Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Stolen Valor

Sirs,

The Stolen Valor Act was written to prevent unseemly characters from claiming valor where it does not exist thus diminishing, and yes “hurting”, those who truly earned their rightful place in history. You contention that, “There is nothing more sacred than the right to speech in America” is false. There is nothing more sacred than the blood of the brave men and women who defend our right to free speech. Speech is NOTHING without man, man is the vehicle by which it is defined and defended. The two are NOT mutually exclusive and any attempt to sever is misguided. The idea that a group who prides itself as a defender of free speech would NOT defend the “harming” of the ULTIMATE and only LEGITIMATE defenders of free speech is mystifying.

V/R

Ricky D.

Monday, February 01, 2010

The State of the Nation: I am afraid

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Hi John,
Well put sir. It has not taken the masters of finance and discourse long to dismantle America. There has been betrayal in your country (and mine, the UK) that has been brilliantly enacted via staggering dissimilation.
The culprits must be named and their ideology exposed.
The Judeo-masonic hierarchy are the masters of this discourse. They hate Christianity and regard any persons outside their religion (for masonry is a religion too) as 'cattle' who can be casually used and abused as they think fit in the puruance of their agenda.
I'm at work . Must go.
Kevin

Mr Whitehead,
I appreciate your article, "The State of the Nation: I Am Afraid". It is an insightful wake-up call to the ominous signs of the times.
Mark L.
Dear Bro. Whitehead,
Thank you for your recent commentary about the condition of our country. It is sad indeed to witness the destruction of this great country. Of course, you and I know that what is happening to this once great Republic is due to our having turned our backs on God.
Concerning your observation that the world is turning into "an electronic concentration camp", I too have been warning Christians about this system of control that is being put in place.
Thank you for your work in our Lord's kingdom.
Glenn G.
Thanks for the article. I am 51 and have been hammered by the economy for the last two years. I wasn't over extended and have basically survived the onslaught so far, but I and my family have been hit hard. Your view is practically the only view that I see as having any chance at putting a wedge into the plans that they are establishing.
Due to these circumstances, it seems that I'm not able to participate as much as I deem is necessary in the efforts against the turning of this once great country into a plutocracy. I find myself wondering if there is something that I might do along the lines of combating what you have identified in your column? Is there some way I might help your team?
I have developed a rudimentary understanding of Constitutional Law and would like to contribute, I am continuing my education in the IT realm at a community college and enjoy that endeavor but wonder, am I just allowing this all to happen when there is some small fight that I might engage in that would profit the country and increase the odds of overturning this vile effort to "communitize" our world?
Regards,
Larry W.
John,
The only things we have to fear, besides fear itself, is stupidity and taking ineffective action.
Two ants are sitting on an elephant's trunk, arguing over whether the beast is a giant worm, or a giant snake. Obviously they will never resolve the issue until they step back and see the big picture.
But how can we see the big picture when we are lied to by are political, social, economic, military, academic, and media institutions.
Through government subversion, in 1912 the Federal Reserve Act was passed, which gave the subversive elites the power to print money to place in their banks and investment houses to acquire our resources, and free enterprise system.
We gave the elite Illuminati banksters:a blank check, backed up with our good faith and credit, and

· the power to create and finance both sides of global wars,

· to expand their influence with our foreign aid to promote their industries, and

· we gave them the power to commit illegal acts in complete secrecy with the National Security Act that was passed in 1947.

We gave them the power to create a global totalitarian dictatorship which they are creating inside our government. They control our political, justice, military and intelligence organizations.

And we watch quietly, while they build concentration camps for us, pass laws to declare marshal law and suspend our constitution, and invest over $13 trillion to build more than 4,000 underground installations that are massive in size, where they are developing technologies that are out of this world, quite literally.

They strip us of our wealth by manipulating the markets, currencies, and global criminal organizations and operating with the protection of our own government.

One might ask what common elements, besides wealth and power, binds these elites together.

It is their genetics which they perceive as superior to our own and has extraterrestrial origins. That is why they are called “blue bloods.”

