Federal Court Rules In Favour Of Indefinite Detention Of US Citizens

Obama’s emergency stay on NDAA block extended

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Oct 3, 2012

A federal appeals court has ruled that the US government can still indefinitely detain citizens should it wish to do so, under the Obama Administration’s National Defense Authorization Act.

The ruling came in the form of an extension of an “emergency” stay of a district court judge’s order that had previously struck down the defence bill’s provisions altogether.

Last month District Judge Katherine Forrest permanently blocked the NDAA provision, saying that “First Amendment rights have already been harmed and will be harmed by the prospect of (the law) being enforced.”

However, the very next day the Obama administration moved to appeal the decision in an attempt to reinstate the indefinite detention provisions. The administration characterized the ruling by Forrest as unconstitutional.

Federal judge in New York, Raymond Lohier, then granted the Obama administration an “emergency” stay that temporarily blocks Forrest’s ruling.

Late yesterday, a three-judge motions panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit extended that stay, supporting the administration’s appeal and intimating that Forrest’s ruling is flawed.

“We conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the government’s motion for a stay,” Appeals Court Judges Denny Chin, Raymond Lohier and Christopher Droney wrote in athree-page order that also expedited the appeal.

All three judges on the panel were appointed to the appeals court by Obama.

The order continues:

First, in its memorandum of law in support of its motion, the government clarifies unequivocally that, ‘based on their stated activities,’ plaintiffs, ‘journalists and activists[,] . . . are in no danger whatsoever of ever being captured and detained by the U.S. military.’

Second, on its face, the statute does not affect the existing rights of United States citizens or other individuals arrested in the United States. See NDAA § 1021(e) (‘Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect existing law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are captured or arrested in the United States.’).

Third, the language of the district court’s injunction appears to go beyond NDAA § 1021 itself and to limit the government’s authority under the Authorization for Use of Military Force…

Concerned Americans have argued that the NDAA provision could see American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge.

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Texas Students Treated Like Cattle with Mandatory RFID Tags

Infowars.com
Oct 3, 2012

Students and parents at two San Antonio schools are in revolt over a program that forces kids to wear RFID tracking name tags which are used to pinpoint their location on campus as well as outside school premises.

Leon Panetta CIA Links to World Government Rockefeller Agenda 21 - Gary Arnold

You Tube
October 3, 2012


The Panetta Institute is on the grounds of the decomissioned Fort Ord Army base. Donated to the institute from the Governement? There are so many World Government links here as Gary Arnold explains. Mr Arnold ought to know...he ran against him for political office. Since then Leon Panetta has gone far, but now has lost his CIA post...why? And why did he go so far? As we can see he was very connected in the first place..that is why.
(permission granted from rcoones102 to mranthonyjhilder)

TSA to install molecular body scanners

RT News
October 2, 2012

Oct 2, 2012 by RTAmerica

TSA is introducing the new full body scanner system to the American airports. The scanners will be capable of detecting every tiny trace of any substance of your body to find gunpowder or any bomb making materials. However the devices can also trace the level of adrenaline in the body. RT's Kristine Frazao has more on the subject.

Update: Michigan Counties Continue the Fight Against NDAA

The New American

October 1, 2012

Soon Michigan may join the list of other states who have passed legislation checking the president’s power under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to indefinitely detain American citizens.

On Monday, September 24, constitutionalists and friends of liberty gathered at the Oakland County (Michigan) General Government Committee Meeting to support Commissioner Jim Runestad’s Liberty Preservation Resolution. Blake Filippi of the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) originally drafted this measure with the assistance of the Rhode Island Liberty Coalition. 

Reports to The New American from those attending the meeting indicate that many residents attended the meeting, as well, and passionately defended the right of Americans to live without the specter of an all-powerful police state looming over their every action.

One citizen, Anna Janek, stood at the meeting and recounted a childhood living in fear of government and police in communist Czechoslovakia.

A follow-up meeting to consider the anti-NDAA proposal is scheduled for Monday, October 8 and 9:30 A.M.

Apart from the noble work being done in Oakland County, State Representative Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills, pictured above, at left) has introduced a bill in the state legislature that would prevent the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans from crossing the Wolverine state borders.

