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		<title>21st Century Internment Camps: Disaster relief or civil rights disaster?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=13102" target="_blank">Maha Zimmo</a><br />
</strong> Global Research<br />
April 8, 2009</div>
<p align="left"><em>On January 22, 2009, </em><a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h645/text"><em>the National Emergency Centers Establishment Act (NECEA)</em></a><em> was submitted to Congress for consideration. It was introduced by Congressman Alcee L. Hastings of Florida, a man who, in 1989, became only the sixth federal judge in the history of America to be removed from office by the Senate for corruption and perjury. </em></p>
<p>Even though NECEA has received very little mainstream media coverage, action alerts are making their way across message boards and Internet sites due to <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&amp;authorFirst=Michel&amp;authorName=Chossudovsky">Global Research’s Michel Chossudovsky</a>, who has brought to light both the Act itself as well as the U.S. government’s actions leading up to the presentation of NECEA.</p>
<p>The question we must ask ourselves is simple: if NECEA is meant to address natural disasters, then why is the scope of the Act so vague, large and open-ended? The flipside of which is: if NECEA is only meant to address natural disasters, they why isn’t NECEA crystal clear on this point?</p>
<p>Instead, we find that the purpose of these military-based emergency centres may be used to “meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.” It is when we attempt to understand the pocket of obscurity created by NECEA’s vagueness, and while factoring in the readying of the U.S. military’s response to the anticipated civil unrest (due to the economic war being waged on all but the ‘haves’), that the potentially insidious nature of the centres becomes evident.</p>
<p><strong>21st century internment camps?</strong></p>
<p>On the surface, NECEA proposes to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security in the establishment of six “national emergency centers on military installations,&#8221; one in each of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regions.</p>
<p>The purpose of these centres is to use existing military infrastructure for several emergency situations or natural disasters that might render individuals and families “dislocated.” NECEA further proposes that over the course of the next two years, $360,000,000 is to be appropriated for this initiative. (To whom do you think such construction contracts will be awarded?)</p>
<p>As already mentioned, primary concern must be given to the following catch-all phrase: that the purpose of these military-based emergency centres may “meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.” In other words, that the purpose is to be determined by the same U.S. government body who, since launching the trailer for the War on Terrorism in 2001, has systematically worked to institutionalize prejudice against civil rights groups and activists, anti-war movements, unions, ‘brown’ people (you are homogeneous, don’t challenge this) and Muslims, while stripping the American citizen of their right to privacy and dissent.</p>
<p>Second, nowhere does NECEA provide clear indication as to which system of justice those inside of the emergency centres would be held. Since they are to be established within the parameters of military bases, the de facto assumption is that those within would be subject to military law. More dangerous perhaps is an all-together different system, removed even from the military one, learned courtesy of Guantanamo and all other secret and illegal US ‘security’ facilities across the globe.</p>
<p>NECEA does, however, mention that within six months, the “Secretary of Defense shall transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security administrative [sic] jurisdiction.” It would then follow that the definition of ‘administrative’ jurisdiction here may have nothing to do with legal jurisdiction, and so NECEA makes it possible that those within the emergency centre would, for the duration of their (interred) stay, not be subject to the regular legal system. Once more, Americans may welcome the suspension of habeas corpus.</p>
<p>At a more general level, these centres are “capable of being scaled up or down” and would each be subject to a “24/7 operations watch center [which] shall be in full ready mode.” For what, exactly, the watch centre will be ready, is left to our imagination and to be utilised at the discretion of those in power. Nowhere is it mentioned for whom these centres are to be established, or more specifically, who would be kept within these locations.</p>
<p>NECEA begs the following questions: Are these ‘emergency centres’ only for U.S. Citizens? How does one become eligible? Is it on a first-come, first-served basis? Does one have to be arrested? If the centre is filled to capacity and there is indeed a natural disaster, how will individuals be kept out? If one is inside of the emergency centre, can they simply walk out and leave, or will their freedom of movement be at the discretion of the military? Etc., ad infinitum.</p>
<p>Finally, and if not more insidious, is the reality that nowhere in NECEA is mentioned either the duration of these emergency centres or the efforts that must be undertaken to restore to order and to normal the lives and environment post ‘emergency.’</p>
<p><strong>‘None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free’</strong></p>
<p>Within the reality presented above and in order to understand the full weight of this silent war on Americans, it is necessary to view it within a greater context. First, there is the unfortunate reality that Obama has time and again stated that his administration will neither investigate, hold to account, nor prosecute the officials responsible for the United States’ criminal policies of torture, illegal detention and “extraordinary rendition” (whereby alleged terrorists were kidnapped and sent beyond American borders to foreign countries or secret CIA prisons, where they were tortured).</p>
<p>More importantly, the Bush Administration’s disregard for and mockery of international, as well as constitutional, law have not been undone by this new Administration, and there are no clear indications that they will be undone by Obama’s campaign of ‘change.’ In fact, there is strong evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>In laymen’s terms, Obama’s letting criminals walk, and in this context, this can only mean the following: that he does not believe they are guilty of a crime, thereby making it clear that Obama himself does not view torture, illegal detention or extraordinary rendition as criminal actions.</p>
<p>Second, that many experts are foreshadowing that the on-going financial disaster being levelled against all-but-the-wealthy is going to lead to great civil unrest within the United States. Rightly, there exists a palpable fear that the ‘have-nots’ will take seriously their right to bear arms and they will rise against — not only the government — but all institutions who continue (at the expense of the ‘have-nots’) to lie and behave in fraudulent manner. Finally, that the reality that in the fall of 2008, military bodies previously active only on foreign soil became operational within America’s borders, with much of their mandate focussed on <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2008/09/sec-080915-arnews02.htm">how to address ‘civil unrest.’</a></p>
<p>To recap, the U.S. has a President who — until he fully proves otherwise — seems relatively chill about torture, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition and the suspension of habeas corpus.</p>
<p>Also, there is a strong foreshadowing of great civil unrest within the US, as well as a now present military contingent trained to deal with civil unrest. Add to this recipe the creation of military-based emergency centres used to “meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security” and one is left with the choice to believe either they are witnessing random unrelated events or layered preparation to further dilute — and possibly completely suspend — civil rights.</p>
