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Michael Winship, Truthout: "At a dinner party, an ever-so-proper aristocrat who had been at the British evacuation of Dunkirk 60 years ago, remained tightlipped despite intense questioning from the other guests about what he had seen there. Finally, he shuddered at the memory and exclaimed, 'The noise, my dear, and the people!' An apocryphal story, perhaps, but the high-falutin' Supreme Court of the United States has the same attitude toward America - this would be such a great country if it wasn't for all the noise and people."

http://www.truth-out.org/michael-winship-the-supreme-court-says-no-people-again60365

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Supreme Court Criminalizes Speech in Ruling in Patriot Act Case
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/21-7

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Supreme Court creates new class: Unpersons

Nolan Chart
by Walt Thiessen

06/21/10

The 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08-1498 effectively creates a new class of people: Unpersons. These are people who have the temerity to disagree with U.S. government’s designations of certain persons and groups as terrorists. The ruling effectively makes it a crime to attempt to make peace with such people. It eliminates, from a legal perspective, the basic human rights of anyone who disagrees with the U.S. government...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7805.html



America’s lawless Supreme Court

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

06/24/10

Given extremist right wing governance under both parties, (Eric Holder the new John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, or Michael Mukasey; Obama the new Bush) no longer do constitutional protections apply. As a result, anyone may be prosecuted for supporting human rights, civil liberties, democratic freedom, writing articles like this one, or airing populist views on programs like the Progressive Radio News Hour...

http://tinyurl.com/2dcsegn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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