Critical Issue In Maine

Critical Issue in Maine

Many folks are not aware of what happened to our constitutional right to citizens initiative in the last legislative session. Some who are receiving this are aware and may find parts of this e-mail redundant. I'll apologize to those of you whose patience I may be trying. I am compelled to continue banging this drum as the assault that was perpetrated upon our right to self-govern must be corrected and this is time sensitive.

I put together the pieces below to attempt to illustrate what happened: the hypocrisy I just can't stand, the corruption that makes me sick, some supportive details to communicate where I am personally coming from, a couple of links to supporting facts, how what happened will directly effect many of our fellow citizens 5 weeks from now and an Action Item Invitation. It has been awhile since I have sent out such a long and detailed e-mail and I hope you take the time to read through and consider the content with deep seriousness.

This concerns the citizens initiated medical marijuana law passed in November 2009, LD 975. This marijuana topic is one of the more contentious ones. Folks have been given such limited information and much of the information they have been given has been created by the very government and corporations that control our drugs, energy and food. There are so many areas inside of this issue from an early history of corporatism in the United States, to facts about the plant itself, to the philosophy of natural rights, individual liberty and personal responsibility. I will do my level best to communicate the more salient points.

 One issue that concerns me deeply regarding Maine's marijuana law is that folks who pride themselves on being defenders of our constitutions and defenders of individual liberty knee jerk against these causes when it concerns … shhh...marijuana. This is one of the biggest hypocrisies in society and it is all do to more then 100 years of propaganda that included our government's complicity with DuPont and the Hearst Family's interests in cotton and petro-chemicals. Our government's Office of Strategic Service (OSS) which evolved into the CIA had Harry Anslinger begin the spinning of yarns for the public here in the United States, when he returned from over a decade abroad engaged in a similar agenda, and included tactics of bribing and threatening American Medical Association members. There is a long detailed treasonous history here that I won't completely go into because it diverts the attention away from what I feel is a more pressing issue within the marijuana topic specific to Maine. I will though recommend a book that has the history detailed in depth with half the book devoted to copies of newspaper clippings, congressional testimonies and other historical documents that are irrefutable: The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

 Personal background and interest

 I did not know any of the history until this last year, however, because half of my life has been spent using G-d's green earth to naturally treat my own ailments and raising my children up using everything from garlic to more well-known herbs like echinacea to chinese roots and mushrooms I have an acceptance of natural remedies and an experience of success with them. The combination of my personal experience along with an intense passion for individual liberty and personal responsibility, I do not have the same knee jerk reactions to marijuana that some have, even having been subjected to the propaganda before learning of the history.

 My husband has degenerative disc disease, arthritis of the spine and herniated discs. He was severely injured on the sub in the Navy which resulted in surgery on his spine and a regimen of pharmaceuticals. The VA to this day only offers him anti-depressants to treat his pain because, in his doctor's words, "we cannot fix your pain, but living in pain makes you depressed". At what point is he old enough to decide how to treat himself? There is a clear question of ethics here.

 Specific to Medical Marijuana

 In 1998 the Maine people passed Maine's Medical Marijuana Act. It allowed for people with certain debilitating conditions to legally use marijuana to naturally treat their conditions so long as a they had a doctor's recommendation. Anytime in the last ten years the legislature could have changed the law and they did not. For the last decade in Maine people have been legally able to treat themselves naturally using marijuana for a very limited list of ailments.

 As research has expanded, so has the insistence that people be able to have legal access to this plant. Our own United States government holds a patent for "cannabinoid compounds" which are the medicines within this plant and in the patent filings are findings of medicinal benefits of marijuana to substantiate the patent.

    * United States Patent: ~ Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants ~ http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507/description.html

    Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia.

Virginia Commonwealth University also has a patent:

    * ~ Cardiovascular uses of cannabinoid compounds ~ http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5939429/description.html

    Hemorrhagic shock and in other conditions associated with excessive vasoconstriction, such as hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, cirrhosis of the liver, or certain forms of angina pectoris can be treated by using agonists of CB1 receptors as well as other cannabinoid receptors. In addition, it has been determined that in septic shock and cirrhosis of the liver when hypotension is due to activation of macrophages by bacterial endotoxin, the use of a drug that selectively blocks CB1 receptors or other cannabinoid receptors may be of therapeutic value by preventing or attenuating the endotoxin-induced hypotension.

Our bodies also have something identified as a "cannabinoid receptor system" that science is just scraping the surface of.  Please see: http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/54/2/161.abstract

 So, even though the Chinese have been using the plant for over a thousand years, even though tribal people's have been using the plant for over a thousand years, even though our own founding fathers used the plant, patents have been filed and science is discovering our bodies are made to be able to receive the benefits of this plant, the propaganda of lies perpetrated upon the population and the masses who do not know any better continue perpetuating the deception.

 G-d does not make mistakes. Genesis 1:29 "All seed bearing herbs shall be for your use"

 
THE CRITICAL ISSUE IN MAINE

 The right to self-govern is embodied in Maine’s Constitution in the right to citizens initiative in Article IV, Part Third, Sec.18.

 In April 2009 the citizen initiated new medical marijuana bill was before the legislature as required by our Maine Constitution. The legislature chose to not address it at all. They offered no alternatives to it and it moved to referendum with no competing bills.

 This citizens initiative, which was Question 5 on the November 2009 ballot, expanded the list of conditions for allowable use, included a provision for dispensaries and offered a new voluntary registration with the DHHS aimed at increasing security for patients if they chose it. The intent of the initiative was to expand access and increase the security for medical marijuana patients.

 59% of voters approved the measure. 13 out of 16 counties approved the measure.

 Baldacci formed a Taskforce charged with coming up with suggestions on implementing the new law the people passed. The Taskforce members were to represent various interests of which one of them was supposed to be a “supporter of the direct initiative“, Dan Walker. Dan Walker is a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical companies employed by the law firm, Preti-Flaherty. He is now a Board Member of the Northeast Patients Group which is a branch off of California's Berkeley Patients Group who now owns and operates 4 of the 6 dispensaries awarded in this state.

 The People's Law was for the patients. There were no patients on this taskforce.

 The governor is not allowed to veto a citizens initiated law. Instead, Baldacci took the suggestions from this corrupted taskforce and crafted an amendment to the people's law, LD 1811. This amendment did a number of things. The more egregious changes include changing the registration from voluntary to mandatory, adding a fee of $100 a year for the registration, requiring patients to sign a release giving the DHHS full access to their private medical files and subjecting patients to unwarranted searches and seizures.

