NSA Corporate Spying Ira Winkler

NSA Corporate Spying Ira Winkler

Spies Among Us AMAZON link here

CSPAN BOOK TV link here
Ira Winkler, former security analyst at the National Security Agency, discloses how companies and individuals can protect themselves from hacking and identity theft. In "Spies Among Us" the author shares his security secrets as well as what he describes as cost-effective countermeasures for all types of attacks.

SPIES AMONG US CSPAN VIDEO HERE

Corporate Espionage AMAZON link here

ADL Imagine

Anti Defamation League 

fighting hate crimes and hate speech http://www.adl.org/imagine/

Hate Crimes Laws http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-crimes-law/

Imagine Lesson Plan http://www.adl.org/imagine/imagine-video-educators-guide.pdf

Imagine THE VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyvlMJefR4

Journalism is NOT Terrorism

JOURNALISM IS NOT TERRORISM

DEFINITION OF JOURNALISM--link here

1

a :  the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media

b :  the public press

c :  an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium

2

a :  writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine

b :  writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation

c :  writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest

JOURNALISM Concise Encyclopedia 

Collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through media such as pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, radio, film, television, and books. The term was originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, but in the late 20th century it came to include electronic media as well. It is sometimes used to refer to writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation. Colleges and universities confer degrees in journalism and sponsor research in related fields such as media studies and journalism ethics.

Principles of Journalism 


DEFINITION OF TERRORISM--  link here
the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal

What is the definition of terrorism?  link here

There is no single, universally accepted definition of terrorism. There are many reasons for this (not the least of which is the cliche “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter”). Even different agencies of the US government have different working definitions. Most definitions usually have common elements, though, oriented around terrorism as the systematic use of physical violence–actual or threatened–against non-combatants but with an audience broader than the immediate victims in mind, to create a general climate of fear in a target population, in order to effect some kind of political and/or social change.

Terrorism by nature is difficult to define. Acts of terrorism conjure emotional responses in the victims (those hurt by the violence and those affected by the fear) as well as in the practioners. Even the U.S. government cannot agree on one single definition. The old adage, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is still alive and well. Listed below are several definitions of terrorism. For the purposes of the Terrorism Research Center, we have adopted the definition used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBI Definition

Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Definitions of Terrorism differ by different US Govt Agencies

Louise Richardson Author of What Terrorists Want
PDF Summary of the Book: Terrorism---Who What and Why

Journalism IS NOT Terrorism

Roll Call   link here
When the Justice Department admitted to gathering months of records from more than 20 Associated Press telephone lines, it startled average Americans and the established media alike. It was a dangerous overreach by the DOJ, whose powers are strictly limited under its own guidelines for issuing subpoenas to the news media for testimony and evidence.

Congress responded to this gross executive overreach by seeking to codify legal protections for journalists and their sources, but despite the best of intentions, they’re missing the mark in their attempt to create a tight definition of a “journalist.”

The Founding Fathers explicitly protected the press in the First Amendment because it is such a critical service to a free society, but they were smart enough not to define what “the press” was. Journalism is society’s greatest safeguard against government abuse, and Congress should seek to protect it in all its forms, and not define it to fit their own devices.


Rachel Maddow---Journalism is not terrorism   VIDEO here

The Guardian----Is Glenn Greenwald's journalism now viewed as a 'terrorist' occupation?
David Miranda's detention shows that being the partner of the man who interviewed the NSA whistleblower is enough to see you treated like a terrorist.  His "offense" under the 2000 Terrorism Act was apparently to be the partner of a journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who had reported for the Guardian on material released by the American whistleblower, Edward Snowden.  link here

Freedom of the Press Foundation   link here

United Nations  link here
4 September 2013 – Two United Nations independent experts today called on the United Kingdom to ensure journalists can perform investigative work without fear of intimidation, and stressed that national security concerns do not justify curtailing press freedom.

“The protection of national security secrets must never be used as an excuse to intimidate the press into silence and backing off from its crucial work in the clarification of human rights violations,” the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, said. “The press plays a central role in the clarification of human rights abuses.”

Committee to Protect Journalists link here

CPJ research has tracked a significant rise in journalist imprisonments since 2000, a year before the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States fueled the expansion of anti-terrorism and national security laws worldwide. The number of journalists jailed worldwide hit 232 in 2012, 132 of whom were held on anti-terror or other national security charges.

Anderson Cooper with Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda VIDEO here

The Journalist and The Terrorist   JM Berger vs Jihadis

JM Berger Biography

Journalist: JM Berger, Terrorist: Omar Hammami

NPR interview with JM Berger
counterterrorism expert J.M. Berger, author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam

Article by JM Berger
""I don't know exactly when I began to worry I had become friends with a terrorist.  Believe it or not, this kind of thing happens to people relatively often.

