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Reasoned Greetings

2009-12-20T17:30:00.015-06:00

Warning: reading this greeting may result in you understanding its contents. Neither Freedom Shenanigans or any of its associated blogs, contributors, contractors, can be held responsible for any enjoyment, or lack thereof, that this greeting may cause, no matter how severe the enjoyment (or lack thereof) may be.

“Happy, Christhanuramasolsticemas.”

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, our (the wishor) best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your (the wishee) choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference or orientation of the wishee.

(Disclaimer: By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself/himself/others, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. It implies no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit. This greeting is void where prohibited by law.)

Batteries are NOT included or necessary unless one's electric service is out due to inclement weather or due to lack of funds due to the growing economic depression due to purposeful mismanagement amounting to plunder of the the public's finances, to pay for electric service. In the aforementioned case, battery back up may be necessary to receive this greeting.

Winter So lstice celebrations: a.k.a. Christmas,
Saturnalia, Yule, the Long Night, etc.

Fun With the Sun, or It Takes a Mensch to Pan Christmas

2009-12-19T12:43:00.005-06:00

Fun With the Sun, or It Takes a Mensch to Pan Christmas

by Mit Etagniw

There has been a lot of grumbling lately by the activist right about the so called, “War on Christmas.” Here is my account of what some of these evangelical "O’Reillyites" are like.

This weekend while Christmas shopping at the mall I had some “sun” fun with a protestant charismaniac churchaholic I knew from that Ass-emblies of God Pentecostal Church that my family quit going to.

(The same denomination that John Ashcroft belongs to.)

Recognizing me, he approached and remarked that he hadn’t seen me in church lately.

(Yeah, like five years. Did he just notice?)

He and his group were there “undercover witnessing for Jesus” by handing out Bible tracts about Christmas.

(Against mall policy)

After a little small talk I started to leave but he wanted to “discern my walk with the Lord.” So, to make sure I was still “saved” he started asking about my church attendance and prayer life. I mentioned that I go as often as the “spirit” moves me and my “prayer life” is just fine and private.

I started to leave because I had other errands to run, but he moved in front of me and wanted to continue our talk. I said no, I had to go. Trying to placate him by covering all the bases, I light heartedly with a chuckle wished them a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays and a Happy Winter Solstice.

(Oooops!)

He moved in front of me again and objected to my wishes with an emphatic undulation in his voice, “JEEeeezus IS the REEEASON for THE SEEEASON!!!! YOU should only say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!”

Well, I just couldn’t help it. I had wanted to leave. But, he was insistent. You know the “spirit is willing but the flesh is weak!” I could feel the horn nubs starting to sprout above my temples so I quickly repressed the over whelming urge to send him to meet JEEeeezus.

(Okay. If you insist, I’ll play. Time for the bait)

Smiling, I “innocently” asked, “Uh, what ‘season’ would that be, exactly?”

“You know good and well what season! The Christmas Season! That is what it is supposed to be about, you know! Jesus the Light of the World, in a manger, Son of God, Shepherds, Wise Men, Shining Star.” He went on. “We need to get back to the REAL meaning of Christmas!!!”

I knew the type, well meaning in their own eyes but, so hurtful. I was raised with them. I even was one of them long ago, in a galaxy of cognitive dissonance, far, far away.

(Ahhh, a nibble on the bait. Now for the hook.)

So I responded, “Well if that’s true then why are you so adamant about saying, Merry Christmas? After all, you aren’t a Catholic are you?”

“No I’m not a Catholic! What does that have to do with it? Rome has corrupted the Gospel with pagan practices such as calling men ‘Father’, chanting and praying to Mary and Saints and ‘Rosemary’ beads! I’m a Born Again, filled with the spirit believer. My Jeeezus is OFF the Cross, not still on it!”

(Alrighty then, he took the hook! Now to play out some line.)

I responded quietly with a hint of a smile but firmly, “So then why do YOU say “Merry Christ Mass? That phrase is the celebration of the Catholic Mass. It is the celebration of Jesus’ death, where he turns into bread and wine and then is eaten by TRUE worshippers. So, why don’t you say, HAPPY JESUS BIRTHDAY?”

He is now looking at me with a wide-eyed expression as his mouth opens and closes without sound.

(Now to set the hook. I was on a “holy roll.”)

“Furthermore, ‘The Season’ has always been the Winter Solstice season! From the most ancient time when men first noticed that the Days, the SUN, Light diminished then became more plentiful, they celebrated the end of the OLD and welcomed the NEW year. The ‘Jesus” story is a reworking and blending of various cultures’ Winter Solstice celebrations and mythology. It is a time to celebrate! Have a good time. Be with friends and family! The spring will come, crops planted, herds replenished with young, light, warmth and harvest will come again! Why get hung up with only one theory of renewal? Celebrate the ‘Season’ in whatever way you prefer.”

He retorted to me, “I will celebrate in the TRUE WAY! Not in one of YOUR mythological pagan ways!”

(Got him. I just had to reel him in.)

I had to say it. I really couldn’t resist. “Excuse me? I think that you are confused with your own sanctimonious dementia to see that YOU have the mythological belief system! Show me the historical proof, the scientific evidence, that Jesus was born around the time of the Winter Solstice! You can’t because it doesn’t exist. I’m not saying that Jesus never existed, or even that he wasn’t special. I’m not even saying that you can’t celebrate his birthday December 25th. I’m saying that Jesus is not THE reason for the ‘Season.’ Historically, culturally, scientifically the TRUE REASON for the Season is the astronomical proof of the Winter Solstice! How you celebrate it, how others celebrate it, how others ignore it is their personal belief system. Denigrating them because they don’t follow YOUR preferred belief myth system sounds awfully, Al Qaeda of you!”

(Now he is flopping around like a fish out of water.)

I’m not sure exactly what it was he responded to, but his eyes started to bulge, he turned red, and he started to shake and quiver a bit while he stammered spittle laden gibberish out of his mouth like Robert Tilton or Jimmy Swaggart, "Hah shondaledona, santome cupa, hee babababa!" He then started to shake his feet at me and I thought he was going to start dancing “in the spirit” but instead he starts saying, “Ichabod! Ichabod! The Lord has departed! I shake your dust off my feet!”

Then as he marched away from me he says, “Satan’s claws are in you! Get thee behind me Satan!”

(I wonder if this is what Jesus meant by “I will make you fishers of men?”)

With a big smile, I called after him, “Don’t you really mean, Santa’s Clause? Try to have a Merry Christmas anyway!”

(Ho Ho Ho. Fala lala la. That was fun. Back to Christmas shopping.)

St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople at the end of the fourth century wrote: "On this day also the Birthday of Christ was lately fixed at Rome in order that while the heathen were busy with their profane ceremonies, the Christians might perform their sacred rites undisturbed. They call this (December 25th), the Birthday of the Invincible One (Mithras); but who is so invincible as the Lord? They call it the Birthday of the Solar Disk, but Christ is the Sun of Righteousness." http://www.locksley.com/6696/xmas.htm

Thousands Protest Against Global Warming

2009-12-15T15:05:00.003-06:00

From Bill St. Clair's, End the War Freedom Blog

Fascist Pigs AND Cowardly Wimps

2009-12-15T14:53:00.006-06:00

More from Larken Rose as he hits a target that needs to be hit hard and often. PoLice need to be held personally responsible for the abuses and injuries that they individually commit as well. No more hiding behind "good faith" protections and bureauRat indifference.

Fascist Pigs AND Cowardly Wimps

By Larken Rose

A while ago I posted a series of articles titled "Cops: Public Servants or Fascist Pigs?" Here are all seven parts:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7

And the conclusion, as demonstrated by various examples, was that those who act as mercenaries for the politicians (while pretending to be "protectors") are not our friends, care nothing about individual rights, and make society more dangerous, not safer. Well, now I'd like to add something to that. Not only are American "police" fascist pigs, they're also wimps. These days more and more "law enforcers" are nothing more than thugs on a power trip--and several former police officers have agreed with me on this. Like most bullies, cops tend to be total cowards.

Why do uneducated, relatively stupid young men join street gangs? Because the pack gives them a feeling of power--something they didn't have on their own. If you're in the biggest, toughest, baddest gang, it's easy to hide your personal cowardice. And that's exactly why a lot of people become "law enforcers" these days: because it's the biggest street gang around, and they know that whatever they do, the rest of the gang will "have their backs." If you have any doubts about this, you can watch the following series of videos:

The Largest Street Gang in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4

But I've talked plenty about police thuggery before. This time, the topic is police cowardice. To me, the phrase that really sums up what a bunch of wimpy pansies the cops really are is "assaulting an officer." You see, after they beat you up, they run crying home to mommy--"the government"--to say you started it, and to ask mommy to beat you up some more. What bravery! What courage!

These days, what "assaulting an officer" usually means is, "We stopped you without a good reason, interrogated you without justification, searched your stuff without a warrant or probable cause, and then beat the hell out of you when you didn't happily lick our boots ... and that makes you a criminal." If you look at all the police abuse videos on the internet, in most cases the victim gets charged with "assaulting an officer." And over and over again, our noble public protector (fascist pig) police are so busy "protecting and serving" that they fail to notice the guy with the camcorder, filming them assaulting unarmed, unresisting innocent citizens. Then they lie in court ... until the defense shows the video. Oops! So the guy who got beat up by the fascist is sometimes let go ... and usually nothing happens to the Nazi thugs (except they get a paid holiday, called "paid administrative leave"). Here's another article to show you how brave and noble the cops are:

The Thin Blue Whine
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w120.html

And that article ends with something I've said before: if cops are mostly good, but with a few bad apples, where are the good cops speaking out against all the abuse? If there are only a few bad apples, why will a dozen cops stand around watching while a couple "bad apples" beat the tar out of some innocent victim? The answer should be obvious: there aren't good cops. Every last one of them cares more about the gang he is in than they do about the people they claim to be "protecting" and "serving."

(See if you think these guys are protectors or control freaks.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmByfTKKUV4

But back to the issue of cowardice, imagine the following scenario. YOU are a border crossing guard (maybe at the border, maybe not). You stop everyone passing through, sometimes asking a couple questions, sometimes asking to search through their stuff. Then along comes someone who doesn't want to be interrogated, and doesn't want to have his stuff searched, since you don't have the slightest shred of probable cause to think he didn't anything "illegal" (much less anything wrong).

So there you are, with your mace, your taser, your gun, and lots of similarly armed members of your gang in the immediate area. The guy is alone and unarmed. It's hard to think of a more lop-sided mismatch. What would the guy have to do for you to want him prosecuted for "assaulting" you? What, you and your gang of heavily armed mercenaries couldn't handle one little unarmed guy? You have to go crying to Big Brother that the peasant struck you? Boo hoo, you wuss. (I'm still waiting to see the pictures of a bruised and bleeding state mercenary after such an alleged "assault" has occurred; but I've seen plenty of pictures of bruised and bleeding citizens after our wonderful "public servants" were done with them.)

