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Amash Responds to White House Concerns

24 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in 4th Amendment, Amash Amendment H.R. 2387, Bill of Rights, Freedom, Indiana, Jackie Walorski, Justin Amash, Liberty, Patriot, Wiretapping

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Myth v. Fact: Amash-Conyers Amendment

and NSA Surveillance

  • MYTH 1: The Amash-Conyers amendment is a “blunt approach [and] is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process.”—Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary
  • Fact: The Amash-Conyers amendment is a modest proposal to rein in among the most troubling NSA surveillance that has been disclosed so far.

The Amash-Conyers amendment ends NSA’s blanket collection of Americans’ telephone records. It does this by requiring the FISA court under Sec. 215 to order the production of records that pertain only to a person under investigation.

The amendment does not defund NSA. It does not defund all NSA surveillance under the Patriot Act’s Sec. 215. It does not require a warrant for NSA to get Americans’ car reservations, hotel receipts, or telephone records. NSA does not even have to suspect that a crime has occurred. The amendment simply requires that there be a reasonable connection between the documents sought and the person under investigation. Far from blunt, the Amash-Conyers amendment is narrow and modest and is only a first step towards protecting Americans’ records from NSA surveillance.

There’s some irony in being criticized for not having an “informed, open, or deliberative” debate by the very people and groups who have obscured how NSA’s surveillance programs work. Over the last two months, the public and especially Congress have been given significant information about the activity at issue here: the suspicionless, blanket surveillance of ordinary Americans’ telephone records. NSA and the intelligence committees have hosted numerous classified and unclassified hearings, including an extraordinary four-hour seminar with NSA director Keith Alexander yesterday. Congress has been given ample opportunity to consider the question: Does Congress oppose the suspicionless collection of every American’s phone records?

  • MYTH 2: The Amash-Conyers amendment prevents the bulk collection of data on foreigners.
  • Fact: The Amash-Conyers amendment does not restrict the surveillance of foreign-to-foreign communications in any way.

FISA simply does not apply to the surveillance of purely foreign communications. See 50 U.S.C. § 1802. FISA court orders under Sec. 215 cover local telephone calls (wholly within the U.S.) and calls between the U.S. and abroad. In other words, NSA’s Sec. 215 phone surveillance program covers only calls in which at least one side of the conversation is in the U.S. Because foreign-to-foreign communications are beyond the scope of the Sec. 215 surveillance program, those communications are not addressed by the Amash-Conyers amendment.

  • MYTH 3: The Amash-Conyers amendment raises constitutional concerns.
  • Fact: The Amash-Conyers amendment is entirely constitutional, and despite allegations of “concerns,” no one really believes the amendment is unconstitutional. In fact, the Amash-Conyers amendment helps restore Fourth Amendment protections of Americans’ phone records.

The Amash-Conyers amendment allows NSA to execute FISA court orders only if the orders limit the collection of documents to those documents that pertain to a person under a Patriot Act investigation. The amendment does not place a mandate on the FISA court; the amendment couldn’t even if that was Mr. Amash’s intention because the FISA court is not funded through the Department of Defense appropriations bill.

Although the Amash-Conyers amendment does not require the FISA court to include specific language in its order, it is important to note that Sec. 215 already requires the FISA court to include at least five sets of specific limitations in its court orders. See 50 U.S.C. § 1861(c). Reading the current language in Sec. 215 reveals that this “constitutional concern” is wholly without merit.

  • MYTH 4: Americans don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their telephone records.
  • Fact: Americans do have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their telephone records, and the Supreme Court appears poised to rule definitively on that issue.

Proponents of NSA’s suspicionless surveillance like to say that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their telephone records. The Fourth Amendment reads, in part: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . . .” The collection of every American’s telephone records certainly is a “seizure” of those records. And ordinary Americans believe the intimate details of their phone calls are private.

