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By Publius Huldah

The courts have lawful authority under the supremacy clause of the federal Constitution (Art. VI, clause 2) to overturn SOME Amendments to State Constitutions and SOME State laws.

It depends on whether the State provision conflicts with the federal Constitution, or with an Act of Congress which is authorized by the Constitution, or with a Treaty which is authorized by the Constitution.

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This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right.

First Amendment

The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging thefreedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Supreme Court has also interpreted the First Amendment as protecting freedom of association.

However, the government is arresting those speaking out … and violently crushing peaceful assemblies which attempt to petition the government for redress.

A federal judge found that the law allowing indefinite detention of Americans without due process has a “chilling effect” on free speech. And see this and this.

There are also enacted laws allowing the secret service to arrest anyone protesting near the president or other designated folks (that might explain incidents like this).

Mass spying by the NSA violates our freedom of association.

The threat of being labeled a terrorist for exercising our First Amendment rights certainly violates the First Amendment. The government isusing laws to crush dissent, and it’s gotten so bad that even U.S. Supreme Court justices are saying that we are descending into tyranny. (And the U.S. is doing the same things that tyrannical governments have done for 5,000 years to crush dissent.)

For example, the following actions may get an American citizen living on U.S. soil labeled as a “suspected terrorist” today:

• Taking any steps to protect your privacy (and see this)

• Being a hippy

• Complaining about the taste of your tap water

• Being young (if you live near a battle zone, you are fair game; and see this)

• Acting like a kid

• Using social media

• Reporting or doing journalism (and here and here)

• Having “strange odors” or “bright colored stains on clothes” (what if you eat mustard or ketchup?)

• Speaking out against government policies

• Protesting anything (such as participating in the “Occupy” or “Tea Party” movements). For example, Department of Defense training manuals classify all protest as “low-level terrorism”. And see this, this, this and this

• Questioning war (even though war reduces our national security; and see this)

• Criticizing the government’s targeting of innocent civilians with drones (although killing innocent civilians with drones is one of the main things which increases terrorism. And see this)

• Asking questions about pollution (even at a public Congressional hearing?)

• Paying cash at an Internet cafe

• Asking questions about Wall Street shenanigans

• Holding gold

• Creating alternative currencies

• Stocking up on more than 7 days of food (even though all Mormons are taught to stockpile food, and most Hawaiians store up on extra food)

• Having bumper stickers saying things like “Know Your Rights Or Lose Them”

• Investigating factory farming

• Infringing a copyright

• Taking pictures or videos

• Talking to police officers

• Wearing a hoodie

• Driving a van

• Writing on a piece of paper

• (Not having a Facebook account may soon be added)

And holding the following beliefs may also be considered grounds for suspected terrorism:

• Being frustrated with “mainstream ideologies”

• Being a libertarian

• Liking the Founding Fathers

• Being a Christian

• Being anti-tax, anti-regulation or for the gold standard

• Being “reverent of individual liberty”

• Being “anti-nuclear”

• “Believe in conspiracy theories”

• “A belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack”

• “Impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

• “Insert religion into the political sphere”

• “Those who seek to politicize religion”

• “Supported political movements for autonomy”

• Being “anti-abortion”

• Being “anti-Catholic”

• Being “anti-global”

• “Suspicious of centralized federal authority”

• “Fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”

• “A belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in … survivalism”

• Opposing genetically engineered food

• Opposing surveillance

And see this. (Of course, Muslims are more or less subject to a separate system of justice in America.)

And 1st Amendment rights are especially chilled when power has become so concentrated that the same agency which spies on all Americans also decides who should be assassinated.

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of opposition, much less from a sitting judge, so it publicized, acontextually, the photo of Adolf Hitler that hangs in the judge’s courthouse. Yes, such a photo is there. Many readers were shocked to learn of it. But does it mean Judge Day is a Hitler admirer?

     According to [spokesman Patrick] Korten, it was part of a World War II display. “We went to war against Hitler,” Korten told Reuters. “His picture was there. It was not admiringly. It was him as the epitome of the enemy that we went to fight against.”     A photograph of the display has now surfaced, and appears to bear out this story. While Hitler’s image is unusually large, it is surrounded by American veterans’ memorabilia.

A bit like calling baby photos “child pornography,” isn’t it?

Do not doubt it: the homosexual activists are part of today’s Establishment. Note how widely they’re feared. There are good reasons to fear them.

