Typhus is also caused by lice, not the head lice type, but the body louse. There is always an emergence of typhus during wars, after natural disasters and when homelessness or lack of sanitation increases. Typhus in camp environments is commonplace.
The reason for this is simple, the lice were there all the time, but our daily shower and the norm of washing out clothes in a washing machine removes them from our environment.
When we are in contact with people who have infestations of body lice but we can’t shower daily and put our clothes through the wash the louse breeds and infestation occurs.
Like the head lice it is not the louse itself that causes problems, it’s our reaction to it. The louse defecates as it feeds, the bite itches and we scratch, This deposits the faeces in the wound and typhus gets into the system.
It presents as a flu like illness and a feeling of general malaise which will increase in severity as the constant itch-scratch cycle puts more bacteria into the bloodstream.
Typhus has two forms, epidemic typhus and Murine typhus and both can kill. Outbreaks of typhus have killed millions of people through the ages.
Assuming access to typhus vaccine is not available then prevention has to be the order of the day.
Keep a couple of sets of clothes for when you venture out and mix with other people…if you venture out and mix with other people.
These clothes should be removed on arrival at your home. Put them into a plastic bag and seal with tape or a cable tie. Then put them into another bag or a bucket with a lid and leave them there for at least 14 days.
The lice need to feed every five days or they die the extra time is to cover any eggs that hatch.
After taking off your clothes shower if you can or at a minimum sponge bath from head to toe. You can use a damp rag, baby wipes, whatever. The point is to make sure that there are no lice on your body. If you do find one, crush it before it gets onto someone else.
The clothes in the bag should be given a good shake before you wear them again and if possible be left in sunlight as the UV rays kill a variety of other bacteria.
If you do think you or a member of your group is infected by typhus antibiotics if you have them should be given.
Anything is better than nothing but penicillin based drugs are far less effective than they used to be due to resistance. Tetracycline or Doxycycline would be the treatment of choice.
THESE ANTIBIOTICS SHOULD NEVER BE USED AFTER THEIR EXPIRY DATE AS THEY BECOME TOXIC AS THEY DEGRADE.
You need to be fastidious if you are mixing with those who have rare access to laundry and sanitation facilities. If you take someone into the group they should strip outside of the property and wash with whatever they can before coming into the house. I know this sounds harsh but its essential that any lice are removed before they join the group. The lice will move from person to person very easily and this is to be avoided at all costs particularly as the antibiotics that treat it cannot be stored long term.
Lizzie Bennett retired from her job as a senior operating department practitioner in the UK earlier this year. Her field was trauma and accident and emergency and she has served on major catastrophe teams around the UK. Lizzie publishes Medically Speaking on the topic of preparedness.
The deteriorating situation in Guantanamo – where a mass hunger strike has been unfolding for over two months – continues to raise the eyebrows of human rights groups. Prominent activist Medea Benjamin discusses with RT why the prison is still not closed.
Twenty-four hunger strikers are now receiving enteral feeds, with three people “being observed in the detainee hospital,” according to Guantanamo Bay Public Affairs Director Lieutenant Colonel Samuel E. House. His most recent report put the official number of hunger strikers at 100.
Although Guantanamo Bay remains open over four years after Obama pledged to close it, the President continues to voice his disapproval of the detention center.
In his first public response to the ongoing hunger strike, Obama said it was “not a surprise” that there are “problems in Guantanamo.”
“It is critical for us to understand that Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe. It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts. It is a recruitment tool for extremists. It needs to be closed,” he said in an April 30 statement.
The next day, Obama announced that he was considering hiring a new State Department official to oversee options for a future transfer of the prison’s detainees once it closes.
AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards
Earlier this month it has been revealed that keeping Guantanamo Bay running is costing the US some $150 million a year.
Medea Benjamin, author of the book “Drone Warfare,” shared her thoughts with RT on why the Obama never kept his promise to shut down the notorious detention facility.
RT:President Obama pledged to close Guantanamo when he assumed office in 2009. But over four years later, it’s still open. Why?
Medea Benjamin: People around the world are saying if the President of the United States says the prison should be closed, why is it still open? That’s a very logical question to ask. I think that the politics in the US is so partisan that the President is concerned already about who is going to be running in the next presidential election as the democratic candidate, the Congressional elections, wanting to make sure that as many democrats as possible win. The President doesn’t want to be seen as soft, and national security issues. He doesn’t think the American people care enough about this issue. And so he prefers to keep the status quo. The status quo means that desperate men are dying and are being tortured by being force-fed. That is not a status quo that we, the American people, should allow, if we want to continue to call ourselves a democracy.
RT:The prisoners’ hunger strike has been going on for over two months now, but there’s very little information coming from most media outlets. So what’s really going on there now?
AFP Photo / Toronto Star
MB: The prisoners who have had a chance to get messages out to their lawyers have described the terrible situation that they are in being strapped down for several hours having these tubes stuffed down the nose and into their stomach. They say it feels like a razor going down their bodies. This is another form of torture, and these prisoners have already endured years of torture in Guantanamo.
RT:The hunger strike doesn’t seem to be obtaining the prisoners’ goals, especially since you mention they are being force-fed. So why are they continuing to starve themselves?
MB: I think these inmates, or prisoners, as really what we should call them, are desperate and many of them are determined just to keep the hunger strike going. It’s difficult for them, because some of them are in isolation and they don’t know if other prisoners are continuing the hunger strike; are they being told that the other prisoners had stopped the hunger strike? I’m sure it’s a tremendous dilemma for them. But a number of those who have been able to speak through their lawyers have said they would rather die than live in these terrible conditions without ever knowing if they are going to be released.
RT:President Obama says he still believes the prison should be closed. Do you think he was sincere in his statement last month? Does he have the power to do more than he is?
MB: Obama is lacking the moral courage, he’s lacking the political will, he blames Congress, but really he has the power to release those prisoners who have already been cleared for release; demand a speedy and fair trial for the other ones and bring them into the US and close down the shameful prison of Guantanamo. We just have to force him to do it. We, the American people, the global community.
AFP Photo / Jim Watson
RT:What should be done with the prisoners in the unlikely event that Guantanamo is shut down sometime in the near future?
MB: One is to take the majority of prisoners, 86 of them, who have already been cleared by the US government – that means they have been found not to be guilty, not to be harmful to anybody – they should be released. The majority of them are from Yemen. The government of Yemen says they are totally prepared to take them back. There are other prisoners from countries like the United Kingdom that could certainly handle the return of prisoners. So those cleared for release should be released. The others should be sent to a prison in the US and should be tried in US courts just as other criminals are tried, many of them convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
A recent report reveals a disturbing fact about the treatment of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: his multiple requests for a lawyer during his interrogation were ignored.
Apparently, Tsarnaev was Mirandized only because a federal magistrate decided to hold an in-hospital hearing for the suspect during which he was advised of his right to remain silent and be appointed a lawyer.
This hearing interrupted an interrogation that had lasted some 16 hours up to that point. The Mirandizing of Tsarnaev upset former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani who called it “mind-boggling” and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers who called the decision to intervene a “God-awful policy.”
Yet even more insane is that the Los Angeles Times reported, “A senior congressional aide said Tsarnaev had asked several times for a lawyer, but that request was ignored since he was being questioned under the public safety exemption to the Miranda rule.”
Greenwald points out that if this report is indeed accurate, it would be a much more serious violation of essential rights than delaying Miranda warnings under the “public safety exception,” even the expanded version pushed by the Obama Justice Department.
Denying the right to a lawyer during interrogation after repeated requests is “as fundamental a violation of crucial guaranteed rights as can be imagined,” according to Greenwald.
“The bottom line is this: not telling a suspect about his rights in order to try obtain brief, immediate and emergency public safety information is one thing,” writes the lawyer writing under the name “bmaz” for Empty Wheel. “Straight out denying and refusing a defendant constitutional rights he is legally entitled to, and has tried to invoke, is quite another. The government has issues on both fronts as to Tsarnaev.”
Invoking the public safety exemption to deny the right to a lawyer has only been accepted in cases where “the intrusion into the constitutional right to counsel [...] was so fleeting – in both it was no more than a question or two about a weapon on the premises of a search while the search warrant was actively being executed,” according to bmaz.
“Nothing whatsoever like the 16 hours of interrogation applied to Tsarnaev, across at least two sessions, over a period of at least two days,” bmaz adds.
Even the use of the public safety exception was dubious, according to law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
The public safety exception “does not apply here because there was no emergency threat facing law enforcement,” according to Chemereinsky’s article in the Los Angeles Times.
That issue aside, the possibility that Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer were actively blocked by the government is far more problematic.
“This is a US citizen arrested for an alleged crime on US soil: there is no justification whatsoever for denying him his repeatedly exercised right to counsel,” according to Greenwald.
Even more troubling, Greenwald highlights the fact that the Los Angeles Times report indicates that if the federal magistrate did not force herself into the situation, the interrogation could have continued for even longer.
That interrogation apparently would have continued along with the Miranda delay and the denial of Tsarnaev’s right to a lawyer. Meanwhile, lawmakers are actually saying that the judge actually should not have stepped in.
As of now, it appears that the only confirmation of the government ignoring Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer come from an anonymous congressional aide cited by the Los Angeles Times.
As such, it should be treated with a healthy degree of skepticism, yet the Los Angeles Times clearly believed the source to be credible and reliable enough to print the statement.
Glenn Greenwald sums up the importance of this issue quite nicely. This is not something we can brush aside simply because it’s a suspected terrorist, a Muslim, etc.
“If you cheer when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s right to counsel is denied, then you’re enabling the institutionalization of that violation, and thus ensuring that you have no basis or ability to object when that right is denied to others whom you find more sympathetic (including yourself),” Greenwald writes.
Indeed, how this simple fact is overlooked is beyond me at this point. The promotion of the erosion of civil liberties for one person or group just guarantees that it can and will be expanded to cover others eventually. There is no reason to believe that the exceptions to our most essential rights can’t be expanded to cover you as well.
Madison Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysis database End The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, or other organization/cause. He is available for podcast and radio interviews. Madison also now has his own radio show on UCY.TV from 7 pm — 10 pm Pacific, which you can find HERE. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contact him at admin@EndtheLie.com
While Guantanamo officials have refused to identify the hunger strikers, the Justice Department has notified attorneys if their clients have become malnourished to the point of requiring tube feedings.
The Miami Herald has learned of the identities of eight of the men through their attorneys, four of those are being held even though they were cleared for release.
These individuals are just a tiny slice of the 55 total men eligible for release that have been identified by the Justice Department separately in federal court filings.
Of the some 166 men in Guantanamo, 46 were identified by a 2009 Guantanamo Review Task Force as “indefinite detainees.” This category means the detainees are people “against whom the United States had no evidence to convict of a war crime but had concluded was too dangerous to let go,” according to Foreign Policy.
According to the Miami Herald, the review also found “that 56 were eligible for transfer and another 30 might be eligible for transfer if certain conditions were met.”
Most of those transfers have been stopped by both Congressional restrictions on releases and the White House’s stance on refusing to transfer prisoners to Yemen, where most of them are from.
People in Yemen have begun speaking out, decrying the fact that Yemenis make up the largest portion of Guantanamo detainees, all of which are kept in what they call “very poor” conditions.
Yet it seems that the U.S. is unwilling to budge on the issue even when Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate intelligence Committee, said that it was indeed time to reconsider the ban on repatriating certain low-level detainees, according to the New York Times.
The number of hunger striking detainees has risen quite rapidly since April 13 when most of the prison complex was placed under lockdown after soldiers stormed the communal prison.
Before the lockdown, the military reported that 43 of the 166 detainees were hunger strikers. Now lawyers say that around 130 prisoners are taking part, though the military says it is just 100.
The military, however, maintains that the number isn’t actually growing.
Instead, the prison camp’s spokesman said on Friday that the 54 detainees added to the number since April 13 had just concealed their hunger strike from the prison by obscuring the surveillance cameras in their cells, which prompted the raid.
“All of the detainees who are considered hunger strikers were previously hunger striking,” said Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a Guantanamo spokesman, “but could not be observed or placed under medical care because they had covered or broken the cameras” at Guantanamo’s communal section called Camp 6.
The largest known hunger strike since the prison camp was established in January 2002 occurred in 2005 when Guantanamo “had a detainee population of 575 detainees with 142 detainees choosing to hunger strike in July,” according to House.
30 of those detainees, on average, were being “enteral fed,” according to House. Enteral feeding is when a tube is placed up the detainee’s nose, down the back of their throat and into their stomach. A nutritional supplement is then pumped into the detainee’s stomach.
This practice is regularly referred to as force-feeding, though Guantanamo officials refuse to identify it as such.
“I refuse to say ‘force-feeding,’” House said to AFP. “It refers to a cartoon where individuals are strapped, yelling, screaming, mouth open and food is dumped down the person’s throat and that is not the case.”
“We will continue to prevent people from starving. It is by all means the rights of detainees to protest, however it is our mission to provide safe, secure and a humane environment and we will not allow our detainees to starve themselves to death,” House said.
The Constitution Project, on the other hand, said in a recent report that “forced feeding of detainees is a form of abuse and must end.”
In a press conference after the report by the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment was released, Dr. Gerald Thomson made some even more pointed statements, seen in the clip below.
“The World Medical Association and international officials have clearly identified that process as cruel, in human and degrading treatment,” Thomson said. “And given the level of brutality could extend to torture.”
Omar Farah, an attorney for Guantanamo detainees, said that one of his clients “reports he was force-fed to the point he was overly full and he would vomit, being strapped down. The regime was so harsh that eventually he gave up.”
The New York Times even published an op-ed by a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel.
“I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way,” he wrote. “As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone.”
The concerns surrounding the hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay are numerous, but perhaps most worrisome is the fact that many of these individuals could have been released.
Even though they have been cleared for release, they are being held without charge or trial and subjected to what some clearly argue is far from acceptable treatment.
How long this will continue is anyone’s guess at this point.
Madison Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysis database End The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, or other organization/cause. He is available for podcast and radio interviews. Madison also now has his own radio show on UCY.TV from 7 pm — 10 pm Pacific, which you can find HERE. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contact him at admin@EndtheLie.com
International law is clear and unequivocal. Torture is illegal at all times, under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions.
It violates constitutional protections. They include the 8th Amendment’s guarantee against “cruel and unusual punishments.”
Treaties America signed prohibit torture and other forms of ill-treatment. They’re binding under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
It states:
“….all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.”
Earlier Supreme Court rulings condemned force and other forms of ill-treatment amounting to torture. They include harsh interrogations, threats, sleep and food deprivation, prolonged isolation, whipping, slapping, beatings, and other forms of abuse.
Laws prohibiting torture are jus cogens. They’re higher, compelling laws. No nation may pass legislation permitting it. No courts may justify it. Jus cogens prohibitions allow no immunity from criminal liability.
On April 16, The New York Times headlined “US Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes,” saying:
The Constitution Project’s (CP) “sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been ‘the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.’ ”
It’s “indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture.”
CP’s report is titled “Task Force on Detainee Treatment.” It followed “two years of intensive study, investigation and deliberation.”
It was undertaken “to provide an accurate and authoritative account of how the United States treated people its forces held in custody as the nation mobilized to deal with a global terrorist threat.”
“The events examined in this report are unprecedented in US history.”
“In the course of the nation’s many previous conflicts, there is little doubt that some US personnel committed brutal acts against captives, as have armies and governments throughout history.”
Nothing matched post-9/11 policies. They were authorized at the highest levels of government. Bush, Cheney and others around them did so.
Despite this extraordinary aspect, the Obama administration declined, as a matter of policy, to undertake or commission an official study of what happened, saying it was ‘unproductive’ to ‘look backwards’ rather than forward.
Crimes of war and against humanity were committed during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Extraordinary renditions began on Clinton’s watch.
