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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

FORMER IRS HEAD: I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION

http://godfatherpolitics.com/10968/former-irs-head-i-dont-know-anything-about-the-constitution/









and the Queen said to them (Alice was standing right there...)  Off with his head!

You should re-read Alice in Wonderland.  It's "seriouser" than you think!


 http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2933712-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

Sunday, May 5, 2013

IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA - 5 MONTHS FOR CLEANING OUT A DITCH! AND AN INTERESTING SEGUE TO A CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM IN MONTANA


Jailed For 5 Months For Cleaning Out a Ditch!
Posted By Sharon Rondeau On Sunday, May 5, 2013 @ 8:37 AM In Editorials | No Comments

“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA”

by Ron Ewart, ©2013
This article can also be viewed at:
http://www.narlo.org/idarchives/050513.html
(May 5, 2013) — It is true that we can’t pick our relatives and most times we can’t pick our neighbors, but many times either can bring us grief beyond belief.  And such was the case for John (not his real name as he requested anonymity) who owned a few acres of land in a rural area of America, about a half hour’s drive from a big city.  Unfortunately, the government has passed so many laws that neighbors never settle their differences face-to-face or in the courts any more.  One neighbor just calls the government and files a complaint on his neighbor, which the government is honor-bound to investigate, whether the complaint is valid or just neighbor revenge. 
Government laws have turned many Americans into sniveling snitches.  In one county we know, the local land use authorities were holding seminars for landowners, teaching them how to rat on their neighbors if they suspect their neighbor was doing something without benefit of a permit.  That is what we have come to from passing millions of laws that nobody knows, which leads to the government pitting neighbor against neighbor.
From what we understand, John’s neighbor had a minor grievance with John over some work along a common boundary, and instead of working it out man-to-man, the neighbor called the county land use authorities (CLUA) and filed a complaint.  The CLUA comes out, looks at what John is doing and says they didn’t see any problem; John didn’t need a permit and went away.  That wasn’t good enough for John’s neighbor and he kept bugging CLUA until they came out to the property and told John that he needed to cease and desist.  But John had already ceased and desisted with whatever he had been doing.  That wasn’t good enough for CLUA, thanks to continued bugging by John’s neighbor, and CLUA finally filed misdemeanor charges against John for continuing to do alleged illegal work that John had already stopped.  Essentially John’s activities consisted of cleaning out some areas around a ditch and burning the slash, for which John had gotten a burning permit.
John ignored their warnings for several months and thought the whole issue had gone away.  But behind the scenes John’s neighbor kept pressuring CLUA and the county prosecutor to “get” John.
CLUA and the county prosecutor dragged John into District Court on misdemeanor charges for filling a wetland and John elected to represent himself for what he thought was just a minor land use violation that he could make go away.  No such luck.  The prosecutor and the District Court judge decided to make an environmental example out of John by thwarting every legal attempt John made to defend himself, to the point that the judge found John in contempt of court and sentenced him to 150 days in jail on a full cash bond of $20,000 each, for five separate contempt of court charges.  Not having $100,000 to pay the court, John was forced to sit in jail with thieves and murderers for over 60 days before a third party filed a writ of Habeas Corpus in Superior Court and had to fork over $20,000 in cash to get John out of jail on appeal. 
Oh, did we tell you that the wetland charge was made by creating the wetland AFTER John had done his clearing and burning?  There was no wetland designation in the area anytime before John did his work.  In other words, the prosecutor drummed up the charges by creating a wetland violation after the fact.  That’s how they “got” John.
While out on appeal John used every legal trick he knew to get the case dismissed but the court clerk would fail to file and record his motions.   Some motions were lost, others ignored.   The District Court judge literally thumbed his nose at all of John’s efforts.  When John filed a motion to get his case elevated to Superior Court because according to the state Constitution, the lower court has no jurisdiction in real estate cases, the District Court judge de-railed that, too.
John filed motions in Superior Court to get the lower court decision rescinded.  The Superior Court would hear none of it either.  We not only read the transcripts of the lower court record but also attended the District Court and Superior Court hearings.  The transcript screamed of the District Court judge’s environmental bias against John and he was going to “get” John any way he could.  We even filed written complaints with the District Court and the Superior Court, signed by several landowners.   We wrote articles about John’s case that appeared in local venues.  The District Court judge wouldn’t let go.
Finding no help in the two lower courts, John filed motions with the state appellate court.  No help there, either.  John went to the State Supreme Court.  They refused to hear the case. 
Finally, just days before the District Court’s order to send John back to jail for another 90 days and pay a fine of another $1,000, John filed for clemency with the Governor of the state.  The Governor ignored John’s plea.  John tried to get the District Court to give him credit for time served and for good behavior while in jail for the first 63 days.  The District Court judge said emphatically, NO! and John went back to jail to sit with thieves and murderers again, essentially for doing maintenance on HIS property. 
Some of us tried to help John but our efforts fell on deaf ears.  John was forced back to jail for another 90 days for a charge of clearing out a wetland that didn’t exist before the act of clearing.   John became a sacrificial lamb in the name of radical environmentalism.  You have to steal a car seven times before you go to jail, but woe be to the landowner who dares to violate a sacred environmental ordinance, for he shall be sacrificed on the alter of Gaia, the God of Earth.
Perhaps, in hindsight, John should have hired a land use attorney and made the charges against him go away.  But he chose to defend himself as a proud American.  Perhaps that was an error in judgment on John’s part, but he and we will never know.  Whether defending yourself, or with a lawyer, going into court is a gamble at best and any good lawyer will admit it.   Court rules are voluminous and can easily trip up the unwary who dares to defend him- or herself in court.  It is a closed, elite club of judges, lawyers, clerks and the state bar association and they rule the “Club.”  They don’t like people defending themselves because it messes up their neat little kingdom.  Judges legislating from the bench are as common as houseflies.  Oversight of courts is tantamount to the Fox guarding the Hen House.  But all that is moot now for John.
(We have had our own sad experiences with the court system.  One of those experiences cost us $35,000 in attorney’s fees for what was blatantly a frivolous lawsuit.)
John has been out of jail now for several years but the experience has left him emotionally, if not financially drained.  We haven’t talked to him in those intervening years and we don’t even know if he still resides on his land.
If you don’t think that what happened to John can happen to you, think again.  It is happening all over America.  Every week we get one or more e-mails or phone calls from landowners who are in trouble with government.  Most of them are desperate because they have let their situation go too far where the government has the landowner by the throat and the fines and penalties are mounting up.  Some are facing jail time.
So, ladies and gentlemen, do you have a neighbor who has it in for you?   Will he work it out with you personally, or will he call the government?  Odds are he will call the government because he is a coward and it is easier than facing you.  When he does call the government, you are going to find yourself in a world of hurt because the code enforcement officer they send out WILL find something wrong on your property and they WILL fine you or tell you that you have to restore your property to its original condition, which will cost you a bundle.   They may even haul you off to jail as they did John.
We can help some landowners with some of the tools on our website.  Unfortunately, there are many we can’t help because the government has the law on their side and they have the money(our money) and their own attorneys to thwart any efforts you may attempt to defend yourself.  It’s a stacked deck at best.


Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly column, “In Defense of Rural America,” is the President of the National Association of Rural Landowners, (NARLO) (www.narlo.org) a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State and dedicated to restoring, maintaining and defending property rights for urban and rural landowners.  Mr. Ewart can be reached for comment at ron@narlo.org, or 1 800 682-7848
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Last year, Joel Boniek of Park County, MT, ex-State Representative and Oathkeeper, was arrested by the US Forest Service for daring to ignore  Forest Service personnel's orders prohibiting him access to his own property in order to save/protect what he could during a forest fire.  After two appearances at which he proceeded to defend himself (pro se), his references to the Constitution were labeled "seditious".  He was supported by many neighbors, friends and patriots.

His trial commences on Friday.  But here are interesting "coincidences".

 Add to this, the information at this link:  http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/atf-offers-reward-in-red-lodge-explosives-theft/article_ed989256-9bbf-5f2e-b5b4-5fc7bd513532.html

If this is a coincidental incident or treacherous false flag, it matters that people know about it beforehand, and that if it is just a coincidence, Joel Boniek's rights in a courtroom in Montana need to be upheld.  No one should be railroaded like he's been.



The Rumor Mill News Reading Room
Nuclear Incident drills in Montana starting Monday
Date: Saturday, 4-May-2013 15:56:35
If a nuclear incident happened in Montana, key officials don’t want to be meeting each other for the first time.
Military personnel at Malmstrom Air Force Base have regular exercises to test their response procedures and make sure everyone knows what to do and when.
But starting Monday, their training will go to a higher level.
A national exercise, known as NUWAIX 2013, which is executed by U.S. Northern Command and sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, will bring about 1,000 people to Montana throughout the exercise. The exercise isn’t expected to disrupt the community, but locals may notice additional vehicle traffic in and out of the base, increased helicopter activity and some personnel in hazmat suits or “tent cities” at some of the exercise sites. The majority of the exercise will be contained at Malmstrom and Fort Harrison in Helena.
Personnel from a variety of local and federal agencies, primarily the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Energy, Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VIII, will augment Malmstrom and other Air Force participants.
The exercise will be scenario based, and participants will respond to a nuclear incident, which could be a DOE shipment in the state, an attack on a nuclear missile site, hostile action on base or the missile field or a range of scenarios.
"A range of scenarios..?" Like some stolen explosives from nearby Red Lodge, MT being used to make the drill go live? [Why Red Lodge- and it is not "nearby" But yes, fear a false flag...- BF]
  1. There has been 559 lbs of explosives stolen in Red Lodge, MT from the Forest Service.  Some are of the emulsion type specific for mines because they have little backblast.
  2. They will be having a nuke exercise across the state starting on Monday running all week, that will ensure DHS, FEMA, FBI, DOD will be in the state
  3. Boniek's trial is on Friday, where he has been told he cannot stand on the Constitution and that will draw MT. patriots from all over the state into one location.
NO AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOULD FEAR THE STATE OR THE COURT.  DENIAL OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF EVERY AMERICAN CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE  TOLERATED ANY LONGER IN THE REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!  

Friday, May 3, 2013

DHS TRAINING VIDEO DEPICTS MILITIAS AS CHEMICAL WEAPON WIELDING TERRORISTS...WHAT THE FUCK?

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/dhs-training-video-depicts-militias-as-chemical-weapon-wielding-terrorists-2635492.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=verticalresponse&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2Fg3Ls&utm_source=direct-b4in.info&utm_content=beforeit39snews-verticalresponse

These power-hungry traitors are really dangerously insane.  Has anyone of you thought they should be given mental evaluations before they are hired?

YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE MILITIA BECAUSE YOU ARE BOUND BY OUR CONSTITUTION TO BE INCLUDED.  THE MILITIA IS EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN.  IT IS OUR RIGHT AND OUR DUTY TO BELONG TO THIS MILITIA, ARMED AND READY TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC FROM ALL ONSLAUGHTS - BE IT OUR OWN TURNCOAT, TRAITOROUS GOVERNMENT OR A FOREIGN ENTITY.  IT IS OUR DUTY TO DEFEND THIS GLORIOUS EXPERIMENT AND NOT LET IT FALL INTO THE HANDS OF MADMEN AND WOMEN WHOM WE CHOSE TO ELECT.  IT IS OUR DUTY TO SAVE THE REPUBLIC.

Remember - we are the dog, and if you allow them to wag us, YOU are part of the problem.

Who is responsible for this crap spewing from the sewer system of Washington, DC?

