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Congress Proposes Bill To Restore First Amendment Rights... Then Kills It

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Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,

To this day, many governments around the world maintain a tight grip on dissent.

Students in Thailand have been arrested for using a three-fingered salute they saw in the movie Hunger Games.

In Turkey, Twitter, Youtube, and other social media sites have been blocked. And in Russia the word “crisis” has been banned from use in public.

You can see the backlash of insecure governments against the free expression of their citizens everywhere.

There was a time long ago when the US was a refreshing outlier in this trend.

At the time of its founding, the Land of the Free took a bold stance in asserting that its citizens all had a number of inalienable rights.

But gradually these rights have been chipped away, particularly in this century as we’ve seen the rise of a tradeoff between liberty and security.

Today the US is rapidly joining the ranks of insecure, oppressive governments rather than moving apart from them.

Yes, someone in the United States can still technically publish an article that is critical of the government.

But you cannot have comfort in your privacy. You can have no reasonable expectations that your phone, emails, and social media accounts will not be hacked and monitored by the government that you are being critical of.

You can have no reasonable expectations that your financial accounts will not be frozen, nor that you will be spared by abusive tax authorities for starting a grassroots political opposition group.

We have seen people arrested for feeding the homeless, for collecting rainwater, and for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial.

On balance, exactly how free is this?

In the name of security, one major thing they have been cracking down on over the last few years is taking photographs and video recordings in public places.

We’re not talking about sneaking into the CIA headquarters. We’re talking about normal people taking normal pictures of public areas.

Amtrak famously invited the nation a few years ago to take pictures of its trains. Photographers obliged, and many of them were arrested or detained by police for engaging in suspicious activity.

Apparently taking a photograph is now considered suspicious activity. You can no longer take photographs of something so insipid as an airline safety briefing… or TSA checkpoint.

And this doesn’t even begin to describe the consequences of photographing police officers and federal agents engaging in public duties in public places.

It’s all forbidden… in the name of security.

(The government invades our privacy saying that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear. Ironically they do not apply the same standard to themselves.)

This past month, one Congressman finally said that enough was enough and proposed a new bill to bring back our First Amendment rights.

The bill stated that photographers taking footage in public areas should NOT be restricted by threats of confiscation or arrest as these things infringe on our rights to free speech.

When you think about it, it’s really sad that they needed to propose a new law to give Americans back their Constitutional rights.

Nevertheless, that’s what happened. And the bill was submitted.

Then they killed it.

Just two weeks after the bill was submitted, it was squashed.

So as pathetic as it was that they needed to submit this bill to begin with, it’s even worse that they killed it.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, tells you everything you need to know about the state of justice and liberty in the Land of the Free.

 

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Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:50 | 5697888 FuzzyDunlop21
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Pricks

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:01 | 5697923 Leopold B. Scotch
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Whatever happened to the Liberty Dollar guy?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:05 | 5697938 Supernova Born
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A bill to reinstate the Constitution?

Like using a death certificate to reanimate a dead guy.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:11 | 5697957 Comte de Saint ...
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In legal terms the United States is currently in a State of War, thus constitutional rights are suspended if the Sovereign deems necessary (under these extraordinary circumstances, actions carried out by the Executive branch cannot be overseen by Congress or the Judiciary). Additionally, ordinary Americans are utterly ignorant about their own legal system and most of them don’t even know the contents of the Constitution.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:13 | 5697972 linniepar
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Best option is to opt out.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:03 | 5698319 epicurious
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The best option would be to write an article with some facts in it.  Such as the name of the Congressman the HR# for the bill.  Perhaps even the wording.  It didn't get squashed by the omnipetent hand of governemnt, something else happened or maybe nothing happened.  Simon is really wasting space here.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:15 | 5697976 Bollixed
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In legal terms the United States is currently in a State of War, thus constitutional rights are suspended...

Unfortunately, the above is true.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:39 | 5698102 Squid-puppets a...
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only the second part of that sentance is true.

What nation state has declared war on the USA?  None. War : Noun a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country

If you use the pathetically sporadic acts of domestic terrorism as an excuse to claim a war is going on, then the constitution never meant anything, at any time, to start with. A president could declare a state of war between America and, say, an island of Micronesia, never send a single troop to invade it, and use that as justification to suspend the constitution indefinately

the 'state of war' claimed by Bush and Obama is a specious powergrabbing racket, the precise likes of which Jefferson foresaw and sought to prevent

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:19 | 5698203 odatruf
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I call bullshit on the whole article.

Bills in Congress don't get "squashed", they are left to languish or they fail to pass. On something like this, it would be referred to a committee and never see the light of day. So the story is nonsense on its face. 

But it gets worse. After a search on congress.gov, it is pretty clear to me that no such bill was introduced. Using as many terms as I can think of that might result in a match to what this story is suggesting, I can find nothing like this. And if it existed, I'd find it. In fact, there 19 bills submitted so far in the 114th Congress which were referred to the House Judiciary Committee and which have to do with law enforcement. These are they: https://www.congress.gov/search?pageSize=100&q={%22congress%22%3A%22114%22%2C%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22house-committee%22%3A%22Judiciary%22%2C%22chamber%22%3A%22House%22%2C%22subject%22%3A%22Crime+and+Law+Enforcement%22}

What the fuck, Simon. You are an asshole.

 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:59 | 5698304 SubjectivObject
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Legislation Bills have numbers.  Simon produced no number, or title, and places his credibility at sever risk.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:18 | 5698350 Bay of Pigs
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Simon has no credibility, that's the problem. Like others that have come and gone here over the years (Charles Biderman for instance), it's long past time for ZH and Tyler to drop this guy. 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:19 | 5698352 seek
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It was the Ansel Adams Act

The exact description from the bill is "To restore the First Amendment Rights of Photographers."

