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Guest Post: Constitutional Judo
Submitted by Giordano Bruno of Neithercorp Press
Constitutional Judo
In all things, there exists a ‘point of balance’; a line that, if
crossed, results in the sudden and expedient loss of our
self-determinism and makes us subservient to the fickle whims of social,
political, and physical gravity. We are “thrown” into the air, as it
were, and the landing is rarely ever pleasant. The U.S. Constitution
and the civil liberties it outlines is itself one of these historic
points of balance. Its original purpose was to temper the most epic of
grappling matches ever ignited; between the relentless constructs of
government, and the individual freedoms of the common man. The ultimate
problem inherent in this struggle is one of consistency, vigilance, and
labor…
While the concept of the Democratic Republic and the Constitution was
meant to remove suffocating class warfare from our political life and
free us from the numerous dangers of elitism, invariably, those men who
thirst for power over others find a way to insinuate themselves into any
system, regardless of checks and balances, especially when the populace
does not fulfill its necessary role as watchdog and tireless sentinel.
Many Americans often assume that ‘the people’ derive their power from
the Constitution, but the reality is actually reverse; the Constitution,
in fact, derives its power from the people. Our duty (which some have
forgotten) has always been to protect the rights and liberties inscribed
on those pages of parchment. Not just to know those rights, or recite
them, but to implement and defend them in our day-to-day existence.
Without the constant nurturing cultural pulse of sound minds and
courageous hearts, the Constitution dies.
Many in our society, instead of taking on the responsibility of
preserving their freedoms, have instead handed it over to the trappings
of government. The fatal error here is obvious; the corporatized and
over-centralized political landscape of America’s government today does
not hold the same values as the people it is determined to lord over.
We have witnessed the parasitic possession of our system, know it to be
corrupt, yet still seem to expect this bureaucratic monstrosity to
cradle our liberties in good faith!
Government is a tool; a mechanical apparatus that can be used to
either preserve freedom, or annihilate it. Its use depends upon those
men who wield it, and the men who wield our government today certainly
do not have the expansion of freedom in mind. In this article, we will
examine the many points of contention (balancing points) brewing as our
exceedingly globalist leaning political leaders overstep their bounds.
Any one of these points, if allowed to falter by Americans, could throw
the whole of our heritage into disarray…
Death By A Thousand Cuts
If you’ve been living at the center of the Earth for the past decade,
or playing online games till daybreak battling for dominion of Castle
Grayskull, then you may have missed out on the numerous attempts by our
Government (under both major parties) to erode our freedoms one precious
layer at a time. Some of these attempts have so far fallen flat, while
others have been frighteningly successful. Here is just a sample of
various recent actions and legislation designed specifically to swindle
away your rights, if not the shirt right off your back:
Patriot Acts I & II: The Patriot Act
is what I call “chameleon legislation”; it’s designed to be “open to
interpretation” by officials and to be modified for whatever purpose
they happen to deem fit at the moment. Ultimately, both Patriot Acts
opened a terrible gateway to a world where any freedom is expendable,
especially if it means stopping terrorists and “evil doers”. Of course,
the manner in which terrorism is defined by proponents of the Patriot
Act is wildly general. ANYONE could be defined as a terrorist, and any
threat could be construed as a matter of national security. The true
goal of this legislation was not to protect the public, but to untie the
hands of the establishment when implementing further destructive
actions, as well as to plant the fog of doubt into the minds of
Americans as to the continued validity of the Constitution itself.
The Enemy Belligerents Act: The Enemy
Belligerents Act is a perfect example of how the leadership caste of the
Democrats and Republicans (who are neo-cons, not true conservatives)
work in tandem to institute globalist policy. In this case, the act was
introduced by the dastardly duo of John McCain and Joe Lieberman. To
put it simply, this legislation, if fully imposed, would allow the
government to label any person they choose, even an American citizen, as
an enemy combatant. This means you could be arrested without being
officially charged, imprisoned without a trial or legal council for an
unspecified length of time, and no one, not even your family, would be
told where you were. They should just re-name it the ‘Shanghai Act’,
because it basically legalizes government piracy. The only problem is
that this shanghai is less likely to end with tropical island adventure
and more likely to end with you being tossed in a dark stinky hole in
the middle of another Abu Ghraib surrounded by Blackwater mongoloids
with a penchant for naked man dog-piles. Again, this is the kind of
poison your government thinks up on a regular basis…
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act:
A bill passed by George W. Bush in 2007 with very little initial media
coverage. Allows the Federal Government at the direction of the
president to subvert Posse Comitatus and use the military within the
borders of the U.S. as a police force without any consent from state
governments. Also gives the office of the president unprecedented
powers over the National Guard. Just add any real or engineered
national disaster and what you get is a perfect recipe for Hurricane
Katrina deluxe. Martial Law, here we come…
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-5122
Establishment Of Northcom: Northcom
(United States Northern Command) is, at bottom, the teeth behind
legislation like the John Warner Defense Act. If martial law is
declared in the U.S., it will be Northcom and its assigned military
units that will stand at the forefront. Northcom’s stated mission is to
“defend the homeland”, supposedly against terrorism, however, much of
Northcom’s focus in annual exercises like ‘Vigilant Shield’ has been to
prepare for civil unrest and continuity of government. Meaning, they
train under the assumption the YOU will be the enemy. The first person
posted to command Northcom was General Ralph Eberhart, the same man who
was in charge of NORAD on 9/11. Apparently, if you ignore available
intelligence and fail completely in your assigned duties, you get a
promotion in the upper echelons of the military today, unless I missed
something, and he didn’t fail…
Presidential Directive 51: A presidential
action shrouded in secrecy and general cloak and dagger spookiness.
When ignorant yuppies accuse the Liberty Movement of “paranoia”, I
always point out PDD 51, and ask them if they are at least intelligent
enough to be concerned. This order was initiated by George W. Bush and
continued by Barack Obama, and is designed to give the president virtual
dictatorial powers during a state of “national emergency”. It
dissolves all states rights and places the entire country under the
purview of Northcom, and Homeland Security. The guise of “continuity
of government” is used as a rationale. Also allows the president to
declare a state of emergency for almost any reason. Members of Congress
and even some members of Homeland Security who have requested to read
the entire directive have been denied. The bill is apparently so
disturbing that Obama doesn’t even want those with security clearance to
view the full document. Though I’m sure there is some grey area that
can be exploited where classified materials are concerned, as far as I
can tell from my research, Obama’s withholding of information on a
directive such as PDD 51 from Congress is wholly illegal.
