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Have the Nazi’s taken Over In America

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.”

 Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)

Have the Nazi’s taken Over In America

As I was recently reading through the journals written by Sister Bohdana, who in 1943 was executed by Nazi Forces for the “crime” of helping the German people, I was struck by the many similarities that are now occurring in the United States, specifically how the majority of its citizens remain compliant to the ever growing police state arising around them.

Sister Bohdana had been sent to Germanyin 1938 by the Sorcha Faal to, among her other duties; begin educating those opposed to Nazi rule on how to protect themselves against the tyranny they were facing.  What she believed would be a project enthusiastically embraced by the German people became the exact opposite however because, as she wrote at the time, “They have little to no conception that their greatest enemy is themselves.”

What the Sister was referring to in her writings was how insidiously the Nazi regime had used the pretext of “terror” to turn the vast majority of Germany’s citizens into government informants, a practice that didn’t end when World War II was over, but was continued in Communist East Germany with the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) creating one of the most extensive police infiltrations of a society in history where one of every 63 East Germans collaborated as spies against their fellow citizens.

What the Nazis and Stasi had done to the Germany people though pales to virtual insignificance when compared to what the United States has done to its citizens since 2001 as nearly every single American has become, in essence, a government spy who is in all actuality spying on themselves…and they don’t even know it!

Here is how they did it, and why.

After the horrific attacks of 9/11 the US was quick to respond with a massive new law called the Patriot Act (which no one has yet to explain how it was ready for Congress to vote on mere hours after the attack) which, among other things, changed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) allowing any US governmental agency to demand telephone and Internet service providers hand over consumer data that has been stored on servers.

Since 2001, the UShas also subsidized its wireless telephone and Internet industry with billions of dollars of taxpayer money (Nearly $3 billion in the past year alone) thus creating what has become the largest electronic “net” for gathering and storing information the world has ever known.

To manage and oversee this massive electronic fishing net the UShas created what are called Fusion Centers, of which the American Civil Liberties Union warned now “threatens Americans’ privacy at an unprecedented level”.

Early last year one these Fusion Centers issued a report titled “The Modern Militia Movement” that, in part, stated “If you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.”

The US Department Homeland Security in an August 5, 2009 letter to Americans For Limited Government (ALG) acknowledged using Sorcha Faal reports as one of their “sources” for compiling one of these Fusion Center reports, but their greatest source of information is the American people themselves who live their lives tethered to this massive electronic fishing net by what are called Radio-Frequency Identification Chips, otherwise known as RFID’s.

Since 2006, all US debit and credit cards, drivers licenses, transit cards, government identification cards, school, hospital, and company identification cards, all passport cards, and all US Passports have had RFID chips embedded inside them. These chips allow the government, police, vendors, even criminals, to scan your credit card quickly at the checkout and allow authorities to scan your ID or passport from a distance.  Inside your cell phone they allow your exact position to be monitored constantly and every single thing you say, even if your phone is off, to be recorded, and leading to Time Magazine to recently warn:

“Smart phones do many things these days: surf the Internet, send e-mail, take photos and video (and — oh, yes — send and receive calls). But one thing they can do that phone companies don’t advertise is spy on you. As long as you don’t leave home without your phone, that handy gadget keeps a record of everywhere you go — a record the government can then get from your telephone company.”

Ask yourself, how many conversations have you had within hearing distance of your cell phone that you wouldn’t want used against you?  Are you aware that even by mentioning in jest that you might harm aUSgovernment official or property you face up to life in prison?  

Equally disturbing are that RFID chips can be read by readily obtained readers leading to an explosion in what is called “electronic pickpocketing” where all of the personal identity and credit card numbers of an unsuspecting person is stolen without their purses or wallets being removed or their homes broken into.  That’s right! A skilled electronic thief can walk past you, drive by your car, your home, even your office and steal everything from you.