Not a full 1st amendment restoration bill, but that certainly was its intent with respect to photography in public places. HR5893, since you wanted a number.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:24 | 5698536 SubjectivObject
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Thanks for the help.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:15 | 5698212 Comte de Saint ...
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A de-facto Declaration of War:

Authorization for Use of Military Force
115 STAT. 224
PUBLIC LAW 107–40—SEPT. 18, 2001

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/pdf/PLAW-107publ40.pdf


Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:07 | 5698485 jughead
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defacto != legal.   But hey, you're an Idiocrat, I wouldn't want you to overheat your widdle brain actually learning the meaning of words and laws.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:18 | 5698222 STP
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Just think of it as, the US is at war with US!  Like in you and me...  Why else would they have purchased billions and billions of rounds?  Or 85 submachine guns for the Department Of Agriculture?  Must be those Mad Cows...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:57 | 5698404 SameAsItEverWas
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The US has been in a state of declared war ever since the AUMF enacted on Sept. 18, 2001.

The state of war was reaffirmed in all the Patriot Acts and the NDAA of 2011, among others.

This is the longest period of war in US history.  Since it's an indefinite war against vague enemies of our own making, we've reached Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.

Hunter S. Thompson understood the significance of 9/11 immediately and wrote about it for EPSN the very next day: http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:05 | 5698477 jughead
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uh, no, we are not in a state of declared war...have not been since the end of WWII. 

 

'tis Idiocrats like you regurgitating things they don't understand that perpetuate this kind of disinformation.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 03:27 | 5699190 Chief Wonder Bread
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>>Hunter S. Thompson understood the significance of 9/11 immediately and wrote about it for EPSN the very next day

 

If he understood the significance of it immediately, how come he missed the dancing Israelis?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:07 | 5698487 jughead
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incorrect...but hey, don't let that stop you.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:21 | 5698010 El Oregonian
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Your 2nd Amendment is suppose to protect all  these other Rights... DON'T LOSE that 2nd Amendment one 'cause these luciferians will only stop when they're looking down the barrel of Peace-maker...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:32 | 5698066 Bangin7GramRocks
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It's good that you feel safe, but they are certainly not scared of your peacemaker.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:44 | 5698114 joe6px
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Yes they are.  Perhaps not just his alone, but there is fear.  They are not omnipotent or they would already have their way completely.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:12 | 5698200 Bemused Observer
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In theory perhaps...but the reality of having said peacemaker aimed at your head, with a nervous itchy finger on the trigger, well, let's just say that all theory goes out the window at that point.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:22 | 5698229 STP
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They sure backed down in Nevada, didn't they?  They knew better.  Even with Daniel P. Love, the BLM Mercenary leading them.  You don't want to piss off the Citizens, because we love our Country.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:25 | 5698031 Rusty_Shackleford
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The truly sad thing is that what the mundanes don't understand, is that the war is on them.

 

"Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence. "  John Locke
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:36 | 5698081 Bagbalm
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We've always been at war with Eastasia...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:50 | 5698134 joe6px
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Did CONgress declare war?  Or is the deep state just playing at it with real lives of servicemen and civilians?  A war on a tactic is not a war at all, it is rhetoric.  Terror is not a country or a people, neither are drugs.  So both the war on terror and the war on drugs are rhetoric, and complete failures.  I propose a war on tennis backhands and overhead serves!  There!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:07 | 5698181 goneYonder
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There are no Constitutional rights. Only Natural Rights exist. The Constitution expressly forbids the government from infringing upon them. It does not grant any rights, nor could it. Since government itself is a crime and a violation of nature, it is no wonder we are now in such a fallen state.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:26 | 5698330 Chupacabra-322
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The Criminal Fraud UNIED STATES, CORP. INC. only provide Privalages. You have absolutely NO Natural God given rights.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:00 | 5698310 Chupacabra-322
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Legally, and I use that term very loosely because there are no "Laws" in name only. What was "Killed" was either an Act, Statute, Mandate or Ordinance which was to be voted on by the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. Board of Directors aka CONgress.

"We" collectively must begin starving the Beast. Peaceful Non Compliance / Non Participation into the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. System of Debt Bondage & Enslavement.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.

Non-profit Delaware Corporation
Incorporation Date: 4/19/89
File No. 2193946

The corporation is registered in the state of Delaware.

What was to be "voted on was for the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. The real First Amendment is alive & well in the Republic.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:02 | 5698471 jughead
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psst...in legal terms we are not in a State of War...that would require an actual Congressional Declaration of War.  Indeed, Congress refused to declare war specifically because it would invoke some legal ramifications. 

Your words expose you as one of them utterly ignorant ordinary Americans.  Good job.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 12:01 | 5699611 Abaco
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The people are the lawful sovereign in the US.  The Feds would prefer we forget this.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 12:01 | 5699612 Abaco
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The people are the lawful sovereign in the US.  The Feds would prefer we forget this.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:25 | 5698371 Bay of Pigs
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:01 | 5697924 kliguy38
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If you think anything is legit just look at the "leaders" Boehner, Pelosi, Reid, Lady Lindsey, McCain.........its a first class shit show

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:30 | 5698054 Bangin7GramRocks
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Hashtag JUSTKIDDING

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:50 | 5697889 Duc888
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....oh, and by all means keep voting.  Make the (s)elections legit.  LOL.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:58 | 5697912 McMolotov
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:25 | 5698029 NotApplicable
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It continues to blow my mind as to how people can go on and on about "rights" when the simplest examination reveals the entire edifice to be nothing but a cover for organized crime.

