E-Mail Policy
Apologetically, a new e-mail policy: I try to at least skim each e-mail I get, and until now, I’ve been trying to respond to each, since not responding to an e-mail has always felt rude to me. I’m afraid, though, that I’m getting so many messages that I have to reluctantly stop responding to most of them. I sincerely apologize for that — as I said, it feels rude to me, even with this announcement. Still, if I’m to keep blogging (and to keep actually doing real work, too), I think this is what I have to end up doing. So please forgive me if you send a message and receive no response — and please do keep sending messages, since many of them end up being fodder for future posts. Sorry, and thanks for reading.
leon weinstein says:
FYI -
A fun book about capitalism is out of print. The book is called “Looking for Hugh: The Capitalist Guidebook” . It is an action adventure written for both teenagers and general adult readership. The book in an entertaining and page-turning adventure. In an easy to understand way it explains why capitalism produces results where all other systems failed. The book is an Orwellian-type adventure of two teenagers traveling a group of fictional islands, where on each island they encounter different social and political system. The books talks about right and necessity to bear arms, about harms of affirmative action, illegal immigration and many other burning contemporary issues.
The book already generating hot responses from liberal “intellectuals” who have read the first chapters of the book that were circulating on Internet: “Our California branch of Bigoted Racists is living up to their well deserved reputation,” or “Don’t need no f***in’ republican propaganda from a Bush c**k-sucking weakling like yourself…” (sorry about the language), or “Pull your head out of your blind ass and maybe you might become actually educated as opposed to being an ignorant right wing NUT…” and many similar ones.
If they are becoming THAT angry after reading a fictional story, then the book must worth something.
Please visit http://www.TheCapitalistGuidebook.com to find more information about this book.
For additional information please contact me directly.
Sincerely,
Leon A. Weinstein
Weinstein Art Management
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September 27, 2009, 12:06 pmjulian says:
New site-
The new site resolves when using “http://volokh.com”, but it resolves to the old site when using “http://www.volokh.com”
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September 28, 2009, 4:12 amTodd says:
OK.. Obama is pitching for the Olympics, great, wonderful.. glad to see it.. if he were still the Congressman from Illinois that is…
He was not elected to play games, he was elected to lead this country. Lets say you were one of the soldiers who volunteered to defend our great nation and were sent to Afghanistan by your elected representatives. Now, you are getting shot at, constantly underpressure and watching your buddies get killed or maimed.. Meanwhile, our enemies are building nuclear weapons, and it does not matter if they plan to use them or not, because an attack is imminent from Israel if they do not stop. We are critically in debt to China, our financial system is in turmoil, unemployment is rampant and the President is turning away from our allies and warming up to our enemies. How reassuring do you think it is to the soldiers in the field to see their President ignore their needs, alienate our allies and shrink military defenses? What is his top priority? to go out of his way to try and pull in the Olympic games? Seriously?? Even trying to pass healthcare reform with the seriousness of these ongoing issues is a joke. His priorities seem to be out of whack and his playing games could end up costing the lives of a lot of very good men and women.
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October 1, 2009, 8:58 pmRoss says:
I wish to tell you that your new web site is so much easier to read. The words, letters and
spacing make everything crisp and clear. thanks.
Ross(Quote)
October 2, 2009, 2:32 pmLawrence Rhodes says:
Unlike Ross, I much prefer the old site design. This may have to do with which platform it is viewed from; the Times font of the old design renders very nicely on Mac OS X while Verdana is rather plain and ugly. But I have recently been forced to use Windows XP for something, and find that all fonts on it are ugly, so Verdana is not so bad, relatively. I think you can choose either rendering in Safari for Windows. If http://www.volokh.com keeps the old style, I’ll use it.
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October 5, 2009, 1:12 amJoe Martin says:
Reference your recent poignant article:
“Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?”
Wish you would have at least footnoted Article 24 and Article 25 of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam.
A copy of the Declaration is here:
http://www.religlaw.org/interdocs/docs/cairohrislam1990.htm
What you’ll find is that the islamist goal is to support “Human Rights” as defined by Sharia law – which prohibits the free speach we cherish and so many other Human Rights as supported by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which islamists are actively working to subvert.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Questions about Sunni Islamic Law (Sharia)?
Get “Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law.”
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915957728/thevolocons0d-20/
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October 5, 2009, 10:52 amAndy says:
I wish there was more discussion on how Sotomayor will react in McDonald v. Chicago I’m interested in seeing how/what she will base her decision on
Andy(Quote)
October 6, 2009, 1:42 pmTed McClellan says:
The joke is on the Nobel Committee; the million dollar prize must be turned over to the US – public employees can’t accept gifts exceeding couple hundred; Remember Ed Meese’s cuff links??
Ted McClellan(Quote)
October 9, 2009, 3:32 pmmartin kessler says:
A militia is comprised of all makles physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. When called into service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves. A government would be unwise to restrict the right to keep arms unless the govenment was planning to estableis a paramilitary organization and indoctrinate it’s children to serve one superior leader.
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October 13, 2009, 1:50 amWin Pollard says:
Do you really not know who NGO Monitor is? Check them out. They are a propaganda outfit whose only — and I mean only — function is to attack critics of Israeli policy.
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October 23, 2009, 1:57 pmGovindaya says:
I levelled up in no time.
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October 30, 2009, 2:58 amNick says:
Hi,
I was curious what it would take to get a text link on your blog saying something like “Tungsten Wedding Bands” or “Tungsten Wedding Rings” with a hyperlink to our site (www.superiorweddingrings.com). We are a relatively new company and we are currently trying to improve our page ranking on Google. We operate on a small budget, and we would be more than willing to give you a tungsten ring from our site in exchange for a link. Let me know if this would be something that you would be interested in. Thanks for any help you can give us.
Thank You
Nick
Superior Wedding Rings
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November 3, 2009, 5:04 pmCarroll B. Merriman says:
Is there a link to more info? Advertise with Videos
Carroll B. Merriman(Quote)
November 8, 2009, 12:36 pmall games says:
Hey webmaster, your site’s design is cool and i like it. Your blog posts are nice. Please keep up the good work. Greets!!!
all games(Quote)
November 10, 2009, 10:35 amAdam says:
Hi!. Thanks a bunch for the info. I’ve been digging around for info, but i think i’m getting lost!. Google lead me here – good for you i suppose! Keep up the great information. I will be coming back in a couple of days to see if there is updated posts.
Adam(Quote)
November 11, 2009, 10:17 amcitizenw says:
re: http://volokh.com/2009/04/03/still-more-on-the-olc-opinion-re-d-c-voting-rights/
Gerry, back again.
There are MANY ways to accomplish that, but ALL must pass muster with the residents of the fifty states, and NONE depend in any way on the opinions of we DC residents. (If that isn’t close to slavery, I don’t know what IS.
But here’s a suggestion anyway.
Since expatriate Americans are allowed to vote in the State of their last residence, why not create a similar allowance for (expatriate) DC residents? Allow them to “affiliate” with one of the states and vote there. After all, it does say “people “of” the several states”, not people “residing in” the several states. I could have moved from my home state to anywhere else in the WORLD (except Washington, DC) and continued voting for the last thirty-five years. And the people of DC are clearly “of” the several states, as opposed to being the people “of” the Asian steppes, or “of” the African savannah, or “of” the Argentinian pampas, or “of” the (Ant)Arctic tundra.
Look up the definition of the word “of”.
And if you want to alleviate or mitigate an even wider disparity, allow them to affiliate only with the –smaller– states; Wyoming has two Senators for only about half a million people, whereas California has only two Senators for over 25 million, a fifty to one disparity.
That solution, along with a more restrictive limit on the local power of the Congress over DC (for example, make them pass exclusive legislation over DC “in all cases whatsoever” by a super-majority of both houses, if it is for such compelling national interest!), would resolve most if not all of the objections to the present situation.
Power corrupts, and Absolute Power, “in all cases whatsoever”, corrupts absolutely.
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November 12, 2009, 12:04 pmPaul Price says:
Dear Sir,
Several of our Representatives and Senators have been asked about the Constitutional basis for Government mandating that citizens be required to purchase health insurance. To date, the answers have been pretty much everything from “Im no scholar on the Constitution” to
rolled eyes and “are you serious”.
Have you or any of your esteemed associates addressed this issue? If so, could you point me in that direction?
Thank you very much.
Paul
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November 13, 2009, 11:46 amE says:
interesting free speech claim – writing on the wall (of a house)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/189205.html
….
Meetings with Mr. Bowden over the last several months have failed to resolve the sign issue,” the town statement said. “And the town continues to receive complaints from residents about the situation.”
Bowden, who says his house was damaged by runoff caused by town road construction, refuses to budge. The slogan is a free speech issue, he says, a stance that has the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.
“They [are] still trying to violate my constitutional rights,” Bowden said Thursday. “I’ll have the young lady from the ACLU explain it to them. I’m not going to do it.”
Cary officials cited Bowden for a zoning violation on July 31, saying the sign violated the town’s strict appearance ordinances. But the town didn’t initiate fines, which start at $100 and escalate to $500 per day, as it tried to mediate the dispute.
E(Quote)
November 13, 2009, 1:20 pmeditors says:
3 Quarks Daily Prize in Politics
Dear Readers, Writers, Bloggers,
In May of this year we announced that we would start awarding four prizes every year for the best blog writing in the areas of science, philosophy, politics, and arts & literature. We awarded the science prizes, judged by Steven Pinker, on June 21st, and then announced the winners of the philosophy prizes, judged by Daniel C. Dennett, on September 22. We have decided to do the prize in politics next, and here’s how it will work: we are now accepting nominations for the best blog post in politics. After the nominating period is over, there will be a round of voting by our readers which will narrow down the entries to the top twenty semi-finalists. After this period, we will take these top twenty voted-for nominees, and the four main daily editors of 3 Quarks Daily (Abbas Raza, Robin Varghese, Morgan Meis, and Azra Raza) will select six finalists from these, plus they may also add up to three wildcard entries of their choosing. The three winners will be chosen from these by renowned political author and intellectual Tariq Ali, who, we are very pleased, has agreed to be the final judge. He will also write a short comment on each of the winning entries.
The first place award, called the “Top Quark,” will include a cash prize of one thousand dollars; the second place prize, the “Strange Quark,” will include a cash prize of three hundred dollars; and the third place winner will get the honor of winning the “Charm Quark,” along with a two hundred dollar prize.
