
much fewer voters than 30,000. He wanted to keep a sharp eye on
the reps way back when. He would probably be outraged and
leading a revolution today.
Today we have the technology for an electronic congress. This
congress would not be the pampered tools for corporations we
have now. Their numbers would make OUR voices stronger than
corporate voices. They would be more approachable and more
willing to listen to us with the 31,000 voters per district. We
would HAVE A VOICE!
Our reps would rule for us.
Patrick Henry's rat was eaten by a Rockefeller T-Rex. We need to
kill this dinosaur. The damned thing will kill us all and then
start on it's own tail.
[quote][font=times new roman]Imagine that you are creating a
fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in
the end... but that it was essential and inevitable to torture
to death only one tiny creature ... And to found that edifice on
its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on
those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov[/font][/quote]
[quote][font=times new roman]"People talk sometimes of a bestial
cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts;
a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would
never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able
to do it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov[/font][/quote]
[quote][font=times new roman]"I think the devil doesn't exist,
but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and
likeness." :evil4:
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov[/font][/quote]
[quote][font=times new roman]"If you were to destroy in mankind
the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force
maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral; everything would be
lawful, even cannibalism."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov[/font][/quote]
[quote][font=times new roman]"if God doesn't exist, then
everything is permitted"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov[/font][/quote]
[quote][font=times new roman]“We as a nation must undergo a
radical revolution of values… when machines and computers,
profit motives and property rights, are considered more
important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism
and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967[/font][/quote]
The wheels of "fascist progress" were turning fast and furious
in those first 20 years of the 20th century. But we had Bernays
to put lipstick on that fascist BOOT in our face. The lipstick
is coming off.
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Wasta: How it "Works" in Abu Dhabi - New owners of Ess
ex Junction Chip Factory
By: AGelbert Date: October 20, 2014, 5:25 pm
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Wasta: How it "Works" in Abu Dhabi - New owners of Essex
Junction Chip Factory :P
Written Friday, March 11, 2011 but Wasta is an ANCIENT
"tradition" so it is every bit as RHIP "applicable" now as it
was then. ;D
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If you don't think GlobalFoundries, the new owner of the IBM
chip making plant at Essex Junction, isn't going to engage in
"Wasta" here, you are in for a rude awakening... [img width=30
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Finding Abu Dhabi an american couple on life in the middle east
A case for corruption?
When American politicians or foreign policy pundits analyze the
activities of Muslim-majority countries, one point mentioned
repeatedly is the pervasive corruption among the ruling elite.
One oft cited example: Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s penchant
for awarding top government positions to his friends and
extended family. For many, this behavior in a Third World
country is most likely not a surprise, yet it is not restricted
to impoverished and quasi failed states. Here in the UAE, with a
per capita GDP among the highest in the world, Shannon and I
have encountered "corruption" in a few interesting ways.
During our first weeks in Abu Dhabi back in 2009, we had the
great pleasure of navigating the corridors of bureaucracy in
order to get our residence visas and work permits, driver’s
licenses, and liquor license (yes you’re supposed to have one in
order to purchase alcohol). On more than one occasion, our visa
officer, assigned by Shannon’s company to act as our liaison in
these transactions, walked us to the front of a long line in
whatever government office we happened to be in and spoke
animatedly in Arabic with the official behind the counter.
Suddenly, our paperwork would be stamped as approved, and we
would be on our way.
Seeing our bemusement and slight embarrassment for cutting in
line, our liaison explained with a smile that he had “wasta.”
It’s an Arabic term, and one of Shannon’s colleagues explained
it as a sort of social bank account where deposits are made in
the form of family status and influence, and withdrawals in the
form of favors and deference ;). Those who don’t have the right
family :o :P name can earn wasta by showing loyalty or doing
favors for those who do. So, for example, a person with AED
50,000 worth of speeding tickets that has suddenly been reduced
to AED 500, or whose job application gets moved to the top of
the stack, has wasta.
As you might imagine, wasta plays a prominent role in the
selection of personnel in the government ministries as well.