When there is a scuffle between the fascists and citizens, and the only charges afterwards are "resisting arrest" and/or "assaulting an officer," it's a safe assumption that the fascists are lying. As a mental exercise, see if you can think of a scenario in which one's only crime can be "resisting arrest." (Hint: If that was your only crime, what were they arresting you for in the first place?) And how many people do you actually think would, when surrounded by cops, decide to attack one of them without provocation? And if the cops didn't charge him with something else, what were they doing surrounding him in the first place?

Aside from the fact that cops keep getting caught falsely claiming that someone attacked them, or at least resisted the fascists' attacks, even if someone does forcibly resist their fascist thuggery, why couldn't a gang of heavily armed, combat-trained tough guys handle one unruly guy without having to whine to mommy to prosecute him? I don't know the exact statistics, but there are lots of fist-fights in the world every day, and only in a small percentage of cases does anyone try to have the other guy prosecuted for it ... except when one side works for "government." So why are cops such thin-skinned pansies? I suspect it's the other way around: they became cops because they already were insecure, whiny wusses. The need the badge to feel important and powerful. And when someone doesn't unquestioningly bow before them, their gang of cowards reverts to outright thuggery.

Make no mistake: the job of the state mercenaries is to protect and serve the politicians. And that's all. When the tyrants say that YOU should be robbed, assaulted, silenced, controlled or imprisoned, it's the "law enforcers" who make it happen. In the past, they used to put on a show of "protecting" the public, but these days that charade is all but gone. The police are the shepherds of the human livestock, and that's all. Try to step out of the sheering line, and you'll quickly learn what the jackboots are there for.

The fascists, in a feeble attempt to cling to their "good guy" image, sometimes use the saying, "You hate us, until you need us." I don't know about you, but I've never called a cop to protect me, and highly doubt I ever will. I have some friends nearby--Mr. Glock and Mr. Mossberg, among others--who are far more reliable. On the other hand, the only time I've ever been robbed, the cops were there assisting in the robbery--which made them about the only robbers I couldn't successfully resist by force by myself. And for those who have been robbed by non-government thieves, you might want to keep in mind that: 1) the cops hardly ever show up in time to stop a crime--they just write a report about it after the fact, and 2) the cops don't even have a legal obligation to protect you. And there is hardly anyone who has been deprived of more property by private crooks than they have by "government" mercenaries.

But what's really sad is how often the victims of statism support their oppressors, and are quick to condemn their fellow oppressed. "Well, if you just do whatever the cops tell you to...." Yes, you can choose to be a compliant slave, never lifting a finger to defend your rights, your property, or your human dignity. Some of us are trying for something better than that. And we know that the police are not our friends.

Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com

The Man, The Plan, The Scam

2009-12-11T14:01:00.006-06:00

Don't ya just love it when a plan comes together?

Ignore all the gas crap and just look at how the stupid car buyer got taken to the cleaners: If you traded in a clunker worth $3500, you get $4500 off for an apparent "savings" of $1000. However, you have to pay taxes on the $4500 come April 15th (something that no auto dealer will tell you). If you are in the 30% tax bracket, you will pay $1350 on that $4500. So, rather than save $1000, you actually pay an extra $350 to the feds. In addition, you traded in a car that was most likely paid for. Now you have 4 or 5 years of payments on a car that you did not need, that was costing you less to run than the payments that you will now be making.

But wait; it gets even better: you also got ripped off by the dealer. For example, every dealer in LA was selling the Ford Focus with all the goodies, including A/C, auto transmission, power windows, etc for $12,500 the month before the "cash for clunkers" program started. When "cash for clunkers" came along, they stopped discounting them and instead sold them at the list price of $15,500. So, you paid $3000 more than you would have the month before... (Honda, Toyota , and Kia played the same list price game that Ford and Chevy did).

So let's do the final tally here:

You traded in a car worth: $3500
You got a discount of: $4500
Net so far +$1000

But you have to pay: $1350 in taxes on the $4500
Net so far: (-$350)

And you paid: $3000 more than the car was selling for the month before

Net (-$3350)

We could also add in the additional taxes (sales tax, state tax, etc.) on the extra $3000 that you paid for the car, along with the 5 years of interest on the car loan, but let's just stop here. So who actually made out on the deal? The feds collected taxes on the car along with taxes on the $4500 they "gave" you. The car dealers made an extra $3000 or more on every car they sold along with the kickbacks from the manufacturers and the loan companies. The manufacturers got to dump lots of cars they could not give away the month before. And the poor, stupid consumer got saddled with even more debt that they cannot afford. Obama and his band of merry men convinced Joe consumer that he was getting $4500 in "free" money from the "government" when in fact, Joe was giving away his $3500 car and paying an additional $3350 for the privilege. Think this was stupid for those who were crazy enough to swallow this wonderful scheme?

Just wait until we get "health care" with no additional costs over what most of us now pay for health insurance and the best medical care in the world. Think that scheme might be designed by the same people who came up with Cash for Clunkers

Uffda Minnesota!!!

2009-12-09T14:21:00.001-06:00

From our friend Bobbi the Irish Rose,

Ditto!

2009-12-07T23:33:00.004-06:00

Climategate

2009-12-07T07:45:00.001-06:00

Hmmmmm

2009-12-06T16:21:00.003-06:00

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago

2009-12-03T11:15:00.004-06:00

From some of our friends in Chicago. This is another type of Freedom Shenanigan that is always popular, the "Heckle Jeckle." Publicly confront and/or make fun of the target. The trick is to have multiple camera people who are there to record the event and the reaction. Especially if it is the PoLice that you are trying to record. They always go after the closest obvious camera. Way to go We Are Change Chicago!

Freedom Shenanigan #41

2009-12-03T00:08:00.001-06:00

Freedom Shenanigan #41
Walk Away From Underwater Mortgages

Professor advises underwater homeowners to walk away from mortgages

Brent T. White, a University of Arizona law school professor, says that it's in the homeowners' best financial interest to stiff their lenders and that it's not immoral to do so.

http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/la-fi-harney29-2009nov29,0,3801270.story

By Kenneth R. Harney

November 29, 2009

Reporting from Washington - Go ahead. Break the chains. Stop paying on your mortgage if you owe more than the house is worth. And most important: Don't feel guilty about it. Don't think you're doing something morally wrong.

That's the incendiary core message of a new academic paper by Brent T. White, a University of Arizona law school professor, titled "Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis."

White contends that far more of the estimated 15 million U.S. homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages should stiff their lenders and take a hike.

Doing so, he suggests, could save some of them hundreds of thousands of dollars that they "have no reasonable prospect of recouping" in the years ahead. Plus the penalties are nowhere near as painful or long-lasting as they might assume, he says.

"Homeowners should be walking away in droves," White said. "But they aren't. And it's not because the financial costs of foreclosure outweigh the benefits."

Sure, credit scores get whacked when you walk away, he acknowledges. But as long as you stay current with other creditors, "one can have a good credit rating again -- meaning above 660 -- within two years after a foreclosure."

Better yet, homeowners can default "strategically": Buy all the major items they'll need for the next couple of years -- a new car, even a new house -- just before they pull the plug on their current mortgage lender.

"Most individuals should be able to plan in advance for a few years of limited credit," White said, with minimal disruptions to their lifestyles.

What kind of law school professorial advice is this? Aren't mortgages legal contracts? In so-called anti-deficiency states such as California and Arizona, mortgage lenders have limited or no legal rights to pursue defaulting homeowners' assets beyond the house itself, White said. In other states, lenders may decide that it is not worth the legal expense to pursue walkaways, or consumers may be able to find flaws in the mortgage documents, disclosures or underwriting to challenge the original contract.

The main point, he said, is that too often people's emotions get in the way of clear financial thinking about mortgages, turning them into what he calls "woodheads" -- "individuals who choose not to act in their own self-interest." Most owners are too worried about feelings of shame and embarrassment after a foreclosure, and ignore the powerful financial reasons for doing so.

Buttressing these emotions is a system that White labels "the social control of the housing crisis" -- pressures and messages continually sent to consumers by the "social control agents," namely banks, government and the media. The mantra that these agents -- all the way up to President Obama -- pound into owners' heads, White said, is that "voluntarily defaulting on a mortgage is immoral."

Yet there is an inherent imbalance in the borrower-lender relationship that makes this morality message unfair to consumers, White says: Banks set the rules during the housing boom, handing out home loans with no down payments, no income checks and inflated appraisals. Now that property values have dropped 20% to 50% in many areas, banks have been slow to modify troubled mortgages and reluctant to reduce principal debts.

Only when homeowners cut through the emotional fog and default strategically in large numbers, White argues, will this inequitable situation be seriously addressed.

How does White's 52-page manifesto go over with mortgage lenders? Predictably, not well. Officials at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- investors who fund the bulk of all new mortgages in the country -- disputed White's characterization of how quickly after foreclosure a walkaway borrower can obtain a new loan. It's not three years, they said, it's a minimum of five years, absent extenuating circumstances such as medical or employment problems that caused the foreclosure.

"Borrowers who walk away from their mortgage obligations face serious consequences," including severely depressed credit scores for extended periods, said Brian Faith of Fannie Mae.

In addition, he said, "there's a moral dimension to this as homeowners who simply abandon their homes contribute to the destabilization of their neighborhood and community."

For more on this see Odious-Debt-A-Legal-Grounding-For-Debt-Repudiation

Sherry Jackson is Being Murdered

2009-12-02T14:16:00.003-06:00

From the RTR ActNet http://restoretherepublic.net/ Please do what you can!

>>PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL<<

EMERGENCY ALERT - ACTION REQUIRED:

"America: Freedom to Fascism" Star Sherry Jackson is Being Murdered

The feds seem intent upon MURDERING SHERRY JACKSON. See her own report below, and you'll understand. She details how the feds denied her medical care in prison and right now she IS IN THE PROCESS OF DYING.

Sherry was one of the stars of Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism. She was the former IRS agent who cried out, "SHOW ME THE LAW!". Right now she deserves the support of the entire Freedom Movement. We can give it to her by calling her Congressional Representative imploring him to intercede to save her life. For her service to the Cause of Liberty, WE SHOULD DO NO LESS!!

Sherry's Representative is Hank Johnson, representing the 4th Congressional District of Georgia.

FIRST:

Call and fax him at each office and demand immediate medical attention for Sherry:

Washington, DC Office
1133 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-1605
Fax: (202) 226-0691

Lithonia Office
5700 Hillandale Dr., Suite 110
Lithonia, GA 30058
Phone: (770) 987-2291
Fax: (770) 987-8721

Tucker Office
3469 Lawrenceville Highway, Suite 205
Tucker, GA 30084
Phone: (770) 939-2016
Fax: (770) 939-3753

SECOND:

Slam his Facebook page with comments demanding immediate medical Care for Sherry:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Congressman-Hank-Johnson/115356957005

THIRD:

Forward, post, and blog this email EVERYWHERE!!!