There are 13 “superior” bloodlines that became the leaders of the new world because of their unique powers, blood, privilege, and opportunity to rule.

They created secret societies to contain their knowledge and hide their power. And together they grew in strength.

And today, their descendents control over 75% of the world’s wealth.

Their agenda is to create a one world fascist new world order. And once that is in place the elites will be in total control of humanity on Earth to do as they wish.

They know society is not going to agree to this, so they utilize a dialectic process out of which order evolves from their plans for global chaos.

They create global crises with solutions ready to implement. The people accept it, like they did the League of Nations, the United Nations, the National Security Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Patriot Act, and the Cap and Trade legislation.

The history of this planet is replete with purpose directed conflicts that have brought this world to its present state of chaos.

And now the Illuminati families behind this chaos, have created a one world structure under their control; that includes the World Bank, IMF, BIS, UN, and hundreds of other globalist organizations and foundations, each focused on their myopic purpose, but clueless to a bigger agenda that is held by very few.

With each passing year, humanity agrees to the laws and programs made readily available after every war and crisis, and cleverly humanity marches itself closer to the intended fascist prison-state agenda.

When will we learn? When will we wake up? When will we fight the right enemy of the people, instead of fighting amongst ourselves?

We will wake up when we define the right context and reality in which we are living, and it is time that our political leaders, scientists, and academics accept the responsibility for being more truthful about the information that they have.

Only the truth will set us free.

Recently, Benjamin Fulford, a former bureau chief for Forbes Magazine in Japan, has come forward to reveal deep splits within the global power structures that control international finance, religious institutions and geo-politics.

Fulford argues that these splits have grown so severe that unless a covert policy for significant global depopulation through contrived means is immediately abandoned, that there will be harsh consequences for those seeking to implement such a policy.

Fulford has publicly taken on the role of spokesperson for what he claims are Chinese secret societies opposed to global depopulation policies that specifically target the Asian population. He has recently come out with public warnings on behalf of these secret societies on a popular radio show where he was interviewed on July 5 (see: http://rense.com/general77/fulf.htm ).

Fulford's claims and warnings, to supporters of a covert global depopulation program, are so startling that they could easily be dismissed as wild conjecture and neurotic conspiracy theory. There are however a number of reasons why his claims should not be simply dismissed and be considered on their merits.

First, the quality of Fulford's journalistic investigations and professional background do not indicate he is someone prone to exaggeration and making unsubstantiated claims. Many of his articles with Forbes Magazine were and continue to be essential reading for Western businessmen desiring to invest or conduct business in Japan.

Second, he has interviewed people in very senior positions in Japan over the last decade including seven Prime Ministers, captains of industry, security police and leading figures in the Japanese underworld. So he does have access to the shadowy underworld figures he claims have approached him to take on the issue of a covert global depopulation program.

Finally, while a Canadian by nationality, Fulford has spent 20 years studying and working in Japan, speaks the Japanese language fluently, and understands Japanese culture and public policy making process very well. He therefore qualifies as a westerner very sympathetic to Asian values and could act as a spokesperson for a powerful organization with deeply embedded networks in Japanese society.

All this suggests that Fulford's claims need to be considered on their merits.

Fulford traces the origins of the powerful elites responsible for the alleged covert global depopulation program to the leading banking families in Europe and North America. Due to their historical association with Freemasonry, he refers to these elite banking families as comprising the modern day 'Illuminati' whose history can be traced all the way back to ancient Babylon (see: http://rense.com/general77/histor.htm ).

Fulford argues that a faction of the Illuminati centered around the Rockefeller family is intent on a radical global depopulation plan through a contrived war on terror. So far the Rockefellers demolished the WTO, conceived the Patriot Act, and lobbied for and expanded the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Most significantly from an exopolitical perspective, Fulford claims that there is an attempt to produce a global Armageddon with a contrived extraterrestrial enemy that will wipe out a significant proportion of humanity. (The International Community for Alien Research reports that over 1 billion have been abducted who may be activated to support the global Armageddon strategy in some way. 2010 could be the year that disclosure occurs.)

