Think about that. What if those elected officials had stood up in our defense instead of knuckling under to the latest attack on the public and our disappearing rights and protections?
I am a political atheist. I don’t care how you label yourself whether right vs. left or maybe Republican vs Democrat or Conservative vs Liberal. Once you box yourself in with a self assigned label, and align yourself with some prefabricated notion of political ideology and refuse to continue to re-evaluate your position, your ability to think critically is compromised. We saw this boxed in thinking in the recent explosion on the net stating that Biden had issued a mandatory vaccine Executive order.
About that vaccine mandate issued by Biden: There isn’t one.
While rumors abound that congress and the judiciary were intentionally exempted by Biden from being poisoned with what I believe is this bio-weapon, the truth is he had no authority to mandate they do anything. Due to the separation of powers, the president does not have authority to pass mandates that would affect the judicial or legislative branches. To do so would violate the separation of powers. More
Author,
Chuck Frank
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As many governments in the world are forcing the common people to give up more and more of their rights of privacy but also their rights to defend themselves from either home invasions, those enemies abroad or those enemies of the state that are from within, then one must ask the question, which is the lesser of two evils when it comes to allowing the citizenry to have guns or allowing only the government to have guns.
First of all, America has the second amendment to where the citizenry may be armed to the teeth to protect themselves from invaders, gun slingers or their own government.
Secondly:
There is the U.S. government also armed to the teeth,
meant to protect themselves abroad but also their country at home,
Unfortunately this includes an arsenal of ammunition,
1.6 Billion rounds of ammo purchased during the Obama administration for Homeland Security plus,
for the sake of keeping the peace and upholding the the U.S. Constitution, which is by the way, barely even being followed by law enforcement and the courts.
Note: There is not one police vehicle or sheriff’s vehicle in the country that bears any identifying information as to where that vehicle originates from, such as city name or county. Neither does any law enforcement vehicle bear the “To Protect and Serve” banner on its side. All that silly nonsense has been done away with. Law enforcement vehicles now simply say “POLICE” or “SHERIFF”. And everyone of them is under the direction of Homeland Security.”
Here we go again! The creation of fictionalized threats used to coerce Americans into accepting tyrannical laws, assaults on their liberty and to submit and comply if they want the government to keep them safe (you do want to be safe don’t you??) from some contrived threat that we find out at a later date came from that same government, is on a full roll.
There is a new “terror” threat just in time for the presidential elections and what I suspect will be upcoming legislation making police executions of private citizens perfectly legal, with no legal recourse for the public. Not that there is much of a chance now of any justice in these situations. This will also come in really handy when the government unconstitutionally commits us to the UN Small Arms Treaty that calls for the disarmament of Americans.
Oh! And this new “threat” is supposedly due in large part to the Black Lives Matter movement. How dare the black community try to assert that their lives have value and worth! Never mind that black people are routinely executed by police almost daily. No, its just that black people hate the police. Hmmm.
Supposedly, this is a Democrat associated movement also. Like the Republican faction of the one party system in DC isn’t fully on board with the whole mess, also.
These new threats also seem geared to countering the bad publicity law enforcement agencies across the country have brought on themselves now that they have been militarized, and their propensity for executing American citizens for little to no reason has been so well documented.
Ohhh…Not again!
Using decidedly terrorist sounding names will scare the beetlejuice out of most Americans. But we need to start asking…….Who are these so-called terrorists, actually”
Opinion written prior to the fifth person (Navy Reservist) pronounced dead
Four brave Marines are no longer going to be with their families because this guy was not being tracked by Homeland Security, the NSA or the FBI?
Really?
There were enough red flags known before this tragedy to have alerted the FBI, the NSA and Homeland Security of relevant and “reasonable suspicion” that he should have been high on a watch list. Could these senseless murders have been prevented?
Let’s see if the “math” or two plus two equals four?
This guy’s father had been investigated, perhaps two times, and placed on a watch list for “giving money to a an organization that apparently had ties to Hamas, a “terrorist organization.”
This guy traveled overseas (Jordan and Kuwait) at least four times, some extended stays as long as seven months.
This guy’s sporadic work history, perhaps, did not produce the financial resources necessary to accommodate travel and lengthy time overseas.
This guy began a blog where he posted about Islam, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks international terrorist groups. He at one point compared life to a prison and at another point called life “short and bitter.”
There may be more, but the security file on this guy will not be made public.
Some fair questions:
We spend billions on intelligence. Where was the intelligence on this guy?
Who made the decision to remove this guy’s father from the watch list and why?
Did this guy receive weapons training (AK-47) in high school, college, or in his back yard, or is fair to conclude that he received weapons training in Jordan, Kuwait or Syria?
Seems a bit strange that someone travels to Jordan and stays there for 7 months, has their passport rubber stamped on his return and national security would have no information on such a trip. Should someone with his profile have their passport rubber-stamped when returning from a 7-month trip to Jordan?
Was this guy actually profiled and watched and is there an extensive FBI file on this guy to identify the extent of his communications and planning via email, cell phone and meetings?
Were the murders spontaneous?
Were senior FBI and Homeland Security officials behaving responsibly to do the job right?
There are many more questions to be asked and answered, but I suspect that politically correct reporting may prevent that.
Condolences to the families. Brave Marines: Rest In Peace.
In the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security was formed to protect Americans from terrorists on our own soil, but NOW the American people need protection from an enemy that is from within, and they are the unelected czars of the many rogue, state, county and federal and international agencies which include the U.N. Police, Interpol, Homeland Security, the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI who are now tracking innocent Americans with no warrants and monitoring whomever they please 24/7.
Additionally, instead of truly protecting our homeland, the government is also making a home for middle eastern Muslims and radical Somalians who are presently living in America by the tens of thousands but are now illegally crossing our Southern border crying “Asylum” which is the new buzzword to gain entry. And who’s helping to bring them in by the bus loads, and then driving them to Victorville, California? None other than Homeland Security.
Welcome to America! “A Customs and Border Patrol agent, who asked not to be identified, told World Net Daily that many more Africans and Middle Easterners are likely crossing over the Mexican border than what DHS is willing to admit.” You’re not going to get an honest number, because they all want to look good and get promotions from the people in D.C., and the border agent told WND. “I’m absolutely confident that is happening.”
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the new Somalia capitol of America which houses tens of thousands of Muslims, many of which are radical players who are intent on decimating the U.S. Constitution and ushering in Sharia law which is based on the Koran where there is no separation of church and state. Sharia becomes the infallible law of Allah.
“More than 100,000 Somalis have been brought to the United States legally since 1991 through the U.N. refugee resettlement program. Close to half of them have been resettled in Minnesota, with the rest dispersed throughout Seattle, Ohio, Maine, California, Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, Colorado, Georgia and several other states.”
