H.R. 1268 VOTE NO

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March 14, 2005


Tomorrow evening or Wednesday morning the U.S. House will vote on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief -- all rolled into one awful bill: H.R. 1268. We urge a "no" vote because of what the bill contains tonight. (We can only imagine what will be added during the next 24 hours when members' pet projects are funded to buy those members' votes.)
At $87.5 billion, it will be the second largest supplemental appropriations bill in the history of the world (and also of the United States); second only to the one last year. The funds will be considered "emergency" so they can ignore spending caps and the billions in new spending won't need to be offset by reducing spending
elsewhere.

Here is a partial list:
1. $656 million for tsunami relief.
2. $94 million for Darfur.
3. $150 million for food aid; most to Liberia and Sudan.
4. $580 million for peacekeeping; most for Sudan.
5. $582 million to build a new American embassy in Iraq.
6. $76 million to build a new airport in Kuwait.
7. $257 million for counter drug efforts in Afghanistan.
8. $372 million for health, reconstruction and alternative development programs to help farmers stop raising poppy.
9. $200 million in economic aid for the Palestinians.
10. $150 million for Pakistan.
11. $200 million for Jordan.
12. $34 million for Ukraine.
13. $40 million for FBI personnel in Iraq.

This emergency wartime bill will also allow the District of Columbia to use taxpayers' funds to build a new baseball stadium. Talk about an "emergency!"
What about the national ID? Well, it's not official at this moment, but the national ID bill (H.R. 418) that the House recently passed will likely be added at the last minute; thereby avoiding a separate vote by the U.S. Senate.

Yes, oppose this pork-laden emergency wartime bill because it includes the national ID, or because it clears the way for a taxpayer-financed baseball stadium, or whatever else might be added at the last minute...and you will be charged with "not supporting our troops."

Tell your U.S. representative to vote against this extortion in the name of "patriotism" and vote "no" on H.R. 1268 because you do support our troops, and don't support the billions of dollar of pork.

Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee

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Immigrations Twenty Points of Reason

There's a terribly interesting summary of various writers on the subject of our borders. Click to Wooldridge March 9th, 2005 article.

"News With Views" has been a pretty interesting read, at times.

12 valuable quotes- Thomas Jefferson 1743

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A little rebellion now and then is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

"...Afraid of Being a Person Whose Life Didn't Matter" by Tessa David Rose

The text below is being pasted directly from Sierratimes.com but was also sent directly to this blogger's email by Larken Rose himself.

The commentary is of a critical nature to all Americans and speaks volumes about the bravery still found in our countrymen and women today. Truly inspirational!

If I'm Afraid of Anything, I Guess I'm Afraid of Being a Person Whose Life Didn't Matter

Tessa Rose (Wife of Larken)

Ten years ago, the prospect of being indicted would have been frightening and stressful to me. But I was a different person ten years ago. The experiences of the last few years have thickened my skin and strengthened my resolve. One of the hardest things about the last few years has been waiting and waiting for things to happen. So this indictment is a relief. Things are finally moving toward our long-held goal of bringing this issue to court.

I would so love to be past all this, living a peaceful life again. But the only way out of this is right through it. From the beginning, there has never been another way out. I have tried, at times, to imagine a way to back up and somehow stop doing this, but I cannot. Once you understand the law, you can't un-understand it. Once you understand that your income isn't taxable, you're committing felonious perjury if you sign a return saying that it is. Once you understand that millions of people are being defrauded, you're killing your own soul if you keep quiet about it.

Every year, people in government grow more lawless, more arrogant, and more numerous. And their victims quietly submit, enjoying their lives in the hope that the thing they enjoy most won't be outlawed next. They see water running through a hole in the dyke, and they get out of the way so they won't get wet. At some point, don't we have to ask ourselves what we want for our children and grandchildren? If we think the government is too big to fight now, how much more powerful will it be in 20 or 40 years? Especially if no one resists it? Do we want our children to drown because we were afraid to plug the hole in the dyke? Does anyone really think they are creating a better life for their kids by allowing civil rights and the rule of law to perish? Rights don't survive because they're written on a piece of paper somewhere; they survive because people fight for them, as we're fighting for them right now. The government wants Larken to shut up, but if their tactics succeed, what does it matter that American’s have freedom of speech on paper? What good are elected representatives and written laws, if, in practice, bureaucrats can just tell you what to do regardless of the law?

I've heard people say that you only destroy your own life by taking on a battle like this. The implication is that if you fight and lose, then you were wrong to fight. I guess they're right, if a relatively peaceful, oppressed lifetime is their highest value. It's not mine. I value a free society, in which generation after generation can experience peace and prosperity, in which all of our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren can make their dreams come true. Every action, large and small, must be judged in light of that value. Am I furthering what I value, or am I contributing to its demise? Whatever I chose, I will have to live with having made that choice. We are all on trial in the great court of history, and our great-grandchildren will judge our generation with clear eyes.

Some people think I'm brave. Well, no, not really. I'll never go skydiving or rock climbing. But I have only one life to live, one life with which to make a difference in the world, or not. If I'm afraid of anything, I guess I'm afraid of being a person whose life didn't matter, just one more ordinary person who cowered in safety and let things get worse. If we go to trial and lose, that will really suck. But it won't negate the truth we've brought to light, or the resistance we've made to the growth of rampant tyranny. Every act of resistance makes tyranny weaker. Many, many acts of resistance, even small ones, can topple it. I don't wish suffering on myself or anyone else, but I am proud of people who have stood up for truth and justice when it was dangerous to do so. And I'll be proud to be one of those people, no matter what happens to me.

Tessa David Rose

What form of government do we have in the U.S. of A.?

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