Now as these troubled times we live in continue to deteriorate, and as the police state around you grows, you have, no doubt, protected your home and family as much as possible.  You may have weapons to protect you from thieves, you may have stored food and seeds to keep you fed, you may even be watching who you associate with should the government prepare to come after you.

But do you realize that all the while you’re doing all of this the greatest danger you are facing lies right next to you in the cell phone that is hearing EVERYTHING YOU SAY?  Do you realize that you can lose everything, including your identity, at the speed of light without your even knowing it?

If you do than isn’t time you did something to protect yourself?

If your answer is yes than we would like to offer to all of Sorcha Faal’s supporters and readers the most complete and economical protection you can buy to protect yourself that we call The Cloak of Athena.

Athena was the ancient Greek virgin goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavor, handicrafts and reason, and in this incarnation of her we have hand crafted for you a 99.9% impregnable nano-particle protected all purpose carrying case [photo top middle] that when holding your cell phone, credit cards, ID cards, drivers license, or anything containing an RFID chip can not be read by anything, period!

When your cell phone is put into The Cloak of Athena NO ONE can listen in to what is being said, nor can you be tracked by the US governments GPS system…you will, in essence, be “off the grid”.

We are able to offer you this unique protection device due to our obtaining some of the finest nano-material in the world not offered to the public, and which, without all doubt, will be outlawed for use in the United States before too long.

But, right now, today, you can legally own this protection for your and your family’s privacy and financial security, and as Christmas is fast approaching why not make it a gift to someone special too!

For a very limited time we are offering The Cloak of Athena for the low price of just $24.99 (US) to those heeding the wise words of Confucius who said, “The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”

Danger is upon you now…it lies in your cell phone listening in on every conversation you have and tracking every place you go and in every ID and credit card you leave unprotected.  Make your decision about this incredible offer before it’s too late!

 

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Corruption has Destroyed Our Leaders Completely

 

Seldom in human history is one able to witness epoch making events that forever change the face of the world, but this past week was one of them when The United States of America voted to overturn their once cherished Bill of Rights and for the first time since their founding give absolute power to their military forces to imprison their citizens without charges or trial forever.

Adding insult to injury in this most shocking attack on freedom and liberty the new law passed by the Americans comes exactly 220 years after their Bill of Rights was first put into effect on 15 December 1791 by the First United States Congress.

Nearly every top American official with knowledge and experience spoke out against this new law, including the Attorney General, the Defense Secretary, the Chief of the FBI, the Secretary of State, and the leaders of US intelligence agencies, including John Brennan, the top counterterrorism adviser to President Obama who warned: “We are a country that takes very seriously our commitment to the rule of law. When I go overseas and I talk to other governments, talking to them about making sure that they handle their cases appropriately and not throw people into military detention, not throw them into a military court, hold them indefinitely without the due process of law, this is what has caused a lot of problems overseas. And if we go down this road, we’re sending a very bad signal.”

And it gets worse…much worse!

Quickly following on the heels of the just past law giving the US military control over American civilians is another one that has been described as an Orwellian power grab that would permit their Justice Department to shut down any Internet site it doesn’t like (and cut off its sources of income) on nothing more than a whim in what is described as the most chilling attack on freedom in that nations history.

With these two new laws being pushed through the US Senate and Congress in the closing days of the year over the objections of nearly every high-ranking official, and with President Obama backing down over his early objections and signing them into law, one is left with the question… “Who’s really running the United States anyway?”

To answer that question let’s listen to some of the most important leaders of the last century:

Winston Churchill stated to the Londonpress in 1922: “From the days of Sparticus Wieshophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenberg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United Statesshortly before his death said: “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

The American industrialist Henry Ford said in 1936: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy, also, stated in 1936: “Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.”

US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter further stated: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter dated November 21, 1933 said: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US  since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

In 1967 Curtis Dall, President Franklin Roosevelt’s son-in-law, wrote in his book FDR: My Exploited Father-In-Law, “For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But he didn’t. Most of his thoughts were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money Group. The United Nations is but a long range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The One-World government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve bank.”

