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John McCain's MANY Questionable Ties (convicted felons, bigots, lobbyists and...
McCain needs to fully explain his questionable ties to:
Jim Hensley, Convicted Felon; G. Gordon Liddy, Convicted Felon; Charles Keating, Convicted Felon;
Raffaello Follieri, Convicted Felon; Rick Renzi, Under Indictment; Rick Davis, Freddie Mac Lobbyist;
Charles Black, Lobbyist for Dictators; Richard Quinn, White Supremist; Pastor John Hagee, Bigot;
Pastor Rod Parsley, Bigot; Todd Palin, Member of Secessionist Group;
Andrew McCain, Resigned Manager Failed Savings and Loan, etc. McCain needs to fully explain his questionable ties to: ... more -
Lifting ban on ex-felon votes
This could change the outcome of this years election in a BIG WAY!
"The denial of voting rights to thousands of blacks decades after the end of slavery and legal segregation is a blot on the democratic process. That denial has cost the Democrats thousands of votes in state and national elections."
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"An impassioned Virginia governor Tim Kane, at an election rally in June, loudly pledged that he would do everything he could -- as quick as he could -- to scrap Virginia’s ban on ex-felons voting.
While this was great news for Democrats, Republicans quickly screamed foul. Virginia and Kentucky are the only two remaining states that permanently bar ex-felons from voting. Republicans branded Kane’s call to scrap the ban a crass, naked political ploy to pump up the Democrats vote total in the November election in an effort to tip the state for the first time in decades to a Democratic presidential contender.
It’s tough to argue with their claim. Despite Kane and the Democrat’s lofty and pious talk about restoring civil rights for ex-felons who are still treated as political pariahs, the ban on their voting has been in place for decades. And during that time there has been no sustained move by Kane and other legislators to scrap the ban. That is until now. Lifting the ban will clearly boost the Democrats in the fall.
Oddly, the same argument was made when Florida Republican governor Charlie Crist pushed to end the ex-felon vote ban in Florida in 2007. " This could change the outcome of this years election in a BIG WAY! ... more -
Judge's ruling in FISA lawsuit suggests Bush is a felon
Amid all the recent controversy over the presumptive presidential nominees' stances on the congressional bill regarding FISA regulations, the media appears to have forgotten the central issue, of the actual lawsuit itself, and possible consequences for the defendant, George W. Bush.
Late last week, a federal judge ruled against the legality of Bush's secret wiretapping campaign, rejecting certain aspects of his lawyers' argument that "the president has exclusive authority over matters of national security and may disregard laws like FISA that impose checks on presidential power." If successful, the lawsuit would hold Bush personally accountable for violating these laws, constituting a series of felonies.
"On July 3, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker… ruled, effectively, that President George W. Bush is a felon."
Much of the story is still shrouded in secrecy, but due to the inventiveness of the plaintiff's legal team, who managed to argue against arguments they couldn't see, using documents they could only construct in secret (and shred immediately), flirting with treason simply by remembering certain aspects of the case, some of the proceedings are finally bubbling up from the gutter of 'national security' into the public eye.
Amazingly, the defendant's legal team seems to have made several key blunders, effectively invalidating some of the national security laws hampering other such lawsuits from establishing proof and cause. "Of the four dozen lawsuits challenging various aspects of Bush's warrantless electronic surveillance program, the Al-Haramain case is unique because… we can show they were victims of the unlawful conduct for which they are suing. Nobody else has been able to produce such proof. Our proof is a top-secret classified document, which the government accidentally gave to Al-Haramain's lawyers in August of 2004."
In the protracted, seven year process of constructing a legal defense, "We [the plaintiffs' lawyers] went forward, drafting our secret appellate brief in a DOJ office, on a DOJ computer, under the watch of a DOJ security officer -- that is, under the auspices and control of our adversary in the legal case. We could print out drafts but couldn't take them from the room; instead, we were to leave the drafts on the table to be shredded by Hogarty [the government's defense lawyer] later… We would not be allowed to keep a copy of what we had written; the brief in Hogarty's safe was 'our' copy.
Hogarty explained that anything we wrote down that contained classified information, then or later, would instantly become 'derivatively classified' and thus unlawful for us to possess. I wondered whether this meant that the portion of my brain that remembers the Document is also 'derivatively classified,' making its presence in my skull unlawful."
