East Baton Rouge is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, Louisiana's state capital. As of 2000, the population was 412,852. The parish has a total area of 471 square miles (1,219 km²), of which, 455 square miles (1,180 km²) of it is land and 15 square miles (39 km²) of it (3.21%) is water.
According to the 2000 census there were 412,852 people, 156,365 households, and 102,575 families residing in the parish.
Baton Rouge is the capital city and the second largest city of Louisiana (it was the largest for a short period in 2006 after the evacuation of Hurricane Katrina decreased the population of New Orleans). The city itself has a population of 227,017 residents. Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, and port center of the American South. The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth largest in the United States in terms of weight.
Baton Rouge is home to two large state universities, Louisiana State University (25,538 students); and Southern University (7500 students). The city is also home to a large two-year community college BRCC (8000 students).
(Campaign for Liberty East Baton Rouge Parish membership goals are as follows - 103 regular members, 15 local coordinators by September 30, 2009. To reach these goals, we must all work together.
When I suggest to someone that all drugs should be legalized, 90% of the time I am told how evil drugs are and how they lead to more crime and legalizing them would instantly turn the country into a violent hell hole. Anyone with an open mind can be shown how this is absolute nonsense. The fact that drugs are illegal doesn't mean they will magically disappear. All it does is transfer the sale of drugs from a voluntary free market to a violent underground black market and then enforces these laws through the violent force of government. Legalizing drugs does not mean those who use drugs would not commit acts of violence, however, those who have a tendency to commit violence aren't really concerned with drug laws in the first place.
Most people seem to confuse the advocacy of legalizing drugs with also advocating its use. I don't advocate drug use, including alcohol and nicotine, which are somehow magically legal in this logically flawed society we live in. I also don't know a single person who would start doing cocaine if it were legalized tomorrow or a single person who would stop using drugs if the laws were made twice as harsh tomorrow.
Those who morally object to drug legalization will generally ignore facts, logic and consistency and stick to their moral reasoning as to why drugs should remain illegal. How a person can make a moral argument against the legalization of drugs because they fear drugs will lead to violence while at the same time advocating government violence as a means to keep drugs illegal is irrational and by definition, insane. Am I the only one that see's these things? I often feel like I'm living in some other dimension when I try to have these conversations with people.
You can't support legislating individual choice and morality because you fear not doing so would lead to violence and also support a system that enforces these "laws" by ALSO USING VIOLENCE! Initiating violence against someone is either a good thing or a bad thing. You can't have it both ways and expect to be considered a rational thinking person.
If you just can't seem to grasp what I'm getting at, try walking down the street smoking crack and see if the police don't threaten you with violence if you don't drop the drugs or violently throw you in a cage.
Again, my argument isn't that drugs are good. The argument is that violence is bad and people should be left alone to do as they wish until they violate someone elses life, liberty or property.
If we can't come up with non-violent solutions to the social issues we face, we will remain fundamentally stuck as human beings. It's time for everyone to grow up, think rationally and only support solutions to social issues that aren't enforced at the barrel of a gun. This is not what freedom is supposed to look like.
The fusion centers gather information not only from government sources, but also from their partners in the private sector.[1][2]
They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, US Military and state and local level government. As of July 2009, the Department of Homeland Security recognizes at least seventy-two fusion centers.[3] Fusion centers may also be affiliated with an Emergency Operations Center that responds in the event of a disaster.
Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) made news in 2009 for targeting supporters of third party candidates (such as Ron Paul), pro-life activists, and conspiracy theorists as potential militia members.[4]Anti-war activists and Islamic lobby groups were targeted in Texas, drawing criticism from the ACLU.[5]
In early April 2009, the Virginia Fusion Center came under criticism for publishing a terrorism threat assessment which states that certain universities are potential hubs for terror related activity.[7] The report targeted historically black colleges and identified hacktivism as a form of terrorism.[8]
These are pictures of the controversial population control book Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment that Obama's current Science Czar John P Holdren(pictured below) co-authored. The following pages pictured are of the parts that I have read so far that I feel are the most important to get out. I could take pictures for days w/ all the things that are in this book but for the interest of time I've posted these. The pictures should be big enough so that you can read it for yourself. May I emphasize that this is the man that is currently in charge of the U.S.'s science policies.