<p>Naturally, the third option is to view these events as a combination of coincidence and design; no matter from which perspective you choose to approach it, the reality remains that NECEA, as it stands today, is a dangerous Act which threatens what remains of American civil liberties.<br />
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		<title>Virginia Fusion Center Releases “Homegrown Terrorism” Document</title>
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<p>Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities.</p>
<p align="left">Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers.</p>
<p align="left">In           addition to reviewing information directly reported to the <a href="http://www.vsp.state.va.us/FusionCenter/index.shtm" target="display">VFC</a>, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the <span id="apture_prvw1" class="aptureLink"><span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-position: right -448px;"> </span><a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="https://analysis.mitre.org/proceedings/Final_Papers_Files/135_Camera_Ready_Paper.pdf">Project           SLEIPNIR</a></span>: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the           Royal Canadian Mounted Police.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>OVERVIEW           OF TERRORIST AND EXTREMIST DATA IN VIRGINIA</strong></p>
<p><strong> INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM THREAT</strong></p>
<p>Al-Qa’ida</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab</p>
<p>HAMAS</p>
<p>Hizballah</p>
<p>Jama’at al-Tabligh</p>
<p>Jama’at ul Fuqra</p>
<p>Lashkar-e Tayyiba</p>
<p>Muslim Brotherhood</p>
<p align="left"><strong>DOMESTIC           TERRORISM THREAT</strong></p>
<p>Anarchist Extremists</p>
<p>Black Separatist Extremists</p>
<p>Homegrown Islamic Extremism</p>
<p>Lone Wolf Extremists</p>
<p>Militia Extremists</p>
<p>Special Interest Extremism</p>
<p>White Nationalist Extremism</p>
<p align="left"><strong>EXECUTIVE           SUMMARY</strong></p>
<p>The purpose of the 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment is to convey potential terrorism threats affecting the Commonwealth of Virginia. Terrorism, for the purpose of this report, is defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce action or to prevent others from taking intended actions. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are currently planning attacks in Virginia, the presence of extremists, evidence of trends linked to terrorism, and the abundance of potential targets, suggests that the potential for Virginia to be targeted remains significant.</p>
<p align="left">As with previous years, the threat from terrorist and extremist groups can be categorized as international or domestic threats. Each of these groups holds particular values and political goals and thus represents a different type of threat to Virginia and the U.S. The international terrorism threat to Virginia and the nation as a whole stems from several radical Islamic militant groups. The domestic terrorist threat is comprised of a wide variety of groups, to include special interest groups, anarchists, race-based groups, including black separatists and white supremacists, militias and sovereign citizens, and homegrown extremists.</p>
<p align="left">In Virginia, identified activities have been limited primarily to non-violent acts and crimes committed to raise funds to finance group activities. Some activities also relate to criminal endeavors generally used by extremists to further operational planning. The Virginia Fusion Center monitors international, national, and regional trends relating to terrorism and criminal extremism for indicators of emerging activity in the Commonwealth. Terrorism trends of greatest concern in 2009 include terrorism tradecraft, recruitment, and radicalization, terrorist use of technology, and terrorism financing.</p>
<p align="left">As terrorists adapt and evolve to offset existing counterterrorism measures, they have successfully exploited available technology and modified their tactics to ensure successful operations. While several of the trends noted are applicable to all terrorist and extremist groups, increasing linkages are noted to specific critical infrastructure and key resources. As such, this product highlights, where possible, connections noted between groups, their behaviors, and potentially targeted infrastructure.</p>
<p align="left">Based on the information gathered, the Commonwealth of Virginia could be potentially targeted for terrorist attack due to its location and proximity to Washington, D.C., its concentration of critical infrastructure, and the amount of extremist activity documented in Virginia. In order to detect and deter terrorist attacks, it is essential that information regarding suspected terrorists and suspicious activity in Virginia be closely monitored and reported in a timely manner. Additionally, it remains important to determine the extent of existing trends and to collect, analyze, and disseminate this information to law enforcement partners in Virginia.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>OVERVIEW</strong></p>
<p>The 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment, in keeping with the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC) mission of integrating threat information from public and private sector agencies to prevent terrorist attacks, is designed to afford law enforcement, homeland security, and policy making officials terrorism threat intelligence of relevance to Virginia. Included in this assessment is an overview of identified groups, individuals, or activities; known or suspected trends; and critical infrastructure or key resources with significant U.S. or Virginia reporting within the past five years. While there is no intelligence that indicates terrorists are planning attacks in Virginia, the abundance of potential targets provides terrorists with many possibilities and opportunities throughout the Commonwealth. Information contained in this Threat Assessment is current as of February 2009 and will be</p>
<p>reviewed and updated on an annual basis.</p>
<p align="left">In addressing the terrorism threat to Virginia, it is important to define terrorism and the scope of activities included. Terrorism can be defined as politically motivated violence or threat of violence designed to coerce others into actions they would not otherwise undertake or to refrain from actions they desired to take. Terrorism is generally directed against civilian targets and is intended to produce effects beyond immediate physical damage, to produce long-term psychological repercussions, especially fear, on a particular target audience. For the purposes of this Threat Assessment, terrorism is divided into two categories: international and domestic terrorism. International terrorism involves threats emanating primarily from the international jihad movement, foreign terrorist organizations, and state sponsors of terrorism. Domestic terrorism includes threats from special interest groups, white supremacists, black separatists, and anti-government groups. Terrorism trends included in this assessment are activities, such as recruitment, financing, training, and planning, conducted in furtherance of terrorism.</p>
<p align="left">Terrorism remains a threat to Virginia, not only because of its proximity to the nation’s capitol, but also due to the volume of significant infrastructure. Such infrastructure includes military installations such as the Pentagon; two nuclear power plants; and a major East Coast seaport. Virginia is also home to a wide range of transportation sector targets of interest, including interstate highways with high-traffic bridges and tunnels; railways and subways; and aviation and port facilities. While other infrastructure sectors, such as water, energy, and information technology could be targeted, it is also possible that terrorist attention could be directed toward law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels.</p>