 This is heinous.

And certainly not what 59% of the people voted for.

 If these provisions were part of the citizens initiative on the ballot I do not believe it would have passed. I, my husband, the caregiver networks, the osteopaths, naturopaths and phd’s who supported it, and the patients themselves would not have voted for this. We would have collectively campaigned against it. Again, the initiative was for the patients.

Baldacci's amendment is completely in contradiction to the original intent of the people‘s law, effectively nullifying our citizens’ initiative. If the legislature gets away with this here what other citizens initiatives may they then tamper with?

 People are so blinded by the word “marijuana” they do not see the most grievous assault on our right to self-govern; on our right in our Maine Constitution to that process of the citizens initiative. The Citizens Initiative must be held sacred.

 RE: January 1st,  fellow citizens become criminals

 The Affirmative Defense lives inside of the Doctors recommendation. For over a decade the doctor’s recommendation was the legal defense for patients who use medical marijuana. On January 1st, 2011 if a patient is not registered with the state they will be subject to prosecution, treated like criminals, with part of the punishment of not being registered a revoking of the right of that patient to use what his doctor has recommended.

 It is OK for the government to interfere with doctor and patient? It is OK for the DHHS, an unelected bureaucracy, to assume authority over the right of an individual to treat themselves following their doctors recommendation? This is a most horrid and dangerous precedent to be set, for it will become precedence if it is allowed to stand.

 There are growers and caregivers all over the state who have been legally growing and providing marijuana to patients with doctors recommendations for over a decade. None of the medical marijuana patients we know feel anything less then absolutely vulnerable. They are presently living in a state of terror as the days go by quickly bringing January 1st closer when they will have to choose between the pharmaceuticals or giving up their right to treat themselves naturally, giving up their right to be free from home invasion and giving up their right to privacy of their medical histories, lest they become criminals.

 This is so wrong. These people have every right to be free from such actions. This assault is ever more lethal considered in the context of the trespassing of the citizen initiative. The wrongful nullifying of the citizens initiative has resulted in making criminals of our fellow citizens.

 We have a responsibility to not only defend ourselves against such assaults but too also defend our fellow citizens. To not advocate for rightful treatment of our brethren, to not advocate for justice from our legislators, to not demand that constitutional rights be upheld because we don't like marijuana is just plain unacceptable. To do nothing makes one complicit in the trespass.

Repeal of Baldacci's Amendment must happen. However something more immediate must be put in place to prevent the enforcement of the assaults before the repeal is accomplished. The AG has within its power to instruct law enforcement to not pursue medical marijuana patients until this issue as been addressed. Something must be done. January 1st is coming quickly. I am asking you to get involved here. There is a specific Action Item to support the citizens initiative.

ACTION ITEM

In our Maine Constitution in Article 1, Section 15 is the Right of petition which points to our right to instruct our representatives.

“The people have a right at all times in an orderly and peaceable
manner to assemble to consult upon the common good,
to give instructions to their representatives, and to request,
of either department of the government by petition or remonstrance,
redress of their wrongs and grievances”

Attached is an “Order of Instruction”. On December 1st our elected representatives will be sworn in. Following our representatives taking their oaths of office we will be hand delivering, face to face, these "Orders of Instruction".

Governor Baldacci and the last legislature usurped our citizens initiative.

Will you please join us in instructing our newly sworn in representatives to right the wrong that was done? The citizens initiative MUST be kept sacred.

We will be gathering in Augusta at our State House on December 1st, at 10 am. If you cannot make it to Augusta, please consider handing off your "Order of Instruction" to someone who can or mailing it directly to your 2 representatives.

We cannot choose when our constitutional rights should be upheld or which rights to uphold. All the rights for all the citizens. Period.

I hope to see you there.

In Liberty,
Cynthia
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
~ Frederick Douglass, 1857

"My hope? That courage is contagious"
- Cynthia Rosen




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Order of Instruction as stated in the Maine Constitution Article 1, Sect. 15


Dear____________________________________,     
 

On November 3rd 2009, 59% of Maine voters passed the citizens initiated new Medical Marijuana Act, LD 975. Governor Baldacci nullified the citizens initiative through initiating a bill to amend the people‘s law. LD 1811, the governor’s initiated bill was passed by the legislature in 2010.

LD 1811 amended the people’s law to include mandatory registration, a fee of $100 a year for the registration which also requires patients to sign a release giving the DHHS full access to their private medical files and subjects patients to unwarranted searches and seizures.

The Affirmative Defense lives inside of the Doctors recommendation. Since 1998 when the citizens passed Maine’s first Medical Marijuana Act a doctor’s recommendation was the legal defense for patients who use medical marijuana.

January 1st , 2011 if a patient is not registered with the state they will be subject to prosecution, treated like criminals, with part of the punishment of not being registered a revoking of the right of that patient to use what his doctor has recommended.

~ Whereas the citizens initiated LD 975, Medical Marijuana Act was passed by the people,

~ And whereas the people’s law was usurped by LD 1811

~ And whereas the Maine Constitution guarantees the right of the people to instruct their representatives as is stated in Article 1 Declaration of Rights, Section 15. Right of petition

“The people have a right at all times in an orderly and peaceable manner to assemble to consult upon the common good, to give instructions to their representatives, and to request, of either department of the government by petition or remonstrance, redress of their wrongs and grievances”

I hereby instruct you, my representative:

~to immediately initiate and fully support a moratorium on the implementing and enforcement of LD 1811 and

~to initiate and support the repeal of LD 1811 in accordance of the people’s right to citizens initiative.


Thank you,

Simply Copy, print, sign and send to your State Representative.  Each should be found in your local newspaper or do a search on Google.

A Very Merry Main Street

Interesting Dialogue Of Parlimentary Powers From Across The Pond

British House of Lords: 1 Nov 2010

A commenter called "Yoogoh" just hit on something! Not only Kissinger but the current Pope, the British Royal family and the Rothshilds are not only NWO globalists but THEY ARE GERMAN!

Lord James of Blackheath describes a Private "Foundation" which has more money than all the governments of the world put together. This "Foundation X" willing to bail out the world "for nothing". What a lovely sounding old Lord this man is BUT is he seriously this naive?