This is but one moment in a baffling, twisted tale of modern constitutional law colliding with Congressional regulation and post-9/11 Bush administration fear tactics. Follow the jump to read the lawyer's actual first-person account, Involving impossibly Byzantine legal semantics, a 'who's on first' style courtroom scene, a banana peel which may (or may not) have been shredded for its implication in state secrets, and a pervasive, Orwellian level of privelaged secrecy. It is an intricate network of checks and balances, almost beyond belief.
Although this ruling will not end the case,
"Judge Walker's decision last week was a major victory for us. Walker concluded that FISA does indeed preempt the state secrets privilege. More broadly, he addressed the key issue raised by our lawsuit -- the validity of the 'unitary executive' theory -- and said what we've been long awaiting: that the president does not have unbridled power to disregard federal statutory law in the name of national security."
With this ruling, handed down on the day before Independence Day, the federal judge's decision suggests that freedom may still reign in America. Amid all the recent controversy over the presumptive presidential nominees' stances on the congressional bill regarding FISA regu... more -
Photos of 6-year-old holding handgun gets felon arrested
"Investigators said 30-year-old Toby Allen took the disturbing photos on a cell phone. They finally tracked him down at a house in Palm Bay on Tucson Street, where they arrested Allen and one of his roommates, 26-year-old Paul Rosaci.
Her face is blocked out to protect her identity, but police said it's a 6-year-old girl in the flower print shirt holding a handgun that seems disturbingly large for her small hands. In a second picture, she's pointing the same gun right at the camera with her finger on the trigger.
"It's alarming to us that we had such a young child brandishing a handgun," said Det. Steve Hill, Palm Bay Police Department.
Investigators with the Palm Bay Police Department and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said Allen took the photos, including two more of himself holding an SKS assault rifle. Detectives said the pictures came from a cell phone stolen from the owner of a local landscaping company where Allen recently worked.
The owner of the company was able to recover some of his stolen property, including the phone and contacted officers when he discovered the photos. By examining the background in the photos, police determined they were taken at the home on Tucson Street where officers arrested Allen Friday.
A man who still lives there talked to Eyewitness News about the photos Friday.
"I thought they were outrageous. I don't know why he did it," the unidentified man said. "I asked him what the hell he was thinking."
Police said the photos aren't enough to charge Allen with child endangerment, but they said the girl is safe and Allen, who has a long criminal history, is charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon.
"He indicated he thought it looked funny. He thought it looked cool," said Randy Holliday, Brevard county Sheriff's Office.
Police said they are not identifying the girl in the pictures or her relationship to Allen." "Investigators said 30-year-old Toby Allen took the disturbing photos on a cell phone. They finally tracked him down at a house i... more -
Increase in wavers...felons in the armed forces?
Is it necessary for the armed forces to give wavers for people to join who are "felons"? hmm..
"the Army and the Marine Corps recruited significantly more felons into their ranks in 2007 than in 2006, including people convicted of armed robbery, arson and burglary...one in three young men in the general population meet the physical, mental, educational and other eligibility requirements to enlist in the armed forces...Over all, the numbers represent less than 1 percent of the 115,000 new enlistments last year in the active-duty Army and Marine Corps...With the Iraq war being as controversial as it is and absent any higher level call to service, it’s a very difficult challenge to all the services, particularly the Army" Is it necessary for the armed forces to give wavers for people to join who are "felons"? hmm.. ... more -
im a felon kill me
well over the last month i have been looking for a place to live.
it seams that since I'm a felon i cant live in a secure home.
i made a mistake when i was 23 and now forced to,..one not have a place to live,.. two not have a decent job. and third, have no say in what i think or feal about these issues.
in my other opinion is that if I'm not allowed to live or work in fairness and have a normal life
i guess i don't need to pay taxes ether.
i guess i should just live in jail and have tax payers pay for me to live
that seams fair !!!!
frustrated ass a felon in hell well close enough in america well over the last month i have been looking for a place to live. it seams that since I'm a felon i cant live in a secure home. ... more -
Barred From Voting
In many states, being convicted of a felony means you can't vote.
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