Courts, including the nation’s highest, largely looked the other way. Instead of condemning war on terror lawlessness, they did little judicially to stop it.
On June 11, the Supreme Court denied certiorati for seven Guantanamo detainees. Doing so violated the Constitution’s Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2. It states:
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public safety may require it.
CP’s report said it’s “indisputable” that America practices torture. The nation’s highest officials bear full responsibility. What began earlier continues. Torture is globalized. Snatch and grab is policy.
In Afghanistan, dozens of abductions occur monthly. Imprisonment and torture follow. Guantanamo represents America’s public face. It’s the tip of the iceberg. It symbolizes US lawlessness.
Dozens of “black sites” operate globally. They do so extrajudicially. They do it out of sight and mind. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” became code language for torture and other forms of abuse.
Suspects are snatched and disappeared. Foreign governments are complicit. What began under Clinton intensified under Bush. Obama continues the worst of his practices.
CP discussed the following topics:
Detention at Guantanamo
Afghanistan
Iraq
Washington’s Post-9/11 “Legal Process”
Rendition and “black sites”
Medical professionals’ involvement in detention and interrogation practices
True and false confessions – most are forcibly extracted
Effects and consequences of US policies
Recidivism
The Obama administration
The role of Congress
Guilt at the highest levels of government is shared. They include the executive, congressional and judicial branches. The CIA and Pentagon are complicit. Torture and other forms of abuse became official policy. It remains so extrajudicially.
America crossed the line. CP called doing so unjustifiable. It violated fundamental rule of law principles. It damaged the nation’s standing. It’s legally, morally and ethically compromised.
It “reduced our capacity to convey moral censure. (It) potentially increased the danger to US military personnel taken captive.”
On April 14, Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel explained his ordeal. “Gitmo is killing me,” he said. He’s been there 11 years and three months.
He threatens no one. He committed no crime. He hasn’t been charged or tried. He never should have been abducted in the first place. He should have been released long ago.
Military officials said he was a “guard” for bin Laden. Samir called saying so “nonsense.” He thinks his captors no longer believe it. “But they don’t seem to care how long I sit here, either,” he explained.
He remains because Yemeni prisoners aren’t sent home. “This makes no sense,” said Samir. “I am a human being, not a passport, and I deserve to be treated like one.”
He’s aged 35. He wants to go home and see his family. He wants one of his own. Conditions are “desperate,” he said. Detainees are suffering horrifically. There’s no end in sight to their imprisonment.
He and around 130 others are hunger striking for justice. He’s being force-fed. He described the ordeal. He’s bound hands and feet to his bed.
An IV is forcibly inserted into his hand. He spent 26 hours this way “tied to his bed.” He was denied permission to go to the toilet. He wasn’t allowed to pray.
He’ll “never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up (his) nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way,” he said.
As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone.
I am still being force-fed. Two times a day they tie me to a chair in my cell. My arms, legs and head are strapped down. I never know when they will come. Sometimes they come during the night, as late as 11 p.m., when I’m sleeping.
During one force-feeding the nurse pushed the tube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurting me more than usual, because she was doing things so hastily.
I called the interpreter to ask the doctor if the procedure was being done correctly or not.
It was so painful that I begged them to stop feeding me. The nurse refused to stop feeding me.
As they were finishing, some of the ‘food’ spilled on my clothes. I asked them to change my clothes, but the guard refused to allow me to hold on to this last shred of my dignity.
He hopes because of what all detainees suffer, “the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantanamo before it’s too late.”
The Times gave Samir op-ed space. Two days later, its own editorial followed. It headlined “Indisputable Torture,” saying:
CP’s report confirmed it. It’s “the fullest independent effort so far to assess the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at the CIA’s secret prisons.”
Defending or denying it doesn’t wash. A detailed appendix includes dozens of legal cases. They provide clear evidence that Washington prosecuted similar treatment or denounced what other countries commit.
CP’s assessment “is a good step in (the right) direction,” said Times editors. A separate 6,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report remains classified.
The next step should be its release. There is no excuse for further delay.
Current and former Times editors have much to answer for. They’ve been far less than forthright on torture. Harvard JFK School of Government students explained. Their paper was titled “Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media.”
It’s cruel and inhuman punishment. It’s indisputably torture. Harvard students called it:
“….the practice of intentionally inducing the sensation of drowning in the victim.”
It’s “achieved in a number of ways, including but not limited to (1) placing a cloth or plastic wrap, (2) pouring water directly into the mouth and nose of the victim, (3) placing a stick between the victim’s teeth and pouring water into his or her mouth, often until the victim’s stomach becomes distended, then forcing the water back out of the victim’s mouth, and (4) dunking and holding the victim’s head under water.”
They documented how America’s four largest broadsheets covered the practice over the past century. They included the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today (because it’s the nation’s most widely circulated newspaper), and The New York Times.
From 1901 – 1925, Times editors, columnists and contributors seldom called it torture. They did so in 11.9% of their articles.
From 1931 – 2002, they affirmed or implied torture in 81.5% of them.
From 2002 – 2008, they did so twice. It reflected 1.4% of published columns or commentaries. Neither one discussed America.
Bush administration torture was sanitized. Occasionally it was called “harsh” or “coercive.” The word “torture” was systematically avoided.
It wasn’t admitted or denounced. It continues under Obama. It remains official policy. Don’t expect Times editors to explain.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/
The criminal Obama Administration does not dare act against the American people until they get enough of our guns and subsequently render us defenseless. Their determination to disarm citizens speaks to their fear of the American people. If we give up our guns, the American people will sacrifice any leverage that they now enjoy over this criminal administration. Yet, we have become such sheep, as a nation, I do not know where we will find the collective backbone to stand up the tyranny which is threatening to enslave us. I fear most will give up their guns when called to do so. As you read on, you will quickly see the need to never, never, never give up our guns.
The Winds of Civil War Are Upon Us
It is hard to argue that the early winds of revolution are not swirling in the American air. Even the dumbed-down populace is aware that something, yet undefined for the ignorant, is terribly wrong as all signs point to very bad times ahead.
Those of us who are not prisoners to network news, are all too aware of the depopulation schemes of the globalists who have seized control of the US government. Obama and his handlers seem content to let the coming conflict unfold and come to fruition in order to squash any meaningful resistance to the complete establishment of a scientific dictatorship controlled by the five megabanks.
As An American Citizen, You Have Duties
As an American citizen, you have a duty to resist all foreign and domestic enemies of the Republic. The Obama Administration is an illegitimate government which is controlled by the five megabanks who have hijacked this government. Oh, you do not think that is true? Then tell me how, when we as a country are supposedly plunging off the fiscal cliff, we are still giving new bailouts to Goldman Sachs? These criminals violate the Constitution every time they read one of your emails, illegally listen to your phone calls, financially bail out criminal organizations like Goldman Sachs or abduct American citizens under the NDAA.
The day that Congress passed the NDAA and Obama signed it into law, this illegitimate government declared war on the American people. If you have been living in a fog, the NDAA allows the government to secretly arrest and even murder you. You don’t believe it, click here, right now. No, do not read the next sentence until you have clicked and read this link, or this link. Do I now have your attention?
Will American Troops Fire On American Citizens?
When I have raised the question of American troops firing on American citizens, and I have answered in the affirmative, many veterans have taken strong exception to my opinion.
I recently asked G. Edward Griffin that same question when he appeared on my show and he unhesitatingly said he thought the majority of soldiers would fire on American citizens if ordered to do so. The troops did not hesitate to follow orders during Katrina much to the detriment of American citizens, now did they?
There can be little doubt that American soldiers will not only fire upon American protesters, but most will do so without the slightest amount of hesitation or conscience. This has happened several times in totalitarian regimes and the USA will be no different. For when one puts on the helmet, they are already conditioned to follow orders.
What Will Be the Trigger Event?
Recently, I interviewed Jerome Corsi, who in his new book stated that the government and the ACLU is doing everything they can to erase God and Bible from the American landscape. Will America revolt against the attack upon its most precious institution? Sadly, I do not think so.
Our rights are increasingly being eliminated by the criminal banksters who have hijacked our government and we hear hardly a whimper from the people.
With bank account confiscations taking place in Europe, one has to wonder if this will trigger a violent response in America? It could and I think it is likely. When the banks close and abscond with investors’ money, and people only have three days of food in the house, I think we will see an unprecedented number of Americans in the streets. Then the crackdown, from the banker-controlled government will react with a vengeance toward the American people.
We Are On the Verge of Total Undeclared Martial Law
With the advent of the Boston Marathon bombing, I believe we are going to see the total rollout of martial law, it just will not be declared so as to not wake up any more slumbering sheep than is absolutely necessary.
On the heels of the Boston false flag bombing, the government will need to keep our “children safe” through the massive rollout of the TSA at all sporting events, malls and shopping centers, bus depots, train stations and on the highways and byways of America. Checkpoints will be everywhere; this is the first wave of martial law and when the trigger event starts, we will find out what those FEMA camps were actually built for. They were built for those of you and I and those that will not conform to the banksters massive looting of our money and their eventual depopulation agenda.
Are You Ready?
Are you ready for the coming tyrannical crackdown and the complete evisceration of our constitutional liberties? Have you taken the proper precautions that will ensure the safety of you and your family? It is not likely that very many of us have taken the any meaningful steps to maximize our chances for survival in what will prove to be humanity’s darkest days. Do you have what it takes to survive in a re-education camp?
When the Wackenhut bus rolls into your neighborhood, are you prepared to deal with what lies ahead? Let’s assume for a second that martial law is fully enacted and you were not able to find a safe sanctuary and that you are arrested by the powers that be. Have you considered what will happen?
Your family members will be separated by the authorities as a prelude to sending you to their detention facilities, and that means that men will go to one facility, and women will go to another. Children will have their own facility awaiting them. Remember, the state owns your children and they have declared so in their Agenda 21 documents. In all likelihood, this will mark the last time you will ever see your family. How do I know this? Read the Rex 84 documents. The government tells you in plain language what they plan to do with you and your family.
The Two Biggest Threats to Your Survival
Imagine how a man who is deprived of everyone he has ever cared about, and at the same time this man has lost his house and all of his possessions, how will he survive? There are two primary dangers facing detainees and the biggest danger consists of bad luck and your showers actually emitting cyanide instead of water. And the second danger detainees will face is the loss of hope as we succumb and let go of life. For how will you find meaning in your life when you’re separated from everything you’ve ever known and loved?
If you are sent to the camps in the upcoming clamp down, there are things you can do to exercise control over the things of which you have influence. The Jews were a very resilient people and were able to manufacture their own subculture while in the death camp.
There Were Resisters to the Forced Incarcerations
There were those, however, that did resist as they ran from the relocation trains, and/or attacked their captors. In almost every instance, resisting authorities at the time of arrest was almost 100% fatal, most often ending with a bullet in the back of their head.
Within the death camps, a legitimate subculture appeared as the people played cards, and actors, musicians, comics, singers, and dancers all entertained small groups who came together for a few hours to forget their dehumanization. Inmates formed close relationships with one another and this was their grassroots form of resistance.
The voices of history are clear, if you’re ever forced into a re-education camp, pray for good luck and develop meaningful relationships among your fellow detainees and find pleasure in the small things over which you will have some measure of control. Some Inmates Resisted
If you allowed yourself to be taken to a camp, could you organize a resistance and somehow win your freedom? There were some who tried just that. However, the results were not promising.
In Treblinka, seven hundred Jews were successful in blowing up the camp on August 2, 1943. All but 150 of the inmates perished in retaliation for their efforts. Only 12 Treblinka inmates survived the war. In Sobibor, Jewish and Russian inmates mounted an escape on October 14, 1943. One in ten successfully escaped, about 60 out of 600. The prisoners involved in the escape survived to join the Soviet underground. In Auschwitz, on October 7, 1944, one of the four crematoria was blown up by Jewish workers, whose job it was to clear away the bodies of gas chamber victims. The workers were all caught and 100% of them were killed.
The lesson seems clear, if you allow yourself to be taken, you’re probably not coming out of the experience alive.
What is the lesson that one should draw? First, do not get caught; and I know that is easier said than done. Secondly, some will survive, not many, by choosing to go along to get along. Third, you can try to escape. To survive by going along to get along requires a fair amount of luck to survive. From my perspective, I believe history teaches that mounting an organized escape effort may be the best chance for survival that an inmate has to come out of the death camp experience, alive.
What About Community Resistance?
Can a community mount a successful resistance? Despite the stereotype which betrays all Jews as meekly going to their death, there were plenty of communities which mounted a resistance. For example, on September 3, 1942, seven hundred Jewish families escaped from the Tuchin Ghetto, located in the Ukraine. However, the Nazis hunted them down, and only 15 survived.
By 1943, the residents in the famous Warsaw Ghetto, had organized an army of about 1,000 men, mostly unarmed and without military equipment. In January 1943, German soldiers entered the ghetto to round up more Jews for shipment to the death camps. They were met by a volley of bombs, Molotov cocktails, and a few bullets from the sparse number of firearms which had been smuggled into the ghettos. Twenty German soldiers were killed. The action encouraged a few members of the Polish resistance to support the uprising, and a few machine guns, some hand grenades, and about a hundred rifles and revolvers were smuggled in.
The Germans returned with almost 3,000 veteran German troops and overcame the resistance . It is true that nearly 300 Germans were killed. However, Jewish losses were estimated at 15,000. Some Jews survived and some actually did escape, but not many. Conclusion
What is the takeaway from these experiences? Unfortunately, it is an almost certain death sentence if one allows themselves to be incarcerated by a ruthless totalitarian regime. We have seen that resistance at the point of arrest is futile. Armed and organized resistance which includes community involvement, produces long odds for survival, but some do survive. Resisting captors inside of the concentration camp, by any means necessary, is nearly fatal in every case. Acquiescing to authority, while one carves out a life under very dire circumstances, provides the best chance for survival. However, under these conditions, one’s survival is highly dependent on being lucky.
The best chance for survival is to avoid being caught in the first place. I predict that there will come a time in America where will regret the day that we did not resist the bankster controlled government while we still had the means, and that would have been prior to DHS acquiring 2.2 billion rounds of ammunition. Perhaps your survival instinct should kick in and stand up to the tyranny that is staring us square in the face. Perhaps we should all learn a valuable lesson in history and never give up our guns. Perhaps we can pray for the Second Coming!
Dave is an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as Freedoms Phoenix, News With Views and The Arizona Republic.
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Rule number one for any serious crime scene or investigation is to gather all the evidence and all testimony first, before being able to establish criminal charges, let alone deliver any meaningful verdict.
In an extraordinary executive intervention, the President of the United States has weighed in on the Boston Bombing case – already delivering a guilty verdict for the Tsarnaev brothers.
Executive Verdict?
Barack Obama informed the nation this weekend, “Whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot, prevail. Whatever they thought they could achieve, they’ve already failed.”
The President added to this conclusion,“Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?”
Why is there such an incessant rush by the White House to quickly draw a line under this case? Does the President know something yet to be discovered by CSI investigators and witness interviewers in this case?
Granted, a trial in the media is almost expected these days in America, but are we being asked to give up the expectation that the business of determining guilt should be within the jurisdiction of CSI teams, police detectives and the courts – and not within the scope of any politician’s remit? Is it the President’s role to play judge in such matters?
Despite all the patriotic rhetoric, political hype and media fanfare endured over this last week, the fundamental problem with such conclusive statements by the executive branch – is that suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is only that – a suspect, and no actual or real forensic, or eyewitness evidence has been produced to prove that either him, or his deceased older brother were the actual bombers.
It has been confirmed that the suspect Dzhokhar was not read his Miranda Rights by law enforcement. According to officials, the surviving suspect should not receive the same Constitutional rights normally offered to Americans by invoking a “public safety exception”, effectively placing him in the category of enemy combatant.
