JANUARY2007
doremus observes
Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort
Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis'
famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its
conclusion, "drove out saluted by the meadow larks,
and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern
Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still
Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup
can never die......
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This reads just
like a chapter from the above volume:
Stunned and Amazed
Edgar J.Steele
Nov.7th 2006 - Today brings the most important American
election ever held. Or the least important -
I'm not sure which. Of one thing I am certain,
however: there is no in-between. The answer
turns upon whether things already have gone too
far.
Certainly, America's laws, procedures and governmental structure make it possible for those now running things to ignore this election's results, regardless of the outcome. I speak, not simply of the Patriot Acts, but particularly of the laws pushed through and signed within just the past month or so.
Framework for Tyranny
The structure now is in place for turning America into the largest concentration camp since Mao Tse Tung ruled over China, with tracking and enforcement capabilities that once appeared only in Joe Stalin's wildest wet dreams.
A few days ago, President Bush signed away the last vestige of the US Constitution with something called the "Military Commissions Act" (MCA). The MCA allows government officials to designate any American an "enemy combatant" on the flimsiest of excuses.
Though touted as the next logical step in America's Orwellian "War Against Terrorism," let me simply cut to the chase for you. I have read the MCA and a variety of others' analyses of its provisions. Here's how it can be utilized: Simply for disagreeing with our government, we now can be designated enemy combatants and seized without warrants, held indefinitely without charges, tortured, sent to other countries, tried without juries on evidence we are not allowed to see and with witnesses we cannot hear or, even, know about, then sentenced to death. All without our families and friends ever being told what has happened to us.
Furthermore, this can all take place with absolutely no appeal possible to any court. Thus the time-honored protection of habeas corpus (which in Latin literally means "show the body"), whereby anybody in custody used to be able to invoke a court hearing, finally has been overridden.
I am a lawyer, well experienced in statutory interpretation and usage. The foregoing is my legal opinion. And not just mine. More than one judge has expressed much the same opinion, in writing, of the MCA.
The MCA takes care of people like myself. Now for people like you.
Just signed into law: the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the Administration to take direct control of any and all National Guard units, over even the objection of state and local officials to whom they report, through the simple expedient of declaring a "public emergency" - again, only the flimsiest of excuses is necessary. The stationing and use of troops within America for controlling Americans also is allowed for the first time. (Openly, that is - Waco proved that America's military has been used by recent Administrations in actions against American citizens.) Thus ends another time-honored protection of citizen rights: the Posse Comitatus Act, which America's founders crafted specifically to prevent the use of America's military troops against her own citizens.
Why is Posse Comitatus important? Consider the difference in the objectives of traditional police officers (not the paramilitary shock troops now fielded by many police departments) and the military: Police officers are supposed to be trained to maintain order and assist civilians, while the military is trained to win, even at the expense of civilian life (collateral damage, in the Orwellian terminology of Donald Rumsfeld). For example, witness the huge loss of civilian life which continues to occur in Iraq at the hands of American military forces.
And the screws tighten ever further on a daily basis. Just announced: Effective January 14, citizens will need clearance from the Department of Homeland Security to leave or enter their own country, regardless of whether we possess valid passports. What is the point of a passport? Why screen citizens going abroad?
Why?
In fact, just what is the point of all this new domestic regulation that completely subverts the US Constitution? Obviously, not to prevent acts of terrorism, none of which have taken place within America, 9/11 notwithstanding (I really don't need to remind you of its having been an inside job, now do I?). Else, why keep America's southern border open to every pregnant Mestizo in seek of a welfare ticket? Good questions, aren't they?
Here's the answer: to keep all of us in line when the rioting begins. Okay, if you don't think so, then please give me a better reason. Just one.
What riots? The ones that will occur when Depression II really takes hold and most of us find ourselves on the outside, looking in at the likes of Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and your congressmen living high at our expense. They know what is coming, obviously, else they would not be rushing into place the mechanisms by which they plan to protect themselves from the rest of us. That's why they needed 9/11 - it was the perfect excuse for putting into place these protective mechanisms.
Have Things Gone Too Far?
So, what do you think? Have things gone too far? If so, then we might as well all just stay home and watch TV today, because voting is pointless. If not, then we all need to get up and go vote like we never have voted before.