JM Berger---""So you want to go hunting for jihadis on Twitter. You see an intriguing account. So you click follow and sit back to watch. Easy right? Think twice.""
http://news.intelwire.com/2013/09/ive-got-little-list.html



The Case of Barrett Brown 
Journalist and Activist being prosecuted by US Government

Democracy Now! report from July 11, 2013 link here
Journalist Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week on a range of charges filed after he used information obtained by the hacker group Anonymous to report on the operations of private intelligence firms. Brown faces 17 charges ranging from threatening an FBI agent to credit card fraud for posting a link online to a document that contained stolen credit card data.

On The Media interview about Barrett Brown

FAIR blog post

NYT article by David Carr on Barrett Brown Case

VICE interview with Barrett Brown from Prison


What in the Age of Wikileaks is Journalism??
https://www.eff.org/mention/who-wiki-age-journalist

Michael Hastings under investigation by FBI
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/9/fbi-releases-redacteddocumentonmichaelhastings.html

Denny Argall, the FBI'S public liaison officer, wrote that after the agency searched for responsive records it located one "cross reference" file pertaining to a pending criminal investigation. The FBI would not comment further about the nature of the probe.

One of the excerpts in the FBI document is completely redacted and marked "S" (for "secret") and "Per Army," under an exemption aimed at protecting national security. Additional redactions were used to protect techniques and procedures for law-enforcement investigations and prosecutions.

The documents revealed that on June 11, 2012, the FBI's Washington field office opened a file and submitted "unclassified media articles" to it in order "to memorialize controversial reporting by Rolling Stone magazine on June 7, 2012."

Jeff Light, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who filed the FOIA lawsuit, suggested opening such files on reporters was not common. "It's interesting [that] the FBI memorializes controversial reporting," he said.

The FBI documents also stated that in addition to Hastings' report, the agency also submitted one copy of a "blog entry relative to the aforementioned articles" and "one copy of Emails Express Discontent," which is an article about Bergdahl published on June 7, 2012 by the Associated Press that was based on Hastings' Rolling Stone report.

The "blog entry," however, appeared to be lifted from the comments section of the Idaho Statesman newspaper. The comment was apparently written by Gary Farwell, the father of Matthew Farwell, who contributed reporting to the Rolling Stone story and is identified at the bottom of the story as "a former soldier who deployed to Afghanistan."

FBI FOIA DOCUMENT -----Thanks to Jason Leopold

FULL FBI FOIA RELEASE  -----its missing the declaration, Jason Leopold has told me.

FBI FOIA DECLARATION


FBI uses informants, invents acts of terrorism arresting wrong people link here
The guy who convinced the plotters to blow up a big bridge, led them to the arms merchant, and drove the team to the bomb site was an FBI informant. The merchant was an FBI agent. The bomb, of course, was a dud.

PAID INFORMANTS are not whistleblowers   NYPD and Muslims    ACLU
Radio show on informants



Whistleblower
Thomas Drake NSA Whistleblower and American Hero C-SPAN



Peter Jouvenal (photographer, on the right) Peter Bergen (2nd from right) Peter Arnett (1st on left) of CNN interview Al Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden in 1997 (video interview here)

Peter Bergen has reported on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism and homeland security for a variety of American newspapers and magazines  Wikipedia

No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world’s most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since.  link here

Peter Bergen Photo Gallery

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees have their phones wiretapped for ""talking to terrorists""  link

from the radio program This American Life, episode This Week (June 13, 2013) the week Edward Snowden's NSA leaks came out. Transcript, Act One

FBI listens to phone calls of Journalist Lawrence Wright
my blog post here

I [Wright] talk about two members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force who came to my office to ask about phone calls that I made to a number in London. It belonged to a solicitor who represented some of the jihadis I had been interviewing. During the course of the conversation, they asked who “Caroline Wright” was. That’s my daughter. She was a university student at the time, not living at home. None of our phones were registered in her name. The only way I could imagine that they got her name was by listening to my phone calls.
Before this episode, I had been told by a source at the Counter-Terrorism Center that my source had seen a summary of a telephone interview I had with Zawahiri’s cousin in Cairo. At the time, I figured that the Egyptians had covered the conversation and supplied it to the CIA. On December 16, 2005, when the New York Times revealed that the NSA was illegally wiretapping Americans, I thought otherwise.
I’m glad the JTTF came to my house to clear this matter up, but it’s an example of the danger of awarding government such extraordinary powers. A simple misunderstanding such as this could easily have led to having Caroline’s name placed on an FBI link chart, only two steps away from Al Qaeda.
One day, Al Qaeda will fade away, but we will still be left with the swollen security state that we’ve created to fight it. That’s another challenge we haven’t begun to face.