SHERRY'S LETTER:

From: "Colin L. Jackson" <colinljackson@msn.com>
Date: November 30, 2009 12:34:03 PM PST
Subject: Sherry Peel Jackson

Hi Friends and Family,

Please, pray for my wife, Sherry Peel Jackson. She's still having challenges while she's incarcerated. Thank you, in advance, for your prayers and encouragemenet. Here's a letter from Sherry to our Congressman, concerning her current situation.

God bless you.

In Christ, Colin

Dear Congressman Johnson

I am Sherry Peel Jackson, your former CPA. I am writing you because I am concerned about my health and my life. Prior to becoming a political prisoner I was the picture of health. In late June, 2009 I started experiencing a rapid heart beat on an irregular basis.

Since this had happened infrequently in the past I did not think much of it. However, in Mid July it started happening on a regular basis and I became concerned. I went to the medical staff twice in Mid July only to be given a one-minute EKG test and powerful meds without proper diagnosis. I did not take them because I had not been seen by a specialist. One week later, on July 21 at 12:45am I left the dorm in flip flops to go tell the officers that I was having a heart attack. The officers on duty called the ambulance and the ambulance checked my heart on their portable EKG machine. It was beating at 150 beats per minute. They took me to Leesberg (spelling) hospital where I remained until Friday, July 24th at 11:30pm. During the hospital stay it was determined that my heart was healthy but my thyroid was producing too much hormone, thus speeding up my heart.

This is called hyperthyroidism or Graves disease. I was given two medications by the hospital - Methimazole, which is an anti-thyroid agent used to reduce the amount of thyroid hormone produced by the body and Metoprolol, which is a beta blocker used to slow the heart.

The hospital doctor told me that in four weeks (approximately August 21) the prison medical unit was to do blood tests to determine how the thyroid medication was affecting my body.

The blood test was taken in late August and I was told that I would be placed on the appointment schedule to come over and review the results. I was never called. I went over in early September and inquired of Dr. DeLeon as to how to get blood test results. He told me to put in a request to staff, so I did that on September 15th. It simply asked to see the results of the tests.

Sometime after September 23rd I received a response in writing, from Ms. Marich, that stated that I could either make a sick call (come over early in the morning wait in line and fill out forms) or come to Open House to see the results. Open house is held only on Thursdays from 3:00pm to 3:30pm. I went to Open House Thursday September 30th and was told by Ms. Marich that she could not find the results! I watched her look through and around several piles of folders in her office but at no time did she look on a computer for them. She told me to check back later. On Wednesday October 28th I passed out around 4pm and was taken to medical and cleared.

On Friday October 30th my lips started turning black as if I had been a lifelong smoker. By Sunday November 1st my lips were fully black.

My boss, the Chaplain, called medical and a male nurse was sent over from the medium security men's prison on this complex (there are two maximum security, one medium security and one low security men's prisons on this complex with the women's camp). He took my blood pressure and oxygen and said there was nothing else he could do. He told me to go to sick call Monday morning, which I did.

I showed Mr. Coucho my lips and told him that something was wrong with my blood, I could tell. (I am leaving out gross details here).

He said I would be put on the schedule. However, the very next day, Tuesday morning, November 3rd, I found blood in my stool and rushed over to medical because I am smart enough to know that this is a major problem. I was chewed out for coming over to medical without a staff member telling me to come. I told Charlie, the female nurse and Mr. Coucho the PA that I was in the hospital in July, never got the blood work results and something was terribly wrong.

I am 46 years old and I know my body! I finally convinced them that I was not playing and was not stupid, so they 'treated' me with a packet for a stool sample test. Mr. Coucho looked on the computer for the blood test results from August and found them there!

The blood test showed a problem with the thyroid way back then!

He said I would be put on the schedule for new blood work later that week because these results were too old. He had a short conversation with Dr. DeLeon in Spanish and then said the thyroid count was off.

This was November 3rd. I administered the stool tests and returned them to Nurse Charlie on Friday November 6th.

Today is November 26th, Thanksgiving. I have not received the results of the stool test. I have not been given any new blood test.

My neck is swelling up like a blow fish and I am having trouble talking. I have been feeling very ill for the last two weeks.

Congressman, I don't want them to kill me in here. As you well know, I am being punished for exposing government fraud. However, millions of people don't file tax returns and I was just used as an example by the DOJ for their new program called the Tax Defiers Initiative.

I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful children. I have already spent 21 months in prison for a non crime, and I refuse to come out dead or maimed for life. I have not caused these people any problems. This is no threat but just for your information.

I also wrote the warden today. Things can't go on this way as I languish in here for someone's political gain. God doesn't like ugly and He is the ultimate judge and vindicator.

Sherry Peel Jackson 59085-019
FCI COLEMAN MEDIUM
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 1032
COLEMAN, FL 33521

Please do not pass up this email. Take action with us today and all this week as we call for immediate and proper medical care for Sherry.

Do not let another voice go down.

In Freedom,

Gary Franchi

RestoreTheRepublic!

Attacking the Sacred

2009-12-02T11:31:00.002-06:00

I'm baaaccckkk! Had a really nice time with family and friends. Thank you all for your hospitality. Some of you may have seen this, however, I would be remiss if I didn't put it up as well. Why? Because the worship of the "Constitution" in this country as a "sacred" and "sent from God" document and the worship of the "Law" that dribbles down from it are part of the root problem in this country. What is the root problem you ask? A religious, secular to some and theistic to others, adherence to made up rules with the willingness to coerce obedience in spite of contrary evidence and the glaring hypocrisy of its adherents.

Attacking the Sacred

By Larken Rose

http://www.larkenrose.com

The Constitution was written by mere mortals. To many, it has become akin to religious doctrine, and questioning it is considered sacrilege. But back when it was being debated, it was obviously not considered unquestionable. The arguments between "federalists" and "anti-federalists" (with both groups including individuals now revered as "founding fathers") were zealous, and often heated. Looking back, the worries of the "anti-federalists," that the "limited" federal government would eventually grow into a giant, tyrannical monster, were well-founded. And the assurances from the "federalists" that it would not do so were dead wrong. (Read Federalists #45 to see how small the PRO-Constitution crowd thought the federal government would remain.)

I have, on many occasions, cheered the "founding fathers," AND bashed them--sometimes both at the same time. And that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. We like to have heroes, people we can imagine to be perfect, to point at and say "THAT is what we should strive for!" Sorry, but the founders--even the wisest among them (and I would put Jefferson near the top)--are not that. An easy example was the fact that Jefferson owned slaves. Another was the unconstitutional "Louisiana Purchase" that he made happen. We can try to make up excuses, or we can just acknowledge that no one is perfect, and that we should embrace what is good and condemn what is bad, even if both reside in the same person (as they always do).

Refusal to think is never a good idea. No matter how wise something seemed, or how successful something was, we should always be willing to re-examine assumptions to try to make things better. A lot of what happened at the birth of this country was very unusual, and represented a giant leap forward for human civilization. The Declaration of Independence, in discussing "unalienable rights," very clearly advocated self-ownership. Then it turned around and suggested that "government" could somehow be used as a tool to defend liberty. But it can't. The Constitution claimed to create a protector government, but then gave it the ability to initiate violence, via "taxation" and "regulation."

Try this mental exercise: Think of the person whom you respect and admire the most, and then think of something he said that seemed wrong to you. Then practice saying, "He is/was a smart guy, but he is/was WRONG about that." Because you're allowed to think that, even about very learned, very wise folks like Thomas Jefferson. Because he was wrong about plenty of things. That doesn't cancel out what he was RIGHT about, but it does make it so that it's up to each of us to analyze things objectively, and to distinguish truth from falsity, no matter what the source.

And in that spirit, I recently posted a ten-minute video titled "I'm Allowed to Rob You!" which takes a pretty serious swing at the Constitution. Whatever you think of it after you watch it, I dare you to forward this link on to others (family, friends, enemies, etc.). Even if it's so far beyond what most people have ever thought about, and even if they just react with instinctive tantrums, it's high time the general public started being exposed to such ideas.

(Warning: As is often the case with things posted on YouTube, some of the "comments" are obnoxious, rude, vulgar, idiotic, and otherwise less-than-useful. But if you can tolerate that, they also make for a good study into statist psychology.)

Larken Rose 
http://www.larkenrose.com

Movie Reviews

2009-11-24T22:45:00.013-06:00

Freedom Shenanigans & High Jinks will be on hiatus until December 1, 2009. To keep you occupied this holiday weekend we are happy to introduce a Freedom Shenanigans & High Jinks' exclusive. From video affectionado Roy Fox comes some reviews of popular "patriot" videos. Many of these are from the One Dollar DVD project. Others are from the various presenters.
Check it out. A few years ago Roy was a government lackey, working his government job until he was given a video. It was like taking the "Red Pill" in The Matrix. The world was never the same after that. His interest was piqued and he started to research the various "patriot" subjects.
He has put years and thousands of babble bux into viewing and reviewing the best and worst of the "patriot" videos proffered to the American patriot community above and underground. There is no agenda except for how well the message is being delivered by the video maker.
Read before you buy and redistribute videos.