Are you going to be stupid sheep and believe this propaganda? 


Thursday, April 25, 2013

TODAY'S LIBERTY ALERT FROM KRISANNE HALL!


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Dear May,

Over the last 12 years as our Liberty has DECREASED in the name of national security, yet terrorism has actually EXPANDED. We have now been attacked not only by Jihadists from the Middle East, but now from Europe, as well. These Jihadists have moved from hijacking planes to walking among us with roadside IEDs in Boston. We are not MOVING FORWARD, we are falling BACKWARD, and the assault on our Liberties HAS NOT made us safer! 

polst Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
 William Pitt, 1783 

When Faisal Shahzad tried to blow up Times Square Eric Holder demanded we make our "Miranda" rights "more flexible to meet our current security needs," a call for the destruction of our 5th & 6th Amendments. And Americans cheered the government's assault on the Constitution, a.k.a. the fight against terrorism. http://www.krisannehall.com/index.php/blog/82-should-us-citizens-have-miranda-rights

The government then moved on to mass SECRET surveillance of US Citizens through the FBI and partnerships between DHS and our local law enforcement in statewide "Fusion Centers". http://rt.com/usa/fusion-center-director-spying-070/

This month we watched as the DoD and DHS raided homes in Watertown, MA, yet it took a regular citizen to find the perp. Still Americans cheered at surrendering their 4th Amendment in the name of security. Rest assured Americans will be calling for a clamp down on internet speech, 24-hour surveillance of all public activities, dedicated drone monitoring, and every other thing we can do to enlarge the police state "to keep us safe."

Want to see the new normal our government wants us to accept? Watch the dedication of the George W. Bush Library and see how impressed the citizens are. http://youtu.be/RXVVDy2NXRE

With a gleam in his eye and UNLIMITED POWER in his hand, we will be watching you, the government agent proclaims. We will be secretly digitizing your face and recording your movements, he excitedly declares. And if you cross our path, we can kill you if we simply PERCIEVE a threat, he proudly guarantees.


Those who would trade Liberty for temporary security deserve neither.                             
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CISPA may not pass the Senate and become law, but that is NO IMPEDIMENT to a tyrant. Obama has authorized the DHS to secretly grab your internet communications and monitor YOU! http://rt.com/usa/epic-foia-internet-surveillance-350/

Yet, our government does not stop with secret surveillance, but BOLDLY and OPENLY tramples our rights, because Americans clamor for it to obtain safety. All the while the warnings of our founders fall on deaf ears. Sam Adams: Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom."
                             
  
We have encouraged this lawless attack on our Liberty. We've actually done more than encourage it, we have ASKED for it. We have asked for the chains of national security to be laid upon us and are being transformed into slaves to be ordered about by the standing army. Yet the massive police presence at the Boston Marathon didn't stop the bombing. Not one single camera stopped the bombing (by the way cameras have no ability to stop anything).
  
Expanding government and enlarging the police state can't keep you safe, but it can and will make you a tributary slave. 

Choose you this day.  I know not what course others may take, but as for me it MUST be LIBERTY FIRST!


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Friday, April 12, 2013

MARK LEVIN WENT NUCLEAR WHEN HE KNEW UP/DOWN VOTE ON SECOND AMENDMENT WAS TAKEN -UNCONSTITUTIONAL

AND REID AND THE RINOS, AND ALL THE REST OF THEM WHO ALLOWED IT SHOULD BE JAILED AND TRIED FOR TREASON AND TRYING TO OVERTHROW THIS GOVERNMENT.  THIS IS WHOLLY ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND AGAINST THE RULE OF LAW FOR THIS COUNTRY!!!!   DOESN'T ANYONE REALIZE THIS?

WHO THE FLUCK VOTES FOR AN UNWRITTEN BILL?  DOESN'T THAT BOTHER YOU?


Mark Levin goes NUCLEAR: An up and down vote on the 2nd amendment is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! 4 9 2013

Mark Levin says that on Thursday the Senate intends to vote to change the 2nd amendment without any pretense of going through the amendment process, on a bill that hasn’t even been written yet. He says that this isn’t republicanism, it’s democratic tyranny. And the senators arguing to filibuster are being demonized, but Levin says that an up and down vote on the 2nd amendment is unconstitutional, that there is no up and down vote on the Constitution.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

US CONSTITUTION: ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 - IMPEACHMENT - ASK YOUR REPS AND SENATORS IF THEY'VE EVER READ THIS

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaw.umkc.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fprojects%2Fftrials%2Fimpeach%2Fconstitution.html&ei=61RkUcOMMYmg9QTiwYDACQ&usg=AFQjCNH3puE1fxKffGFtlJmR2n2ihnaDBA&sig2=vUIcgvDTEVORPtSA1M1t9g&bvm=bv.44990110,d.eWU

Here is  the remedy for the deaf eared assholes we elected to the House and the Senate.

Here is where the US CONSTITUTION DEMANDS  THE SENATE TO HEAR THE MISDEMEANORS AND HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AND TO REMOVE THE PRESIDENT, THE VICE PRESIDENT, ETC. FROM OFFICE.

CALL THEM.
EMAIL THEM.
FAX THEM.
  
AND WHEN YOU GET TO BOEHNER'S SMARMY GUYS, MAKE THEM READ IT, TOO.  OUT LOUD AND TO YOU.  

(Dereliction of duty is a misdemeanor.  That lowlife  in the White House,  had the nerve to have 
  another party while N. Korea's madman threatens nuclear strikes!)

Monday, April 1, 2013

EXCUSE ME! WHO MADE MARK KELLEY THE NEW GODFATHER OR MAYBE UNCLE OF GUN CONTROL?

