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Rand Paul: The shocking video the Supreme Court doesn't want you to see

From the desk of Senator Rand Paul

Did you get a chance to watch the video I sent around recently?

If you haven't, I hope you will take just a moment to watch it by clicking here.

If you have seen it already, could you spread the word by forwarding this email to your friends and family.

Every view will help build support for the Life at Conception Act, a simple bill that effectively bypasses Roe v. Wade to end abortion-on-demand in our nation.

Click here to watch my short video now.

Sincerely,

Rand Paul,
U.S. Senator (R-KY)
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Freedom Outpost

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Government Bullies by Rand Paul

Every day the government gets more and more into your life and business. Whether it is the EPA telling you not to move dirt on your own land, to the TSA saying you can't get on an airplane without a government agent groping you, it is out of control.

My new book Government Bullies exposes the abuses of our government by telling the stories of ordinary Americans and their run-ins with the long arm of government.

I hope you will read this book. I hope it will make you even more fired up to fight for the cause of Liberty. I know that's how I felt when I wrote it.

You and I can fight back. Exposing the horror stories is always the first step. The more Americans read this book, the more they hear these stories of Government Bullies, the more people we will have on our side in this battle.

So please take a look at the book today. You can buy it HERE.




Tell your friends about it. Help spread the word of what out of control government regulators are doing to our freedom and our economy.

In Liberty,

Rand Paul


P.S. The book is available through Amazon.com here




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EFF sues for answers about illegal surveillance | EFFector 25.25

Electronic Frontier Foundation 
In our 619th issue:

EFF Sues for Answers About Illegal Government Email and Phone Call Surveillance

EFF sued the Department of Justice, demanding answers about illegal email and telephone call surveillance at the National Security Agency.

A government official publicly disclosed that the National Security Agency's surveillance program had gone further than what the law permits, with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issuing at least one ruling calling the NSA's actions unconstitutional. The government further disclosed that the court had determined the government's surveillance violated the spirit of the law on at least one occasion.

EFF's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks disclosure of any written opinions or orders from FISC discussing illegal government surveillance, as well as any briefings to Congress about those violations.

Congressmen Demand USTR Tell American People What's Going on With TPP

U.S. Representatives Ron Wyden and Darrell Issa insist that the American people have a right to know what the U.S. is seeking in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) with respect to intellectual property rights.

Copyright's Robot Wars Heat Up as Algorithms Block Live-Streams First and Ask Questions Later

Copyright's robot wars have burst onto the scene of streaming video sites, silencing live feeds with bogus infringement accusations and no human oversight. Two examples from just the past week show the danger that lies ahead if copyright enforcement is left to bots alone.

EFF Updates

The government has decided to return two domain names it improperly seized and held in its possession for well over a year, without so much as an explanation. This time, it was Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org, Puerto 80's popular sports streaming sites, which the government seized back in February 2011.
A bipartisan group of Representatives, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, sent a pointed letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano protesting the recent spat of domain name seizures -- executed on dubious copyright grounds -- that have been censoring websites with no due process.
Judges on both coasts of the U.S. have now rejected one of the copyright trolls' favorite tactics -- suing an Internet subscriber for "negligence" when someone else allegedly downloaded a movie illegally over their wireless connection.
The Congressional Research Service recently released a report on the effects of patent trolls on innovation and the economy. The study presents a pretty thorough analysis of the patent troll problem, but what's striking is its existence at all. Could it be that Congress is really starting to pay attention when it comes to fixing the broken patent system?
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SPLC: Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor to speak to extremists



September 11, 2012
SPLC Urges Paul Ryan and Other Public Officials
Not to Speak At Extremist Summit
Dear Friend,

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should be embarrassed. 
Why?