Donald Trump has the Establishment’s knickers in a twist. He’s pulling record crowds, speaking the unspeakable and challenging the kingmakers’ power to decide who gets the next turn at bat. But his life is an open book. Everyone knows everything there is to know about him. What to do, what to do… Ah! This will do it! Associate his father with the Ku Klux Klan!

Read the article. Note that there isn’t one bald assertion in it that Donald Trump is a Klansman, or even that his father was. The article even admits this:

     To be clear, this is not proof that Trump senior—who would later go on to become a millionaire real estate developer—was a member of the Ku Klux Klan or even in attendance at the event.

The insinuation is effective because of readers’ tendency to stop after a paragraph or two, and to infer what has not been said. It’s an exceptionally clever and unusually vicious technique for slandering the living by defaming the dead. But the Establishment, however clean its hands might appear, has a sufficiency of cat’s-paws to put to such a task.

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When I was a child, I had dreams like any other, impossible goals and obnoxious ambitions. There was a time when I wished I were the Emperor of the Earth. Never let it be said that I think small. Then there were times I wished I could invent a time machine and travel back to the days of Christ to solve the deeper mysteries of Christianity. Childhood dreams are like that. There is no sense to them, but they had a magnificence, a purity our smaller and more realistic adult ambitions sometimes lack. Did you ever want to be an astronaut or an Olympic swimmer? Did you see yourself writing the next great Science Fiction novel or directing a Hollywood blockbuster?

One thing I did not want to be growing up, however, was a victim. At least, not at first. But when I left private school, near to being kicked out for atrocious behavior (I was not a terribly pleasant child), and wound up in public school, that’s what they taught. In seventh grade I got into a fight with this kid, a bully who I had been having trouble with for months. He threw the first punch, and everybody saw him do it. But when I stood, poised with a textbook over my head, prepared to smash it into the insolent little shit’s face, it was me who got the phone call home and barely avoided suspension.

Why? Because I didn’t look like the victim, irrespective of whether or not I actually was. Somehow, his tearful face made him the victim, and me the oppressor. Ironically, this turned me into an actual victim, for before this I had adhered to my father’s maxim of punch the bully in the nose and he’ll probably go away. After this, I learned that self defense was punished. The rest of middle school and much of high school was spent being the butt monkey of every bully and meathead jock around. I was a laughing stock, but at least I wasn’t being threatened with suspension or expulsion anymore.

It wasn’t long before I noticed this behavior everywhere. One thing I was good at was distance running, and I remember a day in which I was on fire. I can’t remember if it was sixth or seventh grade, but I blew through the mile in under 6 minutes, which was a pretty notable achievement for that age. I was more than a minute faster than the next guy behind me. But the PE teacher didn’t even care, or bother to notice the achievement. He was busy congratulating and urging on lazy kids for actually bothering to jog instead of walk.

This was a talent that was wasted. I look back on this with sadness, because I was truly gifted in Cross Country and distance running. I could have gone somewhere with that ability, but the Cross Country coach spent his time focusing on the girl’s team, because that was the way the political winds were blowing in the public school system, and my motivation waned over the years, until I walked away from it completely.

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(Reuters) – The U.S. government’s proposal for biofuels use will hit consumers at the pump, according a study prepared for an oil group, just months after regulators refuted similar claims and as pressure mounts ahead of a deadline to finalize the plan.

The targeted volumes of ethanol use for 2015 and 2016 are impossible to achieve and will cause “severe economic harm,” said National Economic Research Associates (NERA) in a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute on the potential costs of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal due to be finalized by November 30.

The study echoes a 2012 report from the same consultancy examining the impacts of the controversial Renewable Fuel Standard program and comes just months after EPA dealt a blow to the oil lobby by saying the program does not increase consumer costs or net costs to refiners.

EPA in late May disappointed both the corn and oil industries with targets for biofuels use through 2016. Producers of corn-based ethanol criticized the proposal for falling short of a 2007 law and oil companies said the volumes pushed into the “blend wall” – the saturation point at which biofuels cannot be blended into the fuel stream without major infrastructure change.

Lobbying pressure is mounting ahead of a November deadline after years of delays that both industries have criticized for causing uncertainty.

For a link to the full study, click here: http://www.api.org/~/media/Files/Policy/Fuels-and-Renewables/NERA_FINAL_API_RFS2_July27.pdf

This ethanol from corn “biofuel” bullshit needs to end.

Using corn to make ethanol is an extremely wasteful process.

It  takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol,than the energy that gallon of ethanol produces.