Smith v. Maryland, a case the Supreme Court decided more than three decades ago, is not clearly applicable to NSA’s suspicionless surveillance. The person whose data was collected in that case was suspected of wrongdoing before the data collection, and the technology of that era did not allow for the type of mass record surveillance and retention that we have today. In United States v. Jones, a case from last year that held certain government GPS tracking unconstitutional, Supreme Court justices began to rethink privacy in the age of digital technology.
If proponents of NSA blanket surveillance are right, if Americans lose constitutional protections when they make a call or send an e-mail, then any data stored in “the cloud” is fair game for the government without a warrant. Do we think it’s good policy to have every iPhone picture stored in iCloud subject to warrantless government confiscation? Is that reasonable?

  • MYTH 5: The Amash-Conyers amendment would take away a tool that has proved effective in fighting terrorism.
  • Fact: Proponents of NSA’s blanket collection of Americans’ telephone records have not put forward publicly a single, solid example of a “success” under the program.

The amendment does not take away a tool that has proved effective in the fight against terrorism. The administration claims that surveillance conducted under FISA Sec. 702, including the PRISM program, has disrupted terrorist plots, including the New York subway plot. The Amash-Conyers amendment does not address FISA Sec. 702 in any way. The amendment concerns Patriot Act Sec. 215 alone, not Sec. 702. The administration’s one and only public example of a Sec. 215 “success” is the conviction of a taxi driver for sending money to a Somali group. Reports suggest that the Somali group posed no direct threat to the U.S., the investigation did not uncover an imminent threat, and the data could have been obtained without Sec. 215. For that “success,” the government has collected billions of Americans’ records.

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When LIARS lead…

10 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Campaign, Censorship, Civil Rights, Communist, Constitution, Corruption, Cronyism, Eavedropping, Executive Order, Facism, Fascism, Firearms, Freedom, Fusion Centers, Independence, Internet Privacy, Liberty, Martial Law, McCain Cybersecurity Act, Patriot, Politics, Principles, Property Rights, Protect your privacy, Socialism, WHY Truth Matters

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If the truth is what sets us free, what does it mean to live in a society where truth is absent?

The danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

“Almost all current events in the affairs of governments and nations have their parallels and precedents in the past,” American President Harry Truman wrote, “without an understanding of history, we are doomed to repeat our collective past.” Has any leader’s lies from the past dramatically shaped people’s destiny?

The Nazi’s, who comprised less than 10% of the German population, compelled millions of people to head for gas chambers in a docile manner. 10 MILLION PEOPLE! How did they do THAT? The Nazis were overwhelmingly outnumbered. They could easily have been overpowered. Why didn’t people resist?

The answer is breathtakingly simple. It is a method still being used by some elected leaders to achieve various goals today.

THEY LIED.

Adolf Eichmann, known as “The Master”, set about implementing the “Final Solution” as if he were the president of a multinational corporation. His intricate stories, were designed to ensure the cooperation of the condemned (but unknowing) Jews. Accompanied by an entourage of no more than thirty local men — mostly unarmed -Eichmann would address the crowd in a strong, clear voice.

This is what he said:

“Jews: At last, it can be reported to you that the Russians are advancing on our eastern front. I apologize for the hasty way we brought you into our protection. Unfortunately, there was little time to explain. You have nothing to worry about. We want only the best for you. You will leave here shortly and be sent to very fine places indeed. You will work there, your wives will stay at home, and your children will go to school. You will have wonderful lives. We will all be terrible crowded on the trains, but the journey is short. Men? Please keep your families together and board the railcars in an orderly manner. Quickly now, my friends, we must hurry!”

Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hunga...

Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian Jews, Summer 1944 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Jewish husbands and fathers were relieved by the explanation and comforted by the fact that there weren’t more armed soldiers. Fear of “heinous Russian Communists” had been pounded over the media to the masses for months. Relieved that the authorities were looking out for their best interests, grown, strong men, who could have resisted, instead trustingly helped their families into the rail cars. The containers, designed to transport eight cows, were each packed with a minimum of one hundred human beings and quickly padlocked.

At that moment, they were lost.

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Thomas Jefferson, “. . . . The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.”