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PrizePoliticsAnnounce The winners of the polictics prize will be announced on December 21, 2009. Here’s the schedule:
Today:
* The nominating process is hereby declared open. Please nominate your favorite blog entry in the field of politics by placing the URL for the blog post (the permalink) in the comments section of this post. You may also add a brief comment describing the entry and saying why you think it should win.
* Each person can only nominate one blog post.
* Entries must be in English.
* The editors of 3QD reserve the right to reject entries that we feel are not appropriate.
* The blog entry may not be more than a year old from today. In other words, it must have been written after November 23, 2008.
* You may also nominate your own entry from your own or a group blog (and we encourage you to).
* Guest columnists at 3 Quarks Daily are also eligible to be nominated, and may also nominate themselves if they wish.
* Nominations are limited to the first 100 entries.
* You may also comment here on our prizes themselves, of course!
November 29, 2009
* The nominating process will end at 11:59 PM (NYC time) of this date, so there is only a week to submit nominations.
* The public voting will be opened immediately afterwards.
December 7, 2009
* Public voting ends at 11:59 PM (NYC time).
December 21, 2009
* The winners are announced.
And another Mini-Contest!
For each of our contests, I have asked designer friends of mine to produce “trophy” logos that the winners of that prize can display on their own blogs. You can see three from the science prize here, and three more from the philosophy prize here. I am now running out of designer friends, so here is an offer: send me your design for a logo for the winners of the politics prize (it must contain the same info as in the examples I have linked to, and the size is 160 X 350 pixels), and if I use it, I’ll send you $50. Try. It’ll be fun. Deadline: December 10, 2009.
One Final and Important Request
If you have a blog or website, please help us spread the word about our prizes by linking to this post. Otherwise, just email your friends and tell them about it! I really look forward to reading some very good material, and think this should be a lot of fun for all of us.
Best of luck and thanks for your attention!
Yours,
Abbas
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November 23, 2009, 10:42 amMadyson says:
Great idea this, i’m glad you’re enjoying it. I used google translator
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November 29, 2009, 2:16 pmMireille says:
Thanks for your support, i need some time to think about this. I have just got interested in blogging and hopefully i am able to do so
Mireille(Quote)
November 29, 2009, 2:25 pmJohn Moore says:
Firefox Problem with Volokh Comment Threads:
With the latest version of Firefox (a couple of weeks old), I have noticed that the tail end of long comment threads does not display. This is only cured by a “refresh” while the browser is showing the blank space at the end of the comment thread. I have seen this one two different machines.
I don’t know if others are reporting this. It appears to be a FF bug, but I’ve only experienced it on VC.
Tks
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December 5, 2009, 4:25 pmD. Doorninck says:
“Trick” Meaning “Clever Thing to Do”
December 11th, 2009 3:40 am
“Trick” means the standard 30 minutes of time that a sailor must stand holding the steering wheel of a ship, whether Royal Navy or Merchant Navy
“Trick” also means the standard 10 minutes of time that a sailor is allowed by a street common prostitute to congress/copulate with her.
D. Doorninck(Quote)
December 11, 2009, 5:38 amBrooks Lyman says:
Hope this comment gets to the right place: The new site is fine; the email system is okay, but it lacks the name of the authors, which is a considerable nuisance and not generally good academic practice. Can this be fixed? I suspect that many readers run through the e-mail first, looking for interesting posts, and then read them, and finally, if the interest is still high, we might go to the main site and read the comments. So it would be nice to have the author’s name on the emails….
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December 14, 2009, 4:39 pmMaryann Walker says:
Good work. Keep me posted.
Maryann Walker(Quote)
December 16, 2009, 3:10 amBrian Moore says:
Heathrow Security Checks?
Attempting to check in at one of the world’s most crowded/high-profile airports, how bizarre that having had shoes, belt, jacket, laptop, watch, aerosols, sharp instruments and all liquids removed and x-rayed, been virtually ‘strip-searched’ via a full body-scan sensitive enough to detect metal teeth-fillings, the passengers are then encouraged to buy…..More at http://www.kamcity.com/kamblog
Moderator, for your convenience, rest of post reads:-
…..(at a discount!) a couple of litres of highly inflammable liquid in glass (not plastic!) bottles, to be hand-stored for easy access under the seat in front, or in the overhead locker (“where they can possibly fall out and injure someone”) and are then presented with a pair of flight-socks fine enough to fit through the neck of each bottle, allowing the passenger to spend the remainder of the flight, under cover of semi-darkness, quietly assembling and even deploying a couple of DIY Molotov cocktails…
( Alternatively, why not simply be issued with a receipt in Duty Free, for collection of purchases on arrival at the destination? )
Safe journey…..!
Brian Moore
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December 17, 2009, 9:02 amVirginia Bowen says:
I AM OUTRAGED BY OUR GOVERNMENT. THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS NEED TO BE OUSTED FROM THEIR POSITIONS. I BELIEVE THERE ARE MULTIPLE ASPECTS OF THIS BILL THAT ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND I WANT TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED IN FIGHTING FOR MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS…OUR FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN IS A RISK…IS EVERYONE DRINKING THE KOOL-AIDE?
Virginia Bowen(Quote)
December 27, 2009, 5:44 pmMick says:
What is your opinion of this:
http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/filed-rule-60-motion-to-reconsider-on-behalf-of-21-rejected-chrysler-dealers/
Also, what is your opinion about the soon to be filed Quo Warranto challenging Obama’s eligibility in the DC District Court by these same lawyers and plaintiffs?
Mick(Quote)
December 30, 2009, 1:15 pmbob green says:
If the 2d amendment is incorporated could a good argument be made that the Feds have preempted gun laws?
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December 31, 2009, 2:06 pmRich from Queens says:
While watching (via satellite dish) the Italian version of “Deal – No Deal” (where they use “gift boxes” instead of briefcases, and family members instead of models), the question arose of why this was not considered gambling. On any game show, once the prize is “vested,” once the contestant and not the game show has the power to “take the money and run,” the contestant is now betting his/her own money, not the game show’s. This can easily be distinguished from those game shows, such as “Jeopardy,” where the amount can vary, but any amount only goes to the winner –there is no “vesting” till the game is over. On “vesting” game shows people who would probably never bet $100 are now betting tens of thousands of dollars – of their own money! True, they started out for free, but once they had the power to “walk”, they had the risk of losing their own money. Further, any “skill vs. chance” distinction is not really applicable to the “play” of most of these shows.
And if it is illegal gambling, couldn’t they recover the amount they “forfeited” by losing because they continued to play? This would be an interesting class action for every contestant that ever missed the “big prize,” no?
Rich from Queens(Quote)
January 7, 2010, 8:22 amBarbara O' Brien says:
Greetings,
My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.
I’m contacting you because I found your site in a prominent political and health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.
To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site in the meantime—www.maacenter.org/blog.
Sincerely,
Barbara O’ Brien
barbaraobrien@maacenter.org
Barbara O’ Brien(Quote)
January 7, 2010, 12:29 pmJim Riordan says:
You have a good email policy. We have a book you might be interested in. PLUNDER by Steven Greenhut. Be glad to send you one. Address??
Jim Riordan(Quote)
January 7, 2010, 12:57 pmKenneth W. Burchell says:
Hi. Did you ever get an answer on the origin (if any) of that quotation re: “history doesn’t repeat itself” attributed to Mark Twain? Ken
Kenneth W. Burchell(Quote)
January 18, 2010, 12:45 pmGeorge T Hamilton says:
Gettysburg Today
Four score and some years ago, under a vale of fairness, compassion, protection, and in following years political correctness and environmental concern, a new culture was brought forth to this nation. Conceived in corruption, immorality and governmental tyranny and dedicated to the proposition that sloth, greed, dishonesty, stupidity and dependence would drive men to loose their integrity and souls, forfeit their liberties, and grovel at the crotch of a Godless and self interested all mighty government and it’s liberty hating leaders.
We now engage in a great moral and social war testing whether those who abhor this damnable ideology will fight to regain the strength and soul of this once great country or allow it to finally fall completely into the ash heap of history. To rebound from the moral and social blight created by those who have degraded the freedoms and strengths of our once great nation and it’s people to increase their power and wealth. We are met on a great battle field of that war at a crucial time and have come to take back this great nation for those who have died defending it, the children that are it’s future, and those who still take pride in loving it, savoring it’s freedom and calling it home. It is vital that we should do this for the benefit of the future of this country and mankind. For that last great bastion of freedom and prosperity is fast becoming what it was and not what it is.
We cannot waste, we cannot hand over, we cannot just give away this hallowed ground millions have died to protect. To those heartless and soulless titans of self-interest and character assassination who have desecrated and reduced our society far below our power to rebuild it today or tomorrow, but in the many years it will take to reverse an ideology that negates the sanctity and uniqueness of human life, promotes public funding of the slaughter on demand of it’s innocent and defenseless for profit, and under a mantra of human decency develops a culture of wickedness and lawlessness to release upon this society they attempt to disarm while hiding behind their tax paid fortresses.
Unlike the crisis they have dreamed up, if we do not act here in true and real urgency, the world will not long remember the greatness of this land and what it has stood for. It will instead be taught to forget the appreciation of those who it has freed and fed in the name of humanity and liberty and who have craved a chance to bask in its freedom.
On our city streets we are reminded with great remorse of the empty lives and dreamless futures of those whose lives have been used and destroyed by those who use government dependence as a tool for political survival.
It is for us the living and still freedom loving to be dedicated to reversing the selfish and sinful work which they who have used humanity here have so despicably advanced. To guarantee this nation founded under God, shall have a reemergence of freedom of the people, by the people and for the people. Under God and so help us God.
George T Hamilton
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January 18, 2010, 8:20 pmRodney P. Mock says:
Re: Possible Blog (Purchase or Else: The Health Insurance “Tax”)
Hello:
I recently published an article concerning the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate (see tax professor blog below). I am not sure if you have any interest in discussing such on your site, but if so, that would be great. Thank you. -Rodney
Mock & Tolin: The Constitutionality of the Health Insurance Tax
Rodney P. Mock & Jeffrey Tolin (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo — Orfalea College of Business) have posted Purchase or Else: The Health Insurance “Tax”, 126 Tax Notes 224 (Jan. 11, 2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
With the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate’s version of a health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, H.R. 3590, recently passed, this article reviews the particulars of each Act’s respective tax or penalty imposed on individual taxpayers who fail to purchase acceptable health care coverage, and questions whether or not such constitutes a “tax” at all, and if such does, whether or not it is an unconstitutional regulatory tax, indirectly regulating that which Congress cannot under the “Commerce Clause” of the U.S. Constitution; namely, non-participating taxpayers who merely “fail to purchase.”
