Documents Reveal "Flagrant Violations" of Privacy Rights by Bush-Era NSA

Impotent judges and both political crime families give congressional legal cover and/or creation to spying on Americans! "We don't need no freakin' oversight. We do what we want, so screw you!"

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Judge Reggie B. Walton
(photo: National Bar Association)

The National Security Agency (NSA) during the last years of the George W. Bush administration committed “flagrant” violations of Americans’ privacy rights by conducting illegal searches of phone records, according to newly disclosed government documents.

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Colombian Drug Lord Vanishes After Conviction in the US!

Is this foul ball indicative that the Mexican infrastructural corruption virus has now taken root in our federal government? No way, Jose. We have congressional oversight mandates! It can never happen here… hmmm …. what’s wrong with this picture? 

Maybe the NAU can create a regional drug enforcement agency? That should take care of it.  Got it covered with a bigger government. Problem solved. See, you don't need a V8 afterall.

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Posted on August 30, 2013 by Daniel Hopsicker

 

A major Colombian drug trafficker who willingly sought extradition to the United States—even offering a $40 million bribe to officials in Brazil to send him to the US—apparently knew what he was doing. After being extradited and convicted in Federal Court in New York of felony drug charges that could have put him in jail for life, he disappeared.

His name is Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia (nickname: Lollipop). He's a figure in the recent scandal over the President of Costa Rica’s use of a drug plane belonging to Gabriel Morales Fallon, who was identified as one of his former lieutenants.

Juan Carlos Abadia's extradition to the US from Brazil in 2008 received major media coverage.The DEA was calling him the biggest drug cartel boss since Pablo Escobar. They say he led the world’s biggest drug cartel, exporting more than 500 tons of cocaine—worth in excess of $10 billion—just to the United States alone.

His name was in the news again several months later, when he asked (citing claustrophobia) to be placed in a bigger detention cell while awaiting trial in New York.

But when he pled guilty in March of 2010 to felony counts of drug trafficking and racketeering, not one newspaper in America carried the story. His conviction went completely unreported. The DEA didn't didn’t even issue a press release.

It was as if, when Pablo Escobar was gunned down in Colombia, the story didn't make the news.

Where is "My Boy Lollipop?"

Court documents indicate Abadia was sentenced to 25 years in Federal prison. But a search of the prisoner locater at the Federal Bureau of Prisons website does not list his name as among those currently incarcerated.

The Assistant US Attorney in charge of the Abadia case, Carolyn Pokorny, declined to comment on his whereabouts.  

And that’s where the trail ends, at least for the moment.

Another anomaly: There is no record of his sentencing.  Among the official court documents available through PACER is a transcript of a hearing held before the court accepted Abadia’s guilty plea, to ensure he understood his rights, and was pleading guilty voluntarily. There is a binding 9-page forfeiture agreement. Abadia agreed to forfeit $10 billion (that’s billion with a ‘b’) in currency and property to the US Government.  There is also an order by 

District Judge Sandra Townes accepting his guilty plea.

But—more than two years later—there is no record of his being sentenced. Whether the discrepancy concerns missing documents, years-long deferred sentencing, or some other cause is unknown at this time.

FINISH STORY>> MadCow 

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Anti-War Protesters to Cop: We Don't Need a Permit We Have the Constitution *videos*

August 31, 2013

On Saturday, thousands of citizens throughout the nation protested military strikes against Syria. A group of activists assembled at the busiest intersection in Spartanburg, S.C. to wave signs and bring awareness to the ongoing push to strike Syria by the Obama administration. A local police officer told them that if someone complained they would have to leave because they did not have a city permit. He also said that activists who continue to protest on the crosswalk would go to jail.

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CIA Death Squad Responsible For Dumping 35 ‘Dead Zetas’ On Veracruz Highway

First posted by CV on 9/27/11
September 26, 2011 by supermario
 

Last July, DeadlineLive.info reported that the CIA death squad known as ‘Los Matazetas’ (Killers of Zetas) was going to start a war against Los Zetas in the state of Veracruz.


By Mario Andrade
DeadlineLive.info
September 26, 2011

Last week, motorists in Veracruz, Mexico witnessed a gruesome scene where over a dozen armed men wearing face hoods created a road block and dumped 35 dead bodies at a busy highway.

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Gun Laws, South Carolina - NRA-ILA

For  SC subscribers, and others who may want to compare with their own states.

http://www.gunlawsbystate.com/#!/home/terms-of-access-and-use/

The beauty here is that if you do not carry the weapon on your person, and meet the other usual behavioral state laws YOU DO NOT NEED A PERMIT TO BUY A FIREARM. Especially valuable to realize for home safety protection. See SC Senate Bill S0148: "HOME INVASION PROTECTION ACT".  The House status of the equivalent in the SC is not as clear, but we're sure somebody out there knows! Of course, we'd much prefer both state legislative chambers remove and nullify all references to federal firearm laws.

