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Posted in Obama, Revolutionary Reform, civil liberties on Jan 7th, 2012
President Obama signed the NDAA bill into law giving the U.S. military new and very broad arrest and detention powers. Americans across the country plan to protest the bill that allows people to be detained indefinitely without access to an attorney or a trial by jury. Indefinitely means they could be held for life. Amendments [...]
Posted in Looney Left, civil liberties on Nov 4th, 2011
Occupy Delaware is agitating to displace toddlers from their playground so they don’t have to travel to a state park with sanitation and overnight facilities. They want the rules rewritten for them just like the Wall Street Tycoons they despise. They want to “occupy” Wilmington’s H. Fletcher Brown Park which is utilized by 100 children [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Oct 30th, 2011
“We want our homes and our children to be safe and free of tobacco,” said Ellen Feiler, health promotion director for the Broward County Health Department. “We don’t want it coming through the walls. We don’t want people walking down the street and breathing in someone else’s smoke.” Are you ever amazed by some of the things [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Oct 29th, 2011
She didn’t want a lot of attention when she sent out a revealing tweet, but attention she received all the same. If you didn’t hear about the original story – you may read it here. The employee who wrote this note has been reprimanded, but as is pointed out, there is a much larger issue at stake here. It’s easy to [...]
Posted in Civility, civil liberties on Oct 26th, 2011
Wait, why is it always a head to head comparison of one movement against the other? Why can people not take each movement for what it appears to be? Why is it a competition? Could it be because there is an election around the corner and the politicians want to win votes? I’m going to [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Oct 25th, 2011
Kathryn Dill, Meg McLain, and Will Duffield most likely be celebrated last night. In fact, many Liberty activists around the country probably did a little celebrating last night as the Superior Court of the District of Columbia has dropped all charges against the three Lemonistas. Kathryn, Meg, and Will were arrested on August 20, 2011 during Lemonade [...]
Posted in Americanism, Global Control, Liberty, civil liberties on Oct 19th, 2011
Most people I know are concerned about UN Agenda 21, being slowly implemented in America as well around the world affecting every sovereign nation on the planet. We have heard bits and pieces of the creation of a New World Order that would rip America’s sovereignty from our grasp, never to be recaptured, but is [...]
Posted in Americanism, First Amendment, Liberty, civil liberties on Oct 1st, 2011
The First Amendment. Everybody has an opinion and each person views the exact wording a bit different. The real issue is, what were the intentions of the Founders on this very important issue that has caused so much passionate discussion, since the Founders discussed this issue from June to September of 1789. I will quote [...]
Posted in Americanism, civil liberties on Sep 20th, 2011
It seems that whether we are arguing about state rights or our personal civil rights or liberties, this is certainly not a new issue in the United States. The fact that the preamble to the Constitution starts with, “We the people,” sets the tone of more to come as opposed to, “we the states.” Samuel [...]
Posted in City of Dover, Stuff, civil liberties on Sep 12th, 2011
The proposed Dover Social Media Policy went down in flames. It was unanimously rejected by the Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee. Read the WNJ account here. In other news, we endorsed the Kent County Sports Complex joining Kent County, all 13 Kent based Delaware General Assembly members, and the Greater Dover Committee.
Posted in City of Dover, Stuff, civil liberties on Sep 9th, 2011
The ACLU sent a letter to the Dover City Council Friday Afternoon urging the rejection the social media policy. Legal director Richard Morse noted: The Dover government’s duty to comply with the Constitution is certainly reason enough for Council to reject the proposed policy. But there is a second reason as well. The City will [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Jul 20th, 2011
What is privacy in the context of the 21st Century? Just last week, I voted in favor of street cameras which will be installed by the end of this week to compliment the contingent we already have in downtown Dover. Residents have told me they want more and so have business owners. They work. Crimes [...]
Posted in Americanism, Conservatism, Glen Urquhart, Liberty, Press Releases, Social Conservatives, Sussex GOP, civil liberties, local government on Jul 12th, 2011
Chairman Urquhart of the Sussex County GOP Committee released a statement today titled, “Why Ban The Faith That Gave Us Freedom?” The “radical transformers” seem bent on stamping out cherished and vital traditions. Having tried to expunge “Easter,” they’re now attacking prayer before Sussex County Council meetings. All that’s left is attempting to force the [...]