Notes On Documentary Films
Rating Scale
4 Stars - Outstanding
3 Stars - Good
2 Stars - Fair
1 Star - Poor

The Big Picture Time 1:28
The film is divided into eight parts. The first part entitled "A Global Conspiracy" displays pictures associated with different aspects of the overall Illuminist New World Order plan in a rapid fire . There are several sections where images flash by without any explanation of their meaning. Those without the background on all the issues will find large sections of the film unintelligible. One can only assume that the film is intended for an informed hard core patriot audience. The film also suffers from too many superficial discussions of the various issues, while spending too much time on the "Planet X" non-issue. The production quality and soundtrack are top-notch, and the sections on Codex Alimentarius and Mind Control are superb.
Rating: ***
Wake Up Call Time 2:29
This film borrows heavily from an assortment of the best films in the conspiracy genre. It opens with the famous red pill/blue pill scene from the movie "The Matrix", then proceeds with many of the best clips from Alex Jones documentaries such as "Endgame" and "Order of Death", "Zeitgeist", "Monopoly Men", David Icke's "Turning The Tide", "Illuminati, Volume 1", "The Capitalist Conspiracy", 911 Loose Change", and scenes from numerous other films. The film clips are linked together in a coherent and logical sequence to tell a story that is compelling and riveting. The last section on Mind Control is a chilling exposé on the elites' plans for all of us.
Rating: ***
Injecting Pandemic Time 2:00
Dr. True Ott discusses the evidence which proves the elitists are engaging in a eugenic depopulation conspiracy through development of deadly flu strains. The recent "Model Health Emergency Laws" that have been passed in most states have set up the framework for totalitarian mandatory mass vaccinations, arrests and quarantines. He shows how these laws will actually spread the pandemic and how China is promoting biological war on the American population. The presentation appears to have been filmed in a home study or living room and the production quality is strictly amateur. There are several audio and video glitches. Nevertheless, the information is compelling and contains information everyone needs to be familiar with.
Rating: ***
Innocents Betrayed Time 0:58
This documentary film is produced by Aaron Zelman of the activist gun rights organization "Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership" (JPFO). It demonstrates the historical link between governments instituting strict gun control/gun confiscation and the major genocides of the 20th century. The production quality is good, but the film suffers from its repetitive format. By the third or fourth example, the genocides start to blur one into the other. While each story is individually important, the shock value begins to lessen after seeing the horrors repeated too many times. The commentary by Zelman and Stevens at the end was excellent, and one wishes that there was more of that discussion throughout the main body of the film. By covering different aspects of the gun control issue throughout the film, it would have been a more engaging documentary.
Rating: **
Our Corrupt Foreign Policy Time 2:02
This is a collection of documentaries, many narrated by different Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Montgomery, Susan Sarandon, and Kris Kristofferson. The topics cover all aspects of the ongoing US war against Third World countries, including the School of the Americas, the Iraqi genocide, Iran-contra, the Panama invasion, Indonesia and East Timor and Viet Nam. There are extended speeches by Philip Agee (CIA) and Ramsey Clark. Overall the information is good, but marred by occasional left clichés. Particularly annoying is the endless repetition of the phrase "killing women and children"...does that mean killing adult men is of no concern? The solutions offered--calling/writing your Congresscritters or standing in the street with "peace" symbols and antiwar chants--are futile.
Rating: **

America From Freedom to Fascism Time 1:49
This is a great professionally done film by Hollywood director Aaron Russo whose credits include the films "Trading Places" and "The Rose". Russo also hosted a weekly cable TV series "Mad As Hell" where he dealt with government intrusions in our lives. This film begins with a little history of the bankers conspiracy to saddle the American people with a central bank and an income tax. The film is done in Michael Moore style by playing the role of "Everyman" while interviewing government officials and the man in the street. The income tax issue consumes a large portion of the film, and it would have been nice to see some of the other issues get more attention in the film, like the militarization of police, discussion of the increasingly fascistic laws being passed by Congress, and more expansive coverage of the new technologies of surveillance and control.
Rating: ***
Obama Deception TIme 1:51 (plus "extras")
Alex Jones documentary films are legendary and ubiquitous in the truth movement. This latest entry is one of his best productions to date. Jones has matured greatly as a filmmaker over the years, and this film stays away from some of the scattershot approach of earlier films. The reporting is solidly non-partisan and can be a useful tool to wake up folks on the left or the right. Alex provides damning evidence of politicians at every level being tied to the CFR, Bilderberg, or Tri-Lateral organizations. Bush's and Obama's connections to occult groups/secret societies such as Skull and Bones and Freemasonry complete the sinister picture. Jones shows how the agenda for world government and the loss of our rights and constitutional sovereignty never changes regardless of whether a Republican or Democrat are in the White House. The real power behind the throne pulls the strings of the President and Congress to carry out the plan for world domination. The only negatives in the film are the filming of scenes of Alex in the streets shouting through a bullhorn, and the devotion of too much footage of Jim Tucker in hotel rooms stating the obvious and scenes of vehicles heading into a "Bilderberg Group" meeting. As with similar scenes in Jones' previous films, they distract from the more important issues being discussed.
Rating: ****
Zeitgeist Time 2:02
Zeigeist is perhaps the the most earth shaking and paradigm shattering film in the conspiracy documentary genre. Part one has created tremendous controversy because it exposes the false basis of religion, and how the elites have always used religion to control populations. In particular, the sacred myths of Christianity are exposed as retreads of many earlier religious myths, and are linked to sun worship and astrological belief systems. Part two exposes the myths behind the 911 story portrayed by government and the mass media. Part three is a breathtakingly powerful discourse on the criminal basis of the Federal Reserve System and our enslavement through the bankers' corruption of our money. The conclusion is an appeal to people to question their paradigms and belief systems, which would become the basis of defeating the elite's conspiracy against mankind. The production quality is excellent, and the film is a must see. Versions that skip Part I can be found for those who might be disturbed by the subject matter.
Rating: ****
Codex Alimentarius Time 2:09
Codex is the food and supplement guidelines being promulgated by the World Trade and World Health Organizations under the false pretense of protecting the public from tainted food, but in reality promoting deadly and toxic GMO foods while denying access to vitamins and herbal supplements. This agenda is being driven by Big Pharma and Big Agra to "harmonize" with draconian European guidelines and to do an "end around" the US DSHEA legislation. This disk contains two presentations, the first by Ian Crane which lasts about 90 minutes. He discusses both the threat posed by Codex and how it fits hand in glove with the New World Order agenda. The second presentation is given by Dr. Rita Laibow, who went into more detail on Codex and where they are heading. Her speaking style is somewhat distracting when she tries to be "too cute", but there is substantial reason to share her grave concerns.
Rating: ***
Terrorstorm Time 1:50 (plus "extras")
This is an excellent documentary by radio talk show host Alex Jones which goes beyond 911 to show strong evidence of British government involvement and coverup in the 7/7 London Underground and bus bombings. Alex makes a strong case using circumstantial evidence to show how the so-called terrorists were innocent patsies framed by MI5. The long history of government use of terror to coerce populations is powerfully presented in the film, and proves the point that we are all being railroaded into a totalitarian police state by these false flag black ops. This film deviates from its professional journalistic style when it falls back on filming scenes of Alex's "trademark" bullhorn rants. The production decision to include extensive coverage of the antiwar protests at Crawford, Texas was generally unenlightening. Ditto on the long segment covering Charlie Sheen's doubts about 911. The final section on mind control techniques would have tied the whole film together much better if it weren't for the loss of focus and intensity resulting from these few weak segments.
Rating: ***
Economic Collapse Time- approx 2 hours
This is a collection of sixteen shorts from youtube.com covering various subjects connected with the planned economic collapse of the US economy. There are a few standouts in list, as well as a few video clips that were better left on the editing room floor. The British TV show "The Last Laugh" falls under that category and the iTulip interview with Scurlock didn't leave much of an impression. "Proof In Your Pocket" parts 1 & 2 are well done eleven minute segments on the US dollar, the North American Union, CFR/Secret Societies, and the NWO agenda. George Carlin's 10 minute "They Own You" is entertaining and yet cuts right to the heart of the matter. In the king's court, the fool was often the only person who could speak truth to power. Carlin's passing was a great loss as a powerful voice of freedom.
Rating: **
They Killed 'Em: JFK and Son Time: 3:43
This is a well done investigative report of all the circumstantial evidence surrounding the assassination of John F Kennedy and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of his son John Jr. in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard airport. The video is divided into 4 parts. Part 1 covers the evidence that George W Bush had means and motive to prevent the rescue of any survivors in the John Jr.'s fatal crash. Part 2 covers the JFK assassination in Dallas and how George Bush Sr is implicated in the conspiracy. Part 3 is entitled "Deep History" and runs about 18 minutes. It presents an well supported theory for JFK's assassination. The final part, "911 Connections" is interesting--but since it only runs 12 minutes, the viewer is left hanging, hoping to see more. The only annoying part of the 4 part video is the incessant Kennedy family worship throughout the films. Despite the overt bias, the video is compelling and convincing, a must see.
Rating: ****
911 The Road To Tyranny Time 2:20
This early release of this video by Alex Jones was probably the first 911 conspiracy video produced after the September 11 attacks. As a result, a lot of the smoking gun evidence that came public in the months and years afterward did not make it into this video. The video features a compelling segment showing government lies and complicity in the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing and the botched first World Trade Center bombing. Building a case on the history of false flag attacks, Alex combines circumstantial evidence to build a case of probable White House/Pentagon involvement in the attacks. The video later runs rapid-fire through various important side issues, including media control, martial law exercises, vaccination, microchip implantation, surveillance, loss of rights, and others. It concludes with an apocalyptic vision of the world if the global elite are successful in their plans.
Rating: ***

Alex Jones: Dr Laibow MD and Maj General Stubblebine Time 1:45
Radio talk show host Alex Jones from Austin, Texas conducts a powerful interview of Dr Laibow on the issue of Codex Alimentarius and how it relates to the elitist's agenda for world depopulation. Her husband, retired Major General Stubblebine, adds perspective as previous head of Air Force Special Weapons Research. Video footage is primarily Alex speaking into his broadcast mike from the studio, interspersed with still pictures of his guests or an occasional graphic. The interview would be just as effective in an audio CD format. If this interview doesn't wake people up to how deadly serious this food issue is, then people are just too stupid to live.
Rating: ***
Loose Change 2nd Edition Time 1:26
This is the follow-up video that became a sensation on the internet with millions of viewings and copies of the DVD circulating throughout the country. The title "Loose Change" was "coined" by the amateur filmmakers who put it together on a very small budget. Yet the film is extremely powerful and convincing in making its points and in exposing many of the key anomalies associated with the government's version of 911. This is one of the "must-see" videos produced by the 911 truth movement.
Rating: ****
911 Eyewitness Time 1:44
Interesting analysis of video footage taken by photographer Richard Siegel on September 11. A lot of questions about the government's explanation of events are raised in the film. Alternative theories of what happened are followed up with careful measurements taken directly from the audio and video footage and live audio from AM radio station WINS. The physical evidence proves that the government version of events was false. This film is useful for serious students of 911 who want to look into several key details of the buildings collapsing.
Rating: ***
Power Of Nightmares Time 3:00
This is a 3 part series from the BBC which purports to expose the use of fear to control national debate and steer government policies. Part 1 explores the rise of Leo Strauss and the neocons after World War II. Part 2 continues through the Reagan and Clinton administrations. Part 3 explores current events in the Middle East, the domination of neocons in the Bush administration and the myth of Al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, being a product of controlled mainstream media, there is too much deception and half-truth in the film. Although some of the history is interesting, this film is mostly spin as opposed to serious journalism.
Rating: *