“The government has invoked the public safety exception, a designation that allows investigators to question the teen without reading him his Miranda rights and without a lawyer present, another Justice Department official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNN.”
Will Dzhokhar be allowed to talk?
Interestingly, we are told that 19-year-old student Dzhokhar may not be able talk at all, due to injuries sustained to his throat.
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack.
The health and well-being of the suspect should be of the utmost importance to everyone involved. One should also note here that if this suspect is not able to tell his story in public, it would be a great loss to the American people, who might be robbed of any further evidence and insight into the actual involvement of the two Tsarnaev brothers in the Boston Bombings last week.
Beyond this, if any untoward behavior or broken procedure was done by law enforcement during the pursuit and apprehension of the two suspects, this would likely be revealed by Dzhokhar’s own testimony. His inability to talk might be convenient for law enforcement if any basic rules of engagement were broken.
PHOTO: Officials announce that Gitmo and CIA torture team on its way to handle suspect questioning
Guantanamo interrogators assigned to suspect
If this suspect is able to talk, eventually he may have to go through a process of interrogation that is normally reserved for US detainees held at the government’s dubious offshore facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
ABC news confirmed today that a team specialising in ‘enhanced interrogation’ is already on the way to conduct information extraction from the 19-year-old student.
Tsarnaev will be questioned by a federal team called the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which includes officials of the FBI, CIA, and Defense Department, an Obama administration official said.
This development carries additional implications as to the definition of a suspect’s rights to a fair testimony and trial in the United States.
Sadly, it threatens to drag the entire torture debate back to square one again, with the obvious question rearing its old head: is any evidence or testimony gleaned through torturing a suspect even admissible in a modern court of law? The key word there being “modern”.
Rather than seize the opportunity to advance modern progress in justice and human rights – to really prove the robustness of our own justice system (yes, that one we supposedly fought and died for), the Federal jackboot, led in this instance by President Obama, has chosen to digress instead.
Meanwhile, this highly staged drama continues to unfold…
I just have to post this. The look on Barack Obama’s face as he pitches a temper tantrum on national television is PRICELESS! Look at Biden and hypocrite Gabrielle Giffords as they support Obama in his adolescent styled, narcissistic finger pointing because not one piece of gun control legislation got passed.
While Obama said that none of the Senators could not offer any good reason why they wouldn’t pass this legislation. Wait! He used the words that Senators couldn’t provide a reason that “wouldnt’ make it harder for criminals and those with severe mental illnesses to buy a gun.”
Well I’m not in favor of those people having guns or buying them. However, let’s talk about lies, shall we? How did the shooter in Newtown, Connecticut obtain his weapons? Hmmm? That’s right, he stole them! He did what a criminal does! So come now Barack Obama and tell the American people the truth.
In fact, since Obama wants to go down the road of telling lies about a national gun registry, perhaps he should try informing the American people about the Feinstein bill, which he supported, which would not have only banned the import of certain weapons, but would have also charged every gun owner $200 per firearm that they already owned and made them register them. That’s right, a national gun registry!
While we are on lies, we should ask Mr. Obama to come clean about Operation Fast and Furious since his administration wants to be so truthful and transparent! How about he remove the executive privilege and release all the documents that Congress is holding Eric Holder in contempt for so that we can get to the bottom of an almost two year investigation? Why doesn’t he give the go ahead for Kevin O’Reilly to testify in the matter? It’s because he is in the midst of a coverup.
Perhaps we should ask why he is not more forthcoming regarding Benghazi and the numerous lies told in that scandal. Maybe he could own up to the countless lies his administration propagated on the American people. Many of them I list here.
But more than that, since apparently no Senator can give Barack Obama a reason for not passing more gun control legislation, I’ll do it here for him should he care to read it and I can provide it in five short words:
It’s the Second Amendment, Stupid!
And I’ve got something else for you to. If they want to fight to push this kind of legislation through, then they have picked the wrong battle. Millions of Americans with millions of guns are not going to allow then to just trample upon the Constitution and us simply to push his agenda. A wise man would think twice in this situation, but Barack Obama has demonstrated he is anything but wise.
Bilderberg-regular Neelie Kroes’ schedule seems to indicate that London will indeed be the location of the Bilderberg 2013 gathering- as Jim Tucker earlier reported. There is however a possibility of Germany hosting the elite confab this year.
Bilderberg sleuth James P. Tucker Jr. has recently reported that the coming Bilderberg-campfire will be lit somewhere in the vicinity of London, which casts doubt on a revisit of Chantilly VA this year. The possible date provided to the veteran journalist by his trusted source will be June 6-9.
“This is not absolute”, Tucker writes, “there is still evidence that the meeting will be held again at the swanky Westfields Marriott near Dulles International Airport June 21-26.”.
A recently published schedule by an EU information portal seems to concur with Tucker’s source. In the context of the “digital agenda” tour of longtime Bilderberg regular Neelie Kroes, who now acts as vice-president of the European Commission, a schedule has been published of her comings and goings this summer. The schedule reaffirms the validity of Tucker’s source- although that source hardly needs validating as he has been proven right on countless occasions.
The schedule has Neelie Kroes attending two separate conferences in London: she attends the Le Web conference in London from 5-6 June. Also in London, from June 12 to 14, she will be attending the Founders Forum. This makes it very likely that Bilderberg will indeed be taking place near London, as Tucker’s source has suggested. This schedule also confirms the expected date of the next elite confab, namely somewhere between June 6 to June 11 2013. As Kroes rarely misses a meeting, it’s probable Kroes will use the lapse between both conferences to make herself comfortable around the Bilderberg campfire.
Although it’s more than likely Bilderberg 2013 will take place near London this year, I have found other globalist schedules which seem to suggest (south) Germany as a possibility. After some investigating into the schedules of other Bilderberg regulars, Germany pops up as a possibility.
Why Germany?
At the end of April 2013 the current queen of the Netherlands will pass the torch of tyranny to her firstborn son, William-Alexander. The queen, who is annually present at Bilderberg, will in all probability hand over her Bilderberg activities to William and his wife. Now it just so happens that in the context of the queen Beatrix’ abdication, the royal couple’s first international visit as king and queen of the Netherlands will take them to south Germany from June 3 up to June 7. From June 12 onward, the king will tour several Dutch provinces, as he will in the weeks preceeding June 3. This strongly suggests the freshly anointed king will be re-anointed at Bilderberg from June 8 to June 11.
If Tucker’s source is correct, Bilderberg 2013 will take place from June 6 until June 9- which makes it probable that the king and queen will follow up their German tour by participating in the 2013 confab, during or directly after their South German trade mission. This of course doesn’t exclude London as probable location, as the king and queen may easily fly over to London in their private jet. However, viewed in the context of the other likely attendants and their German schedules, a location in Germany emerges as a possibility, suggesting that London may also be a red herring.
Siemens president Peter Löscher, for example, will be in Berlin on June 5 and 6, on a German industry meeting. In 2012 Löscher was present both in Chantilly, VA. and the 2011 Bilderberg meeting. If he is also to attend the coming conference, he will be available from June 7 onward, also coinciding with the king and queen’s visit to South Germany and other global players. Again: this does not necessarily indicate that Bilderberg descends on Germany this year, but it does make it likely that the annual confab will be held after June 6. Another Siemens top-gun, Peter Y. Solmssen, will chair a globalist meeting in Munich on June 7 and 8 on the subject of “Growth through Innovation”. We may assume therefore, this person will not be present at Bilderberg this year.
According to a preliminary schedule of the south German trade mission, the mission ends on June 6 at the South-German town of Friedrichshafen. Assuming the new king and his wife will also be attending this year’s Bilderberg, Tucker’s date (June 6-9) fits in nicely- as it does with Kroes’ schedule. Another royal regular to Bilderberg, the Belgian prince Phillipe, however will be absent as he is presiding over a Belgian trade mission to the US from June 2-9 2013. If this seems to coincide with a possible Chantilly-revisit, the schedule keeps his royal highness exclusively busy in California. This seems to indicate that the US will not host this year’s Bilderberg conference. In my estimation, the most likely scenario is that the prince will fly himself directly after to the unmarked location in Germany or the UK, joining the group as a delayed visitor on June 9.
Another indication that London is the more likely location to accommodate Bilderberg 2013 is the presence of Dutch Royal Shell’s “Petroleum executive of the year” Peter Voser (who attended Bilderberg in 2012), attending some speaking engagement in London on June 19 2013- some 9 days after the presumed conference date. This could speak in favor of a London gathering. On the other hand, the whereabouts of other globalist participants seem to indicate the conference may be held in Germany in 2013. I expect European president and Bilderberg wonderboy Herman von Rompuy will be present at Bilderberg this year. A check up on his whereabouts in June doesn’t reveal much, except that on June 7 2013 he will give a lecture in the Belgian town of Turnhout on “silence and leadership” (a combination Von Rompuy knows everything about). This could indicate Von Rompuy (a 2011 participant) will join his fellow transnationalists soon after his meditations, perhaps in nearby Germany. Otherwise he will be whisked away at the earliest opportunity by his taxpayer-funded jetliner towards London.
It just so happens that from June 4-7 2013 one of the biggest scam-conferences in Europe is being held, Green Week, featuring “high profile international keynote speakers”, according to the EU news outlet. It is very likely that the EU’s environmental commissioner Janez Potočnik will be present there (as he was in previous years)- again, nicely coinciding with the presumed Bilderberg conference shortly after. Perhaps Potočnik can pick up Von Rompuy on his way to Germany on June 7. In the other event they may share Business class seats on their way to England.
The schedule of Bilderberg’s new chairman, Henri de Castries, doesn’t tell us much either. De Castries will probably be attending the June 4 shareholder’s information meeting of his global company AXA Group in Toulouse France, as these meetings “are conducted by the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Henri de Castries or a member of the Executive Management”, according to AXA’s own website.
In short: studying the schedules of the usual suspects, we find that many of them are occupied until June 7 with other engagements, making them available from June 8 onward. June 8, therefore, seems a likely starting date. Because the new king of the Netherlands has handpicked Germany as the destination of his first official international visit, I suspect that Germany may yet turn out to be the actual location of this year’s gathering. In this context I would like to remind readers of a report published in September 2012,pinpointing the likely 2013 Bilderberg location based on Bilderberg’s almost 60 year history to be either Greece, Italy or Germany. Although London is still the most probable of possible locations, I submit we should not discount Germany- especially considering the fact that the king and queen of the Netherlands will most certainly attend Bilderberg this year as en encore of their visit in the beginning of June. I realize this contradicts Tucker’s invaluable information, which has proven correct so many times that it makes my insistent hypothesizing look like incoherent gibberish. There is one final consideration though, which makes me think of Germany as the possible landing spot of Bilderberg vultures this year.
In March of this year, the Trilateral Commission convened their annual meeting in Berlin, showing a heavy German presence there. The event was hosted by Michael Fuchs, and presided over by Bilderberg regular Jean-Claude Trichet, former head of the European Central bank. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel was invited to join the occasion, giving this particular meeting a special significance. Because the Trilaterals are by nature related to Bilderberg, it’s perfectly possible that the Berlin-meeting may prelude a German Bilderberg conference.
In the end the location of Bilderberg’s next meet-up is less significant than the subjects decided upon by the moguls who meet there. On the other hand, it would be nice to greet these globalists in the right location when they arrive to give them the welcome they deserve.
In the last year and a half the Department of Homeland Security has purchased upwards of 2 billion rounds of ammunition that many believe will eventually be used within the United States and on the American people.
The alternative media and even a few select mainstream reporters have heavily questioned these purchases and theorized about their actual purpose, with many coming to the conclusion that there is simply no other explanation as to what DHS has planned other than confronting some sort of massive civil unrest.
More recently, over a dozen Congressman have either individually demanded answers from the DHS or have signed onto a letter calling for an investigation into the ammo buildup.
On Friday March 15th, New Jersey Congressman Leonard Lance, speaking at a Morristown Tea Party Organization meeting, was asked about the Homeland Security ammo buildup by a concerned citizen.
In response to the question Lance called for Congress to immediately get involved and demand answers from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
I think Congress should ask the Department about both of those issues and I would like a full explanation as to why that has been done and I have every confidence that the oversight committee should ask those questions.
Congress has a responsibility to ask Secretary Napolitano as to exactly why these purchases have occurred.
Less than a week later, during an interview with We Are Change reporter Luke Rudkowski at the annual CPAC convention, Congressman Timothy Huelscamp revealed that DHS had actually refused to provide multiple Congressmen with any information on their massive ammo buildup.
They have no answer for that question. They refuse to answer that.
I’ve got a list of various questions of agencies about multiple things. Far from being the most transparent administration in the world, they are the most closed and opaque.
They refuse to let us know what is going on, so I don’t really have an answer for that. Multiple members of Congress are asking those questions.
Now, under the backdrop of Congressman Lance calling on Congress to investigate and Congressman Huelscamp claiming that they have already been ignored, fifteen Congressmen have now signed a letter to the DHS demanding answers.
The letter, signed on March 5th, is clear in its call for answers to their questions which include why the ammo is being purchased and whether or not it has anything to do with trying to restrict the supply available to the public.
A recent article by the Record Searchlight highlighted the letter about the ammo buildup (which they called a “rumor”) and the California Congressman who helped write it.
The stockpiling rumor — as a means to control firearms and ammunitions — has spread to sitting members of Congress, including the north state’s 1st Congressional District’s Doug LaMalfa.
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“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” La Malfa wrote.
Clearly the topic of DHS buying billions of rounds of ammunition is important to many Americans despite attempts by corporate media to claim that it is merely a rumor or that it has been debunked. (A lone comment by an anonymous DHS official is usually their only source.)
The American people must continue to demand answers and push their Congressmen and Senators to do the same, for the fact remains that Homeland Security has purchased enough ammunition to wage at least a 20-year war on the populace.
I am about to share something with you that may blow your mind. One of the reasons that I am, and will continue to be, against big government is that big government has too many rules. Too many rules typically means too much government control and too many excuses to arrest law-abiding citizens. We live in a country that accounts for roughly 5% of the world population but boasts 25% of the world’s prison inmates, so you can call me paranoid if you want but this is certainly not the “land of the free.”
Are you aware that before you overthrow your federal government you must first register with them and tell them of your intentions? I am absolutely serious, I will share the letter of the law with you in a moment.
After reading this document thoroughly I would wonder what kind of argument Eric Holder’s office might have for making this blog into an “unregistered” group that is engaging in “Civilian Military Activity.” It’s not the intent of any law that scares me, it’s the interpretations that one can gain by reading between the lines. It’s no different than our own 2nd Amendment. The founders wrote one thing and it is being interpreted in a totally different way.
I was able to trace the origins of this document on a government website and this might surprise you:
“The Voorhis Act of 1940 (18 U.S.C. 2386) required the registration with the Attorney General of certain organizations which advocated the overthrow of the federal government or any political subdivision thereof by the use of force or violence.”
I want you to understand the origins because, contrary to popular belief, not all of these things have happened under the Obama administration. Fema camps were discussed in the Reagan administration with a document called “Rex 84″ that was written by Oliver North. I don’t like Obama, but our government has been progressing toward corruption for a long time.