Because they're lending the prestige of their offices to hate groups that spread incendiary lies about the LGBT community.
  Read our letter
       to the
   Values Voter
Summit speakers
Along with a number of high-ranking public officials, Ryan
and Cantor are slated to speak this week at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
The host of the summit, the Family Research Council, has consistently spread demonizing propaganda about the LGBT community. One of the summit's co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has gone so far as to link homosexuality to the Holocaust.
No public official – least of all prominent officials like Ryan, Cantor, and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer – should lend their good names to such a gathering. Instead, they should distance themselves from it.

That's why we and other human rights groups have sent a letter to Ryan, Cantor and others urging them not to speak at the summit. We hope they listen.

We have faith that our collective voices will make a difference. Thank you for standing with us.
Richard Cohen
Sincerely,

Richard Cohen
President, Southern Poverty Law Center
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The Christian Nonvoter


Christian cross SC The Christian Nonvoter

By Enough with the moral indignation. I am not voting for president, plain and simple.

Whenever I mention my stance on voting, many of my fellow Christians are taken aback – horrified. I typically get a knee-jerk response along the lines of, “When good people don’t vote, evil triumphs.”

As a Christian who believes in God’s word, I can dismiss such comments out of hand. Evil exists, that is true, but my vote will not bind Satan in chains. To believe otherwise – to believe one’s vote holds that power – is to suffer from pride. And pride – the fatal conceit – is a chief cause of our current condition.

The next argument I hear addresses my supposed duty to vote for a president – and the implied duty to vote for the Republican candidate, of course. But no such Christian duty exists. Certainly there are times when a Christian may be called upon to cast a vote, such as during the election of elders and deacons. However, in these instances, the Bible enumerates specific qualities required in candidates who stand for church election – without any mention of a license to resort to the lesser of evils should no qualified candidate be found.

For those who feel duty-bound to vote for the lesser of evils, consider this: good Christians voted for Hitler (1). That’s right, good Christians in Germany heard the argument and acknowledged their supposed duty by voting for that vile man, all based on the belief that he was the least of all evils on the ballot and therefore the best candidate. And I assume they regretted their votes. Or maybe not.

It is interesting to hear fellow Christians justify their past votes, all in a counterfactual, what-if manner. “Sure I voted for Bush, but he was less evil than Gore or Kerry would have been had they been elected. And yes, I voted for Bush Sr. and Dole, since, had they been elected, both would have been less evil than Clinton was. Oh, and as far as McCain, isn’t Obama evil incarnate and McCain his obvious lesser?” Are those justifications true? We will never know.

Nevertheless, as those justifications are unfalsifiable, they allow the voter to sleep well at night. But were similar justifications able to calm the nights of German Christians who voted in the early 1930’s? I wonder.

It is true the Communists have thus far murdered more than the Nazis and associated Fascists (as if some real distinction exists between those three ideological brethren), so one could argue (after the fact) that Hitler, in spite of all his wickedness, was the lesser evil on the ballot. And a vote for him was therefore justified. But the stain of voting from Hitler would be something I could never wash away – could you?

Sure, I could “hold my nose” as some like to say and vote. However, I could never escape the fact that I gave my “yes” to a candidate who has stated that he will violate my morals and ethics. If my “yes” is to be a “yes,” as it should be, I could never walk away from the evils committed by my candidate, should he be elected. Especially given that I recognized his intentions before casting my vote.

There is no biblical justification for a qualified “yes.” There are yes’s and no’s, and nothing else.
Now, if a truly good man was on the ballot, such as the one who ran in my state primary (Ron Paul), I would have no issue with voting – as I had no issue with voting in the spring. However, when faced with a lesser of evils option, I will make my “no” a “no” and vote for none. And I will let evil takes its course and reap its eternal penalty (2)

And I hope that you, dear reader, after consideration, do likewise.

Notes:

(1) I make no attempt to validate Godwin’s law with this article. It is historical fact that must be considered.

(2) All the while working Isaiah’s Job, of course.

Jim Fedako [send him mail] is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH.

This article originally appeared at LewRockwell.com
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