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-51.htm
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA):
Supported by both Bush and Obama. The word “foreign” is highly
misleading. FISA allows telecom companies to supply the personal data
and communications of anyone, including Americans, to the government
without threat of civil retribution (lawsuit). Under Constitutional
law, any invasion of privacy by government authorities must first be
approved through an individualized warrant. The person or premises to
be monitored must be specified, and the reason behind the surveillance
must be clearly explained. FISA does away with all of these protections
to your privacy and gives free reign to government to spy on whoever
they choose without any oversight whatsoever. It even allows for mass
surveillance, or data collation, on entire subsections of the populace.
What I find most interesting about FISA is the way in which it brazenly
breaks the barrier between government and corporate power. We all know
about the revolving door in Washington, but in the past, the idea of
the barrier was at least somewhat maintained for appearances, if nothing
else. The trick to FISA is that “technically”, it is the telecoms that
are doing the actual surveillance, and not government. This is, I’m
sure, the argument that will be used by the Feds if FISA is ever taken
to the Supreme Court under the Fourth Amendment. The reality, though,
is that the telecoms and the government are one in the same, and to
treat them as two separate legal entities is to blind one’s self to the
facts. Now, Mussolini’s definition of fascism (the melding of
government and corporate infrastructure into a single entity with a
single purpose) absolutely seems to apply to the U.S.
Big Brother Technotronic Super Villain-esqe Surveillance Grid:
Ever feel like you are being watched? Get used to it, says Homeland
Security! CCTV cameras have doubled in most U.S. cities over the past
two years, while New York has tripled theirs in only six months. The
TSA has been given invincible IRS-like goon squad status and now fondles
and x-rays airport travelers at will, storing biometric data without
consent and generally treating people worse than cattle. Don’t care
because you don’t fly? Don’t worry! Naked body scanners are coming to
bus and train stations near you! Hell, if we don’t put a stop to this
horror soon, the TSA may roll scanners out on street corners.
A friend of mine was recently on a trip to Boston and went to see the
U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest commissioned American war vessel still
afloat. He related to me that his excitement was soon smothered when he
realized visitors had to pass through metal detectors and security just
to see the boat. I’m sure that the government is merely trying to
prevent Al Qaeda from sneaking on board with box cutters, hijacking the
ship, and sailing it into the Sears tower, causing the building to
implode at near freefall speed.
The reason he was disenchanted with the experience was because he
knew the metal detectors and security served little purpose, except to
condition people into accepting that this was the norm. Everywhere you
go, there DHS is.
Next of course would be easily tracked national ID cards, which were
attempted a couple of years ago with little success under the Real ID
Act. State compliance for the Real ID was postponed until May 2011,
which is right around the corner. We’ll see if the states cave, or
stand their ground. Finally, no surveillance society would be complete
without citizen spies. Homeland Security is establishing its new “If
You See Something, Say Something” campaign in your local Walmart. Yes,
imagine the ghoulish face of cave troll Janet Napolitano leering down at
aisle five as you attempt to save a dollar on frozen buffalo wings.
She slobbers rhetoric about how you are surrounded by terrorists while
you try to find that economy sized box of Count Chocula. Wouldn’t we
all just feel safer?
Bailout Bills (All Variations): I find
that a lot of people like to blame our current economic doomfest on one
political party or the other, stumbling about in the dark in a sad
attempt to trace the roots of the credit and mortgage collapse back to
Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, etc. Everyone is desperate to play
cheerleader for their team, not realizing that both teams are fake and
almost every president since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913
is to blame for selling out the American people to global banks. Let’s
not forget, both Obama and Bush supported bailout legislation which is
now widely considered to be an abject failure. The majority of
Americans according to most polls apposed these bills, and yet they were
still passed. What do the bailouts have to do with the loss of
Constitutional rights? When the entirety of your country’s financial
future is poured into the coffers of international banking elites and
your currency is subsequently debased if not destroyed, leaving you with
nothing but debt and supranational centralization, it is a certainty
that a total loss of your rights will soon follow.
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act S. 510:
Currently being considered for passage in the House. Yet another bill
written in such a way as to make it wide open for interpretation by the
authorities. First of all, the FDA has never been synonymous with
“safety”, considering half the products they approve end up causing
cancer or shrinking your testes. They would approve rat urine for mass
consumption if a company like Monsanto wanted to market it. The FDA’s
true roll has been to let major corporations violate safety regulations
unobstructed while ruthlessly bringing the hammer down on smaller
businesses. Now, the FDA has set its aim upon not just small farms, but
personal gardens!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510
The bill gives the FDA far reaching powers over what it terms “food
production facilities”, which are defined as “any farm, ranch, orchard,
vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation”.
It also places all food production under the control of Homeland
Security in the event of a “national emergency” (there’s that poorly
defined phrase again). I have heard some organic growers and ranchers
shrug off the bill, believing that the FDA would never take advantage of
the broad interpretation and bring pressure on private gardens or food
trade. This kind of naivety is always astonishing to me. When has a
society ever opened a door to power that its government has not taken
quick advantage of? In fact, the FDA has already begun harassing the
Amish, of all people, for private farm trade, even without S. 510:
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/fda-agents-invade-amish-farm-in-pa/
These are non-commercial farms, yet the FDA believes it has the
authority to dictate their food production activities. If the
government is willing to set its laser guided sites on a pacifist group
that still rides around in horse and buggy, then they’ll definitely have
no qualms going after the rest of us.
Anti-Constitutional Arguments For Dummies
Most people enjoy the advantages of freedom and are naturally
conservative towards government, whether they realize it or not.
Because of the rather unsavory past actions of the neo-cons
(globalists), the word “conservative” has been sullied, and is now
associated with corporatism and big government. However, real
conservatism has always been quite revolutionary. True conservatives
believe in the principle of limited government, and individualism above
collectivism, which means they usually find themselves the target of
establishment fury. True conservatives are almost always in rebellion
against the system, because the system is almost always operated by
those who are anti-freedom. Show me a self proclaimed conservative who
supports proliferation of government with a smile and I’ll show you a
very confused man.
The label “Conservative” should really be interchangeable with
“Constitutionalist”, and once this is understood, anti-Constitutional
arguments can be viewed without the blurred distractions of the false
left/right paradigm. We begin to understand that the conflict is not
between Democrat and Republican, Liberal or Conservative, because those
terms have been warped and their meaning eroded. The conflict we face
is instead between individualists (Constitutionalists), and
collectivists (globalists).