Before you read this document, I want you to keep a couple of things in mind. These are just my opinions but I think they have some merit. I think this is one of the backdoor ways that the government will use to round-up “Patriot” types if we get to that point. Please try to hit the high points of the document. I know the reading is pretty dry but I want you to understand that you can be imprisoned for up to 5 years simply for belonging to the wrong group of people. Here is the document:
18 U.S.C. § 2386 – Registration of certain organizations
(A) For the purposes of this section: Attorney General means the Attorney General of the United States; Organization means any group, club, league, society, committee, association, political party, or combination of individuals, whether incorporated or otherwise, but such term shall not include any corporation, association, community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes; Political activity means any activity the purpose or aim of which, or one of the purposes or aims of which, is the control by force or overthrow of the Government of the United States or a political subdivision thereof, or any State or political subdivision thereof; An organization is engaged in civilian military activity if:
(1) it gives instruction to, or prescribes instruction for, its members in the use of firearms or other weapons or any substitute therefor, or military or naval science; or
(2) it receives from any other organization or from any individual instruction in military or naval science; or
(3) it engages in any military or naval maneuvers or activities; or
(4) it engages, either with or without arms, in drills or parades of a military or naval character; or
(5) it engages in any other form of organized activity which in the opinion of the Attorney General constitutes preparation for military action; An organization is subject to foreign control if:
(a) it solicits or accepts financial contributions, loans, or support of any kind, directly or indirectly, from, or is affiliated directly or indirectly with, a foreign government or a political subdivision thereof, or an agent, agency, or instrumentality of a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, or a political party in a foreign country, or an international political organization; or
(b) its policies, or any of them, are determined by or at the suggestion of, or in collaboration with, a foreign government or political subdivision thereof, or an agent, agency, or instrumentality of a foreign government or a political subdivision thereof, or a political party in a foreign country, or an international political organization.
(B)
(1) The following organizations shall be required to register with the Attorney General: Every organization subject to foreign control which engages in political activity; Every organization which engages both in civilian military activity and in political activity; Every organization subject to foreign control which engages in civilian military activity; and Every organization, the purpose or aim of which, or one of the purposes or aims of which, is the establishment, control, conduct, seizure, or overthrow of a government or subdivision thereof by the use of force, violence, military measures, or threats of any one or more of the foregoing. Every such organization shall register by filing with the Attorney General, on such forms and in such detail as the Attorney General may by rules and regulations prescribe, a registration statement containing the information and documents prescribed in subsection (B)(3) and shall within thirty days after the expiration of each period of six months succeeding the filing of such registration statement, file with the Attorney General, on such forms and in such detail as the Attorney General may by rules and regulations prescribe, a supplemental statement containing such information and documents as may be necessary to make the information and documents previously filed under this section accurate and current with respect to such preceding six months period. Every statement required to be filed by this section shall be subscribed, under oath, by all of the officers of the organization.
(2) This section shall not require registration or the filing of any statement with the Attorney General by:
(a) The armed forces of the United States; or
(b) The organized militia or National Guard of any State, Territory, District, or possession of the United States; or
(c) Any law-enforcement agency of the United States or of any Territory, District or possession thereof, or of any State or political subdivision of a State, or of any agency or instrumentality of one or more States; or
(d) Any duly established diplomatic mission or consular office of a foreign government which is so recognized by the Department of State; or
(e) Any nationally recognized organization of persons who are veterans of the armed forces of the United States, or affiliates of such organizations.
(3) Every registration statement required to be filed by any organization shall contain the following information and documents:
(a) The name and post-office address of the organization in the United States, and the names and addresses of all branches, chapters, and affiliates of such organization;
(b) The name, address, and nationality of each officer, and of each person who performs the functions of an officer, of the organization, and of each branch, chapter, and affiliate of the organization;
(c) The qualifications for membership in the organization;
(d) The existing and proposed aims and purposes of the organization, and all the means by which these aims or purposes are being attained or are to be attained;
(e) The address or addresses of meeting places of the organization, and of each branch, chapter, or affiliate of the organization, and the times of meetings;
(f) The name and address of each person who has contributed any money, dues, property, or other thing of value to the organization or to any branch, chapter, or affiliate of the organization;
(g) A detailed statement of the assets of the organization, and of each branch, chapter, and affiliate of the organization, the manner in which such assets were acquired, and a detailed statement of the liabilities and income of the organization and of each branch, chapter, and affiliate of the organization;
(h) A detailed description of the activities of the organization, and of each chapter, branch, and affiliate of the organization;
(i) A description of the uniforms, badges, insignia, or other means of identification prescribed by the organization, and worn or carried by its officers or members, or any of such officers or members;
(j) A copy of each book, pamphlet, leaflet, or other publication or item of written, printed, or graphic matter issued or distributed directly or indirectly by the organization, or by any chapter, branch, or affiliate of the organization, or by any of the members of the organization under its authority or within its knowledge, together with the name of its author or authors and the name and address of the publisher;
(k) A description of all firearms or other weapons owned by the organization, or by any chapter, branch, or affiliate of the organization, identified by the manufacturers number thereon;
(l) In case the organization is subject to foreign control, the manner in which it is so subject;
(m) A copy of the charter, articles of association, constitution, bylaws, rules, regulations, agreements, resolutions, and all other instruments relating to the organization, powers, and purposes of the organization and to the powers of the officers of the organization and of each chapter, branch, and affiliate of the organization; and
(n) Such other information and documents pertinent to the purposes of this section as the Attorney General may from time to time require. All statements filed under this section shall be public records and open to public examination and inspection at all reasonable hours under such rules and regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe.
(C) The Attorney General is authorized at any time to make, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section, including rules and regulations governing the statements required to be filed.
(D) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Whoever in a statement filed pursuant to this section willfully makes any false statement or willfully omits to state any fact which is required to be stated, or which is necessary to make the statements made not misleading, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Growing up in Eastern Europe, my parents and grandparents, as well as teachers and church figures, made sure that all youth visited the sites of what remains of the concentration camps of World War II. We also saw the many graphic visual accounts of these camps presented in numerous museums. It was horrifying, but both part of the terrible history, and part of the education of my nation, Poland.
The impact it had on my upbringing was profound, and quite naturally I developed a keen paranoia about repeating history in any small semblance of this sort of institutionalized, incomprehensible terror. My family suffered through this, and have done their best afterwards to warn us.
Seeing the labor camps, ghettos and concentration camps of my nation has permanently altered the way I look at human organization. Now, in the United States, I find myself noticing little, yet creeping similarities between the way life was organized under totalitarian militarism and the peculiar ways of the self-organizing structure of modern urban and suburban America.
While modern suburbs certainly are not wartime labor camps in any direct terms, our modern civilian lives are already physically resembling the organization of prison camps. In softer, less coercive ways we are naturally dividing and cordoning ourselves off from each other, forming suburban blocks and neighborhood units. Our custom, very comfortable and well-stocked homes resemble luxury cells that we confine ourselves to, growing ever suspicious of even our neighbors. In many American neighborhoods you can walk around for an hour and never see another human being outdoors and not in a car.
Through a mass indoctrination into a very comfortable and distracting social and political paradigm, the majority of us find ourselves working all the time, eating de-natured foods, frightened of authority, scared to ask big questions, eager to fit into some group, yet so divisive that we’d break familial ties over perceived political differences. We’ve been programmed with a phony notion of success and disoriented by a shock doctrine delivered by a lying media that prioritizes American life into fear first, then sensationalism. We’ve already moved ourselves into manageable suburban camps, inwardly focused on scrapping for bits of a dying currency in a dying economy, while turning a blind eye to endless war abroad, and while the police at home arm themselves with tanks and drones. Weird.
Increasingly, suburban towns are coming under the control of micro-bureaucracies, neighborhood associations, and Homeowner’s Associations (HOAs). There seems to also be a rise in the over-zealousness of municipal code enforcement in recent years.
An uncle of mine looked up one day from his front porch to see an armed man in the front yard. Packing a holstered sidearm, this unexpected city employee also had a ruler and was measuring a blade of grass in my uncle’s yard to determine if it violated city ordinance. After years of harassment, letters, time sucked, energy wasted, and tax money burned, the city finally dropped the $2,000 fine they had issued him when, in court, my uncle asked the city prosecutor the bold question, ‘what exactly is the city’s definition of ‘a weed?’ They did not have an answer.
HOAs create rules, codes and regulations for homeowners, voted upon by those few who actually participate, enforced by power of contract, and backed up oddly by municipal governments and their criminal justice departments. Infractions of code are punishable by fine, property invasions, prosecution, eviction, forfeiture, arrest, and so on, depending on your personal limit for this sort of thing. It is ruled by force and humiliation; and, like camp guards, eager to enforce unbendable rules, some of your neighbors play out political control fantasies on the boards of these organizations.
Something as benign as deciding to paint your front door red, (or some other unapproved color), can introduce into life a world of stress, cost, and interference by the masters of the neighborhood.
HOAs are certainly not mandatory, which makes them all the more concerning, because either people seem to prefer this sort of punitive-based micro-management in their lives or they don’t care. Not a good sign, however you look at it.
In some areas of the nation, such as McKinney, Texas, municipal governments have undergone impressive technical integration with local and federal law enforcement agencies, and have even installed centrally controlled public announcement towers to broadcast ‘emergency’ information and alarms. These towers, located in neighborhoods, around schools, and located throughout the town are rather startling if you happen to be taking a nap in your home on a lazy Saturday afternoon, as they broadcast alarm tones and messages from a command center, at very high decibels, over the tops of all the houses. The city put them in whether or not you voted for it, protested against it, or begged for it.
Many of us are trapped in the suburbs. Trapped with mortgages higher than the worth of our homes, thanks to fraud at the highest levels of our economy, and by the expense of living in the suburbs, buried in debt, weighed down by consumer goods. Modern day work commutes with growing gas bills, skyrocketing electricity costs, being low on liquid-assets, and living paycheck to paycheck, make saving for a move and/or a job change very difficult, if not impossible. If this is not freedom, what is it?
The fact that we are self-organizing into units that both create division between neighboring areas and create microcosmic bureaucracy to police ourselves, and that we choose to punish non-conformity rather than invite individualism, says a great deal about our collective mindset. We are voluntarily subscribing to rules that divide us and pit us against each other and single out those who disrupt conformity.
While looking at our world this way is arguably somewhat cynical and less than positive, to be mindful of how we are structuring our lives and to acknowledge the dangers of being divided against each other, even at the neighborhood level, is to be empowered to create a more interesting and fulfilling future.
Let us work toward re-invigorating our communities by bucking the need for conformity, control and suspicion. Do your part by being friendly, helpful and respectful to your neighbors. Take on creative and positive initiatives like propaganda gardening and ask questions about the role of authority in our lives. Take on initiatives like guerrilla gardening that are proving to impact people in powerfully positive ways, and get to know the organizations and people who influence your community.
Alex Pietrowski is an artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and an avid student of Yoga and life.
One of the 250 United States Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said “I love peace but if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace” and “These are the days that try men’s souls”.
Please keep those words in the back of your mind as I give you the shocking report and facts surrounding the Obama/Cantor back room deal.
The Republican Establishment Sellout to Obama may be more imminent than we think – – unless you and I can get all our family and friends to act swiftly and decisively to STOP THE REPUBLICAN LED SELL OUT to Barack Hussein Obama.
That’s right!
And Republican Majority Leader is leading the charge to cut a deal with President Obama.
The following are just some of the threats to innocent school children and our God-given 2nd Amendment liberties that Republicans are about to shove down our throats:
1.The NRA is cutting backroom deals to centralize gun owner data collection into the Obama/Holder massive government data base.
A centralized system is less costly to fight and far more lucrative for the NRA to appear to be “fixing“.
Like all establishment political lobbies the key to their job security is assisting in making problems they end up being called upon to “fix“.
2. Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is leading the charge to give Obama and Holder what they want in exchange for appearing to be “fixing” the problem of innocent children being butchered in our public and private schools.
3. Newly appointed Republican Judiciary Chairman, Bob Goodlatte R-VA 6th District, is providing political cover for the sneaky back room gun control deals and gun grabbing sell outs that his political masters - – John Boehner and Eric Cantor – - are cutting with Obama and his corrupt Attorney General, Eric Holder.
Political insiders have confirmed to me, that Goodlatte earned his brand new chairmanship by ignoring the constitutional demands and grievances of every Republican Unit Chairman in his own 6th district.
These demands and grievances were approved and unanimously voted on by the GOP 6th district, published in prominent newspapers and sent to other Republican Chairmen around the country.
Goodlatte’s response was to ignore his unit chairs and when pressed by the media to publicly insult them.
Goodlatte is also fulfilling his promise to be a spokesman for NRA “A” rated Virginia Republican Congressman Scott Rigell’s House version of anti-gun Vermont Senator Pat Leahy’s S. 443 – – The Forced Gun Owner Registration Act.
4. Virginia Congressman Scott Rigell, R-VA 2nd district, has snuggled up to the Obama campaign by making a generous donation to the Obama campaign.
With “Republicans” like Rigell can anyone say “Benedict Arnold“?
5. Virginia’s very own gun grabbing Governor – – Gun Ban Bob McDonnell – – has ignored Virginia gun owner pleas to stop the slaughter of innocent Virginia school children.
That’s right Gun Ban Bob refuses to do anything practical that will save the lives of teachers and students.
Why Gun Ban Bob would want to anger and alienate gun owners in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina when he wants to be president or vice-president in 2016 is a mystery – – unless he has a secret political desire to leave politics when his term as Governor expires.
Actually, given Gun Ban Bob’s decade long record of flip flopping back and forth on gun rights it may be that Mr. McDonnell is tired of his political duplicity.
That is my best guess having met Mr. McDonnell on several occasions because he is a VERY likeable family man.
Before I explain our hope of stopping these betrayals of trust by the cowardly Republicans let me give you the facts regarding the weak-sister of the gun rights movement – – the National Rifle Association.
If you have not read the link above, please do. It is the key to understanding what I am about to tell you.
Over the years I have warned gun owners in Virginia that crafty phrases like “expanded background checks” and “beefing up the database” were simply code words for a national gun registration scheme.
These empty and deceptive words have are the tools of the trade for the sons of gun-control.
These gun grabbing politicians, lobbyists and activists love to use deceptive language to manipulate voters and pull the wool over the eyes of their victims.
In fact, right now the newest threat that has emerged is being sold under the guise of the code word “gun trafficking.”
Seriously, doesn’t “gun trafficking” sound like something bad that you and I should join the gun grabbers in trying to stop?
Better yet, we could then appear “REASONABLE” – – whatever that is when little kids are being butchered like pigs in our schools.
You see, the word smiths for the anti-life and liberty movement know that gun control will never sell unless it is carefully and craftily packaged and then sold to the public.
I’m talking about anti-gun Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy’s S. 443, the so-called Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013.
You see, the gun grabbers know how to deceptively name their anti-life and liberty bills.
So please, never use the bill names chosen by the sons-of-gun-control.
In reality, S. 443 is a Forced Gun Owner Registration Scheme. S. 443 imposes harsh sentences – up to 15 years in prison - for minor offenses.
The U.S. Senate committee that voted on this gun registration scheme approved it by an 11-7 vote.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, voted in favor of the Democrat Chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy’s, S. 443.
Incredibly, this dangerous legislation imposes a 15-year prison sentence on anyone who purchases a firearm with the intent of giving or selling it to a “prohibited person.”
And just who is considered a “prohibited person?”
Unfortunately, more and more individuals are being labeled a “prohibited person” for non-violent reasons.
I myself almost became a “prohibited” person in 1990 for leading a peaceful non-violent prayer vigil.
It took me almost 4 years and lots of pro-bono attorney hours to defeat it at the Vermont Supreme Court.
McHugh v. Vermont belongs in the constitutions museum of 1st Amendment absurdities.
But that is beside the point because it simply illustrates how ruthless power hungry liberals can be.
Now you know why I am very sensitive to how rogue governments and would-be-political-dictators abuse and manipulate words and ideas to further their dangerous agenda of destroying liberty.
But this isn’t about my experience.
My experience is simply a modern day illustration that history repeats itself.
The fact is that it was Adolf Hitler who motivated good-willed German’s to hate our Jewish friends by referring to them as “international serpents”.
Hitler was a master deceiver. He actually begged German people to protect their beautiful young German school girls from young Jewish males.
