Mekhong Kurt,

Diebold and ESS touchscreen voting have ruined what was left of democracy in this country.

Over a century ago voting was done by a show of hands, witnessed by all, those who didn’t want to have the scrutiny of their beliefs were allowed a secret anonymous ballot.  When voting with secret ballots was made mandatory, the manipulation of the vote was born.

My two tours in the Marines and subsequent 30 years in the building trades have shown me that the standing military can be disbanded and half the cops in America can be fired.  The second Amendment and concealed carry laws are a more effective deterrent than what we have now.

American or not, try and dictate to me and take my freedoms granted by the Bill of Rights and the blowback may be severe.

Hey little machoman Mekong Delta force:

I know you are addicted to voting.

An addict is an addict.

If you come between the addict and his addictive substance, he gets mean.

Sell your addictive substance to suckers and chumps like you.  I am just saying NO, as I have said for more than 30 years.

re ballots and bullets, a true story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ut6yPrObw

americanme, you don’t know one damned thing about me except what I wrote here. Voting’s not worthwhile in your view? then what in the hell are we supposed to do—celebrate violent anarchy in the streets? (BTW, I’m an honors graduate, ex-cop, West Point nominee—the list goes on; none of it suggests I’m a drug dealer. Which, Sparky, I’ve never been.)

PatrickHenry, I’m well aware of the problems with ballots, and no, I’m not going to pretend I know how to overcome them. But I completely disagree that the voting system is the *cause*—I see it as the *victim.* And, by extension, *us* as the victims. Maybe we could have volunteer citizen monitors “guarding against the guardians” when ballots are counted. Heck, maybe we could have video recordings—but respecting people’s right to privacy. That is, have the ballot boxes themselves in focus, but showing only ballots being placed in them, then pull back to show the boxes being removed and so on the process,with the videos themselves taken under the control of people disinterested in that particular election—volunteers from other states? Something like that? (I’m not being snarky here, I assure you.) But I do hope that a single failure of the Supreme Court to do something it’s clear you and I both want doesn’t lead to armed revolution, Americans shooting Americans.

gerard—thanks.

Mehkong Kurt:  Don’t fall for the simple-minded either/or trap these guys set up here, over and over. All they care about is to “win” stupid little yes/no arguments that make them feel confident.

Mekhong Kurt,

You mean a paper ballot?  I haven’t seen one of those in awhile. 

Our current voting system is a root cause of the problem, from campaign financing to the ability to hack the count to the paperless trail, all designed to void the peoples will.

Oh piss off with that addiction to voting crap.

Voting is for suckers and chumps.

You sound like a streetcorner drug dealer.

PatrickHenry,your seeming eagerness to start shooting is deeply disturbing. It’s something I’m seeing more of recently.

Why don’t you “shoot” with a ballot—not a bullet aimed at a fellow American?

Patrick:

When you gringos stage a revolution, I’ll eat it.

Temporary, until the USSC weighs in. 

If they overturn the injunction then the writing is on the wall and armed revolution is inevitable as TPTB will become emboldened and more freedoms and liberties will come under fire.

wow, at least (hopefully)
the Democratic Party can’t get away
with trashing the Constitution.

This is great news, and thanks to both Truthdig and Court House News for the story, and the link to download Judge Forrest’s entire opinion.

Now I fear she will be reversed, if not at the appeals level—depends on the circuit—then by the Supreme Court, though it’s just *barely* conceivable a Roberts Supreme Court’s decision could break in support of the district judge. In fact, after some of the questions Chief Justice Roberts asked during the arguments over the constitutionality of Obamacare, one might even dare hope he could be critical is upholding this decision. (He downright shocked me back then, pleasantly so. Well, sort of.)

Great victory!  Praise to the plaintiffs.  Now, on to the military microwave people roasting machines.

This is definitely good news.  Thank you and congratulation to Chris Hedges and everyone who took this on.  I personally think that the NDAA law that Obama and administration has attempted to push through, has been the most disconcerting and egregious act that this administration has taken on since coming into office.  Not that all the other (drone attacks, continuous wars, no accountability of wall street criminals, etc. etc.) aren’t right up there, but since this was first announced at the beginning of the year, I saw this as a direct and very calculated attack to not only citizens of the United States but citizens of the world by successive radical government administrations very methodically and with ever increasing stealth steadily chipping away and eroding our constitutional rights.  It is indeed an extremely frightening piece of legislation.

However, though this is a small victory, I fear that “1984 or 1776’s” comments are very telling of what lies ahead for this fascist piece of legislation.  We all need to stay vigilant and continue to tell all those who are not paying attention to these stealth attempts to subvert our constitutional rights by the corporate and political elite.

Great job Freedom 7!

Perhaps now a lawsuit to stop the
drone assassinations?

Is that doable?

NDAA kills itself. Let’s hope the Global Empire is next

There are some honest judges left in the US!

The DGE (Disguised Global Empire) loses one!

What will Secret Agent 008 (Obama) do next to intimidate and oppress ‘subjects’ in the Empire that he acts as faux-Emperor and nominal president of?

Best luck and love to the “Occupy
Empire” educational and revolutionary movement.

Liberty, democracy, & justice
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire,

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

Congratulations. It’s good to see a judicial refutation of Obama’s “trust me” signing statement.

Congratulations!

And yet another small but significant victory!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/judge-allows-class-action-status-in-stop-and-frisk-lawsuit/?hp

Peace.

this will be kicked up to robert’s fascist court, where
the final say so is made. Forest didn’t want to go down
in history with the dead Republic pictured in her arms.
Let roberts take that pose.

This is good news.

A small, but meaningful victory

Wow, gota give credit where credit is due, nice one CH and company.

Wow!  TERRIFIC!

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS:

post below just minutes ago by “April,” one of the most prolific bloggers on the TeaPartyPatriots website. 

Permalink Reply by April 22 minutes ago

Yes good news is good to see!

Quote:

A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a section of the National Defense Authorization Act that opponents claim allows for indefinite military detention.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan today ruled in favor of a group of writers and activists who sued officials including President Barack Obama, claiming the act, signed into law Dec. 31, puts them in fear that they could be arrested and held by U.S. armed forces.

The complaint was filed by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges. The plaintiffs contend a section of the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on “suspicion of providing substantial support” to people engaged in hostilities against the U.S., such as al-Qaeda.

Hedges said he could be held in custody by federal authorities just for interviewing such individuals, according to court filings. Forrest’s order prevents enforcement of the provision of the statute pending further order of the court or an amendment to the statute by Congress.

The case is Hedges v. Obama, 12-CV-00331, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).