Rodney P. Mock(Quote)
January 20, 2010, 2:24 pmErick Quaife says:
If you agree COlts are going to lose become a fan of FB page Colts Will Lose Super Bowl 2010!
Erick Quaife(Quote)
February 1, 2010, 1:02 amken stier says:
Greetings,
Looking for a legal scholar following the UBS – Swiss tax haven issue, particularly how the USG has handled this case.
Thanks; Best, Ken
ken stier(Quote)
February 1, 2010, 11:58 amBob Stump says:
FYI:
RETIRED ATTORNEY CHALLENGES LOUISIANA CONCEALED CARRY STATUTES IN FEDERAL COURT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
SHREVEPORT DIVISION
ALFRED G. OSTERWEIL
Plaintiff Civil Action No,:
COMPLAINT
VERSUS
COLONEL MICHAEL D. EDMONSON, Judge
SUPERINTENDENT- LOUISIANA STATE POLICE,
BOBBY JINDAL, GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA Mag. Judge
AND JAMES D. CALDWELL, LOUISIANA
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Defendants
Plaintiff, Alfred G. Osterweil, by way of complaint against the Defendants, says:
INTRODUCTION
1. This action concerns the State of Louisiana’s unlawful enactrment and enforcement of L.R.S. 40:1379.3, 1382, and the corresponding administrative regulations contained in LAC 55:I:301 et seq. The aforementioned statutes and regulations purport to regulate, control and limit the right of individuals to carry a weaon under a garment and further seek to require payment of fees to the State of Louisiana for the right to do so.
2. Additionally, the schedule of fees distinguishes between Louisiana citizens who have resided within the state for less than 15 years, requiring said residents to pay a fee which is greater than for a resident who has resided within the state for 15 years or longer.
3. Fees for renewals every 2 or 4 years are required by the State, and in its own literature, the State acknowledges that the process to obtain the requisite permission to carry a handgun under one’s garments is 120 business days.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
4. This is a civil action seeking relief and/or damages to defend and protect the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Louisiana.. This action is brought pursuant to 42 USC 1983. The Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 USC 1331,1343 (3) and (4) and 2201. Supplemental jurisdiction exists pursuant to 28 USC 1367. Venue exists pursuant to 28 USC 1391.
PARTIES
5. Plaintiff, Alfred G. Osterweil, a domiciliary of the State of Louisiana, is an army veteran and a retired member of the bar, being admitted to practice law in New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court. Plaintiff resides in an unincorporated area in Sabine Parish with a mailing address of 197 Lawson Lane, Many, Louisiana 71449.
6. Defendant, Colonel Michael D. Edmonson, is the Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police and oversees the Concealed Handgun Permit Unit of the State of Louisiana. On information and belief he has agents, servants and employees within Sabine Parish.
7. Bobby Jindal is Governor of the State of Louisiana and the Chief Executive Officer of the State of Louisiana. On information and belief he has agents, servants and employees within Sabine Parish.
8. James D. Caldwell is the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana and its Chief Law Enforcement Officer. On information and belief he has agents, servants and employees within Sabine Parish.
FACTS
9. In the State of Louisiana, any citizen of the State may carry a handgun which is visible and not concealed without any license, permit, submission of a photograph, fingerprinting, fees, training or other impediments or prerequisites.
10. The Louisiana Constitution in Artcle I, Section 11 states: “The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person.”
11. Article I, Section 2 of the Louisiana Constitution states: “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property except by due process of law.”
12. Article I, Section 3 of the Louisiana Constitution states, in part: “No person shall be denied equal protection of the laws…”
13. Article I, Section 5, of the Louisiana Constitution states, in part: “Every person shall be secure in his person, property, communications, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches, seizures, or invasions of privacy.”
14. Article I, Section 24, of the Louisiana Constitution states: “ The enumeration in this constitution of certain rights shall not deny or disparage other rights retained by the individual citizens of the state.”
15. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
16. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
17. Plaintiff initially filed for a concealed carry permit by paying for and providing a passport type photograph, submitting to fingerprinting, completing an application form and by enclosing a $50.00 money order payable to the State Police. The fee to Plaintiff was half the fee charged to others who are less in age.
18. Also required by the State was an indemnification and hold harmless agreement whereby each applicant holds the State harmless for any and all claims arising out the the issuance of the permit. Further, the applicant is required to submit a notarized “Authorization For Release Of Medical And Personal Information”
19. Plaintiff did not enclose, with the materials noted above, an additional fee of $50.00 which the State says must be paid by all applicants who have resided in Louisiana for fewer than 15 years. Plaintiff has not resided within the state for 15 years.
20. R.S.40: 1379.3 et seq. sets forth all of the components for issuance of a concealed carry permit. Addditionally, it states that “Anyone who carries and conceals a handgun in violation of any provision of this Section…shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or more.”
21. Although Plaintiff has not yet been refused a concealed carry permit, Plaintiff believes that the totality of the Louisiana concealed carry provisions violate his rights under the Constitutions of the United States and Louisiana, and he has filed the within complaint to vindicate his position.
CAUSES OF ACTION
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
22. Plaintiff repeats the allegations of Paragraphs 1 through 21 as though they were set forth fully and at length herein.
23. The Second Amendment, made applicable to the states through selective incorporation by the Fourteenth Amendment, guarantees the right of Plaintiff to bear arms on his person which includes the concealed carrying of handguns.
24. The totality of the statutory and administrative barriers to plaintiff’s right to carry a weapon on his person represents infringements of his rights as aforesaid well as his rights under Sections 11 and 24 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION.
25. Plaintiff repeats the allegations of Paragraphs 1 through 24 as though they were set forth fully and at length herein.
26. Those portions of the concealed carry process in question which require Plaintiff to purchase a passport type photograph and pay a fee initially and thereafter for renewals of a concealed carry permit are unconstitutional because government is prohibited from requiring payment from citizens when they seek to enforce their guaranteed rights.
27. These elements represent infringments on plaintiff’s Second Amendment rights and his rights under Sections 11 and 24 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution.
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION
28. Plaintiff repeats the allegations of Paragraphs 1 through 27 as though they were set forth fully and at length herein.
29. That portion of the concealed carry process in question which imposes a greater fee requirement on plaintiff than others because he has not resided in Louisiana for 15 years violates his rights under the equal protection clause, the priveileges and immunities clause and the due proces clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as as well as his rights under Sections 2 and 3 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution.
FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION
30. Plaintiff repeats the allegations of Paragraphs 1 through 29 as though they were set forth fully and at length herein.
31. That portion of the concealed carry process in question which requires Plaintiff to execute a notarized Authorization for Release of Medical and Personal Information represents a violation of Plaintiff’s right to privacy under he numerous consitutional references cited by the United States Supreme Court as establishing his right of privacy, an infringement on his Second Amendment rights, his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and his rights under Sections 5, 24 and 11 of the Louisiana Constitution.
FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION
32. Plaintiff repeats the allegations of Paragraphs 1 through 31 as though they were set forth fully and at length herein.
33. The State’s mandatory indemnification and hold harmless agreement requires the applicant to ”agree to indemnify and hold harmless the state of Louisiana….against any and all liability, claims, actions, fines or losses of any kind or nature, including costs and attorney’s fees, in any way arising out of, connected with or related to the issuance or use of my Louisiana Concealed Handgun Permit.”
34. The above mandatory agreement subjects the applicant to potential monetary damages even though he may be totally innocent of any wrongdoing or negligence, and as such, represents a violation of Plaintiff’s rights under the Second Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Sections 2, 3, 11, 19 and 24 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff requests that this Honorable Court grant the following relief:
1. Issue preliminary and permanent injunctions against the Defendants from enforcing any part of the State’s statutory and related regulatory system for the issuance of concealed handgun permits.
2. Issue a declaratory judgment that the entire Louisiana statutory and related regulatory system for the issuance of concealed gun permits is null and void because it violates the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
3. Using its Supplemental Jurisdiction, issue a declaratory judgment that the Louisiana statutory and related regulatory system for the issuance of concealed handgun permits is null and void because it violates Sections 2, 3, 5, 11 and 24 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution.
4. Award fees and costs.
5. Such other relief as the Court may deem proper.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
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Check out this story in Utah: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9814555 They are approving almost a reverse eminent domain, saying it is okay to take federal lands for state purposes. Because of the history of national park land grabs (Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for instance), this is a hot topic in Utah, especially with the rumor that two more sites are on a list of upcoming National Monuments to be made.
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February 25, 2010, 9:06 pmKim says:
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If it’s any help, I searched for “jury nullification” in your search box and then the trouble started. I could neither print nor open any other window or tab, and I couldn’t even reload.
I hope you can get this fixed. There were several articles I wanted to print out for our high school debaters.
Thanks.
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March 5, 2010, 5:37 amAdam Berkowicz says:
Professor Volokh,
As a budding student eager to dive into the world of Constitutional Law, I was wondering what some good texts would be to get a better understanding of the history of the Supreme Court, major cases, etc.
Also, where are some of the top sites you go to to get up to date information concerning the never ending world of legal news (other than Volokh.com, of course)?
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March 17, 2010, 9:42 pmJim Lewis says:
Question: Can Nancy Pelosi be impeached for implementing the Slaughter proposal, if it is un-Constitutional on its face?
More generally: If Republicans win the House, and if compelling evidence surfaces that the Democrats in the House (with or without White House connivance) conspired to violate the US Constitution to the standard of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” should they not be impeached forthwith, and tried? If impeachment does not apply to Members or Senators who are no longer in office, are there any remedies in law, such as conspiring to knowingly defraud US taxpayers? And if the Congress and the White House were able to apply a blatant ex post facto law to executive salary caps, why should a new Congress not pass a similar ex post facto law to criminalize what is plainly a violation of the US Constitution, Article 1, Section A?
… just wondering …
Thank you!
Jim Lewis
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March 19, 2010, 5:13 pmFrank Altschuler says:
“All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives” (Article 1 section 7 of the Constitution)
How can we completely ignore article 1 of the constitution?
While the senate may make suggestions, the bill has to originate in the house. Does that not imply that the next step for any bill that raises revenue, and the health care bill certainly does that, must be the senate? It is immaterial to the constitution that the senate has already passed a piece of legislation that looks a lot like what is being considered in the house. Whatever the house passes must then go to the senate, even though that senate has had a change in its membership (Brown of Mass.).
