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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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Monday, March 11, 2013

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN. FEDS PLANNING ANOTHER FALSE FLAG LIKE OKLAHOMJA CITY - MEDIA RAMPING UP FEAR OF PATRIOTS. HOW CAN "THEY" LIVE WITH THEMSELVES???

http://www.prisonplanet.com/another-ok-city-bombing-establishment-media-ramps-up-fear-of-patriots.html

Guess the shootings weren't horrible enough.  Expect a big false flag or a series.  These people are spoiling for a fight.  But remember - we're behind every blade of grass. 

Next one will be so heinous, we may never recover from it...but it will be a false flag, and you will be strong...won't you?

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

CHINESE STATE MEDIA DEMANDS US CITIZENS BE DISARMED - DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS LEADING, FOLKS?

http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/chinese-state-media-demands-us-citizens-be-disarmed/

You watch the executive order come down that destroys our Second Amendment.  It won't be incremental.
It's going to come down like a sledge hammer.  Get ready and decide now how you will stand.

It's simple...

Will you stand for liberty and freedom and fight and defend your birthright (YOUR RIGHT TO DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY AGAINST TYRANNY WITH MILITARY ARMS)?  Your God-given right?  Or fold for the dictator in the White House.

Remember - YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

HERE'S THE LIBERTY ACTION REPORT FOR TODAY - A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING...OBAMACARE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE POOR (BAD NEWS), NY GETS LEFT OUT OF NATURAL GAS REVOLUTION, OBAMACARE EXCHANGES ARE DANGEROUS,


Nov. 15, 2012

Employer mandate will not only hurt job growth among small businesses, it is already resulting in fewer hours and less income for workers at larger companies.

America's Governors are set to make a decision on whether to implement an ObamaCare exchange. ObamaCareWatcher.org's John Vinci explains what Americans for Limited Government thinks they should do.

The Marcellus Shale cuts across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and could potentially to help transform the world's energy portfolio. But this will require public policy decisions that rooted in sound science not unsubstantiated alarmism.

Does Harry Reid want to restrict Republican use of the filibuster in the Senate?


Obamaca
re Mandate To Cut Worker Hours, Leaving The Poor Worse Off

By Howard Rich
In Barack Obama's first term the U.S. labor force shrank to a 30-year low. Job growth lagged behind population growth as millions gave up their search for gainful employment. Income levels receded, productivity sputtered and deficits soared - all in the name of "recovery."
So what does Obama have planned for an encore? How does he intend to further "stimulate" the economy during his second term?
In his victory speech, Obama pledged he would continue pursuing "the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."
That's a truly frightening thought. In fact if left unchecked, Obama's "bold, persistent experimentation" could very well wind up making this crisis every bit as bad as that one.
For example, atop Obama's second term "to do" list is the full implementation of his signature first term accomplishment: ObamaCare.
Having secured another four years in the White House, Obama can now block any effort to overturn his socialized medicine law - although states can (thankfully) still stop much of its new spending if they reject ObamaCare's "exchanges" and refuse its Medicaid enrollment expansions. For the sake of our future deficits, let's hope they do so en masse.
One provision of ObamaCare that can no longer be stopped, however, is its "employer mandate." While nowhere near as infamous as the "individual mandate" compelling citizen participation in the health insurance market, ObamaCare's requirement that companies provide coverage to all employees working more than 30 hours a week will be a job killer nonetheless.
Not only will this mandate prevent job growth among small businesses, it will also result in fewer hours and less income for workers at larger companies. These are people struggling to make ends meet on limited income - people who cannot afford to lose these hours.
Last month Darden Restaurants - which employs 185,000 people at nearly 2,000 Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse and Red Lobster restaurants - revealed that it was scaling back many of its employees' workweeks to 28 hours. Ordinarily such a move would result in high turnover and an influx of less-competent employees - but not in Obama's economy.

