Showing posts with label civil unrest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil unrest. Show all posts
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Colorado Senate President John Morse recall petitions certified
The effort to recall Colorado Senate President John Morse charged forward Tuesday with the secretary of state's office announcing that organizers submitted more than enough valid signatures to produce the first-ever recall election of a lawmaker in the state.
Secretary of state officials said that organizers with the El Paso Freedom Defense Committee's effort obtained 10,137 valid signatures from the roughly 16,200 signatures the group turned in earlier this month. To spark a recall, they needed just 7,178 verified, and they outpaced that figure by about 3,000 votes.
But supporters of Morse argued Tuesday the petition language used was incomplete and the recall effort should be set aside.
Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, is the target of a recall for his leadership on the party's passage of tougher gun control laws in this year's legislative session, and Tuesday's announcement is certain to send reverberations nationally as the gun debate has created gridlock among Democrats and Republicans in Congress and in state capitols across the country.
Thousands of dollars in undisclosed cash from national organizations have already flooded into the recall effort from both sides.
"This is certainly becoming about more than John Morse and the voters in his El Paso County District," said Bob Loevy, a professor emeritus of political science at Colorado College.
The undisclosed cash from national organizations has poured into the recall effort from both sides, with Morse supporters significantly outraising recall organizers. The group backing Morse raised $97,500 in May, compared with the $56,000 of recall organizers.
Since organizers began knocking on front doors and gathering in grocery store parking lots in an effort to collect signatures, Morse has remained adamant he's prepared for a fight and potentially "the campaign of a lifetime."
In 2010, Morse won his El Paso County district — which resides in one of the most conservative pockets of the state — by less than 350 votes and raked in a total of 13,866 votes.
A Whole Lot of People for John Morse, the group backing him, said Tuesday its protest "would nullify the purported sufficiency of the signatures."
They argued the organizers failed to use proper language as defined by the Colorado Constitution requiring petitions "expressly include a demand for the election of a successor to the recalled official."
Mark Grueskin, a prominent election lawyer who is representing a Morse constituent who filed the legal challenge with the secretary of state Tuesday, said, "The constitution is clear, just as the courts are clear: No recall petition is valid without this specific language."
In a recall election, the ballot asks two questions: Should "so and so" be recalled, and "if so, then who should" be the successor.
Grueskin said organizers failed to use such wording in their petition language that notifies signers that a recall is a two-part process.
Article 21, Section 1 of state constitution says that recall petitions ask for "an election of the successor to the officer named in said petition."
The recall petition's plain language doesn't appear to contain information relating to a successor being picked.
The secretary of state's office now has 30 days to consider the protest and come to a decision, according to a spokesman. Once a decision is made, it could move to court.
"I don't think the protest is based on an accurate reading of the state constitution," said Richard
Westfall, legal counsel for the state's Republican party and a specialist in election and constitutional law. "The state constitution very much protects a citizen's right to recall elected officials. A hyper-technical argument suggested by Sen. Morse's attorneys would unduly limit the citizens' rights to recall their elected officials."
The El Paso County clerk and recorder has estimated a recall election would cost taxpayers at least $150,000.
Morse's colleague Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, is also bracing for a possible recall election. Organizers in her district submitted about 13,000 signatures last week and need 11,285 of those verified.
America is now run by Liars,murderers,Warmongers and Profiteers of DEATH!
America used to be Respected and seen as Just,Trustworthy and Honorable,Those days are over.It is now run by Liars,murderers,Warmongers and Profiteers of DEATH!
How does the world feel about America? Here is one blog from the EU.
An appeal to the intelligence of
this world – WAKE UP. You know what America is by
now. To all foreign governments – WAKE UP, you know what America is by now. You
saw America use the weapons of mass destruction excuse in Iraq to justify that
war. THEY JUST GOT NAILED RAPING YOU WITH THE NSA. And ALL of your intelligence
agencies ought to know about the rogue the American government has become at
the hand of Israel. COME ON NOW, DO NOT support this illigitimate, pathological
lying, pathological spying, pathological murdering rigged election government
in a new war effort that could well end up being world war 3.
