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Canadian Military Moving Vehicles Into U.S. For Martial Law
SteveQuayle.com
Steve,I live in upstate NY north of Albany and have noticed several flat beds
with military vehicles coming from and to Canada with Canadian license
plates this week. I was wondering if anyone else is reporting this and why
Canada would be sending its military vehicles to the U.S. Alot of stuff
just doesn’t look right these days…
http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=223
Dec 19, 2012
Rand Paul, John McCain spar over NDAA ‘indefinite detention’ language
Federal lawmakers are once again clashing over how to treat American citizens accused of terrorism, after Congress quietly stripped a provision from a defense bill that was intended to prevent indefinite detention without trial.
In November the Senate voted overwhelmingly to amend the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to curb indefinite detention. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee introduced the amendment.
But the House did not pass similar language, and a conference committee that convened to resolve the differences between the two versions declined to include the Feinstein-Lee amendment.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul quickly blamed his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, blasting a “McCain-led NDAA conference committee” for the omission.
“The decision by the NDAA conference committee, led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to strip the National Defense Authorization Act of the amendment that protects American citizens against indefinite detention now renders the entire NDAA unconstitutional,” Sen. Paul said in a statement.
“When the government can arrest suspects without a warrant, hold them without trial, deny them access to counsel or admission of bail, we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity,” the senator continued, noting that he voted against NDAA last year but supported the current version because of the Feinstein-Lee amendment.
Earlier this month, McCain criticized Paul for trying to filibuster the bill, arguing that it bolstered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s case for filibuster reform.
“I find it disappointing that one member of the United States Senate feels that his particular agenda is so important that it affects the lives and the readiness and the capabilities of the men and women who are serving in the military and our ability to defend this nation,” McCain told Roll Call. “I think it’s hard to answer to the men and women in the military … with this kind of behavior, but I will leave that up to the senator from Kentucky to do so.”
Some civil libertarians worried that even Feinstein-Lee didn’t go far enough, arguing that it left the door open for Congress to authorize indefinite detention.
The amendment declared, “An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States, unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention.”
The American Civil Liberties Union warned that this “could be read to imply that there are no constitutional obstacles to Congress enacting a statute that would authorize the domestic military detention of any person in the United States.”
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash, a frequent Paul ally in the House, argued that the 2012 NDAA “renders the rest of the Feinstein amendment meaningless.”
The compromise was nevertheless good enough to pass the Senate 67 to 29 in November. Now opponents of the NDAA’s detention provisions are back to square one.
In place of the Feinstein-Lee amendment is language stating that nothing in the NDAA “shall be construed to deny the availability of the writ of habeas corpus or to deny any Constitutional rights.”
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the writ of habeas corpus applies to all people.
“Habeas corpus is simply the beginning of due process,” Paul insisted. “It is by no means the whole.”
“Our Bill of Rights is not something that can be cherry-picked at legislators’ convenience.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/19/rand-paul-john-mccain-spar-over-ndaa-indefinite-detention-language/#ixzz2FYXkQA64
The Senate is trying to sneak a warrantless spying bill through | EFFector 25.32
In our 627th issue:
Call and Say No: Senate Wants To Sneak Warrantless Spying Bill Extension Through Without Debate
The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the
controversial FISA Amendments Act -- the unconstitutional law that
allows the NSA to spy on Americans speaking to people abroad without a
warrant. Yet you wouldn't know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate
isn't debating it.
The law was set to expire on December 31, 2012 to ensure thorough review. But Senate leaders have so far refused to schedule any time on the Senate floor for debate or consideration of vital privacy-protecting amendments. Worse, they won't even tell the American public when they're going to vote on it.
The law was set to expire on December 31, 2012 to ensure thorough review. But Senate leaders have so far refused to schedule any time on the Senate floor for debate or consideration of vital privacy-protecting amendments. Worse, they won't even tell the American public when they're going to vote on it.
- Tweet at Senate leadership: Hey @McConnellPress and @SenatorReid: Don't ram through a 5-year extension on FISA Amendments Act. https://eff.org/r.2asn
- Use Free Press's call tool to connect to your senators
- Use EFF's Action Center to email your senators
EFF Updates
Facebook subsidiary Instagram recently revised their terms of
service, adding controversial new terms that will allow the company to
monetize your photos. Instagram recently responded to the public outcry,
and we hope their upcoming language changes reflect the three key
principles we developed for social networking services: informed
decision making, control, and the right to leave.
The 15th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement
negotiations in New Zealand has concluded, locking out civil society
participation in an unprecedented way. Based upon what we have seen from
a leaked version of the agreement, the TPP contains language that could
effectively pressure ISPs to become Internet cops and criminalize the
distribution of DRM-circumvention tools even for fair uses. It would
also impede parallel importation of copyrighted goods, among other
things. After participating in previous rounds, we could not have
imagined that the process could become any less transparent. Amazingly,
it did.
EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records
and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the
United States. These records, received as a result of EFF's Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation
Administration, come from state and local law enforcement agencies,
universities and -- for the first time -- three branches of the U.S.
military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency).
On December 14th, EFF was back in federal court challenging the
NSA's domestic spying program in our long-running case Jewel v. NSA. We
have launched a new section of our website to give everyone a clear
understanding how the NSA warrantless wiretapping program works and why
it's unconstitutional.