The process uses a lot of water,a lot of electricity,and a food crop.

All that is needed to make ethanol is water,yeast and sugar,sugar is plentiful and inexpensive,production can be increased with no effect on crops grown for food.

The “renewable fuel” bullshit is nothing more than a payoff to the farmers and big ag companies,a payoff to the refiners of ethanol,and a huge pain in the ass for the petroleum industry.

Ethanol is harmful to the internal combustion engine,especially to plastic parts.

The ethanol in fuel attracts water-which is also bad for engines.

The ethanol added fuels are especially harmful to outdoor power equipment,chainsaws,weedwhackers,blowers,lawn mowers.

There is zero benefit to ethanol blended into fuels-except for the distillers and farmers.

The whole ethanol from corn scam was designed to create the mythical “green jobs”.

There are zero “green jobs” created by ethanol if we use facts,rather than EPA and enviro-nazi propaganda.

The farmers were going to plant a crop in their fields whether or not there was a need for dent corn to be made into ethanol.

The ethanol distilleries theoretically create “green jobs”-until you look at the amount of water and electricity used to make ethanol,and the diesel burned to haul away the waste to hog farms.

Since it takes more energy to distill a gallon of ethanol than the gallon of ethanol produces as fuel-it is actually a net loss of “green jobs”,as coal and/or natural gas is burned to generate the power to pump water,ferment and strain the mash, heat and distill the ethanol,and pump the finished product into fuel trucks and/or pipelines.

On what planet does it make any sense at all to use a food crop to distill a product that damages the engines that run on the fuel,lowers fuel economy,and  uses more energy to distill the product than the distilled product produces?

That’s the same “logic” the climate change cult uses to promote their models based on falsified data as the truth.

The EPA needs to be reduced in size by at least 50%,the regulations created by the EPA need to be repealed,with the exception of the few that actually make sense-things like don’t pollute the air,ground, or water.

The environmental zealots in the EPA,and every other .gov agency need to be removed from their positions ASAP.

Environmental regulation must be based on science-as in scientific fact,not hype, speculation,and computer generated models based on data that is questionable at best. Increasing the cost per gallon of gasoline when the economy is the in the toilet is also pure idiocy-and it’s idiocy that needs to be stopped.Just think what a dollar per gallon drop in the price of gasoline would do for us poor folk who live paycheck to paycheck. For one-we could afford to buy more ammo.

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The ethanol distilleries can just convert to making grain alcohol for use in manufacturing whiskey,bourbon,gin,vodka,scotch and liqueurs-problem solved,as an added benefit,the surge in grain alcohol would drop liquor and liqueur prices.

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Christianity is being criminalized in the United States.  No, I am not talking about the kind of Christianity that is so prevalent in America today where “Christians” just ignore what the Bible says and do whatever they wanted to do in the first place anyway.  Rather, I am talking about the kind of faith that Kim Davis has demonstrated.  Christians all over this country are being put into positions where they must choose to either submit to the “new morality” or potentially lose their jobs.  For Kim Davis, deciding to take a stand meant that she was thrown into prison.  The radical judge that threw her into prison has said that she will stay there until she is willing to change her mind.

The pace of which our nation is circling the toilet is absolutely breathtaking.  Just eleven years ago, a state constitutional amendment that banned gay marriage in Kentucky received support from 75 percent of the voters.

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The Syrian refugee crisis that the media bleats about is not a crisis. And the Syrian refugees it champions are often neither Syrians nor refugees. Fake Syrian passports are cheaper than an EU politician’s virtue and easier to come by. Just about anyone who speaks enough Arabic to pass the scrutiny of a European bureaucrat can come with his two wives in tow and take a turn on the carousel of their welfare state.

Or on our welfare state which pays Christian and Jewish groups to bring the Muslim terrorists of tomorrow to our towns and cities. And their gratitude will be as short-lived as our budgets.

The head of a UNHCR camp called Syrian refugees “The most difficult refugees I’ve ever seen. In Bulgaria, they complained that there were no jobs. In Sweden, they took off their clothes to protest that it was too cold.

In Italy, Muslim African “refugees” rejected pasta and demanded food from their own countries. But the cruel Europeans who “mistreat” migrants set up a kitchen in Calais with imported spices cooked by a Michelin chef determined to give them the stir-fried rabbit and lamb meatballs they’re used to. There are also mobile phone charging stations so the destitute refugees can check on their Facebook accounts.

It had to be done because the refugees in Italy were throwing rocks at police while demanding free wifi.

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