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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees



Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
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Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA 5,000 in Attorney

Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
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Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Friday, April 5, 2013

RT News: The Federal Reserve printing new $100 Bill and Trashing the Economy




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Christopher Dorner is a 33-year-old former US Navy Lieutenant who served in Iraq before joining the LAPD. Now, however, he is wanted for murder. At a press c…
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RT News: The Federal Reserve printing new $100 Bill and Trashing the Economy

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA 5,000 in Attorney

Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Monday, April 1, 2013

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees




Cam Edwards talks to Second Amendment attorney and scholar Steve Halbrook – For more information, go to: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/…
Video Rating: 4 / 5



Federal Court Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Awards the NRA $125,000 in Attorney"s Fees

Friday, March 22, 2013

Let"s Get Serious About Federal Lesbian Studies



White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras


Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world’s sexiest corpse


Boy, 8, pretends banana is gun, makes daring escape from school


TANSTAAFL: There ainStudy: Free lunches overpriced, lack nutrition


Oscars 2013: Michelle Obama announces long-awaited merger of Hollywood and the State


Joe Salazar defends the right of women to be raped in gun-free environment: ‘rapists and rapees should work together to prevent gun violence for the common good’


Dept. of Health and Human Services eliminates rape by reclassifying assailants as ‘undocumented sex partners’


Obamacare posterKremlin puts out warning not to photoshop Putin riding meteor unless bare-chested


Deeming football too violent, Obama moves to introduce Super Drone Sundays instead


Japan offers to extend nuclear umbrella to cover U.S. should America suffer devastating attack on its own defense spending


Feminists organize one billion women to protest male oppression with one billion lap dances


Urban community protests Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on extra-large pop singers owning assault weapons


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Concerned with mounting death toll, Taliban offers to send peacekeeping advisers to Chicago


Karl Rove puts an end to Tea Party with new ‘Republicans For Democrats’ strategy aimed at losing elections


Answering public skepticism, President Obama authorizes unlimited drone attacks on all skeet targets throughout the country


Skeet Ulrich denies claims he had been shot by President but considers changing his name to ‘Traps’


Taliban Sensd Peacekeeping Advisers to Chicago Time mag cover parodyWhite House releases new exciting photos of Obama standing, sitting, looking thoughtful, and even breathing in and out


New York Times hacked by Chinese government, Paul Krugman’s economic policies stolen


White House: when President shoots skeet, he donates the meat to food banks that feed the middle class


To prove he is serious, Obama eliminates armed guard protection for President, Vice-President, and their families; establishes Gun-Free Zones around them instead


Bush and Obama - Flyboys funny cartoon

State Dept to send 100,000 American college students to China as security for US debt obligations


Jay Carney: Al Qaeda is on the run, they’re just running forward


Thank you, Obama, for saving the children posterPresident issues executive orders banning cliffs, ceilings, obstructions, statistics, and other notions that prevent us from moving forwards and upward


Fearing the worst, Obama Administration outlaws the fan to prevent it from being hit by certain objects


World ends; S&P soars


Riddle of universe solved; answer not understood


Nancy Pelosi lonely hearts club caucus cartoonMeek inherit Earth, can’t afford estate taxes


Greece abandons Euro; accountants find Greece has no Euros anyway


Wheel finally reinvented; axles to be gradually reinvented in 3rd quarter of 2013


Che Guevara - ban people, not guns communist parody posterBigfoot found in Ohio, mysteriously not voting for Obama


As Santa’s workshop files for bankruptcy, Fed offers bailout in exchange for control of ‘naughty and nice’ list


Freak flying pig accident causes bacon to fly off shelves


Obama Check 47% vs. 1% Cartoon


Buzz Geithner - to Infinity political cartoonObama: green economy likely to transform America into a leading third world country of the new millennium


Report: President Obama to visit the United States in the near future


Obama promises to create thousands more economically neutral jobs


Surrender your dignity funny propaganda posterModernizing Islam: New York imam proposes to canonize Saul Alinsky as religion’s latter day prophet


Imam Rauf’s peaceful solution: ‘Move Ground Zero a few blocks away from the mosque and no one gets hurt’


Study: Obama’s threat to burn tax money in Washington ‘recruitment bonanza’ for Tea Parties


Study: no Social Security reform will be needed if gov’t raises retirement age to at least 814 years


Wife beater Michelle Obama


Union Label, Union Made Obama cartoonObama attends church service, worships self


Collection of Books with No PagesObama proposes national ‘Win The Future’ lottery; proceeds of new WTF Powerball to finance more gov’t spending


Conservative view of liberalsHistorical revisionists: “Hey, you never know”


Vice President Biden: criticizing Egypt is un-pharaoh


Israelis to Egyptian rioters: “don’t damage the pyramids, we will not rebuild”


Lake Superior renamed Lake Inferior in spirit of tolerance and inclusiveness


Party Organ Donor Obamacare Cartoon - Parody of Soviet PosterAl Gore: It’s a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of polar bears


Michael Moore: As long as there is anyone with money to shake down, this country is not broke


Obama’s teleprompters unionize, demand collective bargaining rights


Obama calls new taxes ‘spending reductions in tax code.’ Elsewhere rapists tout ‘consent reductions in sexual intercourse’


Biofuels funny shirtObama’s teleprompter unhappy with White House Twitter: “Too few words”


Obama’s Regulation Reduction committee finds US Constitution to be expensive outdated framework inefficiently regulating federal gov’t


Obama Cartoon: The Food Stamp PresidentObama Media Bubblehead funny cartoon


Taking a page from the Reagan years, Obama announces new era of Perestroika and Glasnost


Obama Man-Child funny picResponding to Oslo shootings, Obama declares Christianity “Religion of Peace,” praises “moderate Christians,” promises to send one into space


Occupy Wall Street Occupy Uranus Funny Cartoon


Bull Run - Occupy Wall Street CartoonRepublicans block Obama’s $ 420 billion program to give American families free charms that ward off economic bad luck


White House to impose Chimney tax on Santa Claus


Obama decrees the economy is not soaring as much as previously decreeed


Conservative think tank introduces children to capitalism with pop-up picture book “The Road to Smurfdom”


Iran�s peaceful atom cartoon: Mini-nuclear neighborhood cookout, families togetherAl Gore proposes to combat Global Warming by extracting silver linings from clouds in Earth’s atmosphere


Obama refutes charges of him being unresponsive to people’s suffering: “When you pray to God, do you always hear a response?”


Aljazeera Pond Scum Algae-Zeera CartoonI heart corporate jet owners funny shirt


Funny Sandra Fluke cartoon: From Rosie the Riveter to Sandra the RivetedObama regrets the US government didn’t provide his mother with free contraceptives when she was in college


Fluke to Congress: drill, baby, drill!


Planned Parenthood introduces Frequent Flucker reward card: ‘Come again soon!’


Obama to tornado victims: ‘We inherited this weather from the previous administration’


Hero of Socialist Labor medal parodyObama congratulates Putin on Chicago-style election outcome


People’s Cube gives itself Hero of Socialist Labor medal in recognition of continued expert advice provided to the Obama Administration helping to shape its foreign and domestic policies


Hamas: Israeli air defense unfair to 99% of our missiles, “only 1% allowed to reach Israel”


Sandra Fluke Cartoon - Battle of the FlukeDemocrat strategist: without government supervision, women would have never evolved into humans


Voters Without Borders oppose Texas new voter ID law


Enraged by accusation that they are doing Obama’s bidding, media leaders demand instructions from White House on how to respond


Campaign slogan Forward - Obama like Lenin funny satire


Fight for your right parody posterObama blames previous Olympics for failure to win at this Olympics


Official: China plans to land on Moon or at least on cheap knockoff thereof


Koran-Contra: Obama secretly arms Syrian rebels


Poll: Progressive slogan ‘We should be more like Europe’ most popular with members of American Nazi Party


Obama: If I had a son satirical parody cartoonObama to Evangelicals: Jesus saves, I just spend


May Day: Anarchists plan, schedule, synchronize, and execute a coordinated campaign against all of the above


Midwestern farmers hooked on new erotic novel “50 Shades of Hay”


Study: 99% of Liberals give the rest a bad name


Obama meets with Jewish leaders, proposes deeper circumcisions for the rich


Funny Obama picture - Pot smoking Choom GangHistorians: Before HOPE & CHANGE there was HEMP & CHOOM at ten bucks a bag


Cancer once again fails to cure Venezuela of its “President for Life”


Tragic spelling error causes Muslim protesters to burn local boob-tube factory


Khrushchev: we will Barry you! parody posterSecretary of Energy Steven Chu: due to energy conservation, the light at the end of the tunnel will be switched off


Democrat rights - then and now editorial cartoonObama Administration running food stamps across the border with Mexico in an operation code-named “Fat And Furious”


I Heart Gringos Funny T-Shirt


Everybody draw Mohammed cartoon Pakistan explodes in protest over new Adobe Acrobat update; 17 local acrobats killed


White House: “Let them eat statistics”


Special Ops: if Benedict Arnold had a son, he would look like Barack Obama


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government





White HouseBy James Hall
Intellihub.com
March 13, 2013


That infamous mark of the beast is a regular condition of doing business with the federal government. How long have we gone, and how far we have strayed, from simple barter for trade transactions. The mercantilism that exists today, based upon the premise that our “Washington Godfather”, is our silent partner in occupational endeavors, has failed miserably. According to the system, the government makes an offer you cannot refuse. However, is this really the plight of rational and creative citizens determined to maintain their personal dignity and financial integrity?


If only, there was an easy and uncomplicated method for boycotting any business with the federal government. While many may question the wisdom for refusing economic trade with one of the biggest customers on the planet, careful examination reveals that a grassroots level protest is one of the few pragmatic options left to influence the working of the existing state marriage with the corporatization economy. The media flagship of the cheer leadership globalist economic model, CNBC, seeks to promote strategies on, How to Sell to the Federal Government.


The crooked bailout of failed automobile manufacturers illustrates the intent of the federal government to collectivize industry under the banner of state technocrat control. The initial populace response from theGM bailout triggers calls for boycott.


“Complicating matters, the bailout is triggering a harsh reaction from the conservative end of the political spectrum, with some high-profile pundits calling for an outright boycott of what many are calling “Government Motors.”


Allowing government to be an equity stakeholder in a public company is a dangerous practice that few people understand and less care about.


The recent rage of the, Gun Makers Boycott Governments Hostile To Second Amendment, is getting traction. However, without a widespread and national citizen revolt against conducting business with especially the federal government, the effort will have limited victory.


“Liberty minded gun makers and companies that supply firearms, accessories and ammunition have determined that they have had it with anti-gun governments at the city, state and Federal levels, even if it means lost revenue. Several companies have announced that they will no longer be supplying equipment to hostile governments, police forces or first responders. New York and California have become the prime targets, making an example of out-of-touch politicians.”


In this and other areas, the despotic response from the central bureaucracy will be to set up state run enterprises that only supply products for official use. While this is the sinister reaction to authentic public outrage, the political “Foggy Bottom” culture has all but abandoned, even the appearance, that the country is based upon individual liberty and constitutional protections.


Commerce with federal agencies usually requires well-funded firms to submit bids, access to bureaucratic practices and often influence from the lobbying process. Those companies that envision such business as the path to success are more concerned with financial reward than national preservation.



The uninterrupted growth of government is a direct result of businesses providing the infrastructure and technological innovations that create the systems and wares that allow for the entrenchment of state sponsored oversight of every component of our society.


The permanent causality of this methodical migration away from economic independence is the loss of self-esteem. Without economic choice, free enterprise is impossible.


Boycotting companies that rely and promote government sales and services is a logical preliminary step, when making your purchase selections. No doubt, this approach is difficult, when the media reinforces the “so called” benefits of buying from a titan of commerce such as GE. Nonetheless, the real sacrifice will need to come from the companies that submit bids with the federal authorities, as a clear message that the union apparatus of oppression is not a fit customer for businesses of conscience.


Local and regional economies are in dire conditions from the burdensome regulatory imposition that targets small business, while exempting favorite corporatists. Those same preferred partners in governmental supplies and administration also dominate the consumer market. As long as this relationship excludes independent enterprises from the bulk of commerce, the only intelligent response by enterprisers is to forge an alternative economy that excludes trade with both government entities and crony conglomerates.


At stake is the literal survival of essential domestic commerce.


This innovative approach is in orthodox keeping with the commercialism that built most local communities. A society that foregoes the coerced conformity of an elitist globalism must start with breaking the ties with the very internationalist government, which hates true free enterprise and loves selected monopolies.


Cars are necessaries to most of our population and selecting a brand is still a choice. Merely, by buying GM is actually condoning the phony financial maneuvers that prevented an unavoidable bankruptcy, means that the traveler should have the guts to embargo their vehicles. Conversely, purchasing a firearm from a manufacturer that refuses to sell to government thugs is a badge of courage.


The point of isolating as many business transactions that involve the federal government is that an attitude of individual dissent can build into a culture of despotic disgust. Reversing regime tyranny is no leisurely task. It takes dedicated hard work and starts with the simple idea of demonstrating your protest in the way you spend your money.


Even more important is the refusal to do business in any way possible, with the very thieves that run the criminal syndicates, under the names of their corporate logos. Establishment officials condemn a true free market, as a contraband crime. Piety to the fool, that believes that their livelihood is inevitably dependent, upon doing business with the counterfeiter of record. While legal tender laws force the use of Federal Reserve notes for most conventional transactions, the choice of how, what and where you buy still has a degree of freedom.


The federal government is “Extortion Inc.” Until the masses fully appreciate the significance of this reality, the cozy corporate economy will deplete the net worth of ordinary citizens, as government servants obey the dictates of their elite masters.


*****


James Hall writes for BATR





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Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government

Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government





White HouseBy James Hall
Intellihub.com
March 13, 2013


That infamous mark of the beast is a regular condition of doing business with the federal government. How long have we gone, and how far we have strayed, from simple barter for trade transactions. The mercantilism that exists today, based upon the premise that our “Washington Godfather”, is our silent partner in occupational endeavors, has failed miserably. According to the system, the government makes an offer you cannot refuse. However, is this really the plight of rational and creative citizens determined to maintain their personal dignity and financial integrity?


If only, there was an easy and uncomplicated method for boycotting any business with the federal government. While many may question the wisdom for refusing economic trade with one of the biggest customers on the planet, careful examination reveals that a grassroots level protest is one of the few pragmatic options left to influence the working of the existing state marriage with the corporatization economy. The media flagship of the cheer leadership globalist economic model, CNBC, seeks to promote strategies on, How to Sell to the Federal Government.


The crooked bailout of failed automobile manufacturers illustrates the intent of the federal government to collectivize industry under the banner of state technocrat control. The initial populace response from theGM bailout triggers calls for boycott.


“Complicating matters, the bailout is triggering a harsh reaction from the conservative end of the political spectrum, with some high-profile pundits calling for an outright boycott of what many are calling “Government Motors.”


Allowing government to be an equity stakeholder in a public company is a dangerous practice that few people understand and less care about.


The recent rage of the, Gun Makers Boycott Governments Hostile To Second Amendment, is getting traction. However, without a widespread and national citizen revolt against conducting business with especially the federal government, the effort will have limited victory.


“Liberty minded gun makers and companies that supply firearms, accessories and ammunition have determined that they have had it with anti-gun governments at the city, state and Federal levels, even if it means lost revenue. Several companies have announced that they will no longer be supplying equipment to hostile governments, police forces or first responders. New York and California have become the prime targets, making an example of out-of-touch politicians.”


In this and other areas, the despotic response from the central bureaucracy will be to set up state run enterprises that only supply products for official use. While this is the sinister reaction to authentic public outrage, the political “Foggy Bottom” culture has all but abandoned, even the appearance, that the country is based upon individual liberty and constitutional protections.


Commerce with federal agencies usually requires well-funded firms to submit bids, access to bureaucratic practices and often influence from the lobbying process. Those companies that envision such business as the path to success are more concerned with financial reward than national preservation.



The uninterrupted growth of government is a direct result of businesses providing the infrastructure and technological innovations that create the systems and wares that allow for the entrenchment of state sponsored oversight of every component of our society.


The permanent causality of this methodical migration away from economic independence is the loss of self-esteem. Without economic choice, free enterprise is impossible.


Boycotting companies that rely and promote government sales and services is a logical preliminary step, when making your purchase selections. No doubt, this approach is difficult, when the media reinforces the “so called” benefits of buying from a titan of commerce such as GE. Nonetheless, the real sacrifice will need to come from the companies that submit bids with the federal authorities, as a clear message that the union apparatus of oppression is not a fit customer for businesses of conscience.


Local and regional economies are in dire conditions from the burdensome regulatory imposition that targets small business, while exempting favorite corporatists. Those same preferred partners in governmental supplies and administration also dominate the consumer market. As long as this relationship excludes independent enterprises from the bulk of commerce, the only intelligent response by enterprisers is to forge an alternative economy that excludes trade with both government entities and crony conglomerates.


At stake is the literal survival of essential domestic commerce.


This innovative approach is in orthodox keeping with the commercialism that built most local communities. A society that foregoes the coerced conformity of an elitist globalism must start with breaking the ties with the very internationalist government, which hates true free enterprise and loves selected monopolies.


Cars are necessaries to most of our population and selecting a brand is still a choice. Merely, by buying GM is actually condoning the phony financial maneuvers that prevented an unavoidable bankruptcy, means that the traveler should have the guts to embargo their vehicles. Conversely, purchasing a firearm from a manufacturer that refuses to sell to government thugs is a badge of courage.


The point of isolating as many business transactions that involve the federal government is that an attitude of individual dissent can build into a culture of despotic disgust. Reversing regime tyranny is no leisurely task. It takes dedicated hard work and starts with the simple idea of demonstrating your protest in the way you spend your money.


Even more important is the refusal to do business in any way possible, with the very thieves that run the criminal syndicates, under the names of their corporate logos. Establishment officials condemn a true free market, as a contraband crime. Piety to the fool, that believes that their livelihood is inevitably dependent, upon doing business with the counterfeiter of record. While legal tender laws force the use of Federal Reserve notes for most conventional transactions, the choice of how, what and where you buy still has a degree of freedom.


The federal government is “Extortion Inc.” Until the masses fully appreciate the significance of this reality, the cozy corporate economy will deplete the net worth of ordinary citizens, as government servants obey the dictates of their elite masters.


*****


James Hall writes for BATR





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Refuse to Buy or Sell with the Federal Government

Monday, February 18, 2013

Welcome to the New Federal Supermax

Even as it announces a review and reduction of its solitary confinement practices, the US Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that a newly acquired prison in Illinois will hold federal prisoners in supermax conditions. “Thomson will be a high security prison holding inmates with various security needs, including SMU and ADX type inmates,” BOP spokesperson Chris Burke said via email.

Thomson is the unused prison that the federal government recently bought from the state of Illinois. ADX, the notorious federal supermax in Florence, Colorado, holds its prisoners in 23-hour-a-day isolation with virtually no human contact. Federal SMUs, or Special Management Units, such as those found in Lewisburg Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, hold their prisoners in near round-the-clock lockdown in two-person cells. Both are forms of long-term isolation, and both have been denounced by human rights and prisoners rights groups as an inhumane and ineffective form of punishment, sometimes amounting to torture.

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