<p align="left">Spanning 39,598 square miles, Virginia has a population of almost 7.5 million residents. Roughly half of these residents are concentrated in the northern Virginia, central Virginia, and Hampton Roads regions. All three of these regions feature ethnically diverse populations with cultural ties to the Middle East, the horn of Africa, Southeast Asia, and other areas heavily impacted by terrorist activities. While the vast majority of these individuals are law-abiding, this ethnic diversity also affords terrorist operatives the opportunity to assimilate easily into society, without arousing suspicion. Virginia’s network of colleges and universities also represent a potential avenue of entry for terrorist operatives and a possible forum for recruitment of sympathizers. Additionally, Virginia’s correctional system remains an attractive venue for recruitment and radicalization relating to terror organizations and hate groups.</p>
<p align="left">The VFC has compiled information from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as open sources to create this Threat Assessment. In addition to reviewing information directly reported to the VFC, surveys were sent to all Virginia local law enforcement agencies to determine the extent of terrorism activities throughout the state. Information of interest included not only event-specific data, but also suspicious traffic stops or activities consistent with pre-operational attack planning. Assessments of the overall threat posed by specific terror and extremist groups or movements were completed utilizing the Project Sleipnir: Revised Long Matrix for Criminal Extremism utilized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although the primary objective of this report is to share valuable terrorism intelligence with public safety agencies in Virginia, a secondary goal is to highlight the types of data needed from local, state, and federal partners of the VFC. While every effort was made to ensure accurate, thorough reporting of the terrorist threat, it is expected that not every incident of possible terrorist activity will be reported or forwarded to the VFC.</p>
<p align="left"><span id="apture_prvw2" class="aptureLink"><span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-position: right -448px;"> </span><a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://www.infowars.com/media/vafusioncenterterrorassessment.pdf">Read entire PDF document</a></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night Lou Dobbs agreed with the President of Mexico that drugs are flowing into the United States because our government permits it.]]></description>
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<p>Last night Lou Dobbs agreed with the President of Mexico that drugs are flowing into the United States because our government permits it. President Calderon said U.S. corruption permitted drug imports. “If there is traffic in the United States, it is because there is some corruption in the United States,” Calderon said. <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/06/ldt.01.html">Dobbs agreed</a>.<br />
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<p>“…there is no other explanation,” Dobbs said, “It goes well beyond indifference and apathy, but the fact that this country has tolerated that border being violated by drug traffickers who bring in from Mexico methamphetamines, heroin, cocaine and marijuana – in fact, Mexico is the largest source. And for us as a nation to have tolerated the immense loss of life, the devastation of lives to addiction and drugs, most of which, again, originate in Mexico, can only be explained by corruption.”</p>
<p>Lou Dobbs is right, there is corruption, but it is mainly  political. Drugs are allowed into the country because <a href="http://www.americanpatrol.com/FEATURES/011026ZIGLAR-SELLOUT-AMERICA/Feat-BushZiglarFlaky011026.html">the ruling class is willing to sacrifice its citizens on the alter of globalism</a>.</p>
<p>American Border Patrol has shown that <span id="apture_prvw1" class="aptureLink"><span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-position: right -1548px;"> </span><a class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5RPS_iTNiw">the new border fence began cutting off smuggling routes and that led to the Mexican drug war</a></span>. But the establishment doesn’t want the fence, so <a href="http://www.americanpatrol.com/09-FEATURES/090130-FEATURE/090130_Feature.html">they blacked out ABP and its reports</a>, and that includes those who run Lou Dobbs Tonight.</p>
<p>There is something even worse, but more on that later.<br />
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		<title>Infowars Story on Illegal Tennessee Checkpoint Prompts Action by Governor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a number of calls to the Tennessee Governor’s office, the Whiteville, Tennessee police have canceled a planned seat belt checkpoint operation that was to be conducted in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the 251st Military Police in Bolivar, Tennessee.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br />
Infowars<br />
April 3, 2009</div>
<p>In response to a number of calls to the Tennessee Governor’s office, the Whiteville, Tennessee police have canceled a planned seat belt checkpoint operation that was to be conducted in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the 251st Military Police in Bolivar, Tennessee.</p>
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<p class="photo-caption"><a href="http://wnws.com/newstalk/?p=1157" target="_blank">WNWS 101.5 FM</a> aired a story on the cancellation today.</p>
<p>Keith Sherley of 101.5 FM in Jackson, Tennessee, interviewed Representative Johhny Shaw earlier today. Shaw indicated Governor Phil Bredesen “didn’t need another headache” and canceled the checkpoint. Shaw, who represents the area in Tennessee where the exercise was to be held, admitted the checkpoint was a “bad idea in the first place.” Shaw voiced his opposition to military involvement with local law enforcement. “It would have frightened more people than it helped,” Shaw added. He said he did not think the operation would be rescheduled.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/dhs-military-police-law-enforcement-plan-checkpoint-in-tennessee/">Infowars</a>, <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/dhs-military-police-law-enforcement-plan-checkpoint-in-tennessee.html">Prison Planet</a>, and a handful of blogs covered the story on Thursday. The story was not deemed important by the corporate media. A Google News search of corporate news media websites returns zero results on the story, even though the checkpoint was a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Posse Comitatus Act prohibiting military involvement in domestic police operations.</p>
<p>Calls to Governor Phil Bredesen and his decision to halt the checkpoint operation may be attributed to the diligence of an Infowars reader who provided a tip that resulted in a story appearing on the Infowars and Prison Planet news websites yesterday and earlier today. If not for that coverage, the checkpoint operation with DHS and military collaboration would have probably occurred on April 4, as originally noted in the Hardeman County, Tennessee, Bulletin Times.</p>
<p>NewsTalk 101.5 FM apparently picked up the story from either Infowars or Prison Planet. The WNWS website ran an article on the cancellation with the headline “DHS, Military Police, Law Enforcement Planned Checkpoint in Whiteville, Tennessee,” almost exactly the same headline that appeared on Alex Jones’ websites.<br />
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		<title>Campaign for Liberty Worker with Ron Paul Bumper Stickers Detained, Harassed by TSA</title>
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<p>“In addition to the cash, I was carrying Campaign for Liberty literature and I was carrying Ron Paul bumper stickers, so my immediate thought was these guys already know about what I do and where I work and they are probabvly aware of the MIAC report… maybe I shouldn’t say something right away,” Steve Bierfeldt, a Campaign for Liberty worker, tells Judge Andrew Napolitano.</p>
