Sustainable Subversion! Guest Dr. Michael Coffman on AxXiom For Liberty Live tonight 6-8 PM CT

Friday July 1, 2011

Tonight Howard and I will be interviewing a very special guest, Dr. Michael Coffman.

Listen Live from 6-8 pm CT on Rule of Law Radio

Dr. Coffman has a Ph. D in ecosystem analysis and climatology and has been studying the United Nation’s Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development since it was first presented to the world in 1992 at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro.

Dr. Coffman is probably best known for his Biodiversity map, the product of 2 years of research, which was delivered to the US Senate by Coffman and three other esteemed gentlemen just one hour before they were to vote on the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (often referred to as the “Biodiversity Treaty”) which aimed to set aside nearly 50 percent of US land for wilderness preserves.  That map and other documentation was responsible for exposing and thwarting the plan.

For more about the Convention on Biological Diversity , the Wildlands Project and Agenda 21, please see “Taking Liberty”

Taking Liberty is a comprehensive look at the lower 48 states showing, region by region, how the Environmental Movement is rapidly abolishing Private Property in America.

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Dr. Coffman is also a successful author and his newest book, Rescuing a Broken America: Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally, is a one that should be on every concerned American’s bookshelf. (More books by Dr. Michael Coffman)

My Real ID Reckoning

Kaye Beach

June 28, 2011

As of Feb. 28^th 2011 my Oklahoma biometric driver’s license became invalid.  I have been cited for driving with an expired license and I am going to court.

I was concerned when I first heard about the push for a national ID card which preceded the REAL ID ACT of  2005.  At the time I didn’t know much about biometrics but what I did know is that a national ID is the hallmark of a totalitarian society and despite our government’s denials,  REAL ID without a doubt qualifies as a national ID.

“We are, after all, for the first time in our history actually creating a national identification card with all the ramifications of that.  That is what the Real ID law did.”–  Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

I later found it is actually much worse.  REAL ID is an international biometric ID.

For the crash course in biometric ID read Biometrics 101-Your Body IS Your ID

Shortly before REAL ID had actually been passed into law states, including Oklahoma, in anticipation of its passage had already purchased biometric capturing technology. I was shocked when the DMV clerk told me that I must submit to a finger scan.  Who doesn’t associate being fingerprinted with criminality?  I balked but was told no scan-no drivers license.  At the time I had a small child, my own business and countless tasks to accomplish every day that would be very difficult if not impossible to meet without a valid license so I grudgingly complied.  I had no idea that it wasn’t just my fingers that they were scanning.  The old cameras had been replaced with high resolution digital cameras that capture, map and digitize our facial features for use with facial recognition technology.

My good  friend, Howard Houchen, speaks to our natural and healthy gut reaction to ID schemes like Real ID in an article he wrote called the The Id Passes on Pass ID.  He’s talking about instinct.  My first reaction to Real ID was an instinctive one but after several years of studying the scheme and biometric identification in general, I have come to oppose it intellectually, practically, philosophically, morally and spiritually as well.  It is simply a terrible idea and a dangerous imposition on any nation.  It is worth noting that this plan is, right now, being imposed around the globe, in every nation.

When you know something is dead wrong what do you do?   Well, if you are like me you do everything you can.  You lobby.  You try to educate others and especially your elected representatives.  You support good, protective legislation and oppose the bad.   You write letters, organize rallies and events, you talk till you are blue in the face.  You do everything you can think of and you give it everything you got.

I, along with many thousands of other dedicated people have done everything we can to deter this country from implementing such a dastardly plan on the American people.  I am very sad to say that we have not achieved our goal.  The opposition comes from individuals and organizations that span the political spectrum.  Mass enrollment into a global biometric identification scheme is a repulsive idea that has jarred this country without regard to political affiliation.

Many state legislatures did their part too.  26 states have passed either a law or resolution prohibiting participation in Real ID and yet, as recently reported by the Heritage Foundation (who is not opposing but supporting the policy)

 “At least 32 states are close to REAL ID material compliance, while a total of 44 states and territories have indicated that they fully intend to meet REAL ID compliance.”

