17 May 2016

Women and Children First: Homeland Security Targets “Family Units” for Deportation in May and June

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By Danic Jorden

[dropcap]Af[/dropcap]ter January’s raids that tore teens from their families and plucked them off buses on their way to school, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is about to embark on a renewed quest to arrest and deport Central Americans who applied for refugee status in the United States in the summer of 2014. According to sources reported by Reuters on May 12, 2016  and confirmed by DHS a day later, the agency is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out on a second wave of raids against immigrants, this time with the specific aim of apprehending and imprisoning Central American women and their children, or “family units”, and unaccompanied minors.

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10 May 2016

Palast on PoliticKing

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Greg Palast on Larry King

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]reg Palast on Larry King’s PoliticKing with guest host Matthew Cooke on political elites rigging the electoral system. Palast gives Cooke a quick history lesson on vote trickery beginning with 2000–and why you haven’t heard the true story in the US main-stream media.

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12 February 2006

In The Name of Security

By Rowan Wolf

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty or Safety” Benjamin Franklin – 11/11/1755.
A slightly different form is on the base of the Statue of Liberty – “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

The headline reads “Patriot Act Compromise Clears Way for Senate Vote.” It is not much of a compromise, and the “protection” of civil liberties has not occurred. In fact, according to Russ Feingold, the current version is even weaker than the compromise made before the Congressional break in December 2005.

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2 January 2003

The War at home- U.S. vs Us

By Rowan Wolf
Last year, The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law. Civil Libertarians screamed and the ACLU dedicated virtually their entire web site to addressing the problems with this sweeping piece of legislation. Being a college teacher, I talked about it in my classes. However, no large public outcry went up to throw out this frightening legislation. Now, this legislation is coming home to roost. Court challenges and appeals are largely over and John Ashcroft has been given carte blanch to do what he wants. Again this year, the call went out “Beware the Homeland Security Act!” It is now law and is going into action much quicker than the USA PATRIOT did. If you are not afraid of what our government is doing to our Constitution and to our nation, you should be.

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