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		<title>DHS, Military Police, Law Enforcement Plan Checkpoint in Tennessee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tennessee, Bulletin Times announcing a seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on April 4 “in conjunction with a Homeland Security training exercise by the 251st Military Police in Bolivar who recently returned from Iraq”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>Kurt Nimmo</strong><br />
Infowars<br />
April 2, 2009</div>
<p>An Infowars reader has sent a page taken from the Hardeman County, Tennessee, Bulletin Times announcing a seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on April 4 “in conjunction with a Homeland Security training exercise by the 251st Military Police in Bolivar who recently returned from Iraq” (see a PDF version of the announcement <a href="http://www.eclassifiedsnetwork.com/content.aspx?IsHome=1&amp;MemberID=1258&amp;ID=1923&amp;Module=Quickpage" target="_blank">here, on page two</a>).</p>
<blockquote><p>Although uniformed military personnel will be visible at the checkpoint, the military participation will be strictly observation. The military police uses checkpoints to disseminate information and ensure safe movement in the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency.</p></blockquote>
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<p>The operation in Tennessee is similar to one held last December in San Bernardino County, California, and reported by Branson Hunter of the Big Bear Observation Post blog and <a href="http://www.infowars.com/marines-establish-military-presence-on-san-bernardino-california-roads/">Infowars</a> on December 14, 2008. The California operation was a collaboration between the California Highway Patrol and the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center. It did not include Homeland Security.</p>
<p>“Dispatching Marines on California highways is an obvious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878. The Act prohibits members of the federal uniformed services, including military police, from working with state and local police and law enforcement,” we reported in December. The seat belt checkpoint in Tennessee with the participation of military police is also a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.</p>
<p>In response to an editorial critical of the operation in San Bernardino County broadcast by KCDZ-FM in Joshua Tree, California, the California Highway Patrol sent the radio station a fax indicating the action would not include military police. It was later reported that uniformed military police in marked military police vehicles teamed up with the California Highway Patrol in the town of Yucca Valley, California.</p>
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<p>Gary Daigneault, News Director at KCDZ-FM, went on the Alex Jones Show on December 15 and said the CHP was less than forthcoming about their plans to set-up checkpoints. The California Highway Patrol is required to provide the location of its checkpoints to the media at least two hours prior. Although the CHP did provide the radio station with a telephone number to get this information, when the number was called there was no answer, Daigneault said in his radio editorial (<a href="http://www.infowars.com/update-marine-military-presence-confirmed-in-san-bernardino-county/">listen to the editorial and view the faxes</a>).</p>
<p>“It should be obvious the Marines and the California Highway Patrol are engaged in a disinformation campaign against the media in order to cover up their illegal and unconstitutional behavior,” we wrote on December 15. “Not only do they want to entrap the residents of San Bernardino County in their ’sobriety/driver license checkpoint’ in violation of the Fourth Amendment protecting the people against unreasonable searches and seizures, they also want to send a message that the military will henceforth be involved in domestic law enforcement in direct violation of Posse Comitatus.”</p>
<p>The collaboration between Homeland Security, the military, and local law enforcement in Tennessee sets a dangerous new precedent. In the case U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte, the Supreme Court ruled that DHS checkpoints could be set up to search for illegal immigrants and smugglers and so long as the checkpoints and searches were brief and for that purpose only they could be done anywhere within 100 miles of a US border. It appears DHS is now moving beyond U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte and expanding operations beyond the 100 mile limit.</p>
<p>DHS will likely argue they are not conducting the checkpoints in Tennessee and are there only as monitors. However, this point will be lost on the victims of the checkpoints when they see uniformed military police and DHS personnel.</p>
<p>In California, the attention of the media put the CHP and the Marines on the defensive. Last month, the coverage of the MIAC documents in Missouri by <a href="http://www.infowars.com/secret-state-police-report-ron-paul-bob-barr-chuck-baldwin-libertarians-are-terrorists/" target="_blank">Alex Jones</a> resulted in wide coverage of the issue in the corporate media. In response to the attention, the Missouri State Police and the governor of the state were obliged to repudiate the document and order an investigation into the Missouri Information Analysis Center’s practice of designating followers of political candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin as “militia” terrorists.</p>
<p>Attention placed on the operation in Tennessee will produce similar results.<br />
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		<title>Texas senate gives preliminary approval to sobriety checkpoints bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval Monday to a controversial bill that would allow law enforcement to establish sobriety checkpoints in Texas.]]></description>
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April 1, 2009</div>
<p>The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval Monday to a controversial bill that would <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/r/38/29454/">allow law enforcement to establish sobriety checkpoints in Texas</a>. The bill, <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/SB00298S.htmf">SB 298</a>, passed 20-11 only after its author, State Sen. <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/r/146/2432/">John Carona</a> (R-Dallas) <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/amendments/html/SB00298S2F4.HTM">amended it</a> to apply only to the state’s most populous counties and cities.</p>
<p>Six Republicans and four Democrats were among those casting “no” votes.</p>
<p>The vote broke down as follows:</p>
<p>Yeas: Averitt, Carona, Davis, Duncan, Ellis, Fraser, Harris, Huffman, Lucio, Nelson, Nichols, Patrick, Seliger, Shapiro, Shapleigh, VanideiPutte, Watson, Wentworth, West, Zaffirini.</p>
<p>Nays: Deuell, Eltife, Estes, Gallegos, Hegar, Hinojosa, Jackson, Ogden, Uresti, Whitmire, Williams.</p>
<p>The bill gets its <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/calendars/html/S520090331.htm">third and final reading</a> in the Senate Tuesday before moving on to the House.</p>
<p>Legislation similar to Carona’s has been introduced almost every legislative session since 2003. Texas is one of only a handful of states without sobriety checkpoints–to the chagrin of MADD and other special interest groups.</p>
<p>Texas’ ended its brief practice of sobriety checkpoints in 1994 after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals deemed them illegal unless specifically authorized by the state legislature.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/mar/31/texas-senates-gives-preliminary-approval-sobriety-/" target="_blank">Read entire article</a><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>David Kelly,<br />