How is this being justified? For that matter IS it even being justified?
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March 19, 2010, 6:05 pmFiftycal says:
What would it take for the states to initiate Constitutional amendments? If there are 37 states ready to sue over the obamacare bill, wouldn’t 38 fulfill the 3/4th mandate to approve an amendment? Would there have to be a called Constitutional Convention? Obviously the legislators are not going to pass an amendment that creates a limit on their power Maybe a push to:
* Forbid the U.S. government from participating in health care other than for Veterans
* A requirement that the budget be balanced starting with 2012
* Term limits
* line item veto for the President
* Putting a “germaness” clause so bills other than the budget could not address more than one subject
Anyway, just a thought and I hoped that maybe some of your Constitutional scholars, such as yourself, could offer up an opinion.
Thanks.
Neal Atkins
Austin, Texas
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March 25, 2010, 2:45 amReddSkye says:
ReddSkye promotes the restoration of our consitutionally-defined federal government by re-confederating the States via multiple ammendments (aka the ReddSkye Manifesto). We are a new site and are grateful that we have discovered your efforts. We will add you to our blog roll. I hope some of your folks will give us a look. We are sailing in similar winds.
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March 26, 2010, 3:25 pmBrian Claypool says:
Regarding how the federal government uses the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution.
For some time now I have been aware that the use of the term “well-regulated militia” in the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights meant a well-trained militia, and not one that was controlled by the federal government.
So it should be with the Commerce Clause.
In Article I, Section 8, where the wording goes: “The Congress shall have Power…; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;”, all this means is that the Congress has the power to ensure that trade among the forementioned groups works well. IOW, no trade wars, no punitive tariffs, and so on.
The Commerce Clause emphatically does NOT mean that Congress has the power to tell a farmer what to grow or how much to grow, or to define the legality of something shipped across state lines. Nor does it mean that Congress has the Power to force the citizens of the states to buy a commercial product, such as ObamaCare health insurance.
Too many people do not understand how the language has drifted over two hundred years and believe that today’s interpretations are correct, and not what the Founding Fathers intended.
It’s somewhat like the apocryphal story where a naive state representative who wanted to institute English as his state’s official language, declared, “If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!”
Keep well,
Brian Claypool
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March 27, 2010, 11:05 amSusan Faye says:
I believe that the new Healthcare bill is unconstitional.
The HC bill seems to be about seizing power and limiting my rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the Constitution and they are choosing to ignore the US Constitution.
I also feel like they are taking away my right to choose to purchase healthcare or not. It is my decision if I get healthcare just like it is an Amish person’s decision to not buy healthcare insurance. The Amish and Christian Scientist members are getting preferential treatment because they are not mandated to purchase and they don’t have to pay a fine (tax) if they don’t’ comply. I feel that the government is invading in a personal decision and I thought the Constitution includes a guarantee of personal privacy. I consider this purchase to be private decision.
The Supreme Court recognized “the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.” That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy, in Roe vs Wade.
The Supreme Court found at least the roots of that right in the First Amendment; in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments; in the penumbras of the Bill of Rights; in the Ninth Amendment; or in the concept of liberty guaranteed by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment. These decisions make it clear that only personal rights that can be deemed “fundamental” or “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,” are included in this guarantee of personal privacy. They also make it clear that the right has some extension to activities relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, and child rearing and education.
Can I bring a lawsuit to the Supreme Court?
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March 30, 2010, 3:55 pmAl Lopez says:
I’ve been reading and listening on the reasons the mandatory tax on health care insurance is unconstitutional. I feel that the discussions haven’t gotten to some of what needs to be talked about.
In articles I write I try to discuss what has been missed elsewhere. I’d really appreciate feedback on this one if you or the other associates listed in your site could take a look at the discussion.
If you are really short on time, just look for the several sentences with words that are all capitalized, though you would miss out on letting your thoughts run wild.
The Constitution vs the health care bill
at
http://read-and-consider.blogtownhall.com
or
http://read-and-consider.blogspot.com
Of course, others who would like to visit are quite welcome.
Thanks,
Al
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March 31, 2010, 1:36 amMikhail Kryzhanovsky says:
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. “Barack Obama and KGB”.
Statement for American media
April 4, 2010
New York City
Barack Obama’s communist regime is based on my “White House Special Handbook” written for Bill Clinton in 1996 at CIA request. Besides, I was spying on the U.S. Congress and it was obviosly President Clinton’s idea. For that Clinton pardoned John Deutch, DCI at the time and a suspected Russian “mole” later.
In 2008 Obama made the following statement :” We can’t continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We got to have a civilian national security force that just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded”.
Many people, including Paul Broun, a Republican Congressman, are sure that Obama wants to establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship, but in fact he means KGB with its totalitarian control methods , the ones I’ve instructed Democrats about.
I’m very sorry, America. I’m out of Democrats’ conspiracy against American people and I’m ready to make a statement at Congress hearing.
And I want to add that CIA is still pressing me in every way to get me back to work. It’s known that CIA Director Leon Panetta served as Chief of Staff to President Clinton and now it’s clear that espionage on Republican Senators and Representatives is in progress. I demand an independent counsel’s investigation into CIA anti-American activity, and if President Barack Obama is personally involved, he has to be impeached and removed from the Office immediately.
On March 26, 2010 I’ve received an invitation for a dinner with President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (signed by Ian Sugar, Director of Development). On May 13, 2010, at 6.00 PM I have to come to St. Regis hotel, New York, but I’ve changed my mind . I don’t dine with enemies of state.
I want to thank Mrs. Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. Senator, for helping my family.
For additional information contact:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
PA/PL, Rm. 2206
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
phone: 202-647-6575
CIA Director Leon Panetta
Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
phone: (703) 482-0623
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky
a former KGB intelligence officer and CIA “Filament”
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April 4, 2010, 2:43 pmanon says:
I’m looking forward to reading on the Volokh Conspiracy about the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case finding excessive force was not used in tasering a visibly pregnant woman who refused to sign a traffic ticket. Thank you.
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April 5, 2010, 1:00 amStudent Law Journal Editor says:
Hello! I am a law journal editor working with two other editors to create the journal write-on competition problem for our law school. We are very interested in adapting one of your posts as a dissent to the main case about which 1L’s must write a casenote. I hate to be so vague, but it must be kept top secret so the 1L’s do not gain an advantage by knowing the topic or case that it involves, or even which law school is planning to use one of your posts. We feel that the topic would be greatly improved if we include this blog post as a dissent since it brings out issues that the majority opinion and dissent failed to address. Please email me and I will provide you with the specific blog post and case.
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April 13, 2010, 12:09 pmJohn Regan says:
I have presented a sub-issue from Pottawattamie v. McGhee in an original habeas corpus petition brought in SCOTUS: is there a free-standing right not to be “framed” by the government?
Of course I argued that the Court should “isolate the constitutional violation”, as the Solicitor General argued in Pottawattamie, and I gave them a posture other than a 1983 action where they can consider the issue without it being bound up with immunity stuff.
I had to go IFP cause the case has been going on for six years and has rendered me homeless and broke.
If you want to know more about it you can email or call: 585.739.7924
An amicus would be nice. Don’t know how you would do that at this point.
-John Regan
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April 19, 2010, 6:31 pmRebecca Brown says:
At this time, we are sending out a copy of a new book entitled What Sex is a Republican? Stories from the Front Lines of American Politics and How You Can Change the Way Things Are to bloggers for review. In this political autobiography former State Representative to theWisconsin State Legislature and current Front Runner in the Congressional race, Terri McCormick takes a look at the political game from behind the curtain with one intention; to call on each of us to serve in our local, state and federal governments. In this book, Terri shows us a new way to govern.
The link for What Sex is a Republican? Stories from the Front Lines of American Politics and How You Can Change the Way Things Are on Amazon is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0981572804/thevolocons0d-20/
In her memoir, What Sex Is a Republican?, author Terri McCormick presents a case for courage from the perspective a lawmaker who is uniquely qualified to do so. Based on actual events, her book explains what happened to our political system when citizens weren’t actively engaged and then she calls on each of us to change the way things are. This book provides an insider’s perspective to the realm of American politics and the struggle of “career politicians” to stay in power at all costs. Coming from a grassroots background, she proves that ideas and “integrity leaders” can win over these career politicians and calls on Americans to take back the reins and restore a government for and by the people.
I’d love to send you a copy of the book for you to review on your blog. The author is also available for an author interview or guest post.
Thank you for considering the idea.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Rebecca Brown
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April 27, 2010, 12:54 pmCraig Terry says:
I am concerned about the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn the conviction of a videographer who produced videos of dog fighting. The majority opinion was that the 1st amendment rights had been violated.
From my perspective this opens a slippery slope where other illegal activity can be recorded and dispersed with impunity. Can one of your learned bloggers give us analysis and perspective on this case?
Thanks,
A Loyal Reader
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April 28, 2010, 10:49 amFrank Altschuler says:
Hey,
If the LA City Council votes to boycott the State of Arizona, don’t they violate the commerce clause of the US Constitution?
It certainly seems to involve commerce “among the various states” otherwise, what’s the point of a boycott?
Just wondering.
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April 29, 2010, 8:22 pmKent says:
I’ve been following a case recently mentioned at Rockwell’s blog;
Child molestation charges are distanced by most, for reasons plain as the daylight!
This case has a great many issues to consider dealing more with how both the judge and prosecution team has been conducting themselves.
I would certainly love to see comments on it here, opinions coming from those I’d trust much more than most we see on the web.
Thanks for giving it any consideration!
Kent
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May 1, 2010, 2:04 pmTom says:
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. “President Barack Obama and the “Millenium Hilton” conspiracy “.
Patrick Fitzerald, member
Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel
Bond Federal Building
1400 New York Avenue, NW, Ninth Floor
Washington D.C. 20530
May 5, 2010
Dear Mr. Fitzerald:
I have nothing to lose after I’ve refused to participate in CIA-FBI conspiracy which I call “Millenium Hilton” operation – I have no money, no job, no permanent place to stay. I’m telling the truth and I’m sending you a set of special questions related to the U.S. national security, or rather its absence.
I name people who have to lose a lot – millions of dollars, power, influence, popularity. They will lie to you once you start investigation into their anti-American activity. A good thing is – America is no more on their side.I understand that I violated Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. There’s no other way to bring to justice Bill Clinton who initiated the left-wing conspiracy and Barack Obama who’s covering it up.
