Hopefully President Obama will instruct the federal Justice Department to accept this ruling and STAND DOWN!
Dang good news on the American civil liberties front, as HuffPo announces that a NY Federal District Court Judge has ruled to strike down the "indefinite detention" provision of the federal National Defense Authorization Act of 2012!
"Today is a day to celebrate," one of the plaintiffs, Tangerine Bolen, said in a statement after the ruling. "After eleven years of witnessing a radical departure from democracy and fundamental civil liberties and towards increased authoritarianism -- all under the guise of the war on terror -- we have a ray of hope and reason to keep the faith."
Next stop... the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals?
Hopefully President Obama will instruct the federal Justice Department to accept this pro-individual liberty ruling and simply STAND DOWN!
Showing posts with label American Fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Fascism. Show all posts
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Salt Lake Tribune: After Protest, Congress Puts Off Movie Piracy Bill
A true "man bites dog story," if ever there ever was one
In response to last Thursday's WCF article, wherein we put the arm on our readers to sign the online petition urging congress to "deep-six" the pending SOPA and PIPA bills, we get the good news this morning from the Salt Lake Tribune:
Yesiree, folks. The People spoke up... and our congress-critters listened.
It's a true "man bites dog story," if ever there ever was one.
In response to last Thursday's WCF article, wherein we put the arm on our readers to sign the online petition urging congress to "deep-six" the pending SOPA and PIPA bills, we get the good news this morning from the Salt Lake Tribune:
Yesiree, folks. The People spoke up... and our congress-critters listened.
It's a true "man bites dog story," if ever there ever was one.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Petition: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks the Internet
Congress needs to hear from you, or these bills pass
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo
The video above discusses the Senate version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.
PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans' access websites that corporations don't like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.
This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?
Click the link below to sign the electronic petition:
The good news is that in the face of massive Internet protest yesterday, key Senate and House backers of the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills – including Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, John Boozman and Jim DeMint, and Representatives Ben Quayle and Lee Terry – have dropped their support.
The bad news is that But SOPA’s key sponsor – Lamar Smith – is sticking with the flawed bill. In fact, the Senate is set to vote on PIPA on January 24, 2012, and the House Judiciary Committee continues its markup of SOPA in February:
Do not dawdle on this folks... Sign the petition Today!
The video above discusses the Senate version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.
PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans' access websites that corporations don't like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.
This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?
Click the link below to sign the electronic petition:
The good news is that in the face of massive Internet protest yesterday, key Senate and House backers of the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills – including Senators Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, John Boozman and Jim DeMint, and Representatives Ben Quayle and Lee Terry – have dropped their support.
The bad news is that But SOPA’s key sponsor – Lamar Smith – is sticking with the flawed bill. In fact, the Senate is set to vote on PIPA on January 24, 2012, and the House Judiciary Committee continues its markup of SOPA in February:
Do not dawdle on this folks... Sign the petition Today!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Weber County Forum Wednesday Morning News Roundup
Several interesting Bits and Pieces stumbled upon by your blogmeister whilst Googling
In the interest of keeping the discussion going, even on another slow news day, here are a few interesting Bits and Pieces stumbled upon by your blogmeister whilst Googling:
1) For those Ogden residents who've been looking forward to repeating the good times in Ogden City's annual Winterfest celebration this year, the Standard-Examiner delivers some very bad news this morning:
In this age of global climate change, perhaps the city fathers will be scheduling a beach-themed winter carnival some time very soon.
2) For those readers who are eagerly following the Standard's Alan Hall guest commentary series, here's Mr. Hall's latest, reporting on the outcome of last week's Ogden business leadership pow-wow, wherein "20 community leaders met for the first time to discuss the greater Ogden-area economy":
Can we see by a show of hands, O Gentle Readers, how many of you are surprised that our Ogden City Big Government Interventionist "Leadership" is adopting a"central planning" tactic borrowed straight from Joe Stalin's old Soviet Union?
3) Excellent Letter to the Editor which just popped up on the S-E website, decrying the recent bone-headed U.S. Supreme Court decision (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) which ruled, in essence, "that corporations and unions were legally people and could spend unlimited funds on election advertisements."
The author, liberty-loving Salt Lake City resident Cameron Morgan, makes a pitch for those lumpencitizens who'd like to see this bone-headed SCOTUS decision overturned to "join "Move to Amend" in pushing for a Constitutional amendment that spells out, in no uncertain terms, that corporations are not people and that they can and should be regulated." Unfortunately, Mr. Morgan fails to supply the necessary "action link," which omission we now cure, for our WCF readers' convenience:
If you'd like to weigh in on this issue, be sure to click the "petition" link, either in the MTA website header, or via the "Sign the Petition" button.
