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Now How Would This Story Apply To Lisbon's 'Double Dipping' Police Chief?

We fully realize that it pertains to another state with their own rules, but doesn't it make you wonder just a little bit?

Live Free or Die, just don't try to cheat the People.

April 23, 2012

Hampstead fire chief ordered to repay $80,000

By Cara Hogan chogan@eagletribune.com

HAMPSTEAD — The state is asking fire Chief Michael Carrier to pay back $80,000 of his pension, since he accepted the money while employed full-time by the Hampstead Fire Department.

When Carrier retired as chief of the Londonderry Fire Department in 2007, he qualified for a state pension, according to Marty Karlon, spokesman for the New Hampshire Retirement System.

But then Carrier got a new job as the fire chief in Hampstead.

State statute only allows retirees with a pension to hold part-time positions, Karlon said.

 Oh Come On Now, you know you want to read more on this one, so click here for 'The Rest of the Story'.

Submitted by: A Lisbon Concerned Citizen

Christian Civic League of Maine and NOM form Protect Marriage Maine to Defeat Ballot Initiative Redefining Marriage‏

Augusta, Maine – The Christian Civic League of Maine and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today announced they have joined forces to form Protect Marriage Maine, and will lead the campaign against the proposed initiative redefining marriage in Maine. The initiative is expected to be on the November 2012 ballot.

“We are pleased to bring together these key organizations to begin the process of educating voters about Maine’s marriage laws, and urging them to defeat this initiative to redefine marriage,” said Bob Emrich, Chairman of Protect Marriage Maine. “This group was instrumental in defeating Question One in 2009 and we have every confidence we will do so again.” Emrich is the founder of the Maine Jeremiah Project (MJP) which played a major role in the 2009 repeal of Question One. The MJP is the pastors’ network of the Christian Civic League of Maine.

In 2009, Maine voters defeated Question One which would have redefined marriage to make it genderless for everyone, thus enabling same-sex “marriage.” Despite being told “no” by the voters, homosexual advocates have submitted signatures seeking to put the marriage redefinition initiative on the November ballot.

“We intend to organize a broad and deep campaign across the state of Maine,” said Carroll Conley, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine (CCL) and an executive committee member of Protect Marriage Maine. “The CCL was not a major player in the 2009 campaign, and we believe we can play a major role in the campaign this year. We look forward to doing so.”

Emrich said that Protect Marriage Maine would organize the entire community of faith, including Protestants, Catholics, orthodox Jews, Muslims and others, along with people with no faith traditions at all. “The truth about marriage is that it is profoundly in the public good and has served society well for thousands of years,” Emrich said. “Same-sex couples in Maine already enjoy full legal rights. We don’t have to redefine marriage simply because of the political demands of a small but powerful special interest group.”

The committee filed paperwork with the Campaign Finance Board on April 20^th creating Protect Marriage Maine. The campaign will be based in Augusta.

“Our campaign will be about the importance of marriage and the consequences to society if marriage is redefined,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage. “We reject attempts to make this campaign about the morality of homosexuality. The campaign is about marriage, and we look forward to educating voters about the importance of maintaining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

More 'Discourse' From A Democrat In Maine, Huh, Say It 'Ain't' So; The Maine WIRE: "Civil Discourse"

“Civil Discourse” from a Democrat legislator

Pat Wellenbach / AP Photo

By now you’ve heard the story of Democrat Rep. Chuck Kruger and his tweet saying he would like to see former president Cheney meet, “the same final end he gave Sadaam.” The democrats in the legislature didn’t denounce the tweet, didn’t ask him to resign, and more or less pretended it never happened.

Now, another democrat legislator is getting some attention for her “civility.”
A couple days ago, The Bangor Daily News ran an opinion piece from Jill Saxby, the head of the Maine Council of Churches, a group that says it is an, “ecumenical community of nine denominations dedicated to the vision of a sustainable, just, and compassionate world.”

The article touted the groups “Covenant for Civil Discourse” a pledge they hope candidates will sign onto. According to Saxsby, “It has become harder for anyone to be heard without shouting. Outrage — and outrageousness — get attention. Among those lamenting the decay of civil discourse in recent years are many of Maine’s religious folks. In response, the Maine Council of Churches developed a “Covenant for Civil Discourse.”

