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The World Set Free - Totalitarianism on the Horizon

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:22:37 +0000

This morning I was listening to a story about the people in Russia protesting the manipulation of the political system and election by their powers that be. In the news you are hearing all sorts of rumblings from Putin that the U.S. is to blame and instigating the uprising in “his” country.

Interesting to note that here in our land of ‘freedom” the right wing mouth pieces and others are calling the Occupy Movement a communist or socialist plot. Now lets look at this situation, you have one calling down the other about the unrest in a country and vice versa.

It appears that the leaders and their watch dogs are off base at this point. Have they become victims of their own lies and denial? Only a fool would believe this sort of Orwellian propaganda in a world where we can communicate in an instant with the technologies we have.

The wool is off and the sheep can see the wolves, the time has come for true disclosure! The internet abounds with conspiracy videos and stories, many are insane fabrications and many are not, but one thing is for certain when it comes to power and greed there is a small group of individuals that will stoop to nothing to achieve a goal and maintain their control over the money machine.

The leaders of the world can no longer ignore the plight that they as leaders have helped to create and they can no longer blame each other. For all the cries for a New World Order and One World Government/Economy they have created a monster, one that they will not be able to control.

The people have risen and will continue to do so; all the guns prisons and massacres will not stop the flood that has begun. This is class war! It is happening.

Interesting to note that the pundits and experts and politicians and hopefuls keep talking about fixing and stopping an economic collapse in the United States, blaming one party or another for the problems is like Putin blaming the US, or the watchdogs calling the OW movement communists. What planet are these people on. The economic crisis is here, it is happening.

Let’s look at this in a more realistic light. It is money that has caused this problem, it is the banks that have caused this problem, and it is the overspending of not one president or congress but many over many years. Throwing money at the World Wide economic crisis is like throwing gasoline on a fire!

The leaders have no clue what to do about the problem because it is they who have created the problem. As the People, who do we have to look to for help? Who is there that can fix the foolishness that has happened over many years? The waste of money for wars, ethnic cleansings, organizations to watch over us, police power, more military toys, needless spending for programs, bigger better cars, Deeper drilling rigs, Oil cleanups, disaster relief, the list goes on and on. We spend, we lie, we spend we believe the lies, the cycle is endless. The puppet masters have lost control of the strings and now what? More police, more jails, more non-lethal crowd control devices?

It is times like this in history that Totalitarian governments are bred, we become so desperate that we look for anyone to help. Is this the plan? Are we being led by the nose like a bull to slaughter? We the people have the power, not the money not government but a different power one that they fear. That power is truth! There’s a reason why Christ drove the money lenders out of the temple! In most spiritual teachings the body is the temple, we are the temple. The time has come to drive them from our temple! Money is not God, yet they would have you believe this. No matter what religion or belief we have, we have the right to live free of the lie and the control of any philosophy that would have us believe in that lie!

Occupy the World, Police State and Oligarchy

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:27:09 +0000

What started as a protest against greed has become a stand for justice, many people have begun to take note that whatever is happening is a threat to the status quo of Oligarchy. As much as people in the United States don’t want to admit it, we have become an Oligarchy. If you don’t know what this means, look it up; you may be surprised to see I’m right. As I write this, people across the country who have finally gotten tired of the fat purses of politicians and their banker buddies are being attacked, beaten, and bludgeoned by the legal arm of Oligarchy. Police everywhere across the country are obeying the rule of money and not the constitutional law of the land. The right to peaceful assembly is first and foremost a constitutional right and the powers that be are quickly taking that away.

Needless to say what we called Arab Spring has become a world wide stand. Many “Occupy” movements are taking place all over the world and no matter what the press and so-called Leaders try to say, its roots come from one place: poverty. Greed has finally bred its demise. The sheep have become wolves and the hunt is on. The mouth pieces of media would have you believe that this is an outpouring of college students disgruntled with the system, that is a lie. Many people from all walks of life are fed up. Old, young, out-of-work people who worked hard all their lives, mothers, fathers, people of all races are angry and fed up and in the streets!

The 99. What does this mean? It means that there are more of them than there are of the other guys. It means a true majority! I read a piece once many years back called “OPERATION VAMPIRE KILLER 2000 American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule” published by Police Against the New World Order. Written in 1992 this document is a call to action by Law Enforcement and Military Officers who saw the coming events we are now witnessing. The very core of this document refers to the economic issues that many Americans face today and the movement and outcry we see happening. A direct quote from this publication reads:

“While detailing the plan of these Internationalists, the main goal of this special police publication will be to promote an active program that will defend America from those at work forming an oligarchy of Imperialism against this nation of free people.”