Really?
Did German school girls need protecting like American school children need protecting?
Yes, of course they did – – but not from young Jewish boys but from Hitler and those whom he misled.
Hitler went on to say that “With Satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.” -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Now you know why you and I must stand up and be counted in this fight to protect innocent little American boys and girls in our day and our time.
Please don’t let history repeat itself.
And above all let’s fight the lies of the gun grabbing socialists with words of truth because it is only truth that can set us truly free.
We must not be duped into supporting or standing idle while the opponents of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness eat out the foundations of our system of government like maggots and termites.
AM I EXAGGERTING?
Decide for yourself.
Right now, 150,000 of our nation’s hero veterans are considered “prohibited” just because they acknowledged PTSD - – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – - on returning from war.
And since Barack Hussein Obama just issued an Executive Order calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to “review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun,” the definition of “prohibited” could change any day depending on the Attorney General’s whims.
Remember, these are the “saviors of mankind” that refuse to promise that drone strikes will never be used on American soil to assassinate Americans who have not yet been convicted in a court of law or even charged with a capital offense.
But it gets worse, because under the NRA drafted Forced Gun Owner Registration Act, it doesn’t matter if you knew whether someone is a “prohibited person” or not – you’re going to prison either way – – if it was your intent to sell a firearm to a prohibited person.
And who defines and decides the intent of man’s mind?
In reality, this effort at mind reading could also be called the NRA drafted Obama/Cantor Gun Owner Thought Control Act of 2013.
The truth is, if the Forced Gun Owner Registration Act passes, the only way to comply will be through a national gun registration scheme – – much like the German law requiring Jews to wear the Star of David on their sleeves for identification and registration purposes.
And you and I both know what registration of Jews produced.
And you and I both know gun owner registration is the first step toward . . .
. . . TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION!
Gun confiscation was also another one of Hitler’s first laws passed – – all in the name of public safety of course.
Is all this sounding eerily familiar? The gun grabbers understand what is happening so must we.
That is why the real purpose of the Obama/Holder scheme and their well-meaning but badly deceived and misled allies at the NRA is to effectively force gun owners to accept a national gun registry in order to protect themselves from Barack Obama’s ATF goon sting operations.
So the NRA gets to make money while unwittingly supporting a law meant to save us but that will eventually enslave us.
Worse yet, the Forced Gun Owner Registration Act is supported by members of both political parties – many who claim to be “pro-gun.”
Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins and Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk joined Leahy as cosponsors of this anti-gun scheme in the Senate.
THAT’s RIGHT! CO-SPONSORS OF FORCED GUN REGISTRATION
Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley – the top Republican on the Democrat-controlled Judicial Committee – just voted for the bill in Committee.
And over in the U.S. House, Virginia Congressman Scott Rigell – given an “A” rating from the NRA – is sponsoring a House version of this dangerous scheme.
Supposed “pro-gun Republicans” are dropping like flies.
In fact, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham just introduced a bill – along with Republican Senator Jeff Flake – to massively expand the so-called “background check” system to include mental health records.
“Mental health” is a code word used to dupe us into handing bureaucrats the power to STRIP Americans of their God-given rights without a trial or conviction by a jury of peers.
Multiple news sources report that this anti-gun legislation is supported by the NRA.
The institutional gun lobby is more concerned with making friends with the press and making money from their sell outs than defending gun rights.
The sad truth is, the sons-of-gun-control guru’s and their gun grabbing political buddies in the House and Senate could care less about so-called “gun trafficking.”
If they did, they’d be outraged at Eric Holder’s “Fast and Furious” scandal where the U.S. government funneled illegal weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
Instead, Attorney General Eric Holder was granted the authority to determine who should and shouldn’t be “prohibited” from owning a firearm.
Apparently, anti-gun Republicans like Chuck Grassley, Susan Collins and Mark Kirk would rather empower Barack Obama’s ATF goons to harass YOU rather than bring Eric Holder to justice for his crimes.
That’s why I’m counting on you to help defeat this back-door attempt to impose a national gun registration scheme on America’s most law-abiding citizens.
While your Virginia Gun Owners Coalition and other gun groups are sounding the alarm over the Forced Gun Owner Registration Act, the NRA has been quietly writing the bill and trying to minimize press coverage.
The inside-the-beltway gun lobby is more afraid of losing money to VGOC and the National Association for Gun Rights (www.nagr.org) – the loyal opposition – – than they are of losing more gun rights.
That’s why you and I must stop these dangerous schemes that are coming at us faster than I can write.
But the solution is simple and there is real hope.
You and I must let the politicians know that their political careers and futures are on the line.
VGOC members did it in 2004 when we joined several other state level gun lobbies to kill the NRA drafted bill renewing the Hated Clinton Gun Ban.
Those of you who have been members since 2004 will remember that VGOC members turned Senator George Allen around after he publicly promised to renew the Clinton Gun Ban for the NRA.
The NRA cut a back room deal with anti-gun Democrats to renew the Clinton Gun Ban in exchange for a Gun Manufactures’ Liability Bill.
VGOC worked with other gun groups across America to expose the NRA sell out.
I will never forget when the morning of the vote, Mike Thomas, Allen’s chief of staff, called and asked me “Mr. McHugh would you be willing to tell your members that the Senator has changed his mind based on new information and will vote against the renewal of the hated Clinton Gun Ban”.
Allen did!
We won then and we can do it again.
Let that be our motto.
“We won then and we can do it again”.
LET’s ROLL!
Here is what VGOC staff and volunteers will do:
We will send you action items as often as possible so that you can act quickly and swiftly to confront the politicians and inject the fear of gun owner wrath into their pathetic political career plans.
I will continue to publicly and personally confront and expose the politicians who are willing to stand on the dead bodies of murdered school children to further their political careers as often as possible.
Here’s what you can do to help:
*** Call your U.S. Senators and Congressmen in the House of Representatives and INSIST they oppose S. 443 the Forced Gun Owner Registration Act of 2013.
If they play dumb just give them the bill number. Let them know you will not be fooled by their political games and deceptive code words.
Below are the key politicians who need to receive a phone call from you once a day until they hold a press conference promising to vote against ANY and ALL gun control bills.
Sen. Tim Kaine: (202) 224- 4024
Sen. Mark Warner: (202)224-2023
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (202)225 5431
Rep. Eric Cantor (202) 225 2815
Rep. Scott Rigell (202) 225 4215
Time is of the essence because this dangerous bill could be on the floor of the Senate starting any day.
So there’s not a moment to waste if we want to STOP this deceptive and insidious assault on life and liberty.
By killing Scott Rigell’s House version of S. 443 or just slowing it down, we can buy time to mobilize the fight in the Senate.
So please ACT TODAY to STOP these anti-life and liberty schemes.
And if you can, please chip in $10, $20 – or even $50 – to help alert thousands more Virginians to this imminent threat.
I won’t quit!
You can take that to the bank.
Please let me know that you aren’t quitting by making phone calls and asking all your family and friends to sign up for free email alerts at VGOC, Virginia’s Only State Level No-More-Excuses Gun Lobby – – Representing Gun Owners to Politicians NOT Politicians to Gun Owners. (www.vgoc.org)
For Liberty,
PS The Republicans just helped the Democrats in a U.S. Senate committee approve S. 443, the Forced Gun Owners Registration Act, by an 11-7 vote. Republicans helped pass this measure, whose chief sponsor was the panel’s chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
S. 443 bill is designed to force gun owners to accept a national gun registry since that will end up being the ONLY WAY many gun owners will think they can protect themselves from Barack Obama’s ATF goons’ and their sting operations.
About:
Virginia Gun Owners Coalition is Virginia’s only no-compromise, non-partisan gun lobby patterned after Gun Owners of America on Capitol Hill. VGOC is a non-profit tax-exempt organization under 501(c)(4) of the IRS code. Because we lobby politicians to protect and defend the 2nd Amendment, contributions are not tax deductible for IRS purposes. Visit: www.vgoc.org
Luis R. Miranda is the Founder and Editor of The Real Agenda. His 16 years of experience in Journalism include television, radio, print and Internet news. Luis obtained his Journalism degree from Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, where he graduated in Mass Media Communication in 1998. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Among his most distinguished interviews are: Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres and James Hansen from NASA Space Goddard Institute.
For the next five years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ramping up for what could be nothing other than a conflict on American soil. The question is, “Will the conflict be from an invading force or with America’s very own citizens?”
In fact the situation is much worse than anyone could have ever imagined as one could only hope that DHS doesn’t have the intention in standing off with the American people.
While profiteering by large corporations is likely a motive, we also have to question the reality that lies right in front of our face.
Although the government claims that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia uses 15 million rounds a year, that estimate is for all agencies combined and just includes target ammunition. We are now talking about high velocity sniper style ammunition and hollow points on top of target ammunition, designed to kill and not very economical for target practice.
Marketplace.FedBid.com lists one partial government bid order for the following proving that DHS is indeed seeking hollow point rounds;
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Commercial Leaded Training Ammo (CLTA) Pistol Cartridge .40 caliber 165 Grain, jacketed Hollow point(Jhp) p/n P40HSTS3G OR EQUAL. BRASS CASING 100,000 ROUNDS PRICE PER 1000 ROUNDS WILL INCLUDE DELIVERY.
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Commercial Leaded Training Ammo (CLTA) 9MM 115 GRAIN JACKETED HOLLOW POINT P/N 9BP-115 GRAIN JHP OR EQUAL BRASS CASING 100,000 ROUNDS PRICE PER 1000 ROUNDS WILL INCLUDE DELIVERY.
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Commercial Leaded Training Ammo (CLTA) PISTOL CARTIDGE 9MM BALL 124 GRAIN P/N AE9AP OR EQUAL BRASS CASING 40,000 ROUNDS PRICE PER 1000 ROUNDS WILL INCLUDE DELIVEY
According to a recent report by Andre Buncombe, “US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan – an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed – that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand.
A recent government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.”
However and whatever way you slice it something is wrong with this picture. Take a look at the ACLU’s recent stance on armored vehicles (tanks) on the streets of America for example; towns with small populations and virtually no violent crime are literally getting militarized equipment suitable for war at the behest of lying city council members while expending our tax dollars.
Keene, New Hampshire has a population of 23,409, except during the months of July and August when campers flock in for the summer. Keene’s violent crime index? 134.4, compared to a national average of 213.6. Most common crime? Theft. Good thing the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gave Keene money to buy a BearCat, an armored counter-attack vehicle. What is Keene using its BearCat for? Good question.
Here’s what we do know: a Keene City Council member has admitted that the city lied to DHS about its need for terrorism-prevention tools. To explain why the police included the word “terrorism” on their application for federal funding for the Bear Cat purchase, a city council member said, “Our application talked about the danger of domestic terrorism, but that’s just something you put in the grant application to get the money.” He continued, “What red-blooded American cop isn’t going to be excited about getting a toy like this? That’s what it comes down to.”
So while we do show that local towns have police that like big expensive toys, we also see the abuse of taxpayer monies which are lining privatized corporations bank accounts all the while setting a dominant presence above the American people that DHS will control us at all costs.
So is this more than profiteering and the staging of power? Is the US government anticipating the breakdown of society in America as we know it? Possibly an economic collapse or some type of major despair? An invasion? Or are they just scared of free minded individuals who take note of the constitution put into effect by our once great nations forefathers?
We believe that the world has reached a turning point as the corporate funded and controlled mainline media has become obsolete as humans are now seeking the truth. Intellihub.com™ strives and will continue to uphold it’s duties to inform humanity of what is really taking place in the world around them. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
If you have ever brushed off the idea of FEMA work camps as a myth, a fantasy of an overactive Patriot imagination, then you must not have heard about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, where young women were incarcerated, often without trial, without a definitive sentence, and sometimes, without even committing a crime worse then being “too pretty” and therefore, tempting men.
Does this remind anyone else of the NDAA? Indefinite detention? No trial? No cause? These girls were simply locked up and forced to work until those in power saw fit to release them.
Magdalene Laundries were in operation as recently as 1996 – that’s right – 16 years ago, young women were enslaved indefinitely in a colluded effort between the Catholic Church and the Irish government.
Between 1922-1996, Irish women were put to work in “laundries” that were run by Roman Catholic nuns. There is some discrepancy on the number of women so incarcerated. Between 10,000-30,000 women were put to forced labor for the financial benefit of the church, however.
Less than 1000 women who endured the laundries are still alive today. Survivors maintain that the doors and windows were locked, and that if they escaped, they were brought back by the police.
This week an Irish government report was made public on the laundries, confirming the government’s complicity with the Catholic Church in running the workhouses. 17 survivors met with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, requesting an apology and restitution from the government, after the same requests were ignored by the Catholic Church.
Envisaged as short-term refuges for ‘fallen women’ they became long-term institutions and penitents were required to work, mostly in laundries on the premises.
They extended to take in unmarried mothers, women with learning difficulties and girls who had been abused.
The facilities were self-supporting and the money generated by the laundries paid for them.
Between 1922 and 1996 there were 10 such laundries in the Republic of Ireland.
Many Irish institutions, such as the army, government departments, hotels and even Guinness had contracts with Magdalene laundries.
The women toiled behind locked doors unable to leave after being admitted and while the laundries were paid, they received no wages.
The congregations which ran them were the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
Most of the women were under the age of 23. The youngest girl admitted was 9, and the oldest was 89. Singer Sinead O’Connor is one survivor of the Magdalene Laundries. She wrote an editorial for the Washington Post in 2010 about her experience and her opinion on the priorities of the Church:
When I was a young girl, my mother — an abusive, less-than-perfect parent — encouraged me to shoplift. After being caught once too often, I spent 18 months in An Grianán Training Centre, an institution in Dublin for girls with behavioral problems, at the recommendation of a social worker. An Grianán was one of the now-infamous church-sponsored “Magdalene laundries,” which housed pregnant teenagers and uncooperative young women. We worked in the basement, washing priests’ clothes in sinks with cold water and bars of soap. We studied math and typing. We had limited contact with our families. We earned no wages. One of the nuns, at least, was kind to me and gave me my first guitar….
An Grianán was a product of the Irish government’s relationship with the Vatican — the church had a “special position” codified in our constitution until 1972. As recently as 2007, 98 percent of Irish schools were run by the Catholic Church. But schools for troubled youth have been rife with barbaric corporal punishments, psychological abuse and sexual abuse. In October 2005, a report sponsored by the Irish government identified more than 100 allegations of sexual abuseby priests in Ferns, a small town 70 miles south of Dublin, between 1962 and 2002. Accused priests weren’t investigated by police; they were deemed to be suffering a “moral” problem. In 2009, a similar report implicated Dublin archbishops in hiding sexual abuse scandals between 1975 and 2004.
Why was such criminal behavior tolerated? The “very prominent role which the Church has played in Irish life is the very reason why abuses by a minority of its members were allowed to go unchecked,” the 2009 report said.
Survivors have shared many horror stories. When the women arrived, most had their long hair cut short, or even shaved off, which was the beginning of the humiliating enslavement. Strict silence was enforced, and infractions resulted in corporal punishment. There are reports of physical, psychological, sexual and emotional abuse. The laundries started out as homes for “fallen women” – prostitutes, but soon, the doors were opened to incarcerate the mentally retarded, those with learning problems, abused women and girls, and unwed mothers. Females who committed crimes like shoplifting or not paying for a train ticket were sent to the laundries and eventually, even promiscuity, flirtatiousness, or being “too beautiful” were crimes punishable by enslavement in the workhouses.
Meanwhile, the Church was making money from paid contracts for the women’s labor. The contracts demanded the legally required “fair wages” for the women’s work, but the women did not get paid a single penny of that money. All the revenue went to the Church.
