Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
How – Actually – Does the State Work?
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How – Actually – Does the State Work?
'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You'!
by Jeff Knaebel
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"Communism is power based upon force and limited to nothing, by no kind of law and by absolutely no set rule." ~ Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. XVIII, page 361
The (American) "security organs" can designate and kill as they see fit
"Solicitor General Ted Olson has described the process: 'There is no requirement for the executive branch to spell out its criteria for who qualifies as an illegal combatant. There will be judgments and instincts and evaluations and implementations made by the executive that are going to be different from day to day, depending on the circumstances.'"
"In other words, what is safe to say today, might imperil your freedom or your life tomorrow. You can never know if you are on the right side of the law, because the 'law' is merely whim of the leader and his minions: their 'instincts' determine your guilt or innocence, and these gut 'feelings' can change from day to day. This is now, formally and officially, the guiding principle of the United States government. And underlying this edifice of tyranny is the prerogative of presidential murder."
"Perhaps the enormity of this monstrous perversion of law and morality has kept it from being fully comprehended. It sounds unbelievable to most people. But that is our reality. To overcome what seems to be widespread cognitive dissonance, we need only examine the publicly available record. There is nothing that any ordinary citizen could not know – if they choose to know it."
"Bush signed orders allowing CIA assassins to kill targets without seeking presidential approval. Nor is it necessary any longer for the president to approve new names added to the target list…the 'security organs' can designate and kill as they see fit. There is no way of knowing how many people have been killed by American agents operating outside judicial process. Most of the assassinations are carried out in secret: quietly, professionally… the death squads are able to operate clandestinely, using a full range of official and non-official cover arrangements to enter countries surreptitiously." – Chris Floyd, truthout.org, 2 October 2006
"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice. Nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity." ~ Lord Acton
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." ~ Patrick Henry
George W. Bush: "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck at them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did …" – as reported by Palestinian leaders to whom Bush spoke after the Iraq invasion.
There you have it, folks. In a nutshell, the quotes above tell us our place in the system: do as you are told, or we will kill you. The rest is all detail. One nuance of history might be highighted for the reader. The men who possess these powers of life and death have rather consistently exhibited patterns of psychopathic behavior in the form of mass murder and torture. In addition to Bush, Hitler and Lenin quoted above, you might consider, among recent others, Mussolini, Stalin, Truman, Mao, Suharto. The list continues ad nauseam throughout history. Hierarchical power structures appear to be an evolutionary dead end for humanity.
My Experiential Observations of Power (abridged)
I've served my country in foreign war zones and returned to face the derision of protestors whom I was supposedly "protecting." I rotated myself from resentment to an understanding thatthey were correct. My friend who had chained himself to other war protestors while they burned their draft cards was a braver man than I.
For them it had worked. Neither conscripted nor prosecuted, they were too hot to handle. I have arrived at a deep respect for the moral competence and physical courage of my young friend. Nonviolence is not for cowards.
I saw "over there" some of the same big construction contractors who, after merger and consolidation, are now gorging on Iraq war profits. I recall a naval leadership journal which carried photos of a French tank mired in a rice paddy circa 1948, alongside a photo of an American tank mired in a rice paddy circa 1968. Paired images of a killing field, stalked hyena-like by cold-blooded central bankers and their political consorts. The dead are but abstractions reported to a balance sheet as corporate dividends. Political payoffs are footnoted as "other expenses."
Today we are viewing the updated remix as "Shock and Awe" murder-of-every-living-thing-from-a-safe-distance. It would pound the earth itself into submissive dust on the Emperor's shoes. An imperialist gone mad in its greed for oil, for corporate dividends, for unlimited power, its mass murder spares not woman nor child nor cow. The revolving door of power brokers rotating between government-defense contracting-banking leads to the same bloody dead end, generation after generation.
