Guys,
I got an alert the other day, http://shatterthedarkness.gsradio.net:8080/052710.mp3 and I wasnt sure what to think, seemed kind of freaky and out of touch and even looney,seriously... this guy with a weird, almost twilight zonish voice, then a few days later today, I recieved this link http://www.veritasshow.com/... ( click on episode 80.1)that supports the alert from the previous day confirming something going on in the gulf that the media is not showing us and media silence when BP buys Google, Yahoo search words:Is it to keep people from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster?
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m6d6-BP-buys-Google-Yahoo-search-engine-words-to-keep-people-away-from-real-news-on-Gulf-oil-spill-disas
What is happening?The potential disaster and evacuation plans.. Must listen.. http://shatterthedarkness.gsradio.net:8080/052710.mp3 Then listen to media blackout: Episode 80.1 http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread581057/pg1
Then last night I was checking out millenium ark , http://www.standeyo.com/ ( one of the best sources for information Ive found) like I do often and came upon yet another story that seems to fit and confirm the previous several stories.
In case you decide not to watch, it appears from the first link that the UN and foreign troops have been called up for a possible mass evacuation if the saturation level and toxicity http://www.naturalnews.com/028974_Corexit_dispersants.html of the fumes cannot be controlled and the damage cannot be stopped soon. They said that dates for them to begin such evacuations is around the June 15th, whether the date is actual or not is really irrelevent, it is the fact that the media appears to not be telling us what we need to know for our safety and security ( maybe thats why).
Anyway, the link right below is an interview that really cannot be verified but fits nicely into the scenario of the supported links below.
The idea is to move 20-30 million people out of the gulf area.Latest news is that the gulf oil issue is becoming more deperate and they are actually consideriing risking our lives and our planet to use nukes to hope that it stops the outpouriing of oil into our oceans.
There are reports of people getting sick after only a few hours http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ek2EfWNEU&feature=related in these cleanup crews and people are being arrested and asked to not film what is really happening...even msnbc...No freedom of the press? Hmmm... Is it the dispersant as they say or is it the fumes from the origin of where the oil is coming from as the alex Jones video states?
I am only requesting that you watch the several videos located here, its highly educational to say the least:
http://www.infowars.com/lindsey-williams-talks-with-alex-jones-about-deadly-gases-leaking-from-bp-spill/
BP OIL DISASTER-...WHAT THE MEDIA, THE EPA AND CONGRESS and our PRESIDENT ( YOU KNOW, THE ONE THAT IS PORTRAYED AS OUR SAVIOR) ARENT TELLING YOU ...MAYBE YOU SHOULD WAKE UP NOW!!!!! LET'S SEE IF THE SUPPOSED ALL POWERFUL CAN FIX THIS!!
http://www.infowars.com/lindsey-williams-talks-with-alex-jones-about-deadly-gases-leaking-from-bp-spill/
Using the department of defense?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLMxjjlWHZ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedvXiNxZbc
slight of hand- purposely being diverted? It will take at least another year to stop the leak?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4JAUCnKYo
Its all about the money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pBcf0o444&feature=related
YouTube - Arrest For Filming Oil Spill, BY BP CONTRACTORS ...
Journalists threatened with arrest by BP contractors for trying to film BP's mess. Gulf Disaster PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7E10AEE7FC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdwpFdpjVg
Nukes?
Follow-up: Nukes to stop the oil gusher?
If BP could stop the leak, they would have done it by now. As BP prepares to throw the towel, US administration brings in nuclear experts.
oil-price.net/en/articles/nukes-to-stop-the-oil-gusher.php
VIDEO: Should BP nuke its Gulf oil well?
BP's top kill failed Saturday. Maybe the company should think about going nuclear, like the Soviets did decades ago to tame an out-of-control gas well.
www.alaskadispatch.com/projects/gulf-spill/...
BP Gulf catastrophe typifies corporate behavior in America ...
(NaturalNews) The Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, now in its 35th day, ... The chemical in question is called Corexit, and so far BP has dumped 650,000 gallons of ...
www.naturalsolutionsradio.com/blog/natural-solutions-radio-admin...
What caused the oil crisis? What are the possibilities...