Nevertheless, why is all this so top secret if it is a real, honest offer by a Private Group of people who should never have achieved such an amount of money in the first place (for what I hope are obvious reasons). Further, if such a Foundation exists (which it certainly seems to) then they can only have gained this amount of wealth over a very significant period of time (thinking in decades to centuries here) and it will have been, without a shadow of a doubt, ill-gotten. So the question is: Why don't we simply hold a gun at their heads fully loaded and say "Hand it over! What's preventing you?" Because if they need to talk to a Head of state before they do it then there must simply be conditions.

And lastly, WHO are these top 6 people of the world? You may say "it said top 6 security clearance" but so what? How many nations are there? So HOW can there be only 6 people with a Worldwide top security clearance? From what nations and what has security got to do with it? Probably very much the same as what the Official Secrets Act has to do with the Bank of England eh?

For more on a possible connection to this see http://earthlinggb.wordpress.com/2010...

 

The State Of Our Economy: "The Day The Dollar Died"

 

NIA's New Video Goes Viral

On Wednesday, November 24th, the National Inflation Association released a shocking and stunning video entitled, 'The Day the Dollar Died', which shows the world exactly what could happen to the U.S. economy in the very near future during the first 12 hours of a U.S. dollar collapse. Although the video itself is fictional, NIA believes a U.S. dollar collapse is inevitable and there is a strong likelihood that the U.S. will experience an outbreak of hyperinflation this decade. 'The Day the Dollar Died' is a wake up call for Americans who aren't yet stocking up on gold, silver and food supplies. The U.S. dollar's day of reckoning is coming and only Americans who prepare now will survive.

 

In just 42 hours since its release, 'The Day the Dollar Died' has already been viewed over 145,000 times on YouTube. It is currently YouTube's #1 top favorited news and politics video. Approximately 1,200 people have commented about the video on YouTube alone, with thousands of more comments having been made about the video on hundreds of Internet blogs that have featured it. An amazing 93.5% of those who have watched 'The Day the Dollar Died' have given it a thumbs up.

 

All of the discussion about 'The Day the Dollar Died' comes hot on the heels of NIA's October 31st release of its latest critically acclaimed full length documentary 'End of Liberty', which shows how Americans are rapidly losing their liberties and freedoms, and how our country is headed for a complete societal collapse. 'End of Liberty' has already received about 1/2 million views in less than one month.

 

On November 5th, NIA released a report with its projections for future U.S. food prices based on the recently announced $600 billion in quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve. Several days later, NIA's food inflation report was featured live on Fox News by Glenn Beck, who was recently ranked by Newsweek as the #2 most influential political figure in the country. On November 12th, NIA's President Gerard Adams was a guest on the Fox Business Network, where he spoke about the potential for food inflation to take over as America's biggest crisis in 2011.

 

NIA is not a political organization and does not support Republicans or Democrats. NIA exists solely for the purpose of educating Americans to the truth about the U.S. economy and inflation. Americans live in a country where 99% of those who studied economics in college were taught voodoo Keynesian economics.

 

Keynesian economists have the mistaken belief that all recessions are bad and must be suppressed by government interference in the free market. They believe that by the Federal Reserve manipulating interest rates to artificially low levels and printing trillions of dollars of fiat money out of thin air, they can create jobs, economic growth, and wealth. They believe that a little bit of inflation is good for an economy.

 

Keynesian economists fail to realize that when price inflation breaks out, it becomes impossible to contain unless interest rates are immediately raised to a level that is higher than the real rate of price inflation. Unfortunately, due to the current size and scope of our national debt and unfunded liabilities, NIA believes it will be impossible for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates higher than the real rate of inflation. Real interest rates are likely to stay negative until the U.S. dollar collapses and is officially declared dead and worthless.

 

Gas and grocery bills for all Americans have been rising substantially in recent months. The average American has been seeing health insurance costs spiral out of control on an annual basis. Students have been suffering from college tuitions rising like there is no tomorrow. Massive price inflation is all around us, yet the mainstream media continues to ignore the truth and reports the government's phony CPI numbers as gospel.

 

Politicians in Washington from both sides of the aisle have been colluding with the media in order to brainwash Americans into believing inflation is not a problem and that their real fear should be deflation. Deflation is a good thing for middle class Americans because it means their money is worth more and their incomes and savings have more purchasing power. Inflation is only good for the politicians because it allows them to steal the wealth of middle class Americans and redistribute it to their banker friends on Wall Street who don't produce anything of real value.

There is no reason for a lawyer or banker to make more money than a farmer or factory worker. This is only made possible by the system we have today, where Americans get suckered into electing representatives who promise entitlements that the government can't afford without printing the money to pay for them. When the dollar bubble bursts and the system collapses, the free market will allow farmers and goods producers to become wealthy while lawyers and bankers go broke.

 

Most Americans are naive enough to believe that because the U.S. has survived for so long with such a huge national debt and continuous budget deficits, the country will be able to continue down this path forever without any consequences because after all, this is America we are talking about. The truth is, our national debt has grown by 70.7% over the past five years, compared to 41.8% during the previous five years, and 14.3% during the five years before that. Meanwhile, our GDP has grown by 17.9% over the past five years, compared to 27.5% during the previous five years, and 32.9% during the five years before that. We have gone from our GDP growing more than twice as fast as our debt, to our debt growing at nearly quadruple the speed of our GDP. A train wreck is getting ready to happen and this train wreck is literally unstoppable.

 

To watch 'The Day the Dollar Died' for free please visit the NIA video page at: http://inflation.us/videos.html

 

It is important to spread the word about NIA to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, if you want America to survive hyperinflation. Please tell everybody you know to become members of NIA for free immediately at: http://inflation.us

"Gold and Silver Prices Signal the Destruction of the Dollar"

http://inflation.us/


The Federal Reserve is Responsible for the last 2 Decades of Economic Turmoil
1. Beginning with the Savings & Loan crisis in 1990, each engineered crisis is growing in intensity and carnage. First, there was the Internet bubble crash then the Real Estate bubble meltdown and now we are at the footsteps of an unprecedented acceleration of price increases in food and energy.

In 2007, commodity prices soared when there was actually a slowdown in the global economy. There was no reason for commodity prices to go ballistic at that time, except for federal reserve intervention. The price of oil went from $78 to $147. High gas prices actually burdened the average US consumer with an additional "tax" of five hundred billion dollars.

That 500 billion dollar "hidden tax" was ONE of many reasons, we are IN the current Great (NON) Recession.

