Detroit Is Laying Off Cops to Rehire Them With Federal Money. Jan 04 2012 The choice isn’t between guns and butter anymore. It’s between exploding entitlements and the basic services that justify government’s existence. From the liberal “Model City,” Detroit: A high ranking source in the Detroit Police Department says about 100 police officers will be given layoff notices during meetings on Wednesday. Fortunately for any law-abiding citizens who have not yet managed to escape this frozen jungle, the cops will be hired right back again with federal money. Currently, the department receives universal hiring grants from the Department of Justice.DPD plans to repurpose those grants to be used to pay officers, but the only way to eventually hire them back is to lay them off first.The move will take the officers off the general payroll and help Detroit’s finances.
What happens when Obama et al. finish fundamentally transforming the whole country into Detroit? What liberalism has left of Detroit. On a tip from AC. The 16th Amendment is not the Source of the Federal Income Tax - By Robert Greenslade - Price of Liberty - April 16, 2004 It’s April 15th and time for opponents of the federal income tax to renew their claim that the tax is unconstitutional because the Sixteenth Amendment was not properly ratified. These individuals are operating on the erroneous belief that the Sixteenth Amendment is the source of the federal government’s power to impose income taxes.
The purpose of this article is show that the Sixteenth Amendment did not grant the federal government any new taxing power. In order to understand this issue, it is important to review the taxing clauses of the Constitution and the events that led to the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment. The Constitution divides all taxes into two classes: direct and indirect. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. The Supreme Court's Judgment Isn't Absolute - Page 1 - Jeff Jacoby.
Newt Gingrich's presidential ambitions may be heading for the exits -- opinion polls suggest that the former House speaker's hour has come and gone -- but his critique of judicial supremacy deserves to taken seriously no matter what happens in Iowa or New Hampshire. Contrary to popular belief, their judgments were never meant to be revered "almost as if God has spoken. " In a 54-page position paper, Gingrich challenges the widely held belief that the Supreme Court is the final authority on the meaning of the Constitution. Though nothing in the Constitution says so, there is now an entrenched presumption that once the court has decided a constitutional question, no power on earth short of a constitutional amendment -- or a later reversal by the court itself -- can alter that decision.
Thus, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked for her reaction to the Supreme Court's notorious eminent-domain ruling in Kelo v. But judges are not divine and their opinions are not holy writ. Peace Officers Uniting to End State & Federal Tyranny - January 2012 | Las Vega, Nevada - County Sheriff Project. OPEN LETTER TO ALL POLICE, MILITARY, FIREFIGHTERS, VETERANS AND ALL OATH TAKERS. USA :: Freedom and Liberty :: Print this ArticleOPEN LETTER TO ALL POLICE, MILITARY, FIREFIGHTERS, VETERANS AND ALL OATH TAKERS01-09-2012 12:47 am - Glen Maine - OathKeeper (NYS) Greetings and Salutations, It's unfortunate that I have to write this letter, however in light of current events it is inevitable. Just days ago the United States Congress passed the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) this in itself was necessary. However in this bill was an insidious piece of verbiage that for all intents and purposes destroys the foundation of everything we believe in and took an oath to uphold.
To me the possibility of those citizens and others under my protection being spirited off in the middle of the night by agents of the military, then being summarily incarcerated without access to judge or jury are insufferable and intolerable acts. I believe that if and when those orders come, I cannot in good faith and in strict observance to my oath, allow myself to be a part of them.