Ok, say you think we should vote ... then for whom? For anybody except an incumbent, that's who. If it comes to choosing between a Republican non-incumbent and a Democrat non-incumbent, choose the Democrat simply to make a statement about what these reprehensible hypocrites and parasites have done to our beloved America.
If everybody simply voted against incumbency, then the results would be too overwhelming for even those standing ready to rig the close contests. Even so, it will make little difference, I suppose. Only those carefully vetted and ready to take a turn at the trough are allowed onto the ballots.
I expect there to be a massive turning out of Republican incumbents, so as to deliver to the American people the illusion of having "thrown the rascals out." It will not matter. The only difference remaining between Republicans and Democrats these days is how their party affiliation is spelled.
Today in America we live more in the memory of freedom than actual freedom, itself. Just ask those who fly and must endure the insufferable arrogance and boorish behavior of the room-temperature-IQ louts wearing TSA uniforms. Just ask those so harassed that, already, they have fled to other countries. Just ask those handed over for imprisonment and prosecution, in that order, under the new laws noted above.
Stunned and Amazed
Ever since the MCA passed Congress a month ago and I realized it would become the law of the land, I have been stunned beyond words. Stunned and Amazed. Thus, my recent relative silence.
What should I do? Still, I am in a quandary. Written complaints do no good, obviously. Those who need to be reached will not read or listen to my words. The government will respond only badly.
I have considered packing up my family and moving to another country, an option that I now must make ready.
I have considered issuing a call for a new American Revolution, but that simply would get me arrested.
Like a deer caught in the headlights, I sit here. On the one hand, I am stunned and amazed at the speed with which George W. Bush (his masters, actually) has implemented a full-on dictatorship. On the other hand, I am stunned and amazed at the general lack of comprehension throughout America of the significance of what just has taken place.
Stunned and amazed. You should be, too. Consider that carefully as you cast your ballot. Remember: Vote against all incumbents.
My name is Edgar J. Steele. www.ConspiracyPenPal.com,
***Section 220 of S.
1, the lobbying reform bill before the Senate, would
require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate
to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters,
to register and report quarterly to Congress, as
lobbyists are required.
"Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting
law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First
Amendment rights ever," Viguerie said.
For the first time in history, he stated, critics of
Congress will need to register and report with Congress
itself.
"The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts
to stimulate grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid'
merely as communications to 500 or more members of the
public, with no other qualifiers," Viguerie said.
The Senate passed an amendment on the bill Jan. 9 to
create criminal penalties, including up to one year in
jail, if someone "knowingly and willingly fails to
file or report."
Viguerie said the legislation regulates small, legitimate
nonprofits, bloggers, and individuals, but creates
loopholes for corporations, unions, and large membership
organizations that would be able to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars, yet not report.
"Congress is trying to blame the grassroots, which
are American citizens engaging in their First Amendment
rights, for Washington's internal corruption
problems," he said.
Christian leader James Dobson -- along with Tony Perkins,
Gary Bauer and Don Wildmon -- spoke out about the
provision on a recent "Focus on the Family"
radio broadcast.
"The Democrats, and a few Republicans are trying
now, very, very quickly, to insulate themselves from the
public and to do it by muzzling people like us,"
Dobson said. "It's a complex piece of legislation
and not everything in it is offensive. But the provision
that we cannot accept would require organizations like
Focus on the Family to report every contact with anyone
in the executive or legislative branches and any effort
to try to influence grassroots response, even if it
doesn't include a call to action. In other words, they
are trying to muzzle us and many other
organizations."
Last weekend, Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, introduced an
amendment to remove the bill's controversial section.
CBN News reported a senior Senate aide said the effort to
remove the disputed section is garnering wide support.
"Virtually every single American is represented by a
lobbyist," Sen. Bennett said while introducing the
bill. "Every single American has someone lobbying in
behalf of his or her interests, whether he or she knows
it or not."
Bennett argued, according to CBN News, that if the Senate
does not remove Section 220, "we will do damage to
the constitutional right -- right there in the first
amendment, next to freedom of religion and freedom of
speech -- the constitutional right to lobby."