(The US Dollar Index is Worthless)
2. On CNBC they often point to the dollar index and state that a weaker dollar is good for the export economy. Currently US Dollar index looks bad - but it actually means nothing because it is being compared to other world wide fiat currencies undergoing massive debasement. Worldwide central banks, seem to be in a currency death dance, racing each other to the bottom in the name of international competitiveness.

Gold and Silver is the Only way to test the Strength of our Currency.

The dollar is weakening against other currencies but when compared against the price of precious metals and raw materials we can see THE THE TRUE VALUE OF A US FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE


(GOLD AND SILVER ARE NOT EXPENSIVE)
3. The truth is Gold and Silver prices are just Getting Started. If you pay attention the public is selling not buying gold (cash4gold commercial)
What happened during the Internet bubble? The average Joe was piling into tech stocks and many individuals were giving up there jobs to day trade full time

And we all know what transpired during the last death throws of the Real estate bubble. People were buying at the peak 3, 4, 5, 10 home and flipping every WHICH way to make AS LITTLE AS 20,000

The common JOE, BUYS into manias...When all your neighbors are hoarding and trading gold, and telling you real estate is a waste of time and money, it may be the time to look at diversifying some your investments out of gold and silver.

WHAT I SEE PERSONALLY IS
10 years of Real Estate Stagnation & Depreciation &
10 years of Gold & Silver Appreciation

4 (JOBS ARE NOT COMING BACK TO THE US)
TO QUOTE Dr. Marc Faber: "COMPANIES would be out of THEIR minds, with health care reforms, government interventions and the uncertainty about future taxes in the US, to even consider expanding in the US.

Corporations are expanding in China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Africa and Brazil. The business world is an international place today, and if you run a corporation, whether you employ 50 or 10,000 PEOPLE, you can choose where you invest your money in terms of capital spending.

Where do you want to expand factories? If I employed people in the US, I would rather think of reducing the 50 employees RATHER THEN HIRING MORE.

Freedom, America's Dieing Breed " Natural Rights And The Patriot Act"

Judge Andrew Napolitano : Natural Rights and The Patriot Act! (Part 1/3)

Judge Andrew Napolitano : Natural Rights and The Patriot Act! (Part 2/3)

Judge Andrew Napolitano : Natural Rights and The Patriot Act! (Part 3/3)

FBI: ---Cyber Scams‏

Smishing and Vishing
And Other Cyber Scams to Watch Out For This Holiday

11/24/2010
You receive a text message or an automated phone call on your cell phone saying there’s a problem with your bank account. You’re given a phone number to call or a website to log into and asked to provide personal identifiable information—like a bank account number, PIN, or credit card number—to fix the problem. 
But beware:  It could be a “smishing” or “vishing” scam…and criminals on the other end of the phone or website could be attempting to collect your personal information in order to help themselves to your money. While most cyber scams target your computer, smishing and vishing scams target your mobile phone, and they’re becoming a growing threat as a growing number of Americans own mobile phones. (Vishing scams also target land-line phones.)
“Smishing”—a combination of SMS texting and phishing—and “Vishing”—voice and phishing—are two of the scams the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning consumers about as we head into the holiday shopping season. These scams are also a reminder that cyber crimes aren’t just for computers anymore. 

IC3 Tips to Protect Yourself From Cyber Scams - Don’t respond to text messages or automated voice messages from unknown or blocked numbers on your mobile phone.  - Treat your mobile phone like you would your computer…don’t download anything unless you trust the source. - When buying online, use a legitimate payment service and always use a credit card because charges can be disputed if you don’t receive what you ordered or find unauthorized charges on your card. - Check each seller’s rating and feedback along with the dates the feedback was posted. Be wary of a seller with a 100 percent positive feedback score, with a low number of feedback postings, or with all feedback posted around the same date. - Don’t respond to unsolicited e-mails (or texts or phone calls, for that matter) requesting personal information, and never click on links or attachments contained within unsolicited e-mails. If you want to go to a merchant’s website, type their URL directly into your browser’s address bar.

Here’s how smishing and vishing scams work:  criminals set up an automated dialing system to text or call people in a particular region or area code (or sometimes they use stolen customer phone numbers from banks or credit unions). The victims receive messages like: “There’s a problem with your account,” or “Your ATM card needs to be reactivated,” and are directed to a phone number or website asking for personal information. Armed with that information, criminals can steal from victims’ bank accounts, charge purchases on their charge cards, create a phony ATM card, etc.
Sometimes, if a victim logs onto one of the phony websites with a smartphone, they could also end up downloading malicious software that could give criminals access to anything on the phone. With the growth of mobile banking and the ability to conduct financial transactions online, smishing and vishing attacks may become even more attractive and lucrative for cyber criminals.
Here are a couple of recent smishing case examples:

• Account holders at one particular credit union, after receiving a text about an account problem, called the phone number in the text, gave out their personal information, and had money withdrawn from their bank accounts within 10 minutes of their calls.
• Customers at a bank received a text saying they needed to reactivate their ATM card. Some called the phone number in the text and were prompted to provide their ATM card number, PIN, and expiration date. Thousands of fraudulent withdrawals followed.

Other holiday cyber scams to watch out for, according to IC3, include:

• Phishing schemes using e-mails that direct victims to spoofed merchant websites misleading them into providing personal information.
• Online auction and classified ad fraud, where Internet criminals post products they don’t have but charge the consumer’s credit card anyway and pocket the money.  
• Delivery fraud, where online criminals posing as legitimate delivery services offer reduced or free shipping labels for a fee. When the customer tries to ship a package using a phony label, the legitimate delivery service flags it and requests payment from the customer.

For more information about the latest cyber crime scams, visit IC3’s website.

 Source

O HOLY NIGHT - One of the greatest epic Christmas Songs, performed by TunesNorth

This Should Be Posted In Every School In The " USA"

Only 31 words --- Think about it 

Isn't life strange?

I never met one Veteran who enlisted to
fight for Socialism

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,

OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,

AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT

STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,

INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND

JUSTICE FOR ALL!

If Muslims can pray on Madison Avenue, why are Christians banned from praying in public and erecting religious displays on their holy days?

What happened to our National Day of Prayer? Obama says we can't have that, yet Muslims are allowed to block off Madison Ave. in N. Y. and pray in the middle of the street! And, it's a monthly ritual!
Tell me again, whose country is this? Ours or the Muslims?
I was asked to send this on if I agree, or delete if I don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having 'In God! We Trust' on our money and having 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I believe it's time we stand up for what we believe!