To fully understand what these great men were saying you have to understand that these “monsters” who currently rule America, and the entire Western world for that matter, are the enemies of all human beings, and in the only documented case of Jesus Christ ever “going ballistic,” were chased out by Him from the Temple in Jerusalem after He made a whip and overturned their money-changing tables with His yelling at them, “My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves!”

The great American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson further warned about these “thieves” and stated: “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

By 1912 the American people had been effectively been brainwashed enough to allow the warnings about these “thieves” to be forgotten thus allowing the banksters to take total control over their country in prompting US Congressmen Louis Thomas McFadden and Charles August Lindbergh Sr. at the time to both clearly state that the “legislative and executive forces” of the United States had been “usurped” (taken over) by an “invisible government” consisting of international “bankers” and “industrialists” acting together to “enslave the world for their own pleasure.”

Since this “invisible government” takeover of the United States nearly a century a go our world has endured two global wars, to many regional wars to document, two great depressions (current one included) and so much misery pain and death to shock even the hardest senses….and it’s only going to get worse!

And the reason it’s going to get worse is because the masses of the American people remain in a state of prolonged unconsciousness, including a lack of response to stimuli, from which it is impossible to rouse them…in other words, they’re in a coma!

If you look at any photo showing the subservient American masses holding their shoes in their hands while waiting to be sexually molested by their airport police shock troops, one would be hard pressed to notice any difference between them and the Jews being led into the cattle cars sending them to their deaths in the Nazi concentration camps….just proving, once again, that dehumanization works as well now as it always has.

The courageous Irish statesman and Member of the British Parliament who supported the American Revolution Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” And barely a time since these were uttered are they needed more than today…and not just by anyone, but by YOU TOO!

Every time you do nothing to help the cause of freedom and justice you help the very enemy whose only goal is your total enslavement and destruction.

Every time you fail to spread the TRUTH of what is really happening you become part of the enemy’s propaganda machine.

Every time you fail to support those who are fighting on the front lines and risking everything for your benefit you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

You may think that all is lost, but you couldn’t be more WRONG!  Just ask the people of Nazi Germany, or Communist Russia…these “monsters” can be defeated and have been many times before….it just takes good people like YOU to help!

I’m not going to tell you it’s going to be easy, it never has been before, and it won’t be now.  But, once YOU, and others like YOU, begin to come out of your comas and realize that unless you join the fight it can be lost the tide will, indeed, turn and the world your children and grandchildren grow up in will be one all of us can be proud of.

For those of you who have followed our efforts for years you know full well that the catastrophic collapse of the global economy, the rising protests and revolutions, and the growing signs of Total World War have all been forewarned and foretold to you about on these pages, and with each warning issued also accompanied by the severest propaganda and lies told against us.

So what?  Does anything matter other than the truth?  If not, than let this one really sink into your head.

What you just saw was the TRUTH…everything else they’ve told you is a lie. Please stop helping them!

Our needs today are overwhelming and have begun to seriously affect our ability to keep you informed as to what is truly happening so that you’ll be as fully prepared as possible and without your immediate help we can’t survive.

So we’re asking you today to open your hearts to help us so that in some small way YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

And lest you think we’re asking too much please remember, when good people don’t help each other out, evil will surely win.  PLEASE don’t let that happen.

With God,

Sister Ciara

Dublin,Ireland

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Harsh Economic Truths along with a dire Financial Warning

Wall Street

By Katrina Turner

 The Aftershock Survival Summit is a gripping, no-nonsense presentation that’s quickly becoming a financial beacon in an economic tsunami.

Featuring an exclusive interview with famed economist and best-selling author Robert Wiedemer, this disturbing presentation exposes harsh economic truths along with a dire financial warning — a prophetic message that’s spreading across America like wildfire.