In the article, Saxsby notes that Democrat Cynthia Dill, who is running for Senate, is a recent signer of the pledge. Dill also trumpeted her own signing of the bill through twitter:

Here are the six points on the pledge:

1. To act respectfully toward others, including those who oppose me/us in public debate, and to attempt to understand others’ point(s) of view. I/we would extend this attitude of respect to all those engaged in civil discourse in America.
2. To refrain from personal attacks, while maintaining the right to vigorously disagree.
3. To refrain from making statements which characterize my/our opponents as evil.
4. To refuse to make untrue statements in defense of my/our position.
5. To value honesty, truth, and civility while striving to find workable solutions.
6. To expect any person, party, campaign or organization working on my behalf, or to whom I contribute money, to meet these same standards for civil discourse

Hopefully, for Cynthia’s sake, this pledge isn’t enforced retroactively. The state legislator from Cape Elizabeth, Dill is a regular blogger (her blog posts re-run on Huffington Post and she has paid herself to run the blog from a PAC) and she has been anything but civil in many of her posts.
Here is a quick look at some of Cynthia’s quotes from her blog. You can decide for yourself which of the six pledge points she would be violating in each post.

The first comes from a post titled, Whose Benefits Would Jesus Cut? – Included in Dill’s post, about a visiting reverend who opened the legislative session with prayer, were these “civil” gems:

Reverend Tracey concluded his morning tirade with these words. “But now a new day has dawned, and a new congress has convened, and a new hope and enthusiasm fills this great chamber.”
The manifestation of right-wing political extremists appeared before them disguised as a man of faith. With eyes closed and heads down, some lawmakers had flashbacks to the campaign trail when myths of “welfare cheats” spun like course wool.

In another post, Dill attacks Mary Adams, a conservative grassroots leader and frankly, one of the kindest people this author has ever met:

Adams is a veteran right-winger who is game for any cause that reminds her of redcoats. She is from Garland, Maine (south of Millinocket) and the local face of the angry mob that’s crippling America.
The Maine Tea Party and Adams’ opposition to a national park serves as a proxy for the anti-government shtick they like to jump up and down and scream about, as our public institutions and infrastructure crumble.

The “civil discourse” continues from Dill, who does not seem to have found a disrespectful statement she doesn’t like. She said in another post, apparently aimed at men who struggle with their weight:

Maybe the real load doomed to sink us is related to the girth of some of the guys running things around here.
The rallying cry today is about personal responsibility and cutting spending. We talk about women and their good looks, but don’t talk about men and their big guts. We should.
It’s time to talk openly about many of the men in charge today in the media, in politics and in office who want to drastically cut the size of government. They are under a different type of illusion. They say they want smaller government but they are fat, and getting fatter by the minute.

In the same post, she seems to follow rule number 1 very closely. You would say this is an “attitude of respect” right?

It’s all a bunch of garbage that distorts the facts, but the anti-government mantra has convinced lots of people that it wasn’t the fat cats on Wall Street who screwed us…

Dill offers another post aimed specifically at males, and leads with a personal attack (see point 2 of the pledge) on our own M.D. Harmon, who clearly had irritated Dill with his viewpoint:

Sitting in his ivory tower reserved for men only in Portland, Maine, M.D. Harmon lectures readers about the myriad uses of irony while blaming “feminists” for a world where boys are valued much higher than girls.
Here in Maine, as elsewhere, talk radio is dominated by angry obese men who lecture about personal responsibility.
And here the newspapers are saturated with written opinions of male editors, economists, businessmen, and conservative curmudgeons like Harmon, an editorial writer for the Portland Press Herald.
Harmon is a man who plays God by judging women for playing God.

Another post by Ms. Dill, with a particularly “civil” headline, Maine’s Weapon of Mass Destruction, was a direct attack of the Maine Heritage Policy Center.

So why is our Governor trying to scare the bejeezus out of us?
But what started as festering liberal rage toward the Bush administration in need of a steam valve has evolved over time. Now bewilderment has pivoted to right-wing sirens Palin and Bachman, and talk-show blowhards Beck and Limbaugh.
There’s no shortage of people willing to cry wolf at the Maine Heritage Policy Center, however, because there doom and gloom grease the cogs of one big lucrative machine. Red tape is not a problem for the business that fear-mongers for dollars.

Those are obviously very “civil” comments, especially about Palin and Bachman. Dill seems eager to launch her attacks at males, but it looks she will branch out to females when their views don’t align with her own. She also attacked, with some fervor, the former head of MHPC, Tarren Bragdon:

he [Tarren] told us, presumably from his luxury, non-profit corner office where the riff-raff can’t bother him with petty concerns of poverty, illiteracy and the administration of justice.