A further quote supports what I have said in the beginning of this post:

“These elitists and their families have made most of their massive fortunes off the American people, and have dedicated entire lifetimes to using public funds to subjugate the People to the will of their new world ARISTOCRACY.”

The time has come where Americans have to ask the question, “Are we truly free?” Has the wool finally fallen from our eyes? What will it take for people to see the truth? While our president sits idly by and says nothing while Americans are being man handled by law enforcement and yet claims to be on the side of justice in the middle east, while eliminating so called American supported Tyrants. Could it be that Mr Obama’s hands are tied? Has someone threatened him to be silent? And if he does speak out what will he say? Will it yet be another orchestrated speech of bullshit and lies?

One thing is certain, the people of our nation and of the world have had enough and the stand off is happening as I write this. Tyrants, Federalists, Communists, Capitalists and Religiosts need to fear the beast that is rising up. The people are no longer happy with the lies of power, greed and control. As we sit at the pinnacle, will the police of our country listen to the money or the voice of the people? In some cities I have heard that the police have been very kind to the Occupy people and in other’s the complete opposite. One thing is for certain we are seeing the end of an era and the beginning of something new. What direction will we go?

Here is the link to Vampire Killer 2000 if you are law enforcement I highly recommend you read it if not read it anyway.

Vampire Killer 2000

Dead Man Rising

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:38:54 +0000

by Linh Dinh / May 2nd, 2011

Upon hearing that Bin Laden has been officially pronounced dead, I thought 1) Since this man has been dead for nearly a decade, the US killed a look-alike; 2) Maybe previous rumors about Bin Laden’s demise, reported in the New York Times, The Guardian and Fox News, among many other places, were false, after all. Still, the US has long known where he was, but only decided to kill him now to a) Lift up American spirits as economic despair becomes ever more acute; b) Help Obama get reelected, since he is such a great tool of the establishment. Although his policies hardly differ from Bush, his charms and skin color have dampened protest from many quarters; c) Set up a false flag “retaliation from Al Qaeda,” which would renew sagging support for the War on Terrorism. In any case, it would be interesting to get all the details of this operation and see the physical evidences. For every assassination or murder, there must be a corpse, but alas, there is no corpse! Less than six hours after news came that Bin Laden had been killed, it was announced that he had already been buried at sea. The official explanation: The US must respect the Islamic tradition that a corpse be buried within 24 hours, and since no country was willing to be his final host, not even Saudi Arabia, his homeland, Bin Laden had to be dumped into a place where he could never be exhumed. How convenient. Case closed!

Such respect for a Muslim corpse from a country that seems to be fighting Muslims everywhere, that kills, imprisons and tortures Muslims, whose soldiers draped panties and smeared shit on Muslim heads, raped Muslim women and collected Muslim ears as trophies. America hasn’t exactly been shy about abusing Muslims, dead or alive, so why this sudden delicacy? Remember also that Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed by American troops on July 22, 2003, then buried on August 2, 11 days later.

Had Bin Laden been captured, and I will insist there was never any intention of catching this man alive, he would have to be tried in court, where his involvement with 9/11 would have to be proven, counter theories could be introduced and questions about 9/11 raised. In short, a nasty can of worms to be avoided at all cost.

Though long gone, Bin Laden had been extremely useful as a boogeyman for the American military industrial complex, but this ruse was running out of gas. Even with a fake, CIA-produced audio every now and then, the Bin Laden brand no longer captured, so it was time to close out this product line, not with a bang, exactly, since there’s no cadaver, but with plenty of noise nevertheless.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Linh Dinh is the author of two books of stories and five of poems, and a just released novel, Love Like Hate. He’s tracking our deteriorating socialscape through his frequently updated photo blog, State of the Union. Read other articles by Linh.

Libyan ambassador expelled from Britain after embassy attack

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:45:30 +0000

20:18 01/05/2011

MOSCOW/LONDON, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - The British authorities made a decision on Sunday to expel the Libyan ambassador to London following an attack on the British embassy in Tripoli by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Media reports said on Sunday that pro-Gaddafi crowds had attacked several foreign embassies in Tripoli earlier in the day, including those of Britain and Italy.

"I condemn the attacks on the British embassy premises in Tripoli as well as the diplomatic missions of other countries," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement.