It is right about here that all of the activism seems like a terribly elaborate exercise for what comes next.  After all of the talking, writing, lobbying, fretting and gnashing of teeth the most important stand I could take felt more like a whisper than  a shout.  It’s not that I never thought about what I would do if our government could not be brought to its senses.  I always knew that if it came down to it, I was not going to just roll over and comply.  I have a child and to just give up and leave her with the legacy of government control by cataloging and monitoring people through an international biometric ID is just  not an option for me.

This past February I was getting ready for a trip and took a look at my license.  It was to expire on the 28^th of that month.  Good, I thought.  At least I will be able to fly this time with no trouble (unless you count running the TSA gauntlet as trouble, which I do!)  But I knew at that moment I would not be renewing it.  The end of the month was the end of the road for me and Real ID.

The states are obviously not going to protect our rights so it is up to us now.  At the end of the day, isn’t it always up to us?

All of my thinking has been done and my decision was made over the years  by each incremental inch of ground gained  toward full implementation of Real ID.  What to do on February 28^th was less a decision for me to make than simply a day of reckoning for me.

I did ask myself what I stood to lose and what did I stood to gain by my refusal to participate in this human surveillance and control scheme.  Practically, I stand to lose a lot.  I have already been refused my prescription for having an invalid ID and my access to places, items and events is closed or uncertain without a “government issued photo ID card”.  I imagine I will encounter more and more difficulty as time goes by but this is small stakes compared to what we all have to look forward to in the very near future.

Once the fight is finally over and the biometric identification plans are fully implemented those who refuse to be enrolled and will not carry a “government issued photo ID”, will essentially be viewed as invalid, non-persons, unregistered.  Furthermore their invalidated status will be a red flag rendering such persons especially suspect by a government that demands its right to know all about everyone at all times.  Where did our government get such a right?  They got it from us.   Our complacence is compliance and as far as they are concerned that gives them permission and therefore the right to scan our body parts and use those measurements as a personal tracking number.

The ones that do comply won’t be much better off really.   Their government issued biometric ID will allow our government to keep tabs on their every transaction, their travel, their habits and more. This biometric identification system puts our ability to access our daily necessities at their pleasure.  Will such an all powerful government choose to be a benevolent father?  History does not give one much hope that it will.

Recently, I was stopped and given a citation for driving with an expired license.  As a person who has made a conscious effort to respect the law, it is an odd turn of events that I would think of this as a good thing,  but it is.  It means that I will have a chance to air my grievances in court and that means that there is a chance that the law might find something compelling about this grievance.

I am going to keep fighting this.

If you think that this is a good fight, I am asking for your help.  I won’t be coy; this is going to take money.  In fact, it may take lots of it and that would be a good thing because it would mean a real battle and the only chance that one small act of disobedience could become something more meaningful.

If you wish to donate to my legal defense fund, you may do so online or the old fashioned way if you prefer by sending a check or money order to:

Kaye Beach

P.O. Box 722381

Norman, Oklahoma, 73070

(Please write legal defense fund in the memo section of your check or money order)

The Constitutional Alliance has been an invaluable source of accurate information and guidance for me.  I am pleased to have been invited to join their Board of Directors in 2009 and recommend that those who want to know more about biometrics and biometric identification plans visit http://www.constitutionalalliance.org/ for more information.  I owe this dedicated group of people a debt of gratitude for encouraging me to put my trust in God and take this fight all the way.

I have said it before and will say it again.  With biometric ID, we may resist it now or resist it later but without a shadow of a doubt; we will all resist it at some point. For me, that time is now.

National security and a less-restrained FBI

OP ED

By Julian Sanchez

June 27, 2011

Less than three years after the last major revision of its domestic surveillance guidelines, the FBI is preparing to loosen its restrictions on monitoring Americans. If this is not halted, we might find our privacy eroded beyond repair.

Agents are already free to search the public Internet and the federal government’s vast and growing databases for information on groups or individuals — even if they aren’t suspected of wrongdoing — without approval from a supervisor. Under rules implemented in 2008, they can go still further, digging up information in broader commercial databases, or consulting state and local law enforcement records, provided they open an “assessment.” That isn’t the same as an “investigation,” which requires grounds for suspicion of criminal activity, but opening an assessment means that agents must at least create a paper trail and identify a legitimate purpose for their inquiries.

