Do You Want RFID on YOUR ID?? Anti-Chip Bill Needs Your Help!

Kaye Beach

Feb 28, 2011

Last week I reported that HB 1399 had been assigned to the Public Safety Committee.

On Wed. Feb 23rd we learned that Rep Tibbs and Rep. Steve Martin decided not to hear the bill.

To find out more about the risks of RFID tracking devices embedded in our ID documents read RFID ID Cards Documents Risks Flyer

For the 1 page version of how the people and their Representatives were sold out on the bill they passed last session to prohibit RFID see HB 2569 Chace’d off by the SIA

Here is an update from OK-SAFE:

HB 1399 Blocked by Rep. Sue Tibbs and Rep. Steve Martin

Characterizing HB 1399 as a “solution in search of a problem”, Rep. Steve Martin, Vice-Chair of the House Public Safety Committee, along with Chair Rep. Sue Tibbs, has decided to not allow this bill a hearing in their committee.

Rep. Steve Martin (R-HD10)

Apparently both Martin and Tibbs are unaware of the pending May 2011 deadline to implement the provisions of the Real ID Act, thereby creating a National/International ID card.  Or they are aware and approve such a card.

HB 1399 (by Wesselhoft/Russell) prohibits the use RFID or RFID-type ink in the Oklahoma dirvers’ licenses and state issued ID cards.  (This same bill passed, and was vetoed, in 2010 and was aimed at fighting the implementation of the Real ID Act in Oklahoma.)

By preventing a hearing and vote on this bill, Martin and Tibbs are preemptively vetoing HB 1399.

Please call/email Rep. Tibbs and Rep. Steve Martin and tell them to advance HB 1399.

Rep. Sue Tibbs, 405-557-7379     suetibbs@okhouse.gov
Rep. Steve Martin, 405-557-7402 stevemartin@okhouse.gov

Oklahoma Gets Millions in Fed Dollars for Meeting Major Milestone of the Health Care Reform Act

Kaye Beach

Feb 27, 2011

This is another shell game being played on us  just like  what is being done with the The Real ID Act.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 made up the health care reform of 2010.

This Health Care Reform is  frequently referred to as “Obamacare” something Governor Fallin seems to be passionately opposed to;

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin seeks to expedite review of health care challenge

Feb. 11, 2011

Gov. Mary Fallin says she’s joined 28 other Republican governors who sent a letter to President Obama asking him to direct the Department of Justice to expedite the appeals process of the pending state lawsuits against the federal health care bill  Read more

And yet the Oklahoma Governor just accepted federal funding to develop a key portion (in fact the most disturbing part in my opinion) of Health Care Reform-the information technology infrastructure that will allow wide-scale sharing of your  health information.  You cannot opt out of this system if your state (like Oklahoma) chooses to implement it.

Copy of the grant Agreement

Oklahoma honored as innovator

The state will receive $54.6 million in federal money to develop information technology to share with other states.

Oklahoma received one of seven awards totaling $241 million to help states design and use information technology needed to operate health insurance exchanges.

he state applied for a grant in October under former Gov. Brad Henry‘s administration. Gov. Mary Fallin supports the exchange idea. Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-honored-as-innovator/article/3541176#ixzz1F89HDBnT

The following article calls it like it is.  “Reform implementation continues” (shhhh.just don’t tell anyone it’s “Obamacare” and they will never know the difference-ain’t government a giggle?!)

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Reform implementation continues

Feb 16, 2011

HHS doles out exchange grants: As Republicans look to defund the healthcare reform law, the health department awarded $241 million in grants to six states and a New England consortium to develop information technology infrastructure for exchanges created by the healthcare overhaul. The so-called “early innovator” grants were awarded to Kansas, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Wisconsin and the New England group.

Is anyone paying any attention?

The Grassroots in Nebraska discovers something ICLEI creeping across their state

Kaye bEach

Feb 25, 2011

GIN-Grassroots in Nebraska delves in.