"Even though the people who broke the old rules were
caught under the old rules, convicted under the old
rules, and sent to prison under the old rules, we need to
be looking ahead and recognize that in a world where
virtually everyone is involved, in one way or another, we
need to do this right," he said.
Co-sponsors of Bennett's amendment are Sens. Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and John Cornyn,
R-Texas.
Section
220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill before the Senate,
would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who
communicate to 500 or more members of the public on
policy matters, to register and report quarterly to
Congress, as lobbyists are required.
"Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting
law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First
Amendment rights ever," Viguerie said.
For the first time in history, he stated, critics of
Congress will need to register and report with Congress
itself.
"The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts
to stimulate grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid'
merely as communications to 500 or more members of the
public, with no other qualifiers," Viguerie said.
The Senate passed an amendment on the bill Jan. 9 to
create criminal penalties, including up to one year in
jail, if someone "knowingly and willingly fails to
file or report."
Viguerie said the legislation regulates small, legitimate
nonprofits, bloggers, and individuals, but creates
loopholes for corporations, unions, and large membership
organizations that would be able to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars, yet not report.
"Congress is trying to blame the grassroots, which
are American citizens engaging in their First Amendment
rights, for Washington's internal corruption
problems," he said.
Christian leader James Dobson -- along with Tony Perkins,
Gary Bauer and Don Wildmon -- spoke out about the
provision on a recent "Focus on the Family"
radio broadcast.
"The Democrats, and a few Republicans are trying
now, very, very quickly, to insulate themselves from the
public and to do it by muzzling people like us,"
Dobson said. "It's a complex piece of legislation
and not everything in it is offensive. But the provision
that we cannot accept would require organizations like
Focus on the Family to report every contact with anyone
in the executive or legislative branches and any effort
to try to influence grassroots response, even if it
doesn't include a call to action. In other words, they
are trying to muzzle us and many other
organizations."
Last weekend, Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, introduced an
amendment to remove the bill's controversial section.
CBN News reported a senior Senate aide said the effort to
remove the disputed section is garnering wide support.
"Virtually every single American is represented by a
lobbyist," Sen. Bennett said while introducing the
bill. "Every single American has someone lobbying in
behalf of his or her interests, whether he or she knows
it or not."
Bennett argued, according to CBN News, that if the Senate
does not remove Section 220, "we will do damage to
the constitutional right -- right there in the first
amendment, next to freedom of religion and freedom of
speech -- the constitutional right to lobby."
"Even though the people who broke the old rules were
caught under the old rules, convicted under the old
rules, and sent to prison under the old rules, we need to
be looking ahead and recognize that in a world where
virtually everyone is involved, in one way or another, we
need to do this right," he said.
Co-sponsors of Bennett's amendment are Sens. Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and John Cornyn,
R-Texas.
According
to documents obtained by the National Security Archive at
George Washington University, 25 percent of veterans of
the "global war on terror" have filed
disability compensation and pension benefit claims with
the Veterans Benefits Administration.
One is a Jul. 20, 2006, document titled
"Compensation and Pension Benefit Activity Among
Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism," which
shows that 152,669 veterans filed disability claims after
fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Of the more than 100,000
claims granted, Veterans Administration records show at
least 1,502 veterans have been compensated as 100 percent
disabled.