After having some conversations with some expat friends who had
lived here for a while, I learned that many positions in the
various state ministries here are often assigned according to an
individual’s standing in the tribal hierarchy (in Abu Dhabi’s
case, the Bani Yas tribe). Hearing this offended my American
sensibilities, which consider the use of public office for
personal ends, or preferential treatment based upon one’s name,
to be anathema when compared with a system of rules and merit.
It seemed like, well, corruption.
At least that was how I felt until I read an article by
Lawrence Rosen, in the Spring 2010 issue of The American
Interest, that helped to shed a different light on the issue for
me. Entitled, “Understanding Corruption” the article explores
the differing cultural definitions of corruption held in some
parts of the Muslim-majority world, as opposed to those
typically held in America (and the West in general).
Interestingly, though perhaps not surprisingly, people in this
part of the world have a different conception of corruption than
the one more commonly held in the West.
Rosen writes:
[quote][font=times new roman]Corruption is the failure to share
any largess you have received with those with whom you have
formed ties of dependence. Theirs is a world in which the
defining feature of a man is that he has formed a web of
indebtedness, a network of obligations that prove his capacity
to maneuver in a world of relentless uncertainty. It is a world
in which the separation of impersonal institutions from personal
attachments is very scarce. Failure to service such attachments
is thus regarded as not only stupid but corrupt. [/font][/quote]
???
So, whereas Americans might conceive corruption as a lack of
deference to individual qualifications, societies similar to the
UAE would conceive of corruption as a lack of deference to
communal relationships. This is not to say that Americans don’t
appreciate family or that Emiratis don’t laud personal
productivity, because they both do. However, their hierarchies
of value differ. To illustrate, think about the standard
greeting among Americans: "How are you?" Or better, "What's up?"
In this exchange, the initiator often doesn't expect, or even
care, to receive a real answer. Contrast this with the standard
greeting among Arabs: "Salaam Alaykum" (translated "peace be
upon you"). By invoking peace upon the other person, the
initiator expects peace to be invoked on his behalf (in the form
of "Wa Alaykum Asalaam", or "And upon you be peace"). If the
person doesn't respond in kind, it is a direct affront.
I now find it easier to understand this mindset, but I still
have reservations ;). Rosen points out that while this
reciprocal back-scratching model
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seems to function in
smaller communities, where everyone knows each other and all
exist in relations of mutual indebtedness, it is not as easily
applied in large, urban, and now globalized environments, where
familiar life long relationships are replaced with impersonal
ones more transactional in nature
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/>. What’s the use of bribing a clerk if he doesn’t know you and
thus will likely never need help from you?
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AGelbert NOTE: The "use" is that "wasta" always was about RHIP,
regardless of the Arab "interpretation" of what is supposedly
corrupt and what isn't. It's all about autocratic POWER with
some self serving baloney about reciprocity.
Of course the author of the blog is a true blue capitalist that
doesn't see much of an issue except a possible "danger" in the
"future".
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The danger, then, is for this to evolve ;D into a system that
does not serve to promote social bonds, where favors are
expected for those with wasta but are no longer mutually
beneficial for giver as well as receiver. The extreme logical
conclusion is that the marginalized members of society, those
who have become powerless to operate effectively within the
structured order, might decide collectively that they want to
change the now-corrupt system. And of course, this has been one
of the primary motivations for the protests in Tunisia, Egypt,
Jordan, and Libya.
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[move]The Bani Yas tribe (Wasta fer Vermonters!) is coming to
Essex Junction, Vermont! :P [/move]
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Fascist Police Try to use the Fascist Court System to keep Doing
what they DO...
By: AGelbert Date: October 23, 2014, 2:15 pm
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Wed Oct 22, 2014 at 04:08 PM EDT.
125 Seattle Cops Say They Have "Constitutional Right" to
by
SuperpoleFollow ..
use excessive force--
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Wow... who could've foresaw this happening in our Nation? ;D
But some 125 Seattle police officers responded by filing a
lawsuit challenging the new laws. In their view, the new
policies infringe on their rights to use as much force as they
deem necessary in self-protection. They represent about ten
percent of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild membership. The
police union itself declined to endorse the lawsuit.
