Police in Wisconsin went against two constitutional amendments on our nation’s birthday, taking down and seizing an American Flag which was displayed upside down.
Vito Congine Jr. says police trespassed and stole his property before a Fourth of July parade in the village of Crivitz, according to the Associated Press. The flag was removed by police following advice by the District Attorney and returned the next day.
Congine, an Iraq war veteran, was flying his flag upside down in protest of the town refusing to grant him a liquor license for his Italian supper club. “It is pretty bad when I go and fight a tyrannical government somewhere else,” Congine said, “and then I come home to find it right here at my front door.” Keep reading →
A recently arrested man is back on the streets thanks to an incompetent jailer in Craven County.
Newschannel 12’s Aisha Howard reports that while Sheriff Jerry Monette was holding a press conference lauding the arrest of Jonathan Staton and two other men in a drug bust…Staton was walking out.
According to Monette, Staton offered fellow inmate Ricky Bryant $5000 for his release papers. Staton was under a $2 million bond…Bryant’s was unsecured. When the jailer called for Bryant, Staton stepped up and stepped out. Keep reading →
In an assertion of the Fourth Amendment, the high court ruled 8-1 Thursday that school officials violated the privacy rights of Savana Redding when she was strip searched for ibuprofen.
The search took place in 2003 after a fellow student caught with ibuprofen claimed she got the pills from Redding. The assistant princpal had Redding’s bag searched before ordering a school nurse to conduct the strip search, which included Redding shaking out her bra and pulling her underwear out.
Redding was represented in this case by the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU lawyer Adam Wolf said students can now breathe a sigh of relief. “Today’s ruling affirms that schools are not constitutional dead zones,” he said. ”While we are disappointed with the Court’s conclusion that the law was not clear before today and therefore school officials were not found liable, at least other students will not have to go through what Savana experienced.” Keep reading →
A Duplin County man is being investigated for a creative political statement.
Lacy Phipps, an elderly Faison man, has local, state and federal authorities up in arms for building a gallows setup featuring officials associated with the justice department.
Hanging from the gallows are life-sized mannequins representing District Attorney Dewey Hudson, Sheriff Blake Wallace and former Attorney General (and governor) Mike Easley along with judges, according to the Sampson Independent.
Phipps created the display because he recieved no justice for the death of his son in 1995. Keep reading →
The city of Kinston was named as one of the top-ten All American cities last week along with Statesville.
But some citizens in Lenoir County would beg to differ with that decision.
Earlier this month, city leaders voted 3-2 to annex the neighborhood of Crestview and other communites along Hwy 258, although there had been protests and threats of law suits, according the Kinston Free Press.
North Carolina is one of two states in which involuntary annexation is legal. Nebraska is the other.
Mayor “Buddy Rich” made a statment during one interview saying that if people didn’t want to live in the city, then they shouldn’t have moved to an area that would be annexed. What a pompus thing to say. Keep reading →
Last week on Coast to Coast A.M., host George Noory informed the audience that Art Bell’s wife Airyn was granted her permanent visa.
While broadcasting from Manila, Bell, creator of the overnight radio show, had told listeners of his plight and encouraged them to flood President Barack Obama with emails to try and fix the debacle. He had also written a letter to Sen. Harry Reid for assistance, before being informed that his bride’s visa application had been terminated.
Bell’s problem caught the attention of millions of listeners and the alternative press, including the Independent Register.
Congratulations Art and Airyn. I hope to hear your broadcast again from the high desert.
I have often wondered and people have asked me: When will the government stop the over taxation, over spending, abuse of our freedom, the unconstitutional laws, endless wars, abuse of power and when will the American people say ENOUGH??
When will the American people take a stand and tell the government to return government back to government by and for the people and not by and for the elected officials and the wealthy?
What will it take: another WACO, RUBY RIDGE?
IF it happened, would the American people see and listen to the real truth or to what main stream media and the government tells them and would the American people step up to the plate and defend the people being abused. Would the American people take that stand and fight the government, not just with words but meeting force with force? Keep reading →
Radio host Art Bell may never return to the high desert.
The legendary host of Coast to Coast A.M. told listeners of an ongoing battle with immigration officials while filling in for weekend host Ian Punnett June 6.
Outraged by a lack of cooperation or communication by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Bell sent a letter to Sen. Harry Reid asking him to look into the matter.
In the letter, and on the air, Bell explained how he and his Phillipino wife Airyn had been following all of the rules and regulations regarding her Visa. In October of 2008,the Bells sent in the required form, evidence of marriage and a fee of $545, the final step of a two-year process. Keep reading →
In May 1915, the S.S. Lusitania left New York headed for London with 2,000 passengers. A German U boat – that’s undersea boat – put one torpedo into the side of the fastest ship in the North Atlantic.
The Lusitania sank in 18 minutes, with a loss of 1,200 people. One hundred twenty-eight were American citizens. The ship sank between England and Ireland near County Cork, Ireland.
The British quickly accused the “Pirate Hun“ (Kaiser Wilhelm II) of the slaughter of innocent civilians, claiming that the Lusitania was solely a passenger vessel.
You can’t be a good Christian and a Democrat, a private evangelical university told its students when it refused to recognize a student club with ties to the national Democratic Party.
Liberty University, the Lynchburg, Va., school founded by the fundamentalist Rev. Jerry Falwell, derecognized the College Democrats because school officials consider Democratic policies that allow abortion and promote gay rights incongruous with the school’s Christian mission.
“While those who are members of the LU Democratic Club are well intentioned and honorable, the platform and policies of the national Democratic Party and the candidates supported by that party, and thus the student organization itself, are inconsistent with the mission of the University,” Jerry Fallwell Jr., the school’s president, said in a news release.
As a private religious institution, Liberty is not legally bound to allow free speech, expression and association like public, state-funded colleges.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education points out that Liberty makes no bones about its conservative Christian culture, and students and parents who even skimmed the school’s literature should have known exactly what they were signing up for.
While the university has no legal obligation to recognize the College Democrats, it does have moral, ethical and even Biblical obligations to do so.
American Flag which was displayed upside down.