We’ve all heard the gamut of anti-Constitutional arguments in the
past, but almost always through the left/right filter. Let’s set that
filter aside for a moment and consider a few of them once again more
objectively…
Argument 1 – The Constitution is an outdated document and is no longer practical for the modern world:
I’ve heard this argument from both sides of the aisle once again
indicating that left vs. right is all fantasy. Does a good idea ever
become outdated? What about inborn instincts? Can the desire for
freedom ever be impractical?
The suggestion that the Constitution is “too old” is ludicrous for
many reasons. First, the idea of an independent republic is painfully
new compared to the long wash of human empires filled with vast
stretches of feudalism and tyranny. Globalism is often touted as the
next step in the cultural evolution of man, but it is really a giant
leap backwards compared to Constitutionalism, representing yet another
old centralist autocracy marketed in a modern way. A global feudal
state is still a feudal state.
Second, the guidelines of the Constitution are built upon social
necessities that have never and will never disappear. The right to
speak openly one’s opinions or observations without fear of government
reprisal is not a right that we will ever find ourselves too modern to
appreciate. The right to bear arms and defend oneself will always be
essential to a culture that wishes to prevent despotism in its various
forms. The right to privacy from all people, including the government,
will never be programmed out of the public entirely. Every man has an
innate need to live without being examined and judged as though he were
under constant suspicion. Every aspect of the Constitution is
archetypal, and therefore, as much a part of us our own eyes and ears.
These things do not lose their usefulness, no matter what era we live
in.
Third, I have yet to see a political dynamic that is more sincere and
honorable than the U.S. Constitution. I have yet to see a social
concept presented as an alternative to the Constitution that does not
have an ulterior motive attached. If someone, anyone, can present a new
system that improves upon the Constitution while retaining the
liberties described in the Constitution, I would love to see it. I hear
a lot of criticism of the Constitution by globalists, but I have never
seen any of them present a workable replacement that the public would
respect, or willingly accept.
Argument 2 – Some rights must be given up for the greater good:
I’ll tell you a little secret; there is no “greater good”, unless you
are talking about personal conscience. If your version of the “greater
good” demands that you supplant your personal conscience, then it is
not “greater”, and it is not “good”.
Safety is usually the catalyzing issue that leads to relinquished
liberties, but safety itself is an illusion. No government can promise
you true safety. Life is dangerous, and filled with the unexpected.
Get over it and stop projecting your fears on the rest of us. If
someone really feels that they are in immediate danger of a terrorist
attack, then they should build a concrete bunker for themselves and stay
in it, instead of trying to impose a collective bunker made out of
unconstitutional laws and government surveillance around all of us.
Ultimately, what IS the greater good in this situation? Is it an
unaccountable globalist nanny state and the dissolution of all
individual and national sovereignty for the sake of a few people’s
delusions of security? Maybe I’m just reckless, but I’m not buying it…
Argument 3 – National sovereignty must be removed if we are to achieve world peace:
World peace sounds very nice, I admit, but anyone who thinks removing
Constitutional boundaries and bowing to globalism is the cure for war
is smoking something laced with a serious amount of something. Almost
every war of the past century alone has been funded, facilitated, or
outright ignited by the same types of global elitists who now demand
that we centralize world economic and political power into their hands
to end war. This isn’t irony, it’s actually very well thought out
Hegelian gaming; a sort of anti-Karma that rewards evil and punishes the
respectable.
We have been led to believe that peace requires some kind of Faustian
trade; freedom for harmony. But, legitimate freedom is a harbinger of
peace, and nothing, not even the promise of harmony, is worth trading it
away.
Argument 4 – The government could never undo Constitutional liberties because we would just vote them out:
This argument shows a serious lack of insight into how our government
actually functions. As I have pointed out, most of the
anti-Constitutional legislation described in this article was supported
by both major parties. Therefore, it would be logical to then consider
that voting out one party and replacing them with the other makes little
difference as to the policies the government pursues. Unless you are
voting for third party or liberty based candidates, your stop at the
ballot box was a big waste of time. Sorry, that’s just reality. The
people who write in Mickey Mouse have more sense than most of the voting
public. The point? Elections change very little on a federal level.
The argument is also sometimes reversed by nihilists, who claim that
the American public is to blame for government corruption because they
voted for said politicians in the first place. Again, how the public
votes has little bearing on most major elections because they have not
been given a real choice. I get more excitement when deciding between
Coke or Pepsi.
Argument 5 – The Founding Fathers couldn’t live up to their Constitutional ideals:
Yes, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, and he also tried to implement a
gradual emancipation for all slaves. It’s a contradiction. Jefferson,
like all the Founding Fathers, was living in the midst of a
revolutionary age filled with contradictions and conflict. The fact
that they were able to sort through much of this and form a nation that
at least aspired towards equal rights and independence is nothing short
of a miracle. Washington made many mistakes, and so did Adams. In the
context of the era in which they lived, they still did extraordinarily
well, and this world is immensely better off because of their
contributions.
This argument is perhaps the most dishonest of those I’ve heard,
because it seeks to dismantle the very tangible and beneficial
accomplishments of the revolutionary period by defaming men who cannot
defend themselves because they are long since dead. It is successful
when used to target people who know only historical events or dates but
do not know more about the characters of the figures involved. That is
not to say we should blindly idolize the Founding Fathers, on the
contrary, we should endeavor to see them as real human beings with
strengths, as well as flaws. Those flaws do not discredit what they
built. What men are able to achieve in spite of their flaws is often
far more meaningful and valuable than what they lose because of them.
Moral Ambiguity In Times Of Crisis
Liberty is most threatened in moments of great duress. Desperation
breeds reckless abandon, and such an atmosphere is suffocating to
wisdom. Each point of balance in the struggle for freedom requires
considerable focus, and that focus can be twisted, flipped, and wrenched
by the shock of disaster. The preservation of Constitutional rights
depends greatly on our ability to maintain a sense of integrity and
discipline as a culture, even when all the world seems to crumble around
us.
Fear makes the insane seem reasonable. Financial collapse, war,
civil unrest, all of these calamities can tempt us to silence our
dissent, to do things we would not normally do, or to concede that which
is precious to us. Even now, that kind of fear has led to many
unfortunate compromises. The good news is, there is no freedom taken,
that cannot be taken back.
The question is, how much are we willing to endure to see that our
ideals survive? How hard are we willing to work? How much of our time,
effort, and energy are we willing to expend? If the answer is not “all
of it”, then we have failed already. What we have covered so far is
the present situation, and by no means does it have to continue. When
drawing a line in the sand, that line must first be drawn within. We
must promise ourselves that it is here we will not bend, we will not
lose balance, we will not be thrown. All liberty depends most on this.