LIFELONG LEARNING,
THOUGHT CONTROL & BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
Nancy Levant
December 19, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
What do 12 years of tax payers’ public (mental health) education, universities that spit out 21-year-olds who are $50,000.00 to $100.000.00 in student loan debt, and “lifelong learning” have in common? Try these answers on for size:
- Children
who are socially molded by community/consensus
politics
- 16
years of education by state-sponsored
NEA/Socialist teachers (our taxes pay
their salaries, too)
- Student
loan debt that disqualifies young adults
for mortgages (no private property)
- Life-long
job and wage enslavement due to life-long
debt and mis-education
- Instantaneous
lowering of Communistic credit scores due
to student loan debt
- Expensive
employee licensing and credentialing that
requires employees to qualify for and
keep jobs – from fingernail and hair
“technicians,” baby sitters,
mechanics, teachers, to physicians (you
have to keep paying fees to the
government to remain
“qualified” to be employed)
- Complete
and total loss of creativity
(individualism) in the workplace
- Mandatory
state licensing/government credentialing
that extorts multi-millions of dollars
from American people each and every year
- Annual,
expensive, and mandatory “continuing
education trainings” that force all
“laborers” to think, act, and
perform pre-defined tasks, think in
pre-defined terms, and to follow all
governmental/corporate rules and
regulations that have invaded each and
every workplace and career (ending the
rights of apprenticeship, talent, and
creativity)
- Making
illegal the individual talents of hard
workers, and turning them into
task-identical, consensus-forced,
assembly-line, rule-bound, slaves to
corporation/governmental handlers
(employers) who pay lower and lower wages
each and every year
- Forcing privately owned businesses out of business due to the cost of mandatory compliancy regulations, while government-sponsored “corporations” or “non-profits” like, for instance, Head Start, destroys all other local preschools and offers the full-range of mental health “services” to children for “free.” Works like an entrapment/social engineering charm, doesn’t it?
I could go on, picking any other kind of business, but why bother. Every American “employee” knows what I am talking about. Younger Americans don’t realize that any other system minus the above ever existed. Older Americans, however, know full well that times have changed unbelievably and dreadfully so for working Americans.
Take teachers, for instance. Prior to Communism arriving in earnest on American soil, the teaching profession was one of the greatest opportunities to shine in a career, and to make a remarkable difference in the lives of children. Today, teachers sit in the back corners of their classrooms, while students teach themselves in consensus-style groups. Today’s teacher documents behaviors and performs “social and emotional” assessments for state databases. So sorry, teachers, but that is, in fact, what you do. Then teachers are forced to allow “mental health advocates” into their classrooms to further “assess” the “social and emotional” characteristics of students. Can’t deny this – can you, teachers? These same advocates are now arriving into America’s daycare centers and are assessing the “social and emotional health” of our two, three, and four-year-olds.
In other words, the “advocates” are assessing how America’s “licensing and credentialing mandatory trainings” are taking root in our places of employment, in the American adult, and in all American children. In other words, how are we coming along as Communist citizens of the one-world government? Is worker/laborer behavior modifying, which in translation means carrying out the new rules and regulations in the workplace? Are youngsters compliant group/consensus thinkers who do not believe in freedom and individualism? And are there any “individuals” out there – still thinking for themselves and not falling for the extortion of the American mind and dollar?
And then there are people like me and many others who just want to get to the bottom of things. Truth is surely a difficult thing to come by in today’s America. Takes some thinking – some individual-style and dialectic comprehension-style thinking. However, if that’s too much work, go to any credentialing/continuing education course mandated through your place of employment. They really are all the same in content. You’re not learning to be better or more skilled workers. You’re learning the new governmental rules and regulations for maintaining your permission to work, and you’re learning the “new society” rules.
US Sec of Navy admits they oversee mind control research
Here below is a link to a document, made available on the web by the Federation of American Scientists, in which the Secretary of the U.S. Navy admits in writing that the Navy is the authority giving approval for research in "severe and unusual intrusions" on human subjects, such as mind control work.
Mind control is an important weapon in the 21st century. Mind control includes electromagnetic devices which can affect the brain and physical functioning, some pharmaceuticals, some behaviour modification "conditioning" and "chaining", and regular hypnotic techniques. Some of these may be used in conjunction with others.
Research into mind control has a valid defense purpose, of course.
For example, the worst excesses of World War 2 could all have been achieved from behind the scenes by mind controllers. It is worth noting that mind controllers get used to enjoying complete concealment, and therefore never do the dirty work themselves.
Highly intelligent people, and highly telepathic people, were early found to be easier to mind-control (in the 1940s this would have included Jews and gypsies, for example). These days, with electromagnetic and pharmaceutical tools, almost anybody can be susceptible.
It is an indictment of current governments that young people are still not warned of this danger, therefore are naive and susceptible, and cannot protect themselves through knowledge from mind control situations.
We will know we have honest governments when schools routinely teach young people, "You can be controlled against your will - watch for these danger signs and be careful."
Crimes are quite often performed by a person who is mind controlled and does not know he is committing the crime. Afterwards he might be instructed to forget and the amnesia might last many years. Other crimes are often covered up using mind-control in officials.