What do you want tothis world – WAKE UP. You know what America is by
now. To all foreign governments – WAKE UP, you know what America is by now. You
saw America use the weapons of mass destruction excuse in Iraq to justify that
war. THEY JUST GOT NAILED RAPING YOU WITH THE NSA. And ALL of your intelligence
agencies ought to know about the rogue the American government has become at
the hand of Israel. COME ON NOW, DO NOT support this illigitimate, pathological
lying, pathological spying, pathological murdering rigged election government
in a new war effort that could well end up being world war 3.
remember years from now? Would you like to remember laughing in the American
Government’s face regarding this new accusation against Assad, and remember
telling the U.S. to STUFF IT and to NOT go to war after learning what their
intelligence apparatus was really doing to you, or would you instead prefer to
remember being a no brained sissy, incapable of applying an ounce of thought to
anything, who then jumped on the bandwagon with a nation that freshly raped you
and become a murdering psychopath as well?
If you are stupid enough
to believe the Hollywood propaganda about American freedom after learning about
the latest stupid pet trick from the NSA, GOD HELP THE WORLD, and may those who can think join forces against
this psychopathical lying and murdering tyranny that was once the great United
States and kick it’s illegitimate unlawfully “elected” government’s
ass back to the stone age along with all other governments stupid enough to
ally themselves with that which has become so evil.
The world has a few tough
choices to make now. Obviously the U.S. government has gone full rogue, along
with Israel, and is NOT going to stop genetic manipulation via companies such
as Monsanto and Syngenta, and it is OBVIOUS that America one day intends to ram
it’s tainted GMO down the world’s throat, YOUR THROAT. It is also obvious that
tainted vaccines are part of the mix, as well as biological outbreaks, endless
psy ops, endless spying, and in the end, endless tyranny. You have a choice to make. Allow the American
government to issue false accusation upon false accusation against innocent
nations, while building to even greater levels of power that will one day be
used to subjugate you, or SAY NO TO THE LIES RIGHT NOW, and turn America
packing. Absent the wars for profit based on fronted lies, America is finished
and will not be able to threaten your future. DO NOT play the role of enabler
by going along with the latest lie. Even the bees will thank you for having a
backbone.
And in the end,
if it does come down to war, do not fear the monster. True, America has an
amazing war machine based on a multi trillion dollar budget, but when the cards
are on the table, the winner tells the tales and NUKES ARE CHEAP.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Proven Facts of Obama's Profiling of 3rd party Political supporters
Executive Order H.R 645
H.R. 645
FEMA CAMPS
U.S Government bill authorizes $180,000,000 per year for fema
facilities for containment purpose's due to a surge of illegal aliens and to serve
as a mechanism of control for large numbers of political dissenters. This is not to help people. One only needs to take a look at what happened during Hurricane Katrina and it is obvious that the government does not care about the people. They didn't care then, and they don't care now, and these facilities built or unbuilt will definitely not be utilized for the people's interest.
WORK FOR THE TOTAL DEFEAT OF THIS HELLISH PROPOSED LAW H.R. 645 THAT WOULD ENABLE OUR GLOBAL ELITE LEADERS TO ENSLAVE, TORTURE, AND KILL US OFF.,,
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*Congress Seeks To Authorize & Legalize FEMA Camp Facilities
Published on 01-26-2009
Source: www.roguegovernment.com
By: Lee Rogers
A new bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives called the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645.
This bill if passed into law will direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers otherwise known as FEMA camp facilities on military installations. This is an incredibly disturbing piece of legislation considering that the powers that be have already set in motion an agenda to setup a nationwide marital law apparatus through U.S. Northern Command and the Department of Homeland Security. Apparently, the fusion centers, militarized police, surveillance cameras and a domestic military command is not enough. Even though we already know that detention facilities are already in place, they now want to legalize the construction of FEMA camps on military installations using the ever popular excuse that the facilities are for the purposes of a national emergency. With the phony debt based economy getting worse and worse by the day, the possibility of civil unrest is becoming a greater threat to the establishment. One need only look at Iceland, Greece and other nations for what might happen in the United States next. With this in mind, it appears as if these so called national emergency centers will be used in a national emergency but only if the national emergency requires large groups of people to be rounded up and detained. If that isn’t the case, than why have these national emergency facilities built in military installations?
