Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting.

Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime.

When it comes to civil liberties, the Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state secrets, the Patriot Act and domestic spying. There’s also Gitmo, Jay Bybee and John Yoo.

Now there’s DNA sampling. Obama told Walsh he supported the federal government, as well as the 18 states that have varying laws requiring compulsory DNA sampling of individuals upon an arrest for crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felonies. The data is lodged in state and federal databases, and has fostered as many as 200 arrests nationwide, Walsh said.

The American Civil Liberties Union claims DNA sampling is different from mandatory, upon-arrest fingerprinting that has been standard practice in the United States for decades.

A fingerprint, the group says, reveals nothing more than a person’s identity. But much can be learned from a DNA sample, which codes a person’s family ties, some health risks, and, according to some, can predict a propensity for violence.

The ACLU is suing California to block its voter-approved measure requiring saliva sampling of people picked up on felony charges. Authorities in the Golden State are allowed to conduct so-called “familial searching” — when a genetic sample does not directly match another, authorities start investigating people with closely matched DNA in hopes of finding leads to the perpetrator.

Do you wonder whether DNA sampling is legal?

The courts have already upheld DNA sampling of convicted felons, based on the theory that the convicted have fewer privacy rights. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that when conducting intrusions of the body during an investigation, the police need so-called “exigent circumstances” or a warrant. That alcohol evaporates in the blood stream is the exigent circumstance to draw blood from a suspected drunk driver without a warrant.

Source: Wired

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Suit possible over baby DNA sent to military lab for national database

The government has your baby’s DNA, and you don’t even know it

Tasing to get DNA?

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Operation Health Freedom – Judge Napolitano

Schumer, Graham Use Immigration to Push National Biometric ID Card

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited

This is a column from Robert Montgomery for ESPN Outdoors. As a Senior Writer for BASS Publications, Montgomery has written about conservation, environment, and access issues for more than two decades. It’s part of a series of articles from Montgomery on the issue. See a response from editor Steve Bowman regarding concerns with this column.

The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

	One sign at the United We Fish rally at the Capital summed up the feelings of recreational and commercial fishermen.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account.

“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big-game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,” said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.

“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard-working American families and small businesses are being ignored.

“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority.”

Unless more anglers speak up to their Congressional representatives so their input will be considered, it appears the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March. President Barack Obama then could possibly issue an Executive Order to implement its recommendations.

Led by NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling. As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008.

What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper, according to Morlock.

In late summer, just after the administration created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias with their attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.

Also, recreational angling and commercial fishing have been lumped together as harmful to the resource, despite protests by the angling industry.

Morlock’s evidence of collusion — the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February.

On Feb. 12, the New York Times reported on that “President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.”

Continued at ESPN

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“Coffee Party” Founder Is Obama Campaign Operative

Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Lindsey Graham have joined forces in an effort to force a biometric ID on the American people. The new national ID scheme is part of a comprehensive immigration bill now in the Senate.

Schumer and Graham want every American worker required to have a biometric ID card in order to work. “Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

Schumer and Graham, who face an “uphill effort to pass a bill,” plan to meet with Obama this week in order to update him. An administration official told the Journal the White House has no position on the controversial ID card.

Previous efforts to force a national ID on the American people have ended in failure. Shortly after September 11, 2001, Congress took up the idea of requiring every citizen to have a national ID card. Before the election of 2004, the revisited the issue.

Section 403(c) of the Patroit Act specifically requires the federal government to “develop and certify a technology standard that can be used to verify the identity of persons” applying for or seeking entry into the United States on a U.S. visa “for the purposes of conducting background checks, confirming identity, and ensuring that a person has not received a visa under a different name.”

Prior to September 11, 2001, the government pushed for a national biometric identification system. Both the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1995 (PRWOA), a welfare reform law, and the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996 (ICFRA), an immigration reform law, called for the use of “technology” for identification purposes.

In 2005, Congress passed the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, or REAL ID.