If you agree, pass this on, if not, delete

Submitted by J. J. Andrew

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,
OF THE UNITED STATES OF  MUSLIMS ,
AND TO THE PUBLIC FOR WHICH IT
STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER ALAH,
INVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY TO 

NO ONE AND JUSTICE FOR SOME!

If Muslims can pray on Madison Avenue, why are
Christians banned from praying in public and erecting religious displays on their holy days?

What happened to our National Day of Prayer? Obama says we can't have that, yet Muslims are allowed to block off Madison Ave. in N. Y. and pray in the middle of the street! And, it's a monthly ritual!

Tell me again, whose country is this? Ours or the Muslims?

I was asked to send this on if I agree, or delete if I don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.

Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why
there is such a problem in having 'In God! We Trust' on our money and having 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I believe it's time we stand up for what we believe!

If you agree, pass this on, if not, delete

Regards,

Bob Kralowetz

Submitted by Roger Cote 

To Those Who Serve, Thank You & Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We're Only Guilty Of Bringing You The Facts TSA Shuts Down Controversial Imaging Device

TSA turns off naked body scanners to avoid opt-out day protests

• (NaturalNews) Anticipating a nationwide grassroots surge of protests against naked body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, the TSA simply turned off its naked body scanners on Wednesday and let air travelers walk right through security checkpoints without being X-rayed or molested.
• All across the country, air travelers are reporting that the TSA simply deactivated the naked body scanners and let people go right through without a scan. "Backscatter scanners are off. No scan. No patdown." reported a traveler from the Seattle airport. "Backscatter machines aren't being used at LAX," reported another traveler. "They're all roped off."
• Much the same story is being reported all across the country.

• The TSA is desperate to avoid protests

• Shutting down the "National Opt-Out Day" by turning off the machines is the only logical move for the TSA, of course: The agency needed a way to defuse the growing grassroots resistance to its criminal violations of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights. So instead of facing what was sure to be widespread protest, the agency simply decided to turn off the machines for a day.
• This action tells us all sorts of fascinating things about the TSA and its fabricated security excuses. Perhaps most importantly, it proves that the naked body scanners are not needed for air travel security in the first place. When it wants to, the TSA can just turn the machines off and resort to baggage X-rays and metal detectors. That's worked for years, and it apparently worked today, too.
• And yet, up until today, the TSA has insisted that the naked body scanners are absolutely essential to detecting hidden bombs, and that "travelers won't be safe" unless they use the naked body scanners. So all of a sudden today it's okay for the TSA to put air travelers at risk of being blown up?
• The TSA can't have it both ways. Either the naked body scanners are vital for air security and they need to be running 24/7 to keep everybody safe, or they're just another security con game being played out for the financial benefit of Chertoff and others who profit from the sale of such machines.
• How can the TSA -- with a straight face -- say that naked body scanners are vital for air security but not on the busiest air travel day of the year?
• As you can see, there are some serious holes in the TSA's mythology, and interestingly, this National Opt-Out Day indirectly exposed them by getting the TSA to turn off the naked body scanners. This is effectively an admission that they aren't important to air security.

• Trying to avoid any challenge to its power

• This action by the TSA also shows that the TSA is desperately trying to avoid being publicly embarrassed by the national-opt-out day protests. Lots of local and national news film crews were out at the airports today, hoping to catch something interesting on camera. But by turning off the naked body scanners, the TSA was able to stage a "calm looking" day at the airport.

• As soon as the TV cameras leave, however, they can turn those machines right back on and start molesting people once again. This is classic behavior of police state tyrants: They present a calm, professional image to the media, but once the cameras leave, all of a sudden their hands are back down in your pants.

• I predict the TSA will have the machines turned right back on by Friday, and more reports of sexual molestation and inappropriate pat-downs will continue to emerge.

• Many people just skipped the airports altogether

• The other big travel news today was that lots of travelers decided to simply skip the airports altogether. NaturalNews received emails from several travelers who described major U.S. airports as "nearly empty."

• Meanwhile, traffic was terrible on the freeways. The Massachusetts Turnpike played host to a 30-mile traffic jam today (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/2...).

• A new Zogby poll indicates that 43% of the American public will seek alternatives to flying due to the TSA's aggressive pat-downs and naked body scanners (http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews....). That's going to add up to a huge financial hit for the air travel industry in the months ahead. The TSA could end up destroying much of the air travel industry altogether!

• Learn more about freedom, security, American history and the Bill of Rights

• For a full discussion of the issues that really matter here, check out my new commentary audio / video about the Don't Touch My Junk song.

• The first 13 minutes or so are about the song itself. After that, it's mostly a discussion about freedom and the Bill of Rights. You can watch that video commentary for free at:
• http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=F69DE...

• Thank you to all who participated in the National Opt Out Day. In getting the TSA to turn off its naked body scanners, we exposed the TSA's "big lie" about air travel safety

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• Have a Happy Thanksgiving and travel safely, no matter what method of transportation you choose.

Saturday Bottle Drive Benefits Lisbon Ice Hockey‏

Attention:   Lisbon Parents, Teachers, Students and Friends,

On Saturday,  November 27, members of the Lisbon Ice Hockey Team will be traveling throughout Lisbon door-to-door for a bottle drive from 9 a.m.  until 1 p. m.  All donations will benefit the Lisbon team.

If you are unavailable on Saturday, the Lisbon Falls Redemption Center is prepared to welcome folks supporting the team with bottle donations anytime on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 26 – 28.   Please remember to mention donations are for the Lisbon Ice Hockey Program.

If you have any questions, please contact Pamela Grant @ 576-8854 or email pamelagrant@roadrunner.com.

Thank you for your support ,

The Lisbon Ice Hockey Team

Back Door To War

Hi members, this article is a history lesson amd a warning, that I strongly urge you to read copy down, print out and pass out.

Here during the early morning hours of November 24, 2010, I have been listening, just in snatches, to the Jerry Doyle talk show, wherein they are talking about the war developing between North Korea and South Korea. They are speculating that Communist China will not allow North Korea to proceed with their war making activity against the South Korea because of China's reliance on resources China receives from North Korea. I contend, the Jerry Doyle and his guests at their heads squarely up their asses.