According to Fulford, this would leave survivors so traumatized that they would be easily manipulated by the Illuminati. A number of whistleblowers including the late Werner Von Braun have argued that a covert plan exists to fabricate an extraterrestrial enemy to justify a new global war (see: http://www.illuminati-news.com/ufos-and-aliens/html/carol_rosin.htm ).

Fulford claims that it was his investigation into artificially created pandemics that targeted Asians in a covert effort to reduce their overall population to 500 million that triggered the attention of Chinese secret societies.

He claims that the SARS virus and the avian flu virus (H5N1) are the first in a series of artificially created viruses that specifically target the Asian genome. Disturbed by the possibility that a covert global depopulation policy that targeted Asians was underway, secret Chinese societies based in Taiwan contacted Fulford to offer him their protection and recruited him to be their spokesperson.

Fulford contends that the effort to reduce the Asian population is a result of deeply entrenched racism and cultural chauvinism among Illuminati members who historically are centered in Europe and North America.

Assuming that Fulford is correct that a depopulation program targeted at Asians is underway, it is worth exploring a number of exopolitical factors for why such a policy might have been implemented by Illuminati members, and the role of the Rockefeller family in such a policy.

First, the covert policy allegedly aims to reduce the current population of Asia from approximately 3.7 billion (over 56% of the global population) to 500 million people.

One of the major reasons why new energy technologies and extraterrestrial disclosure have not occurred is that this would level the geo-political playing field very quickly.

Cheap inexpensive energy that could be produced in-house would rapidly transform major population centers like China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion).

These and other Asian nations that currently struggle to feed and provide jobs for all citizens, would be transformed into flourishing financial powerhouses where their citizenry's full productive capacities could be utilized. Such a development would transform the way global financial structures are dominated from capital intensive industries in North America/Europe to information intensive industries in China/India, etc.

Second, not only would there be an erosion of Illuminati power and prestige due to its loss of control over global financial institutions, but there would also be widespread diffusion of technological capacities.

This would significantly erode U.S. hegemony in the research and development of advanced technologies.

This is especially important when it comes to the secret reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technologies which is dominated by the US military industrial complex.

The Illuminati provide significant financial resources and global networks to ensure that the US gets the lion's share of extraterrestrial technologies recovered worldwide and secretly relocated to the US. Much of this is achieved by maintaining present global dependence on fossil fuel consumption, and preventing alternative energy sources being developed.

Third, there is the possibility that a staged extraterrestrial invasion can be conducted to deceive the global population into surrendering civil liberties and political rights.

This would enable the passage of draconian national security laws which would monitor and control the behavior and thoughts of the global citizenry.

The development of a global national security system would ensure the control of elites who might fear that the official disclosure of extraterrestrial life would lead to a loss of governmental and covert Illuminati control over the global population.

The collapse of governmental authority was an important factor cited by the 1960 Brookings Institute Report into the consequences of the general public learning of the existence of extraterrestrial life (see: http://www.enterprisemission.com/brooking.html ).

Fourth, the role played by the Rockefeller family in the development of US policies concerning extraterrestrial technologies and life cannot be underestimated.

It was the intervention of both Nelson and David Rockefellers that was critical in persuading President Dwight Eisenhower to relinquish direct executive presidential control over extraterrestrial related projects.

A corporatized military structure that was run by an appointed committee, Majestic-12 Special Studies Group, which was outside the normal governmental oversight process, was instead created.

The Rockefellers were able to ensure that through their control of organizations such as the Council of Foreign Relations and key personnel such as Dr Henry Kissinger, that they would play a substantial role in directing covert policies on extraterrestrial affairs (see: http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-5.htm ).

Most importantly, the Rockefellers have been the leading proponents of a global secrecy program concerning extraterrestrial life with the exception of a few family members such as Laurence Rockefeller (see: http://www.presidentialufo.com/part1.htm ).