2005 Bush Illegal Wiretapping 
link here

FIGHTING TO STOP THE 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) and Section 1021

NDAA Court Document link here

FBI Occupy Wall St Documents link here

NDAA 2nd Court Ruling link here

Letter about NDAA  by Alexa O'Brien (select portions are copied here, this is most but not all of the letter)

""US Government was threatening to detain me indefinitely without charge for my work as a journalist and citizen.

Since January 2011, I have covered the WikiLeaks release of US State Department Cables, JTF memoranda known as the 'GTMO files', and revolutions across Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, and Yemen, as well as the legal proceedings against Manning and the US investigation into WikiLeaks. I have interviewed a preeminent US foreign policy expert on the Cambodia cables, and published hours of interviews with former GTMO guards, detainees, defense lawyers, and human rights activists, as well as WikiLeaks media partners: Andy Worthington, a GTMO historian and author, and Atanas Tchobanov, the Balkanleaks' spokesman and co-editor of Bivol.bg.

Why do I do this work? Because it moves me deeply. Because I am compelled to learn and to understand. The positive results of some of my work also grants me a sense of common purpose in service to my fellow man/woman.

When the US Government said in Federal Court that they would not guarantee that I would not be indefinitely detained without charge under Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act FY2012 for articles I had written on the 'War on Terror', you set aside partisanship. You realized that what is as stake is more than an election. What was at stake is the safety of your friend, your daughter, a fellow citizen or journalist, as well as this nation and people across the globe. The NDAA, after all, was passed with bi-partisan support, and signed into law by President Obama.

Court: These people have real things they are saying. These are not speculative or hypotheticals. These are people who have actually written articles that we have here. [The Court then held up the articles written by O'Brien and marked as Court Ex. 3.] We are trying to figure out, are these articles going to subject Ms. O'Brien to risk under § 1021? . . . .

Government: Again, I'm not authorized to make specific representations regarding specific people. I'm saying that 'associated forces' cannot extend to groups that are not armed groups at all.

Court: So we don't know about the articles, it depends?

Government: Maybe they are an armed group.

Judge Forrest wrote:

"O'Brien has written a series of articles already--some of which relate to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or "associated forces" no matter how defined. The Government was unwilling to state at the hearing that O'Brien would not be detained under § 1021 for her expressive conduct in regard to those articles. Moreover, O'Brien testified that she has withheld at least two articles from publication because of her concerns regarding the potential for her expressive conduct in those articles to render her a "covered person" under §1021 and thereby subject her to military detention."
Section 1021 of the NDAA FY2012 allows for the indefinite detention without charges or trial of anyone, including American citizens, who are deemed by the US Government to be terrorists or terrorist sympathizers. The institutions of civil society - the press and civic square - are now what our military terms an information environment in a global theater of war. The 'War on Terror', our military says, is fought with intelligence and information. And, the US Government has already detained journalists at Guantanamo Bay under the AUMF seeking to gain intelligence on media organizations. The President has already played a personal role in the imprisonment of a journalistcovering the US 'War on Terror' in Yemen.

Government contractors falsely linked a group, which I helped found - whose only purpose is to support campaign finance reform in the United States - to Al Qaeda.

I was sent messages by a Government contractor saying that I was now associated with Al Qaeda and so called 'cyber-terrorists'

Citizenship is a public office, but who among us can risk engaging in the body politic authentically, when we have families to provide for? Who can risk publishing about the workings of Government, our alliances, and wars when you might end up in my position?

No matter what your party affiliation, Section 1021 of the NDAA FY 2012 violates the First and Fifth Amendments to the US constitution, the principles that safeguard the independence of our republic and any real freedom or lasting security for our citizens and all peoples.

From https://www.stopndaa.org/aboutndaa/

“For the first time in American history, we have a law authorizing the worldwide and indefinite military detention of people captured far from any battlefield. The NDAA has no temporal or geographic limitations. It is completely at odds with our values, violates the Constitution, and corrodes our Nation’s commitment to the rule of law.” – The ACLU

Section 1021 defines a “covered person” – one subject to detention – as “a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or “associated forces” that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”

The law, however, does not define the terms “substantially supported,” “directly supported” or “associated forces.” As it stands, the law violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments of the US Constitution and most of the Bill of Rights.

The Lawsuit against NDAA https://www.stopndaa.org/aboutlawsuit/

The Plaintiffs fighting NDAA https://www.stopndaa.org/aboutus/

We are a group of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds who filed suit because we our First Amendment activities have been impinged under the NDAA. Each plaintiff has engaged in expressive activities in defense of civil liberties and human rights that, despite our clear and abiding commitment to these allegedly guaranteed liberties in the US, fall into a gray area under the vague and new sweeping powers granted by the 2012 NDAA.

Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. Hedges is the bestselling author of nine books and is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto.

Alexa O’Brien has designed digital content strategy solutions for international governmental organizations and Fortune 500 companies. She founded usdayofrage.org, which endorsed and helped organize the September 17 action to Occupy Wall Street. She has covered WikiLeaks releases and revolutions across Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, and Yemen, as well as Bradley Manning. DHS memos sent to law enforcement across the country stated organizers of US Day of Rage were likely high level cyber terrorists. The media followed suit, publishing those allegations and others, including the groups alleged association with Al Qaeda, jeopardizing Ms. O’Brien’s career, her standing in her community, and her liberty under the 2012 NDAA.

Daniel Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Mr. Ellsberg is publicly supporting PFC Bradley Manning, and has been subjected to arrest at protests. He is 81 years old. Mr. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is one of the most highly lauded government whistle-blowers in US history.

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist. He us currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has taught for fifty years. Dr. Chomsky has gained a worldwide following as a political dissident for his analyses of the pernicious influence of economic elites on U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy. He claims double standards in a foreign policy preaching democracy and freedom for all while allying itself with non-democratic and repressive organizations. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992.

AND MANY OTHERS!!!!

Representative Justin Amash on NDAA 
Facebook
Amash NDAA Fact Check Sheet 

Stop the NDAA, USA PATRIOT ACT, NSA spying, and any other threat to liberty, democracy and freedom of the press.  Treat Journalism as Journalism and Terrorism as Terrorism---They are two very different issues with two very different goals.

My Manning Email to Major General Buchanan

Dear Major General Buchanan,

You have the ability to reduce Pvt Manning's sentence. Please do so preferably to time served, Manning spent three years in jail awaiting trial, or release when eligible for parole.

The Pardon request to President Obama----

Revoke Bradley Manning's conviction. The government has been embarrassed due to the disclosure of war crimes and has chosen to silence the messenger, Bradley Manning. President Obama could restore citizen faith in government by releasing this courageous soldier.

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-please-6

Manning is in prison for leaks exposing war crimes, which have been almost universally acknowledged as having caused no real harm to the US, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates while those recorded in the "Collateral Murder" video have gone uncharged, and Retuers was denied access or information regarding the killing of its 2 journalists in the video.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/18/eric-holder-guarantee-nsa-reporters-rights

What did Wikileaks reveal?? US Govt crimes and lies

http://www.privatemanning.org/learn-more/what-did-wikileaks-reveal

Please reduce Manning's sentence, and free an American hero who courageously served our country by joining the military, reporting abuse to the press who ignored Manning, then Manning went to Wikileaks, which went to the New York Times, Guardian and Der Spiegel.

Manning also fought to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, which was repealed by President Obama, and Manning is now fighting for transgender recognition as Bradley Manning becomes Chelsea Manning

Thank you very much, please consider our requests to lessen Manning's sentence

I am an American Citizen, known online as LibDem

Obama CAN close GITMO!!!

OBAMA CAN CLOSE GITMO!!!          here  here  here

In January, the State Department reassigned the special envoy who had been in charge of trying to persuade countries to take Guantanamo inmates approved for release, Daniel Fried, and did not replace him. That was widely seen as a signal that Obama was giving up on closing the prison any time soon. 

Obama has blamed Congress for interfering with his plan to close Guantanamo. Starting in 2011, Congress began restricting transfers out, saying the Defense Department first had to certify a number of things, including that the destination country was not a state sponsor of terrorism and would take action to make sure the individual would not threaten the United States.

Starting last year, Congress let some restrictions be waived if it was in the "national security interests" of the United States. Obama has not used the waiver or certification provisions.

Two years ago, Obama signed an executive order establishing extra review procedures for Guantanamo detainees to determine if continued detention were warranted, but the Periodic Review Boards have not been used.

This option looks fairly simple, since it involves carrying out the president's own executive order. But there may have been no rush to establish more reviews boards since prisoners cleared by earlier review boards are still being held.

Wells Dixon, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, suggested the administration could use court rulings to help get prisoners released. Two members of China's Muslim Uighur minority were resettled in El Salvador in April 2012, four years after a U.S. District Court in Washington ruled there were no grounds to hold them.

When prisoners challenge their detention in federal court, the government could decide not to contest the case, paving the way for a court order effecting the prisoner's release, said Dixon. He said that could happen in any of the more than 100 detainee "habeus corpus" cases filed in federal court.

