Newsletter 09-14-06

Without a Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story by Lonnie D. Story I have fought long and hard over this decision.  At a time when I have faced the greatest challenge of my present life and future, I have battled what I should and should not share of this work.  The excerpt below is somewhere within the first quarter of the manuscript that I'm currently working on - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium.  It is not my nature to share my writings premature of the final draft.  However, due to personal reasons, I have made the decision to open a crack into the book so that no one forgets what has happened and what is important.   It is my genuine hope that your heart is touched, your spirit inspired and your will ignited.  I covet your prayers, Lonnie Read More... 7 Ways to Make Your Neighborhood Safer by Harry Browne America's crime rate has risen almost continually for the past 35 years. Very little of the great plans to reverse the trend -- whether mandatory sentences or more cops on the beat -- has helped to relieve the worst crime wave in the nation's history. And recent drops in crime rates still leave us far less safe than we were 35 years ago. Is the situation hopeless? Read More... Homegrown American Fascism by Stephen Neitzke The elevation of GW Bush by SCOTUS in Bush v. Gore created a presidential usurper, not a president. The SCOTUS decision -- in violation of the Constitution's Article 2, paragraph 2 -- is so far beyond the Constitution as to truly make it nothing more than Bush's "goddamned piece of paper". Bush v. Gore also violated the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution, thus violating 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against rights. Read More... That Pesky Convention Clause by John De Herrera The clause, when satisfied, is peremptory, done without debate, and Congress has no option in the matter. That's the essence of the American spirit, that we consent to be governed, and when things go bad we can alter or abolish. That was the rebuttal that made the sale, and that's why we ratified the Constitution and became the U.S.A. Read More... Americans' Unrealized "Peace Dividend" by Ben Tanosborn The era of America's political chameleonic experience saw its apogee with charismatic Bill Clinton. It was during his two terms in office that the scant waters of American liberalism were forced to pass through a filter to get any and all progressive impurities out of the way. before they could be allowed to merge into the American "mainstream." The surviving Democratic Party became de facto indistinguishable from the Republican Party: the same church, a similar domestic agenda, and identical foreign policy dogma. just two different collection plates for politicians to attain power. Read More...