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1367.htm
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22667
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/south.korea.ship/index.html
http://blogs.global-champions.com/
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-apocalypse.html
http://www.personalliberty.com/john-myers/a-crude-coincidence%e2%80%94the-gulf-oil-spill-works-out-well-for-the-greens/
http://www.personalliberty.com/john-myers/it%e2%80%99s-the-greens-that-sowed-the-seeds-of-the-gulf-oildisaster/
from the mouth of a resident...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCr7UbXURuM&feature=related
What is operation exodus? What is operation swift fox? What is it for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoJNMbQfjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWD16JQEiEY&feature=related
Alabama TV station on oil spill
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/
I learned about a new disturbing theory that says BP isn't actually trying to CAP the oil well in the Gulf. Rather, they appear to be intentionally trying to keep it flowing so they can TAP it and harvest the oil for profit.Read more about this disturbing revelation in today's feature story:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028898_British_Petroleum_Gulf_Coast.html
As I sit and ponder this post, I still find it difficult to believe that we are today where we are...In America! Wow, we have really been lulled to sleep and corrupted to believe that we are too great to fail...eeerie sounding as we move closer to human autonomy and further away from God.
God has destroyed His people for their failure to seek Him and rest assured He will bring us to the point where all we can do is pray and repent...Trust me, better ye, dont t ake my word for it, read the scriptures yourself, if you don't youll only wish you did!
Please do your homework, do your research, pray and do as the Lord directs you, If you don't believe, maybe now is a good time to start!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
WAKE UP AMERICA predictions.....
I finally see an awakening in this country but it has been extremely slow, some still don't see the urgency and feel that we, as a nation, are better than we have ever been before. I can't help but ask what kind of medication they are on or what spell they are under to possibly think that there is nothing wrong.
As Many now know, I have been in campaign mode running for state legislature to try to awaken the masses but as I have been meeting people, shaking hands, I have been made to realize that about 90% of people realize something seriously wrong-they don't sleep, they dont eat, they don't work well and really find it diffilcult to focus. They are reluctant to start businesses , invest or get involved with real estate and realistically see no future for our children. How can this be? This is America, the most blessed nation, or is it?
Our Founding fathers understood their reliance on God and that as long as we acknowledged Him as the cornerstone of American liberty and the source of all blessings, he would continue His protection, now that we, as a nation, do not, I and others think our situation is clearly due to the fact that we have elevated ourselves above God.
The following quotes and links give substance to the reality in which we face here in America.
The other reality that is important to understand is that OUR CONGRESS AND OUR PRESIDENT DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, WHAT IS BEING DONE IS DONE ON PURPOSE TO LOWER US TO A THIRD WORLD STATUS.
Don't take my word for it, if you are not prepared, it will hit you in the head like a ton of bricks and don't say I didn't warn you!
Bob Chapman
First 6 months of 2010, Americans will continue to live in the 'unreality'…the period between July and October is when the financial fireworks will begin. The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications …(source is from insider at FED meetings). In the last quarter of the year we could even see Martial law, which is more likely for the first 6 months of 2011. The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. Commercial real estate is set to implode in 2010. Wall Street believes there is a 100% chance of crash in bond market, especially municipals sometime during 2010. The dollar will be devalued by the end of 2010.
Gerald Celente
Terrorist attacks and the "Crash of 2010". 40% devaluation at first = the greatest depression, worse than the Great Depression.
Igor Panarin
In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow FAPSI analysts, Panarin forecast the probable disintegration of the USA into six parts in 2010 (at the end of June – start of July 2010, as he specified on 10 December 2000
Neithercorps
Have projected that the third and final stage of the economic collapse will begin sometime in 2010. Barring some kind of financial miracle, or the complete dissolution of the Federal Reserve, a snowballing implosion should become visible by the end of this year. The behavior of the Fed, along with that of the IMF seems to suggest that they are preparing for a focused collapse, peaking within weeks or months instead of years, and the most certain fall of the dollar.
Webbots
July and onward things get very strange. Revolution. Dollar dead by November 2010.