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&search=search#hl=en&site=search&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=mark+kelley+gun+control&oq=mark+kelley+gun+control&gs_l=hp.3..0i10l4.3420.12875.0.13132.27.25.2.0.0.0.225.3592.0j23j2.25.0...0.0...1c.1.7.psy-ab.vsHOzv59efc&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44442042,d.eWU&fp=742c113135fff5b3&biw=1024&bih=564

Hey, Mark.  Shut up.

We need whatever we want and we will buy whatever we want under the Constitution.  The intent was to defend our rights against a dictator.  There's one in the White House, dontcha know?  It is explicit in its wording...and your name does not appear there that I see.

You got your weenie whacked when you ordered that weapon and the store refused you.

Go play with your daughter's pit bull.

Friday, March 29, 2013

MT GOVERNOR LIES AB OUT THE CONSTITUTION, VETOES 2ND AMENDMENT PROTECTION BILL - (HEY STEVE, YOU WON'T BE RE-ELECTED 'CAUSE MY FRIENDS WILL NEVER LET YOU FORGET ABOUT THIS!)

Montana Governor Lies About the Constitution, Vetoes 2nd Amendment Protection Bill
Posted by Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center
Here's a surprise for you; some Governors have absolutely zero understanding of the Constitution.  None, whatsoever. Montana Governor Steve Bullock seems to fit that description quite nicely.
Yesterday, he vetoed Montana House Bill 302 (HB302).  The bill would require the state to refuse to enforce or assist the enforcement of any federal bans on semiautomatic weapons or large capacity magazines.  The bill states, in part:
A peace officer, state employee, or employee of any political subdivision is prohibited from enforcing, assisting in the enforcement of, or otherwise cooperating in the enforcement of a federal ban on semiautomatic weapons or large magazines and is also prohibited from participating in any federal enforcement action implementing a federal ban on semiautomatic weapons or large magazines.

Here's why Bullock is clueless about the Constitution.  In his veto message he wrote that the bill would put "law enforcement in the position of violating laws they have sworn to uphold" and "subject our peace officers to criminal sanctions for upholding the oath we ask that they take."
Here's a message for you, Steve.  You're a liar, and we know it.
There is absolutely ZERO serious discussion from anyone beyond a 4th grade education about the fact that the federal government cannot "commandeer" the states to carry out its laws.  None.
Even the Supreme Court has affirmed this multiple times.
In the 1992 case, New York v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress couldn't require states to enact specified waste disposal regulations.
In the 1997 case, Printz v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not command state law enforcement authorities to conduct background checks on prospective handgun purchasers.
In the 2012 case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court ruled that a significant expansion of Medicaid, was not a valid exercise of Congress's spending power, as it would coerce states to either accept the expansion or risk losing existing Medicaid funding.
In each of these cases, the Supreme Court made is quite clear that their opinion is that the federal government cannot require the states to act, or even coerce them to act through a threat to lose funding.  Their opinion is correct.  If the feds pass a law, they can sure try to enforce it if they want.  But the states absolutely do NOT have to help them in any way. This is really basic stuff that no one disagrees with, except people like Steve Bullock when their trying to mislead people.
So to say that Montana law enforcement would be "violating laws" or "subject...to criminal sanctions" for not carrying out federal law FOR the feds is a bald faced lie.  And Steve Bullock knows it.
The people of Montana should be disgusted.
On the right, those who support the right to keep and bear arms know that no matter what gun laws are ever passed in DC - this year or in the future - Steve Bullock will require the state of Montana to enforce them.
On the left, those who support the medical marijuana program that voters approved years ago, know that Bullock will continue to be an embarrassment to progressives, requiring local law enforcement to continue working with the DEA when they don't even have to.
Now if Bullock would have skipped this part of the veto message and just focused on the political statement that he also included, that would be more...acceptable.  Still wrong-headed and dangerous, but not as bad as his lie that the state needs to carry out and enforce every federal law.  He wants your local law enforcement to take all the risk, and to bear all the cost, while the feds sit back and do nothing or take the credit where the local law enforcement carries all the water.
His veto message continues:
Further, HB 302 is unnecessary. To date, there has been no action in Congress to enact a ban on semiautomatic weapons. Moreover, recent news reports have indicated that a majority of Congress does not support such legislation.
That may be the case for 2013, and it's certainly decent news for the short term.  But, anyone thinking that this is over with because it won't pass in 2013 is mistaken.  Anyone saying "there's nothing to worry about" is a liar.   If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe Joe Biden:
"Let me say this as clearly as I can: this is just the beginning," he said just this week. "We believe that weapons of war have no place on our streets. That's the message that retired admirals and generals have spoken to us about. The comment one of them used was if you want to learn how to use a semiautomatic weapon, join the United States military. But these are weapons of war."
The attempts to ban semiautomatic weapons and high capacity magazines are just beginning  and making sure that the federal government knows that they'll get no support enforcing such a ban from the State of Montana, is a good first step in rendering any such ban ineffective.
As Judge Andrew Napolitano has said recently, such widespread noncompliance can make a federal law "nearly impossible to enforce." 

Steve Bullock is a joke, and while we realize that no one is going to vote this bum out of office anytime soon, the People of Montana can certainly pressure their state senators and representatives to override his veto and render worthless his constitutional-idiocy.
For Bullock to say such garbage about Montana being required to enforce federal law, we say "Bollocks!"


ACTION ITEMS for Montana
1.  Contact your state representative.  Strongly, but respectfully urge him or her to OVERRIDE the Veto on HB302
Contact info here:
2.  Contact your state senator.  Strongly, but respectfully urge him or her to OVERRIDE the Veto on HB302
Contact info here:
  

Friday, March 15, 2013

Thursday, February 14, 2013

THE LIVING, BREATHING - DEAD CONSTITUTION

The Living, Breathing -- DEAD Constitution
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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The US Constitution is NOT flexible.  It was never intended to be flexible.  That's why there are provisions for amending the constitution when sufficient numbers of citizens agree an amendment is needed.

