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Founding Fathers Deemed Homegrown Terrorist!
"homegrown terrorism" = the use, planned use or threatened use of force .... by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States... to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, ... in furtherance of political or social objectives. Forget lobbying... forget emailing, faxing or calling a Congressman, Senator or the White House as your planned and actual use of communication to voice your concern over a bill, resolution or veto is politically oriented and now deemed "homegrown terrorism"! Question authority, go to Jail! Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., House Resolution 1955, otherwise known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, says House Resolution 1955 is a much-needed piece of national security legislation! The American Civil Liberties Union says HR 1955, which Harman sponsored, is one step too close to an Orwellian nightmare! Fact: more House politicians missed the vote than voted against it. Yeas = 404
Neas = 6 Twenty didn't bother to vote! What is this bill about? Officially the bill states: "to prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes". What's the big deal? Doesn't everyone want to "to prevent homegrown terrorism"? H.R. 1955 defines "homegrown terrorism" as merely "the use, planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives". H.R. 1955 defines "violent radicalization" as "the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious or social change." Ideologically based violence, in turn, is defined as "the use, planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious or social beliefs." Hand out fliers against gay marriage = a terrorist! Walk in a Gay Pride parade promoting gay marriage = a terrorist! Everything up is down again. Double speak is alive and well dear members. As Scott Hill at Alternet wrote: To counter and squelch Americans who are truly alarmed at this bill, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie Thompson actually had to post a fact sheet in December arguing, among other hilarious things, that the resolution "does not legislate thought or protected political expression and free speech. There are no provisions seeking to change the criminal code or set up a 'Big Brother' regime to put Americans under surveillance." His conclusion: Me thinks the pol doth protest too much! On the eve of Martin Luther King day, we can't think of any better subject that needs to be addressed by the American people. Stop the bus, stop the sitting in the back of the bus! Head 'em up, move 'em out! Marching in the streets is: "the use, planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives".Dr. King must have been a homegrown terrorist! There's one action that every American needs to take right now. We need to send a very firm instruction to stop H.R./S. 1955 in the Senate NOW! Click here to tell the entire Senate, vote NO on S. 1955 the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire Senate. Join us as we stand with our Founding Fathers who stood for liberty and justice for all, even those who voiced opposition to governmental acts! Housekeeping note: Free Listing of all Congressmen and Senators here. Dear Laptop Leader, Some things never change. More commissions. More government. More regulation. Presidential candidate Ron Paul stated: "It will no doubt prove to be another bureaucracy that artificially inflates problems so as to guarantee its future existence and funding," Paul predicted in his House speech. "But it may do so at great further expense to our civil liberties." It is, he concluded, an "unwise and dangerous solution in search of a real problem." Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who was one of the scant few to vote against the resolution, was equally suspicious, calling it the "thought crime bill" during a speech to supporters in December. The bill creates and establishes a National Commission and Center of Excellence. Do we need another do nothing Commission? Remember the 9/11 commission? How many recommendations were adopted and put it effect? None. Zilch. Nada. What's wrong with this picture? Is the exercise of Free Speech still valued in America? Is the right to assemble to discuss political movements still a hallowed sacred right in America? Is the right to petition the government for change....even by a planned use of email, fax, phone call, or letter writing campaign cherished by Americans? This HR/S 1955 bill is a giant step to squelch political dissent and needs to be abandoned immediately. You dear LaptopAmerican call your Congressional rep telling him or her to vote "YEA" or "NAY". You dear LaptopAmerican send an email asking your Congressman or Senator to vote this way or that way on a bill. MoveOn.org sends out an email blasts to its supporters asking them to vote for more Communism and Socialism by electing Democrats who want to institute a national health care system. Or you refuse to sit in the back of the bus because you just aren't going to take it anymore! The force you use to stay sitting for political and social change is NOW homegrown terrorism. Is force just physical? What about all this political activism? This phoning activity is a 1. planned use 2. of force 3. by a group or individual 4. within the United States 5. to coerce the government 6. in furtherance of political objectives! There goes any lobbyist job! Maybe this bill isn't so bad after all? All of these items now are defined as homegrown terrorism thanks to HR 1955, so expect a visit from Homeland Security, the FBI and the local sheriff to silence YOU! House Rep Jane Harman sponsored the bill. Who funds her?
It appears that the defense industry is alive and well in helping politicians decide which bills to sponsor! The more homegrown terrorist there are, the more companies like those above are needed to build counter intelligence systems, etc. Paul Craig Robers writes: On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly. Basically the bill will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas. "I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are started to raise taxes." -- Thomas Paine, in COMMON SENSE (1776) "The tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson "I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse." -- James Madison "Give me Liberty or give me Death" -- Patrick Henry "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington "Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression." -- James Madison "It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government." -- Alexander Hamilton "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Henry Lee "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." -- Thomas Paine "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." -- P.J. O'Rourke "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." -- Ronald Reagan "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." -- Thomas Jefferson "Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance." -- Woodrow Wilson "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist! Apparently our country was founded by them. Click here to tell the entire Senate, vote NO on S. 1955 the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire Senate. Join us as we stand with our Founding Fathers who stood for liberty and justice for all, even those who voiced opposition to governmental acts! Principles of Property* Setting a firm foundation for Liberty Americans owe their form and style of 'government', love it or hate it, to a few men prior to Thomas Jefferson's penning his infamous words in the Declaration of Independence. Algernon Sidney wrote his Discourses Concerning Government in 1683 but was beheaded by Charles the II for placing sovereignty in the people rather than the monarch before he could publish it. Locke published his First and Second Treatise of Government in 1689 unsigned for fear of the same treatment. Locke began his second treatise with the State of Nature and the Law of Nature that men find themselves in without government or when government is dissolved. He bases all government upon the natural God given rights to each person in the state of nature and showed that government can never lawfully acquire more authority than any one person has in a state of nature. Locke demonstrated the following realities:
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Click here to tell the entire Senate, vote NO on S. 1955 the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire Senate. Join us as we stand with our Founding Fathers who stood for liberty and justice for all, even those who voiced opposition to governmental acts! First principle--Endowed by God with rights Second principle--government's primary duty to secure God-given rights Third principle--man's duty to throw off government that fails to secure God-given rights
Who wrote all those 'things'... all those 'ideas'? It was none other than that Patriot and homegrown terrorist himself -- Thomas Jefferson Did King George think that those writings were "homegrown terrorism"? Those statements surely were part of "the use, planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives". Were those principles that American's hold near and dear defined as "violent radicalization" in 1776? These principles gave us "the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious or social change." Ideologically based violence, in turn, is defined as "the use, planned use or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious or social beliefs." Without those writings above, we may all be shouting "LONG LIVE THE QUEEN" today! Don't tell Jane Harman that Thomas Jefferson is dead, as her new homegrown terrorism Commission may just try and find him and root him out as a domestic terrorist! Click here to tell the entire Senate, vote NO on S. 1955 the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire Senate. Join us as we stand with our Founding Fathers who stood for liberty and justice for all, even those who voiced opposition to governmental acts!
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