Of Power, this much I know from experience both over and under:
- It aggrandizes itself, feeding upon everything in its path
- It comes as corporate CEO and abusive husband, as admiral and chairman, as dictator and patriarch
- Greed is its energy and cowards it crushes, although itself cowardly
- Courage it cannot withstand, especially moral
- It corrupts absolutely kindness into cruelty
- It knows no limit of acquisitiveness
- It attracts the corruptible and the corrupt
- It is pure evil in the hands of no matter whom
- It usually wears a mask
- In the five generations with which I have had direct contact it has brought misery, murder, rape and pillage
- And the nuclear bomb
The battle is for the mind of man. The prize is no longer in vanquishing some "other." The battle is either all against all or all for all. There is no "other" to conquer. We are all in it together. We either grow a garden together or we cannibalize each other in the course of turning the earth into a desert. We can either plant trees together, or race to be the last person standing to cut down the last tree.
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE STATE
"Total war is the invention of the modern State." ~ Michael Rozeff, 2 August 2005
"Since a human being has no power to create life, he has, therefore, no right to destroy life."
~ T. N. Khoshoo, 1995
The State as an organization keeps on running with periodic changes of management called elections. Because of its ability to make laws and impose taxes, its power is limited only by the tolerance of the people for their exploitation. The State can coerce its members without reciprocal consequences. It operates without fear of reprisal. It can use aggressive force to make others do things against their will. Its "managers" are protected by sovereign immunity. Because it both rules and taxes, it suffers no agency costs for its errors: it simply shifts the cost to taxpayers.
"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed adding insult to injury. But that is exactly what the State does. Read the Congressional Record; follow the proceedings of the State legislatures; examine our statute books. Testing each Act separately by the law of equal liberty, you will find that a good nine tenths of existing legislation serves not to that fundamental social law, but either to prescribe the individual's personal habits, or worse, to create and sustain commercial, industrial, financial and proprietary monopolies which deprive labor of a large part of the reward that it would receive in a true free market." ~ Benjamin Tucker, 1890
The US is not a contractual State in the sense of an organization owned by its principals, the citizens. It has become a predatory State in the sense of a corporation owned and operated by a small group. This evolution was made inevitable by the weaknesses of the Constitution and actions of the power brokers and legislature. Rozeff (3 August 2006) estimates that the top management group of USA comprises between 15 and 60 members. These members rotate in revolving door fashion between and among various centers of social and political power. The figureheads and mouthpieces – the Kennedys, Nixons, Clintons, Bushes – are all fungible, each can be replaced by another without perturbing the system. In this manner do elections always come to a choice between two morally indistinguishable candidates. Likewise, no matter who you vote for, the political establishment always gets elected.
A few dozen people control the vast bureaucracies. The State's power depends upon holding the loyalty and obedience of these career employees within the power structure. This is done by passing out special privileges and emoluments. Napoleon noted the amazing lust of men for awards and decorations. The final tool in the arsenal of control is to heap honors upon those who have been corrupted.
M.S. Rozeff (see Lew Rockwell website) argues that the State lowers the cost of immorality, and people subsequently demand more State. Those who do occasionally resist face an "immortal" foe that owns the law-making power. People will rationalize their greater demand for immorality with new ideas of right and wrong. Giving up liberty in exchange, they will come to worship authority, equality, the use of force, and power. They will move away from self-reliance, responsibility, obligation to elders and the disadvantaged of society. They will accept, even enjoy their new situation. The State corrupts social morals and human beings.
COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE
Friday, August 22, 2008
Ron Paul “Responds” to Petitions for Redress
August 22, 2008
Ron Paul “Responds” to Petitions for Redress
Government Puts Kibosh On Hunger FastThus far, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has “responded” to the Petitions for Redress by having them “forwarded to the Clerk of the House.”
While such a move is unique among the Members of the House, and is not a bad first step in etching the concept of Government accountability into the minds of some of the Members and advancing ever so slightly the question of the constitutional meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment, it is highly unlikely that the Petitions for Redress will advance to House Committees for consideration, much less a vote to provide Redress. With the possible exception of Ron Paul, we know of no other politician willing to consider the notion of being held accountable to the People outside the periodic electoral process.