 At RenewAmerica.com, Edward Daly writes:  "Many judges these days like to refer to the Constitution of the United States as a "living, breathing document," implying that its text is designed to be flexible. It is not. The Constitution is a set of rules, and like any other set of rules, it is meant to be strict and uncompromising. Of course, the Constitution can be modified through the amendment process, but once ratified, any amendment becomes like the rest of the Constitution; rigid.

And while any amendment may be repealed, as was the case with the 18th Amendment (The Prohibition Act), until that happens, it is just as concrete as any other part of the Constitution, and not subject to interpretation beyond the literal meaning of its text. The Constitution does not live, breath, or do the cha-cha, for that matter. It is in many ways an instructional manual for the way our country was designed to run, and amending it is very serious business."
  SOURCE:  http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/daley/050324

Either the constitution means what it says, or it is of no account -- totally useless -- and the US is adrift in a sea of utter confusion, ripe for take over by tyrannical forces already tethered deep inside our government.

It is a common expression of the Progressives (read: Marxists) that the constitution is a living, breathing, document.  I know it is not.  YOU know it is not,  and THEY know it is not.  BUT -- our children don't.  And they won't -- unless parents teach them the truth.

More and more our public schools (read: indoctrination centers) are dropping Civics/government/social studies from the curriculum of their schools. Our young scholars are graduating and entering adult life without a clue as to how the US government works. They are ignorant of our founding documents.  They don't know squat about the constitution.  That makes them vulnerable to the protestations from the leftist Marxists that the constitution is a living, breathing, document and open to interpretation -- or even change -- on a whim of the government.

But, Hey!  This is how the progressives/Marxists have been making inroads into the political thinking of American society over the past decades.  "Get 'em when their young and you'll have 'em forever."

The constitution is writ in stone!  If you want to change it, you must carve another stone, as an amendment, and stand it alongside the original. The original constitution is simply not open to interpretation. 

Look at it.  Read it.  A grammar school kid can understand it.  The founders took great pains to make the constitution eminently readable and understandable.   

In a letter to Henry Lee in 1824, James Madison, considered the “father” of the Constitution, wrote:

“I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.  In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.  And if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers.”   SOURCE:  http://www.truenorthquest.com/constitution-living-breathing-document/    

Please note the line in Madison's letter in which he says:  "In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution."  In other words, change the original "sense"(The meaning) of it  -- and it is NO LONGER THE US CONSTITUTION!

Now. Look at what is happening today, right this moment, in our national government.  Bills have been introduced in the Congress that would simply ignore the constitution.

All those gun control bills and gun banning bills simply ignore the original sense, the original wording,  of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.  The Second Amendment clearly states that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be "infringed." 

Infringed means to commit a breach or infraction of; to violate or transgress. 

Simply put, the very words of the Second Amendment say -- and mean -- that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute, sacrosanct, cannot be changed, cannot be denied  -- in other words, there is not a damned thing the government can do to take the guns of American citizens.

Yet, they are trying their dead-level best to do just that. And they are counting on the support of those adults who passed through our government schools in which they were indoctrinated that the constitution is a living, breathing, document.  Those American have, most likely, never heard of Madison's letter to Henry Lee way back in 1824.  (Some, no doubt, have never even heard of James Madison.)  I would warrant most have never, ever, read the constitution, either.

Allow me to inquire -- why are we allowing this farce to continue?   If they get away with it, it means they can simply ignore more of the constitution at will.  It means they can change the "sense" of the constitution from the sense/meaning in which it was ORIGINALLY accepted and ratified.  If they get their way, the constitution will not be worth the paper it is written on.

The support by the Mainstream Media of the Marxist efforts to reinterpret the Second Amendment would be funny were it not so serious.  ("Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ..." -- Romans 1:22 -- New Testament )  They do not seem to grasp that if the sense/meaning of the Second Amendment can be changed -- and allowed by the courts to stand -- then the sense/meaning of the First Amendment can, likewise, be changed.

Look.  The very on-going efforts to re-interpret, or change the sense/meaning of the Second Amendment, is an act of tyranny.  The constitution, itself,  forbids exactly what they are trying to do.

The 2014 elections are a couple of years away (at this writing) and it will be our first chance at removing the proponents of a living, breathing, constitution from office.  In the meantime, we ought to be  demanding the resignation of every Senator and every Congressperson supporting the effort to  "infringe" upon the Second Amendment and we ought to demand the President resign, as well.
This is quickly becoming more than just a fight to keep our guns.  This is a fight to maintain our rights under the US Constitution, our freedom and our liberty.
This is a fight for freedom.


© J. D. Longstreet

Monday, February 11, 2013

THE CONSTITUTION REPEALED IN TEN STATES (


The Constitution repealed in ten states

Your Constitutional Rights have been repealed in ten states.
 
No, this isn’t a joke.   It is not exaggeration or hyperbole.  If you are in ten states in the United States, some of your rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights have been made null and void.
 
And it is not just those ten states.  Those are just the states where everyone who lives in those states has lost some of their Constitutional Rights.  The sad truth is that there are only fourteen states where this stripping of the rights of American citizens has not yet happened.

What is going on?
The government has declared a one hundred mile zone around the United States borders to be a part of the border zone exception from the Fourth Amendment’s freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. 
 
The Fourth Amendment states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
 
Historically there has always been an exemption from the 4th Amendment requirement; i.e.,  at the nation’s border.  This is the so-called border search exception to the Fourth Amendment.  Now the Department of Homeland Security is claiming the right to search electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops and tablet computers without a warrant or even any probable cause within that 100-mile zone.
 
If you live in Hawaii, or Maine, or New Hampshire, or Massachusetts, or Delaware or Rhode Island or Connecticut or Florida or Michigan, or New Jersey, congratulations, you live in a 4th Amendment-free zone !  It does not matter where you go in your state, the Department of Homeland Security can come in and demand to search your electronic devices.  They do not need any probable cause.
 
