President Obama Finally Nominates Civil Liberties Board. Now the Judiciary Committee Sits on It.

Jim Cook 2/2/2012
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For 1,060 days of his presidency, Barack Obama refused to nominate enough members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight board to constitute a quorum. That made it impossible for the PCLOB to carry out its legally-mandated job of collecting …

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Have You Forgotten Obama’s Broken Promise On Corporate Immunity From Prosecution?

jclifford 1/24/2012
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As Barack Obama prepares his re-election campaign, he is being haunted by his past dishonesty about the FISA Amendments Act. Rocky Anderson, presidential candidate for the Justice Party, is ready to remind voters of Obama’s broken promise.

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Irregular Times Political Donation: ACLU

Jim Cook 1/21/2012
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Every time someone buys one of our sweatshop-free shirts at Skreened, we the writers for Irregular Times set aside a dollar to donate to a good cause in the domestic political realm. As Barack Obama and majorities in both houses …

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Don’t Let the USA Go the Way of Hungary. Vote Against Intolerance in 2012.

Truman 1/21/2012
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Viktor Orban and the Jobbik party in Hungary have exploited the same political playbook being used by the Republican presidential candidates here in the United States of America. The result of their crackdown on freedom and tolerance? A generation of young people are leaving the country.

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Romney Is Wrong. The USA Is Great Because We Can Be Divided.

Rowan 1/21/2012
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If Mitt Romney wants a united nation instead of a divided nation, he doesn’t have to travel far. He can go to Cuba. Or, he can go to China, where they put protesters in prison. He can go to North Korea. He can go to Saudi Arabia. Those countries are united behind their leaders – because the people in those countries aren’t allowed to speak their minds. Is that what Mitt Romney wants for America?

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Newt Gingrich: “I Favor Freedom” (Unless You’re Gay)

Jim Cook 1/19/2012
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“I Favor Freedom” — Newt Gingrich, GOP Debate, January 19 2012 P.S. Unless you’re gay.

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Over One Thousand Protest Imprisonment Without Trial and Torture

jclifford 1/12/2012
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The protesters in DC didn’t know what the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay might be guilty of, but then, that’s the point. In the system of law that the United States of America has known, there is a presumption of innocence. Guilt can only be constitutionally determined through due process of law, including protection from self-incrimination and a fair trial.

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Day Of Action Against Torture And Injustice This Wednesday

Peregrin Wood 1/9/2012
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A protest this Wednesday, organized in cooperation with Witness Against Torture, will form a human chain stretching between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, with the simple message that the right to due process and a fair trial, promised in our nation’s Constitution, must be restored.

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After 1060 days in Office, Obama finally nominates full membership for Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Jim Cook 1/1/2012
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1077 days ago, Barack Obama took his Oath of Office as President of the United States of America, solemnly swearing to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” As President, one of the ways that Barack Obama …

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Barack Obama Approves Law Subjecting Americans To Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial

jclifford 12/31/2011
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By signing the National Defense Authorization Act into law today, Barack Obama granted all future presidents with the power to throw Americans into prison for life on the basis of nothing more than an unproven accusation against the prisoner.

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Jill Stein Calls Out Barack Obama On Imprisonment of Americans Without Trial

jclifford 12/29/2011
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Barack Obama is signing the draconian National Defense Authorization Act. Presidential candidate Jill Stein, on the other hand, supports the vigorous defense of our constitutional rights from the Homeland Security regime of draconian paranoia. This week, the Stein for President campaign released a video strongly criticizing Barack Obama’s decision to support the imprisonment of Americans without trial.

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Occupy Movement Produces Petition for Waiver of Constitutional Rights… For the GOV’T to Turn In

Jim Cook 12/28/2011
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Among the Facebook accounts associated with the Occupy Ithaca movement, someone’s had it with the tactics of the government officials of Ithaca, New York. When the occupation of Ithaca began, city representatives persistently asked Occupy Ithaca to file for a …

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Which of 3 Caucuses (Tea Party, Constitution, Progressive) Most Opposes Indefinite Detention in the USA?

Jim Cook 12/24/2011
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The Tea Party Caucus. The Constitution Caucus. The Progressive Caucus. One of these caucuses voted most strongly against H.R. 1540, the bill introducing Indefinite Detention without charge to American soil. Can you guess which one? Click through to find out.

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Obama Is Worse Than Bush On Rule Of Law, Says Rocky Anderson

jclifford 12/22/2011
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Rocky Anderson reminds me that Obama’s troubling disregard for America’s constitutional rights was made quite clear during the 2008 presidential election. We spent a great deal of time here at Irregular Times during the summer and autumn of 2008 discussing Barack Obama’s support for the terrible FISA Amendments Act – a law that gave immunity to telecommunications corporations for breaking federal law by providing government spies with information about millions of Americans’ private communications data.

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Tea Party Caucus Supports the Detain-People-Without-Charges-Forever kind of Freedom

Jim Cook 12/21/2011
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Tea Party Caucus members declare themselves to be Defenders of the Constitution. But when Americans’ 5th and 6th Amendment constitutional rights were on the line, how did the Tea Party Caucus actually vote? Read on to find out.

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More Americans Arrested In Nationwide Protests Against Obama’s Arbitrary Imprisonment Law

Peregrin Wood 12/20/2011
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The protesters outside the White House weren’t being violent. They didn’t attempt to climb over the fence that separates President Obama from the rest of America. They were only arrested for getting “too close”, thrown into jail for daring to engage in a political protest in a public plaza.

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Mitt Romney Breaks Promise To New Hampshire Voter About Protecting Freedom

Peregrin Wood 12/20/2011
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Nine days ago, Mitt Romney promised a New Hampshire voter to make a statement about the National Defense Authorization Act on his campaign web site. Mitt Romney hasn’t kept his promise. There is absolutely no mention of the National Defense Authorization Act on Mitt Romney’s campaign web site. Romney lied to that New Hampshire voter.

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Protests Against Obama Policy Of Imprisonment of Americans Without Trial

Peregrin Wood 12/19/2011
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The Director of the Iowa Democratic Party, Norm Sterzenbach, seemed to think that liberal dissent against the Democratic Party, and not the creation of extreme unconstitutional powers of imprisonment, was the problem. Do they really not understand that Democratic voters are leaving the Democratic Party because Obama and the congressional Democrats are repeating the terrible mistakes of George W. Bush?

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