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Monday, December 26, 2011

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND CHECK OUT THIS LIBERTARIAN'S BLOG. HE'S A STRAIGHT SHOOTER FROM MONTANA

http://garydbarnett.com/GDBdaily/

And he also writes for Lew Rockwell. Thank you, Phil Lucas, Editor of the Bay Bullet for printing this:

Unlimited Military Detention of Americans To Become Law: To Hell With Freedom!

by Gary D. Barnett

Recently by Gary D. Barnett: Blind Obedience to the State: The Sheep Are Now Ready for Slaughter!


I recently wrote an article about this atrocious piece of legislation, (S-1867) but at that time, it had not made it through the House of Representatives, and Obama had pledged to veto it upon its arrival to his desk. It is no surprise that the dishonest Obama lied again, but it is telling that both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed this overwhelmingly. These are the same "representatives" that most of the lemmings in this country believe protect their interests, but the opposite of course is the case.

It is difficult to put into words just how absolutely obnoxious this anti-freedom monstrosity is, and it is even more difficult to imagine the future consequences of this heinous law. How on earth can this be allowed to happen? If this stands, we can openly admit that we are now in an executive dictatorship.

When any American can be "legally" apprehended by the military, held indefinitely without the benefit of any due process, be shipped off to hidden prisons or concentration camps, and tortured or worse, what have we become? What have the people become when they sit idly by and let this go forward without complete and total resistance? They have become slaves to the state, and they have become slaves voluntarily!

There are many attempting to refute the fact that the military has the authorization to indefinitely hold American citizens, but it is very clear that under this piece of legislation, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, the military can do just that. While the bill is filled with many deplorable aspects, mostly ignored I might add, the detention language is clear. Glenn Greenwald of Salon explains the myths concerning the detention portion of this bill in his brilliant article: "Three myths about the detention bill."

There is not a lot more that one can say about this new law, because it is the finishing nail in the proverbial coffin of totalitarianism. When any American on the say so of the executive branch of government can be "legally" captured by the military and held indefinitely, and without charge or trial, then the state has won.

Who will the government thugs target first? They will target those who are willing to stand up to them. They will target those who expose the corruption and lies that are ever present in the political arena. They will target writers of truth. They will target protesters, and all those who actively dissent. They will target those who expose the state propaganda for what it truly is.

When the truth tellers are rounded up, who will speak for the rest? When those among us who are unafraid, and who do not fear the state gendarmes, are in concentration camps, which of you will step forward to replace them? Which of you will risk everything to protect your liberty? Which of you will fight to be free? When all the guardians of the sheep are gone, then the wolves will have an easy slaughter, and this bill is meant to allow the roundup of all the guardians of liberty.

We are all born with certain natural rights; those rights being the rights to life, liberty, and property. These rights cannot be separated, for to have one is to have all, and to lose one is to lose all. If one has a right to his life, then it stands to reason that he also has the right to defend his life. If he has a right to defend his life, then he has a right to defend his liberty. If he has a right to defend his liberty, then he has the right to defend his property. If the government attacks any of these rights, then we all have the right to defend ourselves from that same government.

I am purposely avoiding here any argument based on so-called constitutional rights. Obviously, indefinite detention without trial invalidates the 5th Amendment, but it is also completely inconsistent with our natural rights. The natural rights mentioned above are inherent; they come from no piece of parchment. For if men can give rights by constitution, then those rights can legally be taken away. That is much of the problem, for when we look to a political document to see what we are allowed to do, then we have already lost our sovereignty.

Until the people in this country understand what their inherent rights are, and where they come from, the continual destruction of our liberty by this government will continue. Our rights, depending on one’s beliefs, either come from God or our own humanity. They predate men. Judge Andrew Napolitano has made this point on many occasions, and it should be considered as absolute. Since our rights are inherent, it is up to us as individuals to protect those precious rights, for if we do not, we will have none nor deserve none!

December 17, 2011

Gary D. Barnett [send him mail] is president of Barnett Financial Services, Inc., in Lewistown, Montana. Visit his website.

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Hot Bodies Running the TSA’s Gauntlet

by Karen De Coster
by Karen De Coster

Recently by Karen De Coster: From Mother’s Milk to Wine


The latest backlash against the TSA's new groping procedures is finally reaching a level of furor that is in proportion to the atrocious crimes we have been subjected to since the government's favorite excuse for totalitarianism: 9/11.

I haven't flown much at all in the last few years because I figured if I did, sooner or later I would end up in jail. You see, people who know me well understand that I have no tolerance for any of this crappola being dished out by the sick bastards running their abusive and criminal pipelines at US airports. I have a mouth, and unfortunately for me, I use it every bit as well as my keyboard. In the past, in response to rude treatment from the TSA's arrogant pricks, I have taunted the crew-cutted, militaristic-looking weenie boy TSA agents and their hoggish female counterparts, and accordingly, they have threatened me ("we will not let you get on this plane"). I have done this in front of traveling partners who were moderately frightened at my lack of ability to go along, get along, and say "yes sir" and "thank you sir."