From GIN:

What is Sustainable Development you may ask, and why does it constitute a threat to freedom?

There a number of groups who have been studying this movement much longer than we have who can provide more articulate definitions and we have provided links to some of those resources, below.  Sustainable development is the working name for a concept developed over a decade ago within the United Nation’s Agenda 21 program. While marketed mostly as an environmental movement, the goals are all encompassing and therefore impact the fundamental and inalienable rights of all people; life, liberty, and property.

[. . .]The Sustainable Development effort has been focused on impacting government policy at the local level. Visible signs of this impact can be found in such things long-term planning efforts such as “Vision 2015″ in Lincoln and a similar concept in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called “PlanIt Tulsa”, proposals of developments that include dense concentration of people in urban areas that focus on pedestrian, bike paths, and public transportation over passenger vehicles, and rewards-based recycling programs, just to name a few.

Taken separately, any of the few examples listed may seem like worthwhile ideas. Of course the very name for the concept sounds worthy, who among us does not want “development” that is “sustainable”? A refocus on any one of the examples, however, reveals some troubling issues. Long term planning efforts associated with Sustainable Development involve a very small number of people making decisions about other peoples’ private property, dense concentration of peoples with focus on alternate forms of transport are part of the state goal of Agenda 21 advocates to eliminate passenger vehicles, and recycling programs with rewards are proven gateways to forced recycling with fines systems.

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Read GiN’s articles on this topic  –

• Many Questions About Chris Beutler Decision to Join ICLEI No.1: Is it Legal? January 17, 2011
• Federal and State Sovereignty Threat You May Not Know About November 30, 2010
• Nebraska Groups Working with the UN to Expand Welfare December 13, 2010
• Strange But True: The UN is Interested in Nebraska Prenatal Care December 9, 2010

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin headed to Washington

Oklahoma’s first female governor is attending her first National Governors Association meeting. The freshman governor has been named to the group’s nine-member executive committee.

BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Oklahoman 

Published: February 26, 2011

Gov. Mary Fallin will be telling her peers this weekend about her efforts to reduce a $500 million budget shortfall by agency cuts and consolidations and making the state more efficient by sharing services.

[ . . ]Topics on today’s agenda for the governors include job creation, education, health costs and homeland security.

The governors and their spouses are invited for a black-tie dinner with President Barack Obama and the first lady. They will return Monday to the White House for meetings with the president and members of his Cabinet.

Secretary of State Glenn Coffee is accompanying Fallin on her trip. Fallin’s husband, Wade Christensen, is flying up Sunday to join the governor for the White House dinner.

Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-gov.-mary-fallin-headed-to-washington/article/3544185#ixzz1F6wjW7s8

The FBI: Going Rogue

By John W. Whitehead
2/14/2011

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The minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.–J. Edgar Hoover

The history of the FBI is the history of how America–once a nation that abided by the rule of law and held the government accountable for its actions–has steadily devolved into a police state where laws are unidirectional, intended as a tool for government to control the people and rarely the other way around.

The FBI (then named simply Bureau of Investigation) was established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles Bonaparte as a small task force assigned to deal with specific domestic crimes, its first being to survey houses of prostitution in anticipation of enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act. Initially quite limited in its abilities to investigate so-called domestic crimes, the FBI slowly expanded in size, scope and authority over the course of the 20th century.

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Tonight on A4L Live! Breitbart Backstory and Boots on the Ground Report from Oklahoma Pro-Second Amendment Activists

Tonight on AxXiom for Liberty 6-8pm CST with Kaye Beach axxiomand Howard Houchen we will get some news we can use! 

Listening Info

Meredith Dake reports about the lawsuit aimed at Andrew Breitbart and Larry O’Connor the head of Breitbart.tv.  Papers were served these gentlemen at CPAC.  Meridith Dake was there and she will give us the rest of the story.

Meredith writes:

Meredith writes-I am a contributor at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Hollywood and know Andrew personally. I have a close association with the other defendant in this lawsuit, Larry O’Connor. I am the producer/co-host for his nightly internet radio show.

