probably the most depressing feed in my blog reader is bluhm blog, centering on false confessions and wrongful convictions. false confessions tax the skill of defense lawyers as they seek to explain difficult subtlety and seemingly impossible reality to the usual dullards composing the jury box and the slovenly sadists on the bench and beyond.
if looking to be seriously bummed out by the human condition, here’s a good starting post. (more…)
SM oliva does his usual job of nailing these quacks but good. think he’s made the point before, but it’s fresh enough: (more…)
after seeing an article on the blagojevich “verdict” i googled <“double jeopardy” mistrial>.
oh wow, it’s the state-worshiping wikipedia “editors” at work again, asserting falsely,
As double jeopardy applies only to charges that were the subject of an earlier final judgment, there are many situations in which it does not apply despite the appearance of a retrial. For example, a second trial held after a mistrial does not violate the double jeopardy clause because a mistrial ends a trial prematurely without a judgment of guilty or not.
obvious rot. double jeopardy clause:
[...] nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; [...]
blagojevich was in jeopardy. a retrial places him jeopardy again. if one wants to argue that he wasn’t in jeopardy “of life or limb” (more ridiculous constitution shit writing we’re supposed to not notice), that’s another matter. same with arguing that the defense could instigate mistrials solely for evasion.
simply another example of blacked-robed charlatans ensuring that what’s followed is not the constitution, but some nth-removed verbiage they hurled while pretending to defer to the constitution. it was done long ago for the immediately following clause:
[...] nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, [...]
via “judge” chicanery that became a supposed bar against “self incrimination”, and not much of a bar at that. “self incrimination” is not a synonym for “a witness against himself in any criminal case”, and the term has enabled millions of abuses. the term becomes the constitution, as i argued years ago. also here.
more statist bullshit from wikipedia for recent news:
[...] According to the Constitution, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in, “all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party….” This last “state shall be a party” language does not mean that the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction merely because a state is a plaintiff or defendant, even if a provision of the U.S. Constitution is at issue; instead, the controversy must be between two or more states, or between a State and citizens of another State, or between a State and foreigners. [...]
here you can watch steffy P cantsellya step on his dick all over that one. the citations given by wikipedia: these tyrants and this jackass (.PDF), whose false assumptions are refuted in my posts against steffy P.
recommended
not a huge fan of jan helfeld, and liberty geeks will see this setup a mile away, but please find me a vid more clarifying than this 2-min clip:
completely destroys the exalted holy foundation of that shit rag the “United States Constitution”. how has it taken hundreds of years for this message to be widely distributed? no more wait, baby.
The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote. [...]
“liberty” poster boy thomas sowell is linked at drudge asserting that tyranny’s increasing via useful idiots (insert two layers of quotes there). he then exposes himself as the worst sort of useful idiot, a crime-mob slurper posing as justice advocate.
[...] If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion — or $50 billion or $100 billion — then so be it.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.” [...]
that’s the same dreck ron paul sells via gunman. the rapist has a proper role! he’s merely out of control!
in my 20s and 30s i did that “hey, don’t get me wrong” state-apologist routine while pretending to bitch about the state. figured i was damned late growing out of it. no idea what retardation hits the RP/TS crowd.
retards, the state is not you.
local dying state mouthpiece speaks in code:
An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans
This is the scary season for the nation’s census takers.
Since they began making follow-up house calls in early May, census takers have encountered vitriol, menace and flashes of violence. They have been shot at with pellet guns and hit by baseball bats. They have been confronted with pickaxes, crossbows and hammers. They’ve had lawn mowers pushed menacingly toward them and patio tables thrown their way. They have been nibbled by ducks, bitten by pit bulls and chased by packs of snarling dogs.
Some days, being cursed at seems part of the job description.
So far, the Census Bureau has tallied 379 incidents involving assaults or threats on the nation’s 635,000 census workers, more than double the 181 recorded during the 2000 census. Weapons were used or threatened in a third of the cases. [...]
no, weapons were used or threatened in 100% of the cases. however, all subjects of the state are to genuflect and ignore the obvious — that every edict from an official crime gang threatens the use of weapons. it so thoroughly pervades human interaction that we’re supposed to throw it out as part of any equation. a given.
spoke a psycho-parasite: (more…)
check that post title. who would not dismiss the announcement as outlandish, considering i’ve no right to control anything but my minuscule hovel on the web? yet when violent psycho-clods from mordor on the potomac sling such a disgusting notice (to test the current slavery quotient), it’s given credence, however temporary. insanity.
the respite also is temporary. the fucks are not going away except through collapse, replaced by newly formed opportunistic fucks with violence in their hearts.
fuck. the. state.
you are not the state. the state is not you. when a core foundation of individuals gets that straight, liberty thrives. the internet is the greatest liberty mechanism in history, and even the career fools of the official crime gangs know it. expect greater and more frequent attacks against the primary liberty communication system. expect nearly all such attacks to be in the name of liberty or its distortion words (e.g., fairness, justice, society).
the big lie: “the state is you.“
shocked that a “US senator” orates stupidly, and outside the “law” he swore to support?
