http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/totalitarian/ en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408036/posts Folks, this according to the Thomas More Law Center: ANN ARBOR, MI – Tomorrow, December 16, 2009, at 10 AM PST, a panel of eleven judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in San Francisco will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s virulent resolution attacking the Catholic Church for its teachings against homosexual adoptions. The en banc panel will review the earlier opinion of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit that upheld the resolution. Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise will argue the case on behalf of the plaintiffs in... Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408036/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384792/posts The phrase “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” sounds innocent enough. Who could be against such an agreement? But in fact it appears to be a pretext for a massive invasion of privacy, motivated in part by the entertainment industry seeking to maintain copyrights. But once unleashed, such an assault on freedom will know no bounds. What if Big Brother finds on your laptop that you think ID supports certain traditional moral views, and what if any articulation of such views comes to be regarded as a hate crime? (Click excerpt link for MUST SEE VIDEO!) Uncommon Descent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384792/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406807/posts The first year of the Obama administration is almost in the books, and pundits across the political spectrum are assessing its accomplishments. Any assessment must be placed in context of the overall political and class balance of forces, in Congress and within the multi-class, socially diverse coalition that carried Obama to the White House. The success, breadth and extent of President Obama’s new policy direction depend in particular on the strength and unity of the people’s forces and their ability to gain allies and mobilize at the grassroots and influence Congress. The Obama administration must work with and unite a... Political Affairs Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406807/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406891/posts The lawyer who handled the years-long battle by Pastor Stephen Boissoin over "hate speech" charges for a letter he wrote to the editor of a local newspaper that cited the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality is forecasting a nationwide "witch hunt" in the U.S. prompted by an expanded "hate crimes" law signed by President Obama. Gerald Chipeur,  who supervises law offices across Canada, worked from his Calgary headquarters on the defense of Boissoin, who was accused by a university professor of instigating hate against homosexuals with his letter to the editor. As WND reported, an appellate court in Canada recently reversed... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406891/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:40:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392026/posts Washington – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today responded to the “Manhattan Declaration” produced and released by 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders indicating that they will not cooperate with laws that conflict with their beliefs, including those recognizing same-sex couples. The document also references the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) as a threat to religious liberty. Yet ENDA – which prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity – broadly exempts religious organizations. The declaration also argues that religious groups that receive public funds... HRC Human Rights Campaign http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392026/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:43:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338744/posts Alongside the internationally better known National-Democratic Party of Germany or “NPD,” the German People’s Union (DVU) is one of the two main German political parties of the so-called “extreme Right.” As discussed in my earlier PJM report here, in German usage this expression is, in effect, just a euphemism for neo-Nazi currents and organizations. Both the NPD and the DVU are officially classified as “right-wing extremist” organizations by Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the so-called Office for the Protection of the Constitution or “Verfassungsschutz.” A statement published by the DVU on Wednesday, however, makes clear just how misleading it is to... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338744/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:08:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334667/posts President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator. Somehow, he keeps doing so. Now he's going ahead with plans to address America's schoolchildren, having dropped the part about encouraging those children to then "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president." This administration's run is rapidly transforming into an episode of "The Twilight Zone." How could Obama be so foolish? He and his advisers must be oblivious to the connections between the American far left and fascism. They must be immune to the revulsion that so many ordinary citizens feel when they... American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334667/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334619/posts ''Watch what we do, not what we say'' -- Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell to reporters as Nixon Administration began. "Had enough?" -- Republican slogan in the 1946 congressional elections Had enough? Van Jones was not a vetting problem, he was a "getting caught red-handed" problem. As discussed on Friday in this space, Jones would never, ever have been allowed in the door of the White House with his nutty record -- much less be hired to work there -- unless people at the top thought of him in, an ideological sense, as one of their own. This episode has... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334619/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312958/posts I hope you didn't think that everything about the healthcare bill was covered in Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill. If you did, you were wrong. That just covered the first 500 pages. There's another 500 pages. Peter Fleckstien (aka Fleckman) has also read the second 500 pages. As I write this, there are some 159 comments at the original Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill. Some comments are left by people truly in shock by what the Obama Administration is trying to pull off. Others charge that his interpretations of the bill are incorrect and hint that he is purposely being... Economic Policy Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312958/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:01:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310221/posts Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been spoken in main stream media about this threat to humanity. Yet, according to the projections based on figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a minimum of 3 billion people will die from the Codex mandated vitamin and mineral guideline alone. Former Nazi is... Natural News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310221/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 03:20:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306294/posts As the Most Powerful Community Organizer in the world pushes through his vision for your future healthcare, his minions are hard at work. Myriad press outlets are blaming fat folks for the rise in healthcare costs. In Obamaland, fat is the new smoking! How and what you eat is the next evil behavior to be controlled by law . Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306294/posts#comment Sun, 2 Aug 2009 03:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297735/posts DC forum member El Goodo has done some excellent detective work on Obama’s so-called economic czars, wading through dirty pools that other so-called muckrakers refuse to tread. The first person he’s looked into is “green jobs” czar Van Jones. In typical Wikipedia fashion, the checkered past and political extremism of a politically liberal public figure is almost completely discarded and that which is left is played down. As noted by El Goodo, Jones is a former communist who was radicalized by the 1992 Los Angeles riots and has continued to associate himself with groups on the far left, including the... Darwin Central http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297735/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296136/posts 14-year jail for SMS joke on Pakistani president IANS 19 July 2009, 08:52pm IST ISLAMABAD: It would seem that in Pakistan, there is nothing you need to watch out for more than making a joke about President Asif Ali Zardari by SMS (Short Messaging Service). If you mistakenly, or just for fun, share with a friend one of the hundreds of derisory jokes about the leader floating around electronically, you could get a 14-year prison sentence. Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik announced last week that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to trace SMS (or text messages) and... IANS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296136/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292923/posts The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue of the way modern technology is used to monitor our daily lives. Here, we list seven of the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements. CCTV Closed-circuit television cameras were first used in Germany in 1942 to remotely monitor the launch of V2 rockets. Since then, CCTVs have become one of the most contentious pieces of technology in public use. The government and law enforcement agencies claim the use of video monitoring technology can help reduce crime and improve public safety; critics argue... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292923/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:54:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278916/posts On a one-man and multi-Czar mission to turn the USA into--at least--a third world country, Obama is in the process of taking over all major US industries--thus far, he’s commandeered the auto industry and banking. He is now going after the creme de la creme--healthcare and the attendant Insurance companies. ObamaControl of this industry will give him ultimate power over all of us. During a recent speech to the American Medical Association (AMA), he said: ‚"What accounts for the bulk of our costs is the nature of the healthcare delivery system.” Translation: ‚"I don’t like this entire US system and... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278916/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275431/posts GERALD WALPIN All I know is that what was done was wrong, and it was done, I think, to send a chilling message to all inspectors general that they should not touch any hot topics. LOU DOBBS: Not to touch any hot topics, by which- WALPIN: I mean topics that may be close to somebody who is at the pinnacle of power. newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275431/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274290/posts A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped. HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse. HR 2749 does not address underlying causes of food safety problems such as industrial agriculture practices and the consolidation of our food supply. The industrial food system and food imports are... Farm Wars http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274290/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:27:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265045/posts Officers are targeting children as young as 10 with the aim of placing their DNA profiles on the national database to improve their chances of solving crimes, it is claimed. The alleged practice is also described as part of a "long-term crime prevention strategy" to dissuade youths from committing offences in the future. The claim comes amid widespread criticism of government proposals to store DNA profiles of innocent people, including some children, on the database for up to 12 years. Civil liberty campaigners have condemned the tactic of as "diabolical" and said it showed contempt for children's freedom. A Metropolitan... The Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265045/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:26:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262260/posts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently met with Beijing officials to secure international agreement about tighter restrictions on economic activity in order to deal with perceived global warming. Happily, China’s regime over the past three decades has been moving away from its Maoist cult and totalitarian communism and towards more freedom, most notably in its economy. Thus Beijing officials are reluctant to strangle economic freedom and, as a result, slow economic growth with such restrictions. Sadly, it looks like Pelosi has picked up the totalitarian sword and is bringing it back with her to wield against Americans in the name of... The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262260/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:23:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260167/posts Sonia Sotomayor's America is a land in which the rule of law would be turned into the rule of empathy, where quotas would triumph over merit, rogue bureaucrats could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, free thinkers could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is and is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy. President Obama is still our president, but he shouldn't be able to reach out from... Rush Limbaugh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260167/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 23:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255496/posts WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said. The discussion, in a 90-minute meeting in the Cabinet Room that included Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other top administration officials, came on the eve of a much-anticipated speech Mr. Obama is to give Thursday on a number of thorny... NY Slimes (Page A18!!!) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255496/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 15:05:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245905/posts A deliberate campaign to enforcce “diversity” and political correctness by “unelected or quasi-governmental bodies” is turning Britain into the “the first modern soft totalitarian state”, an Australian political science expert and author says. Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch, an Australian historian, author, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer, has warned in an editorial in the Australian that while there may as yet be no concentration camps or gulags in Britain, “there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.” He points to the dozens of cases... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245905/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 06:18:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2244151/posts Liberals and other assorted Obama butt-kissers will want to shield their eyes. This is not going to be pretty. As you may have heard, and as we discussed in last week's podcast, Obama is trying to strongarm Chrysler's secured creditors into giving up their claims, "for the best interest of the State." From Financial Times. An Obama administration official said: “It is neither in the interest of Chrysler’s senior lenders nor the country for them to advance a proposal that would yield them an unjustified return ... Since it is very much in the creditors' interest to get exactly what... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2244151/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 23:40:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239782/posts Socialism, like a tick or leech, grows fat on the blood of its host until the host dies. The greatest socialist experiments of modern times had an outward and initial appearance of success. That initial success seduced many people into ignoring the later realities that proved socialism is the brutal playground for amoral leaders and intellectuals. Europe’s current love affair with socialism is beginning to reveal the sinister intentions of the ruling elite and the ugly consequences of making poor decisions. The host is dying and the elite know it. The initial success of Nationalist Socialism in Germany, Fascism in... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239782/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:43:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235332/posts I have often thought the term 'facist' is used a little too freely, more often than not by liberals and leftists who have called me a fascist on many occaisions. I have even seen BHO referred to as a fascist by conservatives, some here on this website. I think fascism is all too often confused with socialism. Although they have much in common, fascism and socialism are not twins, but they are cousins. Both ideologies originated in Europe and both ideologies advocate a strong, powerful central government which controls the economy and many other facets of the state as well.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2235332/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:25:25 GMT