“States were originally given until May 2008 to comply with the law, but widespread resistance resulted in the Federal Government changing that deadline not once, not twice, but three times,” notes theTenth Amendment Center. “More than two dozen states have passed resolutions or binding laws opposing the act, rendering the Bush-era law nearly null and void in practice. Bottom line? Nullification works.”

Senator Graham does not believe his biometric national ID scheme will violate the privacy of Americans. “We’ve all got Social Security cards,” he said. “They’re just easily tampered with. Make them tamper-proof. That’s all I’m saying.”

Graham is the only Republican to publicly announce support for a law requiring Americans to hold a biometric national ID card and he wants at least one other GOP co-sponsor to launch the effort.

According to the Journal, biometric data for the card would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next change jobs. Employers would be required to purchase a scanner.

A biometric ID system is not about securing the border or preventing terrorism. It is about tracking citizens.

“By far the most significant negative aspect of biometric ID systems is their potential to locate and track people physically. While many surveillance systems seek to locate and track, biometric systems present the greatest danger precisely because they promise extremely high accuracy. Whether a specific biometric system actually poses a risk of such tracking depends on how it is designed,” explains theElectronic Frontier Foundation.

Earlier this month, a biometric ID card was introduced at a large technology show in Hanover, Germany. The card will mandatory for all Germans on November 1, 2010. “The card has three functions: 1. biometric identity verification, 2. electronic identity verification, 3. authenticated electronic signature,”Fox News reported on March 2.

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COLORADO SPRINGS - The Colorado Springs Police Department will soon have a new partner in fighting crime–Yellow Cab taxi drivers.

Cabs on Patrol officially begins March 23 and comes at a time when Springs Police have gotten rid of their helicopter unit and have left dozens of positions unfilled. Despite the financial difficulty, police say there has been no change in the number of patrol officers–Cabs on Patrol is merely taking a good thing a step further.

“This program is new but really is a formalization of a good relationship we’ve had with Yellow Cab for many years,” says Lt. David Whitlock with CSPD. “Every time we do good police work, you can usually tie it back to somebody picking up the phone and notifying us.”

Drivers for yellow cab have been no strangers to making those calls.

“Our drivers have always reported incidents while they’re out on the road,” says Fred Hair, General Manager at Yellow Cab Company of Colorado Springs.

The big difference between then and now is the police training those drivers will receive.

“It’ll be enough to make them a really good set of eyes and ears for us,” says Whitlock.

Drivers will provide the eyes on the roads and dispatchers will provide the ears in the Yellow Cab dispatch center.

“The Colorado Springs Police Department has a direct line to our dispatcher so that they can relay suspect information or a description of a stolen vehicle,” says Hair.

Similar partnerships have worked in other cities. Springs police say they are excited about the potential here.

“Every place that we’ve talked to that’s had these kinds of common interactions, whether it be Yellow Cab or other community or business groups, have shown a great deal of increase in those kinds of calls and an improvement in the overall public safety,” says Whitlock.

Both the police and Yellow Cab stress that cab drivers are not police officers—just an extra set of eyes to help. The drivers make the call and let the professionals do the work.

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One Day We’ll All be Terrorists

Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act

Big Brother: Secret State USA Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent

The Intelligence Project identified 512 “Patriot” groups that were active in 2009. Of these groups, 127 were militias, marked with an asterisk, and the remainder includes “common-law” courts, publishers, ministries and citizens’ groups. Generally, Patriot groups define themselves as opposed to the “New World Order,” engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. Listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist. The list was compiled from field reports, Patriot publications, the Internet, law enforcement sources and news reports. Groups are identified by the city, county or region where they are located.

