Monthly Archives: July 2012

Holder Orders Family: Give Up Your Religion or Your Business

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By Terence P. Jeffrey | cnsnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – The Justice Department last week presented the Newland family of Colorado–who own Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning business–with what amounted to an ultimatum: Give up your religion or your business.

“Hercules Industries has ‘made no showing of a religious belief which requires that [it] engage in the [HVAC] business,” the Justice Department said in a formal filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

In response to the Justice Department’s argument that the Newlands can either give up practicing their religion or give up owning their business, the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the family, said in a reply brief: “[T]o the extent the government is arguing that its mandate does not really burden the Newlands because they are free to abandon their jobs, their livelihoods, and their property so that others can take over Hercules and comply, this expulsion from business would be an extreme form of government burden.”

Read more at Fox News

Russian MPs suggest allowing public use of firearms shortly after Colorado shootings

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Guns goin’ back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in the U.S.S.R.

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Following the shooting spree in a Colorado cinema, Russian legislators have drafted a bill which would allow public use of firearms. The law’s sponsors hope to curb crime rates, while opponents say legal air-guns already cause enough damage.
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The principle behind the drafted bill allowing the private use of handguns is “my home is my castle,” so any invasion of private space could be met with loaded barrels.

Aleksandr Torshin, who drafted the bill, says pistol owners might get divided into several groups. Some would be sanctioned to use weapons to protect their homes only, while others would be authorized to take handguns in their cars. The most privileged group would be permitted to carry pistols anywhere. This third category could include postmen, ambulance staff and social workers.

Read more at Russia Today

Tonya Reaves, Planned Parenthood and the art of downplaying a ‘tragedy’

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As reported Tuesday by ABC News, the family of 24-year-old Tonya Reaves – the Chicago woman who died after hemorrhaging during an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic — has hired a lawyer to help them decide whether to take legal action.

“We’re just trying to get all the facts from the incident and determine what the best course of action is,” Corey Meyer, the family’s lawyer, said. “We’re still getting information.”

As reported Sunday by Fox News, Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns and the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List have called for congressional oversight in the wake of Reaves’ death.

Apparently, when it comes to reporting abortion statistics – specifically in Chicago — much is overlooked.

Read more at Examiner.com

President Obama finally admits he wants more gun control

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Playing on the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado and the general misconception of the Second Amendment taught in public school, President Obama finally admitted that he wants to take guns away from citizens. England used the protection of hunting rights argument to disarm their people and have recently started confiscating hunting weapons, as well. According to Federalist Paper No. 29, the Second Amendment allows citizens to own any weapon or equipment in the arsenal of the United States Armed Forces. The idea of the militia—not the National Guard—was to protect the natural rights of American citizens.

It is interesting that he speaks for gun owners saying that they agree that AK-47’s belong on the battlefield. These are among the weapons that this administration sold to the Mexican drug cartels which killed an Arizona citizen, Brian Terry. In addition, Obama and McCain declared the United States a “battlefield” by signing the National Defense Authorization Act with indefinite detention articles contained in it.

Damning Report Alleges NYPD Consistently Violated Rights Of Occupy Protestors

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Michael Kelley
businessinsider.com
July 26, 2012

A group of legal experts have published a report detailing “abusive and unlawful protest regulation and policing practices” by New York police in response to Occupy Wall Street protests.

The report, Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street, examines treatment of protestors and journalists by local, state, and federal authorities from September 2011 through July 2012.

The eight-month investigation – carried out by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard and Stanford – documents instances in which authorities acted in ways that “suppress and chill protest rights” and violate international obligations to respect free assembly and expression.

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Flagstaff Echoes this Friday

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FLAGSTAFF—A group of Northern Arizona University students will perform Echoes of Flagstaff this Friday, July 27th at 6 p.m. at Heritage Square in Flagstaff.

The play is an off-shoot of a play from May by the NAU College of Arts and Letters. Actors will recreate interviews and stories of some of Flagstaff’s former residents.

The performance is free.

More write in candidates for August 28th

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FLAGSTAFF—Flagstaff Attorney Gary Robbins announces his write-in candidacy for Division 5 of the Coconino County Superior Court as a Republican. Republican write in candidates need at least 361 voters to write in their names on the ballot to be listed on the November election ballot.