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March 30, 2009</div>
<p>Dozens of Ontario police and code enforcement officers descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City early Monday, separating those who could stay from those to be evicted.</p>
<p>Large, often confused, crowds formed ragged lines behind police barricades where officers handed out color-coded wristbands. Blue meant they were from Ontario and could remain. Orange indicated they had to provide more proof to avoid ejection, and white meant they had a week to leave.”</p>
<p>Many who had taken shelter at the camp — which had grown from 20 to more than 400 residents in nine months — lacked paperwork, bills or birth certificates proving they were once Ontario residents.</p>
<p>“When my husband gets out of jail he can bring my marriage certificate; will that count?” asked one tearful woman.</p>
<p>Another resident, clearly confused, seemed relieved to get a white band — not understanding it meant she had to leave.</p>
<p>Pattie Barnes, 47, who had her motor home towed away last week, shook with anger.</p>
<p>“They are tagging us because we are homeless,” she said, staring at her orange wristband. “It feels like a concentration camp.”</p>
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		<title>Kucinich Calls For Congressional Investigation Into Cheney “Assassination Unit”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Steve Watson</strong> &#124; Congressman says Hersh claims should be subject of formal probe.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>Steve Watson</strong><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawmaker_wants_drug_testing_for_unemployed_0316.html"><br />
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Monday, March 16, 2009<img src="http://infowars.net/pictures/march2009/160309unit.jpg" border="1" alt="Kucinich Calls For Congressional Investigation Into Cheney “Assassination Unit” 160309unit" width="340" height="191" /></div>
<p align="left">Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has  called for a formal Congressional probe into allegations by  investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that former Vice-President Dick  Cheney had his own SS-style political assassination unit.</p>
<p align="left">Kucinich made the call Friday in a letter to Chairman  Edolphus Towns of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee  which has been published on the <strong><a href="http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=114621">Congressman’s website</a></strong>.</p>
<p align="left">Kucinich explains in the letter that, “Mr. Hersh made  the allegation before an audience at the University of Minnesota on  Tuesday, March 10, 2009. He stated, ‘Under President Bush’s authority,  they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the  CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and  leaving… It is a special wing of our special operations community that  is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the  Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. .  .Congress has no oversight of it.’”</p>
<p align="left">“If true, these operations violate longstanding U.S.  policy regarding covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional  oversight,” Kucinich adds. “Hersh is within a year or more of releasing  a book that is said to include evidence of this allegation. However, we  cannot wait a year or more to establish the truth.”</p>
<p align="left">The claims were made by the Award-winning New Yorker writer last Tuesday when he <strong>t<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/hersh-cheney-ran-ss-style-political-assassination-unit.html">old a University of Minnesota audience </a></strong>“After  9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence  Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people  they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority  for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.”</p>
<p>Hersh then went on to describe how the Joint Special Operations  Command was an executive assassination unit that carried out  political`assassinations abroad. . “It is a special wing of our special  operations community that is set up independently,” he explained. “They  do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported  directly to the Cheney office. … Congress has no oversight of it.”</p>
<p>In <strong><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/cheney-assassination-unit-still-active-under-obama-including-domestically.html">our exclusive story </a></strong>last  weekend we detailed how the assassination unit was not a creation of  the Bush administration or Dick Cheney. The Joint Special Operations  Command, has in fact been active for decades, has been deployed  domestically in the U.S., has killed U.S. citizens, and continues as an  integral part of Barack Obama’s expanded wars in Afghanistan and  Pakistan.</p>
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<p>Kucinich has previously targeted the former Vice  President, when in April 2007, he filed an impeachment resolution  against Cheney charging manipulation of evidence regarding Iraq’s  weapons capabilities prior to the invasion of 2003.</p>
<p align="left">The measure was blocked by the Democratic leadership,  as were articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in  June 2008.</p>
<p>The full text of Kucinich’s letter follows:</p>
<p>March 13, 2009</p>
<p>The Honorable Edolphus Towns<br />
Chairman<br />
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<br />
U.S. House of Representatives<br />
2157 Rayburn House Office Building<br />
Washington, DC 20515</p>
<p>Dear Chairman Towns:</p>
<p>As you may already be aware, recent media reports indicate that  investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, while answering questions before  a public audience at the University of Minnesota divulged information  about what he calls an “executive assassination ring” operating under  the George W. Bush Administration.</p>
<p>If substantiated, the allegation would have far reaching  implications for the United States. Such an assertion from someone of  Hersh’s credibility that has a long and proven track record of  dependability on these issues merits attention. Mr. Hersh is within a  year or more of releasing a book that is said to include evidence of  this allegation. However, we cannot wait a year or more to establish  the truth. As such, I request that the Full Committee immediately begin  an investigation to determine the facts in this matter.</p>
<p>Mr. Hersh made the allegation before an audience at the University  of Minnesota on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. He stated, “Under President  Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the  ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and  executing them and leaving.”</p>
<p>Mr. Hersh continued, “It is a special wing of our special operations  community that is set up independently,” he explained. “They do not  report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported  directly to the Cheney office. . .Congress has no oversight of it.”</p>
<p>If true, these operations violate longstanding U.S. policy regarding  covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional oversight. Current  statute governing covert action (50 U.S.C. 413b) requires a  presidential finding and notification to the appropriate congressional  committees. Additionally, Executive Order 12333 clearly states that  “[n]o person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States  Government shall engage in or conspire to engage in assassination.”</p>
<p>I urge the Committee to explore Mr. Hersh’s allegation. Please do  not hesitate to call on me or my staff if we can be of assistance.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Dennis J. Kucinich</p>
<p>Member of Congress<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Chycho</strong> &#124; A Grand Valley State University student shot by an Ottawa County deputy told his parents he lifted his right arm to cover his eyes from a bright flashlight when the shot was fired.
