Time to Disband Homeland Security and Renew Democracy
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2006/1826
[excert]
We trample individual rights and civil liberties won at great expense for
millions of American soldiers over generations in the name of “national
security.” We conduct government in secret to hide corruption at the
highest levels claiming security concerns. We spy on political dissenters
who are seeking to return our nation to traditional American political
values. We use Homeland Security and the American military to spy on
average American citizens doing their civic duty.
The Bush Republicans controlling our government encourage the abuse of
public office to advance strictly partisan political goals. They are trying
falsely to redefine American patriotism as blindly following the most
extreme of Republican Right policies and ideology.
They are assaulting the Bill of Rights and attacking the Constitutional
principles of our nation. Our Constitutional system of checks and balances
between competing branches of government, which was designed to prevent
dictatorial government and guarantee individual liberty, has almost been
overthrown under Bush Republican rule. Separation of Church and State has
been severely undermined by deliberate policy thereby threatening both with
the corruption. Government has no business interfering in the religious
aspects of our lives.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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