HR347: Another outrageous freedom-killing bill has just become law and the punishments for transgressing are severe

From Eric Peters:

Now we can’t lawfully speak or peaceably assemble. Not within earshot or sight of those who rule us, at any rate.

HR347 – the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act is now “the law.”

It codifies the federal government’s practice – ever since the days of The Chimp – to shunt protestors into what Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly calls No Speech Zones and more, expands on it – criminalizing [...]

Timothy Geithner’s father-in-law ‘brags in restaurant about Treasury Secretary leaving his job’… and that his daughter ‘hates entertaining Republicans’

Food critic Albert Sonnenfeld was overheard discussing his son-in-law’s career at a communal table in trendy New York eatery Bar Boulud
Revealed daughter Carole couldn’t wait to leave Washington, adding: ‘Can you imagine entertaining John Boehner and his wife, with his fake tan?’
Geithner’s spokesman said: ‘Interesting theory about Dartmouth, but to paraphrase Kissinger – it has the disadvantage of being made up’ 

It comes as little surprise that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may [...]

“There Is No Chinese Wall. Please. Come On. This Is Wall Street”

Remember the look on one’s face when one hears there is no Santa Claus, or tooth fairy? That, more or less, is what the visage on everyone’s favorite CNBC anchors Becky Quick, Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin was, when Chris Whalen matter of fact (because it is a fact) let a rare glimpse of reality on the NBC Universal distraction and entertainment show, when he said “There is no [...]

Old West Re-enactor Gets Jail Time for Firing Live Rounds into Crowd of Tourists

The Old West re-enactor who fired four bullets into a crowd of tourists in downtown Hill City in June 2011 was sentenced Monday to 7-1/2 years in federal prison.

Paul F. Doering had earlier signed a plea agreement where he admitted that he concealed evidence after a June 17 Old West re-enactment of a gun fight on a Hill City side street in which three out-of-state visitors were injured, two seriously.

Federal [...]

HUFFPOST: The members of Occupy Wall Street are not allowed to use megaphones, so they’ve adopted a low-tech workaround.

NEW YORK — The members of Occupy Wall Street are not allowed to use megaphones, so they’ve adopted a low-tech workaround.

At their twice-daily general meetings in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s financial district, whoever has an announcement to make speaks slowly and clearly, with a pause every few seconds, so that everyone within earshot of the speaker can repeat back what he or she just [...]

Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests

Video by Jeanne Mansfield

My boyfriend Frank and I are heading toward Liberty Square to check out what’s going on at the Occupy Wall Street protest, when we stumble upon the afternoon march toward Union Square. So we join up and walk along behind. The crowd looks like maybe 300 people, mostly punk-styled kids and folks carrying their computers (for live streaming, we found out later) [...]