The Somali community in Minnesota has had well-documented problems assimilating, running up a troubling record of crime and radicalization. Scores of Somalis have been arrested and charged with providing material support to overseas terrorist organizations such as al-Shabab, al-Qaida and ISIS.”
So this is how the present administration “protects” our homeland, utilizing Homeland Insecurity/1984 Doublespeak! This is an outrage. It is quite obvious that President Obama, a Muslim sympathizer, is not interested in protecting what most would consider as the mainstream American people who’s federal tax dollars are supposed to be used as protection from international enemies of the state…not bring the enemy to our shores and offer them a cup of tea and a free pass to Disneyland. Yes, it’s getting awfully Goofy. Multiculturalism of this kind is off the charts. Muslim’s who war with their own and also with Jews and Christians, cannot even get along in their own Middle Eastern countries, so why are we bringing them here?
There is a growing consensus that with bus loads of undesirable immigrants being placed in America that there is a sinister plan which aims to destroy the very foundation of the nation using extreme
radical elements and then rebuild America into an unconstitutional regime which will be ruled by a few.
To counter this agenda, the American people must pray and peacefully come together, city by city, county by county, and state by state to stop these radical elements that are intent on infiltrating the country through a rouge terrorist agenda bent on destroying one nation under God.
“While ignoring the millions of deaths of Muslims and Christians in the mid-east as a result of our wars of terror, this faction beats the drums for more wars as a result of Christians being killed by Muslims. None of them can accept the idea that no one should die as a result of these insipid religious ideologies. Not even if we are the ones doing the killing.”
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With the overthrow via the recent elections of the Democrats in congress, many are speculating about what exactly is going to happen now that Republicans control both houses. Other than a few corporate give-aways, I doubt there will be much happening that will be of any benefit to ordinary Americans. After all, we are dealing with the same people for the most part, and their agenda has nothing to do with you.
Keystone
There is no doubt there will be a massive effort to approve the Keystone Pipeline from Canada. This pipeline has been thoroughly rejected by Canadians due to the chronic leaks, spills and massive loads of toxic waste produced from the tar sands operations. Not to worry Canada! More
Nevada County, California is the new Afghanistan of America. Crime is so “out of control” that SWAT teams are now the order of the day, CelleBrite hacking phones are brought in by the Sheriff’s department and, of all things, a MINE-PROTECTED VEHICLE was added to the Sheriff’s arsenal to rebuff “rogue” property owners? What else does our local police force need, a minesweeper for Lake Wildwood, a posh gated community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains? That’s not all.
Did you know that practice SWAT drills are already being done in Nevada County schools to get our children used to the idea of police power?More
El Paso TX. Ft. Bliss military base that’s charged with the defense of our borders with Mexico is reported to be on alert. ISIS/ISIL and other related Islamic terrorist groups are operating in Mexico and are preparing attacks along the U.S. Mexican border from Galveston Texas to San Diego California. According to the Government the alarming terrorist plan is to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED).
Federal law enforcement have confirmed to The U.S. Border Fire report that an urgent warning bulletin to border city and county police warn of an imminent terrorist attack on the U.S. Mexican border. Based on other news reports, agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat. More
As Americans watch congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new job of administering ObamaCare…..
As Americans watch congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new job of administering ObamaCare.
We have heard testimony from those whose tax exemption was delayed or denied, or who underwent abusive audits, or faced seizure of their accumulated earnings, apparently because someone viewed them as opponents to the Powers.
The people who are testifying are obviously still alive.
What if this agency had the power to control access to medical care?
Of course, it will not have this power under ObamaCare. Not exactly. These are the powers that it will have:
The IRS will decide whether you get a subsidy to buy the increasingly expensive health coverage mandated under the law. Since that coverage could cost a third of your income, its “affordability” obviously depends on whether other taxpayers have to help pay for it. And by the way, the subsidy doesn’t go to you—it goes to the Plan. To qualify, the Plan has to please the Administration. It has to allocate enough for politically correct “prevention” (such as abortions) and not too much to services that lead to “disparity” (such as hip fractures in the elderly).
The IRS will determine which insurers will survive. A Plan that is not eligible for subsidies is likely to die for want of enough customers. The Administration has a record of picking winners (its cronies) and losers (its opponents).
The IRS will influence the chances that your job will survive. Your employer may be hit with ruinous fines for not having benefits that qualify or for having workers who apply for subsidies on the Exchange. As the rules are impossibly complex, government agencies have a lot of discretion, which can be used to reward and to punish. More
Have we been lied to about 9/11? What kind of world do you want your children to grow up in? By the end of this article you will have the answer to your first question. What you do with the answer will determine your answer to the second question.
Learning the truth about 9/11 is crucially important for several reasons. Two wars were started because of it. Between a hundred thousand and a million Iraqi civilians (1) and thousands of soldiers have been killed because of the so-called war on terror.
The government used 9/11 to grab many of our freedoms. The Patriot Act has gutted the Bill of Rights, as well as intrusive new government bureaucracies like ‘Homeland Security’ performing airport strip searches.
This article reviews critically important evidence that contradicts key aspects of the official version of 9/11. This evidence has either been ignored by the mainstream media or smeared with the mind-numbingly absurd label of ‘conspiracy theory’.
Before moving on, it’s worth familiarising yourself with the official version of 9/11. In an article by journalist Paul Craig Roberts titled ‘Conspiracy Theory’ he writes, (2)
‘Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy.
….a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly air planes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad.
…they outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning and air traffic control…’ More
Arizona bill HB 1070, a bill confirming the right of the state of Arizona to deal directly with illegal immigration, was immediately challenged by the DoJ. The state was sued by the so-called [Justice Department] for infringing on what the DoJ claimed was a right reserved to the federal government, only. In July of 2010, the DoJ filed suit against Arizona in an effort to strike down the law, effectively leaving the state defenseless against the onslaught of uncontrolled illegal immigration from Mexico coming into the state.
The murder of US citizens, kidnappings and terrorizing of communities along the Arizona/Mexico border, in fact across the entire border, while border patrol agents continue to be prosecuted for doing their jobs has exacerbated the already high tensions in these communities.
The one thing the DoJ and Attorney General Holder seem to have overlooked, is their own responsibility in this matter; but they need not worry. The former US Code & Title 8, used to read that the AG and subsequently the Secretary of Homeland Security were charged with defending our borders, especially in the event of a mass influx of illegal immigrants. This was the US Code until recently:
Title 8 Chapter 12: Subchapter 1103 1103. Powers and duties of the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and the Attorney General
5) He shall have the power and duty to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States against the illegal entry of aliens and shall, in his discretion, appoint for that purpose such number of employees of the Service as to him shall appear necessary and proper.
