repost of a piece lost during an upgrade. Original post date September 1st, 2005

A light hangs in a church, a lone rider in the dark.
The call to liberty echoes through the night.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs into the night, never to return.
A nation is born.

Church bells ring on Sunday morning.
The distant drone of airplane engines, the rumble of bombs.
The crushing of steel, the shredding of lives fills the air.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs to the East and to the West, never to return.
A nation is defended.

A bright beautiful morning begins the new day, a bustling city of skyscrapers, a bristling seat of government, and quiet lush field.
The explosions of hatred, the sudden devastation of life, jolt the surreal awakening.
A patriot rises, laces his boots, puts on his coat, takes up his weapon and departs, never to return. A country is protected.

The patriot strives in a thankless employ.
They march on to the cadence of Liberty living and dieing for those who yearn to be free.
The cause of Liberty calls and the patriot rises up to answer, departing into the night of oppression to hasten the sunshine of freedom.

Time will not diminish the glory of their deeds, as we the free lift up our patriots in the chorus of Liberty. So they know, they will never be forgotten.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Europe during WWII.

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Today is the day we set aside not for those who have served or those currently serving.
Today is the one-day we set aside to honor those Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who will never come home.
Those who are “Still On Patrol”.
We honor their sacrifice, we honor their service and we honor their families. With out them we would have no freedom to honor anyone.
Save your gratitude for living Veterans for November 11th, Veterans Day and for our standing service members for Armed Forces Day (Third Saturday in May).

Today keep in remembrance those who paid the highest price for freedom and pray for their families that they may find peace.

Link: http://kaganwatch.com/2010/05/12/kagan-argued-for-redistribution-of-speech/

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Kagan Says ‘Governmental Motive’ is Proper Focus in First Amendment Cases, Backs Limits on Speech That Can ‘Harm’

(CNSNews.com) – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government’s reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech.

Kagan, the solicitor general of the United States under President Obama, expressed that idea in her 1996 article in the University of Chicago Law Review entitled, “Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.”

In her article, Kagan said that examination of the motives of government is the proper approach for the Supreme Court when looking at whether a law violates the First Amendment. While not denying that other concerns, such as the impact of a law, can be taken into account, Kagan argued that governmental motive is “the most important” factor.

In doing so, Kagan constructed a complex framework that can be used by the Court to determine whether or not Congress has restricted First Amendment freedoms with improper intent.

She defined improper intent as prohibiting or restricting speech merely because Congress or a public majority dislikes either the message or the messenger, or because the message or messenger may be harmful to elected officials or their political priorities.

The first part of this framework involves restrictions that appear neutral, such as campaign finance laws, but in practice amount to an unconstitutional restriction. Kagan wrote that the effect of such legislation can be taken as evidence of improper motive because such motives often play a part in bringing the legislation into being.

“The answer to this question involves viewing the Buckley principle [that government cannot balance between competing speakers] as an evidentiary tool designed to aid in the search for improper motive,” Kagan wrote. “The Buckley principle emerges not from the view that redistribution of speech opportunities is itself an illegitimate end, but from the view that governmental actions justified as redistributive devices often (though not always) stem partly from hostility or sympathy toward ideas or, even more commonly, from self-interest.”
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Simple, fast, cost effective, enviromentally freindly, non-chemical way to easily remove the oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico.

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