But it’s not just the grim predictions that are causing the sensation; rather, it’s the comprehensive blueprint for economic survival that’s really commanding global attention.

offers realistic, step-by-step solutions that the average hard-working American can easily follow; millions have already heeded its warnings and are rapidly sharing the Aftershock Survival Summit throughout the Internet. To see it for yourself, simply click here.

The overwhelming amount of feedback to publicize the presentation, initially screened for a private audience, came with consequences as various online networks repeatedly shut it down and affiliates refused to house the content.

“People were sitting up and taking notice, and they begged us to make the Aftershock Survival Summit public so they could easily share it,” said Newsmax Financial Publisher Aaron DeHoog, “but unfortunately, it kept getting pulled.”

The controversy stems from direct allegations that the people in Washington have failed miserably. They include former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, tasked with preventing financial meltdowns and keeping the nation’s economy strong through monetary and credit policies.

At one point, Wiedemer even calls out Ben Bernanke, saying that his “money from heaven will be the path to hell.”

This wasn’t the first time Wiedemer’s predictions hit a nerve. In 2006, he and his team of economists accurately predicted the four-bubble meltdown in the housing, stock, private debt, and consumer spending markets that almost sunk America.

Regardless of his warnings and survival advice, Bernanke and Greenspan were not about to support Wiedemer publicly, nor were the mainstream media.

As the warnings went unheeded, and America suffered the consequences, Wiedemer penned his latest prophetic work, “Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown.”

Once again his contrarian views ruffled feathers and just before the book was publicly released, the publisher yanked the final chapter, deeming it too controversial for newsstand and online outlets such as Amazon.com.

Despite appearances, “Aftershock” is not a book with the singular intention of scaring people, explains DeHoog. “The true value lies in the sound economic survival guidance that people can act on immediately. I was able to read the original version with the ‘unpublished chapter,’ and I think it’s the most crucial in the entire book. After contacting Wiedemer, we [Newsmax] were granted permission to share it with our readers. In fact, viewers of the Aftershock Survival Summit are able to claim a free copy of it.”

In the Aftershock Survival Summit, Wiedemer reveals what the publisher didn’t want you to see. Citing the unthinkable, he provides disturbing evidence and financial charts forecasting 50% unemployment, a 90% stock market collapse, and 100% annual inflation.

“I doubted some of his predictions at first. But then Robert showed me the charts that provided evidence for such disturbing claims,” DeHoog commented.

Editors Note: The Aftershock Survival Summit shows the exact same charts. See them for yourself.

And, Wiedemer isn’t alone in his predictions. Jim Rogers, the best-selling financial author and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, warns, “The S&P’s recent downgrade didn’t go far enough, as Washington probably doesn’t even deserve the AA+ rating.”

And House Speaker John Boehner affirms, “The effect of adding nearly a trillion dollars to our national debt — money borrowed mostly from foreign investors — caused a further erosion of economic confidence in America, and increased uncertainty for millions of private-sector job creators.”

As Wiedemer’s warnings and predictions about money loss, market dives, unemployment, and inflation steadily prove to be accurate, the Aftershock Survival Summit is fast becoming the quintessential financial guide for the 21st century, garnering praise from millions.

Russell H., a financial market adviser from Wichita, Kan., says Aftershock 2012 “scared the hell out of me. It was a great wake-up call.”

Susan G. from Montgomery, Ala., called it “eye-opening, and mind-boggling.”

Richard B. from Apison, Tenn., reflects, “It gave me the courage to make a move which, had I not made, would have left me behind the ‘eight ball.’”

Don E. from Edgewater, Fla., said, “It caused me not only to think . . . but to act.”

Even financial giants are sitting up and taking notice.

The Dow Jones’ MarketWatch said, “Aftershock will teach you how to protect yourself against an increasingly hostile Wall Street-Corporate-America-Washington conspiracy undermining average stock market investors. This is your bible, read it, get into action, and be a winner.”

And, the S&P calls Wiedemer’s work “a compelling argument for a chilling conclusion. [His] track record demands our attention.”