Let’s look through the various portions of the bill. Here is section 2 of the bill taken directly from the proposed legislation.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.
(a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations.
(b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure--
(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and
families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;
(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination
of Federal, State, and local first responders;
(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response,
and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based
organizations; and
(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
The legislation says that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations. This means that the Secretary of Homeland Security can setup as many FEMA camps within military installations as they want, it just has to be more than 6 of them. On top of that, it also states that the facilities will be used to meet other appropriate needs as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. This could mean anything. If the Secretary of Homeland Security thinks it is appropriate to kill large groups of people like the Nazis did in World War II Germany, than it looks as if this bill would give them the authority to use these facilities for that purpose.
Below is section 3 taken from the bill.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AS NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.
(a) In General- Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall designate not fewer than 6 military installations as sites for the establishment of national emergency centers.
(b) Minimum Requirements- A site designated as a national emergency center shall be--
(1) capable of meeting for an extended period of time the housing, health, transportation,
education, public works, humanitarian and other transition needs of a large number of
individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster;
(2) environmentally safe and shall not pose a health risk to individuals who may use the center;
(3) capable of being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and
response drills, operations, and procedures;
(4) capable of housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first
responders coordination requirements during nondisaster periods;
(5) capable of hosting the infrastructure necessary to rapidly adjust to temporary housing,
medical, and humanitarian assistance needs;
(6) required to consist of a complete operations command center, including 2 state-of-the art
command and control centers that will comprise a 24/7 operations watch center as follows:
(A) one of the command and control centers shall be in full ready mode; and
(B) the other shall be used daily for training; and
(7) easily accessible at all times and be able to facilitate handicapped and medical facilities,
including during an emergency or major disaster.
(c) Location of National Emergency Centers- There shall be established not fewer than one national emergency center in each of the following areas:
(1) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions I, II, and III.
(2) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV.
(3) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions V and VII.
(4) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VI.
(5) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions VIII and X.
(6) The area consisting of Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IX.
(d) Preference for Designation of Closed Military Installations- Wherever possible, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall designate a closed military installation as a site for a national emergency center. If the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense jointly determine that there is not a sufficient number of closed military installations that meet the requirements of subsections (b) and (c), the Secretaries shall jointly designate portions of existing military installations other than closed military installations as national emergency centers.
(e) Transfer of Control of Closed Military Installations- If a closed military installation is designated as a national emergency center, not later than 180 days after the date of designation, the Secretary of Defense shall transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security administrative jurisdiction over such closed military installation.
(f) Cooperative Agreement for Joint Use of Existing Military Installations- If an existing military installation other than a closed military installation is designated as a national emergency center, not later than 180 days after the date of designation, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense shall enter into a cooperative agreement to provide for the establishment of the national emergency center.
(g) Reports-
(1) PRELIMINARY REPORT- Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting jointly with the Secretary of Defense, shall
submit to Congress a report that contains for each designated site--
(A) an outline of the reasons why the site was selected;
(B) an outline of the need to construct, repair, or update any existing infrastructure at the
site;
(C) an outline of the need to conduct any necessary environmental clean-up at the site;
(D) an outline of preliminary plans for the transfer of control of the site from the Secretary
of Defense to the Secretary of Homeland Security, if necessary under subsection
(e); and
(E) an outline of preliminary plans for entering into a cooperative agreement for the
establishment of a national emergency center at the site, if necessary under subsection
(f).
(2) UPDATE REPORT- Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting jointly with the Secretary of Defense, shall
submit to Congress a report that contains for each designated site--
(A) an update on the information contained in the report as required by paragraph (1);
(B) an outline of the progress made toward the transfer of control of the site, if necessary
under subsection (e);
(C) an outline of the progress made toward entering a cooperative agreement for the
establishment of a national emergency center at the site, if necessary under subsection
(f); and
(D) recommendations regarding any authorizations and appropriations that may be
necessary to provide for the establishment of a national emergency center at the site.
(3) FINAL REPORT- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, acting jointly with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit
to Congress a report that contains for each designated site--
(A) finalized information detailing the transfer of control of the site, if necessary under
subsection (e);
(B) the finalized cooperative agreement for the establishment of a national emergency
center at the site, if necessary under subsection (f); and
(C) any additional information pertinent to the establishment of a national emergency
center at the site.
