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Guest Post: Police State Amerika
By David Galland, Casey Research
Police State Amerika
I just had a conversation
with constitutional lawyer and monetary expert Dr. Edwin Vieira. I first
became acquainted with Dr. Vieira, who holds four degrees from Harvard
and has extensive experience arguing cases before the Supreme Court, at
our recent Casey Research Summit
in Boca Raton, where he spoke on how far off the constitutional rails
the nation has traveled. Here is a summary of what he told me…
Dr.
Vieira and I covered a lot of ground in our lengthy conversation, most
of it related to the U.S. monetary system – its history, nature, and
likely fate. But in between the details and analysis of how it is that
the nation’s fiscal and monetary affairs have deteriorated to the
current dismal state – and how the global sovereign debt crisis is
likely to be resolved – a couple of deeply concerning truths emerged.
Concerning because, taken together, these truths have set the stage for a full-blown police state.
The
first of these two truths has to do the nature of today’s money. To set
the stage, I present the following excerpt from Dr. Vieira’s paper A Cross of Gold related to the original Federal Reserve Act.
Section 16 of the Act provided that:
Federal
reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Federal Reserve
Board for the purpose of making advances to Federal reserve banks are
hereby authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United
States, and shall be receivable by all national and member banks and
Federal reserve banks and for all taxes, customs, and other public dues.
They shall be redeemed in gold on demand at the Treasury Department of
the United States, or in gold or lawful money at any Federal reserve
bank.
Observe: From the very
first, Federal Reserve Notes were denominated “advances” and
“obligations”—that is, instruments and evidence of debt. True “money”, however, is the most liquid of all assets, not a debt that might be repudiated, and certainly not a debt that has been serially repudiated.
And
if Federal Reserve Notes were from the start to be “redeemed in gold or
lawful money”, they obviously were never conceived to be either “gold”
or “lawful money”. So, because by definition the only “money”
the law recognizes is “lawful money”, by law Federal Reserve Notes were
never (and are not now) actual “money” at all, but at best only some
sort of substitute for “money”.
The
monetary conjurers’ trick has been, slowly, steadily, and stealthily,
to reverse this understanding in the public’s mind. That is, to make the
substitute pass for the real thing, and then remove the real thing from
the operation.
This subterfuge was not
overly difficult to put over. After all, in the term “redeemable
currency”, which is the noun and which the adjective? When people deal
with a “paper currency redeemable in gold”, the natural uninstructed
inclination is to treat the paper currency as “money” and the gold as
something else. The paper currency, as the saying goes, is merely
“backed” by gold—but of course is not itself gold. And because the
currency is not itself gold, the money-manipulators can remove the gold
“backing” farther and farther into the background, without affecting the nature of the paper as “currency” (at least nominally).
Thus,
a “redeemable currency” can be converted into a “contingently
redeemable” or “conditionally redeemable” currency, through temporary
suspension of specie payments (as happened repeatedly during the
Nineteenth Century); and then into a full-fledged “irredeemable
currency”, through permanent suspension of specie payments, as with
Federal Reserve Notes after 1933 domestically and 1971 internationally.
Yet,
to the average citizen (whose most serious liability is mental
inertia), even though a paper currency’s promise of redemption has been
dishonored, it nonetheless remains “currency”.
Thus one grasps that the so-called “right to redemption” attached to any paper currency is actually a liability, inasmuch as it exposes the holders of that currency to repudiation, because they possess only the paper, not the gold.
Even
in the best of times, the holders of redeemable paper currency are not
economically and politically independent. Rather, they depend upon the
honesty and the competence of the money-managers.
This is why America’s Founding Fathers, realists all, denominated redeemable paper currency as “bills of credit”.
They knew that such bills’ values in gold or silver always depended
upon the issuers’ credit—that is, ultimately, the issuers’ honesty and
ability to manage their financial affairs.
The
unavoidable trouble with “bills of credit”, though, is that they can
(and usually do) turn out to be “bills of discredit”, when the holders
discover that the money-managers are dishonest and
incompetent—or worse, as is the situation today, highly competent at
dishonesty. Then the holders of the paper currency (if they are
sufficiently astute) realize how unwise it is to allow the gold to be
held by the very people with the greatest incentive, and the uniquely
favorable position and opportunity, to steal it.
But
when the money-managers refuse to redeem their currency, what can the
holders of that currency do to protect themselves? Well, what were they
able to do in 1933 and in 1971? Nothing. If the holders of
Federal Reserve Notes had enjoyed an effective, enforceable “right” to
the gold that the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury of the United
States promised to pay in redemption of those notes—that is, if the
currency had been “redeemable” in the only meaningful sense that redemption was absolutely assured as a matter of law and especially fact—the gold seizures of 1933 and 1971 would never have happened.
Thus, the ostensibly “redeemable” character of paper currency of the pre-1933 and pre-1971 type did not protect the holders of that currency. Instead, it turned out to be the very device used to deceive, defraud, divest, and dispossess them of gold—proving
in the most palpable manner that a society’s acceptance of “redeemable
currency” is the product of confusion and the invitation to inevitable
economic and political disaster.
In our conversation, Dr. Vieira
ticked off eight specific ways in which the current monetary system is
unconstitutional. While I won’t go into the specifics here, the
important thing to understand is that, as currently operated, the
federal government has managed to manipulate things to avoid any
constitutional restrictions on its ability to spend.
This, of
course, gives the government free rein to reward favored voting blocs
with expensive social programs, buy fleets of limousines, launch
expensive overseas adventures, bail out well-connected donors, and
otherwise spend the country into ruin.
To understand why this is
so important as a precedent to the evolution of fascism, view the matter
in reverse by considering how different things would be if the
constitutionally mandated requirement that the government’s currency be
redeemable in good money – gold or silver – was still enforced. In that
case, the government’s ability to spend would be effectively limited by
what it collected in revenues. That, in turn, would have greatly
curtailed its ability to grow into the bloated juggernaut it has.
In other words, the American ideal of a limited government would have been hard wired.
As
it stands, though, exactly the opposite has been allowed to evolve –
unchallenged by anyone, including the Supreme Court. Why has the
nation’s highest court chosen not to tackle this clear breach of the
Constitution?
According to Dr. Vieira, it is likely because if
they were to void the current system as being unconstitutional, they
would effectively blow apart the U.S. and global economy. But as they
have no authority to even suggest an alternative system, they are faced
with the reality that while they have the power to do great damage, they
have no power to cushion the blow. And so, the Supreme Court does
nothing.
As a result, the ability of the federal government to
continue its insane spending and rolling out new initiatives designed to
win over voters continues with no legal restraints – the latest example
being the health-care initiative.
Put another way, in cahoots
with the Fed, the federal government is able to wage war, bail out the
banks, foster socialism, and otherwise bankrupt the nation – to do
whatever it wants – largely thanks to its continued operation of an
unconstitutional monetary system.
It Gets Worse…
The
second fundamental truth is that the Supreme Court has been a
co-conspirator and instrument of the government’s degradation of
individual liberty.
Dr. Vieira and I spent a fair amount of time
on this topic – of how the nation’s highest court could let stand the
egregious excesses of recent decades; the Patriot Act, Guantanamo,
institutionalized torture and renditions, domestic spying,
eminent-domain abuses, warrantless searches, etc., etc. In his view,
there can be only one of two reasons that the Supreme Court has been so
accommodating – one is that the justices are incredibly incompetent, and
the other is that they are working within the context of an unseen
agenda.
Ruling out the first, his final conclusion is that they
are operating with an unseen agenda in mind. In his view, that agenda
revolves around the rising potential for widespread social unrest
emanating from the nationwide monetary Ponzi scheme. Doing its part to
prepare, the Supreme Court has been establishing the precedents
necessary for the government to cope with that unrest.
Too radical
a thought? Returning to Dr. Vieira’s point – ask yourself how else to
explain the Supreme Court’s actions. Are they collectively of low
intelligence, or otherwise so stupid as to be unable to understand the
Constitution? Or do they now view the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights as dead letters, freeing them up to respond to the government’s
overheated demands for new and previously unimaginable new “emergency”
(read “fascist”) powers?
Is there an alternative explanation?
On
this general theme, Dr. Vieira correctly points out that, in order for a
fascist state to exist does not require the government to actually
arrest anyone – but only that they can arrest anyone. Do you think you broke a law over the past week? I can assure you that every one of you dear readers broke a lot
of laws. Sure, you may not have realized you were breaking a law – but,
as the old saying goes, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
The Stage Is Set
Unrestricted
in its growth by any constitutionally mandated limits on its ability to
create and manipulate money – the official currency now being nothing
more than IOUs redeemable in nothing more tangible than coins made out
of base metal alloys with inflated face values – and supported by a
Supreme Court that has unequivocally demonstrated a willingness to
ignore or sign off on egregious tramplings of the Constitution, the
stage is set for the U.S. government to evolve into something far more
dangerous on the domestic front.
All it requires now is a
triggering event, and it would be naïve to think that such an event
won’t occur. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not this decade – but when it
inevitably does, the federal government already has all the precedents
it needs to do “whatever it takes.” This absence of legal restrictions
on its actions is the very foundation of fascism.
When I asked
Dr. Vieira how the nation has progressed on a scale from 1 to 10 towards
becoming a police state, with 10 being a full-blown version, he put us
currently at about 7.
There really is no investment angle to be
derived from this situation – well, at least nothing new. Owning
tangible investments that will hold up in the face of a continued
currency debasement continues to make sense – but with the caveat that
FDR’s unconstitutional gold confiscation of the 1930s was let stand and
there is zero reason to think that the accommodating Supreme Court
wouldn’t go along with it again. One would hope to see straws in the
wind before any moves toward confiscation would begin. Until those
straws start flying, the precious metals – as well as other tangibles –
belong as part of your portfolio.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t
mention the importance of politically diversifying your life and your
money as one of the few steps you can take to avoid the serious risk
that comes from being “all in” in a single jurisdiction.
Some
readers have berated me for often writing on what might be considered
gloomy topics. To which I would respond: If you are sitting in a theater
and see a fire breaking out, would you fail to make others aware of it,
because you didn’t want to interrupt their entertainment?
Well,
we can see a fire blowing up – the kindling for which has been piled up
deep by a series of out-of-control governments. Unless and until there
is something akin to an “American Spring.” this fire is going to spread
and consume even more of the accumulated wealth of the broader public –
and maybe worse.
Do what you can to protect yourself and your
families – then get on with your life. You may not be able to do much
about the bigger-picture trend, but you can certainly take steps on a
personal level to mitigate the ill effects.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst… but then live life to the fullest
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I guess I should assume on here that it would be...unfortunately can't make that assumption in general.
Government regulation is necessary in some form. Without it, profit incentive trumps all other concerns and human rights violations become common place. It is easy to simply look at the world around you and understand this idea in practice because we don't have government regulation right now. Instead, we have big business caputure of government regulatory institutions masquerading as the appearance of regulation.
The SEC is owned by Wall St, thus not a single institutional perpetrator of the CDS/derivative/housing fraud has been prosecuted. We have the apperance of regulation, but no actual regulation. Thus why fracking companies were allowed to not disclose the chemicals they use, why BP was allowed to use Corexit to clean up the oil spill, why Monsanto is allowed to grow Frankenfood and then sue local farmers who accidentally have their crops pollinated with GMO seed, and so on. There are literally thousands of examples.
THIS is why people say there is no difference between the two parties - - big business has bought the administrations who appoint the regulators. The three branches of government are simply an extension of multi-national corporations and the bankers that own them and finance their operations. The ideological differences between the parties are meaningless and reality television. Campaign rhetoric gives the proles something to argue about.
That about sums it up.Excellent comment, don't understand why anyone would junk it?
They junk it because their grip on the lid is slipping, and a bunch of half-boiled, pretty fucking pissed off frogs are about to jump out of the water.
"I am not a liberal"... Why identify yourself with anything or not with anything? If I say "I'm not a conservative" does that mean we've established the prerequisites to friendship, or understanding? It really is time to evolve. And move on.
Take a look at the radical agreement between marginalized politicians like Ron Paul and Ralph Nader and you see the reason why the cheap knee jerk rhetoric of divide and conquer must be maintained.
I have fun with folks when I tell them that I voted for Nader and then tell them that I voted for Paul, that is, when I USED to vote.
Stand for principle or stand for nothing.
Thank God Francis Scott Key didn't sit watch over a monster truck rally. Can you imagine that national anthem.
You're REALLY funny, you know that? ;=))
All I know is that I currently act from the standpoint that I am a resident, not citizen, of a nation hostile to my true representation and freedom. I am methodically preparing to be nimble and prepared, but I also plan for the status quo to go on into the forseeable future. I wish people could see that right frigging now is the time for peaceful revolution, but the peoples in general do not see. My working assumptions are wide spread unrest, especially in urban areas; with a high probability of a large false flag event... at some point in the near future. When either of these happens my families get out of dodge contingency plans go into immediate effect. Good luck people, survive the first phase so we can rebuild/fight for our country; it's all anyone can do at this point unless you are hellbent on prison or death.
There is no such thing as a 'peaceful' revolution.
There is voting and campaigning, though, which is anathema to the lazy asses here.
'Gee, all parties are the same' , those are the morons to ignore.
Troll sense starting to tingle the back of my brain... but against my better judgement:
The people who feel all parties are the same might be saying that because although there are many smaller parties that recognize the corruption and want to rally against it, even they still believe that if we just let them implement their ideas, things would be eventually be great. To participate in any party that operates within the confines of our system seems somewhat worthless as they all ultimately believe in the raw power of the state to force involuntary action between individuals.
" To participate in any party"
If you don't like it, take it over. I'm a troll for feeling this way? Not like it's conducive to second by second trading....
***** "To participate in any party that operates within the confines of our system seems somewhat worthless as they all ultimately believe in the raw power of the state to force involuntary action between individuals." *****
You should Thank the Starz above that this gentleman chose to engage you, chose to take the time to try to educate you..
I will tell you from the Liberal side of things that I have heard of seen some where.. that people are going to pay 1 silver dollar for (your) Conservative Republican Scalp(s) when the lights go out becuase of the sheeps ignorant pushing for Austerity AGAINST the poor and Tax Breaks for the Rich who already pay NO! Taxes.
Austerity! and Freedom for ALL!! Freedom to collect scalps of "W" supporters! or so it has been said.
Not that I personally have the time to waste on this (or similar) jackass, but he supposes that those "libs" are all pacifists and are incapable of knowing about "defensive" activities- WRONG! He and his blinder-ridden ilk will be in for a surprise. Remember Pat Tillman, that poster boy for all that is patriotic and macho about our warmongering nation? Yeah, THAT Tillman, the guy who liked to read Chomsky.
You're either WITH the empire or AGAINST it. (in the US there once was the Anti-Imperialist League: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Imperialist_League)
Painting with big brushes get you locked into a corner...
you always have some great tid bits to share Seer! Thanks Bro! the other one I liked and maybe you know (I would assume you know) was the red and white stripes flag one of our brethren have here.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty that I thought was FANTASTIC! if I only would have spent more time in school and less time with stippers fishing in the Bahamas! but on an up beat note! I get to learn it now! when I want to know stuff!
any way! Thanks for the info and the read Kind Sir! My very Best to You and Yours! as always Seer!
Grover Cleveland, the last honest president. Those were the good old days!
"To participate in any party that operates within the confines of our system seems somewhat worthless"
TBTF has an entirely different opinion on that.
The most successful insurgencies are executed from within, from a counter-insurgency standpoint they are also the most difficult to root out.
Anything else is the obedient serfdom waiting for Master TBTF to pick the American wealth carcass clean before commencing the search for scraps, it plays right into their hands.
"it plays right into their hands."
Yes and no...
First, THEY don't need US! Elections etc are all rigged, so why bother with the charade? Meaningful opposition is securely rooted out by TPTB: MSM, controlled by TPTB, exercise sufficient control over the programming of the general populace.
Second, it IS the SYSTEM, not who is at the controls: the Bolsheveks were no better than that which they ousted- it's the SYSTEM of hierarchical control, it's about POWER! (doesn't matter what ideology or what "party," it's all destined for the same end- corruption)
Last, We Don't Need Them! (http://dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Carpenter1102.htm)
You can only play into their hands if you play their game.
The US empire WILL decline and fall. We should realize it for what it was, just another experiment in controlling the masses.
Their experiment may have been more successful this time. They have been working on their control mechanisms for a long time. Bernays may be the fair haired boy. He proved his system could work when he convinced America's women how fashionable it was to smoke. And then he went on to bigger and "better" things in Washington, like fixing elections and promoting phoney wars. TPTB's chief weakness now is not the proles, but their fellow Power Elites that have never learned to share.
TPTB no longer need as many proles to do their work and man their armies. Much of that has been automated. They're killing us off with their various "profit centers" like food, drugs, entertainment, etc. It's looking like they may kill a lot more of us before the present unpleasantness is over.
Like our ancestors learned, it might be about time to emigrate. South's about the only direction left that doesn't require space travel.
"Seven Days in May".
wtf? And do you actually vote for 'conservatives'?
No, i campaign for real ones. Ok, and vote too.
Can you name a decent conservative?
"Can you name a decent conservative?"
You're wasting your time. He's only 13 years old.
Rick Perry. Maybe. He's the only one who's using the S(ecession) word in public. If Texas goes, 15-20 other states go, and that'll bring about Civil War II...which is the only way we are going to rid ourselves of the DC/Wall Street mob.
Yes, let us pray!
Oops, forgot the quote marks
And the /sarcasm disclaimer.
You are talking about the same Rick Perry that built roads with public money and then sold them to private foreign companies for tolling rights; right? Douches don't come bigger than Rick Perry. If you're going to place your faith in a party candidate, and Im not sure theres a point, Id go with Ron Paul. However even should he be elected TPTB will act to thwart and destroy his efforts. For real change to happen some major walls will have to come down in this country.
if they Killed Kennedy and then smeared his good name for 40 fucking years afterward.. Ron doesnt have a snowballs chance in hell and he is no Kennedy.. so what is he going to fuck up while he is in office?
we need a Man of the People for the People! not another beltway insider, not some fucking fruit / nut job either! someone who will enact a flat tax and claw back "We the Peoples" Money from ALL the AAA rated corps who robbed "We the People" Blind!
But alas'.... we have no monies for testing potential catch phrases (meme's) that will spread like wild fire within the ignorant insects natural habitiats! we are at a sever disadvantage with regard to funding.. "We the People" do NOT! have a 0.25% FED Window to Fund our Push for Freedom!
Corporations Own the Lobby!
The Lobby Owns the Government!
Law Enforcement works for the Duly Elected Lobby Whores!
We the People = Screwed!
+ lots.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid you've called it correctly. Buy gold and foxholes if you want any chance of survival.
It has already started in Utah. How am I supposed to fold an I.O.U. for the thong of a stripper. They're not even that dumb. It does seem the concept of legal tender 9 for all debts public and private) has escaped Utahs finest.-45
http://consumerist.com/2011/06/man-cited-by-police-after-he-pays-25-medi...
It could be worse....morons on parade:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Strippers-Call-For-NY-Pole-Tax-9362...
An IOU or FRN will stay in the thong. A gold coin would fall right through. Score one for the Feds.
A while back, some young ladies in the P.I. could handle a coin with their lips.
The fat ones under their nose or the smelly ones between their legs?
Can I swipe my credit card?
Strippers in Utah? I thought you guys were pure as the driven snow, didn't drink, smoke, chew or spit on the sidewalk and wore the good underwear. Now I am disillusioned.
I think its worse than that. The current administration, using the concepts from the book "nudge" is in the process of unlawfully extending administrative control and fiat over the populace without so much as a shoulder look at whether they have the LEGAL right to do so.
This has gone on for years in land-use, especially in the West; the FTC attempting to regulate Web content (Supreme court said no, but they just used a different approach); to "Indiania's "cops can break in without a warrant" bullshit.
To add insult, we also know that the government is now trying to label Americans as 'terrorists.' VonNothaus - creating gold/silver coins is exercising a form of 'domestic terrorism'. Army manual (until retracted) listed public protests as a 'low level form of terrorism.'
And from Janet Nut-case Neopolitan-o, "The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks."
Now we are facing down yet another 'globalist' attempt by the UN via fiat treaty to eliminate firearms from the general population of the globe.
Curious to see if other ZH readers are doing something about these excesses?
Yes, doing something. It's called campaigning for Conservatives. This is my day off.
This is my day off.
As opposed to your usual day of professional weiner gobbling.
Not ALL! Republican Conservatives like the taste of lil boy prostitute dingaling and Meth.. just the leaders who can afford it! after collecting Money in Church in the name of a Conservative God that does not believe in sharing any extra!
Maybe his cup runneth over with Meth & lil boy dingaling today! LOL!! pretending he is a Leader of the Republican Conservatives! Mission Accomplished! Drill Baby Drill has a hole new Meaning! LOL
You're full of shit and a fucking liar to boot. There are no "Conservatives" to campaign for and it isn't your day off either. You're nothing but an ADL/NSA jerk whose job it is to pollute and take the political temperatures of message boards that are known to have a bunch of posters that haven't yet fallen for the party line.
We know. That's why we are here at ZH. So we can see the sick economic drivers of all the madness be exposed.
Still, it's like seeing an invasion of Body Snatchers and having a hard time waking others who still slumber under the MSM propaganda. The massive propaganda is a bad sign and is always present in fascist tilts.
We give our time, share information, vote, attend rallies, donate to the cause, buy PMs, go Galt, starve the beast and tell others. Each time a new crisis happens there are more believers.
Yes, the UN says they want our guns and they are welcome to mine as soon as they pry it from my booby-trapped, cold boney fingers.
Isn't FlyPaper intended to trap those who react by instinct rather than cognition?
Molon Labe.
It has been difficult for me to post any new information as of late. Taxi driver's, airport shoe shining individuals, and others have caught on to the international ponzi scheme.
As the scared control freaks panic, new laws will quickly trickle thru. Unfortunately, it won't change public moral. In fact, it will make the party of six more vulnerable to the fraud being executed.
Just a couple of links to remind you that many of us saw this upcoming day years ago. Use your own judgement & make your own decisions. The egg timer is ticking to complete a 2012 vision. Things are not going to plan. Repeat.. Things are not going to PLAN. Snickers :)
Black Sun" From Album "Aion" 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARb1S1RAWFc
PROMETHEUS
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html
This has been the plan for some time. Some understand the warnings, and others don't make the connection.
Ministry Messiah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMSe_0o9Bo
*wink*
"To man I come, the number of a man my number, Lion of Light. I am the BEAST whose law is love, Love under will- his royal right."
When you search with Startpage, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to Google ourselves.
Even paranoids have enemies. Your fricking high school will track you down for the next reunion, no matter what measures you use!
LOL
limit the power to tax boi... problem solved, wars will be shorter and that would fix alot of things
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injustice enforcement on people that 'dont pay taxes' should be more limited in my view
Like the play on botox, but do you have a semblance of a plan how to accomplish any limits?
"Hope for the best, plan for the worst…"
Statements like this are non-sensical. If one lived in Germany in 1935 what would planning for the worst entail? Making sure you were not a Jew? So how does one "plan" for things like that? If one was of relatively modest means the best planning in the prior situation was to have a low party number and live in the West where you fall to the Americans instead of Soviets. Some plan.
But Palin is stupid....you platitude people really piss me off.
Re-Elect Oblahma! Vote Ron Paul!
(Yes, I kinow HE didn't mention Palin, I was just trying to save time.)
Ah, another "don't waste your vote!" sheep.
Baahh, baahh, baahh .... which way to the two-party polling station, good shepherd?
It would entail precisely what my grandfather and his brothers did. Emigrate to America, and then return to Austria wearing the colors of a new nation, weapon in hand.
There are always choices, even when you don't like any of them.
I've had a few drinks, so I may as well rant a little. Feel free to swing for the fences on it, I've got broad shoulders.
We plan with virtue and fortitude, knowing that evil is an impotent and senseless foe. If it were truly competent, it would have no need of us, and would carve it's own path through it's own virtue.
Instead, it wraps itself in lies and transparent manipulations. It cajoles with one side of it's mouth, and threatens with the other. We are told that we must follow the system as it exists, because we must be practical and deal with reality. What they do not understand, and cannot allow themselves to admit, is that reality is independant of the whims of those who are impotent in the face of nature. What the "elite" know, and are desperate to prevent the rest of us from discovering, is that they, and they alone, are entirely unable to deal with reality. It is an intentional disconnect from natural law that allows them to exist in their state.
Planning for the worst is a matter of mental preparation. We, the majority, are by inclination and temperment, disinclined to recognize lies when they exceed a certain degree of blatancy. Most of us cannot concieve of an ego which can disregard reality in toto, and proceed on a self-authorized system of ethics that ignores reality in it's entirety.
To know, and to expect this, is to be prepared to oppose these lies when they occur. When you hear these lies, oppose them- and know that the argument is not for the betterment of your adversary, but for the laity. Rest assured that there are those who listen, but choose not to speak- and all it takes is for one child to stand and truthfully declare that the Emperor has no clothes to set the Empire afire.
30% of the German people supported the Nazi party- what power would they have had if the remaining 70% had used their voices when they were most needed?
Why don't you take your nonsense, and bury it in the sand next to your head?
"If one lived in Germany in 1935 what would planning for the worst entail? Making sure you were not a Jew?"
I think that this question needs far more attention. I've brought it up (maybe here, but certainly many times elsewhere). At the heart of the question/issue is: why do some see things coming and act while others refuse? I see things coming, but I don't count myself as some paranoid type. I think it's about assessing risk unemotionally (with the aim of staying alive).
The movie Nowhere in Africa roughly touched on this subject, though only very superficially (buried under a mound of relationship drama).
Gee, makes sense.
Stomp all over the constitution to help the people. The excuse is always to help the people, it's for their own good. Next, let the UN take ban guns away so we can't even hunt and feed ourselves or defend ourselves from the banker-politician axis of evil coming our way. Sweet.
So, I can put you in the anti -ism column?
We can argue real candidates later.
Take your party shit and go off into a corner and do what you do best- masterbate with it.
It;s for the third time i post this :
Was Ruled by the Supreme Court that Congress Can NOT delegate powers to a third party.
Due to this Rule FED can not print any money because thats Congress business according to the Constitution
Problem SOLVED
Now show me a lawyer that will discuss this
WTF? You live in rabbits-shitting-skittles land? Don't make me post all the abrogations of Congress..
true including Congress gave President Bush the authority to assassinate anyone, anywhere,
using any means
and yet you insist that an election run under this corrupt system
will help.
libs maybe sick, you are just run of the mill goofy.
insane. over and over. nope nope nope.
Wow! An 'all parties are the same' moron from offshore! Why am I not surprised. You Dufi have no clue what an election is. It's why you have 'power sharing'.
Fergot 'coalition goobermint'.
How's that working for y'all?
Quick, someone get that hair out of that cat's ass. Irritable thing.
In my state they do not have paper ballots. Even if they did, I'd doubt the election results. NO PAPER BALLOTS, NOTHING WITH WHICH TO PHYSICALLY CHECK THE RESULTS. Electronic votes are as good as ETFs. NO better, they are as good as derivatives, dark pools. Shifting numbers from one screen to the other is good enough for the FED.
Physical votes bitches. And even then, the elections go to the highest bidder.
Negative votes are hillarious, as in a candidate somehow manages to get -5476 votes in a certain district. Nothing left to do but sit back and play the fiddle at this point.
I helped kill electronic voting in my county. One of the last things I did before I figured out that it's the fucking SYSTEM (of hierarchical power that is the real problem).
Think Mr. Pussy has contributed anything like this to society? Fucking doubtful...
>Due to this Rule FED can not print any money
It doesn't; I think the Treasury and maybe Bureau of Minting and Engraving does that.
Re-Elect Oblahma! Vote Mitty or Paul!
My delusional friend, I would gladly trade what is about to go down here for that laundry list of woes and ills you so painstakingly detailed. And make no mistake the agencies and bureaus you mentioned are a major part of the reason we find ourselves at the unhappy crossroads we occupy.
you stupid bitchez dont even realize THEY HAVE ALREADY TAKEN OVER....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...!
you have no rights!
Bingo. The new land of the laws secretly have clawed away the visible Constitutional laws. Torch holders/lantern post rope slingers/pitch fork protester are being laughed at. Central Planners changed the laws while everyone was watching the latest drama consisting of a weiner or some popular media sitcom.
We warned you 5 years ago. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the Republic of USA. I have my popcorn handy. Rooting for J6P USA Republic to become aware of deception.
Obama Money - Where Did it Come From?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q
Obama Causes Welfare Chaos In Detroit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGLB8LO1aM&feature=related
why are you pretending to be mynhair?
there is NO! answer in the two party system, NO!! ANSWER!!! THERE!!!!
Wake! UP!!
George Carlin (whom I'd hold above any pol) said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
But, of course, Mr. Pussy wouldn't watch or comprehend (blind party players are that way): hm... Mr. Party Pussy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
for anyone who still thinks that Conservative way is the best way.. or that Government Appproved Forced Austerity for the Poor! is a Good idea.. basicly for all of you fucking INSECTS! and Sheep!
Seer! Thank You for posting some TRUTH! Sincerely!
My biggest problem is the last part of the article "live life to the fullest". I absolutely cannot enjoy myself knowing whats going on and knowing we could get fucked at any given notice. This idea that the gov't is going to collapse and go away is insane, those rotten bastards would go as far as to nuke our asses to stay in power I have no fucking doubt.
I thought it was a nice sentiment. I don't like the concept of being a 'doom and gloomer'. I am preparing though for a variety of scenarios, but obviously some will be out of my control to prepare for...
Agree Joe. This is the beauty of anonymous internet accounts. I am only a doom and gloomer on the web, I try not to scare my close friends and family with the coming reality. I stick to inflation data since 1913 and debt to convince my unawakened relatives to invest at least a little in physical. Helps me get 3 or 4 hours of sleep as opposed to none.
All you can do is convert most of your savings into silver (and begrudgingly some gold) and enjoy your friends and family while you still can.
Thus my g/f and I are crushing a massive J right now, meanwhile I'm getting yelled at for being on my laptop all the time as usual. No one said intellectual revolution didn't require sacrifice, bitch!
Edit: the thread arguing over the ethics of bankers and squatters has nearly 600 replies. The one discussing our eroding 4th Amendment rights has about 160. Pretty much says it all. Divide and conquer, bitchez.
Crow, prepared well, could be really good eating. Welcome.
We all fade in and out with our focus on the situation. I think there are stages to this thing. There are many posters who are old timers who lurk, but don't post so much any more. We track the headlines, sample the comments, and move on with the day. Other times, speaking for myself, I am nothing short of obsessed. There comes a point you know you are doing all you can, and you just need to keep doing it and know that the shitstorm may manifest over a painfully long time period. I crave for this beast to die, I hate lies, I hate that anything I buy supports the ponzi and the death machine. But you have to live and love and there is a way you have to know it has always been this way, we have really only awakened from a myth, no more. Do not be divided by hating those who would be divided. Stay open and nimble as you can. Peace.
+1
the 4th amendment is not on cable news 24 hours a day!
thusly it gets no attention.. the corporate news is not alerting "We the People" how they are being fucked!
Guns will be next the UN already has a World!! Wide!!! small arms snatch and grab on the table! http://blogs.forbes.com/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should-have-all-gun-owners-up-in-arms/
first you have no rights of privacy.. then they come for the guns and then.... well thats it! after that it is whatever they want!
and they want population control! call me a tin foil hat guy if you want! but it is Population Control Time!
once the population is reigned in..
it is easier to kill a million people in this day and age of instant communication and information than manage a million people.
finite resources and over development of the United States..
what happens when hunger is created in the masses? I dont care what your beliefs are.. but history has shown us again and again that when you have a hungry mob.. or a hungry enough mob.. what the result of the mob + hunger is DEATH!
factor in we are talking about America where there are 5 guns per person and 10 Billion Bullets a year sold (10 billion is a real number, use google for ATF numbers). sprinkle in some forced austerity and BOOM! you have Hunger Riots which turn into Racial Riots or God Knows What kind of Riots.. but the end result will be a much smaller Mob to have to manage.. and the Mob that is left will be so much more manageable after all the death and hunger..
Finite Resources SUDDENLY are going to last a LOT! Longer!
But more important than even that, the Mob is now manageable.. power will be restored to the people who created these recession(s) / depression(s), the same people who create the Faux Fight to cause Austerity to reign down on the Sheepeople are the same people who will be better able to control whats left after the fires get put out.
the passionate people, the people who care and who would fight for the rights of the people.. will surely be some of the first killed. the willing to fight for their rights will be eliminated and only the sheepeople or mostly the sheepeople will be what is left.. there is no World War to send these people who are willing to die for their beliefs too.. these people who would fight to the death for their beliefs are the Biggest Danger to the Lobby Owners. People who believe in the Constitution and People willing to fight for and even if need be die for the Constitution are the threat.
What easier way that to let the stupid sheepeople kill the people with some kind of real belief system? whos left after all the little people get done killing each other? who is left once the masses are worked up into a hornets nest? who will suffer the most when the masses start killing one another?
not the Goobermint! they are all going underground! not me and my kind we are going to the Bahamas or other.. the poor, hungry belief ridden people will be left to die and suffer and the cowards who ran and hid from the fighting will be what is left to manage when the dust settles.
The Cowards are all that will be left once the fighting dies down. The Cowards who dont care and just want to make everyone happy! even if it means them fucking themselves in the ass with a dildo becuase the creme' that rises to the top is to fucking lazy to do even that any more.
America is to filled with people who have guns and are willing to fight.. that is not a controllable crowd.. or more to the point they want an easier crowd to control than what is here now.
nothing but civil unrest comes from starving people and that is what a LOT! of you have talked yourselves into is a good thing for this Country.. and the top 1% of 1% just wants control over an easy going group of sheep. Civil unrest, let the hungry starve and let the top 1% or 1% have exactly what they want.. because it is good for you how? You live out in the middle of no where? well lets hope the hungry crowd doesnt find you cowards out there hiding! while the real men who believe in something die for no reason other than to clear the road for the top 1% of the 1%.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Xe_ATNWQQ
Al Bartlett on energy consumption versus population
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8
David Rockefeller speaks about population control.
Obama's Science Czar..
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=obama+science+czar+population+control&aq=1&aqi=g2g-v2g-sv1&aql=&oq=obama+science+czar&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=71c6c4af87148765&biw=1266&bih=575
http://vimeo.com/6475921 Control in Modern Times! Easier to Kill a Million People than Control a Million People in these modern politically awaken times. Revolution will come, will you be a spectator or will you help change your own future.. your children’s future, for the better?
Consider that 59% of Americans are receive some type of Goobermint Help.. and when that Help it taken away.. that 59% of Americans will be hungry..
Hungry, Armed Americans looking for food.. can NOT end well for the Country.. But Record Bonus Monies for Wall Street! and the sheep are asleep while this slow boil goes on!
Right on MsCreant. The way I look at it is that you never know who is visiting ZH for the first time on any given day, and like you said, there are stages to awakening. I get why a lot of people don't post anymore, though.
By the way I hope I never have to eat an actual crow. If you watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, there is a scene in the Season 6 Finale where Frank wakes up screaming in pain and tells everyone that he ate a dead crow while they were sleeping. For some reason it is the funniest shit I have ever seen.
Later he is complaining that that he is done with animals, and Mac replies that he is sick because he ate rotting, maggot-filled dead crow meat, not because animals are bad. I think that is a pretty good analogy to what detaching your mind from the propoganda does, taking the red pill so to speak. If you let it, the corruption and lies tend to tear you up inside. It is easy to blame and hate all of humanity, especially the "sheep" who don't know or are too preoccupied to really want to know.
But at the end of the day, I'm not gonna let their bullshit consume my humanity. Fuck them.
Bravo! This should be posted on the door, the lights turned out, and we go off and live and be that which should be.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. (Orwell)
Hmmmm....any Clinton's?
Yes, I feel better.
How come all of you types aren't all in an uproar over Hilary? I mean, how come I'm not hearing all the attacks on her like when she was First Lady or when she was running for POTUS? Naw, fucking hypocrites, she's flashing her military penis (and yours), so you've backed off...
with the right" dark glasses" on you can look at those in power and see the alien face that the hologram protects from normal view..
".THEY LIVE"..if you have never seen it get it and you may understand although most here on ZH understand the very real difference between US and the Elite ..
it's B grade SF movie that fortunately got by the elite..and it looks more profetic than any movie or book except "1984."
THEY LIVE.
dark glasses: ZH?true news?intelligent investigation rather than consumption of MSM.
this movie depicts the American public having large segments living in hoovervilles cut off and subject to police action with out cause...the rest asleep unable to "see" the elite as what they are: non human parasites.
ZHers aren't all that unique, nor have they "discovered" something. This is just another avenue to vent frustrations from many who just really only want to be one of the "special/chosen" (that's what capitalism is about- creating a select few, enabling the few byby enticing the many to pursue their positions [which they, TPTB, will not relenquish]).
Yeah, kudos to us all for seeing. But... like it or not, MANY have known about all this for a LONG time. "Tune in and drop out," same thing... yeah, the "hippies" recognized the perils. And, we alreay know that others, like the Amish, do as well; and on and on...
Comes down to two things: 1) How to live away from the System?; 2) What messages do you take away from the System in order to "preach/educate" others about the perils of falling back into a similar condition? Within these one may chose to use the hoe or chose the baseball bat: the hoe grows; the bat kills. I have MY answers.
I'd have to say that the movies The Matrix and Brazil did very well in showing us the mirror.
"the federal government is able to wage war, bail out the banks, foster socialism, and otherwise bankrupt the nation"
The government will avoid going "bankrupt". The Constitution forbids defaulting on federal debt, but there is no limit to the bailouts it can give or the quantity of money the government can print. It can print a dollar bill with infinity signs if it wants to. It is not going "bankrupt", but rather impoverishing everyone and expropriating and wasting the seed corn - the physical capital left in the territories it controls through coercion.
Going bankrupt means not being able to pay one's bills. You can print as much as you want, but that doesn't equal being able to pay one's bills. Internal debts can, perhaps, be dealt with; external ones are a whole 'nother matter. One has to ask the question: has there ever been a nation that han't ended up defaulting (going bankrupt)?
The external debts are in US dollars. There may be the day when The Externals no longer allow Uncle Sam to borrow and repay in USDs. When that happens, it won't be bankruptcy. It'll be like getting the credit card confiscated and destroyed.
Exactly -- unless things change, at some point the tavern-keeper is going to say: "Sorry, mate, but we don't accept 'Monopoly Money' in this inn. And your last cheque bounced. And your credit card is rejected as 'overdrawn'. No gold? No silver? Sorry, mate -- go home and sleep it off."
"All it requires now is a triggering event" The event is the dollar collapse. The U.S. will Default on the debt within a decade and the dollar will collapses. Marshal law imposed indefinitely. The problem is, people will shoot the police, military, or anyone that enforces marshal law nationwide. I know I will. I may not survive but I prefer being dead than to live in a police state.
Buy a bigger gun while you can.
http://barrett.net/
I could live with an MRAD and a decent scope.
yuppie scum.
Now that's funny.
Dupzilla
.50 is too large and heavy for anti-personnel use from anything other than a fixed position. Ironically it's useful against a helicopter, regardless of the color of the paint job.
For distances under a couple hundred yards a 45-70 levergun works well if you can shoot, and the cartridge isn't so exotic that the brass is difficult or expensive to replace.
The several ounces of gold you save could also come in handy...
.308 is more plentiful. You won't be able to get ammo or powder and primers for the 45-70.
Both cartridges use LRPs. Depending on application specifics, Varget could be used in either for a quality load. In 308, I always buy NATO surplus and then reload the brass with 180gr Nosler partitions for hunting. With 45-70 reloads, bullet selection is significantly more complicated, and I wait until I have an application before digging into the reload diary for a magic formula.
With the 308, the operator either has to be skilled at operating a bolt, or should have thousands of rounds of inventory if they are going the semi-auto route. With 45-70, since inventory replacement could be an issue, yeah - one would need to stock up, but not to the same degree as with a semi or full-auto 308. My preference for the 45-70 is partially based on the shock-and-awe factor in case a two-legged species of dangerous game ever shows up. Over anticipated distances- TKF curves for the 45-70 would be more than double the 308. I think it's about as close to a 50's shock-and-awe as one can get in a highly portable, quick-to-cycle package, without going to a round where one is going to get a lot of brass trimming and necking practice in the event of market disruption.
Then again, if one doesn't have a de facto collection of safe queens, there is nothing wrong sticking to a glock & a 12ga, with a healthy budget for training and practice.
February 28, 1997 - In a life and death situation, LAPD "professionals" go full retard and reach for the black, plastic, made-for-tv, VARMIT GUN. This is the level of skill and decision making ability of the fucking retards charged with either "protecting and serving" or "imposing the tyranny of the elite"???
An heretofore unseen level of ugly will ensue - perhaps even, dare I say, "biblical"?
Nice 2 c u! Be well and prepared.
Not that I'm a champion of the "hope will cure all" philosophy, which I'm not, but one has ZERO chance of altering one's future when one is dead...
One can live in a police state without being the object of attention: many people live invisibly. Police states always burn themselves out. Just look to live low until they do...
Fuck them! Fuck that!! I am a Pirate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8
Enjoy being an abject slave, subject to the whims of endless craven predators who get their kicks out of abusing and destroying cowering fools like you.
A few observations:
#1: I did not sign the declaration of independence. Even though that is a very fine and honest document in so many ways, I am not a signatory, and therefore I cannot be obligated by its content.
#2: I did not sign the constitution of these united states, or the constitution of any state, county or local "government" within these united states. Even though that is a good document in many ways, I am not a signatory, and therefore I cannot be obligated by its content.
#3: All organizations, including "government", "corporation", "society" and so-forth are fictions. Let me be totally clear. They do not exist. Like SantaClaus or EasterBunny or ToothFairy, humans have real mental-units in their heads with those names, but those names and mental-units do not refer to anything in the real world (and there is no other world). This fact, which was obvious to every non-moron many decades ago, is captured and recognized in the most fundamental law, which calls all organizations "fictitious entities".
#4: As a consequence of #3, only actions that are ethical for a human being to take on his own behalf, are ethical for a human being to take on behalf of anyone else, or on supposed-behalf of government, corporation or other fictitious entity.
#5: None of us is obligated by blatant fraud or intimidation. So the pretend that government exists, and corporations exist, and they will harm or destroy us if we do not comply with their demands means that everything we have done because they told us we must (like get a drivers license, sign up for social security card, etc) was done under MASSIVE albeit implicit "protest and duress". Which means, NONE of us are obligated by signatures on documents that we were told were mandatory, or would lead us to be harmed (fined or punished) if we did not submit to before we took actions that are FUNDAMENTAL FREAKING RIGHTS (like travel, work, voluntary exchange of goods and services, and endless other voluntary activities).
#6: Every human being came to exist by being born. In that way were are all the same. And because we came into being the same way, it is inherently impossible for any human being to have or gain any inherent authority over any other human being, simply by consistency and the most basic nature of logic (non-contradiction). Therefore, I am not obligated to any other human (or fiction) in any way except for the very limited ways clearly described in any fully voluntary agreement with another living, breathing human being. I am not a slave, and because the above observation is correct, I cannot be a slave.
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This sums it up. That's all ANY OF US need to know. All the rest is excess, and CERTAINLY focusing on writings made by people hundreds of years ago neither grants me rights nor obligates me in any way. I have NOTHING whatsoever to do with any human supposedly acting on behalf of any government, corporation or other fictitious entity. Their claims to the contrary are 100% FALSE, and obviously so.
I am, and always shall be a 100% free, independent, individual sentient being.
None of this has anything to do with me. NOTHING. Do you hear that:
predators DBA government
predators DBA corporations
predators DBA organizations
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To everyone else. Stop being suckered into the notion that you need to concoct some amazingly tricky or well reasoned argument to present to the fictional group of clowns who call themselves the SupremeCourt, or anyone else. You only need to understand THE FACTS that I mentioned above.
If only everyone understood these obvious facts, we would all live free. We would live free, because about 90% of everyone who shoot every so-called agent of any fictitious entity who showed up at our door or attempted to force us to pull off the road. And this is, indeed, the only possible salvation for mankind. Either humans wake up to these obvious facts, and act upon them, or earth shall very soon become a PERMANENT slave planet. Make no mistake, modern technologies make this eventuality practical for them to implement. Always before it has been possible for men to leave and escape their tyranny, or simply to overthrow them by force. This will soon not be possible.
So step up to the plate now and refuse to subject yourself to the demands of predators, or resign to the fact that human beings and planet earth are a permanent abject failure. The choice is yours, wimps!
Good luck with that manifesto. Do you have access to small planes?
I'm a private pilot but don't own a plane. Why?
But I fly wingsuits sometimes - incredible fun!
And that's not a manifesto, just simple facts.
"or earth shall very soon become a PERMANENT slave planet."
NOTHING is PERMANENT.
The notion of "freedom" and all is fine, but can it really exist with an infinite number of people living on a finite planet? Project it out, how could it work? I don't know, and I'm not putting out any "solutions" either. Just pointing out that there are actual physical constraints that most ignore (lest they test the jingoisms that so many treasure).
Well, I mean permanent as long as humans exist, which hopefully would not be too long after becoming permanent slaves.
The universe is permanent, or to be more precise, eternal.
Wait just one second here. What kind of demented comment are you making? Are you saying that the finite nature of earth somehow requires that very man becomes a slave?
How the hell does that help? How the hell does taking away incentive help human beings make better lives for themselves? How the hell does taking away incentive to overcome physical constraints help? What kind of crazy response are you making, anyway?
Finally, the earth is an 8000 mile diameter ball of solid resources, most of which is molten hot ball of energy waiting to be tapped, and the metals and minerals waiting to be converted into goods, plants, animals and everything humans need to survive and prosper. So your crazy idea of "limits" AKA "finite", while true, is so massively "early" and "defeatist" that it boggle the imagination. Of course, if you're brain is asleep, and you only consume and believe the propaganda predators-that-be and predator-class prepare to justify your enslavement, you may well have a massively, pitifully narrow view of reality, possibilities and opportunities.
Furthermore, there is no reason whatsoever that humans cannot reduce their numbers. When humans become rich and free, they tend to do exactly that. So your brilliant plan to solve all problems by making everyone a slave is exactly counterproductive in this way too.
Finally, the universe is not only eternal, it is also unlimited. Even if you fall for the big-bang-lie that claims the universe is only 20-odd billion light years across, you really must admit that's plenty big to provide stomping grounds for humans for at least billions of years. So get off your fat ass and join the crowd of living, breathing, thinking, creative, individualistic, non-brain-dead, non-slave-promoting human beings working to get into outer space now that governments have decided to work against that goal to assure their crops of slaves cannot escape their greedy power-lusting grasp.
Do limits exist? In some contexts, yes. Do limits exist for mankind? Not that any honest, alert, alive human brain can find.
Turns out Nixon was a visionary h/t WRH http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/09/ellsberg-all-the-crimes-nixon-committed-against-me-are-now-legal/
Oh, who cares! We have the One with (4,5,6,pick) wars!
Still, it is a good reference point on how far we have come.
1. dont waste your time speaking to that trash.
2. Great Post and Link!
3. FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government https://www.eff.org/issues/foia
"Unfortunately, the PATRIOT Act did not include sufficient checks to protect innocent Americans” Senator R. Durbin (IL) http://bit.ly/guAj0Chttp://goo.gl/y9uCf The FBI says it doesn’t need a Judge to sign Warrants! Police State here we come!
http://goo.gl/3bto9 Use Twitter? Do you Blog? Do you Chat? YOU! are a Home Grown Terrorist(s) Per Home Land Security! See Link(s) and Official Report(s).
Durbin? The ONLY Senator to NOT vote was that socialist Feingold! (yeah, Mr. Party Pussy, how come NO "conservative" voted against it?)
Mynhair--My humble tribute to you on this Thread--You're on an all time roll. Good on ya. Didn't agree with it all, but sum a biteech , gotta give ya a 10. ( I sure i'd rather have Bo derek) Milestones
Thanks. I'd rather have Bo Derek, or even Linda, and then, I wouldn't be here.
Because you'd be too busy with your girlfriend, the poodle.
Thank you for your enlightening argument, Weiner.
Don't you have an underaged bimbo to sextext?
Sorry for the delayed response, but I had to go put some water in your mom's bowl.
My God, ya'll are fighting like cats and dogs!!! Oh wait...
Excellent catch MsC!
3 police events send up flags:
1) Dep't of Ed's SWAT bust-down-door, detain deadbeat student loanee
2) Texas police shoot Marine on suspicion (NOT FACT) that he was shaking down drug dealers - 90 bullets and a semper-fi corpse later the coverup continues
3) Miami cops fill a car with lead (hitting no one! hee hee!) but chase down and at gunpoint force the cellphone observer to hand over his celly, which he does after putting the sim card in his cheek - they smash the phone thereafter
Cops are preparing for things the army should be preparing for, but treating civillians like terrorists. Too many private contractors (blackwater-like-outfits) training and equipping pols - who are aspiring to more military-like operation.=
In any case, police are gearing up to be America's Blackwater stateside instead of in Aghanny or Iraq
ftw- we are so fucked - I mean, those of us with less than 7 1/2 million in the bank
and those of us with pennies in the jar, waiting for employment
where the fuck are those guys with their stupid pillowcases of guns, running from the hillsides where they train & jerk off to the 2nd amendment = arent they supposed to save us from this fucking nonsense?
Next election, "taking back our government" will mean "selling our soul to it completely"
You'll know when it is a good day to die.
Economic collapse: summer, 2012. Political collapse > CW II: November, 2012.
The last time I heard much about a militia, some branch of the feds rounded up a bunch of good old boys in I think it was Michigan. Unfortunately, they had embraced a serpent in their bosum, an undercover agent, perhaps an agent provacateur, who knows? They were purportedly discussing shooting a cop and then mowing down the whole rank and file of em at the state funeral. I thought it a very promising plan when I heard about it, but way too early and it lacked something in execution as those good old boys now receive their mail at some federal penetentiary. The militias are all infiltrated.
If I don't vote my vote......I distribute my voting power to all voters equally ! If I hoard my "Monedas"(coins)......I refrain from bidding up prices in the marketplace ! I enhance, for as long as I hoard, the value of every one else's money ! Consumers and entrepreneurs ! I'm making an interest free loan, of enhanced buying power, equally to all ! Hoarding hurts no one and I pay for it in interest lost and economic possibilities postponed ! Only thieves are inconvenienced ! Monedas 2011 Capitalism can't exist without Freedom !
Hold on there, pardner! My 'shrooms haven't thawed yet.
A Public Service Announcement:
Wake up! It's time to get out of the country people. You can't and aren't going to have an armed resistance, so why stay and play by their rules?
There's lots of better places to live than the USSA. Get out while you can.
Fascinating ! Could you list your top ten island retreats ? I'm a peninsula man but am always open to new ideas ! Monedas 2011
Byte me. Even 10 yrs ago I couldn't afford Nevis, and they had very few not-condo properties left.
Honduras wants needed skills for a 1 yr accelerated not-quite-citizen program.
New Zealand wants no one old.....there is nowhere to go anymore. Time to reclaim Amerika from the Libs and TSA.
Mein Herr, I don't know about Nevis ! I've lived in the Baja 20+ years ! I do not recommend the "tropical paradises" although they look beautiful ! My second ex-wife sent me a picture of a lady who built a tree house/cliff perch out of an old Boing 727 ! The view of the bay was gorgeous ! Spend a year in your tropical paradise before buying ! You can't beat Mediterranean type climates - year in, year out ! In spite of all it's problems the US still has a lot going for it ! That Libyan bitch who was raped by Ghadafis goons wants to come to the US ! If I wasn't in Baja I'd be halfway between LA and SF ! Away from the urban crazies ! Close to ocean and agricultural land in a Med climate ! Maybe a Libertarian commune in Michael Jackson's "Never Never Land" ? I am Monedas 2011 I am a recovering tea-totaler !
Got a bud down by Cabo,FYI. I already live in a 'tropical paradise' (SW FL), but have the sailing vehicle to go farther when required. I just feel it is time to fight. We can always secede.
I believe you can still buy your way into Australia - old or not. The conditions are that you have to fund your living expenses, and you can't claim on the socialised medical system - you must have private health insurance.
Substantially correct 'sherryw' -- for definitive info consult:
http://www.immi.gov.au/
http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/choose-australia/
Wide variety of climates to choose from -- shitloads of space -- resource-rich as sin (if we can keep China's mitts off it!) -- N.Z.'s a bit small, but beautiful with great people. Worth a thought.
Most of the places that would welcome you are already police states far worse than anything the US has become thus far, or else they have long been magnets for the worst human scum the rest of the world---whether that is Switzerland, the US or Japan, etc.---can produce.
There ain't no pre-fab paradise anywhere. Get to work making the best of wherever you settle or stay put. Nothing is free nor easy.
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Finally, a voice of reason!
I have to laugh at the thought that the rest of the world will tolerate ex-pats in their midst when TSHTF everywhere. White anglos will be prime targets: hundreds, if not thousands, of years in the making.
What's that saying? The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth? Lots of blowhards here who will wonder why their lights will get put out by the silent meek...
Oh, and the crap about "restoring" America, would this be to the time when native "Indians" were free, or, how about Mexicans?
most people are poor bastards.. So skip gold, silver and debt and use the currency of your birthright - barter. Go join your local Time Bank. And store whatever wealth you have in bitcoins
Been a police state since forced busing.
Soft fascism is the way of the future. The proles like it.
"soft fascism" - very good! A kindler, gentler fascism, fascism with a smiley face :-) (isn't that what the Industrialists of the early 1900s were shooting for? didn't they employ the police to beat striking workers?)
The police state existed LONG BEFORE forced busing. The mentality has lived since plantation times.
"where the fuck are those guys with their stupid pillowcases of guns, running from the hillsides where they train & jerk off to the 2nd amendment = arent they supposed to save us from this fucking nonsense?"
Speak for yourself, pal. One of the interesting things about living on a small island which is third-worldish, ultra-violent and utterly lawless (under the US flag no less) is to observe just how afraid government officials are of the governed.
On St Croix, Crucians KNOW where you live. They will not hesitate to threaten any government official (or their family) if they feel they are being unnecessarily fucked with. People are emotionally incontinent down here and will simply explode. We're talking family feuds, and not the game show crap.
For example, the Virgin Islands government has not sold tax liens to third parties for nearly 20 years. Why? Because if you auctioned off a family's property down here (especially to "continentals") there's gonna be trouble. It's going to get personal with the staff at the Lt Governor's Office-- i.e., they will be in danger. So, the government doesn't collect property taxes.
I'll never, ever come back to the States. I'll take the high murder rate, shitty roads and schools, dreadful government services in exchange for simply being left alone. You guys in the States are suckers and pussies.
Please remember, there is no such thing as a non-extradition country.
North Korea.
Which, it happens, is pretty much the blueprint and logical end-of-the-road for both so-called "liberals" and your beloved, so-called "conservatives" --- each camp both as unprincipled, viciously statist and morally rudderless as the other. Or tell me the fairytale again of how George W. Bush and his many Republican and neocon allies and cohorts cut the size and power of the federal government.
The ONLY person discussing meaningful reductions in the power of the federal government in Washington today is Ron Paul --- and he is a pariah even among his fellow Republicans.
Rick Perry isn't in Washington: Austin. And he reportedly detests both DC and Wall St. We'll soon see: 1860/2012. Same basic issue, and I don't mean blacks picking cotton.
He may detest DC and Wall St. But he loves him some Euro Banker cock. He's bought and sold. He'll say whatever it takes. He's the highest ranking used car salesman in the world. He may say the right things, but if he does get elected, when the puppetmasters tell him what to do, he will continue the plundering and raping. Just about every republican candidate so far is a fascist errand boy. Makes me sick.
That traitorous, liberty-hating Rick Perry also loves the NAFTA Superhighway with all his heart and soul, having worked to make it a reality, and he actively despises, and has fought and campaigned against, Ron Paul --- enough said.
Thought you were describing Guam there for a sec...
Excellent article, thanks. Separation of bank and state, bitchez.