ALABAMA (7)
2nd Alabama Militia *
Mobile
Alabama Shoals Badgers *
Tuscumbia
Constitution Party
Montgomery
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
THREE%ER
Pinson
We the People
Madison County

ALASKA (5)
Alaska Citizens Militia *
Nikiski
Constitution Party (Alaskan Independence Party)
Soldotna
John Birch Society – Alaskans for Restoring our Constitutional System
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Homer

ARIZONA (10)
American Grand Jury
Nogales
American Patriot Friends Network
Peoria
Arizona Citizens Militia *
Douglas
Arizona Militia *
Glendale
Cochise County Militia *
Tombstone
Constitution Party
Goodyear
John Birch Society
Statewide
Northern Arizona Militia *
Flagstaff
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Statewide

ARKANSAS (6)
Constitution Party
Fayetteville 
John Birch Society
Statewide
Militia of Washington County *
Fayetteville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Bentonville
Searcy

CALIFORNIA (22)
American Armenian Militia *
Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley Area
American Independent Party
Vacaville
Constitution Party
Riverside
Freedom Force International
Thousand Oaks
Freedom Law School
Phelan
Free Enterprise Society
Fresno
John Birch Society
Chula Vista
Roseville
San Luis Obispo County
Northern California State Militia *
Falcon Creek
Sunnyvale
Oath Keepers
High Desert
Northern California
San Diego
Southern California
Second Amendment Committee
Hanford
State of California Unorganized Militia *
Monrovia
Truth Radio
Delano
We Are Change
Chico
Oakland
Sacramento
San Francisco Bay Area

COLORADO (10)
America First Party
Boulder
American Freedom Network
Johnstown
Constitution Party
Arvada
John Birch Society
Aurora
Minutemen Militia *
Fort Collins
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Colorado Springs
Huerfano
Statewide
We the People
Gunnison

CONNECTICUT (6)
Connecticut Survivalist Alliance
Middlefield
Constitution Party – Concerned Citizens Party
Plantsville
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Meriden
We the People
Statewide

DELAWARE (3)
Constitution Party
Bear
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (2)
Oath Keepers
Washington DC
We the People
Washington DC

FLORIDA (11)
America First Party of Florida
Mims
Constitution Party
West Palm Beach
Florida Free Alliance *
Nokomis
Florida Free Militia *
Palm Coast
John Birch Society
Newberry
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Fort Walton Beach
Jacksonville
Orlando
Tampa
We the People
Statewide

GEORGIA (15)
Constitution Party
Woodstock
Georgia Militia *
Chatham County
Cobb County
Gwinnett County
Newton County
John Birch Society
Statewide
Militia of Georgia *
Lawrenceville
Militia Recruiting Command *
Columbus
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Society for American Sovereignty
Marrietta
We Are Change
Atlanta
Columbus
LeGrange
Trenton
We the People
Statewide

HAWAII (3)
Constitution Party
Honolulu
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

IDAHO (11)
Constitution Party
Parma
Idaho Citizens Constitutional Militia *
Statewide
Idaho Observer
Spirit Lake
John Birch Society
Nampa
North Idaho Light Foot Militia*
Bonner County
Boundary County
Kootenai County
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Police & Military Against the New World Order
Kamiah
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

ILLINOIS (10)
135th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry *
Statewide
America First Party of Illinois
Rolling Meadows
Camp FEMA
Northbrook
Constitution Party
East Peoria
Illinois State Militia (Unorganized) 167th Battalion, 21st FF *
Statewide
John Birch Society
Statewide
Martial Law Survival
Thomson
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Restore the Republic
Northbrook
We the People
Statewide

INDIANA (21)
Constitution Party
Indianapolis
Indiana Citizens Volunteer Militia, 3rd Brigade *
Tippecanoe County
Indiana Constitutional Militia *
Statewide
Indiana Militia Corps *
Ingalls
Northeast
Northwest
Pendleton
Southeast
Southwest
Indianapolis Baptist Temple
Indianapolis
Indiana Sedentary Militia *
Hendricks County
Southern
Southwest
Statewide
Western
Indiana’s Greene County Militia *
Greene County
Indiana State Militia 14th Regiment *
Owen County
John Birch Society
Indianapolis
NORFED – National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act
Evansville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

IOWA (5)
Constitution Party
Oskaloosa
We Are Change
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
Quad Cities
We the People
Statewide