I hope you’ll inform people about your investigation.
You can reach me via my e-mail address: prof7prof@yahoo.com
Sincerely,
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky
a former KGB intelligence officer and CIA “Filament”
Questions for Bill Clinton, the U.S. President in 1993-2001.
1. Did you sanction or order CIA Director John Deutch to recruit Mikhail Kryzhanovsky as “Filament” in 1995 ? If yes, explain the purpose of the recruitment.
2. Did you order to grant “Filament” immigrant status (political asylum) ?
3. Did you sanction political murders and surveillance on Republican Senators and Congressmen ?
4. Did you use “Filament’s” presidential elections technologies ( “The Professional” system) to win re-election 1996 ?
5. Why did you pardon a former CIA Director John Deutch, the only Russian CIA Director and a suspected traitor in 2001 ?
6. Are you personally involved in any kind of anti-American activity ?
Questions for Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff to President Clinton in 1994-1997, appointed CIA Director by President Obama in 2009.
1. In 1994-1997 you sat in on the daily intelligence briefings as President Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff. What do you know about CIA hitman “Filament” and “Millenium Hilton” operation ?
2.CIA operatives informed “Filament” that intelligence abroad is not among priorities for the agency.Does that mean that CIA as intelligence federal agency does not exist and America is deaf, blind and extremely vulnerable to international terrorism ?
3. CIA granted “Filament” a special status “to do in Washington, DC whatever he finds necessary”. Did that mean a “license to kill” ?
4. “Filament” asked for a job in Europe,but CIA instructed him, a professional spy, sniper and KGB “Nabat” special anti-terror group member on political murders in USA and surveillance on the U.S. Senators and Representatives.
Who are on the assassination and surveillance list ? Is CIA specifically targeting Republicans ? If yes, give the names of Republican lawmakers.
5. Are you currently involved in any kind of anti-American activity ? Did you get orders from President Barack Obama to watch, compromise, blackmail or kill any republican politician ?
6. CIA is pressing “Filament” in every way – he couldn’t bring his family here for 10 years, he can’t get citizenship, his life is a disaster. Does that mean you want him back for political murders ?
Questions for Rahm Emanuel, Senior Adviser to President Bill Clinton for Policy and Strategy in 1993-1998, Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama since 2009.
1. You served as Senior Adviser to President Bill Clinton for Policy and Strategy in 1993-1998. What do you know about FBI/CIA “Filament” and “Millenium Hilton” operation ?
2. Did you use KGB political strategies and methods described by “Filament” in his “The Professional” system to help Bill Clinton be reelected ?
2. Are you currently using his “White House Special Handbook” to assist President Obama in reforming America into a socialist country ?
3. Are you (were you) involved in any kind of anti-American activity ?
Question for Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary.
In 2010 “Filament” created the U.S. National Security System for Homeland Security Department. How do you use it ?
Questions for FBI Director Robert Mueller.
1. What do you know about FBI/CIA hitman “Filament” ?
1. At CIA secret meeting place (New York “Millenium Hilton”, suite # 3111) “Filament” was introduced to his FBI contact, National Security Division agent. Does that mean that FBI is also involved in anti -American conspiracy, political murders and surveillance on the U.S. Senators and Representatives ?
2. In 2002 President George W. Bush sent inquiry on “Filament’s” case to the Department of Justice and it was blocked. Are you responsible for that ? If yes, tell why you is “Filament” so important that you risked your career by ignoring the U.S. President’s inquiry ?
3. How FBI National Security Division intend to use “Filament” if CIA gets him back ?
4. Are you (were you) involved in any kind of anti-American activity ?
Questions for Hillary Clinton, New York Senator in 2001- 2009, appointed Secretary of State by Barack Obama in January 2009.
1. In June 2001 “Filament” warned you on national security collapse, CIA-FBI conspiracy and his personal situation after he informed President Clinton and CIA Director George Tenet that he’s “out of the game”. In August 2001 you’ve promised support. On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked America killing 3,000.Only in a year you’ve finally decided to help “Filament’s” family only (to come to the States). Are you involved in CIA-FBI conspiracy ?
2. Did you get any recommendations from your husband , President Bill Clinton on “Filament’s” case ?
3. Are you ready to help “Filament now to stop conspiracy ?
Questions for the U.S. President Barack Obama
1. What do you know about FBI/CIA hitman “Filament” ?
1. Did you use a former KGB spy and CIA “Filament’s” propaganda and “mind control” technologies to win 2008 presidential elections ? Are you currently using these technologies ?
2. Did Bill Clinton recommend you to appoint Leon Panetta as CIA Director and Rahm Emanuel as your Chief of Staff ?
3. Are you personally involved in any kind of anti-American activity ?
4. Are you hiding any information pointing to CIA Director Leon Panetta and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as co-conspirators ?
5. If the U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigation proves that you and above mentioned government employees are involved in any kind of anti-American activity, are you ready to resign ?
5. Have you ever received information from CIA Director Leon Panetta about CIA assassination and surveillance list targeting Republican Senators and Congressmen ?
6. “Filament” was ordered by CIA to penetrate the U.S. Congress under cover of political scientist (with the help of James Billington, Congress Librarian) . Is this operation currently in progress ? If yes, who is responsible for it and who’s currently involved in it ?
7. On March 24, 2010 “Filament” received invitation for a dinner with Barack Obama at New York St. Regis at 6.00 PM on May 13, signed by Ian Sugar, DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) Director of Development. Are you going to talk to “Filament” about assassination of your Republican enemies ?
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May 6, 2010, 8:50 amaeolius says:
Dear Mr. Volokh
There is today in the NYTimes an article “New York Judges Resist Claims by Debt Collectors”, where I wrote a response that suggested that just fining the debt collection law firms is useless, and that what was needed is some nice hard time as a deterrent.
Upon reflection I realized that I had no idea what if any non-monetary deterrents are available to a pissed-off judge who wants to stop this use of the Law for predatory purposes.
It seems to me, and perhaps you agree that those who favor the use of Law must be as vigilant to fight abuses of law, criminal or civil.
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Any all help appreciated.
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May 7, 2010, 4:53 pmLaw student says:
I was doing some writing today. I wanted to write the following sentence: “the analysis in X is principally no different than in Y.” Principally is not the word I wanted. What I wanted was an adverb of principle. I couldn’t find it on any online dictionary. There is an adj., principled, why not principly? Not a big deal though, “X is in principle, no different than Y.”
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May 16, 2010, 3:00 pmRobert L. Farb says:
I have recently posted a memorandum on Maryland v. Shatzer on our website at http://www.sog.unc.edu/programs/crimlaw/faculty.htm. The direct link to the memorandum is http://www.sog.unc.edu/programs/crimlaw/marylandshatzer2010.pdf. It is written for law enforcement officers as well as judges and lawyers. If you find it useful, you may want to share it with others.
Robert L. Farb
Professor of Public Law and Government
School of Government
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
email: farb@sog.unc.edu
phone: 919.966.4375
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May 16, 2010, 8:26 pmLisa Mattice says:
You don’t have time to read e-mail, and I don’t have time to research for whom I should vote.
California Primary Election. TUESDAY. I trust your judgment (perhaps not exclusively) do you have a sample ballot with your recommendations /choices?
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May 17, 2010, 12:56 amTom Smith says:
Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. “Obama’s New World Order”
On May 27, 2010 Communist Barack Obama transmitted the new U.S. National Security Strategy to the Congress.
New (Communist) strategy recognizes the existence of a multi-polar world and calls for joint efforts with other existing and emerging centers of influence “to shape an international order that promotes a just peace. We are working to build deeper and more effective partnerships with other key centers of influence — including China, India, and Russia…” the document says.
OK. Let’s put India aside for a while and talk business.
1. The world will be ruled by (or distributed among) members of a powerful “triumvirate” -Communist China, Communist Russia and America with a Communist President backed by the Communist Congress.
2. New world order will never promote a “just peace”, because Communist ideology was never and will never be peaceful. China and Russia place military modernization among their top political priorities.
3. Those three “key centers of influence” will establish strong political and economic ties to support their Communist regimes and their union, and effectively expand Communist ideology worldwide. Obama will pay his share in the union with advanced American scientific and military technologies.
4. The union has a future if Obama is re-elected in 2012 or another Democrat takes the Office.
http://www.resistnet.com
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May 29, 2010, 10:01 pmRefugio Blaney says:
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June 7, 2010, 8:22 amJohn Rodia says:
Good luck everybody! – I will come back again. Are you on facebook or twitter? Will like to follow you.
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June 8, 2010, 7:43 pmJustin says:
This brief in opposition to the motion to dismiss is interesting reading and poorly reasoned in some respects.
http://www.vaag.com/PRESS_RELEASES/Cuccinelli/PLAINTIFF%27S%20-%20Mem%20in%20Opp%20to%20MTD%20-%20FINAL%206710%20-%20FILED.pdf
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June 8, 2010, 9:18 pmKen Brooks says:
I suggest that you entertain a blog concerning the complete and total failure of the fourth branch of government, the administrative agencies. It is beyond salient that the agencies charged with protecting the public have actually turned into instruments of harm. Take a look at the SEC, the USPTO, the MMS just to name a few. The catastrophe that is occurring in the Gulf is one of epic proportions that I do not believe people want to comprehend. Nonetheless, it is more than anecdotal evidence that the institutions of the last 70 years have become so very dysfunctional that it has become accepted that officers of companies that the adminstrative agencies are to police head the same and have the agencies work to undermine the regulation by the people of the United States. I believe that if the people of this country who are in the know about how these agencies have failed the public do not take this opportunity to open a discussion about breaking the three functions of each agency into different branches of the government, we are all doomed. Let’s look at the oil leak in the gulf for a minute. The area of death in something that has never been witnessed by humanity. Everything dies in the path of this oil. Viruses, bacteria, plankton, fish, insects, mammals and birds. The death is absolute and complete. The area of death is already five times that of the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. According to the EPA, the Gulf is the home of 59 percent of U.S. oyster production. Nearly three-quarters of wild shrimp harvested in the United States call it home. It is a major breeding ground for some of the globe’s most prized and endangered fish, including bluefin tuna, snapper, and grouper. This will have a substantial impact on the remaining food supply of the United States, because this loss will have to be covered by existing food stocks.
