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Short Circuit - Taser the Messenger - Reporter Now Protester?

2008-07-11T05:22:00.000-04:00

"Don't Tase me Bro!"

GAINESVILLE - According to the AP, a college student who was passionately questioning Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was tasered after posing difficult questions. A UF student posed questions about impeaching President Bush, why Kerry didn't challenge the 2004 election results and why he and Bush were members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University. The student yelled, "Don't Tase me, bro!" and was then hit with voltage until he shut up.

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Civil Rights Lawyer Tampa Florida - Settlement in anti-Bush T-shirt Case

2008-07-10T10:09:00.000-04:00

Presidential Advance Manual Authorized Removal of Citizens

A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. The couple were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech.

The front of the T-shirts bore the international symbol for “no” superimposed over the word “Bush.” The back of the T-shirt said “Love America, Hate Bush.” On the back of the other T-shirt was the message “Regime Change Starts at Home.” Sources close to the case reported that a presidential advance manual tries to exclude dissenters from the president’s appearances. “As a last resort,” the manual says, “security should remove the demonstrators from the event.”

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Positive Commission Vote on Crack Retroactivity

2007-12-11T17:41:00.000-05:00

The United States Sentencing Commission USSC voted today to make the new crack amendment retroactive. The retroactivity of this amendment, however, is not until March 3, 2008. The Commission also promulgated an application note intended to restrict resentencings solely to the two level reduction. The Sentencing Commission issued a lengthy press release today. It can be found at: http://www.ussc.gov/.

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Crack Sentencing Guidelines Retroactive

2007-12-11T16:36:00.000-05:00

Defense attorneys and defendants across the United States will praise the U.S. Sentencing Commission USSC for allowing prisoners serving crack cocaine sentences to seek sentence reductions under the Sentencing Guidelines that went into effect on November 1. Retroactivity will affect 19,500 federal prisoners, almost 2,520 of whom could be eligible for early release in the first year. Federal courts will administer the application of the retroactive guideline, which is not automatic.

Counsel with Centrallaw.com and Protestzone.com are available to assist in this litigation. Call Toll Free 1-877-793-9290.

Sentencing Guidelines Retroactive

Sentencing Crack Guidelines - Federal Cases - United States Sentencing Commission

2007-12-11T11:25:00.000-05:00

The Supreme Court issued decisions in three important cases: Kimbrough, Gall and Watson. In Kimbrough, the court held that a sentencing court had the authority to reject the 100 to 1 crack ratio in determining a reasonable sentence under the Booker analysis. The case gives great deference to the findings of the United States Sentencing Commission regarding the crack/powder disparity. The Sentencing Commission has recently suggested that a 20 to 1 ratio would be appropriate. As a result, it is important that, if you have any crack sentencing cases coming up in the near future, you may want to continue the sentencing so that you can you can address the crack/powder ratio issue in light of the Court's holding in Kimbrough.

Additionally, a reminder that the Sentencing Commission will be meeting today to discuss the retroactivity of the new crack amendment.

Who Are The Biggest Spenders?

2007-11-19T19:30:00.000-05:00

Latest Video From Countdown

2007-11-13T00:41:00.001-05:00

Take a quick look at the latest from Countdown with keith Olbermann.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

2007-09-26T00:52:00.000-04:00

Role Model - Bush Bird gets School Bus Driver Fired - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

2006-11-02T19:59:00.000-05:00

A school bus driver was fired after she reportedly made an obscene gesture at President Bush. The 43-year-old driver was driving middle school children back to school after a zoo visit on June 16 when the president and Republican Rep. Dave Reichert drove slowly by in a motorcade. From the bus, the children waved; with the windows down in their car, Bush and Reichert waved back.

That’s when the driver gave the president the finger, according to Reichert and Issaquah superintendent Janet Barry. “The congressman hadn’t seen it, but the president turned to him and said, ‘That one’s not a fan,”’ said Reichert spokeswoman Kimberly Cadena. The bus driver was terminated for making an obscene gesture in view of the students,” Niegowski said. “That’s not the role modeling we need for our students.”

13 cited for protesting outside NSA - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com

2006-07-09T01:50:00.000-04:00

13 cited for protesting outside NSA - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com: "13 cited for protesting outside NSA offices

Anti-war activists who refuses to put away signs face arraignment

BALTIMORE - Thirteen anti-war activists were given citations Saturday for protesting outside the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade. An NSA security officer cited the activists for entering into military facility for purposes prohibited by law and ordered them to leave the area, protest organizers and an NSA spokesman said. They were ordered to appear in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to be arraigned at a date to be announced."