McMillin’s measure, HB 5768, would prevent the arrest and indefinite detention of citizens of his state under the authority of relevant provisions of the NDAA. According to the text of the legislation: 

No agency of this state, no political subdivision of this state, no employee of an agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state acting in his or her official capacity, and no member of the Michigan national guard on official state duty shall aid an agency of the armed forces of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, or detention of any person pursuant to 50 USC 1541, as provided by the federal national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2012.

The day after citizens turned out to support the cause of freedom in Oakland County, over 40 concerned Michiganders attended the Michigan State House Oversight, Reform and Ethics Committee chaired by Representative McMillin.

Led by TAC state coordinator Shane Trejo, representatives from a coalition of groups devoted to the protection of individual liberty testified in favor of McMillin’s bill and the principle of due process. The organizations present at the hearing included People Against NDAA, Campaign for Liberty, Downsize D.C., the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the ACLU among others.

Notably, consistent defender of the Constitution Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) appeared before the committee and spoke in support of HB 5768.

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TSA Confiscates Camera, Deletes Footage of Checkpoint

TSA workers steal memory card, cop claims “It must have fallen on the ground”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 1, 2012

RELATED: TSA Rescinds Approval To Film In Response To Opt Out Campaign

Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.

Since the TSA deleted most of the video footage, this clip shows only the end of the incident.

Tom McCormack explains how he was repeatedly harassed by TSA officers and then police simply for filming at a body scanner checkpoint, before TSA agents violently grabbed his camera from him and disappeared, a concerning development given the fact that TSA workers are routinely caught stealing expensive personal items belonging to travelers.

The following account of the incident comes courtesy of the Pixiq website.

I was in the San Juan airport at noon (Sept 24) heading for St. Kitts.

I videotaped (Canon Power Shot) the podium where they make you show the passport/boarding pass, as I approached and then the next area with the X-ray scanners. It was busy. One TSA woman told me to stop from about 20 feet away. I didn’t.

They all seemed intrigued I wouldn’t follow their orders. A TSA guy soon approached me and said I had to stop. I kept the video going and said

“Sorry, it’s a Constitutional right.” He said “Okay” and walked back, a little indignant, to the X ray area.

When I went through X rays they were waiting for me. Two uptight TSA ladies rolled up on a cart and approached me. I grabbed my camera and started rolling; I wanted to capture the conversation with them.

One of them approached me and violently ripped the camera from my hands. I was shocked and told her to give it back and lunged for my camera. They took my camera and passport and boarding pass and ran off to some corner to confer with one another.

A police officer approached and asked where I was from. I said California. The conversation went like this:

Me: “I’m from California. Why?”

Him: “Well, each State has its own rules.”

Me: “But this is TSA. A Federal agency. Therefore the State laws don’t apply. Besides, the First Amendment of the Constitution trumps state rules.”

Him: “This is an airport. You can’t just videotape people. You need permission.”

Me : “Nonsense, this is a public arena. There is not permission required or any expectation of privacy here.”

Him: “No, Puerto Rico is not like the States. There are local laws that have nothing to do with the way they do things in the States.”

Me: “Look, let’s just agree to disagree. I don’t accept anything you say. I want my camera back. See stole it. I want her to give it back right now.”

Him: “She didn’t steal it. She just confiscated it because you violated the rules.”

The TSA lady reappeared with my camera, passport, boarding pass. I took it and started to walk away (pissed off) when I noticed the camera would not go on. I looked at the cartridge slot and it was gone. They had stolen it!

I showed the cop and said, “Look I want my cartridge (with 200 or so personal photos) back or I’ll call a lawyer and 911 to get more cops.

This is outrageous!” He seemed to be aware I was getting upset and the TSA ladies scurried off with the cop and came back 2 minutes later with the cartridge.

“It must have fallen on the ground” said the cop.

Yeah, right. Predictably all the videos of them giving me a hard time were deleted. The whole episode lasted about 10 minutes.

This story again reminds us that Americans are being harassed and in some cases arrested for filming either federal employees, in the case of the TSA, or police officers.

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When it costs more to be poor – Fed and government shifting inflation onto rent, medical care, and food. QE3 to widen the gap between the poor and the wealthy.

Editor's note: More evidence that the middle class is being destroyed, as I have talked about in many articles and videos. This is meant to destroy competition that would compete against the wealthy globalists, as well as being a control mechanism. 