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'All I could think of was that first nite I met Tyler'...
Great stuff. Thank you, TD, for posting it. A must read for everyone.
btw, I am particularly fond of this morning's entry:
http://tfmetalsreport.blogspot.com/2010/12/criminal-evil-empire.html
Excellent and relevant piece Turd Ferguson!
I like the kitco price charts you have there. It will help draw more gold viewers.
Completely agree with price manipulation even as oil goes up. Grandmaster FOFOA has said that oil is the only market big enough for gold to hide in. You noting gold down and oil up supports this notion of yet more manipulation by the Evil Empire.
Physical gold, guns & ammo. All totalitarian systems fall at some point. But, it looks like it will get worse, maybe much worse, before it gets better in the USSA.
I myself will find out if Peru puts me through a backscatter machine or wants a little pitty-pat there at the airport before flying home in a few days.
Oh, JPM, EE, etc. PLEASE keep bashing down PM prices just a few more days longer (so I can buy), thanks ´preciate it guys.
mmm yeah sure things always get better eventually,
just ask 60 million dead russians.
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2009/06/biological-jew-pt-1-by...
dont miss his secrets of the fed book either.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
+1000
You raise a GREAT point tamboo. I should have made myself clearer that it can take a long time for the totalitarians to fall. They always do, but can do catastrophic damage along the way.
It is incumbent upon each of us to take matters into our own hands when possible. Owning real things and staying out of debt are two shields. Arming the population is another. The Tea Party, maybe. Civil disobedience, again maybe. Fleeing the USSA for ´greener pastures´ may be yet another.
Yeah, but imagine the over-population problems were all those people, and other victims of genocide, war, and disease, along with their spawn, alive today.
Silver lining my friend...silver lining.
The linked post is bemoaning the fact that the game of precious metals is rigged to suit the big guys, not the little guys (like me). "That's not fair!" Surprise, eh? They act, we talk, or if we act, it's to buy our way into their games.
In the big guys' games, the role of the majority of small guys is to lose. Compared to GS or the Gov, we are all small. If anyone wants economy, politics, education, ethics and everything else to become fair, the only effective solution is to refuse to use them until they change. The choice is uncomfortable, but simple: either rough independence, or a cozy pair of shackles.
Forgot: the rules may be as rigged and perverted, but as long as there are people who agree to play by them, the game will continue. Buying into a rigged games signifies an agreement to be screwed.
Just about the first thing the US Supreme Court did after being established was to assert the exclusive power to determine what is constitutional and what isn't (Marbury v. Madison).
Constitutionality is something that should be determined in the jury box by citizens, NOT by a branch of the federal government.
Our republic didn't stand a chance after that.
Excellent observation and point.
And said that they knew the Constitution better than James Madison... who wrote the thing!!!!!
You and Buckaroo both bring up great points. Yours also funny in a tragic ironic kind of way.
Great stuff TD keep it coming and ignore the naysayers. This is the most pivotal thing going on period. It has and WILL continue to effect markets for all those who whine about "non-market" coverage. Focusing on these matters has helped my investment strategies tremendously. Thanks for all you do TD!
Absolutely awsome article. Forwarding to everyone I can think of.
'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.' - Lincoln
There's a lot I don't like about Lincoln, but he was dead right on that one.
America is over. Denial or acceptance are all that remain.
There's a lot I don't like about Lincoln, but he was dead right on that one.
America is over. Denial or acceptance are all that remain.
There's a lot I don't like about Lincoln, but he was dead right on that one.
America is over. Denial or acceptance are all that remain.
Sorry about the triple, guys, the site froze and no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to normal. Guess I hit too many buttons too many times. :(
The only thing that's going to save us from all this crap is the total collapse of the feds, when there's no money to run the thing anymore. Then it's going to be up to all of us, acting locally, to put it right and maybe survive. At least for a little while until the local economies are worth hijacking and boiling dry again.
We humans can't be trusted with sharp objects, matches or self-government. But we keep trying, Dog bless us.
"The only thing that's going to save us from all this crap is the total collapse of the feds, when there's no money to run the thing anymore."
I disagree strongly. All this is being prepared for the total collapse of the feds. Our future is being outlined by the laws that are being passed today, and it ain't pretty. When the dollar collapses, US society goes into chaos, and all this krap kicks in.
BTW those who have made preperations are the first targets. Nothing but total subservience to government will be acceptable; if you're not thier slave, you're thier enemy.
the more things change...
http://www.orgonelab.org/MarxEngelsQuotes.htm
Personally, I prefer the idea of making preparations without doing a major advertising campaign that trumpets the fact. I'm giving better survival odds to the little mouse that's quietly eating the stuff in the back of the cupboard where nobody's looking.
Sometimes it's better to discreetly lurk in the shadows while the real men kill one another out on the street.
The rabid supporters of The Revolution are the first ones up against the wall: they're whiners and will turn against The Revolution. Read FireDogLake, CorrenteWire, Crooks&Liars: the Rabid Whiner Brigade.
BTW those who have made preperations are the first targets. Nothing but total subservience to government will be acceptable; if you're not thier slave, you're thier enemy.
A defeatist attitude forshadows defeat.
+1000
Everyone should know what the ultimate outcome is going to be. We know that we are bankrupt right now, we just haven't been foreclosed upon yet. When that happen all the community organizers will have their little communists students and union mobs ready to torch, steal and kill and all hell will break loose.
Up will pop Mr. Fed Govt with his military and orders to shoot to kill and take anyone and everything hostage "for safety" and martial law will be enacted and all individual right extinguished until further notice (usually 1,000 yrs!).
I have to hope our military guys are as strong as they are going to need to be but I have a feeling that the forces of evil have infiltrated far too many places and set up far too many structures already that even the marines can't save us.
We are all we have.
"those who have made preperations are the first targets. Nothing but total subservience to government will be acceptable; if you're not thier slave, you're thier enemy."
Your consent is still required....no matter how many guns they have, or how big they are. Whether "they" realize it or not...consent is still required. They will eventually realize it.
I say keep trying. If we fail a million times and succeed once it will be a victory for humanity.
Telescopic evolution baby!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3478942683501293346#
The only thing that's going to save us from all this crap is the total collapse of the feds, when there's no money to run the thing anymore.
Studies of skeletal remains indicate that Roman citizens lived longer and healthier lives after the fall of the Empire.
Yeah, I've heard that before, and it makes sense to me. If you're not turning half of your productivity over to those who know better than you how to spend it, you can probably afford a decent diet and other lifestyle perks.
Of course, the fact that these are skeletal remains takes us back to the tagline for the entire ZH site.