KANSAS (7)
Constitution Party
Wichita
John Birch Society
Statewide
Kansas State Militia *
Wichita
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Lawrence
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

KENTUCKY (13)
1st Joint Public Militia *
Bowling Green
Jefferson County
Louisville
Marshall County
Northern
Statewide
Constitution Party
Lexington
John Birch Society
Statewide
Kentucky State Militia – Ohio Valley Command *
Louisville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
PatriotResistance.com
Lexington
Take Back Kentucky
Clarkson
We the People
Statewide

LOUISANA (10)
Constitution Party
Mandeville
Louisiana Militia *
Statewide
Louisiana Unorganized Militia *
Abbeville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Truth Attack
Shreveport
We Are Change
Arcadia
New Orleans
Shreveport
Slidell
We the People
Statewide

MAINE (7)
Constitution Party
New Castle
John Birch Society
Statewide
Maine Constitutional Militia *
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
New England Area
Portland
We the People
Statewide

MARYLAND (8)
America’s Survival, Inc.
Owings
Constitution Party
Pocomoke
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Save A Patriot Fellowship
Westminster
Southern Sons of Liberty *
Statewide
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

MASSACHUSETTS (7)
America First Party of Massachusetts
New Bedford
Constitution Party
Amesbury
John Birch Society
Hyde Park
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Boston
Cape Cod
We the People
Statewide

MICHIGAN (47)
America First Party of Michigan
Ypsilanti
Constitution Party (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan)
Grand Rapids
Delta 5 Mobile Light Infantry Militia *
Eaton County
East-Central Volunteer Militia of Michigan *
Lapeer County
Hutaree Militia *
Southern
Jackson County Volunteers *
Jackson County
John Birch Society
Statewide
Lenawee County Free and Independent Militia *
Adrian
Michigan Militia *
Redford
Michigan Militia Corps Wolverines 8th Division *
South Central
Michigan Patriot Alliance * 
Arenac County
Bay County
Cheboygan County
Clinton County
Crawford County
Genesee County
Gladwin County
Gratiot County
Jackson County
Lapeer County
Macomb County
Midland County
Oakland County
Oceana County
Presque Isle County
Saginaw County
St. Clair County
Sanilac County
Shiawassee County
Tuscola County
Northern Michigan Backyard Protection Militia *
Northern
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Patriot Broadcasting Network
Dexter
Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia *
Livingston County
Macomb County
Oakland County
Washtenaw County
Wayne County
We Are Change
Battlecreek
Clio
Detroit
Flint
Royal Oak
Schoolcraft
Statewide
West Michigan Volunteer Militia *
Muskegon County
We the People
Statewide

MINNESOTA (8)
Constitution Party
Redwood Falls
John Birch SocietyStatewide
Minnesota Militia/Army of Mississippi *
St. Cloud
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Duluth
Minneapolis
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

MISSISSIPPI (6)
America First Party of Mississippi 
Greenwood
Constitution Defense Militia of Attala County (CDMAC) *
Attala County
Constitution Party
Okolona
East Central Mississippi Militia *
East CentralOath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

MISSOURI (9)
America First Party of Missouri
Imperial
Constitution Party
Arnold
John Birch Society
St. Peters
Liberty Restoration Project
St. Louis
Missouri Militia *
Kansas CitySt. Louis
Oath Keepers
Statewide
United American Freedom Foundation
Grandview
We the People
Statewide

MONTANA (9)
Celebrating Conservatism
Missoula
Constitution Party
Great Falls
John Birch Society
Statewide 
Lincoln County Watch
Bozeman
Militia of Montana *
Noxon
Oath Keepers
Bozeman
We Are Change
Billings
Missoula
We the People
Statewide

NEBRASKA (7)
Constitution Party
Omaha
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Dakota
Omaha
Tri-Cities Area
We the People
Statewide