That's it for now, WCF readers.
The floor's open for anybody who'd like to comment, or even blow off a little pent-up steam.
In the interest of keeping the discussion going, even on another slow news day, here are a few interesting Bits and Pieces stumbled upon by your blogmeister whilst Googling:
1) For those Ogden residents who've been looking forward to repeating the good times in Ogden City's annual Winterfest celebration this year, the Standard-Examiner delivers some very bad news this morning:
In this age of global climate change, perhaps the city fathers will be scheduling a beach-themed winter carnival some time very soon.
2) For those readers who are eagerly following the Standard's Alan Hall guest commentary series, here's Mr. Hall's latest, reporting on the outcome of last week's Ogden business leadership pow-wow, wherein "20 community leaders met for the first time to discuss the greater Ogden-area economy":
Can we see by a show of hands, O Gentle Readers, how many of you are surprised that our Ogden City Big Government Interventionist "Leadership" is adopting a"central planning" tactic borrowed straight from Joe Stalin's old Soviet Union?
3) Excellent Letter to the Editor which just popped up on the S-E website, decrying the recent bone-headed U.S. Supreme Court decision (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) which ruled, in essence, "that corporations and unions were legally people and could spend unlimited funds on election advertisements."
The author, liberty-loving Salt Lake City resident Cameron Morgan, makes a pitch for those lumpencitizens who'd like to see this bone-headed SCOTUS decision overturned to "join "Move to Amend" in pushing for a Constitutional amendment that spells out, in no uncertain terms, that corporations are not people and that they can and should be regulated." Unfortunately, Mr. Morgan fails to supply the necessary "action link," which omission we now cure, for our WCF readers' convenience:
If you'd like to weigh in on this issue, be sure to click the "petition" link, either in the MTA website header, or via the "Sign the Petition" button.
That's it for now, WCF readers.
The floor's open for anybody who'd like to comment, or even blow off a little pent-up steam.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Rising Number Of UAVs In American Skies
Godfrey's crime blimp: A mainstream law enforcement concept?
Thanks to a morning submission from one of our sharp-eyed and alert Weber County Forum readers, we'll again bring one of our favorite Emerald City topics to the community discussion forefront. We've had plenty of merriment and mirth over the past few months talking about Boss Godfrey's crime blimp, so we're delighted to place the most recent urban aerial surveillance news story back on the WCF front page again.
This go-round however, the story has a significantly different twist. Whereas we'd earlier believed that Godfrey's crime-fighting blimp had been merely another bizarre expression of our lame-duck Mayor's sometimes crackpot mind-set, similar to Godfrey's Giant Refrigerated Climbing Tower, for instance, we learn this morning from Josh Marshall's Talking Point Memo website that Godfrey's Crime Blimp is actually a fairly mainstream concept, if we take what's happening in other American communities into account:
Whether the proliferation of American-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is part of the larger "militarization" phenomenon which is being increasingly discussed across the World Wide Web we simply don't know. But it's interesting to consider Ogden's aerial drone project in a wider context, isn't it?
So who'll be the first to throw in their own 2¢?
Thanks to a morning submission from one of our sharp-eyed and alert Weber County Forum readers, we'll again bring one of our favorite Emerald City topics to the community discussion forefront. We've had plenty of merriment and mirth over the past few months talking about Boss Godfrey's crime blimp, so we're delighted to place the most recent urban aerial surveillance news story back on the WCF front page again.
This go-round however, the story has a significantly different twist. Whereas we'd earlier believed that Godfrey's crime-fighting blimp had been merely another bizarre expression of our lame-duck Mayor's sometimes crackpot mind-set, similar to Godfrey's Giant Refrigerated Climbing Tower, for instance, we learn this morning from Josh Marshall's Talking Point Memo website that Godfrey's Crime Blimp is actually a fairly mainstream concept, if we take what's happening in other American communities into account:
Whether the proliferation of American-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is part of the larger "militarization" phenomenon which is being increasingly discussed across the World Wide Web we simply don't know. But it's interesting to consider Ogden's aerial drone project in a wider context, isn't it?
So who'll be the first to throw in their own 2¢?
Monday, December 05, 2011
Keith Obermann: Koch Brothers and the Supreme Court Death Blow to Democracy
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: A fatal death blow to democracy in America?
Great Keith Obermann rant, on the topic of individual liberty devouring, encroaching corporo-fascism, an ax we've been grinding on Weber County Forum for quite a few years...
Is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission A fatal death blow to democracy in America?