(10) In the event the Attorney General determines that an actual or imminent mass influx of aliens arriving off the coast of the United States, or near a land border, presents urgent circumstances requiring an immediate Federal response, the Attorney General may authorize any State or local law enforcement officer, with the consent of the head of the department, agency, or establishment under whose jurisdiction the individual is serving, to perform or exercise any of the powers, privileges, or duties conferred or imposed by this chapter or regulations issued there under upon officers or employees of the Service. More
Remember the days in the U.S., when it was generally considered rude to spy on your neighbor? Or when minding one’s own business used to be a kind of unspoken virtue? Well although ‘the times they are a changing’, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Americans as a people, would be best served to change along with them.
In the United States, before we are condemned by the State, we are routinely informed of the right we have to remain silent. But in case its become obscured somehow for an average Joe, when it comes to the ‘business’ of Homeland Security, one also has an inherent right to remain non-compliant to the state of paranoia running rampant in the U.S. Government, which has yet to enthrall the masses as it has our nation’s leaders.
Do ordinary U.S. citizens actually need to heed a public servant like ‘Janet Napolitano’, and function as an unpaid operative of their government? Must we really become estranged from or suspicious of one-another as a matter of daily routine? Is this “If you see something, say something” mentality and campaign out of Washington, all that fundamentally wise or necessary to begin with?
Well, as a result of my being an Internet news junkie, I am definitely seeing something nefarious-seeming and practically commonplace these days, which is being reported on just about anywhere there is an independent journalist keeping the American public informed. So perhaps, I had better ‘say something.’
One example of what I refer to, might surely be the recent revelation of The DHS (in concert with the U.S. Navy), reportedly awarding a California-based computer forensics company a hefty government contract to devise a way to crack the encryption methods of video game consoles such as Microsoft’s ‘X-Box 360′ or Nintendo’s’ Wii’. This, so that Washington bureaucrats can extract and collect the keystrokes or conversations of users of such game systems.
Yes, you have read me correctly. The U.S. government is spending your tax dollars developing expert methods to spy on Super Mario zealots. And aren’t we indeed, talking about children and teenagers here, for the most part?
If an American were to consummate such a thing with the constant stream of similarly outrageous, federally covert schemes in the making; such as those which CIA Director, David Petraeus, seemed to recently celebrate, which have the potential to monitor their activities through their respective televisions or dishwashers – they just may find themselves more frightened of governmental plots being contrived upon them than terrorists. Unconstitutional and detrimental, Military Industrial Complex tools and techniques in full bloom and plausibly operational mode of which our leadership seems bent on perfecting and implementing. More
The attempts to take over the net, regardless of what reasons they give are indicative of a government that has removed itself so far from the people it claims to represent that I believe we are insane to even let these people assemble. Its too much like watching an invading army that is fully determined to destroy us at any cost.
Just today, another of those staged “committee hearings” was taking place in the efforts to revive the federal governments intention to launch a full frontal attack on the first amendment and free speech. Of course no one of any consequence appeared as a witness opposing this intent to take over the net, but we did have the usual line-up of the Permanent Political Class sitting front and center ready to deliver what could be nothing less than their own personal version of the dooms-day scenario they envision for us if we do not comply with their desire to throttle the net for political purposes.
Among these political hacks who are cheering on the assault on freedom of speech was Diane Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller, Susan Collins and of course our all-time despised political puppet, good ol’ Joe Lieberman. These characters were accompanied by Tom Ridge, Janet Napolitano and whomever else Lieberman could drag in to this stage show, willing to do their part in attempting to terrify the nation into viewing an open and free internet as not only a threat to national security, but to economic security as well. More
I am sometimes baffled by how quickly many people quickly assume that because they were not personally named in some piece of legislation, that somehow the provisions of that legislation do not and could not apply to them. Having spent a great deal of time over the years dissecting legislative language, backtracking changes to code & title and the ever popular “redefinition of terms” used to change the entire common understanding of what a word or phrase means within these tortured constructs called legislation, I know better.
My recent article on S.1867 elicited comments to the effect that a few commenters had read the bill and that I was simply being inflammatory and emotional. Yes…..of course….that must be it.
which called for the suspension of habeas corpus (4th Amendment due process)
all of which gave the president the power to arbitrarily determine on his own, that any one of us was a “domestic terrorist” and going even further to
allow the president to strip us of our citizenship at his discretion with no oversight.
Each of these unconstitutional bills was a piece of the puzzle being constructed incrementally as the Constitution and our rights were being trashed.
These anti-American laws were not the only affront to the Constitution, our rights and the advancement of the police state. Now why, you might be asking, would anyone want to give the president of the United States the arbitrary authority to strip any US citizen of their citizenship with no evidence other than his/her belief that one of us is a terrorist, or supports terrorism, without the evidence supporting that contention, or being officially charged with a crime? Hmmm. Where to start on this one. More
When considering ‘government’ it could be pointed out that the Federal Reserve and Dept. of Homeland Security are not our government.
They are like two diseases that have entered our body and made us sick.
Some doctors might diagnose these as NGOs – non-governmental organizations – but these are foreign diseases.
Like a vaccination that has given us a brain tumor and degenerative heart disease.
“Here, take this, it will keep you from getting sick” and then giving us the disease we were told it would prevent.
I’ve been listening to the opening of the Alex Jones Show in the evening lately. Most nights he’s bouncing off the walls and I won’t listen for long, but he was reflective yesterday and mentioned something that I’ve been on my mind the last week or so.
After going over several examples of how blatant the lies and criminality has become, he said… “I’ll read you some headlines when we get back, but at a certain point… what is the point – like trying to convince people… “Hey man, the government’s out of control, it really is, don’t you want to be free? It’s so creepy to have these killers over us – and it’s so obvious what they’re doing that it should be easy to bring them down.” More
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Interesting news.
The Rutherford Institute site explains exactly why the American People cannot question these searches:
A federal court has dismissed a Fourth Amendment lawsuit filed by The Rutherford Institute challenging the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security screening policy of requiring air passengers to either submit to virtual strip searches involving advanced imaging technology (AIT), which exposes intimate details of a person’s body to government agents, or submit to highly invasive pat down searches during which TSA agents may go so far as to reach inside a traveler’s pants. U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., justified his dismissal by declaring that the court has no jurisdiction over the case, citing a secret order issued by the TSA which requires that the D.C. Court of Appeals hear any reviews of TSA orders. Insisting that it contains “sensitive security information,” the government has yet to make public the order embodying the TSA enhanced screening procedures.
Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved
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Dear Congressman Ryan:
I have seen you many times on Lame Street Media promoting your grandiose plan to kill Medicare. I realize targeting those least able to defend themselves from yet another round of the neo-con movement to redistribute the wealth to the upper 3% while leaving the country in ruins as jobs are shipped out and as corporations plunder the country, is underway.
While helping to spend the country into untenable debt and rolling out the red carpet to foreign investors and corporations who are steadily consuming everything in site, I realize that you have to dispense with any program or initiative which would lend support to the elderly, that class of useless eaters so despised by so many of you.
While railing against Medicare and what it costs the country, you never made mention of what it costs the country to support you while you are in office and even when you leave. For someone whose existence is now predicated upon the parasitic relationship of elected officials dependent on taxpayers, I am surprised that you did not readily identify yourself and the rest of congress as an unsustainable drain on the economy. We can no longer afford to support you people, especially when you contribute virtually nothing to the economy or GDP while availing yourselves of special privileges, perks and financial enrichments.
If you believe that individuals of modest to moderate incomes should be able afford the uncontrolled extortionary healthcare insurance rates, the inflated medical industry charges, and the non-negotiated inflated costs of pharmaceuticals, AND! at the same time save massive portions of our income which is under attack constantly by the IRS as taxes just keep eating up more and more of our income just so that we have some kind of security when we get too old to work………….then I see no reason why you and your cohorts in the District of Criminals can’t do the same on your ever rising incomes which far exceeds what most of us whom you are targeting, earned. More
A Phoenix police officer, called to a private home as the result of a family quarrel, decides not only to shoot and kill the family dog, but also the 29 year old man inside the house who was posing no threat according to the officers partner, but who informed the officer that he needed a warrant. At this point, the officer tells the man; “I don’t need no warrant, m—— f—–!” And delivers a fatal shot. (Again, according to the officers partner)
The head of the police officers union weighs in on the killing. In defense of the officer he claims that “due process” must be followed and that the officer is innocent until proven guilty. In the second news video, we see that the head of the PLEA union now says that there is additional evidence and that the officer will be acquitted, most likely.
So we should afford the officer due process, and consider him innocent until proven guilty? But not afford the man at home in his own house the same courtesy?
While the head of the union claims an investigation is being conducted and that the officer has been suspended, we all know how this is most likely to end up. The union head talks about how officers are people from the community and are carefully selected for their positions. Based on what? Long gone are the days when those with napolean complexes were weeded out and not allowed to be employed by law enforcement. Crisman was finally fired by the Phoenix police department and the blue brotherhood of Homeland Security is holding BBQ’s and collecting donations to support him while he stands trial.
No update on the status of the officers partner and his report on what was in reality a cold blooded killing by a badge heavy officer.
Reports of this kind are coming in from across the country with alarming regularity as a result of the militarization of law enforcement under Homeland Security. Here is the most recent update on the Arizona situation:
I don’t believe there is one law enforcement vehicle in the country that still has the phrase: “To protect and serve” emblem on the doors. According to a local sheriff’s deputy here, “There is no obligation to protect anyone by law enforcement unless we have them in custody, and then it is limited. Our job has been redefined. Our focus now is to protect the government and infrastructure from the general public because of the threat of homegrown terrorism.”
Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved
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Had the intent of the Patriot Act actually been to fight terrorism, the federal government would have had to turn its efforts inward and waged “war” on itself.
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If you haven’t received the memo yet, let me update you on your status as it pertains to the Constitution and your civil liberties; you have neither. Today, 79 Senators who snickered as they swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, voted to render you guilty in advance, with no chance of proving your innocence. The unlawful data mining and collection, the compilation of dossiers on virtually every person in the US, the unwarranted wire-tapping, the rifling through personal records of all kinds for no other reason than to collect information to be used at a later date if the government decides to prosecute you for whatever reasons, was extended. More
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“Anyone who slaps on a government badge and accepts a paycheck with full knowledge that their job will involve violating your rights and the Constitution of the people of the United States, should be considered a domestic terrorist. Any agency who is unlawfully and actively spying on, data mining, intimidating or violating your Constitutional rights should be considered a radical extremist group and domestic terrorists.”
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We should have stormed the streets when TSA was set loose in our airports to assault travelers, but we didn’t. Instead, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of us mewled that TSA was “only trying to keep us safe”. These assaults have nothing to do with our safety; we are being systematically trained to comply, to submit. Now, because so many of us did comply, TSA is setting up shop in our train stations and courthouses among other public places and is expanding their assaults on US citizens. The government has now openly declared war on its own citizens. Think I’m wrong? More
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“I know of no one who thinks or believes that we can exist as a nation without a government. What I do know is that we can no longer abide bad government, and one that has moved so far beyond its boundaries that it is now openly engaged in acts of aggression against its own people. “
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Whatever the Southern Poverty Law (Lie) Center may have done in the past that would have merited respect has long since gone the way of most organizations that lose their way when they are suddenly treated as if they actually still retain any value. This organization that makes its living reviving McCarthyism with all the paranoia and viciousness it can muster is a blight on America. It is my belief that we need to compile our own list of threats to America, and SPLC would top that list.
Until a few years back, I was a registered Democrat and had been all my adult life. I left that party along with any other political affiliation due to the corruption in government at the hands of politicians who did and still do violate our Constitution and our rights while they wage phony wars for profit and who will sell us out to the highest corporate bidder. It was individuals from both major party’s who initiated the wholesale destruction of our rights; it was and is presidents representing both major party’s who encouraged and condoned these things. I take these assaults on the Constitution and my rights very seriously. For me, this is very personal and I reserve my Constitutional right to dissent and to voice that dissent without a gaggle of otherwise unemployable and paranoid hacks creating lists of fictional threats.
It is apparent that the only “research” done to compile their lists is on the net. Anyone (like me) who points out the corruption of the government, who questions their authority to violate and abrogate our rights, who publicly expresses their disgust with the loss of our sovereignty due to illegal trade agreements (which are NOT treaty’s as prescribed by the constitution), the selling off of our infrastructure to foreign interests, anyone who realizes that Muslims can’t be the international threat the government claims they are or they wouldn’t continue to allow millions to emigrate to the US (would they?) that Homeland Security exists for no other reason than to protect the government from us.
If we believe that our right to own property free of government encumbrance, to engage in lawful business activity free of laws protecting corporations and most especially if we believe that with our economy in shambles and 22 million legal Americans unable to find work that our borders should be secured and illegal residents deported back to their homeland……well, we must all be “hate groups, nativists, ring-wing extremists,” and whatever other fear mongering tags they can come up with to identify those of us who object to the deconstructing of America.