This email (or post) and all the information it contains have been obtained organically through my own investigation and research across the internet, including the “Bigs” sites. I am the original and only author of this email (or post). No one, including Andrew, Larry, or anyone associated with Breitbart.com contributed or has knowledge that I’m even writing this. This is all my own doing. Why? Because when I saw this bully tactic in the form of a lawsuit I became incensed. This story infuriates me and I’m going to do my very best to respond.

See Meredith’s Blog for this and more “Pointed Observations from the Right” at www.meredithdake.com

New Media Entrepreneur declares that his voice will not be suppressed.

Andrew Breitbart and the head of Breitbart.tv sued by Pigford claimant.

Los Angeles, CA, February 12, 2011 – Breitbart.com LLC announced today that its Chairman and CEO Andrew Breitbart and the head of Breitbart.tv, Larry O’Connor, have been sued in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by a central figure in the Pigford “back-door” reparations case. The Pigford case involves over $2.5 billion in US taxpayer money and constitutes one of the biggest cases of corruption
and politically-motivated fraud in the history of the United States. Mr. Breitbart and Breitbart.tv have been investigating and reporting on the Pigford case since late summer 2010.

Headline:

States Consider Allowing Guns on Campus

Published February 23, 2011

Gun control is a hot-button issue across the country, and college campuses are now at the center of this growing debate.

Students and professors at Texas public universities may soon be able to carry guns on campus, according to a recent measure in the state’s House of Representatives. More than half of its members have signed on as co-authors of the measure, and the Senate passed a similar bill in 2009.

Eight other states including Arizona, Tennessee, Michigan, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida, Nebraska and Mississippi have pending “campus carry” legislation underway as well, according to David Burnett, director of public relations for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

Adrienne O’Reilly, the Oklahoma Director of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus joins us tonight and explains why she is advocating for four bills filed in the Oklahoma state legislature that will allow concealed carry by licensed individuals on college campuses.  Adrienne says that these bills are in danger of dying without ever being heard.  We will get an update on these bills from Adrienne and find out what we can do to help bring concealed carry to Oklahoma college campuses.

A list of common objections to concealed carry on campus and the answers to the objections can be found here

http://concealedCampus.org

Find Oklahoma Students for Concealed Carry on Facebook

OK2A -Oklahoma Second Amendment Association

Then Tim Gillespie, Director of the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association will be updating us on the progress of Oklahoma’s open carry bills and other pro-Second Amendment bill in general.

Oklahoma 2011 Second Amendment Bills

HB1463 – College Carry allowed
HB1547 – Removes Sherriff’s fees for fingerprints and passport photos
HB1553 – Removes gov’t buildings, gov’t meetings, professional sporting events, pari-mutuel wagering from prohibited places.
HB1652 – Removes Technology Center as prohibited place
HB1913 – Changes Misdemeanor drug conviction from permanent to temporary preclusion for handgun license (10 year)
HB1400 – Open carry without license

On  Feb 22, 2011 Ok2A writes:

On Monday, OK2A, along with almost 20 other conservative grassroots groups, began circulating a discharge petition at the Capitol.  House rules allow for discharge petitions as a means to get a bill brought out of a committee for a vote on the floor if 68 Representatives sign.

We will find out about more about this grassroots effort  to advance the bill to committee in order to get a fair hearing.

Visit http://www.ok2a.org

Join us!  Listen to AxXiom For Liberty Live 6-8pm CST on Rule of Law Radio Network

Call In Number 512-646-1984

Oklahoma-Senate committee approves ban on texting while driving

Kaye Beach

Feb 25, 2011

 

See Oklahoma Legislative Lu Lu’s

Feb 17, 2011

The Senate Public Safety Committee has given approval to legislation to ban texting while driving. State Sen. Jerry Ellis is the author of Senate Bill 146 which was approved by the committee on Thursday.