Wake up, people! Whether you identify yourself as either liberal or or conservative (and NOT a multi-millionaire) , you'll soon find out that you've all been sold down the river.
We'll most surely have more on this topic in the days to come, as we approach the 2012 Presidential Election season.
Just a little something to gnaw on in the meantime, we guess.
Gotta say we always love a good political rant.
Comments, Anyone?
Great Keith Obermann rant, on the topic of individual liberty devouring, encroaching corporo-fascism, an ax we've been grinding on Weber County Forum for quite a few years...
Is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission A fatal death blow to democracy in America?
Wake up, people! Whether you identify yourself as either liberal or or conservative (and NOT a multi-millionaire) , you'll soon find out that you've all been sold down the river.
We'll most surely have more on this topic in the days to come, as we approach the 2012 Presidential Election season.
Just a little something to gnaw on in the meantime, we guess.
Gotta say we always love a good political rant.
Comments, Anyone?
Monday, November 21, 2011
Disturbing Facebook Pics! - Updated
It's a sign of the times, we guess, or so we say with a little "loss of liberty" "tear in our eye."
Okay folks! Although your blogmeister will reiterate as a blanket statement that he loathes Facebook, here, nevertheless, are a few "Facebook wall pics" all of which came from separate Facebook sources, each of which is definitely and fully worthy of note in it's own right:
1) NYCPD riot cop pepper sprays "Central Park" agitators:
2) And is nothing sacred? Looks like the same NYPD guy "pepper spraying" "Yoda," before frog-marching the little guy to the hoose-gow, no?:
3) And then weirdly, the same or similar NYCPD Riot Cop is suddenly in Florence, Italy, touching up Michelangelo's scribblings on the ceiling of the holy Sistine Chapel with a pepper spray can:
4) And last but not least, there's of course this sacrilege directed against the U.S. Founders, solumnlycaptured in 18th century artist's paint, we suppose, whilst these guys in white powdered wigs were "founding" the U.S.A, (which painting unfortunately isn't conducive to a "firm" time/date stamp):
Is "nothing sacred in modern American culture (except Lady Gaga and Madonna)," we ask AGAIN???
This cut/paste NYPD Riot Cop nevertheless (certainly) "gets around" quite a bit today, yes?
It's a sign of the times, we guess, or so we say with a little "loss of liberty" "tear in our eye."
[sniffle]
Update 11/21/11 8:58 p.m.: One of our gentle readers informs us that we missed one... and he's right:
Even more interesting is the fact, now being reported by WaPo, that that this heavily photo-shopped pic has now "worked its way through art history" and entered the realm of "gone viral":
Surprise of surprises, heheheh.
Update 11/22/11 5:49 a.m.: Via the New York Times: "On Amazon... the page of a pepper spray can that is similar to the one used by Lieutenant Pike now has “product images” of the spray being used on students. There are also several product reviews that poke fun at the police department."
Okay folks! Although your blogmeister will reiterate as a blanket statement that he loathes Facebook, here, nevertheless, are a few "Facebook wall pics" all of which came from separate Facebook sources, each of which is definitely and fully worthy of note in it's own right:
1) NYCPD riot cop pepper sprays "Central Park" agitators:
2) And is nothing sacred? Looks like the same NYPD guy "pepper spraying" "Yoda," before frog-marching the little guy to the hoose-gow, no?:
3) And then weirdly, the same or similar NYCPD Riot Cop is suddenly in Florence, Italy, touching up Michelangelo's scribblings on the ceiling of the holy Sistine Chapel with a pepper spray can:
4) And last but not least, there's of course this sacrilege directed against the U.S. Founders, solumnlycaptured in 18th century artist's paint, we suppose, whilst these guys in white powdered wigs were "founding" the U.S.A, (which painting unfortunately isn't conducive to a "firm" time/date stamp):
Is "nothing sacred in modern American culture (except Lady Gaga and Madonna)," we ask AGAIN???
This cut/paste NYPD Riot Cop nevertheless (certainly) "gets around" quite a bit today, yes?
It's a sign of the times, we guess, or so we say with a little "loss of liberty" "tear in our eye."
[sniffle]
Update 11/21/11 8:58 p.m.: One of our gentle readers informs us that we missed one... and he's right:
Even more interesting is the fact, now being reported by WaPo, that that this heavily photo-shopped pic has now "worked its way through art history" and entered the realm of "gone viral":
Surprise of surprises, heheheh.
Update 11/22/11 5:49 a.m.: Via the New York Times: "On Amazon... the page of a pepper spray can that is similar to the one used by Lieutenant Pike now has “product images” of the spray being used on students. There are also several product reviews that poke fun at the police department."
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