History shows that any people who are sheep-like in following their leadership (so long as their personal self-interests are satisfied) may one day awaken to find that their nation has changed in dramatic ways.

-Do YOU think lying to get elected is acceptable? Especially when you believe the candidate’s intention is to get elected to do GOOD WORKS?

-Who are the “good guys” and who are the “bad guys”?

-Would truth be a starting point for telling the difference?

-What is our nation’s course? Do you believe that one can determine a probable destination by examining the direction in which we are traveling? Where are we headed?

The only way to know a person who aspires to lead us is to listen to what he says and watch what he does. Frankly, what I think of any current or past leader of the United States is irrelevant. The questions most important to YOU in regard to this subject should be: What criteria do YOU use?

It doesn’t take MANY people to lead a nation in a direction that has serious repercussions on the liberty of OTHERS. Indeed, it has happened, here, in the United States. We have given up liberties for various reasons. WE MAY NEVER GET THEM BACK. And, things could turn even WORSE very rapidly.

Is SOMEONE lying to our country right now?

YOU get to answer that for yourself. My point is that each of us must STOP blindly believing everything someone with an agenda says.

TODAY WITH THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET’S SEARCH ENGINES, it is simple to verify a politicians voting record, see videos of the politician on youtube to check out the politician’s consistency and whether or not he or she keeps his or her promises.

We MUST do our best to change our country’s direction and to put the best people possible in office. People who will DO what they believe is RIGHT and TRUE.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we MUST DO. ~Leonardo DeVinci

Your life, the lives of your children and the lives of your grandchildren may depend upon you demanding THE TRUTH and NOTHING LESS.


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DHS is peddling military weapons to local police. WHAT could go wrong?

31 Tuesday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Activism, American, ammunition, Civil Rights, Communist, Department of Homeland Security, Eavedropping, Electronic Communication, Emergency Measures, Executive Order, Facism, Fusion Centers, Independence, Intervention, Law Enforcement, Liberty, Martial Law, NSA, Posse Comitatus Act, Privacy, Socialism, Taser, weapons

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The Department of Homeland Security has begun a new program to counsel local police departments on how to buy and use armored vehicles, military helicopters, tanks, humvees, body armor, sniper rifles and even UNMANNED DRONES.

Does anyone actually believe it’s a good idea to use weaponized military vehicles for civilian “surveillance”? Is this really the direction in which we are headed?

Meanwhile…

It’s o.k., they’re the good guys.”

According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office the $300,000 ShadowHawk drone, purchased from Vanguard Defense Industries, will take to the skies in the coming months to provide another tool in their law-enforcement arsenal.

Outside the Anaheim Police Department today.

Don’t worry…more “good guys”.

Aerial ‘Shadowhawk’ Police Drones can now deploy tasers & tear gas.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE–ONE PERSON can make a DIFFERENCE to SO MANY!

28 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Achievement, American, Amish, Aspire, Community, Community Services, Compassion, economy, Elkhart County, Faith-base, Farm, Farming, Gardening, Hoosier, Independence, Indiana, Investment, Liberty, Mennonite, Neighbors, Philanthropic, Service, Too Busy, Volunteer

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“I would like to get more involved in my community, but I do not have time.”

“I’m just too busy with life to volunteer.”

“Life is too hectic for me to make a commitment to volunteering.

How often do we hear those words? I used to say them. Then I met Freeda Helmuth.

Monday through Friday, 93-year-old Freeda (Schwietert) Helmuth babysat for her two-year-old, 4-year-old and her 6-year-old great-grandchildren. She also gardened, kept house and made quilts. The last time I talked to Freeda she had made grape jelly and grape juice that day from her homegrown grapes. She also gave me her recipe for a cucumber and onion mix. Freeda ALWAYS had time to give.

My friend, Freeda Helmuth.

An active member of Salem Mennonite Church, Nappanee, Freeda was involved with the Nappanee Missionary Church’s Sewing Circle and attended Nappanee Care Givers. But, Freeda’s “giving” wasn’t limited to church or missionary service work.

