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The First Amendment Is The REAL Patriot Act

January 28, 2015 By Ethan Indigo Smith 1 Comment

Law is meant to protect the inalienable rights of people. But the Patriot Act acts. It does not protect human rights. It is not real patriotism. It imposes the will of institutional government upon people, at the expense of the rights inherent to our humanity.

The First Amendment in the United States’ Bill of Rights is the original patriot act. The First Amendment is the formula for true patriotism; a prescription to non-violently oppose monopolistic isms, and isms of all sorts. It is the way in which change is conducted without hostile confrontation. In this way, the First Amendment is the very definition of patriotism.

There are five distinct parts to the First Amendment. These five distinctions spell out five separate rights of freedom, and five stages essential to patriotic action: think, seek, speak, stop, act.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties Tagged With: 1st amendment, 9-11, activism, Bill of Rights, Boston Tea Party, civil disobdience, democracy, direct action, First Amendment, free speech, freedom, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, history, Institutional Thinking, journalism, media, PATRIOT Act, Patriot Act of 2001, patriotism, Press Freedom, propaganda, protest, revolution, September 11, September 11th, strikes, United States Bill of Rights, USA PATRIOT ACT

KeystoneXL Protester Seeks Lawsuit Over Police Brutality

January 7, 2015 By Benjamin Franklin Craft-Rendon 2 Comments

My faith calls me to express my values through my acts and my relationship with others. I took part in a nonviolent direct action campaign against the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline because these extreme extraction projects always harm those already marginalized the most.

I will not allow my inaction to read as consent. That’s why I locked down to halt construction of KXL South and that’s why I’m suing Wood County for the actions of their police officers. I doubt that my treatment was the first time these officers abused those under their power but hopefully my lawsuit can help make it one of the last.

Below is the story of my action, originally published on October 1, 2012:

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Environment Tagged With: #NoKXL, ACLU, Alan Moore, American Civil Liberties Union, Christianity, civil disobedience, climate, climate action, Climate change, direct action, Dune, East Texas, eminent domain, Frank Herbert, Houston, Human Rights, Keystone XL, Keystone XL South, KXL South, land grabs, less lethal weapons, lockbox, lockboxes, Occupy Houston, Occupy Wall St., Occupy Wall Street, oil sands, OWS, pain compliance, pepper spray, pipelines, police, police brutality, Rain Beebe, religion, Shannon Beebe, stun guns, Tar sands, Tar Sands Blockade, tarsands, TarSandsBlockade.org, tasers, Texas, torture, TransCanada, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, V for Vendetta, Wood County, Wood County Sheriff’s Department

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