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May 2016

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Liberty Guard Opposes Funding for the REAL ID ACT

by lgadmin May 18, 2016
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Liberty Guard Opposes Funding for the REAL ID ACT

 

5/17/2016

(Atlanta, GA) – Liberty Guard today announced its opposition to funding for the Real ID Act. .

The REAL ID Act gives broad latitude to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the power to add to the list of “official purposes” for which a compliant ID is required, “all authority to issue regulations, set standards, and issue grants” toward compliance, and the power to determine whether a state is in compliance with the Act.

Liberty Guard has joined more than one dozen organizations opposing California’s funding of this ill-conceived federal mandate.

Bob Barr, Chairman of Liberty Guard, commented, “The Read ID Act represents a massive federal overreach, that raises serious problems for individual privacy and principles of federalism.” The program, Barr also noted, “should, not be forced onto states, and I am proud to join with other organizations that support privacy and liberty, and oppose funding for Real ID implementation.”

About Liberty Guard:

Formed in 2009 by Bob Barr, and supported by over 150,000 Americans across the country, Liberty Guard is dedicated to restoring and strengthening liberty against intrusions by government at all levels; including taking action against TSA privacy intrusions and ObamaCare. Liberty Guard remains committed to identifying and supporting policy, candidates, and causes which champion liberty and return our country to constitutional principles.

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May 18, 2016 0 comment
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Obama’s American Vision — ‘A Shining Stall in the Restroom’

by lgadmin May 17, 2016
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A long, long time ago, American presidents set lofty goals for our nation; a country they considered without question to be the most exceptional in the world. Presidents envisioned a young and daring nation expanding westward to uncharted territory; others led efforts to fight real wars and vanquish some of history’s most feared tyrants; and some sent Americans outside the reaches of the sky and onto the surface of the moon.

These milestones in our national history, as well as the once-manifest sense of American exceptionalism, inspired President Ronald Reagan to urge mankind to strive for that “shining city on a hill,” which people around the world and through the years saw as a model for human freedom and achievement. America’s sights were high.

How low our national gaze has fallen. Today, we have a President whose vision for 21st Century America extends no further than a “shining stall in the restroom.”

Rather than build and inspire a nation in the ways that presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Reagan did — reminding citizens of how much we have accomplished, and how much we still can achieve — President Barack Obama has spent his time in office shaming Americans about their past sins and present shortcomings. Now, in the twilight of his eight-year term in office, he has turned his gaze inward with a vengeance.

No longer is Uncle Sam focused on challenges that will inspire new breakthroughs in science, agriculture or educational achievement. He now is transfixed on . . . transgendered bathrooms.

The issue of transgender bathrooms is already embarrassingly questionable as a responsibility for even state and local governments; essentially a solution in search of a problem. And the federal government’s entry into the debate is perhaps the silliest cause célèbre Uncle Sam has ever taken on.

How many “transgendered” people are there impacted by laws such as North Carolina’s HB2; or, even more statistically negligible, incidents in which the bathroom choice of such individuals has required interdiction by the state? And where, in even the most expansive reading of the U.S. Constitution, might one uncover authority for the federal Departments of Justice or Education to demand of a local elementary school, a private business or a county government, that it open restroom stalls to whoever “senses” their gender dictates where they should relieve themselves?

Yet, we now have a President, an Attorney General, and an army of bureaucrats, who have decided they have nothing better to do than set a goal of mandating who can use a particular restroom on any particular day anywhere in America.

America’s Left should be (but is not) outraged that “social justice” buffoons, of which Obama seems to be obsessively focused on pleasing, have again hijacked the Democratic agenda; this time to do nothing more profound than change bathroom signs. However one might read what some liberals are saying about this move by the Obama Administration, you would be forced to conclude that the most important factor in determining whether a “transgendered” student succeeds in life is being able to relieve himself or herself in a particular restroom.

The inordinate attention paid to this particular issue, illustrates perfectly why we are failing to accomplish anything of significance at home or abroad. Our goals as a nation have fallen so low and become so shortsighted, we have settled for leaders with literally no vision beyond the lowest level of human action.

The absurdity of the position the Administration is taking by wading into the “transgendered bathroom” debate has caused it to tie itself in rhetorical knots. For example, as reported in the May 13th Charlotte Observer, the Justice Department “contends that sexual orientation is not a personal decision, but is based on an array of factors affecting an individual’s sense of gender.” What utter, nonsensical gobbledygook. Moreover, the inherent contradiction in this statement – claiming at once that sexual orientation is not a “personal decision” but yet depends on “one’s sense of gender” – obviously is too complex even for America’s top lawyer, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to recognize.

