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      <title>Citizens forced to violence</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Citizen&#039;s Forced to resort to Violence&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Citizen&#039;s are being forced to fight back with violence against City Councils,Township and county Boards that are robbing them of Constitutional Rights. As record numbers of unconstitutional ordinances are being passed and Courts turning deft ears, citizen&#039;s are turning more and more to violence as their last &lt;br /&gt;resort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;One example is the Kirkwood, Missouri shooting spree at a City Council meeting that left five people dead and the &lt;br /&gt;mayor fighting for his life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before he was shot to death by police, Thornton, 52, killed two policemen, &lt;br /&gt;Tom Ballman and William Biggs; council members Michael H.T. Lynch and Connie Karr; and Director of Public Works Kenneth Yost. Mayor Mike Swoboda was hospitalized in critical condition with gunshot wounds, and a newspaper reporter &lt;br /&gt;covering the meeting, Todd Smith of Suburban Journals, was in satisfactory condition. Charles Lee &quot;Cookie&quot; Thornton had a long history of fighting with city officials over a litany of code violations, fines and citations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sadly we can only look into our future and see more frequent and violent acts &lt;br /&gt;to occur as citizens start to fight back in the only method left to them in a society where the Courts and System is driven by greed and a power hungry government willing to squash any constitutional right for their own gain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:18:59 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>What&amp;#039;s wrong with this picture</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Federal Government wants to give tax rebates, lower taxes and many other tax &lt;br /&gt;abatements to avert the recession that we are in. What is Jennifer Granholm&#039;s &lt;br /&gt;and the State of Michigan&#039;s stand?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Higher taxes on everything from gas,cigarettes,diesel fuel and anything &lt;br /&gt;  else they can think of.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Michigan Business Tax&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;New excessive penalty fees on everything&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Higher fees for licenses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;More restrictions on Business Licenses and Businesses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Every kind of new tax they can think of&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Increase State Government size&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Disregarding Constitution and Bill of rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Local Governments stand is just as bad&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Higher and new building permit fees&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;More and new Restrictions on Citizen&#039;s and businesses rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Higher property taxes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Creating restrictive ordinances in record amounts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Totally disregarding Constitution and Bill of Rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Courts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Excessive fines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Not upholding Constitution or Bill of Rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Excessive penalties&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Rubber stamping anything brought before them concerning government &lt;br /&gt;  restrictions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Added second penalty for infractions {pay for jail}&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Turned Court system into a money generator instead of a Justice System&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:08:05 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Passing Gas</title>
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      <description>Sitting here listening to Hillary Clinton&#039;s campaign promises I hear the same empty rhetoric thats heard every campaign year, what I am going to do for you and what I have done. As usual it&#039;s say whatever the people want to hear to get elected and then do a complete reversal as usual. Sounds like the same old passing of gas from the other end that we&#039;ve always heard and gotten used to! Wise up people and push the real issues of the Constitution and Bill of rights not the bullshit that being fed to you by empty headed politicians.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:19:34 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Granholms Destruction of Business</title>
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      <description>Effective immediately, any business that generates over $350,000 in business activity, will have to calculate its Michigan Business Tax liability and then add 22% to that bill. Over 60,000 businesses in this state will see their tax bill, the MBT, go up by 22%. Large corporations will get a break because the maximum liability on the surcharge will be capped at $6 million.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Mafia Wiped Out ?</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;After the big hoopla about the Federal and State Government wiping out the &lt;br /&gt;mafia one has to wonder whether it was wiped out or did it just undergo a &lt;br /&gt;leadership or a so called Don&#039;s role change? The following is just a few of the &lt;br /&gt;examples that maybe it was just a name change from the old mafia to Government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 19:54:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Fixed-Income, Elderly and Poor - Target of Mi. Democrats</title>
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      <description>&lt;b&gt;Michigan House Democrats: Offering to Steal From States Families&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently a two-percent tax on services was declared dead by the legislature, but the ransacking of the poor, elderly, and other fixed-income residents pocket-books didnt stop there. Michigan Democratic Speaker Andy Dillon couldnt get a tax-hike past the voters so he has turned his attention towards convincing Michigans energy suppliers to consent without a fight to a tax increase that can be directly passed onto customers as an additional fee to help make up for Michigans overspending. It&#039;s fairly common-sense that nearly every Michigan resident utilizes electricity, except for the ones that have already been disconnected for not being able to keep up on growing energy costs. &lt;br /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Is United States Bankrupt ?</title>
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      <description>In an important article, Laurence J. Kotlikoff asks the question, &quot;Is the United States Bankrupt?&quot; and answers, for all practical purposes, Yes. His suggested solutions, replacing the existing tax system with a national retail sales tax, replacing the existing Social Security retirement system with a personal security system, and replacing Medicare and Medicaid with a universal health-insurance system, all propose centralized micro-managed solutions for problems that a centralized and micro-managed economic system caused in the first place. &lt;br&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:54:10 -0500</pubDate>
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