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Tommy Robinson Released From Bedford Prison Liberties Alliance 13 September 2011 Word has reached us that Tommy Robinson, who has been languishing as a political prisoner in Bedford Prison this last week has now been released by the British regime. It is unclear whether or not he is still ‘banned’ or whether justice and common sense have been allowed to prevail.

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is refusing to release legal memos the George W. Bush administration used to justify his warrantless surveillance program, one of the most contentious civil liberties issues during the Republican president's time in office.

After a delay of more than two days, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has "decided to follow the law" and release the names, ranks, hometowns and units of those killed in the Aug. 6 Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said Wednesday. The names will be released in the next 24 hours. Panetta "never intended not to release the names," Lapan said, explaining that a delay in their release was the result of a request from military commanders in the Special Operations community who wanted to review the policy of releasing names "because of possible (security) implications

Britain will free Islamic Movement radical Raad Salah on Monday if he agrees to conditions, including wearing an electronic tag and a ban on public speaking. Salah, who has been arrested, jailed and freed on several times in Israel for incitement, violence and attacking policemen, was taken into custody after British authorities mistakenly allowed him into the country. His supporters protested the detention order, calling Salah a “man of peace” although he is blacklisted from Britain. His attorneys appealed the order and told judges that he is not a security risk. The British Home Office agreed to release him Monday...

In the wake of the recent growing calls to release Jonathan Pollard, Attorney Marc Zell, co-chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition chapter in Israel, claimed surprisingly on Thursday that there are other American Jews who do not support Pollard’s release. He did not claim his views are the policy of the Republican party. “As an Israeli Jew I’m obviously sorry he’s still in prison, but as an American Republican and an American citizen I do not support Pollard’s release,” Zell told Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service. “Knowing the issues inside out and knowing the background, what he did was very...

2011 is a very special year - it is the Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Ronald Reagan. There are activities and grand events planned throughout the Centennial Year. Click on the link below for an update. You'll want to get your reservations in NOW for some of them. Don't miss the Centennial Gala, held at Deer Valley Country Club in Deer Grove, IL. Guest Speaker: Newt Gingrich (includes a book-signing). This event is sponsored by the Tampico Hisorical Society & The Reagan Centennial Commission. REAGAN CENTENNIAL EVENTS CALENDAR - From Ronald Reagan Birthplace Click on photo to enlarge DOUBLE...

More revelations about the British Government's insidious involvement in the release of the convicted Libyan mass murderer. Britain's no.1 civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell has found that Labour did ''all it could'' to facilitate Libya in its appeal to the Scottish government to release Megrahi on compassionate grounds. In a statement to MPs, Mr Cameron said: ''Insufficient consideration was given to the most basic question of all - was it really right for the British government to facilitate an appeal by the Libyans to the Scottish government in the case of an individual who was convicted of murdering...

Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun today said she won't make her tax returns public before next month's election."Because I don't want to," Braun said when asked why she wouldn't be releasing them in the time before the Feb. 22 election.Fellow candidates Rahm Emanuel and Gery Chico already have released their tax returns.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has circulated across the internet an encrypted “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents suspected to include files on BP and Guantanamo Bay. One of the files identified this weekend by The (London) Sunday Times — called the “insurance” file -- has been downloaded from the WikiLeaks website by tens of thousands of supporters, from America to Australia. Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets. The military papers on Guantanamo Bay, yet to be published, believed to have been supplied by Bradley Manning,...

Washington has warned its ally Israel of potential embarrassment from the expected release of US diplomatic cables on whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, an Israeli newspaper said on Thursday. A senior Israeli official, quoted in Haaretz, said it has been informed that WikiLeaks plans to release hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, some of which could include confidential reports from the US embassy in Tel Aviv. "The Americans said they view the leak very seriously," he told the paper, on condition of anonymity. "They don't know when they will be released on the Internet and what exactly they say, but they didn't...

Freepers needed!!!!!! Freep this petitIon! 500 more signatures needed by Thanksgiving. Please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/MBehenna/petition.html and sign the petition to free Michael Behenna. Go to http://defendmichael.com and learn more about Michael and his family. If you have things to be thankful for, FREEP THIS POLL!

‘Post’ told of new bid for jailed agent’s release on 25th anniversary of his arrest, with support of notable American and Israeli officials involved in Pollard's arrest. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked the US to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard as part of a series of gestures made to Israel in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, sources with knowledge of the talks told The Jerusalem Post over the weekend. Sunday is the 25th anniversary of Pollard’s arrest at the gates of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He is serving a life sentence in prison in...

The New York City teachers union is fighting the release of data that tries to gauge the effectiveness of 12,000 of its members, saying the measuring system is too flawed to make teachers' names public. The city Department of Education was set to release the data Wednesday, spurred by public-records requests from news organizations, including The Wall Street Journal. But the United Federation of Teachers threatened a lawsuit, and the DOE delayed its plans. A DOE spokeswoman said that unless a court interferes, the city intends to make them public Friday.

Sources in the PMO submit deal to US by which Israeli spy would be freed in exchange for 3 month extension of moratorium, Army Radio reports. Senior Israeli officials are considering a deal in which the moratorium on building in West Bank settlements would be extended for three months in exchange for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from the United States, Army Radio reported Monday.

More than three decades ago, a young Monterey County prosecutor helped send a 19-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Ord to prison on a murder charge. In May, that 51-year old former soldier passed through a prison gate to rejoin a world completely unlike the one he left behind. Mark Watts won his freedom partly through the efforts of the same man who put him away: John Phillips, now a retired superior court judge. This is not a story of wrongful conviction and Watts is not an innocent man. But since the days when Phillips helped make sure Watts was imprisoned,...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says that as of Sunday, Sept. 5, it had caught-and-released 506,232 illegal aliens who are now fugtives. That is more than the population of Sacramento, California, which currently numbers 486,189. Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United States illegally and then were released ahead of their court proceedings and deemed fugitive when they failed to appear in court. CNSNews.com asked Brian P. Hale, director of public affairs at ICE, about DHS’s annual report Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2009, which includes information on apprehensions and deportations but...

Snips from Excerpt only website: After spending almost three months in federal custody, a West Toledo man facing charges of aiding a terrorist organization and engaging in several fraudulent schemes will be released from custody and placed on house arrest. The couple are charged in a 36-page indictment filed June 7. In the indictment are six charges alleging that the couple “did knowingly combine, conspire, and agree” to aid the terrorist group Hezbollah. The first count of the indictment consists of 30 pages and charges that the couple engaged in activity from Aug. 30, 2009, to the present that helped...

The Obama administration is moving to release thousands of illegal immigrants detained at facilities across the country if the immigrants have a potential path to legal residency. The move could affect as many as 17,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. It comes amid a push by ICE to focus on illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, rather than seek to deport all illegal immigrants.

Is anything this administration tells us the truth? “Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release”. Really? I guess some in the administration weren’t so surprised after all. This administration has made dishonesty its only order of business. I for one am frustrated beyond belief. I wonder if next they may secretly negotiate the release of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The following disgusting excerpt is from The Australian : THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals...

LONDON (AFP) – Scottish ministers on Wednesday defended their decision to free the Lockerbie bomber after renewed US anger over the release threatened to spoil the new British premier's first visit to the White House. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said he did not regret freeing Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds last August. And Salmon denied claims from US lawmakers that the release formed part of an oil deal between BP and resource-rich Libya. "If you take a decision in good faith, you don't regret it," Salmond, the leader of Scotland's devolved government, told BBC radio. He...