NEVADA (7)
Center for Action
Sandy Valley
Independent American Party (Constitution Party)
Elko 
Oath Keepers
Northern
Southern
Sovereign People’s Court for the United States of America
Las Vegas
We Are Change
Reno
We the People
Statewide

NEW HAMPSHIRE (6)
America First Party of New Hampshire
Windham
Constitution Party
Concord
New Hampshire Patriot Militia *
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
United States Constitution Rangers *
West Lebanon
We the People
Statewide

NEW JERSEY (8)
Constitution Party
Cinnaminson
John Birch Society
Ringwood
New Jersey Militia *
Trenton
Oath Keepers
Statewide 
We Are Change
Cape May
Statewide
We the People
Statewide
Wolfpack Militia *
Statewide

NEW MEXICO (5)
Constitution Party
Albuquerque
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

NEW YORK (17)
America First Party of New York
Lynbrook
Constitution Party
New York 
Empire State Militia 11th Field Force *
Northwestern
Oneida Area
Staten Island
Ulster County
Westchester Area
The Jekyll Island Project
Queensbury
Oath Keepers
Chatham
We Are Change
Hempstead
Ithaca
Long Island
New York City
Oswego County
Staten Island
We The People
Queensbury
Statewide

NORTH CAROLINA (10)
Constitution Party
Fuquay-Varina
John Birch Society
Raleigh
North Carolina Citizens Militia *
Charlotte
Coastal Area
Sandhills Area
Waynesville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Mount Airy
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

NORTH DAKOTA (3)
Constitution Party
Casselton
John Birch Society
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

OHIO (13)
America First Party of Ohio
Cleveland
Constitution Party
DelawareConstitutional Militia of Clark County *
Clark County
John Birch Society
Columbus
Northeastern Ohio Defense Force 3BN *
Lisbon
Northwestern Ohio Defense Force 4BN *
Kenton
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Ohio Defense Force State Headquarters *
Zanesville
Ohio Militia *
Statewide
Southeastern Ohio Defense Force 3rd Platoon *
Belmont County
Southwestern Ohio Defense Force 5BN *
Lebanon
Unorganized Militia of Champaign County *
St. Paris
We the People
Statewide

OKLAHOMA (5)
Constitution Party
Chandler
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
OK SAFE, Inc. (Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise)
Tulsa
We the People
Statewide

OREGON (14)
Constitution Party
Hubbard
Embassy of Heaven
Stayton
Emissary Publications
Clackamas
Freedom Bound International
Klamath Falls
John Birch Society
Statewide
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Oregon Militia Corps *
Statewide
Southern Oregon Militia *
Eagle Point
We Are Change
Cave Junction
Eugene
Florence
Portland
Salem
We the People
Statewide

PENNSYLVANIA (9)
America First Party of Pennsylvania
Ridgway
Constitution Party
Blawnox
Keystone Freedom Fighters *
Gettysburg
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Scranton
We the People
Statewide

RHODE ISLAND (3)
Constitution Party
Middletown
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

SOUTH CAROLINA (7)
Constitution Party
Greenville
John Birch Society
Greenville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
The Patriot Network
Anderson
We Are Change
Columbia
Greenville
We the People
Statewide

SOUTH DAKOTA (3)
Constitution Party
Brandon
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

TENNESSEE (12)
Constitution Party
Englewood
East Tennessee Militia *
East
John Birch Society
Lascassas
Memphis
Lawful Path
Lynnville
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Cookeville
Johnson City
Knoxville
Memphis
Nashville
We the People
Statewide

TEXAS (52)
The American Open Currency Standard
Frisco
American Patriots for Freedom Foundation *
Spring
Brave New Books
Austin
Buffalo Creek Press
Cleburne
Central Texas Militia *
Central
Church of God Evangelistic Association
Waxahachie
Constitution Party
Cleburne
Constitution Society
Austin
John Birch Society
Cypress
McKinney
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Republic Broadcasting
Round Rock
Republic of Texas
Bastrop County
Bexar County
Bowie County
Brazos County
Colorado County
Fayette County
Galveston County
Goliad County
Gonzales County
Harris County
Harrison County
Houston County
Jackson County
Jasper County
Jefferson County
Lamar County
Liberty County
Matagorda County
Milam County
Montgomery County
Nacogdoches County
Red River County
Refugio County
Robertson County
Rusk County
Sabine County
Shelby County
Travis County
Victoria County
Washington County
Texas Well Regulated Militia *
Edwards County
We Are Change
Austin (2)
Dallas
Fort Worth
Pasadena
San Antonio
San Marcos
Tyler
We the People
Statewide