Depleted Uranium & America's Dirty Bomb Time 1:48
Two documentaries on the use of so-called depleted uranium in US tactical munitions. "Depleted Uranium" is a Power Hour presentation narrated by Dr. Joyce Riley, retired military. The production quality is excellent, the facts are horrifying. Our country is guilty of the worst war crime in modern history. We have turned Iraq into a nuclear hellhole and condemned the Iraqi people to sickness, deformity and death. The pictures are very graphic and deeply disturbing. The film "America's Dirty Bomb" is a documentary by Dr. Doug Rokke who was in charge of the American team investigating the effects of depleted uranium contamination on US soldiers. His data and testimony are riveting. The documentation he has accumulated is extensive and terrifying--evidence he acquired at the cost of his own health and that of his research team. These two documentaries need to be seen by everyone immediately. This has to be stopped and the people behind this atrocity need to be...well, held accountable.
Rating: ****
Americanism 101 Time 1:03
This is a collection of video clips cobbled together from different sources, but half of the one hour disk is the John Birch Society presentation "Overview of America" narrated by John McManus. While very well-meaning and patriotic, his ignorant dismissal of anarchism as an alternative to the statist belief of granting government a monopoly of force is hard to sit through for anyone with a more thorough understanding of the principles of liberty. The film will appeal to Constitutionalists and conservative Republicans looking for answers to the growth of leviathan government. But the film's premise that we can have limited government controlled by "the people", is delusional. The other film clips are on varied unrelated topics and are good as "stand alones". Jerry Daly's graphic presentation on the profound media bias against Ron Paul is well done. "Blue Pill, Red Pill" and "This In America" are two popular and well done "youtube" shorts.
Rating: **
The End Of America/Naomi Wolf Time ---
Long one of the icons of the "progressives" in America, Naomi Wolf laments the end of America in this 5 part DVD. Each segment records either a radio/TV interview or a speaking engagement promoting her book by the same name. The dialogue seems rehearsed and not spontaneous. Naomi appears shocked that the country is turning totalitarian, even though it was redistributive policies promoted by her and her "comrades" on the left that helped get us here. And fer gossake, will someone please tell this woman that America is (or was) a REPUBLIC and not a DEMOCRACY?! The positive value of the film is to clarify the changes to our political environment that are heralding the coming dictatorship and police state. Did I say coming...it's already here. All the flashpoints that are on Naomi's top ten list have already happened.
Rating: **

Best Of Puppet Government Time 1:04
This is a collection of best short videos from youtube.com. There are about a dozen selections, the including the "must see" video by Billy Vegas entitled "The Militarization of Police". A ten minute video entitled "American Warning" is also highly recommended. "We Are The Ones" utilizes the famous "Network" diatribe as a narrative but spends too much of its time on the unusual footage of wildlife on the Serengeti plains. "How You Ended The War" covers Bush/Cheney WMD lies and other sins from the left/antiwar viewpoint . "False Flags, Lies and Nukes" is a better crafted segment covering similar issues. These videos are very useful to raise awareness with people who don't want to invest hours to watch one of the feature length conspiracy videos.
Rating: ***
Confessions Of An Economic Hitman Time 1:09
A CSPAN Book Club Speech by the author of the book by the same name. Another poor misguided soul who sees the corruption in government, but thinks more or "better" government is the solution. As a "talking head" video, and dealing with economics, it already had two strikes against it in terms of "watchability". "Confessions" might be of interest to someone needing a whistleblower's perspective to convince them that an evil conspiracy is really happening. Otherwise, take a pass on this one.
Rating: *
WTC Dust & Deceit Time 0:59 (plus extras)
New Yorkers were told by the EPA that the air quality was safe on 9-11 and in the days thereafter. The documentary proves the point that government can and does cause grave harm and death to those foolish enough to trust them. The story needed to be told, the issues are vital and the stories are heartrending. It's almost as if the government wanted to increase the death toll from 9-11...naah, they only have our best interests at heart, as everybody knows. (sarcasm off) The film could have been shorter and made the point just as well. There is a saturation point one reaches when listening to a seemingly endless parade of human misery. It might have been interesting to investigate the conspiracy angles further.
Rating: *
David Ray Griffin: 911 and the American Empire Time: 1:24
This video is a speech given to an audience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which summarizes most the key points of 911 and how the official story is clearly a lie. The producers of the video also augment the speech by inserting pictures, documents and text that support Mr. Griffin's key points. There is nothing in the data presented that is new or groundbreaking in any sense. The facts have been presented in many videos made previously. The chief value of this 911 film is the respectability lent to the subject from a leading theologian.
Rating: **
End The Fed Time 2:06
This collection of videos on the Federal Reserve banksters is simply fabulous. While other videos have done a fair job on the issue, this combination of documentaries is the gold standard, pardon the pun. If you had to show just one short video to someone about the Fed, the excerpt from Zeitgeist Addendum entitled "Fractional Reserve Banking" is the most powerful 19 minutes ever put together on the subject. There is also an 11 minute excerpt entitled "The Fed" from the original "Zeitgeist" movie that is excellent. There are two longer fims on the disk--"Fiat Empire" which borrows heavily from G Edward Griffin and his pioneering work and "Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve" which is produced by the Mises Institute. Both are 41 minutes in length, and both are very good in depth discussions of all the issues surrounding the money and banking issue. The only complaint with the latter film is the poor lip sync, which is just a minor nuisance. This is definitely one of the top ten videos that are obtainable from dollardvdproject.com
Rating: ****
Pretext for the North American Union Time 1:38
This video deals with an important subject for those who worship the nation-state. Unfortunately for those who have as little use for the USA as they have for the NAU, the film has little to offer. The entire presentation is backdropped with an American flag and uses the film technique of playing video clips in a small window while scrolling text below. Large sections of the film are "power point" style, with the narrator reading the text frame by frame. For those manage to stay awake until the end, you will be "treated" to the national anthem...together with suggestions that you should beg Congress to stop their plans to steamroll us into world government. The producer of this film has good intentions, but that isn't good enough any more. There are so many vital issues threatening our (so-called) civil liberties in this American police state that the issue of the NWO empire rearranging its administrative network over a larger region is simply a small piece of a much larger conspiracy.
Rating: *
911 Missing Links Time 2:07
This is the film you watch AFTER you've finished watching some of the other 911 films. This film truly fills in the "Missing Links"--those facts of the conspiracy that the other filmmakers apparently considered too hot to handle. Dropping all pretense of "political correctness", this film effectively exposes the deep Israeli connection with the 911 disaster, as well as the massive Zionist infiltration of every branch of US government. Finally, we have a film that exposes the "elephant in the living room", the real driving force of US foreign policy and the treasonous politicians that are behind it all. See this film now before pending US "hate laws" overturn our first amendment rights and censor this vital information. If we can't discuss the truth frankly, we will never be able to stop the NWO plan.
Rating: ****
911 Mysteries Time 1:30
Although the introduction to the film risks alienating potential viewers ("Hi, I'm Brad and I'm a conservative Republican..."), this is a very good forensic analysis of most of the factual data of 911. Produced in 2006, the film does an impressive job of destroying the official government version of events by first reciting each official conclusion from the 911 Commission followed by a scientific analysis of the evidence that proves each of the Fedgov's point wrong. Unlike other films which go more heavily into the political and foriegn policy aspects of 911, this film stays on task with using factual documentation and primary laws of physics. There is no escaping the conclusion that the government's "911 conspiracy theory" is a badly fabricated lie.
Rating: ****
Upcoming reviews: Election Fraud Combo, Iraq War Documentaries, Who Is Ron Paul, Ruby Ridge, Theft By Deception, 911 What's The Truth, Everyone's Gotta Learn Sometime, Confronting The Evidence, Who Killed John O'Neil, Steven E Jones 911 Revisited, Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Vol.1, Riddles In Stone Vol. 2, Eye Of The Phoenix Vol.3, Master of Terror, America Destroyed By Design, Matrix Of Evil, Police State 2000, Police State II The Takeover, Police State III Total Enslavement, Wake Up Or Waco, Martial Law 911: Rise of the Police State, Endgame, One Nation Under Siege, Chemtrails The Video, Fahrenheit 911, Global Warming or Global Governance, HAARP- The Update, We Become Silent, Prescription For Disaster, Waco Rules of Engagement, Votescam The Stealing of America, The Money Masters, Gulag USA

What Government Really Is!!!

2009-11-21T21:53:00.005-06:00

It really isn't an old joke;
"Why doesn't government like organized crime?" "Because it hates competition!"

It is the truth.

Most governments use the fraud of the sanctity of Law to support the illusion of majority rule while a noncompetitive minority makes decisions sans any actual majority input other than an occasional ballot whose outcome may or may not be prearranged. Furthermore, government routinely tries to monopolize everything it can by coercion. Therefore, ANY government that does not allow and protect voluntary disassociation is a violence based protection racket no different than the "organized crime" that it sanctimoniously excoriates.

From John Robb's Global Guerrillas

PROTECTION RACKETS

Diving into military theory (again).

A core dynamic behind the emergence of the nation-state was it's ability to run a successful protection business (aka racket). A system that has been growing since the treaties of Westphalia in the 1600s. The protection business is relatively simple:

It is a monopoly. It has exclusive ownership over the use of violence. As a monopoly, it must crush all internal competitors.
It defends its monopoly from outside interests -- as in warfare with nation-state and non-state competitors.
It charges the customers (individuals and businesses) within its geographical areas of control for this service. This isn't optional. Customers presumably benefit from this protection.

Historically Successful Protection Rackets

So what made the nation-state formula for protection so superior to its competitors during its ascent over the last 400 years? It's simple. It delivered value to its customers. Let's dive into this with a paper by Charles Tilly (War Making and State Making as Organized Crime). He cites the economic historian Frederic Lane's simple formula for success:

The protection monopoly must generate tributes in excess of the costs necessary to maintain it's monopoly.
The protection monopoly must generate protection rents for its customers. The amount the customers benefit gain from the protection of their interests less the amount they pay for it.
Both tributes and protection rents must be positive for long term success. Further, the nation-state that minimized protection tributes in favor of maximizing protection rents grew the fastest (historically, that was partly accomplished through economies of scale).

The Status of Modern Protection Rackets

The protection formula broke down in the latter half of the 20th Century as the nation-state became more complex. Key elements of this breakdown include:

First, the advent of nuclear weapons made full scale war impossible (van Creveld).
Second, the emergence of a global marketplace with global property rights meant that the commercial interests of the nation-state's remaining customers became more powerful than nation-state's interests. This restricted/limited warfare even more.
The result has been a slow unraveling of the nation-state's ability to maintain it's monopoly over violence (and much more) within and outside its geographical borders. This has created a gap in protection at the local level into which small violent groups are now quickly converging. Finally, there is additional evidence that the economies of scale that drove the growth of earlier protection monopolies has broken down.

What this Means

It's likely that small groups that emerge to seize local control (as in, create a TAZ), will eventually converge on the successful protection model (delineated above). In fact, we have already seen this shift with groups as diverse in origin as the Sendero Luminoso to the Taliban to the Zetas to MEND. These groups will be successful in so far as they:

Stay decentralized and cooperative (re: opposition to the state) to ensure protection efficiency. There are few economies of scale in this environment given the leverage offered by globalization and the presence of legacy nation-states as barriers to growth.
Generate positive protection rents for their customers. Deliver value. Protection monopolies that expand into the core businesses of its customers will become vulnerable and inefficient. Expand the business interests of customers by eliminating competition when possible and ensuring market access. Charge competitive rates and not monopoly rents (sufficient tribute but not excessive).
Diversify. To maximize potential tributes while still delivering accelerating protection rents to customers, a protection racket should expand its customer list. This means extending protection from drug smuggling to generic smuggling (across the entire range of potential goods) to generic commercial activity (standard corporate and small business interests). Create a vibrant local commercial environment across the entire spectrum of potential activity.

