Great post from the “Some Have Hats” blog
FYI…
Political Elite Fund Draconian Programs to “Handle” Opponents
Official Washington has quietly responded to last summer’s “Town Hall” phenomenon with some disturbing new policies.
I’m not talking about Service Employees International Union thugs (“Purple Shirts”) being used for “crowd control.” Or liberal activists packing Town Halls with friendly audiences only. Or their switching Town Halls to one-way-only communication electronic formats.
Today’s Executive Bulletin spells out very disturbing military preparations authorities are making to quash massive demonstrations — which those running the show in Washington are apparently now anticipating on a regular basis.
A wise intelligence expert told me a long time ago: “Never accept government intentions at face value; pay attention to the capabilities it is developing to anticipate future events.” Please read this bulletin carefully, because that’s exactly what I am going to do right now.
Federal Government Responds To Town Hallers
As Security Threat
You may remember last summer that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other top Democrats branded Town Hall protesters as Nazis and raised concerns that violence could be imminent. Since then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded in kind.
As an October Washington Times story notes DHS is now sending grants to local police forces all over the country to buy military-style sonic “cannons” to “subdue unruly crowds and political protestors…”
Here’s an overview of the situation:
- A new series of DHS grants are being made to local police departments nationwide to purchase military-style “LRADS” short for Long Range Acoustical Devices which the San Diego-based LRAD maker, American Technology Corp., says are not intended to be used as “sonic weapons” but rather to “influence the behavior and gain compliance” from large crowds. In a nutshell, these devices deafen people (even if their ears are plugged) and compels them to flee in order to escape the pain.
- These LRAD sonic devices are aimed at malcontents and have been used by the military in Iraq to disperse crowds. The Times reports that LRADs were actually carried in the early fall for possible use against “unruly behavior” at least two congressional town hall meetings — including Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) town hall meeting in Spring Valley, California.
What You Need to Know About the
National Ammunition Shortage
You probably know about the emerging national ammunition shortage since Barack Obama was elected president. The most commonly-offered explanation by the mainstream is that the bullet supply crunch is a consequence of the Iraqi and Afghan wars. But here’s the real story:
- The Pentagon has a complex of major ammunition-making contractors that cater only to the military. Recent Congressional documents have established these ammo-makers are not working at anywhere near full capacity.
- The private-sector shortage of ammo to some degree reflects increased demand consistent with any Democrat in the White House. But the larger cause of the bullet shortage are millions of dollars in DHS grants to militarize local police departments across the country. Military-style SWAT units, once a rare fixture in major metropolitan areas, have become common to even small and medium-level police departments. And these departments are stocking up on bullets.
Categories: Domestic Policing · Police State
Tagged: ammo shortage, ammunition, crowd control, DHS, lrad, militarization, oath keepers, Police, town halls
December 22, 2009 · 1 Comment
Dec 17, 2009 President Obama signed this executive order;
Passed on Dec 17, 2009
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
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On November 13th, Timothy Williams of the U.S. Marshals Service became Head of INTERPOL Washington in a formal installation ceremony presided by Attorney General Eric Holder. This event was attended by Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble, heads of U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies, police executives, foreign police attachés, and friends and family, among others.
The new Head of INTERPOL Washington pledged to continue to nurture police cooperation both at the national and international level and to continue to meet the demands of international policing in the 21st Century by increasing INTERPOL Washington’s support to law enforcement agents and officers in the field. Moreover, Director Williams pledged to provide the right resources and tools for agents and officers in the field to help them identify potential criminals and prevent them from perpetrating their crimes.
One of the tools that Director Williams plans to provide is the deployment of INTERPOL’s I-24/7 network across the United States, enabling thousands of investigators to access INTERPOL’s databases and police services containing information on wanted persons, terrorists, missing persons, stolen and lost travel documents, and stolen vehicles.
read more;
http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/date/2009/11
What does it mean exactly?
Here is what seems to be an informed explantion;
December 21, 2009 – A lot has been said in the press over the past few months about global government vs. the rights of individual sovereign nations. Much of this has had to do with speculation that Barack Obama would very much like to see a global government, but to date, that has been little more than speculation based on comments he has made. But on Saturday, by order of the President the United States gave up a big a large chunk of its sovereignty by allowing foreign police to operate in the United States without any US government oversight and virtually nobody noticed. The decision means that foreign police operating under the INTERPOL banner can now conduct their activities without regard to the constitutional protections that all Americans should enjoy within our borders.
Read More;
http://www.guardmycreditfile.org/content/view/1255/76/
Categories: Globalism
Tagged: Executive order, global police, INTEPOL, Sovereignty
VMT-vehicle mileage tax.
Something the new administration is very interested in.
But. . .