"The Vienna convention requires the Gaddafi regime to protect diplomatic missions in Tripoli. By failing to do so that regime has once again breached its international responsibilities and obligations," he said, adding "I take the failure to protect such premises very seriously indeed."

Omar Jelban has been given 24 hours to leave the country.

The Italian Foreign Ministry also confirmed the attack on its embassy, saying that it had been destroyed and looted.

The attacks came a day after Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif al-Arab, 29, and three of the Libyan leader’s grandchildren were reported to have been killed in a NATO airstrike on a house where the Libyan leader and his family were staying at the time.

NATO has not confirmed the death of Gaddafi’s son and has denied allegations that its airstrikes were targeting the Libyan leader.

Pope Benedict XVI Declares Pedophilia is/was “Normal”

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:26:55 +0000

December 21st, 2010 (source)

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.

“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.

But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.

He said: “That is not normal. I don’t know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”

Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.
Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church’s sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.

“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,

“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.

“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context’ he can’t control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context’ he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”

The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope’s role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.

The Vampires Are Moving In and the Time Is At Hand

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:42:41 +0000

With all the stories about Bank Foreclosure Frauds by major banks the Gov bailed out, it brought to mind some very important information I know. Some of you may already know this but it’s time for it to come back to the surface.

THE BANKERS’ MANIFESTO
“Capital must protect itself in every way …Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the STRONG ARM OF THE LAW (Cops) applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as TEACHERS OF THE COMMON HERD.” (Taken from the Civil Servants’ Year Book, “The Organizer” January 1934.)

April 2010
“The number of homes repossessed, the final stage of the foreclosure process, reached 257,944 during the quarter. That is up 9 percent from the previous quarter and 35 percent from the first quarter of 2009, according to RealtyTrac, an online service that estimates that it tracks about 90 percent of the housing market.”

September 2010
“The increase in home repossessions came even as the number of properties entering the foreclosure process slowed for the seventh month in a row, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.
In all, banks repossessed 95,364 properties last month, up 3 percent from July and an increase of 25 percent from August 2009, RealtyTrac said.
August makes the ninth month in a row that the pace of homes lost to foreclosure has increased on an annual basis. The previous high was in May.”

If you think you can trust the main stream media to tell you the truth think again.:

John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, was one of America’s best loved newspapermen. Called by his peers “The Dean of his Profession”, John was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club, and in so doing made a monumentally important and revealing statement. He is quoted as follows:

“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

This and more pertinent information can be found at the link below. I can’t even believe it’s still available to see on the internet, but I suggest you read it, save it and hold on to it because I guarantee once we start to go there and get it, it will dissappear. The timelines off but it took them a little longer than they thought to implement the plan.

If you think this is a joke, Do nothing. If you want to keep abreast of what’s really coming down the pike, read it and pass it on! I read this years ago and didn’t want to believe it but now in the light of how things have gone. I know it’s true!

The Lawful Path

Fox News Fires Reporters for telling the Truth

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:41:33 +0000

A very disturbing but tell tale story about Fox Network and the control money and corporations have over the truth and the News in the Media!

Was Helen Thomas Wrong?

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:50:30 +0000

We want to start with saying this is in no way an anti semitic post but simply a look at the truth and the possibility that although unfortunate in her way of stating it, Helen Thomas simply spoke the truth. Historicaly Ms Thomas was present during many of the historical moments that led up to the formation of the New Israeli state. To begin, let us look at the facts as pointed out in Wikipedia:

1945–1947: Jewish uprising against British rule

“The Second World War left the surviving remnant of Jews in central Europe as displaced persons (refugees); a survey of their ambitions found that 97% wanted to migrate to Palestine. Many turned to the clandestine migration. A stream of small boats ensued, carrying stateless Jews to Palestine. The British took counter measures against the holocaust survivors and the organization helping them. This led to growing Jewish resistance to the British administration in Palestine.

Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the elections in Britain. Although the Labour party conferences for years had called for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Labour Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, decided to maintain the 1939 White Paper restrictions. This was due to the continued importance of cordial Anglo-Arab relations to British strategic concerns throughout the region and their weakened empire. Britain governed Transjordan, Sudan, Kuwait, the Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the Yemen, and had treaties of alliance with Iraq and Egypt. At this time Jewish militias in Palestine, (the Haganah, ‘Etzel’ and Lehi) decided to form a unified Jewish Resistance Movement against the British.