In essence, what Obama, Lynch, and other high-ranking but low-thinking officials directing federal policy are asserting, is that federal law and our once-esteemed Constitution, now stand for the proposition that each individual can decide — based on nothing more than their “sense of gender” on any particular day — whether to use the men’s or the women’s restroom, secure in the knowledge that the full weight of the government of the United States of America will back them up.

May 17, 2016 0 comment
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Due Process 101 As Taught by Uncle Sam

by lgadmin May 4, 2016
written by lgadmin

The principle that every person in the United States is entitled by right to “due process of law,” is so firmly embedded in the legal and cultural fabric of our society, that it hardly bears reminding. Yet, if you happen to be a male student at any college or university that receives federal funds, and an allegation of sexual misconduct has been levelled against you, you quickly realize that “due process” is a luxury you no longer enjoy.

Thanks to the Obama Administration’s effort to institutionalize political correctness throughout our nation’s education system, “due process” for male college students has been redefined out of the college curriculum. Now, according to Due Process 101 as taught by the United States Department of Education, male college students are no longer “innocent until proven guilty”; they are simply “guilty if accused,” and “due process” is a one-way street favoring the accuser not the accused.

Two parents, however, have decided to take on the Obama Administration, and to give it a lesson in constitutional “due process.” Last month in my home state of Georgia, State Representative Earl Ehrhart and his wife, parents of a son who attends Georgia Tech, filed a Complaint in federal court in Atlanta.

The Ehrharts’ ground-breaking Complaint states that the U.S. Department of Education acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when it asserted in a 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter” addressed to schools receiving federal dollars, that allegations of “sexual harassment” by a college student at any school receiving federal funds must be handled in such manner as to make it next to impossible for a male student thus charged, to defend himself. The threat to cut-off federal monies to any school not complying with the Dear Colleague Letter was thinly-veiled.

The Complaint describes how the Department of Education “has aggressively dictated how colleges and universities handle sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus,” and created a veritable kangaroo court for such crimes “based on the excessively low ‘preponderance of the evidence’ standard . . . as opposed to the ‘clear and convincing evidence’ standard traditionally used in college disciplinary hearings.” The consequence of these changes, the Ehrharts note, is “causing schools to brand more students ‘rapists,’” and placing further restrictions on the due process rights of the accused.

Sexual assault – whether on-campus or off — is a serious crime; and allegations of such need to be taken seriously, investigated thoroughly, and prosecuted where warranted. But there is a right way and a wrong way to pursue justice; a process that should not depend on whether or not a suspect is a student at a school receiving federal funds. The appearance and the substance of constitutional due process must be maintained for both the victim and the accused.

However, in the Bizarro World system of justice being pushed by the Obama Administration, the focus now is on simply making it as easy as possible to get a guilty verdict once an allegation of “sexual harassment” (defined very broadly) has been made. For male students accused of such conduct, the road to redemption is much like that traveled by thecharacter Andy Dufresne in the movie The Shawshank Redemption — a harrowing crawl to freedom that is exceedingly difficult, dirty, ugly, and something that will forever haunt them.

Male students are not the only victims in this drive for “social justice.” Ultimately, it is the American taxpayer who winds up footing the bill for each college and university having to establish a multi-tiered system by which to run roughshod over the rights of these students. Taxpayers must also pay the often massive legal fees incurred by the schools to defend the many lawsuits brought by families of students who had their lives ruined after being falsely accused in such a system. As noted in the journal, Insider Higher-Ed, several dozen such lawsuits are currently pending against universities by those wrongly accused.

As detailed also in the Ehrharts’ Complaint, the result of the undermining of fundamental due process on college campuses by the Obama Administration, is made worse by the fact that these changes should not have been implemented as they were in the first place. Rather than announce its plans in 2011 as standard rulemaking proposals — according to which public input is solicited and considered in a transparent and public process — the Department of Education rammed its plan through as a “Dear Colleague” Letter, with no meaningful opportunity for colleges or universities (or any other interested parties, for that matter) to comment.

Where the Ehrharts’ lawsuit goes from here, and whether other suits will follow, remains to be seen. However, at the very least, this courageous couple is setting an example for others, by standing up to bureaucratic bullies who seek to vilify male college students and undermine our Bill of Rights on the altar of political correctness.

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