(4) ADDITIONAL REPORTS- The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting jointly with the
Secretary of Defense, may submit to Congress additional reports as necessary to provide
updates on steps being taken to meet the requirements of this Act.
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Fortunately, the bill only authorizes $180,000,000 per year for these facilities, but considering that the majority of the detention facilities are probably already built, they won't need much additional funding. There is no doubt judging from the language of this bill, that it is meant to legalize what they’ve already been doing. After all, FEMA has already been looking at ways to transport large quantities of people to camps, they held a FEMA camp drill which consisted of an illegal alien round up in Iowa and KBR/Halliburtion has already aided in the creation of detention facilities. The rationale behind this legislation is undoubtedly to serve as a mechanism of control if the authorities need facilities to hold large amounts of dissenting people. This is not to help people. One only needs to take a look at what happened during Hurricane Katrina and it is obvious that the government does not care about the people. They didn't care then, and they don't care now, and these facilities built or unbuilt will definitely not be utilized for the people's interest.
Additional information on the FEMA camp situation can be viewed in previous articles written on this subject. Check them out below.
Secretive FEMA Camp Drill Running In Iowa
Rule By Fear Or Rule By Law
FEMA: Trains To Take You To The Camps
Monday, June 24, 2013
'Snowden case shows US is bully boy of world'
Published on Jun 23, 2013
The plane carrying whistleblower
Edward Snowden has landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The former
CIA contractor, who left Hong Kong in a bid to elude US extradition on
espionage charges, is on his way to a 'third country' via Russia. Former
MI5 agent Annie Machon says America's whistleblower hunt gives it the
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British outrage over tax plan to take 7% of everyones saving's account
Thousands of British have reacted with outrage at the plans
to tax bank accounts which are in credit. The great EU bank robbery, as
it's been dubbed by some of the 60,000 or so ex pats living on the
island has forced many to start plans to withdraw their savings as Susan
Cairns who has lived and worked on the island since 2007 explained.
"On Tuesday I plan to go to the bank and withdraw all the money I have in there and have nothing left in there. You know, I can't trust them anymore. It's theft. They are stealing from me. That's how I see it," she said.
"I think it is particularly unfair for people that have saved and tried hard to keep some money in the bank, and it's just a blanket tax across everybody. I understand people with higher savings getting taxed more, but 6.75 percent seems an awful lot of money to me. I think it's a very clever way of making sure that Cyprus pays its fair share," opined another, Stuart Cowell.
British Chancellor George Osborne said his government will reimburse military and government personnel working on the island. But the UK tax payer will have to foot the bill.
Constantine Georgiou, a British Cypriot believes the Cypriot politicians should act. "The government should investigate thoroughly and find the people responsible for this mess, prosecute them, put them in prison, even if he is the ex-president, whoever is responsible," he said.
"On Tuesday I plan to go to the bank and withdraw all the money I have in there and have nothing left in there. You know, I can't trust them anymore. It's theft. They are stealing from me. That's how I see it," she said.
"I think it is particularly unfair for people that have saved and tried hard to keep some money in the bank, and it's just a blanket tax across everybody. I understand people with higher savings getting taxed more, but 6.75 percent seems an awful lot of money to me. I think it's a very clever way of making sure that Cyprus pays its fair share," opined another, Stuart Cowell.
British Chancellor George Osborne said his government will reimburse military and government personnel working on the island. But the UK tax payer will have to foot the bill.
Constantine Georgiou, a British Cypriot believes the Cypriot politicians should act. "The government should investigate thoroughly and find the people responsible for this mess, prosecute them, put them in prison, even if he is the ex-president, whoever is responsible," he said.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Special Forces soldiers drop plan to ‘infiltrate’ Utah
Army Special Forces soldiers will not
"infiltrate" Utah communities this summer — a plan that had riled
residents suspicious of the government’s motives.
Green Berets had planned to parachute into
several central Utah counties, cross mountains and work with Utahns who
would be playing roles as resisters to an enemy regime.
