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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters)

Mexican soldiers fought gun battles with drug cartel hitmen near the U.S. border on Tuesday after gangsters abducted local police in violence that killed 21 people and left bodies strewn in the desert.

Soldiers pursued the hit men through freezing desert in the northern state of Chihuahua after they dragged nine people, including some police, out of houses and shot six of them at a ranch in the early hours of Tuesday, the army said.

Heavily armed soldiers burst into the ranch, near the Texan border, and shot dead several of the hitmen, later chasing another group by helicopter before killing them too, army spokesman Enrique Torres said from the area.

“The bodies were strewn across the desert outside the nearby town of Villa Ahumada,” said Torres. An army sergeant was among the dead.

It was one of the bloodiest scenes this year in a spiraling drug war that killed more than 5,700 people across Mexico in 2008, damaging the public’s faith in President Felipe Calderon and raising fears of a spillover into the United States.

Calderon deployed the army and federal police to tackle drug violence at the end of 2006, triggering a series of vicious turf battles between rival cartels.
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Take my word for it, or read it for yourselves. As far as the second amendment is concerned, this is one of the scariest pieces of legislation that has ever been introduced in Congress.

H.R. 45, if passed, will reduce the second amendment to ashes.

Here is a link to the bill.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111LNsc7j:e873:

It is not easy reading, but if you are able to struggle through it you will be chilled to the bone by the lies, misinformation, and disinformation used to warrant government control of all gun ownership, and the intentions inferred between the lines of this bill.

The next step on the administration’s agenda, if this bill passes, will be confiscation of your guns and or your arrest. If you register all of your guns as this bill dictates they will be confiscated. If you don’t register your guns, they will still be confiscated, but YOU will be arrested as a criminal.

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Source: Wired

The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway.

The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of airline boarding. The list has been dogged for years by sloppy name matches that have ensnared innocent travelers, children, prominent politicians and government officials, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ secretary of education and all men named David Nelson.

Under the new plan, approved late Tuesday 413-3, innocent victims of the terrorist watchlist must prove to the Department of Homeland Security, through an undetermined appeals process, that they are not terrorists. They would then get their names put on what the legislation calls the “Comprehensive Cleared List.”

The legislation is another attempt to assist wrongly flagged passengers and would supersede the troubled DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, which has been criticized for being slow or unresponsive to flier complaints.

The FAST Redress Act, if approved by the Senate, requires the government to report within 240 days on its progress in implementing the new list.

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Hackers broke into the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system last week, accessing the names and Social Security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees.

The agency said in a statement Monday that two of the 48 files on the breached computer server contained personal information about employees and retires who were on the FAA’s rolls as of the first week of February 2006.

The server that was accessed was not connected to the operation of the air traffic control system and there is no indication those systems have been compromised, the statement said.

“The FAA is moving quickly to prevent any similar incidents and has identified immediate steps as well as longer-term measures to further protect personal information,” the statement said. The agency said it is providing a toll-free number for employees “who believe they may be affected by the breach.”

Tom Waters, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3290, said FAA officials told unions representing agency employees at a briefing Monday that the second breached file with personal information contained encrypted medical information.

“These government systems should be the best in the world and apparently they are able to be compromised,” said Waters, an FAA contracts attorney. “Our information technology systems people need to take a long hard look at themselves and their capabilities. This is malpractice in their world.”

The FAA statement said the data theft has been reported to “law enforcement authorities,” who are investigating.

All affected employees will receive letters notifying them of the breach, the statement said.

Waters said FAA officials told union leaders the incident was the first of its kind at the agency. But he said his union complained about three or four years ago about an incident in which employees received anti-union mail that used names and addresses that appeared to be generated from FAA computer files.

He said the union complained to the FAA and the Transportation Department’s inspector general but no action was taken.

Congratulations! With your help Virginians had a Real ID Act victory last week, as both anti Real ID bills - H.B.1587 & S.B.1431 - were reported, unchanged, out of the House & Senate Transportation Committees. This means these committees heard you! But the battle is not over. We must now join the fight onto the larger battleground of the full House of Delegates, and then on to the Senate. But remember, Virginia’s legislative session is very short and we still have a lot of work to do. Whether or not you live in Virginia, we must act, and act quickly! The House is expected to vote on this issue this week!

Virginia’s Governor Kaine supports Real ID, and his buddies control the Virginia Senate. So we will first concentrate our efforts on the House of Delegates. Del. Marshall is to be commended for not caving to the pressure of Speaker Howell last week, as evidenced by Del. Janis’ attempt to rewrite his bill to actually implement Real ID. But we must do more than voice our unalterable support for Marshall’s bill, we must also support Del. Athey’s budget amendment, #441-1h, which will prevent the House of Delegates from providing funding for Real ID compliance.

It’s possible Del. Marshall’s bill will be amended beyond all recognition, mutilated to the point that the American Policy Center and all freedom-loving Americans cannot support it. And even if this bill is passed unaltered by the House, we will fight an uphill battle in the Senate, and finally, Governor Kaine may decide to veto it. So we must presume and prepare for the worst case scenario, while doing all we can to achieve complete victory.

Our highest achievement will be a clean Opt Out bill. Most politicians would rather vote for a bill than to vote against a budget, so our strongest effort must be to pressure delegates to pass Del. Marshall’s bill, H.B. 1157, unaltered by hostile amendments. But we must also demand no budget be passed which will fund Real ID!

Please note: It does not matter if you are a resident of Virginia or not. Make the calls. A flood of calls to delegate offices will make a difference. We need to make them feel the heat to preserve American privacy rights. We must make these calls now!

ACTION TO TAKE

Don’t let any delegate tell you that voting against funding is no longer needed because Bob Marshall’s H.B. 1587 takes care of the problem. That’s a long shot, and not worth the risk!

ALL - Contact Virginia Delegates here:

# Tell them to support H.B. 1587, unchanged.

# Tell them to support Del. Athey’s budget amendment (#441-1h) forbidding funding Real ID.

ALL - Contact Speaker Howell. You can contact him via Phone: (804) 698-1090, Fax: (804) 698-6790, or Email: DelAHowell@house.virginia.gov or delhowell@aol.com.

# Tell him to support H.B. 1587, unchanged.

# Tell him to support Del. Athey’s budget amendment (#441-1h) forbidding funding Real ID.

Time is of the essence. We must stop Real ID in Virginia THIS WEEK! Thank you in advance for making these calls and fighting to preserve our freedom.

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