LEAP 20/20
2010 Outlook from a group of 25 European Economists with a 90% accuracy rating- We anticipate a sudden intensification of the crisis in the second half of 2010, caused by a double effect of a catching up of events which were temporarily « frozen » in the second half of 2009 and the impossibility of maintaining the palliative remedies of past years. There is a perfect (economic) storm coming within the global financial markets and inevitable pressure on interest rates in the U.S. The injection of zero-cost money into the Western banking system has failed to restart the economy. Despite zero-cost money, the system has stalled. It is slowly rolling over into the next big down wave, which in Elliott Wave terminology will be Super Cycle Wave Three, or in common language, "THE BIG ONE, WHERE WE ALL GO OVER THE FALLS TOGETHER."
Joseph Meyer
Forecasts on the economy. He sees the real estate market continuing to decline, and advised people to invest in precious metals and commodities, as well as keeping cash at home in a safe place in case of bank closures. The stock market, after peaking in March or April (around 10,850), will fall all the way down to somewhere between 2450 and 4125 during the next leg down.
Harry Dent (investor)
A very likely second crash by late 2010. The coming depression (starts around the summer of 2010). Dent sees the stock market–currently benefiting from upward momentum and peppier economic activity–headed for a very brief and pleasant run that could lift the Dow to the 10,700-11,500 range from its current level of about 10.090. But then, he sees the market running into a stone wall, which will be followed by a nasty stock market decline (starting in early March to late April) that could drive down the Dow later this year to 3,000-5,000, with his best guess about 3,800.
Richard Russell (Market Expert)
(from 2/3/10) says the bear market rally is in the process of breaking up and panic is on the way. He sees a full correction of the entire rise from the 2002 low of 7,286 to the bull market high of 14,164.53 set on October 9, 2007. The halfway level of retracement was 10,725. The total retracement was to 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009. He now sees the Dow falling to 7,286 and if that level does not hold, “I see it sinking to its 1980-82 area low of Dow 1,000.” The current action is the worst he has ever seen. (Bob Chapman says for Russell to make such a startling statement is unusual because he never cries wolf and is almost never wrong)
Niño Becerra (Professor of Economics)
Predicted in July 2007 that what was going to happen was that by mid 2010 there is going to be a crisis only comparable to the one in 1929. From October 2009 to May 2010 people will begin to see things are not working out the way the government thought. In May of 2010, the crisis starts with all its force and continues and strengthens throughout 2011. He accurately predicted the current recession and market crash to the month.
Lyndon Larouche
The crisis is accelerating and will become worse week by week until the whole system grinds into a collapse, likely sometime this year. And when it does, it will be the greatest collapse since the fall of the Roman Empire.
WALL STREET JOURNAL- (2/2010)
"You are witnessing a fundamental breakdown of the American dream, a systemic breakdown of our democracy and our capitalism, a breakdown driven by the blind insatiable greed of Wall Street: Dysfunctional government, insane markets, economy on the brink. Multiply that many times over and see a world in total disarray. Ignore it now, tomorrow will be too late."
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-in-worse-shape-than-europe.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-we-dont-stop-spending-bond-market.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/many-are-mistaking-this-euro-weakness.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/euro-remains-more-reliable-than-dollar.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/america-is-on-verge-of-economic.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-is-president-obama-so-worried-about.html
As Many now know, I have been in campaign mode running for state legislature to try to awaken the masses but as I have been meeting people, shaking hands, I have been made to realize that about 90% of people realize something seriously wrong-they don't sleep, they dont eat, they don't work well and really find it diffilcult to focus. They are reluctant to start businesses , invest or get involved with real estate and realistically see no future for our children. How can this be? This is America, the most blessed nation, or is it?
Our Founding fathers understood their reliance on God and that as long as we acknowledged Him as the cornerstone of American liberty and the source of all blessings, he would continue His protection, now that we, as a nation, do not, I and others think our situation is clearly due to the fact that we have elevated ourselves above God.
The following quotes and links give substance to the reality in which we face here in America.
The other reality that is important to understand is that OUR CONGRESS AND OUR PRESIDENT DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, WHAT IS BEING DONE IS DONE ON PURPOSE TO LOWER US TO A THIRD WORLD STATUS.
