Wednesday, March 28, 2012

[Peninsula-Patriots] FW: Hope for HB 1160

We the people must continue to call and write or even show up to tell him to sign HB1160 !!

From: Sue Long [mailto:suelong1@hughes.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:05 AM
To: Sue AC Long
Subject: Hope for HB 1160

There is still hope for HB1160. If the governor doesn't mess with it and change it, even if he doesn't sign it, it will become law after 30 days which will be April 9. We still need to keep the heat on though so that he doesn't change it, making it less effective. (See my correspondence below with my delegate)

Sue Long

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From: Keith Hodges

To: Sue Long

Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:38 AM

Subject: Re: Question

Ms. Long,

Below is the section from the Virginia Constitution. The House adjourned the regular session on March 10th meaning the last day for the Governor to act on a bill is April 9th. If he does not sign a bill it will automatically become law on July 1st.

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Keith

· (c) When there are fewer than seven days remaining in the regular or special session from the date a bill is presented to the Governor and the General Assembly adjourns to a reconvened session, the Governor shall have thirty days from the date of adjournment of the regular or special session in which to act on the bills presented to him and to exercise one of the three options set out below. If the Governor does not act on any bill, it shall become law without his signature.

M. Keith Hodges

Delegate 98th District

Virginia House of Delegates

On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:33 AM, "Sue Long" <suelong1@hughes.net> wrote:

Keith,

As far as I know, Governor McDonnell has not as yet signed off on HB1160 which would help protect us from being detained indefinitely without due process of law.

I have been told , however, that even if he doesn't sign it, it will become law after 30 days without his signature. Is that correct? Would you know when the 30 days is up? - Or at least, the date when the Assembly was over.

Thank you so much, Sue Long

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Monday, March 26, 2012

[Peninsula-Patriots] FW: Battle at the High Court - Call to Action

CODE RED CALL TO ACTION !!!! CODE RED CALL TO ACTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

[Peninsula-Patriots]

March 24, 2012

Senators Warn Americans about Secret Government Policies

March 24, 2012. Washington. For the second time in ten months, two US Senators have made a courageous and public showing against what they call, "alarming" and "secret" government abuse of power. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO) first took their warning directly to the American people on the floor of the US Senate. Now, they're taking their fight directly to the door of US Attorney General Eric Holder. Last week, Eric Holder once again refused to disclose the Obama administration's "secret interpretation" of the Patriot Act.

Senators Wyden & Udall take on Obama administration secrecy.

According to the letter sent to Attorney General Holder March 15, 2012, the two Senators insist:

"We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act."

The joint letter by Democratic Senators Wyden and Udall goes straight to the point of their warning and legitimate fear for America's future freedom:

"While the executive branch has worked hard to keep the government's official interpretation of the Patriot Act secret from the American public it has, to its credit, provided this information in documents submitted to Congress. However, these documents are so highly classified that most members of Congress do not have any staff who are cleared to read them. As a result, we can state with confidence that most of our colleagues in the House and Senate are unfamiliar with these documents, and that many of them would be surprised and angry to learn how the Patriot Act has been interpreted in secret."

What our readers just read in the above words is the desperate attempt by two patriotic Senators to warn the American people that something sinister has happened to their federal government. Readers will notice that in the entire 3-page letter to Attorney General Holder, the Senators never gave one example of the acts which would make the American people "surprised" and "angry". That's because they are forbidden by the same very laws from telling the American people. This public letter is as close as these panicked men can get to screaming the truth to an otherwise oblivious public and its representatives.

Ten months ago, these same two Democratic US Senators took on their own Democratic Party's "new" platform, one that embraced the Bush doctrine and the dissolution of the US Constitution, rather than opposing it as candidate Barack Obama so often promised to do. Instead, the Obama Administration has taken its self-declared powers to levels never seen before in American history. For the first time ever, a US President ordered the assassinations of US citizens without charge, trial or conviction. Read the Whiteout Press article, 'White House Assassinates Americans, Again' for further details.