This week, a federal judge summarily rejected all of their
claims, finding that they were without constitutional merit, and
that she would have been surprised if such allegations of
excessive force by officers did not lead to stricter standards.
[quote]The officers claimed the policies infringed on their
rights under their Second Amendment and under the Fourth
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claiming a
self-defense right to use force. Chief U.S. District Judge
Marsha Pechman pointed out that the Second Amendment protects
the right to bear arms — not the right to use them — and that
the officers “grossly misconstrued” the Fourth Amendment when
they claimed that it protects them, and not individuals who
would be the subjects of police force or seizures.
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Again, folks... it's all about the police constantly, bogusly
claiming "their lives are threatened"; whether it's by someone
carrying a sandwich, a stick, or NO weapon at all as with the
Michael Brown case.
Thankfully the presiding federal judge threw this nonsense
out--but the cops could appeal the ruling.
It's wayyy past time for some firm definitions of when a police
officer can and cannot use excessive, deadly force.
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Agelbert NOTE: The Court System
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is
IRREPARABLE. These fascist cops will get a judge that overrules
the judge with CFS (Pechman) on behalf of fascist
"interpretations" of the Constitution to mean anything the cops
want it to mean even if they "adjust" it on the fly.
It's ALL ABOUT that "LATITUDE" that the Court System corruptly,
unconstitutionally (and totally APPROVED by the lawyers
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/>pretending FALSELY to defend we-the-people >:() INSISTS on
giving the cops whenever the commit a FELONY in the course of
their "I am the boss" daily brutality against we-the-people in
general and minorities in particular.
[move]Golden Rule Government is the only answer[/move].
[size=18pt]Golden Rule Government: A Lawful System Based on
Caring instead of Conquest
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Fascist Big Ag uses Food Disparagement Law and
the Patriot Act to threaten Truth tellers!
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on what the LAW was
ALL ABOUT
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The Lady Justice Legal Scales mean the OPPOSITE of what you
think they mean
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Don't count on our Court System to defend Americans from Fascism
- Here's why the solution to Corporate Profit over Planet is
[i]EX CURIA[/I]
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How Lawyers took the power from the King (for themselves)
pretending it was FOR THE PEOPLE
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2014, 1:47 pm
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Does a Wild Bear Defecate in the Woods?
By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2014, 2:23 pm
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To be filed under: Does a Wild Bear Defecate in the Woods? ::)
Is Voter Suppression an American Tradition?
Posted on Oct 28, 2014
As midterm elections loom, voter suppression schemes are
sweeping the land, with new requirements on voter identification
leading the way and getting the lion’s share of attention.
Anyone interested in fair elections should be concerned and
alarmed.
But are the new ID requirements really all that novel?
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tradition evident from the nation’s earliest days, designed to
restrict the franchise and manipulate outcomes?
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Before answering those questions, let’s take a closer look at
the current voter ID landscape. The National Conference of State
Legislatures, which keeps statistical track of such matters, has
reported that 34 states have enacted laws mandating that voters
produce identification documents at the polls. To date, only
three such laws have been blocked—those enacted in Pennsylvania
and Arkansas by state courts and the Wisconsin scheme by the
U.S. Supreme Court. A fourth voter ID law—in North
Carolina—isn’t slated to go into effect until 2016.
The remaining 30 ID laws will be in place for the midterms,
including those in seven states (Georgia, Indiana, Kansas,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia) that strictly
require current government-issued photo IDs. According to the
Brennan Center for Justice, prior to the 2006 elections no state
had compelled its voters to produce such credentials in order to
cast ballots, although some, like Hawaii, authorized poll
workers to request but not order voters to display some form of
identification.
What’s behind the new voter ID surge is no secret. As Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written of the Texas
scheme that she unsuccessfully tried to enjoin and as Judge
Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has observed
of the Wisconsin plan, voter ID laws are the contemporary
equivalent of the poll taxes of the Jim Crow era, which were
outlawed by the 24th Amendment in 1964. >:(
Like the old poll taxes, Ginsburg and Posner explain, the new ID
laws target minority voters, who are typically among the most
liberal, and who are also often the least able to pay for IDs or
meet the costs involved in traveling to the DMV or other
government offices to obtain them. And like the old poll taxes,
the new ID laws do nothing to ensure the integrity of elections.