If you know Tarren, or  any of his four children adopted out of impoverished foreign countries, you know this vicious personal attack by Dill is just plain untrue. (Oh hey, that violates pledge rules 2 and 4 at the same time!)
In another ranting post, Dill suggests that women can take care of their problems by carrying heavy-duty handguns, and takes another swing at overweight individuals:

Every single one of us needs to venture out to Walmart and exchange that rice steamer we got for Christmas for something practical like a .38 special. Angry fanatics are becoming increasingly more popular and can be a real time-suck. If we must put up with these guys, let’s be efficient.
Today angry, whale-sized, and stupid seem to be the measures of American authenticity, as if God pressed “reverse” on the natural selection dial for kicks.

In yet another post, Dill can’t believe there is a group that wants to make sure Aspergers Syndrome continues to be recognized:

A sense of humor and a diagnosis will make 2011 easier for incoming lawmakers, but even the world of psychiatry has its share of political skirmishes. Some of the shrinks on the DSM drafting committee are lobbying to get rid of the Asperger Syndrome category. An opposition group has formed, called “Keep Asperger’s Syndrome in the DSM-V.” Seriously.

Some additional highlights from the Cynthia Dill manual of “civil discourse”:

• Luckily this disease can be easily treated with alcohol and a cold shower, two things Democrats tolerate extremely well.
• If you are drowning in 12 feet of water, a moderate Republican will throw you six feet of rope.
• We didn’t make a big stink about the inexperienced friends and family of the Governor (also a fun-gi) being appointed to his cabinet. We are letting sleeping dogs lie while we brew up an ancient elixir sure to bring down the House.
• Crazy right-wingers in the Congress are so busy trying to dismantle the social safety net, gut and “investigate” programs for women and kids that they don’t have time to balance the budget.
• Is Maine’s “business-friendly” governor and his henchmen shouting this good news from the roof tops?
• Angry anti-government guys calling the gift of private property for the purpose of creating a public park a “government takeover,” with references to Nazi Germany is the Maine echo of the Glenn Beck ideology and it’s not going to solve our welfare problem, or any other problem.

Cynthia did JUST sign the pledge, and hey, at least she didn’t say she hoped a former vice-president would be executed.  So maybe she really has had a change of heart, and will strive to be civil in her campaign for Senate.

And maybe when she blogs she won’t call people “whales” “henchmen” “curmudgeons” “angry” “blowhards” or “fat” anymore.

 http://www.themainewire.com/2012/04/%E2%80%9Ccovenant-civil-discourse%E2%80%9D-pledge-signer-cynthia-dill-civil/

Under The Guise of Safety Big Brother aka America's War Machine Controls You, When Will It Stop; BrasscheckTV:Riots anticipated, residents warned of lockdown in Chicago‏ (Chicago, G8, lockdown, NATO, protests)

Lisbon,
 
Residents of a 17 story building in Chicago were warned to leave
their residences for the duration of the NATO/G8 Summit scheduled
for next month, or if they decide to remain they will be subject to
a lockdown in their own homes.
 
As the 'War Machine' rolls into town for a summit, expect that the
rights of free people will be severely restricted.
 
 
Goodman Green
- Brasscheck
 

 Chicago residents told to leave
during NATO/G8 Summit 
 

Chicagoans Warned to Evacuate Before Globalist Instigated Riot During NATO Summit

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com

Residents of a Chicago condo received a letter from management last week informing them that they should move out of their homes during the upcoming NATO confab to be held in the Windy City next month. If the residents decide to remain, they will be subjected to a lockdown.

“In the event of a riot or the potential of one near the building,” the letter states, “all access doors will be locked including the garage door. For everyone’s safety we will be instructing anyone in the building to stay in his or her unit.”

Read more here

NaturalNews: Do the math: DHS buying up enough ammo to wage 7-year war against American people‏

Dear NaturalNews & Lisbon Reporter readers,

We interrupt our regular program of natural health news to bring you this red alert about your liberty: The Dept. of Homeland Security has just contracted to acquire 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point ammo. This ammo is illegal to use in the military because it violates the Geneva Convention. It's only use is domestic use, against the American people.

I did some research and found out that even in a full-scale war in the Middle East, the entire U.S. military only uses about 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month, and this includes all types of ammo, including rifles which actually fire more rounds than pistols.