They can search you for the hell of it.
 
Those states listed are only the ones are totally covered by these “border security” search zones.  Other states like New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia have massive parts of their state that are covered by this too. 
 
This is a Constitution free zone.
 
Who is responsible for this outrage?
 
The Obama Regime is responsible of course, because Obama is currently in power.  Unfortunately this outrage started when George W. Bush was still in the White House. 
 
The language of the 4th Amendment is clear.  It is the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures. 
 
The government still has the right to search a laptop or a cell phone if the agents have probable cause and get a warrant or if they have probable cause and there are exigent circumstances. Electronic devices are the 21st century equivalent of papers and are certainly our effects. 
 
If the Department of Homeland Security can search someone’s cell phone or laptop without a warrant or even probable cause because you are within 100 miles of the border, what is next?  Will the government start saying that if you live within 100 miles of the border, the Department of Homeland Security because of the border search exception to the Fourth Amendment now has the right to search cars and homes without either a warrant or even probable cause?
 
This is insanity and it must stop. 
 
Where is the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives?  Why aren’t they screaming about this desecration of the Constitution?    Republicans should be the first to the floor of the House and Senate denouncing this and introducing legislation to rein in the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Will this happen anytime soon?
 
Don’t hold your breath.

Monday, January 21, 2013

LIVING IN OBAMERICA...YOU WON'T LIKE THIS PICTURE

 H/T to Col. Ron who lives on another creek.


Go figure.

Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Guns of Obamerica
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog

Forget Wal-Mart and skip your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests at your local sporting goods store. They won't have NRA memberships or trophies on their walls.

You won't find them in America. Look for them in Obamerica.

67% of firearm murders took place in the country's 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those numbers are from six years ago. They have grown worse since.

Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. The places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. These are the places where the family is broken, money comes from the government and immigrants crowd in from some of the most violent parts of the world bringing with them their own organized crime. These are also the places that have been run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.

Obama won every major city in the election, except for Jacksonville and Salt Lake City. And the higher the death rate, the bigger his victory. He won New Orleans by 80 to 17 where the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. He won Detroit, where the murder rate of 53 per 100,000 people is the second highest in the country and twice as high as any country in the world, including the Congo and South Africa. He won it 73 to 26. And then he celebrated his victory in Chicago where the murder rate is three times the statewide average.

These places aren't America. They're Obamerica.

In 2006, the 54% of the population living in those 50 metro areas was responsible for 67% of armed killings nationwide. Those are disproportionate numbers especially when you consider that for the people living in most of those cities walking into a store and legally buying a gun is all but impossible.

Mayors of Obamerican cities blame guns because it's easier than blaming people and now the President of Obamerica has turned to the same shameless tactic. The NRA counters that people kill people, but that's exactly why Obamerican leaders would rather talk about the guns.

Chicago, the capital of Obamerica, is a city run by gangs and politicians. It has 68,000 gang members, four times the number of police officers. Chicago politicians solicit the support of gang members in their campaigns, accepting laundered contributions from them, hiring their members and tipping them off about upcoming police raids. And their biggest favor to the gang bosses is doing nothing about the epidemic of gang violence.

80% of Chicago's murders are gang-related. But in 1999 when a bill came up in the Illinois State Senate to try anyone carrying out a firearm attack on school property as an adult, a law that would have affected gang members who often bring weapons to school, the future leader of Obamerica voted present. Had he not voted present, it is doubtful that he would have been reelected in an area where gang leaders wield a great deal of influence.

The majority of murders in the cities with the worst homicide rates are gang-related. And while it isn't always possible to be certain whether a killing was gang-related, the majority of homicide victims in city after city have been found to have criminal records.

In 2010, there were 11,078 firearm homicides in the United States and over 2,000 known gang-related killings, over 90% of which are carried out with firearms. Since 1981, Los Angeles alone has had 16,000 gang related homicides. That's more than twice the number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and it's more than the number of Americans who died in the Mexican-American War.

This is what Obamerica looks like. It's a place where life is cheap and illegal guns are as available as illegal drugs. It's a series of war zones whose problem is not the supply of guns, but their own social dysfunction. It's the war that we aren't talking about, because it's easier to talk about the inanimate objects being used to fight that war.

Reformers in the twenties blamed the plight of the slums on the availability of liquor. They rammed through Prohibition for the entire country to fix the cities. The liquor went on flowing and the slums went on being slums. Gun control has been just as successful in healing the slums as whiskey control was. And like the dry reformers, gun control advocates insist on trying to apply their solution on a national level, when the problem is not nationwide.

There are, as John Edwards said, two Americas. America is a country that runs pretty well on its own. Gun sales in America do not lead to bursts of homicide. If the power goes out for an hour, there is no epidemic of looting. The new year isn't rung in at the morgue. Social dysfunction exists but it never affects the majority or even a sizable minority of the population.

And then there's Obamerica. Not all of Obamerica is broken, but a lot of it is. Obamerica has a big gap between the rich and the poor. Its middle class is always on the run. Its upper class retreats to fortresses. Its lower class is broken and constantly growing as its political machines feed off human misery and exploit social dysfunction to gain votes.

America does not have a gun violence problem. Obamerica does. And Obamerica has a gun violence problem for the same reason that it has a drug problem and a broken family problem. These social ills cannot be solved by banning something. The War on Guns is not going to fix the inner city just as the War on Drugs didn't. Rigid law enforcement can keep the numbers down, but does not deal with the causes of the violence.

Obamerica is a bad place. It has great restaurants and night clubs. It has a lot of noise and a lot of light. The next big thing in music will probably come out of there. It's where your kids probably dream of moving to when they're teenagers. But for all that it's fundamentally broken.