Obama could instruct the Justice Department to stop contesting those cases.


here
The impromptu comments were a little surprising for their rhetoric, sounding more like a 2007 campaign speech than the words of someone who has been U.S. president for four-plus years. As the New Yorker's Amy Davidson put it, "He spoke as if he had happened upon the place, like a bystander."

Military Service and Medical Records

I am working on the Stand Your Ground Titusville murder (link here), and the gunman is a vet, I am posting links here how to get military service and medical records-----I have not done this yet--I am preparing

Congressional Research Service Report link here

Veterans link here

Medical Records link here

Military Personnel Records link here

Military Records (About.com) link here

Military Service Records link here

Military Records (Military.com) link here

Obtaining and Requesting Military Records (Military.com) link here

Request Military Records if they are YOUR records or your family (includes forms needed) link here

If You are NOT the serviceman or next of kin, need to fill out this form link here

Request for Veteran Records (Online form process)    link here

FOIA Freedom of Information Act (via MuckRock News Website---need to create an account, $20 gets you 5 requests, or you can do assignments for free requests) link here

GOP hates Republicans, Republicans hate GOP

GOP votes to cut food stamps, used most by  red states, and Republicans don't like their own party

Congress is the one on ""welfare and food stamps""  (my blog piece) link here


Food Stamp Usage by percentage, February 2011, highest states in dark red, more than 20%
photo link

State unemployment in blue July 2012, Food Stamps in red June 2012
photo link

Republicans unhappy with their own party link here

The poll asked both self-described Democrats and Republicans — including "leaners" — if they think their own parties are taking things in the right or wrong direction. Democrats approved of their party's direction, with 72% saying leadership was taking the party in the right direction to just 21% who said it was taking things in the wrong direction.

But Republicans largely disapprove of their own party's leadership, as has been the case for quite some time now. Just 37% of self-identified Republicans and Republican "leaners" say leadership is taking the party in the right direction. Meanwhile, 52% say it's taking things in the wrong direction.

That's a big change from last August, when Republicans approved of their leadership by a 58-32 margin.

Stand Your Ground photos

link here

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link here

How Congress Passes Bills

links to PDF guides, flow charts, etc

Votesmart  link

HobNobBlog Flow Chart PDF link  from TheCapitol.net link

Thomas.loc.gov link PDF link

Wikipedia flowchart link

Kids Guide link

SYG Titusville Case

Stand Your Ground claim-----Titusville, Florida, Brevard County, September 3, 2012 

I first learned about this particular Stand Your Ground case on Twitter from Stacie Mc-Whitaker, cousin of victim Gary Hembree who was killed. (@StacieMcWhitake  AND @SygTriggers) also Gary's sister Christina Cipollone @Crissie79 and Gary's Mother Jeanie Huppert @Jeanie_Meother)

All information is linked to its source, or I state that I got information undocumented from Stacie.

Shooter William Woodward

VICTIMS Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior and Bruce Timothy Blake

If Woodward wins at the pretrial stand your ground hearing, there will be no trial for first-degree murder.  He will not be prosecuted and will be released from jail.   page 2 end of article



William Woodward ""snuck up on a Labor Day barbecue and opened fire at about 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 3, 2012. Police arrived and found VICTIMS Gary Lee Hembree, Roger Picior and Bruce Timothy Blake all had been shot. Hembree and Picior died of their injuries. Blake, who was hit 11 times, survived.  The motion filed by Woodward’s attorneys says in the hours prior to the shooting, all three men were yelling at Woodward and that this type of behavior had been ongoing for over a month."" link

Woodward's own security camera captured the shots. link

VIDEO of shots fired link

VIDEO of shots with News Commentary link

VIDEO News Story Woodward faces judge link

William Woodward is a veteran and is the 44-year-old brother of Titusville fire Chief Michael Woodward. link 

Stacie tells me his father is a retired Brevard County Sheriff, and his sister-in-law is the personal assistant to the chief of police.

Woodward had been the target of a variety of threats and “exercised his right under Florida law to defend himself and his family that night.” link

"We have a pattern of behavior of constant threats to Mr. Woodward and his family, some of them quite graphic, and including threats to sodomize and rape his 12-year-old daughter," said Woodward's lawyer, Greg Eisenmenger   link

Things escalated to gunfire just after midnight Monday -- Hembree's ex-wife says Woodward accused their daughter of stealing some items from his carport.  Police say they have responded to disputes between the suspect and victim several times, even offering a neutral site for discussion at the police department. The disputes even landed them in court, but no injuctions were given to either party. link

(OK so how exactly is an accusation of theft become Stand Your Ground?? Answer?? THE BUSH DOCTRINE!!!)