All that can be said about our current situation is summed up in this clip from the movie Network. Even more relevant now than when it was released in 1976.
Get Mad! Stand Up! Do something to fight back! Don't Abdicate!
I was invited by a good friend of mine to an event held in the Shaw Center of Baton Rouge, called Conversations with Congressman Bill Cassidy. Many thanks to the lawfirm Breazeale, Sachse and Wilson, L.L.P. for hosting the event. Dr. Cassidy is an elequent and skilled speaker. He started the very posh crowd out by talking about how the Cap and Trade legislation was a bad idea, then spent nearly a half hour on his well-researched topic of expertise, healthcare.
Cassidy is a Freshman in Congress, but he is especially skilled on this topic, so he is quite a benefit for the opposition to Obama's ambitious healthcare initiative. When he asked for questions, somehow the topic of Health Czar was brought up. I raised my hand and asked him this question: "Dr. Cassidy, I am someone who believes that appointing Czars and making signing-statements are an un-constitutional power-grab by the executive branch. Do you know of and would you co-sponsor any legislation that would remove or at least curtail the president's ability to continue these activities?"
- his response was decent; he admitted that it was Bush who really transformed signing-statements into an artform, and that he would have to read anything before co-sponsoring it. But that he does recognize a "power-grab". Unfortunately, this question was not taped; but a similar question was asked at a Vitter town hall meeting the night before this.
Let's watch, shall we:
Later on that evening, I bribed Dr. Cassidy with some chocolates in order to make a quick five-minute conversation with him about the grassroots in his district!
A copy of the article I gave to Cassidy can be found here. Many thanks to Stacy Nason for shooting the footage!
Poll: Of the two legislators, which understands and defends the Constitution better?
Since the introduction of House Memorial 19 (HM19), which “Urges Congress to honor provisions of U. S. Constitution & U. S. Supreme Court case law which limit scope & exercise of federal power”, this piece of legislation now has 47 co-sponsors plus its prime sponsor, Representative Ritch of Brevard County.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that the Federal government staff and various minions now occupying Florida are packing up. No, they have not started to request moving vans destined for Washington, D.C.
This is a ‘Memorial’ as opposed to a ‘resolution’. Resolutions are for things like ‘key lime pie is the state pie of Florida.’ Resolutions also stay within the state level of documents. Memorials on the other hand are passed on to the national level. For instance this one (if passed) will be handed over to all of the United States Congressmen and Senators from Florida, who will in turn request that the Executive branch start obeying the 10th Amendment and stop overreaching into state affairs. It also means that we have an official filing in the Florida State House Legislature docket.
Activists should start calling all of their State House Representatives and ask them to sign on as co-sponsors of House Memorial 19 (HM19) if they have not already done so. If there are enough co-sponsors this timely and important piece of legislation will most likely win passage on the first day of the Legislature meets in March 2010.
Why did Representative Workman and main co-sponsor Representative Scott Plakon of Seminole County got this resolution together so early? It has to do with the way the legislature does its work. Documents with lower numbers like HM 19 are not as likely to get lost in the shuffle, as would HM 7019, for example (the numbers of items do actually get this high as the session nears). This early start allows citizens time to start the lobbying effort required to pass it. Additionally, the representatives created this ‘memorial’ early to coincide with the national 4th of July (Independence Day) holiday. No better present could be given to Florida citizens! However, the work has just begun.
Opposition to this bill will most likely come from both Democrats and Republicans alike that are misinformed about the nature of HM19. These educationally-challenged legislators should know that the Federal government is in breach of their constitutionally mandated limits. This is the first step that will remind the D.C. bureaucrats that we the people are watching them. We want to put a stop to this infringement of our rights.
The Florida House has also proposed two additional pieces of legislation to further strengthen the sovereignty of our State and the independence of her citizens.