If you do the math (see my article for details), the 450 million rounds being acquired by DHS is enough to wage a 7+ year war against America.
Here's my full analysis, including testimony from a top Major General in the U.S. military, plus the hugely important list from Naomi Wolf about the "10 steps to dictatorship" that are now unfolding in America:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035649_DHS_ammunition_domestic_war.html

Spike in US autism rates linked to high-fructose corn syrup consumption (NaturalNews) A new study published in the journal Clinical Epigenetics reveals that both the Standard American Diet (SAD) and various toxic environmental factors play a definitive and synergistic role in the development of autism. According to...

The food industry is waging war on your cells with these 10 toxic ingredients (NaturalNews) Preservatives and synthetic food agents found in foods inhibit oxygen and delay the development of fungus and mold, creating a longer shelf-life for products. But after being consumed, these toxins deprive human cells of oxygen...

Pepsi's 'Next' generation - Less sugar, more toxins! (NaturalNews) On March 26, 2012, Pepsi introduced their latest in a long line of soft-drinks aimed at the health-conscious consumer. According to their press release, Pepsi Next is aimed at, "a segment of consumers who are resistant to both regular...

Supermarkets everywhere are selling 'counterfeit' bagels (NaturalNews) Bagels have their origin as a traditional food among the Jews of 16th century Poland. Because fresh bread was a staple food but no cooking could be done on the Sabbath, the bagel dough would be prepared before the Sabbath and then placed...

'Agent Orange' crop chemicals challenged by coalition of US farmers and food companies (NaturalNews) It is getting down to the wire for the potential deregulation of the toxic herbicide 2,4-D, aka "Agent Orange," and its associated crops, and food freedom advocates everywhere are turning up the heat on the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

The deadly poison lurking in your car's air bags (NaturalNews) Automobile airbags, which have been mandatory in the United States and other countries for almost two decades, have long been touted as life savers. What hasn't been widely told is that every air bag in every vehicle is a potential death...

Cinnamon: the blood sugar stabilizer (NaturalNews) Cinnamon is one of the most anti-oxidant rich herbs on the planet. It has been revered by nearly every culture for centuries for its sweet taste and pleasant aroma. Cinnamon has been shown to have remarkable medicinal qualities that enhance...

Culture of corruption has become common within FDA, Big Pharma (NaturalNews) When pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices are approved for use in medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), their safety and efficacy are typically not the primary factors considered during the decision-making process...

What is the Aloha Spirit? (opinion) (NaturalNews) Every time we pick up a newspaper or watch the news, the lead story is always about some person-to- person horror with the foundation being centered around race, culture or religion always resulting in bloodshed, mayhem, chaos or oppression...

As children's brains are being eaten by vaccines, parents urged to ignore the symptoms and 'soothe' their babies (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that administering one or more of the five "Ss" -- swaddling, side/stomach position, shushing, swinging, and sucking -- to babies in conjunction with their childhood vaccine...

P.S. I'm hosting the Alex Jones Show today at 4pm central time (5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific), where I'll be discussing vaccine seizures, the growing police state in America and much more. Listen in at:
www.PrisonPlanet.com

'The Good Life'; BrasscheckTV: In Humor, Truth: An unnatural obsession with safety equipment‏ (An unnatural obsession with safety equipment, bicycles, Helmet Nazis, helmets, nanny-state, safety)

Lisbon,

"The save-you-from-yourself nannies are an intrusive and irritating
bunch," says Karen De Coster.

I couldn't agree more.

I've listed this post under 'Solutions' because understanding how
their b.s. works will help us stop falling for it.

I've listed this post under 'Suppressed technologies' because
according to this video that's exactly what they have been doing.
If you can call a bicycle technology.

And I've listed it under 'In Humor, Truth' because it's funny
because it's true.

Helmet Nazis and their culture of fear...



Goodman Green
- Brasscheck

 An unnatural obsession with safety equipment

 

 Helmet Nazis and the Culture of Fear

by Karen De Coster
LewRockwell.com

I despise the Safety Nazis and the culture of fear they have created. Wear a helmet. Don't go out when it's too hot. Don't leave your home when it's too cold, and if you do, heed the 1,001 warnings. Be afraid at all times. Run for cover. Lock your children in enormous safety devices called car seats. Buy a stroller built like an armored Volvo, complete with side air bags and ironclad sun protection. Stay inside if the wind blows or a snowflake falls. Is there a dark cloud or two in the sky? Close the schools. Call your doctor if you sneeze, and call your lawyer if you trip. Don't ever do anything that has the potential to cause injury. Red alerts, orange alerts, and now text alerts – they are all imbecile alerts that are geared toward emotionally crippling the masses.