It's all about the strong holding power over the weak. That's all it's ever been, and all it will ever be.

The only rational form of government is self-government. Everything else is but a madman with a gun, engaged in a stand-off with innocent hostages' lives at stake.

"Do as I say and nobody gets hurt!" says the liar.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:44 | 5698116 Squid-puppets a...
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i disagree that that is all its ever been. As this article opines, at its inception the USA was an outlier. The govt was supposed to remain small and unintrusive, and power was supposed to remain mostly with the states and not the Feds, including the right to seceed, in the context that if effective self government was trammelled by the powerful, the weak would have that mechanism to restore balance.

im not saying that the foundations of the USA didnt have its faultlines, but an oulier it was. Dont you have faith in that at the very least?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:08 | 5698185 Jugdish787
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I think all govt's grow over time like a cancer, slowly getting into every little crack and crevice.  There is no solution but to max out the current govt, crash and burn, then start over. I will say that our current system, if followed, would actually be pretty good.  My solution would be this (which will never happen...)

1. sorry...not everyone gets to vote.  don't pay taxes, don't contribute??  sorry take a hike asshole

2. Instaed of welfare, foodstamps for nothing...how about coming and scraping the turds and seaman off the park benches?  picking up  the trash on the side of the road?  You no work...you no get money.  

3.  no pay or benefits for any god damned, stupid, mother fucking politicians.  you go, you vote, then go the fuck home.

4.  why did we ever get rid of tarring and feathering??  Stocks in teh center of town??  

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:15 | 5698215 Jugdish787
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let me add that we are this situation because people in the us are stupid and a bunch of pussies.  we hold no one accountable, vote the same losers in and the majority just doesnt give a fuck.  if these stupid politicians knew that they would have to come back to their district and face a stringing up or flogging for selling people down the river, they would think twice.  

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:50 | 5697893 SheepDog-One
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Revolution is just when people finally say 'no more' 1 by 1 and just start shooting those who show up to oppress them in the face.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:59 | 5697914 El Gringo
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Agreed, but that requires one to be a wolf and not a sheep dog.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:01 | 5697929 Jethro
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Not a wolf.  A lion.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:19 | 5698006 g speed
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or be in a position with nothing to lose-- 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:06 | 5698176 ZerOhead
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When everyone has nothing more to lose the goals of neoliberalism will have been achieved.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:59 | 5698162 ZerOhead
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The job of the sheep dog was always to protect the sheep from the wolves.

Now the sheep dog works for the wolves and dines on sheep.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:52 | 5697894 Quinvarius
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You get the rights you are willing to fight and kill for.  The Constitution was our deal to the government.  If they think it is not in effect, then that is their delusion alone.  No one let them off the hook.  They need to make sure no patriots ever get bothered with their delusions.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:55 | 5697900 Victory_Garden
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ZH~still the greatest truth forum in the world.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:57 | 5697909 nuubee
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There is no truth, there are only facts from which to assemble truth. ZH is just one place where unpleasant facts are not deliberately omitted.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 04:44 | 5699248 Victory_Garden
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Thank you for your clarification.

Treats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7y_o26Tp4E

 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:01 | 5697927 Usurious
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only if we could bring back Otto, francis, Mako and trav7777

they were the best!1

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:13 | 5697960 Romney Wordsworth
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 Setting: A large board with a long table and humongous podium. On the side of the room are many government officials robotically and sequentially next to each other. At each end of the table is a microphone with one end having seat with a State secretary. Above the secretary, is a podium with the State Chancellor Standing at top with a grip of files and his own microphone as well.

Secretary: Wordsworth, Romney, Obsolescence. (Turning to Chancellor) He waiting, Chancellor.

Chancellor: Order him in

Secretary: Wordsworth, Romney, Obsolescence.

 

The Narrator: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. (Camera pans to Narrator)This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace.(Camera switches to the convicted man) This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.

 

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:22 | 5698019 Usurious
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~exactly

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:23 | 5698024 g speed
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spooky--I like it ---+1

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:33 | 5698061 SmallerGovNow2
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Best episode of the series, "The Obsolete Man"...  coming soon to a country near you.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:13 | 5697970 Boxed Merlot
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only if we could bring back Otto, francis, Mako and trav7777...

 

At least MDB has been seen lurking around lately... 

 

I must confeess. it would be refreshing if Marla would return for an occasional visit.  Perhaps she has and I've just missed it.  Ms. Creant has sorta taken her baton it seems. (Only w/o the musical interlude)

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:18 | 5697986 Bollixed
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Bring back slewie the pie rat...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:26 | 5698033 Romney Wordsworth
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& fonz...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:30 | 5698044 Money Boo Boo
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there was a house cleaning about a year ago, unfortunately some good dudes got the punt

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:45 | 5698105 Romney Wordsworth
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So basically, it's BAAAAAAD when the government takes away your 1st amendment rights...

 

As for privately owned blogs, they can do as they wish.

 

I can't say that I wholescale reject that subtle variance of facism. [Although it kinda sucks, when, in practice, it's only done to placate, legally or otherwise, the 'squeaking' threats of a small minority of asshole wheels].

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:47 | 5698128 Squid-puppets a...
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yer , but was the housecleaning from ZH, or from da gubmint ??  ;)

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:14 | 5698206 MisterMousePotato
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Did you ever think that you might actually miss Fonz?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:23 | 5698235 Romney Wordsworth
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I miss fonz...

 

kito is still around, but I liked when fonz & kito would banter around. kito & francis 'mixed it up' on occasion, but never to my recollection was there any bad blood. It was honest debate.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:34 | 5698069 J in Vegas
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I Want robo fader back. IS he still under  an overpass in santa monica?

