33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

By Jonathan Elinoff, New World Order Report

Most people can't resist getting the details on the latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as untrue ... and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous. Lets not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies out of Wall Street like Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and extortion, among many crimes of conspiracy. USA Today reports that over 75% of personal ads in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as single for a one night affair...
Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning...
Skeptics are important in achieving an objective view of reality, however, skeptism is not the same as reinforcing the official storyline. In fact, a conspiracy theory can be argued as an alternative to the official or “mainstream” story of events. Therefore, when skeptics attempt to ridicule a conspiracy theory by using the official story as a means of proving the conspiracy wrong, in effect, they are just reinforcing the original “mainstream” view of history, and actually not being skeptical. This is not skeptism, it is just a convenient way for the establishment view of things to be seen as the correct version, all the time, every time...
In fact, if one were to look into conspiracy theories, they will largely find that thinking about a conspiracy is associated with lunacy and paranoia. Some websites suggest it as an illness. It is also not surprising to see so many people on the internet writing about conspiracy theories in a condescending tone, usually with the words "kool-aid," "crack pot," or "nut job" in their articulation...
While intelligent cynicism certainly can be healthy, though, some of the greatest discoveries of all time were initially received (often with great vitriol) as blasphemous conspiracy theories -- think of the revelation that the earth was not the center of the universe, or that the world was not flat but actually round...
What follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy theories that turned out true after thorough investigation by our society. Some through congressional hearings, others through investigative journalism. Many of these, however, were just admitted to by those involved. These are just 33 of them, and I still had a long list of others to add. Many of these are listed with original and credible news clips on the matter, as well as documentaries.
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Everybody's an Anal Orifice (especially politicians and poLice)

After 25+ years of trying to wake people up sometimes I just feel this way. I know that you do too. So what do we do? Recognize that most people are sheeple. That everyone at sometime or another is an anal orifice. The message of liberty is for those who have ears to hear it. That some will never get it, they rather follow the herd. Oh, but some do get it and they help to spread the liberty virus and infect the body politic. Here's to new Freedom Shenanigans in 2010.

Hang Over Music

Happy New Year!!!!

TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive

Ok so now the TSA is trying to blame shift their screw-up by acting tough with some guys who repeated what the TSA had already sent out to 10,000 plus people. The TSA must be eliminated! Grab this TSA goon's (Special Agent John Enright) picture. He needs some shenanigans done to him. Just doing his job? Wrong job, wrong way, wrong wrong, wrong. Oh, and BTW you nomianismists, the law is a fraud and is NO moral excuse for doing wrong no matter how "legal" it is.

TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger's home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling's laptop Wednesday. Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com

Excerpt: From WIRED.com's THREAT LEVEL

"Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document.

The document, which the two bloggers published within minutes of each other Dec. 27, was sent by TSA to airlines and airports around the world and described temporary new requirements for screening passengers through Dec. 30, including conducting “pat-downs” of legs and torsos. The document, which was not classified, was posted by numerous bloggers. Information from it was also published on some airline websites.

“They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” says Steven Frischling, one of the bloggers. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”

Frischling, a freelance travel writer and photographer in Connecticut who writes a blog for the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, said the two agents who visited him arrived around 7 p.m. Tuesday, were armed and threatened him with a criminal search warrant if he didn’t provide the name of his source. They also threatened to get him fired from his KLM job and indicated they could get him designated a security risk, which would make it difficult for him to travel and do his job.

“They were indicating there would be significant ramifications if I didn’t cooperate,” said Frischling, who was home alone with his three children when the agents arrived. “It’s not hard to intimidate someone when they’re holding a 3-year-old [child] in their hands. My wife works at night. I go to jail, and my kids are here with nobody.”

Frischling, who described some of the details of the visit on his personal blog, told Threat Level that the two agents drove to his house in Connecticut from DHS offices in Massachusetts and New Jersey and didn’t mention a subpoena until an hour into their visit.

“They came to the door and immediately were asking, ‘Who gave you this document?, Why did you publish the document?’ and ‘I don’t think you know how much trouble you’re in.’ It was very much a hardball tactic,” he says.

When they pulled a subpoena from their briefcase and told him he was legally required to provide the information they requested, he said he needed to contact a lawyer. The agents said they’d sit outside his house until he gave them the information they wanted."

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Cop Went Wild With Taser, Diabetic Says

Do I really need to add anything to this? Yup I do! This cop needs to be tasered in the same way as he did to this man. Retributive Justice. In the long run it is the ONLY thing that stops them from doing worse.

Cop Went Wild With Taser, Diabetic Says
By ROBERT KAHN

(CN) - A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56 seconds of needlessly inflicted electric shock, "inflicted ... while he was lying unresponsive on the floor of his bedroom, permanently scarred [him] and caused him neurological damage that has not abated," the man claims in Chicago Federal Court.
Prospero Lassi says he suffered a diabetes-induced seizure at home on April 9. His roommate called 911, and police from LaGrange Park and Brookfield responded, with EMTs from LaGrange Park.
Lassi says his roommate explained to police that he was having a diabetic seizure. Lassi "was not alert and could not move his body."
When the EMTs asked the cops to help them move Lassi from where he was lying on the floor, Lassi says, one of his "arms flailed during his diabetes-induced seizure, striking one of the LaGrange and Brookfield defendants. At no time did Mr. Lassi intentionally strike or offensively touch any of the LaGrange or Brookfield defendants."
Lassi says LaGrange Park Officer Darren Pedota responded by Tasering him 11 times, for nearly a minute, as he lay helpless.
He was hospitalized for 5 days, and was unable to work for 3 months because of the attack, "and his quality of life has suffered substantially," Lassi says.
"At no time did Mr. Lassi do anything to warrant the use of force against him. Mr. Lassi was never cited, arrested, or charged with any crime," according to the complaint.
He seeks punitive damages for battery, excessive force, and failure to intervene. He is represented by Arthur Loevy of Loevy & Loevy.

STOP FLYING!!!

When will you herded sheeple learn to stop flying? If there was a major boycott of air travel the Obamanation would then have to step in to "save" the airlines. That would start another round of government intervention that would create enough incompetence, pain and misery that the mind-dead populace would be aroused from its slumber for a while by discomfort.

On the other hand, why stop with just the full body scans? I am ALL for a mandatory semi-nude flying rule. Everyone that flies excluding pilots, must fly in "see-through security flight suits." Only under garments, or "swim" wear, now to be called "flight security modesty garments" will be allowed under the vinyl see-through security flight suits.

Ahhh just think of it. No more hassle of wondering what to wear on the flight. Hundreds of travelers in their underwear, wearing what was formerly known as transparent rain gear, sitting for "no more than three hours" on the runway waiting for take off. Yes, the smell, feel and sound of grandma's vinyl clad furniture on a warm summer day in your shorts.

Think of all the great looking bodes you will get to see. Just like a day at the beach, well kind of. You may just have to avert your eyes here or there, but it will be worth the discomfort to check out the good looking ones.

On the other hand, maybe for some guys that would create another kind of "groin bomb." Hmmm, could an air marshal arrest a guy for an involuntary erection? I can see the headlines now. "Men Arrested for Unauthorized Items in their Laps. Several young men and some middle aged men were arrested and removed from the plane when they refused to follow the orders of an air marshal to unerect their penises on command. The flight was carrying the final competitors of the national wet tee shirt team to a contest in L.A."

Maybe that is what it will take to get some of you to wake up and realize that it is ALL about control and money. TSA is the problem. If you want your freedom back, you are going to have to Seize it back!

The Underpants Bomber vs. the Keystone Kops
Becky Akers on the Christmas Kamikaze @ LewRockwell.com

Excerpt:

"And all because the TSA once again failed. Remember that this agency hit headlines a mere fortnight ago for leaking its top-secret security manual on the internet; now, a possible reader slipped past checkpoints with PETN on him. You might think the TSA would slink away in defeat and shame; instead, it came out swinging – at passengers. They paid the price with onerous new restrictions for its bungling, as they always do when an incident like Flight 253 proves the TSA’s utter irrelevance. Perhaps it hopes that harassing and humiliating us more than usual will distract us from its culpability.

The rules are so ridiculous the Mad Hatter must have dreamed them up. "Passengers [on international flights arriving in the US] must remain in seats beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination…Passengers may not have any blankets, pillows, or personal belongings on the lap beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination." Victims also suffer a "thorough" groping at the "boarding gate prior to boarding, concentrating on upper legs and torso" – unless they are "Heads of State or Heads of Government." Yep, murderous criminals who start wars and steal our money are "exempt from the measures." The TSA hasn’t yet prohibited passengers from becoming sick at 30,000 feet, but if you do, kindly conduct your business in the plane’s loo quickly: "an air marshal, his badge visible" arrested one man on Sunday’s Flight 253 who objected to emerging "while still unwell."

Meanwhile, the Napster was on a truth-telling jag. She also astoundingly admitted that "…the system worked. …The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action."

Janet isn’t the first of Our Rulers to divulge this damaging info. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office reported that the TSA "considers…able-bodied passengers to be an important layer of aviation security" because they will "engage in self-defense actions should an incident occur onboard commercial aircraft." That’s right: taxpayers deprived of all weapons and defenses but fingernails, whom the TSA suspects for terrorists and abuses accordingly, not only comprise one of its often-hyped "layers of security" but an "important" one! Is this complete, jaw-dropping insanity or what? And why are we paying $7 billion a year for these thugs to molest and insult us when, in the end, they count on us to defeat terrorists? Finally, exactly how does the TSA expect us to "engage in self-defense actions" after stealing our knitting needles and pocket-knives? Heck, once a screener finishes robbing us, we can’t even squirt Listerine at a terrorist’s eyes. Shouldn’t these wingdings hand out Saturday Night Specials at the gate instead?"

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He fought the Nazis. He braved the Pacific. And he hated being called a hero

Knut Haugland: A real-life Hero's adventure story

He fought the Nazis. He braved the Pacific. And he hated being called a hero. Jonathan Brown looks at the extraordinary career of Knut Haugland, the last Kon-Tiki survivor.

Adventure stories rarely come more epic than that of Knut Haugland, the Norwegian resistance fighter who died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. His exploits were already the stuff of legend even before he joined Thor Heyerdahl's crew aboard his balsa wood raft, Kon-Tiki. Together they not only conquered the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean using only the most primitive of technologies – but in doing so, they helped rejuvenate the crushed spirit of human endeavour in the bleak aftermath of the Second World War.

A heavily decorated commando who escaped three times from the clutches of the Nazis, his bravery and endurance gave rise to one of the most enduring legends of the Second World War – one retold in spectacular style in a Hollywood movie.

Yesterday Haugland's successor as director of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, where thousands flock each year to relive the optimism and excitement of that intrepid voyage, announced that the former radio operator had succumbed to natural causes in a city hospital, closing the final chapter on an extraordinary life.

Haugland's death, following that of Heyerdahl himself in 2002, marks the passing of the last of the six-man crew that set sail from Callao in Peru in April 1947, bound several thousand nautical miles for the far-flung islands of Polynesia based on little more than an anthropological hunch. That journey set a new benchmark for modern adventurers, spawning an international best-selling book published in 66 languages and an Oscar-winning film in which Haugland played himself. It also helped popularise Heyerdahl's passionately held belief that the great oceans had been highways and not barriers for the movement of ancient seafaring civilisations. MORE

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

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

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

by Mit Etagniw

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

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

(The same denomination that John Ashcroft belongs to.)

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

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

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

(Against mall policy)

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

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

(Oooops!)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thousands Protest Against Global Warming

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

Fascist Pigs AND Cowardly Wimps

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

Fascist Pigs AND Cowardly Wimps

By Larken Rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com 

The Man, The Plan, The Scam

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

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

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

So let's do the final tally here:

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

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

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

Net (-$3350)

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

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

Uffda Minnesota!!!

From our friend Bobbi the Irish Rose,

Ditto!

Climategate

Hmmmmm

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Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago

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