Everyday our liberties and freedom come under fire. The American Republic once protected its citizens from arbitrary abuse, extortion, and deliberate social engineering. Now the very same public servants who were meant to work for us connive daily on how to control our lives. The Republic is gone and we are left to fend for ourselves, to put up resistance to every encroachment on individual self-determination. The Freedom Under Fire Report provides daily coverage of the most important issues, so that you remain informed and ready to defend yourself. Read on and pass this around to everyone you think could benefit:

Obama Directing $50 billion from TARP to Mortgages.  After signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law on Tuesday, President Obama announced another element to his recovery plan: $50 billion from the federal bank bailout program for subsidies to help troubled homeowners.

Alan Greenspan Urges Nationalization of Banks. The man who is directly responsible for the loose monetary policies of the last couple decades-that arguable caused the dot-com and real estate bubbles and collapses, is now calling on the government to seize and restructure U.S. banks. In an interview with the Financial Times, Greenspan says that “It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring.”

Obama Approves Deployment of 17,000 More Troops to Afghanistan. In a renewal of the war agains the Taliban in Afghanistan, President Obama agreed to send 12,000 combat and 5,000 support troops. This comes after Pakistan signed a separate peace treaty with the Taliban in their country.

White House Stealthily Creates Laws Without Announcing Them. Forget the campaign promises of openness. The Obama administration is routinely using back office rule-making channels to conduct business outside the public notice. “In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies, and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire.” The decisions were not announced to the public, but rather, were discovered when official paperwork was transmitted to the Federal Register. A Politico review of the Federal Register thus far has found three executive orders, one presidential memorandum, one presidential notice, and one proclamation that went unannounced by the White House.

Mexican Protesters Block US Border to Protest Army Presence. In a coordinated protest, hundreds of people blocked bridges to the United States in three border cities. The protests are in response to 45,000 soldiers deployed throughout Mexico to combat drug cartels. The Mexican government claims the protests are organized by the cartels to disrupt their crackdown. Human rights activists say “there are legitimate complaints about abuses by soldiers, including cases in which patrols allegedly opened fire on civilians at military checkpoints.” Drug violence has only surged since the military crackdown. More than 6,000 people were killed in the violence last year.

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