Whether or not the Petitions for Redress served on Ron Paul advance beyond the Office of the Speaker of the House, a constituent’s Right to Redress (like that of Religion, Speech, Press and Assembly) is an individual Right that does not depend on the will of any person or majority, not in the House, not in the Senate, not on any Court bench, and not among those voting in any election.
Forwarding the Petitions for Redress to the Clerk of the House has not relieved Rep. Ron Paul of his individual obligation to respond by answering the questions embedded in each of the seven Petitions for Redress. Even if his answer is, “I lack knowledge enough to admit or deny,” he has a legal (constitutional) obligation to respond.
We pray Rep. Paul will personally respond to the Petitions for Redress.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Bumbling TSA Inspector Grounds Commuter Flights
Damaged TAT Probes On Nine Jets While Conducting 'Security Checks' They're the government... and remember, they're here to help. A bumbling inspector with the Transportation Safety Administration apparently has some explaining to do, after nine American Eagle regional jets were grounded at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday.
Citing sources within the aviation industry, ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage... reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to the planes' noses as handholds.
"The brilliant employees used an instrument located just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of the onboard computers," one pilot wrote on an American Eagle internet forum. "They decided this instrument, the TAT probe, would be adequate to use as a ladder."
Officials with American Eagle confirmed to ANN the problem was discovered by maintenance personnel, who inspected the planes Tuesday morning... and questioned why the TAT probes all gave similar error indications.
One Eagle pilot says had the pilots not been so attentive, the damaged probes could have caused problems inflight. TSA agents "are now doing things to our aircraft that may put our lives, and the lives of our passengers at risk," the pilot wrote on the forum. MORE HERE
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
No Such Thing as a Good Cop
My sentiments exactly. I have taken a lot of flak over the years for saying the same thing, "There is No Such Thing as a Good Cop!" If they were "good" they wouldn't be infringing upon my rights in the name of some nebulous (because they are enforced differently) made up rules by appointed biased majoritarians.
So Mr. & Mrs. American Sheeple, at what point is one a "good" majoritarian policy enforcement officer? When he only lightly infringes upon your rights? What part of "infringement" are you not clear about? PoLice will only respect your rights when they KNOW that they are JUST AS vulnerable to the application of force as YOU ARE!
No Such Thing as a Good Cop
When people act on their OWN judgment, like grown-ups, they are stuck with the responsibility and consequences of their actions. A favorite excuse of people who do stupid and/or evil things is "I was just following orders." This amounts to claiming that they were NOT acting as thinking, judging, responsible beings with free will, but were acting as unthinking tools of someone else. Put another way, the "obeying authority" excuse amounts to saying: "You can't blame me! I'm just a stupid, programmable machine, not a thinking human!" Swell.
People who believe in self-ownership (e.g., anarchists) don't ever get to use that excuse. You see, we believe that we are endowed with thought and free will, and that we are therefore obligated to judge right and wrong for ourselves, and obligated to act accordingly. What we do, WE DO. We don't try to dodge responsibility by pretending that we were possessed by someone or something else.
If the whole world were like that, even if there remained many differences of opinion, as well as stupidity, carelessness, and/or malice, the vast majority of evil would stop. Why? Because most evil is NOT committed by people acting on their own judgment, but by people "doing what they were told."
One of the most serious decisions a thinking person can make is, "Should I use violence?" Most people who are acting on their own will resort to violence only in rare and extreme cases. Those who act as unthinking tools of "authority," on the other hand, use force and violence CONSTANTLY, without hesitation, without any qualms or doubts, and without any guilt or remorse.
My suggestion for ANYONE who uses force is this: use your judgment, and when you decide to use force, accept the responsibility yourself, and face the consequences yourself. Don't hide behind "he told me to" and other spineless excuses. In other words, grow up and act like an adult.