How much credence should be given to Fulford's radical claims? Certainly his professional background and access to senior political, financial and cultural figures in Japan can be verified. He has also published a recent book detailing at greater length his claims and providing evidence to substantiate the existence of a covert depopulation program that specifically targets Asians. As far as him being a spokesperson for Chinese secret societies vehemently opposed to such a depopulation program, that is harder to verify.

Nevertheless, his work for Forbes Magazine gave him privileged access with key figures and forces in the Japanese economy which almost certainly included the Japanese underworld. This makes it very plausible that he is familiar with and could have been easily approached by Chinese secret societies as he claims.

Significantly an Australian expert in reverse speech analysis tested Fulford's speech patterns during his July 5 radio interview and concluded that he was not lying and that the reverse speech patterns are congruent with his claims (see: http://www.reversespeech.com/fulford.htm).

Perhaps most credence for Fulford's claims come from the revelations of filmmaker Aaron Russo who claims to have befriended a leading member of the Rockefeller family, Nick Rockefeller.

According to Russo, Rockefeller admitted that 911 was in inside job, that the war on terror was contrived to convince the global population to submit to draconian national security laws such as microchipping, that leading banking families intended to maintain strict control, and that a depopulation program to cull the global population by at least 50% was underway (see: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm ).

While investigations have just begun to determine the accuracy of Fulford's radical claims, the exopolitical implications of a struggle between Asian and North American/European secret societies can be expected to be very significant. If Fulford is accurate in his main claim concerning the determination and ability of Chinese secret societies to target banking elites involved in a global depopulation policy, then it becomes clear Asian secret societies can severely disrupt any contrived global depopulation program by the North American branch of the Illuminati. This would ensure that in a post-disclosure world the full productive capacities of China and other Asian nations would not be significantly diminished.

The frustration of plans to covertly depopulate strategic regions of the planet such as Asia, would inevitably lead to a major realignment of financial and political power on the planet. More significantly, the power and influence of the Rockefeller family in repressing information concerning extraterrestrial life and technology would be significantly diminished.

This would significantly accelerate the timing of official disclosure concerning extraterrestrial life. Most importantly, it would influence the way in which disclosure was made and thereby lead to the failure of efforts to present extraterrestrials as a new security threat justifying advanced space weapons or to stage a fake extraterrestrial invasion (see: http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-10-.pdf ).

This would consequently lead to the release of suppressed technologies and alternative energy sources that are used by extraterrestrial civilizations. Extraterrestrial disclosure would prove very beneficial to Asian economies which have the bulk of the world's population and stand to benefit most from distribution of alternative energy sources.

Just as the regular U.S. military is not happy with continued suppression of advanced extraterrestrial technologies (which is why so many military personnel have been safely able to come forward [see: http://www.disclosureproject.com ]), so too secret societies in China, and other Asian nations are not happy with the current non-disclosure program.

Furthermore, there appears to be a genuine split between North American and European branches of the Illuminati (elite banking families) over global depopulation policies. That makes for a powerful alliance of pro-disclosure interests that must greatly worry members of the increasingly isolated North American based Illuminati and Majestic-12 Group that has historically played a leading role in repressing information concerning extraterrestrial life and technology.

Now, according to Fulford, the members of the Bush/Clinton Nazi crime family made a fatal error when they decided to attack Haiti with an earthquake weapon.

An international hunt down and kill order has been issued against Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George Bushes Senior and Junior and Lt. General P.K. Keen (in of relief efforts) among others, according to sources affiliated with various secret societies.

This Nazi cabal sent a CIA agent to the Black Dragon Society to give forewarning of the attack. The agent talked about the Tsunami unleashed against Indonesia and said the oil companies won a war and nobody knew about it. Well, now everybody knows about it.

The Japanese Yakuza now know the Kobe earthquake of 1995 was the result of a deliberate attack and they are eager for revenge.

The people of Indonesia now know the tsunami was a deliberate attack and they know who ordered it. They are also eager for revenge.

The Chinese now know the 1976 earthquake that killed 655,000 people was a deliberate attack and are eager for justice.