The Defense Department wants the soldiers to
have fresh training in skills at the heart of Special Forces’ mission,
such as covertly cultivating relationships with regular citizens and
training resistance forces trying to liberate themselves from oppressive
governments, said Col. Robert Dunton, a special projects officer for
the Utah National Guard who was helping organize the exercise.
Unconventional : The
Defense Department had selected a central Utah community to participate
in a training exercise for Army Special Forces soldiers
Setting: The town of Manti, Utah was deemed an
ideal location because of the desert landscape and the strong religious
conviction on its residents.
The Special Operations Command has designated
Utah, with its desert and mountain geography as well as a culture
dominated by a religious faith, as a good place for such training.
"Every place we go [to train] is a different
culture… a different mentality throws them off and requires [soldiers]
to adapt," said Staff Sgt. Ryan Sabin, a spokesman for the 10th Special
Forces.
But budget tightening and other factors have put the kibosh on the training.
Paul Weddle, a retired Green Beret contracted
to help the Army set up the exercise in Sanpete, Sevier, Emery and
Carbon counties, said he got news late Thursday it has been canceled.
The news was welcomed by some who had resisted the exercise.
"I’m relieved," said Alan Braithwaite of
Manti. "I like to see them get trained; I just didn’t want them coming
here and scaring people and that’s what it was doing."
Braithwaite was the leader of a sizable group
that protested Manti’s welcoming of the Special Forces exercise last
fall. Fifteen people spoke at a Manti City Council meeting the day after President Barack Obama was re-elected, urging the council to rescind the welcome.
'Fascism!': Bob Beckel Explodes At Obama Administration Over NSA Phone Records Grab - The Five
“I think it is one of the most outrageous examples of the stepping on the Constitution I’ve heard,” Beckel began. “They have no right to the phone records… It is illegal, it is unconstitutional and it is deplorable. I didn’t like it when they did it during the Bush administration and I don’t like when they’re doing it now.”
“They have taken this PATRIOT Act, which I think was the most dangerous act passed, and they have taken it and abused it,” Beck added. “You talk about fascism? You’re getting damn close to it.”
But at the same time, Eric Bolling, who no one would accuse of being an apologist for President Obama, had trouble condemning the administration this time. “This is tough one,” he said. Echoing the sentiments of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bolling explained, “Personally, and I’ve said this before, I don’t do anything wrong so I don’t really care if you snoop on me. I’m worried about the bad guys.” He acknowledged that “government overreach” is also a concern and recognized that “a lot of people are going to be upset” by his comments.
When Beckel called on the NSA to come before Congress and prove that terrorists acts have been stopped by the “intrusion on millions of Americans,” Dana Perino pointed out that Sen. Mike Rogers (R-MI) did claim today that the program has thwarted a terrorist attack. “I trust that the government is doing the right thing on this,” she said.
“If there was a terrorist attack and it killed your son,” Perino proposed to Beckel, “and you found out that the government hadn’t done everything it could to try to find out the intel to prevent that,” he would feel differently.
“It would be terrible for my son, certainly,” Beckel said, standing firmly on principle, “but do I think that the government has the right to intrude on our personal lives? No.”
Ron Paul: "It's Going to Get Much, Much Worse"
His last term in the U.S. House of Representatives ended earlier this year, so we caught up with the former Congressman to get his latest perspective on how successfully our national leadership is dealing with America’s economic challenges.
In Dr. Paul’s assessment, Washington is too committed to deficit spending and the debt-based economy – both operationally and philosophically – to expect it to embrace a more fiscally-responsible model without a forcing crisis (which he believes is coming):
Dr Paul continues to be vocal about the destructive role the Federal Reserve’s loose and interventionist monetary policies are having in enabling the mal-investment in the system:[T]hey believe it like a religion that spending is good no matter what the spending is on. And that the deficits don't matter; deficits are not a burden. And even though we have this national debt and we have a foreign debt, they don't consider that so bad, as long as people will spend money. And if the people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.
I don't expect anything else because they are reflecting what I consider “prevailing attitudes.” And the prevailing attitudes for the last 50 or 60 years, especially since the 1930s, has been spending and deficits and printing money is the way to go.
