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Hollande Orders French Borders Closed; Paris Under Mandatory Curfew

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“French President Francois Hollande said a state of emergency would be declared across France and national borders shut following a spate of attacks in Paris on Friday evening in which he said dozens were killed and several wounded.   Shortly after the speech, Hollande’s office announced that he was canceling his participation at the G20 meeting in Turkey this weekend.  A mandatory curfew was instituted in Paris, the first since 1944, according to the Associated Press.  Shortly after midnight Paris time, a French government official said the country’s state of emergency had gone into effect.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hollande-attacks-borders-curfew_56467d29e4b045bf3def3699

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As Passport Wars Heat Up, Time to Consider Countermeasures

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“Britain is not alone in using the passport system as a method of attacking those who for one reason or another are deemed ‘enemies of the state’ – or potential enemies. The US is doing its best as well.  One English-speaking country that already routinely confiscates or suspends passport Is Australia. It is hard to remember that this modern quasi-comprehensive passport system is basically less than 100 years old. In the 1800s, it was often considered unusual and sometimes even insulting to have to identify oneself with officially issued documents when traveling privately. All that changed before World War II with the introduction of Interpol and the passport system.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36619/Anthony-Wile-As-Passport-Wars-Heat-Up-Time-to-Consider-Countermeasures/

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Jeffrey Tucker, Captured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story

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“He stared at me and said: put your hands behind your back. I was cuffed and led to the car.  My car would be towed to a wrecker lot, he explained. If I get out on bail, I could pay to get it back. Would the lot still be open by then? I asked. The policeman had no answer, no concern. And this is generally what you come to realize. Once arrested, you are a captured animal. Nothing else matters. You are no longer a consumer, a citizen, a person with a job, a normal human being. You are now just fodder, a thing they can use as they see fit.  The notion that you have any rights at all once you are arrested is a joke. What happens to you is entirely the decision of your captors.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/captured-cuffed-and-jailed-a-personal-story/

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After leaf blower scare, security checks now on the bill for movie theaters

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“As many as three men sparked a stampede at the theater by brandishing a leaf blower that some mistook for a chainsaw.  In response, some movie chains in Orange County are beefing up security. Bags are being searched, pre-movie safety messages are aired and, in at least one theater in Southern California, metal detectors are deployed.  Security is an issue for at least some movie fans. A recent survey of moviegoers by the research firm C4 for Variety found about one-third wanted theater lobbies to have both an armed guard and metal detectors. Nearly a third also wanted bags searched.  Law enforcement in Orange County said Monday they are keeping an eye on movie theaters.”

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/theater-676964-movie-people.html

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Puerto Rico’s crisis illustrates the risks of minimum wage hikes

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“Only 40 percent of the adult population on the island is employed or looking for a job — versus a U.S. labor force participation rate of 63 percent.  Of course, many Puerto Ricans work for less than the minimum — in the black-market economy, which is untaxed. In other words, the minimum wage also helps explain Puerto Rico’s lack of revenue with which to service its debt.  Also killing the demand for, and supply of, labor are the island’s onerous overtime, paid-vacation and job-security regulations.  And even at the minimum wage, full-time work in Puerto Rico pays less than the combined package of welfare, Medicaid and food stamp benefits for which a family of three might qualify.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/puerto-ricos-lesson-for-the-mainland/2015/07/08/24e63970-25ad-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html

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US War on Your Passport Continues

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“Buried inside the US highways funding bill is a provision to revoke or deny issuance of a US passport to anyone who has a large outstanding tax debt to the US Internal Revenue Service.  As can be seen from the summary, this measure threatening to imprison Americans within (or outside) US borders is simply viewed as a means by which to raise revenue. The hoped-for increase in revenue coming from this threat is considered an ‘offset’ to the money being spent on the highway bill — in other words the threat to imprison US citizens within their own country or freeze them out is considered appropriate incentive to force them to pay what the government claims it is owed.”

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/congress-alert/2015/july/23/us-war-on-your-passport-continues/

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Ron Paul: Do We Need to Bring Back Internment Camps?

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“Last week, Retired General Wesley Clark, who was NATO commander during the US bombing of Serbia, proposed that ‘disloyal Americans’ be sent to internment camps for the ‘duration of the conflict.’ Discussing the recent military base shootings in Chattanooga, TN, in which five US service members were killed, Clark recalled the internment of American citizens during World War II who were merely suspected of having Nazi sympathies. He said: ‘back then we didn’t say ‘that was freedom of speech,’ we put him in a camp.’  He called for the government to identify people most likely to be radicalized so we can ‘cut this off at the beginning.’ That sounds like ‘pre-crime’!”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36439/Ron-Paul-Do-We-Need-to-Bring-Back-Internment-Camps/

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U.S. General Spits on Constitution

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“General Clark doesn’t otherwise fit in the right wing, law-and-order camp. He made a brief presidential bid in 2004 on the Democratic side and was very critical of the Bush administration’s anti-terror tactics and Middle East interventions. Yet now he wants to round up and imprison radical Muslims. This demonstrates that politicians across the spectrum threaten civil liberties. They differ only on the details. Second, he floated his argument on the supposedly ‘progressive’ MSNBC network. The interviewer didn’t question the idea, either. Truly professional journalists are usually quick to notice threats to freedom of speech – or at least in the past. Not this time.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36437/US-General-Spits-on-Constitution/

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Can We Protect Ourselves from the Police State?

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“With the rise of the police state, the stakes are finally dawning on people. If you don’t comply, or even give the impression that you are anything less than a supplicant, you can be shot dead, right in your own community, or home, with weapons provided by the federal government and funded by you and me.  It will only make the news if a community uproar follows. Otherwise, you are another statistic.  Even under the best conditions, there will be no justice. Those in power will wait it out and eventually get back to building their unquestioned power backed by their increasingly deadly arsenal.  Yes, this is what’s it’s come to. It’s the revelation that could change everything.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/join-us-in-the-free-world/

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Realism versus Nonintervention

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“In both British and U.S. experience we can see much institutional feedback from overseas empire: transfer of policing models and bureaucratic management techniques, and their cumulative effects on domestic civil liberties. Meanwhile, for domestic reasons, Americans long since encumbered themselves with standing armies of police, which are rapidly adopting military and imperial mentalities and practices directly from U.S. overseas adventures.  Realists and neo-Realists would have us believe that it is actually impossible for a great power to renounce empire. There are indeed few precedents. Most imperial powers learn the hard way.”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/realism-versus-nonintervention/

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