ALG Is Urging Governors Not To Implement ObamaCare Exchange
Video by Frank McCaffrey
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New York Misses Out on Natural Gas Revolution as Junk Science Carries the Day
By Kevin Mooney
With President Obama back in the White House next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to roll out a new regulation to control drilling techniques used to access natural gas. Even so, the expected surge in U.S. oil production will likely outpace political paybacks to green groups that can be uprooted over time.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC) and U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) all anticipate the U.S. becoming less dependent on foreign oil sources as the natural gas revolution takes hold. Current forecasts show that the U.S. could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2020.
At issue is a drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), that makes use of pressurized water and chemicals to break open rocks to access natural gas. Green groups have worked successfully to block industry from development natural gas resources in New York by arguing that fracking could lead to groundwater contamination. In 2010, former Gov. David Patterson issued an executive order that prevents new drilling permits from being issued until after the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issues a new impact statement. With the public comment period now over, the DEC is expected to release an updated impact statement and a regulatory plan before the end of 2012.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist with the U.S. Department of Labor, has a recommendation.
"For fiscal health, New York should emulate Pennsylvania and develop its natural gas reserves," she suggests. "If New York were to permit fracking, the Empire State would see new jobs, a surge of economic activity, and more tax revenues."
At a time when New York's budget deficit exceeds $8 billion, the economic rationale for natural gas development cannot be dismissed. But it is possible to cajole politicians and frighten the public on basis of junk science. The environmental organizations opposed to fracking incessantly claim that it opens the way to water contamination. Here are some key facts:
In a regulatory statement, the Texas Railroad Commission said "Though hydraulic fracturing has been used for over 60 years in Texas, our Railroad Commission records do not reflect a single documented surface or groundwater contamination case associated with hydraulic fracturing.
In Pennsylvania, Scott Perry, director of the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Oil Management has told members of the press "There has never been any evidence of fracking ever causing direct contamination of fresh groundwater in Pennsylvania or anywhere else."
Get full story here.

 
ALG Editor's Note: In the following featured column from U.S. News and World Report, Peter Roff warns that Harry Reid wants to do away with the filibuster:

GOP Senators Need to Radicalize
By Peter Roff
Over the last two years, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has ruled over the United States Senate like some kind of 19th century potentate.
A ruthless political operative, Reid has single-handedly blocked legislation, prevented the Senate from voting on healthcare repeal, and led the effort to keep his fellow Democrats from having to go on record voting for a budget-as they are by law required to do-for each of the last three years. He has also, by doing what is known on Capitol Hill as "filling the tree," prevented his Republican colleagues from offering amendments on crucial pieces of legislation.
Reid decides what amendments will be offered and by whom, leading to an increase in the number of times the GOP has had to resort to the filibuster. Under Reid's autocratic rule it is the only way they can make their voice heard.
Now Reid says he wants to limit the voice of the GOP even further by restricting the ability of senators to block or slow the passage of legislation. He has not yet put forward an explicit plan for doing so but the intent is clear: to give him even more authority to determine what can be brought to the Senate floor and to further muzzle the opposition.
In order to remain effective, perhaps even in order to survive, Senate Republicans need to be radicalized-much as members of the House were by the Conservative Opportunity Society under the leadership of a then-obscure backbencher named Gingrich. Without a change in attitude, they may be relegated to the status of a permanent and ineffective minority-as hard as that may be to conceive.
Get full story here from U.S. News and World Report.

Monday, October 22, 2012

WHAT IS FREEDOM? EXCERPT FROM NAOMI WOLF'S BOOK, "THE END OF AMERICA, LETTER OF WARNING TO A YOUNG PATRIOT"

"WHAT IS FREEDOM?

"It's a free country," any American child will say, a comfortable assurance that this same American carries as he or she grows up.  We scarcely consider that that sentence descends to that child from arguments for liberty that date back through generations of Enlightenment-era English and French philosophers, who were trying to work out what "a free country" could possibly look like - even as they themselves lived through or looked on reigns of violently abusive and capricious monarchs.

We tend to think of American democracy as being somehow eternal, ever-renewable, and capable of withstanding all assaults.  But the Founders would have thought we were dangerously naive, not to mention lazy, in thinking of democracy in this way.  This view - which we see as patriotic - is the very opposite of the view that they held.  They would not have considered our attitude patriotic - or even Americans:  The Founders thought, in contrast, that it was tyranny that was eternal, ever-renewable, and capable of of withstanding all assaults, whereas democracy was difficult, personally exacting, and vanishingly fragile. The Founders did not see Americans as being special in any way:  They saw America - that is, the process of liberty - as special.

In fact, the men who risked hanging to found our nation, and the women who risked their own lives to support this experiment in freedom, and who did what they could to advance it, were terrified of exactly what we call dictatorship.  They called it "tyranny" or "despotism."  It was the specter at their backs - and they all new it - as Americans debated the Constitution and argued about the shape of the Bill of Rights.

The framing of the documents upon which the new national government rested did not take place as we were taught it did - in a sunny glow of confident assertiveness about freedom.  That scenario is a Hallmark-card rewrite of the real mood of the era and the tenor that surrounded the discussions of the day. The mood as early Americans debated the proposed Constitution  and the Bill of Rights was, rather, one of grave apprehension.

