tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41522673463975462592024-02-18T23:26:37.134-06:00Freedom Shenanigans Extended EntriesThere comes a time in the contest for freedom that the "rules" must go out the window. One always hopes that the autocrat recognizes the message as a gentle but insistent warning that a napping giant arouses and to tread lightly upon ones' rights or suffer the wrath of unintended consequences. Carpe Libertas!Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-84832764536178111772010-09-24T07:56:00.006-05:002010-09-24T08:23:50.856-05:00More Brutus's Needed! "Et tu" apply now!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmLLyN-RMpo8PS_e40Ye8JgqWsYaLa1D6ndwc6JlBVbax54cs7u0mSv7cfTsqMYXa-Fu97A5CaACTgfPVQwZNsNGjkZmiDH4A4DEcbMCH2RQzfmvwCeMpzV6BN4wU0CpZ7wo8s91A90Wk/s1600/AP_supreme_court_corporate_ame.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmLLyN-RMpo8PS_e40Ye8JgqWsYaLa1D6ndwc6JlBVbax54cs7u0mSv7cfTsqMYXa-Fu97A5CaACTgfPVQwZNsNGjkZmiDH4A4DEcbMCH2RQzfmvwCeMpzV6BN4wU0CpZ7wo8s91A90Wk/s400/AP_supreme_court_corporate_ame.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520469143075811378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">By Phasma Scriptor</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">The documentary produced by Joel Bakan, Professor of Law at British Columbia University, “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profits” (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=23" target="_blank"><em>The Corporation</em> Film: Joel <em>Bakan</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, 2003) (“TC“), attributes a psychological condition, specifically, Antisocial Personality Disorder, to the manner in which corporations frequently behave (and, ultimately, always behave since only the most pathological of corporations thrive and, as a consequence, are able to cannibalize less pathological organizations). Maneuvering corporations into psychoanalysis, that is, in a courtroom setting, would have a potentially devastating effect on the willingness of predatory corporations to commit what would be considered heinous crimes were the perp to belong to the company of real live humans. Because of the ability of corporations, in general, and certain corporations, in particular, to defrock attorneys for arbitrary and capricious reasons, litigation of that magnitude would need to attract attorneys with the integrity of the legendary Untouchables. Possible, but unlikely without some reasonable way, even with the odds adversely stacked, to a W as the desired outcome.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Part of that path would have to include, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">inter alia</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, the initiation of a Katy-storm-the-ramparts public relations blitzkrieg on the Internet to provide a loud and raucous chorus of web-based supporters. Parallel to the e-path, organizing “spontaneous” scenes in TC similar to those defiant Bolivians, oppressed by one of those corporations, Bechtel, is the kind of backs-against-the-wall, us-Davids-against-the-Goliathan physical presence that encourages nicely irksome “film at 11” media coverage, even though, as the blogosphere has informed us, Internet PR is almost as effective as takin’ it to the streets. A more socially beneficial use of flash mobs organized via Twitter would quickly direct demonstrators to the appropriate courthouse steps, where handbills, rapidly produced on site, could be distributed to the litigation faithful for passing out to passersby, but especially to courthouse denizens. Judges prefer to operate “in closet” and not with mug shots on leaflets that become viral as those leaflets give courthouse copiers a workout and reporters a convenient press release. Mudslinging high-rent PR firms that pimp for the commercial behemoths meet your populist, on-the-cheap, street-fight match.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Corporate officers and their corporate lawyers, engaged in the long con rising, like a specter, from the collective id of the corporations, have plotted, as pawns for the ultra-super-rich, for over a century-and-a-half to transform totally artificial entities into real live humans, sort of a wicked-Blue-Fairy-morphs-Pinocchio-into-Stromboli vision of terror in an economic eclipse of civilization; the recent US Supreme Court decision (</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, USSC No. 08-205, 1/21/2010,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CE4QFjAK&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fec.gov%2Flaw%2Flitigation%2Fcu_sc08_opinion.pdf&ei=9jqcTLlFhIqXB4K0_PAJ&usg=AFQjCNH6EWNkybKSRZnRRlnFXt0Rr4hzNQ" target="_blank"> 08-205 <em>Citizens United</em> v. Federal Election Comm'n (01/21/10)</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) which purports to allow unlimited corporate contributions to political candidates, has seemingly finalized the imputation of real live human status to corporations, an ultimate legal term of art … based on Dr. Frankenstein’s concepts of what constitutes human life.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> mainlines right into the cold-blooded veins of Richard A. Posner, former Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and still pontificating after all these years, who is the putative father of the judicial theory of economic efficiency (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Erposner/biography" target="_blank">Biography - IT Services: Documentation - home.uchicago.edu</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">). According to this so-called judicial theory, a euphemism for radically activist judge-concocted, separation-of-powers-busting legislation from the bench, litigants with the greatest financial prowess ought to prevail more often than not with the result that litigants whose financial resources are exhausted first can’t afford justice. This flows, like hot lava scorching its way downhill, from the cautionary tale of the very common judicial put-off that the pathetic slob of a plaintiff/defendant must exhaust all his/her administrative remedies before the courts will hear the case, meaning, of course, that the poor will always lose to the defendant/plaintiff with a massive bankroll, meaning, of course, big business, since what gets exhausted first is the wallet of the impecunious litigant. Thus, presuming to give the judiciary the discretion to weight rulings based on pocketbook factors (fatter being better), which would be unconstitutional (per the 14th Amendment,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/" target="_blank"> FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: <em>Fourteenth Amendment</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, to say nothing of Deuteronomy 16:18-19,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+16%3A18%2CDeuteronomy+16%3A19&version=NASB" target="_blank"><em> Deuteronomy</em> 16:18,<em>Deuteronomy</em> 16:19 - Passage Lookup - New ...</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) if written into statutes, is an invasion of legislative authority; a purposeful intention to favor the rich and/or the powerful (like the king who is not permitted to do wrong, according to Par. 61 of the Magna Carta,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_assemblys1.html" target="_blank"> Amendment I (Petition and Assembly): <em>Magna Carta</em>, c. <em>61</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) is so foreign to the basic tenets of equality upon which the US was founded that ripping the fabric of this society seems an apt metaphor. (Note: The word “unconstitutional” is used in the relative sense, since, as will be shown in a future post, the Constitution of the United States has been knocked out of the box)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> That sneaky, weasel-y Supreme Court judges might aspire to dominate the other branches, after sucking the authority of the states dry, was the subject of Anti-Federalist Papers Nos. 11, 1/31/1788, and 12, 2/7/1788 (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://hackettpublishing.com/humanities/the-essential-federalist-and-anti-federalist-papers" target="_blank">The Essential Federalist and <em>Anti</em>-<em>Federalist</em> Papers - <em>Humanities</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), penned by <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger">"Brutus"</a>, the <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nom+de+plume"><span style="font-style: italic;">nom-de-plume</span></a> widely thought to have been New York State judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Yates_%28politician%29"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Yates</span></a>, a delegate to the Federal Convention. Yates went further than that old politician’s tale about absolute power; he described the collegial intergenerational spirit of the brethren (and, now, sistern) in the art of grifting and grafting in high political places:</span><br /><br /> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Every body of men invested with office are tenacious of power; they feel interested, and hence it has become a kind of maxim, to hand down their offices, with all its rights and privileges, unimpaired to their successors … [AFP, No. 11]<br /></div> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> This sort of putrid process bears the distinct stench of the Pharisees, acridly arising into the noses of those who are really supposed to be in charge, which would be, purportedly in this country, the People. What Yates/Brutus foresees is the usurpation of ever more power by the supreme court pursuant to the gifting of a wide “latitude of interpretation” by the proposed Article III (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article03/" target="_blank">FindLaw: U.S. <em>Constitution</em>: <em>Article III</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), far beyond any boundaries of the separation between federal, State and local governments.</span><br /><br /> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">[T]he same principle will influence them to extend their power, and increase their rights; this of itself will operate strongly upon the courts to give such a meaning to the constitution in all cases where it can possibly be done, as will enlarge the sphere of their own authority. Every extension of the power of the general legislature, as well as of the judicial powers, will increase the powers of the courts; and the dignity and importance of the judges, will be in proportion to the extent and magnitude of the powers they exercise. [<span style="font-style: italic;">ibid</span>]<br /></div> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Would the judiciary and its cherry-on-top, the Supremes, operating under this maximizing principle, ever stop extending and increasing their sphere of authority? Well, yeah, saith Brutus, when they had totally subjugated the States, which, by the provisions of the proposed constitution would be made inferior to the federal administration.</span><br /><br /> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">[T]he leading features of [the judicial branch as set forth in the proposed Constitution] will operate to a total subversion of the state judiciaries, if not, to the legislative authority of the states.<br /><br /></div> <div style="margin-left: 240px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">* * *<br /></div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"><br />The judicial power [of the supreme court] will operate to effect, in the most certain, but yet silent and imperceptible manner, … an entire subversion of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the individual states. … In proportion as the former enlarge the exercise of their powers, will that of the latter be restricted. [ibid, emphasis added]<br /></div> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> But, would the judges and so-called justices restrain themselves after bringing the States to heel? NO! But not because they loved subverting the States less, but that they loved subverting the federal executive and legislative branches more. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> If Yates had extended and increased his own line of reasoning into, what was apparently for him, the unthinkable or, at least, the unmentionable, he would have come to the conclusion that the logical end of that line would be the conclusion, be the final chapter, be the see-ya of the proposed free nation as a free nation, wherein, the federal judiciary didn’t just subvert the States, but also both of the other federal branches … and, by that means, subvert the People themselves, who, after </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, are looking pretty pathetically powerless.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Yates goes on to explain how these judges and so-called justices, empowered under the proposed Article III, would have a ready, recent model.</span><br /> <br /> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">[The federal judges] will have precedent to plead, to justify them in [their usurpations]. It is well known, that the courts in England, have by their own authority, extended their jurisdiction far beyond the limits set them in their original institution, and by the laws of the land. [emphasis added]<br /><br />When the courts will have a precedent before them of a court which extended its jurisdiction in opposition to an act of the legislature, is it not to be expected that they will extend theirs, especially when there is nothing in the constitution expressly against it? and they are authorised to construe its meaning, and are not under any controul? [<span style="font-style: italic;">ibid</span>]<br /></div> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> (Note: Brutus makes a bru-boo by stating that the kings, er, the judges of England could “by their own authority [extend] their jurisdiction far beyond the limits set them in their original institution, and by the laws of the land.” No such “authority” existed; what is described is a usurpation of authority, that is, stealing the authority.) </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> So, past is prologue, especially where precedent is king … and queen, rook, knight, the whole damn chess board. As I’ve suggested above, the more appropriate historical path for comparison would be the subversion of the Laws of God, the Torah (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://wsu.edu/%7Edee/HEBREWS/TORAH.HTM" target="_blank">The <em>Torah</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), by the Pharisees (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+15%3A1-20&version=KJV" target="_blank"><em>Matthew 15:1-20</em> - Passage Lookup - <em>King James</em> Version .</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) whose slow-cook-the-frog techniques, amongst the longest of long cons, successfully turned the divine Commandments on their head, which Yates states as, “This power in the judicial, will enable them to mould the government, into almost any shape they please.” [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, emphasis added]</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Clearly, Brutus was an honorable man … and a prescient one whose perceptions have been fully justified by, in the last instance (and the last straw), the Roberts-cum-Kennedy Court.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been on the stump since before the ruling in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, advocating for judicial independence. That decision has given new urgency to O’Connor’s campaign to prevent campaign contributions from unduly influencing candidates for judgeships, an issue pertinent to the more than 80% of State judges who are subjected to the political election process during their judicial careers. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> “‘This rise in judicial campaigning makes last week's opinion in Citizens United a problem for an independent judiciary,’[O’Connor] told an auditorium of lawyers and Georgetown University law students in Washington [DC]. ‘No state can possibly benefit from having that much money injected into a political campaign.’” … The issue was highlighted most recently by a case in West Virginia featured in an ABC News investigation. In that instance, a mining executive waged a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to elect the swing justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court. The judge then presided over a case the executive’s company had appealed to the court. [Matthew Mosk,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/oconnor-citizens-united-ruling-problem/story?id=9668044" target="_blank"><em> O'Connor</em>: Citizens United Ruling 'A Problem' - ABC News</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, The Blotter from Brian Ross, 1/26/10]</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> That WV case involved the re-election of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Warren McGraw, running against Brent Benjamin, a shill for pathological profiteers, in the 2004 general election. It was thought by various pundits that the deciding factor in that race was the unhealthy sum of $3.5 million that Massey Energy [a huge WV coal mining corporation] CEO Don Blankenship dropped into the coffers of an advocacy group, deftly titled “And for the Sake of the Kids”; altogether now, awww! Very generous, Massa Don … however, lest ye get misty-eyed, “Kids” was formed, under the non-profit Section 527 tax-dodge provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, by Blankenship himself for the purpose of running attack ads against McGraw, underscoring the sickening smarminess of the PAC’s title.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The term “swing justice” as applied to McGraw referred to his propensity to rule in favor of workers and against coal mining companies and their union-busting practices (at least in the case of Massey, under the dictatorial Blankenship); according to Washington pundit Michael Tomasky, a native of WV where the threat of getting a lump of coal for Christmas originated [citation needed], McGraw’s support of the easily oppressed coal miners from his spot on the bench was a plus. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Among the other major supporters of Benjamin was the WV Chamber of Horrors, er, Commerce, although its donation amounted to less than 1/8 of Blankenship’s Mass-ive total. [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] Thus, despite Blankenship’s claim that he supported the PAC on a moral high ground, a more recent USA Today editorial opined that Blankenship’s less noble reason for going after McGraw by stirring up save-those-kiddies passions “vividly illustrated how big money corrupts judicial elections. It puts justice up for sale to the highest bidder.” [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] Cue the bringing down of the gavel … SOLD to the guy with the blood of coal miners on his hands!!!</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> This is a rapier point described indirectly by Yates/Brutus, driven home with a WV coal miner’s sledge hammer. Yates presumes the high probability that “the emolument of the judges will be increased, with the increase of the business they will have to transact and its importance. From these considerations the judges will be interested to extend the powers of the courts, and to construe the constitution as much as possible, in such a way as to favour it; and that they will do it, appears probable.” [AFP No. 11] What Yates does not say, with a high probability that he was perfectly well aware that, since ever judges had to decide cases with lots of money, power and/or prestige at stake, they have been offered bribes (“emoluments” having been Yates’ happy talk for bribes) … and, more often than not, taken them; cf. Amos 5:12,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CB4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbible.cc%2Famos%2F5-12.htm&ei=hUucTNmUDsOclgei64z4CQ&usg=AFQjCNGgKKch3p_YHHNQyq8Fjg0UswMxZw" target="_blank"><em> Amos 5:12</em> For I know how many are your offenses and how great your ...</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Had Yates been able to stroll through the future scandals of the Supremes, he would have tripped over Charles Warren’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, The Supreme Court in United States History (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1922; currently available online via Google books,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2KAFAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=charles+warren+supreme&source=bl&ots=wXHYuafZQM&sig=izgWH8WtZvZSvJBndS9JhapvdMU&hl=en&ei=_0ucTJPBNoWBlAemk8HACg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg" target="_blank"> The <em>Supreme</em> Court in United States history - Google Books Result</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), which delicately (in a Harvard Law sort of way) showcased the filthy, and rather indelicate, lucre in which the “justices” were regularly awash, up through the 1920s, when Warren’s account ends. As </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, No. 08-22, June 8, 2009, (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Caperton_v._A.T._Massey_Coal_Company%2C_Inc.%2C_et_al." target="_blank"><em>Caperton</em> v. A.T. <em>Massey</em> Coal Company, Inc., et al.</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, amply demonstrate, they are awash still, since I’m unable and very unwilling to separate WV rough justice from USSC political justice. “Justice up for sale to the highest bidder”, indeed. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Of course, Justice (my soul aches to have to call this whore “Justice”) Benjamin … wait a minute, Benjamin, J. (insert your own meaning for “J.”; I did), had been sitting on the WV Supreme Court panel in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">., when, on June 8, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling, a 5-4 decision, that the “serious risk of actual bias,” implicated the Due Process Clause, requiring the recusal of Benjamin, J. What had precipitated the Writ to the Supremes was a fairly commonplace reaction of a member of the bench - a refusal to recuse, which the New York Times described as "egregious ethical myopia" on the part of Benjamin. [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The wonder wasn’t the ruling against Benjamin, but that the Roberts Court, fortified with a quartet of pro-corporate hacks (sorry if you’re offended by my disdain for Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas, Js all), came down on the side of … oh, wait a minute. Among those parties filing </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">amicus</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> (friend of the court) briefs were behemoth corporate soon-to-be-real-live-persons Wal-Mart, PepsiCo, Intel, and Lockheed Martin, which all lined up with Common Cause and Public Citizen in recommending that the WV decision in favor of Massey be tossed. So, actually, the Supremes’ decision was 4-1 against Massey, that is, effectively, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Wal-Mart, PepsiCo, Intel, and Lockheed Martin</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> v. </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Massey</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. The unspoken dynamic for the four </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">amici</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> amigos was clearly, geez, we don’t use coal (especially not Lockheed Martin jets, since coal makes a godawful noise in jet engines), screw Massey. Heck, we could use the cut-rate PR (as in propaganda) pump for our own sagging-to-off-the-radar corporate images.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The “swing” justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority; the dissenters (guess who?) backed up Roberts and Scalia; oh, yeah, I just gave you two … OK, so guess the other two. The latter weren’t exactly paying heed to the Conference of Chief Justices; in the Chief Justices’ </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">amicus</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, they claimed to be neutral. Neutral?! “The Conference takes the position that, under certain circumstances, the Constitution may require the disqualification of a judge in a particular matter because of extraordinarily out-of-line campaign support from a source that has a substantial stake in the proceedings.” [</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brennancenter.org%2Fcontent%2Fresource%2Fcaperton_v_massey%2F&ei=gkycTIv5CYS8lQewv-yUCg&usg=AFQjCNHp-MUVBbLDROrcOSUCKR4NdAnFjA" target="_blank"><em>Caperton</em> v. <em>Massey</em> | Brennan Center for Justice</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The usage of the word “disqualification” was provocative since, in reading the Federal Rules, the language of the disqualification provision, 28 USC 455 (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/28/I/21/455" target="_blank"><em>28 U.S.C.</em> § <em>455</em> : US Code - Section <em>455</em>: Disqualification of ...</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">; ...; 28 U.S.C. § 455 is "directed to the judge, rather than the parties, and is self enforcing on the part of the judge." </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">US v Sibla</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/624/624.F2d.864.78-1724.html" target="_blank"><em>624 F.2d 864</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, (9th Cir 1980)), provides that the act of disqualification is to be self-enforcing, that is, a motion for recusal shouldn’t even be necessary where the prejudicial factor is “extraordinarily out-of-line” as in, “Hey, dumbo, see that Exit sign … need we say more?!!” There isn’t any necessity for this “move the court” stuff. The alleged scholars who panned this decision did so on the basis of the recusal provision, a typical bait-and-switch when the party moving for recusal does so before a judge who knows which side of the “versus” his bread has been buttered. A Notice of Disqualifying Circumstances (in cases where I was the, uh, notifying party) always comes out of the subject judge’s mouth as “We’re here today on your motion to recuse me.” Duh. No. We’re not!</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Massa Don wasn’t so good for the career of another of the brethren of the WV Supremes, demonstrating a pattern and practice in a sort of how-much-is-that-judgie-in-the-window routine. In April 2008, while jet-setting in Monaco, Massa Don and Elliott “Spike” Maynard, J. (what self-respecting judge calls himself … oh, that’s right, for Maynard “self-respecting judge” should be an oxymoron) were paparazzi-ed with copies of those pix getting published in the NYT scandal sheet edition. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> When a member of Brian Ross’ crew tried to ask Massa Don, after arriving stateside, about those pix, Massa Don spiked Ross’ guy with an assault, “If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you’re liable to get shot!” with the videocam rolling. [Mosk, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] After the coal dust cleared following the election that May, Maynard was Maynard, ex-J., [Brian Ross Investigates, 5/14/08, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4852923&page=1" target="_blank"><em>Controversial State Judge Loses Re</em>-<em>Election Bid</em> - ABC News</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] although he was apparently still a full-blown J to the majority of WV voters. For purposes of the litigation herein proposed, Maynard would be just a willing victim of psychopathic Massey Energy, under the direction of its psychopathic CEO, providing ample proof of same for the record.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Since corporate officers have insisted that corporations be treated exactly like humans, then their behavior must also be treated, with equivalency, to the behavior of real live humans. Although the decision in Citizens United “represented a sharp doctrinal shift” [</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:-1;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span></span></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:-1;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?th&emc=th" target="_blank">Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit</a></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:-1;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, NYT, 1/22/10, e-edition], that decision also provided ammunition for an attack utilizing the corporation-as-psychopath theory, with a brutally Brutus-twist of the dagger. </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:-1;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span></span></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:-1;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong></strong></span></span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Swinging away from</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> in writing for the radically-activist conservative majority, Kennedy, J., expressed the position that the First Amendment (as amended by </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) “prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.” [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">] Kennedy, like all the justices (or their respective law clerks), is an accomplished wordsmith; he didn’t accidentally leave out phraseology which would have more properly asserted, with actual wording from the constitution, that “the First Amendment prohibits Congress from making any law which abridges (such as by fining or jailing citizens, or by fining associations of citizens) for simply engaging in protected speech, including, but not limited to, political speech.” [cf. actual First Amendment language to Kennedy’s amended First Amendment] Of course, per the future discussion of the subterranean abolition of the constitution, why not attribute any wording you prefer to the constitution since, per the prescience of Yale/Brutus, these Js have given themselves an unlawful license to “[extend] their jurisdiction far beyond the limits set them in their original institution, and by the laws of the land” but without jurisdiction.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Kennedy’s hacked 1st Amendment language referenced above is a part of the holding [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, syllabus at 2.(c)(1)]; in misstating the underlying reasoning so miserably (but with cunning), Kennedy actually argued that Congress itself, not via its constitutionally-authorized function of making law, cannot directly fine or jail citizens or associations thereof for political speech, thereby imputing to Congress a similar sort of super-activism in which the Supreme Court purported to engage in </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> via the unconstitutional situation in which Congress might act like a judge who does directly fine or jail individuals. Of course, without more, my position could be deemed hair-splitting. The question is, “Where, oh, where, Kennedy, J., is your hair being split between </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">?” </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> O’Connor gave us her outlook for the dichotomy in Kennedy, J.’s hair in her Georgetown comments from January of this year. “We can anticipate that labor unions and trial lawyers, for instance, might have the financial means to win one particular state judicial election,” she said. “And maybe tobacco firms and energy companies have enough to win the next one. And if both sides unleash their campaign spending monies without restrictions, then I think</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> mutually-assured destruction</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> is the most likely outcome”, an outcome referred to as the “collision course” point of impact between </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. (Andrew Clevenger,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2010/01/28/oconnor-on-citizens-united-and-caperton-a-warning-on-judicial-elections/" target="_blank"><em> O'Connor</em> on Citizens United and Caperton: “a warning” on judicial</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, 1/28/10, emphasis added) There is, according to O’Connor’s justifiable rant on the subject, a serious conflict between the two cases, both of which had Kennedy’s stamp on them. Accompanied by a term (“mutually-assured destruction”) usually reserved for nuclear winter, O’Connor informs us that this hair isn’t going to be split, it’s gonna be ground zero for the schizophrenic Roberts-cum-Kennedy court.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> O’Connor echoes the Brutus/Yates’ threshold caveat about Article III being so wielded as to undermine State judiciaries; however, she doesn’t approach the harsher Yates who cautioned that there would be a silent but deadly suffocation of all State authority and, of course, neither did she reach the horror of the subjugation of all other federal authority by Article III conquest. This is the up-with-absolute-judicial-power, down-with-government-of-by-and-for-the-People dynamic previously noted as having been described by Yates.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The first conflict, implied by O’Connor though not specifically set forth, is the side-by-side of the unlimited contributions supposedly allowed pursuant to</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> and the disallowance of “extraordinarily out-of-line campaign support from a source that has a substantial stake in the proceedings” pursuant to </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. What </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> allows is unlimited and, therefore, theoretically extended out to infinity, subject, of course, to the depth of the pockets and the psychopathic drive of the corporate contributor, whereas, what </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> disallows may be “extraordinarily out-of-line” but is, nevertheless, limited. Hence, the greater-than sign between the maximum bribe allowed to each branch is pointing in the wrong direction. Of course, with some clever manipulation, the two-headed Kennedy could wriggle out of this conundrum of judicial fuzzy math, but, the strategy of litigation, with the vital, nasty PR campaign in close tow, proposed herein shouldn’t permit any wriggling.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The second conflict was briefly touched by the Prez (albeit with his pinkie finger) in his State of the Union Address, delivered January 27;</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/state-of-the-union-2010-president-obama-speech-transcript/story?id=9678572" target="_blank"><em> State of the Union 2010</em>: President Obama's Full Speech <em>Transcript</em></a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. Prefacing his remark with “all due deference to the separation of powers” was, to say the least, anemic, with all due deference to the Chief Executive, who, as a professor of constitutional law, should be blow-it-out-your-ears steamed at the real meaning of these two rulings, to say nothing of the reality of the Presidency and the Congress getting simultaneously jammed by the Supremes. </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> provides less-than-zero deference to the separation of powers; more bluntly, the evil twin </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Kennedy spits on the good Kennedy and flips him the bird for bad measure. In imperious response to Obama’s call for Congress to legislate corrective measures, Alito, J., shook his head as though he was admonishing … well, the good</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">CapertonCaperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Kennedy-as-naughty-boy. Kennedy wasn’t in attendance, otherwise, he would have required two seats.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> In </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, the Supremes didn’t merely breach the separation of powers (</span><a style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/separation-of-powers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em style="font-weight: normal;">Separation of powers</em>: West's Encyclopedia of American Law</span></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), they ran an M1 Abrams through the walls purportedly protecting both the Congress and the Presidency from encroachment by the judiciary. Encroachment? Did I say encroachment? I meant … let’s see, what’s a catchier version of “deployment of deadly activist judicial nuclear artillery shells.” Hmm.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Whereas </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> effectively promulgates a federal rule against “extraordinarily out-of-line campaign contributions” in judicial elections, thus, protecting the judicial branch from the dangers of corrupting the political process on their side of the protective walls of separation of powers, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> purports to permit those same corrupting influences in unlimited amounts, that is, theoretically beyond “extraordinarily out-of-line campaign contributions” in elections for both legislators and for executives. So, the evil-twin Kennedy and the good Kennedy aren’t really so schizophrenic after all; they’re one and the same constitutionally infirm son of a bitch, unleashing the worst pair of decisions, which should be viewed as one, to ever violate the separation of powers. </span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Mitigating this disaster via the waiting-for-Congress-as-Godot legislative route has no more potential than trying to resurrect the miners murdered by Massey CEO Massa Don via the administration of CPR. Brutus/Yates correctly surmised, for his time, that “[t]he opinions of the supreme court … will have the force of law, because there is no power provided in the constitution, that can correct their errors, or controul their adjudications. From this court there is no appeal”; however, the principles of equity, mandating a remedy where the law provides none (especially where equity has been supposedly abolished in favor of a mongrel jurisdiction, that is, the alleged extra-constitutional jurisdiction as described by Justice Harlan in his “majority” dissent in Downes v. Bidwell, 182 US 244 (1901), at 374, et seq.;</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.supremelaw.org/decs/downes/index.htm" target="_blank"> Supreme Law Library : Court Decisions : <em>Downes</em> v. <em>Bidwell</em> : index</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), when manipulated by a creative legal mind in the era of instant verdicts in the worldwide public forum of the www-dot.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> We are reminded of another recent model for which Yates, perhaps because of his brotherly, Brutus-ly, reticence to go there, does not give proper consideration - the impeachment, specifically, for our times, the impeachment of Clinton … but, pointed, in this case, at Kennedy for his singular devotion to the two-pronged forked tail of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> that simultaneously (and with treasonous contempt) stabbed the federal executive and legislative branches. A monster IT-aided pushback on the attempt by Kennedy,</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> et al.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, to usurp the whole ball of wax would necessarily have to include a ballistic internet launch against this </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">coup d’etat</span> by the Roberts-cum-Kennedy Supreme Commanders.<br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Which brings us to the pursuit of direct remedies via prosecution (e.g, the Upper Big Branch victims ex rel. the SEC, a la RICO) of the Massey corporation and its CEO, Massa Don Blankenship or, slightly more recently, Tony Baloney Hayward and the latest BP serial murders in the Gulf, as psychopaths, used in conjunction with really up-theirs viral internet PR utilizing the forgotten instrument of the petition, dressed up as e-petitions to Congress, for redress of grievances, would open up a new avenue of gaining remedies foreclosed by, e.g., West Virginia statutes and federal statutes rigged to prevent court rulings favoring the miners and the regulatory sluggards, guilty of gross negligence, entrusted with offshore-oil-drilling oversight. If the Roberts-cum-Kennedy Court can be exposed to the e-winds of un-change via this means, then even </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> might be brought down; after all, it’s just a house of cards, there having been no physical revolution, only the revolution of paper tigers, who are, nonetheless, subject to impeachment, both literal and virtual.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> In the reasoning given in the </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> holding, the Court, via Kennedy, the J., purports to be able to prophesy that “the appearance of influence or access [via campaign contributions] will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy”, providing no actual authority for this magical power. [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, syllabus at 2.(c)(2), where the reasoning in</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> is distinguished from that of the referenced cite.] This strange bit of logic is addressed in TC (by Noam Chomskyl see, also,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.devondelapp.com/design/portfolio/content/chomsky.pdf" target="_blank"> MANUFACTURING CONSENT: A <em>PROPAGANDA</em> MODEL BY EDWARD S. HERMAN AND NOAM CHOMSKY</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) under the topic of how, in a civilized society, the masses can be persuaded to be passive followers of the power elite - via propaganda, spewed with the ejaculatory power of the obsessed-possessed in “The Exorcist”.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The proposition that “[r]apid changes in technology - and the creative dynamic inherent in the concept of free expression - counsel against upholding a law that restricts political speech in certain media and by certain speakers” [</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United, ibid</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, at 2(d)] is ass-backwards, demonstrating a disdain for the cognoscenti of e-speech, who understand that by its nearly instantaneous delivery, speech of all kinds can become viral and, therefore, can be the equivalent of a worldwide shout of “Fire!” in a crowded internet, where the most confrontational or sensational or scandalous speech gets the most hits. Under this heretofore unknown dynamic of e-propaganda, the loss of faith can be ramped up in less than a day; restoring that faith, as has been amply shown in the era of FoxNews, Drudge and the right-wing-nut funny e-farm, is slow, oftentimes to the point of irreparable harm. These e-characteristics counsel for far greater care in restricting political speech. The current vile tactics of lies and deceit utilized by the super-right-wing birthed out of the latent racist hate, (think Rosemary’s baby) so long hidden and waiting to re-emerge like chicken pox viruses, after decades of incubation, transformed into shingles.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Thus, Kennedy appears to hope that no one notices the battering our now ghost of a constitution has suffered from the double-barreled constitutional siege weapon of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Citizens United</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Caperton</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">. He hopes no one sees the bloodless usurpation of power that’s been perpetrated. Yet in this fond and childish hope, Kennedy, Roberts, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">et al.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, when the inadequately thin curtain is drawn back, will be shown, worldwide, for the subversives they are, of the breed that Brutus/Yates accurately predicted would be spawned so long ago. That the issue of the Kennedy-authored revolution must be an equal partner in the litigation of either or both Massey and BP is paramount with the aim at overturning, at very least, in practical effect.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> The necessary execution of an upload/download blitzkrieg about this proposed litigation-cum-prosecution would demonstrate that Kennedy is a false prophet of the new religion of the Supremes as deities and would provide the mechanism for combating the inevitable Internet debunkers of the theory of the case, which must also be vigorously tried in the present global e-court of public opinion where, now more than ever, the first impression of a case of first impression is a crucial pre-emptive gotcha. The biggest prize in that contest are the victims of the collective corporate psychopathic id, namely, the quantum heart-and-mind of all of us that can prevail over any financial juggernaut that has money as its reality. The e-community possesses infinitely more virtual reality. Just unleash it.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> * * *</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> In the 1st version of this proposal, the suggested target for litigation was Massey Energy as a real live psychopath; however, the intervening catastrophe in the Gulf has displaced Massey as the corporate villain of the moment. Both the Massey Energy and the BP are ideal candidates for the proposed litigation with accompanying independent Internet PR campaigns, highlighting the specifics of the litigation, including, but not limited to, the pathological concepts from TC. The case of first impression tried for the first time via e-strategy.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> In the fantasy of legal fiction, where a pathological corporate liar is found to have harmed other real live humans with its lies, then there must be a remedy via litigation. Where the harm is more serious, then the remedy must also be more serious with punishment arising to the level of criminal sanctions, such as the equivalent of imprisonment or institutionalization, as would necessarily be imposed on the criminally insane, requiring proof of rehabilitation prior to permission to re-enter polite society and do polite things, like contribute to political campaigns. Where the crime is found to be in the nature of a capital crime (separate and apart from the necessity to drag the sad carc-asses of, e.g., Blankenship and Hayward, into an appropriate prosecution), then the equivalent of execution, dissolution of the corporation via, say, a forced Chapter 7 liquidation in bankruptcy court, would be an equitable resolution.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> In all such litigation or prosecution, the responsible corporate officers and their invisible regulators would have to be on the hook for comparable or equivalent punishment. After all, as TC points out, CEOs (as well as the AWOL regulators) are actual real live humans (although bereft of consciences), despite the pretense of deferring, pursuant to the corporate pathology, to the corporate persona in order to hide behind its artificial skirts, and it is they who must be primarily held liable for the real live consequences of their actions, irrespective of the claim that they’re protected by the corporate charter. Murder, by proxy, is still murder in any book.