Well, I lean more to the left , don’t own a gun, don’t belong to any groups and have absolutely no idea why being a “nativist” meaning, a patrotic American citizen, is a bad thing unless of course you are a member of SPLC and then you are fearful and suspicious of anyone who isn’t you. More
“While we allowed ourselves to be pre-occupied and entertained, while we became lazy and apathetic and allowed ourselves to be drawn into fictional political divides, our own government divided our country up, sold us off and are on the verge of the final coup’ which will render us without land, freedom, wealth or country; or at the very least a country to call our own. “
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National security; this term has come to mean the terrorizing of legal US citizens by our own government. Any one or all of several spy agencies supposedly existing to protect us from terrorists, have made it evident that, “we the people” are the focus of their efforts. When speaking of national security I believe it is imperative to understand what that term in reality means:
National security is the protection of the corporate federal government, and by extension multi-national corporations that benefit from their unfettered access to the government, from the people of the (50) sovereign but united states. We the people are viewed as the greatest threat to a malevolent government and its partnering corporations and the expansion of what is becoming a full blown police state. The security the government desires is not from foreign terrorists, but rather, from us.
By now, any hopes any of us had that Obama was going to turn the tide, make things better for the country, or, that he would reverse the egregious laws passed by the neo-cons and executive orders issued by Bush the Dolt, have dissipated. Not only has Obama not undone the damage, he has carried it forward and continues the programs and plans unlawfully put in place by the previous administration and started a few of his own. We are in the end phase of a twenty year cycle of systematic deconstruction of the united States.
Laying the groundwork for programs to come was of course, the Bush 1 Executive Order of 1992, #12803. This executive order put the infrastructure of the states up for sale to anyone and everyone and began the wholesale selling off of our lands and structures to non-US interests. More
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FIRST, THEY CAME FOR BRADLEY MANNING
(LOS ANGELES) – While the country responds with growing alarm over torture policies first instigated against prisoners in Guantánamo, policies which now appear to be levied against Bradley Manning, another policy violation has been overlooked by the guardians of our freedom. The U.S. press has been mum, at least up until now, on the violation of the Biological Weapons Convention by none other than the United States government.
In the rush to pass protective legislation into law following the attacks of 911, the authors of the U.S. Patriot Act amended the previous legislation regarding biological weapons. Section 817 of the U.S. Patriot Act, otherwise known as the “Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statute,” has violated the Biological Weapons Convention, an international treaty which the U.S. signed in 1974.
The Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention, also known as the BWC, was the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons. It was largely considered to be a result of prolonged efforts by the international community to supplement the 1925 Geneva Protocol. More
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Who knowingly takes employment that would encompass the groping of the private and genital areas of not only adults, but also children? And then smiles and tells you it was to “keep you safe”. How sick is that? More
Here is a video with G. Edward Griffin about the dangers of whole-body scanners (G. Edward wrote a book about cancer) and Idaho State Legislator Phil Hart who has written legislation to get rid of the machines and to test their safety (if proven safe, then they could only be used as a secondary screening devices).
This video is important because it pinpoints the jurisdiction over the scanners (the States, when health or safety is an issue) and there is a link for Hart’s model legislation.
Adds to existing law relating to homeland security to provide for limitations on whole-body imaging; to provide for findings and reporting by the Chief of the Bureau of Homeland Security for the state of Idaho.
For those of you who have trouble sleeping, I don’t recommend reading the alternative explanation of the events in New York on September 11, 2001 offered by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq. Nor would I recommend ex-CIA station chief Philip Giraldi’s recent essay in Pat Buchanan’s “The American Conservative,” entitled “Mossad in America”
A perpetual state of insomnia may come your way by reading these articles in conjunction with Internet releases chronicling the development of a Jewish paramilitary force in the continental United States, called Kitat Kohenut (“rapid response units“). UNM Israel Alliance’s post on this New York-based organization informs the reader that a training camp is being constructed in northern Arizona. More
Ernest Hancock accused of being a domestic terrorist. Link at the bottom.
Freedom’s Phoenix – Now that, under SB1070, all restrictions and prohibitions have been lifted and the state freely exchanges any and all license data of law abiding citizens with the feds, the feds – under Pearce’s leadership within the state – can implement the next part of the plan: no one gets birth certificates unless/until they validate their national id.
Remember, national id is data, not physical. Once the feds have the data, all other national id pieces of the puzzle can be rolled out until every normal societal interaction can no longer take place without prior government “clearance”, in otherwords until your national id gets checked and cleared.
The next piece of the puzzle to rollout is to prohibit issuance of ANY birth certificate unless and until the parent(s) of the newborns get prior clearance (that they are citizenns) from the US Department of Homeland Security
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.“George Washington
THE QUESTION
There has been a whirlwind of legislation in America over the past ten years; statutes which both add to and convolute our already oppressive society. So, I figured a little insight into living under these laws might be timely. There are so many, so I’ll just address what I think are the most pointed.
After September 11th, pretty much that hallmark date that the government chose to institute such sweeping change, the right to speak out against government pretty much equated to speaking for terrorism. I mean come on now. Don’t you see the nexus? Homeland Security does!
From ComputerWorld
New cybersecurity bill for electric grid readied Legislation follows report that said cyberspies gained access to U.S. electrical infrastructure
Jaikumar Vijayan
April 28, 2009 (Computerworld) Amid growing concern over the vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid to cyberattacks, two lawmakers are preparing to introduce new legislation aimed at bolstering the industry’s responsiveness to such threats.
The Critical Electric Infrastructure Protection Act is scheduled to be introduced on Thursday by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security.
A brief statement issued by the house committee today described the proposed legislation as one that would primarily empower the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of gas, oil and electricity, to issue “emergency rules or orders” if a cyberthreat is imminent.
The rules or orders may be issued if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that a national security threat exists, the statement said. It did not, however, clarify what kind of rules and orders the proposed bill is specifically referring to.
In addition, the bill would require the commission to assess existing cybersecurity standards within the electric sector and establish new standards, as needed, for dealing with cyberthreats. It would also require the Department of Homeland Security to conduct an investigation to determine if the electric infrastructure has been compromised by outsiders.
The proposed legislation takes a “common sense” approach to tackling critical issues with electrical infrastructure security, Thompson is quoted as saying in the release. “Any failure of our electric grid, whether intentional or unintentional, would have a significant and potentially devastating impact on our nation,” he said.
The legislation follows a report published earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal that described how cyberspies from China, Russia and elsewhere have gained access to the U.S. electrical grid and installed malware tools that could be used to shut down service.
The story, which quoted unnamed national security and intelligence sources, described the attackers as having deeply penetrated the power infrastructure and poised to cause major disruptions in the event of a crisis or war.