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 06:06 | 5699295 Squid-puppets a...
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i miss fonestar.

Not on this forum, he sucked monkeyballs. I miss him coz he's likely topped himself given bitcoins performance

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:54 | 5697906 Romney Wordsworth
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Hey Simon ~ Did you pay for one of those $43 dollar devil dogs in Davos this afternoon?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:58 | 5697908 valley chick
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And the bill # is?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:07 | 5697947 Skateboarder
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They didn't give it a number cuz they knew it was going to be tossed anyway. It's like fudging numbers while publishing a report that no one's ever going to read.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:12 | 5697967 valley chick
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Then it is bullshit. Even if it was written on a damn dinner napkin it would have to be kept for record. I'll file this article in the trash bin without seeing something of substance.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:03 | 5698175 Skateboarder
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Simon Black is taking after WSJ. "Sources said..."

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 16:59 | 5697918 Government need...
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Who proposed the bill, and who killed it?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:14 | 5697977 Peter Pan
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Who killed it ? The same people who have been killing America.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:34 | 5698073 meterman
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Yes - Who proposed it. Why is it a secret? I sometimes wonder why I bother to read alot of this ZH crap.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:37 | 5698258 odatruf
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It does not exist.  See my comment and link above.  Why this asshat just makes shit up and posts it is beyond me.  It's time for ZH to have a 3-strikes-you're-out-policy for the writers.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:54 | 5698618 Government need...
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If this is mere fabrication, at least the writer could add some realism.  Have this proposal brought up (and subsequently killed) via hotline in the cloakroom.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:02 | 5697931 Peter Pan
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The government has plenty to hide so it has plenty to fear.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:04 | 5697935 wmbz
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Surely no thinks that "we" are going back to a strong Constitutional government. Lowlife politicains have been destroying it for decades.

Stupid voters keep right on voting for fewer freedoms. I see nothing on the horizon that suggests said dimwits want anything to change.

Sad but true, they want big nanny.

There are very few of us left that want a small, very small government. The way it was layed out at the start of this country.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:05 | 5697942 Colonel Klink
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Your right exist at the end of the barrel of your gun.  Just as government uses theirs to enforce the law, constitutional or otherwise.  Same as it's always been.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:10 | 5697955 disabledvet
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How about sound money?

 

Just printing "digital dollars" doesn't require any police whatsoever in my view.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:13 | 5697968 Colonel Klink
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Quite the contrary, by printing digital dollars and not following what our Constitution states is real money.  The police/sherriffs/AG should be prosecuting the printers for high treason against the nation.  As as set forth, giving them the death penalty.  Our top cops are not upholding their oath to the Constitution.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:07 | 5697945 disabledvet
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"America is a fascist police state."

 

Not news.

 

Does eating still matter though?

 

That's the only question I ask relative to "them."

So far the answer still appears to be no actually.  "Just like every other fascist clown."

 

Oh, there's always some war out there.  No worries about that!

 

"National Security" on the other hand...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:09 | 5697952 SillySalesmanQu...
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They should'nt have put these really nice cameras in all of these fuckin phones if they don't want us takin pictures....

Why don't we just kill CONgress...problem solved.

Pitts Off

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:11 | 5697959 Mike Honcho
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More of the same.  They are doing what any governing entity does when unchecked.  It will progress and in combination with the other topics on ZH, will cause major strife in the US.  We are to blame granted, but once the everyday comfort zone is eliminated the true fight begins.  Won't be easy and the outcome is unkown because there are too many parts of our reality that have no precidence. 

Last article for me until Monday.  Cheers all, be merry.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:10 | 5697962 Thisisbullishright
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Let's see how our "rights" hold up when the next GIANT event occurs and martial law is declared in most every city!!

 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:14 | 5697974 Colonel Klink
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See my comment above.  Still applies.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:10 | 5697963 Money Boo Boo
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I propose that a herd of alpaca's are set free in the mall with go pros strapped to their heads, there's a viral you tube sensation in that idea!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:14 | 5697980 Colonel Klink
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Since it was brought up, how about reinstating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments too!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:17 | 5697989 El Gringo
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To hell with congress.  The rule of law is clearly dead and it's time for the US to be no more.  It has run it's course and failed like all other great societies have.  It's time for something new.  I'm sick and tired of liberal scum bags, jews, gun control advocates, tax lovers, nanny-staters, foreign war obsessed military worshipping retards, wetbacks, niggers, and israel firsters.  It's time to break this wretched "union" up.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:30 | 5698046 czarangelus
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I'm sick to all fuck of Christians who keep boobies off TV and keep us in rigidly proscribed sexual relationships. I'm fucking tired of drug prohibition and the moralizing ninnies who promote it. I'm sick of fag bashers and anybody who gets off on making already marginalized groups - and I mean marginalized with genuine aggressive violence - feel worse about themselves and have merciless lives. I'm sick to death of hearing about gay marriage as if it was anybody's business but the people who want to get married. I'm sick of this abortion crap - if you can't tell the difference between a blastocyst and an infant, you are too fucking stupid to be making medical decisions for other people. Evolution is real and if you don't teach it to your kids you're intellectually hobbling them from the get go. Climate change is real, the climate of this planet has never been static, and while the causes are debatable the consequences are something we're going to have to acknowledge and deal with.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:06 | 5698183 Bemused Observer
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I gave you an upvote czar. I don't know why someone downed you...while your post contains some things many feel uncomfortable about, I happen to think you are right.
These things are facts, they exist, whether they make us feel uncomfortable or not. If we can't even discuss these things, what are we even doing trying to legislate them?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:19 | 5698355 disgruntled hou...
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Just to open a can of worms- did you know that one of the two scientists that discovered the double helix of our genes said that the likelihood of human beings evolving from the bacteria that began all life on earth was in fact suspect. He said someting to the effect that it would be more likely for a tornado to pass over a junk yard and assemble a fighter jet then for the genetic changes necessary to occur to move from bacteria to human being. Anyhow I am not a Christain or affiliated with any dogma- just thought that was interesting. I believe the scientist thought that there was some jump start event or intervention that led to human beings. FYI only- not trying to rain on anyone's parade.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:27 | 5698375 czarangelus
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It seems obvious to me that the universe was neither designed nor did it appear out of nothing as the result of pure chance. Alan Watts had the idea that in the beginning there was God sitting up there in absolutely perfect and unchanging completion. And one day, God said, "Show me a surprise."