Let's get something straight, there is zero possibility that North Korea would have engaged in any of the war making activity that it is engaging in against South Korea without the full prior approval of Communist China. I will even go a step farther and state that Communist China instigated these North Korean attacks on South Korea.

During last month, we had received many reports about a disabled cruise ship located in the Pacific Ocean that supposedly had an engine room fire that totally disabled the ship. It is my understanding that this ship was distressed, floundering in the Pacific Ocean for three days before it was discovered adrift.

That is, it is my understanding that this ship did not have any ability to send or receive radio distress messages. I am engineer. I do know a little bit about ships. There is absolutely no possibility that an engine room fire on that ship could have disabled the backup electrical systems and emergency communications equipment.

During the same time we also were advised of some kind of rocket or missile that was launched off of the Pacific Coast. I contend that this rocket or missile was an EMF device launched by a submarine from Communist China. That the purpose of this EMF missile was to test the response of the United States military. This EMF missile, I contend was aimed at this cruise ship. That it was intended to disable that cruise ship in the South Pacific. I further contend that this EMF missile, fried every electrical system on that cruise ship, which was its intended purpose.

And now we have a war breaking out between North and South Korea with the president of the United States reiterating the guarantee of the United States to protect South Korea from North Korea.

During the last few days, we have been inundated with reports and complaints about the pat down and body searches of airline passengers.

During the last few days. I have been listening to the talk show host on this purported conservative radio station Mountain talk 97 coming out of Mountain Home Arkansas, where the talk show hosts have been stating that we are beginning to lose our freedom here in the United States. Where have these talk show host Ben for the past 30 or 40 or 50 years. Are they totally brain-dead, or are they so young that they have no personal recollection of the freedoms that existed in this country in the 1940s, during World War II. I, on the other hand, am 76 years old. I entered my teen years during World War II. I remember very, very well the freedoms that we enjoyed back then. And I have watched with a crying heart as these freedoms have been deteriorating for the last 50 or 60 years . And these brain-dead talk show hosts are claiming that we are just beginning to lose our freedoms.

Now I am going to go back to the beginning of this country in 1776. The foundation for the design of the government for this country was established long before July 4, 1776. It is critically important to understand that in the 18th century every single country on the planet was rolled by some kind of a monarch be it a King, Emperor or Tsar.

The displeasure of the subjects of King George in the British colonies was not the first time that the subjects of the King of England had been dissatisfied with their King and wanted to kick him out. It was the expectation of the vast majority of the colonists that King George would be replaced by their own King, most probably George Washington.

The vast majority of the colonists had no expectation or desire to have any other form of government than a King.

It was Thomas Paine, who stirred the common people up and convince them with his writing, that's they did not need a King. Nor, Thomas Paine taught, did they need aristocrats to create and run their government, that the common people could govern themselves.

Thomas Paine was able to convince a sufficient number of the common people, all of them being subjects of King George, that they could create and operate their own government, but the problem was they had no experience; this had never ever been done before, and all of the commoners had been indoctrinated for many generations to believe that they were incapable of participating in any meaningful way with the government. They had been indoctrinated for many generations to believe that only those of the aristocrat class had the ability to manage the government.

The point here is that the commoners of the late 18th century didn't have a clue as to how a government should be designed that would be controlled by the common people. As a result of this lack of knowledge the participation of the commoners in the creation of the government resulted in the highly defective Articles of Confederation, which those of the aristocrat class knew would never work, but it was nevertheless implemented and lasted for about 11 years, during which time the political situation in the new country was a total disaster.

Now, understand that at that time in the history of we human there was no refrigeration of food, that is, most of the people present in the 13 colonies were farmers. This was required in order for them to survive. There was no importing of food from Mexico or any country in South America, or any other country, all of the food needed by those living in the 13 colonies had to be grown by those living in the colonies.

During the immediate pursual of the Civil War it was necessary for a significant percentage of these farmers to become soldiers in order to drive out King George's redcoats. And after the shooting part of the war was over, before the new government was created and things settle down, these soldier farmers were president during the creation of the new government, and they participated in it, which resulted in the disastrous articles of Confederation.

During the 11 years that the articles of Confederation were in force the former farmers had , of necessity, gone back to their farm and yielded the operation of the government to the former aristocrats. Rest assured, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, nor any of the other "former" aristocrats got their hands dirty tilling soil, or got their boots dirty, following a plow pulled by an animal. This was work that was fit only for commoners.

Now there is another point that needs to be understood here, and I hate to burst the bubble of those who idolize the founding fathers, however it is a violation of human nature to expect that men, long accustomed, for many generations, of being in charge of the government, are going to be all that eager to relinquish that high status and consider themselves to be politically equal to scrub women and stablemen.

George Washington is considered to be the father of our country. If the truth be known the true father of our country is Thomas Paine. Not George Washington, and neither did Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence, that great document was written by Thomas Paine. I suggest those of you who think otherwise, go do your homework.

That Constitution, that everyone seems to love so much is the cause of the mess we are in. There are several very very serious defect in that document and one very very serious omission.

I don't know which is worse. The inclusion in the Constitution of the authority authorizing the Congress, to borrow Money on the credit of the United States or the failure of the founding fathers to include in the Constitution a definition and explanation of what it is that constitutes a trial by jury. I don't know which of those is the worst or has done the most damage.

How many of you who are reading this are aware of Congressman Davy Crockett from Tennessee. Congressman Crockett served for six years in the House of Representatives during which time he almost lost his bid for reelection, because he had voted in his first term in Congress to give taxpayer money to the victims of a terrible fire, who had lost everything in this fire.

Some other congressmen introduced the bill into Congress to bail out those victims of that fire, and Congressman Crockett voted for that unconstitutional expenditure.

When he went back to Tennessee to stump for reelection he was called on the carpet for his unconstitutional vote, and in order for him to be reelected he had to publicly apologize to his constituents and assure them that he had learned his lesson and that he would never ever again vote to use taxpayers money to rescue anyone.

How can it be under President Barack Hussein Obama, that the government of the United States has become the number one financial bailout of so many different entities, and even foreign countries, that it is impossible to keep track of them all, and I hear none of the "conservative" talk show hosts ever complaining about this or pointing out that it is totally unconstitutional. Well, in fairness, I did hear one talk show host actually mention the Davy Crockett story, but only one. And I have not heard that talk show host talk anymore about it. I guess he was properly chastised thereafter.