Prominent Irish businesses, government agencies, and the Church itself were listed in the ledgers as clients of the laundries: Áras an Uachtaráin, Guinness, Clerys, the Gaiety Theatre, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, the Bank of Ireland, the Department of Defence, the Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries, CIÉ, Portmarnock Golf Club, Clontarf Golf Club and several leading hotels
Notable to the current day is first, the recent existence of these work camps. During our adult lives, women were being treated as slave labor – not in some distant third world hellhole, but in Europe, part of the so-called “civilized” Western world. This isn’t something that happened many centuries ago – the doors closed less than 20 years ago.
As well, this could be considered a case study in the incremental enslavement of a group of people. The laundries went from a reformatory for prostitutes to a voluntary respite for unwed mothers to a prison for women who had only committed petty crimes, to those whose only crime was being prettier than others. Is it a stretch that one of the many empty FEMA camps might start out housing the victims of a natural disaster, then overreach to keep them there, involuntarily? Could the reach of those camps then stretch to encompass those who believe differently, behave differently, learn differently or look differently? Remember, the Magdalene Laundries grew to encompass more and more “crimes” as time went on – including some things that were only crimes from the perspective of the church or a bitter judge.
This demonstrates clearly how those in “power” seem to feel that the laws and mores that confine the rest of the world do not apply to them. The Catholic Church has a long history of covering for the sexual predators in their ranks. (How often have you read about priests who commit the grave sin of molesting the children of their congregation simply sent to be the wolf among a different flock?) In this case the Church knowingly profited from slavery for close to a century. Governments in general are rife with corruption, no matter what part of the world they are in. In Ireland, women who were outside the norm were the targets. Is it hard to imagine that a group that vocally disagrees with the government could not be likewise targeted, especially considering the facilities in which to house them already exist?
Finally, the Magdalene Laundries were publicly allowed free reign in enslaving and abusing the inmates, granted by the Catholic Church and the Irish government. (The combination of Church and government has never boded well for those under the thumb of the two.) This occurred right under the noses of “good people”, who were brainwashed by Church and media to believe that it was acceptable. The entire society didn’t have to be overthrown to allow this to happen – they just had to be convinced (read: programmed) to believe that this was for the safety and moral well-being of the community. It is not farfetched to imagine the same thing happening right now as the media paints Patriots, preppers, gun owners, and survivalists as domestic terrorists and loose cannons from whom the public needs to be protected.
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A nationwide flu outbreak could be a sufficient excuse to call up the National Guard Rapid Response Parallel support module to take control of a “national emergency” with possible declaration of martial law protocols. According to a North Carolina police lieutenant, in some three to six months declarations of martial law could be made throughout the nation. In a two part radio broadcast aired by a Virginia pastor, Lieutenant McCoy has attracted the attention of more than 20,000 listeners. “We’re in huge trouble,” he says as he calls up memories of white, granite gravestones all over Europe; gravestones marking the final resting place of veterans who died “for us” during World War II.
Tragically, many of our veterans are now referred to as potential “domestic terrorists” by President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security. Men who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have been declared “risks” should they choose to purchase a firearm for private use. A devout Christian, the 31 year lawman tells listeners, “I cry. . .when guns are gone, you won’t be able to worship the Creator. . .gone. . . Freedoms gone.”
When Katrina made its way through New Orleans leaving portions of the city in ruins, George Bush praised FEMA director Michael Brown, saying “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” It was an incredible statement given the display of incompetence not only by FEMA, but by federal agencies throughout the bureaucracy. Residents of New York City can attest to the fact that things have not improved given that providing water to victims of Sandy was too complicated a task for federal relief agencies DAYS after the hurricane had passed through the area.
Perhaps it’s time to ask the true purpose of FEMA and other federal agencies. When the necessity arises, National Guard Units under martial law paradigms will be rolled out for “control of widespread domestic unrest.” A 2009 report discusses something called a Stability Police Force resembling a hybrid military/ law enforcement entity created “under the guise of controlling domestic riots.” Use of National Guard units became familiar to residents of New Orleans during the Katrina episode, so citizens may initially not consider it unusual to see guard members serving along with FEMA in these 10 regions.
Executive Orders, “…have been on the books for a half century now, empowering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take control of everything from public and private communications, energy and transportation to housing and more.” (5) And since 9/11, the president has been given nearly limitless power, permitting officers of the Executive branch to ignore completely the constitutional rights of the American people.
In March of 2012, Barack Obama created Executive Order number 13603, entitled National Defense Resources Preparedness. “In this Executive Order, Obama essentially gave himself the authority to declare Martial Law in times of war or peace.” War OR Peace! No longer will the federal government need the excuse of a disaster to impose its full will and authority on the American public!
Lieutenant McCoy was right when he observed that “we’re in huge trouble!” The question is, will We the People have the courage to reclaim our constitutional rights?
2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama administration’s “litmus test” for new military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens.
Garrow was nominated three years ago for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of The Pink Pagoda Girls, an organization dedicated to rescuing baby girls from “gendercide” in China. Garrow has been personally involved in “helping rescue more than 36,000 Chinese baby girls from death.” He is a public figure, not an anonymous voice on the Internet, which makes his claim all the more disturbing.
“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not”. Those who will not are being removed,” Garrow wrote on his Facebook page, later following up the post by adding the man who told him is, “one of America’s foremost military heroes,” whose goal in divulging the information was to “sound the alarm.”
Garrow’s claim is even more explosive given that the country is in the throes of a national debate about gun control, with gun rights advocates keen to insist that the founders put the second amendment in the Constitution primarily as a defense against government tyranny.
It also follows reports on Sunday that General James Mattis, head of the United States Central Command, “is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.”
Concerns over US troops being given orders to fire on American citizens in the event of mass gun confiscation first arose in 1995 when hundreds of Marines at 29 Palms, California were given a survey as part of an academic project by Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham which asked the Marines if they would, “Fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.”
The survey was subsequently leaked because many of the Marines who took it were shocked by the tone of the question.
The US Military has clearly outlined innumerable civil emergency scenarios under which troops would be authorized to fire on U.S. citizens.
In July 2012, the process by which this could take place was made clear in a leaked US Army Military Police training manual for “Civil Disturbance Operations” (PDF) dating from 2006. Similar plans were also outlined in an updated manual released in 2010 entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations.
The 2006 document outlines how military assets will be used to “help local and state authorities to restore and maintain law and order” in the event of mass riots, civil unrest or a declaration of martial law.
On page 20 of the manual, rules regarding the use of “deadly force” in confronting “dissidents” on American soil are made disturbingly clear with the directive that a, “Warning shot will not be fired.”
Last week, Gloversville Mayor Dayton King warned that any federal gun confiscation program could lead to a “Waco-style standoff” in rural areas of America.
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First, the government responds to the September 11th attack by passing the Patriot Act, which is purportedly designed to protect us from foreign terrorists. Most of America cheers it on, never realizing that within the act is a broad definition for something categorized as domestic terrorism, or “activities that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.”
Second, they pass the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows them, under the definitions for domestic terrorism set forth by the Patriot Act, to detain someone without trial and forever if they appear to be subverting the newly established status quo.
Finally, once the new laws are in place, the government security apparatus begins the re-education of its minions by labeling as “terrorists” anyone who dares speak out or disagrees with their new policy initiatives.
This last step is and has been happening for some time.
Even the very act of assembling with other like minded people to influence policy by petitioning the Government for a redress of grievances can land you on the domestic terrorism list:
A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels “protests” as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment.
The written exam, given as part of Department of Defense employees’ routine training, includes a multiple-choice question that asks:
“Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism?”
- Attacking the Pentagon
- IEDs
- Hate crimes against racial groups
- Protests
The correct answer, according to the exam, is “Protests.”
“Its part of a pattern of equating dissent and protest with terrorism,” said Ann Brick, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained a copy of the question after a Defense Department employee who was taking the test printed the screen on his or her computer terminal.
“It undermines the core constitutional values the Department of Defense is supposed to be defending,” Brick said, referring to the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.
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“That’s illegal,” said George Martin, national co-chairman of United for Peace and Justice. “Protest in terms of legal dissent has to be recognized, especially by the authorities.
“It’s not terrorism or a lack of patriotism. We care enough to be active in our government.”
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“It’s the kind of thing that happens when you have large security bureaucracies, which is why they need to be kept in check,” Friedman said. “These things tend to occur in times of panic, like after Sept. 11.”
After many years of a slow but steady erosion of our right to speak freely, to assemble peaceably, to bear arms, to be safe and secure in our persons, and to be given due process in a court of law, we begin to see the sinister end game emerge.
Our entire system of government, the one established by our Founding Fathers, is being systematically dismantled.
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On Thursday Macedonia became the first European country to be found guilty for collaborating with the U.S. in the so-called secret CIA flights and for hosting secret CIA torture sites. The Strasbourg Court said the country was guilty for aiding the CIA to torture a German citizen of Lebanese descent who was mistaken as a terrorist.
The European Court of Human Rights has established that Khaled el Masri was tortured after his arrest on December 31, 2003 and before being delivered 23 days later to the CIA, which sent him to a prison camp in Afghanistan where he remained for 6 months.
Macedonia broke up four articles of the European Convention of Human Rights, according to the Court, which places special emphasis on the third article, which prohibits torture and therefore condemns the country to pay the complainant € 60,000 in damages.
The country also violated the right to liberty and security, respect for private and family life and the right to an effective remedy, according to the judgment. Macedonia not only practiced torture with El Masri but gave him to the CIA knowing that he risked further torture, said the ruling.
“This sentence deserves to be described as historic: it is the first conviction in an international court of the practice of illegal transportation of detainees and the CIA’s secret detention,” said the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Jean-Claude Mignon.
This pan-European body, which brings together 47 States of the Old Continent, whipped these shady practices that emerged after the attacks of September 11, 2001, in a report by Swiss senator Dick Marty in 2006, in which he detailed that 14 European countries collaborated in these illegal practices.
Amnesty International, meanwhile, saw the ruling as “a milestone in the fight against impunity” and a first step to convict other countries who also collaborated with the CIA.
The Human Rights Court validated the testimony of El Masri, born in 1963 and living in the German city of Ulm, who said he was mistaken for a terrorist when he arrived in Skopje on December 31, 2003 for sightseeing.
There he was arrested by the Macedonian authorities, who took him to a hotel room, There, he was held for 23 days without any legal help, interrogated in English — a language he did not speak properly — and isolated from all external contact. This, he says put him in a permanent a state of distress.
But his ordeal had just begun, because 23 days later he was handcuffed, hooded and taken to the airport, where he waited a group of CIA agents who subjected him to harsh torture while in custody of Macedonian authorities. “The Macedonian government’s responsibility is accepted in regard to acts committed on its territory by agents of a foreign state,” said the statement issued by the Court.
El-Masri was beaten, stripped and sodomized with an object, reads the statement. These forms of torture “were used with premeditation in order to provoke El-Masri severe pain and suffering to obtain information from him. The Court considers that torture,” say the judges.
While the Court issued this statement, in the United States, the Senate intelligence committee has officially concluded that CIA interrogations were ineffective. “The report is the most detailed independent examination to date of the agency’s efforts to “break” dozens of detainees through physical and psychological duress, a period of CIA history that has become a source of renewed controversy,” reports the Washington Post.
In the case of El-Masri, he was sedated and placed in an aircraft. After a stopover in Baghdad, the plane landed in Afghanistan, where El-Masri was detained in a detention center and kept in a small concrete cell. They suffered further torture and made two hunger strikes before May 28, 2004, five months after his arrest, when he was transferred to Germany.
Visibly affected by torture, and weighing 18 kilos less than before, El Masri filed a complaint that year and since then has struggled to make European and U.S. authorities recognize the mistake made by the CIA.
One of the most important elements in the trial of Macedonia as an accomplice of the CIA was the testimony of the country’s Interior Minister at the time of the facts, who confirmed the arrest of El-Masri and his surrender to the CIA.
In a similar case, the British government settled a case with Sami al Saadi, a Libyan dissident by paying him 2.2 million pounds (2.7 million euros) after he was secretly handed over to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2004. The Libyan was captured with the help of the British intelligence service MI6. Saadi claimed he was tricked by MI6 and the CIA, taken to Libya and tortured while he was there.
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Ever wondered how you might fare inside a FEMA camp?
Northeast residents are getting a dose, and as you may have guessed, it’s not exactly a fun-filled party with treats, air conditioning and group dancing.
Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” said Sotelo.
“At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got fucked.”
“The elections are over and here we are. There were Blackhawk helicopters flying over all day and night. They have heavy equipment moving past the tents all night.”
Welcome to the part of the disaster where people start falling through the cracks.
No media is allowed inside the fenced complex, which houses operations for JCP&L’s army of workers from out of the area. The FEMA website indicated on Monday that there had been a shelter for first responders, utility and construction workers to take a break, although the compound now contains a full-time shelter operated by the state Department of Human Services.
Sotelo scrolls through the photos he took inside the facility as his wife, Renee, huddles for warmth inside a late-model Toyota Corolla stuffed with possessions, having to drive out through the snow and slush to tell their story. The images on the small screen include lines of outdoor portable toilets, of snow and ice breaching the bottom of the tent and an elderly woman sitting up, huddled in blankets.
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CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK — After the government sponsored terror attacks took place in September of 2001 , America was shaken to the core. Media hype and terror rhetoric filled the airwaves. We had a new enemy.
Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, Congress passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to better coordinate among the different federal agencies that deal with law enforcement, disaster preparedness and recovery, border protection and civil defense. FEMA was absorbed into DHS effective March 1, 2003. As a result, FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, and employs more than 2,600 full-time employees. It became the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Agency again on March 31, 2007, but still remained in DHS.
The fraudulent Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) revitalized offshoot FEMA arrived Friday morning with a Winnebago in the disaster struck region of Coney Island to solve all problems. That’s right everything will now be ok. The unit is there to help storm victims register with FEMA to see if they qualify for aid or possibly a toxic FEMA trailer to live in.
This magical Winnebago gives storm victims a chance to register with FEMA as hundred awaited the arrival of what is being called the “city’s first mobile FEMA disaster center”. The mobile unit will change locations throughout the day and coming weeks, trying to reach as many victims as possible to get them logged.
FEMA announced that victims can also register by phone or email making it easy for some who have amenities.
The FEMA spokesman was quoted saying, “We want to get people into the system” showing how displaced populations are essentially tagged and tracked by FEMA.
Officials say it could be another week before power is restored in areas as food and supplies remain scarce citywide. Some looting has been reported.
WikiLeaks published early this morning hundreds of documents from the Department of Defense that describe the procedures established by the US government to be used with suspects detained by the American government who were sent to the prison Guantanamo Bay.
The first document to be put out is the manual of military procedures at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay which applied to both civilian and military personnel beginning in November 2002. This manual established administrative rules, regulations and code of confinement behavior for officials.
The organization founded by Julian Assange announced through a press release that, over the next month, the website will disseminate files about the detention policy in chronological order with the directions followed by military officials for more than a decade. Today, the founder of Wikileaks is under political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy and is seeking his extradition to South America in order to avoid persecution from the United States, Sweden and other nations that publicly seek revenge.
The documents released by Wikileaks include standard operating procedures of the detention camps Bucca and Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and the manuals for interrogation and fragmentary orders (Fragos) on changes in detention policies.
These documents “show the anatomy of the monster created to conduct arrests after the attacks on September 11, which created a dark hole in which the law and the rights do not exist and where people can be detained without a trace and be treated at will by DoD and intelligence personnel,” said Assange in a statement.
“It shows the excesses of the early days of the war against an unknown ‘enemy’ and how these policies matured and evolved” resulting, he said, “in a permanent state of exception in which the United States is now a decade later “. That exception includes but is not limited to, the effective elimination of significant portions of the Constitution, through the partial or total suppression of the First, Second and Fourth Amendments, for example, which is now business as usual in North America.