But people in "government" don't do that. Consider, for example, the fact that a couple MILLION people are in cages right now for possessing "narcotics"--a term which means "mind-altering substances that politicians didn't give their permission to use." Do you think any of the politicians, cops, judges, prison guards, paper-pushers, or anyone else in the "justice" system would ever take PERSONAL responsibility for kidnapping someone and putting them in a cage for smoking a joint? No. They ALL blame "the law," as if it's some magical force that possesses their minds, relieving them of all responsibility for their actions.
If not for "law"-worship, how many beer-drinkers would feel okay about locking someone up for possessing pot? Approximately zero. Incidentally, though I don't drink alcohol myself (or use any narcotics), I accept that those who do, whether to relax a bit or to get sloshed, have the right to do so. But every cop, judge, politician, or paper-pusher who condones the "war on drugs," and then goes home to chug a few beers or sip some wine--which is almost every one of them--is a hypocritical, evil coward. All together they form a machine that unjustifiably locks up MILLIONS of people, and yet NO ONE in the system accepts responsibility for doing it. THAT is why the "authority" myth is so horribly dangerous: its acts of violence and evil are very real, but NO ONE believes he is accountable for any of it.
A rather dramatic example happened at the Nuremberg trials: "Yeah, I helped exterminate innocent people, but I was just following orders! I'm not to blame!" And while Americans condemn the Nazis for that cop-out, EVERY "law enforcer" in this whole damn country uses the EXACT same excuse. "Hey, I'm just doing my job." I wonder, if someone got a JOB as a cop-killer, if the "boys in blue" would think that was okay.
Many of my past messages have been about "bad cops." But the truth of the matter is, there are no good cops. Initiating violence against people who have committed neither force nor fraud--whether it's done under the guise of "drug laws," "weapons laws," or fining people for not having that little sticker on their cars--is unjustifiable force. In other words, committing immoral violence is an unavoidable part of EVERY cop's job. There cannot be a "good cop" any more than there can be a "good car-jacker." Every cop's job is inherently evil, because a cop cannot just decide not to go after people who commit "victimless crimes," which make up MOST of the people the police harass, fine, or imprison.
"Hey, I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." They might as well say, "Hey, I don't use my own judgment, I just commit violence against whomever the politicians tell me to." And that's supposed to make it okay? Well, it doesn't. Personally, I have more respect for car-jackers. Yes, they commit evil, and I wouldn't hesitate to kill one if necessary, but at least they don't do what EVERY cop does: complain and whine about it when people suggest that THEY are responsible for what THEY do.
When people act on their OWN judgment, like grown-ups, they are stuck with the responsibility and consequences of their actions. A favorite excuse of people who do stupid and/or evil things is "I was just following orders." This amounts to claiming that they were NOT acting as thinking, judging, responsible beings with free will, but were acting as unthinking tools of someone else. Put another way, the "obeying authority" excuse amounts to saying: "You can't blame me! I'm just a stupid, programmable machine, not a thinking human!" Swell.
People who believe in self-ownership (e.g., anarchists) don't ever get to use that excuse. You see, we believe that we are endowed with thought and free will, and that we are therefore obligated to judge right and wrong for ourselves, and obligated to act accordingly. What we do, WE DO. We don't try to dodge responsibility by pretending that we were possessed by someone or something else.
If the whole world were like that, even if there remained many differences of opinion, as well as stupidity, carelessness, and/or malice, the vast majority of evil would stop. Why? Because most evil is NOT committed by people acting on their own judgment, but by people "doing what they were told."
One of the most serious decisions a thinking person can make is, "Should I use violence?" Most people who are acting on their own will resort to violence only in rare and extreme cases. Those who act as unthinking tools of "authority," on the other hand, use force and violence CONSTANTLY, without hesitation, without any qualms or doubts, and without any guilt or remorse.
My suggestion for ANYONE who uses force is this: use your judgment, and when you decide to use force, accept the responsibility yourself, and face the consequences yourself. Don't hide behind "he told me to" and other spineless excuses. In other words, grow up and act like an adult.
