In order for people to keep informed about what is happening with lives and government, they must have access to information that for the majority of people is sadly lacking from the main stream US media, i.e. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc. This is why this site was created.
Summary Dysfunctional capital markets, frantic central banks, stressed-out consumers, fear and uncertainty -- all are alarming echoes of the global economic cataclysm of the 1930s.
Which raises the inevitable question: Could another Great Depression be lurking over the horizon?
"I've been asked many times whether we will have another Great Depression," said David M. Kennedy, a Stanford University history professor and the author of "Freedom From Fear," a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Depression and World War II. "My standard answer is that we won't have that one again -- I'd be surprised to have one of that seriousness and duration. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't have a catastrophe we haven't seen before."
Economists and historians say the most important difference between today's economic environment and the old days is the government's role. Read More . . .
Summary With the approval of Congress and no outcry from corporate media, the Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, ushered in military commission law for US citizens and non-citizens alike. While media, including a lead editorial in the New York Times October 19, have given false comfort that we, as American citizens, will not be the victims of the draconian measures legalized by this Act—such as military roundups and life-long detention with no rights or constitutional protections—Robert Parry points to text in the MCA that allows for the institution of a military alternative to the constitutional justice system for “any person” regardless of American citizenship. Read More. . .
What is Habeas Corpus anyway? The oldest human right defined in the history of English-speaking civilization is the right to challenge governmental power of arrest and detention through the use of Habeas Corpus laws, considered to be the most critical parts of the MagnaCarta which was signed by King John in 1215.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist #84 in August of 1788: The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. The observations of the judicious [British eighteenth-century legal scholar] Blackstone, in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital:
“To bereave a man of life” says he, “or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.”
It is of concern that people in the US are under the illusion that they have freedoms and liberties and yet remain ignorant about what the US Constitution states. Many of our present leaders have perverted the Constitution and have confused people to the point that they have given up their rights for security and freedom out of fear. The purpose of this blog is to inform people about our Constitution, news stories not reported, and their rights.
We need to restore the US Constitution for our country as well as making people aware of the candidates who will work to see that this becomes a reality.
We cannot trade security and safety for our freedoms. We leave a legacy of tyranny and oppression for our children.
Unless we restore the Constitution we will continue to see our great country wither and the few freedoms we have that remain lost as we march toward a society of the totally oppressed slaves. Not only do we need to pray for our leaders and country, we need to take action at the ballot box and become involved with our democratic republic.