The people of Haiti also know who attacked them and will also seek revenge. Etc. Etc. There is now nowhere on earth for these criminals to hide.

It was not lost on the Black Dragon Society that the attack on Haiti came on the anniversary of the Kobe earthquake but the society has a policy of not responding to threats. If they think they are going to unleash a Tsunami against Tokyo and get away with it, they are truly insane.

The criminal cabal is also wrong in their belief that they will be able to grab more plunder in the form of aid for Haiti. This is not going to happen.

Meanwhile, new information about the Asian agents of the Federal Reserve Board can now be made public.

The so-called Ming faction of the Chinese has in fact been thoroughly infiltrated, bribed and conned by the Federal Reserve Board faction led by David Rockefeller, Znigniew Brzezinski and George Soros. As always, these people reveal themselves through their actions.

When they sent the Emperor to Washington to try to cash giant checks for the Federal Reserve Board, they tipped their hand. Japanese power broker Ichiro Ozawa ordered the emperor to meet Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping as soon as he returned.

When it turned out the emperor returned empty-handed, there was much consternation in China.

So, John, if you have any questions or comments, please advise.
Eric J.

Your op ed piece “The State of The Union… I am afraid” is courageous and it is true. --Garrett L.
'As Thomas Jef-ferson writes in the Dec-la-ra-tion, it is then the right
of "the People to alter or abolish it" and form a new government.'

There is definitely a need abroad to form a new government. This does
not mean to write a new Constitution, but rather, to form a new
government with the existing Constitution. Our present government is
severely ill/damaged/broken beyond repair or recouperation and the two
main political parties are clones of each other, unable to correct the
many problems! It appears that you recognize this.

I've been waiting for, hoping for the Lord to raise up a grassroots
leader for a movement such as this, and believe this is what is being
advocated by the Tea Party movement.
I'm ready, as are many Americans
Thank you for openly and publicly taking a stand!
Sincerely,
E. S.

I consider myself a libertarian and I read your article with great interest and agree with your analysis of the issues that you addressed.
I can say only that I was bothered by your reference to “the Creator” towards the end of the article. I am an atheist and I do not feel the need for a belief in a supernatural being to regulate my sense of right and wrong. I frankly resent the implication that religion must be the basis of ethical behavior. I believe in the right of religious people do hold their beliefs and I know that many are highly ethical people but unfortunately I know that a large number of religious people do not reciprocate this where non-religious people are concerned.
Richard B .

For God's sake either do something in real life-not on a page- or stop crying. Get a prescription or something. "Men" like you are why other countries know with certainty that America is destined for failure. America has been corrupt since it killed Mexicans and Indians. It has never stopped and will not stop until people either change or the country goes up in flames. For God's sake quit whining about it. You know the situation-do something or shut up-but-"I'm afraid"? Of what?

What is new and different in society? Is corruption new to you? Are political lies new to you? If they are where have you been since grade school? No what's new is YOUR suffering. You feel like you are about to lose everything(and you are) and so what? Welcome to the world. Pull out a history book. Africa has ruled, Asia has ruled, what is now called the Middle East has ruled, Europe has ruled. Quit crying and accept the changes. The wheel always turns. You just have to lose everything to realize when you should have stood up and done something aside from cry in your journal.

Good night America-You deserve everything you get.

Lili Evans-Do feel free to print this oh spineless one.


I just finished reading "The State of the Nation: I am afraid". This is so perfect, every line, every word speaks exactly what I know, think, and feel abut our nation today. it is a great feeling to find people who thing and understand "right and wrong" the way God intended it to be understood, not the way Washington D.C. views and legislates right and wrong. With the help of television news and immoral programming I've come to see people (including some Christians) start to accept this as the norm and to believe that iI've been asking this question to pastors and Christians: At what point do we as Christians draw the line in the sand that government can't cross? At what point do we gather together in numbers to stand on our side of that line? It was such a great feeling to read your ending line in the article:
"As Thomas Jefferson writes in the Declaration, it is then the right of "the People to alter or abolish it" and form a new government"...... it answers my question. thank you!