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Norman officials, developers reach compromises over building near Lake Thunderbird

Norman city officials say they have reached some compromises with developers over proposed ordinances aimed at protecting Lake Thunderbird’s watershed.

BY JANE GLENN CANNON

Published: June 27, 2011

NORMAN — City officials said they have reached some compromises with developers over proposed ordinances aimed at protecting Lake Thunderbird‘s watershed.

The ordinance would still establish 100-foot water quality protection buffer zones along the streams but would allow development within 25 feet of the streams if certain engineering standards are met, Lewis said.

The compromises will be introduced and the ordinances considered when the city council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Municipal Building’s council chambers, 201 W Gray St.

Read more: http://newsok.com/norman-officials-developers-reach-compromises-over-building-near-lake-thunderbird/article/3580805#ixzz1QWE0W8PB

Washington teen fights for removal of red-light cameras

Kaye Beach

June 26,2011

Don’t give up on the younger generation  yet! This one is burning shoe leather to get rid of the scameras.

Hats of to 17 year old Josh Sutinen!

From MyNorthWest.com June 24, 2011

Washington is the latest state to see a backlash against cameras that issue traffic tickets.

Thousands of people have signed on to ballot proposals in Longview, Monroe, Redmond, and Bellingham to ban the cameras.

A 17-year-old is leading the initiative effort in Longview, even though he’s not old enough to vote for it yet.

“It’s basically the worst of both worlds put together, a tax and a spy camera built into one,” Josh Sutinen told 97.3 KIRO FM’s Dori Monson Show.

Sutinen, who just got his driver’s license last month, said they have until Thursday to collect enough signatures and he’s confident in his efforts.

“We’re going door to door from 5:00 to 8:00 every day and on Sundays we’ve been going all day….We’re really in the run mode right now,” he said.

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Challenges to red light cameras span US

MSNBC

June 24, 2011

In more than 500 cities and towns in 25 states, silent sentries keep watch over intersections, snapping photos and shooting video of drivers who run red lights. The cameras are on the job in metropolises like Houston and Chicago and in small towns like Selmer, Tenn., population 4,700, where a single camera setup monitors traffic at the intersection of U.S. Highway 64 and Mulberry Avenue.

One of the places is Los Angeles, where, if the Police Commission gets its way, the red light cameras will have to come down in a few weeks. That puts the nation’s second-largest city at the leading edge of an anti-camera movement that appears to have been gaining traction across the country in recent weeks.

A City Council committee is considering whether to continue the city’s camera contract over the objections of the commission, which voted unanimously to remove the camera system, which shoots video of cars running red lights at 32 of the city’s thousands of intersections. The private Arizona company that installed the cameras and runs the program mails off $446 tickets to their registered owners.

The company’s contract will expire at the end of July if the council can’t reach a final agreement to renew it

Opponents of the cameras often argue that they are really just revenue engines for struggling cities and towns, silently dinging motorists for mostly minor infractions. And while guidelines issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say revenue is an invalid justification for the use of the eyes in the sky (see box at right), camera-generated citations do spin off a lot of money in many cities — the nearly 400 cameras in Chicago, for example, generated more than $64 million in 2009, the last year for which complete figures were available.

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America Sells Out. China Buys Up

Kaye Beach

June 24, 2011

Be sure to read Oklahoma: The Reddest State Gets a Little Redder contact Gov. Fallin  regarding about her intentions regarding the upcoming July Governors meeting in Utah with Chinese officials.

From The American Dream

originally posted June 18, 2011

The Chinese Government Is Buying Up Economic Assets And Huge Tracts Of Land All Over The United States

In 2011, America is for sale and the communist Chinese are eager buyers.  The Chinese government is using sovereign wealth funds and Chinese state-owned enterprises to buy up economic assets and huge tracts of land all over the United States.  Many of our politicians hail all of this “foreign investment” as something that is “good for America”, while many others see something much more sinister going on here.  In any event, this is a trend that is rapidly accelerating and that is causing great concern among patriotic Americans.

In my recent article entitled “China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho“, I examined a potential deal that Sinomach (a company controlled by the Chinese government) wants to do with the government of Idaho.  There will be more on this deal in a minute.

But first it is important to note that this is a phenomenon that is happening all across the United States.

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Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?

