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Ron Paul's "The Revolution: A Manifesto": #1 on Amazon & will debut at #7 on NYT Bestseller List!

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Robert Steele CIA: High-Ranking Official Speaks Out

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Josh Howard - NBA players "do smoke marijuana"

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UK photographer chased down and detained for taking pix at fun fair

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Russian crackdown on religious freedom

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Earth Day challenge! Pledge now!

I just took the Earth Day Challenge and scored 306 under the 340 world average and... more

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The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life

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Cubans line up to buy mobile phones

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Lakota Indians Break Away From the USA

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Your Internet Provider Is Watching You

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Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

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US military frees innocent man after 2 years, thought he was a terrorist

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Time For A Revolution? Ask The Founding Fathers

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Martial Law Act of 2006 could eliminate 'Peace Marches' in the future

The Martial Law Act of 2006
by James Bovard, Posted April 9, 2008

Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” It also empowers him to effectively declare martial law in response to what he or other federal officials label a shortfall of “public order” — whatever that means.

It took only a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to raze one of the most important limits on federal power. Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president’s ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened those restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the United States without the express permission of Congress. (This act was passed after the depredations of the U.S. military throughout the Southern states during Reconstruction.)

But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.

The Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus Act aim to deter dictatorship while permitting a narrow window for the president to temporarily use the military at home. But the 2006 reforms basically threw any concern about dictatorial abuses out the window.

Section 1076 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2006 changed the name of the key provision in the statute book from “Insurrection Act” to “Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act.” The Insurrection Act of 1807 stated that the president could deploy troops within the United States only “to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” The new law expands the list of pretexts to include “natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition” — and such a “condition” is not defined or limited.

One might think that given the experience with the USA PATRIOT Act and many other abuses of power, Congress would be leery about giving this president his biggest blank check yet to suspend the Constitution. But that would be naive.
The Martial Law Act of 2006 by James Bovard, Posted April 9, 2008 Martial law is... more

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Birds bomb F-22s

Free-falling clams dropped by in-flight birds are regular air threats to the F-22 as... more

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The long run to freedom

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What Is Net Neutrality?

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Save The Internet!

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Martin Luther King: A Remembrance

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UK charity demands Freedom of Movement for all

The out spoken not for profit WORLDwrite which makes Global Equality non- negotiable is joining magasine Spiked to promote a new campaign to Open the borders and is calling on Current viewers to support this timely quest. As the British government launches its draconian 'points system' to limit immigration and releases reports which question the economic benefit of letting people into the UK, WORLDwrite is releasing a new short film entiled The More the Merrior which champions unfetterred Freedom of Movement for all.

This new short film, interwoven with compelling archive, provides a timely case for unfettered freedom of movement for all across the globe. Too many people? Too many immigrants? For The More the Merrier the answer is a deafening no.

Evocative sea shanty songs take us to St Katharine Docks on the Thames and set the scene. This was a landing and departure point for immigrants settling in the UK and emigrants heading off to the New World. Immigration and emigration represent striving for a better world, yet from the 1905 aliens act onwards the UK began to shut its’ borders. The film suggests that while attitudes to immigration have been de-racialised there has been more closure than ever before and situates today’s anti immigrant sentiment within a culture of limits.

The film incorporates inspiring arguments from the Battle of Ideas immigration debate and features Bruno Waterfield Brussels correspondent for The Daily telegraph who argues “anti immigration sentiments represent a closure of the historical imagination” and quoting American writer P J O’Rourke he points that if the whole of the worlds’ population moved to one place they would cover a space the size of former Yugoslavia at the same density as Manhatten and he says “Manhatten is a pretty good place to live.” Philippe Legrain author of Immigrants Your Country Needs Them explains internal migration outstrips migration overseas today and this has “not for example caused China to collapse.” Legrain ridicules the ‘points system’ and argues immigration controls today represent a form of global apartheid. Illustrating these points Sadhavi Sharma a young Indian student obliged to go home, explains why she wants to stay and has more friends here than in Bombay.

WORLDwrite Director Ceri Dingle explains:
“This is a positive pro immigration film, not a tragic story, not an exceptional case but a fresh appraisal of the debate with a much needed historical perspective. Cutting through the depressing low expectations we have for what is possible today, the title of the film says it all.”

The More the Merrier will be launched along with a further short documentary Cash Back (available on Current ) highlighting the role of remittances (monies sent by migrants and diasporas back to countries of origin) at the new Vibe Lounge, Brick lane, London E1 on Sunday 20th April at 6pm. Speakers will include Philippe Legrain, (Author Immigrants their country needs you) Claire Fox (Director Institute of Ideas) and a representative of Open the Borders – a spiked-online campaign.

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