For the founders shared with the rest of the people awaiting the outcome of their labors a dread of what nearly all of them - Federalist of anti-Federalist - saw as the real prospect of a tyrannical force rising up in America.  This repressive force could take many forms:  the form of a rapacious Congress oppressing the people; the form of an out-of-control executive; or even the form of the people themselves, cruelly oppressing a minority. (Footnote 12)  The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were set forth not as a flag flying merrily but as a bulwark:  a set of barriers against what the Founders and their fellow countrymen and women sw aas people's natural tendency to oppress others if their power is unchecked.

What recurred regularly in various arguments as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights took shape was the widespread fear of an unchecked executive.  (Footnote 13)  It's not surprising that these patriots would so deeply fear  a single man invested with too much power.  They had just freed themselves from being subjugated to George III, an abusive, not to mention mentally ill, monarch.

The Founders had fled repressive societies themselves, or were children or grandchildren of those who had done so.  The North American colonies were settled by people - Puritans, Quakers and others - who had fled countries in which they had been imprisoned and even tortured for such acts as assembling in groups to pray; or for attending certain churches; or for publishing pamphlets critical of the King or of Parliament.  The Founders knew from their own experience how the Crown treated those who talked about democracy (that is, "sedition").  They knew about criminalized speech, arbitrary arrest, and even show trials.  They had personally to recon with the risk of state-sanctioned torture and murder:  Each of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence could have been hanged if the colonies had lost the Revolutionary War.

When Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, the little book that helped start the big revolution, he risked being hanged by the British Crown for treason.  Indeed, the Crown did charge Paine with sedition for having written another book, The Rights of Man.  He was tried by a jury hand-chosen by the government that he had attacked - a jury sure to condemn him.  The proceedings were a mockery of the rule of law.  In spite of this lawyer's brilliant defense, as one witness put it, "The venal jury...without waiting for any answer, or any summing up by the Judge, pronounced [Paine] guilty.  Such an instance of infernal corruption is scarcely upon record"  Paine's publisher was dragged off to prison in chains. (Footnote 14)

Arbitrary arrest, state intimidation, and torture were the tactics of the tyrannical monarchs of eighteenth century  Europe - tactics that the Founders sought to banish from American soil forever.  The Founders' rebellion on this continent intended systematically  to open a nation up to freedom - meaning , fundamentally, freedom from these evils.

In colleges with progressive curricula, the Founders are often portrayed as "dead white men," whose vision was imperfect, who  denied women and the poor civil rights, and who defined an African slave in America as being three--fifths of a person; old guys in wigs who wrote documents  that are now dusty in language that seems to us to be either arcane or to offer sentiments that are so obvious now they have become cliches ("...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...").

Here's what we're not taught:  Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive.  If you understand them truly now, they still are.  These men and the women who supported their work were walking further out intot he unknown - betting on ordinary people's capacities - than anyone  had ever walked in the history of the human race.  You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they  had a vision of equality  that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and they they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.

You weren't taught that the way they brought the freest nation in the world into being was by reading passionately about fledgling democracies of the past; by positioning their imaginations directly against the violent repressions they had fled; and by carefully, delicately crafting a mechanism of checks and balances, and a bill of rights, that would protect these extreme manifestations of freedom.  The Founders set out to prove that ordinary people could be entrusted with governing themselves in a state where no one could arbitrarily arrest them, lock them up, or torture them.

Living against the backdrop of violent repression, these men and women saw the democracy they were seeking to establish, and the checks and balances that protected it, as being in need of continual rededication against potential tyrants  in America who would want to subjugate Americans.

Thomas Jefferson's initial reaction to the proposed Constitution was negative, for, as he wrote to James Madison, he feared the possibility of the rise of an American tyrant: "...Roman emperors, popes, German emperors, deys of the Ottoman dependencies, and Polish kings - all were elective in some sense."  Indeed, historian Bernard Bailyn sees the "[T]he fear of power - the very heart of the original Revolutionary ideology - was an animating spirit behind all of [Jefferson's} thinking..."(Footnote 15)

Jefferson wasn't alone in the Revolutionary generation in fearing an American despot.  After the publication of the proposed Constitution in 1787, critics shared his apprehension. They feared a president's treaty-making power, because they were worried he might make deals in secret.  They worried about his power to make certain decisions without a two-thirds  majority, because they feared he might do anything he wanted with that power.  They argued that an American executive would not be immune to despotic tempations, just as an unchecked Congress would not be immune. [Footnote 16]

The authors of The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - wrote that series of essays to help reassure their fellow Americans.  They did so by explaining that the complex web of tensions they were proposing - these "checks and balances" - would prevent a person or a group united in "a common interest or passion" from depriving others of their rights.  Hamilton, Madison, and Jay did not think that this web was self-sustaining.  They thought that the delicate mechanism of the interdependent executive, legislative, and judiciary branches was only  as reliable as the character of the people who were either protecting or abandoning it.  They saw all people as corruptible and so set up the system to keep anyone from having unconfined power. [Footnote 17]

It was a truism to the Revolutionary generation that if the fragile mechanism became unbalanced, American leaders too - of course - would revert to brutality.  We are so removed from the tyranny that the nation's first patriots experienced personally that we have not only forgotten this crucial insight, we have even forgotten to consider how obvious it was to the fathers and mothers of our country.