But where I am encouraged is outside of Washington. You get a better perspective from people like you who talk about this and get people to look at their investments. I think this is beneficial, because a lot of people are realizing this whole system is deeply flawed, and they are looking elsewhere. And that is why I talk a lot about free markets, and property rights, and Austrian economics, and getting rid of the Fed. All these things are now up for grabs. A lot of people, especially the young people, are looking at this. So, for this reason, I am a bit encouraged by what might come out of this.
But I think we are going to go through the ringer. I think it's going to get much, much worse. It is bad enough already, but there is no way that we can step back.
The one thing I am convinced of, after having spent so much time in Washington, is that this will not be a gradual recovery from this disaster that we have. We are not going to elect enough people and have enough courage to vote the right way; there is too much demagoguing and too much misunderstanding. The people would revolt, but the collapse will come. It is going to hit the dollar, and then we are going to have our opportunity.
So, the more people who are protected intellectually as well as financially, the better off we will be in rebuilding what we will need to do in the near future.
He continues to view precious metals as prudent to hold in advance of this currency crisis. But in the long run, he sees civil agitation for smaller government as our best strategy:What if the Fed could not buy government debt? What a different world it would be. Everybody said this would be a disastrous to the economy but what if people accommodated with this?
What if there was a dependency on saving? What if we did have a market rate of interest? And what if that resulted in less bubbles? All of a sudden the world would be a different place.
But no...The only thing they can even do is spend more and more money. That is the only tool they have.
So, for that reason, I am not shocked at the numbers. I guess I am more surprised that the whole thing holds together so long. Because when you look at this, and you look at the foreign debt, and the national debt it is so outrageous, and there is still confidence in the dollar, the world – they do not have a good currency, so the best they can come up with is the dollar, but even the dollar is less popular than it used to be. It is being held a lot less now as reserve currency, but we can still buy oil, and we can still buy our stuff from China, and they take our currency.
But what amazes me is that it holds together. So I think monetizing debt and spending and deficit is going to get much, much worse until the world rejects the dollar. And there will be a rejection here at home, and prices will soar, and eventually interest rates will break loose and they will start rising.
I don't think the euro is going to replace the dollar. And that certainly looks like it is the case. You are not going to go to yen, and you are not going to go to special drawing rights…
No, when people become frightened, they look for things of real value, and I don't think they can repeal the laws of economics that says that for 6,000 years metals have been beneficial. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat.
So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves.
'The truth is coming and can't be stopped'
Snowden takes to live web chat to defend leaking NSA secrets and slams Obama on broken promises over civil liberties
- Edward Snowden answers questions from readers in live web chat
- 'The government won't be able to cover this up by murdering me'
- Says civil liberties have worsened under Obama despite his promises
democratic socialist's of America
Why, then, has his base of support not been eroded decisively? Why have so many on the left fallen silent, after railing against George W. Bush’s rights violations, as Obama has prolonged and codified most of the same practices? And why have so few on the right, riding a groundswell of resentment toward big government, failed to resent the biggest governmental intrusions into personal privacy since the FBI’s domestic spying during the Cold War?
The facts are not in dispute. While Obama has ordered an end to CIA kidnapping and torture, he has personally approved kill lists containing the names of American citizens to be targeted by drones. While he has tried to move the accused masterminds of 9/11 and others from Guantanamo to civilian courts (only to be blocked by congressional Republicans), he has also embraced military commissions and indefinite detention. He voiced misgivings about a bill subjecting suspected terrorists to military arrest — whether foreigners or Americans, whether in Afghanistan or Alabama — and then signed it into law.
In practically every significant court case, his administration has argued for an expansive encroachment on individual rights, much as the Bush administration did. Obama’s Justice Department has successfully opposed the habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo prisoners, persuading conservative judges to rule in one case that sketchy, unverified intelligence reports must be presumed correct. This absurdity has now entered case law as an erosion of the venerable right, dating from the Magna Carta, to summon your jailer before an impartial magistrate.
The administration has continued undermining the Fourth Amendment. It argued in the Supreme Court, unsuccessfully, that law enforcement should be free to attach GPS tracking devices to vehicles without showing probable cause and getting warrants. It has vigorously used a tool that Obama denounced in the 2008 campaign: the administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters, which are issued without warrants to acquire the library, Internet, banking and other records of individuals suspected of nothing at all. His Justice Department has invoked state secrets, as did Bush’s, to deny wrongfully imprisoned and tortured victims the right to sue the government. The administration has sought broad immunity for Secret Service agents and others in law enforcement who arrest people exercising their First Amendment right to speech.