UTAH (10)
Constitution Party
Layton
Hutaree Militia *
Statewide
JoelSkousen.com
Orem
John Birch Society
Springville
Liberty News Radio
Highland
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Orem
Salt Lake City
West Valley City
We the People
Statewide

VERMONT (3)
Constitution Party
Williston
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We the People
Statewide 

VIRGINIA (7)
Constitution Party
Vienna
Oath Keepers
Statewide
U.S. National Party
Oakton
Virginia Citizens Militia *
Roanoke
We Are Change
ShenandoahStatewide
We the People
Statewide

WASHINGTON (11)
Constitution Party
Kent
Grays Harbor Civilian Defense Force *
Grays Harbor
John Birch Society
Puyallup
Kitsap County WA Militia *
Kitsap County
National Association of Rural Land Owners
Fall City
Oath Keepers
Statewide
Washington State Militia *
Statewide
We Are Change
Bellingham
Seattle
Spokane
We the People
Statewide

WEST VIRGINIA (5)
Constitution Party
Martinsburg
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Huntington
Statewide
We the People
Statewide

WISCONSIN (13)
America First Party of Wisconsin
Muscoda
Constitution Party
Ripon
John Birch Society
Appleton
John Birch Society Shop JBS
Appleton
Oath Keepers
Statewide
We Are Change
Green Bay
Kenosha
Madison
Milwaukee
Oshkosh
Racine
Stockbridge
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The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week.

This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access.

Lilian Edwards, professor of internet law at Sheffield University, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the scenario described by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in an explanatory document would effectively “outlaw open Wi-Fi for small businesses”, and would leave libraries and universities in an uncertain position.

“This is going to be a very unfortunate measure for small businesses, particularly in a recession, many of whom are using open free Wi-Fi very effectively as a way to get the punters in,” Edwards said.

“Even if they password protect, they then have two options — to pay someone like The Cloud to manage it for them, or take responsibility themselves for becoming an ISP effectively, and keep records for everyone they assign connections to, which is an impossible burden for a small café.”

In the explanatory document, Lord Young, a minister at BIS, described common classes of public Wi-Fi access, and explained that none of them could be protected. Libraries, he said, could not be exempted because “this would send entirely the wrong signal and could lead to ‘fake’ organisations being set up, claiming an exemption and becoming a hub for copyright infringement”.

Universities cannot be exempted, Young said, because some universities already have stringent anti-file-sharing rules for their networks, and “it does not seem sensible to force those universities who already have a system providing very effective action against copyright infringement to abandon it and replace it with an alternative”.

Subscriber vs IP
Young added that universities will need to figure out for themselves whether they qualify as an ISP or a subscriber. This is a distinction that carries very different implications under the terms of the bill, which would establish possible account suspension as a sanction against subscribers who repeatedly break copyright law, and force ISPs to store user data and hand it over to rights holders when ordered to do so.

Businesses providing open Wi-Fi networks to customers and clients will also need to decide whether they are ISPs or subscribers, “depending on the type of service and the nature of their relationship with their consumers…although it appears unlikely that few other than possibly the large hotel chains or conference centres might be ISPs”, Young said.

Young added that free or ‘coffee shop’ access tends to be too low-bandwidth to support file-sharing and, under the bill, “such a service is more likely to receive notification letters as a subscriber than as an ISP”. He recommended that they secure their connections and install privacy controls, to “reduce the possibility of infringement with any cases on appeal being considered on their merits”.

