Huge Majority of U.S. House Votes to Criminalize Protest Against any Visiting World Leader

Jim Cook 3/3/2012
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Is the Democratic Party the party of civil liberty? Not anymore. Not if you judge by congressional Democrats’ action this past week in overwhelmingly passing H.R. 347, a bill that makes it a federal crime punishable by a year in …

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Breaking: Police Shut Down Nike Stores and Arrest Nike Store Managers Across the Country to preserve “Public Safety”

Jim Cook 2/25/2012
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After crowds erupted into violent behavior in Richmond CA, Orange County FL, Lithonia GA, Hyattsville MD, Charlotte NC, Jersey City NJ, San Antonio TX and Seattle WA, police have shut down Nike shoe stores in malls across the country. Hundreds …

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A Presidential Candidate Who Stands Against Torture

jclifford 2/25/2012
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As founder and director of High Road for Human Rights, Anderson has been a leading anti-torture activist for years. The Republican presidential candidates can’t say that. Barack Obama can’t say that either – he’s kept alive secret prisons that have been used for torture, and created new ones.

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Marriage Equality Squished In New Jersey, Advanced In Maryland

Peregrin Wood 2/19/2012
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Good for Washington! Good for Maryland! Shame on Chris Christie. Gays and lesbians don’t have to get married if they don’t want to, and regressive grumps don’t have to like it if they don’t want to, but the choice to get married ought to be up to the people who are getting married.

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Frank VanderSloot, Billionaire Finance Co-Chair of Mitt Romney Campaign, is an Anti-Free Speech Censorship Bully

Jim Cook 2/18/2012
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If you write anywhere on the web, you need to write out the words in the title. You need to write them because they are the truth. You need to write them because somebody is trying to squash that truth …

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Ask Senator Patrick Leahy why he’s Sitting on Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Nominations

Jim Cook 2/13/2012
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It took President Obama three long years, but finally in December of 2011 he obeyed the law and finished putting all five nominees into consideration for appointment to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This is an important task …

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Under Obama, Patriot Act Sneak-and-Peek Outpaces Bush Use (and is mostly about Drugs)

Jim Cook 2/6/2012
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Remember George W. Bush? Remember thinking that a vote for Barack Obama would be a vote to bring the Homeland Security state of George W. Bush under control? Well, think again. According to federal law, the Administrative Office of the …

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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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