The dissipation of energy through the cosmos seems to be growing into infinite complexity, flowing through bodies both animate and inanimate in a growing series of patterns and whorls. God is the great artist who put Its own breath into the universe but without a specific goal in mind or particular plan. That's such a key philosophical point which has been entirely lost in suffocating and frankly embarassing Judeo-Christian dogma. They have a god who is some kind of autistic tinkerer, who 6,427 years, 4 months, and 15 days in the past sat around thinking up every single one of the 350,000 species of beetle. This is too childish for even a child to believe. But a God that breathed out and allowed that breath to shape and take form until it resembled the prime parent - that, I think, is a much more credible and much more uplifting story.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:57 | 5698644 disgruntled hou...
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Czar- I like it. Thanks for the food for thought.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:10 | 5698674 SubjectivObject
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Scientists thinka all kina crazy schitt.
Some of it they can prove.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 12:11 | 5699616 Abaco
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You are truly retarded if you can't find tits on television.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:20 | 5698002 reader2010
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They frame the rights in the languge of market, aka choice (for the raped) and freedom (for rapists), something like whether you want to be fucked in the ass or in the mouth.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:37 | 5698089 g speed
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-- exellent observation about the word "choice" -- has a big footprint in the abortion industry as well.  Also was a big deal in the "Adam and Eve" Genisis story were they had a "choice"-- 

It's become the "it's ok" word for people who do wrong. because they choose to and "choice" is good ---so they're off the moral hook. 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:10 | 5698678 SubjectivObject
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I call it corporape governance.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:26 | 5698036 YHC-FTSE
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The saddest thing is the fact that there was a need to restore the first amendment rights in the first place. If it needed restoring, then it was removed and by whom? I was under the mistaken impression that everyone swore to uphold the constitution in the US.

Every kid knows that a nation without a working Bill of Rights is a tinpot banana republic under the heel of tyrants. The future appears to be here already and the enslavement is complete.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 00:30 | 5699060 TeethVillage88s
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The Oath of the United States: When taking Office, the Citizen will take an Oath to Defend the US Constitution.

Why was it suppressed without an Amendment? Who Illegally Degraded the US State of Justice necessary for & Prerequisite for a Democracy??

- US President G.W. Bush in response to 911 & Ricin Attacks
- US Congress, as Puppets of Wealth Global Interest Groups

Legislation:

- Patriot Act
- NDAA, Annual Defense Authorization Acts
- Probably other Legislation & Presidential Signing Statements or Executives Actions including National Security Acts & Anti-Whistleblower/Anti-Democracy Acts

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:28 | 5698042 Joe A
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Ah, that damned piece of paper. Doesn't the US constutution oblige US citizens to stand up against an oppressive government? What ya'll waiting for?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:37 | 5698092 CharlieMike
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Damn good question.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:11 | 5698201 Joe A
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What you at least can do is not vote for the same old parties again. People should take initiatives and start new political movements. It will not be easy cause the system will try to protect itself and crush dissent but what it takes is to create critical mass. Leaders and champions are absolutely necessary as well as common sense to ignore the freaks.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:42 | 5698255 yellowsub
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At this point, it's going to be after the Superbowl because the commercials are so hilarious to miss.

Just kidding, we'll be waiting forever.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:31 | 5698059 WTFUD
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FUCK OUR RIGHTS!

Signed
Sarky CUNT

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:31 | 5698062 HedgeHammer
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There was a time long ago when the US was a refreshing outlier in this trend. At the time of its founding, the Land of the Free took a bold stance in asserting that its citizens all had a number of inalienable rights.

 

It is this crap that pisses me off to no end! The word is UNALIENABLE RIGHTS! Look up the GD difference between the two. Unalienable rights are rights granted to you by your Creator not the GOV. and can never be taken away or given away. Inalienable rights are rights granted to you by your Gov. and can be taken away or given away with or without your consent.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:45 | 5698123 g speed
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Thanks for stating the obvious and the correction, which was sorely needed.  Words have meaning which is why we have gov't schools. The gov't must not have a group of subjects that can communicate---very bad for the controllers

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:59 | 5698303 HedgeHammer
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Damn Straight!  I would suggest that everyone has within their personal library a first and second edition of the Blacks Law Dictionary. I may be hoping too much for a personal library. Nevertheless if people actually understood LANGUAGE and the MEANING of words we use today especially within the legal (farcical) system of today a revolution would begin before the night has passed.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:33 | 5698065 dot_bust
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If Americans abolish the banks, the U.S. Constitution will be immediately restored.

All oppression begins with bankers.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:49 | 5698130 Clesthenes
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“All oppression begins with bankers.”

Well, you’re close; you have to be more specific than just “bankers.”

Now, if you mean Judeo-Bolshevik bankers, you’re right on.  They have been perpetrating mass genocides, general plunders continuously for at least 5,000 years.  And, during that time, they have also developed the instrument of false flag to a very refined art form.