[...] “What we’ve seen over the past 42 days is, to me, a real dereliction of duty by this administration,” [Republican U.S. Sen. George] LeMieux said in an interview Thursday night. “The president comes down twice for photo ops and then goes back home to go golfing in Chicago.
[...]
“The president is not the legislator in chief, he’s the commander in chief and this is an American problem. It’s not a British Petroleum problem. He needs to be down here getting the best minds, working with them every day on the ground. I expect to see the president three, four times a week in the gulf until this problem is solved.”
referring to a goonited state_ president as “commander in chief” of something other than the military is a foolish and dangerous affectation, reinforcing the modern delusion that he’s emperor of something beyond the GS crime gang (which superior writer robert higgs recently labeled “the liars, thieves, and murderers who style themselves the Government of the United States of America”). “CiC” swilling occupies the same twaddle variant as “running the country”, “leader of the free world”, etc.
constitution is clear enough: (more…)
count on legal guild professionals to get it wrong.
Arizona, it appears, will have to defend its new immigration-enforcement law in federal court.
A coalition of interest groups, including the ACLU, has launched a legal challenge to Arizona’s new immigration law, arguing that it both invites racial profiling and is unconstitutional.
[...]
The Friendly House complaint makes several charges.One is that immigration is the job of the federal government, and the federal government alone. SB1070 violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, the lawyers argue, by setting up a state-level immigration-law and enforcement regime, where immigration is a federal matter. Citizenship verification entails adherence to a complex set of federal statutes, the plaintiffs argue, and this is the federal government’s responsibility, not that of state law enforcers. So when an AZ law enforcer, for instance, is empowered to detain people for the purpose of verifying citizenship, that too is unconstitutional, the complaint argues. [...]
watch marc victor provide in the state’s mental-torture forum perhaps the most brutally accurate and succinct damnation of the supposed dog exception to search/seizure constraints. start it at 1:50 if you’re busy.
could rant for hours about only the subjects raised in this brief video, beginning with brady v maryland, a precedent tossed cavalierly and regularly by the arrogant sadists calling themselves judges, prosecutors, or “commonwealth attorneys” (ha).
(via checkpointusa.org)
http://blog.mises.org/12511/foreclosing-on-free-markets/
April 19, 2010 by S.M. Oliva
Last Friday the Justice Department announced a plea agreement with Anthony B. Ghio, a California real estate executive. Mr. Ghio agreed to plead guilty to one violation of the Sherman Act, and he faces a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment and a $1 million fine. He probably won’t get the maximum penalty, but the DOJ did not say what sentence it would recommend to the U.S. district court in San Francisco.
So what exactly did Mr. Ghio do? (more…)
All the People of this State, who are opposed to being made SLAVES or SLAVE-CATCHERS, and to having the Free Soil of Wisconsin made the hunting-ground for Human Kidnappers, and all who are willing to unite in a STATE LEAGUE, to defend our State Sovereignty, our State Courts, and our State and National Constitutions, against the flagrant usurpations of U.S. Judges, Commissioners, and Marshals, and their Attorneys; and to maintain inviolate those great Constitutional Safeguards of Freedom – the WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS and the RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY – as old and sacred as Constitutional Liberty itself; and all who are willing to sustain the cause of those who are prosecuted, and to be prosecuted in Wisconsin, by the agents and executors of the Kidnapping Act of 1850, for the alleged crime of rescuing a human being from the hands of kidnappers, and restoring him to himself and to Freedom, are invited to meet at YOUNGS’ HALL, IN THIS CITY, THURSDAY, APRIL 13TH, at 11 o’clock A.M., to counsel together, and take such action as the exigencies of the times, and the cause of imperiled Liberty demand.
usual clueless spouting from a professional arrogant ass:
A federal judge has ruled that a Farmers Branch ordinance banning illegal immigrants from renting apartments is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle of Dallas ruled Wednesday that the ordinance was an attempt to enforce U.S. immigration laws, something only the federal government can do.
"Ordinance 2952 is a regulation of immigration and is preempted by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because the authority to regulate immigration is exclusively a federal power," she wrote.