Democratic leaders and machines, combined with liberal social workers and justice crusaders have run Obamerica into the ground. Obamerican cities used to be the homes of industry and progress. Now they're places where young Black and Hispanic men kill each other in growing numbers.

In America, guns are used for target practice and for hunting, and on rare occasions for self-defense, but in Obamerica guns have only one purpose, as so many liberals have pointed out, like so many of the young men who walk the streets of Obamerica, they exist only to kill. The guns get blamed and the killers rotate through the revolving doors of an overburdened justice system. And then the politicians who sit around the table with gang leaders announce that they have a new initiative to get guns off the streets.

America does not need gun control. It is a mostly law-abiding place. And gun control cannot help Obamerica. Not when its murder rate is driven by gangs who have no trouble obtaining anything; whether it's legal in the United States or not.

What can help is talking about Obamerica. AIDS prevention was sabotaged by the claim that the disease was a general problem spreading through the population. It wasn't. Neither is gun violence. Despite the occasional exception created by high profile suburban shooting sprees, this is not an American problem. It’s an Obamerican problem.

Adam Lanza is as much of a plausible poster boy for gun violence, as Ryan White was for AIDS. A better poster boy for gun violence might be Jay-Z, who boasts of having been a drug dealer and claims to have shot his brother at the age of 12. The drug dealer to millionaire rapper is the Horatio Alger story of Obamerica. And Jay-Z can be seen partying with Obama, the political king of Obamerica touching base with its cultural king.

If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don't want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

That's what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica's death toll. It's buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and Liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obamerica. They are an indictment of Obama.

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency. It needs to have a conversation about funneling new immigrants from broken parts of the world into areas already suffering from high levels of unemployment and street violence.

Most of all this country needs to have a conversation about the direction it's headed in. We need to set aside the same old tired social justice rhetoric that has done nothing except train .001 percent of the young men and women of Obamerica to be community organizers and race card wielders and have a serious conversation about what is wrong with New Orleans, Detroit and Chicago.

Obama has become a role model to millions of people in the Black community. You can see posters and photos of him in every barbershop. If anyone can address these problems, it's him. But instead of trying to solve the problems of Obamerica, instead of doing something about the high levels of unemployment, the broken families and the glamorization of drug dealing and violent crime, he wimped out and picked a fight with the rural Americans that he derided as gun-clingers.

In the same hollow tradition of macho posturing common among the men responsible for much of the violence in Obamerica, he chose to show his power in a fight for dominance with a perceived rival, rather than give back to his community. Rather than looking to the hearts and minds of his followers, he went after the guns of those he sees as his enemies. That is what distinguishes a thug from a leader. Leaders uplift their people. Thugs use them up as cannon fodder in their own private power struggles.

The legacy of Martin Luther King reminds us that a leader speaks difficult truths even to his own people. There are such leaders in the Black community today. Obama is not one of them.

The guns of America, by and large, are not a threat to the innocent. The guns of Obamerica are. And the conversation that we need to have is about what can be done, not about the guns of Obamerica, but about its hearts and minds.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-guns-of-obamerica.html

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

OBAMA DEATH SQUADS FAN OUT ACROSS AMERICA AS REBELLION LOOMS

Obama Death Squads Fan Out Across America As Rebellion Looms
A grim Federal Security Forces “urgent action” memorandum prepared for President Putin is warning that United States President Barack Obama has ordered at least 800 highly trained “death squad” units to disperse throughout his country in preparation for what Russian intelligence analysts are predicting to be a series of high-profile killings of dissident Americans set to begin as soon as February 22nd.
According to this memo, Obama was emboldened to implement this murderous plan against his own citizens after this past weeks US Federal Court ruling granted his regime the right to kill, without trial or charges, any American he so chooses, and keep the reason(s) for doing so secret.
 
Important to note about this shredding of the US Constitutional protections the American people once lived under was the disgusted wording used by United States District Court Judge Colleen McMahon who in handing down this frightening ruling, in part, said:
“The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me; but after careful consideration, I find myself stuck in a paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of contradictory constraints and rules — a veritable Catch-22. I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the Executive Branch of our Government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution and laws, while keeping the reason for their conclusion a secret.”
Equally important to note about the Obama regimes murderous plan, this memo continues, was a likewise chilling ruling issued last month by United States Appeals Court Judge Raymond Lohier that allows the American President to detain indefinitely any citizen he so chooses without trial or charges, a move so grave and draconian it led to the Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone saying about Obama:
“I think under the disguise of sheep’s clothing he has been a wolf. That because of the nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him, people forgave him a lot. He was a great hope for change. The color of his skin, the upbringing, the internationalism, the globalism, seemed all evident. And he is an intelligent man. He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them. That is what is sad. So we are going into the second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the law and foundations of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer, you know. Without the law, it is the law of the jungle. Nuremburg existed for a reason and there was a reason to have trials, there is a reason for due process – ‘habeas corpus’ as they call it in the United States.”
 
The excuse to be used by the Obama regime in order to begin their targeted killings of American dissidents, FSB analysts say, is that these otherwise lawful citizens were not complying with the new gun control laws Vice President Joseph Biden “guaranteed” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino would be enacted by the end of January.
Critical to note is that Obama permanently solidified the enmity of the American gun-rights supporters when, during the 2008 Presidential primary, he was recorded at a political fundraiser saying of rural, working-class Americans, “So it's not surprising, then, that they get bitter and they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or, you know, anti-trade sentiment [as] a way to explain their frustrations.”
 
Most interesting to note in this memo is its saying that the “master plan” Obama intends to use in disarming his citizens has already been openly discussed and published by the highly influential progressive American political blog Daily Kos, that is said does not repeat Democratic “talking points,” it generates political talking points that later are found in mainstream publications and from Democratic politicians themselves, and is now opening advocating indiscriminate armed raids to be used as an “example” to frighten other citizens into obeying their Washington D.C. masters who will order them all to disarm.
 