Uh, those were the skeletons of the ones who left skeletons.
And that's why we have no data on spineless Romans.
Not to worry... just downloaded my "report suspicious activities" app
There's something fishy about that.
Effectively "deputize"... a nation of watchdogs for the establishment... neighbor watching neighbor.
Is there seriously an app for that?
Apparently so... reported on drudge...
Citizen Concepts announces the launch of PatriotAppTM, the worlds first iPhone application that empowers citizens to assist government agencies in creating safer, cleaner, and more efficient communities via social networking and mobile technology. This app was founded on the belief that citizens can provide the most sophisticated and broad network of eyes and ears necessary to prevent terrorism, crime, environmental negligence, or other malicious behavior. Simply download, report (including pictures) and submit information to relevant government agencies, employers, or publish incident data to social network tools Key Features: Integrated into Federal Agencies points of contacts FBI EPA GAO CDC Custom integration with user employers Fully integrated with Social Media (Facebook, Twitter)
One wants to laugh...but perhaps that way madness lies. Of course if one goes with the crying response that way paralysis lies. All I can say is fucking wow, what's it gonna take for people to get what's going on? Or do people get what's going on and are the "quiet, good Germans" you talk about? Scary fucking shit.
my anecdotal take tells me most have no idea what's "going on"... and people like us may, should all go according to "plan", unfortunately become the "good, quiet germans"
Let's hope this isn't the case.
The tables can ALWAYS be turned by simply reporting your neighbor's suspicious activity of "Spying" on their neighbors! Information overload is your friend in these instances!
Several. There is a new one that came from DHS. I saw this gem a couple of
months ago, seems like a private outfit:
www.snapscouts.org
Stasi here we come. Again. Check that site out, it is chilling. I almost thought
was from the onion. Seems legit. If I had a cellphone I would sign up and take
pics of all the cops and banksters, but that is just me.
pods
Ah Ah. The perfect way to out opponents to the system (police, banks...) Self indiction...
Luck is that you dont have a cell phone.
I am too paranoid to sign up for something like that. Never know if it is part of a honeypot for "troublemakers", and I am quite happy living below the radar. Same with open-source intelligence like facebook, etc. A new twist on the Stasi. Let people do it themselves. Single greatest way to get information. Just let the people admit it on the internet.
If we are going to live this 1984 life, I at least want the 2 minutes hate.
:)
pods
Can't help but reference post 1933 Germany and those "quiet" citizens who dared not speak out...
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http://patriotapps.com/PatriotApp.html
iBrownshirts
Those arguments are all cheap straw-men. I don't know anyone that makes them seriously
So what is the author actually proposing that people do? He seems to say that voting is not even worthwhile.
What about the facts he presents? And what do you propose? Or are you saying everything is hunky dory?
What facts? This guy is an apologist.
No substance in his text.
He is a guy who was excited by participating to the game until he discovered he was on the losing side. A whining article.
The way he excused the FF for crashing liberty, truth and justice from the very beginning is baffling.
I would propose that he stop whining and participate in the political process. That's how people go about changing things in a representative democracy. And no, its not easy and it may take a long time. Tough. Historically, people have worked for generations or even lifetimes on issues that mattered to them. Case in point -- the Nineteenth Amendment.
The alternatives are more whining or armed insurrections. I'm not in favor of either of those.
Not to pile on, but we are far removed from the system that was set up. The 14th, 16th, and 17th amendments forever changed what was.
Participation in the political process is merely a safety valve for the masses.
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal,"
-Emma Goldman
The only thing that voting does today (at a national level) is give implicit support of the system. One may argue that on a very local level, it may do some good, but the 14th and 17th amendments ensured that all power comes forth from the top. Not from the bottom, as was intended by the founders. So does it matter who is mayor when most of the budget is federal mandates?
If they can tell you what lightbulb to use and how much water your toilet uses, it is over.
pods
Those arguments are all cheap straw-men.
You don't appear to be using the term "straw men" correctly. One sets up straw men when one argues against a point one's opponent has not made. In the article above the author sets out his own arguments. He is not falsely reporting his opponents arguments and then refuting them.
He wrote:
"We’ve all heard the gamut of anti-Constitutional arguments in the past, but almost always through the left/right filter. Let’s set that filter aside for a moment and consider a few of them once again more objectively…
Argument 1 – The Constitution is an outdated document and is no longer practical for the modern world:"
And so-on and so-forth.
What are Arguments 1-5 if not straw-man arguments he attributes to some unnamed opponent? Name me one person in any federal office that subscribes to Argument 1.
I hear those arguments in the real world all the time. I hear them from friends on the left and on the right. Pretty much word for word.
Even the Supreme Court justices are getting into the act:
Breyer Suggests Second Amendment Out of Date
So where's the quote from Breyer or any other Supreme Court Justice that says the Constitution is out of date and therefore should not be enforced?
Sounds like your reporter friend "Bruce Walker", who means nothing, is creating another straw man with a controversial headline. Just because it attracts an audience doesn't mean its not complete bullshit.
We don't -- and shouldn't -- take any reporter's word for anything. The internet allows us to read things for ourselves.
Here's a summary of what was really said in Heller and not someone trying to sell ads with controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
You will note that no Supreme Court Justice, majority or dissent, suggests that the Constitution is outdated.
that is correct. now continue.
For cheap straw-men they sure seem to get lots of mileage from both sides. Sure nobody comes right out and uses these exact words, but if you read between the lines and frame the dicusssion in the context of human nature, they are more more than straw-men, they are well used, excercised straw-men.
I don't KNOW anyone who takes them seriously either. I don't KNOW anyone who thinks the Fed government can fix our problems, or should be spending all this money trying to fix the problems they caused. But I still read/hear/meet people that I don't KNOW, who do take these arguments seriously, and use them often.
In fact, I think straw is our next bubble.
Anybody know when American Idol re-runs start?
you didn't buy the DVD pack yet?
Its already out? SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!
On another note, ZH just keeps on bringing in the best and the brightest- magnificent piece.
Ron Paul, bitchez.
Awesome. Thanks Tyler.
Quite a lot of drivel in this article.
People wanted a republic? They got it. The issue stated are all known to be attached to a representative system, which republics are.
Representatives are supposed to represent the best interests of the represented and therefore align on the represented's interests. It always ends the reverse.
Everything is fine as long as both the representative and the represented's best interests converge. As soon as divergence appear, well, the representative have the upper hand to protect his best interests over the represented's best interests. He is the one making the decision. For the represented, the decision becomes fait accompli.
In the end, as well illustrated by the US, the represented's game becomes to align all of his interests on the representative's best interests.