MyBudget360
September 30, 2012

Inflation has been picking up since the recession ended in 2009.  The problem with the CPI increasing year over year with no rise in household incomes is that the standard of living for most Americans erodes every year that incomes do not keep up.  Household incomes are back to levels last seen in the mid-1990s while the cost of necessities has gone up.  This brings us to our article today that examines the nuts and bolts of what constitutes the Consumer Price Index (CPI).  The CPI attempts to measure the changes in price for consumer goods and services.  Overall it did a very poor job of measuring the housing bubble because of the owner’s equivalent of rent metric.  Today, it is understating inflation because of the excess spending on “wants” that occurred in the 2000s has now shifted to spending on “needs” but is being dragged down by the amount of family spending on needed goods.  We will dig deep into this data but suffice it to say that the Fed is creating inflation in items most Americans actually need to live their daily lives and the burden on the poor is actually increasing.

Do not believe the talk that inflation is nonexistent

Even a one percent rate of inflation is troubling if incomes are stagnant or falling.  Since the recession has ended inflation has occurred even as measured by the CPI:

Over this same timeframe, household incomes have remained stagnant and household net worth has fallen close to 40 percent.  Yet there is something more troubling in the actual data.  The inflation rate is actually being understated because Americans have shifted consumption from non-essential goods to actually seeing inflation in things that they actually need.  In the 2000s spending on wasteful items was rampant and much of it came because of the easy access to debt.  Yet with 100 million credit cards being yanked out of the system, this spending has fallen dramatically.  So where exactly is the inflation occurring?

Change in Family Spending: 2007 – 2011

Source:  The Atlantic

This is a very important chart to examine.  What we find is that family spending has gone up on items that are daily needs.  The biggest change has occurred on medical insurance and rents.  The cost of rents going up has come thanks to the financial system allowing million of properties to be held off the market thus allowing prices to be pushed up as the population grows.  The price of rents going up isn’t a sign that incomes are going up but a troubling fact that Americans have to allocate more of their funding to housing.  Of course, this is hitting working, middle class, and younger Americans hardest who actually do not own a home.

Next you have the bubble in higher education raging.  Students are taking on incredible levels of debt to support their educational pursuits.  No other generation has had to face so much debt with such a minefield of scam artist institutions that basically have millionaire presidents and are one step above a paper mill.  Yet thanks to easy government loans and banking lobbyist in cahoots with these institutions, the ultimate bill is passed on to taxpayers and those taking on the loans.  It is sophisticated way to launder money under the guise of helping Americans.  The quality checks are removed like selling a car for cheaper because it has no seat belts or brakes.  It also waters down degrees from quality institutions as more subpar degrees flood the market.

Finally you have an increase in the price of telephone service and foods.  The only item that has increased that might be considered a luxury is in the telephone category.  Yet food is an absolute necessity.  If we break down the CPI weighting we find the following:

Food and housing are the biggest line items.  However because mortgage spending has fallen thanks to the Federal Reserve and Americans spending less on home furnishing and vehicle purchases the CPI is not reflecting the big changes occurring.  A 15+ percent increase in rent from 2007 to 2011 with no increase in income is sizeable.  Yet the items where family spending has fallen is largely elective.  So when we look at family spending and then look at the CPI, you can understand why the increase in inflation seems modest yet most Americans are feeling the pinch to their wallets much tighter.

This is why the Federal Reserve through QE 3 and massive amounts of mortgage backed security purchases is essentially robbing from Peter to pay Paul.  The end result is that you have shifted more of a burden to renters to essentially take off a bit of steam from home owners.  Now you have major private equity investors buying properties and hiking rental prices since they are able to borrow money cheaply.  In all reality you have shifted a larger burden on those least likely to have the means to afford it.  This is why we have seen the middle class shrink in the last few decades and the ranks of the poor grow even larger.  With over 46 million Americans on food stamps we really are becoming a split nation.  And again, refer to the chart above on family spending.  With the rise in the cost of food you are squeezing the lowest rung even further.  Yet this is the setup of the current system.  The Fed is picking winners at the expense of others.  This is what occurs when you have manipulated money creation and coddling the banking sector versus actual real growth in the economy.  When you see those headlines about inflation figures keep all this data in mind.