New Chief Spy is Confirmed

2006-05-27T00:01:00.000-04:00

Blue Man Group Global Warning of Global Warming

2006-02-22T17:58:00.000-05:00

Blue Man Group Global Warning of Global Warming

Duck It's Dick

2006-02-14T00:31:00.000-05:00

Domestic Wiretapping Impeachable Offense

2006-01-17T01:22:00.000-05:00

"Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush 'repeatedly and persistently' broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant and called for a federal investigation of the practice. Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush only after a ruling by the Supreme Court on a recount in Florida, called Bush's warrantless surveillance program 'a threat to the very structure of our government.' Gore charged that the program has ignored the checks and balances of the courts and Congress."

AKC Best in Show 2006

2006-01-16T05:30:00.000-05:00

Mandate?

2006-01-16T05:26:00.000-05:00

NYT: NSA Spying Broader Than Bush Admitted - Yahoo! News

2005-12-25T18:57:00.000-05:00

NEW YORK - The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls -- without court orders -- than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its Web site. The NSA, with help from American telecommunications companies, obtained access to streams of domestic and international communications, said the Times in the report late Friday, citing unidentified current and former government officials. The story did not name the companies.

Concerned Citizen in Disney World

2005-12-23T10:06:00.000-05:00

"It would all be a lot easier if this were a dictatorship. (heh- heh), Of course, I would have to be the dictator! (heh-heh-heh)"

President George W. Bush

Well, he isn't far from being a dictator. The first Amendment provides for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, yet the President 'feeds' (and pays) the press here and in Iraq with his own 'versions' of good news. Armstrong Williams got $250,000 of taxpayer money to sell (as news) the President's Social Security reform and 'No child left behind'. The 'Lincoln Group' is getting millions of our dollars to tell Iraqis how great our occupation is for them.

Now, our rights to question these actions are being watched by 'Big Brother'. The President, supported by his favorite puppet Condi Rice, and now Alberto Gonzales (US Attorney General), say it is okay for the CIA to spy on US citizens, without cause or due process, in order to protect our security.

I may be okay with spying on known, or suspected terror cells, in the US, but what is it that makes a group of US citizen Christians holding a peaceful meeting in a Quaker meeting hall in Mass, a threat to national security? We may never know but their 4th amendment rights, against illegal search and seizure, have certainly been taken away, as they are on the watch list.

I am going to Disneyworld, so I will see you after the holidays.

PEACE and Impeachment!

Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached?

2005-12-21T17:40:00.000-05:00

Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? * 6373 responses

88% Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial.

3% No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."

8% No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching.

1% I don't know.

Spy court judge quits in protest

2005-12-20T23:54:00.000-05:00

"Jurist worried that Bush order tainted work of secret panel

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John D. Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation."

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Snoopgate

2005-12-20T20:33:00.000-05:00

Bush "was so desperate to kill The New York Times' eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper's editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn't just out of concern about national security. Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War."

From Newsweek

Liar, Liar, Liar.

2005-12-20T13:07:00.000-05:00

Outstanding Graphic of Bush and Blair - The Liars

Place Bush on a list with Pinnochio and Nixon. Pinnochio Bush lies to line the pockets of his puppetmasters.

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

2005-12-20T12:53:00.000-05:00

The Pretender in Chief tried to explain away his unconsitutional usurpation of power - "Legal experts, Democrats and some key Republicans on Capitol Hill were unpersuaded and questioned whether Bush has violated a law intended to prevent the government from spying on its citizens without court approval.

"'The president's dead wrong. It's not a close question. Federal law is clear,' said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University and a specialist in surveillance law. 'When the president admits that he violated federal law, that raises serious constitutional questions of high crimes and misdemeanors.'"

Jeb Bush President 2008?

Warrantless surveillance

2005-12-18T13:55:00.000-05:00

"President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on people in the United States without first gaining court approval.

A Times Editorial
Published December 18, 2005

President Bush apparently believes that fighting terrorism justifies any action he chooses, no matter how extralegal. But the United States is a nation of laws, and the president is constrained by them, too. That is why Bush's unilateral authorization granting the National Security Agency the power to wiretap American citizens and others in the United States without a warrant is so dangerously ill-conceived and contrary to this nation's guiding principles."

Bush the Domestic Spy

2005-12-17T20:21:00.000-05:00