He is fully correct in justifying the adminsitration's actions in this
manner as owners have a right to do what they want with their
property. Does this sound like a contradiction? No, the owner in this
statement is the federal goverenment and the property is the US
Citizen, to wit:
> Therefore, the U.S. citizens
> residing in one of the states of the union, are
> classified as property and franchises of the federal
> government as an "individual entity." [span id="st" name="st" class="st0"]Wheeling[/span] Steel Corp.
> v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193, 80 L.Ed. 1143, 56 S.Ct. 773.
So the question becomes, are you a US Citizen? If so they can do what
they want with their property i.e. you.
You have no access to the courts. When you go into a 'court' you
are not standing in front of a judicial officer, but an
administrative one. Do you want to know why you don't
have access to the courts and there for no guaranteed constitutional protection of your rights?
Because you have accepted a benefit from the state, specifically your SS benefit.
Give me some time and I'll look up the cite for you.
So if it ever come to the draft - don't burn your draft card - burn you SS card.
Quote from: Dood on Feb 07 06 10:27 [font color="black" face="Arial"][span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"]Future American lawyers to be proud of.[/span][/i][/b][/font]
[/div][div][font color="black" face="Verdana" size="2"][span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN"]AlbertoGonzalesspokebeforelaw students at Georgetown today,justifyingillegal,unauthorizedsurveilance of US citizens, but duringthe courseof hisspeech thestudents in class did something pretty ballsyandbrave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
Tomakemattersworsefor Gonzales, additional students came into theroom,wearing blackcowlsand carrying a simple banner, written on asheet:
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[/p][font color="black" face="Verdana" size="2"][span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN"]Fortunately for him, it was a brief speech... followed by a panel discussion that basically ripped his argument a new a**hole.
And, as one of the people on the panel said,
"Whenyou'realawstudent, they tell you if say that if you can't argue thelaw,arguethefacts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts,arguethelaw. Ifyou can't argue either, apparently, the solution isto go onapublicrelations offensive and make it a political issue...to sayoverand overagain "it's lawful", and to think that theAmerican peoplewillsomehowcome to believe this if we say it oftenenough.
In light of this, I'm proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today."
- David Cole, Georgetown University Law Professor
It was a good day for dissent.[/span][/font][/p] [/p]