I suppose if widespread societal disorder should unfold, having a handgun on the street without a carry permit is preferable to being carried by six. As we've always believed: Support your local sheriff.

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South Carolina

Updated as of Monday, October 29, 2012.

STATE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION

“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.”

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You Won't BELIEVE What's Going On with Government Spying on Americans

Posted on August 17, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog

 

New Revelations Are Breaking Every Day

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Posse Comitatus Act Prohibits Military from Performing Law Enforcement Functions, EXCEPT...

Feds have authorized themselves, or their designated mercenaries, to invade your state and into your home.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

(photo: Mark Garfinkel, Boston Herald)

The U.S. military has long been banned from performing police functions within the United States. 

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Your mortgage documents are fake!

Look Ma, no congressional or state legislature oversight - - it's all ours for the pickin'. Reconstruction of the South was never this good!

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Prepare to be outraged. Newly obtained filings from this Florida woman's lawsuit uncover horrifying scheme (Update)

By David Dayen
 

Lynn Szymoniak (Credit: CBS News/60 MInutes)

If you know about foreclosure fraud, the mass fabrication of mortgage documents in state courts by banks attempting to foreclose on homeowners, you may have one nagging question: Why did banks have to resort to this illegal scheme? Was it just cheaper to mock up the documents than to provide the real ones? Did banks figure they simply had enough power over regulators, politicians and the courts to get away with it? (They were probably right about that one.)

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New Nanotech Set to Track, Self-Destruct, and GPS Tag Guns Wirelessly

by Daniel G. J.
August 11th, 2013
Updated 08/11/2013 at 3:37 am 

The U.S. government is developing new firearm nanotechnology that can track, disrupt, and even self-destruct firearms.

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Seizing Citizens' Property as a Revenue Source for Law Enforcement

Friday, August 09, 2013

Federal and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly using civil forfeiture to seize properties of Americans, from criminals to innocent individuals. In doing so, police have turned the forfeitures into a billion-dollar revenue generator.

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NY Times Confirms That TSA VIPR Teams are Patrolling American Towns

As we've expressed repeatedly: It's because your state legislature approves of these thefts of your liberties by the feds that states are not nullifying these unlawful federal intrusions.

Your state representatives are complicit in this crime and destruction of America. Show us otherwise. Okay, your state government is a flaccid cowering blob of inaction - now what?

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America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System

Posted on July 22, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog

The Separation of Powers Which Define Our Democracy Have Been Destroyed


The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”.

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Law enforcement corruption & abuse: Obama wants to make the author of this policy - NYC's Ray Kelly - head of Homeland Security

"How many bodies do you have in the cells?"

This is coming to YOUR town next

Ray Kelly - that's who Obama thinks would be a great new head of Homeland Security.

Ray Kelly - the architect of NYC's "stop and frisk" campaign.

Over 700,000 innocent people stopped on the street randomly and given full body searches.

More clips here:

http://www.youtube.com/nycresistance

For more Law enforcement corruption & abuse: videos, click here

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Murders by Rulers: The Clinton's Body Count

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Admin

Ether Zone  Here is the latest body count that we have. All of these people have been connected with the Clintons in some form or another. We have not included any deaths that could not be verified or connected to the Clinton scandals. All deaths are listed chronologically by date. This list is current and accurate to the best of our knowledge as of January 13, 1999 August 1, 2000.

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State of Tennessee: Unsafe for Law Abiding Citizens: DUI checkpoint video goes viral

4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent - YouTube: Published on Jul 4, 2013
Home addresses for police thugs should be noted for future reference.

NOTE: THIS CHECKPOINT WAS NOT DONE BY MPD. PLEASE DO NOT CALL THEM. THE ISSUE IS BEING RESOLVED AS WE SPEAK.

The officer orders me to pull over and get out of my car, demands me to give identification (it is only lawful for him to ask), gets the drug sniffing K-9, lies about me having "Illegal Drugs" in the car, searches without consent, and tells me that it is ok to take away Constitutional rights for safety. All while not being detained. All this because my window was not lowered enough to his preference. I broke no laws whatsoever. On a day that we are supposed to be celebrating freedom and liberty. At the end of the encounter, the officer did not want to give me his name when I asked him. After I repeatedly asked him, he finally gave it to me.

DUI checkpoint video goes viral

Posted: Jul 05, 2013 6:12 PM EST Updated: July 6, 2013 5:43 AM CDT

Reported By Joseph Pleasant, Reporter - bio | email

Reported By Nadia Ramdass, Reporter - bio | email

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - A driver recorded his stop during a DUI checkpoint in Rutherford County and uploaded the video to YouTube.  By Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after it was posted, it had more than 1.3 million views and 22,000 likes.