The Founders never expected us to fall asleep or get lazy.  They counted on us to keep the web of the precious system intact so that an American despot could never arise.  They trusted us to cherish liberty as they did.

The price of liberty, the generation that debated and created the Constitution understood, is eternal vigilance.




Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Last of the BOHICANS.

How You've Been Conned into Surrendering Your Gun Rights
And How You Can Turn the Tables

By Aaron Zelman and Claire Wolfe.
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"BOHICA!"screamed the e-mail alert. "Bend over, here it comes again!" It was a familiar story. Politicians were about to pull yet another colossal act of betrayal, about to break yet another compromise with gun owners, about to put thousands more citizens at risk of prison for obscure technical violations of law.
BOHICA has become a way of life for people who care about the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment.
So what did the group sending the urgent e-mail alert beg everybody to do? "Call your representative!" -- again -- "Write the governor!" -- again -- "Tell your friends to call their representatives!" --again.
Let’s be realistic: Do we honestly believe an arrogant group of known liars and oathbreakers is suddenly going to morph into Patrick Henry just because they receive yet another batch of desperate, angry pleas from people who’ve been on the losing side of every gun-law battle since the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934?
"BOHICA," indeed! If you keep bending over like that, they’ll keep doing "it" again.
So why do so many of us keep on bending over -- making the same predictable responses to political chicanery -- long after we’ve seen that our desperate, hopeful actions don’t win us freedom? We do it because we’ve been conned. It’s that simple. We’ve been buffaloed into believing that "politics as usual" is our only option. We’ve even been told that being political puppets is our "responsibility" as citizens.
It’s not. There are more effective things we can do. But first, look at the devastation caused by this political con we’ve been suckered into.
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Throwing away your money, your efforts, freedom, and your future
How many billions of dollars have freedom groups spent financing political campaigns, lobbying, or struggling to change laws through legislative letter-writing blitzes*? How many checks have firearms manufacturers written to how many lawyers and lobbyists? How many hundreds or thousands of your own hard-earned dollars have you poured into politics? How many thousands of hours have you simply thrown away writing begging letters to politicians, standing at rallies, voting, campaigning, sending faxes, and making calls to "representatives" whose bored office staffers don’t even bother to pass along your messages and whose bosses wouldn’t listen if they did?
How many times have you helped send some guy to Washington or Albany or Sacramento thinking, "There, now he’ll take care of us" -- only to have him come back a month later telling you, "You just don’t understand how things are done on Capitol Hill" – as if he were representing the government, not you?
We rally ’round Party R, alarmed by the terrible things Party D wants to do to our Second Amendment rights. Party R marches into office, banners of "reform" flying high. In the name of "compromise," Party R then does exactly what Party D threatened to do – and comes back looking for more contributions and votes! "Think how much worse it would have hurt if Party D had done it to you!" they say. BOHICA!
And how many times have you felt sick as the public applauded the latest law or regulation against freedom -- because peoples’ hearts belong to the other side, and their minds are uneducated about the real issues behind the feel-good language of "safety," "preventing crime," and "reasonable measures" to "protect children"?
Yes, you may have had an occasional, temporary victory, particularly at the local or state level. (Even a card sharp knows he sometimes needs to let the marks win to keep them hoping.) But in the end, every one of your political dollars, every one of your countless political hours, has not only been wasted, but has actually helped your opponents beat you in a rigged game.
The illusion that you’re doing something to protect freedom has kept you occupied like a sucker trying to spot the shell with the pea under it while fast- talking politicians and remote bureaucrats carried out long-term anti-freedom plans that your eye couldn’t follow.
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Fighting to lose your gun rights
Second Amendment fighters: What have you gained by relying on politicians?
  • You’ve lost the right to own some firearms unless you pay a tax and submit to a government license.
  • You’ve lost the right to purchase a gun through a catalog and have it sent to you.
  • You’ve lost the right to own some firearms, simply because politicians and regulators thought they looked ugly or scary.