In 1936 Freeda married Eli and by 1959, they had eight children. Then they further expanded their family by taking in foster children needing a home. Over the next 25 years Freeda and Eli took in 46 children including those with handicaps and serious illnesses.

“Several children came that were so undernourished,” Freeda told me, “one girl was hit on the head by her daddy and was blind and paralyzed because of it. She had surgery on her head and was able to see and walk again. She was soon adopted after that.

“It’s hard to give up children in foster care. They never left without tears and a prayer, knowing that God would take care of them wherever they are.

“After 25 years we quit foster care. Five years later they wanted us to start up again, but in the meantime, friends and neighbors had started bringing in their babies and I started daycare. I did not realize it would last until now, over 20 years later.

“I just thank God for my health so I can continue to have the children since it helps pass the time and the days are not so long.”

In 1981, Freeda and Eli traveled to Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and Denmark. In 1987 they took a 6 week trip to Alaska. They went up to see the pipeline. While in Fairbanks, they saw an Eskimo lady sweeping the sidewalks.

Freeda grew up in North Dakota during a time of dust storms and the depression. She was the fifth child from a family of eleven. Her nearest neighbors were a mile away. This is a picture of the farm where she lived.

She said, “Are you what we call Amish?” She told Freeda and Eli that she had read about the Amish and that there were just a few left. Freeda told her there were Amish in almost every state in the United States.

Says Freeda, “She had the Shaker people in mind. There are just a few of them left.”

In 1990, when Eli was 80 years old, he and Freeda went to Paraguay, South America for two weeks for a wedding. In 1993, Eli had flu symptoms and a pain in his side.

Eli’s first horse and buggy.

Only it wasn’t the flu. Eli had had an abdominal aneurysm. Freeda and Eli had been married 57 years when he died. Together they had bought and paid for their farm. They had traveled around the world. They had raised 8 children and fostered 46. In addition, Freeda has 20 grandchildren and 24 greatgrandchildren.

“We had a good life,” said Freeda, “It was a busy one, I’m still busy and I have no regrets. The Lord has been good to me and for that I am grateful and truly at peace.”

Freeda Helmuth, 95, died Thursday at 3:30 p.m., March 3, 2011 at IU Health Goshen Hospital. Today, I believe that Freeda is caring for children. She is also encouraging each and every one of us to do ALL that we can to help those less fortunate.

I am grateful to have met Freeda Helmuth and blessed that she shared her story and friendship with me.

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Town of New Paris SUCCEEDS without taxing

14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2nd Friday, American, Boy Scouts, Celebrations, Community, Events, Family times, Hoosier, How to "get by" WITHOUT taxing, Indiana, July, Liberty, Neighbors, Town, Volunteer

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Downtown New Paris

Did you know that New Paris is an unincorporated town with no taxes to fund expenses? It has been a voluntary system since 1922!

Fundraisers as well as individual and corporate donations keep the streetlights on. Without taxes, the town of New Paris uses “voluntarily given” funds to not only keep New Paris lights on, but also to:

• Purchase land for the New Paris Cemetery
• Continue to look to improve the business environment
• Purchase downtown banners, designed to promote local business
• Purchase/Maintain Christmas decorations
• Work with the Elkhart County Government to stripe streets and install
speed/school zone signs
• Hang Holiday banners and decorations
• Sponsor the New Paris Boy Scout Troop, which is one of the longest
standing chapter troops in Indiana
• Provides land and cabin for Boy Scout troop use
• Provide an annual scholarship to a Fairfield graduated who resides in
New Paris
• Contributes to the New Paris/Benton 4-H Boosters
• Long-standing representation on the Elkhart County 4-H Fair Board
• Organizes Annual Spring Clean Event and sponsors Memorial Day Services

New Paris Boy Scout Troop 12 saluting flag on Memorial Day. (Photo/Boy Scout Troop 12)

Cabin, donated to New Paris Boy Scout Troop by Town of New Paris. (Photo/New Paris Boy Scouts)

Highlights from last night’s 2nd Friday, New Paris Fundraising Event:

Some of the cars from the car show.