1) license plate reading cameras for those vehicles without an operational in-vehicle device – needed all over as backstop, whatever else is deployed
Get the” picture”?
This has everything to do with the “plate scanning” ALPR cameras proposed in Oklahoma.
Alliance for Toll Interoperability video data standard priority
http://okcapitolinvestments.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alliance-for-toll-interoperability-video-data-standard-priority/
And they would have us believe that all this is for catching the uninsured motorists. In fact, this will be a fine system to track and charge us as they see fit.
No wonder the Governor wants to quickly and quietly implement these scameras while we are tuned out and trying to focus on our families during the Christmas holidays.
Oklahoma Officials Still Not Responding to Inquiries
Merry Christmas Oklahoma
and
Bah Humbug! to Governor Henry and his buddies in DC
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US officials very interested in VMT/road use charges
Wed, 2009-06-03 22:19
“Ultimately, the technical backbone that will underpin a VMT finance structure will likely be a solution composed of integrated technologies. No single technology is sufficiently flexible or cost-effective to be the ubiquitous solution at this time.”
Early on he said: “America need not wait a decade for the vehicle fleet to turnover and be equipped by the OEMs (automakers) with new technology before deploying VMT. Many existing active technology RFID systems at the roadside can be quickly and easily converted to accommodate VMT.”
The RFID solution (short and medium range wireless reader-transponder systems), he said have “the potential to take the ‘technology issue’ off the table” so that elected officials can focus on the policy they want to implement rather than fretting about how to do it.
The Mark IV technology chief in his statement on Capitol Hill said: “Our new RFID technology called JANUS(™), a progeny of the E-ZPass electronic toll collection system, is one example of a low-cost, high-performance, field-proven RFID system and offers a seamless migration with uninterrupted interoperability and seamless reciprocity to a ubiquitous 5.9 GHz DSRC federal standard; if and when it is approved.”
That description of Janus only makes sense as a reader with 915MHz and 5.9GHz antennas able to handle the existing population of some 20m 915MHz E-ZPass IAG Group transponders along with new OmniAir standard 5.9GHz boxes.
1) license plate reading cameras for those vehicles without an operational in-vehicle device – needed all over as backstop, whatever else is deployed
Read the entire article here;
http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/4193
Categories: Automatic License Plate Recognition · People Tracking · Photo Enforcement · Surveillance Technology
Tagged: 3m, Alliance for Toll Interoperability, ALPR, ATI, Brad Henry, David Machamer, license plate reading cameras, license plate scanners, Oklahoma Transportation Authority, ota, RFID, road usage, VMT
Blogs Alert for: 10th amendment
U.S. Constitution: Tenth Amendment | North Houston Tea Party Patriots
By Suzanne Guggenheim
Constitution Respect, Limited Government, Individual Freedom, Free Markets.
North Houston Tea Party Patriots – http://www.thewoodlandsteaparty.com/ |
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Tea parties aren’t just for conservatives | WE Blog | Wichita …
By Phillip Brownlee
Actually, the General Welfare” clause answer can be found in the 10th amendment. Amendment X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively …
WE Blog – http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/ |
Father Hollywood: Parties Thwart the Constitution
By Father Hollywood
The states are largely impotent to check and balance the federal power in the way that the founders intended – although there is a renewed interest in the 10th amendment, states rights, interposition, nullification, and even secession. …
Father Hollywood – http://fatherhollywood.blogspot.com/ |
Categories: Uncategorized
December 18, 2009 · 1 Comment
Over this past year it has been my privilege to work with some outstanding young people in the fight for freedom. Considering that most have come through a public school system that teaches them next to nothing about America’s unique liberties, it’s quite surprising to hear their passion for the Constitution and their ability to articulate it.
We need these young people to be active and effective in coming campaigns. Now there is a movement organizing to do just that. It’s called Year of Youth: Project 2012.
In American politics one seldom sees political movements which advocate limited government positions targeting the youth. Just as rare are movements that work from the ground up, focusing on local campaigns and allowing federal involvement to grow up from the local level. This is precisely what is being attempted in Year of Youth: Project 2012. The idea is to expand youth involvement in the political process, train young liberty-minded activists on the campaign trail in 2010, and then run hundreds of youth campaigns for local offices nationwide in 2012.
Year of Youth recognizes that America’s leaders from both parties have done nothing to halt the expansion of the federal government or the increase of the enormous national debt. With this in mind, the organization focuses on three core tenets: localism, individual liberty, and fiscal responsibility.
