Yes we need a taxpayer revolt but not the kind RNN pictures.

We want all the illegals in NY City and across the state sent home because we are tired of paying for their medical bills and for their schooling.

We want the money saved by doing those two things to be returned to TAXPAYERS IN THE FORM OF TAX CUTS!

Instead of a yearly increase across the board we want a reduction in the budget across the board.

We want those defrauding Medicare and Medicaid prosecuted and made an example of so that others cease and desist from their criminal activity.

We want accountability for money being spent by members of the State Legislature and of the State Executive branches.

We want financial abuse stopped.

We want a tax revolt that covers those issues.

Albany could be the starting point.From what I can tell all across the country,whenever the states need to start cutting budgets and curtailing services,its "ALWAYS" starts at the most vunerable parts of our society,and works it way"supposedly"up.

Albany could be a starting point.

Yes time to kick out the Democrats in NY state Congress who continue to raise taxes and drive out businesses. People and businesses are voting with their feet.

Albany is so dysfunctional at this poit that it is time to clean house, that includes both Republicans and Demopcrats. Our tax dollars are certainly not at work for us!

Who cares about Albany when it's Obama and the Democratic Congress who's selling our country down the river???

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Give Terrorists Constitutional Rights, Says Obama Administration:

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7:56 AM

WASHINGTON – US administration officials said Tuesday that terror suspects tried before military commissions can claim some constitutional rights, including protection against evidence obtained through coercion.


The commissions, Assistant Attorney General David Kris said, should only allow evidence from detainees' voluntary statements or else risk having convictions thrown out on appeal in higher courts.


"It is the administration's view that there is a serious risk that courts would hold that admission of involuntary statements of the accused in military commission proceedings is unconstitutional," Kris told the Senate Armed Services Committee in written testimony.


Adding the safeguards upholding "due process" principles in the US Constitution would help commission convictions stand up on appeal, Kris told the panel.


His comments, echoed by the Defense Department's general counsel, Jeh Johnson, reflected a debate within the administration and in Congress over how to prosecute detainees under revised rules for the controversial military tribunals.


Republican Senator John McCain questioned the Justice Department official's view, saying he was surprised to hear that terror suspects at Guantanamo, the US naval base in southern Cuba where 229 "war on terror" detainees remain, enjoyed constitutional protections.


"I did not know, nor know, of any time in American history where enemy combatants were given rights under the United States Constitution," McCain said.


The US Navy's judge advocate general, Vice Admiral Bruce McDonald, told the senators he rejected the Justice Department's opinion.


The admiral argued that the legal principle of voluntary statements from the accused made sense in ordinary criminal cases but was impractical for the military commissions, which he said were handling suspects picked up on the battlefield.


Instead, McDonald proposed a list of "considerations" to be taken into account by the presiding judge, including whether a statement was taken on the battlefield or in subsequent detention.


For detainees at the controversial prison camp facing possible prosecution, much of the evidence against them comes from "involuntary" statements in interrogations, legal analysts say.


The Senate hearing focused on a proposed bill, which McCain helped draft, that would introduce new rules for the commissions designed to make trial procedures resemble courts-martial.


In May, President Barack Obama said he would keep the military commissions set up by his predecessor, George W. Bush, to prosecute detainees at Guantanamo but pledged to reform the system.


Human rights groups sharply criticized Obama over his decision to retain the commissions and to allow for the possible indefinite detention of terror suspects.


The latest proposed changes to the commissions amounted to "tinkering," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said.


"The military commissions are fatally flawed and no amount of tinkering will fix them," ACLU senior legislative counsel Christopher Anders said in a statement.


"The system is set up to ensure convictions, not give defendants an impartial hearing."


One of Obama's first acts after taking office in January was to order a four-month suspension of the commissions.


Obama also promised to close the prison camp by January 2010.


At the hearing, administration officials said they were not ready to predict how many of the remaining detainees would be tried in federal courts, military commissions or held indefinitely.