The save-you-from-yourself nannies are an intrusive and irritating bunch. "Safety" has become a sick obsession in the modern American culture, and this fear mongering has long been promoted by an overreaching, paternal state that has churned out a nation of helpless idiots through the revolving doors of government schools and a politicized nanny state that holds people captive to their own bogus fears.

One of the most fashionable forms of lifestyle fascism in the American Folly Safety Parade is the sustained push for mandatory helmet laws and the crush of propaganda asserting that certified, bulletproof, and government-approved helmets are necessary for every activity from the baby crawling to biking along your neighborhood sidewalk.

As an avid cyclist, the folks I ride with are a mixed bunch. Very few are helmetless, many are helmet Nazis (they love preaching safety and the wearing of helmets to others while they wear shorts in 20-degree weather on their 50-lbs overweight, heart-attack-ready bodies), and some are helmet neutral - they don't think too much about your choices and why you make them. Most recently, I received the standard summary lecture from a very overweight, helmeted cyclist whose belly hung halfway between his seat and the ground, yet he gave me the snide lecture on no-helmet riding by summing it up as, "it's your noggin." Apparently, being without helmet for two hours is undertaking a risk while carrying around an obese, disease-ridden body for twenty years is no risk at all. It is astounding how folks will perceive peril and create their own twisted reality to suit their inclinations.

When I do the group rides, I usually wear a helmet unless it is so cold that I need to wear my warm, hippie beanie. Then I may go no-helmet, and immediately, the Nazis begin to buzz and give rise to the predictable comments...

Read more here

 

NaturalNews: As vaccines eat your baby's brain with seizures, doctors urge parents to ignore symptoms and "soothe" their babies‏

Dear NaturalNews & Lisbon Reporter readers,

First they said vaccines don't cause seizures, remember? But now, as the truth about the seizures has come out (thanks to the internet), the vaccine-pushing doctors are saying the seizures are GOOD for your baby, because that means the vaccines are working!

In fact, they're now telling parents that when their babies have a vaccine seizure, they should "soothe" their babies and ignore the seizure. Yep, while the vaccine eats your baby's brain, you're supposed to think it's great! Read more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035639_vaccines_babies_convulsions.html

And in Australia, which has become something of a hornet's nest of vaccine-pimping criminal doctors, they're still using banned vaccines on children! Almost as if they're actually trying to kill babies there:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035636_flu_vaccine_banned_children.html


They're baaack! After the defeat of the SOPA internet censorship bill, the same government thugs are back at it with CISPA, the new speech-killing law that's even worse than SOPA!
http://www.naturalnews.com/035638_CISPA_SOPA_free_speech.html

Forget those so-called "sports drinks." Looking for a really healthy beverage? Try there four top functional beverages that are far better than any processed sports drink:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035634_functional_beverages_health_performance.html


Help stop Vermont's governor from surrendering to Monsanto! We've got to join together in protesting this before the Governor caves in! There's still time!
http://www.naturalnews.com/035635_Vermont_Monsanto_GMO_labeling.html

Do you have a cat? Here's how to keep it healthy:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035633_cats_pet_health_cat_food.html





Today's Feature Stories:

As children's brains are being eaten by vaccines, parents urged to ignore the symptoms and 'soothe' their babies (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that administering one or more of the five "Ss" -- swaddling, side/stomach position, shushing, swinging, and sucking -- to babies in conjunction with their childhood vaccine...

SOPA mutates into much worse CISPA, the latest threat to internet free speech (NaturalNews) Just because SOPA and PIPA, the infamous internet "kill switch" bills, are largely dead does not mean the threat to internet free speech has become any less serious. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), also...

Conventional milk supply in Australia deliberately tainted with unlabeled waste product known as 'permeate' (NaturalNews) Australians who purchase conventional milk products from their local grocery store or supermarket may be drinking a processed food product composed of more than 16 percent industrial waste every time they gulp down a glass. The Age

Australian doctors still administering banned flu vaccine to children (NaturalNews) Two years to the day after CSL's Fluvax was banned for use in children under the age of 5, news has emerged that Australian doctors are continuing to administer this shot to infants and toddlers despite the fact that there are four other...