In June 1946, following instances of sabotage and kidnapping, the British launched Operation Agatha in Palestine and arrested thousands of Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency. They were held without trial.

Post-war pogroms in Eastern Europe, led to a wave of Jews seeking to escape Europe. In July 1946, after the Kielce Pogrom in Poland, the British government expected a massive wave of illegal migrants and decided to hold illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine at Cyprus internment camps; migrants were imprisoned indefinitely and without trial. Those held were mostly Holocaust survivors including large numbers of children and orphans; the camps were funded by taxation of the Jewish community in Palestine. In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave (since they lacked a state or documentation) the administration subsequently began to release them at a rate of 750 per month, allowing those released to move to Palestine.

The unified resistance movement in Palestine split up in July 1946, after Irgun’s bombing of the British Military Headquarters, the King David Hotel bombing, which killed 92, mostly civilians. In the days following the bombing, Tel Aviv was placed under curfew and over 120,000, nearly 20% of the Jewish population of Palestine, were interrogated by CID.

The negative publicity generated by British attempts to halt Jewish migration to Palestine added to voices in US Congress delaying the Anglo-American loan which was vital to preventing bankruptcy of the British Empire . Fearing a parallel conflict with Britain’s Arab allies and subjects at a time when the Empire was severely weakened, the Labour Government decided to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations.”

This is quite plain and obvious in it’s explanation. Regardless of the reason why the Jewish refugees did so they fled to (then Palestine) and began their occupation. It was for good reason they did so, obviously they were once again escaping what most of them saw as persecution.

Let us look further and see that it was teh UN who created the State of Israel for many reasons:

The United Nations decides to partition Palestine

“The UN appointed a committee to decide how to deal with Palestine, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). While the UNSCOP mission was visiting Palestine, in July 1947, Jewish and Zionist delegations met with the committee; the Arab Higher Committee boycotted the meetings. At this time, British Foreign Secretary Bevin ordered an illegal immigrant ship, the Exodus 1947, to be sent back to Europe. The migrants on the ship were forcibly removed by British troops at Hamburg after a long period in prison ships.

In July 1947 several Irgun fighters were executed in Acre Prison. The Irgun responded with execution of two British sergeants which triggered anti-semitic riots in Liverpool; these spread to other major British cities, including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Derby and Glasgow.

The principal non-Zionist Orthodox Jewish (or haredi) party, Agudat Israel, recommended to UNSCOP that a Jewish state be created after reaching a religious status quo agreement with Ben-Gurion regarding the future state. The agreement granted future exemption of yeshiva (religious seminary) students and orthodox women from military service, made the Sabbath the national weekend, promised Kosher food in government institutions and allowed them to maintain a separate education system.

In September 1947, one month after Partition of India, (UNSCOP) recommended partition in Palestine, a suggestion ratified by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947. The result envisaged the creation of two states, one Arab and one Jewish, with the city of Jerusalem to be under the direct administration of the United Nations.

The General Assembly resolution called upon Britain to evacuate a seaport and sufficient hinterland to support substantial Jewish migration, by February 1, 1948. Neither Britain nor the UN Security Council acted to implement the resolution and Britain continued imprisoning Jews attempting to migrate, in camps on Cyprus.

Concerned that partition would severely damage Anglo-Arab/Muslim relations, Britain refused to cooperate with the UN, denying the UN access to Palestine during the interim period (a requirement of the partition decision). Final evacuation was completed by May 1948. Britain continued to hold Jews of “fighting age” and their families on Cyprus even after leaving Palestine. They were eventually released in March 1949.

In 1946-47, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a Bedouin Shepherd, Muhammed edh-Dhib. On the day the UN voted to create a Jewish state, archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik identified the scrolls as authentic copies of the bible dating back to before the destruction of Judea. Sukenik bought three of the scrolls the following month.”

It is common knowledge that a larget percentag of displaced Jews were very eager to go to Palistine for many reasons, but one must ask, was it their intention to create the state that exists now between Jew and Pailtinian? Why has this occured and what is it that drives the State Of Israel? Mnay events have occured since those days and wars ahve been fought. How did it come to this between the Children Of Abraham once more? For further understanding one must look at the many sources of information to understand.

SS Exodus was a ship that carried Jewish emigrants, that left France on July 11, 1947, with the intent of taking its passengers to Mandate Palestine. It’s story is a must read.