I contend that the framers of the Constitution intentionally wrote it so that it could be used to destroy the concept of government of by and for the people. I do not contend, however, that they did so because of any malicious intent but because they too had been indoctrinated for many generations to believe that only aristocrats were in intellectually qualified to run the government and that in order for the society here to be properly governed the concept of government by the common people had to be destroyed bygradually eroding it away.

I contend that this is why the men who wrote the Constitution did not include any of the protections that were later added in the first 10 amendments. But as I have previously written and stated when the Constitution was presented to the commoners at that time. The commoners rejected it and demanded a Bill of Rights. This demand approves the commoners did not fully understand self-government, and they certainly did not understand what it is that constitutes the fundamental basic natural principles. And unfortunately it seems that neither does anybody in 2010 understand this basic concept of freedom, being that government cannot possibly be imbued with any more authority than the authority naturally imbued into one single individual, by nature.

My favorite example of that is the question, "How many men, would it take to properly and democratically vote, the panties off of an unwilling woman."

The foregoing question proves absolutely and irrefutably that voting is a crime no matter what the issue might be that as voted upon.

The commoners created and presented to the founding fathers about 50 proposed amendments to the Constitution. Due to the fact that there was no electronic communication at that time. All of the 13 new states came up with their own suggestions for the amendments, therefore, there were many duplications. The 50 original proposals can be read on the Internet, and I suggest that all of you go read them, here is the link. Click on it. I dare you:

http://www.constitution.org/dhbr.htm

As you read through the 50 proposed amendments I encourage you to take note of what I call the flavor, take note that the writing of these proposals written by commoners, that there is clearly no intention on their part, that the application of these protections should be limited to any particular political class.

Then go read the 10 amendments created from these 50 proposals by the "former" aristocrats, and count how many times you find the word citizen in those 10 amendments. Then count how many times you find the word people. Then go read the preamble to the Constitution, and count how many times you find the word citizen in the preamble. Please understand that the purpose of the preamble to the Constitution is to explain the purpose of the Constitution. So what I was the explanation, the aristocrats wrote into the preamble? I will distill it down to its essence for you,

"We the people of the United States in order to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Please note that the wording of the preamble is both limiting and exclusionary. The protection there is limited to the people of the United States and excludes anyone else, including citizens that is, citizens are excluded from the protection of the Constitution. As stated in the preamble, written by the "former" aristocrats.

Please note that in the preamble, you do not find the word citizen, even one-time.

Now back to the issue of the form of government, designed by the founding fathers and the form of government in all the other countries on the planet at the time the government of this country was created. As I stated herein above, all of the countries on the planet in the latter part of the 18th century were some kind of monarchy, where there was one individual man who was in charge, known as a King, Emperor or Tsar. Those who were in charge in these monarchies have not taken kindly to the influence that the government of the United States has had on virtually all of the countries on the planet. To put it mildly, they are very unhappy with the form of government in the United States, as were the founding fathers of the government of the United States at the time they created. The founding fathers only created a government that they did, because of the influence of Thomas Paine.

Forces have been at work behind the scenes since the very beginning of this country to destroy any semblance of government by the common people and to punish the common people of the United States for having caused the aristocrats worldwide to lose their overt positions of power.

Additionally, at the same time, it has been the intention of communist China to take over the ownership and control of the entire North American continent, including Mexico and the United States and Canada. This is a private agenda of communist China, quite separate and apart from the displeasure of all of the former aristocrats, who are also doing everything they can to destroy the government we have here.

It is not by any accident or stupidity that the government of communist China has become the biggest holder of notes of the government of the United States. There is no possibility that those in control of communist China are not aware of the fact that all of those notes are quite literally worthless and can never ever be made good. They've known it from the very beginning, when they made their first loan to the United States. The intent of the government of China from the outset has been to economically destroying the United States; have they succeeded, take a look around, judge for yourself.

Another major subject of conversation on these so-called "conservative" talk shows is a sad state of the economy of the United States, which has caused such massive unemployment. There is much conversation and demand that the government do something to create jobs for all of these millions of people who are out of work.

What, are all of these talk shows and commentators totally brain-dead? There is no possibility that the government of the United States or the government of any of the states can create an environment in this country that will cause employment to happen. The vast majority of the production has been moved to China and India, South Korea and Japan. The only way that the unemployed in the United States can be put back to work is for all of these jobs to come back to the United States. The reason why those jobs moved to these foreign countries is because the government of the United States drove them out intentionally. Does it take a rocket scientist to understand this?

And then there is all of the talk about the foreclosures about the thousands or millions of people who are losing their homes, and how it's all the fault of the banks or of the Federal Reserve and that these foreclosures are illegal, because the foreclosing entities cannot produce the wet ink contracts to prove that they legally hold title to the property they are foreclosing on.

It may very well be true that the foreclosing entities cannot legally establish that they are properly positioned to foreclose. However, that does not change the fact that the foreclose are on borrower who have not paid for the house. So who is more guilty here, the lender or the borrower?

Then we hear that when the loan was originally extended, that the lending bank did not lend any of its own money, but that the lending bank, merely created the money to fund the loan by writing a check, creating money that never existed before. There is no doubt that this is true.

There is also no doubt that the lending bank did not make an investment in the loan process. But somebody fronted up all of these millions of loans, if it was not the lending bank then who was it?

When the lending bank wrote the check, the check was then given to the builder of the house. The builder of the house then took the money from that check and used it to pay everyone who had helped to build a house, including all those who had provided the materials from which the house was built. All of those who received their portion of this money from the builder then spent their portion to pay for their day-to-day expenses or in the case of the material suppliers to pay their suppliers, or to pay the lumber men in the forest, who cut down the trees.

The point here is that it was the people of the community that actually funded all of these millions of loans, and it is the people of the community that are getting screwed when these foreclosed on borrower's are no longer being required to make their payments or to move out of the house upon their default. The default thing borrowers are in fact stealing their houses and they are stealing them from their neighbors in the community.

At the same time here is important to understand that when the banks have all of these bad loans on their books wherein we are told that this is the cause of their failure, that this is nothing but smoke and mirrors, because it is impossible for these banks to be taking any loss, because they never had any advancement in the first place, it is all smoke and mirrors and gigantic cover-up. And I'm sorry to say. I cannot help but believe that Congressman Ron Paul of Texas does not fully understand all of this.