NOTE: I think this is a nice expansion of the theoretical groundwork laid down in Brave New War, with the goal of laying out the entirely new framework for how 21st Century warfare will work. Of course, since I don't work for anybody exclusively, it is available to everybody. Use as you see fit.

The Oddsman Cometh as Nemesis

2009-11-19T00:00:00.010-06:00

Been busy for awhile with family responsibilities. I see that the pot's temperature is rising and many frogs are getting ready to put out the fire themselves.
Just to show that I'm not alone I'm re-running a piece from 6/7/2007. Afterwards is a link to Mike Vanderboegh and the Sipsey Street Irregulars with another chapter in the soon-to-be-published novel Absolved.

In this chapter, the American patriots do like the Armenians and Irish and start sending the the ones responsible for infringement, injustice and injury to meet their maker.

Big Thanks to Bill St.Clair for the "heads-up" on this!!

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The Michael Collins Gambit

What American Patriots need to consider IF the situation moves toward a martial law or a martial rule condition, ARE the strategy and tactics of Michael Collins.

1. Intellegience - KNOW YOUR ENEMY - Who are they, where do they live, work, shop, attend public events, church. Who are their neighbors, family, friends.

2. Supply your needs - food, weapons, ammunition, hide-outs, Communications ability with your comrades and the general public.

3. Strike the Root not the branches - Hit the top people, not the drones.

4. Leaderless Resistance - No central planning, no central head to hit. Individuals committed to the strategy of seizing liberty with different tactics independent of each other but united by a common belief in the Creed of Freedom. http://www.freedom-force.org/freedom.cfm?fuseaction=creed

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Throughout Irish history, rebellions were always failures because of cowardice, drink, and most ominously, informers. Returning from Frongoch Prison in Wales with the other survivors of the failed 1916 Rising, Michael Collins realised this. Britain had always been able to either place spies in rebel parties or else succeed in enticing Irishmen to ‘rat out’ their colleagues for money and protection. With his own intelligence network, he took on, and beat, Britain at its own game.

Building up the Network

“For the first time in the history of separatism we Irish had a better intelligence service than the British… this was Michael Collins’ great achievement and it is one for which every Irishman should honour his memory.”- Todd Anders

Michael Collins was appointed the Director of Intelligence of the Irish Volunteers in January 1919. By this time, he had already laid much of the groundwork for his intelligence network.

Collins had penetrated the Irish and English postal, telephone and telegraph systems. Letters and dispatches could be moved to various contacts by certain train inspectors. The railway workers were organised so effectively that the military frequently had to move troops and stores by road, which would play into the hands of the IRA ambushes as the war intensified. The trade unions were mobilised to hamper police and military movements by road, rail and sea. For many months the army had to tie up thousands of men on the major ports as the dockers had paralysed all attempts to land stores.

One of Collins’ key activities was gun running. He established a network of agents across the British Isles using his IRB (the Irish Republican Brotherhood) connections. His secret channel was dubbed the ‘Irish Mail’. Gelignite from Wales and England came carefully packed in tin trucks, rifles came in wicker hampers, revolvers and ammunition in hand luggage. In December 1918 a munitions factory was set up in the cellar of a bicycle shop in Dublin, with Collins taking over the operation of it several months later.

The Squad

“I am a builder, not a destroyer. I get rid of people only when they hinder my work.”- Michael Collins

“Our only way to carry on the fight was by organised and bold guerilla warfare. But this in itself was not enough. England could always reinforce her army. To paralyse the British machine it was necessary to strike at individuals outside the ranks of the military. Without her Secret Service working at the top of its efficiency England was helpless… robbed of the network of this organisation throughout the country, it would be impossible to find ‘wanted’ men.” - Michael Collins

Collins set up ‘the Squad’, a small band of Dublin Volunteers attached to the Intelligence Department, in July 1919. It was a full-time assassination team, made up of clerks, tradesmen, and general workers, who were paid £4.10 a week. According to Bill Stapleton, one of its members-

“Our chief function was the extermination of British spies and individuals.”

Strict rules were laid down for Squad shootings. Assassinations were a last resort, coming after repeated warnings to the target. Once the order to shoot was given, the Squad would study the locale carefully and work out where and when the shooting would take place. After a job the guns would be dropped in the pockets of ‘the Black Man’, a former boxer who perpetually walked the streets of Dublin.

On July 30th, Detective Sergeant Smith of the ‘G’ Division was shot dead by the Squad on the authority of Dail Eireann. On September 12th, Sergeant Daniel Hoey was shot dead outside of Police Headquarters at Brunswick Street. Both Smith and Hoey had disregarded several warnings from Volunteers. As a result of these killings, political detectives became less inclined to go beyond the letter of their duty, or taking any risks in its execution. Collins explained his strategy in 1922-

“Without her spies England was helpless… Spies are not so ready to step into the shoes of their departed confederates as are soldiers to fill up the front line in honourable battle. And, even when the new spy stepped into the shoes of the old one, he could not step into the old one’s knowledge… We struck at individuals, and by doing so we cut their lines of communication, and we shook their morale.”

The other main result of these killings, and Volunteer activity in Munster, was the banning of Sinn Fein and Dail Eireann. This created a fertile climate for Collins’ tactics, allowing him to assassinate more British police and agents without being restrained by moderates.

Following the suppression of Dail Eireann, the Dail and the Volunteers (by now popularly known as the IRA) agreed that the IRA should intensify its campaign. With the demise of the DMP in Dublin, the British authorities decided to bring down Mr. William C. Forbes Redmond from Belfast to reorganise the detective force. But his assistant in Dublin Castle was one of Collins’ agents. Redmond was identified and his movements were recorded. On January 20th 1920, Redmond was shot dead by members of the Squad as he returned to his suite in the Standard Hotel in Harcourt Street. According to a Squad member, Joe Dolan-

Following Redmond’s death, his own undercover detectives pulled out and returned to Belfast, and thereafter ‘G’ Division “ceased to affect the situation”, according to British military intelligence. By the following month, a Secret Service Branch of the RIC no longer existed.

It may be wondered how Collins and his intelligence officers went about seemingly unhindered during this time. The remaining DMP men were generally too afraid to go after Collins, even though many of them were able to identify him. The twin evils of spies and raids remained however. Many of Collins’ office and hiding places, dotted throughout Dublin city, were turned over during the War of Independence. He usually got forewarning from one of his agents and was able to be elsewhere. It also helped when one of his ‘friendly’ detectives was leading the raiding party. In November 1919 Collins’ financial offices on Harcourt Street were raided. Nothing important was discovered because the detective in charge of the search simply didn’t bother looking. What he actually did was-

“I went upstairs and counted the roses on the wallpaper until the raid was over.”

It is believed that up to half the Cairo Gang may have escaped assassination, but ‘Bloody Sunday’ (as it became known afterwards) was overall a huge success for Collins’ intelligence network. Spies and their wives flocked to Dublin Castle in despair, and Collins’ intelligence team were able to jot down the names of those they didn’t already recognise. Bloody Sunday had a crippling effect on British intelligence in Ireland. One of Collins’ agents wrote-

“The effect was paralysing. It can be said that the enemy never recovered from the blow.”

Collins himself wrote-

“My own intention was the destruction of the undesirables who continued to make miserable the lives of ordinary decent citizens… If I had another motive, it was no more than a feeling such as I would have for a dangerous reptile… There is no crime in detecting and destroying in war-time, the spy and the informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin.” -
Michael Collins and the Organisation of Irish Intelligence, 1917-21

Towards a Truce

“The tenacity of the IRA is extraordinary. Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass hats.”- British civil servant Tom Jones writing to Bonar Law

On December 20th, Eamon de Valera returned from America. De Valera argued that it would be better to change from hit and run guerilla tactics to having a series of battles with the British, mainly for propaganda purposes. This resulted in the burning of the Customs House on May 25th 1921. It was a publicity success worldwide but resulted in many of the best IRA men in Dublin at the time being captured. As the summer reached its peak, Collins had been preparing to assassinate around sixty fresh agents sent in from Britain, as well as groups of soldiers who were based in Dublin. Half an hour before this operation was due to begin, it was called off. Lloyd George had sent word that he wanted peace.

Britain had been facing growing worldwide pressure, especially from America, to negotiate a settlement. The Anglo-Irish Truce came into effect on July 11th 1921. As the peace talks were going on in London, and the guns were silent across the country, things were still going on in the murky underground war. The IRA were all coming out into the open, including intelligence officers, and the British Secret Service were noting their appearance and their various whereabouts. Collins ruefully admitted-

“Once a truce is agreed, and we come out into the open, it is extermination for us if the truce should fail… We shall be like rabbits coming out from their holes.”

This didn’t stop him continuing to run his intelligence office as the truce was maintained. A truce it had in no small part brought about.

Conclusion

Several things forced the truce of July 1921, of which Collins’ intelligence network is only one. But it is arguably the most important one. One of the key reason that the War of Independence of 1919-1921 actually achieved a tangible result (the Anglo-Irish Treaty), unlike scores of previous rebellions, was intelligence.

British spies and informers were wiped out by the Irish. People were now afraid to be seen supporting or passing information to the British administration. Spies were routinely shot. British intelligence lines were intercepted and used against them. The State became effectively paralysed by Collins’ network. This is acknowledged by British historians, none more so than Lawrence James in The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. As he looks at the reasons behind the British agreeing to a truce in July 1921, he notes-

“The British army had still not overcome many of its operational problems, not least the lack of a competent intelligence-gathering service. In fact, by early June, the two sides were facing deadlock.”

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Absolved, Chapter 28. Nemesis: The Six Apostles.

"Who today still speaks of the extermination of the Armenians?" -- Adolf Hitler, 1939.

In the Greek tragedies Nemesis appears chiefly as the avenger of crime and the punisher of hubris . . . She was sometimes called Adrasteia, . . . meaning "one from whom there is no escape"; her epithet Erinys ("implacable") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele. -- Wikipedia.

17 July 1915

Aram Avakian’s father was herding his goats in the hills above their village at the base of the mountain that the Ottoman Empire called Musa Dagh but the Armenian Christians called Musa Mer when the Turkish gendarmes came, looking for a little diversion. Ordered to hide and be silent no matter what happened, little Aram hid under a large basket and listened as the Turks raped his mother, one after another. Aram could hear his mother moaning and weeping and the laughter of the gendarmes. When they were done, just before they bayoneted her, one of them asked, “Where’s your Christ to protect you now?”

When they were gone, Aram ran to find his father.

