Guillermo Jimenez Presents Shahid Buttar
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Shahid Buttar, a writer, poet, musician, and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
Nothing that Israel does in its affairs would be of quite such great concern to the world were it not for the fact that Israel drags along, willy-nilly, the world’s greatest power, much like some impressive-looking but feeble-willed, dazed parent stumbling along behind a screaming toddler demanding yet another goody. The threat of serious wars has grown exponentially in recent decades precisely owing to this fact, and not just wars but wars reflecting neither justice nor principle, the aggressive reordering of other people’s affairs by sweeping them into the pit of hell.
Peter B. Collins Presents Shane Trejo
A project of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Tenth Amendment Center, OffNow.org is organizing state and local nullification of unconstitutional NSA activities. One well-publicized effort would cut off the huge daily water supply needed to cool the servers at the NSA’s massive data farm in Bluffdale, Utah. Another is California’s Senate Bill 828, which would bar state law enforcement from collaborating on illegal surveillance of its residents. There are several other laws in the pipeline in a number of states right now.
The no double jeopardy provision of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;“ The double jeopardy “loophole” is this; that where the accused is acquitted of a state crime, he/she is then tried for […]
I fell for the myth of the “godless” U.S. Constitution until 2012. Here are the reasons the United States Constitution is not “godless”, with thanks to Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution for bringing up some of these points up during a presentation he made on Radio Liberty with Dr. Stan Monteith: […]
see KOL 035 | Antiwar Interview: Federalism, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Sentimentalism, IP (2010)
