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The Global War on Political Dissent

Great slogans leading us to fascism. Senate Bill 1959, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, criminalizes very loosely defined behaviors.

“. . . the use, planned use, OR threatened use of force OR violence by a group OR individual to promote the group OR individual’s political, religious, OR social beliefs . . .” How about non-violent force? Chanting at a non-violent peace protest? Blogging? Why does the bill pay particular attention to Universities? Why does it fail to qualify the term “radical ideas?” All our most cherished beliefs were once radical. Welcome to the U.S.S.A.

Read full Text of Bill.

Point-by-Point discussion.

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell

Citizens Sue for Fair Elections

Plaintiffs maintain that current election practices, including the widespread use of computerized voting machines, are unconstitutional because they are ripe for fraud and error and effectively hide the physical vote counting process from the public, effectively denying citizens their legally protected Right to cast an effective vote. The lawsuit seeks an Order from the Court prohibiting the use of all voting machines and to force election officials to instead use paper ballots and to count and total all votes by hand, always in full view of the public. (More)

We should export democracy by setting the best example of it.

America’s Forgotten War Against the Central Banks

This fascinating piece discusses the tension between our government and Central Banks in every chapter of our history. Worth studying.

“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” (John Maynard Keynes)

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies … If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

“Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence… would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy.” (President Andrew Jackson – July 10, 1832)

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” (President James A. Garfield, 1881, two weeks before his assassination)

On June 4, 1963, John F. Kennedy signed a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, a mere four months before his assassination on November 22, 1963. This decree returned to the U.S. Federal government the Constitutional right to create and “to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury.”

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The Global War on Political Dissent

I have many friends who are cops. I trust them and respect them for the dangers they face. This is different. I don’t generally see the police as the enemy, but I’m deeply troubled by the increased militancy toward peace protests. I can imagine even my friends getting so focussed on their jobs, they lose sight of what they’re defending.

1) Canadian police caught red handed infiltrating stone-throwing provocateurs into a peaceful protest. This is a great video.

2) Austrailian police remove their name tags to avoid liability, resort to draconian tactics to quash protests.

3) Protest organizers arrested in D.C. Judge for yourself.

4) A new law, quietly passed for Bush by the Democrats, turns the internet and phone system into a permanent spying architecture.

5) A University of Florida student was tasered after asking John Kerry three questions: Why did he concede the 2004 election so quickly when there was evidence of wide-spread voter fraud? Why don’t they impeach Bush to stop a war with Iran? Was he a member of the secretive Skull and Bones Society, along with President Bush? He was rude and a little obnoxious, and demanded to know why he was being arrested after the questions. The media coverage I’ve seen doesn’t repeat his questions. One CNN report said he wouldn’t let go of the mic, which isn’t true. At least two networks have been reporting other tasering incidents, which probably falls under #23 in the 25 rules for disinformation.

Strange Things: Violent Censorship. Dying Researchers.

Sometimes with blogs, it’s hard to know what to believe. Wouldn’t it be great if America had a functional, dedicated mass media that served the public with rigorous, unbiased, investigative journalism?

For your consideration:

Christopher Bollyn, American journalist, beaten and imprisoned for reporting the wrong things.

Did twenty-two British SDI researchers commit suicide? Very strange. Very scary. For all the steps we’ve taken toward fascism in the US, at least we don’t have an Official Secrets Act, as the British do. I first became skeptical of Britain’s seemingly progressive government after reading Marilynne Robinson’s Mother Country.