Here is an examination (derived from pages of The Los Angeles Times) of one of their more recent (Russian slaughter) operations; complete with mass genocide, general plunder, and mass exodus.  You’ll also need a copy of the Old Testament by your side; otherwise you may not believe what you read.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:50 | 5698136 Bangalore Torpedo
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Judeo-Bolshevik bankers...indeed, Russia has always been known for its banking prowess.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:54 | 5698290 falak pema
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Thats like saying Islamo-Crusader bankers. 

You have to be a crazy two nutted man whose left nut hates its right nut.

Unless you are a nut Nazi, who declaims that  walnuts are pagan peanuts disguised are false walnutties, its an impossible proposition.

Choose you nuts but never mix em 'cos that is the ultimate crime in a nut cracker's symphony.

Bankers can never stop cracking other people's nuts, its a professional disease based on a freudian lack of  manhood.

When you see Jamie hit a tennis ball and Corzine rehypothec time and again, you know why Blythe masters loved cavorting with them. It fulfilled her secret urge to be a nut cracker's moll.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:51 | 5698144 Bangalore Torpedo
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Ignore the idjit below.  Add to your assertion a "return to sound money" (and fewer retarded conspiracy theories) and you are spot on.  Oh, I added the "retarded conspiracy theories" to agitate the looney truthers who post here.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:35 | 5698075 Son of Captain Nemo
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Congress Proposes Bill To Restore First Amendment Rights... Then Kills It

Just like the 9/11 Commission Report and the efforts of NYCCAN first in 2009 and then in 2014!...

Because you can't have a commitment to true peace without a security state after a "New Pearl Harbor" happens! All that wasted money should you STOP?!!!

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste"...

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:39 | 5698095 Clesthenes
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“Just two weeks after the bill was submitted, it was squashed.”

We should not be surprised.  After all, when the FBI/Mossad staged events of 9/11, we were told the “Arabs (terrorists) hate us because of our freedoms.”  And how did Congress respond?  It took our rights away with NDD, Patriot Act, creation of DHS et cetera.

What, then, are we to conclude… that Congress has been captured by terrorists?

So, when governments become destructive of our rights, what should we do?  Should we consult our Declaration of Independence.  There we find (approx.) we have a right, nay, a duty, to abolish or reform such governments.

What are we waiting for, gentlemen?  Ah, yes, I know: it won’t be easy, nor quick. But we still have to start somewhere.  I suggest that we establish First-Amendment assemblies.  The American Revolution was powered by a large network of such assemblies: town meeting, county meetings, state meetings and, finally, Continental Congresses.

Again, what are we waiting for?

After all, when the system disintegrates, how else are we to protect ourselves from hordes of hungry homeless and DHS-sponsored death squads.  If we are to survive, we have to combine with others of like minds for mutual protection, among other ends, such as making criminal and useless classes accountable for what they have done.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:55 | 5698127 Bangalore Torpedo
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You lost me here:

"...when the FBI/Mossad staged events of 9/11..."

Get this straight: Muzzies slammed into the WTC towers as part of their Jihad...period.

Did the US not act on their intel...probably as the government burueas are comprised of the "left and right boob divisions."  You give them WAY too much credit.  Work with these idiots for a while and you'll get it.

Did Booooosh and Barry in his legacy as "Bush III"take advantage of this and create a police state (yes they did!)...that also consists of boobs of the caliber that can't even turn a single Nevada rancher into Waco Part 2 (not that I would have wanted to see that.)

All it will take for the Dept. of Homeland boobery commission to shit its drawers is for a handful of their agents to never make it home.  The day that happens is the day that liberty will be restored.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:58 | 5698166 Clesthenes
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“Muzzies… part of their Jihad…”

I’ve had experience with “Muzzies”; and know better.  They are seriously challenged to organize a tea party.  And you think they could have organized 9/11?  No, every thing attributed to them had to be organized, supplied, and trained by FBI, CIA or Mossad.  Pilots for 9/11 Truth is a very solid source for the topic.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:53 | 5698293 Bangalore Torpedo
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"And you think they could have organized 9/11?"

Yes.  Do I think our retard ridden bureaucracy could do that...hell no.  They could never plan it, but they sure could ignore or misiterpret a plot to pull that off.  And just remember this: Shit is "solid" as well.  Truther opinion is ionion and nothing more.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 20:04 | 5698475 Clesthenes
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“Do I think our retard ridden bureaucracy could do that… hell no.”

Wow! Do you have me confused: “retard-ridden bureaucracy do that” and “hell no.”

I began watching TV a few hours after the first plane struck.  And guess what I saw?  Within hours of the first strike, the FBI had published photos of all 19 “hijackers”.  So, how could a retard bureaucracy assemble such photos so quickly?  I would say they were so retarded they had such photos ready to go probably days before the first strike.  Does this strike you as guilty demeanor, fore-knowledge, perhaps?

Get back to your Mossad handlers and ask how you should respond to this.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:04 | 5698173 Son of Captain Nemo
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Get this straight: Muzzies slammed into the WTC towers as part of their Jihad...period.

Is that you Paull?... Richard?...(I like the sketch) makes you look almost "invisible"!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:03 | 5698321 The Joker
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Looks like the dog ate somebody's homework.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 00:00 | 5699018 TeethVillage88s
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Seems American Oligarchs & Businessmen entered into agreements or contracts with Fascists, Nazis, in the 1930s.

Then they planned for how they would be absolved or given immunity.

So maybe Arabs, Zionist, Fascists, Nazis... all hate American Freedom, and the US Constitution(In part).

