13-03-02 Left right and center, the verdict is in - The US Constitution is Dead!

CBS NEWS: 'Let's Give Up On The Constitution'

Video URL: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/cbss-charles-osgood-constitution-worthy-reverence-which-most-americans-hold-it

Is the U.S. Constitution obsolete?

For anyone who missed this a few weeks ago, myself included -- CBS Sunday Morning with Georgetown professor of Constitutional Law, Louis Seidman.

What happens if freedom of speech falls out of public favor.  Does Professor Seidman believe that we should therefore abandon our most sacred right because the only document protecting it happens to be... old?

You want to change the Constitution?  Get an amendment passed.  Until then, keep your hands of the parchment.

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13-03-01 Manning's Statement

Bradley Manning's Surprising Statement to the Court Details Why He Made His Historic Wikileak

A transcription of the soldier's statement, read in court, explaining why he leaked state secrets to Wikileaks.

March 1, 2013  |  

 

 

The statement below was read by Pfc. Bradley Manning at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This rush transcript was taken by  journalist Alexa O’Brien at Thursday’s pretrial hearing and first appeared on Salon.com.

Judge Lind: Pfc. Manning you may read your statement.

Pfc. Bradley Manning: Yes, your Honor. I wrote this statement in the confinement facility. The following facts are provided in support of the providence inquiry for my court martial, United States v. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning.

Personal Facts.

I am a 25-year-old Private First Class in the United States Army currently assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, HHC, U.S. Army Garrison (USAG), Joint Base Myer, Henderson Hall, Fort Meyer, Va.

READ MORE:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/bradley-mannings-surprising-statement-court-details-why-he-made-his-historic?akid=10129.1117888.qbZRv8&rd=1&src=newsletter802922&t=7

13-03-01 Manning's Statement

Bradley Manning's Surprising Statement to the Court Details Why He Made His Historic Wikileak

A transcription of the soldier's statement, read in court, explaining why he leaked state secrets to Wikileaks.

March 1, 2013  |  

 

 

The statement below was read by Pfc. Bradley Manning at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This rush transcript was taken by  journalist Alexa O’Brien at Thursday’s pretrial hearing and first appeared on Salon.com.

Judge Lind: Pfc. Manning you may read your statement.

Pfc. Bradley Manning: Yes, your Honor. I wrote this statement in the confinement facility. The following facts are provided in support of the providence inquiry for my court martial, United States v. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning.

Personal Facts.

I am a 25-year-old Private First Class in the United States Army currently assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, HHC, U.S. Army Garrison (USAG), Joint Base Myer, Henderson Hall, Fort Meyer, Va.

READ MORE:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/bradley-mannings-surprising-statement-court-details-why-he-made-his-historic?akid=10129.1117888.qbZRv8&rd=1&src=newsletter802922&t=7

13-03-02 1:40am, 3:30am Shooting at Tel Aviv Social Protest encampment "Arlozorov"

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Video: http://youtu.be/MnRdJT1d_cA

Fire damage to sofa, on which fireworks were shot.  A person was sleeping on the same sofa earlier.  Another person was sleeping at the time on the nearby sofa.

The common area, where the sofa stands.

Shreds of fireworks casing found the next morning on the sidewalk.

Two event of same car driving by and shooting at fast pace military style firework pistols at short range (a few meters) straight into tents, where people were sleeping.

• 1:40am First event - Merhav Yarkon Police Event #73. Police refused to come to the location.  A passer by, who was not a resident of the encampment photographed the car, and the license plate number was provided to police.
• 3:30am Second event - fireworks landed on a sofa where a person was sleeping a short time earlier, burn damage to furniture.  Police arrived on location.  

At this time it is not clear that police registered a complaint and is investigating,