I’m sure most people have heard about this already but here is a collection of information about what’s going on.
If you are in anyway a supporter of liberty and freedom, if you are a supporter of Ron Paul or anything he stands for, please signup to become a member of the Campaign for Liberty to be kept up to date on the second phase in the Ron Paul Revolution. We are looking to get 100K before September 2nd. You can read the mission statement, strategy and statement of principles at http://www.campaignforliberty.com/mission/.
There is also a blog [RSS feed] manned Trevor Lyman who helped rally people around the moneybomb concept and Michael Nystrom of Daily Paul.
I think this is a wonderful direction for Paul to take. He has no reason to continue his campaign now that all the votes are in. He can take his money and continue the momentum that his campaign has created which was what worried me the most.
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Gun rights advocates and the National Rifle Association won a victory today with the Florida House’s passage of a contentious bill that would allow employees to bring their guns to work.
The measure (HB 503) is a watered-down version of what the NRA had hoped for but is seen as a compromise that the Senate is also expected to sign off on.
Under the proposal, employees and visitors who have state-issued concealed weapons licenses would be able to bring their weapons to work and leave them locked in their vehicles.
The measure would exempt certain businesses from having to allow the guns, including schools, prisons, nuclear power plants, defense-related businesses and those that deal with explosive materials.
Also exempted would be company-owned or leased cars.
The business community, including the Florida Chamber of Commerce, has vigorously objected to the measure, saying it pits the property rights of employers against the Second Amendment rights permitting guns.
Thing is… gun rights are a subset of property rights. An individual can set whatever rules they wish for their property. If the employer doesn’t want employees to carry guns they don’t carry guns else they have no right to be on the property. There is no such thing as “Second Amendment rights.” The second Amendment says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” What part of that delegates rights? It assumes a preexisting right to keep and bear arms and indicates the federal government may not infringe that right. They don’t permit guns… they disallow Congress from not permitting guns.
This is the problem with the NRA. They aren’t disciplined. They agree to all sorts of gun control laws and then pull this kind of crap.
Gun Owners of America is a much better organization.
Yesterday, 19 Democrats, 48 Republicans, and 1 independent voted to violate the Constitution and their oaths of office. Only 28 Democrats, 1 independent, and ZERO Republicans remained true to their oaths. They voted to pass S. 2248, a new law designed to replace the so-called “Protect America Act.”* It permits the President to spy on Americans without a warrant.
* It grants retroactive immunity to tele-communications companies that collaborated with the Bush administration in previous warrantless spying, thereby creating an incentive for other companies to engage in similar crimes in the future (only Qwest Communications insisted on warrants).All hope is NOT lost. S. 2248 cannot become law unless the House agrees to its provisions. Fortunately, the House version of this bill, while not perfect, is signficantly better. Our best hope, and we must take it, is to tell the House to stick by their version of the bill.
You can go here and use DownsizeDC’s services to send a form letter against this issue to your congressmen. If the Congress and administratation believe the wiretaps were not illegal than why would they need to worry about lawsuits? John McCain voted for this. Continently Senator Clinton and Obama missed this vote. Paul issued this statement on it on January 30th.
The Bill of Rights, the name for the first 10 amendments of the United States Constitution, came into effect on this day 1791. While many believe the Bill of Rights defines rights which those under the jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States of America it is in fact a list which explicitly restricts the government from infringing on the rights which we all have inherently. They were a compromise between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists where the latter were afraid of a centralized government infringing on the rights which they had just recently fought a war over. There was in fact 12 amendments proposed but only 10 ratified at the time. The 27th amendment which was ratified in 1992 was one of the two which hadn’t made it in 1791.
For more information I highly recommend reading James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
by Rep. Ron Paul
I am introducing a comprehensive piece of legislation to restore the American Constitution and to restore the liberties that have been sadly eroded over the past several years.
This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers to prevent abuse of Americans by their government. This proposed legislation would repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and re-establish the traditional practice that military commissions may be used to try war crimes in places of active hostility where a rapid trial is necessary to preserve evidence or prevent chaos.
The legislation clarifies that no information shall be admitted as evidence if it is obtained from the defendant through the use of torture or coercion. It codifies the FISA process as the means by which foreign intelligence may be obtained and it gives members of the Senate and the House of Representatives standing in court to challenge presidential signing statements that declares the president’s intent to disregard certain aspects of a law passed in the US Congress. It prohibits kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of prisoners to foreign countries on the president’s unilateral determination that the suspect is an enemy combatant. It defends the first amendment by clarifying that journalists are not to be prevented from publishing information received from the legislative or executive branch unless such publication would cause immediate, direct, and irreparable harm to the United States .
Finally, the legislation would prohibit the use of secret evidence to designate an individual or organization with a United States presence to be a foreign terrorist or foreign terrorist organization.
I invite my colleagues to join my efforts to restore the US Constitution by enacting the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007.
This is a great bill… too bad it probably won’t go anywhere. Even The Huffington Post supports it. Write your representatives and ask them to support this bill. In one act we could turn back many of the outrageously unconstitutional and freedom infringing actions taken in the past few years.
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