As numerous studies have shown, in-person voter fraud is
virtually nonexistent. The new ID movement thus offers a false
solution to a trumped-up problem.
While Ginsburg has long been skeptical of voter ID requirements
and sided with the minority in the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision
that validated Indiana’s voter ID law (Crawford v Marion
County), Posner is a recent convert to the anti-ID judicial
community. Indeed, he was the author of the original 7th Circuit
opinion that the Supreme Court upheld in the Crawford case. Now,
he is one of the most eloquent critics of both the Crawford
ruling and the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v.
Holder, which gutted the Voting Rights Act. But as forceful as
Ginsburg and the repentant Posner are in their recent opinions
on the Texas and Wisconsin voter ID laws, neither lays out the
full historical context or political dimensions of voter
suppression.
Notwithstanding the landmark advances achieved in the immediate
aftermath of the Civil War, the adoption in 1920 of the 19th
Amendment according women the right to vote in federal
elections, and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965,
voter suppression has been the norm for much of our history.
From the original disenfranchisement of black slaves and women
to the early exclusions of white men without property, voter
inclusion has always been an elusive goal.
Current voter ID laws and other suppression techniques aimed at
limiting early voting and same-day registration may be less
obvious than the poll taxes, whites-only primaries and literacy
tests of yesteryear, but they are driven by the same purpose of
undermining genuine majority rule and deflecting potential
threats to the established order. If anything, today’s
techniques are all the more insidious precisely because they are
less obvious.
Today’s suppression schemes are also more dangerous because they
have been accompanied by a series of Supreme Court decisions
that have unleashed the power of corporations and the wealthy to
spend unlimited money on elections (the Citizens United opinion
and its progeny) while restricting the right of public-sector
unions—the last bastion of organized labor in America—to collect
the membership dues and fair-share fees they need to exist. All
of these developments—voter suppression, the removal of limits
on campaign spending, and union busting—are joined
synergistically in what I have previously called in this column
a “trifecta of institutionalized class domination.”
Whether the trifecta is anything truly new or simply the latest
version of a longstanding tradition I will leave for you to
decide as the midterms approach and you contemplate how to vote
or even whether you will head to the polls at all, given the
lack of real political alternatives on the ballot.
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Agelbert NOTE; Posner NOW agrees with Ginsburg! :o BUT,
evidencing the irreparable corruption of the system set up to
GUARANTEE rigged election outcomes, Posner's reversal has been
OVERRULED by an Appellate Court as a "dissenting" opinion.
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Fascist Big Ag uses Food Disparagement Law and
the Patriot Act to threaten Truth tellers!
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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on what the LAW was
ALL ABOUT
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The Lady Justice Legal Scales mean the OPPOSITE of what you
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Don't count on our Court System to defend Americans from Fascism
- Here's why the solution to Corporate Profit over Planet is EX
CURIA
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: October 30, 2014, 11:38 pm
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Christie the Fascist blows his top. This is an interview with an
honorable citizen that told Christie he was out of line. Well
done!
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If you want to watch the corrupt governor Christie Doing what he
DOES
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go
to the link. Bring your barf bag.
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: November 3, 2014, 6:50 pm
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25 Arrested Shutting Down FERC Office
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in DC
Full story at link:
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: November 6, 2014, 10:56 pm
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2014, 5:44 pm
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[shadow=red,left]100+ Arrested at Beyond Extreme Energy’s
Week-Long Protests at FERC[/shadow]
Anastasia Pantsios | November 7, 2014 3:40 pm
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Re: Corruption in Government
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2014, 6:28 pm
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[move][font=courier]People want democracy. We do not have
democracy n the USA.[/font][/move]
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[move][I][font=impact]The Fossil Fuelers DID THE Climate
Trashing CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have ALWAYS BEEN
liars
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[/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let
them get away with it! Pass it on!
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