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> As to prosecutions of the corporations for crime, these could proceed where private citizens or private organizations bring actions in relation to (ex rel.), for example, the US Attorney, for the particular district in which the corporate defendants were located, or under RICO (the Racketeering and Corrupt Organizations Act,</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://graham.main.nc.us/%7Ebhammel/INS/RICO.html" target="_blank"> US Code Title 18, - <em>RICO</em> LAWS</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), enabling treble damages. For BP, that would jack the money award potential halfway to a trillion dollars, the Chapter 7 sentence of death.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> These actions would, of course, not be limited to public corporations, but would open up, kinda like jaws-of-life, privately-held corporations to the same kind of litigation (how ‘bout the Koch Bros. for starters, </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all" target="_blank"><em> The billionaire Koch brothers</em>' <em>war against Obama</em> : The New Yorker</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), under the Commerce Clause (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html" target="_blank"><em>U.S. Constitution</em> - Article 1 Section 8</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">), all corporations, whether public or private, having an affect on interstate commerce. These actions would also provide another bite at corporations which have managed to escape justice in court, e.g., in the Wilson/Akre whistleblower suit (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html" target="_blank">The Media Can Legally Lie</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">) involving Rupert AARGH!’s Newscorp, when the appellate court ruled, perhaps corruptly, that falsifying news isn’t a crime. Did Rupert poison the fountain of justice?</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Since the Obama administration seems loathe to go after Jr.’s crew for its perpetration (not prosecution) of an armed conflict vs. Iraq (not a war, there being no required declaration thereto), some of the corporate co-conspirators, such as, Halliburton, Harken Energy, Wackenhut/Blackwater/Xe and Bechtel, could be prosecuted for their pathological pursuit of profit where all the lives lost were the consequence of the palpable falsehoods re:WMDs (which I refer to as RMDs, rabbits of mass destruction, that is, Jr. would have had to pull those weapons out of his hat), widely disseminated to defraud Americans and our allies into accepting the massive violations of international law, which would implicate the Nuremberg Principles with respect to the commission of acts which any reasonable person would know were criminal (</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a rel="nofollow" href="http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft%20articles/7_1_1950.pdf" target="_blank"><em>Principles</em> of International Law</a></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">). Let’s see, the corporations, the federal agencies assigned to watch the store and the real live actual humans doing what they know is criminal or letting it happen, as regulated by the Nuremberg Principles … that’s the ticket. No International Court at the Hague required, just www.court.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Ultimately, the statutory schemes governing corporations, public and private (since all affect interstate commerce, none can claim an immunity privilege), must be radically reformed, with e-participation all around, to prevent the universality of abuse that’s ongoing. The benevolence required of corporations in a new statutory regime must be specific and provide a straightforward path to recovery of damages; the remedies should also include, but not be limited to, prosecution of corporate officers in an equivalency to ordinary criminal prosecution for,</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> inter alia</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">, fraud in the avoidance of providing protection of employees from dangerous working conditions. Furthermore, the new statutory scheme should provide for compensation to shareholders for any malfeasance of the corporate officers held liable for violations of these provisions.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Obviously, much, much more can be legislated.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> * * *</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"> Brutus calls out to his philosophical descendants to do to the Caesars, this 4th Reich of the judiciary, who have surreptitiously committed violence to the entire political process, as much as he himself would have wanted in a “Et tu” sort of way.</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"></span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-81906819673330949582010-01-26T15:18:00.002-06:002010-01-26T15:19:14.433-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RPRpOyrTXU9IrhyphenhyphenFagTXSwTtsgXyiBpoa8WUDpOq3l5YuEoHY2mbnG3a9aBxoIIVVdVdFdZnsB_Imrw98ZFzK9-He_8UmTOu1qIyVinbzUL-lbL7L92aBoLEXctB9CTeNtYWnZzhqEK_/s1600-h/Snowtons_fantasy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 599px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RPRpOyrTXU9IrhyphenhyphenFagTXSwTtsgXyiBpoa8WUDpOq3l5YuEoHY2mbnG3a9aBxoIIVVdVdFdZnsB_Imrw98ZFzK9-He_8UmTOu1qIyVinbzUL-lbL7L92aBoLEXctB9CTeNtYWnZzhqEK_/s400/Snowtons_fantasy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431161009275636610" border="0" /></a>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-25986878914683572412009-08-06T23:38:00.000-05:002009-08-06T23:39:25.349-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvgZtULbc2J0caqTm8IrP9DceNFTZC8isF3uae2FLtNwXVm9OtohBm4LRmXBnShlBj8Lc1hMU5MkoDumj-T6sPmrLbe0_R53uqHM451o0R5W3C4LAj8cdlockiNoGwZP7CQVQgArMUr0S/s1600-h/John+Teschky+Kenyan.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvgZtULbc2J0caqTm8IrP9DceNFTZC8isF3uae2FLtNwXVm9OtohBm4LRmXBnShlBj8Lc1hMU5MkoDumj-T6sPmrLbe0_R53uqHM451o0R5W3C4LAj8cdlockiNoGwZP7CQVQgArMUr0S/s400/John+Teschky+Kenyan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367076858736603266" /></a>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-51291341581662798352009-02-21T00:12:00.001-06:002009-02-21T00:12:39.044-06:00An Urgent Request<!-- Attachments --> <span style="font-size:100%;"><rocht@iclmg.ca style="font-family: georgia;"><resist1000@usa.com><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F1.bp.blogspot.com%252F_fBNW7q3ISCE%252FSO7vELAYETI%252FAAAAAAAAABQ%252FFKJUrWj62B0%252Fs1600-h%252FNWAProfilingAttackBanner.JPG" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 235px; cursor: pointer; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis8hvE7zV99aDgLrx2LD_4EvAbLmo_juv3rx_P8eqXRxhLy136K_2AqVvsefpK06D04hX9lTuLVpUypU1UL85eGw33SmkqTJkrVPE3Cujwf0uwTzBtgtTI2LtO_kYkjlDvi3QxTT6d20s/s400/NWAProfilingAttackBanner.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255400670140830002" border="0" /></a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="post-body entry-content"><img style="width: 231px; height: 306px;" src="http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii127/dalton124124/Winnipeg%20Police%20Exposed/GOVERNMENT/McCain_NWA_CROPPED.jpg" align="left" /></div></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">An urgent request for those who have come to know of our ordeal- I emplore you to come together and unite on our behalf against the tyrannical entities set towards our destruction. This is a call for us to unite.</span><br /><br />Hi Mit, hello Jim, hi Paul-hello Lesley- Hello Mr Tasse- I don't know if any of you know each other but Mit-Jim Stach is from FreedomfighterRadio.net and has helped propagate awareness of our plight further via proxy bulletin on Freedomsphoenix.com and has been gracious enough to host several interviews with me as guest. Mit Etagniw is a former broadcaster with Republic Broadcasting network, and hosts a site called Freedomshinnanigans.com and has also been extremely helpful, once interviewing me while police were still outside my door during an attempted kidnapping! http://www.gabcast.com/casts/3452/episodes/1215289263.mp3<br /><br /></resist1000@usa.com></rocht@iclmg.ca></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;">Paul Verge has been enormously helpful patiently taking the time to unravel the convoluted intricacies of our plight and their ploys and has extended graciously and plentifully of his time and energy, hosting us on his radio broadcast and speaking to others about our plight; Moreover, he has been in the circles of some very high profile figures and done interview with those so noted as David Ike while loosley connected with such notable public figures as Cynthia McKinney (former congressman)<br /><br />Lesley Hughes has steadfastly supported us as journalist and friend, following the repeated afflictions upon us and now witness to the collusion corruption and wrote judicial breaches of law being committed towards our harm in the Manitoba law Courts as recently as Jan 18/09. Her presence at the Public Safety Buidling Oct 27/07 surely lended heavily to preventing what would assuredly have entailed my kidnapping and torture. Canada's involvement in the kidnapping and torture of Maher Arar, Scott Loper , John Graham, Gary Freeman set vice grip precident underscoring the likelyhood of just that thing.<br /><br />Michelle Gross has petitioned heavily on our behalf as head of the Minneapolis based Communities United Against Police Brutality. Having witnessed and at times been subject to the tyranny and brutality of the Minneapolis Police force, and having carefully researched the nuances of our ordeal, she has provided corroborative voucher and attest to the accuracy of our account of the attacks upon us. http://advocacymgrosscuapb.blogspot.com/<br /><br />While Roch Tasse, head of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, has <a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.scribd.com%252Fdoc%252F12391651%252FICLMG-Appeal-to-Public-Interest-Law-Centre-ReMcCain-Police-Kidnapping-Murder-Attempts-Denied" target="_blank">written to the Public Interest Law Center</a>, <a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Frochtasse-iclmgbehindus.blogspot.com%252F%2523Roche-Tasse-Appealsto-Janelle-Jaffer-ACLU" target="_blank">appealed on our behalf with the ACLU</a>, and appealed to Penny Priddy parliamentary member and MP for Surrey B.C. North- valiantly yet unfortunately without response from a government clearly intent towards our perminent harm.<br /><br />Winnipeg City Councilor Harvey Smith (hsmith(at)winnipeg(dot)ca has stated quite correctly that he is the only city councilor to stand up to the Winnipeg Police- and he had challenged them on our behalf-so what did they do- city council passed legislation this year making it illegal for him to help us by making it illegal for a city councilor to assist those outside of their riding- and councilor Smith's assistant stated that our case was a primary focus instumental towards that bilaw being passed!<br /><br />Leon in Toronto has been extremely helpful in posting links on his company website for his Toronto game store, having first seen account of ordeal on the net almost 1 year prior and having contacted me by email thereafter. His level of awareness and<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;">conscientiousness concerning issues of injustice and covert state tyranny have provided a common ground for me to vent frustrations and emotion over the indifference of the masses to our ordeal despite the fact that it is representative of mass tyranny culminating slowly upon those same masses.<br /><br />Finally, Joshua Antonelli of the police abuse complaint centre at PoliceAbuse.com as per referral Jim Stach of freedomfighterradio.net, has been extremely receptive to our concerns and we look forward to dealing with their centre as an instrument of justice amidst the sea of injustice in which we are now cast.<br />Jim and Gianni Hayes ( Gianni Hayes giannihayes@creative-services.biz<br />info@thenaz.us, info@americandtc.com) have done interview together and Gianni has has a post on Republic Broadcasting This is where the lineage and cross over lies: Republic BroadcastingNetwork . (She also has a position with TheAmericanVoice.com . )<br /><br />Jim had suggested he might refer me to her and I have since sent her the email below (a detailed press release giving most of the updated nuances of the state terror afflictions upon us)<br />I am still waiting to here back from her. Our lives are in danger, we no longer have an attorney (read the email) and we VERY MUCH NEED THE PUBLICITY EXPOSURE ON HER BROADCAST WOULD BRING. I see announcements for her broadcasts as spam in my in box every day- we MUST make use of this resource. The court is closing in upon us towards my kidnapping at this point via wrote denial of breach of law towards the occlusion of our stolent possessions with an aim to abcution and the use thereafter of this intellectual property against me in a covert tribunal- my second and my LAST.<br /><br /><div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">I have tried petitioning THEAMERICANVOICE of my own accord Call in LIVE at 1-800-433-1429 </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Phone:541-826-9050 Fax:810-885-1842 and have spoken to a representative twice now, but have recieved no return of interest!<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Some help with TheAmericanVoice and Gianni Hayes would be very much appreciated at this time.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">It seems strange- I have done interviews with Charles Guiliani and spoken directly to Vincent Bugliosi an international figure during one of these sessions (<b><b>“Charles talks with<b> Vincent Bugliosi</b> about indicting Bush for murder, and then he is joined by<b> Aaron James</b> and <b>Ted Pike</b> for the second hour.”</b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><b><b>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008 </b><b>Charles Guiliani Republic Broadcasting</b><b><br /></b>MP3 Files:</b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F216.240.133.177%252Farchives32%252FHertz%252F2008%252F10%252FHertz_1_100208_110000.mp3" target="_blank">Hour 1</a> <a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F216.240.133.177%252Farchives32%252FHertz%252F2008%252F10%252FHertz_1_100208_110000.mp3" target="_blank">http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Hertz/2008/10/Hertz_1_100208_110000.mp3</a> ,)</b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">and yet OUR story is still in occlusion from the masses while tyranny closes in behind closed doors! We need assistance in referral very badly- I hope any of you would be able to be of assistance.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I will continue working of my own accord in researching and drafting legal documents with which to hold back the legal abuses upon us but certainly and referral and resultant propogation of our plight would be extremly advantageous and timely.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><b>I</b></b> am hopeful that through a coordinated set of efforts between all of us that pressure can be brought to bear on the figure heads responsible for the state tyranny upon us we are experiencing to this date.<b><b><br /></b></b></p> </div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Aaron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Aaron/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F1.bp.blogspot.com%252F_fBNW7q3ISCE%252FSO7vELAYETI%252FAAAAAAAAABQ%252FFKJUrWj62B0%252Fs1600-h%252FNWAProfilingAttackBanner.JPG" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></a></b><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">McCainAttacks.blogspot.com Tyranny In effect towards Our Abduction Continues:</span><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">McCainAttacks.blogspot.com Tyranny In effect towards My Abduction Continues:<br /><br />I have effectively dismissed Adam Masiowski of Pinx Law &Co. from our legal council as of this date Feb 19/09- Although I infer no malice unto our persons, he has acted outside of our interests in locking us into a proceeding with a judge who has interests towards our harm and has actively acted on behalf of criminally charged Winnipeg Police towards our kidnapping and murder by allowing this same judge to take "seizure" of our case without having consulted me on the matter.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">.<br />Though there was no malice intended in his decision, it will surely have deleterious and potentially very dangerous consequences for our persons.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><u>Currently, as an illegal extension of the judicial tyranny under which we were subject in theUnited States, judicial tyranny and illegal court proceedings within<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are now ongoing in order to act as cover up of the ordeal.</u></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Currently the Manitoba "Law" Courts under<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Judge Linda Giesbrecht,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are in collusion with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Winnipeg police</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://winnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com</a> in capacity FBI asset Winnipeg Police chief Keith McCaskill, towards the concealment<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>of belongings and intellectual property illegally seized and stolen by Winnipeg police at the time of the first kidnapping attempt and No-Warrant- No-Charges raid of my home. -in order to cover up the evidence such that my intellectual property illegally seized in the no warrant no charges raid of his home, and attempted kidnapping, could be used in yet another secret trial against me in the United States should Winnipeg Police on behalf of covert U.S. factions, be successful in illegally kidnapping my mother and I from Canada.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Having been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnorthwest-delta-breaches-protocol.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">racially profiled</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnorthwest-delta-breaches-protocol.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://northwest-delta-breaches-protocol.blogspot.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>and attacked by Minneapolis airport police aboard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.aclu.org%252Fracialjustice%252Fracialprofiling%252F25583res20020604.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">sued by the ACLU, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>- <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fbarack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">*McCain affiliated</a> <b>Northwest Airlines<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnwaracialpersecution.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Northwest Know well for their history of hate based attacks)</a></b>, and noting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.northworstair.org%252FNWA-eWatch%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">their tendency towards targeting their corporate critics</a>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-terror-card.uuuq.com%252FMcCain_Attacks_Bloggers.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">McCain's attacks upon bloggers and free speech</a>, in speaking out against the attacks, we were placed through a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">covert trial</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with members and or affiliates of FBI CIA and NSA on the jury pool in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.minnesota.publicradio.org%252Ffeatures%252F200111%252F12_newsroom_colorofjustice%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">21 blacks:1 white imprisoned Minneapolis.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><br />Regarding the above, the Hennepin judiciary has been exposed by the Council On Crime and Justice as<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.minnesota.publicradio.org%252Ffeatures%252F200111%252F12_newsroom_colorofjustice%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>corrupt with the targeting of minorities victims of police brutality and the poor.</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">The original attack aboard the aircraft was a retaliatory measured premeditated response towards averting a law suit in retaliation for our having complained about the treatment of our baggage on our trip down to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Minneapolis<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>3 days earlier. We had come from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Mayo clinic to see about an injury to my arm and our baggage had not come off the carousel. The airlines lied to us while claiming it had simply been misplaced. It was delivered to our hotel 3 hours later with a note attached indicating we had been profiled as a security risk and as such, our baggage locks cut, the baggage seized and searched.<br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">As attest to the hostile bigoted police state environment at Minneapolis airport it should be note that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>there have been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>several further attacks at this same airport since,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the same officer,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fca.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DmczyEUBJiBA" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Brad Wingate #4289 involved in all 3 attacks Including Our own at MN Airport!</i></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><b><span style=";color:black;" >Officer Wingate has been involved in the attack upon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fgreencycles.blogspot.com%252F2007%252F05%252Fcase-summary.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">130lb MN Opera Violinist David Orsack (*click)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.iht.com%252Farticles%252Fap%252F2006%252F11%252F21%252Famerica%252FNA_GEN_US_Passengers_Removed.php" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">6 Imams (click)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmothereyewitnessnwaattack.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i>ourselves (*click)</i></a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><i><span style=";color:red;" >Mother Eye Witness To the Attack</span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><i><span style=";color:red;" ><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmothereyewitnessnwaattack.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">http://mothereyewitnessnwaattack.blogspot.com</span></a></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style=";color:red;" >BREACHES IN PROTOCOL</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">:</span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnorthwest-delta-breaches-protocol.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">http://northwest-delta-breaches-protocol.blogspot.com/</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Secret Tribunal and Breaches in Law at Trial*click)</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /><b><u>The Nuances of the Original Attack Aboard The Aircraft</u></b><br />Noting the racially hostile demographics of Minneapolis, they had just completed a nefarious<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmnairportprofilingproject.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">racial profiling project</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>emanating out of Israel (and noting Israel's bigoted genocide of the Palestinians) days prior to our arrival. My mother was accused of harboring a suspicious bag aboard the aircraft after having passed through security without issue!-after which we were verbally harassed and lambasted and set in upon by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmnpolicecorruptionarchives.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Minneapolis airport police<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>aboard the aircraft. We have prepared a very<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>detailed report outlining the nuances of the attack</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as well as an<u>analysis of the police' statements</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in exposing their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>false testimony and lies</u>.<br /><br />That the project came out of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Israel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>under Ron Rafi and has its basis in the illegal procurement of information for FBI related racial profiling purposes, is also not surprising when one considers the genocide hate based horrors of the Israeli government’s afflictions upon the Palestinians. That<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Minneapolis<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was chosen as the location for Rafi’s pioneer project is no surprise once one considers the demographics at play referencing the racially hostile environment of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Minneapolis<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>within its judiciary and law enforcement also as delineated above.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Ron Rafi has augmented the CAPS program into something now called BPR or "Behavioral Pattern Recognition" profiling- however this is simply and pseudonym- a poorly veiled excuse for RACIAL profiling under an assumed alias identity.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">"<b><u><span style="color:red;">The use of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u></b><b><u><span style=";color:red;" >“behavior pattern recognition”</span></u></b><b><u><span style=";color:red;" ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has similarly emerged as a trend in counterterrorism training. ...</span></u></b><u>While a shift away from focusing on the “the type of person” who fits a terrorist profile</u><br /><u>toward the type of behavior that might precede an attack is laudable, this Briefing Paper argues that the indicators contained in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u><b><u><span style=";color:red;" >Training Key 581 will not be implemented in a neutral manner.</span></u></b><br /><u>Specifically, it concludes that these indicators are proxies for racial, ethnic and religious profiling,</u><br /><u>and that implementation of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u><b><u><span style=";color:red;" >Training Key will disproportionately target Muslims, Arabs and South Asians, or those perceived to be Muslim, Arab, or South Asian.</span></u></b><br /><u>.<b>.. on the basis of overly-broad physical and behavioral characteristics, that will in the overwhelming number of cases end up targeting Muslims, Arabs and South Asians, or those perceived to be Muslim, Arab, or South Asian.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></u><b><u><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u></b><u><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.icj.org%252FIMG%252FCHRGJRacialProfilingReport.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b>http://www.icj.org/IMG/CHRGJRacialProfilingReport.pdf</b></a></u></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="color:black;">Moreover THE HIDDENT MOTIVATIONS FOR THEIR<s>"Behavioural"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></s>(Racial) profiling 'Project' become VERY CLEAR once we take a brief glimpse at the racially hostile Demographics of Minneapolis</span></b><span style="color:black;">: With<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.minnesota.publicradio.org%252Ffeatures%252F200111%252F12_newsroom_colorofjustice%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">21Blacks:1 white wrongly imprisoned(*click),</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Council on Crime and Justice having declared the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.charityadvantage.com%252FCUAPB%252F120906Newsletter.asp" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Minneapolis Judiciary Corrupt(*click)</a>with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.charityadvantage.com%252FCUAPB%252F120906Newsletter.asp" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">collusion between Hennepin County Judges<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span><span style=";color:black;" ><span> </span>,including Chief Justice Lucy Wieland),( the city attorney's office of Minneapolis,</span><span style=";color:black;" >(</span><span style=";color:black;" ><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Ffbi-us-dept-justice-collusion.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>FBI/U.S. department of Justice Collusion</a>being epidemic<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Ffbi-admits-to-black-murder-ploys.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>FBI Now admiting to Murder Ploys Against Black Leaders(click!)</i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style=";color:black;" >)</span><span style=";color:black;" ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmn-kkk-police-attack-black-pastors.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">police profiling of black pastors(click)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmnpolice-send-kkk-threats.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">threatening city councilor's with kkk threats!</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>, targeting victims of police brutality minorities and the poor-and Minneapolis housing the highest *Somali (a *Muslim sect) population in all of the United States - one can see the *RACIAL motivations for their program, now complete with a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmnpolice-chiefsued-re-kkk-threats.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">KKK LAWSUIT AGAINST MN POLICE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></b><span style="color:black;">AND CHIEF TIM DOLAN! -<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fminnesota.publicradio.org%252Fdisplay%252Fweb%252F2007%252F12%252F03%252Fcopslawsuit%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/12/03/copslawsuit/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>;</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fminnesota.publicradio.org%252Ffeatures%252F2007%252F12%252F03_williamsb_copslawsuit%252Fcomplaint.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2007/12/03_williamsb_copslawsuit/complaint.pdf</a><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Also as seen in the following video:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fca.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DmczyEUBJiBA" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mczyEUBJiBA</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">covert trial</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://mccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com/</a><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>with members and or affiliates of FBI CIA and NSA on the jury pool in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fnews.minnesota.publicradio.org%252Ffeatures%252F200111%252F12_newsroom_colorofjustice%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">21 blacks:1 white imprisoned Minneapolis.</a><span> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://mccain-attacks-kangaroo-court.blogspot.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with members and or affiliates of FBI CIA and NSA on the jury pool in and related collusion was a set up carried forward because of our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fi263.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fii127%252Fdalton124124%252FWinnipeg%252520Police%252520Exposed%252FCHOMIAK%252520COLLUSION%252FPeace_Officer_Standards_and_Trai-1.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">complaint disposition given to Peace Officer Standard and Training,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>in which we had clearly uncovered and detailed the lies and deceptions of the Minneapolis police VIA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fpoliceliesuncovered07.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">OUR ANALYSIS OF POLICE STATEMENTS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>regarding the airline profiling attack. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />In collusion with the court to conceal the truth they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F4.bp.blogspot.com%252F_8Cyl51Vpt1c%252FRmNS9e4FwbI%252FAAAAAAAAAEE%252FpKo1Jnxc-fA%252Fs320%252FP.O.S.T.%25252BForwards%25252Bour%25252Bcomplaint%25252BTo%25252BFBI%25252Band%25252BProsecution.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">forwarded the complaint to the prosecution</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the FBI one week prior and the covert tribunal by wrote design to conceal, was established- we were threatened into silence at our own 'trial' and threatened into silence against the disposition of our complaint before the jury pool, a complaint which the court deemed "Anti-U.S. Government".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Clearly well ahead of its time, S1959 and HR1955, draconian legislation targeting free speech as terrorism, was being applied well ahead of its time, at the June 19-21st trial. Our judge, David S. Doty was a criminally charged X U.S. Marine, threatened us against U.S. Martial abduction at the trial and has a long history of judicial misconduct. The jury pool was laced with members and affiliates of FBI CIA NSA Minneapolis Police prosecuting attorneys and Northwest Airlines employees, the very airline on which we were attacked, and FBI agent Marc Rensch- the same agent who had interrogated me in the holding cell in attempt to link me to extremist groups-the same agent present outside our home- the same agent who had intercepted our complaint from Peace officer standards and Training and forwarded it to the prosecution- was called to the stand by the prosecution to the effect of "Now, would that handsome broadly grinning man sitting in the back row please come up to take the stand?"<br />Although the main felony charge had failed before the jury pool (the covert agents of which we did our best to weed out) , we were unable, given the gag order, to testify, and a second charge, of minor assault, added just 3 days before the trial in covert meeting between FBI the prosecution and Minneapolis Police, had been added without our notice, as relayed unto us by our attorney only as we were literally walking into the court room.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />There is a significant body of evidence, some as witnessed by the head of Communities United Against Police Brutality, and other evidence of which we have made copious report, that our attorney did not have our best interests at heart.<br />This last minute charge was a continuum of their efforts to conceal the truth given our exposure of their crimes and before a covert tribunal, with both my mother and I given gag order, a criminally charged X U.S. marine as judge and covert government agencies representing the body of the jury. In furtherance to this collusion only 3 of 5 officers submitted statements and only 2 of 5 appeared at trial in order to avoid visual identification since they had rearranged and exchanged their positions aboard the aircraft in their written reports and only 4 of 5 badge numbers had been given to my mother at the time of the attack, in order to conceal the presence of the 1 black officer- officer Alvin Cooper #4215 who they felt might not go along with their lies. He had NOT taken part in the attack whereas the others had!<br /><br /><b>Officer Cooper assists us surreptitiously in uncovering the truth:</b><br />Despite their tactics, officer Cooper, writing in the guise of officer Sweigert (all officers had exchanged identities in their reports) made it a point of placing HIS FULL badge number and name -Officer Alvin Cooper #4215- in the middle of the report, whereas none of the other reports mentioned him and officers only gave the last two digits of their badges. His assistance had been made clear.<br /><br />Given we had uncovered Cooper's presence within one of the reports via his assistance and that we had reflected knowledge of this within our analysis of police statements which Peace Officer Standards and Training maliciously forwarded to the FBI and prosecution, compensatory measured were instilled and in addition to the second charge added without our notice, Alvin Cooper was made to write a report in his actual pen name, yet again he covertly assisted in undoing their ploys by writing the narrative in such a way as to necessitate that he be in two places at once! Moreover, Alvin Cooper referred to me as "The Victim" on stand, much to the chagrin of the prosecution.<br /><br />Moreover, in segregated testimony, despite the fact that the offending Stewardess Sherrie Caudill, who had harassed my mother and I on the aircraft by design, had done her best to berate us on stand, she demonstrated the effects of their extremist racial profiling program while stating vehemently "We are trained to KILL before we are killed" in supposed defense to cross examination of her deliberate verbal accost of our persons over the open P/A system aboard the aircraft. Moreover, in segregated testimony, senior stewardess Beverly Banks had stated “James remained calm and composed at all times" in direct refute of the airline's claim of response to "irate passenger."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Despite all of these nuances, the verdict of this trial had been predetermined before a convened kangaroo court tribunal, and I was 'found guilty' of the last second misdemeanor allegation- all of this a continuum off Hennepin county's track record of collusion between prosecution and judges and targeting of blacks victims of police brutality and the poor in occlusion of their systemic tyranny.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Finding our names had been placed on FBI.gov under MAJOR CRIMES- this despite a false conviction under 'misdemeanor' as an extension of FBI Co-Intel Pro character assassination ploys, we put up online disclosure of our afflictions via a<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D9gSw-NlUfwE" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>two*</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D0DC8R3TbnI8" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">part*</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>video, concerned for our lives, in order to reach out to those who might be of assistance. We received<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fi263.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fii127%252Fdalton124124%252FFBI_CYBERTHREATS.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cyber threats from FBI agent Marc Rensch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>as a continuum of the terror tactics denoted above, in response to our online reporting of their crimes on YouTube.<br /><span style="color:red;">Just as prior to the trial, once more, family friends and associates thereafter were collectively placed through the utmost of persecution and affliction (erased voice mail ,<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fsabotagedlegalmail.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">sabotaged legal mail,</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>phone threats stalking.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /></div><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><b>Online research has revealed startling and unsettling facts concerning the ties between Northwest John McCain and the FBI as relates to the illicit persecution of our persons ongoing:</b></p><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >McCain</span></b>’s lawyers amongst the 133 lobbyists working for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >McCain</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />have Northwest Airlines and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>chamber of commerce as their primary clients!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F%252520barack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span> </span>http:// barack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com</a><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fbarack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com%252F%2523McCain" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">/#McCain (*click)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>as also as seen herein</b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fbarack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b>http:/barack-omaba-onmccain</b></a><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fbarack-omaba-onmccain-northwest-ties.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b>-northwest-ties.blogspot.com/</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /><span>Moreover,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Northwest Airlines is a primary corporate supporter of McCain in that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span>Northwest Air was the OFFICIAL CARRIER OF the MCCAIN PRESIDENCY CAMPAIGN 2008 as seen in coverage Northwest Air Daily Traveler magazine</span>.<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Ftpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com%252Ftalk%252F2008%252F08%252Fnorthwest-airlines-supporting.php" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlies-supporting.php<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a> <b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccain-northwest-airlines-goons.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>http://mccain-northwest-airlines-goons.blogspot.com/</a></b></p><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">A key finding was also Northwest Airlines and McCain’s mutual persecution and cyber stalking of ‘political dissidents’ and bloggers in opposition to their corporate and political interests:</p><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">McCain has “upp(ed) his efforts to quash a long and dearly cherished American right by pushing a bill called the "Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act." Introduced in Dec of 2005, this bill proposes to give the government even more power to regulate free political discourse.(<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.theorator.com%252Fbills109%252Fs2128.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">See the full text of the bill here</a>)Among the worst of the many anti-Constitutional things this bill would do is re-define lobbyist to include "grassroots" organizations. This easily would include bloggers, talk show hosts, writers, or anyone who speaks up about politics. In short, this covers every American that wants to open his mouth for or against the government.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.renewamerica.us%252Fcolumns%252Fhuston%252F060304" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/huston/060304</a></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">The caption on Northworst Air.org, a website illustrating the inequities within Northwest Air,<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>states definitively, Northwest Air “ Sends GOON SQUADS to silence online cyber critics”…<span style="color:black;">"The potential for abuse seems too high, and the idea sounds ominous to those who cherish free speech without risk of punishment."</span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.northworstair.org%252FNWA-eWatch%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.northworstair.org/NWA-eWatch/</a></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span> </span>The webpage references a secondary article from BusinessWeek.com which spells this out in further grim detail, stating, “A new service allows corporate spinmeisters to retaliate against outspoken citizens with "reeducation" efforts -- or worse…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Beware the public relations person with a modem. Now corporate spinmeisters, too, can go online to track customers -- especially the disgruntled ones who vent their spleen in cyberspace… Tracking so-called "perpetrators" is also part of the service, says eWatch National Product Manager Ted Skinner. That's done by "using a variety of methods, such as following leads found in postings and Web sites, working with ISPs, involving law enforcement, conducting virtual stings and other tactics," he says.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.businessweek.com%252Fbwdaily%252Fdnflash%252Fjuly2000%252Fnf00707g.htm" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/july2000/nf00707g.htm</a></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><b><u>FBI’s Ties to Northwest Airlines concurrent with those of McCain Basis of Further Affliction upon James Family:</u></b></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;">As further documentary evidence on the basis of the afflictions upon the James family, ties between FBI and Northwest have now also become transparent:</p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">“The nation's largest airlines, including American, United and Northwest, turned over millions of passenger records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, airline and law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday. A senior official with the F.B.I. said the airlines cooperated willingly. Some, like Northwest, provided as much as a year's worth of passenger records, which typically include names, addresses, travel destinations and credit card numbers. ''There was no reluctance on the part of anybody,'' added the senior F.B.I. official, who said that bureau rules required him to speak anonymously.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fquery.nytimes.com%252Fgst%252Ffullpage.html%253Fsec%253Dtravel%2526res%253D9B06E3D9153DF932A35756C0A9629C8B63" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9B06E3D9153DF932A35756C0A9629C8B63</a></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Personal passenger information provided to the FBI and NASA by Northwest<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><i><u>for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></u></i></strong><strong><i><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Passenger Profiling Project</span></u></i></strong></span><b><u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></u><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Fac2%252Fwp-dyn%252FA26037-2004Jan17%253Flanguage%253Dprinter" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">washingtonpost.com</span></strong></a></b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">: "Northwest Airlines provided information on millions of passengers for a secret U.S. government air security project soon after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, raising fresh concerns among some privacy advocates about the airlines' use of confidential consumer data. The nation's fourth-largest carrier publicly asserted in September that it 'did not provide that type of information to anyone.' But Northwest acknowledged Friday it had already turned over three months of reservation data to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration'sAmes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Research<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Center<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by that point." So what you're saying is that Northwest out-and-out lied. Nice. You know - is it any wonder that people don't trust Big Anything anymore?