The “death squads” being deployed throughout the United States under Obama’s orders, this memo continues, are frighteningly called VIPER teams, which is the acronym for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team, a programme run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and whose agents terrify millions of Americans with Nazi-like Gestapo tactics on a daily basis at airports and who report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
So frightening have these TSA agents become that London’s Guardian News Service, this past April, in their article titled “The TSA's Mission Creep is Making the US a Police State,” warned that these Obama regime henchmen are spreading out across the entire United States in order to control every aspect of American citizens life… “never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”
And to how these TSA VIPER Team “death squads” will “dominate, intimidate and control” dissident Americans, this memo says, was made even more chillingly clear this past week when the DHS ordered another 200,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition on top of the 1.6 billion rounds of this internationally banned ammunition already secured by them over the last 9 months alone. These nearly 2 billion rounds of ammunition stand in sharp contrast to US military forces who use only 70 million rounds of ammunition per year in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Russian military analysts contributing to this memo further note that the Obama regimes saying that these massive DHS ammunition purchases are for “practice and training purposes” is “preposterous” as all firearms training done by military and/or police forces “always” use less expensive rounds. Retired US Army Major General Jerry Curry, likewise, agreed with his Russian counterparts when he stated that the Obama regimes “explanation about the bullets fails to pass the smell test.”
Most ominous, perhaps, in this memo is its stating that the “exact” plan for the Obama regimes disarming of its citizens appears to have been predicted by the famous martyred American dissident William Cooper (1943-2001), who in his 1991 book “Behold A Pale Horse” wrote:
“The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd Amendment.”
Cooper, who former President Bill Clinton once called “the most dangerous man in America,” was gunned down by US authorities shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks which, in a radio broadcast on 28 June 2001, he predicted an attack on America and stated that Osama Bin Laden would be named as the primary scapegoat.
With the tragic events of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre still fresh in the American peoples mind, combined with Obama’s new unlimited power to kill and detain any American citizen he so desires, this memo concludes, the conditions for “wholesale rebellion” in the United States is just “one spark” away from becoming a reality, and which these heavily armed TSA VIPER Team “death squads” are sure to provide.

The following is from last April...and provides further insight.
 

The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state

The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it's checkpoints and roadblocks
 
A TSA 'viper' (VIPR) team patrolling mass transit
A TSA 'viper' (VIPR) team patrolling mass transit
Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"
This callous disregard for travelers' rights merely paraphrases the words of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano, who shares, with the president, ultimate responsibility for all TSA travesties since 2009. In November 2010, with the groping policy only a few weeks old, Napolitano dismissed complaints by saying "people [who] want to travel by some other means" have that right. (In other words: if you don't like it, don't fly.)
But now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit. In the past year, TSA's snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations – and even running checkpoints on highways – never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control."
Anyone who rode the bus in Houston, Texas during the 2-10pm shift last Friday faced random bag checks and sweeps by both drug-sniffing dogs and bomb-sniffing dogs (the latter being only canines necessary if "preventing terrorism" were the actual intent of these raids), all courtesy of a joint effort between TSA VIPR nests and three different local and county-level police departments. The new Napolitano doctrine, then: "Show us your papers, show us everything you've got, justify yourself or you're not allowed to go about your everyday business."
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee praised these violations of her constituents' rights with an explanation asinine even by congressional standards:
"We're looking to make sure that the lady I saw walking with a cane … knows that Metro cares as much about her as we do about building the light rail."
See, if you don't support the random harassment of ordinary people riding the bus to work, you're a callous bastard who doesn't care about little old ladies.
No specific threats or reasons were cited for the raids, as the government no longer even pretends to need any. Vipers bite you just because they can. TSA spokesman Jim Fotenos confirmed this a few days before the Houston raids, when VIPR teams and local police did the same thing to travelers catching trains out of the Amtrak station in Alton, Illinois. Fotenos confirmed that "It was not in response to a specific threat," and bragged that VIPR teams conduct "thousands" of these operations each year.
Still, apologists can pretend that's all good, pretend constitutional and human rights somehow don't apply to mass transit, and twist their minds into the Mobius pretzel shapes necessary to find random searches of everyday travelers compatible with any notion that America is a free country. "Don't like the new rules for mass transit? Then drive."
Except even that doesn't work anymore. Earlier this month, the VIPRs came out again in Virginia and infested the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, also known as the stretch of Interstate 64 connecting the cities of Hampton and Norfolk. Spokesmen admitted again that the exercise was a "routine sweep", not a response to any specific threat. Official news outlets admitted the checkpoint caused a delay (further exacerbated by a couple of accidents), but didn't say for how long. Local commenters at the Travel Underground forums reported delays of 90 minutes.
I grew up in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. When I was a kid, my dad crossed the bridge-tunnel every day while commuting to work. When I was in university, I did the same thing. The old conventional wisdom said "Get to the airport at least two hours early, so TSA has time to violate your constitutional rights before boarding." What's the new conventional wisdom – "Leave for any destination at least 90 minutes early, so TSA can violate your rights en route"?
Airports, bus terminals, train stations, highways – what's left? If you don't like it, walk. And remember to be respectfully submissive to any TSA agents or police you encounter in your travels, especially now that the US supreme court has ruled mass strip-searches are acceptable for anyone arrested for even the most minor offence in America. If you're rude to any TSA agent or cops, you risk being arrested on some vague catch-all charge like "disorderly conduct". Even if the charges are later dropped, you'll still undergo the ritual humiliation of having to strip, squat, spread 'em and show your various orifices to be empty.
Can I call America a police state now, without being accused of hyperbole?.
 

[Last but not least, let's remember our skies will soon be full of government surveillance drones -Merlin]
 
I will find the attributes for this; meanwhile, check the veracity of the links.