Mr. Robbins joined the race because he is outraged that Cathleen Nichols would use a technicality to have incumbent Judge Joe Lodge removed from the primary ballot, leaving herself as the only person on the General Election ballot. Mr. Robbins states that the voters of Coconino County deserve a choice, and right now, the voters don’t have a choice.

“Although the Governor, Coconino County voters and Coconino County Superior Court judges have rejected Cathleen Nichols’ quest for Coconino County Superior Court judge on four prior occasions in 2010, Ms. Nichols is again attempting to become a Superior Court Judge. However, this time, to ensure her success, she has successfully knocked the incumbent opponent off of the primary ballot on a technicality,” his press release stated.

A July 13 article in the Arizona Daily Sun, indicates that Joe Lodge, a Democrat, may be running as a write in candidate on the Libertarian ticket.

Lodge would need only 15 write in votes, but unlike the Republican primary only Libertarians can vote in the Libertarian primary. An independent or non-partisan voter may go into the polls August 28th and ask for the ballot of any of the other major parties and vote in that primary. Thus, independents can write in Gary Robbins on the Republican ballot.

“A candidate for judicial office should not take the position to take away the voter’s choice,” Lodge said of Nichols. Cathleen Nichols is currently serving as Justice of the Peace in Flagstaff.

Mr. Robbins, a resident of Coconino County for almost 20 years, has been practicing law for 35 years. Instead of hearing traffic tickets in the Flagstaff Justice of the Peace Court for the last seven years, Mr. Robbins has practiced law in the Arizona Superior Court as a trial attorney for the last 31 years, appearing in thousands of hearings, after serving for nearly two years as a Staff Attorney for the Arizona Court of Appeals where he wrote draft opinions for the Court to issue.

The only other Republican candidate in the county is Glen Davis who is running for the office of Sheriff of Coconino County as a write in candidate.

California becomes terrorist friendly State

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(Reuters) – The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday that seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in Arizona and other U.S. states.

On July 5, the California Senate passed their TRUST act which prevents their law enforcement officers from stopping or catching terrorists entering the country illegally. The law has been called the “Anti-Arizona” law passed in response to the recent supreme court decision on SB-1070.

From the bill’s front page:

This bill would prohibit a law enforcement official, as defined, from detaining an individual on the basis of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, unless the local agency adopts a plan that meets certain requirements prior to or after compliance with the immigration hold, and, at the time that the individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, certain conditions are met.

“Today’s vote signals to the nation that California cannot afford to be another Arizona,” Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat who sponsored the measure, said in a statement.

California, of course, could not become another Arizona until they start teaching the Constitution of the United States of America in public schools. This bill is an obvious reason that Arizona should not be teaching the Constitution as they do in California.

The bill supported by 100 illegal immigration groups supported the bill which passed the Democrat State-Assembly 47-26. Final approval is expected in August and it will be sent to the desk of Governor Brown for his signature.

Recently it was revealed that a local traffic stop in Boston, Massachusetts revealed an illegal alien running a flight school which was responsible for issuing at least six pilots licenses to illegals. This is a very similar situation to the manner in which SB-1070 would be enforced.

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1. Reuters
2. San Jose Mercury News
3. LA Weekly Blog

TSA keeps you from flying; allows illegals

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While TSA fondles American citizens and keeps a “no-fly” list to keep us “safe,” they have no mechanism to prevent illegals from attending flight school and obtaining a pilot license. TSA is apparently responsible for ensuring flight school security. Those on the “no-fly” list, numbering about 500 according to the Associated Press, are allowed to learn to fly.

“I was stunned. That just caught me completely off guard, and I’m pretty angry about it,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said after a hearing Wednesday to examine the Homeland Security Department’s programs to screen foreigners who want to attend flight schools. “Everybody should be concerned.”

According to Homeland Security Today, ICE detectives “…investigated a flight school in Boston, Mass., and discovered 25 illegal aliens taking pilot training there.”

The article does not report that the flight school in Boston was run by an illegal alien. Six illegal aliens were able to obtain pilots licenses. The activity went unreported until the illegal alien owner of the flight school was stopped by local police for a routine traffic violation. Such an event might be caught in Arizona if all of SB-1070 were ruled constitutional.