</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">posted by NL Staff at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></strong><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.trancewave.com%252Fnovalounge%252Fblog%252F2004%252F01%252Fconfidential-passenger-data-used-for.html" title="permanent link" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">22:35</span></strong></a></b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Fac2%252Fwp-dyn%252FA26037-2004Jan17" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26037-2004Jan17</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.trancewave.com%252Fnovalounge%252Fblog%252F2004_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.trancewave.com/novalounge/blog/2004_01_01_archive.html</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color:red;">FBI COINTEL PRO</span><br />FBI Cointel pro and the Council on Foreign relations has its basis in eugenics</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">“John D. Rockefeller created the family-run Rockefeller Foundation,<br />in parallel with the birth of the British-inspired Federal Reserve,<br />…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>and the Federal Bureau of Investigation…</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Rockefeller Foundation poured money into the occupied German republic for a medical specialty known as "psychiatric genetics." This field applied to psychiatry the concepts of eugenics (otherwise known as race purification, race hygiene, or race betterment) developed in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>London's Galton Laboratory and its offshoot Eugenics Societies in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>England<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>America.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fthewebfairy.com%252F911%252Fcia-drugs%252FMsg01702.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://thewebfairy.com/911/cia-drugs/Msg01702.html</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">"After 1900, the Harrimans--the family that gave the Prescott Bush family its start--along with the Rockefellers funded more than $11 million to create a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>eugenics research laboratory</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, as well as Eugenics studies at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell. The first International Congress of Eugenics was convened in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>London<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1912</div><pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt;">German general) William Draper served as head of<br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt;">(Prescott)Bush’s campaign funding. Draper’s grandfather had<br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt;">founded the Pioneer Fund to promote eugenics. <a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.spiritone.com%252F%25257Egdy52150%252Ftimeline.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/timeline.html</a> </pre><pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt;"> </pre><pre style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt;">In turn, “Prescott Bush was Hitler’s banker in America and<br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;">was referred to by the New York Tribune as Hitler’s angel.”</p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span>Given my black ethnicity, the fact that we have been targeted so insidiously flows naturally from the hate based origins of the FBI, a criminal organization that acts without basis in law on the merits of racial hatred.</span></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span><span> </span><b><span style="color:red;">A PIVITOL DESCISION MADE TO RESIST AGAINST TYRANNY:</span></b></span><br />Through the combination of the tasing at the airport (at which police admit within their report to having held the taser over my heart for a period of over 10 seconds!) and the continued barrage of terror tactics upon family friends and associates, the cyber threats, covert agencies involved, the physical condition of both my mother and I had tremendously deteriorated. I woke with heart attack like symptoms and cold sweats requiring nitro patch and hospitalization on over 10 occasions over the months that past; the onset of heart palpitations and ill health afflicted my mother, and family was generally terrorized. We knew the full weight of whom we were dealing with within capacity the FBI and U.S. regime, and that very likely, by following and abiding by their path of abuse and judicial exploitation our very lives were in jeopardy .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />We made a pivotal decision to resist and chose not to return for their race hate based judicial persecution and kangaroo court "sentencing" which the African Canadian Legal Clinic member Collin Brown, and many others observing our case, predicted may result in my torture or death.<br /><br />IT MUST BE MADE CLEAR THAT THE U.S. HAS NO LEGAL JURISDICTION WITH WICH TO ACT AGAINST OUR PERSONS OR PRECURE MY 'RENDITION' BACK TO THE UNITED STATES in that they would need a felony level charge against us in order to enable such legislation and no such charge exists... and yet given the McCain affiliation with the airline, and our lobbying against the systemic institutionalized police state race based judicial tyranny inherent with Minneapolis and the airline, both governments -Canada and the U.S. - are working surreptitiously towards that very end, via covert attempts at my kidnapping and murder!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />And this despite that criminally charged Judge David S. Doty had sent us notice via public defender Gary Bryant Wolf as of early February of 2007, that no action would be taken towards my rendition. Of course, he was obliged to take this position since such action would be and HAS been illegal and felony offense. Judge Doty via the ongoing attempts at our kidnapping and murder has not only contradicted his own verse and ruling as further attest to his history of judicial misconduct, but has acted on his threats made that day in the court room to the effect of sending U.S. Marshals into Canada to "hunt us down like blood hounds" and is thus complicit in felony level crimes as furtherance to the charges already standing before him.<br /><br /></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span>Consistent with the above, the attempted kidnappings began at the beginning of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>political campaigning when our family’s lobbying against the airline would have been most deleterious to the corporate and political interests of McCain’s befallen campaign for presidency.</span></p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;"><span>Moreover,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>we received<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fi263.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fii127%252Fdalton124124%252FFBI_CYBERTHREATS.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cyber threats from FBI agent Marc Rensch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>as a continuum of the terror tactics denoted above, in response to our family’s online reporting of the crimes being committed against us and since the onset of the kidnapping attempts, threats from FBI referencing John McCain (<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccainconcerns.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://mccainconcerns.blogspot.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>)and harassment from CIA in capacity CIA agent Barbara Hartwell.</p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;">CIA agent Barbara Hartwell had called in to a broadcast interview I had done shortly after the initial kidnapping attempt. 1 year later on or about Oct 1<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/2008 she called in to a broadcast on which I was guest once more on WTPRN.</p><p class="article" face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;">The following day, on an entirely different network, on RBN I mentioned the fact that CIA were most likely listening given my phone line is tapped. CIA agent Barbara Hartwell called in at 23min:30sec in the following interview<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F216.240.133.177%252Farchives32%252FHertz%252F2008%252F10%252FHertz_1_100208_110000.mp3" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Hertz/2008/10/Hertz_1_100208_110000.mp3</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>only11 minutes after I mentioned her name at 12min:30seconds!</p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />The Winnipeg police, via FBI asset Winnipeg Police Chief Keith McCaskill, are now attempting our abduction to murder in order to silence our online voice for having spoken out against McCain, having attempted such now a total of 14 occasions, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Foct27abductionwpgpolice.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">first abduction attempt on Oct 27/07</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the beginning of the commencement of the McCain Campaign.<br />They are acting criminally surreptitiously and without warrant or charges in order to effect the silencing of our online voice against McCain and the republicans for their hate based afflictions upon us.<br /><br /><span style=";color:red;" >There have been no less than 14 attempts at our kidnapping/murder</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>thus far<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red;">here within Canada</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>via the use of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>contracted</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>out local<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Winnipeg Police</span></i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.princegeorgecitizen.com%252F20080115112691%252Fwire%252Fnational-news%252Ffour-winnipeg-police-officers-facing-charges-job-status-under-review.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">who are also criminally charged!*</span></i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(James Peter Sushnyk and</span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fi263.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fii127%252Fdalton124124%252FWinnipeg%252520Police%252520Exposed%252FPOLICE_EXPOSED_BANNER12.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Jess Zebron(*click)</span></b></a><span style=";color:red;" ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>step son former Winnipeg Police Chief Jack Ewatski, who resigned in disgrace in 2007 due to issues of racism and corruption within the Winnipeg Police force.<br />-I have their names and detail<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fi263.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fii127%252Fdalton124124%252FWinnipeg%252520Police%252520Exposed%252FPOLICE_EXPOSED_BANNER12.jpg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">listed here(*click)</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style=";color:red;" >They are working surreptitiously in capacity FBI asset Winnipeg Pol Chief Keith McCaskill, who through nefarious illegal exploitation and use of his affiliation with FBI and Minneapolis police, is being used to effect black ops operations towards our kidnapping and murder!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />As seen on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipeg.ca%252Fpolice%252FAboutTheService%252Fchiefmessage.stm" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">HIS BIO http://winnipeg.ca/police/AboutTheService/chiefmessage.stm<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>on the Winnipeg Police home page-towards the bottom of the page<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.icdc.com%252F%25257Epaulwolf%252Fcointelpro%252Fcointel.htm" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">FBI AGENT</a></span></i></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Winnipeg Police Chief<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>"</b>Keith McCaskill is a graduate of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.clr.org%252FFBI-involvement.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>National Academy,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>and of the Canadian Police College’s Senior Police Administration Course and Executive Development Course.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>was elected<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><strong>President of the</strong><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.historyisaweapon.org%252Fdefcon1%252Fzinnfbi.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><em><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">FBI National Academy(click)</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></a><b>Associates North West Chapter representing law enforcement officers from South Dakota, North Dakota,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red;">Minnesota</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(*where my mother and I were attacked aboard Northwest Air), and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red;">Manitoba (home residence/site of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Winnipeg Police</span></i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>murder/<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Foct27abductionwpgpolice.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color:red;">kidnapping attempts(*click)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></a>upon us!)</span>, and has been active on numerous boards and committees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">Finally now, amidst a barrage of illegal covert state terror tactics being employed and effected upon our persons, illegal attempts<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color:red;"><br /><br /></span></b>at our kidnapping and murder by local law enforcement in capacity Winnipeg Police, are being effected without warrant or charges, surreptitiously, in order to see about silencing our online voice and protests of the attack and the draconian judicial flagellation as extension of the original assault aboard the aircraft.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Moreover, we have received threats from FBI placed on to our YouTube and blogger accounts and more recently, since the onset of the initial kidnapping attempt, threats from FBI agent Steven Davis, referencing his “close friendship with McCain” amidst threats towards our kidnapping. We have been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccainconcerns.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">cyber threatened against McCain!</a></u></div><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt;"> </p><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt;"><b>McCain Sends Threats us threats via FBI:</b></p><p class="article" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt;"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Immediately following the initial kidnapping attempt upon their persons, James was forced into hiding into remote retreat locations where he had been forced to remain between Oct 2007 and June 2008, for the most part, with rare visitations to his home address for contact with family and for supplies.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>James received first a threatening phone call from FBI agent Steven Davis, threatening FBI and U.S. Martial intervention unto his kidnapping, and then on March 4/08 only 4 days later, a threatening email from same said agent, -a cyber threat threatening kidnapping sent by FBI carbon copied to John McCain!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmccainconcerns.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://McCainConcerns.blogspot.com</a></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"> </div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Our journalist Lesley Hughes of Canadian Dimension Magazine remains a witness to the above judicial tyranny onset upon us as she was present for the Feb 19/09 hearing date and saw the culmination of the judicial injustices imposed upon us as described above.<br /><br />Again, though there is no malice intended by our attorney's action, he need have consulted with me prior to having made such a directive, as affirmed Communities United Against Police Brutality head Michelle Gross. There have been communication issues and issues of what I have interpreted as disrespect that I have felt cast upon my person and over $11000 dollars spent towards justice has yielded little if any reward. Upon request that this motion made without my consult, he as my representative, be dismissed, I was advised that given " Judge Giesbrecht seized herself of the matter yesterday... This means that no other judge can hear it, only she can.<br />To remove her from the case would likely require an order of prohibition (a prerogative writ!), this can only be done in Queen's Bench court and would likely cost a lot (somewhere between $5-10,000 depending on the Crown's position) and take a long time (maybe 6 months-ish)."<br /><br />I was also informed upon my inquiry that to obtain a Writ of Mandamus designed to force the judge to do her job properly (as opposed to acting surreptitiously on behalf of the police toward our harm and my kidnapping and murder beyond the boundaries of law) would also require somewhere between $5-10,000 and take an equally lengthy amount of time. All of this seems very convenient for the court. Circular self defeating tyranny has been institutionalized and built into their mandate.<br /><br /><b>Judge Linda R. Giesbrecht has a legal obligation to facilitate the return of our property which she is criminally culpable in negating and the following is documentary of her sinister intent towards my kidnapping and murder in collusion with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>factions towards that end</b>.<br /><br /></div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As cover up attempt, Winnipeg Police put forward an application before the court to destroy my belongings seized *without explaining to the court what had transpired or the fact that they had acted illegally in obtaining them in a cross border collusion kidnapping/murder ploy associated with Republican interests !<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />I was forced into hiding out of my home out overnight in snow/-30 degree weather and finally out of the city to country area in the foothills in order to survive the attempts at my abduction/ kidnapping while we acquired legal counsel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Since we had acquired a lawyer, the Crown informed police they had better relinquish their application for the destruction of our property since if it went to court for a hearing, all of their illegal activity would be exposed by our attorney.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />...The police response was MORE CRIME- further kidnapping attempts upon my person Jan 7/08, Jan 19/08, Jan 26/08, July 4<sup>th</sup>,9<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Between the months of<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Oct 2007 –June 08 I had been forced into hiding into remote retreats in the country, returning home only on occasion for consult with family and supplies.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span> </span><br />Finally police relinquished and withdrew their petition to destroy our belongings - but not before an Aug 31/08 kidnapping attempt which was witnessed in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D_sfObgs3GGg" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">video</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which was preceded by an Aug 22/08 call to my mother by Sgt Ogwal, in order to intimidate her (having terrorized her at her home in company 3 other "police" officers at nearly midnight Jan 7/08 in search to kidnap/ murder me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />JUDGE LINDA GIESBRECHT GIVES POLICE A BACKDOOR TO ESCAPE LAW:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />We had suspected court complicity for a long while- the court kept allowing the police extensions of time past the court ordered time limit for return of property and stalling hearings- the police in turn made further attempts towards my kidnapping and murder (Now 15 by our count!)- a symbiotic judicial/law enforcement union of corruption and sinister intent.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Now CONFIRMED:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />We had the police all but exposed- they had been forced to relinquish on their illegal hold of our property and judge Giesbrecht had ordered that the police return our possessions in court as of Sept.3/08 giving them a 30 days grace period in order to comply with her ORDER. Surely we could now expose them in so far as the collusion with the United states-especially given their inopportune admission to our attorney.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />...Jan 14/08 we got to court and for the 4th time in a row, the police were without our possessions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />AND THE JUDGE GAVE THEM A BACKDOOR OUT-</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"> </p><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Judge Giesbrecht argued that in fact (contrary to indications given to our attorney) she had not *actually signed a court order!! THIS IS ABSURD- A COURT TRANSCIPT IS IN OUR POSSESSION OF HER HAVING ORDERED THE POLICE TO RETURN PROPERTY WITH A 30 DAY TIME LIMIT-which they failed to do; It is UNPRECEDENTED and HIGHLY IRREGULAR for a court transcript in which an ORDER is given, not to be followed up by a COURT ORDER. In fact, we understand that a transcript is MORE POWERFUL than the order itself.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Moreover the Government is very deeply involved:</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color:black;">We had forwarded Our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fpolicecollusionusacanada07.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><i><span style="color:black;">LERA (Law Enforcement Review Agency) Complaint (*click)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></a><span> </span>to Minister of Justice David Chomiak;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Minister of Justice David Chomiak deflected our complaint back to the offending parties in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Winnipeg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Police!!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>as exposed in the following<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.scribd.com%252Fdoc%252F12390762%252FMin-Chomiak-Police-MURDER-Collusion" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="background: rgb(225, 225, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">PDF Min. Justice Deflects Our Complaint to Our kidnappers!-theWpg Police!(click!)</span></a></b></div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span>Foreign affairs Minneapolis Consular representative Estelle Arnud Battahdier stated “let us know if they torture you or ask you to commit indecent acts yet we will not get involved this is a U.S. affair” when we asked them for assistance amidst the wrote tyranny we were subject to in the United States, despite online material indicating they are legally bound to provide to the safety and well being of Canadians in difficulty abroad</span>.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As per their own online literature, “<b>Involvement with Canadians who are incarcerated abroad ranges from the general well being of the person to prison visits where necessary and informational assistance on the Canada-U.S. prison transfer treaties. The Consular Section of the Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis provides the following services: Assistance to Canadians in distress: Canadian citizens in distress outside Canada can reach the Consular Affairs Section in Minneapolis during normal business hours (M-F 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00 CET) at 1-612-333-4641. reference source:<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.canadainternational.gc.ca%252Fminneapolis%252Fconsul%252Fpassport-passeport.aspx%253Fmenu_id%253D32%2526menu%253DL" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:red;">http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/minneapolis/consul/passport-passeport.aspx?menu_id=32&menu=L<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a><span> </span>“</b><br /><br />It would not be the first time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have acted jointly and covertly in this fashion towards kidnapping and murder.</div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><b><i><u><span style=";color:aqua;" >"</span><span style="color:red;">Ottawa</span><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sacrificed Arar (TO TORTURE!) to save face with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Syria" The Globe and Mail; August 10, 2007 at 3:23 AM EDT Article:</span></u></i></b></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><b><u><span style="color:black;">"WASHINGTON —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></u><span style="color:black;">The federal government fought like blazes to keep the fact that the CIA sent Maher Arar to Syria from you - they fought so hard that it took a court order for you to hear it - because Ottawa doesn't want to lose face with the Americans, or the Syrians for that matter. To preserve their trust, our government was prepared to sacrifice the trust of its own citizens. What are we to make of such a thing? The blacked-out lines of Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor's report that are now available for all to see offer little that should surprise. Of course the Central Intelligence Agency was at the heart of the decision to deport Mr. Arar to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Syria. That's what the CIA does. We already knew - because the inquiry report describes it in grim detail - that Canadian intelligence and justice officials were feeding the Americans wrong information, though we now know that some of that wrong information came from Syria,...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%252Fservlet%252Fstory%252FRTGAM.20070810.wibbitsonarar10%252FBNStory%252FFront" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:black;">MORE of ARTICLE (click)</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or go to:</span><u><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%252Fservlet%252Fstory%252FRTGAM.20070810.wibbitsonarar10%252FBNStory%252FFront" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070810.wibbitsonarar10/BNStory/Front</a></span></u></b></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Moreover, the Canadian government has been involved in collusion with the U.S. ,also in the abduction to torture of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>A.I.M. member John Graham</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from Canada to the U.S.<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.gnn.tv%252Fheadlines%252F14252%252FDelivering_Framed_John_Graham" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/14252/Delivering_Framed_John_Graham</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>, the abduction of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmaherarar.ca%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Canadian Muslim Maher Arar</a></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>(<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fmaherarar.ca%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://maherarar.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D9ufVGyHb0Gc" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufVGyHb0Gc</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>)from JFK airport to Syria, the abduction from Canada to the U.S. of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>60's black activist Gary Freeman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fgarryfreemanextradition.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://garryfreemanextradition.blogspot.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DyVHCPtuY3d8" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">the torture abduction of U.S. officer<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Scott Loper,</b></a><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DyVHCPtuY3d8" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVHCPtuY3d8</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fscottloperstory.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://scottloperstory.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>abducted<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Canada<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>from</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the U.S. and fraught with horrific flagellation via 4 years of torture,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for his exposure of 100's of Canadian police crimes.</p><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Winnipeg Police</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwinnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com%252F" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://winnipegpoliceexposed.blogspot.com/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the occlusion of our stolen property (as per the assistance of the rogue Manitoba Law Courts), and as such, the occlusion of their involvement with the United States, facilitating plausible deniability, are now poised to instill a final attempt at our kidnapping and murder:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Winnipeg Police now claim the police officer was in error about telling Adam that my "belongings and documents were seized and sent to the United States in Minneapolis"- in error over such an unusual-ILLEGAL-and FINE detail? Impossible. Police also deny their presence at my apartment or their intent to kidnap or murder my mother and I.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><br /><br /></b><br />The judge in question has, despite wrote evidence within the Winnipeg Police statements to the effect of the theft of our property, thrown out the case for its return, taking the word of police who are <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.princegeorgecitizen.com%252F20080115112691%252Fwire%252Fnational-news%252Ffour-winnipeg-police-officers-facing-charges-job-status-under-review.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">CRIMINALLY CHARGED</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.princegeorgecitizen.com%252F20080115112691%252Fwire%252Fnational-news%252Ffour-winnipeg-police-officers-facing-charges-job-status-under-review.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080115112691/wire/national-news/four-winnipeg-police-officers-facing-charges-job-status-under-review.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span>with perjury and illegal entry in separate counts over our word as direct witness to the thefts, and that notwithstanding the fact that a police officer 'out of the loop' also admitted to our attorney on Dec 21/07 that our belongings and documents had been taken seized and sent to the United States in Minneapolis. The police statements state my property was "photographed and logged into evidence" . The judge does not contest that in accordance with my research on the meaning of this phrase, this indicates that police seized my documents and possessions and took them into 'police custody' and in fact, as evidentiary within their inopportune admission to our attorney, sent them to the United States in Minneapolis to be used towards their anticipated kidnapping, and held in reserve for the tribunal they expect forthcoming should Winnipeg police be successful in that endeavor.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">As even further irrefutable evidence, an email sent from the Crown to our attorney Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:41Am<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>was sent to one of the offending Winnipeg Police, Trevor Ogwal (<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=trevorogwal%40winnipeg.ca" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">trevorogwal@winnipeg.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>) stating, “The provincial court has ORDERED that all of the items seized from home of Mr. James be returned to him. This includes…materials (print or otherwise) if you could assist in this matter by either letting me know where the items are and how to go about getting them back to Mr. James’ lawyer (Adam Masiowski- cc’ed above) or, if you would be so inclined, by having an officer bring all of the items to Mr. Masiowski (who will now provide his address to both of us by replying to this email).</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">This matter is next schedule to appear in court on Weds, Jan 14, at 1pm (Courtroom 308), before the same Judge that made the ORDER for the items to be returned.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Please contact me at your earliest opportunity.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Thanks,</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Kyle Parker</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Crown Attorney</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Manitoba<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Prosecutions Service</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">5<sup>th</sup>- 405 Broadway,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>WPG,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MB<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>R3C 3L6</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(204) 9452926</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">(F) (204) 9482866”</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br /><br />Further still<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.scribd.com%252Fdoc%252F12393698%252FWpg-Police-Notes-Threats-McCains-Murderous-Attempts-Exposed" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Winnipeg Police notes</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>subpoenaed by our attorney have been found to contain<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.scribd.com%252Fdoc%252F12393698%252FWpg-Police-Notes-Threats-McCains-Murderous-Attempts-Exposed" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">overt threats and references to U.S. Martials, extradition FBI and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />incredibly, threats upon MY VERY OWN MOTHER.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Linda James information entered into Niche...See Niche should contact with James be made...James subject to possible extradition...U.S. Martials handling case."<br /><br />Moreover, this same judge has stated yesterday at a Feb 18/09 hearing, that she "does not see where any laws under the criminal code have been violated by Winnipeg Police" nor does she "see any merit in awarding costs for legal proceedings" . </div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Furthermore, referring to the court transcript which outlines her ORDER for return of property and exposed her criminal negligence therein, she added coyly “Well, this teaches me a very valuable lesson here…I’ve never seen a case such as this one…It seems to me that perhaps I should have said “IF IN THE EVENT THAT THERE HAS IN FACT BEEN PROPERTY SEIZED”.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Yet this is NOT what she said in the courtroom that day. She is trying to retroactively ERASE HISTORY from WROTE LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENTATION within capacity the court transcript. SHE MUST BE CHARGED THEREIN under a breach of trust to the public.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The raid of my home was and remains illegal as there was no warrant or charges under which they were acting and it has been quite clearly shown to be one of now 14 attempts at my kidnapping and murder.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Police were unsuccessful in their attempt as I had managed to communicate with our journalist Lesley Hughes from Canadian Dimension magazine by phone while police were still outside my home before the kidnapping attempt ensued. Upon Lesley Hughes confrontation of Winnipeg Police at the "Public Safety Building " (where I was being illegally detained taunted and threatened with abduction to the U.S. while police raided my home) police stated that they had been acting on a disturb the peace allegation which they had just then realized had "expired", yet regardless releasing me only later on that day near midnight, after several further hours of taunts and threats. Since this ordeal it has been substantiated that no 'disturb the peace' charge was ever laid. Moreover, a warrant for a home raid is not legally permissible for a disturb the peace allegation, nor is one's arrest from their home.<br /><br /><b>Section 337 criminal code</b>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><b><u>Judge Linda</u></b></em><b><u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>M.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Giesbrecht of the Manitoba Law Courts</em></u></b><u> is criminally culpable under section 337 of the Criminal Code for the failure to enforce her own order for return of our property. The section details that it is a criminal offense for a public servant to illegally withhold property belonging to a member of the public.</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has facilitated just this thing via her collusion with police and the occlusion of property seized illegally during a warrantless home raid and attempt at abduction.<br /><b><br />By assuming seizure of our case, albeit without our legal consent, Judge Linda M. Giesbreacht has assumed the legal role of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Fiduciary debtor</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and remains criminally culpable and liable under such directive as detailed in the following:.</b></div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">[D]efalcation under section 523(a)(4) is a</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b>-debtor's failure to account for funds that have been entrusted to it due to any breach of a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>duty, whether intentional, wilful,reckless, or negligent. Furthermore, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b>-<b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >debtor</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is charged with knowledge of the law and its duties. Once a creditor objecting to the dischargeability of a debt under section 523(a)(4)</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">has met its burden of showing that the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >debtor</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and that its debt has arisen because the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >debtor</span></b>-<b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b>has not paid the creditor funds entrusted to it, the burden then shifts to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(160, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >debtor</span></b>-<b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to render an accounting to show that it complied with its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" >fiduciary</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>duties.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252F74.125.95.132%252Fsearch%253Fq%253Dcache%253AASw3yE0Qo6MJ%253Awww.nmcourt.fed.us%252Fusbc%252Ffiles%252Fstarzynski%252Fopinions%252F02-1174.25.pdf%252Bfiduciary%252Bdebtor%2526hl%253Den%2526ct%253Dclnk%2526cd%253D10%2526gl%253Dca%2526client%253Dfirefox-a" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:ASw3yE0Qo6MJ:www.nmcourt.fed.us/usbc/files/starzynski/opinions/02-1174.25.pdf+fiduciary+debtor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=ca&client=firefox-a</a></div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />“<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FCanadian_law" title="Canadian law" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Canadian law</a>, for example, has developed a more expansive view of fiduciary obligation, more so than<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FAmerican_law" title="American law" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">American law</a>”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FFiduciary_duty" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary_duty</a></div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />Our attorney had quite correctly petitioned her for the awardance of costs and reimbursement to our persons for legal fees incurred arguing accurately, that police had drawn us into legal proceedings via their own covert actions illegal entry and raid of my home, and the illegal search and seizure of property. She has been completely unresponsive to the law and has failed to acknowledge any of these facts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />Moreover, her anticipated denial of the awardance of costs is also by wrote design of the court who are overtly acting on behalf of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>factions at large towards our harm. With the denial of the awardance of costs the court realizes full well that this limits our ability and financial resource to recollect ourselves and in effect suffocates us under their unlimited resource through police induced legal harassment to the point that we no longer have the means to defend.<br /><br />We have been locked into a proceeding to take place in March before this same judge where our attorney states he will argue our position for the awardance of legal costs returned, and yet just this past hearing Feb 19/09, she has already stated that based on the arguments presented (which are legally irrefutable) she does NOT see the argument for costs awarded and effectively dismissed our case for the return of property under these same nefarious and suspect circumstances during this same hearing.<br /><br />Our journalist Lesley Hughes of Canadian Dimension Magazine remains a witness to the above judicial tyranny onset upon us as she was present for the Feb 19/09 hearing date and saw the culmination of the judicial injustices imposed upon us as described above.</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">----- Original Message -----<br />From: "James, Linda"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=resist1000%40usa.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">resist1000@usa.com</a><br />Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=lesleyhughescanada%40yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">lesleyhughescanada@yahoo.com</a><br />Subject: FW: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs<br />Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:15:15 -0800</div><div face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style=";color:blue;" >Update from Adam.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;" align="center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="">From:</span></b><span style=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank">admas@pinxlaw.com</a> [<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:admas@pinxlaw.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:56 AM<br /><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James, Linda<br /><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Linda/Aaron<br /><br />Unfortunately Judge Giesbrecht seized herself of the matter yesterday. This means that no other judge can hear it, only she can.<br /><br />To remove her from the case would likely require an order of prohibition (a prerogative writ!), this can only be done in Queen's Bench court and would likely cost a lot (somewhere between $5-10,000 depending on the Crown's position) and take a long time (maybe 6 months-ish).<br /><br />I will wait until we meet to discuss this further with you...<br /><br />A.</div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;" align="center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From</b>: "James, Linda"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><b>Date</b>: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:05:33 -0800<br /><b>To</b>: Adam Masiowski<<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">admas@pinxlaw.com</a>><br /><b>Subject</b>: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs</div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">URGENT - PLEASE READ ASAP - ACTION REQUIRED</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Hi Adam,</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I have discussed this situation with Aaron at length. Also, you will remember the sentiments that I expressed concerning Judge Giesbrecht yesterday, before we went into the court room. My opinion of her, after the court session, has deteriorated even further.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">You have consistently put before her the fact that the various activities of the police concerning this entire matter have been illegal and unwarranted, and, she has consistently brushed the acknowledgement of this aside, quite determinedly, for whatever reasons. She has been indifferent and dismissive to the point of giving the appearance of being prejudicially disposed to make all of her rulings in this matter in the favor of the police.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">You will recall that, when the police withdrew their application, it had nothing at all to do with any actions taken by judge Giesbrecht. It was solely due to your work on the case, which convinced the police that, if they allowed the matter to proceed, their illegal activities would be exposed in court, showing them as having violated Aaron's Constitutional Rights.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Judge Giesbrecht has already responded concerning the matter of costs, saying that this is extremely unusual, that there are no grounds for her to be seized of the matter, and that there are no provisions for her to do so, or words to that effect. She was extremely resistant to dealing with the matter of costs, and agreed to do so only reluctantly, with no enthusiasm for the possibility that there might be any justification for the awarding of costs.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">She appeared to indicate that another judge could deal with the matter, indicating that she did not feel that it was necessary for her to be the judge to deal with it.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">At this point, we have no confidence whatsoever in her ability to deal with this in a non-prejudicial manner. She has already all but put it on record that she is not intending to award costs. Pursuing the issue of costs with this particular judge, as things stand, is pointless.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Aaron and I are therefore asking you to make arrangements for this to go before a different judge. We do not wish the matter of costs to go before Judge Giesbrecht. That would be an exercise in futility.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I am advising you of this now, because I imagine you will need to begin working on this right away, in order to achieve the necessary changes.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I look forward to our meeting on Monday, February 23rd.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Thanks very much,</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Linda James</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information.<br />If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or<br />re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error,<br />please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone<br />(call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any<br />attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance.<br /><br />In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of<br />this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />any<br />contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the<br />foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any<br />digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is<br />included in any attachment to this email.</p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information.<br />If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or<br />re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error,<br />please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone<br />(call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any<br />attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance.<br /><br />In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of<br />this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />any<br />contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the<br />foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any<br />digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is<br />included in any attachment to this email.</p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br />----- Original Message -----<br />From: "James, Linda"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=resist1000%40usa.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">resist1000@usa.com</a><br />Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=lesleyhughescanada%40yahoo.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">lesleyhughescanada@yahoo.com</a><br />Subject: FW: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs<br />Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:15:15 -0800</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span style=";color:blue;" >Update from Adam.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;" align="center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="">From:</span></b><span style=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank">admas@pinxlaw.com</a> [<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:admas@pinxlaw.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:56 AM<br /><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James, Linda<br /><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Linda/Aaron<br /><br />Unfortunately Judge Giesbrecht seized herself of the matter yesterday. This means that no other judge can hear it, only she can.<br /><br />To remove her from the case would likely require an order of prohibition (a prerogative writ!), this can only be done in Queen's Bench court and would likely cost a lot (somewhere between $5-10,000 depending on the Crown's position) and take a long time (maybe 6 months-ish).<br /><br />I will wait until we meet to discuss this further with you...<br /><br />A.</div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;">Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;" align="center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From</b>: "James, Linda"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><b>Date</b>: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:05:33 -0800<br /><b>To</b>: Adam Masiowski<<a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=admas%40pinxlaw.com" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">admas@pinxlaw.com</a>><br /><b>Subject</b>: Judge Giesbrecht - Presiding Over Ruling on Costs</div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">URGENT - PLEASE READ ASAP - ACTION REQUIRED</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Hi Adam,</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I have discussed this situation with Aaron at length. Also, you will remember the sentiments that I expressed concerning Judge Giesbrecht yesterday, before we went into the court room. My opinion of her, after the court session, has deteriorated even further.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">You have consistently put before her the fact that the various activities of the police concerning this entire matter have been illegal and unwarranted, and, she has consistently brushed the acknowledgement of this aside, quite determinedly, for whatever reasons. She has been indifferent and dismissive to the point of giving the appearance of being prejudicially disposed to make all of her rulings in this matter in the favor of the police.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">You will recall that, when the police withdrew their application, it had nothing at all to do with any actions taken by judge Giesbrecht. It was solely due to your work on the case, which convinced the police that, if they allowed the matter to proceed, their illegal activities would be exposed in court, showing them as having violated Aaron's Constitutional Rights.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Judge Giesbrecht has already responded concerning the matter of costs, saying that this is extremely unusual, that there are no grounds for her to be seized of the matter, and that there are no provisions for her to do so, or words to that effect. She was extremely resistant to dealing with the matter of costs, and agreed to do so only reluctantly, with no enthusiasm for the possibility that there might be any justification for the awarding of costs.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">She appeared to indicate that another judge could deal with the matter, indicating that she did not feel that it was necessary for her to be the judge to deal with it.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">At this point, we have no confidence whatsoever in her ability to deal with this in a non-prejudicial manner. She has already all but put it on record that she is not intending to award costs. Pursuing the issue of costs with this particular judge, as things stand, is pointless.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">Aaron and I are therefore asking you to make arrangements for this to go before a different judge. We do not wish the matter of costs to go before Judge Giesbrecht. That would be an exercise in futility.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I am advising you of this now, because I imagine you will need to begin working on this right away, in order to achieve the necessary changes.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="">I look forward to our meeting on Monday, February 23rd.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="">Thanks very much,</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="">Linda James</span></p><p face="'Times New Roman'" size="12pt" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in;">Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information.<br />If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or<br />re-transmit this email. 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Recently there have been social trends that have blurred the fine line that kept the two separate and complementary. The issues of morality, values, where they come from and what should they be, have been co-opted by the fundamentalist religious right flexing their political muscle. The debates over terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, have become increasingly belligerent by the “Christofacists” who’s ultimatum of, “You are either with us or against us!” is a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://healthymind.com/s-distortions.html">cognitive distortion</a></u></span></span> of reality. “All or nothing” thinking is typical to fundamentalism where issues are a simplistic, right or wrong, black or white, good or bad, in or out, faithful or infidel, etcetera. Thus, the people in between the warring factions lose their humanness in the broad brush of fundamentalist certainty and become just “collateral damage” of the pogrom, crusade, or jihad. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;">As one who is in the middle and values moderation, I suggest that the extremists take their battles outside and leave the rest of us alone. Therefore, I “<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift">Swiftly</a>”</i> submit <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal">this</a></u></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal"><i> modest proposal</i></a></u></span></span><i> </i><i><b>For Preventing the Moderate People of the World from Being a “Collateral Damage” Burden to Their Parents or Country, thus Making Them to Continue to be Productive and Beneficial to Humankind.</b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><i><b>IF</b></i> I were an Islamic fundamentalist extremist, I wouldn’t waste my time on the generally <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://usconservatives.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=usconservatives&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople-press.org%2Freports%2Fdisplay.php3%3FPageID%3D829">moderate</a></u></span></span> American public. They are much like the generally <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/shroder/040901">moderate Islamic public</a></u></span></span>. I would strike the root of the real enemy of Islamic fundamentalist extremism, the Jewish fundamentalist extremists a.k.a. the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.serendipity.li/zionism.htm">Zionists</a></u></span></span>. However, I wouldn’t go after them directly. I would use a tactic that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html">Sun Tzu</a></u></span></span> taught of going after their supply lines. Christian fundamentalist extremists are one of the major supply lines. They are the main philosophical, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.jfkmontreal.com/zions_c_soldiers.htm">religious and financial support</a></u></span></span> for the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://desip.igc.org/InTheBeginning.html">Zionists</a></u></span></span>. It is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4930.htm">Christian fundamentalist extremist theology</a></u></span></span> that teaches that the “Jews” are the chosen people of God and therefore, according to their leaders, should be “blessed” (helped, encouraged, financed) so that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north222.html">God will bless</a></u></span></span> the Christian fundamentalist extremists. I wouldn’t waste my time, Dinars and Rials on the planes, trains and automobiles of the ignorant infidels. After all, this is a war for the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.theava.com/04/0707-iraq.html">control</a></u></span></span> of the world’s resources (people, oil, gas, minerals, livestock, crops, virgins etc.) by <i>competing fundamentalist extremists</i>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;">It is well known that the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.democrats.com/node/3036">aspiring emperor</a></u></span></span> of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century">New American Century</a></u></span></span> has a large base of support from <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://hnn.us/articles/9265.html">Protestant Christian fundamentalist</a></u></span></span> extremists who <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://proliberty.com/observer/20030406.htm">in practice are Zionists</a></u></span></span>. Although many of them claim to be “Bible” believing Christians, most of them haven’t a clue about their own religion and misinterpret their own “Bible”. For example, if you were to ask them if they thought that Abraham was a Jew they would reply “yes”. Ignorant of course of the Biblical “history” that “Jews” are named after Abraham’s great grandson <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F">Judah</a></u></span></span>, whose descendants survived conquerings and deportations. Biblically, Abraham was a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur">Chaldean</a></u></span></span> descendant of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eber">Eber</a></u></span></span> from whom the Hebrews are named. Furthermore, today a majority of “Jews” are not the genetic descendants of Judah but <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.imninalu.net/Khazars.htm">a genetic blend</a></u></span></span> of peoples from Asia Minor and Europe whose ancestors converted to a variation of Pharisaic Judaism in the 7<sup>th</sup> century. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;">But, not to worry because that is all <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.scripturessay.com/ch8.html">“Old Testament Law"</a></u></span></span> stuff and doesn’t matter anymore because it has been done away with. They claim to be “New Testament” people except for the “10 Commandments”, and they mean the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/10%20Commandments.htm">Protestant Christian</a></u></span></span> fundamentalist extremist ten that are different from the Jewish and Roman Catholic versions. However, they retained the “Catholic” Sabbath day change to from Saturday to Sunday by the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.catholic.com/library/Sabbath_or_Sunday.asp">Council of Laodicea</a></u></span></span> (A.D. 364). They follow the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_41_-_From_Paul_to_Constantine.asp">teachings of Paul</a></u></span></span>, rather than the teachings of Jesus. Remember, “love your enemy”, “turn the other cheek” and “walk the extra mile?” Replaced by the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040920&s=carroll">new crusade</a></u></span></span> of stamping out Islamic fundamentalist extremists by attacking moderate Islamics. They misapply <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=1702">James 1:27</a></u></span></span> from “visiting” distressed widows and orphans to <i>visiting distress upon</i> widows and orphans who are now <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.crimesofwar.org/special/Iraq/news-iraq6.html">acceptable collateral damage</a></u></span></span>. WWJD now means <i><b>“Who Would Jesus Distress?”</b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;">Of course Christian fundamentalist extremist <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://religion-cults.com/heresies/">“theological” disagreements</a></u></span></span> have been going on since Saul of Tarsus (a legalistic Jewish zealot) got knocked off his horse hit his head, had a vision, went blind, became Christian, got back some sight, disappeared, had another vision, reappeared, changed his name to Paul, became a missionary, started arguing with Peter, James, Mark, Barnabas, got arrested for mouthing off, sent off to Rome and then wrote a bunch of letters that changed the Gospel to the <i>Gospaul</i> before he was executed. In fact these Christian fundamentalist extremists are just following the pattern of hypocrisy and bloodletting that has dogged western civilization since <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_And_Christianity">Constantine</a></u></span></span> declared Christianity the new religion of the Roman Empire around 325 A.D., replacing and appropriating much of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://altreligion.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=altreligion&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.near-death.com%2Fexperiences%2Forigen048.html">sacraments and ritual</a></u></span></span> of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/Mithraism.html">Mithraism</a></u></span></span>. “By this sign you will be victor!” “Convert or die!” Of course it didn’t stop with the unconverted. “You must confess to believe as we do or die!” That was what many a divergent minority such as the variant <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0841497.html">catholic and protestant</a></u></span></span> groups heard from those Christian fundamentalist extremists of their time. Sometimes the conflicts <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War">lasted years</a></u></span></span> and transported across generations. Much like the Jihads of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/heresy/islamic-heresies/">Islamic sects</a></u></span></span> against each other and variations of Islam that <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.bci.org/boise/persecut.htm">continue today</a></u></span></span>.</p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I mean, really! Think about it! These fundamentalist extremist expressions are bloodthirsty perversions of actually moderate religious beliefs that have given <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/001/30.50.html">succor and hope to millions</a></u></span></span>. But what do you expect since the belief system that they sprang from is rooted in the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_atone8.htm">postponed ritual human sacrifice</a></u></span></span> for that of an animal? Remember Genesis 3:21 where God in the Garden of Eden covering the “sin” of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_atone7.htm">Adam and Eve</a></u></span></span> with animal skins? Also, Genesis 4:3-4, God didn’t like Cain’s sacrificial hot salad appetizer, He only wanted Abel’s barbecue lamb sacrifice main course. Furthermore, let us not forget the main event here that spawned these three religions, specifically the aborted sacrifice of Abraham’s offspring <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://answering-islam.org.uk/Shamoun/sacrifice.htm">Isaac or Ishmael</a></u></span></span> depending on who is telling the story, for that of a ram caught in a thicket.</p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Even in the moderate form the religious role-play reflects some variation of ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism. From the Passover lamb slaughtered and eaten, whose blood is used to mark the door posts so the Angel of Death would <i><b>pass-over</b></i> to kill the first born males in Egypt, to the red fez representing the spilled blood of Christians worn as a trophy with the scimitar for convert or die to the sign of the cross, an instrument of torture and death, and the “mystery” of drinking blood wine and eating wafers that turn into the god/human flesh of the new Passover Lamb.</p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">These Christian fundamentalist extremists are just like the Islamic fundamentalist extremists who are just like the Jewish fundamentalist extremists. They want to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/comp_rel.htm">control what a person does</a></u></span></span>. They don’t really care about how much of an invasive socialist collectivist society that they live in as long as they can control a person’s mate(s), children, property, travel, food, sexuality, pain alleviation, personal reading and art appreciation. It is a battle for the control of the human race. It is the <i><b>fundamentalist extremists</b></i> that are in competition with each other. Therefore, <i><b>IF</b></i> I were an Islamic fundamentalist extremist I would go after the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.whtt.org/articles/020707.htm">Christian fundamentalist extremists and their followers</a></u></span></span>. </p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Furthermore, <i><b>IF</b></i> I were an Islamic fundamentalist extremist who didn’t want more <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/higgs5.html">collateral damage</a></u></span></span> to continue to play into the ongoing hitting-back for hitting-back for hitting-back mentality as described in Harold Thomas’ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.mythoftheinnocentcivilian.com/">The Myth of the Innocent Civilian</a></u></span></span>, the thing to do, would be to bring down their Christian fundamentalist extremist clubhouses during off hours kind of ala <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/fightclub.htm">Fight Club</a></u></span></span>. </p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Possibly just a threat of this would be enough to raise the expense of added security that would reroute funding away from the Zionists. Instead of angering the moderate Americans, it might well bring them some relief from the pejoratives of the pulpit parrots proclaiming their pugnacious polemics. The Christian fundamentalist extremists may back off for half a century or more. Or, maybe they will re-evaluate their relationship to the Zionist cause since it is costing them more than just the hushed up <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html">U.S.S. Liberty</a></u></span></span> debacle and the ongoing <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/husseini08302004.html">Israeli secret stealing, espionage.</a></u></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">Better yet, they may begin to treat their churches the same way as they treat their other public gatherings. They already have moved to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12754">limit sermon content</a></u></span></span>. They may further <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.abanet.org/forums/communication/comlawyer/fall00/blum.html">limit their freedoms</a></u></span></span> to protect their freedoms with metal detectors, ID checks, body pat downs and bag searches. Also, they may require a background check and issue permits before participants can practice their pantomimes of ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism. After all, there are government controlled liquids (alcohol), food (crackers and wafers) and flammables (are those robes & vestments fire retardant?) that are being used <i><b>with children involved!</b></i> Furthermore, someone could poison the wine, hide explosives in candles and mix Anthrax in the incense censor!!</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">The <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://usconservatives.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=usconservatives&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople-press.org%2Freports%2Fdisplay.php3%3FPageID%3D829">American general public is moderate</a></u></span></span> and will not participate in the perpetuation of Christian fundamentalist extremism if it is too costly, and thus the Zionist fundamentalist extremism would lose out as well. Furthermore, it could encourage the migration of Christian fundamentalist extremists to more moderate denominations or to the increasingly impoverished sects of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://forum.rockridgeinstitute.org/?q=node/1549">Rapture cults</a></u></span></span> where they can turn inward while waiting for Jesus to come back. Then the Islamic fundamentalist extremists could win by default because of attrition. That’s what I would do <i><b>IF</b></i> I were an Islamic fundamentalist extremist. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">Fortunately for the Christian fundamentalist extremists, Islamic fundamentalist extremists are not that bright and will continue to follow the promptings of their <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2001/011221.html">NeoCon CIA handlers</a></u></span></span> and keep enraging the general public to continue to support the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm">Project for a New American Century</a></u></span></span> and the growing <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3127.htm">fascist police state</a></u></span></span>, instead of getting the manipulators who are behind it all. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">Dirka-dirka, Mohammed jihad, dirka-dirka! Qaplah!</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">Per the <b>U</b>niting and <b>S</b>trengthening <b>A</b>merica by <b>P</b>roviding <b>A</b>ppropriate <b>T</b>ools <b>R</b>equired to <b>I</b>ntercept and <b>O</b>bstruct <b>T</b>errorism <b>Act</b> section 216, the proceeding article is for entertainment purposes only and does not reflect the views of any ISP, or anyone reading it, or posting it especially the author who is a loyal citizen of Greater America brought to us by <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/221104ourleader.htm">Our Leader</a></u></span></span>’s new <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/0904jbfrwm.htm">Pax Americana</a></u></span></span>! Hail <strike>Bushtler</strike><span style="text-decoration: none;">! the</span><strike> </strike><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i><b>Obamanator!</b></i></span></p> <p style="border-style: none none double; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(0, 0, 0); border-width: medium medium 3pt; padding: 0in 0in 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;" lang="zxx"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;">Mit Etagniw was raised in a Christian fundamentalist Pentecostal home. He attended Bible College and subsequently went into the “ministry.” He became a Christian fundamentalist extremist. While on his high horse he was blinded by the light of reason, fell off his horse and has been better ever since. He considers himself to be a Deistic Gnostic agnostic, (he chooses to believe that there is a higher consciousness, however, he knows that he doesn't know.) Also, he is a community rights activist, and tending to be an anarchical capitalist libertarian voluntaryist. He writes occasionally for his blog, <a href="http://freedomshenanigans.blogspot.com/">Freedom Shenanigans & High Jinks</a> and teaches a <a href="http://freedomshenanigans.blogspot.com/2007/10/freedom-shenanigan-18-host-sons-of.html">Sons of Liberty Seminar</a> <i>- </i><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Monkey Wrenching for Activist Burnouts</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span> His current themes are, <i><b>Embrace Your Inner Outlaw</b></i>, <i><b>Carpe Libertas</b></i>, and <i><b>Nemo Me Impune Lacessit!</b></i>. Email: mitetagniw@gmail.com.</p>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-11460086381955711962009-02-17T20:26:00.010-06:002009-02-17T21:44:36.556-06:00Help with "Cartoon" Character<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6L6Ey7QCkHbjvNTkRfdcWYzgHeml6ZwYGBwHYrx2E2jQ3lkxlaUuL1unF5r9CjMdd9bxJFpZxllIiGTciRGMPeDC4BVxC2WHRopt4Z41CsQY5GAFrHSjhYJXsCp4jKGPAbEVHRbhKLGT/s1600-h/pinkybrain2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6L6Ey7QCkHbjvNTkRfdcWYzgHeml6ZwYGBwHYrx2E2jQ3lkxlaUuL1unF5r9CjMdd9bxJFpZxllIiGTciRGMPeDC4BVxC2WHRopt4Z41CsQY5GAFrHSjhYJXsCp4jKGPAbEVHRbhKLGT/s400/pinkybrain2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303977682989693938" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Most everyone who still enjoyed cartoons or had children in the 1990's know who Pinky and the Brain are. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >If you don't know, Warner Brothers cartoon division produced this series. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Pinky and the Brain are genetically enhanced </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" class="mw-redirect" >laboratory mice</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" > who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan for the two mice (led by Brain) to escape and take over the world, which ultimately ends in failure.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFMw4eGG329lg5zEurcXG5Cp9HSsWWwxQq7hCYJ4g-ZPgbcjdgWOSJ58j8RRE4HZTmdWcHG4DpZ8G550nCrND82qAKxk4SeRadKG8KqCwuve4kNA8eLT-T8ucG4UlOFjlNT6l9qsdttrg2/s1600-h/Pinky_Brain_who2.jpg"> </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >What you don't know is that I swear I went to Bible summer camp with the real life people versions.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >I know, I know it sounds silly. However, the personalities were similar, they looked similar, and they were always trying to figure out how to break out of this "Bible" summer camp and go home. Only they always got caught.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >One time they actually got off the camp grounds and were walking down the road. They had left their luggage behind while using most of their clothes and pillows stuffed in their sleeping bags plumped up to look like <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">they</span> were sleeping in the bags. They forgot that I an</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >d my friend Bob shared a cabin with them and that after breakfast, which they skipped and sneaked out of camp during, there was a cabin check prior to mandatory "Bible" class. They were ultimately caught about a mile away trying to hitch hike home with tied up bags on sticks over their shoulders. </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-e1ZqmsM0P7QwcqAQ5H0zQxAIYArW5EedFRNfqebBHKgN3NjBfAm_CvLqMxdEeq74fwRc3fVEicOq1CEQR0uxexh1vEuuBqKECBRdf-RcAottMFbl3DotoV0HnTriiGZD8_FLMmgLwJH/s1600-h/Pinky_Brain_who2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-e1ZqmsM0P7QwcqAQ5H0zQxAIYArW5EedFRNfqebBHKgN3NjBfAm_CvLqMxdEeq74fwRc3fVEicOq1CEQR0uxexh1vEuuBqKECBRdf-RcAottMFbl3DotoV0HnTriiGZD8_FLMmgLwJH/s400/Pinky_Brain_who2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303967377160996274" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >So my dilemma is this. What cart</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >o</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >o</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >n ch</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >aracter does my friend Bob resemble?<br /><br />This has been bugging me for years. Since the</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >wo</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >rld is starting to go to Hell in a hurry I need to know before the apocalypse is upon us.<br /><br />Also, don't scoff at the idea of cartoon characters being real. Cartoons are just projected caricatures of real ideas </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >and people. People are sometimes caricatures of who they think they should be, or who they are.<br /><br />It all depends upon how honest you can be with yourself about your nature and why you believe you are here. The time is coming when caricatures will have to be lived up to or the true person will have to emerge. In the mean time, what cartoon character are you resembling and </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >what about Bob?</span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-8815832987913703852008-12-14T20:27:00.001-06:002008-12-14T20:29:45.596-06:00Really? Blagojevich, Really!!!<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4945c02b0ef60f31/4741e3c5156499a7/170f7824/-cpid/9589c44d2a0aade" id="W4727a250e66f97234945c02b0ef60f31" width="384" height="283"><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4945c02b0ef60f31/4741e3c5156499a7/170f7824/-cpid/9589c44d2a0aade"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></object>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-58394944525255812402008-10-01T15:52:00.002-05:002008-10-01T15:56:02.787-05:00Billions for Bankers--Debts for the People<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7LwsR6B4IimYn2LLJwuLTvvWzNoEIfZBaDbT3g5g2PgXPwFF8AEX5ObRvG_E1KcBhyiOPkd17JH5zPZ6csUdUXQojxl0DuKwWTVHu8IyRN04koysfG2VOeH-VUQ3fVFEM4IFjrE6tFGJH/s1600-h/image101.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7LwsR6B4IimYn2LLJwuLTvvWzNoEIfZBaDbT3g5g2PgXPwFF8AEX5ObRvG_E1KcBhyiOPkd17JH5zPZ6csUdUXQojxl0DuKwWTVHu8IyRN04koysfG2VOeH-VUQ3fVFEM4IFjrE6tFGJH/s400/image101.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252291937557411154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:6;color:#008080;"><strong>Billions for Bankers--Debts for the People</strong></span><br /></div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#004000;"><strong> by Pastor Sheldon Emry </strong></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><em>This material is not copyrighted. Feel free to copy and distribute.</em></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff0000;"><em> </em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Introduction</b></span> </p> <p>In 1901 the national debt of the United States was less than $1 billion. It stayed at less than $1 billion until we got into World War I. Then it jumped to $25 billion. </p> <p>The national debt nearly doubled between World War I and World War II, increasing from $25 to $49 billion. </p> <p>Between 1942 and 1952, the debt zoomed from $72 billion to $265 billion. In 1962 it was $303 billion. By 1970, the debt had increased to $383 billion. </p> <p>Between 1971 and 1976 it rose from $409 billion to $631 billion. The debt experienced its greatest growth, however, during the 1980s, fueled by an unprecedented peacetime military buildup. In 1998, the outstanding public debt will roar past $5.5 trillion. </p> <p>The unconstitutional "share" of this debt for every man, woman and child is currently $20,594.86 and will continue to increase an average of $630 million every day, which dosn't include the $26 trillion in individual credit card debts, mortgages, automobile leases and so on. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;">U.S. NATIONAL DEBT</span><br /> The Outstanding Public Debt as of 08/25/98 at 10:28:37 AM PDT is:<br /> $5,516,699,306,752.93<br /> <br /> The estimated population of the United States is 270,374,697<br /> so each citizen's share of this debt is $20,403.90. </p> <p>Today, as we stand before the dawn of a New World Order run by internationalist financiers, most of the revenue collected by the Federal government in the form of individual income taxes will go straight to paying the interest on the debt alone. At the rate the debt is increasing, eventually we'll reach a point where, even if the government takes every penny of its citizens' income via taxation, it will still not collect enough to keep up with the interest payments. </p> <p>The government will own nothing, the people will own nothing, and the banks will own everything. The New World Order will foreclose on America. </p> <p>If the present trend continues, and there is no evidence whatsoever that it will not continue, we can expect the national debt to nearly double again within the next six to eight years. By then, the interest on the debt alone should be in the $400 billion a year range. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Prologue: Three Types of Conquest</b></span> </p> <p>History reveals nations can be conquered by the use of one or more of three methods. </p> <p>The most common is conquest by war. In time, though, this method usually fails, because the captives hate the captors and rise up and drive them out if they can. Much force is needed to maintain control, making it expensive for the conquering nation. </p> <p>A second method is by religion, where men are convinced they must give their captors part of their earnings as "obedience to God." Such a captivity is vulnerable to philosophical exposure or by overthrow by armed force, since religion by its nature lacks military force to regain control, once its captives become disillusioned. </p> <p>The third method can be called economic conquest. It takes place when nations are placed under "tribute" without the use of visible force or coercion, so that the victims do not realize they have been conquered. "Tribute" is collected from them in the form of "legal" debts and taxes, and they believe they are paying it for their own good, for the good of others, or to protect all from some enemy. Their captors become their "benefactors" and "protectors". </p> <p>Although this is the slowest to impose. It is often quite long lasting, as the captives do not see any military force arrayed against them, their religion is left more or less intact, they have freedom to speak and travel, and they participate in "elections" for their rulers. Without realizing it, they are conquered, and the instruments of their own society are used to transfer their wealth to their captors and make the conquest complete. </p> <p>In 1900 the average American worker paid few taxes and had little debt. Last year, payments on debts and taxes took more than half of what he earned. Is it possible a form of conquest has been imposed on America? Read the following pages and decide for yourself. And may God have mercy on this once debt-free and great nation. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>The Real Story of Money Control in America</b></span><br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image102.gif" height="537" width="349" /><br /> Americans, living in what is called the richest nation on earth, seem always to be short of money. It's impossible for many families to make ends meet unless both parents are in the work force. </p> <p>Men and women hope for overtime hours or take part time jobs evenings and weekends; children look for odd jobs for spending money; the family debt climbs higher. </p> <p>Psychologists say one of the biggest causes of family quarrels and breakups is "arguing over money." Much of this trouble can be traced to our present "debt-money" system. </p> <p>Too few Americans realize why the Founders wrote into Article I of the U. S. Constitution: </p> <p>"Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof." <span style="font-size:130%;"><strong> </strong></span><a href="http://www.justiceplus.org/Thomas_Jefferson.htm"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Thomas Jefferson</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"> </span></p> <p>They did this, as we will show, in the hope that it would prevent "love of money" from destroying the Republic they had founded. We shall see how subversion of Article I has brought on us the "evil" of which God warns us in 1 Timothy 6:10. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Money is "Created", Not Grown or Built</b></span>. </p> <p>Economists use the term "create" when speaking of the process by which money comes into existence. "Creation" means making something which did not exist before. Lumber workers make boards from trees, workers build houses from lumber, and factories manufacture automobiles from metal, glass and other materials. But in all these they did not actually "create." </p> <p>They only changed existing materials into a more usable and, therefore, more valuable form. This is not so with money. Here, and here alone, man actually "creates" something out of nothing. A piece of paper of little value is printed so that it is worth a piece of lumber. With different figures it can buy the automobile or even the house. It's value has been "created" in the truest sense of the word. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>"Creating" money is very profitable!</b></span> </p> <p>As is seen by the above, money is very cheap to make, and whoever does the "creating" of money in a nation can make a tremendous profit. Builders work hard to make a profit of 5 percent above their cost to build a house. </p> <p>Auto makers sell their cars for 1 percent to 2 percent above the cost of manufacture and it is considered good business. But money "manufactures" have no limit on their profits, since a few cents will print a $1 bill or a $10,000 bill.<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image103.gif" height="287" width="356" /><br /> That profit is part of our story, but first let consider another unique characteristic of the thing -- money, the love of which is the "root of all evil". </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Adequate money supply needed</b></span> </p> <p>An adequate supply of money is indispensable to civilized society. We could forego many other things, but without money industry would grind to a halt, farms would become only self-sustaining units, surplus food would disappear, jobs requiring the work of more than one man or one family would remain undone, shipping and large movement of goods would cease, hungry people would plunder and kill to remain alive, and all government except family or tribe would cease to function. </p> <p>An overstatement, you say? Not at all. Money is the blood of civilized society, the means of all commercial trade except simple barter. It is the measure and the instrument by which one product is sold and another purchased. Remove money or even reduce the supply below that which is necessary to carry on current levels of trade, and the results are catastrophic. </p> <p>For an example, we need only look at America's depression of the early 1930's. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Bankers' Depression of the 1930's.</b></span> </p> <p>In 1930 America did not lack industrial capacity, fertile farmlands, skilled and willing workers or industrious families. It had an extensive and efficient transportation system in railroads, road networks, and inland and ocean waterways. Communications between regions and localities were the best in the world, utilizing telephone, teletype, radio, and a well operated government mail system. </p> <p>No war had ravaged the cities or the countryside, no pestilence weakened the population, nor had famine stalked the land. The United States of America in 1930 lacked only one thing: an adequate supply of money to carry on trade and commerce. </p> <p>In the early 1930s, bankers, the only source of new money and credit, deliberately refused loans to industries, stores and farms. Payments on existing loans were required however, and money rapidly disappeared from circulation. Goods were available to be purchased, jobs waiting to be done, but the lack of money brought the nation to a standstill.<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image104.gif" height="333" width="428" /><br /> By this simple ploy America was put in a "depression" and bankers took possession of hundreds of thousands of farms, homes, and business properties. The people were told, "times are hard" and "money is short." Not understanding the system, they were cruelly robbed of their earnings, their savings, and their property. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>No Money for Peace, but Plenty for War.</b></span> </p> <p>World War II ended the "depression." The same Bankers who in the early 1930's had no loans for peacetime houses, food and clothing, suddenly had unlimited billions to lend for army barracks, K-rations and uniforms. </p> <p>A nation that in 1934 could not produce food for sale, suddenly could produce bombs to send free to Germany and Japan! (More on this riddle later). </p> <p>With the sudden increase in money, people were hired, farms sold their produce, factories went to two shifts, mines reopened, and "The Great Depression" was over! </p> <p>Some politicians were blamed for it and others took credit for ending it. The truth is the lack of money (caused by Bankers) brought on the depression, and adequate money ended it. The people were never told that simple truth and in this article we will endeavor to show how these same bankers who control our money and credit have used their control to plunder America and place us in bondage. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Power to Coin and Regulate Money</b></span> </p> <p>When we can see the disastrous results of an artificially created shortage of money, we can better understand why our Founding Fathers, who understood both money and God's Laws, insisted on placing the power to "create" money and the power to control it ONLY in the hands of the Federal Congress. </p> <p>They believed that ALL Citizens should share in the profits of its "creation" and therefore the Federal government must be the only creator of money. They further believed that all citizens, of whatever state, territory or station in life, would benefit by an adequate and stable currency. Therefore, the Federal government must also be, by law, the only controller of the value of money. </p> <p>Since the Federal Congress was the only legislative body subject to all the citizens at the ballot box, it was, to their minds, the only safe depository of so much profit and so much power. They wrote it out in simple, but all inclusive manner: "Congress shall have the power to Coin Money and Regulate the Value Thereof." </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>How We Lost Control of the Federal Reserve</b></span> </p> <p>Instead of the Constitutional method of creating our money and putting it into circulation, we now have and entirely unconstitutional system. This has brought our country to the brink of disaster, as we shall see. </p> <p>Since our money was handled both legally and illegally before 1913, we shall consider only the years following 1913, since from that year on, all of our money had been created and issued by an illegal method that will eventually destroy the United States if it is not changed. Prior to 1913, America was a prosperous, powerful, and growing nation, at peace with its neighbors and the envy of the world. But in December of 1913, Congress, with many members away for the Christmas Holidays, passed what has since been known as the Federal Reserve Act. (For the full story of how this infamous legislation was forced through our Congress, read "Conquest or Consent", by W. D. Vennard). </p> <p>Omitting the burdensome details, it simply authorized the establishment of a Federal Reserve Corporation, run by a Board of Directors (The Federal Reserve Board). The act divided the United States into 12 Federal Reserve "Districts." </p> <p>This simple, but terrible, law completely removed from Congress the right to "create" money or to have any control over its "creation", and gave that function to The Federal Reserve Corporation. It was accompanied by the appropriate fanfare. The propaganda claimed that this would "remove money from politics" (they did not say "and therefore from the people's control")and prevent "boom and bust" economic activity from hurting our citizens. </p> <p>The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that the Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers and therefore is operated for the financial gain of the bankers over the people rather than for the good of the people. The word "Federal" was used only to deceive the people. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>More Disastrous than Pearl Harbor</b></span> </p> <p>Since that "day of infamy", more disastrous to us than Pearl Harbor, the small group of "privileged" people who lend us "our" money have accrued to themselves all of the profits of printing our money -- and more! Since 1913 they have "created" tens of billions of dollars in money and credit, which, as their own personal property, they can lend to our government and our people at interest (usury).<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image005.gif" height="378" width="472" /><br /> "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" had become the secret policy of the Federal government. An example of the process of "creation" and its conversion to peoples "debt" will aid our understanding. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Billions in Interest Owed to Private Banks</b></span> </p> <p>We shall start with the need for money. The Federal Government, having spent more than it has taken from its citizens in taxes, needs, for the sake of illustration, $1,000,000,000. Since it does not have the money, and Congress has given away its authority to "create" it, the Government must go to the "creators" for the $1 billion. </p> <p>But, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, does not just give its money away! The Bankers are willing to deliver $1,000,000,000 in money or credit to the Federal Government in exchange for the government's agreement to pay it back -- with interest. So Congress authorizes the Treasury Department to print $1,000,000,000 in U.S. Bonds, which are then delivered to the Federal Reserve Bankers. </p> <p>The Federal Reserve then pays the cost of printing the $1 billion (about $1,000) and makes the exchange. The government then uses the money to pay its obligations. What are the results of this fantastic transaction? Well, $1 billion in government bills are paid all right, but the Government has now indebted the people to the bankers for $1 billion on which the people must pay interest! </p> <p>Tens of thousands of such transactions have taken place since 1913 so that in 1996, the U.S. Government is indebted to the Bankers for more than $5,000,000,000,000 (trillion). Most of the income taxes that we pay as individuals now goes straight into the hands of the bankers, just to pay off the interest alone, with no hope of ever paying off the principle. Our children will be forced into servitude. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>But wait! There's more!</b></span> </p> <p>You say, "This is terrible!" Yes, it is, but we have shown only part of the sordid story. Under this unholy system, those United States Bonds have now become "assets" of the banks in the Reserve System which they then use as "reserves" to "create" more "credit" to lend. Current "reserve" requirements allow them to use that $1 billion in bonds to "create" as much as $15 billion in new "credit" to lend to states, municipalities, to individuals and businesses. </p> <p>Added to the original $1 billion, they could have $16 billion of "created credit" out in loans paying them interest with their only cost being $1,000 for printing the original $1 billion! Since the U.S. Congress has not issued Constitutional money since 1863 (more than 100 years), in order for the people to have money to carry on trade and commerce they are forced to borrow the "created credit" of the Monopoly bankers and pay them usury-interest!<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image006.gif" height="300" width="371" /><br /> <span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Manipulating Stocks for Fun and Profit</b></span> </p> <p>In addition to almost unlimited usury, the bankers have another method of drawing vast amounts of wealth. The banks who control the money at the top are able to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations to the extent that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in the selling price of the corporation's stock. </p> <p>After depressing the price, the bankers' agents buy large blocks of the company's stock. Then, if the bank suddenly approves a multi-million dollar loan to the company, the stock rises and is then sold for a profit. In this manner, billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice is so refined today that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "discount rate" to send stocks soaring or crashing at their whim. </p> <p>Using this method since 1913, the bankers and their agents have purchased secret or open control of almost every large corporation in America. Using this leverage, they then force the corporations to borrow huge sums from their banks so that corporate earnings are siphoned off in the form of interest to the banks. This leaves little as actual "profits" which can be paid as dividends and explains why banks can reap billions in interest from corporate loans even when stock prices are depressed. In effect, the bankers get a huge chunk of the profits, while individual stockholders are left holding the bag. </p> <p>The millions of working families of America are now indebted to the few thousand banking families for twice the assessed value of the entire United States. And these Banking families obtained that debt against us for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping! </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>The interest amount is never created</b></span> </p> <p>The only way new money (which is not true money, but rather credit representing a debt), goes into circulation in America is when it is borrowed from the bankers. When the State and people borrow large sums, we seem to prosper. However, the bankers "create" only the amount of the principal of each loan, never the extra amount needed to pay the interest. Therefore, the new money never equals the new debt added. The amounts needed to pay the interest on loans is not "created," and therefore does not exist! </p> <p>Under this system, where new debt always exceeds new money no matter how much or how little is borrowed, the total debt increasingly outstrips the amount of money available to pay the debt. The people can never, ever get out of debt! </p> <p>The following example will show the viciousness of this interest-debt system via its "built in" shortage of money. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>The Tyranny of Compound Interest</b></span> </p> <p>When a citizen goes to a banker to borrow $100,000 to purchase a home or a farm, the bank clerk has the borrower agree to pay back the loan plus interest. At 8.25% interest for 30 years, the borrower must agree to pay $751.27 per month for a total of $270,456.00. </p> <p>The clerk then requires the citizen to assign to the banker the right of ownership of the property if the borrower does not make the required payments. The bank clerk then gives the borrower a $100,000 check or a $100,000 deposit slip, crediting the borrower's checking account with $100,000. </p> <p>The borrower then writes checks to the builder, subcontractors, etc. who in turn write checks. $100,000 of new "checkbook" money is thereby added to the "money in circulation." </p> <p>However, this is the fatal flaw in the system: the only new money created and put into circulation is the amount of the loan, $100,000. The money to pay the interest is NOT created, and therefore was NOT added to "money in circulation." </p> <p>Even so, this borrower (and those who follow him in ownership of the property) must earn and take out of circulation $270,456.00, $170,456.00 more than he put in circulation when he borrowed the original $100,000! (This interest cheats all families out of nicer homes. It is not that they cannot afford them; it is because the bankers' interest forces them to pay for nearly 3 homes to get one!) </p> <p>Every new loan puts the same process in operation. Each borrower adds a small sum to the total money supply when he borrows, but the payments on the loan (because of interest) then deduct a much larger sum from the total money supply. </p> <p>There is therefore no way all debtors can pay off the money lenders. As they pay the principle and interest, the money in circulation disappears. All they can do is struggle against each other, borrowing more and more from the money lenders each generation. The money lenders (bankers), who produce nothing of value, gradually gain a death grip on the land, buildings, and present and future earnings of the whole working population. Proverbs 22:7 has come to pass in America. "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Small loans do the same thing</b></span> </p> <p>If you have not quite grasped the impact of the above, let us consider an auto loan for 5 years at 9.5% interest. Step 1: Citizen borrows $25,000 and pays it into circulation (it goes to the dealer, factory, miner, etc.) and signs a note agreeing to pay the Bankers a total of $31,503 over 5 years. Step 2: Citizen pays $525.05 per month of his earnings to the Banker. In five years, he will remove from circulation $6,503 more than he put in circulation. </p> <p>Every loan of banker "created" money (credit) causes the same thing to happen. Since this has happened millions of times since 1913 (and continues today), you can see why America has gone from a prosperous, debt-free nation to a debt-ridden nation where practically every home, farm and business is paying usury-tribute to the bankers. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Checking Up On Cash</b></span> </p> <p>In the millions of transactions made each year like those just discussed, little actual currency changes hands, nor is it necessary that it do so. </p> <p>About 95 percent of all "cash" transactions in the U. S. are executed by check. Consider also that banks must only hold 10 percent of their deposits on site in cash at any given time. This means 90 percent of all deposits, though they may actually be held by the ban, are not present in the form of actual cash currency. </p> <p>That leaves the banker relatively safe to "create" that so-called "loan" by writing the check or deposit slip not against actual money, but against your promise to pay it back! The cost to him is paper, ink and a few dollars of overhead for each transaction. It is "check kiting" on an enormous scale. The profits increase rapidly, year after year. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Our Own Debt is Spiraling into Infinity</b></span> </p> <p>In 1910 the U. S. Federal debt was only $1 billion, or $12.40 per citizen. State and local debts were practically non-existent. </p> <p>By 1920, after only six years of Federal Reserve shenanigans, the Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $228 per person. </p> <p>In 1960 the Federal debt reached $284 billion, or $1,575 per citizen and state and local debts were mushrooming. </p> <p>In 1998 the Federal debt passed $5.5 trillion, or $20,403.90 per man, woman and child and is growing exponentially. </p> <p>State and local debts are increasing as fast Federal debts. However, they are too cunning to take the title to everything at once. They instead leave us with some "illusion of ownership" so you and your children will continue to work and pay the bankers more of your earnings on ever increasing debts. The "establishment" has captured our people with their debt-money system as certainly as if they had marched in with an uniformed army. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Gambling Away the American Dream</b></span> </p> <p>To grasp the truth that periodic withdrawal of money through interest payments will inexorably transfer all wealth in the nation to the receiver of interest, imagine yourself in a poker or dice game where everyone must buy the chips (the medium of exchange) from a "banker" who does not risk chips in the game. </p> <p>He just watches the table and reaches in every hour to take 10 percent to 15 percent of all the chips on the table. As the game goes on, the amount of chips in the possession of each player will fluctuate according to his luck. </p> <p>However, the total number of chips available to play the game (carry on trade and business) will decrease steadily. </p> <p>As the game starts getting low on chips, some players will run out. If they want to continue to play, they must buy or borrow more chips from the "banker". The "banker" will sell (lend) them only if the player signs a "mortgage" agreeing to give the "Banker" some real property (car, home, farm, business, etc.) if he cannot make periodic payments to pay back all the chips plus some extra chips (interest). The payments must be made on time, whether he wins (makes a profit) or not. </p> <p>It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play, eventually the "banker" will end up with all of his original chips back, and except for the very best players, the rest, if they stay in long enough, will lose to the "banker" their homes, their farms, their businesses, perhaps even their cars, watches, and the shirts off their backs! </p> <p>Our real life situation is much worse than any poker game. In a poker game no one is forced into debt, and anyone can quit at any time and keep whatever he still has. But in real life, even if we borrow little ourselves from the "bankers," our local, State and Federal governments borrow billions in our name, squander it, then confiscate our earnings via taxation in order to pay off the bankers with interest. </p> <p>We are forced to play the game, and none can leave except by death. We pay as long as we live, and our children pay after we die. If we cannot or refuse to pay, the government sends the police to take our property and give it to the bankers. The bankers risk nothing in the game; they just collect their percentage and "win it all." In Las Vegas, all games are rigged to pay the owner a percentage, and they rake in millions. The Federal Reserve bankers' "game" is also rigged, and it pays off in billions!<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image007.gif" height="352" width="431" /><br /> In recent years, Bankers have added some new cards to their deck: credit cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade. Actually, they are ingenious devices from the seller and 18% interest from buyers. A real "stacked" deck! </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Yes, it's political too</b></span> </p> <p>Democrat, Republican, and independent voters who have wondered why politicians always spend more tax money than they take in should now see the reason. When they begin to study our money system, they soon realize that these politicians are not the agents of the people but are the agents of the bankers, for whom they plan ways to place the people further in debt. </p> <p>It takes only a little imagination to see that if Congress had been "creating," spending and issuing into circulation the necessary increase in the money supply, there would be no national debt. Trillions of dollars of other debts would be practically non-existent. </p> <p>Since there would be no original cost of money except printing, and no continuing costs such as interest, Federal taxes would be almost nil. Money, once in circulation, would remain there and go on serving its purpose as a medium of exchange for generation after generation and century after century, with no payments to the Bankers whatsoever! </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Continuing Cycles of Debt and War</b></span> </p> <p>But instead of peace and debt-free prosperity, we have ever-mounting debt and cyclical periods of war. We as a people are now ruled by a system of banking influence that has usurped the mantle of government, disguised itself as our legitimate government, and set about to pauperize and control our people. </p> <p>It is now a centralized, all-powerful political apparatus whose main purposes are promoting war, confiscating the people's money, and propagandizing to perpetuate its power. Our two main political parties have become its servants, the various departments of government have become its spending agencies, and the Internal Revenue Service is its collection agency. </p> <p>Unknown to the people, it operates in close cooperation with similar apparatuses in other nations, which are also disguised as "governments." </p> <p>Some, we are told, are friends. Some, we are told, are enemies. "Enemies" are built up through international manipulations and used to frighten the American people into going billions of dollars further into debt to the bankers for "military preparedness," "foreign aid to stop communism," "the drug war," etc. </p> <p>Citizens, deliberately confused by brainwashing propaganda, watch helplessly while our politicians give food, goods, and money to banker-controlled alien governments under the guise of "better relations" and "easing tensions." Our banker-controlled government takes our finest and bravest sons and sends them into foreign wars where tens of thousands are murdered, and hundreds of thousands are crippled (not to mention collateral damage and casualties among the "enemy" troops.) </p> <p>When the "war" is over, we have gained nothing, but we are billions of dollars further in debt to the bankers, which was the reason for the "war" in the first place! </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>And There's More</b></span> </p> <p>The profits from these massive debts have been used to erect a complete and, almost hidden, economic colossus, over our nation. They keep telling us they are trying to do us good, when in truth they work to bring harm and injury to our people. These would be despots know, it is easier to control and rob a ill, poorly educated, and confused people, than it is a healthy and intelligent population, so they deliberately prevent real cures for diseases, they degrade our educational systems, and they stir up social and racial unrest. For the same reason, they favor drug use, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, abortion, pornography, and crime. Everything, which debilitates the minds and bodies of the people, is secretly encouraged, as it makes the people less able to oppose them, or, even, to understand what is being done to them. </p> <p>Family, morals, love of country, the Christian religion, all that is honorable, is being swept away, while they try to build their new, subservient man. Our new "rulers" are trying to change our whole racial, social, religious, and political order, but they will not change the debt-money-economic system, by which they rob and rule. Our people have become tenants and "debt-slaves", to the Bankers, and their agents, in the land our fathers conquered. It is conquest through the most, gigantic fraud and swindle, in the history of mankind. And we remind you again: The key to their wealth and power, over us, is their ability to create "money" out of nothing, and lend it to us, at interest. If they had not been allowed to do that, they would never have gained secret control of our nation. How true Solomon's words are: "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender "(Proverbs 22:7). </p> <p>God Almighty warned, in the Bible, that one of the curses, which would come upon His people, for disobeying His laws was: The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shall come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shall be the tail. Deut. 28:44-45 </p> <p>Most of the owners of the large banks, in America, are of eastern-european ancestry, and connected with the Rothschild European banks. Has that warning come to fruition in America? </p> <p>Let us, now, consider the correct method of providing the medium of exchange (money) needed by our people. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Every Citizen Can Be A Stock Holder in America</b></span> </p> <p>Under the Constitutional system, no private banks would exist to rob the people. Government banks under the control of the people's representatives would issue and control all money and credit. They would issue not only actual currency, but could lend limited credit at no interest for the purchase of capital goods, such as homes. </p> <p>A $100,000 loan would require only $100,000 repayment, not $270,456.00 as it is now. Everyone who supplied materials and labor for the home would get paid just as they do today, but the bankers would not get $170,456.00 in interest. </p> <p>That is why they ridicule and destroy anyone suggesting or proposing an alternative system.<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image008.gif" height="310" width="400" /><br /> History tells us of debt-free and interest-free money issued by governments. </p> <p>The American colonies did it through colonial script in the 1700's. Their wealth soon rivaled that of England and brought restrictions from Parliament, which led to the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln did it in 1863 to help finance the Civil War. He was later assassinated by a man many consider to have been an agent of the Rothchild Bank. No debt-free or interest-free money has been issued in America since then. </p> <p>Several Arab nations issue interest free loans to their citizens today. (Now you can understand what all the commotion in the Middle East is all about, and why the banker-owned press is brainwashing American citizens to think of all Arabs as terrorists). The Saracen Empire forbade interest on money 1,000 years ago and its wealth outshone even Saxon Europe. Mandarin China issued its own money, interest-free and debt-free. Today, historians and art collectors consider those centuries to be China's time of greatest wealth, culture and peace. </p> <p>Issuing money which does not have to be paid back in interest leaves the money available to use in the exchange of goods and services and its only continuing cost is replacement as the paper wears out. Money is the paper ticket by which transfers are made and should always be in sufficient quantity to transfer all possible production of the nation to the ultimate consumers. It is as ridiculous for a nation to say to its citizens, "You must consume less because we are short of money," as it would be for an airline to say, "Our planes are flying, but we cannot take you because we are short of tickets".<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image009.gif" height="376" width="450" /><br /> <span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Citizen Control of U.S. Currency</b></span> </p> <p>Money, issued in such a way, would derive its value in exchange from the fact that it had come from the highest legal source in the nation and would be declared legal to pay all public and private debts. </p> <p>Issued by a sovereign nation, not in danger of collapse, it would need no gold or silver or other so-called "precious" metals to back it. </p> <p>As history shows, the stability and responsibility of government issuing it is the deciding factor in the acceptance of that government's currency--not gold, silver, or iron buried in some hole in the ground. Proof is America's currency today. Our gold and silver is practically gone, but our currency is accepted. But if the government was about to collapse our currency would be worthless. </p> <p>Under the present system, the extra burden of interest forces workers and businesses to demand more money for the work and goods to pay their ever increasing debts and taxes. This increase in prices and wages is called "inflation." Bankers, politicians and "economists" blame it on everything but the real cause, which is the interest levied on money and debt by the Bankers. </p> <p>This "inflation" benefits the money-lenders, since it wipes out savings of one generation so they can not finance or help the next generation, who must then borrow from the money-lenders and pay a large part of their life's labor to the usurer. </p> <p>With an adequate supply of interest-free money, little borrowing would be required and prices would be established by people and goods, not by debts and usury. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Citizen control</b></span> </p> <p>If the Congress failed to act, or acted wrongly in the supply of money, the citizens would use the ballot or recall petitions to replace those who prevented correct action with others whom the people believe would pursue a better money policy. Since the creation of money and its issuance in sufficient quantity would be one of the few functions of Congress, the voter could decide on a candidate by his stand on money and other legitimate functions of the Federal government, instead of the diversionary issues which are presented to us today. All other problems, except the nation's defense, would be taken care of in the State, County, or City governments where they are best handled and most easily corrected. </p> <p>An adequate national defense would be provided by the same citizen- controlled Congress, and there would be no bankers behind the scenes, bribing politicians to spend billions of dollars on overseas military adventures which ultimately serve the schemes of international finance. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Creating a Debt-Free America</b></span> </p> <p>With debt-free and interest-free money, there would be no direct confiscatory taxation and our homes would be mortgage-free without approximately $10,000-per-year payments to the bankers. Nor would they get $1000 to $3000 per year from every automobile on our roads. </p> <p>We would need far fewer financial "help" in the form of "easy payment" plans, "revolving" charge accounts, loans to pay medical or hospital bills, loans to pay taxes, loans to pay for burials, loans to pay loans, nor any of the thousand and one usury bearing loans which now suck the life blood of American families. </p> <p>Our officials, at all levels of government, would be working for the people instead of devising capers which will place us further in debt to the bankers. We would get out of entangling foreign alliances that have engulfed us in four major wars and scores of minor wars since the Federal Reserve Act was passed. </p> <p>A debt-free America would leave parents with more time to spend raising their children. The elimination of the interest payments and debt would be the equivalent of a 50 percent raise in the purchasing power of every worker. This cancellation of interest-based private debts would result in the return to the people of $300 billion yearly in property and wealth that currently goes to banks. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Controlling Public Debate and Opinion</b></span> </p> <p>We realize that this small, and necessarily incomplete, article on money may be charged with oversimplification. Some may say that if it is that simple the people would have known about it, and it could not have happened. </p> <p>But this conspiracy is as old as Babylon, and even in America it dates far back before the year 1913. </p> <p>Actually, 1913 may be considered the year in which their previous plans came to fruition, opening the way for complete economic conquest of our people. The conspiracy is powerful enough in America to place its agents in positions as newspaper publishers, editors, columnists, church ministers, university presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, filmmakers, radio and television commentators, politicians ranging from school board members to U. S. presidents, and many others. </p> <p>These agents control the information available to our people. They manipulate public opinion, elect whomever they want locally and nationally, and never expose the crooked money system. They promote school bonds, expensive and detrimental farm programs, "urban renewal," foreign aid, and many other schemes which place the people more deeply in debt to the bankers. </p> <p>Thoughtful citizens wonder why billions are spent on one program and billions on another which may duplicate it or even nullify it, such as paying some farmers not to raise crops, while at the same time building dams or canals to irrigate more farm land. Crazy or stupid? </p> <p>Neither. The goal is more debt. Thousands of government-sponsored methods of wasting money go on continually. Most make no sense, but they are never exposed for what they really are: siphons sucking our Nation's economic lifeblood. Billions for the bankers, debts for the people. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Controlled news and information</b></span> </p> <p>So-called "economic experts" write syndicated columns in hundreds of newspapers, craftily designed to prevent the people from learning the simple truth about our money system. </p> <p>Sometimes commentators, educators, and politicians blame our financial conundrum on the workers for being wasteful, lazy, or stingy. Other times, they blame workers and consumers for the increase in debts and the inflation of prices, when they know the cause is the debt-money system itself.<br /> <img src="http://www.justiceplus.org/image010.gif" height="370" width="512" /><br /> Our people are literally drowned in charges and counter-charges designed to confuse them and keep them from understanding the unconstitutional and evil money system that is so efficiently and silently robbing the farmers, the workers, and the businessmen of the fruits of their labor and of their freedoms. </p> <p>Some, who are especially vocal in their exposure of the treason against the people, are harassed by government agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, the IRS, and others, forcing them into financial strain or bankruptcy. They have been completely successful in preventing most Americans from learning the things you have read in this article. </p> <p>However, in spite of their control of information, they realize many citizens are learning the truth. (There are several millions of Americans who now know the truth including former congressmen, former revenue agents, ministers, businessmen, and many others). </p> <p>Therefore, to prevent armed resistance to their plunder of America, they plan to register all firearms and eventually to disarm all citizens, in violation of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. A people armed cannot be enslaved. Therefore, they only want guns in the hands of their government police or military forces--hands that are already stained with blood from countless acts of gross negligence and overt homicide, both at home and abroad. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>Spread the Word and Do Something to Fix Things.</b></span> </p> <p>The "almost hidden" conspirators in politics, religion, education, entertainment, and the news media are working for the banker-owned United States, in a banker-owned World under a banker-owned World Government! (This is what all the talk of a New World Order promoted by Presidents Bush and Clinton is all about.) </p> <p>Unfair banking policies and taxes will continue to take a larger and larger part of the annual earning of the people and put them into the pockets of the bankers and their political agents. Increasing government regulations will prevent citizen protest and opposition to their control. </p> <p>It is possible that your grandchildren will own neither home nor car, but will live in "government owned" apartments and ride to work in "government owned" buses (both paying interest to the bankers), and be allowed to keep just enough of their earnings to buy a minimum of food and clothing while their rulers wallow in luxury. In Asia and eastern Europe it is called "communism;" in America it is called "Democracy" and "Capitalism." </p> <p>America will not shake off her Banker-controlled dictatorship as long as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers. Banking concerns, which control most of the governments of the nations, and most sources of information, seem to have us completely within their grasp. They are afraid of only one thing: an awakened patriotic citizenry, armed with the truth, and with a trust in God for deliverance. This material has informed you about their iniquitous system. What you do with it is in your hands. </p> <p><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>WHAT YOU CAN DO</b></span> </p> <p>Pray for America's release from this wicked money control, which is at the root of our debts and wars.. </p> <p>Send copies of this article to officials in your State and Local government, to school board members, principals, teachers, ministers, neighbors, etc. Ask them for their comments.. </p> <p>Write letters to elected or appointed officials. Write "letters- to-the-editor" to newspapers. Most small towns and suburban newspapers are not totally controlled, while most of the big city newspapers are.. </p> <p align="left">Give or mail them out by the hundreds to awaken and educate other Americans to this fantastic plunder of the working people of America. The cost to you is VERY LITTLE compared to the BILLIONS in money and property being STOLEN from our people.</p>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-79397364426104294712008-09-07T20:09:00.000-05:002008-09-07T20:10:18.759-05:00Click, Clickity-Click<p><a href="http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle484-20080907-02.html"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:+2;"><b>Click, Clickity-Click</b></span> </a><br /><b>by L. Neil Smith</b><br />lneil -+at+- netzero.com </p> <div align="justify"> <p><small>Attribute to <i>The Libertarian Enterprise</i></small> </p><p>I don't think many people realize it any more—many of those who do are inclined to lie about it and attempt to cover it up—but the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, were written not just to protect us from the would-be kings and dictators in government, but to protect us, as well, from democracy. </p><p>On both sides of the Federalist-Antifederalist split, most of the Founding Fathers expressed hatred and fear of the notion of "absolute democracy" in which the highest law was "<i>vox populi, vox dei</i>" ("The voice of the people is the voice of God."), an ancient proverb that novelist Robert A. Heinlein, an unusually astute observer of history and human nature, translated as "How the hell did we get into <i>this</i> mess?" </p><p>The rights that the Founders chose to enumerate were meant never to be decreed, legislated, adjudicated—or voted—away. They had been placed (or at least the Founders believed) beyond the reach of politicians, bureaucrats, and the people, themselves. While they were inclined to celebrate the mind and spirit of the individual human being, the Founders knew that our species doesn't play particularly well in groups, and that the collective intelligence of a mob is that of its brightest member—divided by the number of people in the group. </p><p>So how did we get from a society in which individuals were free, and the Bill of Rights was unassailable, to a society in which nothing is allowable unless you have begged specifically for the government's permission? </p><p>There are many answers to that question—my first novel, <i>The Probability Broach</i>, for example, is primarily about the unfortunate influence that the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion had on American history—but my purpose here is to consider the role of two more fundamental phenomena: an irrational obsession to make the whole world "safe" for idiots, and an insatiable desire to extract big bucks from deep pockets. </p><p>The single action cartridge revolver (relax, I'm not actually changing the subject, here) is a comparatively simple contrivance, although it does require that you meet it halfway in some respects. For example, although the original 1873 Colt "Peacemaker"—and its many imitators—has six chambers for cartridges bored into its cylinder, it is only safe to load five, leaving one chamber empty so that an accidental blow to the hammer (as when you drop it, or the stirrup falls onto it from your saddlehorn when you're tightening the cinch) can't unintentionally discharge the firearm straight into your leg. </p><p>For more than a hundred years, that was the drill, and everybody understood it. It's even mentioned in movies like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JSGL/webleywebdesignk/" target="new"><i>The Shootist</i></a>, when John Wayne explains it to a young man—Ron Howard—he's teaching to shoot. All you have to do is count cartridges as you slide them, one by one, through the opened loading gate, into the cylinder. Stop when you get to five. Make sure the chamber you leave empty is the one that's just forward of the hammer, and that the cylinder is indexed—locked in place—before you close the loading gate. As impossibly complicated as it is to try to write—maybe impossibly complicated to read, as well—it's extremely simple in practice. There's even an alternative technique, involving skipping the second chamber that you roll past, but I don't care for it, and I'm not going to go into it here. </p><p>Believe me, it's much simpler than driving a car with a manual transmission. </p><p>For all of that trouble, you get four extremely soul-satisfying clicks whenever you cock the weapon, a soul-satisfaction that's frustratingly hard to describe, easy to experience, and impossible to forget. You used to be able to hear it in the opening moments of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570196664/webleywebdesignk/" target="new"><i>Gunsmoke</i></a>. </p><p>It's the very sound of the Old West, come to life. </p><p>Click, clickity-click. </p><p>All of that changed in 1973, however, the hundredth anniversary of Colt's first cartridge revolver, when Sturm, Ruger and Company, an outfit that had been succesfully manufacturing single actions in many ways superior to the Colt for 20 years, introduced what I have always referred to as their "Ralph Nader Safety Revolver", a gun designed, in essence, by liability lawyers, for idiots who can't count to five and stop. </p><p>Apparently some of those idiots had gotten lawyers themselves and sued the company, blaming it for the unfortunate results of their own idiocy. Because of the newly-designed ignition system, it was now safe to load all six chambers. Ruger would even convert your dangerous, nasty old five-shooter to a safe and sound six, for free. But a single action revolver is all about the sense of history it invokes. The click, clickity-click was gone forever, and with it, in this writer's opinion, the thrill it had offered—along with any reason not to buy a double action revolver instead, or even better, a semiautomatic pistol. </p><p>And so the threat of government action—in this case the fear of civil lawsuits—reshaped American culture after all, in ways that the Founding Fathers didn't want, and couldn't have anticipated, all to protect idiots from themselves, and reward them when their idiocy catches up to them. The operation of an antique style of handgun may seem like a small thing, but it's representative of a much larger phenomenon. </p><p>Today, you must apply for an expensive, difficult-to-obtain permit from the government before you are allowed broadcast your ideas to the world. </p><p>You must get government permission if you and your fellow beings wish to assemble and march to protest against the same government (how insane is that?) or apparently even meet in private to plan the event. </p><p>Otherwise, government's hired thugs will electrocute you, gas you, herd you all together, knock you down, and stomp your head and chest before they drag you off to a barbed wire pen. No, don't look at me like that: every one of these outrages just happened—again—at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. They may do it—and tear your press pass off—even if you've obtained the requisite permission. </p><p>You even have to clear your spiritual beliefs with the expert theologians at the IRS before you can officially be said to have a religion. </p><p>And, of course, you have to get an okay from the government before you can purchase a gun, and a permit to exercise your right to tote it. </p><p>It's what I call "controlled carry". </p><p>And that's just the first two amendments </p><p>If you should happen to ask them about any of these violations of the Constitution—provided they don't just smash your face and have you hauled off to Guantanamo—the politicians and bureaucrats in charge will explain, faux-patiently, that it's all for your own good, and that safety considerations must always trump the rights of mere individuals. </p><p>"We had to destroy the Bill of Rights in order to save it." </p><p>So what we have now, apparently, is the political equivalent of Ruger's Ralph Nader safety revolver, a "Safety" Bill of Rights, if you will (or even if you won't), ostensibly intended to protect idiots—meaning you and me and anybody else feeble-minded enough to believe in exercising their individual liberties—from themselves. More to the point, our rights under the Constitution or any other construction don't mean a thing if our betters, our masters, and our owners decide that they represent a danger to them. That's what the Republican power elite was telling us last weekend in Minneapolis. It's the same thing that the Democratic power elite told us the weekend before that, in Denver. </p><p>Since even the smartest individuals are almost always idiots in groups, constituting a clear and present danger even to little old ladies with shopping carts, innocent sheep in Wyoming, and wooden Indians outside of cigar stores, it may be there's no way out of the trap that's been set for us. Safety fascism has taken America over permanently. </p><p>Or has it? </p><p>Lying on the desk beside my keyboard as I write, is a big, fat Glock M20, a 10 millimeter semiautomatic pistol with an absolutely astonishing (to me, anyway) magazine capacity. Many things about this weapon are remarkable, but the pertinent fact is that it doesn't have any kind of manual safety. A gun doesn't need a safety as long as you remember to keep your finger off the trigger until you mean to pull it. </p><p>The Glock is a relatively new development, historically speaking, one that flies in the face of every current trend by depending on the user's intelligence for safety. So maybe there's some hope left, after all. </p><p>At least for those of us who aren't idiots. </p><p>As for the rest of American civilization, maybe it's time for some reeducation. I have a book under development aimed at accomplishing that very thing and am now planning a website to expose and deal with police violence. I'd be happy to tell you all about them, any time you wish. </p><p>My old friend and partner Aaron Zelman is making a groundbreaking video for the Internet on the individual right to own and carry weapons. It's an expensive proposition to do it right and he could use help. </p><p>Go to <a href="http://www.jpfo.org/" target="new">www.jpfo.org</a>. </p><p>I'm confident there are others hard at work on similar projects. Ron Paul's supporters don't seem to have missed a beat since their candidate stepped down, but appear more active and enthusiastic than ever. </p><p>If you don't have a project of your own for the advancement of liberty, and don't plan to start one of your own, then offer your support to those who do. It is of such stuff that true revolutions are made. </p><p>Freedom first, safety second—or maybe third. </p><p><br /><small>Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has been called one of the world's foremost authorities on the ethics of self-defense. He is the author of 25 books, including <i>The American Zone, Forge of the Elders, Pallas, The Probability Broach, Hope</i> (with Aaron Zelman), and his collected articles and speeches, <i>Lever Action</i>, all of which may be purchased through his website "The Webley Page" at <a href="http://www.lneilsmith.org/" target="new">lneilsmith.org</a>.<br /><br /><i>Ceres,</i> an exciting sequel to Neil's 1993 Ngu family novel <i>Pallas</i> was recently completed and is presently looking for a literary home.<br /><br />Neil is presently working on <i>Ares,</i> the middle volume of the epic Ngu Family Cycle, and on <i>Roswell, Texas,</i> with Rex F. "Baloo" May.<br /><br />The stunning 185-page full-color graphic-novelized version of <i>The Probability Broach,</i> which features the art of Scott Bieser and was published by BigHead Press <a href="http://www.bigheadpress.com/" target="new">www.bigheadpress.com</a> has recently won a Special Prometheus Award. It may be had through the publisher, or at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974381411/webleywebdesignk/" target="new">www.Amazon.com</a>.</small> </p></div>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-29631934099805656272008-09-04T19:39:00.003-05:002008-09-04T19:44:45.600-05:00How Christian Mind Control Works<span class="storytitle"><a href="http://www.remoteviewer.nu/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3622">How Christian Mind Control Works</a></span><br /><span class="boxcontent"><b><br />By John Blatt</b><br /><br />Coercion is defined as, "to restrain or constrain by force..." Legally it often implies the use of PHYSICAL FORCE or physical or legal threat. This traditional concept of coercion is far better understood than the technological concepts of "coercive persuasion" which are effective restraining, impairing, or compelling through the gradual application of PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES.<br /><br />A coercive persuasion program - within Christianity it is called "The Gospel Persuasion" - is a behavioral change technology applied to cause the "learning" and "adoption" of a set of behaviors or an ideology under certain conditions.<br /><br />It is distinguished from other forms of benign social learning or peaceful persuasion by the conditions under which it is conducted and by the techniques of environmental and interpersonal manipulation employed to suppress particular behaviors and to train others. Over time, coercive persuasion, a psychological force akin in some ways to our legal concepts of undue influence, is MORE effective than pain, torture, drugs, and use of physical force and legal threats.<br /><br />The Korean War "Manchurian Candidate" misconception of the need for suggestibility-increasing drugs, and physical pain and torture, to effect thought reform, is generally associated with the old concepts and models of brainwashing. Today, they are not necessary for a coercive persuasion program to be effective. With drugs, physical pain, torture, or even a physically coercive threat, you can often temporarily make someone do something against their will. You can even make them do something they hate or they really did not like or want to do at the time. They do it, but their attitude is not changed. In Christianity this is called a "false conversion".<br /><br />This is much different and far less devastating than that which you are able to achieve with coercive persuasion. With coercive persuasion you can change a person's will without their knowledge and volition. You can create new "attitudes" where they will do things willingly which they formerly may have detested, things which previously only torture, physical pain, or drugs could have coerced them to do. In effect, their desires change, their viewpoints change, and their feelings change through this Gospel persuasion. Most people have no idea of the depth of change that this type of persuasion can bring into a person, even changing them in "an instant". This seems impossible and that is a part of its strength and deceitfulness.<br /><br />The extreme anxiety and emotional stress production technologies found in Gospel Coercive Persuasion supersede any physical style coercion that focuses on pain, torture, drugs, or threat in that these physical systems of coercion do not change an attitude so that subjects follow orders "willingly." Christian or Gospel Coercive Persuasion changes both attitude AND behavior, not JUST behavior.</span><br /><br /><span class="boxcontent">Christian or Gospel Coercive Persuasion (or thought reform as it is sometimes known) is best understood as a coordinated system of graduated coercive influence and behavior modification designed to change the wills and volition of individuals, usually in a group setting, in order for the originators of the program - those witnessing or preaching - to spiritually and psychologically profit from this persuasion to validate their own program and to continue the feeling that the program gives each converted person. This Gospel Coercive Persuasion is a psychological program that is inherently addictive in itself, because the program makes itself the sole purpose of life and feeling. This is one of the reasons why it is so hard on many levels to deprogram and be freed from this psychological addiction of this program.<br /><br />The essential strategy used by those operating such programs is to systematically select, sequence and coordinate numerous coercive persuasion tactics over CONTINUOUS PERIODS OF TIME. There are seven main tactic types found in various combinations in the Christian Coercive Persuasion program. A coercive persuasion program can still be quite effective without the presence of ALL seven of these tactic types.<br /><br />TACTIC 1. The individual is prepared for thought reform through increased suggestibility and/or "softening up," specifically through hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques such as audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills (anything that is "moving" to the emotions as well as to the mind, i.e., worship music, dancing, embraces, stirring preaching or instructional teaching from a pulpit) and excessive repetition of routine activities.<br /><br />TACTIC 2. Using rewards and punishments, efforts are made to establish considerable control over a person's social environment, time, and sources of social support. Social isolation is promoted ("You are not of the world", "Christ can to bring a sword"). Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share church-approved attitudes. Psychological and emotional dependence on the group is fostered.<br /><br />TACTIC 3. Disconfirming information and nonsupporting opinions are prohibited in church communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled, especially communication from God. God's communication is one-way, via the bible, and nothing is to contradict that communication. An "in-group" language is usually constructed, sometimes called "Christianese."<br /><br />TACTIC 4. Frequent and intense attempts are made to cause a person to re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms as well as getting them to reinterpret their life's history, and adopt a new version of causality. This is usually called "sanctification" and "working out your salvation with fear and trembling."<br /><br />TACTIC 5. Intense and frequent attempts are made to undermine a person's confidence in himself and his judgment, creating a sense of powerlessness. The only power that can help is God, or more precisely, the specific church's or Christian group's version of God. The eldership, church leaders, or "advanced" Christians are usually relied upon to understand the bible and for "encouragement" to "have the mind of Christ."