David K. Shipler's latest books are two companion volumes on
civil liberties: "The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety
Invades Our Liberties" and "Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in
Modern America." He writes online at The Shipler Report.
More David K. Shipler.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
N.D. bans forced RFID chipping
As expected, North Dakota has become the second state in
the U.S. to ban the forced implanting of radio frequency identification
(RFID) chips in people.
The two-sentence bill, passed by the state
legislature, was signed into law by Gov. John Hoeven last Wednesday.
Essentially, it forbids anyone from compelling someone else to have an
RFID chip injected into their skin. The state follows in the steps of
Wisconsin, which passed similar legislation last year.
"We need to strike a balance as we continue to
develop this technology between what it can do and our civil liberties,
our right to privacy," Hoeven said in an interview. He emphasized that
the law doesn't prohibit voluntary chipping. Military personnel who want
an RFID chip injected so they can be more easily tracked will still be
allowed to get a chip. There are also potential uses for the technology
in corrections or in monitoring animals, he noted.
Marlin Schneider, the state legislator who
sponsored the Wisconsin law, said he is glad to see an antichipping
legislation trend. However, such statutes don't go far enough to curb
the ability of private sector retailers and manufacturers to "implant
these things into everything we buy."
Ultimately, with RFID tagging systems,
corporations "will be able to monitor everything we buy, everywhere we
go and, perhaps as these technologies develop, everything we say."
As expected, North Dakota has become the
second state in the U.S. to ban the forced implanting of radio frequency
identification (RFID) chips in people.
The two-sentence bill, passed by the state
legislature, was signed into law by Gov. John Hoeven last Wednesday.
Essentially, it forbids anyone from compelling someone else to have an
RFID chip injected into their skin. The state follows in the steps of
Wisconsin, which passed similar legislation last year.
"We need to strike a balance as we continue to
develop this technology between what it can do and our civil liberties,
our right to privacy," Hoeven said in an interview. He emphasized that
the law doesn't prohibit voluntary chipping. Military personnel who want
an RFID chip injected so they can be more easily tracked will still be
allowed to get a chip. There are also potential uses for the technology
in corrections or in monitoring animals, he noted.
Marlin Schneider, the state legislator who
sponsored the Wisconsin law, said he is glad to see an antichipping
legislation trend. However, such statutes don't go far enough to curb
the ability of private sector retailers and manufacturers to "implant
these things into everything we buy."
Ultimately, with RFID tagging systems,
corporations "will be able to monitor everything we buy, everywhere we
go and, perhaps as these technologies develop, everything we say."
But Michael Shamos, a professor who
specializes in security issues at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, believes the law is too vague to do much good. For instance,
it only addresses situations where a chip is injected, even though RFID
tags can also be swallowed. And it doesn't clearly define what a forced
implant really is; someone could make chipping a requirement for a
financial reward.
"Suppose I offer to pay you $10,000 if you
have an RFID [chip] implanted?" he asked. "Is that 'requiring' if it's
totally voluntary on your part?"
Republican Rep. Notices IRS Agents Training with AR-15s During DHS Tour: ‘I’m Looking Into the Issue Now’
This little item could give the IRS’ whole “targeting” conservatives scandal a brand-new twist.
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) tweeted that
he observed IRS agents training with AR-15s when he toured the
Department of Homeland Security:
And this, for the doubters he ran into on Twitter:
Thursday, June 13, 2013
House approves amendment to restrict DHS bulk ammo buys
“Prior to committing taxpayer dollars for ammunition contracts, we must ensure that government agencies justify the necessity and cost to both Congress and the American people,” said Representative Mark Meadows (R.-N.C.), the amendment’s author.
The House approved the amendment to H.R. 2217, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014, by a 234-192 vote. Notably, eighteen democrats supported the amendment and only thirteen republicans opposed. Meadows cited concerns over the current practices and purchases of the Department as justification for the proposal.
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