Need a good laugh? Watch Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, explain why taxation in the United States is voluntary.

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Thanks to LRC for the link.

Welcome to the new America, brought to you by your ignorance and the leaders of the Republican and Democrat political parties alike.

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From Slashdot:

The Department of Homeland Security’s Real ID program has a real challenge on its hands from California. DHS had said it will only grant extensions from the Real ID rules taking effect on May 11 to states that apply by March 31 and promise to implement Real ID by 2010. California requested an extension but would not make the latter promise. DHS buckled and said, in effect, “Good enough.” Perhaps they realized that trying to slap giant California around is qualitatively different than doing the same to New Hampshire.

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From the article:

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert.

Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was needed on how far Britain should go in identifying potential offenders, given that some experts believe it is possible to identify future offending traits in children as young as five.

Exposed of being a Ron Paul Republican who will stand up for civil liberties, that is.

Opponent: “You know what? If you support Ron Paul, then you need to support my young primary opponent. Because he’s a Ron Paul Libertarian, 100%! Go to his webpage, and everything he stands for is right there! I call him Ron Paul Jr. because that’s what he is.”

He’s talking about B.J. Lawson, congressional candidate in North Carolina’s 4th congressional district. Dr. Lawson, a medical doctor turned entrepreneur has been inspired by Ron Paul to defend our rights, but he can only do it with your help.

Although I’m not a very eloquent writer, I’ve tried to stress the importance of voting machines running on Open Source software, instead of Closed Source software.

Please understand: There is no point in having elections when the voting machine source code is a secret (aka. Closed-Source).  No point whatsoever.

How much faith would you have in a system where everyone passed their ballots under the door of a dark closet where one man is trusted to announce the results at the end?

Would that make sense to you?  Would you trust that man to be honest?  Would you still bother voting?

Of course not.

However, this is exactly what closed-source voting machines are.  There are a handful of guys who write the code and then keep it a secret.  That code is then used to tabulate the results, and then we just trust whatever it says.

Doesn’t anyone realize how bat-shit-insane that is?!?

Think I’m nuts?  Watch this video:

Want to watch someone actually rig a random voting machine? Watch the last half of Hacking Democracy:

Here’s a short clip about a different Diebold model, although it’s not documented as well as the video above:

I’ve been asked what Ron Paul fans mean when they say, “Legalize real money!” To answer this, see for yourself what the constitution says and compare it to current federal law:

Article I, Section 10, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution:
“No State shall … coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;”

(Note that on every unit of paper money the U.S. government asserts without apology: “This note is legal tender for all debts public and private.”)

Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 25, Section 486 of United States Code:
“Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

So there you have it… The Constitution says gold and silver are the only valid forms of legal tender. The Congress now says, use gold or silver as money and go to jail. How could it get any more black-and-white than this?

The founding fathers understood that giving the government power to print money out of thin air was a bad idea. They knew it would lead to incredible inflation at the expense of almost every American, which it has. They knew the government wouldn’t be able to fabricate gold and silver out of thin air, so they made it law that legal tender must be in the form of gold and silver.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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