Sandy Treadwell has filed a "Request for Judicial Intervention" with the Dutchess County Supreme Count in an attempt to keep John Wallace, of Columbia County, off the September Republican primary ballot.

There are over 60 different allegations outlined in the court filing that accuse Wallace and the people who helped him obtain the signatures for the nominating petitions of just about every technical violation there is in the election law regarding petitions.

"This is a classic example of the millionaire candidate using his vast resources to silence the grassroots candidate and at the same time disenfranchise all of the Republican voters who signed my petitions. Treadwell has accused me of everything but stealing the kitchen sink." Wallace said.

Wallace was still waiting to hear from the State Board of Elections when a copy of Treadwell's filing was delivered to his house on Friday afternoon via US mail. In the adjoining 21st Congressional District, the Republicans running in the primary did not file objections to each other petitions.

Wallace said: "I do not know why Sandy Treadwell is so afraid of givng the people in the distict a choice in the primary. What's wrong with an honest discussion of the issues that are facing the people here and in the rest of the country? Whether I win this petition fight or not, I think Sandy Treadwell, by his own actions in this matter, is showing that he is afraid of a candidate who talks about the corruption of our congress by special interest money and the federal government's increasing attacks on the freedoms and liberties of its own citizens."

A copy of the court papers can be found at:

www.FreedomCandidate.com/Treadwell-JudicialIntervention-072308.pdf

For more information contact:

John Wallace
Candidate for Congress
www.FreedomCandidate.com

On June 24, 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), while at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, told reporter John Gizzi, that she favored a return of the Fairness Doctrine. The imposition of the Fairness Doctrine would force radio broadcasters to provide equal time to opposing points of view, which would essentially give the government control over what the people can and cannot hear.

Ms Pelosi also said she supported the efforts of Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) who has been very active behind the revival of the Fairness Doctrine. Rep Slaughter had introduced the 2004 MEDIA Act to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and reintroduced it in 2005 as the Fairness and Accountability in Broadcasting Act.

The Democratic leadership knows that they can't directly pass a "Fairness Doctrine" piece of legislation, so they will most likely try to slip it in under another name or attach it to some 'must pass' piece of legislation. Their support of the 'Fairness Doctrine by any means' strategy poses a direct threat to American citizens' constitutonal right of Freedom of Speech.

The important questions for Americans to ask are: Why is Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats against free speech for the American people? Why are they so determined to bring back the Fairness Doctrine? and why is the Democratic leadership refusing to bring a true piece of Freedom of Speech legislation, The Broadcaster Freedom Act HR-2905, to the floor for a vote?

I believe that it was the collapse of the radio station “Air America” a Liberal talk station, that has led to this attempt to re-introduce the Fairness Doctrine as a form of de facto censorship. It appears that if certain political views can’t compete in the world of ideas, then the solution is to pass a law that forces radio stations to air those views.

I am opposed to any resurrection of the “The Fairness Doctrine,” the 1940’s law that effectively censored political talk radio for many years, because it is a violation of the First Amendment and limits Free Speech. The real issue here is not what you “are able to” see or hear, which is what the Fairness Doctrine was about originally. It’s about placing limitations on the Freedoms you currently have to “choose” what to see or hear.

In the 1940’s and 50’s, Americans had few choices with only three major networks and there was some validity to the Fairness Doctrine. Today, Americans have an almost unlimited choice of where to get their information: regular TV, cable TV, regular radio, satellite radio, internet, web-blogs, etc., which makes the Fairness Doctrine unnecessary.

I support the Broadcaster Freedom Act (HR-2905), introduced by Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind) which would prevent these first amendment restrictive regulations from returning. Representative Mike Pence introduced the BFA last June, where it is still awaiting a vote. As of June 25, 2008, two hundred Members of Congress have signed a discharge petition which would force the House to make an up or down vote on the legislation, but an additional 18 signatures are still needed. So far, not one single House Democrat has signed the petition to bring the legislation to the floor for a vote.

It should also be noted that two of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioners have already indicated that they favor the return of the Fairness Doctrine. All that would be needed to reinstitute Fairness Doctrine regulations would be for the next President to appoint a third sympathetic commissioner. Then, the regulations could go back into effect without any vote at all and the constitutional Freedom of Speech rights and guarantees of all Americans would suffer another blow.

By not bringing the Broadcaster Freedom Act to the floor for a vote, Speaker Pelosi is attempting to limit the constitutional rights of Free Speech of those American citizens who happen to oppose her political views.