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March 16, 2009</div>
<p>Update: <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/03/gvsu_students_protest_shooting.html">GVSU students protest shooting of Derek Copp, hold ‘Why was our friend shot’ signs</a> - &amp;quot A friend of Derek Copp, Karah Bradshaw, 19, said she has visited  Derek at the hospital, and he’s up and talking. She said the bullet hit  him in the upper chest, but the bullet traveled downward and did  damage. She said there should not have been a drug raid of Copp’s  apartment…&amp;quot</p>
<p><em>&amp;quotAbout 40 people had gathered on campus by 11:30 a.m., including  student Ben Rose, a protest organizer and friend of Copp. Both lived in  the off-campus complex called Campus View apartments.</em></p>
<p><em>&amp;quot’We’re out here because we’re outraged at the police brutality,’ <strong>He also is spreading word about a protest planned at the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department on Monday afternoon</strong>…</em></p>
<p><em>&amp;quotThe students shouted, ‘We want safety, not dead students.’  Sayings on signs included, ‘Our campus is not a war zone’ and ‘Why was  our friend shot?’ Another said, ‘Police brutality.’&amp;quot</em></p>
<p><strong>Mom: shot GVSU son ‘never had chance’</strong><br />
Wood TV 8<br />
March 16, 2009</p>
<p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A Grand Valley State University student shot by an Ottawa County deputy told his parents he lifted his right arm to cover his eyes from a bright flashlight when the shot was fired.</p>
<p>He told them he didn’t know it was a police officer shining the light.</p>
<p>“He never even had a chance to even see who was coming at him, with a bright flashlight in his face,” Sheryl Copp, the mother of Derek Copp, told 24 Hour News 8. “He had no clue. He heard someone knock on his door, and he had no clue.”</p>
<p>The bullet entered the right side of Copp’s upper chest, broke ribs, ruptured his right lung and went through his liver, his parents said. It remained lodged in his lower back, nearly protruding through his skin, they said.</p>
<p>Doctors, they said, were planning to remove the bullet Friday.</p>
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March 16, 2009</div>
<p><em>Editor’s note: Translation, there will be a false flag attack under Obama’s reign. </em></p>
<p>US President Barack Obama’s decisions against Bush’s “war on terror” policies would cause another 9/11, says former vice president Dick Cheney.</p>
<p>“President Obama campaigned against it all across the country,” Cheney told CNN on Sunday.</p>
<p>“And now he is making some choices that in my mind will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack,” he added.</p>
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<p>When asked if he believes Obama has made the nation less safe through his reversal of certain Bush administration anti-terror policies, Cheney said, “I do.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Cheney criticized the new administration’s decision for shutting down the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, closing CIA “Black Sites” abroad, and defining waterboarding as torture.</p>
<p>“I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11,” Cheney said.</p>
<p>“I think that’s a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles,” he noted.</p>
<p>Former US president George W. Bush invaded mineral-rich Afghanistan and oil-rich Iraq after September, 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 to allegedly destroy Al Qaeda and Taliban. Hundreds of thousands of civilian lives have been lost in the military adventures.</p>
<p>The former vice President also brought some reasons for his claims against the young administration of Obama.</p>
<p>“When you go back to the law enforcement mode, which is what I sense is what they’re doing they’re very much giving up that center of attention and focus … that’s essential if you’re going to successfully defend the nation against further attacks,” Cheney said.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>The Shootist</strong> &#124; Ammunition prices will go through the roof in the next year.
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March 16, 2009</div>
<p><em>AND SO IT BEGINS…</em><br />
We all wondered when it was going to start.</p>
<p>When  the new administration would make their move against us as gun owners.  Oh, everyone got upset about HR45–I’ll bet I got over 100 e-mails  warning me about this draconian gun registration bill that had been  introduced in Congress.</p>
<p>I was really glad to see Tom Gresham,  host of &amp;quotGun Talk Radio,&amp;quot an editor, writer, television host on  &amp;quotSelf-Defense TV,&amp;quot and one of the foremost gun spokespersons, come out  and tell everyone to stop worrying about legislation so absolutely  over-the-top–it would never get out of committee.</p>
<p>Tom said save  your energy for when we really need it–don’t expend it trying to warn  everyone in your e-mail list about legislation that would go nowhere.</p>
<p>Now, Tom just interviewed me, and Larry Haynie, owner of Georgia Arms (<a href="http://www.georgia-arms.com/">www.georgia-arms.com</a>), on Gun Talk (<a href="http://www.guntalk.com/">www.guntalk.com</a>)–and  Tom agrees, now is the time to &amp;quot…unleash the hounds…&amp;quot by which he  means start e-mailing and writing your senators and congressmen.</p>
<p>Now it has come clear…now we know what they intend to do.</p>
<p>It  is an end-run around Congress. They don’t need to try to ban guns–they  don’t need to fight a massive battle to attempt gun registration, or  limit &amp;quotassault&amp;quot weapon sales.</p>
<p>Nope. All they have to do is limit  the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, and when  bullets dry up, guns will be useless.</p>
<p>Think we jest?</p>
<p>Here  are copies of two letters sent to Georgia Arms just Thursday  evening–effectively cancelling a contract he had to purchase 30,000  pounds of expended military brass in .223, 7.62mm, and .50 caliber:</p>
<p><em>Dear Valued Customer:</em></p>
<p><em> Please take a moment to note important changes set forth by the Defense Logistics Agency:</em></p>
<p><em> Recently  it has been determined that fired munitions of all calibers, shapes and  sizes have been designated to be Demil code B. As a result and in  conjunction with DLA’s current Demil code B policy, this notice will  serve as official notification which requires Scrap Venture (SV) to  implement mutilation as a condition of sale for all sales of fired  munitions effective immediately. This notice also requires SV to  immediately cease delivery of any fired munitions that have been  recently sold or on active term contracts, unless the material has been  mutilated prior to sale or SV personnel can attest to the mutilation  after delivery. A certificate of destruction is required in either case.</em></p>
<p><em> Thank you,</em></p>
<p><em> DOD Surplus<br />
15051 N Kierland Blvd # 300<br />
Scottsdale, AZ 85254</em></p>
<p><em>March 12, 2009</em></p>
<p><em> Larry Haynie<br />
Georgia Arms<br />
PO Box 238<br />
Villa Rica, GA 30180</em></p>
<p><em> Re: Event 7084-6200:</em></p>
<p><em> Dear Larry Haynie,</em></p>
<p><em> Effective  immediately DOD Surplus, LLC, will be implementing new requirements for  mutilation of fired shell casings. The new DRMS requirement calls for  DOD Surplus personnel to witness the mutilation of the property and  sign the Certificate of Destruction. Mutilation of the property can be  done at the DRMO, if permitted by the Government, or it may be  mutilated at a site chosen by the buyer. Mutilation means that the  property will be destroyed to the extent prevents its reuse or  reconstruction. DOD Surplus personnel will determine when property has  been sufficiently mutilated to meet the requirements of the Government.</em></p>