Don't take my word for it, if you are not prepared, it will hit you in the head like a ton of bricks and don't say I didn't warn you!
Bob Chapman
First 6 months of 2010, Americans will continue to live in the 'unreality'…the period between July and October is when the financial fireworks will begin. The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications …(source is from insider at FED meetings). In the last quarter of the year we could even see Martial law, which is more likely for the first 6 months of 2011. The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. Commercial real estate is set to implode in 2010. Wall Street believes there is a 100% chance of crash in bond market, especially municipals sometime during 2010. The dollar will be devalued by the end of 2010.
Gerald Celente
Terrorist attacks and the "Crash of 2010". 40% devaluation at first = the greatest depression, worse than the Great Depression.
Igor Panarin
In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow FAPSI analysts, Panarin forecast the probable disintegration of the USA into six parts in 2010 (at the end of June – start of July 2010, as he specified on 10 December 2000
Neithercorps
Have projected that the third and final stage of the economic collapse will begin sometime in 2010. Barring some kind of financial miracle, or the complete dissolution of the Federal Reserve, a snowballing implosion should become visible by the end of this year. The behavior of the Fed, along with that of the IMF seems to suggest that they are preparing for a focused collapse, peaking within weeks or months instead of years, and the most certain fall of the dollar.
Webbots
July and onward things get very strange. Revolution. Dollar dead by November 2010.
LEAP 20/20
2010 Outlook from a group of 25 European Economists with a 90% accuracy rating- We anticipate a sudden intensification of the crisis in the second half of 2010, caused by a double effect of a catching up of events which were temporarily « frozen » in the second half of 2009 and the impossibility of maintaining the palliative remedies of past years. There is a perfect (economic) storm coming within the global financial markets and inevitable pressure on interest rates in the U.S. The injection of zero-cost money into the Western banking system has failed to restart the economy. Despite zero-cost money, the system has stalled. It is slowly rolling over into the next big down wave, which in Elliott Wave terminology will be Super Cycle Wave Three, or in common language, "THE BIG ONE, WHERE WE ALL GO OVER THE FALLS TOGETHER."
Joseph Meyer
Forecasts on the economy. He sees the real estate market continuing to decline, and advised people to invest in precious metals and commodities, as well as keeping cash at home in a safe place in case of bank closures. The stock market, after peaking in March or April (around 10,850), will fall all the way down to somewhere between 2450 and 4125 during the next leg down.
Harry Dent (investor)
A very likely second crash by late 2010. The coming depression (starts around the summer of 2010). Dent sees the stock market–currently benefiting from upward momentum and peppier economic activity–headed for a very brief and pleasant run that could lift the Dow to the 10,700-11,500 range from its current level of about 10.090. But then, he sees the market running into a stone wall, which will be followed by a nasty stock market decline (starting in early March to late April) that could drive down the Dow later this year to 3,000-5,000, with his best guess about 3,800.
Richard Russell (Market Expert)
(from 2/3/10) says the bear market rally is in the process of breaking up and panic is on the way. He sees a full correction of the entire rise from the 2002 low of 7,286 to the bull market high of 14,164.53 set on October 9, 2007. The halfway level of retracement was 10,725. The total retracement was to 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009. He now sees the Dow falling to 7,286 and if that level does not hold, “I see it sinking to its 1980-82 area low of Dow 1,000.” The current action is the worst he has ever seen. (Bob Chapman says for Russell to make such a startling statement is unusual because he never cries wolf and is almost never wrong)
Niño Becerra (Professor of Economics)
Predicted in July 2007 that what was going to happen was that by mid 2010 there is going to be a crisis only comparable to the one in 1929. From October 2009 to May 2010 people will begin to see things are not working out the way the government thought. In May of 2010, the crisis starts with all its force and continues and strengthens throughout 2011. He accurately predicted the current recession and market crash to the month.
Lyndon Larouche
The crisis is accelerating and will become worse week by week until the whole system grinds into a collapse, likely sometime this year. And when it does, it will be the greatest collapse since the fall of the Roman Empire.