The idea of localism, of course, comes from the observation that “the closer a government is to its people, the better the people are represented.” Local government, in Thomas Jefferson’s view, was the best way to protect freedom from federal oppression. Like Jefferson, Year of Youth states that governance is more effective at the local level, and therefore the focus of the youth’s campaigns should be upon local positions. Control by young people (who advocate the principles of freedom) in City Council, State Legislature, Board of Education, and so on can have a major influence on the lives of that area’s constituents. Specifically the organization’s manifesto states: “The likelihood of you achieving that goal, or any goal for that matter, is much more likely when it is voluntary, peaceful, and truly grassroots, at the local levels of society.”
The second issue of focus is individual liberty. Generally speaking, Year of Youth promotes the idea that each individual is free to live according to their own ends as long as that person does not violate the liberty of another. Government should stay out of our personal lives.
The third and final tenet in the “youth manifesto” is fiscal responsibility. It is unacceptable that trillions of dollars of debt are being accumulated by the current leaders to be thrust upon future generations without consent. Government should never commit to any spending which it cannot fund. The state cannot spend society into prosperity, especially on the backs of future generations.
If there is to be a halt in the expansion of America’s leviathan government, the youth must take responsibility to stop it.
These positions are all the basic foundation for a free society and the Republic our founders created. These young people involved in the Year of Youth are being trained to promote such ideals and take local action to make them reality. Every American who loves our unique freedoms and have worried about their possible demise should support the Year of Youth: Project 2012.
Congressional candidate Adam Kokesh says, “This will be the largest youth movement our country has ever seen.” In order to achieve these lofty goals Year of Youth needs to spark youth involvement nationwide. A large team of grassroots youth activists is essential to accomplishing this. All young people passionate about liberty are invited to apply for Year of Youth’s core team at www.yearofyouth.org and join the youth revolution.
I highly recommend that every freedom loving parent get their children involved. And if you can help support them financially, do that too. Year of Youth: Project 2012 is a major necessary step if we are to take America back.
Categories: Uncategorized
The St Petersburg Times Reports;
A Florida doctor who prescribed several mental health medications to a 7-year-old foster care boy who killed himself in April is also on the list. The drugs carried a special FDA black box warning indicating they can cause suicidal thoughts and are not approved for young children, though some doctors still prescribe them to treat children.
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READ:
7 year old Foster Child on Psychiatric drug Hangs Himself
Public Schools, Signs of Suicide with NEW FREEDOM for All
Mental health Screening Initiatives- a treasure trove of links
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MIAMI (AP) — The federal government has stopped reimbursing a Miami doctor who wrote nearly 97,000 prescriptions for mental health drugs to Medicaid patients over 18 months, in a case that prompted a key Senator to call for a nationwide investigation.
U.S. Sen. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Dr. Fernando Mendez Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March 2009. That’s nearly twice the number of the second highest prescriber in Florida, who wrote a little more than 53,000 prescriptions, according to a list compiled by state officials.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, called the figures alarming and sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the agency to investigate top prescribers across the country. His inquiry comes as the government targets waste and fraud in the taxpayer funded programs.
HHS officials said they were aware of Florida’s list of high prescribing doctors and were working closely with the state and federal agencies that investigate Medicaid fraud, according to a statement from Sec. Kathleen Sebelius’ office.
Read More;
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEDICAID_TOP_PRESCRIBERS_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME
Categories: Health · bioethics
Tagged: drugging, Florida, foster children, fraud, medicaid, overprescribing, psychiatry, TMAPs
This Podcast is from a 2008 episode of the Corbett Report. Technology goes stale very fast, but for those who have not been paying very close attention to the development of surveillance technologies, it will serve nicely as a primer on the transformation of society taking place worldwide. in the US we are undergoing a “paradigm shift” of which if allowed to continue will conclude with the destruction of the ideals of our forefathers.
Since 9-11 our government has decided that information is the key to preventing future terrorist attacks. So they are gather and collect it-lot’s of it, on everyone.
Look at the assumptions that underlie this new policy of pervasive surveillance of the American public. Fusion centers, Intelligence Led Policing, Biometrics. . .The stated goal is to monitor our day to day activities, associations, and transactions and from this information predict and who among us is likely to be a threat to the US Government long before any illegal act is committed and to preempt such an act well before it takes place.
Our former Peace Officers are being forced to adopt a the role of nanny-cop. the new premise is a preemptive one.
This paradigm shift represents an ominous development that turns due process on its head. We are now presumed guilty until proven otherwise. If this new paradigm is accepted we invite our government to treat us as criminals or at the very least, like children that require constant monitoring by our betters. Our government, under the US Constitution is elected to represent us, not to rule us. They are more properly viewed as peers that require close scrutiny by us and not the other way around. Are we prepared to abandon the central premise that this country was founded upon which is a government By, For and Of The People?
In the March 2008 episode of the Corbett Report, the concept of the Panopticon is used as a metaphor to anchor the individual technologies of surveillance to the larger concept and reveal the construct as a pervasive system of human control.