In May 2011, Senators Wyden and Udall spoke on the floor of the US Senate during final debate before Congress voted to extend the Patriot Act beyond its original scope and duration. In the Whiteout Press article covering the event, 'Disturbing Revelations over Patriot Act Extension', we wrote:

"I want to deliver a warning this afternoon" Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced prior to Thursday's vote to extend the three Patriot Act provisions, "When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry." Fellow Intelligence Committee member Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) also sent a dire warning, "Americans would be alarmed if they knew how this law is being carried out." The major problem, the Senators point out, is that there is an ever-increasing disconnect between how the Patriot Act is worded versus how the government is interpreting it. As one can see, nothing has changed in the ten months since the Senators first began their quest to inform the people. If anything, the target of the current effort, Attorney General Eric Holder, is firmly entrenched in the Obama administration's hip pocket and not likely to be receptive. Together, President Obama and Attorney General Holder have used 'secret' authorities to do a number of questionable things from assassinating American citizens to 'stimulating' the President's campaign contributors to the Fast and Furious cover-up.

Still, Senators Wyden and Udall were able to use the process of alerting the Attorney General to possible treason within the federal government, to instead warn the American people.

America and International Law

Ironically, according to one paragraph in the Senators' letter to the Attorney General, they provide the source for their information regarding secret interpretations of the Patriot Act. According to the letter:

"It is a matter of public record that section 215, which is a public statute, has been the subject of secret legal interpretations. The existence of these interpretations, which are contained in classified opinions issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, has been acknowledged on multiple occasions by the Justice Department and other executive branch officials."

Rockefeller

If the subject is secret governments and world laws, you can bet there's a Rockefeller involved. Not so coincidentally, the joint letter by Senators Wyden and Udall go on to lay blame at a small handful of individuals, not Senator Rockefeller however. The letter states:

"A number of the Senators who are familiar with these secret legal interpretations (including the two of us) have pressed the executive branch to declassify these interpretations so that Congress and the public can have an informed debate about the proper scope of the law. We have personally raised this issue in meetings, hearings and correspondence (both classified and unclassified) with senior officials (including you) on many occasions over the years, thus far to no avail. It was initially encouraging when the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence wrote to Senator Rockefeller and Senator Wyden in August 2009 to announce the establishment of a regular process for reviewing, redacting and releasing significant opinions of the FISA Court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court). Two and a half years later however, this "process" has produced literally zero results. Not a single redacted opinion has been released."

No confidence

In probably the biggest slap in the face throughout the entire 3-page letter from the Senators to US Attorney General Eric Holder, Wyden and Udall take issue with the value of the intelligence apparatus itself. In the second to last paragraph, the two Senators state:

"We would also note that in recent months we have grown increasingly skeptical about the actual value of the "intelligence collection operation" discussed in the Justice Department's recent court filing regarding the pending lawsuits. This has come as a surprise to us, as we were initially inclined to take the executive branch's assertions about the importance of this "operation" at face value. We will provide more details about this skepticism in classified correspondence."

According to media speculation, the Senators are referring to details suggesting that the US government is spying on its own citizens regardless of whether or not they pose a terror risk. In Wyden and Udall's own description of their secret intelligence briefings, they state that the government has gone far beyond the scope and boundaries originally established with enactment of the Patriot Act immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Now, Senators Wyden and Udall have picked up the torch and will continue the fight to tell the American people what's really going on behind the federal government's veil of domestic espionage. The most worrisome aspect is the fact that as members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Wyden and Udall already know what's going on, and they're outraged and afraid. And they're doing everything in their limited power to warn the American people that they should be outraged and afraid too.

DeWitt Edwards

"DUTY to my God, Family and Country - HONOR to myself and others - RESPECT to all, who deserve it"

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

[Peninsula-Patriots] FW: Agenda 21 treaty on the horizon

DeWitt, Dorothy,

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Elena

International Covenant on Environment and Development: Convert the "soft-law" non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law

Agenda 21 treaty on the horizon

By Henry Lamb Saturday, March 24, 2012

While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a “conspiracy theory” being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Council for Environmental Law (ICEL) have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development. This document was designed from the beginning to convert the “soft-law” non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law - enforceable through the International Criminal Court and/or the dispute resolution features of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Two excellent analyses of this document are available here, and here. Read the entire 242-page document here.