Just consequence as people wanted a republic. They now have it.
The defense on the founding fathers is miserable. The emergency pitiful excuse.
Jefferson owned slaves. But he sought gradual emancipation. Awesome. Instead of reading the events as they are, that a guy renegating on his beliefs as soon as he was in power therefore compromizing all the veracity of the project, the excuse of difficult times is cast in, listing all the socalled benefits of the US revolution.
Today's are difficult times, people in power have to compromize and they brought substantial benefits. Same stuff here. The author brings no reason to treat differently people of today from the kind of Jefferson.
The same bail out excuse thrown at Jefferson and his ilk should be fairly afforded to people in power today.
Take the pill, the attitude of the founding fathers was only duplicity. Their system works as today leaders exhibit the same duplicity.
I think the number of junks is indicative of how patriotism can encourage ignorance. In people's defense, the education of Americans and the propaganda we call "history" causes us to put leaders on pedestals- which keeps us from examining their actions for what they were.
However, we are adults and at some point, you become responsible for your own education. If the Founding Fathers believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness- they would have guaranteed it for everyone. Leaving out Indians, Women, Blacks and Indentured Immigrants is not my idea of a nation that promotes freedom. Especially when even the freedom of white men could depend on your ownership of property.
All forms of government and religion are the means to enslave the captive populations. Regardless of their benefits, there consistent attacks on individual liberty will continue to cement their foundations as ones of control and oppression for the benefit of a ruling class.
A Republic is a form of government. It is the best form only in the way it organizes a nation most efficiently. The USA, USSR, and PRC are all republics.
AnAnon, you barely manage your own grammar but think it's okay to rant on about the poster. This guy is out there; he's planting a flag and saying to us, "Here is what I think."
Your attitude-rhea about Jefferson betrays your education.
How much does Cass Sunstein pay you to troll ZeroHedge and shit on other people?
Oh and by the way, go ahead and junk me. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Junking? I have never junked anyone. I avoid participating to schemes like this. Pointless.
He is planting a flag to say what he thinks. And? He can think wrongly, you know. Planting a flag and stating your mind is not immunity against wrongful thinking.
Of course, a republic is a form of government. Never implied the opposite.
A representation always begets the same end: a reversal of the postulated position.
Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents' best interests.
And in the end, the constituents finish with representing the representatives'best interests.
People who are doing good in this crisis are for example people who are aligned with representatives'best interests. Representatives will vote to protect their own (representatives') best interests. And therefore, anyone aligned on the same interests does well, mechanically.
Voting is absolutely not required to perform such a trick. Showing perfectly well the inefficiency of a republic, assessed by its postulated standard (representation of people's best interests)
In a representation system, represented always end with representing the best interests of their representatives. Always. Nothing new.
PS: I dont really ranted on the author (I should have done it more) I debunked all the propaganda this author spewed out.
Remember, rulers have no right to do anything that you have no right to do on
your own. If you shouldn't do it, you shouldn't ask others to do it for you.
Look to the means first, noble ends will follow. Free people find unexpected
solutions and those who are not free find unexpected problems.
No other person, or group of persons owns your life nor do you own the lives
of others.
A product of your life and liberty is your PROPERTY.
The exercise of choices over life and liberty is YOUR prosperity.
Either agree or don't, but don't spit on the country/Consitution that supplies you the very freedom(s) you seem to take for granted!
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/assassin-nation/
In other words, the law is whatever they say it is, one a moment to moment basis... at their convenience.
The predators-that-be are overtly guilty of blatant treason and endless crimes against humanity.
Rule of law is absolutely, totally, completely gone.
earth == predators-gone-wild.
Strangely, it's even being televised . . . on the web at least. Hope those hacktivists are workin' overtime, me thinks this can't last.
This piece could have been more powerfully put with one-quarter the words.
I disagree. You can't start a 5th floor conversation on the 5th floor when the average person is only on the 2nd. You have to give those who aren't up on this vast pool of information the footholds to help them up, along the way.
Apparently defending your liberty is no longer "politically correct".
Even George Orwell did not imagine the TSA.
Ran across this video yesterday, a recently released NIST video of 9/11. Maybe it's just me, but there are some very strange sights indeed, to wit;
- at 0:41 to 0:45 individuals walking forward...and backwards.
- at 1:19 to 1:22 appears that 2 firemen are picking up I-Beams.
- at 2:00 appears that a 1,368 ft tall building has collapsed into a 25 ft tall rubble pile.
- throughout video are street lamps, traffic lights with horizonal members still intact despite tons of I-Beams and falling debris around them.
- most vehicles in the video have no debris on top despite tons of debris piled around them.
- majority of debris appears to be paper, and 8 - 12 foot lengths of "easy to handle" I-Beams.
- what appears to be WTC 7 is barely on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mlmVyQtisw
French demolition technique.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFHEoiUZ7o
Wait a sec.. the French did WTC!?
thanks for the videos,
Beef
I was there. 9/11 happened. Terrorists flew two planes in the WTC. One of the planes flew right over my wife's head as she got off the bus. I saw WTC 7 burn.
Truther crazy talk is just that....crazy talk.
I'm not a truther, just find this video very strange.
It happened is right.
I have never seen the standard of proof applied to this event that would be required of a simple Homicide investigation.
I have some knowledge about investigations.
This event was never even assigned an FBI case number.
Think what you want... It means less than nothing.
Anyone who claims the predators-that-be are not fully self-conscious authoritarian elist slime is clearly delusional, insane or a blatant liar. The pattern is much too obvious.
The only solution is to treat predators the way predators must be treated.
run away?
Either that, or "right between the eyes".
Nice summary Tyler. It is hard to communicate the grim reality of what we are facing to the "the clueless", even the "intelligent clueless". We have all been dumbed-down and conditioned so well by Progressive propaganda.
You might be interested in a new book called "Freedom Nationally, Virtue Locally" by Kevin Miller, due out this month. It aims to distill the confluence of; the nature of the American experiment, why we got into in trouble and how we move forward with our Republic, all wrapped up in a tidy 170 pages. I met the author recently at a Tea Party conference and he seems to be one of the most focused people of his ilk that I've ever met, very no-nonsense and unconcerned by old time ideological minutiae.
This book, along with the "5000 Year Leap" by M.C. Skousen, might be just the tools needed to help people to grasp how far off into the weeds we are from original intent. I'm working with my group to try to re-plant the seeds of independence, personal responsibility, and teaching people what REALLY makes the US Constitution so different from any other founding document in history. If you can do that, it is much easier for most people understand its priceless value to us and future generations.