Here following is the evidence that military research is overseen in the USA by the Navy, in case people have not seen it:
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/navy/secnavinst/3900_39d.pdf
SECNAVINST 3900.39D
6 November 2006
Page 9:
(2) The Under Secretary of the Navy (UNSECNAV) is the Approval Authority for research involving:
(a) Severe or unusual intrusions, either physical or psychological, on human subjects (such as consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques).
Regards,
Lyn Milnes in New Zealand Starmail - 15. Dez, 13:13
BBC World News:NY rally deplores police shooting
A crowd led by civil rights leader Al Sharpton has rallied after police shot dead an unarmed black man in New York.Sean Bell, 23, was killed as he left a strip club on Saturday morning, hours before he was to have been married. Two friends were hurt when police fired an estimated 50 bullets at the men's car. Officials said police had acted fearing an armed "altercation".
Sunday's rally heard calls for the city police chief "to go". He is due to meet community leaders over the killing. "We cannot allow this to continue to happen," Rev Sharpton told the rally outside the hospital where one of the wounded men was in a critical condition. We've got to understand that all of us were in that car."
Five officers have been placed on leave during an inquiry into the shooting outside the Kalua Club, at the end of Mr Bell's stag night celebrations.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in contact with Mr Bell's family, and plans to meet community leaders with police chief Raymond Kelly amid mounting protests from the city's black community.
Rev Sharpton has said the shooting "stinks" and has criticised the police for handcuffing the two men receiving emergency care for their injuries in hospital. One of Mr Bell's passengers, Joseph Guzman, was hit by at least 11 bullets and is in a critical condition. The other passenger, Trent Benefield, was hit three times and is in a stable condition. No weapons were found on the three men or in their car.
CIA role claim in Kennedy killing
New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light.
The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight.
It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after the shooting on 5 June, 1968.
The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and some of the officers were based in South-East Asia at the time, with no reason to be in Los Angeles.
'Decoy'
Kennedy had just won the California Democratic primary on an anti-War ticket and was set to challenge Nixon for the White House when he was shot in a kitchen pantry.
A 24-year-old Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, was arrested as the lone assassin and notebooks at his house seemed to incriminate him.
However, even under hypnosis, he has never been able to remember the shooting and defence psychiatrists concluded he was in a trance at the time.
Witnesses placed Sirhan's gun several feet in front of Kennedy but the autopsy showed the fatal shot came from one inch behind.
Dr Herbert Spiegel, a world authority on hypnosis at Columbia University, believes Sirhan may have been hypnotically programmed to act as a decoy for the real assassin.
Evidence
The report is the result of a three-year investigation by filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan. He reveals new video and photographs showing three senior CIA operatives at the hotel.
Three of these men have been positively identified as senior officers who worked together in 1963 at JMWAVE, the CIA's Miami base for its Secret War on Castro.
David Morales was Chief of Operations and once told friends:
"I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."
Gordon Campbell was Chief of Maritime Operations and George Joannides was Chief of Psychological Warfare Operations.
Joannides was called out of retirement in 1978 to act as the CIA liaison to the Congressional investigation into the JFK assassination. Now, we see him at the Ambassador Hotel the night a second Kennedy is assassinated.
Memory
Monday, 20 November would have been Bobby Kennedy's 81st birthday. In Los Angeles, his son Max has just broken ground on a new high-school project in memory of his father on the old Ambassador Hotel site.
Paul Schrade, a key figure behind the school project, was walking behind Robert Kennedy that night and was shot in the head. He believes this new evidence merits fresh investigation:
"It seems very strange to me that these guys would be at a Kennedy celebration. What were they doing there? And why were they there? It's our obligation as friends of Bob Kennedy to investigate this."
Ed Lopez, a former Congressional investigator who worked with Joannides in 1978, says:
"I think the key people at the CIA need to go back to anybody who might have been around back then, bring them in and interview them, and ask - is this Gordon Campbell? Is this George Joannides?"
This report was shown on Newsnight on Monday, 20 November, 2006.
- 16
years of education by state-sponsored
NEA/Socialist teachers (our taxes pay
their salaries, too)