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WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND EASTER WEEK??? Everyone GO and try to give Terri water in person. They've already arrested one Catholic worker. Four other Saturday or Sunday. Are there only five trying? Imagine if by tonight tens and hundreds of THOUSANDS are showing up being arrested as they try to give this innocent woman water. And tomorrow. And the next day.

It is time to stop taking and to fight back, Washington State Freepers!!

The topic sentence of this AP article would lead one to believe the radicals have a relatively mild-mannered protest planned for President Bush’s second inaugural parade. They are going to wear plain clothes and then turn their backs on the president. Oh, he’ll just be devastated! But a couple of paragraphs down, reporter Donna Cassata contradicts herself, drastically: Among planned events are an anti-war rally and three-mile march to the White House, a massive bike ride similar to those that disrupted traffic in New York City before the Republican National Convention, and a "die-in" to remind the nation of more...

College student says he was trying to expose security weaknesses ... A North Carolina college student who hid box cutters on airplanes to expose weaknesses in airline security was sentenced Thursday to two years of supervised probation and fined $500. Nathaniel Heatwole of Damascus, Md., a student at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., also must serve 100 hours of community service and reimburse his parents for up to $500 in legal expenses under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm.

Barbara Herrera (left) and Sarah Hubbard, a San Diego County deputy sheriff, were married last month in San Francisco. The county doesn't recognize the marriage. Barbara Herrera (left) and Sarah Hubbard, a San Diego County deputy sheriff, were married last month in San Francisco. The county doesn't recognize the marriage. ENCINITAS – Sarah Hubbard, 39, and Barbara Herrera, 42, have built a good life in the 18 years they have been together. They've raised four kids, bought a house and built a business. They see themselves as a happy ordinary American family with an annual pass to Disneyland. But...

80-Year-Old Charged with Assault Maydell Purvis Unmasked Screaming Aggressor at March 6 Rally Maydell Purvis charged with pulling mask off protester at March 6 rally. Wearing masks at a public event is illegal in many jurisdictions, Tucson Police Go After Brave American When angry protesters screamed in her face, Maydell Purvis, an eighty-year-old resident of Tucson, had enough. She reached up and pulled the down the mask of the aggressor. Now she has been charged with assault by the Tucson Police Department (see complaint). She must appear in court on March 17. Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol said...

NEW YORK - The mayor of the nation's largest city says same-sex couples deserve the same rights in civil unions that straight couples enjoy in marriage, but he will continue to enforce New York state's ban on gay marriage. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's statement, reversing his previous refusal to discuss his position on gay marriage, came the same week that dozens of same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses were turned away by the City Clerk, and that state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer held that gay and lesbian marriages are prohibited by state law. Bloomberg said in an interview that he goes "back-and-forth"...

I watched Gavin Newsom, outlaw-in-chief of San Francisco, on "Larry King Live" last week. With his slicked-back hair and silk tie, the 36-year-old mayor is the perfect model for the Radical Left's Extreme Makeover.Out: Drug-addled, draft card-burning, Molotov cocktail-tossing, campus protesters of the 1960s.In: Merlot-sipping, gay marriage license-peddling, cocktail party-throwing, pretty boys in elected office.Mayor Newsom looks a little like Ben Affleck and talks a lot like Bill Clinton. He's got a trophy wife with three names (former lingerie model Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom) and a five-point government plan for everything from renewable energy ("Expedite implementation of San Francisco's solar energy...

Lawlessness and civil disobedience Posted: March 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The radical nature of the ongoing confrontation over homosexual marriage is obscured by the subject matter. Gay couples are common in large, urban areas, so their public affection hardly causes a ripple in many parts of America, but other parts of the country are scandalized. The debate over homosexuality in general, and gay marriage in particular, is also difficult to separate from the debate over religion in public life. There is such intense anger on both sides of the issue that debates flare suddenly into shouting matches. The issue...

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) -- The mayor of the town of New Paltz has been charged with 19 criminal counts for marrying same-sex couples. New Paltz Mayor Jason West said last Thursday it was his moral duty to marry homosexual couples. He issued marriage certificates to 25 gay couples. On Tuesday, Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams lodged 19 counts of ``solemnizing a marriage without a license'' against West.

