Monday 22 July 2013

JoePlummer.com News 07-22-2013

StopTheLie.com News update 07-22-2013

School Officials End RFID Tracking Program
Source: LibertyCrier.com
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — After a drawn-out battle waged in court and within the community, school officials with the Northside Independent School District have announced their decision to stop using a student tracking program that relied on RFID tracking badges containing tiny chips that produce a radio signal, enabling school officials to track students' location on school property. According to school officials, the decision to cease the "Student Locator Project" was due in part to low participation rates, negative publicity, and a lawsuit by The Rutherford Institute. Rutherford Institute attorneys had filed suit against school officials in November 2012 on behalf of Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at John Jay High School's Science and Engineering Academy, who was expelled from the magnet school in January 2013 after objecting to the badges based on religious freedom and privacy concerns. The question of whether Hernandez will be permitted to return to John Jay has yet to be resolved.

"This decision by Texas school officials to end the student locator program is proof that change is possible if Americans care enough to take a stand and make their discontent heard," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. "As Andrea Hernandez and her family showed, the best way to ensure that your government officials hear you is by never giving up, never backing down, and never remaining silent—even when things seem hopeless."
Read full article at:http://libertycrier.com/san-antonio-public-school-officials-end-rfid-tracking-program-citing-civil-liberties-lawsuit-negative-pu

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Raisin thieves
Source: Breitbart.com
Horne violated Marketing Order 989, passed during the Truman administration, "a federal regulation meant to solve a problem from the era after World War II, which created the national raisin reserve. The program gives the U.S. government a heavy-handed power to interfere with the supply and demand for dried grapes" and takes "away a percentage of every farmer's raisins" without paying for them. The law has been described as one that gives the government the power to operate a cartel. 

The government can save the raisins, sell them to foreigners, throw them away, or even feed them to animals -- so long as they are off the domestic market. 

The Post notes the government can "use those proceeds to pay its own expenses and to promote raisins overseas" in addition to paying for overhead. And in one recent year, the program generated $65,483,211, and all of it was spent. Horne described the program as the "rape of the raisin growers" and said it made him feel like "a serf."
Read full article at:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/11/CA-Farmer-Faces-Bankruptcy-Gov-t-Wrath-for-Refusing-to-Contribute-to-National

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Experts Contradict Obama On Global Warming
Source: Forbes.com
--During yesterday's Environment and Public Works hearings, Sen. David Vitter asked a panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer, "Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama's statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?"

For several seconds, nobody said a word. Sitting just a few rows behind the expert witnesses, I thought I might have heard a few crickets chirping, but I couldn't tell for sure. We'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt and count the crickets in the "maybe" camp.

After several seconds of deafening silence, global warming activist Heidi Cullen, who formerly served as a meteorologist for the Weather Channel, attempted to change the subject. Cullen said our focus should be on longer time periods rather than the 10-year period mentioned by Obama. When pressed, however, she contradicted Obama's central assertion and said warming has slowed, not accelerated.
Read full article at:http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/07/19/senator-barbara-boxers-own-experts-contradict-obama-on-global-warming/

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Previous Week's News 07-15-2013

The Truth About George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin (Video)
Source: FreeDomainRadio.com
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Watch video at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-Ax5E8EJc

COMMENT: ...Some stuff the media didn't talk too much about.

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Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police
Source: Kirkpiccione.com
--REASON #4: Even if you are innocent, and you only tell the truth, and you don't tell any little white lies, it is possible to give the police some detail of information that can be used to convict you.

For example, a suspect is being questioned about a murder. He is truly innocent of the murder. But in the course of explaining his innocence, he makes the statement that he never liked the victim, because the victim was not a nice guy. A statement like that could be used to prove motive.

Or in the course of the statement, the suspect might admit that he was in the area of town where the murder was committed at the time it was committed. Although he's innocent and although this statement is true, the prosecutor could use that statement to suggest that the suspect had the opportunity to commit the crime, which looks very bad in front of a jury.
Read full article at:http://www.kirkpiccione.com/10-reasons-not-talk-police/

COMMENT: ...and if the cops start giving you a hard time about not wanting to answer their questions, maybe that's when you should ask them a question of your own:

"Hey, have you ever read this law professor's 'Top 10 Reasons You Should Not Talk to the Police?' It's pretty good, here's a copy." 

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