Town-hall clash! Cop vs. Obama 'Joker' poster

Officer threatens arrest: This ain't America no more

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Posted: August 28, 2009
10:57 pm Eastern


By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily



A depiction of the sign banned by Officer Cheeks


"This used to be America," argued a protester outside a health-care town hall meeting in Reston, Va., after a security officer threatened him with arrest for holding up a sign with a picture critical of Barack Obama.

The officer's response?

"It ain't no more, OK?"

Get the prescription for reclaiming America's heritage of liberty – before the what the officer said is true – Joseph Farah's "Taking America Back," autographed only at the WND SuperStore.

A video of the town hall held earlier this week by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., shows an unnamed protester standing on school grounds carrying a sign that read "Organizing for National Socialist Health Care – The Final Solution" and depicted Barack Obama in the Joker's makeup.

Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. then told the protester that even though others were holding signs, his sign was unacceptable because of the depiction of Obama.

"But you got this with a picture," Cheeks said, explaining why the protester was being singled out from the others. "That's the difference. This has got a picture on it. That don't have a picture on it.

"Sir, leave the picture down," the officer said. "If you put the picture back up,
you'll be charged with trespassing."

Video of the exchange can be seen below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg

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FRACTURES IN THE FOUNDATION: THE LATINO WORKER’S

PRESS RELEASE
In observance of Labor Day, NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, will hold a conference call releasing Fractures in the Foundation: The Latino Worker’s Experience in an Era of Declining Job Quality. This report provides a glimpse into the dangerous consequences of not enforcing strong workplace standards. The alarming rate of Latino workplace deaths helps tell the story of the unsafe conditions that millions of workers are subjected to every day. As our nation rebuilds its economy, we must also restore the dignity of work.

UK TradesTerrorist For Oil

Fairy lights are strung along the route to Saif al Islam al Gaddafi’s home, west of Tripoli.

It is 10pm at night, but the city skyline is sparkling ahead of the 40th anniversary celebrations next Tuesday of his father’s ascent to power.

Before we reach his house in the countryside, there are countless small road blocks, but they make for a stark contrast to the warm welcome at his red stone villa.

Personable, relaxed, smiling, Mr al Gaddafi welcomes us with open arms. We sit and drink hot tea from tiny translucent glasses embossed with gold leaves and semi-precious stones, beneath high-arched ceilings covered in beautiful mosaic tiling.

It is difficult to know what to expect of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son, but this is not it.

The second eldest son of the Libyan leader, Mr al Gaddafi has become the public face of the country in the West. Tipped to succeed his father, he has consistently denied this ambition and said that Libya is not his country to “inherit”.

For the past eight years, he has worked quietly to get Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, home to Tripoli. Last week, he was understandably delighted with the news that Megrahi was to be released on compassionate grounds, but he is now concerned at the “misunderstandings” that have followed, with victims’ relatives and politicians across the globe lining up to attack Kenny MacAskill for the decision, and Gordon Brown for not stating his case.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/i-think-the-scottish-justice-secretary-is-a-great-man-why-be-so-angry-about-an-innocent-man-who-is-dying-1.825026

Court orders Christian child into government education

10-year-old's 'vigorous' defense of her faith condemned by judge

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Posted: August 28, 2009
12:35 am Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


A 10-year-old homeschool girl described as "well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising and intellectually at or superior to grade level" has been told by a New Hampshire court official to attend a government school because she was too "vigorous" in defense of her Christian faith.

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FAITH UNDER FIRE

Faceoff! Cops versus preachers on public sidewalk
Christians arrested 7 times for signs declaring homosexuality a sin

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Posted: August 27, 2009
12:15 am Eastern


By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A street preacher is accusing police of violating his constitutional rights after officers arrested him for not having a parade permit while he spoke out against homosexuality on a public sidewalk in Manchester, Ga.

Chris Pettigrew and Pastor Billy Ball and of Faith Baptist Church in Primrose, Ga., were arrested multiple times Aug 24 after they held signs on a public street corner telling people ...

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ACLU Files Lawsuit on Border Laptop Searches

ACLU Files Lawsuit on Border Laptop Searches

Grant Gross, IDG News Service

Aug 26, 2009 12:00 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release details of its policy that allows the agency to search travelers' laptops at U.S. borders without suspicion of wrongdoing.

The ACLU's lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is an effort to get CBP to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that the civil liberties group filed in June about the laptop-search policy. The agency has not supplied any information, although the FOIA law requires it to give a response within 30 days, said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group.

The FOIA request and the lawsuit seek details about the laptop search policy, including how many laptops have been searched since the CBP instituted its search policy last year, Crump said. "Traveling with a laptop shouldn't mean the government gets a free pass to rifle through your personal papers," she said.

The ACLU and other civil liberties groups have complained that the CBP policy violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, protecting U.S. citizens against unreasonable search and seizure.

The ACLU also wants to know how many laptops and electronic devices CBP has seized, how long CBP has kept those devices, and statistics about the race and ethnicity of the people whose laptops have been seized, according to the ACLU's FOIA request.
One Muslim group complained in April that CBP has unfairly targeted Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans for laptop searches.

"The goal is that the public should have enough information to evaluate the risks of crossing the border with a laptop," Crump said. "It would be helpful to the public if they could evaluate whether this policy makes Americans any safer."

The press office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CBP's parent agency, didn't immediately respond to a request for comments on the ACLU lawsuit.

CBP has asserted that it can search all files, including financial documents and Web browsing history, on travelers' laptops and electronic devices "absent individualized suspicion." The agency does need probable cause that a crime has been committed to seize a device.

The CBP policy also allows the agency to conduct searches of "documents, books, pamphlets and other printed material, as well as computers, disks, hard drives and other electronic or digital storage devices," without suspicion of a crime.

Several Democratic members of the U.S. Congress have pushed for a change in the policy. The requested documents would be "enormously useful" for lawmakers debating the CBP policy, Crump said.

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