I raged back in 2004 at the Detroit airport, when, while preparing to get on an international flight, one of my best girlfriends had her luggage searched and some grotesque-looking male with a deformed waistline and a minimum of five chins started pulling tampons out of her Kotex box, one by one. Our group (or at least I) almost didn't make it on the flight. In 2004 I wrote about my eventful airport moment spent evading the TSA after one of the cattle from the herd went all fruitcake on me for leaving my bag unattended.


Some people have t-shirts that read, "doesn't play well with others." I need one that says, "I'm a really nice person until you try to control me."

I really don't mean to be gross here, but rather, I like to think of the following technique as being creative. Way back in time (1980s), when I was attending rock concerts as a teenager or twenty-something, I latched on to the unnecessary nature of the pointless searches being conducted at the doors of government-owned concert venues, and I came to understand why this was taking place. And at that time it was always guys searching girls. The big thing for these guys was to search our purses. They'd ask us to open them up (wide), and they'd stick their hands down into the purse and rifle through all the items. These guys took great pleasure in this activity, and they especially enjoyed the appalled reactions from cute chicks.

Admittedly, it was my soon-to-be sister-in-law who taught me the trick to put an immediate stop to that nonsense: lay a dirty Kotex feminine pad (even if the "used" look was faked) at the top of one's purse, and when the searcher opened up the purse ... surprise! Would you like to guess how quickly the guy got his slimy hands out of my purse? I used that technique successfully for some time.


So here we are, with the new TSA scheme for getting into the pants of people who, for some odd reason, prefer privacy and a hands-off mentality when it comes to their personal genitalia. Thus I want to comment on all of the talk about hot chicks being subjected to greater scrutiny from the preying eyes of the warped TSA mobsters. I can comment on this because I am considered to be one of those chicks with a "hot body." I have experienced these rude and vomitous pigs licking their ugly chops at me.

In the recent past, when the TSA gangsters would see my buff, little body wearing size zero pants coming up to the front of the line where you break for an individual security line, they'd wave me toward the shortest line (the porno scanner). I'd decline and head to a non-porno scanner line, and at that time, the repercussion was minor, or none at all. I layer my shirts often, and so I usually wear these really tight (and very thin), colorful tank tops underneath my shirt that take the place of a brassiere. They are not exterior shirts – they are too thin and tight for my taste, and so I wear them as a bottom layer, for color and style, and I wear some type of blouse or other shirt over the top. Twice I have been asked to remove my blouse – yes, my exterior clothes – because some scumbag who would otherwise be unemployable in any job other than a minimum wage gig got a look at my tight cover-up beneath my blouse and wanted to see me strip down to give him a cheap thrill and humiliate me in front of dozens of onlookers. Both times it was a man who told me to remove my shirt. Both times I said "hell no, I'm not stripping and walking through this line half-naked for you." And each time the piggish thug backed off.


Fortunately for me, should I really want or need to fly, I live 19 miles from one of the two Detroit-Windsor, Canada border crossings, and I work four blocks from that spot. I'll take my chances on a few quick questions from a lame border guard and drive a couple of miles past the border crossing to the Windsor airport. From there I can take a 40-minute connecting flight to Toronto and go anywhere in the world. The New Windsor Airport brands itself as the "hassle-free alternative airport."

Another alternative is (yes, the government's) train system. In spite of the incompetence and the government's lack of ability to run the trains on time, I found the experience of riding overnight on a long trip in a private car to be very pleasant and comfortable, as well as an interesting adventure. The last time I took Amtrak they were in the process of going "wired," so I suspect that the trains have full Internet by now. I know that security procedures on Amtrak have become more rigid, but it is nothing like I have experienced in the airports.

In recent years I have flown very little because of the buildup of the US totalitarian terror state. But now, with the government’s endorsement and deployment of the humiliation-molester state, I know for certain that I will be singled out, for my shapely body, at TSA checkpoints. Male misfits will ogle me, or, as an alternative, I will be groped by overweight, overpaid, revolting bulldykes. I came back from a California trip right before the new TSA decrees, and I had already declared that I would stop flying because I have had it with airports, airlines, and flying. This new scheme will target me, and as such, I will decline to offer myself up as a juicy tidbit for all of the grotesque losers wearing cheap patches and a plastic badge.

November 24, 2010

Karen De Coster [send her mail] is a libertarian accounting/finance professional during the day, and she spends her personal time being a dissident and writer. She writes about the TSA, the medical establishment, Big Pharma, Big Agra, the Banksters, the Corporate State, health totalitarianism, lifestyle fascism, bailout nation, the military-congressional-industrial-medical-pharmaceutical complex, and essentially, anything that encroaches upon the freedom of her fellow human beings. This is her LewRockwell.com archive and her Mises.org archive. Check out her website.

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