- Communist Elites
- European Royals, Elites
- US Oligarchs, Big Business Interests, & their Descendents
- US Political Families & Dynastys and their Descendents
- US Tools, Political Tools, Corporate Wonks, Banking Wonks, Government Wonks
- Banking Wonks, Financial Engineers, Wall Street Wonks, Real Estate Wonks, Insurance Wonks, Mainstream Media Wonks

Think about it. Fixed Markets. Fixed Politics. Fixed Influence. Systemic Propaganda. False Government Statistics. Control over the .gov Data being gathered or not gathered. Disabled Feedback Loop from Citizens since Information is false.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:41 | 5698107 SameAsItEverWas
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Last September I was formally stopped and questioned by police for "taking pictures of females" on a college campus.  When I told them my pictures were of the skateboarders they tried to get me to hand them my camera so they could look at the digital pictures.  One of them was very nasty and said they could get a search warrant and if I was lying to them it'd be a felony.  They treated me like the classic dirty old man looking up the skirts of coeds.

I think it was probably a man-hating lesbian who was offended that I was only taking pictures of pretty girls who looked young and sweet.  If that's a crime, I'm guilty as charged, but it's not a crime.  Maybe a motivation for the call was my big hunk of glass lens, the impressive Nikon AF VR f2.8 70-200mm which was safely packed and hidden in my camera bag just before they arrived so it could have been a film camera for all they knew.  Six cops in two cars responded with flashing lights and them driving and parking cop cars on the plaza in front of Zimmerman Library.  When I tried the "I'll be on my way" act they made it very clear that I was not free to go so they very well could have done a Terry weapons frisk but since the camera bag was closed they had no cause to make me open it because the call said i'd been taking pictures, not waving a weapon.  

They threatened me with criminal trespass arrest if they saw me again on the campus.  I knew it was just a empty threat but I sure as hell am not bringing that camera on campus ever again.   They didn't do anything illegal.  But they wouldn't have found any contraband even if they did.

Right now I'm sitting in the UNM SUB near the piano where they have ethernet plugs in the walls.  My CF-52 has a big sticker saying "9/11 Was an Inside Job" and i've never ever seen anyone else on campus making a display of that historical assertion.  Sometimes people get up in an angry huff when they see it and that happened just now from a student.  But yesterday i was here in same place and a student told me that I was right and that 9/11 was an inside job.  I'm amazed at how i seem to be the only person willing to make that display. 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:48 | 5698131 Bangalore Torpedo
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"display of that historical assertion"

 

So "history" is now Alex Jones and Paul Craig Roberts...are you effing kidding me?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:37 | 5698259 Manipuflation
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A camera is a weapon if you want it to be.  I have a Nikon D60 DSLR with a couple of lenses.  I know that they are expensive and do fantastic shots but I have never thought of taking shots at a college campus of girls.  I have a daughter who is about to enter that age and I find what you did to be a bit creepy.  You should have asked the girls if they wanted to be photographed first and if they said yes then you would be in the clear.  My subject matter is nature and I even have one on Banzai's site but that was of the sunrise and not some college chick's ass.  Look for unique shots where the subject matter can never be reproduced because is it so ephemeral.  We have plenty of shots of women online already.  Learn your camera.       

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 17:52 | 5698146 objectivist
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It would make the article much better if the author had included the number of the bill before Congress, or even better a link to the text.

 

Sadly, all we have here is a sort of generalized complaint about some bill at some time, but nothing specific. 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:01 | 5698167 Eahudimac
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I have, in spirit, discarded my citizenship in the United States. According to the laws of the US, I am a citizen, but I do not consciencely live by their laws. Yes, I realize I am forced to pay taxes and therefore I am a slave to the system in that aspect. I'm all for not paying them, but I am not about to fight that battle on my own. If 10 million out of 320 million, just 3.2% of us would stop paying, we could end this shit. They can take my money but they will never have my allegience or faith.  Until more people wake up to what is going on and take action to end this insanity, I feel no need to emotionally attach myself to the dirt beneath my feet. America is the playground of the zionists and the sheep are on board for the ride down into oblivion. I want no part of it anymore.  

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:57 | 5698300 Bangalore Torpedo
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Then stop paying your taxes big man!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:13 | 5698340 Armed Resistance
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You're a pussy.  Either take a stand or STFU about it and continue with the daily distractions provided for you!  Let me ask you this- can you please provide the law that says you have to file income taxes?  And don't give me the 16th amendment bullshit.  I mean a real law on the books.  You can't because there isn't one.  Pull up a 1040 form and see for your self.  

I have already joined the club, so I guess you only have 9,999,999 people to go before you sack up.

You are a prisoner of your own mind.  Wake up and take control of your life.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 23:04 | 5698901 Eahudimac
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Go ahead on your own and martyr youself. No ones gives a shit. They should, but they don't.I know there is no law that says you must pay taxes. When the IRS comes knocking at your door asking where the fucking money is, after you get done shitting your pants and turn your bank accounts over or else go to jail, ask your neighbors and friends why they didn't come to your aid. Until they all hit bottom and decide death is preferable to life, you are a one man army, captain.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:11 | 5698204 Manipuflation
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Simon Black is a douchebag.  Crises has been banned in Russia?  Bullshit.  Some tin pot mayor said it was banned but what is the penalty?  It is always handy to have Russian woman around and she says that Kaluga is just an outside suburb of Moscow that processes vegetables.  No one cares what that idiot mayor says.  He is no one.  For Simon Black who claims to have traveled the world and has numerous international bank accounts I think it is very disingenous to lump on local politcos into to the whole of Russia.  Why do you care Simon? 

Simon, you don't know anything about Russia do you?  I am not saying that you are wrong in what you portend to say but you are talking out of your asshole and that makes us all look bad on ZH.  We all do that from time to time but you consistently do it Simon.  Facts please.  Hyperbole is OK in moderation.  If you really want me to take you seriously then get your shit straight.

