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This is the home page for LiberatedText. LiberatedText is a site consisting of published sources from within the Public Domain, that the site's editors felt had enough intrinsic value to make them easily available by publishing them in a standard web document type format.
The content is without a doubt, arbitrarily decided by the site editors. We do the mark-ups, we pay for the server, it is our choice exactly what is worthy enough to warrant the use of our resources.
The site's initial concept was an intention to mark-up selected Congressional Daily Records that fit within a defined category or topic. The reason for this is because the available methods for accessing Congressional Proceedings transcripts is difficult for most internet users. A free society is well-served if its citizens possess methods to transparently view the production of their elected politicians.
This information need be available, not just so the politicians and other agents of the state can be closely scrutinised. Often, others will deceptively portray what has transpired and what was said in congress for partisan political purposes. This is a successful ploy, largely because these records are not easily accessible by the people.
This was the impetus behind LiberatedText's first Congressional Records Mark-up Project: The Authorization of Force, in which many of the statements made by House Members and Senators regarding the Authorization Of The use Of United States Military Force In Iraq in 2002 was published.
The potential content which may be published on this website has been expanded to include some historical documents, and literary works.
There is now a LiberatedText Message Board in which individuals may comment, criticise, compliment, curse, recommend, or whatever else you may have on you mind to communicate with us about. What is posted on that board remains or is removed at the sole discretion of LiberatedText's editors.
The site's core content can be accessed through the Navigation Control located on the top-left corner of the page.
The Congressional Records Projects sub site comprise the great bulk of content at LiberatedText. Presently there are six sections and a few miscellaneous extra titles published. None of the Congressional Records Projects are considered to be closed archives. Still, there are just two that are considered active for editing, The Habeas Corpus related Congressional Records, as well as the debate, commentary and legislation related to the Iraq War.
October 2002 Debate and Commentary On The Authorization for the Use of U.S. Military Force Against Iraq.
Senate Daily Record from October 5, 2005: Senate Discussion and Debate over Senator John McCain's Amendment No 1977 to H.R. 2863; Department Of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006, which is better known as "The McCain anti-Torture Amendment". Surprisingly, it was not a unanimous vote, and was passed resoundingly; 90 - 9. Hence the title's reference to Nine Senators of Shame. The reprehensible nine were all Republicans, and are worthy of continued vilification for just this one vote, and are listed here:
| Sen. Wayne Allard (Colo.) | Sen. Christopher S. Bond (Mo.) | Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) |
| Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.) | Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.) | Sen. James M. Inhofe (Okla.) |
| Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) | Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) | Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska) |
LiberatedText's Editors have published an Op/Ed on this subject.
Records from 1995 to the present, related to Congressional limitations placed on habeas corpus under the guise of anti-terror legislation. This project is still considered to be actively edited.
Debate and Commentary about the Iraq War in 2007. Currently, we have published Iraq War related Congressional transcripts up to to May online, and are presently working through the June documents.
transcripts about the House GOP's attempt to turn malfunctioning House voting machines into a anti-majoritarian outcome in their favor. The House Daily Records are from July 27, 2007, August 2 and August 3, 2007.
This, the editors of LiberatedText find incomprehensible. Not because some could rationally oppose Hate Crimes legislation, as we have our misgivings also, but because of what the opposition to hate crimes was grounded in. The Conservative House Republican Caucus claimed it is a Violation of the 1st Amendment's Religious Establishment Clause. Here all this time we thought they were each and everyone of them, Christians, yet they fret about clergy and Churches being charged under hate crime legislation.
2008.02.03 - A mark-up of the ongoing deliberations working towards passage of S. 2248: An original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes. There is a great deal of bickering going on, largely divided by Party, about whether protections of civil liberties need be legislated into the act.
The low esteem with which Republicans Senators seem to hold the people's liberty is amazing, given their adamant dissent, and active blocking of terror prevention legislation in 1995 and 1996. The GOP and their spinners are quick to point out that it is a new world after 911, yet they refused, after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and the Oklahoma City bombing to allow roving wiretaps to be utilized in law enforcement domestic terrorism investigations, even though this had been a lawful methodology for RI CO investigations. September 11, 2001 isn't what changed the views of Federal Republican politicians, that occurred almost one year before 911, the very moment that the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election had become assured. This would be a source of great amusement for the editors at Liberated Text, if it wasn't Humans' Natural Liberty they were batting around in the moral relativists' ping-pong tournament.
Presently, we have just two published:
Back from the long ago days of the Reagan Administration:
Final Report Of The Independent Counsel For Iran/Contra Matters
Volume I: Investigations and Prosecutions
Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel
August 4, 1993
Yes, we are aware that is is already published online, but we have separated the main content from the footnotes in our presentation, showing them by way of a fixed viewport format at the bottom of the screen, whenever they are clicked. A javascript enabled browser if required to view the site properly.
An excerpt of the NSA memorandum generated from Henry Kissinger's secret meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Chou Enlai, June 20, 1972 in Beijing.
The whole document is available for download as a PDF file from the NSA Archives, located at George Washington University, and is titled:
Dr. Henry Kissinger's meeting with Chou en-Lai, June 20, 1972
LiberatedText's partial transcription of this document includes the part of the discussion about Vietnam, on pages 27 - 37.
This document is strongly supportive of The Decent Interval strategy in Nixon's Disengagement from Vietnam, which has been championed by Jeffrey P. Kimball Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Miami University Department of History.
Kissinger lays out the minimum time duration necessary between America's disengagement, and the North Vietnamese takeover to assure that The nation would not feel compelled to reenter into the war.
Six published words presently in this category:
It includes both the first and second series. A javascript enabled browser is required to view the site.
This is the first in our series of works by David Hume. For the vast majority of y'all, this is either a big yawner, or chin scratcher. Oh well, some of us like the Scots.
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