The question that people should be asking is why do we not detonate a nuclear bomb to fuse the sand and contain the oil. The Russians had used nuclear bombs five time to seal blow out energy reservoirs. Moreover, why are we not discussing these issues. No one wants to raise the real question that must be addressed. Are there companies that are too big to exist, because so many people are at risk of the decisions of too few? You cannot underestimate the impact of this leak on the U.S. food supply. I have never experienced hunger or starvation. As a U.S. citizen we have not faced this fact.
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June 10, 2010, 8:41 pmRobinbird says:
Dear Professor
You write a lot about the value of the grade curve; what if I believe the curve misapplied?
In retaking a civ Pro class, I was made tgo take all three civ pro questions at one sitting, both for midterms and finals. No other student was made to do this. I argued the point, as the othder stiudents would be able to take a civ pro question, and then focus their study in the days ahead for the other two civ pro questions. It’s an advantage as well as making our testing experiences very, very different. If the testing experience was made purposefully different in a harmful way to me, why then school they be allowed to appply the class curve to my exams? Aren’t I in a test-taking experience of one, and the rest a test-taing experience of 23?
This is especially true because the school admin could have made the experience the same, giving all students the 3 civ pro questions together, just like me. It is in their right to do so — why didn’t they, they didn’t want to put the other students through that? They’d get complaints? But for me it was ok?
I do not see what ‘curve” there is, if the experiences — test questions order – was not equal, or even similar. The Ass. Dean agreed that some students find coiv pro more difficult than the other couses in 2nd year; the Civil Procedure profession, when told I was to take his race horse question all three together said, “Good luck with that.”
I asked to take them one a day, or two and one, whatever orfder the rest of the class was taking the cov pro questions, but I was denied by the Dean and the Assist Dean. Doing so would have kept the integrity of the curve!
If a C, is a C is a C, and the curve is meant to buffer the grey area of the difference between a C and say a C- or a C+, should a curve be a curve be a curve…. and an essentially consistent testing experience be required? After all, Professors, in defense of the curve system, say “all the other students took the same test, and they did — better.” But no other student took the test I took, I was a group of one.
What are the standards, if there are any, that uphold the integrity of a grading curve?
Why are curves less effective in smaller test taking groups (never mind a group of one student, compared to the experience of the other 23) ?
I say we did NOT take the same test at all, as having taken the meat and potatoes of “class actions” in Essay Q1, 23 students got to not worry so much about class actions, for Q2 and Q3…. a huge advantage — that was pointed out to the Assistand Dean in requesting to take the civ pro question with, and like, all the other students — over three days time, an hour each. Not 3 hours all at once.
Anyway, if the conditions are so vastly different, where is the value in the curve?
What are they comparing, apples to oranges?
If you can respond to this question, it could make the different in my advancing to year 3. Maybe not, but it would at least help me understand if the curve used to lower my grades in my final exam, was a valid , appropriate use of the curve — in keeping with standards set for grade consistency accross student exam answers.
thank you
Robin Smith
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June 14, 2010, 2:46 pmDavid Hawkins says:
Good afternoon,
I just launched a new website, called reaganrevolution2010.com, and would be interested in linking with you and submitting some work. My new column is up today and I’d love to get some feedback.
As a 20 year veteran of talk radio, I enjoy your site and have mentioned it often.
Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
Dave Hawkins
hawk@reaganrevolution2010.com
Here’s my latest column:
WILL REPUBLICANS FINALLY GO FOR THE THROAT?
By The Hawk June 15, 2010
With November fast approaching and Republicans on the cusp of engineering a political earthquake, I’m reminded of my father; a die-hard conservative who wasn’t turning cartwheels when the G.O.P. won 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate in the 1994 mid-terms.
I still remember calling him on that November night 16 years ago, expecting him to be overjoyed. Instead, he said the following: “Don’t worry, the Republicans will screw this up. They’ll compromise, attempt to reach across the aisle, become moderates and allow this opportunity to slip away.”
Sure enough, the G.O.P. didn’t go for the knockout, fell for President Clinton’s phony moderate stance and nominated Bob Dole for President in 1996. A chance to nominate a true conservative who would aggressively take on terrorism, curb spending and close the borders was lost.
Another good opportunity to change the country occured in 2000, with the election of a so-called conservative named George W. Bush. But instead of leading the country into a new era of small government and limited spending, he became just the opposite; a big spending, open borders, pro-illegal alien liberal.
While I applauded Mr. Bush on his tax cuts and attempting to take on terrorists on their home turf, he was never a conservative. And leaving our borders open during a time of war is, in my opinion, an act of treason.
I was never able to understand President Bush’s refusal to seal the border, because he claimed to be a fighter in the War on Drugs. By holding his breath, stomping his feet and refusing to listen to the will of the American people, he allowed countless tons of dangerous drugs to enter our country; not to mention all of the Middle Eastern terrorists who crossed over posing as Hispanic immigrants.
Evidently, Karl Rove convinced him that allowing criminals, drugs and terrorists to flood into America was not as important as courting the hispanic vote. And if a dirty bomb goes off in a major American city? Well, it’s better than being called a racist.
My point in all this is my father was right; Republicans always manage to botch golden opportunities to seize control and change the country.
In 2008, fourteen years after my father’s prophetic prediction, the Republicans had another chance to fix the mistakes of the past and nominate a conservative to expose Barack Obama for what he is: A fraudulent, inexperienced, far left idealogue with radical associations.
Instead, the party nominated John McCain; who ran on a platform of amnesty for illegal aliens and refusing to expose Obama’s shady associations. Despite Sarah Palin’s pleas to challenge Obama on Reverend Wright, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, A.C.O.R.N. and his nefarious connections to corrupt Chicago politics, McCain ignored her and ran the worst Presidential campaign in American history.
Again, my father was right.
Sixteen years after the 1994 mid-term wins, here we are again; with Republicans on the verge of sweeping Democrats out of office and taking control of both the House and Senate.
If this happens, it’s time to quit being moderate, abandon appeasement, stop compromising and cease trying to reach across the aisle. We’ll have them on the run and it will be time to step on their throats. Do things our way or suffer the consequences.
Following the mid-term wins, it will be time for conservatives to deliver the following message to President Obama:
“Mr. President, starting tomorrow, Federal Law will be enforced and our Southern border will be closed. 10,000 troops will be dispatched and the border will be sealed by next week. We also will not compromise on amnesty and citizenship will not be granted under any circumstances to people who have entered the country illegally. To become a citizen, you will have to return to your home country, file and wait in line. Anyone here illegally who violates the law, whether it be a felony or a traffic ticket, will be deported.
Also, any employer who hires an illegal will receive 30 days in county jail and a $10,000 fine. A second offense will result in one year in jail, a $20,000 fine and a revocation of their business license.
We are also going to work on repealing your government run health care plan, make the Bush tax cuts permanent, cease any further bailouts of the banking and automotive industry and back Israel 100% in their fight for survival against a nuclear armed Iran.
These demands are non-negotiable and any attempt by you or your staff to circumvent or avoid implementation will result in the American people voting you out of office in November of 2012. The people have spoken, Mr. President, and we are listening. Are you?”
Of course, what the Republican party should do and what they will do are two different things. If the mid-terms go as expected, I’m hoping conservatives will convince the RINOS to learn from the past. The policies of George W. Bush, John McCain and the rest of the moderates have failed and it’s time for Republicans to get back to their roots and defeat liberalism, not attempt to co-exist.
With the rise of the Tea Party and Americans disapproving of President Obama and his policies, I’m feeling this could be the year Republicans finally learn from their mistakes. So it was time for another call to my father to see what he thought.
After the laughter died down, he said, ”You wait and see, the Republicans will win the mid-terms and then waste another opportunity to impose their will. Then they’ll nominate another Bob Dole, George Bush, John McCain-type and get Obama re-elected. Mark my words.”
He sure knows how to rain on a parade, doesn’t he?
HAWK BITES: Yes, I’m a lifelong Lakers fan, but predicted the Celtics would win the NBA championship because of their superior defnese and toughness. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong, but I think Boston closes out the Lakers in 6….I actually watched the USA-England World Cup match and remembered why I don’t like soccer: The Americans celebrated a 1-1 tie like it was a great victory….Anyone else wonder why Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity never appear on each other’s shows? It seems like a no-brainer they’d do segments together and cross-promote, but I’ve never seen them together. Hmmm….I know newspapers will be out of print in a few years, but I still like thumbing through my paper in the morning and hate reading it on a computer….I read that Larry King is going to be replaced soon, which surprised me. I thought he’d retired years ago….In a shocking revelation, thesmokinggun.com revealed that the Kennedy brothers were involved in sex parties. Wow, who’d have ever suspected that?….I know he’s only had two starts, but Washington Nationals 21-year-old rookie Stephen Strasburg has incredible stuff. He’s now 2-0 and his first pitch on Sunday was clocked at 100mph….Every time I see Nancy Pelosi she looks totally confused and has no idea what she’s talking about. Reminds me of Jimmy Carter….
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June 15, 2010, 4:13 pmrobert green says:
Take a look at the Canadian Charter of Roghts and Freedoms.
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June 17, 2010, 6:55 pmHID Headlight Kits says:
These demands are non-negotiable and any attempt by you or your staff to circumvent or avoid implementation will result in the American people voting you out of office in November of 2012. The people have spoken, Mr. President, and we are listening. Are you?
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June 20, 2010, 11:28 pmComputer Tips says:
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June 30, 2010, 10:11 amMike Reusch says:
Nat Hentoff
http://www.azdailysun.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_aa7721fa-3f59-55cb-b41c-51184ac57211.html
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June 30, 2010, 3:20 pmWilliam Shears says:
To: the home of the brave (stay home anyway),
Do NOT go downtown for the 4th
in Chicago, N.Y., or D.C.
As sure as the nation was founded on 7/4/1776
& 7/7/2005 had 4 bombs in London
& Christmas is 7 days from New Years
The 9/11 scenario is on the way!
America was founded on a date that has Masonic ceremonial significance: July 4th – 7/4: the date was CHOSEN to begin America. On 7/7/2005 four bombs went off in London for the same reason. Even Christmas capitalizes on the principal, as it is 7 days from the New Year. It’s also the reason the week ends on “Saturn’s (the 7th body of the solar system)” day & the week begins on the “weekend” to bring continuance (instead of an end) past the 7th day: the week ends “after” the next week has begun, therefore continuance. What does it mean? My inexperience at explaining metaphysical ceremonies no one wants, nor should be told of shows.
There is no way that anyone knowingly lighting candles for anyone else won’t become a candle-slave.
Yes, Master.
Even the feared Darth Vader is forced to utter the words.