Over the past few years, several others also have warned about the vulnerability of the power infrastructure. In 2007, the Idaho National Laboratory prepared a demonstration for the Department of Homeland Security in which a software vulnerability in a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system was used to cripple a generator.
A video of the demonstration that showed the generator being reduced to a smoking, shuddering hunk of metal aired on CNN, and still remains one of the most potent symbols of just what can go wrong if the power infrastructure is attacked in a cyberwar.
Concerns have prompted calls for mandatory security controls for some time now. For instance, a broad cybersecurity bill introduced recently by Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) calls, among other things, for regulations mandating baseline security standards in critical infrastructure industries such as the power sector.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which in December delivered a set of cybersecurity recommendations for President Obama, also called for similar regulations in the electric sector.
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Anyone who has read a newspaper, listened to the radio, gone on the internet or watched the evening news on TV over the last week or so, might believe that there is a real possibility that millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of other people throughout the world could be wiped out by a new deadly swine flu virus that is sweeping across the globe. The worldwide media has been turning out countless numbers of stories and producing hundreds of TV special reports about the possibility of a swine flu pandemic, complete with on-site videos with people wearing face masks, colorful graphics and interviews with scores of medical experts-for-hire. But is all this news coverage based on a genuine concern for the health and safety of the people, or is it just media hype designed to sell newspapers, TV advertising, anti-flu medicines and vaccines?
On May 1, 2009, The World Health Organization reported only 331 cases of swine flu worldwide (outside of Mexico), but still declared the crisis to be at level 5 alert on a scale of 6, meaning that this strain of flu might be considered an all-out pandemic if the numbers keep rising. On the same date, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that there were 109 cases in the U.S., with several states possibly confirming an additional 22 cases. Do these numbers indicate that a national crisis is at hand?
Let’s put these numbers in perspective: According to the Centers for Disease Control, 36,000 Americans die each year (almost 100 a day) from various forms of the flu virus, yet it is not considered a pandemic or a crisis. Worldwide, Malaria kills 3,000 people every day, but the World Health Organization only considers it “a health problem” and not a pandemic. Of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a very short time period when governments and individuals order millions of doses of vaccines and medications in response to a threat of a new flu pandemic.
Back in 1976, when the Swine Flu last hit America, the Ford Administration tried to use the fear of a pandemic to force 220 million Americans to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations. In a very short period of time, the pharmaceutical industry made $135 million on their vaccines, which had been given to nearly 40 million Americans before the accumulation of fatalities and crippling side effects caused the program to be stopped. When the questionable “pandemic threat” was over, only one person in America had died from the Swine flu, but 25 other Americans had died from the vaccine. By the way, the pharmaceutical companies managed to protect themselves from lawsuits by pre-arranging for the government to assume any liabilities in case there was a problem with the vaccines.
More recently, in 2006, there was another worldwide pandemic threat called the Avian flu. The same type of videos and stories appeared throughout the media. ABC News even pushed the possibility of a pending worldwide apocalypse to the public by featuring a doctor-for-hire who predicted “that 50% of the population of the world could die” because of the Avian flu. Of course that never happened. Although the death of any person is a tragedy, only 257 people in the entire world died from the Avian flu. That’s 257 people out of 6.5 billion. It could hardly be considered a pandemic or a worldwide health threat. Because of the Avian Flu scare, the Bush Administration purchased and stockpiled millions of doses of anti-flu drugs in case of a future pandemic. Back then, some people thought that the threat of the Avian flu pandemic was cleverly created, manipulated and designed to frighten the American people, in order to line the pockets of politically connected investors and pharmaceutical companies.
If the profit motive is not part of the reason for the current hype and the threat to the American people is real, then why has our government not taken the overt actions necessary to protect its own citizens? With almost 2,000 official swine flu cases originating in Mexico, most European and Asian countries, including China, have closed their airports to flights from Mexico in order to protect their citizens. Our government has taken no such steps to protect its citizens against this threat and our borders remain wide open with no restrictions or limitations on Mexicans entering the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security advised that they are on top of the situation and are watching people entering the U.S. for signs of illness. On the surface it sounds like the government is at least doing something, until you read the April 27 Reuters report on what is really happening at the border and that “Mexicans are continuing to (illegally) cross the border by car and foot, seemingly unconcerned by the influenza scare and only a handful are wearing masks.” The failure to secure the border in a time of emergency in order to protect the health and welfare of American citizens is a sign that this administration has chosen political correctness over the safety of its own citizens. It’s sad to say, but I don’t believe a Republican administration would take the necessary steps either.
I am sure that by mid-May the whole Swine Flu scare will be over and the hype will have died down. The American borders will remain wide open for illegal immigrants and terrorists to enter the country; the pharmaceutical companies will have made billions; the media companies will have made hundreds of millions from pharmaceutical company advertising and the administration will take credit for a job well done.
Thank God it wasn’t a real emergency!
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John Wallace “For Freedom, Liberty and Sovereignty” New York Campaign for Liberty
Chatham, New York http://www.NYCampaignForLiberty.com
This Sunday, April 19, 2009, I will be on the air with Dave Hodges. We will be discussing HR 875, Livestock Tracking, Homeland Security’s Stamping Out program, GMO, and Monsanto. You are welcome to join us in what should be a lively discussion. Here is the information:
Often referred to as Americas most independent talk show host Dave Hodges brings a wealth of professional experience to the RBN airwaves as an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor a college basketball coach a mental health counselor a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as The Arizona Republic and Freedoms Phoenix. The Common Sense Show with Dave Hodges is a hard-hitting investigative journalism show which features an array of impressive guests coupled with an in-depth analysis of important personal, social and geopolitical issues which are largely unreported in the mainstream media. The wide variety of show topics range from the loss of constitutional liberties, to the subsequent implementation of a police state under world governance, to exploring the limits of human potential. The primary purpose of The Common Sense Show with Dave Hodges is to provide the listening audience with the tools necessary to reclaim both our individual and national sovereignty. Join us every Sunday night as we apply a Founding Fathers Common Sense perspective towards solving the dire threats that confront all Americans in these times of unprecedented challenge.
Provides grant support. $2.2 billion in support, primarily in the form of grants, to the Department’s State and local partners in homeland security. The Budget continues to emphasize programs that distribute grant awards on the basis of risk, and this year introduces a grant program to help States implement Real ID requirements and provide a more efficient, merit-based allocation of limited resources.
Below is a letter to livestock producers in Illinois asking them and others to contact the Governor’s office to ask to be allowed to be present at a meeting between Homeland Security and the USDA which involves NAIS and “surge capacity” under Homeland Security to attack and seize and destroy – “depopulate” an area of – animals. This meeting is about what will be done TO THEM but they are shut out.