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The healing effects of music proven in tests (NaturalNews) Easy listening or classical music has been proven to increase healing rates of convalescing patients, researchers have revealed. Patients taking part in the study at John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford were split into two groups - one group underwent...

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Police pay two radical activist groups $100,000 to settle claims over a wrongful 2008 raid (NaturalNews) A California court has ordered law enforcement agencies to pay $100,000 in compensation to a pair of left-wing radical activist groups because they were shielded by federal and state laws that, in this case, protected someone who threatened...

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Monsanto threatens Vermont legislature over GMO labeling bill, says it will sue state (NaturalNews) Things are heating up on the genetic engineering front in the state of Vermont, where an overwhelming 96 percent of Vermonters vehemently support "right to know" legislation that mandates full disclosure of genetically-modified organisms...

When Will It All End? NaturalNews:SOPA mutates into much worse CISPA, the latest threat to internet free speech

 How About It America Have You Had Enough Yet?

  Vote All Incumbents Out, PERIOD. But First You Need To Have Candidates That Truly Are For 'We The People'.  
Right Now We Have The Best Government That Money Can Buy.
 Think About It!

Think about this, we all get receipts for everything we do in life now, but How Come We Don't Get A Receipt For Casting Our Vote so that we can verify how 'we' in fact voted?

Remember In November 2012!!!

 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Just because SOPA and PIPA, the infamous internet "kill switch" bills, are largely dead does not mean the threat to internet free speech has become any less serious. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), also known as H.R. 3523, is the latest mutation of these internet censorship and spying bills to hit the U.S. Congress -- and unless the American people speak up now to stop it, CISPA could lead to far worse repercussions for online free speech than SOPA or PIPA ever would have.

CNET, the popular technology news website that was among many others who spoke up against SOPA and PIPA earlier in the year, is also one of many now sounding the alarm about CISPA, which was authored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.). Though the bill's promoters are marketing it as being nothing like SOPA or PIPA, CISPA is exactly like those bills, except worse.


What CISPA will do, if passed, is remove all the legal barriers that currently stop internet service providers, government agencies, and others from arbitrarily spying on internet users. In the name of "cybersecurity," a term that is undefined in the bill, CISPA will essentially allow internet users to be surveilled by the government without probable cause or a search warrant, which is a clear violation of users' constitutional civil liberties.


Additionally, it will allow websites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter to intercept emails, text messages, and other private information that might be considered a threat to "cybersecurity." The government can then demand access to this information, even if it has nothing to do with copyright infringement, which is one of the excuses being used for why such a bill is needed in the first place.

Internet users are already required to abide by the same laws as everyone else

"Just because you commit a crime on the internet doesn't immunize you from liability just because it's on the internet," said Kendall Burman from the Center for Democracy & Technology, an internet freedom of speech advocacy group, to Russia Today (RT) in a recent interview. "Law enforcement has many tools to go after crimes that are committed anywhere, including the internet."

And Burman is right. Contrary to what former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and others have inferred about the internet being an unregulated "free for all," internet users are already required to abide by the same rules as everyone else. And those who commit crimes online are subject to the same legal obligations as those who commit them offline.

"When you talk about using information that the government receives that's purportedly for the purpose of protecting cybersecurity, and you're using it for law enforcement purposes or national security purposes that don't have anything to do with cybersecurity, well law enforcement has tools already to go after those crimes," added Burman. "And we very much fear that the information sharing machine that's related to cybersecurity could very much become a backdoor wiretap or a surveillance program by another name."

You can watch the full RT interview with Burman here:
http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/

 

In truth, there is no legitimate need to pass any "cybersecurity" bills because legal mechanisms to address internet crimes are already in place.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), another internet civil rights group, has created an Action Alert page where you can learn more about CISPA, and also petition your Congressmen to oppose it: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8444

Sources for this article include:

http://news.cnet.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035638_CISPA_SOPA_free_speech.html#ixzz1slwjAUfl

MAKING GOOD SENSE‏

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    When chemists die, they barium.
    Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
    I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
    How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
    I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
    This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.
    I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
    I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
    They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.
    PMS jokes aren't funny; period.
    Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
    Were going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I  hope there's no pop quiz.
    I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
    Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
    When you get a bladder infection urine trouble.
    Broken pencils are pointless.
    I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.
    What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
    England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
    I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
    I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
    All the toilets in Lisbon's police station have been stolen. The police have nothing to go on.
    I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
    Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.
    Velcro.......what a rip off!
    A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
    Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
    The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government's fault .

Faithfully submitted by: 'Gordie'