  • You’ve lost the right to carry a gun with big enough magazine capacity to be useful in a serious firefight.
  • You’ve lost the right to defend yourself in schools, churches, city hall, airports, parks, and hundreds of other places.
  • You’ve lost the right even to drive or walk in the neighborhood of a school.
  • You’ve lost the right to own guns if you were convicted of even certain minor crimes decades ago (and along with that, you’ve lost the ex post facto protections of the Constitution).
  • You’ve lost the right to carry concealed and exchanged it for a revocable, government-granted privilege, complete with fingerprints and criminal background checks.
  • You’ve lost the right to buy a gun quickly to protect yourself against someone who’s threatening you.
  • You’ve lost privacy in all but a handful of gun purchases (and are soon to lose that, thanks to dogged and dishonest efforts to "close the gun- show loophole").
  • And you’ve ended up living in a culture that demonizes you as a violent, cretinous, "gun nut."
Despite short-term compromise "victories," the bottom line is that you’ve put up with a steady erosion of rights that hasn’t stopped since you father’s, grandfather’s, or maybe even great- grandfather’s day.
And now we rejoice because, with the Clinton regime gone, we believe politicians are going to be a LITTLE LESS QUICK about taking the next round of our rights. We get excited when we learn that Attorney General John Ashcroft says the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms -- so excited that we overlook the fine print, where he says next that Congress has the right to enact "gun control" laws "for compelling state interests."
What exactly does "compelling state interests" mean? Who defines it? Who’ll enforce it -- and how brutally?
What kind of mentality have we developed, that we get excited over something like that? Have we adopted the numbed mindset of the carnival mark who walks away feeling victorious because he won some cheap piece of junk not worth one-tenth the money he invested in the crooked game?
Have we come to expect to lose our freedoms? Have we come to believe there’s no realistic alternative? Good news: There is an alternative -- and a powerful one. But first, we’ve got to get over this BOHICA thinking and the BOHICA, "politics as usual" actions it leads to.
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The key to understanding what’s going on
Long ago, and for a very short time in America, what your teachers told you was true. You could change things by voting and campaigning and writing letters to your representatives -- because they actually were your representatives.
An informed citizenry and a legislature made up of ordinary fellow citizens could protect rights -- for a while. But that system was doomed to exactly the fate it has met. A professional class of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and lobbyists took over, and citizens (increasingly uninformed or dis-informed) were left out in the cold. While the professional class still pays lip service to "democracy," their fundamental relationship to us is to 1) get money out of us, 2) make us dependent on them, and 3) keep us pacified enough that we don’t pick up pitchforks and tear their little con castle down.
Now, when a teacher, politician, U.N. worker, bureaucrat, or some other government supporter preaches about your "responsibility" to vote and otherwise "work within the system" she’s basically conning you. She’s either ignorant of reality or trying desperately to prevent you from exercising the "pitchfork option." She’s like the carnival pitchman whose patter and flamboyant gestures are designed to keep you from noticing what’s going on behind the curtain.
A few fundamental facts to keep in mind:
  • Just as the press is free for the man who owns one, "The System" works for those who run it. And that isn’t you. That isn’t any group you belong to, not even the biggest and most powerful. "The System" works just fine - but doesn’t work for your interests.
  • The one or two politicians who actually care about your rights are vastly outnumbered and rendered powerless by established ways of doing business. Their bills rarely even make it out of committee, thanks to manipulative leaders and procedural chicanery.
  • The whole process of "law-making" is about making more laws, not repealing them. It’s about centralizing power, not distributing it.
  • Even if your representative claimsto favor your rights, she almost certainly votes against them in huge, unread bills passed late at night.
  • Freedom can’t be won back exactly as it was lost, through a long, slow process of lawmaking and regulation. The thousands of bureaucracies and special-interest fiefdoms that cling to government are easy to build, almost impossible to tear down. They’ll only be dismantled if there’s a vast change in the American consciousness -- which we aren’t achieving through all our politicking.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that those posturing politicians you’re begging to aren’t even the ones in charge anymore. As Mark Bateman put it so well in a letter to Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:
We defeat them in the ballot box. We defeat them in the legislature. We defeat them in the courts. However, here is where they CAN AND ARE WINNING: the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy has for quite some time been the NEW lawmakers in our land and the ability of the BATF to simply make a ruling that turns YOU into a FELON for possession of what was once legal is creating law without representation. This is BANNING (through economics) and REGISTRATION by bureaucratic ruling!
All the voting, rallying, and political letter writing in the world won’t reach this class of professional bureaucrats and enforcers. They’re not elected by you. They’re not answerable to you. They don’t care about you and your pathetic little claims of "rights," and "justice."
Reality has changed. And if you don’t change with it, your rights will soon perish.
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Changing the culture
"But if we don’t keep doing this," the freedom fighters cry, "things will get worse!"
Well, duh, things are getting worse ANYWAY.
In the ghettos of Europe, the "wise" men of the Jewish councils advised their communities to play by the Nazis’ rules – to go along to get along. "If we don’t," they warned, "things will get worse." People were loaded into cattle cars. People were taken into the woods and shot. People were enslaved, imprisoned, gassed, and flung naked into mass graves – and still the "wise" men counseled cooperation because otherwise, "things will get worse."
How much worse do things have to get before some people realize you can’t win at a rigged political game? Stop cooperating in the con! If the mark won’t play, the con artist can’t win.
You don’t even have to take the risks the young ghetto fighters eventually took. Your solution may be as simple as talking with your next-door neighbor. But it requires thinking far outside the political box. The solution is a grassroots reawakening. A rebirth of a Bill of Rights culture in America.
That’s is a major change, to be sure. Accomplishing it will take hard work and time - but no more time than you’re currently wasting on politics. Grassroots change is doable because, instead of trying vainly to influence unreachable men and women far away, it involves influencing the people around us -- family members, co-workers, neighbors, fellow students, children, fellow activists -- people we can reach.
Do something really dangerous, something that will truly scare our would-be rulers into taking us seriously -- encourage people to think and give them the tools to help them do it.
Bob LeFevre, the great, unconventional educator (on whom Robert Heinlein based his memorable character Bernardo de la Paz in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), once told an audience that, if he could push a button and instantly impose freedom he wouldn’t do it, because unless people had a change of heart, they would quickly turn around and create a new (and perhaps even worse) system of oppression.
Once we have a Bill of Rights culture, including a strong, healthy appreciation and understanding of the Second Amendment, the government will follow. (If it fails to follow, it will fall.) Even the bureaucracy, unalterable as it seems now, will be dismantled once people no longer want, and are no longer willing to pay for, what it represents. On the other hand, if we don’t attain a freedom- oriented culture at the most basic, grassroots level, then all the politics in the world won’t save us.
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What you can do
Let’s be up front. This section includes an unabashed pitch for you to use JPFO literature. We’re also going to ask you to help us finance a TV documentary "Innocents Betrayed," based on the new book Death by ‘Gun control’ by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens.
But don’t tune out. Even if you decide never to buy a single booklet from JPFO, the main thing you need to do to effect a grassroots culture change is the same.
You need to convey the value of the Bill of Rights, very simply and clearly, to people who’ve been "hypnotized and Jenningized" by television, who expect instant gratification, and who’ve been soothed into believing that government’s purpose is to be a father and mother to them.
This kind of simple -- but factual and verifiable - pro-Bill of Rights message is what we at JPFO specialize in.
Our Gran’pa Jack series of illustrated booklets gets across messages like these:
  • Gran’pa Jack #1 - "‘Gun control’ kills kids". Learn how governments use "gun control" to disarm and murder people.
  • Gran’pa Jack #2 - "Can you get a fair trial in America?". Know the historic and present benefit of a fully informed jury.
  • Gran’pa Jack #3 - "It’s common sense to use our Bill of Rights". A simple, fun-to-read explanation of the Bill of Rights.