<p><em> If  you do not agree with the new conditions of your spot sale, please sign  the appropriate box provided below stating that you do not agree to the  new terms and would like to cancel your purchase effective immediately.  If you do agree to the new terms please sign in the appropriate box  provided below to acknowledge your understanding and agreement with the  new requirements relating to your purchase. Fax the signed document  back to (480) 367-1450, emailed responses are not acceptable.</em></p>
<p><em> Please respond to this request no later than close of business Monday, March 16th, 2009.</em></p>
<p><em> Sincerely,</em></p>
<p><em> Government Liquidation.</em></p>
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<p>Got  that? From now on, remanufacturers of military brass will not be able  to buy surplus brass from DOD–actually from Government Liquidators,  llc.–the corporation that sells surplus materials for the U.S.  government. At least, not in any form recognizable as once-fired brass  ammunition.</p>
<p>Now all brass ammunition will have to be shredded, and sold as scrap.</p>
<p>Georgia  Arms, who brought this to our attention, is the 5th largest ammunition  manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle ammunition in the U.S.</p>
<p>&amp;quotWe’re right up there behind Hornady,&amp;quot Larry Haynie told me.</p>
<p>He  also told me with the cancellation of his contract to purchase this  brass, and the ending of his ability to purchase any more expended  military ammunition, he will have to severely curtail his  operation–laying off approximately half his 60-person work force.</p>
<p>Haynie  further pointed out this move is a stupendous waste of taxpayer  money–reducing the worth of the brass some 80%–from casings, to  shredded bulk brass.</p>
<p>He stated most of this will now go to  foundries where it will be melted down, cast in shippable forms, and  likely be sold to China, one of the largest purchasers of U.S. metals  on the open market.</p>
<p>Haynie was manufacturing over 1 million  rounds of .223 ammunition every month, which he sold on the civilian  market to resellers, and to law enforcement agencies across the country.</p>
<p>He will start tomorrow sending cancellations of orders for .223 to law enforcement agencies all over the country.</p>
<p>You  can expect this to affect every bullet you purchase in the future–with  no reloaded ammunition available, the already strained new  manufacturers will be unable to meet demand. They are already turning  out everything they can build for the military market. The civilian  market is stressed to the point even reloading components have become  hard to find.</p>
<p>Now, with this hit, ammunition prices will go through the roof in the next year.</p>
<p>Your quality piece, sitting in your gun rack, will become a very expensive wood and steel, or plastic and steel club.</p>
<p>What can you do?</p>
<p>Google &amp;quotcontact members of Congress&amp;quot or simply type in <a href="http://www.congress.org/">www.congress.org</a>.<br />
When you reach that site, type in your zip code–it will give you all your representatives, senators, and their web pages.</p>
<p>Or you can find the addresses and e-mails of your own senators and congressmen by going to <a href="http://www.senate.gov/">www.senate.gov</a> and <a href="http://www.house.gov/">www.house.gov</a>. Both pages have locator aids at the top of the page.</p>
<p>Here  is a letter I just sent to Representative Bill Cassidy, Congressman  from the 6th District of Louisiana, and Senator David Vitter of  Louisiana. I will be sending it to every member of our congressional  delegation. Feel free to copy it and paste in your own e-mail, sending  it to your legislators.</p>
<p>We have to stop this now!</p>
<p><em>The Honorable Bill Cassidy<br />
Member of Congress from Louisiana</em></p>
<p><em> Dear Congressman Cassidy:</em></p>
<p><em> It  has come to my attention that the Department of Defense has issued a  directive that all expended military brass (fired cases) will now be  shredded and sold for scrap material, rather than resold by Government  Liquidators LLC to the civilian market for remanufacture.</em></p>
<p><em> You  may not be aware of it, but there is a severe shortage of ammunition  available for sale to the public across the country, causing problems  for shooters, hunters, and reloaders everywhere.</em></p>
<p><em> Now, apparently  the Obama administration, realizing they cannot move against private  firearms ownership since the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme  Court in the Washington D.C./Heller case, has made their move in  another way.</em></p>
<p><em> By cutting off the resale of expended military  ammunition to remanufacturers, they have put a stranglehold on the  nation’s ammunition supply.</em></p>
<p><em> Further, they have reduced the  return to the government on expended brass by 80%. What was sold for  remanufacturer at a fair return to the government, will now cost the  taxpayers untold sums of money as the cost of scrap brass is far below  the price per pound for expended military ammunition.</em></p>
<p><em> In  addition, the use of remanufactured ammunition is a huge asset to law  enforcement agencies across the country who buy millions of rounds of  reloaded ammunition a year from these manufacturers for practice rounds.</em></p>
<p><em> With  this market gone, law enforcement will no longer be able to purchase  inexpensive reloaded ammunition, and with the continuing combat status  of military forces across the Middle East, original manufacturers of  new ammunition are turning out everything they can make to the  government, thus exacerbating the shortage of new ammunition in both  the civilian and law enforcement market.</em></p>
<p><em> Lastly, in these harsh  economic times, does it not strike you as cold and calculating that the  Obama administration has no compunction against ruining an industry  that employs thousands of American citizens in the remanufacturing of  sporting and military ammunition. One major resupplier, Georgia Arms,  the fifth largest manufacturer of centerfire pistol and rifle  ammunition has informed me he will have to quickly lay off half his  60-person workforce, as he has had to cancel contracts with dozens of  police agencies who had contracted with him to supply them with  remanufactured .223 ammunition.</em></p>
<p><em> Georgia Arms has been  practically put out of business by this directive that all expended  military brass must be shredded. His current contracts have been  canceled, and he is notifying his customers across the country he can  no longer supply their ammunition needs.</em></p>
<p><em> Please look into this  immediately. This move by the Obama administration is nothing but a  back-door strike against firearms ownership in this country–if  shooters can’t buy ammunition, the guns are little better than steel  clubs–and this is obviously the intent.</em></p>
<p><em> Thank you for your time and efforts in this serious attack against the Second Amendment rights of the American citizenry.</em></p>
<p><em> Sincerely,</em></p>
<p><em> Gordon Hutchinson</em></p>
<p><em> Author &amp;quotThe Great New Orleans Gun Grab&amp;quot</em></p>
<p><em> Firearms Columnist for Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi Sportsman magazines.</em></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>RUSSELL GOLDMAN</strong><br />