<br /><br />TACTIC 6. Nonphysical punishments are used such as intense humiliation (private and public confession of sin), loss of privilege (suspension or excommunication from the church or Christian group), social isolation (from the world and the "unbelievers" as well as from erring or heretical Christians that doesn't agree with their church or group), social status changes (from being a "respectable" and "stable" Christian to a "weak" or "unstable" Christian), intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques for creating strong aversive emotional arousals, etc.<br /><br />TACTIC 7. Certain psychological threats (force) are used or are present: That failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief, or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequence, (e.g. physical or mental illness given by God, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, worldliness, personal economic collapse, social failure, divorce, failure to find a mate, etc.).<br /><br />Another set of criteria has to do with defining other common elements of mind control systems. If most of Robert Jay Lifton's eight point model of thought reform is being used in an organization, it is most likely a dangerous and destructive cult. Conservative Christianity is a dangerous and destructive cult (please note that "dangerous and destructive" does NOT mean that it must be PHYSICAL. The dangerousness and destructiveness is a psychological, emotional and spiritual one. Just because Christianity doesn't normally create personal or public violence does NOT mean that it is not severely destructive on many other levels). If you are an exchristian or presently a Christian you will be able to see that every sentence of these following points are prevalent within Conservative, Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity. The eight points follow:<br /><br />Robert Jay Lifton's Eight Point Model of Thought Reform<br /><br />1. ENVIRONMENT CONTROL. Limitation of many/all forms of communication with those outside the group. Worldly books, magazines, letters and fellowship with unbelieving friends and family are taboo. "Come out and be separate!"<br /><br />2. MYSTICAL MANIPULATION. The potential convert to the group becomes convinced of the higher purpose and special calling of the group through a profound encounter or experience, for example, through an alleged miracle or prophetic word or spiritual feeling while within the group.<br /><br />3. DEMAND FOR PURITY. An explicit goal of the group is to bring about some kind of change, whether it be on a global, social, or personal level. "Perfection is possible if one stays with the group and is committed." (This "perfection" is associated with sanctification, "(Mat 5:48) Therefore, you be perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." "(2Co 13:11) For the rest, brothers, rejoice! Perfect yourselves"<br /><br />4. CULT OF CONFESSION. The unhealthy practice of self disclosure to members in the group. Often (but not always) in the context of a public gathering in the group, admitting past sins and imperfections, even doubts about the group and critical thoughts about the integrity of the leaders.<br /><br />5. SACRED SCIENCE. The group's perspective is absolutely true and completely adequate to explain EVERYTHING (A knowledgeable Christian can rebut any critical question presented and Christianity is the Truth and is capable to explain everything about life and spirituality). The doctrine is not subject to amendments or question. ABSOLUTE conformity to the doctrine is required. "(Mat 7:28) And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at His doctrine." "(Mat 7:28) And it happened, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at His doctrine." "(1Ti 4:16) Give attention to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this, you will both deliver yourself and those hearing you."<br /><br />6. LOADED LANGUAGE. A new vocabulary emerges within the context of the group. Group members "think" within the very abstract and narrow parameters of the group's doctrine. The terminology sufficiently stops members from thinking critically by reinforcing a "black and white" mentality. Loaded terms and clich?s prejudice thinking.<br /><br />7. DOCTRINE OVER PERSON. Pre-group experience and group experience are narrowly and decisively interpreted through the absolute doctrine, even when experience contradicts the doctrine.<br /><br />8. DISPENSING OF EXISTENCE. Salvation is possible only in the group (Christianity). Those who leave the group are doomed.<br /><br />Any group that has most or all of these points is a destructive mind control cult.<br /><br />CHRISTIAN COERCIVE PERSUASION IS NOT PEACEFUL PERSUASION<br /><br />Christian programs identified with the above-listed seven tactics have in common the elements of attempting to greatly modify a person's self-concept, perceptions of reality, and interpersonal relations. When successful in inducing these changes, coercive thought reform programs also, among other things, create the potential forces necessary for exercising undue influence over a person's independent decision-making ability, and even for turning the individual into a deployable agent for the organization's benefit without the individual's meaningful knowledge or consent.<br /><br />Christian Coercive Persuasion programs are effective because individuals experiencing the deliberately planned severe stresses they generate can only reduce the pressures by accepting the system or adopting the behaviors being promulgated by the purveyors of the coercion program. The relationship between the person and the coercive persuasion tactics are DYNAMIC in that while the force of the pressures, rewards, and punishments brought to bear on the person are considerable, they do not lead to a stable, meaningfully SELF-CHOSEN reorganization of beliefs or attitudes. Rather, they lead to a sort of coerced compliance and a situationally required elaborate rationalization, for the new conduct. With this being said the mind will reconstruct its reality and will view everything through this new reality. The construct of this new reality, to the new convert, is perfect and whole and beautiful even though it is psychologically devastating and logically contradictory. The Christian mind cannot see its own blind-spots. It sees no contradictions, no dangers, no imperfections, yet this is the Matrix that is the Christian Coercion Persuasion Program.<br /><br />Once again, in order to maintain the new attitudes or "decisions," sustain the rationalization, and continue to unduly influence a person's behavior over time, coercive tactics must be more or less CONTINUOUSLY applied, thus the need to be a consistent member of a local church or Christian "body". A fiery, "hell and damnation" guilt-ridden sermon from the pulpit once a month, an hour of bible study within the New Testament on sanctification once a week, or other single instances of the so-called peaceful persuasions do not constitute the "necessary chords and orchestration" of a SEQUENCED, continuous, COORDINATED, and carefully selected PROGRAM of surreptitious coercion, as found in the comprehensive program of Christian Coercive Persuasion.<br /><br />Looking like peaceful persuasion is precisely what makes Christian coercive persuasion less likely to attract attention or to mobilize opposition. It is also part of what makes it such a devastating control technology. Victims of coercive persuasion have: no signs of physical abuse, convincing rationalizations for the radical or abrupt changes in their behavior, a convincing "sincerity", and/or they have been changed so gradually that they don't oppose it because they usually aren't even aware of it.<br /><br />Deciding if coercive persuasion was used requires case-by-case careful analysis of all the influence techniques used and how they were applied. By focusing on the medium of delivery and process used, not necessarily the message itself, and on the critical differences, not the coincidental similarities, which system was used becomes clear. The Influence Continuum helps make the difference between peaceful persuasion and coercive persuasion easier to distinguish.<br /><br />VARIABLES<br /><br />Not all tactics used in a Christian coercive persuasion type environment will always be coercive. Some tactics of an innocuous or cloaking nature will be mixed in.<br /><br />Not all individuals exposed to Christian coercive persuasion or thought reform programs are effectively coerced or converted into becoming Believers.<br /><br />How individual suggestibility, psychological and physiological strengths, weakness, and differences react with the degree of severity, continuity, and comprehensiveness in which the various tactics and content of a coercive persuasion program are applied, determine the program's effectiveness and/or the degree of severity of damage caused to its victims.<br /><br />WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA OF THE CHRISTIAN COERCIVE PERSUASION PROGRAM?<br /><br />A). Determine if the subject individual held enough knowledge and volitional capacity to make the decision to change his or her ideas or beliefs.<br /><br />B). Determine whether that individual did, in fact, adopt, affirm, or reject those ideas or beliefs on his own.<br /><br />C). Then, if necessary, all that should be examined is the behavioral processes used, not ideological content. One needs to examine only the behavioral processes used in their "conversion." Each alleged coercive persuasion situation should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The characteristics of coercive persuasion programs are severe, well-understood, and they are not accidental.<br /><br />Christian Coercive Persuasion is not a religious practice, it is a control technology. It is not a belief or ideology, it is a technological process.<br /><br />As a PROCESS, it can be examined by experts on its technology COMPLETELY SEPARATE from any idea or belief content, similar to examining the technical process of hypnotic induction distinct from the meaning or value of the post-hypnotic suggestions.<br /><br />Examining PROCESSES in this manner can not violate First Amendment religious protections.<br /><br />Christian Coercive Persuasion is antithetical to the First Amendment. It is the unfair manipulation of other's biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities. It is a psychological FORCE technology, not of a free society, but of a criminal or totalitarian society.<br /><br />Any organization using coercive persuasion on its members as a CENTRAL practice that also claims to be a religion is turning the SANCTUARY of the First Amendment into a fortress for psychological assault. It is a contradiction of terms and should be "disestablished."<br /><br />Coercive persuasion is a subtle, compelling psychological force which attacks an even more fundamental and important freedom than our "freedom of religion." ITS REPREHENSIBILITY AND DANGER IS THAT IT ATTACKS OUR SELF-DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL, OUR MOST FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS.</span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-56663942987687790702008-08-01T12:17:00.010-05:002008-08-02T12:28:59.458-05:00A Liberty Vigilante - Anarky<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >You defied authority! Congratulations!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K-jLgyLv9datEwNQE2DJ26DzTjlBbFnfsaRXGa8qo-391q1N6-UZbhJkXdWmJaS-XgMzDkohnkS1T9f6CsuGYSqmsrHGgOEqXSswo3Wzk0wPehJbfCKAzIemdybNXtclKp9BS5wTa4hE/s1600-h/GOTHARK.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K-jLgyLv9datEwNQE2DJ26DzTjlBbFnfsaRXGa8qo-391q1N6-UZbhJkXdWmJaS-XgMzDkohnkS1T9f6CsuGYSqmsrHGgOEqXSswo3Wzk0wPehJbfCKAzIemdybNXtclKp9BS5wTa4hE/s400/GOTHARK.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229601528844401458" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Everything you know is a lie.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Cast your mind back to when you were a child.<br />Remember how life shone out from within?<br />How everything was new and full of golden hope?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">And then “they” g</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ot to you.<br />The politicians – the priests – the philosophers – the parasites!</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />This is politics: “Do what you’re told or we’ll punish you.“”</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />This is religion: “Suffer misery now so you can be happy after death.”</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />This is philosophy: “The universe came from nothing and will one day return to it.”</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />None of these doctrines stands up to rational analysis.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Since the birth of consciousness, hundreds of millions of human beings </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">have been slaughtered by their fellows.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Men – women – children ... snuffed out as if their lives meant nothing.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Why? Because we look to leaders and priests and gurus and “stars” to tell us what t</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">o d</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">o instead of relying on the powers of our own sovereign minds.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />They charge in blood for the privilege of ruling us.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Quoting Einstein out of context, they say that good and evil are relative; that there are no moral absolutes.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />They lie.<br />Only two laws are needed to change the entire universe: Never use initiatory force, and never cheat.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The people who run our world constantly break both.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Aristotle believed that man is basically good, decent and noble.<br />If left to his own devices he’ll seek individual happiness within a</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">n orderly society.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />For Aristotle, human life and sovereign consciousness were th</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">e universe’s greatest values.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />But Plato believed man is a wild and savage beast</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">, incapable of self-discipline. To manage him for his own best ends, man needs rulers – kings, governments, priests, presidents.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">For Plato, human life is worthless, to be endlessly sacrificed to “higher” causes and ideals.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Which one do you think the world followed?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Mao Tse-Tung spouted a lot of nonsense, but he sure got one thing right: All (political) power comes out the barrel of a gun.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />You don’t believe me, do you? You live in a democracy.<br />You vote for your leaders.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">So tell me – what happens if you want to disobey them?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Say you don’t like the President.<br />You object to paying taxes to support him, his family, his pets, his bodyguards and the friends he wangled jobs for.<br />What do you do?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Or say you don’t like your taxes being used to su</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">bsidize foreign arms sales for slaughter in the thir</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">d world.<br />How can you stop it?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Vote for somebody else, whose policy is the same?<br />Don’t vote?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The government pretends to be there to serve you.<br />In reality, it’s there to tell you what to do.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />If you refuse to obey, you’ll be investigated – arrested – criminalized.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Your assets will be seized and given to the state.<br />You will be jailed.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Alb</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ert Einstein said that “The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhampered development of the individual.”</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />But our institutions are the opposite.<br />They enslave us – rule us by fear and deceit!</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />They’d gladly bomb us back into the stone age!<br />They don’t want the common man to be anything but a slave!</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The world has</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> gone wrong.<br />But I swear by every breath in my body – I will put it</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> right again!</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />In harsh economic terms, there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who produce goods, services and values ... and those who don’t.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />And</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> before you say what about the old, the young, and the sick – we look after them, right?<br />That’s what makes us human.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Intentional non-producers are parasites.<br />To hide their parasitism, they employ the techn</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">iques of deception, coercion, and naked force.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Parasites can never create.<br />They can only destroy.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Today, for the first time in history, the parasites outnumber the producers who support them.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />They’re entering a final feeding frenzy, which will result in the ultimate evil – a totalitarian state.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Where administration bigwigs view the world from stretch limos, while families sleep in cardboard boxes –</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Corrupt businessmen flourish, while honest men beg in the g</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">utter –</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Crime explodes – while decent folk are afraid to walk the streets their taxes pay for.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />All human life is there – from the best to the worst, the kings in their fortresses to the scum in their sties.<br />And all of them believe it has to be that way.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I’m going to show them that </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">it doesn’t.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The world is collapsing.<br />Madness flares everywhere the animal mind reclaims the conscious mind.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The religious slaughters – the inter-tribal massacres – the wars for oil – have turned our planet into a charne</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">l pit.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Grinding poverty affects half mankind. 20 million people die each year because they’re hungry.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />And who pays for the parasites who cause it all?<br />The common man ... his wife ... their children.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The elites have always won. The common man has always lost.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Until tonight.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">I merely intend to hold up a mirror, and say – “See </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">what you are, and see what you could be.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />“Mankind is poised between a future in the stars, and a future in the mud. So stop the killing – stop the lies – and let’s start living!”</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Imagine – you’re a child again.<br />Filled with innocence, and wonder, and life.<br />Remember h</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ow good it felt?</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />That’s what the parasites stole from us.<br />They bled us dry.<br />And like sheep we lined up to give more blood.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />But we can have back all that they stole, and more.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />The i</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">nformation age provides a spotlight the parasites can’t squirm away from.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Identify them.<br />Negate their evil.<br />Ostracize them.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />Step with me into a better world.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">– Anarky</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(from the Anarky miniseries)<br /><br /></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOL4oPAS_2Q4TAn3LXHJZnUChmPZ6nT8yynUIhmbhObLTVrj4nlklhcoQtWyDKTGKDoPH5lxUEmD681reBrthMuIVxS8KbOy9iLd6M_mU0R94MLv_7I25eNfRhqaYstRR2_y5gOokStFh/s1600-h/ANARKY2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOL4oPAS_2Q4TAn3LXHJZnUChmPZ6nT8yynUIhmbhObLTVrj4nlklhcoQtWyDKTGKDoPH5lxUEmD681reBrthMuIVxS8KbOy9iLd6M_mU0R94MLv_7I25eNfRhqaYstRR2_y5gOokStFh/s400/ANARKY2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229602612959347218" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Who is Anarky?</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Anarky is one of my favorite comic-book characters.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Anarky is a DC comics superhero created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, inspired by the anarchist hero of the </span><a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/V-Vendetta-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289528">V for Vendetta </a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">comic by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Anarky began as an adversary in the Batman comics and later starred in how own (short-lived) title (twice!). Anarky is the only major recurring comics character to endorse anarchism.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Like other superheroes, he fights crime. But unlike other superheroes, he does not limi</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">t himself to fighting private criminals, but takes on the biggest criminal of all: the state itself. As Anarky explains: “What’s the difference between democracy and the Mafia? In a democracy, you get to elect the gangbusters who rule your life and the Mafia takes only ten percent in taxes!”</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">This stance routinely puts Anarky at odds both with standard DC heroes such as Batman and Green Lantern, and standard DC villains such as Darkseid and the Joker. Few of his opponents suspect that behind the mask lies a teenage computer genius named Lonnie Machin. </span> <div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">When Anarky was first introduced, he was portrayed as a socialist anarchist, attacking capitalism and routinely violating individual rights (for example, electrocuting one character for the consensual “crime” of drug dealing).<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7y56MbYxylILBw0vEIsM3d3NSG25ZDNOFdX-nNfq4LXrGLG-d5Cf4FyRY7-79dSViOyvDtKupt65BCvp0laDvEflm5KgpAah2r_1FIR6YHVvUF7JK5MwXCJI05s6HoQBqZo6Rp_nTmn5/s1600-h/anarvert.bmp"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ7y56MbYxylILBw0vEIsM3d3NSG25ZDNOFdX-nNfq4LXrGLG-d5Cf4FyRY7-79dSViOyvDtKupt65BCvp0laDvEflm5KgpAah2r_1FIR6YHVvUF7JK5MwXCJI05s6HoQBqZo6Rp_nTmn5/s400/anarvert.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229603417423051634" border="0" /></a></div> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Somewhere along the way, however, Anarky author Alan Grant seems to have been doing some</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> reading, for, starting around the time of the Anarky miniseries, Anarky’s words and actions alik</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">e began to show the influence of free-market libertarianism in general and Ayn Rand in particular.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">As a result, Anarky represents an impressive voice for liberty in today’s comics.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Anarky</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> comic book was cancelled in 1999. The legacy and the call to action lives on. We need real Anarkys. Those willing to take on the mantle of a liberty vigilante. It is time. I will be watching for</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> him!</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /><br />For a list of Anarky’s appearances to date, <a href="http://praxeology.net/anarky2.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">click </span></a></span><a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://praxeology.net/anarky2.htm">here</a><a href="http://praxeology.net/anarky2.htm"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">.</span> </a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Also, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >click here to see artist </span></span><a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.normbreyfogle.com/gallery/anarky.asp">Norm Breyfogle’s Anarky page</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Anarky ©1999 DC Comics</span></div>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-61768202025207346502008-07-20T23:58:00.001-05:002008-07-21T00:00:06.833-05:00The Comics Know!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3Mu2VmZkl8mnhiIfHzi9E8jrKkcSJV8hUMMPxPvXb6T_mgS8unhVQ2UAVfjaWhWpvlMbeqh814XFjYAb8ns3Ze-7hJun15BSyL3B4tcWYHgd9IGZuYvNV2dzanPGF2X0shmxXW7_BdZE/s1600-h/cheney-dark-right.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3Mu2VmZkl8mnhiIfHzi9E8jrKkcSJV8hUMMPxPvXb6T_mgS8unhVQ2UAVfjaWhWpvlMbeqh814XFjYAb8ns3Ze-7hJun15BSyL3B4tcWYHgd9IGZuYvNV2dzanPGF2X0shmxXW7_BdZE/s400/cheney-dark-right.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225327635627555698" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbvu4HE86aF68zNRABa3cPIAmRO76p953qvqWj8_kTVO-MLG0GGbO-F58ZDUGt2AoHz0J8Ls9bMnE3IhIGEoWP8mRHloFa4vGg_W6IoA-Rf08iEYEVoE8xpg0M0A1wv57_k_4ZiZg0Sg2/s1600-h/bush_torture_2008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsbvu4HE86aF68zNRABa3cPIAmRO76p953qvqWj8_kTVO-MLG0GGbO-F58ZDUGt2AoHz0J8Ls9bMnE3IhIGEoWP8mRHloFa4vGg_W6IoA-Rf08iEYEVoE8xpg0M0A1wv57_k_4ZiZg0Sg2/s400/bush_torture_2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225327635335127986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6PB5e76rCxHxEH7qkLBdaRbcNAYepC7pUMInOGwM9y4mI2Lc6UCAXL0xCpsFsz6Jk1zS-6LLcLoqnuszv7D7CfiU29FOMTEUO0tiIfntpNvNpGEG72LP7mUiTzjAb2cDsrUf9lQcZkIH/s1600-h/gop-battle-hymn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6PB5e76rCxHxEH7qkLBdaRbcNAYepC7pUMInOGwM9y4mI2Lc6UCAXL0xCpsFsz6Jk1zS-6LLcLoqnuszv7D7CfiU29FOMTEUO0tiIfntpNvNpGEG72LP7mUiTzjAb2cDsrUf9lQcZkIH/s400/gop-battle-hymn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225327637000406706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaWUim6Pv7LbfB277F2_GtAG8lT4pcy0SaHjbupiwfgG4fW0w5HVdgCDHpKiLzoIoqePE2KV4GSFbikRzH1JSWOsRUPG6lxn0PbSUmJ8jOaz-4qDRWiXOjeIrDry8FETqxy5gO-Zlod0V/s1600-h/bogeyman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaWUim6Pv7LbfB277F2_GtAG8lT4pcy0SaHjbupiwfgG4fW0w5HVdgCDHpKiLzoIoqePE2KV4GSFbikRzH1JSWOsRUPG6lxn0PbSUmJ8jOaz-4qDRWiXOjeIrDry8FETqxy5gO-Zlod0V/s400/bogeyman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225327637592900530" border="0" /></a>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-4593125331573909122008-02-28T07:59:00.000-06:002008-02-28T08:00:41.887-06:00G. Edward Griffin DELETED From Wikipedia<h1 class="firstHeading"><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b>. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></h1> <h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3> <div id="contentSub"> (Redirected from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed_Griffin&redirect=no" title="Ed Griffin">Ed <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></a>)</div> <div id="jump-to-nav">Jump to: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#column-one">navigation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#searchInput">search</a></div> <!-- start content --> <table class="infobox biography vcard" style="width: 22em; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;" cellspacing="2"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: larger;" class="fn"><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b>. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></th> </tr> <tr> <th>Born</th> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">7 November</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th>Occupation</th> <td>Author, activist, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary filmmaker</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th>Known for</th> <td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commentary" title="Political commentary">Political commentary</a> against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> (especially authoring <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island&action=edit" class="new" title="The Creature from Jekyll Island">The Creature from Jekyll Island</a></i>); advocating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unproven_cancer_therapy" title="Unproven cancer therapy">alternative cancer therapies</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><b><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b>. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></b> (born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">7 November</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US" title="US">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commentator" title="Political commentator">political commentator</a>, writer and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary filmmaker</a>. He has been involved as a founder and leader of a number of organizations in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">media</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> of which the most prominent is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Media_%28group%29&action=edit" class="new" title="American Media (group)">American Media</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freedom_Force_International&action=edit" class="new" title="Freedom Force International">Freedom Force International</a>.</p> <table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"> <tbody><tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle">[<a href="javascript:toggleToc()" class="internal" id="togglelink">hide</a>]</span></div> <ul><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Author_and_film_producer"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Author and film producer</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Social_activism"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Social activism</span></a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#The_Coalition_for_Visible_Ballots"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">The Coalition for Visible Ballots</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Freedom_Force_International"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Freedom Force International</span></a></li></ul> </li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Works"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Works</span></a> <ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Films_and_video"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Films and video</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Books"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Books</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Periodicals"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Periodicals</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#Archival_material"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">Archival material</span></a></li></ul> </li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> </script> <p><a name="Biography" id="Biography"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Biography</span></h2> <p><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> graduated from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> with a major in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech" title="Speech">speech</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_studies" title="Communication studies">communications</a>, and also attended the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=College_for_Financial_Planning&action=edit" class="new" title="College for Financial Planning">College for Financial Planning</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver%2C_Colorado" title="Denver, Colorado">Denver, Colorado</a> where he obtained a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_Financial_Planner" title="Certified Financial Planner">Certified Financial Planner</a> designation in 1989.</p> <p><a name="Author_and_film_producer" id="Author_and_film_producer"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Author and film producer">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Author and film producer</span></h2> <p>As the President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, and as the founder and creator of the website Reality Zone, <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> has published several books including <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island&action=edit" class="new" title="The Creature from Jekyll Island">The Creature from Jekyll Island</a></i> and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_World_Without_Cancer&action=edit" class="new" title="A World Without Cancer">A World Without Cancer</a>: The Story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B17" title="Vitamin B17">Vitamin B17</a></i> as well as the video <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capitalist_Conspiracy&action=edit" class="new" title="Capitalist Conspiracy">Capitalist Conspiracy</a></i>.</p> <p><a name="Social_activism" id="Social_activism"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Social activism">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Social activism</span></h2> <p><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> has served on the board of directors of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Federation" title="National Health Federation">National Health Federation</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Association_of_Cancer_Victors_and_Friends&action=edit" class="new" title="International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends">International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends</a>. <sup id="_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>. In December 1976 he founded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cancer_Cure_Foundation&action=edit" class="new" title="Cancer Cure Foundation">Cancer Cure Foundation</a>.<sup id="_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup> a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization" title="Non-profit organization">non-profit organization</a> dedicated to research and education in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unproven_cancer_therapy" title="Unproven cancer therapy">alternative cancer therapies</a> of which he is currently president <sup id="_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup>.</p> <p><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> received the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Award" title="Telly Award">Telly Award</a> for excellence in television production.<sup id="_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></p> <p><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> was socially significant for being one of the first public and media proponents of the now controversial natural alternative cancer therapy based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetrile" title="Laetrile">laetrile</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin" title="Amygdalin">Amygdalin</a>, which is the subject of his book <i>A World Without Cancer</i> and the documentary of the same name.</p> <p><a name="The_Coalition_for_Visible_Ballots" id="The_Coalition_for_Visible_Ballots"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Coalition for Visible Ballots">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">The Coalition for Visible Ballots</span></h3> <p><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> is one of the founding coalition members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Coalition_for_Visible_Ballots&action=edit" class="new" title="The Coalition for Visible Ballots">The Coalition for Visible Ballots</a>, a single issue group with the long-term goal to eliminate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting" title="Voting">invisible ballots</a>.</p> <table style="border-style: none; margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20">“</td> <td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">We at the Coalition for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting" title="Voting">Visible Ballots</a> believe that the only way to restore fair and honest elections to our country is to set aside ALL <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machines" title="Machines">machines</a>, including electronic of any type, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_screen" title="Touch screen">touch screen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Optical_scan_counters&action=edit" class="new" title="Optical scan counters">optical scan counters</a>--and use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting" title="Voting">PAPER BALLOTS</a>, HAND-COUNTED IN PUBLIC VIEW.<sup id="_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup></td> <td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 36px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20">”</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>To this end he co-produced the film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Invisible_Ballots&action=edit" class="new" title="Invisible Ballots">Invisible Ballots</a>: A Temptation for Electronic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">Vote Fraud</a></i>.</p> <p><a name="Freedom_Force_International" id="Freedom_Force_International"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Freedom Force International">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Freedom Force International</span></h3> <p>In 2002, <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> founded <a href="http://www.freedom-force.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.freedom-force.org/" rel="nofollow">Freedom Force International</a>, an organization with members in countries across the world. Freedom Force International has an unusual membership fee structure: there are dues-paying members and non-dues-paying members. Mr. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> believes that such an organization should not require members to pay dues. In order to fund operations, however, certain bonuses are awarded to members who elect to pay dues. Until recently, the minimum monthly membership due was based on one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce" title="Ounce">ounce</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a>.</p> <p><a name="Works" id="Works"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Works">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Works</span></h2> <p><a name="Films_and_video" id="Films_and_video"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Films and video">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Films and video</span></h3> <table style="" class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-style"> <tbody><tr> <td class="ambox-image"> <div style="width: 52px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Broom_icon.svg" class="image" title="Broom icon.svg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Broom_icon.svg/40px-Broom_icon.svg.png" border="0" height="40" width="40" /></a></div> </td> <td class="ambox-text"><b>This section may require <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">cleanup</a> to meet Wikipedia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">quality standards</a>.</b><br /><small>Please <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit" rel="nofollow">improve this article</a> if you can <i>(October 2007)</i>.</small></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="http://www.realityzone.com/worwitcanvid.html" class="external text" title="http://www.realityzone.com/worwitcanvid.html" rel="nofollow"><i>World without Cancer</i></a> (a video adaptation of the book of the same title.) <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190281243507" class="external text" title="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190281243507" rel="nofollow"><i>World without Cancer</i></a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video" title="Google Video">Google Video</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5604983" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5604983" rel="nofollow">5604983</a></li><li><a href="http://realityzone.stores.yahoo.net/capcon.html" class="external text" title="http://realityzone.stores.yahoo.net/capcon.html" rel="nofollow">Capitalist Conspiracy (An Inside View of International Banking)</a> documentary film.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5558340" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5558340" rel="nofollow">5558340</a></li><li><i>Invisible Ballots: A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud</i> (DVD, executive producer), by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Dill&action=edit" class="new" title="David Dill">David Dill</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gazecki" title="William Gazecki">William Gazecki</a>; <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Harris" title="Bev Harris">Bev Harris</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Mercuri" title="Rebecca Mercuri">Rebecca Mercuri</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aviel_D._Rubin&action=edit" class="new" title="Aviel D. Rubin">Aviel D. Rubin</a>. Published by American Media (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Village%2C_California" title="Westlake Village, California">Westlake Village, California</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reality_Zone&action=edit" class="new" title="Reality Zone">Reality Zone</a>, 2004. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986425" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-42-5</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/56844390" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/56844390" rel="nofollow">56844390</a></li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Red_Reality_in_Central_America&action=edit" class="new" title="The Red Reality in Central America">The Red Reality in Central America</a></i> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willy_Solis&action=edit" class="new" title="Willy Solis">Willy Solis</a>. American Media, VHS tape, 1985. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/37023488" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/37023488" rel="nofollow">37023488</a></li><li><i>[[The Discovery of Noah s Ark]]</i>, American Media (Firm), VHS tape, Publisher: Westlake Village, Calif. : American Media, 1993. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/29511807" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/29511807" rel="nofollow">29511807</a></li><li><i>The discovery of Noah's ark the whole story.</i>; Knowledge 2020 (Firm); UFO-TV (Firm). DVD video. Publisher: Venice, CA : Knowledge 20/20 : Distributed by UFO TV, 2004. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/59007573" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/59007573" rel="nofollow">59007573</a></li><li><i>Hidden agenda real conspiracies that affect our lives today.</i>, VHS tape, Publisher: Venice, CA : Knowledge 2020, 2001. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/49289908" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/49289908" rel="nofollow">49289908</a></li><li><i>Soviet subversion of the free press a conversation with Yuri Bezmenov</i>, with Yuri Bezmenov; VHS tape, Publisher: Westlake Village, Calif. : American Media, 1984. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/45810551" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/45810551" rel="nofollow">45810551</a></li><li><i>No place to hide The strategy and tactics of terrorism</i>, with Dick Quincer; Western Goals (Organization), VHS tape. Publisher: Alexander, Va : Western Goals Foundation [production Co.], Westlake Village, Ca : American Media [distributor], 1982 ; 1983. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/19993388" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/19993388" rel="nofollow">19993388</a></li><li><i>No place to hide the strategy & tactics of terrorism</i>, with WBTV (Television station : Charlotte, N.C.); Western Goals (Organization). Videocassette. Publisher: Alexandria, VA. : Western Goals Foundation, 1982. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/10744020" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/10744020" rel="nofollow">10744020</a></li><li><i>The creature from Jekyll Island a second look at the Federal Reserve'</i> with Harold Shurtleff; John Birch Society. VHS tape. Publisher: [United States] : John Birch Society, 1994. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36245861" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36245861" rel="nofollow">36245861</a></li><li><i>More deadly than war—the Communist revolution in America.</i> American Media (Firm). Film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5549058" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/5549058" rel="nofollow">5549058</a></li><li><i>The Subversion Factor: A History of Treason in Modern America</i>. Westlake Village, Calif. : American Media, c1988. Videocassette (120 min.) : Contents: Moles in high places -- Open gates of Troy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36968013" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36968013" rel="nofollow">36968013</a></li></ul> <p><a name="Books" id="Books"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Books</span></h3> <ul><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fearful_Master&action=edit" class="new" title="The Fearful Master">The Fearful Master</a>: A Second Look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></i>. Published in 1964 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Islands_Publishers&action=edit" class="new" title="Western Islands Publishers">Western Islands Publishers</a> (Boston). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0882791028" class="internal">ISBN 0882791028</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/414277" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/414277" rel="nofollow">414277</a> <sup id="_ref-ffi-founder_0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_note-ffi-founder" title="">[6]</a></sup></li><li><i>The Grand Design: A Lecture on U.S. Foreign Policy</i>. Published in 1968 by Grand Design (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks%2C_California" title="Thousand Oaks, California">Thousand Oaks, California</a>) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/6207421" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/6207421" rel="nofollow">6207421</a></li><li><i>The Great Prison Break: The Supreme Court Leads the Way</i>. Published in 1968 by Western Islands (Boston) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/220369" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/220369" rel="nofollow">220369</a></li><li><i>A Memorandum on Supreme Court Decisions</i>. Published in 1968 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont%2C_Massachusetts" title="Belmont, Massachusetts">Belmont, Massachusetts</a> with the caption title: "Summaries of key decisions of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> as related to the impeachment of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice" title="Chief Justice">Chief Justice</a>." <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/432181" class="external autonumber" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/432181" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/432181" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/432181" rel="nofollow">432181</a></li><li><i>More Deadly than War The Communist Revolution in America</i>. Transcript of a lecture recorded on April 3, 1969. Published in 1969 by American Media. Translated into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> and published as <i>Nog erger dan oorlog</i> by Stichting Voorlichting Buitenland (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>) in 1970. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/63810377" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/63810377" rel="nofollow">63810377</a></li><li><i>This is the John Birch Society: An Invitation to Membership</i>. Transcript of a lecture delivered by the author on December 17, 1969. Published in 1970 by American Media <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/83825" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/83825" rel="nofollow">83825</a>. Republished in 1972 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986042" class="internal">ISBN 0912986042</a></li><li><i>The Capitalist Conspiracy</i>. A transcript of the soundtrack of the documentary film of the same title. Published in 1971 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/3263688" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/3263688" rel="nofollow">3263688</a></li><li><i>World Without Cancer: The Story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B17" title="Vitamin B17">Vitamin B17</a></i>. Published in 1974 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986093" class="internal">ISBN 0912986093</a>. New, revised and updated edition published in 1997 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986190" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-19-0</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36480638" class="external autonumber" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36480638" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36480638" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/36480638" rel="nofollow">36480638</a></li><li><i>The Life and Words of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Welch" title="Robert Welch">Robert Welch</a>, Founder of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>. Introduction by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Merrill_Root" title="E. Merrill Root">E. Merrill Root</a>. Published in 1975 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986077" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-07-7</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/1530499" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/1530499" rel="nofollow">1530499</a></i></li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island&action=edit" class="new" title="The Creature from Jekyll Island">The Creature from Jekyll Island</a>: A Second Look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a></i>. First published in 1994 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986158" class="internal">ISBN 0912986158</a>. Second edition published in 1995 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Opinion_Publishing&action=edit" class="new" title="American Opinion Publishing">American Opinion Publishing</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appleton%2C_Wisconson&action=edit" class="new" title="Appleton, Wisconson">Appleton, Wisconson</a>). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986182" class="internal">ISBN 0912986182</a>. Third edition published in 1998 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986328" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-32-8</a> (hardcover), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986212" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-21-2</a> (paperback). Fourth edition published in 2002 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986395" class="internal">ISBN 0912986395</a> (paperback), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986409" class="internal">ISBN 0912986409</a> (hardcover).</li><li><i>Private Papers Pertaining to Laetrile</i>. Published in 1997 by American Media. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0912986204" class="internal">ISBN 0-912986-20-4</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/61633861" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/61633861" rel="nofollow">61633861</a></li><li><i>The Future is Calling</i>. Online text analysing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" title="War on Terrorism">War on Terrorism</a>. A revised version of <i>The Grand Deception</i>. <a href="http://www.freedom-force.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=issues" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.freedom-force.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=issues" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></li></ul> <p><a name="Periodicals" id="Periodicals"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Periodicals">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Periodicals</span></h3> <ul><li><i>Voice of Medical Freedom</i>. Monthly periodical (February 1981-?) published by <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Village%2C_California" title="Westlake Village, California">Westlake Village, California</a>) and distributed by Americans for Medical Freedom <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/15749357" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/15749357" rel="nofollow">15749357</a></li></ul> <p><a name="Archival_material" id="Archival_material"></a></p> <h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Archival material">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Archival material</span></h3> <p><i>Ephemeral Materials, 1976-1986</i>. Archival material published by Americans for Medical Freedom (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake_Village%2C_California" title="Westlake Village, California">Westlake Village, California</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" title="OCLC">OCLC</a> <a href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/18761098" class="external text" title="http://worldcat.org/oclc/18761098" rel="nofollow">18761098</a></p> <p><a name="References" id="References"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">References</span></h2> <div class="references-small"> <ol class="references"><li id="_note-0"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-0" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" class="external text" title="http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" rel="nofollow">Freedom Force International - Welcome</a></li><li id="_note-1"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-1" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.cancure.org/home.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.cancure.org/home.htm" rel="nofollow">The Cancer Cure Foundation</a></li><li id="_note-2"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-2" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.cancure.org/About_us.htm#board%20of%20directors" class="external text" title="http://www.cancure.org/About_us.htm#board%20of%20directors" rel="nofollow">About Us</a></li><li id="_note-3"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-3" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" class="external free" title="http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" rel="nofollow">http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder</a>, <a href="http://www.tellyawards.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.tellyawards.com/" rel="nofollow">Telly Awards</a></li><li id="_note-4"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-4" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://coalition4visibleballots.homestead.com/" class="external text" title="http://coalition4visibleballots.homestead.com/" rel="nofollow">coalition4visibleballots</a></li><li id="_note-ffi-founder"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Griffin#_ref-ffi-founder_0" title="">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.freedom-force.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" class="external text" title="http://www.freedom-force.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=founder" rel="nofollow">The Founder</a>. Freedom Force International. Retrieved on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">04-30</a>.</li></ol> </div> <p><a name="External_links" id="External_links"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G._Edward_Griffin&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">External links</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2638111/" class="external text" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2638111/" rel="nofollow"><b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b>. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" title="Internet Movie Database">Internet Movie Database</a></li><li><a href="http://www.realityzone.com/mesfromgedgr.html" class="external text" title="http://www.realityzone.com/mesfromgedgr.html" rel="nofollow">Editorial Opinions of <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">G</b>. <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></a></li><li><a href="http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm" rel="nofollow">A Talk by <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);">Edward</b> <b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Griffin</b></a></li></ul>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-60532728269464869402008-02-11T00:56:00.000-06:002008-02-11T00:57:03.275-06:00A Revolutionary Train of Thought<h2> A Revolutionary Train of Thought</h2> <span style="font-family: georgia;">from a Marine:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is long.. but every word is from the heart.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've spent the last 25 years of my life waiting for things to change for the better. They have not. In fact, things have only become worse. You all know exactly where I'm coming from.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Year by year, the American people are picked apart, lied to, robbed, enslaved and have had their Constitutional rights systematically stolen.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm a U.S. Marine. I've been saying for over two decades that a revolution is coming - and I didn't mean the one we have here. I mean a bloody one. A revolution where my fellow Americans finally reach the melting point, when former and currently active military join together to take the country back by force. Where the common citizen is finally asked, "Will you take up arms to regain your rights?".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now I see differently. In the past months I have been given an entirely different outlook on the future. I see my fellow citizens, people with or without military backgrounds or affiliations to compel them to do so, joining the ranks of this freedom revolution.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">As a person with a military background, if I look at this logistically there is no way to beat it. Armies need commanders, soldiers need orders, troops need training and supplies. But more importantly, in a time of conflict, those soldiers need a target to hit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This revolution has to be the worst fear of anyone who would think to oppose it. It has no 'leaders'. It has no tactical disadvantages to exploit. You cant point a gun at an idea. You can"t put crosshairs on principles. This revolution can continue gaining momentum and influence, members and followers, attention and coverage without a 'voice' to do it with.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm reminded of the masked faces in 'V', standing together outside parliment (ok, it's a movie, but it fits here). None of those people spoke a single word. They had no faces. They had no speaches. They had no 'disobedient nature' about them at all. Yet anyone who watched that movie knew exactly what they were saying - and could almost feel the influence of that group in the air.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yes, that was fictional, but the 'feeling' provided by that scene is the same thing I get when I work toward the same goals that all of you are working toward - freedom and liberty the way it SHOULD be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">You cannot put a gag on the truth. You can try, and if those attempting to spread that truth are few, you may succeed. But when you've got millions already, and numbers growing by the tens of thousands on a continual basis, it is no longer possible.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">An author once wrote; "There is no such thing as art, because art is mankind's attempt at holding a mirror up to either nature or imagination - and there isn't a mirror big enough to do that". In that same context - there is no 'gag' big enough.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The mirror, in our case, is the shroud of doubt that the powers that be, mainstream media and naysayers would try to cover us with. It is the veil of propoganda and disgregard that is draped across the televisions, newspapers, magazines and airwaves of the world, used to keep the population from hearing the message.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">But the message is quickly becoming to vast, too loud, too obvious and too thought provoking for these would-be oppressors to contain any longer. The power of the truth, the power of right, and the power of true patriotism are far greater than any amount of money, bandwidth, propoganda or wool pulled over the eyes of those who could see.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This revolution has gone from being considered a 'side show of weirdos', to an 'internet following', to a 'group of citizens', to a 'nationwide freedom revolution' in a shorter time than I think even those who stand in opposition to it ever dreamed. It has demonstrated the will, ambition, determination, spirit, and unwaivering loyalty that many politicians and corporations could only dream of obtaining from those who would 'follow' them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Normally, when a faceless, headless, runaway stampede of ever-expanding revenues and participants takes place - it is usually something the government came up with that is about to cost the taxpayers a lot of money. Those that are trying to gain access to the whip handles which could control us all have never seen anything like this before, and they are unsure of how to stop it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">They use their own 'tried and true' methods, such as media blackouts and (potentially) election fraud - but now there are too many eyes and ears watching them.. waiting for the slightest hint of impropriety.. ready to stand right next to the perpetrators and yell, 'Caught Ya!' when they attempt the subversive.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">These warmongering, greedy, power hungry maniacs have never had to deal with the scrutiny that is being placed on their every move in such a public arena. They are unprepared, and they are scared. So scared that they have already slipped up during this election year. They have managed to 'cover their rears' with the mainstream thus far.. 'accident', 'human error', 'oops'. But they dont have any other methods than those they already use - so they will be forced to use them again, and they will.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">When they do - this revolution will be right there to catch them. The 'oops' defense can only work so many times before it is no longer believed by even those who currently 'believe whatever MSM tells them'. Every time they slip up, the revolution gains more momentum, increases its numbers, and thereby increases it's ability to cover these subversive acts.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eventually we will reach the tipping point.. and I think that will be sooner than later. Already this movement has grown by leaps and bounds. When it first started new patriots joined every month.. then every week.. then every day.. and as those numbers grew, so did the coverage from within, so that this freedom revolution grows every hour, potentially every minute. Not much longer and it will be growing at 'every second' rates.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This snowball cannot be stopped. I'm sure there are think tanks out there right now trying to devise a way to thwart our efforts - and every time they emerge from their meetings with new plans to present to their 'masters', they are met with the phrase "Go back and try again, it's even bigger than before".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">That is the power of freedom. That is the natural outcome when real liberty is at stake. It takes a while to get started, but once it does it is that freight train that keeps being brought up - you cant stop it. The only thing that can stop that train is the train itself. It either puts on the brakes, shuts off the fuel, or steers itself into a wall.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">THIS train has no one manning the brake lever, because it has no brakes. THIS train has no one watching the fuel gauge, because it runs on principal - not energy. THIS train has no one steering it, because there is only one path to freedom - and that doesn't need a track to run on.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">To my fellow revolutionary warriors - I salute you, and look forward to the great and prosperous future we are about to embark on. I look forward to taking the ultimate voyage with you all - the voyage of liberty, freedom and returning Constitutional rights to all who live in this country!</span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-58909589037414535452007-10-29T11:08:00.000-05:002007-10-30T10:06:28.443-05:00The Accomplishments of G. W. Bush<p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="yshortcuts" style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">GEORGE W. BUSH</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><b><span style=""> </span></b></strong><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span class="yshortcuts">The White House</span><strong><b>, </b></strong><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span class="yshortcuts">Washington</span></st1:city><span class="yshortcuts">, <st1:state st="on">DC</st1:state></span></st1:place></span></b></span><span class="yshortcuts" style="font-size:130%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;" align="center"><span style=";font-size:130%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-family: times new roman;"><b><span style="">•I attacked and took over 2 countries.</span></b></strong><b style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><strong><b>•I spent the <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> surplus and bankrupted the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> Treasury.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history </b></strong><br /><strong><b>(not easy!).</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in </b></strong><br /><strong><b>any 12 month period.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the </b></strong><br /><strong><b>stock market. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days </b></strong><br /><strong><b>on vacation by any president in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history (tough to beat my dad's, </b></strong><br /><strong><b>but I did). </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided </b></strong><br /><strong><b>over the worst security failure in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any </b></strong><br /><strong><b>president in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their </b></strong><br /><strong><b>jobs. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any </b></strong><br /><strong><b>other president in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-</b></strong><br /><strong><b>month period. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, </b></strong><br /><strong><b>since the advent of TV. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I presided over the biggest energy crises in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history and refused </b></strong><br /><strong><b>to intervene when corruption was revealed. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I cut health care benefits for war veterans. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to </b></strong><br /><strong><b>simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), </b></strong><br /><strong><b>shattering the record for protest against any person in the history </b></strong><br /><strong><b>of mankind. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I dissolved more international treaties than any president in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any </b></strong><br /><strong><b>in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>history. (The poorest multimillionaire, </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">Condoleeza Rice</span><strong><b>, had a </b></strong><br /><strong><b>Chevron oil tanker named after her for a while.)</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first president in <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> history to have all 50 states of the </b></strong><br /><st1:place st="on"><strong><b>Union</b></strong></st1:place><strong><b> simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any </b></strong><br /><strong><b>market in any country in the history of the world. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first president in <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> history to order a <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> attack AND </b></strong><br /><strong><b>military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the </b></strong><br /><strong><b>will of the </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">United Nations</span><strong><b> and the vast majority of the international </b></strong><br /><strong><b>community. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the </b></strong><br /><strong><b>history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending </b></strong><br /><strong><b>increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was </b></strong><br /><strong><b>tough to beat, but I did it!!). </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first president in <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> history to compel the </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">United Nations</span><strong><b> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>remove the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> from the Human Rights Commission.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first president in <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> history to have the </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">United Nations</span><strong><b> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>remove the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> from the Elections Monitoring Board. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of </b></strong><br /><strong><b>congressional oversight than any presidential administration in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I rendered the entire </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">United Nations</span><strong><b> irrelevant. I withdrew from the </b></strong><br /><strong><b>World Court of Law.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by </b></strong><br /><strong><b>default no longer abide by the <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:city> Conventions. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first president in <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> history to refuse </b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">United Nations</span><strong><b> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>election inspectors access during the 2002 <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> elections. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate </b></strong><br /><strong><b>campaign donations. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of </b></strong><br /><strong><b>my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate </b></strong><br /><strong><b>bankruptcy frauds in world history (</b></strong><span class="yshortcuts">Kenneth Lay</span><strong><b>, former CEO of Enron </b></strong><br /><strong><b>Corporation). </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in </b></strong><br /><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><strong><b>US</b></strong></st1:place></st1:country-region><strong><b> history.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> president to establish a secret shadow government.</b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I took the world's sympathy for the <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> after 9/11, and in less than </b></strong><br /><strong><b>a year made the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> the most resented country in the world (possibly </b></strong><br /><strong><b>the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I am the first <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> president in history to have a majority of the </b></strong><br /><strong><b>people of </b></strong><st1:place st="on"><span class="yshortcuts">Europe</span></st1:place><strong><b> (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to </b></strong><br /><strong><b>world peace and stability. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I changed <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded </b></strong><br /><strong><b>government contracts. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than </b></strong><br /><strong><b>any other president in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>RECORDS AND REFERENCES:</b></strong><br /><strong><b>• I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in </b></strong><st1:state st="on"><span class="yshortcuts">Maine</span></st1:state><strong><b> </b></strong><br /><strong><b>(<st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state> driving record has been erased and is not available). </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during </b></strong><br /><strong><b>time of war. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug </b></strong><br /><strong><b>use. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•All records of my tenure as governor of <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state> have been spirited </b></strong><br /><strong><b>away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for </b></strong><br /><strong><b>public view. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or </b></strong><br /><strong><b>bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public </b></strong><br /><strong><b>view. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served </b></strong><br /><strong><b>on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. </b></strong><br /><br /><strong><b>•Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding </b></strong><br /><strong><b>public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public </b></strong><br /><strong><b>review.</b></strong></span></b></span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-84133867005002586812007-10-16T18:40:00.001-05:002007-10-16T19:22:07.583-05:00We Can!<span style="font-size:100%;"><object style="font-family: georgia;" height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8gm7XwtIJdM"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8gm7XwtIJdM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span><p style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I have seen this father and son combination before as ‘they’ competed in triathlons and it has the same effect on me whenever I see it. I get a lump in my throat as I am stunned at the physical stamina of the dad, the commitment to his son, the obvious joy on his son’s face and the profound love, on display for all the world to see, that they share.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Why is that? What chord deep within us does this story strike and cause to resonate to anyone who sees it?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I think the answer is that in these two people we see the best of the human spirit as it overcomes something much more than mere adversity. It is triumph over what could have easily been a life destined to despair. It is deep appreciation of joy, love and the spiritual value resident in every human being no matter their physical condition.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Right there in front of everyone are the factors that define and determine success. It seems to me they are: commitment, desire, effort, love, joy, shared vision and unselfish achievement to raise, not only yourself, but those around you up to extraordinary accomplishment by the single-minded pursuit of your chosen goals.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">There are those who claim success is financial prosperity, political power, the imposition of their religious values on others, or world domination. They live in the facade of form. For those of us who understand that true success is in the substance, the chord of truth, it is important that we hear the ‘chord’ in this video story. And that chord, the one that resonates in us as we watch this video is extraordinary commitment fueled by unconditional love. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">We know what constitutes heroic achievement when we see it and we know deeply felt passion for the immense effort required to achieve when we see it. And, when we do behold it in such purity, we weep in appreciation of it’s value.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fill your efforts toward success with values that are lasting and timeless because they are right and good. Values that resonate with freedom and liberty for the human spirit yearning to be free. Values that others pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor towards. Values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">It is the nobility found in this father and son team that we admire, respect and love. It is the nobility of our view of freedom which we possess in ourselves and long to see rise again in this land that moves us. It is the nobility of their quest that strikes a chord deep within us all as we each reach within ourselves to fulfill success in our own quests for liberty and justice for all. As this father reached deep down inside himself and drew upon a strength of character to give to his child all that he could, we also must do the same to maintain the light of liberty for our children upon this earth.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"Let us not abate our courage in doing what is right; for in due time we shall reap a reward, if we do not faint." </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" class="redheading" >Galatians 6:9</span></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;" > <blockquote> <p style="font-style: italic;" align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand<br />Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,<br />Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land<br />Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(The fourth stanza of the Star Spangled Banner)</span><br /></span></p> </blockquote> </blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Our cause, our quest for liberty is just. May all of your successes be timeless, fill you with joy and lift up those around you.</span> </span></p>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-79120274770378712812007-10-16T15:15:00.000-05:002007-10-16T15:43:42.623-05:00The F-Scale Quiz<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="Section2"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">1. Do groups of people have rights?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a)Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) No<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Are all kinds of people intrinsically _______?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a) unequal<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) equal<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">3. Do all kinds of people have ______?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a) privileges<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) rights<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">4. Who has more rights?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:100%;">a)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;">groups of people<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) <span style=""> </span>the person<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">5. Are rights ______?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a) extrinsic<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) intrinsic<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">6. Is group membership ______?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a) compulsary<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) voluntary<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">7. What is the function of a group?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>a) to provide for members<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>b) to help members provide<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">To score, give yourself 1 point for every (a) answer and -1 point for every (b) answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Circle your score <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">7___6___5___4___3___2___1___0___-1___-2___-3___-4___-5___-6___-7<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Any score 1-7 is in the Fascist F-scale any score -1 to -7 is in the Freedom F-scale<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The term fascism is derived from the Italian word fascio, which means "union" or "league", and from the Latin word fasces. The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods tied around an axe, were an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrates, and the symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;">Mussolini defined fascism as being a collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, free markets, democracy and individualism. He wrote in The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism: <o:p></o:p></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><i>"Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity.... The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.... Fascism is therefore opposed to that form of democracy which equates a nation to the majority, lowering it to the level of the largest number.... We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right', a Fascist century. If the nineteenth century was the century of the individual (liberalism implies individualism) we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the State."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >14 </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Characteristics</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > of Fascism</span><br /></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">By Dr. Lawrence Britt<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2">Free Inquiry Magazine</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dr. Lawrence Britt has compared examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), Pinochet (Chile) and several other Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism</span> - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights</span> - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause</span> - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Supremacy of the Military</span> - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Rampant Sexism</span> - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Controlled Mass Media</span> - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Obsession with National Security</span> - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the <span>government over the masses.</span><o:p style="font-weight: bold;"></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Religion and Government are Intertwined</span> - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. Corporate Power is Protected</span> - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. Labor Power is Suppressed</span> - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts</span> - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment</span> - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption</span> - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">14. Fraudulent Elections</span> - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">This LINK is a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm">http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-87524465113465419542007-10-12T12:22:00.000-05:002007-10-12T12:24:18.127-05:00Won’t Back Down<div class="post-author">By: <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/index.php?author=466">Naomi Wolf</a></div> <div class="post-content"><p><a href="http://static.firedoglake.com/2007/10/377495516_c8d80de767.jpg" title="377495516_c8d80de767.jpg"><img src="http://static.firedoglake.com/2007/10/377495516_c8d80de767.thumbnail.jpg" alt="377495516_c8d80de767.jpg" class="postImgLeft" /></a><em>(Naomi Wolf is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1933392797?tag=firedoglake-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1933392797&adid=1YDEZN5QYDRGYB32295Q&">The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot</a>.)</em></p> <p>I wish people would stop breaking into tears when they talk to me these days.</p> <p> I am traveling across the country at the moment — Colorado to California — speaking to groups of Americans from all walks of life about the assault on liberty and the ten steps now underway in America to a violently closed society.</p> <p> The good news is that Americans are already awake: I thought there would be resistance to or disbelief at this message of gathering darkness — but I am finding crowds of people who don’t need me to tell them to worry; they are already scared, already alert to the danger and entirely prepared to hear what the big picture might look like. To my great relief, Americans are smart and brave and they are unflinching in their readiness to hear the worst and take action. And they love their country.</p> <p> But I can’t stand the stories I am hearing. I can’t stand to open my email these days. And wherever I go, it seems, at least once a day, someone very strong starts to cry while they are speaking.</p> <p> In Boulder, two days ago, a rosy-cheeked thirtysomething mother of two small children, in soft yoga velours, started to tear up when she said to me: `I want to take action but I am so scared. I look at my kids and I am scared. How do you deal with fear? Is it safer for them if I act or stay quiet? I don’t want to get on a list.’ In DC, before that, a beefy, handsome civil servant, a government department head — probably a Republican — confides in a lowered voice that he is scared to sign the new ID requirement for all government employees, that exposes all his most personal information to the State — but he is scared not to sign it: `If I don’t, I lose my job, my house. It’s like the German National ID card,’ he said quietly. This morning in Denver I talked for almost an hour to a brave, much-decorated high-level military leader who is not only on the watch list for his criticism of the administration — his family is now on the list. He has undertaken many dangerous combat missions in his service to his country over the course of his career, but his voice cracks when he talks about the possibility that he is exposing his children to harassment.</p> <p> Jim Spencer, a former columnist for the Denver Post who has been critical of the Bush administration, told me today that I could use his name: he is on the watch list. An attorney contacts me to say that she told her colleagues at the Justice Department not to torture a detainee; she says she then faced a criminal investigation, a professional referral, saw her emails deleted — and now she is on the watch list. I was told last night that a leader of Code Pink, the anti-war women’s action group, <a href="http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/code-pink-cofounder-refused-entrance-to-canada/">was refused entry to Canada</a>. I hear from a tech guy who works for the airlines — again, probably a Republican — that once you are on the list you never get off. Someone else says that his friend opened his luggage to find a letter from the TSA saying that they did not appreciate his reading material. Before I go into the security lines, I find myself editing my possessions. In New York’s LaGuardia, I reluctantly found myself putting a hardcover copy of Tara McKelvey’s excellent Monstering, an expose of CIA interrogation practices, in a garbage can before I get in the security line; it is based on classified information. This morning at my hotel, before going to the airport, I threw away a very nice black T-shirt that said `We Will Not be Silenced’ — with an Arabic translation — that someone had given me, along with a copy of poems written by detainees at Guantanamo.</p> <p> In my America we are not scared to get in line at the airport. In my America, we will not be silenced.</p> <p><span id="more-12187"></span> More times than I can count, courageous and confident men and women who are telling me about speaking up, but who are risking what they see as the possible loss of job, home or the ability to pay for grown kids’ schooling, start to choke up. Yesterday a woman in one gathering started to cry simply while talking about the degradation of her beloved country.</p> <p> And always the questions: what do we do?</p> <p> It is clear from this inundation of personal stories of abuse and retribution against ordinary Americans that a network of criminal behavior and intention is catching up more and more mainstream citizens in its grasp. It is clear that this is not democracy as usual — or even the corruption of democracy as usual. It is clear that we will need more drastic action than emails to Congress.</p> <p> The people I am hearing from are conservatives and independents as well as progressives. The cardinal rule of a closing or closed society is that your alignment with the regime offers no protection; in a true police state no one is safe.</p> <p> I read the news in a state of something like walking shock: seven soldiers <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/opinion/19jayamaha.html">wrote an op-ed</a> critical of the war — in the New York Times; <a href="http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2007/09/two-war-as-we-saw-it-authors-killed-in.html">two are dead</a>, one shot in the head. A female soldier who was about to become a whistleblower, possibly about abuses involving taxpayers’ money; shot in the head. Pat Tillman, who was contemplating coming forward in a critique of the war; <a href="http://www.liberalavenger.com/2007/07/27/new-documents-reveal-pat-tillman-shot-3-times-in-forehead-from-close-range/">shot in the head</a>. Donald Vance, a contractor himself, who blew the whistle on irregularities involving arms sales in Iraq — <a href="http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html#116641988792277360">taken hostage</a> FROM the US Embassy BY US soldiers and kept without recourse to a lawyer in a US held-prison, abused and terrified for weeks — and scared to talk once he got home. Another whistleblower in Iraq, as reported in Vanity Fair: held in a trailer all night by armed contractors before being ejected from the country.</p> <p> Last month contractors, immune from the rule of law, butchered 17 Iraqi civilians in cold blood. Congress mildly objected — and contractors butchered two more innocent civilian Iraqi ladies <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0913139920071009">on Tuesday</a> — in cold blood.</p> <p>Today the New York Times reports that the State Department is not cooperating with Iraqi or FBI investigators into the matter of the Blackwater massacre of seventeen Iraqi civilians.</p> <p>Pay attention to this. Readers who know `the blueprint’ will be horrified but not surprised. `Step Two’ in the closing down of an open society is for the State to showcase to civilians the fact that a paramilitary force is outside the rule of law. When SA began — still illegally — beating citizens in Germany, National Socialist strategists made sure that photographers and reporters were present. We must consider: if the State showcases to Americans the fact that it is protecting its own cadre of violent criminals in Iraq — will Congress be courageous in confronting Blackwater violence when Blackwater manifests its well-documented plans to deploy more aggressively here at home? Or will this penumbra of unaccountable, State-defended<wbr> violence be enough to intimidate lawmakers — and the rest of us? Remember that Mussolini directed Blackshirts to intimidate Parlimentarians even before Italy was a dictatorship and Hitler used the same tactic in lining the halls of the still-functioning German Parliament with Brownshirts — paramilitary forces that had established a reputation for brutality against civilians. And that was enough to cow lawmakers even as the trappings of democracy were still intact.</p> <p>Remember that under current arrangements, the Department of Homeland Security can deploy Blackwater in your town tomorrow.</p> <p>With this kind of messaging about the State’s protection for what is its own paramility force of torturers and murderers, if Blackwater massacres seventeen civilians in Times Square — or turns their guns on protesters at an antiwar rally — in spite of the trappings of democracy, will anyone be brave enough to hold them accountable?’</p> <p>It is clear yet that violent retribution, torture or maybe worse, seems to go right up this chain of command? Is it clear yet that these people are capable of anything? Is it obvious yet that criminals are at the helm of the nation and need to be not only ousted but held accountable for their crimes?</p> <p> Is it treason yet?</p> <p> This is an open invitation to honorable patriots on the Right and in the center to join this movement to restore the rule of law and confront this horror: this is not conservatism, it is a series of crimes against the nation and against the very essence of America. Join us, we need you. This movement must transcend partisan lines. The power of individual conscience is profound when people start to wake up. TK Comey said No; history will look at this torture and disgrace the torturers. A judge today ruled that the US can’t just ship prisoners out of Guantanamo to be tortured at will — she said No. The Center for Constitutional Rights is about to file a civil lawsuit — against Blackwater: they are saying No.</p> <p> In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No — history would have had an entirely different outcome. If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be American tears.