Stand Your Ground becomes Bush Doctrine (preemptive strike) 

It cited the "Bush Doctrine" to justify Woodward's response to the perceived threats, referring to George W. Bush's concept of waging pre-emptive war against potential threats before they metastasize into imminent threats.  “I think legally that term has sort of been evolving especially given changes of our government’s definition of ‘imminent,’” Robert Berry, one of the attorneys representing Woodward, told Florida Today. “It’s become more expansive than someone putting a gun right to your head. It’s things that could become, you know, an immediate threat.”   link

The stand your ground motion Woodward's attorneys filed in court says Woodward didn't have to wait for anyone to point a gun at him. In fact, the motion quotes United States policy in killing international terrorists, saying, in effect, if the U.S. can kill terrorists with drones, Woodward can shoot his plotting, threatening neighbors.
The motion will force a judge or jury to decide whether Woodward stood his ground.  link

The documents describe how investigators said Woodward went into full military mode while carrying out the attack.
According to documents, Woodward fired 31 rounds. WFTV learned there is surveillance video that shows Woodward crawling on his belly to the first neighbor's house. In the video, a victim can be heard calling Woodward a "plastic G.I. Joe" before he was shot.
Woodward told police after the shooting he considered himself on a "mission" and that he was in "a war zone," according to documents.  link

Man cites Bush Doctrine in Stand Your Ground Murder link

Victim who survived shooting (shot 11 times) OUTRAGED over Stand Your Ground claim link

shooter denied bond link

Case Information

Case Charges 

Court Case information

https://vweb1.brevardclerk.us/FACTS/d_caseno.cfm?CaseNumber=05-2012-CF-055504-AXXX-XX

Charges Filed

https://vweb1.brevardclerk.us/FACTS/d_charges.cfm?CaseNumber=#SearchCaseNo#

STAND YOUR GROUND HEARING----Attorney asks JURY not JUDGE to rule on SYG
Sept 25th Stand Your Ground Hearing in Woodward Case link here
Woodward's Attorney argued in court today that a jury should decide whether his client's charges should be dismissed under Florida's Stand Your Ground law. Judge Morgan Reinman said she would decide on or before November 20, but Woodward's attorney anticipated that her decision would be appealed either way.

Woodward’s attorneys had filed a motion saying he had been the target of a variety of threats and “exercised his right under Florida law to defend himself and his family that night.”

Friends and Family Protest Stand Your Ground Claim link here
Friends and family of Gary Hembree protested outside the Brevard County Courthouse, waving signs and calling for justice Wednesday.

The protests came before a hearing for William Woodward, who is seeking a "stand your ground" hearing.
"It's awful, it's awful... The family's not the same without Gary," Hembree's mother Dorothy Huppert said.

"It's beyond craziness now… I don't get it," Blake said.

Blake said he's angry Woodward's attorney is looking for a "stand your ground" hearing.

Woodward's attorney doesn't want a typical "stand your ground" hearing with the judge ruling. He wants a separate trial with jurors deciding if he should stand trial for the shootings.

Quote from Stacie Mc-Whitaker, cousin of victim Gary Hembree "How can you be standing your ground when you're crawling on your belly."

@SYGTriggers Stands for SYG T.R.I.G.G.E.R.S. (Threatens to Redefine Imminence, and GAIN Ground w/the Evolution of Rights and Safety)

Stacie says ""SYG triggers fear and anger. SYG triggers violence & retaliation""

Stacie also says that William Woodward claimed PTSD but fell off a ladder in Japan and never served outside the wire---he was a file clerk---I have found no supporting documentation at this time---I will update when I have more information.


Jonathon Turley Blog article about the case    http://jonathanturley.org/2013/09/07/good-for-goose-and-gander-or-just-foul-play-the-bush-doctrine-redux/




EXAMINING STAND YOUR GROUND LAW

Justifiable Homicide in Self Defense (Stand Your Ground ""no retreat"" NOT NECESSARY)
Wikipedia link

FLORIDA LAW link

782.02 Justifiable use of deadly force.—The use of deadly force is justifiable when a person is resisting any attempt to murder such person or to commit any felony upon him or her or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person shall be.

History.—ss. 4, 5, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2378; ch. 4967, 1901; s. 1, ch. 4964, 1901; GS 3203; RGS 5033; CGL 7135; s. 66, ch. 74-383; s. 1, ch. 75-24; s. 45, ch. 75-298; s. 1197, ch. 97-102.