Kaye Beach

June, 22, 2011

The following is a fascination article on the Smart Grid published by the August Review last year.  Talk about the big picture-is this it?

By Patrick Wood, Editor
March 2, 2010

Introduction

According to the United Nations Governing Council of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP),  “our dominant economic model may thus be termed a ‘brown economy.” UNEP’s clearly stated goal is to overturn the “brown economy” and replace it with a “green economy”:

“A green economy implies the decoupling of resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth… These investments, both public and private, provide the mechanism for the reconfiguration of businesses, infrastructure and institutions, and for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production processes.”  [p. 2]

Sustainable consumption? Reconfiguring businesses, infrastructure and institutions? What do these words mean? They do not mean merely reshuffling the existing order, but rather replacing it with a completely new economic system, one that has never before been seen or used in the history of the world.

This paper will demonstrate that the current crisis of capitalism is being used to implement a radical new economic system that will completely supplant it. This is not some new idea created in the bowels of the United Nations: It is a revitalized implementation of Technocracy that was thoroughly repudiated by the American public in 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression.

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No More Kicking the Debt Can Down the Road! by Ken Moore

Guest post by Ken Moore of Oklahoma

June 22, 2011

Looks like the same old same old….Republican leadership, headed by Sen. McConnell, is primed to give in and kick the can down the road on the debt ceiling with no cuts in spending.

Cuts must happen THIS YEAR because they won’t happen during election year politics.   This is far too serious for us to even consider going along.   We cannot continue to put up with this.  If Republicans will fight to cut federal spending, we can probably start to claw our way back to fiscal sanity.  If they won’t, the 2011 elections are gone, and we get 4 more years of Obama, in my opinion, with irreversible descent into the pits of socialism helped along by judicial activism.

 

One of our biggest problems is Big Money RINOS who would rather go along to get along because they like the way things are–the status quo.  Chambers of Commerce and all levels of government have been corrupted by these people.  They must think they are insulated from the huge problems that unrestricted Big Government will bring to us.  That is the biggest sack of hogwash they have ever bought.  Extreme European-style socialism will not be kind to most of them nor to any of us when it gets fully implemented.  That is, they will be on the bottom of the heap of lost freedom with the rest of us while the enforcers stomp on the heap to whatever degree is required to keep us down.

 

These Big Money RINOs and their liberal buddies think they are so much smarter than the rest of us that their participation in liberal-style corruption is justified–the end justifies the means.  However, they forget that we have numbers on them–numbers of votes at the ballot box and numbers for political influence, and we are aware of their evil plans.  The only chance for survival of this Republic, long term, is Tea Party-type activism which will include lots of Democrats and Independents.  Starting tomorrow in regard to demanding spending cuts and efforts to stop all this government insanity may be too late.

 

Warning to Big Money RINOs:  Our ancestors left Europe to get away from your kind of corruption.  If we cannot get remedy at the ballot box from your corrupt deeds, America will do it in some unpleasant way like we did in the late 1700′s.  It is in European genes to accept tyranny with “Yes sir, yes, sir, three bags full” It is not in American genes!!  Got it?

 

Ken Moore

 

What’s so smart about ‘smart meters’?

Kaye Beach

June 19, 2011

Look familiar?

Andrew Griffin, the Red Dirt Reporter has been on the trail of the mysterious guys showing up in Oklahoma neighborhoods in these little white vans.

What does Andrew think about them and their mission?

 

 

Maxwell agrees!

OKLAHOMA CITY – Perhaps you have seen these rather non-descript white vans buzzing around your neighborhood. I know we have here in Midtown where these vans, identifiable only by the letters “UPA” emblazoned on the side and out-of-state plates (usually South Carolina or Florida).

Some weeks back, a bearded guy with a reflective vest was spotted in your Red Dirt Reporter’s backyard. When confronted, the man said he was replacing my old-fashioned meter with a “Smart Meter” and that UPA was doing work for OG&E, the power company.

. . .So far, UPA and the “smart meter” goon squad that has been tromping into backyards and private property, are placing these devices in areas that are close to people’s living quarters. Why didn’t OG&E representatives hold town-hall meetings and discuss what this new technology means and why they believe it is important? I guess because they think they don’t have to. That’s not smart, that’s stupid.

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