Posted in Americanism, Delaware GOP, Religion, Sussex GOP, civil liberties on Jul 11th, 2011
Whereas, The Sussex County Republican Party Executive Committee acknowledges that the First amendment prohibits Congress from passing any law establishing religion, the practice of reciting the Lords Prayer does not constitute establishment by Congress or by the Sussex County Council, from the founding of this nation prayer to the almighty has been the norm in [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Jul 4th, 2011
Legislation would hold TSA screeners accountable for “gate rape” The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) violates airline passengers’ rights on a daily basis, but every so often it really blows it and sparks nationwide outrage (remember the bladder cancer survivor whose urostomy bag was ruptured during a pat-down last fall?). The federal agency that handles airline security has [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Liberty, Stuff, civil liberties on Jul 4th, 2011
What a time to remember and rededicate ourselves to being a free people. We are celebrating Freedom Month, which is highlighted by the passage of the elegant Declaration of Independence. It laid out not only the case of grievances against Great Britain, but for Human Rights in general. We hold these truths to be self-evident, [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Reform, Stuff, civil liberties on Jun 27th, 2011
Black Elected Leaders are asking Delaware lawmakers to reconsider the current restricting plan set forth in the General Assembly by the Democratic Caucus. Delaware’s Black Caucus has accused the General Assembly’s Democratic leaders of “racial Gerrymandering,” and are asking that lawmakers, reconfigure the more heavily populated minority Senate and Representative Districts in Bear, Dover, New [...]
Posted in Action File, Chris Coons, Liberty, civil liberties on Jun 15th, 2011
S. 978 in the U. S. Senate needs immediate opposition. The bill by Klobuchar, Cornyn, and our own Coons would create another federal felony. It would criminalize embedding videos deemed copyright infringement by redefining public performance to include 10 views in 180 days. The music industry would rue the day that such legislation passes because one [...]
Posted in Religion, civil liberties, same sex marriage on Apr 27th, 2011
Sussex County Clerk of the Peace, George Parish took a stand for traditional marriage, he has not backed off. Now he must plan the next step. How will he accommodate the new rights of gay couples without losing his own right of conscience? It is the debate of the decade.
Posted in Delaware GOP, Election 2012, Social Conservatives, Stuff, civil liberties on Apr 22nd, 2011
My name is Donald Ayotte and if elected to the position of Vice Chairman of the Republican Party, I will work hard and intelligently every day to build and unify the party into a cohesive machine that will win elections for good and qualified republican candidates from the northern end of the state to the [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, civil liberties, same sex marriage on Mar 22nd, 2011
Opponents will decry this as the beginning of an assault on the very definition of marriage and family, but today belonged to the proponents of Civil Unions. To the advocates of Delaware Senate Bill 30, this bill is just another step along a long road of equality and civil rights. The bill would create a [...]
Posted in Revolutionary Reform, US History, civil liberties on Mar 14th, 2011
Recalls in American politics are a rarity. In fact, just getting an elected officials’ name on a recall ballot is as about as unlikely as the Phillies’ chances of only winning twenty games for this upcoming 2011 season. Thus, it must follow then, that if history and logic are juxtaposed, the angry partisan crowds in Wisconsin, hell-bent on [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Stuff, civil liberties on Feb 14th, 2011
MOVE, the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act requires that absentee ballots be sent out 45 days prior to general election. The law is highlighting the failures of some states to do so. One is Delaware. 12 states applied for waviers and 6 were granted them. Here is a fact sheet from the Justice Department. Enacted [...]
Posted in Republican Party, civil liberties on Feb 13th, 2011
GOP reveals hypocrisy with Patriot Act vote by Chris Slavens Both parties in the House failed to muster enough votes to extend controversial provisions of the Patriot Act on February 8, which required a two-thirds majority. Some commentators have chosen to focus on the lack of discipline within the parties; both the Obama administration and [...]
Posted in Regional Politics, civil liberties on Jan 31st, 2011
Mayor Cheye Calvo came home one day to find his dogs had been shot by Prince Georges County Maryland Swat Team. It turned out that he had gotten a package of Marijuana from Fed Ex. Some smugglers used his address. The idea seemed to be to pick it up before he had the chance to get [...]
Posted in Americanism, Change, civil liberties on Jan 11th, 2011
As a Sussex County Committeeman, I attended Monday night’s GOP meeting that started in chaos and ended in chaos. Instead of parliamentary rule, a dictatorship emerged and seemingly established itself over the cries of dissension of the the body of republicans. People attempted to move resolutions to the floor and were disallowed and no reason [...]
Posted in Americanism, civil liberties on Dec 20th, 2010
The FCC has chosen December 21, to take its first step toward regulating the inner workings of the internet This step will bypass the Congress and defy a recent court ruling. I say if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. According to a Wall Street Journal article by Robert M McDowell, the Internet has been [...]
Posted in civil liberties on Nov 26th, 2010
“Nobody likes to have their 4th Amendment violated going through a security line, but truth of the matter is, we’re gonna have to do it.” Mo McGowan Former TSA Administrator I wonder, when did we give bureaucrats the authority to amend the Constitution? Some would say abolish the Transportation Security Adminstration not the 4th Amendment. [...]
Posted in National Security, War ON TERROR, civil liberties on Nov 14th, 2010
Posted in civil liberties on Oct 20th, 2010
I hope we do not follow their lead, but Great Britain is embarking on demanding that data be stored for at least a year on every email, website visit, and phone call made in its borders. As one who opposes big brother government and favors the sovereignty of the individual, I find this disturbing. I am so [...]
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