But people in "government" don't do that. Consider, for example, the fact that a couple MILLION people are in cages right now for possessing "narcotics"--a term which means "mind-altering substances that politicians didn't give their permission to use." Do you think any of the politicians, cops, judges, prison guards, paper-pushers, or anyone else in the "justice" system would ever take PERSONAL responsibility for kidnapping someone and putting them in a cage for smoking a joint? No. They ALL blame "the law," as if it's some magical force that possesses their minds, relieving them of all responsibility for their actions.
If not for "law"-worship, how many beer-drinkers would feel okay about locking someone up for possessing pot? Approximately zero. Incidentally, though I don't drink alcohol myself (or use any narcotics), I accept that those who do, whether to relax a bit or to get sloshed, have the right to do so. But every cop, judge, politician, or paper-pusher who condones the "war on drugs," and then goes home to chug a few beers or sip some wine--which is almost every one of them--is a hypocritical, evil coward. All together they form a machine that unjustifiably locks up MILLIONS of people, and yet NO ONE in the system accepts responsibility for doing it. THAT is why the "authority" myth is so horribly dangerous: its acts of violence and evil are very real, but NO ONE believes he is accountable for any of it.
A rather dramatic example happened at the Nuremberg trials: "Yeah, I helped exterminate innocent people, but I was just following orders! I'm not to blame!" And while Americans condemn the Nazis for that cop-out, EVERY "law enforcer" in this whole damn country uses the EXACT same excuse. "Hey, I'm just doing my job." I wonder, if someone got a JOB as a cop-killer, if the "boys in blue" would think that was okay.
Many of my past messages have been about "bad cops." But the truth of the matter is, there are no good cops. Initiating violence against people who have committed neither force nor fraud--whether it's done under the guise of "drug laws," "weapons laws," or fining people for not having that little sticker on their cars--is unjustifiable force. In other words, committing immoral violence is an unavoidable part of EVERY cop's job. There cannot be a "good cop" any more than there can be a "good car-jacker." Every cop's job is inherently evil, because a cop cannot just decide not to go after people who commit "victimless crimes," which make up MOST of the people the police harass, fine, or imprison.
"Hey, I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." They might as well say, "Hey, I don't use my own judgment, I just commit violence against whomever the politicians tell me to." And that's supposed to make it okay? Well, it doesn't. Personally, I have more respect for car-jackers. Yes, they commit evil, and I wouldn't hesitate to kill one if necessary, but at least they don't do what EVERY cop does: complain and whine about it when people suggest that THEY are responsible for what THEY do.
Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com
A GOOD Guy Wins against the Evil IRS
The Order required that I appear in person before Judge Hittner, at 9:00 a.m. on April 24, 2008. I arrived at the courthouse in Houston, Texas, around 8:30 a.m., in plenty of time for the hearing."
I took a seat on one of the long, wooden benches in the hallway, just outside of Courtroom 8A, opened one of my 3-ring binders of Exhibits, and began doing some last-minute reading...
THEN it happened!!! More here
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Bad Cop, Worse Cop
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." ---Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
Bad Cop, Worse Cop
These days, many news sites have a place after each story where the rabble can throw in their
own comments. And every time there's a story about police abuse, a debate arises about how
many cops are bad apples, and how many are good guys. You'll see everything from "They're
all fascist pigs!" to "The vast majority of cops are honest and do things by the book." Who is
right? What ARE the percentages of good versus bad? Good question. Another good question
is, Does the system even WANT the cops to be honest and by- the-book? Consider the following
story: Fascist pig beats up lady, falsely accuses her of a crime, but eventually is exposed as a
lying, sadistic thug. Here are the details:
Note in the story how this was NOT the first indication that the guy is a power-happy fascist.
So, does the system try to keep such people out, or does it just try to keep them from getting
CAUGHT being fascist pigs? I would suggest the latter.
http://www.wlky.com/news/17195591/detail.html
(Keep in mind, in the settlement for that case, "government" paid NOTHING. "Government"
has nothing to give. It stole money from OTHER people, and gave it to the victim of the fascist
thuggery. I'm not saying she didn't deserve it; I'm saying the ones who PAID it--you and me--
weren't the ones who did her harm. I would have loved to see the fascist himself be forced to
sell everything he has and give her the proceeds--and then get flung in a cage.)
