Crimes against The People: Gov't officials breach Bill of Rights 4 et al

1776 Declaration

Declaration of Independence 

July 4, 1776 -July 4, 2013

Constitution of the United States of America 1787

Bill of Rights 1789

Excerpt by Carolyn Bennett

Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense (this does not mean wage domestic or foreign wars), promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  

Government Officials
Breach
what they swear to uphold:
The Constitution of the
United States of America

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution were proposed by the Congress on September 25, 1789. They were ratified by the following states, and the notifications of the ratification by the governors thereof were successively communicated by the President to the Congress: New Jersey, Nov. 20, 1789; Maryland, Dec. 19, 1789; North Carolina, Dec. 22, 1789; South Carolina, Jan. 19, 1790; New Hampshire, Jan. 25, 1790; Delaware, Jan. 28, 1790; New York, Feb. 4, 1790; Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790; Rhode Island, June 7, 1790; Vermont, Nov. 3, 1791; and Virginia, Dec. 15, 1791. Ratification was completed on Dec. 15, 1791.

The amendments were subsequently ratified by Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and Connecticut, April 19, 1939.

Fourth Amendment

Amendment [IV] The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Wikipedia note: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA): “By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, although there have been incidents involving domestic collection, including the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy.

“The National Security Agency is divided into two major missions: the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), which produces foreign signals intelligence information, and the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which protects U.S. information systems.…
 “The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography.”

Protest

Directed by at least a lieutenant general or Vice Admiral, “the NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. The Central Security Service is a co-located agency created to coordinate intelligence activities and cooperation between NSA and other U.S. military cryptanalysis agencies. The Director of the National Security Agency serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and Chief of the Central Security Service.” 

Remember this Declaration 1776

Continental Congress
1776

“…Prudence  … dictate(s) that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that [human beings] are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism

[I]t is their right

[I]it is their duty

[T]o throw off such government, and

[T]o provide new guards for their future security.… 

  

MOVEMENT: “Restore the Fourth”

Restore the Fourth Nonviolent protests are being planned for major U.S. cities to coincide with commemoration of the national day of independence.

Restore the Fourth is a grassroots, non-partisan movement established in the belief that “the government of the United States must respect the right to privacy of all its citizens as the Fourth Amendment clearly states. 

Restore the Fourth seeks to bring awareness to the abuses against U.S. civil liberties and the erosion of the cornerstone of democracy. 

 Inalienable rights of the people protected by (guaranteed under provisions of) the Constitution of the United States of America have been secretly violated by the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA). 

 Restore the Fourth was created to demonstrate to U.S. leaders the permanence of the rights of American citizens and the importance of transparency in addressing its constituency. 

Restore the Fourth aims to prove that when these rights are idly ignored, the parties responsible will be held accountable for their actions.

Independence Day in the United States of America is the annual celebration of nationhood. 

It commemorates passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

Sources and notes

Constitution of the United States (IV Amendment, Preamble, notes) at Britannica

NSA notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

Restore the Fourth sites, http://www.restorethefourth.net/about-us/

http://www.restorethefourth.net/

Independence Day USA (1776-2013)

Restore the Fourth rallies, large nonviolent protests are being planned in major cities throughout the United States to coincide with the national holiday day commemorating independence.

Demonstrations will send a singular message: “the government of the United States of America must adhere to its constitutionally-dictated limits of power and respect the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.”

Plans and outreach are developing through reddit and Facebook. Cleveland, Ohio’s July 4 rally is planned for Edgewater Park.

“Current needs include all manner of supplies (sign materials, flags, pamphlets, flyers, buttons, stickers, coffee, etc.), speakers, media outreach people, social media coordinators, pamphleteers and more.”

“Restore the Fourth Rally Being Planned in Cleveland,” Posted by Eric Sandy on Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM, http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/06/11/restore-the-fourth-rally-being-planned-in-cleveland

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How did I miss — Lynne Stewart’s birthday reflections

 “I believe I am one of an historical progression that maintains the struggle to change the perverted political landscape that is the U.S. It seems that being a political prisoner must be used as a means of focusing people’s attention on the continuing atrocities around them. Nothing seems to be too shocking or corrupt to blast the complacency. Like my client Richard Williams used to say, I might think I hadn’t been doing my utmost if they didn’t believe I was dangerous enough to be locked up!” Lynne Stewart, September 5, 2011

Excerpts, minor edit by Carolyn Bennett  

Among the bravest and truest among us, rights attorney Lynne Stewart wrote this from prison as she approached her 72nd year.