Considering the lowered U.S. debt rating, the volatility of the stock market, and global uncertainty, Wiedemer’s track record proves why his warnings are critical.

According to DeHoog, that’s why Newsmax agreed to air the Aftershock Survival Summit as long as possible to make it available to as many as possible. He warns, “Watch it, and get the tools you need to prosper no matter what happens in our economy.”

Editor’s Note: For a limited time, Newsmax is showing the Aftershock Survival Summit and supplying viewers with free copies of the new, updated “Aftershock” book including the final, unpublished chapter. Go here to view it now.

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/aftershock-financial-wiedemer-economy/2011/08/17/id/407695

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Eric Holder says that the Government should automatically register Citizens

 

Whatever Happen To Common Sense?

By Susan Jones

 (CNSNews.com) – “All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote,” and it’s the government’s “responsibility” to see that it happens, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.

In a call to modernize voter registration, Holder noted that many elections officials still are manually processing new applications, many of them handwritten — a situation that produces errors and confusion at the polls, he said.

“Fortunately, modern technology provides a straightforward fix for these problems,” Holder continued. “It should be the government’s responsibility to automatically register citizens to vote, by compiling — from databases that already exist — a list of all eligible residents in each jurisdiction.”

The lists would be used “solely to administer elections” and “would  protect essential privacy rights,” Holder told a gathering at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library inAustin,Texas.

Holder also called for “permanent, portable” voter registration that would follow voters to a new polling place when they move. “Until that happens, we should implement fail-safe procedures to correct voter-roll errors and omissions, by allowing every voter to cast a regular, non-provisional ballot on Election Day,” Holder said.  

Holder insisted that making voter registration easier is “not likely, by itself, to make our elections more susceptible to fraud.” Voter fraud will not be tolerated by the Justice Department, he said, adding that “in-person voting fraud is uncommon.”

Holder urged his audience to “speak out,” “raise awareness about what’s at stake,” and “urge policymakers at every level to reevaluate our election systems – and to reform them in ways that encourage, not limit, participation.”

Much of Holder’s speech focused on his department’s efforts to safeguard the right to vote.

As the 2012 presidential election draws closer — and with Holder’s boss scrambling for a second term as president — Democrats are once again accusing Republicans of trying to limit the right to vote.

On Dec. 1, Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) announced a “new comprehensive effort” to educate voters about their voting rights. That effort includes a Web site that “details what Republicans are doing in regard to voter suppression.”

For example, Wasserman Schultz and other Democrats strenuously oppose laws adopted in more than 30 states requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polling place. Republican supporters of photo ID laws say it prevents voter fraud.

On Tuesday, Holder said his Justice Department is now reviewing photo ID laws passed inTexasandSouth Carolinato see if they meet the requirements of the Voting Rights Act. The Justice Department also is reviewing early voting procedures inFlorida, among other voting changes in that state.

“The reality is that – in jurisdictions across the country – both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common,” Holder said.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ag-holder-government-has-responsibility-automatically-register-citizens-vote

 

 

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Islamic Government wants to shut you up on Free speech

By Neil Munro

 The State Department began a three-day, closed-door meeting Monday to talk about U.S. free speech rules with representatives from numerous Islamic governments that have lobbied for 12 years to end U.S. citizens’ ability to speak freely about Islam’s history and obligations.

Free speech advocates slammed the event as an effort to gradually curb public criticism of Islam, but it was defended by Hannah Rosenthal, who heads the agency’s office to curb anti-Semitism.

The meeting is a great success, she said, because governments in the multinational Organisation for Islamic Cooperation have dropped their demand that criticism of Islamic ideas be treated as illegal defamation. Member countries includePakistan,Iran, Saudia Arabia and Qatar.

In exchange for dropping the demand, she said, they’re getting “technical assistance [to] build institutions to ensure there will be religious freedom” in their countries, she told The Daily Caller.

“That’s a joke,” said Andrea Lafferty, a conservative activist who was repeatedly denied information about the meeting.

