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The Deadly Threat From Rick Perry

2011-08-13T17:54:00.001-05:00

From Bruno's & Ripoll's Bulletin

Bruno's & Ripoll's Bulletin is named after the heroic freethinkers Filippo Giordano Bruno and Cayetano Ripoll. Bruno was burned alive as pictured by the Catholic Church on February 17, 1600 for refusing to play along with their dogmatic ignorance of Nature and reality. Cayetano Ripoll was hanged on July 26, 1826 on orders of the Spanish Inquisition for being a Deist and for teaching others about Deism. He was the last person to be murdered by the Spanish Inquisition.

The Deadly Threat From Rick Perry

by Bob Johnson

Rick Perry is a Zionist Christian and a neoconservative war monger.

When a politician or a member of the clergy is a real threat to people and society, regardless of what party or religion they are from, it's important that we let people know about the threat. Otherwise, how can people defend themselves from it? We've exposed foolish statements from both the conservatives and from the liberals as well as from most "revealed" religions. Anything and anyone who's a threat to the free exchange of ideas and who is prone to creating more wars and misery will be addressed by the World Union of Deists.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, who held a Christian mass prayer meeting last Saturday in Houston and promoted it through his state office, is not only a Christian charlatan, but is also a neoconservative.

One key priority of the neocons is the well-being of the Jewish state of Israel. This is because the neocons are biblically grounded, particularly in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. The Old Testament is primarily a blue print for Jewish supremacy and world domination by Israel. For example, Deuteronomy 28:1 has God saying to Israel, "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth." Deuteronomy 28:10 has God telling the ancient Hebrews, "And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee." And verse 13 has God saying to Israel, "And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them."

The overwhelming vast majority of U.S. politicians obediently fall in line with Israel and its powerful lobby. They know they need the Israel lobby to win reelection, so they are happy to sacrifice America's youth and the tax dollars from American tax payers in wars for Israel's benefit. A good example of this is the ongoing war in Iraq. That war, according to former George W. Bush adviser and former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, was started for Israel's security. Like George W. Bush, Rick Perry, if elected, would be a faith-based president. In fact, if Perry is elected the United States will in all probability be in at least two more wars, one against Israel's enemy, Iran, and the other against Israel's enemy, Syria. Perry openly stated, "My faith requires me to support Israel."

Currently the Jewish state of Israel is throwing Palestinians out of their homes and building homes for Jews on the land of Palestinians. The European community is opposed to this ethnic cleansing by Israel. One key issue that is causing so much violence is Israel's refusal to follow international law and United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 which calls for a shared Jerusalem. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem, which is currently under Israeli occupation, for the capital of a Palestinian state. There is no guessing what Rick Perry would do as U.S. President regarding this potentially explosive question. In 2009 Perry was in Israel and was awarded the Defender of Jerusalem Award! This award is given to people who promote the idea that God gave the Jews the "holy" land of which all of Jerusalem is part of and that the entire city should be Israel's capital.

Anyone who uses their reason would never believe that God gave real estate to the ancient Hebrews/Jews. This unreasonable belief is part of Judaism. In fact, religious Jews are taught that Mashiach, aka the Messiah, will rule the world from Jerusalem.

The best way, and for long term success, the only way, to stop all the religious violence in the world and to counter such violence promoting religious myths as belief in the Mashiach ruling the world from Jerusalem is to employ our God-given reason and to encourage others to do the same. The God-given reason found in Deism can go a very long way to short-circuit the destructive power of the "revealed" religions. If we all consistently give it our very best, Deism will replace the violence promoting "revealed" religions and make the world a place of natural progress and happiness. As Thomas Paine wrote, "In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united."

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A Candid Interview With Beelzebub T. McGlobalist

2011-08-03T19:44:00.000-05:00

Special Note: This is a parody…obviously, though the attitudes and responses portrayed are unfortunately based on expressions of common real-life gobalists. Enjoy…

The following is a very special interview with Beelzebub T. McGlobalist, the foremost representative of the incorporated organization of global bankers, political frontmen, and think-tank propagandists that make up such popular and exclusive clubs as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the G20. With financial centralization and subsequent iron fisted autocracy on the rise, we thought it would be fun and possibly even titillating for our readers to hear straight from the horse’s mouth what lies in store for us, the lowly peon pond scum of the Earth, in the near future. Numerous alternative analysts have calculated likely outcomes of social and economic destabilization in the wake of engineered collapse, however, we thought it best to go directly to the source, and ask those who actually created the framework for catastrophe that waits ahead. This is a no-holds-barred look at globalization. Won’t you join us…?

Alt-Market: Good day, Mr. McGlobalist. Thank you for agreeing to this interview on such short notice.

McGlobalist: Yes, we sometimes feel it necessary to put in a little face time with “cannon fodder” like you, even though I personally find the very idea of your existence rather distasteful…

Alt-Market: Ok…….Is it alright if I call you T-Bub?

McGlobalist: Sure, that’s what Kissinger calls me…that, or “Sugar Pants”…

Alt-Market: Umm, let’s stick with T-Bub.

McGlobalist: Very well…

Alt-Market: T-Bub, it has been openly admitted by you and your associates in the IMF that your ultimate goal is the dissolution of sovereign state economies and political frameworks. You also admittedly desire to restructure those economies and governments into a single centralized financial system and a single supranational governing body. Is it just a coincidence that the ongoing global debt crisis and the subsequent devaluation of the Dollar and the Euro are pushing us towards that exact scenario, or did you “help things along”?

McGlobalist: Are you kidding?! Of course we helped things along! You think that international banks like Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan could possibly participate in a massive securities fraud like that of the derivatives bubble WITHOUT the complicity of Central Banks around the world, not to mention regulatory agencies like the SEC? I mean, we created such levels of bad debt it’s mathematically unfeasible to calculate it! You can’t hide that much financial toxicity for years on end unless ratings agencies, government oversight institutions, and the Federal Reserve itself, allow you to do so. Luckily, the average American wants to believe its all some “crazy mistake” or the “stupidity of politicians”. It’s easier for people to believe in random coincidence than to believe their world has been turned upside down on purpose. How do you think global elitists like myself have survived for so long?

Alt-Market: So then, if you already have your greasy hands wrapped around most of these institutions, why deliberately cause them to collapse?

McGlobalist: Psychology, my boy. Psychology. It’s not enough to force people to accept centralization, or even to trick them into believing it doesn’t exist. Eventually, you have to make them ASK for centralization. They have to believe that it was their decision all along to relinquish their sovereignty. Nation states have served their purpose. Now, we feel its time to shed them like so much dead skin and move on. Think about it! We create a problem, then, we offer a predetermined solution which the peasants automatically cling to because most of them are too apathetic to help their own situation. When they finally realize how much they have lost in the process, the only culprits they have left to single out for blame are themselves. In the meantime, we can sit back and relax in relative obscurity. Elitists have been playing this game for centuries. I’m amazed that you people haven’t caught on yet. It’s the freaken’ digital age for crying out loud!

Alt-Market: Good point. But, what about those who say your plans are not for the good of the citizenry but actually a brazenly insane attempt to satisfy your own hubris?

McGlobalist: I just ordered a huge plate of barbequed ribs, you want any…?

Alt-Market: ……….No. Could you answer the question please?

McGlobalist: You’re pushier than the ATF at a Branch Davidian compound! Look, you know that feeling you get when you drown your first potato sack full of puppies…?

Alt-Market: I can’t say that I follow you……

McGlobalist: Ok, let’s see…..how about when you were interned at one of our fine public education facilities as a little whelp? You remember the “special needs” kids on the short yellow bus?

Alt-Market: Is this going somewhere, T-Bub?

McGlobalist: Did you associate with those children?

Alt-Market: No, not really.

McGlobalist: Did the teachers let them run wild unsupervised?

Alt-Market: No.

McGlobalist: Well, that’s how we look at you and those like you. You can’t be left to your own devices. Who knows what would happen! Some kids just eat paste, but some set their own heads on fire! We’re doing what we do for your protection. Civilization would self destruct without our guidance.

Alt-Market: What does that have to do with killing puppies?

McGlobalist: Yes, well, imagine that the puppies are retarded….

Alt-Market: Maybe we should move on. You claim that collectivist efforts like globalization are the “wave of the future”, and that concepts such as America’s Constitutional Republic are “old and outdated”. However, isn’t it true that political sovereignty and liberty are actually very new ideas in the grand scheme of history? And, isn’t it also true that globalization is just a rehashing of mercantile feudalism which has been going on for thousands of years?

McGlobalist: Yes, but, have you ever seen a GLOBAL feudalistic empire? Now that’s something new! The Constitution is just an anomaly. It’s an embarrassing document for us, and it’s caused a lot of frustration among my associates. Thankfully, our federalized school system has all but abandoned teaching even the basics of Constitutional law and the Revolutionary War. There are plenty of Americans out there today who have no clue what their legal rights are, or why they have the country that they have. Some of them even spread propaganda undermining Constitutional understanding for us! It’s fantastic! The best possible advantage for an autocracy is when a considerable portion of the public goes out of their way to help us enslave them.

Alt-Market: Many members of your “exclusive club” have expressed philosophical positions that lean towards eugenics, and forced population reduction. Where do you stand on this subject?

McGlobalist: The world is obviously overpopulated, though I have no specific scientific data to back this position. The last time I went to the economic summits in Davos, my limo was stuck in traffic. Can you believe that?! That’s proof enough for me. I frankly couldn’t care less about the environment. I hold considerable shares in the Monsanto Corporation, which violates the environment and the laws of nature on a daily basis. The thing is, watching you people breed like mice is upsetting to my stomach.

Alt-Market: So your support of cap and trade, and international carbon taxes, is a farce?

McGlobalist: (Laughs) You want to know why the Earth gets hot sometimes? Try the sun! Carbon is harmless! It has nothing to do with global warming. In fact, our climate change labs at East Anglia and NASA never release the source data for their so called experiments through FOIA, even though they are sued constantly. So, we can say anything we want about global warming, and no one is able to check our numbers to see if we are lying. They can suspect, but they can’t prove it, unless someone floods the internet with our private emails and fraudulent computer models. Damn hackers….

Alt-Market: What about globalist support for the World Wildlife Fund, and the increased powers of the EPA? What is that all about?

McGlobalist: Ah, we’re big fans of “sustainable development”. For those who are not familiar with that idea, it means essentially that I can take your house, and your land, whenever I want, and turn it into a forest preserve, or a condo, depending on my mood. The EPA and the WWF are tools that we use to assert sustainability disinformation and utilize eminent domain outside of its original parameters. The point is, you are a parasite, and mother earth needs to be deloused.

Alt-Market: Even if you were correct in your claim that overpopulation is a problem today, who ultimately gets to decide who lives and who dies in your “sustainable world”?

McGlobalist: That job should be left to the immutable laws of the scientific method.

Alt-Market: And who gets to interpret what those “immutable laws” say?

McGlobalist: The smartest people on the planet, of course.

Alt-Market: And who decides who is the “smartest”. Isn’t that in part a subjective determination?

McGlobalist: No. The smartest people are the smartest people. Sheesh! What kind of interview is this? We elites have already proven ourselves the most intelligent, so such decisions should be left to us. It’s evolution, plain and simple…

Alt-Market: You don’t seem that intelligent to me…

McGlobalist: Well, you’ve only known me for twenty minutes. Trust me, I’m like, soooo good at Algebra….

Alt-Market: It has become incredibly clear over the past decade that a movement supporting decentralization, Constitutional liberties, and sound anti-Keynesian economic principles, has taken shape. The Liberty Movement is growing steadily stronger, and is quite aware of the strategies of globalization. Does this concern you?

McGlobalist: Decentralization? What the hell is that?

Alt-Market: It’s where we don’t let you do whatever you want.

McGlobalist: That’s crazy talk! My dump truck sized ego prevents me from even fathoming a future in which I am not King of New York A-Number One! I need to call my friend Mark Potok at the Southern Poverty Law Center and ask him to look into this “Liberty Movement”. If anything, we’ll just falsely associate them with racists and terrorists. Always draw indirect connections between your opponents and the designated villains of the society you wish to control. That’s how you marginalize so called “truth seekers”; paint them as monsters to frighten the oblivious public.

Alt-Market: Speaking of which, the DSM-IV mainstream psychiatry manual has recently been edited to include something called “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”. Basically, the establishment controlled psychiatric community (who I see as drug dealers with degrees), is now labeling anyone who shows disobedient or hostile behavior towards “authority figures” as clinically insane. The DSM has a long history of promoting establishment propaganda in its pages. Is this not just another case of marginalization through junk science?

McGlobalist: People who defy authority are indeed dangerous, and should be given the psychological help they require in order to assimilate into society.

Alt-Market: But who determines what “authority” is? If I show hostility to a lying scumbag in sweatpants and a wife-beater, then I’m “normal”. But if you give that same dirtball a badge and a uniform, then suddenly I’m “crazy” for disliking him? It makes no sense. Authority is an arbitrary label doled out by governments or stolen by governments. You can’t base a psychological diagnosis on the dislike of an arbitrary label, it’s completely unscientific.

McGlobalist: Ok, look, just between you and me, we’ve been pulling this gag for a long time. Its classic! Categorizing any person or group that opposes you as “crazy” is a tried and true strategy. Crazy people are ignored, even if they are right. That’s the beauty of it! That’s why we’ve been conditioning Americans with the use of the term “conspiracy theorist”. Someone hears “conspiracy theorist”, they automatically and unconsciously think “crazy person”. Why not make up a clinically recognized disorder associated with very natural aversions to the abuse of power and then label almost everyone as mentally ill? Also, diagnosing a person with anything makes it much harder for that person to obtain a firearm. Slaves should be unarmed and docile, and…..they should laugh at all my jokes.

Alt-Market: Speaking of firearms, this past month whistleblowers within the ATF have exposed a false flag operation in which the U.S. government actually smuggled firearms to drug cartels across the Mexican border, then tried to blame the surge of American guns in criminal hands on innocent gun dealers and on our 2^nd Amendment rights in general. Do you believe this subversive activity on the part of the ATF and the U.S. government will damage your ability to undermine the 2^nd Amendment?

McGlobalist: These little slip-ups are unfortunate, but not a setback by any means. We ran the same game back in the 80’s in what was later called the “Iran Contra Scandal”. Who was punished back then? I mean really punished? That’s right, nobody. The public investigation barely even touched on all the cocaine we were running through the same operations. Man, the 80’s were great! You would not believe all the drugs and prostitutes that were being passed around between me and my CIA buddies and the wild parties in D.C. with Congressmen just begging to get in the door! I felt like a modern day Caligula! There was this one time when my best friend brought in this donkey, and he gave it too many pills, and….

Alt-Market: Let’s stay on topic Mr. McGlobalist. Besides, you’re obviously describing the movie ‘Bachelor Party’ with Tom Hanks…

McGlobalist: Oh, really? Well, anyway, the exposure of the ATF “Fast And Furious” program is frustrating, but we’ll just ignore it like we always do. The Mainstream media will gloss it over. And within a couple of months, the majority of Americans will have forgotten about it completely. Pretty slick, eh…

Alt-Market: I suppose, but I’m going to have to ask you to take your hand off my leg…

McGlobalist: Ah, I just came back from Bohemian Grove. Sometimes I forget where I am. Are you a gun owner…?

Alt-Market: Yes.

McGlobalist: God damn it! Give me your guns!

Alt-Market: Uh, no…

McGlobalist: What if I give you coupons for groceries? Mmmm, food in your tummy…

Alt-Market: I think it’s about time to wrap up our interview…

McGlobalist: But I didn’t get to talk about all my hobbies, my dabbling in the occult, and you never asked me my favorite cuss word! I want James Lipton, now! (Turns to worshipful male aid) Get me James Lipton, or Regis! We’re redoing this thing! Doing it over! All over! And I want spring water served by little Tanzanian children who speak Swahili and dance! Bring me my skull goblet!

Interview ends abruptly.

What the 4th of July Made Possible

2011-07-04T13:48:00.000-05:00

What the 4th of July Made Possible

by Bob Johnson

World Union of Deists THINKonline July 4, 2011

As we celebrate the 4th of July this year we should not only pay tribute to what America's Founders accomplished but also to what they made possible.

Prior to the American Revolution each colony had its own government recognized and established church. In some colonies it was the Congregational Church and in other colonies it could be the Anglican or Lutheran church. After the American Revolution this type of religious domination came to an end.

In the first part of Thomas Paine's indispensable work

The Age of Reason he wrote, "Soon after I had published the pamphlet Common Sense, in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion."

The success of the American Revolution made possible a revolution in religion. No longer were people subjected to the raw punishing power of the state at the command of the clergy. Freedom of thought and speech were now unshackled. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in one of his final letters regarding the 4th of July on June 24, 1826, just one and a half weeks prior to his death on the 50th anniversary of the 4th of July, "May

it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves . . . the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

As Deists the best way to show our "undiminished devotion" to the rights won for us at a very high cost of blood and treasure is to take advantage of the freedom to write and speak to others about Deism and to DO all we possibly can to promote the growth of Deism. Prior to the American Revolution this would have been illegal. Now, thanks to the courage and action of the American revolutionaries, we have that right and ability to openly get the word out about Deism. This is the best way to show our sincere thanks to all of those people and families who gave so much for freedom and progress. People like the Isaac Davis family. Isaac, who was only 30 years old at the time, and Hannah Davis had four young children by April 19, 1775 when government/British forces approached to enforce gun control at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Isaac was a Captain of the Minutemen and went without hesitation to confront the enemy forces. He was shot through the heart and died at North Bridge in Concord. His four small children were left without a father and his wife was left without a husband. But his and their sacrifices, and similar sacrifices made by thousands of other revolutionaries, have paid the very high price required for our right to freedom of and from religion, of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. It is up to us to DO something meaningful with our hard-won freedoms they have given to us.

(Here's an article I wrote last year which contains some important talking points regarding the 4th of July which Deists and freethinkers can use to reach people who currently believe the Bible is the word of God.)

Exodus from the Cargo Cult

2011-06-24T23:53:00.002-05:00

Exodus from the Cargo Cult

Perhaps you have heard of the Cargo Cults.
If you’re going to pin your hopes of maintaining a military presence in the Pacific on a vast peninsular fortress like Singapore, the “Gibraltar of the East,” you might want to make sure Japanese soldiers can’t ride down the Malay peninsula on bicycles and turn off your water.
Singapore, provisioned for years, gave up on account of thirst in a matter of weeks. The British and Commonwealth troops were then stuck fighting their way north from Australia. The problem with that enterprise was a nasty piece of real estate called New Guinea.
The troops would trek in from the coast, enjoying all the local fauna from mosquitoes to leeches, and start to chop out a clearing on a high mountain plateau — while setting out guard posts in case the Japanese decided to arrive in force from the opposite side of the mountain range. In the center strip, angled to face the wind, the roots had to be dug out so they wouldn’t puncture aviation tires.
You can imagine the indigenous Stone Age inhabitants peeking out from the jungle’s edge, watching all this incomprehensible, ritualized labor with a mixture of puzzlement and outright hilarity.

But then it worked!
Their new nest properly prepared, there descended from the clouds the most wondrous, gigantic, roaring silver birds, which no man on earth had ever seen before. They landed, and sat patiently while allowing the white strangers to feed and care for them. Then, out of their bellies, they disgorged the most magical gifts. Not just wondrous weapons, but generators, radios, electric lights, phonographs, refrigerators . . . even cook stoves and exotic foods and . . . ice cream! Here were wonders unknown even to the ancient gods!
Before long it dawned on the Brits it might be smart to make some token gesture aimed at maintaining friendly non-culinary relations with the native headhunters, so at some point Prince Philip or some other spare royal would fly in, wearing an ostrich plume and some appropriate medals and ribbons, to meet with the head man of the local palm-frond village, passing out mirrors, trinkets, and other assorted gewgaws as tokens of his majesty’s undying friendship, etc.
Everything was going along swimmingly, but then came 1945, somebody nuked Nagasaki, bigger things were happening in Tokyo and Hong Kong; the British pulled out.
The natives waited. They kept the landing strips chopped clear, of course, watching, waiting, for the silver birds to return.
Nothing. So they went further.
As the old control towers and radio shacks and generator sheds and wind socks fell into decay, the natives built replacements. These didn’t actually function, of course. There was no working radio in the radio shack. It’s not even clear whether their bamboo imitation control towers would have held your weight if you’d tried to climb up in them. Instead, they were designed to look the same from above. They were trying to recreate the white man’s magic rituals, in hopes if they did it “just right,” Prince Philip and the Silver Birds would return.
And the new religion proved curiously persistent. Visitors stumbling on these villages decades later would find even the children of the founders of the cult — people who had never SEEN a silver bird — engaged in all kinds of half-remembered rituals based on the former air base operations, anxiously asking if the visitors had heard anything of the god from heaven they now worshiped, one Prince Philip, or if anyone in the next valley had spotted any of the silver birds returning.
When we first hear of the Cargo Cults we smile at the naivete of these primitive peoples. Arthur C. Clarke said any technology sufficiently advanced beyond our own will be perceived as magic. I believe they based a couple of “Star Trek” episodes on that.
The problem with the Cargo Cults is that if you think about them long enough, you start to recognize other Cargo Cults, much closer to home, based on equally touching and pathetic examples of the boundless faith of otherwise rational men in the efficacy of ritual, albeit denuded of its original substance and relevance.

WE THINK OF YOU, IRWIN

I have considerable sympathy for those who believe the federal income tax not only destroys our freedoms, but that it’s unconstitutional at heart, before we even get to the way the agents of the Internal Revenue Service — an outfit that admits it can find no Act of Congress ordering its own creation — violate their own code and statutes with regularity and aplomb.
(Just for starters, why do the forms used to levy citizen’s bank accounts cite the authorizing statute on the back, starting with paragraph “B”? Answer: Because the missing paragraph “A” makes it clear Congress authorized the use of this technique only against FEDERAL EMPLOYEES with a tax liability. I looked it up. Do you think it’s now used only against “federal employees”?)
“How can the income tax be unconstitutional when there was a Constitutional amendment?!” ask the exasperated skeptics.
We simplify in the interest of brevity:

The authors of the Constitution, realizing the power for evil that lies in taxation, ordered that the central government shall raise money through only two types of taxation: indirect excises, and direct taxes capitated.

The Civil War debt was paid off through a direct, capitated tax. A bill was sent to each state, pro rated by population. Each state was then obliged to raise that sum by charging each person a head tax — everyone paying the same, from the richest to the poorest.

(That’s a little misleading. Since only landowners who paid taxes could generally vote — as makes perfectly good sense, if you want to avoid the collapse of another democracy once drunks and bums learn they can vote themselves wealth transfers from their more productive neighbors — the poorest, non-voting citizens probably paid nothing.)

A good example of the indirect federal excise, on the other hand, would be the federal tax on tires or gasoline. Someone who has applied for the “privilege” of entering one of these professions is responsible for collecting these excises and remitting them to the federal government. If it turns out the tire store from which I bought may last set of tires failed to collect and remit the proper excise on that purchase, can the federals come after ME for that unpaid tax? No. That’s what makes it “indirect.”
The income tax amendment says the federals can collect a tax on incomes, without regard to the way direct taxes are collected, which involves sending a bill to the states, who have to collect the same amount from everyone.
The amendment is TREATED as though it says “The earlier edict that there shall be only two kinds of taxes is hereby repealed; instead there shall also now be a new, third kind of tax, which is a direct tax that each resident can be jailed for avoiding, but which need not be capitated, need not be apportioned equally, so that the socialist levelers can get busy transferring all the wealth from the rich until they quit or take their pathetic remaining capital elsewhere.”
But it doesn’t say that. Given that the previous edict is not repealed, the tax protesters insist all the amendment says is that the federal government can collect a tax on incomes, which must be collected as an indirect excise (the only other type of legal tax remaining) — that you can no more come after me directly if your registered excise agent didn’t collect and remit enough “income tax” on my behalf, than you can if the pumps at the gas station down the street malfunctioned and failed to charge me the federal excise tax the last time I filled up.
In this as in so many things, the tax protesters deserve an honest, detailed hearing — especially as the courts are supposed to embrace that interpretation which retains for the people as much liberty as possible, while being as restrictive as possible of government power and usurpation, regardless of any practical concern about “where they’re going to get the money they need.”

LIKE HAVING FAITH IN SOME INDIAN TREATY

But now watch. Because a government employee in a tax-funded youth propaganda camp taught them, decades ago in their youth, that the solution to any such problem is to take your case to court and explain it all to a government judge, who will parse the law and read your exhibits and submissions and then render justice, these poor saps — with whom I have great sympathy, mind you — spend years, lose their homes and savings, even end up in prison, as they quite purposely get themselves arrested in order to gain “standing,” and then laboriously, pathologically fine-tune their pleadings, based on precedents written by judges in an earlier and more innocent age, 60, 70, 80 years ago.
With astonishing patience they wait, nodding and smiling in expectation, for the judge to finish reading their arguments and citations, expecting him at any moment to slap himself upside the head and exclaim “My God! When it’s all laid out in proper order like this, the conclusion is inescapable! Bailiff, release the defendant and issue him a formal apology from the court. Then go shackle those scurrilous IRS agents over there; we’re arresting them on charges of fraud, treason, misapplying their own statutes, and extorting payments under color of law!”
Try to tell them today’s federal judges aren’t going to read all those stacks of documents; that’s the LAST thing they want to do; they’re curiously incurious, well-schooled but actually mildly dull-witted political appointees who understand instinctively that their job is little different from the municipal judge in traffic court, giving you a minute to get it off your chest, then slamming down his gavel and saying “Nice try. Guilty. Pay your fine or go to jail.”
“But they HAVE TO read my exhibits and my pleadings,” these noble Quixotes will insist. “It’s their JOB. And when they do, they’ll see It’s all there, tracing the legal definition of “from any sources” and every other phrase, all the way back to 1913. They’re all ‘legal terms of art,’ like the difference between ‘traveling’ on the highways, for which they can’t make you get a license, and the excisable commercial activity defined as ‘driving.’ Once they’ve read these documents they CAN’T ignore them; they won’t have any CHOICE but to rule our way.”
“If we just finally get the geometric relationship of the bamboo control tower and the bamboo radio shack and the bamboo wind sock PRECISELY right, Prince Philip and the silver birds won’t have any CHOICE but to return. If men made them come in the past, why can’t we do it, too? We just have to keep trying till we get all the ritual geometry PRECISELY RIGHT.”
Your quasi-literate illegal Mexican hedge-trimmer can figure this one out in seconds: The judge is part of the ruling class; taxes are the way they loot us to keep themselves in power and luxury; you can’t win on their ball field with their referees; your only hope is to stay under their radar; grovel and back away and apologize when they seize your day’s pay; get up earlier tomorrow and go do it again.
And the irony is, those of us who did best at learning our lessons, got all “A”s and gold stars on our papers and reports, take the most years or decades to realize the silver birds ain’t coming.
Easy enough to feel superior to some of these addled, fixated tax protesters, too. Isn’t it?
But I’m not done, unfortunately. What if the Tea Party is a Cargo Cult? They vote for candidates who vow to go to Washington and slash spending and pay down the debt and rein in an out-of-control government regulators who are driving jobs offshore by the millions. What happens?
The mainstream lapdog press eviscerates Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell as dangerous, depraved witches. More than sufficient fear and doubt are sown among the half of Americans who are currently on the government dole. (If the government provides your children with free day care in a “public school,” you’re dependent on government wealth transfers, and will likely shriek like a baby deprived of its Popsicle if these handouts of stolen booty are threatened in any way. You really think the state and federal budgets can be balanced by closing the Tea Tasters’ Board while leaving all YOUR favorite disbursements of stolen loot in place?)
Yes, some “Tea Party” Republican politicians get elected, after making brave promises. Democrats proceed to announce they’re going to raise taxes and spending by 20 percent to hire 5,000 new Clean Water inspectors to throw people in jail for watering their lawns on Thursdays. “Tea Party” Republicans talk the brave talk about “holding the line against government waste and inefficiency.” Democrats wail that these agents of evil want “tax breaks for the rich” while the children starve. In the end, spending goes up by “only 5 percent — barely enough to maintain services at current levels.” Everyone declares victory.
(Read it again. Did you spot the “tell” which should have warned us what was coming? We don’t want government tyranny imposed “more efficiently and with less waste.” We want it blown up.)
Rolled like a drunken sailor, the Tea Party picks itself up from the gutter, brushes itself off, and tries again. After all, teacher said all I have to do is recruit a candidate who will tell me what I want to hear, volunteer to stuff envelopes . . .

SHALL OTHERS SUCCEED WHERE WE HAVE FAILED?

Politics is a Cargo Cult. It’s our masters’ large-scale equivalent of thanking the articulate and disruptive parent at the School Board meeting, hiring her to spend nine months “doing a report” on all the problems she’s pointed out, thanking her profusely, and locking the “report” in the closet. You just stroke her and keep her busy till she’s exhausted, her kids have moved on to high school or college, and she’s ready to go bother somebody else.
I can urge people to READ the great Libertarians and Austrian economists, so they’ll understand the slow-motion train wreck as it happens. But I can no longer urge people to “get involved”; go paint yard signs; back a candidate; file an initiative petition. They’ve seen you coming. You’ve got about as much chance as that ex-Marine waking from a deep sleep and rushing to his front door with his AR-15 a few weeks back, making his stand to defend his wife and child hiding in the closet as the Tuscon cops busted in. He took, what, 71 rounds, and he still had his safety on?
Yes, the widow will win a six-figure settlement. Of which those cops will pay not a penny.
They have steamrolled the resistance. The happy taxers can dance in triumph for a few more years, maybe, before the once-mighty dollar collapses like the paper money of Zimbabwe or the Wiemar republic.
You can’t print more money to buy your own debt, any more than you can create wealth by kiting ever larger rubber checks, or maintain proper nutrition by eating your own feet.
But I sense I’m on the edge of a far more disturbing realization. That somehow, in attempting to voice a principled but polite resistance, we have helped them, like the unarmed man who keeps trying to voice soothing sentiments to the rhinoceros, unaware his voice is the only way the famously half-blind creature keeps finding and charging him, to his eventual extreme discomfiture.
When you respectfully debate a rhinoceros, carefully ordering your evidence, your arguments, your logic, his charge says “Is that all you got?”
I go back to reading the Bible, these days. A little. But nothing is quite the way I remember it. It raises more questions than it answers. Explain to me about the miracle of the loaves. You hand out three loaves and a fish. All say they are satisfied. When you pick up the leftovers, there’s enough bread to make up 16 loaves. Is it miraculous that a hundred people, hiking out into the wilderness for a day to hear some preacher conduct a revival meeting, hid away and carried along with them some of their own bread? I would. Why would Jesus and his guys try to feed them in the first place? If I go hear someone talk, I expect him to take up a collection for himself and the band, not feed me for free.
Or was Jesus handing out something else, something those who wrote down the tale in Greek a century later decided to alter, in keeping with the master’s reminder that he had a teaching for his disciples that was different from what they taught the masses? Was ours originally a mystery religion? If the kingdom of God is within us, how do we make it manifest? What is manna, that showed up with the morning dew but went bad if you didn’t eat it by noon? Why were the Israelites ordered to dry out samples and keep them in the Ark so their descendants could see what the stuff was? What was it that Jesus accused the priests of keeping secret from the people?
I digress, though perhaps only slightly. The passage I was thinking of involves that same nation of Israel wandering in the same desert where the manna showed up — wandering for a generation after Moses led them out of Egypt, till all the older generation who had sinned finally passed away, it being only then that the Lord would guide those blameless descendants to the promised land.
The Nanny/Police state is ascendant. We warn people what each more outrageous edict or development means, but our voices go unheard, or evoke only cackling, abuse and ridicule. Like Lot in Sodom, have we failed to turn up enough righteous men? Shall we dig our own graves, and sleep in them, till the last of the generation that deserved to end its days in this Desert of Lost Liberty shall finally have passed away? What was our sin? And how shall it be expunged?

It Says It All!!!!!

2011-06-03T01:58:00.002-05:00

Life Inc. The Movie

2011-05-26T21:49:00.002-05:00

This guy is awesome and gets it better than even the Zeitgeist guy. Get the book!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Inc-Corporatism-Conquered-World/dp/0812978501

Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.

Please watch and share.

2011-05-07T00:33:00.002-05:00

For those we miss...

TSA Thugs

2011-04-30T23:09:00.002-05:00

Losing My Religion

2011-04-23T17:11:00.001-05:00

A friend sent me this link. I had read these articles years before and it is good to read them again. The poem A Visitor from the Past is one that has haunted freedom loving Americans for years. I have often wondered why nothing really changes in this country and why a "Liberty Lite" is the only fare on the menu. The history presented in the articles is true and tells of a pernicious flaw in the paradigm of American liberty. Larken Rose has coined part of it as "The Most Dangerous Superstition."

However, it is more than just the belief in "authority," it is the "religion" (faith based belief system) of "Authority" that is the root of the problem. Governments, secular or ecclesiastical, rely upon the faith and trust of their subjects to do what they do without effective opposition. That is why little changes. People continue to believe that the "system" just needs a slight "reformation" by way of just a few "adjustments," a "tune up", a tea party, really just a a reorganization. What is really needed is an actual reformation (The act of re-forming or the state of being reformed.To be formed again.) That, however, is probably beyond what most of this generation of American "Liberty Lite" drinkers can handle. So, pass on to the next batch of liberty lovers, who won't settle for their parent's swill, a full bodied and flavorful flask of Freedom!

Read the articles and then the comments below.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/tyranny.htm

Remember law IS religion and religion is law.

Law/sacred text comes from a "lawgiver" either a made up Deity or the State or both as the two in one with no separation. Even with a "separation" of religion and state, the assumption is that the State can be a secular entity apart from "religion." This ignores the reality of the existence of non-theistic religious belief thus a secular faith based belief system IE: a secular religion. Thus a "secular" State takes on deific characteristics. Invisible but present, all knowing, all seeing and all powerful. The State creates a monopoly on the creation of law/sacred text, the interpretation of law/sacred text and the enforcement with coercive lethal force of law/sacred text.

The State has its High Priests (Supreme Court), its Lower Priests (lower judges) and the advocate priests (attorney's aka Doctors of Law/sacred text) for the people who have sinned/lawbreakers. They advocate with prayers and pleadings to the representative of the Deity (Judge) seating on the seat of judgement (Bench) and receiving the petitions (legal process), prayers (motions) and offerings (lives, liberty and property) of the people to forgive their sins/lawbreaking. The State has now replaced any other deity and considers itself alone and supreme.

If you want to change the "law" you must first change your "religion"! NO religion/legal system has ever been "reorganized/reformed." A new and different legal/religious system was acknowledged or created to compete with or replace the old. Various interpretations of law/sacred text lead to different denominations or legal philosophies about the interpretation of law/sacred text. Whose version gets enforced is determined by who has enough coercive lethal force to dominate or broker a compromise.

This country cannot be fixed by "going back to the constitution" because:

1. Those in conflict cannot agree to which of the "constitutions" by date and amendment to "go back to."

2. The "constitution" itself was a counter revolution to the agreed government set up at the revolution. It thoroughly repudiates the 5 truths articulated in the Declaration of Independence as the causes and premises for the Declaration by declaring itself to be the "supreme" law/sacred text of the land. Thus creating itself as a "sovereign" with divine right to rule because its subjects have elected representatives to plead and petition the sovereign. The eventual corruption was systemic from the initiation as articulated by the "Anti-Federalists." They were right and the Federalists were wrong.

All that is going on today "politically" is a verbal religious war by different denominations who will eventually resort to coercive lethal force to make their interpretation of their version of made up law/sacred text paramount to all the others.

It is time to change your religion!

The Truth About Easter? Maybe....

2011-04-22T08:33:00.004-05:00

Why do Xians celebrate a "pagan" Holyday? Modern-day Easter is derived from two ancient traditions: one Judeo-Christian and the other Pagan. Both Christians and Pagans have celebrated death and resurrection themes following the Spring Equinox for millennia. Most religious historians believe that many elements of the Christian observance of Easter were derived from earlier Pagan celebrations.

The equinox occurs each year on March 20, 21 or 22. Both Neonaturalists and Christians continue to celebrate religious rituals linked to the equinox. Neonaturalists usually hold their celebrations on the day or eve of the equinox. Western Christians celebrate Easter on the Sunday on or after the full moon that follows the nominal date of the Equinox -- MAR-21.

[Picture: Eástre (1909) by Jacques Reich.]

Origins of the name "Easter":

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." ₁ Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:

	Aphrodite from ancient Cyprus,
	Ashtoreth from ancient Israel
	Astarte from ancient Greece
	Demeter from Mycenae
	Hathor from ancient Egypt
	Ishtar from Assyria
	Kali, from India
	Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility.

So maybe the following makes more sense, or not. Either way it is more fun and entertaining. Enjoy!

South Park S11E05 - Fantastic Easter Special

Tiny Dot Explained

2011-04-07T23:36:00.001-05:00

Larken Rose at YouTube - a follow-up to Larken's The Tiny Dot. Stop engaging in politics. Completely. It just gives more power to the tiny dot of power-crazed lunatics in government. Deprogram yourself from thinking you owe them anything. Help your friends to deprogram themselves. Ignore the tiny dot. Make it whither and die.

How to Spot a LIAR!

2011-04-04T00:42:00.001-05:00

How To Spot A Liar by Forensic Psychology

America's Hypocritical Foriegn Policy

2011-03-30T22:35:00.001-05:00

The Daily Show - America at Not-War - Obama's Pragmatic Foreign Policy Decisions
Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

The Tiny Dot needs squishing

2011-03-08T07:51:00.000-06:00

Seattle-Area Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents

2011-02-25T04:24:00.000-06:00

(O Pish Posh)

No food for you!

Seattle-Area Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents

By Chris Morran on February 22, 2011 11:15 AM 0 views

Fed up with what he views as crappy treatment from the TSA, the owner of a restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has decided to put all TSA agents on his No-Eat List.
"We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren't allowed to come into our business," one employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott. "We have the right to refuse service to anyone."
She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave... Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment."
The restaurant claims that 90% of its patrons are in agreement with their stance and that the local police have actually helped escort TSA workers off the premises.
"Until TSA agents start treating us with the respect and dignity that we deserve, then things will change for them in the private sector," says the employee.
Business bans TSA agents - will more follow? [Elliott.org]

Freedom Shenanigan #52 - Spread the Statist Censored Article Far and Wide!

2011-02-20T19:44:00.000-06:00

Frak the Federalist Fascists!!

Freedom Shenanigan #52

Spread the Statist Censored Article Far and Wide!

Federal Marshals Threaten, Censor «Libertarian Enterprise»

From Bill St. Clair on Sat, 2011-02-19 08:51.

L. Neil Smith at Libertas - Federal Marshals sent a take-down notice to GoDaddy, the domain registrar of ncc-1776.org, the Libertarian Enterprise (TLE). They were unhappy about the inclusion of the addresses of some federal judges in a 5-month-old article by Jim Davidson, addresses that Mr. Davidson easily found in public sources. TLE has replaced They're Here... ...and Here, and Here with "CENSORED BY FEDERAL MARSHALS" in big, bold type, and documented the emails they received from GoDaddy here.
I have archived the offending article at billstclair.com/theyre-here.html, as have lots of others.
Hey! Marshals! You neglected to consider the unintended consequences of your actions, didn't you? Instead of that article being a forgotten single post on a fairly obscure web site, it's now spread far and wide. Way to go.

Make your own copy

If you'd like to put up your own archive of the banned article, I've made it very easy.

Download billstclair.com/theyre-here.zip, and unzip it in some directory on your web site.

That will result in a new file, theyre-here.html, and a directory, theyre-here_files.

Larken Rose on American Underground Network Thursday February 17, 2011 at 9pm Eastern - 8 PM Central.

2011-02-17T15:26:00.002-06:00

Larken Rose author of The Most Dangerous Superstition will be on the American Underground Network National Call in Show
Thursday night February 17, 2011 at 9pm Eastern - 8 PM Central.
Call: 402-237-2901 code-5092984# or Broadcast Live on www.Talkshoe.com Use call ID: 48335

Excerpts from:

Bragging, Because it Matters
By Larken Rose

Remember that deal I made recently? I said that I'd send a copy of my new book to the first 20 people who responded, on the condition that if it changes how they see the world, they pay for it. (If it doesn't, they just send it back.) Well I'm past 150 people taking me up on my offer, and I'm still doing it. So if you want in on the deal, all you have to do is send an e-mail to "larken@larkenrose.com" with an address where I should send the book, and promise to read the whole thing (210 pages).

And if you need more of a reason to get the book, here ya go. If the following seems like bragging ... well, maybe it is. But I decided that, since I consider this the most important issue in the world, I can't be bashful about trying to get it out there. So here goes...

There are now three reviews of the book posted on amazon.com. If you go there, and search for "The Most Dangerous Superstition," you can find them in their entirety. Here are some excerpts:

"This is a book to read to discover just how adult YOU really are. The book as a whole is a litmus test that will show whether the reader is an adult with independent judgment, or still a child, believing every fantasy and superstition that the "authorities" in his life have told him to believe."

"This is a book to stretch your mind, and that may be uncomfortable, if your mind is out-of-shape. But like any good workout, the results are very rewarding."

Here are a couple comments that dig right to the guts of the matter ...

""Government" is commonly believed to have a RIGHT to rule us, and we commonly believe ourselves to have a DUTY to obey their commands (which are called "laws.") Rose unleashes a ferocious array of arguments proving that neither that RIGHT nor that DUTY can logically -- or morally -- exist. If that sounds silly to you, YOU
need to read the book. ... The most dangerous superstition IS dangerous because it enslaves our minds, which leads to the enslavement of our whole lives. This is a book to set us free."

"This is an entertaining and informative apologetic against the "divine right to rule" by those who claim to have some secret superior knowledge granted to them by their deity, the State. ... [Mr. Rose] minces no words and is exact in his examples to articulate the absurdities and contradictions that produce an ongoing state of cognitive dissonance in the American public specifically, and the world generally."

I was also happy to see that two people commented on something I mentioned before, which is that, although the language and logic in the book are very simple, so that anyone can comprehend what is being said, many will nonetheless find it difficult to face the disturbing conclusions which the simple, obvious reasoning leads to.

"This book is very easy to read and follow the logic, and does require honest reflection of one's beliefs, as it presents ideas, ideas that have the power to change the world."

"This is an easy to read, hard to digest for some and ultimately conscience freeing treatise on the rightness of the rule by none."

So if you haven't already, either order the dang book directly (www.larkenrose.com/store.html) or take my challenge, by promising to read it and giving me an address to send it to. If it changes how you see the world, you pay for it ($10). If it doesn't, you send it back. You're not chicken, are you?

Sincerely,

Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com

Sleep By Kenneth John

2011-02-13T22:31:00.001-06:00

Its All good,
don't worry be happy, tomorrow is another day,
yes my pretties Sleep, sleep, sleep...

From http://freedomringsnow.blogspot.com/

Sleep
By Kenneth John

The silent shrug of myopic minds,
deters the wake of caring sighs.
It steers away from heartfelt ache,
the pain of knowing the real mistake,
of clinging to comfortable diatribes,
from politicians to media lies.

The tunneled vain of vanquished care,
for plights of those we’re not aware,
shall bring a path of forgetful bliss.
The moral dilemma won’t seem amiss,
as drone like brain-waves usurp a hint,
of gross injustice in our midst.

Super bowls and reality shows,
jackpot troves, and numbing loaves,
of bread and circus pablum fare,
it keeps our minds from real despair.

Shell games crossed with Ponzi malice,
invade the state with viral madness.
Revenues stolen to fund the scheme,
from you and me to bring the dream,
of rule by force to the looter class,
and deified power within the grasp.

Super bowls and reality shows,
jackpot troves, and numbing loaves,
of bread and circus pablum fare,
it keeps our minds from real despair.

Jackboot thugs claim innocent lives,
with drug war raids-- no law provides.
Yet swat teams crash and shred the law,
matters not the purported cause.
Alphabet agencies storm with guns,
for views or vitamins-- unsanctioned ones.

Super bowls and reality shows,
jackpot troves, and numbing loaves,
of bread and circus pablum fare,
it keeps our minds from real despair.

Collateral damage rules the day,
as innocent people are bombed away.
The hydra snake in Islamic dress,
multiplies fast, and so, to stress,
the self-fulfilled prophesy now is real.
Let’s go after Goldstein, now, with zeal!

Super bowls and reality shows,
jackpot troves, and numbing loaves,
of bread and circus pablum fare,
it keeps our minds from real despair.

Hush, little ’mericans, don’t say a word,
Uncle Sam provides a life secured.
Though that type of life is shallow,
making your brain a tower of jello.
Uncle Sam does the thinking for you,
just obey the call of the red, white and blue.
Hush, little ’mericans, don’t say a word,
Uncle Sam provides a life secured.
Hush, little ’mericans, don’t say a word,
Uncle Sam provides a life secured.

Sleep . . . Sleep . . . sleep . . . sleep . . .

The belt sander and the battle for privacy, a body hack

2011-02-10T18:16:00.000-06:00

Oh ouch! Do scabs count as fingerprints?

FROM http://jacquesmattheij.com

The belt sander and the battle for privacy, a body hack

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 15:53.

My government has gone nuts. It's tough to admit it but they've enacted laws here that would have made the former Stasi, the VoPo's, KGB and other secret services in the former SovBloc countries drool with envy.
And if those countries had adopted laws such as these we'd have condemned them roundly for the privacy violations against their citizens, and we would have pitied those citizens for having to live under such regimes.
Since a few years we now have to file 4 fingerprints when applying for a passport or an identity card, as per the EU directive on 'biometric passports'.
Supposedly this is to guard us against criminals falsifying passports. One slight problem with this theory is that nobody *ever* checks those fingerprints. But they do want them.
My government goes one step further (or maybe they're just a bit more open) in that they not only want your prints, they also file them, in case you might become a criminal at some later point in your life. The idea here is that since you've got nothing to hide you should not have anything to fear.
Tell that to Brandon Mayfield, whose only crime was that he converted to Islam, and whose print turned up in the aftermath of the Madrid bombings:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43732-2004May20.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint (section 'criticism').
Two people here have started lawsuits against the government, one of them died while waiting for a ruling (for the conspiracy nuts: no, he died of natural causes), the other is still waiting.
Having nothing to hide is not good enough, even if you have nothing to hide you can easily become a suspect in a crime committed many years later with which you have absolutely nothing to do.
To avoid getting in to situations like this and because I do not actually trust my government to be able to store my fingerprints without losing them to parties unknown (or having them copied by compromising the data store) I resolved to do without a passport / identity card.
Technically that's against the law here and lots of people have been fined over the years for being unable to identify themselves but I thought that was the lesser evil.
Unfortunately my business depends to some extent on my ability to travel and I simply do not like to be without a passport so I decided to hack the problem.
Everybody has fingerprints right?
So what about someone that lost both hands?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=lost+both+hands+in+accident
What about old people?
http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
What about people with a genetic mutation that causes them to have no fingerprints?
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2771451&page=1
People using certain drugs:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/a-cop-s-worst-nightmare-people-without-fi...
And on and on.
It is estimated that 1 in 50 people do not have prints or prints clear enough to be registered by the fingerprint readers currently in use.
That's a lot of people, and I decided to artificially increase that number a bit. I'm not sure if the following is legal but frankly I do not care. I've got nothing to hid *but* I refuse to cooperate with the current security craze fueled by fear of terrorism and criminals. The country where I live has one of the highest incidences of death-by-the-grim-reaper-of-old-age and I think that we have farm more important things to worry about than either terror or crime. An out of control government for instance that seems to think nothing of violating the privacy of its citizens.
Enter the belt sander.
After thinking about the problem for a while I decided on trying the most simple and direct way that I could think of to simply remove my fingerprints. The belt sander is a pretty simple tool, I have one in my toolchest and it did the job quickly and relatively painlessly. The way to do it is very simple (of course I'm not responsible if you get jailed, tortured or executed by doing this, or if the authorities refuse you a passport):
- set the belt sander down upside down with the moving belt exposed.
- have a glass or small bowl of water handy
- sand your prints off one finger at the time pressing down *very* lightly on the fingertip
- whenever your finger feels warm or hot immediately dunk it in the water, that way
you avoid burning your finger
- check your prints using a mirror and some cinnamon or other fine powder, if it works
you'll see just a smudge instead of a clear print. Try comparing with a finger
that you have not done yet to see the difference.
- make sure you spend about the same amount of time on all your fingers
After about 30 minutes of work you should not longer have prints. Touching stuff will feel very strange at first, specially smooth surfaces. Since the prints allow the oils that coat your fingers an escape when you press down on them (the whole reason we *have* fingerprints) when your fingers are smooth you'll notice that when you try for instance to lift a glass that you have noticeably less grip.
To see how well it worked I applied for a passport. Several times the scanner completely refused the print, one finger (left thumb) came up clear and three others were clear enough to be registered as 'prints' but they looked pretty bad to me. So, partial success in my case, if I had known how good the scanner is I would have spent some more time on sanding them off, the method does work I just did a sub-optimal job of checking the result, it *seemed* good enough at the time though, so when you think you're done add another 10 to 20 minutes or so to make sure you got it right.

News of Interest to Realists

2011-02-06T23:11:00.001-06:00

From THINKonline

News of Interest

Egyptian protestors are angry at the U.S. for supporting the dictator Mubarak for 30 years. This was done largely to promote Israel since Mubarak is like a lap dog in regards to the Jewish state. Egypt even helps Israel maintains its concentration camp for Palestinians known as Gaza. If the pro-democracy people win in Egypt, Israel will also be at a disadvantage since it will no longer be able to claim it's the only democracy in the Middle East. (Of course, Israel is not a real democracy since it does not even have a constitution. It's more of a theocracy based on the superstition of the Torah.)

U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls journey to Israel to boost their chances of winning the White House. This helps illustrate the death grip the Jewish state has on the United States. In November, just days after winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio went straight to Israel, too!

Obama says he and his Pentecostal director of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership's office, Joshua DuBois, (that's the office which violates the U.S. Constitution by giving government cash to religious organizations) start each day with "meditations from Scripture." Perhaps they meditate on Isaiah 60:12 which has God saying that any nation that will not serve Israel "shall be utterly wasted." This would help explain why Obama has never taken a meaningful stand against Israel's aggressions and weapons of mass destruction while at the same time giving them BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars.

Surprisingly, a Tea Party backed U.S. Senator, Rand Paul, is calling to cut U.S. handouts to Israel! This is a first! However, Israel will still probably get its over $3 BILLION U.S. taxpayer dollars every year from the political prostitutes since U.S. Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia is planning on removing give aways to Israel from the category of "foreign aid" and placing them in the defense budget to protect them from any possible foreign aid cuts.

France is willing to host meetings which could bring about a Palestinian state in 2011.

A Christian couple who allowed their two-year-old son to die of pneumonia because they followed the Bible teaching of healing through prayer were sentenced to 10 years probation and ordered to provide medical care for their remaining children. Every month children die in the U.S. because of this Christian superstition. Deism is desperately needed! It's up to us to see to it that it reaches its full potential.

South Africa bans Christian church from making false claims about faith healing.

A Catholic priest who performs exorcisms has admitted to sexual misconduct with some of those he "helped" free from demons.

This Chicago area Catholic priest says the Devil is real. He mentions that some thinking people don't believe the Devil is real but that it is just something Christianity made-up in order to control people and to put fear in them. He then says to protect yourself from the Devil you should pray to Jesus and take part in the Catholic sacraments. Seems like a scam to me! They create something to be afraid of and then offer the only cure!

The St. Petersburg, Florida Diocese violates an agreement it had with victims of sexual abuse.

A dog chews a Bible and a Christian woman burns it alive saying that God told her to.

The act of mutilating a newborn's penis through cutting it/circumcision may be outlawed in San Francisco.

Female circumcision is spreading to the West.

Space without time and black holes. It's amazing how little we know about Nature and the Universe.

Reason is creating more ideas for saving our environment.

Why you're right or left handed.

No U-Turns on the Road to Serfdom?

2011-01-24T20:53:00.001-06:00

No U-Turns on the Road to Serfdom?

The “anti-terrorist” witch-hunt and the future of America

by Justin Raimondo, January 24, 2011

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/01/23/no-u-turns-on-the-road-to-serfdom/

In a series of raids last year, the FBI raided the homes and offices of antiwar activists in Minneapolis, North Carolina, Chicago, and California. They seized boxes of materials, cell phones, documents, and other private property, and issued subpoenas to a number of individuals, 24 at last count, demanding their appearance before a federal grand jury. The focus of this fishing expedition is ostensibly the “solidarity work” engaged in by the Antiwar Committee of Minneapolis, and sympathizing organizations, in Palestine and Columbia, but the history of police repression against these groups and individuals goes back years, specifically involving their work in organizing a march on the Republican and Democratic national conventions: in the Twin Cities, the “RNC Welcoming Committee,” which planned the protest, was of particular interest to the authorities. The local cops, working with the FBI, actively worked to recruit informants, and – using information gleaned from these infiltrators – conducted a weekend-long reign of terror in early September 2008, breaking down doors, manhandling protesters – including journalists – and rounding up dissidents in anticipation of violence they claim “might” have occurred had the authorities not acted.

In reality, of course, the RNC Welcoming Committee was engaged in perfectly legal activities protected by the First Amendment, and there was no evidence presented that violence was forthcoming – but, under the terms of the post-9/11 legislative assault on the Constitution that culminated in the “Patriot” Act and subsequent acts of Congress, the First Amendment is no longer operative in this country.

If you’re an Influential Person, however, you can get away with almost anything. Let’s say you’re Michael Mukasey, Bush’s former Attorney General, who recently traveled to Paris with Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security chieftain, Fran Townsend, President Bush’s former chief adviser on Homeland Security and counter-terrorism, and former New York City mayor and spectacularly failed presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, to endorse the continuing effort by the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), or People’s Mujahideen, to get off the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.

MEK is an Iranian Marxist-turned-neocon Iranian exile group, with a weirdly cultish orientation, that has murdered US diplomatic personnel and was instrumental in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran. They lost out in the power struggle following the overthrow of the Shah, and fled to Iraq, where they were succored by Saddam Hussein: MEK brigades fought on the Iraqi side during the Iraq-Iran war, and carried out terrorist acts against civilian targets – a strategy they would very much like to carry out with US assistance today.

Over one-hundred members of Congress, who recently signed an appeal to the State Department to take MEK off the terrorist list, are angling for this, and the prominence of the US delegation to the Paris confab is part of the continuing campaign by the War Party to legalize these somewhat nutty cultists – whose unquestioned leader, Maryam Rajavi, has already declared herself the “President” of Iran – and get the group funding. The idea is to use them, as the Bush team used the Iraqi National Congress, to get “intelligence” – of similar quality – to gin up another war, this time against Tehran.

Can you imagine the outcry in official Washington if the FBI invaded the offices of Mukasey, Giuliani, Ridge, and Townsend, searching for evidence of “material support” to a foreign terrorist organization – the same crime the Minneapolis defendants are potentially facing? Such laws, however, aren’t written in order to target such people: it’s only those without power who suffer such a fate. If you’re in any way associated with WikiLeaks, government agents are quick to stop you at the airport, question you, and seize your laptop, but if you’re Rudy the Lout, on the way back from a tête-à-tête with terrorists – the good kind, rest assured – you’re escorted to the VIP line and whisked through security.

COMPLETE STORY HERE

Killing Politicians

2011-01-23T19:10:00.000-06:00

By Larken Rose

http://www.larkenrose.com/

A story is now circulating around about a Massachusetts blogger who, regarding the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, said "one down, 534 to go" (referring to the total number of federal congress-critturs in the House and Senate). He also added that it is "absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately," and suggested that people "Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone."

Of course, the average citizen, who worships the ruling class as if they're a bunch of infallible deities, will think the blogger to be the lowest scum in the world. How dare he even discuss killing the High Priests of the cult of "government"? What blasphemy! Well, I want to take issue with the guy's comments, but for a very different reason.

(As an aside, what the guy said was protected speech under the First Amendment. Not that what any "court" says is actually legitimate, but the U.S. dress-wearing, god-complex "judges" have admitted that even advocating revolution or violence is protected, unless it constitutes either an actual threat, or a direct, specific incitement for someone to commit violence. Look up the Supreme Court case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, for an example of just how nasty speech can get before it can be considered "criminal"--again, within the definitions of the control freaks. The fact that the Massachusetts jackboots decided to steal the blogger's guns because of his comments is an obvious attempt to create a "chilling effect" on his political expressions.)

Many people like the mantra, "Violence is never the answer." But they're wrong. If an armed thug breaks into your house, and tries to kill your family, violence is the answer. If you were a Jew living in 1940's Germany, and the SS came knocking, violence would be about the best answer available.

Ironically, most of those who say "violence is never the answer" nonetheless advocate constant, widespread violence via "government." They don't recognize it as such, because in their minds, when "government" uses the initiation of violence, it is inherently legitimate, and doesn't count as violence. Meanwhile, defending against such "legal" aggression is, in the eyes of the indoctrinated statist, the most horrible sin imaginable. When the superstition of "authority" is involved, the attacker with a badge is the good guy, and the defender without a badge is the bad guy. Gack.

So why do I disagree with the blogger? Let me put it this way: if killing 535 god-complex politicians would result in an end to the many thousands of casualties caused by their war-mongering, it would be just fine with me if someone killed them. But it wouldn't. If knocking off Congress would end the draconian, fascist, heinously evil "war on drugs," and free the millions of non-violent people now living in cages, I would be all for it. But it wouldn't. Every year, a whole lot more than 500 innocent people die as a direct result of what the politicians do, so I think such a trade would be well worth it. In short, if killing the tyrants du jour would lead to freedom, I'd be all for it.

But it wouldn't.

Why not? Because the gang of thieves and murderers that infests Washington is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. The underlying problem resides between a couple hundred million pairs of ears. If the general public desperately believes that a coercive ruling class is necessary and essential to civilization, as they have been brainwashed to believe, then knocking one narcissistic megalomaniac off the throne will only result in a new one taking his place. It's like the mythical Hydra: chopping the heads off doesn't do anything, because it will grow new ones; you need to hit the heart of the beast. And the heart of this problem is not a person, or a group of people, but a belief.

I'm not saying it's never justified to hack off a tentacle here and there, if you're being attacked. I can think of lots of situations in which "law enforcers" deserve to be shot, and "criminals" deserve to escape (when the "law," not the "criminal," is the aggressor). That might save one person now and then, but hacking at the branches will never solve the problem; only yanking the root out can do that.

And even among many of the most ardent pro-freedom advocates, the root of the problems is still firmly planted inside their own heads. Those who continue to campaign, and vote, and petition "government" to change its evil ways, are completely missing the real problem. To get slightly mystical, let me put it this way: Chances are, you are the one feeding the horrible beast you see before you, the monster you seek to destroy; you helped bring him into being, and you are the source of his power.

Hmmm … I think rather than explaining what I mean, I'll leave people hanging, and tell them to buy my new book, "The Most Dangerous Superstition." (Yes, that was a cheap trick, but I'm not sorry.)

Statism's Assembly Line

2011-01-23T00:17:00.000-06:00

Celebrate MLK Day: Disobey an Unjust Law

2011-01-14T22:21:00.000-06:00

From The Militant Libertarian

Celebrate MLK Day: Disobey an Unjust Law

by George Donnelly
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is coming up on Monday, January 17th and it’s about time someone celebrated it RIGHT. No more of this Orwellian “day of service” nonsense. Martin Luther King is about freedom and conscience. ‘Service’ is a code word for servitude, or slavery. How daring of the government to turn an African-American crusader for freedom into an icon for slavery! It’s up to us to reclaim the true legacy of Martin Luther King and show it to the world in its proud, spin-free glory.
I’ve set up a website called I Disobeyed an Unjust Law where people can learn about civil disobedience. There’s a twitter campaign, comments and I’ll interview dozens of good people who disobey bad laws live on Civil Disobedience TV. You can watch it right from the website.
January 17th to the 23rd is Civil Disobedience Week. Not only do we kick it off with Martin Luther King Day, but the 19th is Lysander Spooner‘s birthday! Are you doing something for these events? Let’s stay in touch via this mailing list.
If all goes well, I plan to repeat this every 3 months. April 13 is Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. July 12th is Henry David Thoreau’s birthday. And October 2nd is Mohandas Gandhi’s birthday. More, perhaps now than ever, there is a pressing need for the disobedience of unjust laws and illegitimate authority. We are dying from a police state – in the form of the DEA, ATF, TSA, cops and mercenaries – that knows no bounds and a financial cartel – in the form of the Federal Reserve – that could soon collapse our very livelihoods. If not now, when? People must recognize the difference between natural law and statutes passed by mere men – and act accordingly.
If you’re not sure how to participate, here’s a list:

Read MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Disobey an unjust law and tell us discreetly.
Tweet with #IDisobeyedAnUnjustLaw.
Video or text blog or podcast about unjust laws.
Comment, post on Facebook, Stumble, etc.
Write a letter to the editor or call a radio show.
Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Read Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience.
Watch Civil Disobedience TV as we interview those who disobey unjust laws.
Tell your friends about this cause.

If your organization wants to promote this or work on this, there is the possibility of linking back to you with an image from the footer of the website. Email george.donnelly@gmail.com.
Find out more at I Disobeyed an Unjust Law dot com.

So Who ARE the Violent Ones?

2011-01-12T14:50:00.000-06:00

More great insight from Larken Rose

Giffords: Reality Turned Inside-Out

By Larken Rose

The ongoing discussion of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords makes an outstanding example of the utter insanity and profound hypocrisy which the belief in "government" creates. Specifically, nearly all the related discussions about violence have turned reality upside-down, backwards, and inside out. Leftists are having conniption fits about the political ads by Sarah Palin, showing Giffords in "crosshairs," screaming that that counts as advocating violence. There are several ways in which this complaint is completely batty.

1) Leftist constantly advocate violence. "Taxation," as one example, is the forced confiscation of wealth backed by the threat of violence. Those who timidly cooperate with the mere threat never see the violence in their face, but take it from someone who has had his home forcibly invaded by armed IRS agents: "taxation" is backed by men with guns, who are quite willing to use violence to get their way. When all those leftists who support the very system of "taxation" that resulted not only in an armed invasion of my home, but in me being caged for a year, whine about a stupid political ad, the level of hypocrisy makes me want to vomit.

2) Right-wing statists, like Sarah Palin, also constantly advocate violence, in the form of various "laws" and authoritarian actions. Gabrielle Giffords herself was part of the federal war-mongering committee, which constantly advocates a double-dose of violence: violence used to force all Americans, including pacifists, to fund overt violence overseas. Bizarrely, instead of being criticized for that--instead of being taken to task for advocating aggression against hundreds of millions of Americans and the murder of lots of foreigners--Sarah Palin is being attacked for a stupid campaign ad. Holy smokes, people! Could your priorities and perspectives possibly be any more screwed up?!

3) There is a moral difference between aggressive force--initiating violence against someone who hasn't threatened or harmed anyone--and using defensive force. The vast majority of "government" violence, advocated by the "left" and the "right," is unjustified, immoral aggressive force. But again, statists from both sides, being believers in the cult of "government," don't think it counts as violence, because in their eyes, it's not being committed by mere people, but by the mystical, magical, superhuman entity known as "government." And most people imagine that it has the right to do things which mere mortals do not.

Defensive force, even deadly force if necessary, is both moral and justified. And whether it's "legal" or not makes no difference. What this means is that, when the thugs wearing the label of "government" commit aggression, resisting them by any means necessary is absolutely justified. As a practical matter, I would almost always advise against it, because resistors will almost always be caged, and often killed, for daring to resist "legal" aggression. But whether it's a good idea in practical terms (which it usually isn't), and whether it's moral (which it is), are different issues.

The end result is that I'm watching the insane national argument over the Giffords shootings, as one who believes that defensive force--even if "illegal" and even if used against "law enforcers"--is justified. Meanwhile, both groups of people who are constantly advocating the use of aggressive violence are arguing over something that was not an example of advocating violence (political rhetoric and ads). It's just too weird to take.

Gabrielle Giffords herself was directly involved in exerting aggressive violence, overseas and here, against non-violent people, via war-mongering, "taxation," forcibly interfering with the medical industry, and so on. She was not an innocent. She was an advocate of widespread, perpetual, forcible aggression. But being a devout statist, I'm guessing that she truly believed that the violence she was helping to commit didn't count as violence, because it was called "law," and done in the name of "authority." That's a perfect example of what The Most Dangerous Superstition leads to: basically good people do evil things, and don't even notice.

So one set of people who constantly advocate violence (Democrats) are complaining about another set of people who constantly advocate violence (Republicans), based on something that is not the advocacy of violence (the political ads). It's like one gang of thieves criticizing another gang of thieves for committing a crime they didn't actually commit. How weird can it get? Statists, "left" and "right," advocate constant, wide-spread violence against millions of people, but they genuinely imagine, having been indoctrinated into state-worship, that it doesn't count as violence because it is being done by the deity called "government," which they imagine to be exempt from human morality.

As if that wasn't looney enough, there has also been the predictable clamor of people who say that the Gifford shooting proves that we need more "gun control." The belief in "authority" allows otherwise rational people to openly declare that they abhor violence, while saying they want guns "outlawed." They fail to notice the glaring contradiction therein.

Every "law" ("gun control" or otherwise) is not a suggestion, or a request, but a threat of violence, which will be enforced by men with guns. Putting it in question form makes "gun control" advocates squirm: If I keep a firearm even when it's "illegal" to do so (and I would), so that I can protect my family from aggressors, what do you "gun control" proponents advocate be done to me if I get caught? Do you advocate that someone give me a stern talking to? Do you advocate that people ask me nicely to disarm myself? Or do you advocate that I be forcibly captured and put in a cage? And if I resist that--which I would--do you advocate that I be killed? If you don't mind, please don't advocate that I be murdered, while claiming that you abhor violence. And don't advocate someone shooting me, while saying you hate gun violence. Doing so is both immoral and insane.

"Gun control" is violence enforced with guns. In other words, so-called "gun control" is gun violence. Ask a Branch Davidian about this, if you can find one who the feds haven't murdered yet. Or ask Randy Weaver. Ask him how compassionate and peace-loving "gun control" is. If you don't know what I'm talking about, turn off your statist-controlled TV long enough to do an internet search, and see "gun control" in action.

To be blunt, the opinions of the average American regarding morality, violence and justice are warped and twisted to the point of being about as backward as they could possibly be. The good news is that this is not the result of individual stupidity or malice. It is the result of life-long indoctrination into the cult of "government." If you love humanity, and consider yourself peace-loving, I dare you to read "The Most Dangerous Superstition." You may find that your good intentions and noble virtues are being used against you, to the extreme detriment of humanity. You may find that all the pain and suffering that you see in the world, all the injustice you want to end, is feeding off of you. If that were the case, would you want to know? Or would you rather cling to whatever you already believe, regardless of the harm it may be doing to others? Again, I dare you to read the book.

Natural Law and the Giffords Shooting

2011-01-10T13:49:00.001-06:00

Natural Law is Retaliation Law

Many have asked what I thought about the Giffords shooting in light of The Michael Collins Gambit. First, this was WRONG period. Talion law and Michael Collins proscribed the involvement and harming of innocent parties period! This event was not one of lawful retaliation, it was not commensurate with whatever the first cause injury was, it harmed innocent bystanders, it was not the use of nor the practice of Nature's Law of Retaliation. This was the action of a lone emotionally disturbed man who had already started to show signs of his dysfunction and little was done to treat his condition. It is a saddening occurrence for the families involved and I wish that it had not happened. I am also sure that the authoritarians will use it to suppress dissension of their ongrowing police state. I could say more but why, when Larken Rose's says it so well.

The Giffords Shooting: Unpleasant Truth

By Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com

(Let me start with a disclaimer: I say what I mean. If what I actually say offends you--and for a lot of people, it will--then you probably need offending. But don't bother being offended at things I didn't say, but which you imagine I meant. If I meant it, I would have said it. - Larken Rose)

The national news is full of reports of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. Considering how inconsistent the reports have been, even from the beginning, I don't know what happened, or why. Maybe I never will. Whether the guy was simply a looney, whether there was some political motive, whether it was another false flag propaganda stunt (which wouldn't surprise me a bit), I could only guess. And since my guess would be essentially worthless, at least right now, I won't bother.

Instead, I want to quickly address several things about the way in which the story has been reported in the media. Be warned, when there has been bloodshed and death, people get emotional, and bluntly discussing literal realities upsets people. Tyrants specialize in manipulating emotions, in order to defeat reason and understanding. That's why stating the truth is most important when people don't want to hear it. So here goes.

The death of Mrs. Gifford was not a huge national tragedy, any more than the hundreds of other murders that happened the same day. Mrs. Gifford was not a great public servant. In fact, she was not a public servant at all. She was not serving you, or me, or anyone else, other than the elite ruling class. She did not "represent" the people. She was a member of the parasitic American ruling class. She was not working for the people.

What she did, along with her fellow political parasites, was use the threat of violence to subjugate, control and extort the general public. Like every other member of Congress, she produced nothing of value, neither product nor service. As a "legislator," her entire job consisted of coming up with new ways to use the coercion of "law" to forcibly control you and me, and use the products of our efforts to serve the agenda of the parasite class.

Did she mean well? How should I know? And frankly, I don't particularly care. As far as I can tell, Hitler meant well, and so did many of the thugs who carried out his megalomaniacal ideas. Did that make him good? Did that make it a "national tragedy" when he died? No. The tragedy was that a human being could ever imagine that forcibly subjugating the human race is the way to make a better society. Whatever her intentions, it was a bigger tragedy that Mrs. Gifford ever became a member of the professional criminal class, than it was that she was shot. (If I ever suddenly decide to embrace the love of dominion, and seek to use brute force to dominate and subjugate innocent people, I hope someone does me the favor of shooting me.)

Notwithstanding the fact that "legal" thuggery, extortion, aggression and violence is hidden under many layers of euphemisms, rhetoric and propaganda, the blunt truth is that Gabrielle Giffords is (or was) a professional bully and parasite. What "law-makers" do is enact "laws." And "laws" are neither suggestions nor requests. They are commands, backed by threats of violence. Obama's commie- care, for example, for all the fluff and B.S. that was used to promote it, was--like all "laws"--a threat of violence. However complicated and convoluted it was, essentially what it did was tell doctors, patients, insurance companies, and others, "You must do this, and you may not do that," and prescribed forceful retaliation against any who were caught disobeying. That's what every "law" is. (As a mental exercise, trying making up a "law" yourself that is not a threat of violence. You will fail.)

Politicians do not "serve" the public, or "represent" the public; they forcibly dominate, control, and extort the public. Despite all the patently inaccurate rhetoric about "public servants," "representative government," and other statist dogma (which will be the subject of upcoming videos), the relationship of every "government" to its subjects is a master-slave relationship. They tell you what to do, and they take your money, and if you resist, they send men with guns to hurt you. To think they're doing that for your benefit is insane.

With that in mind, perhaps the most telling statement in all the reports of the incident were the comments of another parasitic tyrant, John Boehner (R), who said that “[a]cts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society." Wow. The hypocrisy is astounding. Everything--absolutely everything- - -that Boehner, Giffords, and every other member of the parasitic ruling class do, constitutes "threats of violence," often against you. (Try disobeying one of their "laws," if you don't believe me.) Yet they become outraged if one of their victims does to them what they do to millions of people on a daily basis.

(Incidentally, Boehner also said, "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve." That one sentence all by itself, with the lies it implies and the psychosis it exhibits, deserves its own article.)

Am I suggesting that people go out and shoot the politicians? No. Even if it were justified, it wouldn't result in freedom. If anything, it would only serve as an excuse for authoritarian control freaks to increase their power, and further infringe on the liberty of others. (You can already see the push towards this in the aftermath of the shooting of Giffords.) As much as I bash the god-complex parasites who infest DC, the individual politicians are not the real problem. The real problem is that the victims of tyranny continue to imagine it to be legitimate, when thuggery and aggression are cloaked in pseudo-religious political rituals. As long as the people bow down at the altar of "government," getting rid of one parasite--by vote or by bullet--will accomplish nothing, as a new parasite will step right in. On the other hand, when the people outgrow their superstitious addiction to "authority"- worship, no election or revolution will be needed to remove the parasite class. "Government" exists only because the people imagine that it exists. When the people rid themselves of their statist indoctrination, and see reality for what it is, the parasite class will be ignored out of existence.

On that note, I can't resist mentioning the release of "The Most Dangerous Superstition." If you think that the people in power are the real problem, and that another election, or even a revolution, is the solution, I implore you to read the book. You might find that your own beliefs and assumptions, and your own perceptions and actions, are feeding the beast that you fear, the beast that is eating you.

An American Vigilante - Green Hornet

2011-01-07T15:02:00.000-06:00

Set your DVRs; Next Tuesday, January 11, SyFy is running what looks to be the entire Green Hornet series starring Van Williams and Lloyd Gough, all narrated by William Dozier! Sweet! Oh, some guy named Bruce Lee is in them, too.

http://www.syfy.com/schedule/index.php?date=2011-01-11
Tuesday 01-11-11 SyFy 10:00am - 11:00pm

The Green Hornet TV series ran for 26 episodes in 1966/1967.

10:00 AM The Ray Is for Killing
Someone is demanding $1,000,000 for the return of Reid's art collection.

10:30 AM Programmed for Death
Phony diamonds and a killer leopard await the Hornet as he investigates the death of a reporter.

11:00 AM Crime Wave
A computer offers evidence against the Hornet, who has been accused of a jewel theft.

11:30 AM The Silent Gun
The Hornet tries to destroy a silent, flashless revolver before the underworld puts it to use.

12:00 PM The Frog Is a Deadly Weapon
The Green Hornet tries to find Casey, who was abducted while investigating a gangland leader.

12:30 PM Give 'Em Enough Rope
Mike Axford tries gathering evidence to expose a wealthy racketeer.

01:00 PM Eat, Drink and Be Dead
The Hornet and Kato come to the aid of tavern owners who have been forced to buy bootleg liquor.

01:30 PM Beautiful Dreamer - Part 1
Reid tries to link a professor's murder to a health club.

02:00 PM Beautiful Dreamer - Part 2
A racketeer sets out to double-cross the Green Hornet (Van Williams).

02:30 PM The Preying Mantis
The Green Hornet and Kato try to smash a Chinatown protection racket.

03:00 PM The Hunters and the Hunted
The Hornet investigates a band of hunters who are killing the city's top racketeers

03:30 PM Deadline for Death
Reid tries to clear Mike Axford, who has been jailed on a murder charge.

04:00 PM The Secret of the Sally Bell
The Hornet must recover narcotics from a freighter undergoing demolition.

04:30 PM May the Best Man Lose
The Green Hornet must outwit a paid assassin, whose next target is the DA.

05:00 PM Freeway to Death
The Hornet aids Mike in a probe of a construction-company racket.

05:30 PM Seek, Stalk and Destroy
Three ex-soldiers plan to use a tank to bust a buddy out of prison.

06:00 PM The Hornet and the Firefly
The Green Hornet and Kato try to stop an arsonist who is terrorizing the city.

06:30 PM Corpse of the Year - Part 1
Reid tries to expose the culprit who's posing as the Green Hornet.

7:00 PM Corpse of the Year - Part 2
The Hornet tries to nab his impostor, whose crimes include murder.

07:30 PM Ace in the Hole
Britt Reid dons his Hornet mask to cause a gangland double-cross.

08:00 PM Bad Bet on a 459-Silent
The Hornet, wounded by a bullet, must get medical attention without revealing his identity.

08:30 PM Trouble for Prince Charming
Prince Rafil is given a choice: abdicate or his fiancée faces murder.

09:00 PM Alias 'The Scarf'
The Hornet searches for a strangler who uses a white scarf to kill his victims.

09:30 PM Hornet, Save Thyself
Reid tries to prove that he did not gun down an old enemy.

10:00 PM Invasion from Outer Space - Part 1
The Hornet tries to stop an electronics wizard from using an H-bomb to conquer the world.

10:30 PM Invasion from Outer Space - Part 2
Dr. Mabouse gains possession of an H-bomb

Firefly on Ovation

2011-01-05T01:11:00.001-06:00

http://www.ovationtv.com/

News of Interest

2011-01-02T16:11:00.000-06:00

From: THINKonline!

A mother in Oklahoma is charged in the faith-healing death of her nine year old son. He suffered from diabetes and could have been easily treated but he also suffered from a superstitious Bible believing Christian mother.

A mother in Indiana kills her three year old son while trying to get demons out of him. (I'd say it's time for Deism to replace the "revealed" religions! The editor)

Muslims in Iraq and Egypt are killing Christians. In Egypt, the Christians are striking back and attacking Muslims.

Christian billboards proclaim Jesus is coming back on May 21, 2011! This prediction will be as accurate as Jesus' own prediction in about his return in Matthew 24:34 !

The Pope and his lame excuses for pedophile priests.

After being blamed for resisting rules to stop money laundering, the Pope signs a new Vatican law which will allegedly correct the problem.

A Catholic priest in Oregon is suing Mount Angel Abbey because he was sexually assaulted by a priest when he was a student there.

U.S. politicians abandoned efforts to stop Israel from stealing land from Palestinians for Jewish settlements. This helps people to see that Obama is nothing but a politician and his speech to the Islamic world was nothing but meaningless talk.

Argentina recognizes Palestine within its 1967 borders. If American politicians had not sold their country and their souls to Israel's lobby , the U.S. would also recognize Palestine within its 1967 borders.

An aid caravan with over 300 tons of aid is on its way from India to Gaza. Israel will probably not allow it into the Israeli concentration camp for Palestinians known as Gaza.

Rabbis forbid their congregation from viewing a website which reports on sexual abuse against children by the Jewish clergy.

Christian investors will probably get tax breaks for a new Christian theme park.

Astronomers in Australia discover where giant stars are born.

Totally Bummed!!! Aaron Zelman, RIP

2010-12-29T23:46:00.000-06:00

Total Bummer! This guy was a Mench's Mench!!! He was not your typical oversensitive liberal Jew whining in victim-hood. He fought back! The Freedom movement has lost a valued ally.

From Claire Wolfe: http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2010/12/29/aaron-zelman-rip/

Aaron Zelman, RIP

OMG. I just learned that Aaron Zelman, founder, guiding spirit, and chief cook and bottle washer of JPFO, has died. More than a week ago.
I woke up this morning to a reader’s letter, passed along by BHM’s webmaster, Oliver. I could hardly believe it. Then I found the above-linked mini-obituary that sadly says so little of the man. There should be so much more! I hope there will soon be tributes all over the ‘Net.
Aaron and I worked together for seven years. I admired him and even though he could be crazy-making at times, he had one of the most creative minds I’ve ever encountered and he was unfailingly a gentleman and a gentle-spoken man. He created a unique niche in the gun-rights movement and I hope JPFO can continue without him.
Aaron was born with Marfan Syndrome, which can cause a host of related problems, some potentially fatal. I don’t know what he died from, but between that and his Type-A, hard-driving nature, it’s not surprising, though it’s shocking and tragic, that he died so young. Rather, I tell myself it shouldn’t be surprising. Yet Aaron was such a powerful personality, it’s hard to think of him being extinguished.
UPDATE: Please see my comment with a request from JPFO and the Zelman family below this post.

http://www.ammoland.com/2010/12/29/aaron-s-zelman-executive-director-of-jpfo-passes/

Sickness

2010-12-27T22:56:00.000-06:00

Grandma Got Molested At The Airport

2010-12-23T12:53:00.000-06:00

16 Shocking Facts About The Student Loan Debt Bubble And The Great College Education Scam

2010-12-22T11:44:00.000-06:00

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-shocking-facts-about-the-student-loan-debt-bubble-and-the-great-college-education-scam

As you read this, there are over 18 million students enrolled at the nearly 5,000 colleges and universities currently in operation across the United States. Many of these institutions of higher learning are now charging $20,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 a year for tuition and fees. That does not even count living expenses. Today it is 400% more expensive to go to college in the United States than it was just 30 years ago. Most of these 18 million students have been told over and over that a "higher education" is the key to getting a good job and living the American Dream. They have been told not to worry about how much it costs and that there is plenty of financial aid (mostly made up of loans) available. Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the "real world" they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between. As millions of Americans wake up and start realizing that the tens of thousands of dollars that they have poured into their college educations was mostly a waste, will the great college education scam finally be exposed?
For now, the system continues to push the notion that a college education is the key to a good future and that there is plenty of "financial aid" out there for everyone that wants to go to college.
Recently, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia and encouraged them to load up on college loans....

"Please apply for our financial aid. We want to give you money. There’s lots of money out there for you."

So where will Arne Duncan be when those students find themselves locked into decades of absolutely suffocating student loan debt repayments?
What young high school students are never told is that not even bankruptcy can get you out of student loan debt. It will stay with you forever until you finally pay it off.
Today each new crop of optimistic college graduates quickly discovers that there are simply not nearly enough jobs for all of them. Thousands upon thousands of them end up waiting tables or stocking the shelves at retail stores. Many of them end up deeply bitter as they find themselves barely able to survive and yet saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt that nobody ever warned them about.
Sadly, the quality of the education that most of these college students is receiving is a complete and total joke.
Take it from someone that has graduated from a couple of very highly respected institutions. I have an undergraduate degree, a law degree and another degree on top of that, so I know what I am talking about. Higher education in America has become so dumbed-down that the family dog could literally pass most college courses.
It is an absolute joke. The vast majority of college students in America spend two to four hours a day in the classroom and maybe an hour or two outside the classroom studying. The remainder of the time these "students" are out drinking beer, partying, chasing after sex partners, going to sporting events, playing video games, hanging out with friends, chatting on Facebook or getting into trouble. When they say that college is the most fun that most people will ever have in their lives they mean it. It is basically one huge party.
Of the little "education" that actually does go on, so much of it is so dedicated to pushing various social engineering agendas that it makes the whole process virtually worthless. Most parents would be absolutely shocked if they could actually see the kind of "indoctrination" that goes on inside U.S. college classrooms today.
A college education can be worth it for those in very highly technical or very highly scientific fields, or for those wanting to enter one of the very few fields that is still very financially lucrative, but for nearly everyone else it is just one big money-making scam.
Oh, but you parents please keep breaking your backs to put money into the college funds of your children so that they can be spoon-fed establishment propaganda all day and party like wild animals all night for four years.
It really is a huge scam. I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.
But if you will not believe me, perhaps you will believe some cold, hard statistics. The following are 16 shocking facts about the student loan debt bubble and the great college education scam....
#1 Americans now owe more than $875 billion on student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards.
#2 Since 1982, the cost of medical care in the United States has gone up over 200%, which is horrific, but that is nothing compared to the cost of college tuition which has gone up by more than 400%.
#3 The typical U.S. college student spends less than 30 hours a week on academics.
#4 The unemployment rate for college graduates under the age of 25 is over 9 percent.
#5 There are about two million recent college graduates that are currently unemployed.
#6 Approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans.
#7 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.
#8 The Project on Student Debt estimates that 206,000 Americans graduated from college with more than $40,000 in student loan debt during 2008.
#9 In the United States today, 24.5 percent of all retail salespersons have a college degree.
#10 Total student loan debt in the United States is now increasing at a rate of approximately $2,853.88 per second.
#11 There are 365,000 cashiers in the United States today that have college degrees.
#12 Starting salaries for college graduates across the United States are down in 2010.
#13 In 1992, there were 5.1 million "underemployed" college graduates in the United States. In 2008, there were 17 million "underemployed" college graduates in the United States.
#14 In the United States today, over 18,000 parking lot attendants have college degrees.
#15 Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.
#16 According to a recent survey by Twentysomething Inc., a staggering 85 percent of college seniors planned to move back home after graduation last May.

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

2010-12-19T20:40:00.001-06:00

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

by Mit Etagniw

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

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

(The same denomination that Bush’s John Ashcroft belongs to.)

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

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

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

(Against mall policy)

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

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

(Oooops!)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-12-17T12:10:00.001-06:00

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