  • Gran’pa Jack #4 - "‘Gun control’ is racist". Supporters of "gun control" in the black and other minority communities really need to read this one.
  • Gran’pa Jack #5 - "The United Nations is killing your freedoms". See how the U.N. is trying to destroy the Bill of Rights.
  • Gran’pa Jack #6 - "Will ‘Gun control’ make you safer?". Exposes the myths behind "gun control" beliefs.
  • Gran’pa Jack #7 - "Do gun prohibitionists have a mental problem?". Learn to communicate more effectively with people whose mindset has made them fear firearms.
  • Gran’pa Jack #8 - "Is America becoming a police state?’. See how governement is destroying our freedoms.
Learn more about these invaluable booklets - you can visit the descriptions page describing them all with, options to purchase (note, deep discounts for bulk orders), or also - visit a newer page with an informative video presentation.
Using the character of wise Gran’pa Jack and his ever-questioning family members, these booklets convey a ton of specific legal, historic, factual information while being as easy to read as comic books. They’re perfect for teaching people who’ve never thought about the issues, but they also contain enough solid information to help persuade an educated opponent. (Even an experienced freedom fighter will find new intellectual ammo in them.)
Use them almost anywhere with anybody. Put them on a counter at a gun store. Hand them out at a school presentation. Distribute them at an information booth. Give them to your children or neighbors. (Just the other day we got a call from a National Guardsman stationed at a major airport. He asked us to send 50 assorted copies for him to share with people in his unit. Realizing how little some of the others knew about freedom, he thought of Gran’pa Jack as the simplest way to educate them. We wouldn’t be surprised if, after being passed around among the Guardsmen, many of these Gran’pa Jacks ended up in the hands of "security" screeners, airline passengers, and air crew members -- some of whom especially need to learn about the Bill of Rights.)
There are nearly one million Gran’pa Jack booklet already in circulation. Imagine the impact if there were 50 million ... 100 million. As the late Sen. Everett Dirksen said, "When I feel the heat, I see the light." Let’s enlighten everybody.
Now JPFO is working on the top-quality, one-hour TV documentary, "Innocents Betrayed." Louis James of the Henry Hazlitt Foundation said this documentary, "… might well be the stake in the heart of victim disarmament that destroys the ‘Gun control’ myth and helps restore the fundamental human right of self-defense in America, and beyond."
TV may be the best medium for reaching our fellow Americans. Unfortunately it remains the most expensive. This historical opportunity is going to cost $170,000. So we’re asking everyone to make a one-time, tax-deductable donation of $29 or more between now and June 2002. A $75 donation gets you a free, autographed copy of the new book, Death by "Gun Control." For a donation of $100 or more, you’ll get Death by "Gun Control" ($16.95 value, postpaid) and the new book, The State vs. the People ($19.95 value), which shows how America is sliding toward a police state. Donate more and you’ll get both books and a copy of the film. (This information was current at time of writing - it is left in for completeness' sake, although it has to be said, donations are always much appreciated and welcome.)
If you don’t want to buy Gran’pa Jack booklets or donate to the documentary, that’s your decision, of course. But please go out and do something that gets the Bill of Rights message across in ways as simple, dramatic, friendly, and clear as Gran’pa Jack does it. You can start by distributing this article far and wide. E-mail it to your friends, link to it on the Web, print copies and hand them out to people who need to get the message.
Anything you do to create a freedom culture will be worth doing. But take a look at what JPFO has to offer. There’s a huge job ahead for everyone who wants to fight effectively for freedom. We’ve already done a lot of groundwork to give your efforts a more powerful impact.
Open the eyes of people who’ve been conned. Make this generation the LAST of the BOHICANS.
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* References to the uselessness of letter writing apply only to letters sent privately to politicians. JPFO endorses writing letters to the editor, which can be an effective means of educating people. We have occasionally published templates for such letters on our Web site. Open letters to politicians may also be useful to whatever extent they are widely circulated and read by the public.
If you want to understand the ultimate progression of "gun control," read Death by "Gun Control": The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens. It begins with "reasonable measures" to control the unruly; it ends in the death of a thousand cuts – and millions of disarmed citizens. Visit the Death By Gun Control Page), to learn more, as well as seeing the JPFO Genocide Chart.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