Part of the procedure here in this mortgage issue is that millions of these mortgages have been sold to investors and the investors are the ones who are doing the foreclosing who are unable to come up with the wet pink contract to prove their investment and ownership. Now it is important to understand here that these investors do actually have an investment, they paid the original lending bank for the mortgages. It is true that they purchased these mortgages at a discounted price, of course, but there can be no denial that they do have a legitimate claim, but not in regard to the house. But in regard to the original lending bank, who defrauded them when the original lending bank sold them the mortgage when the original lending bank had no legitimate claim of ownership on because the original lending bank had no proper claim of ownership, because the original lending bank had not lent any of its own money during the original loan process.

Why is it that it seems as though I am the only one who understands this?

It is the people of the communities of this country that have affronted up every single loan extended in this country by any bank, where the bank created the money that was "lent ", no matter if the loan was a mortgage loan, a business allowed or a credit card. (This does not include credit unions that loan their members money).

To the contrary of the belief of those in the patriot community the paper Federal Reserve notes that were created in all of these loans are not worthless fiat money. Fiat money is money that is put into circulation by the government without anything back it up. Although the money that is created by the Federal Reserve to fund loans made to private-sector borrowers is created under government authority , it is not created by the government or put in circulation by the government. This paper money is backed by the productivity of the private-sector borrowers, it is not in any way fair or proper to characterize this money as fiat money.

Understand something readers, the reason why our country is in such a mess is because the common people have been too lazy to do their own thinking. There is no doubt that thinking is the hardest form of work there is, and it is the nature of humans to avoid work as often as possible.

I have titled this article, "BACK DOOR TO WAR". Everything that I have set forth here is part of the intention to manipulate this country into a position or a condition where it does not have the ability and cannot survive a war.

When the Japanese were fraudulently induced to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by the manipulations of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the industrial complex in the United States was in full operation. Even though we were still coming out of the depression. With the impetus of the Japanese attack we were able to build a war machine to not only defeat the Japanese but also in all military theaters in Europe.

I copied the name of this article from the title of the book written by Charles Tancil in which he exposed how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill manipulated the people of the United States into World War II and what President Roosevelt did to provoke the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The same thing is happening now in 2010, China, Communist China is using North Korea to provoke the United States into a war with North Korea, which China will totally fund. Just like it did in the Korean War, of some 50 years ago, only this time. We don't have the military industrial complex to fight an all-out war, and China has demonstrated its ability to disable all of our ships and airplanes, as it did that cruise ship last month.

Oh, before I forgot it, the critically important issue that the founding fathers did not include in the Constitution was an explanation and/or definition of what it is that constitutes a trial by jury. The most important part of this explanation would've been that the first duty of a jury is to judge the law before they ever consider the facts. If this were followed. There would be no drug convictions in the United States, because the government of the United States has absolutely no authority to regulate anyone's use of any kind of drugs, recreational or otherwise. Additionally, and perhaps even more important than the previous point is that it in a criminal trial it does not take does not take a 12 to 0 verdict to acquit a defendant, all it takes is one juror to effect an acquittal. Under the common law, under which the right to a trial by jury was created and established, it t took two eyewitnesses to a murder before an indictment could even be issued. Under the common law there is no such thing as circumstantial evidence or a verdict mandated by the judge.

At the founding of this country. It was held that it was better for 100 guilty to go free than for one innocent to be wrongly convicted. The current practice is that it's better that a 1000 innocent people are sent to prison than for 1 guilty to be wrongly convicted.

Additionally, the decision of each of the jurors in a trial by jury in secret and not subject to review by anyone, including the other members of the jury. During deliberations, all of the votes of the jurors in the jury deliberation room are supposed to be by a written secret ballot, so that in the event that there is a holdout of one or two jurors for either conviction or acquittal, the holdout juror(s) will not be subjected to pier pressure or in some cases, that the juror's life would be in danger. There is no authority under the common law for a judge to ever poll a jury to see how they voted. It is supposed to be SECRET!

There is no requirements under the, law, that any of the jurors during deliberation must argue their point or explain or justify the reason for their vote, no matter if the vote would be for conviction or acquittal, it is simply none of the other jurors business. Now this does not mean that a juror is prohibited from arguing his points or her point, but there is no requirement that such be done.

And, of very significant importance is that in the event of a hung jury there is no authority under the common law for another trial to be held. Such a second trial is a denial of due process of law. It destroys the whole purpose of the trial by jury, and this, in my not so humble opinion, is a reason why the founding fathers did not include any explanation as to what it was that constitutes a trial by jury in the Constitution. The trial by jury was fought for by the common people of England and not by the aristocrats, who made the laws. The purpose of the trial by jury was so that the common people would have some control over the legislation imposed upon them by the aristocrats. We have no such protection here in the United States in 2010. It has been totally destroyed. A jury trial in this country is a total joke, but not funny at all!

All of this should have been included in the original draft in the original body of the Constitution. But there's one thing that the aristocrats did not want trial by jury. They wanted it destroyed, and it has been, as they say, the proof is in the pudding.

Authored by Eric WhoRU, of Yellville Arkansas, unlimited copying is authorized and encouraged as long as due credit is accorded to me.

This Weekend's Bottle Drive For The Ice Hockey Program Not Camp Kieve

Sorry, for the confusion.  The Camp Kieve bottle drive will be happening at a later date.

This weekend's bottle drive is for Ice Hockey support.

Thanks.

Attention Maine Property Owners

Is Maine's Gateway 1 Corridor Action Plan an organic response to a local problem or a small part of a much broader agenda? Are property rights at risk?

TSA And Your Civil Liberties

Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce: "Obama is Impeachable for Siding with a Foreign Government"

The Reality For This American Entreprenuer

VIDEO: Story of Business: when costs compete with passion

Sixteen years ago, Barb started Black Eyed Susan — her store of hard-to-find garden and home accessories — to fulfill her passion, to have a positive impact on a community, and to enjoy a lifestyle of freedom.

Today, Barb may close the doors on what she loves to do.

In an already difficult environment for small business, government-augmented uncertainty threatens to raise the cost of Barb’s retail business to unbearable levels.

Barb’s story is Part 2 of our documentary series “The Story of Business,” a joint project of Public Notice and the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.

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***NEWS FLASH*** Repeat Of History, North Korean Attacks South Korea

Click here for MSNBC short blurb.

South Korea

North Korean attack on Yeonpyeong Island is worst against civilians in 20 years

A South Korean soldier was killed and 13 others injured after North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island setting more than 60 houses ablaze and sending civilians fleeing in terror.

Read more here and from AP  here.