Assange, who is in a complicated situation of asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for alleged sexual offenses, notes the historical importance of these documents, as “Guantanamo has become an example for the systematic abuse of human rights, “he added.
The organization issued several policy documents on interrogation of detainees in Iraq for the years 2004, 2005 and 2008, which revealed techniques to instill fear or emotional pressure to detainees. WikiLeaks said that “although physical violence is prohibited, in writing, a consistent policy of terrorizing prisoners, combined with a policy of destroying records, has caused abuse and impunity”.
Also due out is the “Fragmentary Order”, released after the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib (Iraq) that “eliminates the requirement to keep a record of the interrogation sessions” in certain areas of the prison.
Furthermore, while noting that interrogations carried out in the Division and Brigade Internment should be recorded, it also states that the files should “disappear within 30 days.” A policy that has been overturned by the Obama administration.
The administration of President George W. Bush (2001-2009) enabled the military base of Guantanamo (Cuba) to detain suspected terrorists — without trial — after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Luis R. Miranda is the Founder and Editor of The Real Agenda. His 16 years of experience in Journalism include television, radio, print and Internet news. Luis obtained his Journalism degree from Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, where he graduated in Mass Media Communication in 1998. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcasting from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Among his most distinguished interviews are: Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres and James Hansen from NASA Space Goddard Institute.
In 2003, Congress began pouring money into a program of fusion centers. These 70 outposts, scattered across America, were supposed to coordinate federal, state, and local efforts to gather counter-terrorism intelligence.
You know, to protect America against al-Qaeda.
The lead agency in this program is the US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS).
Now the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations has issued a chilling report on how this has worked out. Buckle up.
First and foremost, the report indicates that DHS has claimed certain fusion centers exist that don’t exist at all. This should give you a clue about what we are dealing with.
“So how is fusion center #32 doing?”
“Pretty good.”
“Really? Fusion center #32 doesn’t exist.”
“Oh.”
Here is the exact statement from the Committee: “…DHS officials asserted that some fusion centers existed when they did not.”
The Committee also found that DHS hid their own “evaluations highlighting a host of problems at fusion centers and in DHS’ own operations.”
Or in plain language: a) we screw up big-time; b) we cover it up.
But even with all this lying, surely the fusion centers produced useful intelligence, right?
“…the Subcommittee investigation could identify no DHS reporting which uncovered a terrorist threat nor could it identify a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot.”
What?!
It gets even worse. For the period between April 1, 2009, and April 30, 2010, a third of all fusion center reports weren’t even published for use by DHS or other US intelligence agencies. Why? Because the reports often “lacked any useful information or potentially violated department guidelines intended to protect Americans’ civil liberties or Privacy Act protections…”
In fact, the Committee found, DHS launched an internal review of its own actions that specifically infringed on citizens’ privacy and civil liberties, but the review was extended in time, in order to conceal “most of the troubling reports” and keep them “from being released outside of DHS…”
Translation: a) we violate citizens’ Constitutional rights; b) we cover it up; c) we investigate our own cover-up; d) we conceal our own cover-up.
As the capper on the Committee report, Congressional investigators discovered that “DHS required only a week of training for intelligence officials before sending them to state and local fusion centers to report sensitive domestic intelligence, largely concerning US persons…”
Meaning: incompetent raw DHS employees are deployed to accuse US citizens of being terrorists or aiding terrorists.
Feel safer now?
The bumbling stumbling fusion centers may actually be evidence of something far more sinister: the real mission of DHS is not intelligence at all, and never was. Instead, DHS was tasked with creating its own army, to be equipped with hundreds of millions of rounds of ammo, guns, tanks, and the like. The “gathering of intell” is just a cover story for its ongoing war on the American people.
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Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a statement alerting residents that on October 18th at 10:18 am (EST), on the Southeast coast of America, there would be an earthquake drill wherein 1 million residents over 5 states would be participating.
States such as Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia will collaborate with “schools, businesses, organizations, government agencies, communities, and households” as well as “many other local, state, federal and volunteer partners.”
All across the US, participation will include:
• California
• Nevada
• Oregon
• Washington State
• The Southeast Region
• Arizona
• British Columbia
FEMA explains that “it is vitally important for people to have a plan and know what to do during an earthquake.” They suggest that citizens use the “Drop, Cover and Hold On” approach which consists of dropping to the ground, taking cover under a desk or table, and holding on to the furniture until the quake stops.
In August, the first graduating class of FEMA Corps members were trained to be leaders at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness and disbursed to specific roles ranging from community relations to Disaster Recovery Center support.
Working with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which is a federal agency that “engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve”, these members are trained to utilize local communities for the sake of public-private partnerships to rework the structure of those communities to serve the needs of the federal government. By implanting pro-government propaganda, using rural resources for the benefit of private sector corporations under the guise of “fostering civic engagement”, the CNCS revisions the American landscape to reflect their agendas as directed by the US government.
The FEMA Corps is the brainchild of President Obama. In 2009, Obama said that: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Called the Great ShakeOut, this drill is directed toward residential homes, schools and organization to “improve preparedness and practice how to be safe during earthquakes.”
FEMA cites the strange “earthquake” that occurred in Mineral, Virginia as the reason for the drill. In August of 2011, mainstream media reported that an earthquake could be felt from Colorado to Washington, D.C. The tremors resulting from a 5.8 magnitude “earthquake” caused “buildings from the Capitol to the White House” to be evacuated, although “there were no immediate reports of damage.”
However, the locations in Colorado and Washington, D.C. where the tremors were felt are directly above underground bases where US military facilities are buried. These bases were constructed with funds allocated in the 1960’s under black projects to the tune of several trillions of taxpayer’s money.
It was reported in 2011 that these earthquakes were actually nuclear strikes by the Chinese in a covert operation.
Seismographic evidence shows that the “earthquake” was a sudden burst of energy underground, as would be consistent with a nuclear strike and not a naturally occurring earthquake which would have shown aftershocks immediately following the first hit.
In 1979, then US President Jimmy Carter created FEMA by executive order 12127 which combined multiple agencies that were given the responsibility of emergency preparedness and civil defense under a unified agency that would operate independent of Congressional oversight and the self-governing authority once the President declared a disaster.
FEMA has been endeavoring to change the social perspective of their agency by invoking the idea of a “federal family”. This phrase was first used after Hurricane Katrina “when describing the Obama administration’s response to the storm.”
FEMA’s federal family partners many federal agencies to bring “all the resources [of the US government] to bear support to states” devastated after a natural disaster. Begun in 2011, Obama empowered Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to engage “with our federal, state, territorial, tribal and local partners, as well as voluntary organizations, the private sector, and others to respond” in the event of a disaster.
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved HR 6566 which amended the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to imbue the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “to provide guidance and coordination for mass fatality planning, and for other purposes.”
Elected officials have assumed that in such an event, funeral homes, cemeteries and mortuaries would be overwhelmed should millions of Americans suddenly die in a tragic event. There must also be allowances for survivors of such an event.
Representatives from local and state governments must coordinate with federal agencies, private sector businesses, non-profit organizations and appropriate individuals to prepare and respond to an incident wherein mass casualties occur.
While FEMA is preparing the public for the possibility of a devastating earthquake, DHS has teamed up with the World Surveillance Group, Inc., to develop technologies specializing in “chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive (collectively, CBRNE), command, control, computers, communication, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR), and unmanned aerial systems (UAS).” The federal agency also put out a solicitation for “participation in the Robotic Aircraft for Public Safety (RAPS) project from the small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS) for transition to its customers” to use drones in American skies for more than the expressed purpose of spying on US citizens to secure their safety.
The reality of bio-weapons technology has been warned of by the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism in a report released in 2008. It was identified, based on intelligence, that there was a viable threat of a biological attack that would occur in 2013. The Middle East, specifically Pakistan, was acknowledged as a possible perpetrator of the attack because of the region being a breeding ground for terroristic dissention.
It is clear that our US government has been preparing for a catastrophe so great that mass casualties would become an issue. Whether natural or man-made, earthquake or bio-weapons attack, the deceptive shift in the social consciousness is being manipulated by agencies such as DHS and FEMA who intend to become the member of our “federal family” that we will run to for assistance in the event of a disaster.
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The US Congress has put the government’s purchase of over a billion and a half rounds of hollow point bullets into perspective with their latest legislative offering, HR Bill 6566: The Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act.
The act was quietly passed on September 28, but only caught public attention yesterday. It mandates Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make preparations for fatalities so great in number that mortuaries, hospitals and funeral homes are overwhelmed.
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002, requiring the Administrator of FEMA to “provide guidance and coordination for mass fatality planning, and for other purposes.”
(1) Emergency preparedness often plans for how to prepare and provide for survivors of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, but fails to plan for how to prepare for and respond to mass fatalities that result from such an incident.
(2) Funeral homes, cemeteries, and mortuaries could be overwhelmed should mass fatalities arise from a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.
(3) Different religions have different customs surrounding death; for example, the Jewish and Muslim religions call for burial of the deceased not later than 48 hours after death.
We must be very concerned when plans are put into place to deal with such a large number of dead bodies. This video provides further analysis of the Bill:
The de facto government of the United States has just moved another piece on the chessboard in a game that was begun with the false flag event of 9/11 and the subsequent enactment of the unPatriot Act. We should be extremely concerned that plans are being made for such a massive death toll on American soil that civilian facilities will be unable to keep pace. The wheels are turning faster…
US District Court Judge Katherine Forrester ruled earlier this year that the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is unconstitutional and ordered a block on its enforcement by federal agencies for those “suspected” to have “substantially supported” al-Qaeda, the Taliban or “associated forces”.
While Obama’s lawyers have been fighting against this ruling with appeals, there has been installed a permanent injunction against the US government enforcing Section 1021 of the NDAA under “Homeland Battlefield” provisions.
Section 1021 says that the US President may “use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), including “the authority of the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons.”
The explanation of a “covered person” includes “a person who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”
Under wartime, individuals can be detained without due process “under the law of war” until such conditions of hostility end as “authorized by the AUMF.” Obama’s attorneys would have the US District Court believe that Section 1021 of the NDAA is vital to maintaining national security and therefore the executive branch is entitled to utilize the provision at their discretion. Forrester stated that this provision does not preclude “that such conduct – which, by analogy, covers any writing, journalistic and associational activities that involve al Qaeda, the Taliban or whomever is deemed “associated forces” – does not fall within § 1021(b)(2).”
Forrester indicated that the Section 1021 of the NDAA has already caused harm to journalists such as Chris Hedges. She also questioned the legal definitions of the terms “substantially supported,” “directly supported,” and “associated forces” as stated in Section 1021, pointing to the lack of prior case law and “respective meanings of the terms at issue”.
Forrester continued to explain that Section 1021 is a vague definition which translates to a gross violation of “an individual’s core liberties. The due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment require that an individual understand what conduct might subject him or her to criminal or civil penalties. Here, the stakes get no higher: indefinite military detention–potential detention during a war on terrorism that is not expected to end in the foreseeable future, if ever. The Constitution requires specificity–and that specificity is absent from § 1021(b)(2) . . .”
Hedges’ complaint centered on the “nebulous terms” that are subject to interpretation by federal agencies that are the power behind the indefinite detention of an American. The US government’s classification of any American as an enemy combatant on a simple suspicion without proof guarantees that a multitude of US citizens could and would most likely become victims of detainment in a military facility without cause to use habeas corpus.
The US government’s blatant disregard for the 1st Amendment with regard to writers, journalists, political activism prompted Forrester to suggest that Congress to revise the provision to reflect a Constitutional acceptance of the rule of law governing our Republic while satisfying the desires of the US government to defend national security.
This decision confirms that regardless of the Fascist nature of our US government, there are inalienable rights afforded us by the US Constitution that cannot be undone by order of the Executive Branch. Simply to claim allegation of involvement with suspected terrorists is not enough to detain an American without due process and charges brought to facilitate defense of the accused.
Without delay, less than 24 hours later, Obama’s lawyers filed an appeal of Forrester’s decision facilitating Constitutional rights to journalists, news reporting and political activists. The new appeal will be heard by another judge, and may be supported by an Orwellian-like minded individual who will aid the Obama administration in retaining the right to have anyone they want disappeared into a FEMA camp under the guise of “supporting” CIA-sponsored and manufactured terrorist organizations.
While this legal battle is being waged, the US government has been using another form of indefinite detention of Americans – specifically US veterans being carted away to psychiatric wards for speaking out against the Fascist element having hijacked the executive branch of our Constitutional Republic.
By using a manipulated version of the Baker Act, US veterans and political dissonant are disappearing into mental wards to be forcibly evaluated and subject to threat of unwarranted psychotropic medications for not supporting the path of the current administration.
To ensure that Obama can further demonize US veterans, he signed an executive order earlier this month that allocates the Department of Defense (DoD) the authority over the mental healthcare of our returning service men and women through the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA).
Simply put: the DoD is empowered to oversee how US veterans “transition” back into “civilian life.” The US government’s goal is to identify these veterans and label them with a progressive, unstable and degenerative disease so that they can refer them to mental hospitals for further evaluation and/or admittance.
While this plan of action is being realized, the Obama administration is fighting in the court system for the right to indefinitely detain any American for any reason with or without cause, with the catch-all accusation of supporting terrorists.
Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism, an alternative news site dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporate-funded mainstream media. You can find Occupy Corporatism on their Facebook page .
You’ve got to love our President. In one his first official memos to federal agencies after his inauguration our Puppet in Chief wrote:
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
Public engagement enhances the Government’s effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge.
Fast forward to 2012, and this is what Obama is officially bragging about on his own website!
The Obama administration has prosecuted twice as many cases under the Espionage Act as all other administrations combined.
Under the President, the Justice Department has prosecuted six cases regarding national security leaks.
Before he took office, federal prosecutors had used the Espionage Act in only three cases.
One of the very first things I discovered when I began researching the NWO, some 4 ½ years ago, was what I call ‘way stations’. These are places that, at first glance, look like nothing out of the ordinary, but upon closer inspection, are revealed to be something far more insidious than one would suspect. They can be found anywhere, and as anyone knows, the best place to hide something is in plain sight, where it can be seen by anyone, but not necessarily recognized for what it actually is.
I came across this information quite by accident while searching the internet one day for some photos of giants that a friend of mine had downloaded. I hadn’t asked him the name of the website he got them from, so I simply Googled the word ‘giants’, hoping to get lucky. It was by far either the luckiest or smartest thing I’ve ever done, as it took me to a site called “Return of the Nephilim”, which not only had the same pictures my friend had downloaded, but it also had many different articles about something I had always considered to be a myth at best – the Illuminati.
Being of a curious nature, I was immediately intrigued by what I saw. The more I read, the more I thought to myself “This can’t be true, how could they possibly keep this kind of information secret from the rest of the world?” Little did I know that the strength of the NWO lies in that very secrecy. Without it, they could no longer effectively function.
Then I found an article about FEMA camps, complete with photos. My interest at this point evolved from intrigue to downright fear. One of the links provided by this article listed three different locations of these ‘way stations’, all within easy driving range of where I live, not actual FEMA camps, but more in the nature of holding facilities.
I then thought, “This is something concrete, something that can easily be proven or disproven.
First stop: the San Fernando Valley Water District, being that it is not only the closest, but also the furthest west. It is located just about where the 405 & 5 freeways converge.
I drove up into the parking lot of the Odyssey Restaurant and took some shots. It was just as the article had claimed. The water district is surrounded by achain link fence, topped with triple strand barbed wire. The only problem was, the barbed wire was facing the WRONG DIRECTION!
When you want to keep someone OUT of an area, barbed wire is ALWAYS facing OUTWARD. When you want to keep them in, as with prisons, the barbed wire ( usually with razor wire added in prisons ) is ALWAYS facing inward. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule.