It took away my guilt of working against our government and made me realize... its my duty as a citizen, a father, a business owner, as an employer, and as a Christian.

I love what you are doing at the Rutherford Institute, I will spread the word and help promote your cause and web site.

God bless your works,
Mark M.

Mr. Whitehead,
Although George Bush said it with malice, it instead pains me to
acknowledge that he was correct. Our constitution has indeed become
"just a G.D. piece of paper." I have seen example after example
(including an eminent domain "taking" personally) of constitutional
rights blatantly ignored. I have seen case after case of egregious
police abuse of people and whenever there is an attempt to pursue civil
charges, the lawyer's response is always the same: "I can't take the
case because of a conflict of interest." The irony is that he is
correct. Because he would be attacking the same corporation for which
he works, he is compromised. As a consequence of this he rationalizes
away the fact that law, truth and justice are supposed to be the primary
"interests" of our judicial system.

The root problem however is not the government. They are just a
reflection of the people. It is the fact that nationally we have
abandoned our Christian heritage. Consequently, and some would say
appropriately, the State has become our god and the "hate thy neighbor
theology" of socialism is our new national religion. The people truly
are slaves, most don't even realize it and the vast majority of those
few that do, are sitting around waiting for someone extricate them from
their bondage. I fear also, because apostasy this advanced awaits
judgment. But I am also encouraged knowing that this state of affairs
is hardly honoring to the King of kings and will eventually be remedied.
I have seen two instances of lex talion as well as other events that
would indicate that there is something else at work in this country. It
is my prayer that my children will see the turning.

Daniel P.

Your observations are most timely. I just watched a story by CNN which related how the Israeli government has been able to transport a complete field hospital half way around the world to Haiti. It is presently the only one operational there. Meanwhile, while injured Haitians are dying of their wounds, the US, only 650 miles away has been successful in flooding the island with armed military personnel. The situation certainly shows our priorities.--Bruce H.

How Lucky It Is for Our Politicians That Americans Do Not Think

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John,
Great article.we all need to be informed and come together in numbers to preserve our hard fought freedoms.
--
Sincerely,
George M
Freedom, Liberty = independence from government oppression. It takes a search for wisdom in order to shape citizen independence within a structured society. The words freedom and liberty are often used to foster the baser --Charles F.

Federal Religion Policy

The Federal policy that no member of the federal government must disclose their religion is one of the major problems in America. I do not understand why religious organizations such as yours are not publicly attacking this policy.
First, the policy is absurd on its face. If the public does not ever know what religion people in government exercise, how could they ever know whether religion is a problem in government? Second, the basis of the policy decision on separation of church and state is not in the Constitution at all. Third, how does the Department of Defense know how to man the Chaplain Corps? Fourth, the policy's real purpose may be to prevent the public from knowing how many Jewish people are working at our highest level of government.
In the Clinton Administration, every job in the White House was held by a Jew. Half the Cabinet was Jewish, What did we get? Globalization moving our manufacturing overseas, and the beginning of derivatives which has nearly bankrupted the nation.
Under the Bush Administration we got Jewish government executives leading the country into two wars for Israel and oil while the Jewish controlled media stood idle on the sidelines. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. We also got no 911 investigation, and the largest budget deficits in history.
Now under the new President, with Jewish advisors, White House Chief of Staff, and Federal Reserve, the nation's finances are so bad, 273 Members of Congress are asking for an audit of the Federal Reserve. The media still silent on it all, even the President's birth records.
This policy, in my view, must be turned around in short order, or Mr. Whitehead is soon going to move from being afraid, to being terrified.
Thomas M., AL

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Dear RI
Thank you thank you! Amazing vid - when I heard the news it pained me media didnt cover it. I know mass media is part of the mans game but when an unrestrained global police force is set up on American soil - can we show some respect for freedom - guess not.

This is going out to all like minded free spirits I know and if in a small way I can thank by giving you a a laugh while revealing an angle or two or one of the globaists most recent scams/tragedies please enjoy my short vid...