Four days after presiding over a slew of same sex marriages in his quaint Hudson Valley village, the mayor of New Paltz today was charged with 19 violations of New York's domestic relations law, injecting the debate over gay marriages in the state with increasing drama and urgency.

Ulster County District Attorney charged the Mayor of New Paltz New York with 19 counts of solemnizing a wedding without a license.

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom defied state law by allowing same-sex marriage licenses, a New York Times profile reported him sporting "a wide grin," "describing his motives as pure and principled," and cited his "business acumen, money, good looks and friends in the right places." But when Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore also defied the law -- by installing a Ten Commandments display in his public building -- a Times profile said that "civil liberties groups accused Justice Moore of turning a courthouse into a church," while allowing that he had also become "an Alabama folk hero." On the...

Operation Rescue to Law Enforcement: Read 'Em Their Rights and Take Them Away! 3/1/04 2:48:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Troy Newman, 316-841-1700; or Cheryl Sullenger, 619-277-0725, both of Operation Rescue West Web: http://www.operationrescue.org WICHITA, Kansas, March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The nation's leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, is intentionally violating the rule of law by failing to comply with the Department of Justice's lawful request for records, according to Operation Rescue West. Six Planned Parenthood organizations, including the Kansas and San Diego affiliates have refused to comply with Justice Department subpoenas requesting records related to late-term abortions....

Wedding Bells On Hold In New Paltz Gay Couples Rally For Licenses In New York City UPDATED: 9:32 AM EST March 1, 2004 NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- More than 500 gay couples who have signed up for marriage licenses in New Paltz will have to wait until this weekend to tie the knot. Mayor Jason West said Monday he is overwhelmed by the number of people inquiring about getting married, but he won't be able to perform any more weddings until Saturday. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he would not seek an emergency court injunction to stop West...

New Paltz, New York-AP) Feb. 28, 2004 - First San Francisco, now New Paltz. It didn't take long for the word to spread about the gay marriages that were being performed in the New York village that sits along the State Thruway about 75 miles north of New York City. More than 500 couples are now on a waiting list for Mayor Jason West to marry them. He officiated over 25 such marriages Friday and vows to continue them. West insists he broke no law. He says he obeyed the state constitution, and his oath of office. That issue, however,...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco, at the center of a heated national debate over the issue of same-sex marriage, would stop gay and lesbian weddings if a court ruled the city was breaking state law, the city mayor said on Saturday. "If and when a court makes a decision that we are breaking the law then I think at that point it's the right thing to do to stop," Mayor Gavin Newsom told Reuters. Newsom has been defiant since ordering the city to allow gays and lesbians to marry despite criticism by President Bush (news - web sites) and...

Local officials say they won’t — or can’t — follow San Francisco’s lead More than 3,200 couples have been married in San Francisco since Mayor Gavin Newsom instructed city clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples two weeks ago. While local officials around the country, including Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley, have expressed tentative support for the idea of issuing gay marriage licenses, officials in the Washington area say they have no plans to take Newsom’s approach. Tony Bullock, communications director to District Mayor Anthony Williams, said that his office will not follow San Francisco’s lead and begin issuing same-sex...

<p>February 27, 2004 -- ALBANY - Gay marriage comes to New York today as four couples are set to be wed in the upstate village of New Paltz.</p> <p>Jason West, the 26-year-old Green Party mayor of the Hudson Valley college town, said he had a "moral obligation" to preside over same-sex nuptials, which he'll conduct in a local bed-and-breakfast.</p>

For any man today who thinks and desires the capacity to unrestrictedly apply the conclusions of his mind, the scope of his current externally-imposed confinement is colossal and multifaceted. The government of this country has usurped almost every sphere of human activity, shackling creative entrepreneurial innovators through “antitrust” laws, which restrict the amount of market share a business may through its owners’ skill and the quality of its product acquire. It has erected barriers to the advancement of thoughtful freethinkers by the imposition of affirmative action initiatives that prevent many of them from acquiring education and jobs for faults not...