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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Showing posts with label Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2015

This & that....Happy 4th, Support our Veterans and the Heroes





The Republican party continues to prove that they are not fit to govern in America and pose a clear and present danger to society.
"Conservatives have done a great job at keeping crucial sex education out of schools. In Texas, the state with the third-highest number of HIV infections in the nation, legislators voted to move $3 million out of HIV prevention and into abstinence education.
The Texas House passed an amendment to the budget to do so with 97 in favor and 47 opposed. It was a Republican who spearheaded the idea."


The five-year survival rate for people diagnosed with HIV or AIDS is also the lowest in this area.
BLUENATIONREVIEW.COM

Something isn't right here....




The settlers came to America to escape theocratic oppression which is why they considered the separation of church and state a cornerstone of democracy. Republicans as usual ignore that fact in an apparent effort to bring back the dark ages.

Our founding fathers on why the Constitution guarantees we are not a "Christian nation"



"The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June 2015, when 545 had been killed.) Of those, the vast majority were shot dead despite more than one in five of these victims being unarmed. Black people have been disproportionately killed, at a rate twice that of white and Hispanic/Latino people."
The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and the results for the first six months are in
THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY JAMILES LARTEY


Wishing you a happy Independence Day!





Exactly.
Image by Occupy Democrats.

Love this story The Boston Globe did on our Veterans Centers....Just love being American, This is my favorite day of the year, Thank you Revolutionary War Soldiers and Civilians For our Freedom!!


Christopher C. Hart of Plymouth, who started the Nathan Hale Foundation, with veteran outreach centers in Plymouth and Middleborough, was a quality control...
BOSTONGLOBE.COM

It’s no secret that the middle class in the United States has been losing ground since Reagan took office in 1981. It’s also common knowledge that the upper,...
RINGOFFIRERADIO.COM


"newly released documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by CNN.

The documents highlight and detail the National Guard’s military mission in Ferguson, and use the terms “enemy forces” and “adversaries” in reference to citizens exercising their right to protest."

The U.S. military has been exposed for using language typically reserved for international adversaries during wartime when referring to their deployment to...
THEFREETHOUGHTPROJECT.COM




Monday, June 1, 2015

RSN: FOIA: The Right You Probably Didn't Know You Have


Worth reading!

Once upon a time,  a Massachusetts Public Records  request was submitted to the Town of Middleboro and in response, a Middleboro employee called it a FOIA request.

Not so!


There is a lengthy history that allows official on all levels to abuse the law and deny access to records.

If you don't know the laws that protect you.......



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FOCUS: Ken Klippenstein | FOIA: The Right You Probably Didn't Know You Have
Lisette Garcia. (photo: Twitter)
Ken Klippenstein, Reader Supported News
Klippenstein writes: "Most people on the street can stop and say their Miranda rights ('You have the right to remain silent...'). It's a law of such common usage that people know it. FOIA is a law of equally common necessity that people should be able to know and recite and assert on their own, just like they would a Miranda right."
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

RSN: FOIA Documents Reveal a John Yoo Unwilling to Address Torture Report





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FOCUS: Ken Klippenstein | FOIA Documents Reveal a John Yoo Unwilling to Address Torture Report
Protesters confront John Yoo as he makes his way to a classroom at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. (photo: AP)
Ken Klippenstein, Reader Supported News
Klippenstein writes: "John Yoo, the Bush Administration official who authored the Torture Memos, refused to appear alongside an ACLU representative on CNN the day that the Senate's Torture Report was released, emails obtained by RSN under the Freedom of Information Act reveal."
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