These are House HB 21, The Firearms Freedom Act, which seeks to provide “that specified firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition for personal use manufactured in state are not subject to federal law or regulation” in the State of Florida and House HJR 37, The Health Care Freedom Act. This act is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would prevent Florida citizens from being affected by federal health "reform." It provides that any "law or rule shall not compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system," and specifies people and employers can’t be fined for not buying insurance. The bill does not ban federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in our state; it simply focuses on restricting the federal government from forcing Floridians to participate in an insurance policy, whether public or private. If approved by the state legislature, Florida residents may vote on the amendment in 2010.
Our Legislature is planning ahead to restore our liberty and they need our help. Citizens are urged to find out whom their Florida State House Representative and Florida State Senator is. This is easy to do by visiting myfloridahouse.gov and http://www.flsenate.gov on the Internet. Contact them and make sure to get a firm commitment to support HM19, HB21 and HJR37.
You can make a difference for the liberty and freedom of the citizens of Florida.
After attending a town hall meeting or two and seeing the broad manifestation of passionate discourse against the impending federal obama-supported health care initiative, I was curious to see what the support looked like. I did attend a “rally” for obamacare, which was already covered by BREAKDOWNOFAMERICAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHqt1f46v3Y The opposition outnumbered the support conservatively 8-1.
Maybe that was a fluke. So I decided to check out the AFSCME-sponsored event at Southern University.
In between classes, Southern U students took a minute to join the effort for health care reform.
Highway to Health Care had a rock tour style bus in support of “real health care reform NOW.” They scheduled the tour bus to show up deep in the heart of Southern University Wed. August 19 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
The Highway to Health Care will make a pit stop in Baton Rouge at the Smith-Brown Student Union Center (at Southern University) at 11:30 A.M. to provide Louisianans the chance to climb aboard and contact their Members of Congress to demand real health insurance reform now. Speakers include Rep. Regina Barrow (Chair of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus), Dr. Ernest Johnson (President of the Louisiana State NAACP) and other speakers TBA.
From a tweet: “Big crowd at Southern U in Baton Rouge, students are signing up for reform! We hit 3200 Facebook fans, too”
In all truth, their “big crowd” consisted of 20+ which included 2 media guys who were probably bus riders. The entourage had 16 people including the guest speakers. I can also say that the “event” lasted less than 15 minutes.
State Legislative Black Caucus Chairwoman Regina Barrow and Louisiana AFL-CIO President Louis Reine.
In the photo above – Regina Barrow talked for 2 min about AIDS patients. The guy in the far left corner (no pun intended), Dr. Ernest Johnson, was the first speaker. He said the protesters didn’t start when they were bailing out the banks – but now that they’re trying to help the people, Republicans are up in arms
The support of Obamacare is laughably weak, at least here in Baton Rouge.
NONE of the “rally attendees” were carrying any picketing signs. (The signs you see are being held by the bus entourage themselves.) There were no police parking cars. There was no way to know there was any event at all taking place on campus aside from the sight of a large green bus parked in front of the Student Union.
Tea Party of Louisiana hosted a town hall meeting at Boudreaux's in Baton Rouge and invited District 6 Representative Bill Cassidy, and Louisiana Campaign for Liberty had a big presence. The forum was the House Health Care legislation, but the meeting's attendees explored other big government policies as well. Before the meeting began, we set up a table and passed out fliers on who we are and what we stand for. As the meeting got underway, district 6 coordinator Chris Hand delivered a rousing introductory speech. After Congressman Cassidy ran through all the problems with a government-run health care system, it was time for the audience to ask questions. Four different Campaign for Liberty members gave some of the night's most thoughtful and crowd-friendly questions. After the questions were over people swarmed to our table, as those around us could tell that we had enough passion for the entire crowd of well over 500 attendees. We had a number of Audit-the-Fed petitions signed, and met many future Campaign for Liberty members!
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and the second largest city of Louisiana (it was the largest for a short period in 2006 after the evacuation of Hurricane Katrina decreased the population of New Orleans). The city itself has a population of 227,017 residents. Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, and port center of the American South. The Port of Baton Rouge is the ninth largest in the United States in terms of weight.
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