Keep up the great work,
whatever you put out there will be spread out among those I know
Revolution thru Consciousness!
Thanks again
Johnny
Brooklyn NYC

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Big Brother

Whether or not we live in a 'brave new world' is open to debate. Alternatively, there is little doubt we live in a new world. We are visited with 'new-speak' regularly and as recently as Sunday thanks Messrs Gibbs, Axlerod and Hernandez. Some gadgets or tools, however, from this high-tech age must be refined and ultimately used to: a) pre-empt terrorists from ever getting to the US, much less allowing them room or time to carry out a mission; and b) index and track illegal aliens, with the ultimate goal of either converting them to tax-paying citizens (whilst going through legal channels and starting at the back of the line) or providing them immediate deportation.

"Our representatives in the WH & Congress bear little resemblance......." (how true).

Disenfranchisement is the ultimate dilemma American citizens are experiencing. My family and I are recent transplants from Illinois. In 1960, my backdoor neighbor won the U.S. 20th Congressional District seat, from my hometown of Pittsfield. Paul Findley stayed in Washington for 11 terms and never once failed to vote himself a pay raise, COL increase or boost his health and pension benefits. My disillusionment with Washington and government started then and has matured since, with an unending supply of new data. The current administration's platform is incomprehensible and I have stated same to our friends, Perriello, Warner & Webb. I have, as other Virginians and citizens around our country, asked them to recognize that it is us, the citizens, who are the sovereign entity and that they heed our requests. Pleas for representation fall upon deaf ears, frustrations flourish and the once bright light of the American Dream fades into the eerie luminescence of an Alaskan winter evening.

There has been one major change in politics since Mr. Findley's days in Washington. Arrogance. While Paul took care of himself relentlessly, he still had the best interests of his constituency at heart. Now we see daily reminders of how tending to ones own self-interest has morphed into disdain, nimiety and hubris; citizens and constituents be damned. Have the extremists from the late 60's, Alinsky, Ayers, Cloward-Piven, Hoffman, et-al resurfaced to haunt us? Perhaps they've added to the 'white noise' but the beltway mindset is not party specific. It comes from both sides and the middle without a care or a moments thought. "We are here! We are entitled! You will listen! We will explain later!" I, for one, am sick of their attitudes and actions and am encouraged by Scott Brown's, "It is not Ted Kennedy's seat", comment. Campaign rhetoric? A fresh wind blown into Washington by the people? Time will tell, but I'm not going to stop looking over my shoulder.

You wrote we've lost the sense of how to hold Washington accountable. I must admit that the voting booth, while legal and overtly conservative, seems an excruciatingly slow and painful process. On the other hand, if we exercise our "Right" to alter or abolish the government in its present form and attempt to form a new one, (even while invoking the ghosts of Washington, Jefferson & Henry), we will be shot in the street like dogs. That may just be, however, the impetus necessary to wrest our Country back from the brink.

Great article Sunday. Thank you. Thomas B.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Where is My Country?

The Country that I grew up in, and the Constitution that I came to love, is gone. The question now is, can we the people, get it back? Or is a jackboot on my face inevitable. One way or another, I will not live to see it. Thank you for your insight. -- S. Sullivan

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Obama and the Global Police: More Friendly Fascism?

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One of the ways in which I try to operate within a factual arena is by finding trusted sources, both left, right and center, for information collection and aggregation. After reading some of your commentaries and other writings, I thought I could add you to my list. And then came EO #13524, dated December 16, 2009, and you lost me.

There are 70+ International Organizations in the US that operate under the International Organizations Immunities Act including  the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Pacific Halibut Commission and Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. When Pres. Reagan included Interpol in 1983, Interpol did not have an office in the US and thus did not have any employees or offices where the exceptions could be applied. They were simply holding their annual meeting here that year. Interpol, in fact, did not have an office or permanent employees on US soil until 2004, when it moved into the United Nations Bldg in New York City with five staff members. (Do I need to note that the UN Bldg in NYC and the DOJ in DC look nothing alike?)