Raymond Wright, Scout Leader, with Boy Scout Troop 12 serving the Haystack dinner. The Scouts work at community events to earn money for Scouting trips and equipment.

Lots of enthusiasm for the corn hole tournament.

Big Daddy’s Blues Band was great! So much so that my husband wanted to dance. But, he’s a great dancer. If I wasn’t so really, really bad, I would have done it. The music was THAT good.

Independence Day: Do We Care?

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 4th of July, American, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Freedom, Independence Day, July, Liberty, Liberty Bell, Patriot, Principles, Tea Party, War

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As we reflect on this Independence Day we must ask. Do we care? What about the Declaration of Independence? The Constitution? Do principles matter? For Liberty!

Generations of Americans have paid the ultimate sacrifice, many dying in foreign lands while longing for a last whiff of American soil, to ensure that we and our children and our children’s children could be free. Yet we are giving up freedoms, right here at home, without even a whimper.

Liberty Bell

THE BELL

That old State House bell is silent,

hushed now its clamorous tongue;

But the spirit it awakened

Still is living-ever young;

And when we greet the smiling sunlight

On the fourth of each July

We will ne’er forget the bellman

Who, betwixt the earth and sky,

Rang out, loudly, “Independence”

Which, please God, shall never die

–Poem by Anonymous from The Family Book of Best Loved Poems

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL!

New Poll Results: Tuesday, July 03, 2012

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, Affordable Care Act, Liberty, Obama, President, Romney, Supreme Court, Survey

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Right or wrong in America

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Mitt Romney attracting 47% of the vote, while President Obama earns 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Last week, the president received an immediate bounce following the Supreme Court ruling on his health care law. On the night of the ruling, the single night poll results were by far the best recorded for Obama in many months. Over the past few days, the numbers have returned to where they’ve been for most of the past month—Romney up slightly among likely voters in a very close race. See tracking history.

On the Generic Congressional Ballot, Republicans now hold a narrow one-point advantage.

Political conservatives are following the election more closely than moderates or liberals. Fifty-one percent (51%) of conservatives are following the race daily. Among moderates, 32% are that interested. Thirty-four percent…

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02 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2nd Amendment, Affordable Care Act, Bill of Rights, Bills, Censorship, Civil Rights, Corruption, Debt, Health Care, Judiciary, Liberty, Taxes, Volunteer

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GrrrGraphics on WordPress

It has been too long since I’ve penned a cartoon, but commercial art has kept me busy and I must pay the bills. I’ve had the couch potato idea lodged in my brain for a while and it’s time it came out. I don’t want to castigate my fellow Americans too much because many are starting to wake up to the fact that a police state IS being slowly put into place. Recent developments such as the TSA and NDAA prove it. Next we will face armed spy drones.

Ten years ago few Americans knew what the Federal Reserve was or what they did. The Fed wanted to keep it that way. Today many know it’s a ruse by elite private bankers to enslave us with their debt money while enriching and empowering themselves. They and the globalists have hijacked our country. A few years ago you’d get laughed at…

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‘Google Shopping’ Censors All Gun, Ammo & Weapon Accessories

02 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2nd Amendment, ammunition, Bill of Rights, Censorship, Google, Guns, Internet, Liberty, weapons

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The Firearm Blog

Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).

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01 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Affordable Care Act, Constitution, Corruption, Health Care, John Roberts, Judiciary, Liberty, Obama, Obamacare, Politics, Taxes

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The Rio Norte Line

I’m no lawyer, but I don’t need to be to tell you what is coming in the near future.  Predicting the events of the near future is easy: all you have to do is read history to see and understand what is happening now.  That will also tell you what is about to happen next.  The truly hard part is accepting the reality that America is dead and the world is entering the early stages of a long, dark, evil period in the history of man – a period there is little chance mankind will ever escape unless we stand and fight now.

The Supreme Court ruled that the mandate is unconstitutional because it exceeds the scope of the Commerce Clause.  The Court then upheld the whole law by saying the mandate is actually a tax and that the Constitution does grant the power to tax a non-action.  So let’s…

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