Your Patriot Act at Work!

In-flight confrontations can lead to charges defined as terrorism

At least 200 passengers have been convicted of felonies under the Patriot Act, often for behavior involving raised voices and profanity. Some experts say airlines are misusing the law.

By Ralph Vartabedian and Peter Pae January 20, 2009

Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City -- Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats. It was a small incident, but one that in the heightened anxiety after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would eventually have enormous ramifications for Freeman and her children.

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Messianic Freakiness - Hollywood Style

More Big-O Is THE ONE: Watch for the messianic phrases and symbolism, culminating with the Hollywood stars becoming freckles on The One's face. (Many members, one body.) Like the entire BO '08 campaign, this video was produced by Harpo Productions (Oprah's production company).

Irregular Order

House Democrats did not live up to their promises to treat the minority fairly in the 110th Congress. And the 111th?

Monday, January 12, 2009; A12

"BILLS
SHOULD generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open,
full and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants
the minority the right to offer its alternatives, including a
substitute." So promised Nancy Pelosi,
now House speaker, before her party regained control of Congress two
years ago. That fairness, it turned out, was easier to preach than
practice.

When they took over in 2007, Democrats set aside their
pledge in order to muscle through their agenda during the first 100
hours; their promises continued to prove hollow in the ensuing months.
As with the GOP
takeover in 1994 and its accompanying pledges of open debate and fair
treatment, Democrats' asserted good intentions yielded to the realities
of governing in the face of an opposing party more interested in making
mischief than law. Democrats brought more measures to the House floor
under closed rules -- permitting no amendments -- than any of the six
previous Republican-controlled congresses.

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This practice of supressing dessent and ramming through legislation is continuing to intensify and with BHO at the helm will know no bounds.

See for example the account of the recent Gaza bill in this Ron Paul video update:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ETx6wW1C04g&autoplay=1&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

Again, The Religion of Peace

from Telegraph.co.uk

By Ben Farmer in Kabul
Last Updated: 8:49PM GMT 08 Jan 2009

The girl is critically ill in hospital after her family sewn the girl up themselves and said she had been bitten by a dog to cover their crime.

A man accused of raping the girl, from the central Afghan province of Bamiyan, is under arrest.

The rural family apparently decided to perform an abortion when the girl was five months pregnant to protect the family's honour.

Rape victims face extreme social stigma, imprisonment and abandonment or murder by their own families in Afghanistan.

Dr Ghulam Mohammad Nader, head of Bamiyan hospital, told the BBC that the girl had been able to explain what had happened but was in a critical condition with infected wounds. She is now being treated in the capital Kabul.

"The girl stayed at home for three or four days in her condition until her father took her to hospital," he said.

"He said a dog had bitten her so that people in the area wouldn't know what had really happened."

Habiba Sarabi, governor of the province, said the girl had been bound and taken to a stables for the abortion. Police are now trying to arrest her family.