How far is it?
Original Americans (US citizens) stated their intent throught their actions.
May Flower settlers pillaging and looting the indian settlements food stores when they moved around during their first year.
The 19th countless bubbles inflated to be crashed later and trapped the funnelled in the US...
There is no unamerican going on right now. Simply people who thought they were endowed with a kind of birth right, that they could never be pushed over the fence and fall on the wrong side of the American dream and the way it has been funding....
We observe the true American way: theft, theft and again theft.
Add to this all the state and local laws that already exist such as restrictive zoning laws, state gun laws making it almost impossible to own a gun, local laws regarding smoking eating etc.
If you live in the USA you do not live in a free country.
+1 from the People's Republic of New Jersey.
When you tell people this, this are the most common answers you'll get:
1. They do it in our best interest. I don't mind giving up a bit of freedom or privacy as long as I feel safe.
2. It's not like we can do anything against it
nobody actually wants to do anything about it but would like to see some things changed without any effort.
Doing something is always a bit more than doing nothing.
Evil does not arise only from evil people, but also from good people who
tolerate the initiation of force as a means to their own ends. In this
manner, good people have empowered evil throughout History.
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth
and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences.
Achieving a Free Society requires courage to think, to talk, and to act --
especially when it's easier to do nothing.
Perhaps the Founders were correct in their assessment that only Property owners should have the right to vote.
Thanks Tyler - most awesome piece. Agree with Hugh_Jorgan - we have been so dumbed down and conditioned.... I feel this is the true crime (one of many of course). How do you wake people up to reality with the constant propaganda and conditioning? It's everywhere, ever present and in our faces all day long. When I talk to people about some of those pieces of "legislation" you point out here, I find most people are actually for them as they think it makes us safer. These days all you have to do is throw out a buzzword - "national safety", or "terrorism", and bingo, the flock eats it up quite willingly. Very sad state of affairs we have here folks. We are literally abandoning our country and constitution in its greatest time of need.
Why so serious? If you think a poorer, former superpower USA is going to be a totalitarian super-state, think again. There is no North Korea without China; there was no one to backstop the USSR; there will be no 1984-style US. Not because the powers don't want it, but because it can't be paid for. Federalism is so 20th century.
Without dollar hegemony you can't borrow recklessly from abroad, you can't intimidate others with your expensive navy, and you can't run a continent sized country. Peak debt and peak oil take care of that. Those who want an anarchy burger will get it for a while. Then things settle down into a loose 'russian federation' type arrangement. Get to know your local criminal mafia/police/future strongmen. You will have to deal with them sooner or later.
Sad but true.
Where would you place the over/under? 20 years?
Federalism is so 20th century
Federalism was so 19th century. Antebellum, in fact. Those who call for states' rights favor a Federalist point of view.
Excellent summation Tyler and an important post. You're willingness to present this material so boldly says much about your commitment to liberty.
Unfortunately, the author still holds out for the hope of organized government, when it is obviously hopeless in the face of predatory individuals intent on working the herd for their continued nourishment.
The conclusion not drawn is this: no government at the Federal or State level and local government subservient to individual sovereignty is the only way to retain freedom and opportunity.
Private operation of the means of society coupled with private property protection will create the best governing result. Not perfect, not without problems or even calamity, but it will never be in danger of the abuse of power that is endemic in all forms of collective government.
Excellent and well reasoned article. It covers the issues without going partisan. That is unless your idea of perfect government is a top-down dictator who promises to take care of your every need (ie. the fantasy fascist, fantasy communist, fantasy globalist brand).
My take is that our greatest failure in ideas is the belief that we can have both liberty and equality, when the two are, quite simply, polar opposites. The point being, if government tries to make everyone equal (which by it's nature implies force) then you lose your liberty. When you have liberty, the results will always be unequal. The other big failure in ideas is that we can make a perfect world - the pursuit of perfection often leads to horrific government system - Hitler believed in "perfect" systems, as did Marx, Lenin and others of that tyrannical bent.
Centralization is the other evil offspring of the "perfect worlders" - it mostly leads to centralized incompetence.
Hopefully enough of us, who have some influence, still have a spark for liberty and haven't been dulled into mindless stupor.
Roger, good post! Many people confuse liberty and equality.
Good stuff.
I only skimmed the piece, will read it in detail shortly. However I want to say right off the US Constitution was never intended to be a static document, nor read as holy writ. It is the voice on a people then, as a guide to people now, and we really do need to move carefully on every part of the board. We might need to throw the whole thing out and start over; for starters I think the bits that define corporations as individuals with rights to freedom of speech etc need to be nuked.
Nobody yet has written the definitive guide to governing the human horde. So for now there is no short cut to thinking for yourself. Remember that.
So for now there is no short cut to thinking for yourself. Remember that.
If you say so.
Ha! However asking someone to remember to think for themselves is not telling them what to think.
Do keep that in mind.
/snicker
By your command, oh wise and benevolent cat! :>D
define corporations as individuals...
This wouldn't be so bad IF they were HELD to the same standard as an Individual.
i.e. Every last employeee of Enron should have been put in a big holding pen for 5 years on bread and water.
No seperation of the Executives from the loading dock guys... Put em all in the hole together. Problem Solved.. In 6 months or less.
As long as there isn't any lasting and ugly consequences for corporate misdeed there isn't going be any changes.
You must look to things that the Powers did not want when they get their way. As Alan Watts teaches, for every tapesty with a front side of beauty and order, on the back is an ugly mess. It is the ugly mess they create in the process of their beautiful tapestry that we exploit.
For example, Corporations, now being "persons", are deportable if they are foreign.
What other things can happen to corporations as Persons that wasn't possible before?
That is where your mind should be.
I am Chumbawamba.
And yet this clown doesn't even know if we should raise the level of scrutiny for housing above Lindsey v. Normet minimum scrutiny. Sad, when a clown like this rants instead of doing some basic research.
Typical ZH court jester columnist.
Government creep leads to creepy government.
Zero needs a Library section, this and the Irish dude belong there.
Everyone overlooks child support and that encroachment on natural law and our liberties. You know where the Federal Government bribed, I mean reimburses 50 cents on the dollar to the states for every child support payment they can hijack out of the average citizen. So, at the state level we have maximum child support awards, children cut off from parents, sole custody, God-given power away from the family leader (The Father) and replaced by the Mother (evil itself. Not the Mother, but the idea of the Mother over-riding the Father is against God's laws). And then if you refuse to pay we have garnishment, contempt of court, jail time, followed by criminal penalties of drivers license suspension and threats of jail. All this "stuff" started in the 1980's where they snuck through a provision where Child Support can never be erased and accelerated in the 1990's under Clinton. There's a whole industry of social workers, shrinks, lawyers, custody experts, and judges that depend on fleecing people with this scam.