In story after story, cops commit lawless thuggery, LIE about it, and then find out that it was
caught on tape. Then they "cooperate"- - -once they know they're sunk--and get credit for
doing so. The system defends and protects its thugs, until their evil is too obvious for the
public to miss. Then, and only then, will the system hang an individual thug or two out to
dry, as if they are the only problem.
The potential harm that can be caused by "authority" dwarfs what the average crook can do.
Imagine if that lady had been put in a cage for 15 YEARS, based on the fascist's bald-faced lie.
(I only did a year based on fascist lies myself.) And since, as recent stories have shown, cops
seem perfectly willing to lie to protect their fellow gang members, it often makes resisting
police abuse rather hazardous.
So do cops and their bosses actually object to police brutality and abuse? As far as I can tell,
they object to being CAUGHT, and that's about it. They consistently lie, insult, threaten, and
assault, until they're caught on tape. Then, and ONLY then, do they show "remorse," which
shows only that they're sorry they got CAUGHT. While the public gets upset when they see
example of the "bad apples" on
the police force, I see little or no evidence that those who run the system mind it at all... except
when they get caught. Yeah, they publicly act surprised and offended at the "abuse," but only
after all hope of cover-up, excuses and lies is gone.
What would we see if even 50% of cops actually gave a damn about individual liberty,
constitutional rights, truth and justice? We'd see cops getting fired every other day. When
FIVE Tennessee "law enforcers" (power-happy thugs) get caught TORTURING a guy to get
his "consent" to search his home, that means that there are a lot more "bad apples" than
government would have us believe. If there was a "good cop" on the scene, what would he
have done? Well, if he was ACTUALLY good, he would at the very least have exposed the
abuse after the fact, and if he had a spine, he would have done whatever it took to STOP the
other cops from being sadistic thugs.
So how many cops would do that? Why have I NEVER heard of that happening? Like those
in the military, partly because of training and partly because of circumstance, "government"
enforcers always evolve into a gang which cares far more about defending the gang than it
does about doing the right thing. (The mass murder down in Waco is a particularly heinous
example of this.)
Of the recent wave of examples of police abuse that have come out, how many were exposed
by fellow cops? I know of none. Is it because they never NOTICE their fellow officers abusing
people? Of course not. Is there any cop anywhere who has never at least once seen other cops
illegally abusing people? I doubt it. So where are the "good cops" exposing that kind of thing--
I mean BEFORE someone else catches them? Can you think of a single case of that? I can't. Why
not? They've ALL seen the abuse, and NONE of them expose it. Why is that?
It's because if, as a cop, you don't at least look the other way, if not participate yourself in the
thuggery, your chances of remaining a cop are slim to none. No street gang would allow its
members to say bad things about it, and neither would the street gang which calls itself "the
police." The fact that there ARE "Internal Affairs" units at all, which are usually resented by all
the other cops, makes it pretty obvious that most cops are NOT going to "tell" on each other, no
matter what they do. They have sworn to "protect and serve" their gang, and that's exactly what
they do. If there are only a few "bad apples," and if most cops are honest and good--if ANY cops
are honest and good, in fact--why aren't THEY the ones exposing police misconduct? They
have a front row seat to all of it, yet their lips remain sealed.
Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Cobert Explaines the Oil "Shortage"
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
You Too Can Spy on Your Neighbors!
Home Network Awareness ProgramThe communities across our beloved nation have never been at a greater risk than they are today. However, the greatest threat that we have to combat within the community is primarily invisible and typically intangible. This threat is terrorism. Since terrorists operate in cells that embed themselves within the community they often go completely unnoticed, not unlike the terrorists who carried out the September 11th attacks.
Identifying terrorists is no easy task since they become a part of the community and rely on its resources, especially for communication. Cities, towns, and suburbs all across our nation often have computer networks. These networks are located within places of business, commerce, as well as our homes. With the widespread adoption and usage of wireless networks, it has created a climate that is ripe for exploitation by terrorists. Since these networks often times are unsecured or offered as a free service to the public it allows any individual to use them, including terrorists. Even the networks that reside in our homes can be used by terrorists who maybe our own neighbors or fellow building residents.
Therefore it is imperative that these networks do not go unmonitored. That is why the Neighborhood Network Watch was established and why now the Home Network Awareness Program has been created to allows individuals like yourself to make sure that terrorists may not be using your own home network to plan the next attack on our nation or your very own community.
If you are interested in participating in the Home Network Awareness Program please download the in depth step by step guide to collecting network data with TCPDUMP, "How To Sniff Network Traffic." Also, watch the following public service announcements:
- Introduction to the Home Network Awareness Program
- How to Watch Terrorist Activity on My Home Network, as well as My Neighbors
The Incompetence of the NSA
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Olympics, Putzympics!
Chinese Rights Lawyer Suffers Unimaginable Torture
A much-loved Chinese human rights lawyer has been subject to forms of torture "beyond anyone's imagination", a high-level government source has disclosed.
Gao Zhisheng was arrested in November last year and tortured for nearly two months before being released into house arrest.
Now in a taped interview, a senior Chinese government whistleblower has revealed the extent of the torture and humiliation the lawyer suffered.
In one case he was stripped and beaten with electric batons and when he lost consciousness prison guards urinated on his head. His family, in particular his young children are also believed to have suffered forms of torture.
The revelations are all the more poignant given that he disappeared from house arrest on August 7, the eve of the Olympics and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
Vice president of the European Parliament Edward McMillan-Scott recently wrote to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, urging him to try to get guarantees of Mr. Gao's safety when he met with Communist Party bosses at the Olympics.
"Gao Zhisheng is known as the conscience of China, as Russian dissidents were in the Soviet era," McMillan Scott said.
"The difference between the Soviet Union and China today is the 'widespread' use of torture in China's gulag, according to the UN's rapporteur on torture, Dr Manfred Novak.
"These are believed to hold up to seven million Chinese and I have met many survivors of torture for their religious beliefs."
Mr. Gao was once among China's top-ten lawyers and defended the rights of house-church members, coal miners, petitioners, home-demolition victims, and Falun Gong adherents.
In 2006 he penned several letters to the Communist Party leadership calling for an end to the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group, which was outlawed in 1999 after the regime grew paranoid over its popularity.
His arrest came after he wrote to Mr. McMillan-Scott and US Congress raising concerns about growing human rights violations in the run-up to the Olympics.
A well-placed Chinese government source told The Epoch Times' sister station Sound of Hope radio that he was tortured in the same way as Falun Gong practitioners were.
In a taped telephone interview the source said that the purpose of the tortures were to make him wish he was dead and break his spirit. He was held in a re-education camp rather than sent to prison.
"The tortures are beyond anyone's imagination," the source said.
"Gao is well known in the West, a highly admired person, and if anything else happens to him I think that it will contribute significantly to establishing the 2008 Games in the minds of people as being the second Berlin Games of 1936," said David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State.
"It's utterly indefensible what they're doing. It just makes the point that it's a totalitarian government rather than an authoritarian government and that human life - unless you're one of the party apparatchiks - means as much to the Party state in China as does a cigarette ash," said Kilgour.
Kilgour added, "We have a report that he is being tortured in Beijing. David Matas and I nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is one the bravest human beings on this earth and he is being tortured, I gather, right now."
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Mis-Adventures of Orwell Man!
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
"War is Peace" - Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984
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Friday, August 08, 2008
American Police State
If you visit this and other anti-status-quo establishment sites, have participated in any demonstration, have sent a protest letter, have written, been in a video or stood up publicly expressing support for freedom or the Constitution, you and your family members have been moved from the FBI's "blue list" to the Homeland Security's "red list."