There were six villages of at least five thousand Armenians scattered around the base of Musa Mer and all had been ordered to evacuate and march to somewhere in the interior, away from the Mediterranean Sea. Having heard rumors of what happened to other Armenian Christians when given similar orders, most of the villagers decided to withdraw up the mountain, construct defensive positions and defy the order.

Some, about 60 families, decided they would be safer if they obeyed the order. They marched off with all that they could carry, and were never heard from again.

Between the six villages the Armenians had managed to hide about a hundred and twenty modern rifles and shotguns from the authorities when they had previously been ordered to give them up. In addition, they had perhaps another 350 out-dated flintlock muskets and old horse pistols.

The Armenians stripped out their homes and shops of every manner of provision and carried them up the mountainside. That took them one whole day. They immediately placed sharpshooters at key points and began digging trenches and constructing road blocks.

Arriving to find the Armenians gone, the Turkish Army was ordered up the mountain to round them up and kill all who resisted, which it would later turn out, had been the plan all along.

On 21 July, a force of 200 Turkish soldiers moved up Musa Dagh in expectation of an easy victory. After losing a number of casualties and a mountain howitzer, they retreated. The next attack consisted on 3,000 soldiers and a large number of gendarmes and Muslim irregulars and the Turks drove to within 400 yards of the Armenian camp. Only a deep ravine separated them from their prey. By this time night had fallen and the Turks settled in, expecting to finish the job in the morning.

In the darkness, having no other option, the Armenians took a page from the Bible and duplicated Gideon’s feat by infiltrating down and around the Turkish position until they had it surrounded. When they attacked, the startled Turks were first thrown into confusion, then panic. The Turkish soldiers and their irregular allies fled down the mountain, leaving their camp and considerable war material and food behind.
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What "Religion" Should You Follow?

2009-10-26T03:57:00.004-05:00

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Anarchy for All

2009-10-25T08:32:00.002-05:00

The Best Plan: No Plan

By Larken Rose

Suppose you were given the task of coming up with a master plan to make sure that everyone in this country, all 300,000,000 or so of us, had enough food to eat. It's all up to you!

The first obvious question would be, "What do I have to work with?" You would need to know what resources would be available to you, what powers you would have, and so on. For example, if you had to work with what you now personally own, you wouldn't have a prayer. So how much of OTHER people's money would you be given for the project? And, if you're going to plan and manage the thing, you'll need control over all sorts of things, including all the farms, lots of trucks or trains to distribute food, all the buildings, equipment and personnel for distribution locations, and so on. Try to imagine what the price tag would have to be on such an endeavor. But even if you had all the money in the world, could you do it? Do you know enough about how everything works, and could you solve all the problems that might arise?

No. You still wouldn't have a prayer of making it work. Neither would any other individual, no matter how educated, knowledgeable, or wise. (When you think of centralized control of food production, think of the bread lines in Soviet Russia.) In short, the assigned task CAN'T BE DONE, not by you or anyone else, because no person has all the knowledge required to plan, organize, or carry out such a complex, massive operation.

Luckily, no one's trying to (in this country, anyway). But if even your best effort--or the best effort of any other person--would fail, and no one's even TRYING, why aren't we all starving? In short, we have a huge excess of food in this country, with a huge variety of products at an amazingly low price, at many thousands of locations across the country, precisely because there is NO "master plan."

But isn't that terrifying? There is NO centralized scheme to feed us all! No one is being forced to produce any food, or ship it anywhere. There is NO guarantee that YOU will have anything to eat tomorrow! No one is making sure we all have food! AAAAH!!!

So why do we? Why do we have, not merely enough food to survive (which by itself is an impressive accomplishment), but a huge variety of high-quality, low cost food, even in places hundreds of miles from where most kinds of food can be grown? There wasn't even a big, centralized, concerted effort TRYING to make that happen. So what made it happen?

A guy in Florida, who figured out a new way to keep bugs off his oranges, made it happen. But not by himself. A guy who started a little trucking company in Texas, who figured out how to make things run just a bit faster and more efficiently, made it happen. But not by himself. A farmer in Iowa, who put in the extra time to cultivate that extra field, made it happen. But not by himself. MILLIONS of individuals, not governed or guided by any central plan, most of them not even aware of the rest of the picture, made it happen. But if there was no master plan making them all do what they do, and making them all work together in harmony, what could possibly have made it all work?

Simple: the quest for PERSONAL GAIN. The amazingly complex arrangements, intricate organization, ongoing adaption and problem solving, all come from what is often termed "greed." (This is nothing new to those familiar with "Austrian" economics.) The self- interest of millions of individuals, most of whom know only their tiny little piece of the big picture, is capable of doing what no centralized plan ever has, or ever could.

But let's suppose you had all those people under your command. Let's suppose you could boss them around, and let's suppose they would all gladly obey. You STILL would do a horrendous job of things. (Don't feel bad; anyone else would, too.) You wouldn't know the best route for the trucker to take, or what time of day he should drive. You wouldn't know the best time to plant and harvest corn, or how to rotate the crops most efficiently. There would literally be MILLIONS of choices to be made, and in almost every case, you wouldn't have the first clue about the right way to do anything.

In a free market, each person's bottom line creates a constant incentive for each person to figure out and make better choices. The economics phenomenon known as "the market" quickly and automatic corrects most errors. But if YOU were making all the choices, and everyone below you was just blindly following orders, it would be a complete disaster. How much wheat should go to Chicago, as opposed to Orlando? Does Los Angeles need more corn than Detroit? How could you ever hope to answer every question about how much crop each farm will produce, how fast it will get to somewhere else, how much is needed there, and so on? Of course, you could always "delegate," by giving some other busy-body a smaller number of questions that he couldn't answer correctly either. Then you'd just have a bigger bureaucracy, with similar horrible results (and more opportunity for corruption).

Actually, there is ONE way you could accomplish the stated goal, but it's really radical. You could address the nation, and boldly proclaim, "I don't KNOW how to make everything work! Figure it out for yourselves!" In other words, you could advocate ANARCHY--a complete ABSENCE of a central plan, a total departure from the whole idea of centralized planning and control. In other words, you could do NOTHING, and achieve an infinitely better result than you could have accomplished any other way.

Americans have outstanding examples of how this works, in lots of different areas (food production, transportation technology, information technology, and so on). Nonetheless, there are still areas of life in which most Americans are terrified of the idea of NOT having things centrally managed and controlled (defense and road-building being two common examples). But the laws of economics don't CHANGE from one industry to another. Human nature doesn't function one way when it comes to roads and another way when it comes to cars. The arguments showing how idiotic it is to have "government" managing food production can be applied just as well to show how idiotic it is to have "government" managing ANYTHING.

Nonetheless, we now have millions of people discussing what centralized, authoritarian, forcibly-impose "plan" might fix health care. Last week the discussion was about which centralized, authoritarian, forcibly-imposed "plan" might fix the economy. And next week there will be some other crisis--real or imagined--for which the politicians will propose yet another "master plan."

If you think ANY centralized plan can make "health care" work, you don't understand human nature or economics. If you think ANY centralized plan can protect people from crime, you don't understand human nature or economics. If you think ANY centralized plan can lead to a prosperous country, you don't understand human nature or economics. In short, if you think that having a small group of people FORCIBLY CONTROLLING everyone else will ever make society better, you don't understand reality. And if you're scared to death of the alternative, especially when it's called "anarchy" (oh, heavens!), you need to grow up.

The next time you visit the local grocery store, take a good look around, because you'll be standing in ANARCHY!

(Actually, thanks to the myriad of "regulations" and "taxes" that interfere with food production and distribution in this country, what you see is really what voluntary interaction can achieve, even with a huge number of obstacles thrown in its way.)

Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com

Secret Obama/Democrat Plan Exposed!!!

2009-10-22T00:06:00.003-05:00

YOU know what this really means! These are code words to unregulated, uncontrolled, unresponsible fruit salad making!!! We must protect "the children!!" Call your Republican legislators! There must be MORE LAW!!! Will the Continental Congress 2009 protect us from the "Saladorists?"

Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

2009-10-20T07:16:00.003-05:00

Using U.S. Census data, a team of geographers from Kansas State University have plotted man's fall from grace in a unique way, creating color-coded maps showing the degree to which the seven deadly sins have taken root in cities and states across the nation.

The Las Vegas Strip claimed the No. 1 ranking for greed. The highest scores for the other deadly sins -- lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy and pride -- tended to congregate in the coastal areas, whereas southeast Minnesota and the rest of the Midwest were covered, map-wise, in a more virtuous blue rather than wicked red.

From WIRED Magazine

"We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). Christian clergy, likely noting the Bible Belt's status as Wrath Central, question the "science." Valid point—or maybe it's just the pride talking."

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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

2009-10-16T22:54:00.001-05:00

This too shall pass!

2009-10-13T17:35:00.004-05:00

So many have been hurt. So many look to leaders for help. So many want answers. I am a gnostic agnostic. I know that I don't know. Things are not as they seem but that doesn't change the heartache or the sorrow. Loss is loss. Life, liberty or property. It is all the same pain. Pain so acute that you think you may die. Pain that you want to hide from it. Pain killers help but for only a a while. Facing it is the only way to deal. To deal or not to deal that is the reality. So the question is are you the kind of person who when faced with a swimming pool of water that is cold do you gradually enter or do you just jump in? That is how most of us deal with pain. One way or another you deal or you don't. The best thing to remember is that this too shall pass.

Larken Rose on the No State Project & Video

2009-10-09T19:00:00.004-05:00

This Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, from 3-5 pm cst Larken Rose on the No State Project 
he will be discussing solutions to "government", how to get to a voluntary society.   Larken is an unapologetic anarchist and the author of three books, 
How to be a Successful Tyrant, Kicking the Dragon, and his latest, The Iron Web, Larken's website is http://larkenrose.com. 
 
The show is live from 3-5 pm cst at http://americanfreedomradio.com and you can join us by calling (512) 879 - 3805.

Larken Rose's New Video

Your Religion Stinks!!!

2009-10-07T13:46:00.003-05:00

Amen Brother!!! Another great one from Larken Rose.

Your Religion Stinks!

Lots of people seem to think that it's good--or at least possible--to keep religion and politics separate. Trouble is, they're both mostly about how other people should be treated, and they almost always conflict. Maybe people try to keep them separate just so they don't have to come face to face with their own internal contradictions and hypocrisy.

Lots of people consider themselves righteous, moral, devout folks, and take pride in how religious they are. I have one simple question for such people: "Do you advocate my enslavement?" They always say no (which is rarely true), and then they usually wonder why I would ask such a thing.

The reason I ask is because their faith and loyalty to "government" usually completely dwarfs, and renders useless, their belief in what they call their religion. If they piously live by the rule of "thou shalt not steal"--except when they're advocating that the state forcibly confiscate wealth from almost everyone they know (via "taxation")--what good is their "religion"? The fact that they don't commit the robbery themselves, but instead beg to "authority" to do it for them, doesn't make them noble; it makes them thieves and cowards (instead of just thieves).

