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MORTGAGE MELTDOWN
Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Now, just unveiled Thursday, comes the "freeze," the brainchild of
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. It sounds good: For five years,
mortgage lenders will freeze interest rates on a limited number of
"teaser" subprime loans. Other homeowners facing foreclosure will be
offered assistance from the Federal Housing Administration.

But unfortunately, the "freeze" is just another fraud - and like the
other bailout proposals, it has nothing to do with U.S. house prices,
with "working families," keeping people in their homes or any of that
nonsense.

The sole goal of the freeze is to prevent owners of mortgage-backed
securities, many of them foreigners, from suing U.S. banks and forcing
them to buy back worthless mortgage securities at face value - right
now almost 10 times their market worth.

Remarks on Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act,
HR 1955

by Ron Paul

Before the House of Representatives, December 5, 2007

Mr. Speaker, I regret that I was unavoidably out of town on October 23,
2007, when a vote was taken on HR 1955, the Violent Radicalization &
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. Had I been able to vote, I would
have voted against this misguided and dangerous piece of legislation.
This legislation focuses the weight of the US government inward toward
its own citizens under the guise of protecting us against "violent
radicalization."

I would like to note that this legislation was brought to the floor for
a vote under suspension of regular order. These so-called "suspension"
bills are meant to be non-controversial, thereby negating the need for
the more complete and open debate allowed under regular order. It is
difficult for me to believe that none of my colleagues in Congress view
HR 1955, with its troubling civil liberties implications, as
"non-controversial."

On 09 Dec 2007, Harry Hope wrote:

Looks like I'm a-goin' shoppin'!

Guns and ammo for sale at any of them mall stores, anyone know?

On Dec 9, 8:07 pm, "'War Is A Racket'" yahoo.com>
wrote:

Bush is not doing anything as a fundamentalist, There are other more
apt terms to describe his action.

Nope, not at all.

Screw the UN charter, they're a completely corrupt body.

"I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful
as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When
faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered,
neither love nor patience are in order... For
a defective life does not destroy Christendom,
but exercises it. However, defective doctrine
and false faith ruin everything. Therefore, when
these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy
are in order, but only anger, dispute and
destruction - to be sure, only with the Word
of God as our weapon."

*Martin Luther* 1483 - 1546

On Dec 8, 10:18 pm, ChrisT verizon.net> wrote:

Or easy access to guns.

But you have to dig to find it. Authorities probably urging media to
keep low key to avoid encouraging copycats.

Just my two cents worth...

On Dec 9, 12:20 pm, rts ziplip.com> wrote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937072/posts

Supreme Court rules against abortion clinics, protests cannot be
banned using extortion laws

msnbc ^ | Tues., Feb. 28, 2006

Posted on 12/09/2007 1:12:11 PM PST by Coleus

A 20-year-old legal fight over protests outside abortion clinics ended
Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that federal extortion and
racketeering laws cannot be used against demonstrators. The 8-0
decision was a setback for abortion clinics that were buoyed when the
7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kept their case alive two years ago
despite the high court's 2003 ruling that had cleared the way for
lifting a nationwide injunction on anti-abortion leader Joseph
Scheidler and others.

Anti-abortion groups appealed to the justices after the lower court
sought to determine whether the injunction could be supported by
findings that protesters had made threats of violence. In Tuesday's
ruling, Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress did not create "a
freestanding physical violence offense" in the federal extortion law
known as the Hobbs Act.