Videos:Your Government & You

Congressmen! After one term a congressman will earn $15,000 a month as retirement pay and not have to put money into social security. *Call To Duty One term! A Sergeant First Class in the army serving 20 years and possibly risking his life earns $1,800 a month as retirement pay minus the money being put into social security. You know what people on social security get a month? A thousand bucks! Most Congressmen are lawyers, and many others are businessmen. # They carelessly pass mammoth bills that none of them have read. Sometimes printed copies aren't even available when they vote! # Often no one knows what these bills contain, or what they really do, or what they will really cost. # Additions and deletions are made at the last minute, in secrecy. # They combine unpopular proposals with popular measures that few in Congress want to oppose. (This practice is called “log-rolling.”) # And votes are held with little debate or public notice. reference ... *Downsize DC Police State Patriot Act "the worst part of this so-called antiterrorism bill is the increased ability of the federal government to commit surveillance on all of us without proper search warrants." Before the USA PATRIOT Act, the government had to obtain a warrant and give notice to the person whose property was to be searched. With one vote by Congress and the sweep of the president's pen, say critics, the right of every American fully to be protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures was abrogated. The Fourth Amendment states: "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." references ... *Cost of Freedom Videos *Police State *Constitutional Issues *Your Congress Stumble It!

Videos:Your Government & You

Congressmen! After one term a congressman will earn $15,000 a month as retirement pay and not have to put money into social security. *Call To Duty One term! A Sergeant First Class in the army serving 20 years and possibly risking his life earns $1,800 a month as retirement pay minus the money being put into social security. You know what people on social security get a month? A thousand bucks! Most Congressmen are lawyers, and many others are businessmen. # They carelessly pass mammoth bills that none of them have read. Sometimes printed copies aren't even available when they vote! # Often no one knows what these bills contain, or what they really do, or what they will really cost. # Additions and deletions are made at the last minute, in secrecy. # They combine unpopular proposals with popular measures that few in Congress want to oppose. (This practice is called “log-rolling.”) # And votes are held with little debate or public notice. reference ... *Downsize DC Police State Patriot Act "the worst part of this so-called antiterrorism bill is the increased ability of the federal government to commit surveillance on all of us without proper search warrants." Before the USA PATRIOT Act, the government had to obtain a warrant and give notice to the person whose property was to be searched. With one vote by Congress and the sweep of the president's pen, say critics, the right of every American fully to be protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures was abrogated. The Fourth Amendment states: "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." references ... *Cost of Freedom Videos *Police State *Constitutional Issues *Your Congress