782.03 Excusable homicide.—Homicide is excusable when committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent, or by accident and misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat, without any dangerous weapon being used and not done in a cruel or unusual manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law

http://progresstexas.org/blog/alecs-stand-your-ground-law-passed-texas-2007

Bill detail Florida State link


Justifiable Homicide Rises after Stand Your Ground law passes link

FLORIDA STAND YOUR GROUND DATABASE
http://www.tampabay.com/stand-your-ground-law/

MY OTHER Stand Your Ground Blog Post  link here


Law was meant to protect TOURISTS as well as residents of Florida says lawmaker link

FLORIDA STAND YOUR GROUND TEXT link  discussion

776.013 Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm.—

Section (3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

776.041 Use of force by aggressor.—

The justification described in the preceding sections of this chapter is not available to a person who:

(1) Is attempting to commit, committing, or escaping after the commission of, a forcible felony; or

(2) Initially provokes the use of force against himself or herself, unless:

(a) Such force is so great that the person reasonably believes that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that he or she has exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant

Longer Discussion on Stand Your Ground link here

States with Stand Your Ground law August 2013 article link

Attorney General Eric Holder on Stand Your Ground at NAACP 2013 link VIDEO here

Separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation’s attention, it’s time to 

question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in 

our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always 

been a legal defense for using deadly force if – and the “if” is important – no safe retreat is 

available.

But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and 

age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if 

they can do so safely. By allowing and perhaps encouraging violent situations to escalate in 

public, such laws undermine public safety. The list of resulting tragedies is long and –

unfortunately – has victimized too many who are innocent. It is our collective obligation – we 

must stand our ground – to ensure that our laws reduce violence, and take a hard look at laws that 

contribute to more violence than they prevent.

Government Lobbying

Goldman Sachs, Oil, GE, Monsanto and everything else (but Israel)

http://fairwhistleblower.ca/content/revolving-door-between-us-government-big-business

Causes of the American Civil War

Sources 
Out of Many link here

Don't Know Much about the Civil War by Kenneth Davis link here

Causes of the Civil War Edited by Kenneth M. Stampp (essays) link here

Overall Causes (Listed in Causes of the Civil War)
1. State's Rights and Nationalism
2. Economic Sectionalism
3. Majority Rule and Minority Rights

Now Discussing Fort Sumter---who provoked who??

Wikipedia
A crisis similar to the one at Fort Sumter had emerged at Pensacola, Florida, where Confederates threatened another U.S. fortification—Fort Pickens. Lincoln and his new cabinet struggled with the decisions of whether to reinforce the forts, and how. They were also concerned about whether to take actions that might start open hostilities and which side would be perceived as the aggressor as a result. Similar discussions and concerns were occurring in the Confederacy.

History
In December 1860, the fort was 90 percent complete, but construction stopped—never to be resumed—once South Carolina passed the Ordinance of Secession.

Fort Moultrie was one of three active federal fortifications in Charleston Harbor, each with different challenges.

The unfinished Fort Sumter was the most important of the three—a fact not lost on Anderson. In a December 9, 1860, report from Fort Moultrie, he wrote, “Fort Sumter is a tempting prize, the value of which is well known to the Charlestonians, and once in their possession, with its ammunition and armament and walls uninjured and garrisoned properly, it would set our Navy at defiance, compel me to abandon this work, and give them the perfect command of this harbor.”

Two days later, Maj. Don Carlos Buell delivered verbal instructions from Secretary of War John B. Floyd to Anderson, stating that “an attack on or attempt to take possession of any one of them [the forts] will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance.” Prompted by South Carolina’s secession on December 20, the commencement of state patrol boats operating between Forts Sumter and Moultrie, the size of his garrison and the growing threat of hostile action, Anderson transferred his command to Fort Sumter on the night of December 26, 1860.

Anderson was informed that Fort Sumter would be fired upon beginning at 4:30 a.m. on April 12.

The Confederacy had achieved its objective: Fort Sumter was taken.

Don't Know Much about the Civil War pg 162

Lincoln's inaugural address promised that the govt would not start a war and that no attempt would be made to retake federal facilities already held by Confederate Forces (Ft Sumter was not ""already held"")

Lincoln also declared that he would ""hold, occupy and possess"" installations still under federal control in the Confederacy (Ft Sumter WOULD apply, and a resupply would in my opinion SHOULD not have been seen as a provocation)

Beyond that Lincoln made no threats.

 

The day after his inauguration Major Robert Anderson reported that there were less than 6 weeks of supplies at Fort Sumter.

The Fort was being built as a response to the War of 1812 which showed the inadequacy of America's coastal defenses.

President Buchanan (1857-1861) had no response to previous attacks and seizures by South Carolina after Secession, and also pledged not to reinforce Fort Pickens in Florida for an agreement not to attack it. But he also refused to remove federal troops from Sumter.

When South Carolina seceded there were 3 forts, seen as a symbol of ""foreign authority"" and Major Anderson abandoned the other 2 forts.