In addition, DNA samples have already been covertly obtained from you and each of your family members and added to the National DNA Database (NDD).
They have your fingerprints, a strand of your hair and blood samples.
Your house, car and place of business have been bugged.
Satellite surveillance constantly track your every move through the use of multiple implants inserted without your consent or knowledge.
Please understand that there is no need to stop your resistance activities at this point, it is too late. You have already been entered. However, you are always free to do so and it might help knock off a decade of internment.
On the other-hand, since you really have nothing left to lose but more freedom it might be wise to step up your resistance activities. The above can only occur if the present trend and the structure of the existing government continue unstopped. The authoritarian, fascist, mercantile domination of the American government is a systemic problem and CANNOT be solved from within or using the existing form of government. The system must be overhauled completely with new safe guards installed immutably to guarantee personal liberties.
The following is proof of the utter impotence of the existing structure to guarantee liberty. ALL they do is register an IMPOTENT protest while allowing the vivisection of YOUR lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
InformationClearingHouse publisher - THREATENED IN HOME BY 3 ARMED MEN !
InformationClearingHouse publisher, Tom Feeley, who runs the web site - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ was THREATENED IN HIS HOME BY 3 ARMED MEN ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
. When Tom's son and friend approached them, the car sped off. Tom, does not know whether this is connected to his situation, but it is definitely suspicious.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Paris Fights Back with Eloquence
After years of being the butt of infinite jokes and ridicule she shows that she at the very least can read a cue card or memorize lines that actually say something worth considering.
Cheesus Crispus! If Paris can do this, who is next? A coherent Brittany? An unloaded Lohan?
Gadzooks! Zounds! GREAT CEASAR'S GHOST! The Liberlosertarian Party needs her to help sell Boob Barr-abbus as their candida-date. Now that Would Be Hot!
Sheeple in training!!
The makers of an educational toy for children are making sure that today's children understand the importance of Homeland security. The toy labeled "Scan-It ", exposes children to the ins and outs on how airport security checkpoints work. This toy comes equipped with a functioning conveyor belt that transports toys or other items from the check in, straight through to the check out. MORE HERE
Monday, August 04, 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn R.I.P. 1918-2008
I still have it today. Dog eared, underlined, with faded highlighting it is still one of my most prized processions. It is not that it was autographed or a special edition of which it is neither, it was one of the great pieces of literature that nurtured the spirit of liberty within me as a young man . It was another "different drummer" that resonated a responsive chord of freedom within my heart as did Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience when I was still in high school.
I have often thought that if one has not lived through tyranny one can learn about its many faces by reading the writings of those who have survived its cruelties. As government injustices compound in our world and in our own country, we are blind and foolish if we can not learn from those who already experienced the horror and warn us of the signs of eminent tyranny.
Solzhenitsyn gives us a chilling view into what could lay before us if we don't learn from his past. Thus I give you my favorite Solzhenitsyn quote from the The Gulag Archipelago as a warning and a reminder that uncontrolled government is an evil that must be contained with whatever means is necessary to contain it.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
- Mit
Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
 Solzhenitsyn had been ill for years |
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.
The author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, who returned to Russia in 1994, died of either a stroke or heart failure.
The Nobel laureate had suffered from high blood pressure in recent years.
After returning to Russia, Solzhenitsyn wrote several polemics on Russian history and identity.
 |  His intransigence, his ideals and his long, eventful life make of Solzhenitsyn a storybook figure, heir to Dostoyevsky  French President Nicolas Sarkozy |
His son Stepan was quoted by one Russian news agency as saying his father died of heart failure, while another agency quoted literary sources as saying he had suffered a stroke.
He died in his home in the Moscow area, where he had lived with his wife Natalya, at 2345 local time (1945 GMT), Stepan told Itar-Tass.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent his condolences to the writer's family, a Kremlin spokesperson said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy described him as "one of the greatest consciences of 20th Century Russia".
"His intransigence, his ideals and his long, eventful life make of Solzhenitsyn a storybook figure, heir to Dostoyevsky," he said in a statement.
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