“Many people I’ve talked to have seen a near miss or accident that involved someone not paying attention to the road because they were texting while driving,” said Ellis, D-Valliant. “Just since filing this bill I’ve heard from people who’ve been involved in wrecks because of texting and driving.”

Numerous reports have outlined the dangers of texting while driving. A study conducted by the Virginia
Tech Transportation Institute found texting while driving makes a person 23 times more likely to be in a collision. The University of Utah conducted research that found people who were texting were just as impaired as drunk drivers.

“This behavior puts everyone on the road at risk. A ban on texting while driving could help save lives,” Ellis said.

Under the legislation, first-time offenders would face a fine of up to $175. Subsequent violations could result in a fine of up to $500. If the driver is involved in a crash at the time of violation, the fine would be double those amounts.

Ellis said the ban would apply to all drivers, regardless of age, with exceptions for emergency and medical personnel or law enforcement. There is an exception for drivers who are using a wireless telecommunication to report illegal activity, summon emergency help or to prevent injury to a person or
property.

SB 146 now moves to the full Senate for approval.

For more information contact:
Sen. Ellis: (405) 521-5614

http://www.oksenate.gov/news/press_releases/press_releases_2011/pr20110217c.html

Kansas Rep Offer bill for Mandatory Genetic Testing for Every Mom Pop and Child

Kaye Beach

Feb 24, 2011

 

(Hat tip to reader Tripod MA)

State rep backs paternity bill

Genetic tests would be mandatory for Kan. births – married couples’ kids, too.

By Mary Clarkin – The Hutchinson News – mclarkin@hutchnews.com

A bill introduced Wednesday in the Kansas House of Representatives would require every child born in Kansas to submit to genetic tests to determine paternity for the child.

Prior to leaving the hospital, the child, mother and alleged father shall submit to genetic tests, the bill states. When asked for clarification, bill sponsor State Rep. Melody McCray-Miller, D-Wichita, said the mother would not have to undergo DNA testing.

The intent of the proposed bill would apply to married couples, too, even those having their second or third baby.

The one-page bill states that tests shall be done by experts qualified as genetic examiners. If the birth occurs outside a hospital, the baby, mother and alleged father shall submit to testing within 10 days of the birth.

If any party refuses to submit to the tests, a court may intervene to resolve the matter.

Read More Insanity!

Oklahoma Cops thouroughly Probed in Order to Serve

Kaye Beach

Feb 24, 2011

The modern surveillance state demands to know all.   It never forgets,  never forgives.

The police background checks are already quite  thorough.   Is it ok to demand access to every nook and cranny of someones life because they want to be an law enforcement officer?  How about an Paramedic, a letter carrier?

Oklahoma police department wants prospective officers Facebook passwords as part of background check

The Norman, Oklahoma Police Department wants prospective officers to turn over their Facebook passwords as part of a background check for the job. “We’re actually hiring based on the quality of a person and you judge that through a variety of tools including a background investigation that talks to previous employers to friends to relatives to neighbors and up to and including their Facebook account,” said Captain Tom Easley from the Norman Oklahoma Police Department.

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My first thought?  Smells like the International Association of Chiefs of Police. This international association operates under the code of ethics of an international body.  We have a Constitution in our country.  This is a problem.

The IACP appears to have quite a lot of power and influence at the DOJ all the way down to city police departments. They have been responsible for some of the most anti-american justice and policing policy that has besieged us since 9 11 when “everything changed”

Everything did NOT change.  if you take a look at the founding documents of our country you will not see much of this.  In reality you are noticing a whole lot of this though.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police and the New Paradigm of Policing2

Yes. Our subversive friends at the IACP are pushing this hard.  Its called “Cybervetting”

In the opinion of the IACP

“The Internet is merely a new source to identify and collect information about people’s behavior.”

On December 30, 2010 the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released a report on their yearlong study of police cybervetting policy, “Developing a Cybervetting Strategy for Law Enforcement.” The report was a collaborative effort by the IACP and the Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC).  Read More

Police recruits screened for digital dirt on Facebook, etc.