Many of you already know about Monsanto’s “rural cleansing” in southern Illinois of 200 – 400 farmers for using Steve Hixon as their seed cleaner . One is being sued for $400,000. Do the math. In 2006, Monsanto made $160,000,000 in this Mafia-like extortion.
Many of you already know that Monsanto was involved in the development of NAIS which, to me, appears to be the set up on the animal side, to do what Monsanto has done with seeds – eliminate normal animals and substitute genetically engineered animals. I’ve written about how the Homeland Security is set to military type warrantless raids against farms to seize and destroy animals crops and equipment using “animal disease” as the excuse – no due process, no means of checking to see if any of the animals are fine, no way to stop the slaughter. I’ve also written how the USDA has already proved it operates this way .
Homeland Security is the centralization of power bequeathed to us by Bush’s “War on Terror,” something many believe was not based on an enemy attack at all. Amnesty International is calling for an elimination of laws that were passed under Bush’s “War on Terror” justification. NSA-spying is one such abuse.
NAIS is NSA-spying on steroids – imagine paying for the equipment used to spy on you, yourself, having to keep it up, having to let the government know in advance of every move your animals make (a trail ride, for instance, your child bringing a pet chicken to school), and to have to file paperwork within 24 hours afterwards or face penalties so draconian, the second infraction if your chicken crosses the road and you fail to report it on time, is $500,000.
NAIS is backed up by Homeland Security. Both are connected to Monsanto and, as is typical of Monsanto, both are resulting in terror for farmers.
Food and Water Watch, the Organic Consumers Association, the Center for Food Safety, Public Citizen, the Campaign for Liberty, Amnesty International, the ACLU, and every farming, food, anti-GMO, animal rights, economic justice groups in this country must come together and with many other organizations, to need to demand NAIS be eliminated entirely. Homeland Security regulations are in place to provide the required destruction of normal animals and small farmers that Monsanto needs for taking over with genetically engineered and patented animals and making them the only option. This is happening in Asia already with poultry as small farmers are being destroyed to the benefit of multinationals. Biotech companies are ready now to replace all poultry in the world with their patented, thus privatized “bird flu-resistant” super chickens .
Homeland Security is the corporate muscle behind the take over of the US food supply. And the liquidation of our farmers is long planned – by executives. Homeland Security must be stripped of warrantless, military, search-seize-destroy power over our small farmers and all of us .
So, in addition to this horrific meeting of the USDA (run by Vilsack, Monsanto’s crony) and Homeland Security (also corrupted by Monsanto) to which no farmers are allowed though they are the targets, in southern Illinois, in a six county area, right now, hundreds of crop farmers are living in terror of what is going to happen to them, no longer speaking to neighbors, because Monsanto people lied to them and told them their neighbors turned them in or that Hixon did.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House in Illinois who just pushed through an ethics bill because of the lack of all ethical there, has a staff filled with Monsanto lobbyists.
This is Obama’s state.
Why is Monsanto so comfortable taking over there? Because Obama overrode immense public objections and put in Vilsack, Monsanto’s boy ? It is time to make him responsible for his agencies and stop this assault on American farming.
WHERE IS THE TRANSPARENCY OBAMA PROMISED?
It is interesting that this closed – to those affected – meeting is occurring immediately after Vilsack (Monsanto) just promised transparency.
As you read this, realize that the people posting this out have been doing immense and difficult work now for years to stop NAIS, are fighting for their lives, battling agencies without our help, while being lied to, coerced, threatened, forced, and even involuntarily and/or without their knowledge being forced onto NAIS and Premises ID .
Read this message to livestock producers in Illinois to get a sense of how totalitarian things have become and how shut out the public is from decisions that affect it directly and threaten its livelihoods and even existence.
All calls, emails and letters you can send to let the Governor of Illinois know how you feel about this outrage and to demand that the public be allowed into this meeting of two abominably corrupted agencies – the USDA and Homeland Security – would be appreciated. And if you are members of any of the organization listed above, please tell them you expect them to demand a complete halt to NAIS and to seek with as many organizations as possible, a criminal investigation into congressional and governmental agency corruption into USDA, FDA, EPA, and Homeland Security regulations that threaten the very existence of our REAL American farmers.
Every farmer and person in the entire country who has even a single farm animal – even a chicken or pet duck, is in trouble – and at a time of unemployment and impending food shortages when just a few chickens and a small goat could actually provide the protein needed for a family.
I was back on the www.naisStinks.com website again! The article below is important to the continued threat from the USDA about bio-terrorism. This one really puts perspective on the use of fear-mongering and crisis creation where little or no crisis exists. Marti
Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, chief medical officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told a congressional subcommittee on July 22 that the risk of a large-scale biological attack on the nation is significant and that the U.S. government knows its terrorist enemies have sought to use biological agents as instruments of warfare. Runge also said that the United States believes that capability is within the terrorists’ reach.
Runge gave his testimony before a subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology that was holding a field hearing in Providence, R.I., to discuss the topic of “Emerging Biological Threats and Public Health Preparedness.”
During his testimony, Runge specifically pointed to al Qaeda as the most significant threat and testified that the United States had determined that the terrorist organization is seeking to develop and use a biological weapon to cause mass casualties in an attack. According to Runge, U.S. analysis indicates that anthrax is the most likely choice, and a successful single-city attack on an unprepared population could kill hundreds of thousands of citizens.
Later in his testimony, Runge remarked that many do not perceive the threat of bioterrorism to be as significant as that of a nuclear or conventional strike, even though such an attack could kill as many people as a nuclear detonation and have its own long-term environmental effects.
We must admit to being among those who do not perceive the threat of bioterrorism to be as significant as that posed by a nuclear strike. To be fair, it must be noted that we also do not see strikes using chemical <http://www.stratfor.com/chemical_threat_subways_dispelling_clouds> or radiological <http://www.stratfor.com/dirty_bombs_weapons_mass_disruption> weapons rising to the threshold of a true weapon of mass destruction either. The successful detonation of a nuclear weapon in an American city would be far more devastating that any of these other forms of attack.
Read full article with links to greater information here:
In the last 5 years USDA has alleged that an Anthrax or Hoof and Mouth outbreak, staged by terrorist, could devastate the US livestock industry “over night.” USDA proposed the largest numbering and surveillance system in world history of all US livestock, as the protective method—- called NAIS.
At first blush, livestock producers have largely believed government projections of worst case pandemic scenarios. As facts on world terrorism are more understandable, Anthrax is economically controlled with available vaccines, and Hoof & Mouth disease was eradicated in 1929, the whole NAIS costly concept is clearly of no profit in relation to costs. The crying wolf pandemics are, in fact, only one old snaggled-toothed dog barking below the USDA window.