</p> <p> The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.</p> </div>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-21550841926248074282007-10-04T10:38:00.001-05:002007-10-04T10:38:49.926-05:00Leaderless Resistance<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><em><b><span style="">Leaderless Resistance </span></b></em></span></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">The concept of Leaderless Resistance was proposed by Col. Ulius Louis Amoss, on April 17, 1962. Fearful of a possible Communist take-over of the United States of America, Col. Amoss propounded this doctrine as an effective means of resistance that the American people should utilize against a Soviet-style tyranny. Essentially, this doctrine holds that the most effective opposition against an oppressive tyranny is to have a movement that is as decentralized as possible with no central leadership. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">The concept of Leaderless Resistance is nothing less than a fundamental departure in theories of organization. The orthodox scheme of organization, both for government as well as opposition organizations, is diagrammatically represented by the pyramid, with the mass of followers at the bottom and the leader at the top. This fundamental method of organization is to be seen not only in armies, which are of course, the best illustration of the pyramid structure, with the mass of soldiery at the bottom responsible to corporals who are in turn responsible to sergeants, and so on up the entire chain of command to the generals at the top. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">This scheme of organization, the pyramid, is however, not only useless, but extremely dangerous for the participants when it is utilized in a resistance movement against state tyranny. This is more so in technologically advanced societies where electronic surveillance can often penetrate the structure revealing its chain of command. Experience has revealed over and over again that anti-state; political organizations utilizing this pyramid method of command and control are easy prey for government infiltration, entrapment, and destruction of the personnel involved. This has been seen repeatedly in the “Patriot Movement,” and its variations of legal reform, truth in taxation, jury nullification, and militia groups, where pro-government infiltrators or agent provocateurs weasel their way into patriotic groups and destroy them from within. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">In the pyramid type of organization, an infiltrator can destroy anything that is beneath his level of infiltration and often those above him as well. If the traitor has infiltrated at the top, then the entire organization from the top down is compromised and may be traduced at will. The entire movement is thus wiped out in one stroke. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">An alternative to the pyramid type of organization is the cell system. In the past, many political groups have used the cell system to further their objectives. The best example is the American Revolution and its "committees of correspondence" which were formed throughout the thirteen colonies. Their purpose was to subvert the government and thereby aid the cause of independence. The "Sons of Liberty", who made a name for themselves by dumping government, taxed tea into the harbor at Boston, were the action arm of the committees of correspondence. Each committee was a secret cell that operated totally independently of the other cells - an excellent example of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">`Leaderless Resistance'.</span> Information on the government was passed from committee to committee, from colony to colony, and then acted upon on a local basis. It is notable that the response of the committees, despite the complete lack of a central leadership, was remarkably similar from cell to cell. It was, as the first American patriots knew, totally unnecessary for anyone to give an order for anything. Information was made available to each committee, and each committee acted as it saw fit. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">From the above discussion it is clear that the pyramid type of organization can be penetrated quite easily and it thus is not a sound method of organization in situations where the government has the resources and desire to penetrate the structure; which is the situation in the Indian Union. It is evident that the best model is that of Col. Amoss who proposed the "Phantom Cell" mode of organization. This he described as Leaderless Resistance. A system of organization that is based upon the cell organization, but does not have any central control or direction, that is in fact almost identical to the methods used by the Committees of Correspondence during the American Revolution. Utilizing the Leaderless Resistance concept, all individuals and groups operate independently of each other, and never report to a central headquarters or single leader for direction or instruction, as would those who belong to a typical pyramid organization. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">At first glance, such a type of organization seems unrealistic, primarily because there appears to be no organization. The natural question thus arises as to how are the "Phantom cells" and individuals to cooperate with each other when there is no intercommunication or central direction? The answer to this question is that participants in a program of Leaderless Resistance through phantom cell or individual action must know exactly what they are doing, and how to do it. It becomes the responsibility of the individual to acquire the necessary skills and information as to what is to be done. This is by no means as impractical as it appears, because it is certainly true that in any movement, all persons involved have the same general outlook, are acquainted with the same philosophy, and generally react to given situations in similar ways. The pervious history of the committees of correspondence during the American Revolution shows this to be true. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Since the entire purpose of Leaderless Resistance is to defeat state tyranny (at least insofar as this essay is concerned), all members of phantom cells or individuals will tend to react to objective events in the same way through usual tactics of resistance. Organs of information distribution such as newspapers, leaflets, computers, etc., which are widely available to all, keep each person informed of events, allowing for a planned response that will take many variations. No one need issue an order to anyone. Those idealist truly committed to the cause of freedom will act when they feel the time is ripe, or will take their cue from others who precede them. While it is true that much could be said against this type of structure as a method of resistance, it must be kept in mind that Leaderless Resistance is a child of necessity. The alternatives to it have been show to be unworkable or impractical. Leaderless Resistance has worked before in the American Revolution, and if the truly committed put it to use for themselves, it will work now. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">It goes almost without saying that Leaderless Resistance leads to very small or even one-man cells of resistance. Those who join organizations to play "let's pretend" or who are "groupies" will quickly be weeded out. While for those who are serious about their opposition to federal despotism, this is exactly what is desired. </span></em><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Conversely, the last thing Governments would want are a thousand different small phantom cells opposing them. It is easy to see why. Such a situation is an intelligence nightmare for government intent upon knowing everything they possibly can about those who oppose them. The Government able to amass overwhelming strength of numbers, manpower, resources, intelligence gathering, and capability at any given time needs only a focal point to direct their anger. A single penetration of a pyramid type of organization can lead to the destruction of the whole. Whereas, Leaderless Resistance presents no single opportunity for the Federals to destroy a significant portion of the Resistance. <o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">This is the concept of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://freedomshenanigans.blogspot.com/2007/06/freedom-shenanigan-5-buy-seize-liberty_22.html">Seize Liberty Package</a>. Tools for you to learn how to do what may have to be done.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><i>Here is a small excerpt.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <table style="font-family: georgia;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>INVISIBLE RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY</strong> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal">How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal">by Jefferson Mack</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal">What is invisible resistance to tyranny? It is an underground movement of secret freedom fighters, each acting individually and independently to ignore, evade, resist and thwart the increasingly heavy hand of government power. Invisible resisters do not join protest groups, stand on street corners making speeches or run with a mob throwing rocks at police vehicles. Rather, they make up a collective silent insurgency that tyrants won't be able to put down because they won't be able to find it. Invisible Resistance to Tyranny is both a manifesto and manual for everyday citizens who are alarmed by the never-ending encroachment upon the individual freedoms recognized by the Bill of Rights and who want to do something about it now before it comes down to a choice between violent revolution and total submission. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="font-family: georgia;"><em><b>CARPE LIBERTAS!!<o:p></o:p></b></em></p> <b><i><span style="">Nemo me impune lacessit!!</span></i></b>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-3076683854565588742007-09-13T08:28:00.000-05:002007-09-13T08:31:11.294-05:00Show us the law, or arrest us too!<div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Dear Agents of de facto Illegitimate Government,</span><br /><br />I see that you've arrested four men today. What I don't see is that these men have committed any crimes. Who have these men victimized? Who has a claim against them? Who has been threatened, harmed, robbed, or defrauded? Where are and who are the accusers of these men? I want to know -- NOW.<br /><br />It appears to me that you're digging your graves even deeper. Instead of simply coming out and SHOWING THE LAW that requires specifically Ed and Elaine in their former positions as productive, contributing members of sovereign American society, to pay a TAX on their labor. This would amount to slavery, aka involuntary servitude (unless it were VOLUNTARY). Maybe this is why the IRS always uses the term "voluntary compliance?" After all, something cannot be simultaneously voluntary AND mandatory at the same time.<br /><br />Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America<br /><br /><strong>Section 1.</strong> Neither slavery nor <u>involuntary</u> servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to <em>their</em> jurisdiction.<br /><strong>Section 2.</strong> Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.<br /><br />There isn't much room to debate this particular amendment. There also isn't much room to debate that the 16th Amendment was not ratified properly. Nor is there room to debate the various court rulings which have never been overturned that say the 16th Amendment did NOT confer any new powers of taxation to any new subjects. Nor is there room to debate that even if the previous evidence were flawed, <u><strong>CONGRESS HAS NOT PASSED ANY LAW TO TAX OUR INCOME</strong></u>!!! If such a law exists (and the aforementioned is not applicable or correct), then why can't they simply <strong>SHOW US THE LAW</strong>? Is this too much to ask? If it's there in the law book somewhere, let's see it and we can all stop arguing.<br /><br />This thing has been blown wide open by the many people involved -- patriots like Aaron Russo, Sherry Peel Jackson, Irwin Schiff, Bob Schulz, Ed & Elaine Brown, and of course Danny Riley, Bob Wolffe, Cirino Gonzales, and Jason Gerhard -- the four men you arrested today -- among countless others. When more, and more, and ever more men and women across this wonderful land realize the fraud of the income tax, that <strong>THERE IS NO LAW</strong>, how are you going to justify your actions? "I'm just doing my job," or "I'm just following orders," does not work. The Nazis tried these excuses and they failed miserably. You follow in their footsteps -- committing war crime, after war crime, after war crime. You work for the wealthy, power elite who have declared war on US -- the American People. You're on the wrong side!!!<br /><br />This is how it was in 1775 and the years before the revolution. We're back at that same point again. As JFK said -- before your employers killed him -- "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." You men and women are our brothers and sisters -- just as the British (and their loyalists) were. Why are you making peaceful revolution impossible? Do you CRAVE war? Is that why you dress up as warriors, in black, in sniper suits, with body armor, masks, face paint, and automatic rifles? We certainly don't. We wish for peaceful revolution.<br /><br /> Ed and Elaine have proposed peaceful resolutions to this whole mess. <strong>A)</strong> You leave them alone and they will continue their peaceful, productive lives not harming anyone as always or <strong>B)</strong> You can show them the law that required them to pay the tax, and they'll surrender. You seem to want to choose <strong>C)</strong> Ignore the Constitution and our laws and arrest, hurt, and kill anyone who goes against you.<br /><br />Option C is tyranny.<br /><br />You have admitted to Danny Riley that you folks in your black SUVs and BDUs (battle dress uniforms) are fully aware and acknowledge the <strong>nonexistence</strong> of this elusive law. So how then can you enforce it? Don't you have a conscience? Didn't your parents teach you right and wrong. Indeed, one doesn't even need parents -- right and wrong comes from the HEART. Have you worn those uniforms so long that they've squashed your hearts? Are your hearts just a few sizes too small like the Grinch?<br /><br />No, I don't think so. I think you just get paid too well. I think you are mercenaries -- the same type of mercenaries that have been around for many thousands of years. You are hired guns -- willing to commit VIOLENT CRIMES for money. Your paychecks and pensions are all too precious to you. You've sold out that which makes you human to begin with -- a sense of honor, love, kindness, and righteousness. You've sold your families, your kids, your grandkids, and the rest of your country. You've sold US out -- for money.<br /><br />You make us sick and disgusted. You make us ashamed to call you our countrymen and women.<br /><br />"May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams<br /><br />I am so saddened that I live in this land with you folks. I'm sure I could find more honor and decency in places all over this globe. But to have been raised in THIS land -- the land of my forefathers -- the land won with the blood of free men, with even the price of the innocent blood of its inhabitants, to have been raised in THIS land and taught the virtues of freedom, and to live and witness these transgressions -- it is unthinkable.<br /><br />You have arrested four innocent men. As you read this, they are most likely being treated badly -- food and shelter conditions, interrogations, terrible threats such as life in prison, decades in prison, you name it. Perhaps you are even using some of the other torture techniques you commonly employ around the world and in THIS land. You have arrested these men for the ultimate crime: following their hearts. These men were moved by their hearts, from the very depths, to help and assist and older couple whose lives have been turned upside-down by your unwillingness to follow the law.<br /><br />This help might have meant bringing them food from the grocery store or candles from supporters. It might have meant spending time with them and sharing their love. It matters not how these men supported the Browns. They did it from their hearts. They did it and, to my knowledge, never hurt anyone -- including unlawful mercenaries like you. This means they are not criminals -- as they've harmed no one and violated the rights of no one. Why, then, did you arrest them? Oh yes, your paycheck.<br /><br />I don't know what the future will hold. I do know that if fate looks unfavorably upon freedom, and our generations are doomed to a tyranny that even surpasses what we have now -- you all will regret your actions deeply. Your paychecks will not buy salvation from your own guilt. You have an opportunity to stop committing unlawful acts of violence against the People, and to utilize your so-called positions of "authority" to SECURE our unalienable rights like the Declaration says. If this is too much to ask -- then arrest me and the others. For we stand with love, freedom, and truth. We follow our hearts, not the paychecks of evil masters. We stand with and support the Browns no matter what you do. So <strong><span style="font-size:180%;">show us the law, or arrest us too</span></strong>.<br /><br />Sincerely in Love, Freedom, and Truth,<br /><br />Shaun Allen Kranish©<br />A Sovereign American Citizen<br />Co-Founder, <a href="http://www.makethestand.com/">MakeTheStand.com</a></span> </span> </div>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-64043674157205051122007-09-09T16:38:00.000-05:002007-09-09T16:42:00.497-05:00North American Union Amero Coin is REAL!!!<h2 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;">"THE AMERO" IS REAL;<br /> I HAVE ONE TO PROVE IT!</span></h2> <h4>UNITED STATES, CANADA AND MEXICO TO BE <u>MERGED</u> INTO SINGLE NEW ENTITY NAMED NORTH AMERICAN UNION!</h4> <p><b>By: Hal Turner</b><br /><br /> </p><p>Three weeks ago, I published a brief snippet on the front page of my web site reporting the governments of the US Canada and Mexico are conspiring in secret to merge the three nations into a new entity called the North American Union.<br /><br /> There has been much talk of this on various internet blogs for over a year. Most of those blogs have been smeared as "conspiracy theorists" and have been largely ignored by the main stream.<br /><br /> What prompted my interest in the issue was money: I was sent professional images of actual AMERO coins by someone in the US Treasury! The person included a note saying they like my radio show and are frightened by what's been going on in secret within our government.<br /><br /> This Treasury Department person was outraged that our country was beginning to coin money as part of a merger that would do away with our country, via a merger the American public knew nothing about!<br /><br /> When I got the professional images of the AMERO coin, I was finally intrigued enough to make mention of it on my web site. My site has gotten over 20 Million visits in the last couple years and is becoming more popular because of the brutal honesty and timely delivery of news that folks don't find elsewhere. This story about AMERO coins would fit my niche of breaking news, so I ran a snippet of a story.<br /><br /> As part of my report, I included the professional images sent to me by the Treasury person. They appear below:<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/20AmeroCoin.jpg" /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/100AmeroCoin.jpg" /><br /><br /> I also mentioned that very pricey "Collector Proofs" of the coins were also being Minted in Silver and Gold, and I posted an image of one such Silver Proof, shown below:<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/PureSilver100AmeroCoin.jpg" /><br /><br /> The story went on to say that the US Government has intentionally overspent itself for the purpose of irreversibly Bankrupting the country. The idea is that they will drive the country into economic failure, then when millions of Americans are panicking at the prospect, offer them a solution of merging the three countries as "the only possible way" to avoid losing everything.<br /><br /> They will force Canada into the merger by telling them the US currency they hold and rely upon will be worthless and the only way Canada can even hope to salvage any of the funds is to join the NAU.<br /><br /> They will sell it to the Mexican people by saying it will instantly improve their buying-power and quality of life.<br /><br /> In reality, the value of the US and Canadian dollars will be significantly reduced to counter the worthless peso being absorbed. People in the US and Canada will suffer great financial loss while Mexicans will see significant gain. In the meantime, the financial elite and the politicians they own will make out like bandits!<br /><br /> That's the reason politicians are doing this: to get rich for themselves and their financial elite pals.<br /><br /> The folks in power within government and their buddies in Banking and finance know that in any currency switch, some lose big while others gain big. Really big! In fact, folks with foreknowledge of such a switch can make hundreds-of-millions, perhaps even billions for themselves overnight. Those without foreknowledge (common folks like you and me) usually end up being wiped out.<br /><br /> </p><h4>INSTANT, FULL BLAST "SPIN"</h4><br /><br /> <p>I published the images and the small story and went to bed. I had no idea what my little story would do.<br /><br /> Within a matter of hours, there was a full blown effort to discredit my story and the images as fake.<br /><br /> I was accused of lying. I was accused of having "photoshopped" the images by creating them in Adobe Photoshop.<br /><br /> Within a couple days, a basic web site for AMERO "FANTASY COINS" was erected on the internet and word of that site was spread quickly. The site contained the same images as I had run on my front page, so clearly whatever "SPIN" was happening was being driven by others who also had the professional images.<br /><br /> There was intense effort to claim the whole idea of these coins was a fantasy and there was absolutely no truth to them whatsoever. That effort to "spin" the story out of existence worked. Folks quickly lost interest. I did not.<br /><br /> </p><h4>Get me the real thing by any means necessary</h4><br /><br /> <p>I reached out to the person in the Treasury who first alerted me to the coins. That person told me "The shit hit the fan around here when your story ran." The person went on to say "They told everyone in all the Mints that anyone revealing information about the AMERO would be fired and perhaps even criminally prosecuted for endangering national security."<br /><br /> Ahhhh yes, the grand old catch-all of national security. When they wheel that one out, you just KNOW they're pissed off about something!<br /><br /> I told the Treasury person that the only way anyone might believe this is happening, is for me to actually get one of the coins. The Treasury guy balked. He said "there's no way to get one without stealing it."<br /><br /> I though about that for a moment. . . . . then decided that if my government is concealing the actual Minting of coins for a new sovereign entity which may end up with power over me, but which I haven't been told about, then that government deserves whatever gets done to it.<br /><br /> I told the Treasury person to get me an Amero <u>by any means necessary</u> - even if that meant stealing it. The Treasury person said it would require them to think about for awhile and if it could be done, I would get one in the mail.<br /><br /> I waited. And waited. Frankly, after about three weeks, I lost track of the story -- until today. A <u><b>real</b></u> AMERO coin arrived at my home in the mail this afternoon!<br /><br /> </p><h4>The real thing arrives!</h4> <p>Today, I received a single 20 AMERO coin in the mail. A real coin. Real metal, really MINTED by the US Mint in Denver, CO. The proof that it is being Minted in Denver is that the coin is stamped with the Mint Identity letter <b>"D"</b> on the <u>bottom right of the side with the eagle</u> just like regular US coins already in circulation today!<br /><br /> <b>Click each image to enlarge it, CLICK TWICE TO SUPER ENLARGE IT!</b>!<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2466.JPG"><img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2466.JPG" height="384" width="512" /><br /><br /></a> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2467.JPG"><img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2467.JPG" height="384" width="512" /><br /><br /></a> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2469.JPG"><img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2469.JPG" height="384" width="512" /><br /><br /></a> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2470.JPG"><img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2470.JPG" height="384" width="512" /><br /><br /></a> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2471.JPG"><img src="http://www.halturnershow.com/IMG_2471.JPG" height="384" width="512" /><br /><br /></a> <b><i>Please note the letter "D" stamped below and to the right of the Planet earth at the bottom right of the coin in this photo. That "D" stands for the United States Mint at Denver, CO.</i></b><br /><br /> </p><h1>VIDEO!</h1><br /> <p>So that you can see this is a real, metal coin, I have made a small video of me holding the coin, turning it, then dropping it on a wooden table top so you can hear what it sounds like when it hits.<br /> <a href="http://www.halturnershow.com/The-Amero.wmv">Download the Windows Media Video here</a><br /><br /> </p><h4>I WAS RIGHT!</h4><br /> <p>I stand vindicated. All those who claimed I fabricated the images now owe me an apology. All those who claimed these were "fantasy" coins can now explain why anyone in their right mind would spend Millions of dollars to create the rare and expensive professional dies and plates necessary for minting coins that will not be issued?<br /><br /> The simple truth is, the coins are real. The plan to merge the US, Canada and Mexico is real. Our government is lying about it and the fact they are minting money at the Denver Mint bearing the name of Union of North America is proof.<br /><br /> So America, Canada and Mexico, our governments are betraying us and planning to merge our countries without our knowledge or consent, or by financial disaster they bring-on intentionally. What are we going to do about it?<br /><br /> For my part, the Second Amendment comes to mind.<br /><br /> -- Hal Turner<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> </p><p class="updated">17 August 2007 22:05 HRS EDT</p> <h2>TV NETWORK CNBC CONFIRMS: U.S. DOLLAR, CANADIAN DOLLAR AND MEXICAN PESO TO BE <u>REPLACED</u> BY THE "AMERO"</h2> <h4>THOSE WHO ARE DELUDED INTO THINKING THESE ARE "FANTASY COINS" NEED TO GET THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR ASS!</h4> <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3jdQxDC7pA"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3jdQxDC7pA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /> <i>Permission to reproduce this page, in its entirety, is GRANTED on condition that it be reproduced in full with the following credit: "Reproduced with permission of The Hal Turner Show, www.HalTurnerShow.com "</i> <p class="updated">4 September 2007 1959 HRS EDT</p> <h2>CNN's "Lou DObbs" Reports President Bush Signed Formal Agreement to End United States as we know it!</h2> <h4>Reports our country will become part of the North American Union including Mexico and Canada!</h4> <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/T74VA3xU0EA"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/T74VA3xU0EA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object> <br /><br /><br /> <h2>I TOLD YOU THAT "AMEROS" WERE BEING MINTED; MANY ACCUSED ME OF LYING. . . . .</h2> <h4>NOW, A U.S. STATE HAS BEGUN ISSUING "NORTH AMERICAN UNION" DRIVER LICENSES!</h4> North Carolina has become the first U.S. state to place the logo of the yet-to-be-formed "North American Union" on its official state identification. North Carolina has issued a Driver License bearing the logo of the North American Union.<br /><br /> Gee, now all the morons who screamed at me claiming the AMERO coins were a "fantasy coin" can now go scream at WorldNetDaily too! Maybe you can accuse them of reporting about a "fantasy" driver license? Why not; after all, they have photos of the NAU-ready driver license the same way I had photos of the NAU coins.<br /><br /> Maybe, when everything is in place and you wake up one morning to find America merged into Canada and Mexico, maybe THEN you'll realize I was telling the truth. Until then, stay happy with your head shoved firmly up your ass. You seem to like keeping it there even when the truth is right in front of you.Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152267346397546259.post-23191708687191738052007-02-05T17:20:00.000-06:002009-02-05T17:30:36.557-06:00The Empowering Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >The Empowering Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >by Mit Etagniw based upon the collected works of various anonymous authors</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >“The world can only be repaired by the conscious cooperative activity of those who construct a working theory of why it broke down. Spontaneous rebellion alone is not sufficient. Without adequate advance preparation, the old world will simply reappear after any revolution, since it is embedded in the psyches of those who contrive to come to power. An authentic revolution can only occur if there is a coherent and practical mass movement of self-conscious individuals in which all of the myths and mystifications of the past have been and are being consciously swept away as they fearlessly confront the realities of the use of force with or without physical violence in a defensive and/or retributive reaction to undo the assaultive authoritarian constructs of the few over the many.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Those who assume (often unconsciously) that it is impossible to achieve their life's desires-and, thus, that it is futile to fight for them--usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead. They may appear to engage in self-directed activity, but in reality they have accepted alienation from their desires as a way of life. All subjugations of personal desires to the dictates of a cause or ideology are reactionary no matter how "revolutionary" the actions arising from such subjugations may appear.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Yet, one of the great secrets of our miserable, yet potentially marvelous time, is that thinking can be a pleasure. Despite the suffocating effect of the dominant religious and political ideologies, many individuals do learn to think for themselves; and by doing so--by actively, critically thinking for themselves, rather than by passively accepting pre-digested opinions--they reclaim their minds as their own.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >This is a discussion for those who wish to think for themselves, a discussion for creation of a personally (rather than ideologically) constructed body of critical thought for your own use, a body of thought which will help you to understand why your life is the way it is and why the world is the way it is. More importantly, as you construct your own theory, you will also develop a practice: a method to get what you want for your own life. Theory, then, must be either practical--a guide to action--or it will be nothing, nothing but an aquarium of ideas, a contemplative interpretation of the world. The realm of ideas divorced from actions is the eternal waiting room of unrealized desires. Forming your own practical theory, what could be called "self-theory," is intimately connected to achieving the realization of your desires.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Therefore, </span>constructing your self-theory is an empowering pleasure. It is both a destructive and constructive pleasure, because you are creating a practical theory--one tied to action--for the destruction and reconstruction of this society. It is a theory of adventure, because it is based on what you want from life and on devising the means necessary to achieve it. It is as erotic and humorous as an authentic revolution.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Any system of ideas with an abstraction at its center--an abstraction which assigns you a role or duties--is an ideology. An ideology provides those who accept it with a false consciousness, a necessary component of which is other-directedness. This leads those who accept the ideology to behave as "objects" rather than "subjects," to allow themselves to be used rather than to act to attain their own desires. The various ideologies are all structured around different abstractions, yet all serve the interests of a dominant (or aspiring dominant) class by giving individuals (though the term hardly seems appropriate--"members of the herd" is perhaps more accurate) a sense of purpose in sacrifice, suffering, and submission.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Religious ideology is the oldest example: the fantastic projection called "God" is the Supreme Subject of the cosmos, acting on every human being as "His" object.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >In the "scientific" and "democratic" ideologies of "free enterprise," capital investment is the "productive" subject directing world history--the "invisible hand" guiding human development. In order to prosper, the early capitalists had to attack and weaken the power that religious ideology once held. They exposed the mystification of the religious world and replaced it with the mystification of technology and commodity capitalism, wherein Profit becomes the Supreme Subject of the cosmos.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >The many other varieties of dominant ideologies can be seen daily. The new forms of religious mysticism help to preserve the status quo in a round about way. They provide a cheap and tidy way to obscure the vacuousness of daily life and, like drugs, make it easier to live, or rather exist, with this emptiness--and so prevent us from recognizing our real roles in the functioning of the socio-economic system.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >All of these ideologies differ in the specific sacrifices they demand of you, the object, but all are structured in the same way. All demand an inversion of subject and object; things, abstractions, take on the human attributes of power and will, while human beings become things, tools to be used in the service of these abstractions (God, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the fatherland, etc., etc.). Ideology is upside down self-theory. It fosters acceptance of the separation of our narrow, daily lives from a world that appears totally beyond our control. Ideology offers us only a voyeur's relationship with the life of the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >All abstraction-based ideologies demand duty, sacrifice for the cause; and every such ideology serves to protect the dominant social order. Authorities whose power depends upon docility must deny us our subjectivity, our conscious will to act for our own desires. Such denial comes in the form of demands for sacrifices for "the common good," "the national interest," "the war effort," "the revolution," etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >We rid ourselves of the blinders of ideology by constantly asking ourselves: Who am I? What do I mean when I say I? How's my life? What do I want? Am I getting what I want? If not, why not? This is being conscious of the commonplace, being aware of your everyday routine. That real life exists--life in which you are active, a subject acting to achieve your desires--is a public secret that becomes less secret every day, as the breakdown of daily life constructed around abstraction-based ideologies becomes more and more obvious.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >The creation of self-theory is based on thinking for yourself, on being fully conscious of your existence, desires and of their validity. Authentic "consciousness raising" can only be the "raising" of people's thinking to the level of positive (non-guilty) self-consciousness, free of imposed morality in all its forms. This type of consciousness can be termed "radical subjectivity."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Conversely, what many provocateurs, therapy mongers, racism awareness trainers, and consciousness gurus term "consciousness raising" is the practice of beating people into unconsciousness with guilt-inducing, ideological billy-clubs by calling them names, insulting them, using language as an incitement of reactionary dialogue through which the abuser continues to abuse.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >The path from self-negation to self-affirmation passes through point zero, the capital city of nihilism.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Nihilists reverse their perspectives on their lives and the world. Nothing is true for them but their desires, their will to be. They reject all ideology in their hatred for the miserable social relations in modern society. From this reversed perspective they clearly see the upside-down world of commodity capitalism in which subject and object are inverted, and people and abstract concepts are converted into things, commodities to be sold. They see daily life as a theatrical landscape in which "everyone has their price," God (via televangelism) and happiness become commodities, radio stations say they love you, and detergents have compassion for your hands.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Daily conversation offers sedatives such as, "You can't always get what you want," "Life has its ups and downs," and other clichés of the secular religion of survival. "Common sense" is just the non-sense of common alienation. Every day people are denied (and deny themselves) an authentic life and are sold back its representation.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Nihilists constantly feel the urge to destroy the system which destroys them. They cannot go on living as they are. Soon, most realize that they must devise a coherent set of tactics in order to transform the world.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >However, if a nihilist does not recognize the possibility for the transformation of the world, his or her subjective rage will ossify into a role: the suicide, the solitary murderer, the street hoodlum-vandal, the neo-dadaist, the professional mental patient, the self absorbed angry guru, the philosophical procurator in denial of his projectionism, all seeking compensation for a life of dead time.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >The nihilists' mistake is that they do not realize that there are other nihilists with whom they can work. Consequently, they assume that participation in a collective project of self-realization is impossible and denigrate all attempts to move them beyond their self-imposed exile.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >This project of collective self-realization, the changing of life itself through the transformation of social relations, can properly be termed "politics." Politics, however, also signifies a mystified, separate category of human activity, an isolated interest with its own specialists--politicians, political consultants, etc. It is possible to be interested (or not) in this type of politics just as it is possible to be interested (or not) in football, stamp collecting, music, or fashion. What people see as "politics" today is the social falsification of the project of collective self-realization; it has become a spectacle and a parody. And that suits those in power just fine.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Authentic collective self-realization in the anarchic harmonious mode is the revolutionary politics. It is the collective transformation of social relations and the natural world according to the desires of all participants. It is the development of actual anarchic harmony.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Similarly, "therapy" at present usually refers to attempts to "help" individuals "adjust" to their restrictive social roles and to the banality of daily life. Authentic therapy involves changing one's own life (cognitive realization) first, then by changing the nature of social life, which in turn changes one's own life. Therapy must be social if it is to be of any real consequence. Social therapy (the healing of society) and individual therapy (the healing of the individual) are linked together: each requires the other; each is a necessary part of the other.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >For example, in present day society we are expected to repress our real feelings and play a role. This is called "playing a part in society" (how revealing that phrase is). Individuals put on "character armor" --a steel-like suit comprised of role playing, posing, and concealing one's desires as a defense against other individuals. Transforming social relations and surpassing the role-playing game requires the conscious decision of most if not all individuals to shed these roles and truly communicate; therefore, the end of individual role playing is directly related to the end of social role playing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >To think actively, critically, is to make your life--as it is now, and as you want it to be--the center of your thinking. This positive self-centering is accomplished by a continuous assault on externals, on the false issues ("support our troops"), false conflicts (e.g., those arising from notions of racial "superiority"), false identities ("American," "patriot," "Catholic," "white Christian"), and false dichotomies ("economic survival" versus "a clean environment") which permeate social life.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >People are kept from analyzing the basic nature, the totality, of everyday life by the media focus--including "consumer" surveys and public opinion polls--on mere details: the spectacular trifles, the phony controversies, and ridiculous scandals. Are you for or against trade unions, cruise missiles, identity cards? What's your opinion of drug legalization, global warming, UFOs, progressive taxation, Congresses latest peccadilloes, the royal family's sexual relations, presidential politics?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >These are diversions, false issues. The only issue for us is how we live. There's an old saying, "If you have only two alternatives, then choose the third." It impels people to search for new perspectives. We can see the artificiality of false dichotomies by searching for that "third choice."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Being conscious that there is a third choice allows us to refuse to choose between two supposedly opposite, but equally repulsive, possibilities which are presented to us as the only possible choices. In its simplest form, this "third choice" consciousness is expressed by the person brought to trial for armed robbery and asked, "Do you plead guilty or not guilty?" "I'm hungry and unemployed," she replies. A more theoretical, but equally classic, illustration of this consciousness is the refusal to choose between the corporate-capitalist ruling classes of the West and the state-capitalist ruling classes of what's left of “Communism.” All we need to do is to look at the basic social relations of production in the USA and Europe on the one hand, and China, North Korea, and Cuba on the other, to see that they are essentially the same: over there, as here, the vast majority work for a wage or salary in exchange for giving up control over their life's work, control over both what they produce and how they produce it. And, of course, what they produce in both is then sold back to them as commodities.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >In the West, the surplus value, or the value produced over and above the value of the workers' wages, is the property of the corporate management and stockholders, who keep up a show of domestic competition. In the others, the surplus value is the property of the state bureaucracy, which does not permit domestic competition. Big difference.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Like the false issues and false conflicts cited above, false questions are used to distract us from living in the present, from seeing the totality of existence. One example is the stupid conversational question, "What's your philosophy of life?" It poses an abstract concept of "life" that has nothing to do with real life because it ignores the fact that "living" is exactly what we are doing at the present moment, and our "philosophy of life" is clearly revealed by our actions.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >False identities are perhaps an even more potent form of mystification. In the absence of real community, people cling to all kinds of phony social identities--they contemplate and attempt to emulate a huge variety of roles presented to them in school, church, and, especially, the "entertainment" media. These social identities can be ethnic ("Italian- American"), residential ("New Yorker"), nationalistic ("patriot"), sexual ("gay"), cultural ("Giants fan"), and so on; but all are rooted in a common desire for affiliation, for belonging.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >Obviously being "black" is a much more real identification than being a "Giants fan," but beyond a certain point, such an identification only serves to mask one's real position in society; and in order to recognize that real position, you have to reject the false identities, false conflicts, and false dichotomies, and begin with yourself as the center. From there you can examine the material basis of your life, stripped of mystification.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" >An example: Suppose that you want a cup of coffee from the vending machine at work. First, there is the cup of coffee itself: that involves the workers on the coffee plantation, the ones on the sugar plantation and in the refineries, the ones in the paper mill, and so on. Then you have the workers who made the different parts of the vending machine and the ones who assembled it. Then the ones who extracted the iron ore and bauxite, smelted the steel, and work for the electric utility which supplies power to the machine. Then all the workers who transported the coffee, cups, and machine. Then the clerks, typists, and communication workers who coordinated the production and transportation. Finally, you have all the workers who produced all the other things necessary for the other ones to survive. That gives you a direct material relationship to several million people, in fact, to the immense majority of the world's population. They produce your life, and you help to produce theirs.<br /><br />In this light, all artificial group identities and special group interests fade into insignificance. Imagine the potential enrichment of your life that at present is locked up in the frustrated creativity of these millions of workers, held back by obsolete and exhausting methods of production, strangled by lack of control over their own productivity, warped by the insane rationale of capital-accumulation which pits one against all and makes life a mad scramble for economic survival. Here we begin to discover a real social identity--in people all over the world who are fighting to win control over their own lives we find ourselves.<br /><br />"We must be the change we wish to see in others to see ourselves in them."<br /></span>Freedom Shenaniganshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720930878753924374noreply@blogger.com0