A close look at Zionism is needed to understand the roots of all of this. Here is avery good site for information of the historical basis that led up to the fomration iof Israel as a state. The history of Zionism and the creation of Israel

The author suggestts that you do your own research and find out for yourself, was Ms Thomas wrong or just a bit gruff with the truth. Her comments were not too mush different than if someone were to say Americans should leave the United States and give it back to the Indians, is not the US an occupied nation for all practical purposes.One can only specuylate and think perhaps the truth hurts and for all the complaining about Ms Thomas comments by other people, in the words of Shakespear “Me thinks the Lady doth protest too much”

and last but not least here is Helen Thomas in her own words, watch this and you decide;

Joe Stack Hero or Villain - Joe’s last entry to his blog.

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:35:01 +0000

This is Joe Stack’s last communication before he did what he did. Read it and decide for your self was he a hero or a vilain, or just plain sick and tired of it.

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If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to
happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long
time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in
the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that
can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with
example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating,
tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully
articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is
therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only
anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to
believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for
justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this
place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals
represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation
without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that
crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands
up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes
(as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has
never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests
in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I
have to say.

Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities
(and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for
their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming
stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid
within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American
medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of
thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple,
and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile,
rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving
scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year
and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis
as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle
of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that
is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand.
Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for
fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a
signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they
understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the
measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?

My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s.
Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked
up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English.
Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’
readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the
wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church
so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the
“best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do
exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our
congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of
God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules,
exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed reevaluation
of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a
mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that
there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the
rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws;
the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my
retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country
with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize,
not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American
public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and
that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence
and all that keeps happening in front of them.

Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on
what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through
engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had
to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress
somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem
solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years
of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an
apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman
(80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel
worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania
with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he
would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead
he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill
management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension
funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter
and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time.
When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight
When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight
than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was
genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with
each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to
convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to
get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the
impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me,
and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-theears’
contract software engineer… and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom,
midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who
later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York
Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its
section 1706.

For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining
the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link
for a conference committee report
(http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding
the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as
amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and
their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).

SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who
pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides
services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer
programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a
similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to
remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.

Note:
! “another person” is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
! “taxpayer” is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
! “individual”, “employee”, or “worker” is you.

Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not
very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in
the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would
have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty
years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours
of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or
slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting
their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any
and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a
campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being
easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the
windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of
the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we
could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they
weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This
immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to
have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any
sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of
the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air
Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The
result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized
Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit
about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded
up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government
funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some
momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up
some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders
decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long
after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months.
This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what
they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax
dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich,
incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business
but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.

By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try
Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly
inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is
done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of
what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three
or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and
wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and
doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich
buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which
was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single
dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any
income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed.
But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I
attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to
due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping
of justice.

So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following
the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again.
But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to
mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to
handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to
get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had
taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very
similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents
of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross
knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the
middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was
representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that
have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions
were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife
had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and
how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when
they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come
in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem;
they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a
joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck
up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone
agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and
his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings
equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count
(unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a
government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and
their self-serving laws.

I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always
been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it
isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless
before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not
adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep
looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to
ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual
won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored
that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only
hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk
government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake
government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake
up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what
they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but
violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really
big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at
and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over
and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to
stop this insanity.

Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take
my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to
his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according
to his greed.

Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010

Police Harassment - In Defense of the Police

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:04:09 +0000

I received this email forward from a friend, after reading it, I had to admit it got me thinking and I found it to be very funny and most likely true.

Subject: Police Harassment

Recently, the Chula Vista Police Department ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, “Community Policing.” One of the civilian email participants posed the following question, “I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”

From the “other side” (the law enforcement side) Sgt. Bennett, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:

“First of all, let me tell you this…it’s not easy. In Chula Vista, we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as “patrol”) where we do most of our harassing.

The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.

When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.

Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.

The tools available to us are as follows:

PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. “My neighbor is beating his wife” is a code phrase used often. This means we’ll come out and give somebody some special harassment.

Another popular one is, “There’s a guy breaking into a house.” The harassment team is then put into action.

CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver’s licenses and the like. It’s lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.

RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.

STATUTES: When we don’t have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called “Statutes”; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc… They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.

After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there’s this book we have that says that’s not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.

We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to “harass” some people.

Next time you are in my town, give me the old “single finger wave.” That’s another one of those codes. It means, “You can harass me.”

It’s one of our favorites.