Perhaps because they were envious of the Tuna Commission, Interpol applied to have the exceptions removed in 2004. The application then took up residence in the State Dept before gaining approval, but by that time, George Bush was out of time, and so it rolled over to Pres. Obama's administration. Also, if interested, you should please note that there are major differences between the International Organizations Immunities Act and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Last but not least on this subject, your descriptions of Interpol's activities and duties seem to be pretty creative interpretations of its actual roles and duties in the 188 countries. I'm not sure why you feel the need to add to the fear mongering and hate promoting claims that are already out in the blogosphere by the thousands, including some of the comments on this blog. But sometimes I like to set the record straight and today you are one of my lucky recipients. Good luck to you, sir, in your life. We stand at opposite ends on most things, but it never hurts to wish for the best (and truth!) for others as we would wish them for ourselves. -- Sincerely, Carole L .  




A thoroughly enjoyable essay, and the contents of which I have been recently made aware of. However, the only flaw is the continuous misuse of the term "fascism" to describe the growing possibility of a US police state.  Authors of all stripes are continuously misusing this dogma when applying it to ongoing legal issues that involve the degeneration of US liberties and freedoms. It appears to be the in-term when describing such processes.

Fascism does not necessarily mean a police state.  In fact, its true terminology is "corporatism", which defines a state in which both government and business are heavily entwined in a symbiotic relationship.

Given this definition, the United States has already reached the first major departure from a democratic republic since the US began this path at the end of World War II.  That is what Truman began with his NSC-68 memo, though he did not intend the results that eventually ensued.

Authors should drop the term "fascism" and its subsequent misuse for the more appropriate term, "totalitarianism", which better reflects the ongoing deterioration of civil liberties to the growing agendas of police state tactics and endeavors. -- With all respect, Steve N.




My 1994 Geo Prizm, still trusty after 196,000 miles, sports a bumper sticker with precisely that "VISUALIZE WORLD POLICE" message.  Nevertheless, I've long believed the one-world fears harbored by some right-wingers and Constitutionalists misplaced.  For all intents and purposes, the Federal Government of the United States rules the world; U.S. elites merely exploit the United Nations and its various agencies to provide the occasional fig leaf of "international community" legitimacy to their imperialist designs. Or so I thought until I read your article.  I'd heard of Interpol before but I'd just assumed it was a paper tiger against the backdrop of FBI-BATF-DEA abuses.  Now I know better. -- Thanks, Tony  P. 




I appreciated your essay at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitehead7.1.1.html but I feel it missed talking about the legitimacy of executive orders, and in this case, what recourse we have to stopping this EO.  This is only one of many power grabs by the executive branch — a process which had accelerated so much under Bush2, and we can see clearly that the ultimate goal is global "governance". -- Kyle D.




This problem has been brewing for a long time.  Congress, you remember them, long ago should have slapped down the executive and ended executive orders.  As I recall, executive orders were originally intended as administrative aides or ways to more effectively move papers around.  Instead of ending EOs, the congress has stood by for"signing statements".  This begs the question, what the hell do we have
a congress for?

As per Obama, the real rulers of this country (and if one doesn't believe there are real rulers of this country, and it's not the politicians, then they surely believe in the Easter Bunny) understood that Obama would be given much more time to implement their plan than Hillary would have been given.  That is why the MSM has a hands off approach to Obama.

We have just experienced the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the elites in the history of the world, and the stupid people are still chanting "hope" and "change".  The rest have been relegated to conspiracy theorists (read the latest from Cass Sunstein).

I wish you well in your fight for the constitutional protections that are the birthright of every American.  However, I believe the battle has long ago been lost.  As long as the judges (political lawyers, the worst of the cartel/monopoly of the legal racket) can deny juries their right to judge the law as well as the facts at issue, the American legal system is a cruel joke!  Call me old fashioned, but the rights of juries goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215, and is the single greatest protection that people have against their government.  Until we can exercise that right in all civil and criminal courts in America, American justice (sic) doesn't exist. --Bob G.