Surveillance is a destroyer of the free will that makes us human.
It stunts us spiritually.
It is in the sphere of our free will we commune with our maker. surveillance shrinks this space and constrains our souls.
I believe that surveillance disrupts exactly what our founders sought to enable-the liberty to be, the freedom to become
Think about it.
Click hereTo see the origins of the creepy poster above (no. it’s not a clever anti- Orwellian campaign)
Do you know what a Panopticon is?
The Panopticon was a model prison designed in 1785 by
the English social theorist Jeremy Bentham. Also known as
the ‘Inspection House’, the design allowed the prison guards
to observe all the prisoners (from the Greek: pan-opticon)
without the prisoners themselves being able to tell when
they were being watched. As a prison design, the success of
the Panopticon was short-lived,5 but several centuries later,
the term was adopted by the French philosopher Michel
Foucault as a metaphor for techniques of surveillance and
social control in modern society.6 His central argument was
that ‘panopticism’, the principle of omnipresent surveillance,
had created a “whole new type of society… transported from
the penal institution to the entire social body”.7 From secure
accommodation to hospitals, schools, work and domestic
life, the act of being watched – what Foucault called the
disciplinary power of the gaze – was shown to be every bit
as important as the coercive power of the state in regulating
individual behaviour.
From the Neoconopticon Report
James Corbett has impressed me with the accuracy of his reporting and the measured manner in which he delivers his reports is a welcome change from the usual fare of the many panicked pundits who leave me feeling like there is simply no hope.
Corbett says;
The panopticon stands as a metaphor for what is happening in our own day and age. Except in our time, the panopticon is not an architectural structure like a prison; it is the very planet itself. We are increasingly being watched, tracked, traced, our data stored and logged in national databases to which citizens do not have access. The cumulative effect of this technology is that citizens end up like the prisoners in Bentham’s panopticon: afraid to do anything out of line for fear it may be seen someday, somewhere, by someone. This is amplified by the fostering of terror paranoia by various government programs to make the prisoners of the panoptic system into citizen informants in a type of Snitch State.
Visit this link to the Corbett Report and listen online to this excellent report;
Welcome to the Panopticon
Categories: Activists Tech · Automatic License Plate Recognition · Data Minining · In-Secure Data · People Tracking · Privacy · RFID · Surveillance Technology · Tyranny · domestic surveillance
Tagged: ALPR, backscatter, betham, Biometrics, CCTV, corbett report, free will, Fusion Centers, GPS, james corbett, knowlege is power, millimeter wave, mp3, panopticon, paradigm shift, podcast, Privacy, RFID, surveillance society
By Andrew Griffin on December 16, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Watchdog took a look at the disbursement reports, available online for the first time, from Oklahoma’s congressional delegation, which includes Republican Reps. John Sullivan of Tulsa; Mary Fallin of Oklahoma City; Tom Cole of Moore; Frank Lucas of Cheyenne; and Democrat Rep. Dan Boren of Muskogee.
All the representatives contacted agreed that having this information online is a positive development.
Sullivan, who was preparing to leave for Copenhagen to attend the climate summit, said, “I think it’s good, the transparency of it. It’s been available in a hard copy but it being online is good for all eyeballs to see.”
Fallin replied in an email, “I believe our expenditures reflect my office’s commitment to serving constituents of Oklahoma’s Fifth Congressional District. We are always very conscientious about spending taxpayers’ money and budget our needs and expenses very wisely. I am glad this information is now available online to ensure greater government transparency, which is especially important when it comes to how taxpayer money is spent.”
Asked about the negative number showing up under the printing and reproduction category, Fallin’s communications officer Katie Bruns said, “That negative charge is a reclassified expense that had already been paid and disclosed in (the second quarter) but showed up under its new classification in (the third quarter).
Rep. Frank Lucas said, “I am pleased that Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi has finally placed this information online in an easy to use format. The people have the right to see how their money is being spent by their members of Congress and this is a step in the right direction.”
Rep. Boren replied, “I am pleased that greater transparency has been provided to citizen’s regarding the administration of the U.S. House and its Member offices. With 25 counties spread across the entire block of eastern Oklahoma, these statements of disbursements reflect the administrative costs of representing one of the largest Congressional districts in the U.S. and maintaining the best possible constituent services for the citizens in the Second District.”
And Rep. Cole, who had the highest amount of expenditures, responded, saying, “While the Statement of Disbursement has been publicly available previously, I believe making it more accessible by putting it on the internet is an idea long overdue.”
Categories: Oklahoma Politics
Tagged: Dan Boren, disbursement report\, expenditures, frank lucas, john sullivan, mary fallin, oklahoma watchdog, Tom Coburn, Tom Cole
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