Ask Jesus how that works.
Thusly what you know to be wrong should not be delved into without greatest prices… Hogwarts University [Harry Potter] is a quaint reference to a trap for those willing to discard warnings & instincts about what they know is wrong to be doing. Sorcery is a trap for those who refuse to guard their own innocence. No one but 100 on earth who do so are blessed enough not to be a candle-slave. I was drafted by the gods to do so & thankfully maintained my freedom, but do not light them now anyway. Even altar boys aren’t protected enough by the gods, are they? Then who can be? Do not become a candle-slave, there is no possibility that you won’t become a “Yes, Master slave.” None. My story is forthcoming but the direst of emergencies faces us & cannot wait.
Permit me to explain (before I hurt your feelings. You’re right: I probably will anyway. But you’ll make it. This we won’t):
Ceremonies are the agreed upon methodology backed by multitudinous factions. I’m going to keep this oversimplified for brevity’s sake. The priests use the note “G” before they begin “the ceremony of the Mass.” The letter & note “G” is the seventh note. So? So an octave begins continuance. The “G” note is a reference to Nitrogen, the 7th element. They are actually the same thing. Nitrogen is 80% of the air & wind energy (matter in motion) has properties that are attractive enough that every nation has a flag to ceremonially tap into those energies: thee energies of “AFTER”&”THEE END.” Nitrogen: the “energy” of not just the future, but also after “the end.” Nitrogen is of explosives – the physical manifestation of being the 1st & 4most to survive “THEE END.” Nitrogen: “THEE END” but also “After.” Thusly it performs the position of guardian, preventing the passage of evil. THIS is what 7/11 means. Seven-Eleven isn’t just a “role” of the dice reference; it means 7/4. Four is “AFTER” as in (“yesterday” & “today” & “tomorrow”) & then “AFTER” that. This is the following moment of continuance that Gods seek for themselves with the placement of birthday celebrations: the continuance of “AFTER.” I know this is very esoteric, but bear with me, I’m trying. I have not divulged anything but a simile here, to protect those stupid by choice. It’s a secret that takes years to glean the meaning of and we have seconds here: “GO!”
OK! As “AFTER” is the 4th “OFF” (THEE END), then what follows the metaphysical use of TNT is the absence of evil: “THEE END.” 7/4 is a ceremony that takes years to learn & shuts out evil. This nation was founded with it. Evil is complaining about it like they did on 7/7/2005. The ceremony works so well that George W. Bush, who was born on 7/6 circumventing its wielding, was in London celebrating his birthday with the queen of England & company & they soireed until the bombs went off. George is the grandson of Senator Prescott Bush, this nation’s premier banker for the industrialist Fritz Thyssen. Mr. Thyssen was the owner of coal & steel mines in Germany that used death-camp labor (perhaps you’ve heard of one of their premier labor sources: Auschwitz). Mr. Thyssen financed Adolph Hitler & gifted him the mansion known as “the Brown House” that Adolph Hitler lived in & used as party headquarters. Senator Prescott Bush was the Nazi’s favorite banker & was told by American forces that as the war had been declared, there was a thing called the “Trading With The Enemy Act” that he was repeatedly demanded to honor. So the bank that Prescott founded for Fritz Thyssen was finally seized along with its assets during WWII. This info is available to anyone willing to bother as much as to Google their 2 names together. I am saying that George Bush is the Nazis favorite banker’s favorite grandkid & he partied his birthday away knowingly with the company of the queen of England until the bombs went off 7/7/2005.
How can I prove that he knew? He is building a bomb site called a library in Dallas on Dedman’s College (SMU) next to 9/11 AIRPORT (Love Field). Anyone who is a candle-slave knows. I lit candles & I quit.
Such things as 9/11 & 7/7/2005 cannot be done without inside help. Such as a president taking a monthlong vacation a month before 9/11 to help bring it in. 9/11 is another ceremony that uses the opposites of sex & anti-matter together. It has to do with where the gods send male/female when they die: matter/anti-matter. This IS what 9/11 means:SEX. It was done in 2001 to negate the ceremonials ending 2 thousand years. Perhaps you recall 1999. The powers of good used that “THEE END” to shut out evil. So evil used 9/11 in 2001 to break through & free evil. Their so called ceremony was a disaster, alright: the 2nd tower hit was the 1st to fall. I know this all sounds ridiculously convenient & quant, but no priests have been forthcoming with what it is that they do for gods behind closed doors until now. It’s about power, & there is perhaps enough good left in power to make a difference. Perhaps. Bear with me, please. This is not easy to explain to a novice.
Evil seeks to open the gates closed through ceremonies. 2 such ceremonies are 9/11 and 7/4. 9/11 sought to negate “THEE END” OF THE 2 MILLENIA. That’s why it was slated for 2001: “Ha ha! You can’t stop us now we’re out & we’re free!” Did I mention GWB is building his library in Dallas next to “LOVE (9/11)” Airport on Dedman College (SMU) on Mockingbird Lane? It’s called a bomb site.
Speaking of: this 4th of July, Chicago, N.Y., & D.C. are slated for the same type of airstrike New York met. The people of Chicago go downtown by the more than tens of thousands to watch the fireworks over the lake. The Sears tower & the John Hancock buildings are targeted. So is New York. I am not privy to which buildings in New York, they aren’t that obvious. In order to circumvent the effect of 7/4 there would have to be a 5th plane, as was alluded for 9/11. Where do you think would be slated for attack? I’ll save you a moment: D.C.
People, these accusations are known as fact by anyone who is a candle-slave for 10 years. The mayors of Chicago, N.Y., & D.C. & the military, the PRESIDENT, & others can be checked for their plans for that day. Try to recall how we were all told that the BATF had not reported to the WorldTradeCenter that day. I’m sure you felt, as I did, that it meant that we’d get to the bottom of it when we found out why they were absent. “W” took a month off preceding the attack after only 6 months on the job. The attack was followed by anthrax mailings to the press, the senate, & the National Enquirer. The smallest modicum of thought might be required to realize that it wouldn’t be terrorists who would target these sites; obviously done to silence these sources with threats & anthrax.
These attacks require inside help from the highest levels in order to bring about. These levels acquiesce under the guise of agreeing to the overwhelming odds. They aren’t overwhelming. They’re just very tough. The threats are offset with bribes. It’s called “Blackmail & Bribe.” It’s why & how N.Y. was bombed on 9/11. It requires that someone sells us out.
The mayor of N.Y. at the time of 9/11 was found to be around the corner from one of the subway bombs that “W” & the queen of England partied forth. He said that he had “survived a 2nd terrorist attack.” He also came to Dallas 3 days following the explosions of Industrial Blvd. in Dallas July 25, 2007. By being at the site 3 days after, he feels that he exempts himself by not being of “yesterday, today, nor tomorrow” connecting him to the explosions. He thinks that makes him “AFTER.” But he didn’t come to have a hot dog as he said. His name is on the tenant list of “Fountain Place” in Dallas. It’s the 60 story blue-green skyscraper that a failed terrorist bombing on Sept. 24th of last year was masterfully foiled by the FBI.
One of us is improving their game.
If our game has improved to the point that we actually manage to nix the whole of this warning (we’ve grown since 9/11), it would mean that I can be made out a complete liar. I think it’d be worth it. But if it goes unreported, does that mean it didn’t happen? Like nothing happened on New Year’s Eve of 2001-2002? You decide.
I am asking you to do your best to have a safe & happy 4th of July this year & hope that these boobs can be foiled as well. I hope you will use common sense enough to play it safe & avoid dangerous sites. Blessings upon the land of the free.
Very truly yours,
“Rooster”
William Shears
P.S. Yea,yea,yea. No, I am not going to give you some of my world famous poetry. Just stay the !@#$%^&*()+!!! out of harm’s !@#$%%^&*()+!!! way, you bunch of monkeys; & bother to pass the word around. I’m not the FBI & they aren’t saying anything but 1 in 10,000 know. THIS IS NO SECRET TO CANDLE-SLAVES. Pass it on.
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July 1, 2010, 10:39 amdon la gec nato hadisejk global emir gore islam king says:
atom akna armagedon problem latom atom kamikaze vaska cug kapca karma .kartel kár problem..
helo don la gec fekete budha g emir gore global nato militari had emir a global antiterorista háborubol a haldoklo atom kamikaze a teror zugbol .gps===hungari dabas segsevári ut 1.lala..a hadurek vezéreként meg parancsolom katonáinak hogy jőjenek ide és vegyék fel a hejőrséget a katona uruk megvédése és az atom problémánk okainak megszűntetésébe segiteni..a katonámnak ugy is kőtelesége házam táján rendet terteni .csinájanak rendet de tűstént .és mindig it legyenek meletem a katonáim ne hagyanak el lásák majnem kihalt az emberiség ….ojan rend legyen hogy megszolajon .és ne kucsuják el a parcsaim takonyok.és a had kirájaként jogomvan használni katonám hadi felszerelésem koregt keretek kőzőt bárhol bármikor ..edig nem látem előnyét a világ legnagyob had urának leni de ahogy rend lesz és vigyáznak rám rendesen ujra .és tarcsák a szeméjes kapcsollatot és utána járnak a dolgoknak .látom van értelme .és meg éri évente 10000miliárd euroért tartanom a 120 milio harcosom..job mint a egy időzitet atom aknával élni ami felroban ha elkésnek .ne barikádozák el a megoldástol maguk tőbet .it legyenek de tűstént.it ugyan ojan árva vagyok .és a szerelmeimel se tudok találkozni ot is renbe kéne teni az űgyeket .ha már az őszes katona melot megcsinálni ezen a balhén kelet és ekora árat fizetűnk a pancserkodás az árulok és takonyok kedvért ne hozunk szégyent azok a katona miliok emlékére akik meg haltak a kűldetésbe ne legyen hijába valo.és nyarjűk meg a háborut és menyűnk haza .élni az életet.tank deszantjaimnak az űzenem hogy ne dekojanak takonyokal miklor 2éve késnek az atom akna megszűntetésel és a tiszteség szerete hála visza hozásával .áják meg a hejűket inkáb legyűnk profik mint pancserok.én is ha nem áltam volna meg a hejem ez a nap rencser már nem lene it….parancshirt kőzvetics katona…juta bill la gec global gore a teror zugbol.