I will get my shit straight right now Simon Black:  You are a fucking piece of shit lier.          

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:17 | 5698218 odatruf
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Amen. The basic facts are so utterly wrong that it makes you wonder what his play really is.

ZH needs better screening. A columnist is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.

You Simon, are an asshole.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:55 | 5698294 Manipuflation
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I agree.  This Simon Black guy is nonsense.  Othere ZH'ers have complained about Simon Black in the past but I stood silent.  The guy is always supposedly flying or floating around the world but it is not true.  He supposedly has bank accounts everywhere and has been to every country in the world.  Bullshit, he lives in his mother's basement with an internet connection and makes shit up.

What I don't like is that what that Simon Black says discredits us as well. 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:18 | 5698223 falak pema
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This is good news for tea drinking stalwarts in Florida.

The Koch show comes to town :

http://uk.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-2016-meeting-in-florida-2015-1

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:34 | 5698727 SubjectivObject
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Tea tossing stalwarts

Hopefully they'll toss the Kochs

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 18:28 | 5698247 Shathawk
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Heres the bill, for those interested

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5893/text

H.R.5893 - Ansel Adams Act
113th Congress (2013-2014)

Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36] (Introduced 01/02/2015)

Committees: House - Agriculture; Judiciary; Natural Resources; Oversight and Government Reform

Latest Action: 01/02/2015 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 23:08 | 5698914 TeethVillage88s
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No that is not IT. First Amendment for Photographers is significant? Maybe I need to re-read the article above.

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Here is another one that is not IT:

H.J.Res.23 — 114th Congress (2015-2016)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities...

Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2] (Introduced 01/21/2015)
Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]* 01/21/2015
Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P. III [D-MA-4]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20]* 01/21/2015
Rep. Grijalva, Raul M. [D-AZ-3]* 01/21/2015

Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: 01/21/2015 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Sat, 01/24/2015 - 15:18 | 5700025 odatruf
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It does seem to me that this is the bill Simon is talking about, but what it means is that he is even more ignorant than imagined or he intentionally wrote this piece to mislead.

This bill was introduced on Jan 2nd. That was the last day of the 113th Congress. The next day, Jan 3rd, was the first day of the 114th Congress. All bills that were not enacted, that means signed into law, simply expire at the end of the Congress in which they were introduced.

So far from this bill being squashed, it like most other of the 5,000 bills that were introduced during the two year period, it simply expired and will almost certainly be reintroduced in the coming days or weeks. Nothing nefarious occurred here.

Check your facts, asshole. You do all of us a disservice with your sloppy diarrhea mouth. Douchebag.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:07 | 5698333 monad
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Given their track record this is the best possible outcome.

They'll be back.

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:37 | 5698396 WTFUD
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This SEPTIC pile of shite that is CONgress. These dirty fuckers will HANG by the neck until dead. This septic isle that is UK with the rotten stench of MP's seeping into parliament square will hang. TONY FUCKING BLAIR you filthy BASTARD will pay for selling out to VICHEY DC for 6 silver pieces, no sorry £60 million. 

Got that off my chest so who's getting evicted from Big Brother tonight?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 19:54 | 5698440 Clowns on Acid
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Just add sum ($1 T annual Federal deficit + $3T money printing QE + a 15 year massive illegal immigration program) and you will get all kinds of crazy thins happening. Like everyone treated like a possible "terrorist" for taking pictures.

Now I just wonder who would be behind the 3 above variables.... hmmmmm... 

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:16 | 5698688 kchrisc
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Thing is, no law need be past, as the Constitution is still the "Law of the Land," and therefor all they need do is adhere to the Constitution as they promised to do in their oaths.

Article 3, Section 3, treason, is also still the "Law of the Land."

The banksters need to repay us.

 

And the guillotines say, "That this too shall be made to pass away."

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:32 | 5698722 honestann
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It really is rather hilarious.  Seriously.  That human beings even bother to go through such charades.  You all know I'm clear that government doesn't exist, authority doesn't exist and so forth.  But simply to point out how far gone humans are... just to give the rest of humanity who actually believe that entirely fictitious non-entities and delusions are real, just consider what you all say (including almost all authors in ZH).

They say, the constitution exists, that it is (and sets out) the fundamental nature and basis of all these laws you talk about endlessly.  And quite clearly, this most fundamental of documents says the constitution (including amendments) cannot be eliminated or changed without new constitutional amendments being passed (by specific actions set out).

And yet... the predators don't do that.

But almost all of you, who claim all that nonsense is real, claim this and that and the other are "changed" when these human predators simply assert so.  They don't pass new constitutional amendments, they just grunt or push a button, take actions that they and you fully know mean absolutely nothing according to the documents and rules you both claim are real (and cherish).

Can you understand how funny this is to those of us who have trained our brains to always be on the lookout for inconsistencies, much less blatant, outright contradictions like these?  Just hilarious.  And sick.  Very, very sick.

What a game you believers pretend to believe.

!!!!!  WOW  !!!!!

PS:  To the majority (I hope) who frequent ZH, I hope this doesn't include you.  But suspiciously, it does seem to include most authors who publish in ZH, so... I'm not sure what to think.  Other than humans are finished.  Think I should get a trademark on that phrase?  You do?  Oh, then you must have forgotten, I realize government is fiction, and so all their paper pretends are also.  Too bad for me (NOT)... cuz I've invented a lot of catchy sayings over the years, and haven't received a penny or even recognition.  Oh well, glad I don't care!  Hi, ho, platinum, and away!

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 21:40 | 5698736 SubjectivObject
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If you choose, I will appreciate you repeating yourself in different contexts.

Thanks

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