I then drove down to Blucher Ave., where the maintenance facility was located.
Sure enough, where they kept the trucks and equipment, the barbed wire was facing outward, as it should have been, TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT! This was right across the street from the fence with the barbed wire facing INWARD! ( NOT to keep people out, but IN, obviously ). One other thing mentioned in the article was railway access, which this location has. This is for the boxcars that government ordered from an Oregon company which were sent to another OR company, which then outfitted them with 142 sets of shackles inside, if memory serves me. ( Don’t quote me on the exact number, it’s been a while since I’ve seen this information ).
I then drove to Glendale, to Brand Park. I wasn’t able to get the shots I would have liked, because there was a cop walking his K-9 on the baseball field where I took the photos, and I avoid those people like the plague. As one can clearly see, the barbed wire is once again facing inward.
Final stop, The Antelope Valley – East Kern Water Agency, located in Pearblossom at 35261 116th St. East, in the high desert. This is a very large facility, completely surrounded by chain link fencing. Again, you can clearly see that that the barbed wire is also facing inward. It also has railway access, and right across the street is an aqueduct, with warning signs posted about the danger of drowning and so forth, with barbed wirefacing OUTWARD, as it should be.
I have to admit, at this point I was as freaked out as I have been about anything I’ve ever seen in my life. I called a good friend of mine, thinking, surely he could see what I was seeing. He agreed to meet me for lunch, so we got together and I showed him thepictures, and explained what they meant. He was very understanding, and very sympathetic, but I could see he didn’t believe a single thing I was telling him. I’ve been battling this “oblivious to the truth” mentality ever since.
One more thing. There are other places I think of as very temporary holding facilities. These are everywhere, but the last two photos were taken in the yard of the warehouse where I work. One is of the fence surrounding the warehouse, and the other of the warehouse yard ACROSS the train tracks, ( railway access again ). These fences are very high, complete with barbed wire ( facing inward ), and as you can see, also with razor wire at the warehouse I work in. I believe these will be used as emergency holding pens for very short-term prisoners, before they are taken away to camp FEMA.
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A Redlands man has filed a writ of habeas corpus concerning release from confinement ordered under a conservatorship that may not even exist.
When Charles Castle was grabbed off the street by San Bernardino mental health court workers Bob Habel and Wayne Henkelman, almost nobody realized he was missing. Charlie was homeless and while a virtual fixture on the street scene in Redlands, California, he lacked family and social support networks. Some folks, such as Ken Stein with the YMCA, where Charlie went to shower, thought that he was possibly deceased.
Taken
Not deceased, but certainly disappeared, Charlie was taken to Arrowhead Regional Center hospital and held in a mental health unit while powerful parties determined his fate. He reports that he was not present at his mandated court hearing and only found out several months later that he had been placed under a mental health conservatorship.
His conservatorship proceedings were steeped in fraud. Charlie was represented by the same law firm, the law offices of Bryan Hartnell, which also represented the conservator, Melodie Scott. Initially, the Public Guardian was appointed as conservator and Scott quickly petitioned to take over this function.
According to Charlie, his attorney “terrorized” him out of his right to a jury trial. He recalls being told by attorney Ryan Sheehan (who has since left the law firm) that his best recourse was to waive his right to a jury trial. Castle recalls Sheehan saying “It will get real bad for you if you lose the trial. They can put you wherever they want to and you will never get out. Better to go along.”
After being conserved, Charlie Castle was subsequently moved out of San Bernardino County and transferred from facility to facility. He has been on lockdown in Chino Valley Health Care Facility and most recently has been placed into a locked ward at Ramona Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation in El Monte. Neither of these skilled nursing facilities offers a mental health treatment program, which raises questions as to conservator neglect. Since Charlie was deemed by the court to need a mental health conservatorship, one would question why the conservator has persisted in placing him in facilities which do not offer mental health treatment. Charlie has described the facilities as “warehouses for human refuse.”
Charles Castle was first approached by conservator Melodie Scott a few months before he was grabbed in front of the library by mental health workers Wayne and Bob. According to Castle, she asked him if he would like her to be his conservator and “take care” of him. He responded with an emphatic, “No ma’am.”
According to a number of people who knew Charlie Castle, including a local schoolteacher and the pastor at the Blessing Center, he is considered to be eccentric but competent to handle his own affairs.
Police cover up
Reports about Charlie Castle’s plight have been lodged with Adult Protective Services in both Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. One of those reports was forwarded to the Pomona Police Department for investigation and this reporter was shocked to discover that the report had been altered and did not reflect in any manner the report tendered to APS.
The original report focused on two issues: 1) the fraud inherent in court proceedings where the same lawyer represents both sides and 2) concerns as to why the conservator has repeatedly placed Charlie Castle into facilities which do not have programs to address his alleged mental health problems.
According to Lt. McDonald, watch commander with the Pomona PD, the report that was being investigated by Pomona alleged that the conservator Melodie Scott had misappropriated Charlie’s Social Security check back in July of 2011. As conservator, Scott would by law be the recipient of Castle’s social security checks. The report had been altered so as to make the original complaint into a non-issue, which would then result in a quick closure of the case, while at the same time making the complainant look foolish and ignorant.
An appeal was made to the Pomona PD Chief’s office questioning the genesis of the altered report and an angry Captain Michael Olivieri declined to further discuss the Charlie Castle report. This reporter has learned that the Pomona Police subsequently determined they lacked jurisdiction and sent the altered report back to Redlands Police Department for investigation. The report was then closed by Detective Andy Capps of the Redlands PD, who stated no action would be taken.
Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Other agencies were quick to follow in vacating their mandated responsibility to address Charlie’s plight. A supervisor at the Long Term Care Ombudsman in Los Angeles County opined that the Ombudsman was prohibited from investigating without the consent of the conservator. When asked for the legal authority (statute) prohibiting her from launching an investigation, she provided an irrelevant Welfare and Institutions code. Follow up phone calls to her were ignored until the agency’s Vice President was contacted and a complaint was lodged.
A similar fate met a report lodged with Rashied Gibri, who is with the Los Angeles County Patients’ rights office. After the initial report went uninvestigated, Gibri was recontacted. He then hunkered down and refused to take the report. Asked again for the legal authority governing his refusal, Gibri became combative and hung up.
On more than one occasion, a Redlands man, Keith Phillips, addressed the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Charles Castle’s behalf. An initial strong response by Supervisor Josie Gonzales quickly reversed, as the County began to allege that it had no jurisdiction to act. SB County public information officer David Wert has repeatedly stated that the San Bernardino County Public Guardian also lacks jurisdiction to step up and petition to take the conservatorship back from Melodie Scott, as Charlie Castle is now being held in Los Angeles County.
Who is Melodie Scott?
Melodie Scott was the subject of a Los Angeles Times expose back in 2005 and the public outcry as to the revelations of conservator abuse prompted the California legislature to pass the Omnibus Conservatorship reform act of 2006. After Governor Schwarzenegger repeatedly stalled the funding for the nascent organization, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau finally opened its doors for business in 2008. When Scott applied for her Professional Fiduciaries License with the newly formed Bureau, her license was initially denied on grounds that she lied on her application. A protracted legal battle ensued and Scott finally achieved licensure in 2010 on a legal technicality.
Scott was also the subject of a San Bernardino county Grand Jury investigation a few years back. Five separate county District Attorneys have received criminal complaints against Scott but her Teflon protection has endured each and every attempt to have her indicted. A recent federal lawsuit against Scott was dismissed when the lawyer promoting the suit, Jim Reiss, suddenly had his license to practice law suspended.
Lawyer Lies
In an effort to determine his legal standing, Castle also contacted the law firm of Bryan Hartnell, requesting a copy of his legal file. After leaving several voice messages, he did speak with a woman at the firm who told him it would be a “felony” for the firm to give him his file. At that point, several concerned individuals contacted Bryan Hartnell to request that Charlie’s file be given to him. All these calls were ignored. As mental health conservatorships are governed by privacy laws, the court is prohibited from releasing information about this case. Calls to San Bernardino Superior Court Presiding Judge Ronald Christianson were not returned.
Writ alleges legal abuse
On August 27, after determining that his conservatorship, which must be reviewed and renewed by the court every year, had apparently never come up for renewal, Castle filed a writ of habeas corpus. His writ seeks relief on two grounds—inadequate representation by counsel and the failure of the court to review and renew the conservatorship. A report was subsequently made to El Monte police department, alleging that Charlie’s current situation constitutes kidnaping. A belligerent police dispatcher Mr. Pool was more interested in finding out about the person making the report and angrily hung up the phone without listening to the substance of the complaint. An officer who subsequently went out to Ramona to do a welfare check was satisfied that Charlie was not in danger at the facility.
From his genteel prison in Ramona nursing home, Castle ponders the motive for his detention. He receives a social security check each month in the neighborhood of $900, hardly a financial carrot for such a concentrated effort to strip him of his rights and detain him.
During a period when mental health detentions are becoming more and more common for dissidents and activists, one might wonder if the homeless are the next to be sent off to the gulag.
The US government has been scheming on how to provide for continuity of government for many decades now. According to Peter Santilli, an informant who is an ex-marine and worked on portions the contingency plans known as Rex 84, civil unrest will come after a financial collapse.
The Readiness Exercise 1984, a.k.a. Rex 84, outlines continuity of government wherein the US Constitution is suspended, martial law is declared and the US military command take over state and local governments in order to ensure stabilization of our nation at any cost. Any American who is deemed a “national security threat” would be detained in an interment or FEMA camp.
The author of Rex 84 was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, National Security Council (NSC) White House aids and NSC liaison to FEMA.
Rex 84 is the plan; the triggers are a series of executive orders . It is the continuity of government under specific contingency strategies that are laid out in various operations guide manuals. Operation Garden Plot is a subprogram of Rex 84.
Twice before, Rex 84 was implemented – during the LA riots and on 9/11. In these scenarios, only small portions of the entire set of documents were used. Within the series of contingency plans, implementation of them depends on the severity of the situation.
Some of the plans include internment camps where all or portions of the active or inactive military bases would be transformed into work camps where all considered to be dissonant would be held. The NORTHCOM army manuals clearly state that NATO forces will be used in every phase of the operation.
According to Santilli, procedures to move conventional, chemical and nuclear bombs across the nation without detection have been facilitated without notice by the US military.
Back in 1986, during his military service where he was involved with weapons transportation, Santilli describes how an unmarked refrigerated trailer driven by a civilian driver was used to transport chemical or conventional weapons to various strategic bases both above and underground.
Santilli was a specialist in aviation deployed weapons, which made him the perfect candidate to the assignment of weapons transportation.
The refrigerated truck, allocated by the administration department on base, was directed to the commissary, where the unsuspecting driver believed that he was transporting food. The weapon was placed at the head of the trailer, and covered up with either food stores (like cans of soup) or body bags. In the event that the truck is stopped en route, the weapon would be well hidden and go undetected by inspectors on the public highways.
A US Marine Corp bill of lading was the paperwork necessary to move the commercial refrigerated truck through weigh stations on public highways without any question. Santilli remembers that there was not one incident where he had to enact any security measures to ensure the delivery was made.
Santilli, who was assigned to ride in the cab of the truck with the driver, says that his orders were to make sure the truck arrived at its destination. He was informed by his superiors that if there were problems concerning potential civil unrest, he was to radio into his superiors for aid by either air or ground support.
Should the situation warrant serious attention; crowd control methods would be implemented.
One possible scenario was the use of cluster bomb units (CBUs) that will emit upon detonation, a “sleep and kill” chemical weapon that will not disturb infrastructure, but is lethal to all living things within the effected zone. Santilli describes these particular 3 unit CBUs as shaped like water-heaters with a coned top and plunger-like device. Once deployed in the air, a parachute assists these CBUs to the targeted area. And when detonated, a deadly chemical gas will kill every human and animal in the specified cordoned area.
This is just one example, says Santilli, as to the lengths the US armed forces are trained to make sure continuity of government is preserved.
Santilli explained that the use of foreign troops on US soil, as described in Rex 84 and other subsequent manuals, would have a two-fold purpose.
Firstly, to provide extra security in designated areas, cities or highways; and secondly, as scapegoats were violent action used against American citizens should the US military be directed to attack civilians.
The refrigerated truck, carrying the chemical or conventional weapon with Santilli riding shotgun travelled to underground bases like the one at Yuma Proving Ground which is a ammunitions testing range for pilots. Nestled underneath the ground is a secret military base.
Santilli explains that his knowledge of Rex 84 provides that within the document, one of the scenarios that would cause a complete suspension of the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and implement martial law would be a financial collapse. He says once the collapse occurs, the US government and defense agencies estimate they have a 72 hour window to activate all procedures to ensure continuity of government as well as a lockdown of the general population as civilian unrest, riots and outbreaks of violence are anticipated.
A source in the Deutsche Bank claims that in 2008 our financial and monetary system completely collapsed and since that time the banking cartels have been “propping up the system” to make it appear as if everything was fine. In reality our stock market and monetary systems are fake; meaning that there is nothing holding them in place except the illusion that they have stabilized since the Stock Market Crash nearly 5 years ago.
Since this time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in conjunction with FEMA and other federal agencies have been quickly working to set in place their directives of control under a silent martial law.
The Deutsche Bank informant says that the cause for the bailout of the banks was a large sum of cash needed quickly to repay China who had purchased large quantities of mortgage-backed securities that went belly-up when the global scam was realized. When China realized that they had been duped into buying worthless securitized loans which would never be repaid, they demanded the actual property instead. The Chinese were prepared to send their “people” to American shores to seize property as allocated to them through the securitized loan contracts.
To stave this off, the American taxpayers were coerced by former President Bush and former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. During that incident, the US Senate was told emphatically that they had to approve a $700 million bailout or else martial law would be implemented immediately. That money was funneled through the Federal Reserve Bank and wired to China, as well as other countries that were demanding repayment for the fraudulent securitizations.
To further avert financial catastrophe, as well as more debt or property seizure threats by the Chinese, the Euro was imploded there by plunging most of the European countries into an insurmountable free-fall for which they were never intended to recover.
All the money that those banks claimed they needed to avert collapse was also sent to the Chinese to add to the trillions of dollars lost during the burst of the housing bubble on the global market.
The only saving grace has been the US dollar being the global reserve currency. However, now this prop is showing signs of wear as foreign nations like China, Russia, India and Iran are dealing in gold as currency and purchasing gold on the market at an exponential rate.
In 1970, Henry Kissinger made a deal with the Saudi Arabian government that American debt would be purchased in exchange for cheap oil. Since then Iran has taken control over the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) by their use of gold as currency which has threatened the direct value of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
This scenario with Iran coupled with the massive leaps forward in US military presence on American streets and the emergence of FEMA camps across the nation pose an obvious turn of events and explains exactly why we are witnessing the silent implementation of martial law.
The war with Iran has to do with gold, its use as currency and its exposure of the central banking cartel’s lack of gold which defines a fiat currency’s worth. And right now, the US dollar is absolutely worthless.
The Deutsche Bank informant says that the financial collapse that happened in 2008 will be realized here in America very soon. Once that happens, there must be full implementation of marital law to control the potential riots and control over citizens that will be desperate to feed their families.
The attacks of recent on the 2nd Amendment play a significant role in attempting “amicably” to remove the possibility of civilian retaliation against the US military’s presence throughout the nation. However, if they cannot remove the guns from our hands in time, they will continue on with the guidelines set out in Rex 84 with directives to kill any dissenters that refuse to obey.
Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism, an alternative news site dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporate-funded mainstream media. You can find Occupy Corporatism on their Facebook page .
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Meanwhile, the Church was making money from paid contracts for the women’s labor. The contracts demanded the legally required “fair wages” for the women’s work, but the women did not get paid a single penny of that money. All the revenue went to the Church.