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July 4, 2010, 3:13 pmDave K says:
I found this site that is in the process of creating a database of all state proposals to amend the US Constitution. It’s called The Article V Library and I thought it may be of interest to some people here. Their introduction:
“As the circumstances accompanying the 203 years between introduction and ratification of the 27th Amendment in 1992 demonstrated, documentation of each and every state action taken under the provisions of Article V can be critically important centuries later. However, there is no public central repository of documents relating to the Article V applications from states. Congress itself has no uniform procedure in place for handling of the states’ Article V applications.
Researchers often experience a great deal of frustration when delving into Article V topics. Many documents are available in differing versions, with different citations. Large portions of those documents are often not found the common database services used by researchers. Dreaded parentheticals such as “unpublished manuscript in the Senate library” or “staff report to House Judiciary Committee” often require Herculean efforts to overcome for anyone who needs to review the source documents.
Like many other areas of historical research, Article V researchers will often accumulate a lot of materials and notes in their research — most of which never make it into the final product. However, these materials can be invaluable to someone else on a similar research trail. As one of those researchers, I eventually found my own accumulation of documents and notes related to this endeavor demanded an indexing and retrieval system significantly more sophisticated than the dog-eared file folders, index cards, and color-coded highlighters I had used to date. I began building a database of documents that over time, expanded in both volume capacity and complexity.
As my project progressed, I realized that many of the source documents I had collected might be useful to others. Adopting an “if you build it, they will come” philosophy, I decided to create the Article V Library as a virtual library of source material.
I also hope that the Library might assist my own research by eliciting others to share the fruits of their own research — particularly copies of source documents they have obtained.”
http://article5library.org/
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July 7, 2010, 3:07 ammake cashew butter says:
Goto Google Images and find 2 good pictures that you can use. Try and find a good banner type picture for your TV Show, and try to find a good picture you can use right on the site that might influence people to take your survey to gain access to your show. Save these pictures.
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July 8, 2010, 12:50 amwork from home jobs for moms says:
2. an idea for a popular tv show that you feel would be searched for on Youtube
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July 8, 2010, 12:54 amBarb says:
Question –what qualifies a comment to be labeled, “comment in moderation”?
Barb(Quote)
July 18, 2010, 11:07 pmSandra says:
Hi,
We are running a non-profit site being a supporter of UNICEF. Well! We visit your web site regularly. Since our site is based on regular news updates on UNICEF , we believe it would surely help us to be more effective if we get your site’s link. We have already placed your site’s link in our site: UNICEF (http://unicef-org.blogspot.com/). I wish you could place my blog in your site with a title “Children’s Aid at UNICEF”. Hoping for a positive return.
Cheers!!
Sandra
Sandra(Quote)
July 23, 2010, 5:12 amGeoff says:
Looking for Law Review topic that centers around McDonald v. Chicago. It will be novel becuase no Law Rev articles have been written since the decision came down. Perhaps ban on 18-20 year olds? Too small of a topic? Too covered already?
Geoff(Quote)
July 23, 2010, 3:35 pmGraphictruth says:
It’s really more up your alley than mine. :)
A new and innovative way to monetize the back catalogue of newspapers. Sue!
Graphictruth(Quote)
July 25, 2010, 5:20 am@Harry_Bergeron says:
I’ve started using #ObamaGifts at Twitter for creative ideas re a birthday present for O – kind of like a gift register.
For a start, a deck of Race Cards, illustrated by portraits of the leading race-baiters.
Spread the word!
@Harry_Bergeron(Quote)
July 28, 2010, 11:36 pmDonald Robison says:
I ADMIRE YOUR WORK!
PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ENCLOSED
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Donald Robison
admin@first-molecule.com
HOW THE PRIVATE(tm) GOLD
STANDARD CAN PREVENT
ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE
Copyright 2010, and trademarks and trade secrets owned by, The Clifford Trust. All rights reserved.
Public apprehension is growing that the U.S. economy will suffer a “double dip” recession in 2011, just as the Great Depression recovery relapsed in 1937.
This time it could be worse. Spending could collapse, due to either
- runaway stagflation, or
- a deflationary spiral caused by loss of money velocity, a process which economists have “no idea” how to control. (Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2010, pg. A2)
I believe there is one best way to prevent that catastrophe, whether it be inflationary or deflationary.
That way is to establish the PRIVATE(tm) GOLD STANDARD in the United States.
The Private Gold Standard is a monetary system in which constant dollar stability is leveraged into optimum economic expansion, by means of private grants of new gold to small business entrepreneurs.
But The Private Gold Standard entails injection of more gold into the economy than conventional mining can provide.
So I propose to produce this gold by a cost-effective application of the proven process of Nuclear Transmutation,
(the process of turning lead into gold in an atom smasher),
called LASER(tm) GOLD PROPAGATION:
(use of the laser frequency of the strong nuclear force to change lead to gold).
THE PROCESS
OF LASER GOLD PROPAGATION
While it is certainly possible to make gold in a nuclear reactor –
- George Noory’s KFI radio program COAST TO COAST AM recently featured nuclear transmutation –
- and nuclear transmutation has been achieved by famous physicists such as Soddy, Rutherford and Seaborg –
- to date THE COST HAS ALWAYS EXCEEDED THE VALUE OF THE GOLD PRODUCED, because atom smashers are so expensive to build and operate.
Laser Gold Propagation is a new and PROFITABLE way to turn lead into gold.
“Laser” means Light (actually any form of electromagnetic energy) Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Laser Gold Propagation substitutes lasers for atom smashers. It is easier and cheaper to build, and safer to run. And its only operating expenses are for an operator, lead and electricity.
Laser Gold Propagation is an application of Einstein’s well-known and universally accepted energy-mass equivalence equation, E=mc2, which sets forth the wave structure of matter (WSM): matter is condensed energy.
Laser Gold Propagation entails irradiation of lead with the frequency of the strong nuclear force (SNF, the force that overrides proton repulsion and binds protons into nuclei), in a Laser Gold Propagator(tm) appliance.
Due to the high frequencies involved, a series of progressively phase-shifted fractional frequencies may be employed, culminating in the SNF frequency.
The irradiating laser SNF frequency is to be out of phase with the target nuclear SNF fields. In concept this irradiation will cause destructive interference in target SNF fields, repelling sufficient protons from target nuclei to reduce their atomic number (number of protons per nucleus, which identifies elements) from 82 (lead) to 79 (gold).
(The scientific validity of laser propagation was personally confirmed to me by the world famous physicist Dr. Edward Teller {see Exhibit 2}.)
PROOF OF CONCEPT (PofC)
“A decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind” requires that Laser Gold Propagation be verified by
scientific methods;
repeatedly,
openly and
objectively;
and that judgment be suspended in the meantime.
The scientific method entails
1. Organization and financing of teams to undertake the following steps.
2. Documentation of the phenomenon of nuclear transmutation.
3. A research question: How can lead be cost-effectively changed to gold?
4. The hypothesis: by Laser Gold Propagation.
5. An experimental design to test the hypothesis: The Propagator(tm) appliance.
6. The Laser Gold Experiment to test the design.
7. Analysis of test results.
8. Full disclosure through peer reviewed publication.
9. Replication.
GOVERNANCE
The Private Gold Standard must be responsibly managed to prevent unjust enrichment and economic disruption.
One of the most important ideas of The Federalist is that men cannot be trusted with power (see No. 51), especially power over wealth. It was the great genius of Publius to propose that abuse of power be prevented by a multiplicity of factions.
And so the Private Gold Standard will be administered by a non governmental organization (NGO);
The Private(tm) Gold(tm) Reserve,
a corporation supervised by a board of directors of responsible, proven managers such as retired United States military flag officers.
The Private Gold Reserve will consist of five Departments:
Research and Development for improvement of the Laser Gold Propagation process.
Economic Analysis and Innovation for determination of how much new gold to insert, when and where.
Production.
Security.
Transportation for packaging, moving and delivery of new gold to entrepreneurs.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE:
FREE EXHIBITS
The following Exhibits will be available when demand is established, contingent on agreement to respect trade secrets therein:
1. Personal Background,
2. Dr. Edward Teller’s Verification of the science of Laser Propagation.
3. The Laser Gold Experiment (Test Design, Test, Analysis, Disclosure and Replication),
4. A “One Page First Year Business Plan”, including
The Capital Leverage Plan,
The Laser(tm) Gold Joint Venture, to prepare the PofC for the Private Gold Standard,
The Laser Gold Company, to prepare the Proof of Technology (PofT) for the Laser Gold Propagator appliance,
The Private Gold Reserve, to
fabricate prototypes of the Laser Gold Propagator,
conduct the Laser Gold Experiment,
nationally demonstrate the Laser Gold Propagation process, and
inaugurate The Private Gold Standard, and
5. Articles of Copartnership of the Laser Gold Joint Venture.
To reserve your copy, Email admin@first-molecule.com.
Donald Robison(Quote)
July 31, 2010, 6:08 pmad says:
There is not one female writer on this blog.
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August 20, 2010, 6:53 amconsultant says:
I have read most of the comments, and they are not related to what you portrayed in your appeal to the email writers. This is about your email policy. Why don’t you select a good auto-responder software, and keep in touch with all those who write to you. YOU can keep track of the comments that you get, and be personal with them too.
consultant(Quote)
August 20, 2010, 10:17 pmPreston Coleman says:
Hello Mr. Volokh
I’m a journalism and media studies professor at Gainesville State College in Georgia, and I publish http://www.newsprism.com, an online news/opinion portal that attempts to balance left- and right-leaning news sites, blogs, and columnists. Newsprism is especially popular among college students and web users 18-34.
The Volokh Conspiracy is included at newsprism.com as a right-leaning blog under the heading “Right Blogs”.
I realize you’re slammed with emails, but I’d appreciate any feedback you might provide concerning your placement, the placement of other sites, blogs, and columnists, and/or the overall layout and discernment of Newsprism.
A link to Newsprism (or any mention at all!) would be greatly appreciated as well.
For more info concerning how sites are chosen and labeled at Newsprism, please read my “About” page, here: http://www.newsprism.com/about.html
Thanks
Preston Coleman(Quote)
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September 10, 2010, 7:49 am'Rick Gray says:
Conspirators,
I learn from Google that we have had the same idea (i.e., William Shatner playing Sir John Falstaff). I am happy to share with your a Facebook group (“William Shatner Must Play Falstaff”) and a supporting article on helium.com. (The URL for the latter is: http://www.helium.com/items/1940652-william-shatner.)
We’re hoping for a viral campaign analogous to that which put Betty White on SNL.
‘Rick
‘Rick Gray(Quote)
September 10, 2010, 10:49 am