The Time for Liberty

We are at a critical time in America. We are facing very serious challenges that demand serious answers.

The economy, health care, war and many other issues directly and seriously impact the lives of each and every one of us. Now is the time to consider new ideas – ideas that have been all but shut out of the political process and the media until recently.

Bob Barr’s Presidential campaign is bringing these ideas to America. These ideas all focus on one concept – liberty. I’m not referring to “liberty” as merely a romantic concept to be thought of in philosophical terms but as a real, practical solution to the problems facing America and her people today.

We must decide what the very role of government is in America and that role affects every one of the issues I’ve mentioned above.

Among the most crucial aspects to deciding the role of government in America is deciding whether we will reign in an out of control effort that deprives us all of our personal right to privacy. Since 9-11, the federal government has shown nothing but contempt for our individual liberties and has told us we must give up some of our most basic freedoms and our privacy in the name of security.

This video shows Bob Barr’s viewpoint – one that I have promoted for years in my writings, speeches and activism – the view that freedom is indivisible. A government that does not respect our rights in the airport will not respect our rights at home.

Federal agents have no more right to demand warrantless searches of our briefcases and demand to place their hands on our bodies with no probable cause than they have to tap into our phone calls and email.

What does this have to do with the economy and other issues?

The same mindset that demands unquestioned access to your body can more easily demand access to your electronic banking, medical, phone and other records or information. It is the same mindset that demands more of your income in economy-killing taxes and socialist-inspired spending.

Former Congressman Bob Barr is the only candidate in the race for President of the United States who understands that returning America to a place of economic strength and a higher quality of life for all can only be accomplished by returning America to the mindset that respects – cherishes – freedom at a very personal level.

The time for Liberty is now. Enjoy this video from the Bob Barr Presidential Committee.

Learn more about Bob Barr at www.bobbarr2008.com.

Mike Ferguson is the National Field Director for the Bob Barr for President campaign. He lives in Grandview, MO.

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Wait till you hear how they define "is"

Check out this gem from earlier this year.

from WorldNetDaily:
ACLU's absurd definition of 'the people'
By William J. Federer (the American Minute guy)
Posted: March 29, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

There are two ways to change laws.

One way is tedious. You have to get a majority of citizens to share your views, motivate them to vote for representatives, get a majority of the representatives to vote for a bill, then get the president to sign it.

The other way to change laws is easy. You simply get activist judges to change the definitions of words that are in existing laws.

On March 18, the Supreme Court heard the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), a case regarding the Second Amendment, which reads:

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The ACLU argued that the term "the people" should have its definition changed to mean "the state militia," as the ACLU website states under the section "Gun Control":

"We believe that the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one, intended mainly to protect the right of the states to maintain militias. … The ACLU therefore believes that the Second Amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns."

Using the ACLU's new definition of "the people," the Second Amendment would read:

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people 'the state militia' to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

The absurdity of the ACLU's definition of "the people" is revealed when its definition is applied to the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights:

PREAMBLE: We the people "the state militias" of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union … establish this Constitution. ...

ARTICLE 1, SECTION 2: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second year by the people "the state militias." …

FIRST AMENDMENT: Congress shall make no law … abridging … the right of the people "the state militias" peaceably to assemble …

FOURTH AMENDMENT: The right of the people "the state militias" to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. …

FIFTH AMENDMENT: No person "state militia" shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment of indictment of a grand jury. …

NINTH AMENDMENT: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people "the state militias." ...

10th AMENDMENT: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people "the state militias."

18th AMENDMENT: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people "the state militias."…

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Of course, when push came to shove, the supreme robed ones, who would have made the First Century rulers of Israel proud, upheld the individual right interpretation. By one vote. That swing vote being Kennedy, who it is said, upheld the meaning of the Second Amendment as explained by Madison and others ONLY because it wasn't time yet to overturn it. There would be, he is reputed to have said, too much bloodshed now. The change should be delayed to a later time.

Such are the guardians of the republic.

Russia: It's Our Way or the Highway ... to War

New Russian world order: the five principles

By Paul Reynolds, World affairs correspondent BBC News website
11:57 GMT, Monday, 1 September 2008 12:57 UK

In the aftermath of the Georgian conflict, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has laid down five principles that he says will guide Russian foreign policy.

The new Moscow rules are not a blueprint for a new "Cold War". That was a worldwide ideological and economic struggle. This is much more about defending national interests.

Going back to the 19th Century?

The principles, with their references to "privileged interests" and the protection of Russian citizens, would probably seem rather obvious to Russian leaders of the 19th Century. They would seem rather mild to Stalin and his successors, who saw the Soviet Union extending communism across the globe.

In some ways, we are going back to the century before last, with a nationalistic Russia very much looking out for its own interests, but open to co-operation with the outside world on issues where it is willing to be flexible.
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Russians know all about Arkansides

This might as well be titled: Coming to an American city near you!

	Russia
	Police accidentally shoot dead owner of banned N.Caucasus website
	16:50 | 31/ 08/ 2008

MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) - The owner of a banned website in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia died of gunshot wounds sustained while riding in a police car on Sunday. Magomed Yevloyev died in hospital in the republic's largest city of Nazran. A source in the republic's Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that Yevloyev's death had come about after he was detained by police at Magas Airport. Police officers then put him in a police car to take him to Nazran to give testimony regarding "a criminal case." "Preliminary reports say that as the vehicle that Yevloev and the police officers were in was moving, one of the police officers' guns accidentally went off, and a bullet hit Yevloyev in the head," the source said. "He was shot straight in the temple," said Magomed Khazbiyev, Yevloyev's official representative, adding that doctors had done all they could to save his life. Yevloyev's website was closed down earlier this year after being labeled extremist. Local authorities said that the website had called on people to take part in unsanctioned demonstrations in January. The protests against the local administration were banned over public safety fears. The decision to close the website was approved by a Moscow court earlier in August.