Of course you should financially support your children (and I do, in my own way, per my God-Given rights and not the Governments way).
We have to take this country back. For ourselves and our children.
The idea of the "Patriarch" has been totally destroyed. We think alike JLee.
Strangely enough, rigorous application of humanistic egalitarian principles by an athiest brings one to many of the same objections and conclusions on this one.
Wait just a cotton-pickin minute. Hold your horses now. Are you trying to say that Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut isn't looking out for the best interests of me and my family? Them er fightin' words. How's that possible? I've got the facts.
Senator Joe was a democrat and he ran for Vice President with Al Gore and won the popular vote while he was also running for re-election for Senator then he created a third party called "Connecticut for Lieberman" aka Independent Democrat when the democratic caucus booted him for endorsing Republican John McCain for president. Before you can believe everything in this post, you would have to believe the hedge funds in Greenwich, CT run everything and that Senator Joe cares more about hedge fund managers than he does about Americans.
If all that were true, then Senator Lieberman would be trying to shut down websites just like this one because free speech would be a huge problem. Doing something like that outright would be frowned on, so he would have to come up with some sort of "tiered" internet. Is this what you're trying to say? You think Joe is beholding to a few hedge funds more than he is to the people. You better be ready to back it up cause if anything so outrageous as shutting down a forum such as ZeroHedge.com ever happened, I know how I would deal with that.
I would simply go to my local ZeroHedge store to make my postings. I could always send them in the mail if I didn't want to visit the store in-person. Then there's always the ZeroHedge call-in show and you can download it from ITunes and listen while your driving. And don't forget ZeroHedgeTV... I could watch that when I get cable back. I hear they would have had a satellite radio deal if all the money hadn't gone to Howard Stern. There's always AM radio and ZeroHedge could get Gold Bond foot powder as a sponsor.
I'm not so worried about your conspiracy theories because there's always a good back-up plan to the internet, not counting getting it from the County Library in hard copy ... like I said. You're makin' a mole hill out of a mountain or somethin' like that. Before anything like this COULD happen, there would need to be some sort of global internet blow-up that involves the military, national defense, the banks, economic security and stuff like that. I mean people would have to be arrested and websites would have to be blocked by the government before anything like this could happen and I haven't heard anything at all leak out about that. You just can't get away with that type of anything anymore. Homeland Security has this place on lockdown. We're safe. Stop your bellyachin'.
Dave Harrison
www.tradewithdave.com
I'm not so worried about your conspiracy theories because there's always a good back-up plan to the internet, not counting getting it from the County Library in hard copy ... like I said. You're makin' a mole hill out of a mountain or somethin' like that. Before anything like this COULD happen, there would need to be some sort of global internet blow-up that involves the military, national defense, the banks, economic security and stuff like that. I mean people would have to be arrested and websites would have to be blocked by the government before anything like this could happen and I haven't heard anything at all leak out about that. You just can't get away with that type of anything anymore. Homeland Security has this place on lockdown. We're safe. Stop your bellyachin'.
Haha... Nice.
Thanks for writing this. I am forwardiing it to my entire family e-mail chain. Cheers!
My understanding is there was a last minute addition to the FDA food safety bill that exempted facilities bringing in under 500K a year from the requirements. Does anybody have a reliable source from after the final bill was passed that contradicts? Any insight on if 500K is a reasonable cut off - I believe this is gross reciepts.
What I see in the bill itself is 419.1.1.C.ii.II
(II) the average annual monetaryvalue of all food sold by such facility
(or the collective average annual
monetary value of such food sold by any
subsidiary or affiliate, as described
in clause (i)) during such period was
less than $500,000, adjusted for
inflation.
Otherwise great article. I'm more and more convinced we are slowly being conditioned to accept a police state.
I am not sure about this inclusion, but the point which needs to be stressed is this bill will allow the government to close down those entities they believe pose health risks even if one does not truly exist. States will not have a say in the matter anymore. Take raw milk, and closing farms which produce this product. All they have to do is fund one study by a sympathetic scientist and boom raw milk is a deadly poison and the FDA can use maximum force to close the farm down.
http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/how-the-fda-can-use-s-510-to-c...
Slowly? Gosh, it's been 9 years since 9/11/01 and this is practically a different planet! If you had mentioned just a tiny smidgen of the tyrranical laws that have been passed during that time period to someone in the year 2000 they would have thought you were insane and said "That would never happen in America!".
The only thing missing at this point is troops in the streets and camps. Sounds like those are in the offing too. Just freaking sad.
Thank you for this article! Truly enlightened. Passed it on to everyone I know.
"Apparently, if you ignore available intelligence and fail completely in your assigned duties, you get a promotion in the upper echelons of the military today, unless I missed something, and he didn’t fail...."
yeah i am afraid you missed something....9/11 was an action by usa intelligence and mossad to implement precisely those things which you fear....
everything happening now is planned and unfolding in the 4th reich just as in the 3d...
you didn't talk about the fusion centers...the concentration camps known as "detention centers" and the disgusting assholes who run them.
Sorry tony bonn, my tin-foil hat (built in) is not picking up this transmission...
I don't necessarily agree with all you said, but your overarching point is for sure dead on.
It continues to baffle me how people see the encroaching police state all around them and FAIL to see the created pre-text and trigger event. Again without 9/11 none of this happens. You think these plans sprang up over night? The elites were mothballing them and just HOPING and PRAYING that eventually they could roll them all out?
At a minimum criminal negligence was at play. At the barest minimum. Without 9/11 there is no police state fascist bullshit we're dealing with. 9/11 was the critical pivot point in recent history that is the LYNCH PIN of all the bullshit since.
Great article but how can you forget the health care bill and the Social Security / Medicaid ponzi schemes that have not only indebted us but also created an entitlement society.
The Constitution was set up as follows:
Maximum freedom given to individual law abiding citizens. Then comes the states and the Federal Government should be the bottom feeder. (Obviously different for international)
Thomas Jefferson: The government that is big enough to give you everything is also big enough to take everything away.
OUTSTANDING!!!
This piece is incredibly well written, and should be disseminated to EVERY "media" outlet in the USA. Of course, they would simply shit-can the piece and the public would never hear about it or discuss it.
This piece should be copied and pasted everywhere on the web.
I will be the first.
the ultimate trick is to make poeple so bad that they ask for security in exchange of their liberty...