The BIS minister also noted that there was scope in the bill’s text — currently being amended in the House of Lords — “to reflect the position of libraries, universities or Wi-Fi providers”, perhaps by letting such organisations have different sets of thresholds that would trigger notification letters from rights holders.

“This would be a matter for the code and we would urge the relevant representative bodies to consider now how best to engage in the [Digital Economy Bill] code development process,” he added.

The bill defines an ‘internet access service’ as an electronic communications service that “is provided to a subscriber, consists entirely or mainly of the provision of access to the internet, and includes the allocation of an IP address or IP addresses to the subscriber to enable that access”.

An ISP is defined as a person who provides an internet access service, and a subscriber is defined as a person who “receives the service under an agreement between the person and the provider of the service, and does not receive it as a communications provider”.

Referring to BIS’s comments about the low bandwidth of coffee-shop connections, Lilian Edwards suggested it was “not correct to draft laws hoping they are difficult to break”.

Edwards also pointed out that BIS’s guidance for universities shows the government admitting “they don’t know themselves how universities fit into the Digital Economy Bill”.

“[Universities] don’t know if they’re subscribers, ISPs or neither,” Edwards said. “If the government is not clear, how on earth are the universities supposed to respond? This seems almost

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The Anti-Defamation League is determined to establish federally-enforced promotion and protection of homosexuality in America’s primary and secondary public schools. This year ADL repeatedly boasted it was the driving force behind the pro-homosexual federal hate crimes bill. Now ADL is making another attempt to sodomize America. Their latest legislative poison is called The Student Nondiscrimination Act of 2010.

Like the hate law, HR 4530 gives grade and high school homosexual students special rights and protection over the majority. It claims to protect students who feel harassed or intimidated because of their homosexual orientation or desire to be perceived as the opposite gender. If they feel pressured to the point that they don’t want to participate in a school activity, the bill says these students deserve the same federal advocacy given blacks under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This bill also includes special protection to heterosexual students who feel harassed or intimidated to not associate with homosexuals. These students may also invite federal prosecution of their “homophobic” fellow students, teachers or parents.

HR 4530 says if school officials do nothing when they know a student is being harassed because of their homosexuality or heavily pressured not to associate with a homosexual student, these authorities face federal indictment. State and local governments which do not energetically educate and punish those who intimidate pro-gay students will lose federal funding.

There is no special protection for heterosexual students under assault for their sexuality. Like ADL’s hate law, ENDA and cyber-bullying bill, this legislation blatantly violates the 14 th amendment’s ban on special rights and protections to some over others.

Who Defines Harassment?

While researching my video, Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians (Watch it here!), I had lengthy talks with Canadian police. I asked the head of the Vancouver, BC hate crimes unit what police did when they wanted to indict a right-wing “hater” who hadn’t violated the law.

“We just get him on a harassment charge,” she told me. She made it clear that the term “harassment” is so vague and subjective it can easily and legally be used to prosecute virtually any speech critical of others. With malicious intent, The Student Nondiscrimination Act does not adequately define “harassment” or “intimidation.” If this bill passes, these ambiguous terms will be enshrined in federal law providing an excellent pretext for persecution of Christian students and faculty.

Under this act, homosexual teens can decide when they’ve been sufficiently “harassed” or “intimidated.” A grade school boy or girl who thinks they are victimized can persuade their local liberal, feminist or gay district attorney and summon the force of federal intervention. If such “victimized” children want to launch civil lawsuits against students, parents or church leaders, this bill makes it clear nothing should prevent them. As in workplaces if ENDA is passed, school authorities will be afraid to provoke homosexual students in any way. Although penalties are not stipulated, HR 4530 is intended to expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent civil rights acts which contain harsh penalties for discrimination, including imprisonment.

There is no evidence that widespread harassment of homosexuals and transgenders in primary and secondary education is an “especially severe problem,” as the bill alleges—not with tolerance education and gay/straight activist groups abounding on campuses! As with their hate bill, ADL is exaggerating an “epidemic of hate” in public schools, dramatizing rare abuses to justify massive federal jurisdiction.