The driver, Chris Kalbaugh, wrote on his YouTube page that the DUI checkpoint happened in Murfreesboro on July 4, 2013 and the deputy told him "it is okay to take away my freedom."

In the video Kalbaugh approached the checkpoint with a camera recording from the passenger seat pointed toward the driver's side window.

A deputy, identified on the video as A.J. Ross, asks Kalbaugh, who is not identified on the video, to roll down his window. The window is partially rolled down and Kalbaugh tells the deputy, "This is fine sir."

The deputy responds," Why is that fine?"

Kalbaugh replies, "Because I can hear you."

The deputy then asks, "How old are you?"

Kalbaugh responds," Is that a required question to answer?"

The deputy tells the driver it is a required answer.

Kalbaugh tells the deputy he is 21 years old.  In video the deputy then tells the driver to pull over to the side of the road.

Kalbaugh then begins to ask the deputy repeatedly if he is being detained.  In the video the deputy does not tell the driver he is being detained, though he continues to tell him to pull over to the side of the road.
Then, when Kalbaugh continues to ask if he is being detained, the deputy says, "Okay, step on out."

Kalbaugh asks again, "So I am being detained?"

The deputy responds, "Either pull over to the side or you can step out right here. Which do you want?"

An image on the video says Kalbaugh's car was surrounded by officers and he felt intimidated to pull to the side of the road.

He pulled to the side of the road and a state trooper asked him to step out of the vehicle.

Kalbaugh gets out of his car and off camera he is asked if officers can search his vehicle. Kalbaugh indicates on an image in the video that he did not give consent.

A K9 officer then uses a police dog to smell the car for illegal substances. The dog alerts the officer to the driver's side door.

In an image in the video, Kalbaugh says the dog was alerted because of a command the officer gave, not because of an illegal substance in his car.

Two deputies then search the car.

In the video, Deputy Ross says to the other deputy, "He is perfectly innocent and he knows his rights.  He knows what the constitution says."

The other unidentified deputy says the dog gave, "not a very good alert."

Shortly after, the video shows one deputy finding the camera and taking it off the seat.

Kalbaugh ended the video with a series of images that said:

I was yelled at, bossed around, my car ransacked without my consent, had my rights taken away from me all because of my window. All while not being detained, I broke no laws.  Officer Ross told me that my Constitutional rights did not matter at checkpoints.
He said it is okay to take away Constitutional rights and civil liberties for reasons of safety.  He didn't even ask me if I had been drinking. This was a DUI Checkpoint.

The video ends with the statement, "Happy Fourth of July, America."

Kalbaugh lives in Murfreesboro and is a member of the Rutherford County Libertarian Party.

In a press release sent by The Libertarian Party of Tennessee, Kalbaugh said, "I broke no laws and I made sure to be respectful the entire time while still exercising my Constitutional freedom."

Kalbaugh continued to say, "I wanted to show that I was not impaired and to get the confrontation over with. 

When I got out, he demanded my ID even though I didn't break any laws or traffic violations.  They also said they were going to search my vehicle because the drug dog 'hit' on the vehicle.  I don't do any drugs and I have never had any illegal substances in my car.  When the officers said that the drug dog hit on my car, I became furious because I knew that was impossible.  All of this happened because I did not want to lower my window all the way, which was completely legal."

Kalbaugh also added that his video was not made to be disrespectful towards law enforcement.

"There are plenty of great cops in Tennessee that do not believe in going outside of the law to take away Constitutional freedom. Having rights is not disrespectful," he said.

Prominent Nashville criminal defense attorney Rob McKinney viewed the video. He told Nashville's News 2 the driver knew his rights well.

"I think it was a smart young man who wanted to prove a point that he knew his constitutional rights and he wanted to show how things are on the streets," McKinney said.

When asked if the Constitutional rights of the driver were violated, McKinney said, "Not from what I saw there."

McKinney said the driver's Constitutional rights in the video were not violated since officers have a right to ask drivers for their identification.  Plus, being detained is also within the officer's legal rights if it's for an investigative purposes.

As for the K9 unit, the officer can only enter the vehicle if the K9 officer detects an alert like drugs.  However, McKinney said it's tough to tell in the video if the dog actually detected something or if the handler manipulated to dog to do so.  Regardless, McKinney feels the video gives a motorists an idea what their rights are.

He said, "Your Constitutional rights are valid at the roadside just as well as walking down the street."
The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office is reviewing the video and investigating the matter.

"The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office is reviewing this incident," spokeswoman Lisa Marchesoni wrote in an email Friday afternoon. "We are looking into the matter to determine if there are any policy or procedure violations."

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