Rosenthal’s claim that the OIC is accepting freedom of speech and religion implies revolutionary changes in Islamic countries, she said. That’s because Islamic texts set myriad laws for behavior, and sharply restrict non-Muslim religions, free speech and women’s rights, said Lafferty, who is president of the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative advocacy group.

If the OIC countries are giving up on their religious obligation to ban criticism of Islam, she said, “does this mean thatPakistanis no longer going to kill Christians and kill religious minorities? … Are women inSaudi Arabiagoing to vote, to drive, to live free lives?”

“We hope so,” said Rosenthal, who added that such progress will not occur rapidly.

The more realistic explanation for the three-day event, Lafferty said, is that administration officials, progressives and OIC officials are tacitly cooperating to gradually stigmatize speech that is critical of Islam.

Lafferty pointed to a July statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which she said that free speech will be protected, but theU.S.government will “use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”

Clinton’s statement was issued atIstanbul, where theUnited Statesand the OIC launched the joint project to combat “religious intolerance.”

Prior to the launch, OIC officials spent 12 years lobbying for a U.N. resolution that would declared criticism of religion to be defamation.U.S.officials strongly opposed this measure as a restriction on free speech and a barrier to Internet services.

In March, the OIC dropped the defamation resolution in exchange for passage of a resolution in the Human Rights Committee, dubbed 16/18.

The new resolution was titled “Combating Intolerance, Negative Stereotyping and Stigmatization of, and Discrimination, Incitement to Violence and Violence Against, Persons Based on Religion or Belief.” It urges all governments to counter “Islamophobia,” and declares opposition to “derogatory stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of persons based on their religion or belief.”

However, it also urges states to promote tolerance of all believers, and to promote “a wider knowledge of different religions and beliefs.”

This week’s State Department meeting is intended to begin implementing the 16/18 decision. The meeting is titled “The Istanbul Process for Combating Intolerance and Discrimination based on Religion or Belief.”

Another meeting is slated for February or March, said Rosenthal
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/13/islamic-governments-push-for-speech-curbs-in-the-us/  

 

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Elena Kagan has recused herself for Arizona Immigration Case

By: Kate Hicks

First healthcare, now immigration — the Obama administration sure is keeping the Supreme Court busy. The Court has announced that it will hear the case of Arizona’s contentious immigration law, SB1070, in the coming year.

The case, which has attracted national attention, pits Arizona against Obama administration, which sued and won court orders blocking implementation of most of the law at both the district and appeals court levels. Arizona’s law spawned a host of copycat laws in other states, and most of them have likewise seen their key provisions blocked by court challenges from the administration.

At stake is Arizona’s goal of granting state and local police the power to check the immigration status of persons they encounter during their duties, such as traffic stops. Administration lawyers argue the state statutes infringe on what is federal responsibility to police the borders and set immigration policy.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, whose signature on the law turned her into a national leader on immigration issues, said she expects the court will uphold the right of states to take action where the federal government has failed.

“Arizona has been more than patient waiting for Washington to secure the border,” she said. “Decades of federal inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation, and states deserve clarity from the Court in terms of what role they have in fighting illegal immigration.”

Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself from the proceedings, as she was still serving as solicitor general when the Department of Justice filed its lawsuit. This opens up the possibility of a 4-4 tie, which would uphold the appellate court’s ruling in favor of the Obama administration — thus, for Arizona to win, the Court must rule 5-3.

It’s interesting to note that her recusal means slightly less in this case than it does in the healthcare case, which she will hear. Because the lower court’s ruling in the immigration law case favored the Obama administration, the tie would uphold the ruling — a vote Kagan would likely cast as well. However, in the healthcare case, the Florida ruling overturned the Affordable Care Act. Thus, if Kagan recused, and the Court tied, Obamacare would be deemed unconstitutional.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katehicks/2011/12/12/scotus_will_hear_case_of_arizona_immigration_law_kagan_recuses