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What Does NDAA REALLY Say?

  There is much discussion happening on and off the internet concerning the National Defense Authorization Act, everywhere I look people are panicking about this “new” legislation. The National Defense Authorization Act has been in use for nearly fifty years to detail budgets and expenditures for the US Department of Defense. This is not new.    As nearly [...]

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A Perspective On The Proposed Caylee’s Law

Most of us have at least heard of the Casey Anthony trial, and from one mass media source to another, are hearing about it nonstop. I personally have not been following it as closely as many others seem to be, but from what I do know, there are many missing pieces to the puzzle. So [...]

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The Extension of the Unpatriotic Act

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has accompanied the war on terrorism by infiltrating wiretaps across the borders and in our neighborhoods. 10 years later the American government order the operation that murdered the top most wanted terrorist through leaked information in extensive water boarding techniques in Guantanamo and through wiretapping suspected terrorist. Today, Obama and [...]

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Give them HELL Indiana!

As reported in my article The People in Indiana Drank the Kool-aid, Indiana’s Supreme Court recently made two important ruling in regards to police entry into homes but it seems not all of Indiana has been drinking the kool-aid. On May 25, hundreds of concerned citizens attended the “Stand Up for Your Fourth Amendment Rights” [...]

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The people in Indiana drank the kool-aid

Recently the Indiana Supreme Court made two major rulings concerning police entry into private citizens’ homes. Both of these rulings have left me thankful that I don’t live in Indiana and asking just what the people who do are thinking. On Tuesday the court ruled that officers do not have to knock to serve a [...]

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Jury Nullification: When Enough Is Enough

By David P Shirk In school we are raised to believe that our government is kept in control by a system of checks and balances. Yet what happens when the congress passes a law that is controversial, yet the executive branch agrees with it? Worse yet, let’s say this law was against the written and [...]

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Honor – The Heart of Freedom

By David P Shirk Honor – honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions. Though there are other definitions of the word, I will be using this as the focus. As it is, honor is a quality of character that serves any people who wish to gain and hold their freedoms. To me, honor [...]

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Another Dangerous Trend

By David P Shirk Move over 50 cent and Eminem, for a new music/ audio sensation is out that has just replaced you in the ‘let’s scare the parents’ category! What can be worse than songs advocating anything from drug use to violence you say? Check it out man – it’s called ‘digital drugs’! It [...]

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Why Rebellion Is the Solution

When a government chooses to separate itself from its people, the people retaliate by delivering an ultimatum for it to shape up or be renounced. If the ultimatum is unheeded, and government signs the divorce papers, it is then made clear that the people will either fall in line or be penalized. At this point [...]

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S. 3480 – Liebermans Call To Silence the People

By David P Shirk As a network engineer I find it troubling that the government seeks to label the internet as a catalyst for any emergency on a catastrophic basis. The thought that congress and the senate is constantly seeking a means to control, monitor, and force their whims on the internet are a constant [...]

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