The constitutional right of Freedom of Speech guarantees that people or organizations have the right to express their ideas without danger of censorship, interference or punitive action by the government. It does not mean that people or organizations with different views must be provided with a meeting hall, a radio station or a printing press through which to express their ideas. Those who value the First Amendment, as I do, must oppose the Fairness Doctrine, in any form, as a serious threat to their Freedom of Speech.

By:
John Wallace
Candidate for Congress
NY's 20th Congressional District
www.FreedomCandidate.com

 

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is a program of the US Department of Agriculture that is supposedly designed to identify and track all livestock animals, including poultry, horses, cattle, goats and sheep for the purpose of disease containment. The proposed NAIS national system requires the use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology to track the location of animals as part of the concept that all such animals in the US are part of a “national herd.” It requires every farm, private home or other “premises” having these types of animals to be registered with government agencies, even if that private home or premises contains only a single animal that might be just a family pet. While NAIS’s stated goal of disease containment appears on the surface to be beneficial, the requirement for American citizens to register privately-owned property for tracking and monitoring purposes has very serious implications for Americans’ privacy rights, freedoms and liberties.

The NAIS program was created as the result of extensive lobbying from large corporate agribusinesses and RFID chip manufacturers. It is really designed to protect the large corporate farms against possible legal liability when some sort of animal epidemic occurs.Agribusiness giants also want the federal government to create a livestock database and provide free industry data. But small and independent livestock owners would face a costly mandate if NAIS was to become law. While the federal program is supposed to be voluntary, money given to some states from the US Department of Agriculture, through cooperative agreements and funding, has been used to make some or all of the NAIS provisions mandatory in those states.

Although the initial NAIS plan covers only livestock, provisions of the plan call for the registration of farms, private homes and other premises into a federal database even if it contains just one horse, one goat, etc. All pet owners should also be aware that dogs, cats, rabbits and all other domestic pets are not specifically excluded from any expansion of the NAIS program. Under NAIS, all livestock animals must be RFID chipped, and the owners of these animals would be required to report all transfers, sales, births, deaths etc. of these animals. The real danger here is that with the RFID chips in place, the US government will be able to track the movements of the tagged animals and the American citizens who are transporting them.

In a landmark ruling on June 4, 2008, (in Mary-Louise Zanoni v. United States Department of Agriculture), Federal District Judge for the District of Columbia, Emmet Sullivan, suspended the implementation of the NAIS program indefinitely. Although the program has not been declared unconstitutional and may return in a new form, the decision effectively keeps the USDA from using the 1974 federal Privacy Act to place severe limitations on access to the national NAIS database by members of the public, as well as the livestock owners and other individuals whose personal and business information might have been included in the database without their knowledge. The information in question is a list of farms and ranches collected through voluntary premises identification and through other means including information supplied by state Agricultural agencies, state veterinarians, avian flu records and even entry lists of animal entries from county fairs.  It would appear that the USDA was collecting data on thousands of American citizens, whose farms or other private properties were added to the NAIS registry database without their knowledge or permission.

The NAIS program is not about preventing mad cow or other diseases since most contamination happens in the processing plants after the animals have been sold and. tracing them back to the farm or ranch that sold them won’t help find the sources of the suspected disease. It’s about helping big corporate agribusinesses and RFID chip manufacturers make bigger profits at the expense of the small family farmers and ranchers. Besides, states already have some sort of animal identification systems in place. Protecting America's food supply and preserving the country’s livestock’s resistance to diseases can best be protected by the continued decentralization of our nation’s food production and processing. 

The implementation of any NAIS-type program would place small American family farmers and ranchers at an economic disadvantage against big agribusiness and overseas competition. Under the proposed NAIS program, larger livestock operations would be allowed to tag whole groups of animals with one ID device, while smaller ranchers, farmers and even some pet owners, would be forced to tag each individual animal, at a cost of anywhere from $3 to $20 per head. Should a NAIS-type program ever be implemented in the US, livestock owners would be forced to comply with the burdens of additional paperwork and new monitoring rules and regulations. American livestock owners would literally be paying for an assault on their own property and privacy rights.

The current US Department of Agriculture NAIS program means bigger government, more government intrusion, more regulations, more paperwork, more fees and taxes and more federal spending, that will result in less privacy, less freedom, less liberty and less property and 4^th Amendment rights for American citizens. It’s exactly the kind of unconstitutional federal program every American citizen and their elected federal representatives should oppose. 

By:

JOHN W. WALLACE

Candidate for Congress

New York’s 20^th Congressional District

www.FreedomCandidate.com

 

BreakTheMatrix.com Vows to Disprove Critics Claiming 'Freedom Movement' Is Dead
July 1, 2008 12:35 PM EDT

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