Let me make this perfectly blunt. (If this doesn't offend most people who read it, they weren't reading carefully enough.) If you advocate that "government" treat your neighbors in a way that you wouldn't treat them yourself, you are what's wrong with the world. If you are a Republican or a Democrat (or anything in between), your "religion" is worthless, empty window-dressing. You advocate theft, assault, harassment, terrorism and murder. Of course, when you support such things, you use euphemisms to describe them, such as "taxation," "regulation," "law" and "war."

Even I have to cringe when I say such things, because the statement applies to most of the people I know, even most of the people I like. But friends don't let friends advocate evil. When statist friends and family express horror at what the federal extortion machine did to me and my wife, I don't usually have the heart to say what I should: "Who do you think put that monster there?" Every Republican and Democrat supports a system of massive, forced extortion, which wears the label of "taxation." They may differ on how much it should steal, and how the stolen loot should be spent, but they all believe that "taxation" can be legitimate. And "taxes" are not a request; they are a threat of violence. Therefore, all statists--even the ones I like personally--advocate widespread forcible robbery of hundreds of millions of people.

My wife and I were wrongfully imprisoned and economically almost wiped out by the system that all statists advocate. So when statist friends express sympathy for what Tessa and I went through, I have to bite my tongue not to say, "Why? It was your belief system that put us there."

(There is one possible philosophical "loophole" in our particular case. We didn't actually break the "law," because by the extortionists' own rules, we didn't "legally" owe the "tax" that we didn't pay. So I suppose a statist could say, "Well, if you had actually owed it, then I would have been glad that you were locked up for not complying, but you didn't actually owe it, so I feel bad that you were imprisoned." In other words, they sympathize with us based on a "technicality," not based on a principle.)

Interestingly, I don't think it would ever occur to any of our statist friends that they should feel the slightest shred of responsibility for what was done to us. Ironically, the Republican voters we know seem happy to blame the "pro-tax" leftists for what happened, even though my wife and I were both robbed and wrongfully imprisoned by a "judge" appointed by George Bush and a prosecutor appointed by Bush, with the help of an IRS Commissioner, a Secretary of the Treasury, an Attorney General, and the local U.S. Attorney, all appointed by Bush. Lots of our friends voted for the very monster that stomped on us, and yet they see no connection whatsoever between their actions and what happened to us.

When I see churches trying to get more followers, or otherwise spreading their message, I think, "What's the point? You still advocate that I (and everyone else) be robbed and controlled, so why should I give a damn [pun intended] about what you call your religion?" To put it as bluntly as I can, if what you call your "religion" doesn't stop you from advocating the theft, assault, harassment, terrorism and/or murder of millions of innocent people, then your religion stinks.

Larken Rose

http://www.larkenrose.com/

Thoughts on Glenn Beck's “Common Sense”

2009-10-03T14:51:00.007-05:00

Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck

A Review
By Tim Wingate

This is a well documented booklet. However, it is difficult to substantiate his seeming anecdotal claims with his sizable “Sources” list as he does not use any footnotes or chapter designations. To his credit his listings contain substantive references including an informal bibliography, web links and periodical sources.

His writing style is much like his spoken style. He incites and provokes, needles and cajoles the reader with emotionally laden terminology and appeals to an emotional response; while claiming it to be a reasoned rational reaction. It is actually a short “book” as the line leading (the vertical spacing between sentences) is for a larger font size than the one used, putting fewer words on each page and therefore using more pages. Also, one third of the book is a reprint of Thomas Paine's original pamphlet Common Sense. Thus giving it a deceptively larger appearance.

In its essence it is just another compendium of what is wrong with America from his newly nonpartisan position. Many other compendiums have been circulating from more astute authors for sometime now. (Lysander Spooner, Albert Jay Nock, Herbert Spencer, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Leonard Read, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Carl Watner, James Bovard, , Dr. Edwin Vieira Jr., Dr. Robert Altemeyer, Dr. Ron Paul, to just name a few from a much larger list spanning two hundred years.) However, due to Mr. Beck's public podium his message may reach and strike a responsive chord with more of America's dumbed down masses than a more erudite treatise.

The glaring problem with this “book” is on the first page. He writes, “In 1776, Thomas Paine's words sparked a revolution. Today, a new revolution of thought begins right now, with you.... You might find yourself wondering what can be done to change our nation's course. I lay out several options, but I want to be clear that none of them include violence. Thomas Paine and his fellow revolutionaries shed their blood so that future generations would have access to weapons immeasurably stronger than muskets or bayonets: the weapons of democracy...”

Through out his book he uses the language of revolution. However, he wants to pacify it and turn it into a fist-shaking, foot-stomping plebiscite tantrum. Herein is the fault. You cannot compare a potentially future American revolution to the former American War for Independence without the possible use of violence. Several thoughts on this follow.

First, to ascribe the appellation “revolution” to the American War for Independence is to take the “British” point of view of the legitimacy of British rule rather than the legitimacy of independence. Second, I am sure by their subsequent writings that "Thomas Paine and his fellow revolutionaries" did not consider their blood shedding to be some kind of secular propitiation or substitutionary atonement for any future use of physical force to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from an infringing government. Furthermore, there is always violence used by one or all factions in a regime change. Third, the use of “democracy” as a weapon implies the use of force, in reality or by threat, by the majority against the minority. The only difference is that the minority, by “democracy,” agreed to their suppression in perpetuity via an implied social contract thus legitimizing the use of force against them and renaming it “police action” or “anti-terrorism.”

On page 106 he states, “...do the things you feel...”

Really Mr. Beck? Just demonstrate populist discord and the “rulers” will change their tune?

On page 107 he quotes Mr. Paine's conclusion, “...until an independence is declared, the Continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows that it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.”

It seems to me that the founders heeded Mr. Paine's warning and made such a declaration resulting in the conflagration wherein most of the signers were held to their pledge of “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Furthermore, he goes on to claim that his words like Paine's “find their roots” in Common Sense.

Really Mr. Beck? If this is true and he wanted to follow and imitate the example of the founding fathers then why has he not joined the We the People Congress http://wethepeoplecongress.org for the Continental Congress to be held in Illinois this year? They have done and are doing an almost exact 21st century imitation of the actual 18th century example laid out by the founding fathers.

If we take Mr. Beck at his word and accept his implications as literal then he is saying the American people should treat the Federal Government as old England was treated by the 18th century Continental Congresses. Mr. Paine's work sparked a Declaration of Independence which sparked a violent war for control over land, resources and people. You cannot mince, parse or mollify the words of revolution by comparing a philosophical, or as he wrote, “a new revolution of thought,” to a violent one.

Therefore, in conclusion let us address this “elephonkey” or “donkyphant” in the room. Is America ready for a “revolution"? Have the lines of philosophical differences been so well articulated that people can make an informed decision whether to chose between an uncertain future of an insurgent guerrilla war for independence against the FedGov or for the limitless limitation of freedom and “on-growing” burden of the Federal corporatist police-state leviathan?

Does his target audience (based upon his assertive description in the Introduction it appears to be middle class married men with children, struggling to make ends meet,) actually have the backbone and where-with-all to declare and defend an actual new declaration of independence? Does he? Or, as this writer suspects, is this just another opportunistic endeavor to stir up impotent resistance and controversy to sell books and garner viewers?

If you really want to know what is going on apart from the propagandist pablum spewed by the corporatist organs of the state then check out the sources below. Buckle up, bolt your socks to your shoes and get ready for Matrix like red pill revelations.

If you want the real philosophy of Liberty then look up the authors mentioned in paragraph three rather than his list on pages 110 and 111.

Furthermore, since he is wildly popular with the Repubicrats, copy this review and include it with copies of his book before you hand them out to friend and family, thereby giving them the means to a meal along with his appetizer.

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm

http://freedomfighterradio.net/

http://whatreallyhappened.com/

http://www.newswithviews.com/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

http://www.rationalreview.com/news

http://www.eff.org/

http://antiwar.com/

Addendum

Glen Beck started a “9.12 Project” referenced on page 109. He lists 9 Principles and 12 Values that one should share with others. See, http://www.the912project.com/the-912-2/mission-statement/.

On his web site he also says what the purpose is; “This is a non-political movement. The 9-12 Project is designed to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the greatest nation ever created.”

Why 9.12? Why recreate a the wheel or as in this case replace the existing wheel with a downsized spare? Why not emphasize and encourage what the founders already established? Or would that be too revolutionary?

In 1776, fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence declaring that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”

What truths were “these truths”?

The whole of the Declaration of Independence and the instituted governments of the United States of America rest upon only 5 Truths. The signers of the Declaration of Independence believed that those who supported these 5 Truths were good people and supporters of freedom.

However, those who opposed the 5 Truths were against liberty as agents of dictators, tyrants and despots. Which one are you? Do you believe in the 5 Truths?

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Truth 1. All people are created equal.

Truth 2. All people created equal are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. (No commentary was given about the nature of, or, who this “Creator” was believed to be. However, the previous paragraph declares that people have “separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them.” Therefore, it can be inferred based on the common beliefs of the day that the implication was from a general “Christianized” worldview with an Enlightenment influence.)

Truth 3. Only by the consent of the created equal people with endowed certain unalienable rights, governments are formed to secure those endowed certain unalienable rights and derive their powers only from the consent of the equal people endowed with certain unalienable rights.

Truth 4. When any form of government becomes destructive of those endowed certain unalienable rights of the equal people, it is the “Right of the People” created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights to replace that government with one that will secure those, endowed certain unalienable rights of the equal people.

Truth 5. When it becomes evident that a form of government has a design to reduce the equal people with endowed certain unalienable rights under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government.

Make no mistake in thinking that this is a light matter. We as a nation are approaching a fork in the road together.

There are those among us who believe that “government” is the source of rights and liberty. They are the modern day Tories, the royalists, and believers in the divine rights of kings. Only today their “king” is the Government.

We have almost come full circle in our experiment in liberty from where we started.

From:
an out of control constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government that reduced its loyal citizens to property of the State,

To:
a constitutional representative government that distorts words and meanings in the Constitution thereby reducing the people to property of the State.

True American Patriots still believe in the 5Truths of Freedom

To embrace these truths by believing in them and living by them is to be an American patriot, honoring the men and women who fought and died for liberty.

To infringe or alienate these truths by action or accepting government’s actions is to dishonor the patriots who have lived and died for us.

On which side do you stand?

(a)The promise of tranquil security by intrusive government, mouthing words of liberty while taking away rights by regulation forcing you to give up your “fair share” of freedom for privileged benefits that rest upon you as chains of control?

or,

(b)The 5Truths and the certain human rights endowed to an equal people that must not be infringed by your countrymen in your service in government leaving you to live the “animating contest of freedom” in liberty while pursuing the happiness of responsible self-ownership?

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams