Restrictions On International Travel Without Due Process

June 5, 2012 By 1 Comment

passport SC 238x300 Restrictions on International Travel without Due Process

A few weeks ago the United States Senate passed a piece of legislation called the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act”, it is essentially a transportation bill focused on roads and bridges. Title III of the act is a revenue provision concerning gas guzzling, cars leaking underground storage tanks, import duties and a number of other fees, taxes and other revenue enhancements.

Section 40304 is a rather bizarre provision that certainly doesn’t seem to fit in a transportation bill and is buried so deep that few senators have probably even read that far into the bill which is 1676 pages. Section 40304 is titled “Revocation or denial of passport in case at certain tax delinquencies”. The provision specifically amends the 1926 Passport Act to permit the IRS to simply ‘Certify” to the Secretary of State that an individual “has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000.00. The law does not require that any hearing be held or require administrative due process of any kind. In fact the IRS must only give what is called a “Notice of levy” to the tax payer. This is nothing more than the IRS’ own determination that the taxpayer owes $50,000.00 and while $50,000.00 sounds like a lot of money, it can easily be the case that much smaller amounts with penalties and interest can cross the $50,000.00 threshold.

While most folks would consider this a heavy handed tool that denies taxpayers due diligence, it brings up an even more basic question: Do you have the “right” to travel? Most people would assume the answer to this question is “yes”, but actually no such right can be found in the Constitution. While the Founding Fathers may have deemed the right to travel so basic and fundamental that they didn’t feel the need to have a separate clause defining the right, The Government beginning with the Passport Act of 1926 considers travel a “privilege” not a right.

If you want a real eye opener on this topic, pull out your own passport (authorized by the Passport Act of 1926) and turn to the fine print at the back. Remember you can’t travel outside the US without a passport nor can you legally enter the US without a passport.

So, what is in the Passport fine print? Under the section titled “Important Things to remember about your Passport “It states in number two the following:

Read More at hemispherespublishing.com.  By Joel Nagel.

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House Passes CISPA, Threatens The Internet

April 27, 2012 By 1 Comment

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The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act.

Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet to help prevent electronic attacks from cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists.

The vote Thursday was 248-168, with 42 Democrats joining 206 Republicans in backing the measure.

Congressional leaders are determined to get a cybersecurity bill completed this election year but that may be difficult. The Obama administration and several leading Senate Democrats and Republicans want a bill that would give the Homeland Security Department the primary role in overseeing domestic cybersecurity and the authority to set security standards. The House bill would impose no new regulations on businesses, an imperative for Republicans.

In the coming weeks, the Senate will try to proceed on its bill by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, who have said the House bill is inadequate in protecting against cyberattacks. Senior Senate Republicans, such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona, argue that Homeland Security is ill-equipped to determine how best to secure the nation’s essential infrastructure and has introduced his own bill.

Read More at OfficialWire. By Donna Cassata, AP.

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Will The Senate Nullify Union Rules?

April 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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Senate Republicans are trying an unusual tactic to nullify new labor regulations that would speed up the time frame for unions to hold workplace elections.

The Senate will vote Tuesday on a rarely invoked measure, known as a resolution of disapproval, to overturn rules approved last year by the National Labor Relations Board.

Though the measure has little chance of passage — it also faces a White House veto threat — the vote forces Democrats in tough elections to take a stand on rules that have won praise from unions and sharp rebukes from business groups.

The rules simplify procedures and reduce legal delays that can hold up union elections after employees at a work site gather enough signatures to hold a unionization vote. They are set to take effect on April 30.

Unions call the changes a modest fix that would limit corporate stalling tactics, where litigation can delay elections while workers are can be subject to harassment, threats and even illegal firing.

Read More at OfficialWire. By Sam Hananel, AP.

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Democrats On Track To Lose Senate Because Of Obama

April 2, 2012 By 14 Comments

Harry Reid 4 SC Democrats On Track To Lose Senate Because Of Obama

He’s short on popular support, ideas, and money and now Democrats across America are stuck with him at the top of their ticket. Everywhere we hear people, especially Democrats, sheepishly admit they made a mistake when they voted for Barack Obama. Yet we never seem to hear anyone say, “I voted Republican last time but if I had to do it again I’d vote for Obama.”

To produce a survey showing Obama at even a 50% approval rating, liberal pollsters have had to resort to double counting Democrats.

Nevertheless there is still more bad news for Barack Obama, which has so far been largely ignored: Because of him his Party is on track to lose control of the Senate.

Only very popular Presidents like Ronald Reagan could survive the kind of thrashing Senate Democrats are on their way to getting, and Obama is no Ronald Reagan.

By his latest surveys Rasmussen has Republicans headed toward taking current Democrat Senate seats in Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. With those victories, they will have 54 Senate seats, but the victories might not stop there. The races in Virginia New Mexico and Michigan could easily go GOP when the Democrat blood stops flowing on Election Night.

While the Democrats have a chance of taking the retiring Olympia Snowe’s seat in Maine, with Scott Brown’s current lead in Massachusetts, Maine might be the Democrats only Senate upset victory this cycle.

The Republican presidential primary surveys and liberal push polls are dominating the news so it is easier for the media to keep up their “whistling past the graveyard” management of the news. They can avoid talking about the Senate races, but that won’t change the truth.

In the absence of a sudden turn around it’s very possible that given the big leads Republicans have in Florida, Missouri and Wisconsin GOP efforts can be redirected to strengthen and produce leads in other states as well.

When the hopes of neither victory at the Presidential level nor Senate level fade, already low Democrat rank and file enthusiasm to actually go out and vote is likely to fade. This will endanger down ballot Democrats chances of victory in a trickle down of failure. Clearly it’s – so far so good.

To contact your Congressional Representative use this link: http://www.contactingthecongress.org

To read more about this story use this link:

http://www.dickmorris.com/senate-democrats-in-mortal-danger

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Obama Says “You Can Trust” Senate Candidate with Ties to an Iraqi Arms Dealer, Tony Rezko, and Assorted Mob Figures

August 11, 2010 By 25 Comments

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There is more bad news for Barack Obama’s endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias: the failed bank where he worked as an executive loaned millions of dollars to an Iraqi arms dealer and convicted felon Tony Rezko. Broadway Bank, which Giannoulias’ family started, approved a $22.75 million loan to Riverside District Development LLC. The principals of that noble-sounding institution are Tony Rezko – who famously sold the president a plot of land adjacent to the Obamas’ Chicago home – and Nahdmi Auchi. In December 1980, Auchi, a native Iraqi, brokered an arms deal between the Italian government and Saddam Hussein that netted the Iraqi Navy four frigates.

Just last week, Barack Obama personally held a fundraiser for Giannoulias, vouching for the young man’s integrity:

Alexi is my friend. I know his character. I know how much he loves this country. I know how committed he is to public service for all the right reasons…

You can trust him. You can count on him.

Obama has heavily invested in electing Giannoulias to the Senate seat that he vacated, which is at the heart of the Rod Blogojevich scandal. Joe Biden, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, David Axelrod, and Desiree Rogers have all stumped for Alexi (and, of course, Obama is a frenetic fundraiser). 

His reassurances of Giannoulias’ goodwill ring hollow upon examining the record. In the 1990s, Auchi was a shareholder in what became the BNP Paribas bank. Saddam Hussein used that bank to funnel money from the Oil-for-Food scam.

Auchi’s wife, Ibtisam, served as a director of the Panamanian-based Fintrade Services, which ”lent money to (an) Obama fundraiser in May 2005.” A French court convicted Nahdmi of “the biggest fraud inquiry since the Second World War” in 2003, and he has been barred from entering the United States.

…But not from Broadway Bank. A campaign aide claims Alexi was on a leave of absence when the loan was approved in March 2006. However, the same month he told the press, "I’m senior loan officer and vice president, so I oversee a $600 million loan department." The aide now claims he misspoke.

What no one disputes is that Alexi gave thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Obama, and as a bank executive, loaned $27 million to mobsters Michael “Jaws” Giorango and Demitri Stavropoulos. The government shut down Broadway Bank in April, which will cost taxpayers $390 million.

Giannoulias dismisses his Auchi ties as "a Washington, D.C., guilt by association game" – charging Republican Mark Kirk of associating Giannoulias with his own bank.

Apparently, the difference between Barack Obama and Alexi Giannnoulias is that Obama only pals around with American terrorists.

Watch Obama’s warm endorsement speech:

 

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