HR 4530 amounts to federal endorsement of adolescent homosexuality as a legitimate, normal alternative. It puts homosexuality on a par with race, religion and gender, characteristics which the government already protects. If passed, it will flood government-sponsored educational programs into public schools to promote homosexual self-esteem. Its encouragement of homosexuality on the grade school level will destroy young consciences even before they have formed.

You Can Stop this Outrage!

Last year, ADL presented its David Ray Ritcheson Hate Crimes Prevention Act (See, ADL’s New ‘Trojan Horse’ Hate Bill) and adjunct legislation to the cyberbullying bill, the Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act (AWARE) (See, Hate Bills: Protest Calls Flood House Judiciary!). Through these bills, the League tried to set up the federal government in pro-homosexual education and anti-bias hate crimes enforcement at every level of public schooling, from kindergarten to grad school. These attempts failed, but ADL’s determination is unwavering. In yet another attempt, before mid-term elections next fall, ADL hopes to quietly move HR 4530 through Congress unnoticed.

There is a good chance they can. Despite 41 Republicans in the Senate, five or six liberal Republicans could vote for it, just as they helped pass the hate bill last July. The Student Nondiscrimination Act, introduced by homosexual Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), and with 61 cosponsors, is now in the House Education and Labor Committee. This is the same committee which powerfully endorsed ENDA this fall. That’s because 18 of 19 Republican House members, not hearing much protest from the American people, didn’t even bother to show up.

We can’t let that happen again. This bill, slanted toward ostensible protection of America’s youth, is designed to pass without much controversy. Yet it is just as dangerous as ENDA and the cyber-bullying bill—setting up the federal government as a special protector and encourager of homosexuality to our nation’s youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

Call your House and Senate members at 1-877-851-6437 or toll, 1-202-225-3121. Also call crucially important members, especially Republicans, of the House, Education and Labor Committee (names available HERE at www.truthtellers.org). Tell them: “Please do not vote for the Student Nondiscrimination Act, HR 4530. This bill denies equal justice. It gives homosexual students special rights over other students, in violation of the 14 th Amendment to the Constitution. There is little evidence that persecution of homosexual students is a severe national problem meriting federal jurisdiction.”

Here is your vital last statement: “If the senator or congressperson votes for this dangerous legislation, I and my friends will vote out Democrats in the midterm election!”

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An Austin lawyer threatened to pursue a new federal lawsuit Monday after learning that some newborn blood samples in Texas went to the U.S. military for potential use in a database for law enforcement purposes.

The Department of State Health Services never mentioned the database to Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, who settled a lawsuit in December with the state over the indefinite storage of newborn blood without parental consent, or to the American-Statesman, which first reported on the little-known blood storage practice last spring. Harrington said he thought another suit was likely unless the health department destroys the information obtained from the blood samples or obtains consent.

“This is the worst case of bad faith I have dealt with as a lawyer,” he said Monday.

Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the Texas attorney general’s office, which represented the health department, fired back. “During this litigation, Harrington was provided accurate answers to the questions he asked,” he said.

“Once Harrington negotiated $26,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs for himself, accepted a settlement agreement and got his desired headlines, he was satisfied and dropped his

lawsuit against DSHS. It appears recent media reports caused Harrington to backtrack in an effort to obscure how he chose to handle this case,” he said

An article Monday by the Texas Tribune, a news Web site, said the state health department sent 800 anonymous samples to the military to help create a national mitochondrial DNA database. The samples were sent in 2003 and 2007, according to the department’s Web site.

Carrie Williams, a health department spokeswoman, said the program wasn’t mentioned because, “We don’t publicize every agency initiative or contract, and obviously this is a sensitive topic.”

Texas agreed to take part in the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory database project because blood spots might help identify “ethnic or ancestral origins of unidentified corpses using mitochondrial DNA,” Williams said. “We believed it was an important research project that could potentially help in missing persons cases.”

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