ABC News<br />
March 16, 2009</div>
<p>The governor of Utah has two problems with a State Senate proposal to scan the IDs of everyone who visits a bar in the state and make that database available to law enforcement officials.</p>
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<p>For starters, it is an “Orwellian” breach of privacy, he said. And second, it makes his state look kooky.</p>
<p>“I think that would enhance the oddness of our laws,” Gov. Jon Huntsman told The Associated Press. “I think that for most people that is a rather frightening, almost Orwellian, proposition.”</p>
<p>Utah already has the strictest alcohol laws in the country, requiring tipplers to become members of any bar they patronize by paying a small fee and filling out a brief application. Bars in Utah are open to the public, but they’re still classified as private clubs and only members and sponsored guests may enter.</p>
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<p>Court documents filed Friday reveal that Obama’s lawyers are arguing  that Ex-Guantanamo detainees have no constitutional rights.</p>
<p>The Center for Constitutional Rights(CCR), a non-profit legal advocacy  group, is supporting four British citizens - Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal,  Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal al Harith – in their suit alleging religious  mistreatment and torture at Guantanamo Bay. Defendants in the case  include Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, the retired chairman of  the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The four men say that they were “beaten,  shackled in painful stress positions, threatened by dogs and subjected  to extreme medical care,” <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/947480.html">according to the Miami Herald</a>.  In addition, they reported being forced to shave their beards, being  banned from prayer, being denied prayer mats, and watching a copy of  the Koran get tossed in the toilet.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong> &#124; Missouri Militia member expresses outrage that organization which helps police find missing children, sponsors soup kitchens and blood donation campaigns is linked with OKC bombing, domestic terrorism.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tagline"><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<br />
</strong><a href="http://prisonplanet.com">Prison Planet.com</a><br />
Monday, March 16, 2009</div>
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<p align="left">A member of the Missouri Militia has  contacted us to express his outrage that the organization, which  routinely works with local law enforcement to help find missing  children, sponsors blood donation campaigns and soup kitchens, is being  smeared as a terrorist outfit by the federal government.</p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/police-trained-nationwide-that-informed-americans-are-domestic-terrorists.html">As we reported last week</a>,  a secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center  lists militias, Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display  bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S.  flag and equates them with radical race hate groups and terrorists.</p>
<p align="left">The document features a photograph of  members of the Missouri militia next to a list of terrorist plots,  including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Atlanta Olympic Park  attack.</p>
<p align="left">A member of the Missouri Militia who  is featured in the photograph has written to us expressing his outrage  that such a highly regarded organization, which devotes most of its  time to projects which better the local community, has been villified  in such a slapdash and erroneous way by the feds.</p>
<p align="left">“In regard to the boys pictured in  the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) entitled “The Modern  Militia Movement”. I know most of the guys pictured in the article,” he  writes.</p>
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<p align="left">All are hard working men whose wife’s  support everything they do. Not one is a radical or a white  supremacist. There are no anti-Semites. In fact some of the members  have been Jewish and African-American. The leaders of this organization  are in contact with the local sheriffs office every-time there is a get  together that involves discharging weapons. The local sheriff knows who  they are and where they live.</p>
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<p>There is no talk of revolution or  using any force against law enforcement. Indeed, just the opposite.  They have volunteered for food kitchens and search and rescue. They are  a transparent organization that only seeks to exercise their  constitutional right to keep and bear arms.</p>
<p align="left">I know these guys, because I have  trained with them….Most of these guys have wives and children and there  only crime is preparing for the worst, yet hoping for the best. Most of  these boys don’t even believe 911 was an inside job. They are patriots  and good fathers in every sense of the word. They come from all walks  of life and there is not an ounce of racism among all of them combined.  Some are college educated white collars and some are blue collars, but  all are as normal and patriotic as they come.</p>
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<p align="left">Indeed, a cursory examination of the <a href="http://www.missourimilitia.com/">Missouri Militia’s website</a> reveals that the group is routinely involved in projects such as  helping local authorities search for missing children, blood donation  campaigns, and feeding the homeless in soup kitchens. The organization  has supported campaigns such as Harvesters, Habitat for Humanity, and  Project Warmth.</p>
<p align="left">The website even features a 9/11  tribute and expresses the organization’s vehement opposition to the  perpurtrators of the terrorist attack. Part of the role of the group is  also outlined as “defense of the state from terrorism or invasion”.</p>
<p align="left">For the feds to demonize such a group  and smear them as potential terrorists is beyond belief. It’s almost  akin to labeling a group like the Salvation Army an Al-Qaeda offshoot.</p>
<p align="left">This is not only a damning indictment  in terms of how the federal government views U.S. citizens, but also a  staggering insult to the very notion that there is a “war on terror” at  all. If there really were Al-Qaeda suicide bomber cells plotting to  attack America, as we are constantly told, then the feds are telling  your local police departments to ignore them and instead target  stand-up Americans who like to do charity work, feed the homeless and  give blood.</p>
<p align="left">Even if one dismisses the notion that  these documents are being released as part of a deliberate attempt to  smear informed Americans as dangerous political enemies of the state,  what we are left with is almost equally as disturbing, which is the  fact that the people supposedly leading the “war on terror” on the home  front have the same level of detective and criminology skills as Barney  the Purple Dinosaur.</p>
<p align="left">In releasing this training document, the Missouri Information Analysis Center is putting the U.S. in <em>greater danger</em> of a terrorist attack and ensuring that any real terrorists would evade  detection, while law enforcement are being trained that the most  patriotic Americans imaginable are their mortal enemies.</p>
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