(This is relevant for Canada because of the SPP and our connectedness now to the USA Homeland Security apparatus which puts Canadians into the same boat as depicted in this video for the people of the USA. The difference is that there is no one in Canada picking up on these tidbits in Canada to connect the dots as is being done in the USA. Therefore we have to go to the USA scene to get a handle on what is facing us here as well. Connie Fogal, CAP)
Who ever did this did a great job of editing this stuff together (all culled from the MSM) making his/her point and doing in a very short time In this video you will hear mention of – Clergy Response Teams:
For those of you who do not know – the US government has enlisted the aid of pastors all around the United States to “assist” in quelling communities (when the time comes) and providing information to the authorities about who may or may not be a trouble maker or not “going along” with martial law.
An example of the conditioning they are pushing – comes @ the 5:02 mark of the clip; it’s of a “pastor”(in a promotional video)…”MY FRIENDS you are FREE to respect and appreciate the authority that God gives to you…honor the King”…from the video – I’m Free: To Submit To Authority.
Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states.And all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Homeland Security Department.
No doubt we can all see the benefits in testing for genetic disorders or genetic traits and tendencies that could be more adequately dealt with, in some cases actually deterring the onset of life-time illness, but that seems not to be the real thrust of these programs.It may have been initially….but not now.
As with all good things, there are always those who seek the more evil path, in essence turning what should have been a life saving tool, a preventative measure into something insidious and inhumane.This is what has happened to this national effort.
Here in Minnesota the state tests for 56 various genetic disorders and variants.At least 1/3 of these tests produce a false positive meaning that a flaw was identified that actually did not exist.Regardless, that false positive becomes part of the permanent record of the child and follows them for the rest of their lives as does any true positives.This means that the child will eventually and most likely face discrimination in employment and the ability to gain health insurance at any cost.
There are other nagging problems with this system.Although the national website
http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/insists that this harvesting of DNA is a highly visible program, my own polling of parents of newborns, or the grand parents had no idea that this was being done to their children and grand children.Further, not one knew that they had the right to demand the blood and tissue samples be destroyed after 45 days per written request.Even had they known, and the samples were destroyed (you would have no way of knowing if they really were) the information gleaned from them would still be available and on file…..in perpetuity.
Also unknown to at least the new parents in Minnesota, is that once that 45 days has lapsed, the state now claims that they “own” the DNA of that child.This claimed ownership now allows the state health agency to test, tamper, alter, sell, farm out, and utilize in any way they see fit, the DNA of your newborn.It can be manipulated, spliced with other DNA, and used in ways never intended under the screening program.
Now, there are forms that have to be signed that agree to this invasion of privacy, but the problem seems to be that this is not done during pre-natal care, but rather, at the time of delivery of the infant.These forms are produced when the mother is ready to deliver and is being admitted to the hospital.That’s when these “informed consent” forms are dragged out to be signed.This is no accident.Expectant parents simply sign what is put in front of them and are told they must sign to complete admission.Nice, huh?And none of them seems to be aware that what they are signing allows this right to have those additional blood and tissue samples destroyed.No matter, the damage is done and the results of those three extra blood drops are forever recorded and along with it, a lot of genetic information about the parents.
Although this is supposed to be an opt-in program, rather than an “opt-out”, Minnesota has decided to interpret the law differently.Our legislators have decided that opting out is the way it should be…..regardless of the law.With that in mind they have gone one step further and declared that if the parent doesn’t specifically opt out….they are presumed to have “informed consent” and have opted in.
I have to give the special interests in Minnesota their dues.Federal law and the courts have upheld the concept that human DNA cannot be patented.But these fine folks, representing insurance companies, medical institutions, and big pharma have found a way around that bothersome ruling.Using a compliant legislature they have made sure a system has been put in place that allows them to indirectly access what should be the most private of all information, the most identifiable information concerning an individual and in the case of medical and pharmaceuticals, to use it in any way they see fit once the state claims ownership.
In January 2007, a lady named Twila Brase president of the Citizens Council on Healthcare, issued a written testimony to the Minnesota legislature on the unethical and hidden uses of harvested DNA by the state.The 18 page document can be located at
In July 1997, solely by an executive decision of health officials-no law–the MN Department of Health began retaining the DNA-filled blood specimens of all newborn babies.
The State now claims ownership rights to the DNA of more than 670,000 children (approx.70,000 births/yr).
In July 1986, MDH began cataloging the genetic test results of all Minnesota children. Approximately 1.4 million children are in the database.
Oppose the dissemination of newborn blood and DNA to genetic researchers
Oppose the Minnesota Department of Health’s refusal to fully inform parents
Calls on Governor Tim Pawlenty to direct the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to comply with Minnesota state privacy law, to fully inform parents of the genetic testing process and their legal rights–and to dismantle MDH’s illegal warehouse of newborn citizen DNA. (Contact Sue Jeffers directly at: S1U2E3@aol.com )
I might suggest that each of you check the national website to determine how extensive the DNA testing is in your state, especially if you have children 10 years or younger.What you find may sicken you.
The idea of the state, any state, claiming ownership of the DNA of anyone, most especially newborn babies is so repugnant to me that I cannot find the words to express how offensive this is; what an unconscionable breach of humanity this comprises.This issue is not one of party affiliation or a right vs. left drama being played out.This is the groundwork for future discrimination that will most likely surpass employment and insurance targeting but eventually could be used to decide who lives or dies, or who can reproduce.
There is however a level of humor in all the debating going on……insurance company reps along with those of the business sector assured everyone that these genetic tests will never be used to discriminate in employment or insurance coverage.Now if that didn’t make you laugh, nothing will.
But, all of us need to ask ourselves why this information would be of any use to Homeland Security?What possible reason could they have for cataloging and storing the genetic code of any newborn child?
In the end I find myself wondering where all these big religious fomenters are that railed against gay marriage, stem cell research, the right to choose for women and a host of other issues that would supposedly destroy the traditional American family.Wouldn’t losing ownership of your child’s or your own DNA be far more devastating than these issues?And yet, not one rock star preacher has spoken one word that I can find condemning this practice.Not a peep!It’s probably just a case of a lost message in all the speaking God does to them when he puts a “word of knowledge in their hearts” about the woes of society.
My advice?Find out what is happening in your own state and to what extent your state is testing and participating in this program that is so loaded with secret agendas and obviously in opposition to many state and federal laws.Maybe what is needed is a class action lawsuit brought in each state by parents who were unaware that they or their children no longer own their own DNA.
Marti Oakley
This Sunday, April 19, 2009, I will be on the air with Dave Hodges. We will be discussing HR 875, Livestock Tracking, Homeland Security’s Stamping Out program, GMO, and Monsanto. You are welcome to join us in what should be a lively discussion. Here is the information: 
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