RAVALLI COUNTY, MT LIBERTARIAN OPINION PIECE

Obama isn't THE problem.
Do you really think that Obama is the problem? He is only a small part of the problem. He certainly isn't the answer. Maybe you should be worried about Herman Cain's love life. Maybe we should be worried about Rush Limbaugh's rant about the mother of fifteen kids and how we are supporting them all. Maybe these are all just performances put on by the New World Order to distract you from the fact that we just did a partial audit of the Federal Reserve Bank. Do you know what they found? Don't get distracted by the call for war on Iran. Really you need to read this. They printed $16 Trillion dollars of your money and secretly gave it away to US banks and corporations and FOREIGN banks everywhere from France to Scotland. Did you read that? 16 TRILLION DOLLARS. That is more than our national debt created over the entire life of our country. Obama is just a distraction, even he can't spend money this fast under his Socialist agenda. He is just a puppet for the New World Order.
Stay with me now, because we just bailed out Europe this week. Totally separate from the secret $16 trillion dollars. Even major publications are saying that the banks are now the owners of Europe. Some headlines state that Goldman Sachs conquers Europe and they think it is great, so smart. Guess how many dollars were printed for this scheme? Nobody knows because the Federal Reserve Bank isn't part of the Government they are private. Congress illegally legislated their Constitutional power to coin money over to a private global corporation. They are breaking our dollar. It is going to be worthless soon. Every time they print a dollar, that creates a debt for you. It also decreases the amount of value of your dollar. This private corporation is taxing you without your knowledge. Ronald Reagan (R) was the best at this. He lowered taxes and raised spending. How did he do that? Simple, he let the Federal Reserve bank print the money that he needed. He taxed you through inflation.
MSM Global (John Corzine) (D) just stole $1.6 billion dollars(and growing) from their clients segregated accounts. Have you even heard about this? Of course not. This is like your bank just deciding that your bank accounts and safety deposit boxes belong to them. He used to work for Goldman Sachs. He is one of the banking elite. Has he been arrested? Has Fox news told you about it? No they are too busy talking about ex-Federal Reserve President Herman Cains love life? You have got to wake up. We are no longer ruled by the Constitution. We are ruled by a banking oligarchy.
Well it is okay if TSA sticks their hands down our pants right? It is okay if Obama assassinates American citizens right? He knows they were terrorists, right? Look it up these 911 terrorists were CIA operatives who used to have dinner at the White House. They were connected to 911! That is what the white house says. They government flew them out of the country, just like the Bin Laden family. Their own CIA even went on FOX News and said that they were CIA operatives. They also said, that they had problems with them and that it was better that they killed them so they couldn't talk. Why are CIA agents who are connected to 911 having dinner at the White House? Well I guess they won't ever tell us will they? It is a good thing we can invade a country we aren't at war with and kill them, because The President says so?
Well John Mccain (R) just got a bill passed through the Senate that allows the military to pick up anyone in the world (even US citizens in America) and detain them indefinitely, kill, or torture them without charges or a trial. Oh yes that means you! Especially if your are reading emails like this. You might be a terrorist. So much for free speech or due process. The funny thing is that Obama is saying that he will veto it. Of course, he obviously feels like he already has this privilege under President Order. If an American citizen is a threat let us follow the Constitution and bring charges against him and give him a fair trial. How can we start rounding up American citizens for torture, death or detainment and say they have no right to trial. I suppose you might say that the Supreme Court will overturn this for the victims? Go ahead try and defend yourself in front of the Supreme Court if you are dead or held idefinitely in some secret prison?
So go ahead vote for Obama, Newt, Perry, Bachman, Cain, Huntsman or Romney. They all have one thing in common, in one way or another they are all puppets for the New World Order. They are just the puppets. They aren't the real problem. The Democrat and Republican parties are filled with New World Order puppets. I know you are still in the left and right paradism. Watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS they all have one thing in common. None of them are talking about real problems. They are just using the airtime to pump up their New World Order candidates and distract you from the real problem, the Federal Reserve bank.
If you want to vote for someone who isn't their puppet look at who the media ignores even though he is #2 in Iowa, 1,2, or three in every national poll and straw poll? Who did the government declare was a possible domestic terrorist if they had his bumper sticker on their car? Who did the media only give 89 seconds vs Romney's 9-10 minutes in a debate? Who do both the Democrats and Republicans establishments hate? Who wants to abolish the Federal Reserve and restore constitutional government? Who is considered radical for not wanting to go to war with Iran? Who just got blocked from being in a debate for not wanting another war? Who do they tell you can't win? If you just guessed Newt I think I am going to throw up.
RON PAUL
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RON PAUL
If you want to live in a police state with no economy, just vote for one of the puppets that Fox News or CNN is giving airtime to. It doesn't matter which candidate or which party they own them all. :) Our country is in real serious jeopardy of losing all of it's rights under a banking cartel. Piss off the "establishment" and pick up a Ron Paul sign before it is too late.

Daniel Cox
www.ivotelibertarian.com

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR VISITING THIS SITE -

You have made "us" go over 100,000 and you keep coming back to visit.

So I must be doing something right.

I appreciate all of you. I do this not because I want to, because I hate politics, and this wasn't supposed to be a political blog at all. But when Obama came on the scene and started to bulldoze the America that I know and love, and remove our freedoms every single day, I decided to expose everything I could about dirty politicians who really would love global totalitarian government, to control us in every facet of our lives, to remove our freedoms, to remove our freedom of choice, destroy our economy, make us dependent on foreign oil, destroy our investments, our economy, remove our rights to our children...in short, to destroy America, its founding ideals, and make us all - everywhere - global slaves.

One man and his crooked cronies have done this. His name is Barack Obama, and if you live under a dictator, you well know corruption in government.

Don't let this happen to you, wherever you are. Make your life better. Democracy is a dirty word. It is mob rule. People have been made to think it is this wonderful thing. But it's not. Concerning government, it must be tempered by the people limiting both mob rule and government, and that is what America used to be: A Democratic Republic.

On your backs, the governments of the world feed and grow bigger. The government unbridled is a parasite that feeds off you.

Whether we are fighting the New World Order, Bilderbergers, your own dictator, or Barack Obama's den of evil, or your local county government - we must NEVER give up.

So thank you, because in you burns the spark of freedom and liberty for you, and everyone, everywhere.