After feminist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture launched a
fake Victoria's Secret campaign, the lingerie company retaliated by
citing trademark and copyright infringement, shutting the parody site
down. Though the site was restored soon after, the takedowns highlight,
once again, the weakest link problem that plagues Internet speech.
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The 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29C3), an annual
meeting of the international hacker scene organized by the Chaos
Computer Club, convenes in Hamburg this year. Mark Burdett from the EFF
tech team will be attending.
December 27-30, 2012
Hamburg, Germany
December 27-30, 2012
Hamburg, Germany
Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting (EHSM) is a new
conference in Berlin exploring the frontiers of open source and DIY
hardware and software. Mark Burdett from the EFF tech team will be
attending.
December 28-30, 2012
Berlin, Germany
December 28-30, 2012
Berlin, Germany
Join EFF at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics
Show. It's where products are launched and excitement soars. EFF Staff
Attorney Julie Samuels will be on a panel about fighting patent trolls
on January 8.
January 8-11, 2012
Las Vegas, CA
January 8-11, 2012
Las Vegas, CA
Campus Party is a week-long, 24-hour-a-day technology
festival and conference that brings together bloggers, activists,
hackers, and more. EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman will keynote on
January 30.
Jan. 28, 2012 - Feb. 3, 2013
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jan. 28, 2012 - Feb. 3, 2013
Sao Paulo, Brazil
This large-scale conference aims to enhance regional
Internet freedom policies and to promote best practices in online media
regulation for key policymakers and experts in the OSCE region. EFF
Director for International Freedom Jillian York is a speaker.
February 14-15, 2013
Vienna, Austria
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Fast and Furious Gun Found at Mexican Crime Scene
Another
weapon from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives agency’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious was
recently recovered at a Mexican crime scene, CBS News has learned.Congressional investigators say the crime scene was likely where a recent shootout took place between reported Sinaloa drug cartel members and the Mexican military, in which Sinaloa beauty queen Maria Susana Flores Gamez and four others were killed.
According to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the Justice Department did not notify Congress of the Fast and Furious firearm recovery in November, even though Grassley has requested an accounting of weapons that surface from the case. During Fast and Furious, ATF allowed more than 2,000 weapons, including giant .50-caliber guns, to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminals. Other so-called “gunwalking” operations by ATF let hundreds more guns hit the street.
Most of them have never been recovered.
Read more here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57559809-10391739/fast-and-furious-gun-found-at-mexican-crime-scene/
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BREAKING: UN Small Arms Treaty Passes While Media Sleeps
The United Nations Small Arms Treaty passed in its second session. The Media was silent over its passage.According to the UN’s press release,
Concluding its two-week session today, the second United Nations conference to review the 2001 Programme of Action on trafficking in small arms and light weapons adopted a consensus outcome document that highlighted the international community’s renewed commitment to preventing, combating and eradicating the illicit trade.
The document’s adoption represented a major achievement for delegations, who had failed to agree on a final outcome at the first review conference, held in 2006. “We accomplished something great today,” said U. Joy Ogwu ( Nigeria), President of the Conference, formally known as the United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.
According to the text, Member States renewed their pledge to rid the world of the scourge brought upon it by the illicit manufacture, transfer and circulation of small arms and light weapons, and their excessive accumulation and uncontrolled spread in many parts of the world. They also committed to mobilizing the necessary political will and resources to implement the Programme of Action and the International Tracing Instrument, with the aim of achieving clear and tangible results over the next six years, through 2018.
Further by the text, States emphasized that the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons continued to sustain conflicts, exacerbate armed violence, undermine respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law, aid terrorism and illegal armed groups, and facilitate increasing levels of transnational organized crime, as well as trafficking in humans, drugs and certain natural resources.Ahhh yes, the cries of terrorism and drugs and boogey men for the passage of the treaty. This comes from member nations who knowingly promote these kinds of things. Even the United States is now in the midst of a scandal involving gunwalking, known as Fast and Furious, and at least one man arrested has come forward and said that Fast and Furious was all about arming drug cartels in Mexico, never about tracking them.
All countries signed the declaration and further documentation can be found here.
According to the program of action:
“8. Reaffirming our respect for and commitment to international law and the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, including the sovereign equality of States, territorial integrity, the peaceful resolution of international disputes, non-intervention and non-interference in the internal affairs of States, “. Non-intervention and non-interference? How about Syria? NATO is part of the United Nations.
“9. Reaffirming the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations,”. Collective means the state, in-contrary to our Bill of Rights guaranteed by our government, but ultimately granted by our Creator.
“10. Reaffirming also the right of each State to manufacture, import and retain small arms and light weapons for its self-defence and security needs, as well as for its capacity to participate in peacekeeping operations in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, “. This is just another statement dealing with a ‘collective right’, not an individual right. The ATF, FBI, Homeland Security, along with all the ‘alphabet’ agencies of the federal and state governments are immune and the tyranny they will accomplish when this treaty is fully implemented staggers the mind.
“11. Reaffirming the right of self-determination of all peoples, taking into account the particular situation of peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, and recognizing the right of peoples to take legitimate action in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to realize their inalienable right of self-determination. This shall not be construed as authorizing or encouraging any action that would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States conducting themselves in compliance with the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples,” This section was examined previously. It is important to point out that the West Bank and Gaza are not recognized as an ‘sovereign and independent States’, therefore they are up for grabs.Of course this will be enforced by the UN’s blue helmets, or International Assistance.
Read More at thedailysheeple.com.
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