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This explains a lot!

The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine.

This is an actual quote from the job listing, available here:

http://www.justice.gov/oarm/jobs/attorneyvotingoarm2010..htm

 This language appears in the third paragraph under “Other Information.”

“Taxation without representation is tyranny!”

Everybody knows that. It was the reason for the American Revolution, the rallying cry of Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry and the other revolutionists.

But a Virginia Judge has ruled that a non-elected “transportation board” has the legal authority to impose taxes:

An Arlington judge yesterday ruled that starting in January an unelected regional body can levy on Northern Virginia residents a slew of new taxes and fees to pay for local transportation upgrades.

The ruling by Circuit Court Judge Benjamin N.A. Kendrick would allow the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, composed of 14 voting members, to raise about $300 million a year through higher taxes on home sales, car safety inspections and auto repairs to fund regional road and rail projects.

“Northern Virginia Transportation Authority is an independent political subdivision similar to other entities such as water and sewer authorities, sanitary districts, and industrial development authorities,” Judge Kendrick said. “It is not a local government with an elected governing body.”

The Virginia Constitution and Declaration of rights, authored primarily by George Mason (NOT Thomas Jefferson) specifically states that Virginia’s citizens “cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected”. (continue reading…)