South Carolina seized the 2 forts as well as the customhouse, post office, treasury, and an arsenal.

South Carolina fired on The Star of the West an unarmed steamer coming into the harbor with supplies for the fort.

Given the choices of evacuation or resupply or reinforcement, Lincoln chose a middle ground, resupplying the fort but not reinforcing it militarily, and he let South Carolina Governor Pickens know the supplies were coming, and let the Governor know on April 8, the fort was attacked April 12th 4:30am.

Video---Bachmann, King and Gohmert in Egypt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1-8glEKH30M   

GUYS LEARN THE TRUTH PLEASE!!!! link

Speech from Michelle Bachmann, Steve King and Louis Gohmert

NY Times article here
Washington Post article here 

Wait your from the United States Congress, in the United States of America?? I would have never guessed that!!!

Nothing like deregulation to get an economy going am I right??

Or

Laws are bad for the economy!!

No we did not go through this together……shame on you for even implying that

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12313405 

NO!!! muslim brotherhood DID NOT attack us in 9/11 and no, there is no muslim brotherhood in US government!!!

(A clarification for those who are interested---Ayman Al-Zawahri is Egyptian, and he is a terrorist, he was part of the group that assassinated Anwar Al Sadat in 1981 for signing the peace treaty with Israel in 1979----he later formed Al Qaeda with Bin Laden who is Saudi Arabian, and 9/11 was attacking the US—Saudi alliance---15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, and Mohamed Atta was Egyptian)

Ayman al-Zawahri   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri participated in Youth activism as a student. He became both quite pious and political, under the influence of his uncle Mahfouz Azzam, and lecturer Mostafa Kamel Wasfi.^[18] Sayyid Qutb preached that to restore Islam and free Muslims, a vanguard of true Muslims modeling itself after the original Companions of the Prophet had to be developed.^[19]
By the age of 14, al-Zawahiri had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. The following year the Egyptian government executed Qutb for conspiracy, and al-Zawahiri, along with four other secondary school students, helped form an "underground cell devoted to overthrowing the government and establishing an Islamist state." It was at this early age that al-Zawahiri developed a mission in life, "to put Qutb's vision into action."^[20] His cell eventually merged with others to form al-Jihad or Egyptian Islamic Jihad.^[14]


In 1998, al-Zawahiri formally merged the Egyptian Islamic Jihad into al-Qaeda. According to reports by a former al-Qaeda member, he has worked in the al-Qaeda organization since its inception and was a senior member of the group's shura council. He was often described as a "lieutenant" to Osama bin Laden, though bin Laden's chosen biographer has referred to him as the "real brains" of al-Qaeda.^[48]
On February 23, 1998, al-Zawahiri issued a joint fatwa with Osama bin Laden under the title "World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders". Zawahiri, not bin Laden, is thought to have been the actual author of the fatwa.^[51]

Mohamed Atta  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta#Islamic_revival

After coming to Hamburg in 1992, Atta became more religious, frequently attending the mosque.^[33] Atta's friends in Germany described him as an intelligent man with religious beliefs, along with political motivations, including anger at U.S. policy toward the Middle East, particularly the Oslo Accords and the Gulf War.^[34][35] Atta was also enraged by Egypt's ruling elite, and the Egyptian government's crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members.   (BUT NOTE that it doesnt say Atta was ever member of Muslim Brotherhood)

The people Do NOT want military support from US!!!

Menace on the border?? Its internal to Egypt!!! Muslim brotherhood is not outside Egypt

3,000 Americans did not die, they were citizens of many countries not all Americans

I guess you guys aren’t the ones pressuring obama to call this a coup are you???

Muslim brotherhood are the oppressed!!! Its not the other guys taking their country back!!! THEY were in power for 80 years!!!

We stand for democracy!!! We don’t stand against muslim brotherhood!!! Only when Morsi acts like a dictator no better than Mubarak!!!

Numerous leaders = THE ARMY!!!

Yes Washington led a military----and then we gave military CIVILIAN CONTROL!!!

He was our first president he didn’t resign and go home!!!

No Thomas Paine was not a founder (well technically, he is listed as other founders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States#Other_founders)

No caliphate that’s Al Qaeda---Muslim Brotherhood is nationalist they want democracy to rule their own country

Muslim Brotherhood Ayman Noor ran in 2006 Muslim Brotherhood is NOT “”rammed through”” they’ve been political party for 80 years, banned and organizing underground

Yes I have a question “”how are you so dumb???””

Yes differences of opinions and some make up their own facts

 It was a coup!!! Yes it was supported by the people, but it was still a military takeover

A COUP IS a sudden, violent (or non-violent), and illegal seizure of power from a government.

Id love to know what the host is saying…….