Updated 11/12/2010

Law enforcement agencies are digging deep into the social media accounts of applicants, requesting that candidates sign waivers allowing investigators access to their Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and other personal spaces.

Some agencies are demanding that applicants provide private passwords, Internet pseudonyms, text messages and e-mail logs as part of an expanding vetting process for public safety jobs.

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City jobs too-

If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, Mont., be prepared to hand over much more than your references and resume.

The Rocky Mountain city instructs all job applicants to divulge their user names and passwords for “any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.”

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10268282-38.html#ixzz1EwVvgKJv

 

People that seek to avoid intrusive practices like giving up your biometrics for the “privilege” of driving or your 4th Amendment rights  to fly will soon find thier world getting very small.

I  refused to allow a digital (biometric) facial image capture at my doctors office this week and was informed that this might indeed be required in order for me to get my examination.

Upon checking further the receptionist found that it was not required-yet anyways.  I guess paying a doctor with my own money for an appointment is soon to become a “privilege” as well.  Yes.  We will all encounter greater and greater demands from us for access to all sorts of things.  Things like buying, selling or traveling.   In fact, you can bet on it.

 

Oklahoma State Senate-The People’s Tort?

 

Russell decried the idea that if he were to be in an accident that he was “only worth $250,000.”

(Clearly Sen Russell and other Oklahoma residents are worth much more!)

Feb 23, 2011

Story from the Red Dirt Report;

OK Senate approves lawsuit-reform bill despite concerns over constitutionality

By Andrew W. Griffin

Red Dirt Report, editor

Posted: February 23, 2011

reddirtreporter@gmail.com

OKLAHOMA CITY – Despite the passage Wednesday afternoon of Senate Bill 863, with a bi-partisan vote of 29-18, there was no overwhelming sense in the Oklahoma Senate that something positive for Oklahoma’s citizens had been approved.

No, it appeared to be a sort of deflated victory for the lawsuit-reform bill’s author, Sen. Anthony Sykes, a Moore Republican.

During debate on the Senate floor, there was no real sense that Sykes was firmly behind this particular bill which would limit pain and suffering awards – non-economic damages – to a paltry $250,000.

And while this bill was being pushed by the Republican leadership and is an issue that Gov. Mary Fallin has taken to heart, one of the most passionate opponents to the bill was Sen. Steve Russell a Republican and a highly-decorated veteran of the U.S. Army. It was Russell who made numerous comments about SB 863. He noted how less than two years ago there was similar tort-reform legislation approved by both the House and Senate and signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry.

Russell said that while former Sen. Glenn Coffee and Rep. Dan Sullivan had heralded the passage of the previous bill, somehow it seemed as though now it was needing to go down to $250,000, down from $400,000 and why was that?

Read more from the Red Dirt Report

Radio show host, guests highlight problems with Sykes’ tort-reform bill

Feb 14, 2011

Constitutional conservatives, Dems raise concern over proposed tort-reform legislation

Feb 10, 2011

Oklahoma money and politics gets attention from a national watchdog organization:

From the National Institute on Money in State Politics

“Major legislative victories are won in the committees,” said Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, whose Web site is FollowTheMoney.org. “Powerful political players know that legislative committees are where they can affect legislation, good or bad, often with little public input. We are arming citizens with powerful information that can be used to counter the well-heeled special-interest lobbyists.”

For example, a quick glance at who contributed to the election campaigns of members of the Oklahoma Senate’s Judiciary Committee illuminates some noteworthy facts.

Lawyers and lobbyists were the second-highest contributors to committee members (contributing $58,124), behind the oil and gas industry (which contributed $59,850). The chair of the committee and author of recent lawsuit-related bills, Senator Anthony Sykes, received 7 percent of his total contributions from lawyers and lobbyists and 30 percent from interests in the energy and natural resources sector. Senator Jonathan Nichols received the most from lawyers and lobbyists with $20,700, or 83 percent of his total contributions, coming from the sector.