“…In order that my Prison Readers shouldn’t think that I have mellowed, I must say that if Amy [Goodman of Democracy Now] is to be trusted, the Wall Street occupation looks like it has some legs — whether those legs are reformist or radical, we will see.”

A month earlier Lynne Stewart reflected on universal rights and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, abuse of power and human rights advocacy.

Bill of Rights U.S.

“… The Bill delineates the ways that Government may not encroach on our ability to operate freely. It is a prohibition on the Government limiting free speech, religion, the right to bear arms, and the right to free assembly. It delineates the rights within the legal system.

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees fundamental human entitlements—freedom from hunger, freedom from fear, freedom to choose, freedom to live in an environment that doesn’t kill us, and our children.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

“We obviously fight for more than the political guarantee to be free of government interference—it is to be able to live an open and generous and contributing life toward the betterment of people on the entire planet.

“…Advocating for human rights must always delineate that our struggle is not one of ‘self interest.’ It is a fight for all of us.

“This raises the always-troubling question of the recognition that for some this may mean sacrificing their entitlements (i.e. skin privilege, class privilege) to better others’ lives. Nobody wants to give up what they feel that they have achieved legitimately, ‘within the system.’

“But without the recognition that one has benefited unfairly by the unwritten ‘code’ that has favored certain groups over others, change cannot occur.”

Lynne Stewart continues her birthday message considering resistance movements.

“I don’t think we can look forward to parading out the Banksters and Goldman Sachs to face ‘Peoples Justice’ just yet but there seems to be a spark and that gladdens my Heart.

“I will be 72 on the 8th — the day of the Heroic Guerilla, the day they killed Che — [and]  I still hold strongly to my beliefs, my love of the people and that there will be redemption from the nightmare with which we are all struggling.  

“I wish you all a Happy Birthday. Struggle ON!” 

Love Lynne

Notes

Write Lynne!

LYNNE STEWART
53504-054
FMC CARSWELL
FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. BOX 27137
FORT WORTH, TX 76127

Contact Information: at 1lawyerleft at gmail.com

http://lynnestewart.org/

Human Rights Coalition Interview with Lynne Stewart

September 5, 2011, Interview with Lynne Stewart by Patricia Vickers, Human Rights Coalition

http://lynnestewart.org/2011/09/05/human-rights-coalition-interview-with-lynne-stewart/#more-289

Further excerpt: Lynne Stewart

“There are two aspects to my ‘situation’ …

Lynne Stewart

“First, I was prosecuted for doing what I believe is the duty and work of an attorney—to represent the client zealously and conscientiously. In the case of the original trial (1995) of the blind Sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, of Egypt, we wanted to keep his name alive so that we could eventually try to negotiate a return for him even if it meant jail in Egypt. In that spirit I made a press release public, and to Reuters, expressing his point of view on a unilateral cease fire then in effect in Egypt. I believed that this was part of salvaging him from the torture of his solitary confinement and also that it was part of the work I had sworn to do. I was tried and found guilty for materially aiding ‘terrorism.’

“After I received a sentence of two-and-one-half-years, as opposed to the 30 years the government wanted, on appeal, the Second Circuit Court sent the case back for the Judge to give me more time. Without much ado, he sentenced me then to ten years, partially based upon statements I made after the sentencing and before I surrendered in November 2009. That sentencing is currently on appeal and will be argued in the fall in New York City.”

http://hrcoalition.com/

Lynne Irene Stewart b. October 8, 1939 now in prison is an attorney who represented poor and often unpopular defendants.

In 2005, a U.S. court convicted Lynne Stewart on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to ‘terrorists’ and sentenced her to 28 months in prison.  The felony conviction of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an organization designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Secretary of State meant government revocation of Stewart’s license to practice law. 

On July 15, 2010, the court re-sentenced Lynne Stewart to 10 years in prison; current location FMC Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas. Edited from Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Stewart_Trial

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