[…] Court officials did not release the man’s name, but the 22-year-old told Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr. he wasn’t thinking when he left after lunch during jury selection Dec. 5 for the trial of Jeffery Cleary of Valparaiso, the Post-Tribune reports.
“I’ve never been in trouble before,” said the man, who acknowledged he didn’t follow the judge’s instructions during the jury selection process.
“Help me understand what it is about my words, ‘You’ve got to come back,’ that you don’t understand?” Stefaniak said. ”I’m at a loss to understand why you did what you did.” […]
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
[…] In the process of striking down the mandate, the majority has ignored many years of Commerce Clause doctrine developed by the Supreme Court. It has ignored the broad power of Congress, in the words of Chief Justice Marshall, “to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.” Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 1, 196 (1824). It has ignored the undeniable fact that Congress’ commerce power has grown exponentially over the past two centuries, and is now generally accepted as having afforded Congress the authority to create rules regulating large areas of our national economy. It has ignored the Supreme Court’s expansive reading of the Commerce Clause that has provided the very foundation on which Congress already extensively regulates both health insurance and health care services. And it has ignored the long-accepted instruction that we review the constitutionality of an exercise of commerce power not through the lens of formal, categorical distinctions, but rather through a pragmatic one, recognizing, as Justice Holmes put it over one hundred years ago, that “commerce among the states is not a technical legal conception, but a practical one, drawn from the course of business.” Swift & Co. v. United States, 196 U.S. 375, 398 (1905). […]
i’d enjoy a robust intellectual/sarcastic slamming of michele bachmann, career state whore and duplicitous plastic surgery disaster. matt taibbi, former word champ, crumbles before the challenge of composing one. taibbi is perhaps more of a whore than the subject of his supposed slam. haven’t seen or heard anything worth a damn from him in years.
a voluntarist could denounce bachmann well, but who would care? taibbi attending to her is the normal act of a worshiper of sociopaths bitching out a slightly different brand of sociopath, never addressing the shared sociopathy of the state cult. he takes a few worthwhile points and pads them with irrelevant bullshit as though he’s still making the same argument, transforming into almost pure “Eek, a mouse!” (i.e., incredulity posing as refutation).
fluff in his dreck, too much of it bitching about her associates with the implied understanding that it’s to be treated as about her: (more…)
[... Hemanshu Nigam, a former White House counsel for online protection and the founder of the online safety advisory firm SSP Blue,] said something as simple as a school recital could expose students and anyone else who participated in the potential copyright violation to prosecution. (more…)
if you don’t think the criminals composing the state fear the ruled, have a go at this:
the sociopathic pussies knew the score. history. their dilemma, however rarely it’s faced, is that once they outnumber the host, the host’s benefit to parasites collapses. their dirty sniveling reality is that they depend on the host for all. contrary to common delusion, it is not the other way around. they knew their noses were about to face a rubbing. cowards.
a week or two ago i told a statist i argue with to remember a specific prediction: fedgoons will within two years declare bitcoin exchange “illegal”.
gonna be a fun fucking ride.
the federal professional molesters calling themselves TSA are tired of being mildly justly derided. therefore, they are invoking a higher power. message? mind your place, slave boys; we’re still the überest of the über. remove your gaze from the curtain.
What’s our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government. […]
[…] “Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country.” […more]
this person gets paid to speak? “legitimate currency”? “terrorism“? and, of course, “clear and present danger”, the “i’m a hack” announcement of every swap-term-jukeboxing dishonest alarmist unable to compose phrases not tainted by 16 tons of “supreme court” blowhardedness and hollywood moment. with almost 100% reliability, it may be safely assumed of any state apparatchik talking about “terrorism” that it’s not terrorism being discussed by one of the most truly terrorist companies in history — including true domestic terrorism. (more…)
hey, we’re all good guys here. have some of your neighbor’s wealth. you’re welcome.
[…] Tyler Frisbee, an aide to Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), provided the cycling lobbyists with the answer to one question she said they could expect.
"Some of the new members, particularly the tea party members, will ask, ‘Why does the federal government care about bicycling?’ " Frisbee said. "The answer is that the federal government is charged with funding an effective transportation system, not just a federal car system. […more]"
but WTF; it’s just the constitution you hillbilly fucks swore to support. have to read it first though, then recognize that adherence to it would puncture the influx of victims pursuing you on bended knee, appointments arranged by the state’s house organ.
[…] “Light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. You can’t go around your house without being told what to buy,” [Rand] Paul said. “You restrict my purchases. You don’t care about my choices. You don’t care about the consumer.
“Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house, and I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house,” Paul said. He added, “I find it insulting.
“I’m all for energy conservation but I wish you’d come here to extol me, to cajole me, to encourage,” he said. “But you come instead with fines [and] threats of jail.” (For the record, at no point during the hearing did [Kathleen Hogan, DOE deputy assistant secretary on energy efficiency,] threaten to arrest Paul.) […]
state hooligans, including hogan, did not pause in their threats to “arrest” (i.e., kidnap) rand paul (irrelevant, as a statist) and hundreds of millions of others (not necessarily irrelevant) who dare to act against the criminal edicts of horrid apparatchik inferiors. that parenthetical note from writer darius dixon is prime state-slurping denial and hogwash.
[…] After Paul’s comments, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called out her ENR [senate Energy and Natural Resources committee] colleague, saying that “it behooves us all not to engage in name-calling of those officials who are trying to carry out the work, as the chairman has so well pointed out, that Congress has asked them to do.”
it’s to be ignored that jeanne shaheen just passive-aggressively called rand paul an ill-mannered unappreciative jackass.
the state is a crime. it is not you. you are not it.
[…] Unless things change, the post office will run out of money by the end of the fiscal year in October, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe told the House Oversight subcommittee on the postal service.
Donahoe said that as of Sept. 30 his agency will owe the federal government a payment of $5.5 billion to fund medical costs, in advance, for future retirees, and in November it will need to make a $1.3 billion payment for worker’s compensation.
“The Postal Service will not have the cash available to make both of these payments. We need legislation this year to address that fact,” he said. […more]
“legislation”? repeal the criminal “private express statutes” and let the wholly unconstitutional USP”S” fraud disintegrate naturally, albeit hundreds of years late.
only tools arrogant and sophistic enough to “run for congress” could twist “The Congress shall have Power […] To establish Post Offices and post Roads” into “The Congress shall have Power To prohibit competition with its Post Offices”. (more…)