Few people understand that it is standard operating procedure for the U.N. to issue a massive non-binding policy document to test the water and make adjustments to its plans before introducing the real, legally-binding treaty. For example, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a “soft-law” instrument, was the precursor to the two 1966 U.N. Covenants on Human Rights. The 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change called for “voluntary” compliance. But at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the group agreed to create a Kyoto Protocol to the Convention that would set legally-binding targets for all member nations.

Noah M. Sachs, a University of Richmond law professor and environmental expert, said: “Agenda 21 has been a dead letter for 20 years, its recommendations have not been implemented by most governments, and the U.S. has largely ignored it.”

Mr. Sachs is either ignorant of the facts, or is deliberately trying to mislead his readers. President Clinton’s President’s Council on Sustainable Development operated between 1993 and 1999 expressly for the purpose of implementing the recommendations in Agenda 21. At the 11^th meeting of the PCSD, Ron Brown, then- Secretary of the Department of Commerce, said that his department could implement 67% of the recommendations under his jurisdiction by rule, without the need for new legislation.

ICLEI: Advancing Agenda 21 around the world

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) was created at the behest of the U.N. expressly for the purpose of advancing Agenda 21 around the world. They claim more than 1200 cities around the world have joined their organization for assistance in implementing “sustainable development”—defined to be the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. More than 600 of these cities are in the United States.

Mr. Sachs: Agenda 21 is not a dead letter!

A few organizations, Freedom21, Freedom Advocates in California, and the American Policy Center have been teaching Agenda 21 to people since the mid 1990s. In the last few years, Tea Parties, 9/12 and property rights groups have seen how ICLEI and liberal local officials have been converting the recommendations in Agenda 21 into binding law, by incorporating these recommendations into comprehensive land use plans. Dozens of cities have terminated their membership in ICLEI after local groups showed their elected officials how their plans actually reflect the recommendations in Agenda 21.

Those who like to ridicule by pointing to an imaginary global plot to rule the world, are either ignorant of the facts, or don’t want people to know that the IUCN and the ICEL have been working since 1995 to get Agenda 21 converted into binding international law. It is not a plot. It is not a conspiracy. It is a fact. The IUCN is not going to stop until they are successful. Virtually every environmental treaty adopted by the U.N. in the last several decades was written by the IUCN.

The IUCN consists of governments, government agencies, and non-government organizations. Seven federal agencies pay more than $500,000 per year to be members of the IUCN. Many of these people are the same people who are delegates and attend the U. N. meetings where these treaties are adopted. Federal employees helped write this fourth draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development.

President Obama is on the Agenda 21 bandwagon

President Obama is on the Agenda 21 bandwagon. In addition to challenge grants offered by federal agencies to entice local communities to create comprehensive land use plans, he, like Bill Clinton, has issued Executive Orders to advance the agenda without interference from Congress. Obama issued an Executive Order to create the White House Rural Council last year. On March 15, he issued another Executive order creating the White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities. The next day, another Executive Order, National Defense Resources Preparedness, vastly expanded the President’s power to control virtually all resources in times of emergency.

In view of the facts that are readily available and undeniable, whenever a journalist or a politician, or an ordinary environmental extremist claims that Agenda 21 is not real, or is just a “conspiracy theory,” or the imaginations of right-wing crackpots, their comments can be dismissed and their motives challenged.

The U.N., the IUCN, and the ICEL—are working as hard as they can to get Agenda 21 converted into binding international law

The international community—the U.N., the IUCN, and the ICEL—are working as hard as they can to get Agenda 21 converted into binding international law. It will happen unless informed Americans stand up—as they have begun to do across the country—and kick out ICLEI, Agenda 21, and realize that use of the term “sustainable development” is nothing more than a sound-good substitute for Agenda 21.

Everyone should learn all they can about Agenda 21 and sustainable development, and join the battle to keep it away from America. A great place to start is here (video 18:54).

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Henry is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO), and chairman of Sovereignty International.

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