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10 Reasons the U.S. is no Longer the Land of the Free

By Jonathan Turley, Published: January 13

January 14, 2012 "WP" -- Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret evidence and torture.

Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own ­ the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?

While each new national security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of “free,” but the United States now has much more in common with such regimes than anyone may like to admit.

These countries also have constitutions that purport to guarantee freedoms and rights. But their governments have broad discretion in denying those rights and few real avenues for challenges by citizens ­ precisely the problem with the new laws in this country.

The list of powers acquired by the U.S. government since 9/11 puts us in rather troubling company.
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Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.
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Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...12-01-01 Secession - A Smart Business Move!
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The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed by the HRC professional staff and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.”
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12-01-15 Sheriff Mack, Paypal, and the Oppression of First Amendment Rights... Setting the ground for an inglorious civil unrest! // Sheriff Mack, Paypal, y la opresión de los derechos de Primera Enmienda ... Preparando el terreno para una agitación social sin gloria! // 警长麦克,PayPal和第一修正案的权利的压迫......设置了不光彩的内乱地面!

"Mainstream" corporate media are mum, alternate media report that Paypal froze over $40,000 in Tea Party activist Sheriff Mack's funds.  Is it possible that Paypal did such a thing? Sure, they did it before, with Wikileaks...  Is it possible that "mainstream" media engage in a blackout?   Sure, NYT gave you notice that it was intimidated ...  Through oppressive deprivation of First Amendment rights the US federal government is setting the ground for an inglorious civil unrest.
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Los Angeles, January 15 -  starting about 24 hours ago, a "rumor"/"story" has been circulating on the web, that Paypal blocked funds (>$40.000) in the account of Tea Party activist Sheriff Mack.  The money was apparently designated for a conference. 

At this time, the same story appears in numerous sites:

  • The most common is a note starting, "I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ..." [1]
  • The Youtube video says, "Sheriff Richard Mac on Pastor Butch Paugh's GCN radio show on 01.12.2012, about a $46,000 frozen Paypal Account, warning to others about the problems using paypal on a large scale." [2]
However, Google queries fail to provide any hits from "mainstream" corporate media. [1]

Such a fuzzy situation calls for some educated guesses:
  • Is it possible that Paypal did such a thing? Sure, they did it before, with Wikileaks... 
  • Is it possible that "mainstream" media engage in a blackout?   Sure, the New York Times gave you notice, specifically stating that it was intimidated following the Wikileaks episode, and would not publish information detrimental to the banking industry... [3] 
The prevailing conditions, reflected in these speculations, show how low we have gone in deprivation of the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, which are quintessential for Civil Society.

This treatment was not reserved for the Tea Party, either.  Events surrounding Occupy events show:
  • Denial of the basic freedoms of speech and assembly in numerous locations, often through the application of excessive force.
  • Initial blackout by mainstream media, and concerted efforts to block on-site streamline broadcasts.
  • Censorship by Google, at US agencies request, of Occupy videos, posted on Youtube by Russia Today. [4]
  • Infiltration by undercover police.  UC Irvine Prof Erwin Chemerinsky called such surveillance very troubling because it “risks chilling free-speech activity,” while acknowledging that he was not in line with the courts in this matter. [5]
The case of freezing Wikileaks' funds by banking institutions, and even more so the intimidation of the New York Times, also show that all realize that the courts would defer in such matters to banking interests. 

Corruption of the state and US courts has been one of the least covered aspect of the current crisis. [6]  It has been repeatedly documented that the US courts have adopted a policy, denying the right to file petitions, in cases related to judicial corruption. [7]  Access to Federal Grand Jury is denied as well.

Denial of these basic rights makes the current crisis more likely to escalate.  Previously, many were calling for a Constitutional Convention, [8] hoping for a "Glorious Revolution", or conflict resolutions as practiced in Quebec. [9]  Such peaceful transitions could only take place in societies that are fundamentally committed to some level of civility, including, but not limited to the freedoms of speech, assembly, press, freedom to file petitions, and some integrity in the electoral process.

Now, it appears more practical for the dissenters to study the causes, conduct, and outcomes of the Civil War. [10] 

The dissent movements, from Constitutional Convention, through Birthers Tea Party, Occupy and Montana Freemen, have more in common than they realize.  Through oppressive deprivation of First Amendment rights the US federal government is setting the ground for an inglorious civil unrest.
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 Google Query Outcome for "Sheriff, Mack, Paypal":
  1. SERIOUS URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACK

    www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=227218 23 hours ago – I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ...
  2. SERIOUS URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACK ...

  3. congressmantomtancredo.com/serious-urgent-notice-from-sheriff-ma... 22 hours ago – I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ...
  4. CRITICAL URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACK ...

  5. venturacountyteaparty.ning.com/.../critical-urgent-notice-from-sherif... 1 day ago – I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ...
  6. CRITICAL URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACK

  7. freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832956/posts 1 day ago – I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ...
  8. If you have an account with PayPal and/or eBay (owns PayPal ) raise ...

  9. a12iggymom.wordpress.com/.../if-you-have-an-account-with-paypal... 1 day ago – I just spoke to Sheriff Mack and was advised that PayPalhas frozen that portion of the funds donated through PayPal ($40000+) for the ...
  10. CRITICAL URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACK - Constitutional Emergency

[2] Sheriff Richard Mack w Pastor Butch Paugh on $46000 FROZEN ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEm2mZWsrtgNEW2
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10-12-25 Banks and WikiLeaks - NYTimes
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46072423/
[4] 11-11-10 Occupy on Russia Today  increasingly censored by Google at US agencies request...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72321114/
[5] 11-12-11 Undercover cops spied on Occupy LA in search of ‘domestic terrorists’ _ Reuters
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/11/undercover-cops-spied-on-occupy-la-in-search-of-domestic-terrorists/ 
[6] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Fraud and corruption in the US courts is tightly linked to failing banking regulation and the financial crisis, 16th World Criminology Congress presentation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61351562/11-08-01 Zernik, J: Design and Operation of Information Systems of the US Courts are Linked to Conduct of a Simulated Banking Regulation Litigation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/44663232/[7] 10-07-01 Complaint against US Supreme Court Counsel Danny Bickell for Alleged Public Corruption and Deprivation of Rights
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33772313/09-04-09 Zernik v Connor et al (2:08-cv-01550) at the US District Court, Central District of California, Dkt #105: Compiled Records of Perverted Discrepancy Notices
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39773867/
11-05-30 PRESS RELEASE: Judge Richard Leon, US District Court,DC  master of the “Leave to file denied”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56612919/ 
10-10-20 The US Courts Established a Policy Excluding Any Papers Pertaining to Judicial Corruption from the First Amendment Right to File Petitions
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39788364/[8]  Conference On The Constitutional Convention, Harvard Law School
http://conconcon.org/ 
[9] 09-09-07 Graham, JR: Quebec and the British Crown s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/77531200/[10] 04-07-09 Graham, JR: Historical Foundation of Southern Constitutionalism s
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Take away justice, then, and what are governments but great bandit bands?
Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei (City of God,4.4)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue
CNN (April 7, 2011)
About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006…¦ That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013
Bloomberg (January 2011)
"...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
"...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
"This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted."    
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
"Innocent people remain in prison"
"...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
"...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
"On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE PRISON IN MONROE COUNTY, TENESSEE?
"What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago."
ACLU
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
"More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
"The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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