WALL STREET JOURNAL- (2/2010)
"You are witnessing a fundamental breakdown of the American dream, a systemic breakdown of our democracy and our capitalism, a breakdown driven by the blind insatiable greed of Wall Street: Dysfunctional government, insane markets, economy on the brink. Multiply that many times over and see a world in total disarray. Ignore it now, tomorrow will be too late."
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-in-worse-shape-than-europe.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-we-dont-stop-spending-bond-market.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/many-are-mistaking-this-euro-weakness.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/euro-remains-more-reliable-than-dollar.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/america-is-on-verge-of-economic.html
http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-is-president-obama-so-worried-about.html
Friday, May 7, 2010
We are at WAR!
I haven't been here for awhile, I have decided to jum,p into the political arena, for those who do not know and have been too busy to remember to blog with everything that's going on.
I received a great article by a friend and felt it needed to be posted because I agree with it enough to have written it myself even if I don't have the writing talent that he possesses.
Kudos Bill!
America is involved in the second civil war in our nations history. No shots have
been fired, but the rhetoric is getting stronger and Maximus the Liar is doing all
he can to provoke violent clashes between his brain damaged communist minions
and those Americans left who still love the country and believe in the values of
the Constitution, you know, little things like our God given inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, our right to not have our speech or our
ability to assemble infringed upon, things like that. Americans are pushing back,
in small tribal bands, scattered throughout the land, but have not found a
cohesive strategy to defeat the evil that is within. We must prepare, we must
strengthen ourselves and we must win. The battles are daily and the war rages
on. Come with me if you want to be free.
It is time for conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists, and lovers of America
to come together and defeat the communist threat that is driving America into
the abyss. Put down your Mount Blanc pens, take off your ties, wrap them
around your heads and get ready to rumble. As an American it is in your primal
nature to rise to victory. As a human, it is in your DNA to want to lop off the head
(figuratively or literally) of your opponent and savor the moment as it tumbles
into the pond with a plop. Okay, maybe that is just my vision, maybe yours
involves you on horseback, impaling hordes of whining liberals with your flaming
spear, but that sounds like my vision again. Anyway, you have some vision of
victory and what it should look like for you and if you don’t you better get one
soon, before you find yourself in some liberal, Birkenstock wearing, communist
manifesto reading, Marxist’s vision and are on the wrong side of “plop”. Those of
you with Bic pens, no pens or collarless shirts, don’t worry, we need you and your
vision of victory too.
This is war of the political kind and there is no social
hierarchy, there is only pure aggression, unrelenting hatred, and victory, unless of
course you get dead (figuratively or literally). Either way, you are far less likely to
become “plop” if you find your inner Machiavelli and allow him to rage within
you, venturing forth to scare the crap out of those around you who did not know
you have the warrior spirit. Never mind Tao or Sun Tzu. One was too
philosophical to be a true warrior and the other one spent too much time thinking
of ways to win without engaging the vile, putrid scum that is the enemy. We will
do neither. We will engage the enemy any time, any where, on any street over any
slight, perceived, real, or made up. We are warriors and we are ready to smite thy
enemy back to the tofu counter from whence they came. For thee America, for
thee, we shall create a river of soulless liberals flowing forth to thee, eternally
watering the tree of liberty my country, for thee.
Our mission is vital to the success of freedom in America. Our parents and
grandparents fought the communists and progressives so that we could be free.
We owe those generations to come after us a life of liberty, not a life of servitude
and serfdom. In order to do this, we must fight this war every day. When we
hear a lie, be it in the paper, on the news, or from someone’s lips, we
must/directly confront the lie with the truth. It is no longer acceptable to look
the other way and ignore the lies of the left. But, this is not enough. No. We
must use all of the weapons of war, conventional and guerrilla.
The left has infiltrated the conservative groups, including the GOP. They do this
to gather information and develop strategies to counter what we do. We must do
the same. Slap on some sandals, don’t shave, slip on a hemp shirt and go to an
OfA meeting, become engaged and return to the bunker to plot the demise of
those communist, anti-American fools. Camouflage is good too. Dress like
Barney and show up at an SEIU meeting. Intel folks, it is critical to facilitate that
plopping sound on a consistent basis. Intel leads to counter insurgency. Counter
insurgency leads to victory.
While hanging out with the tofu eating, Birkenstock wearing communists, plant
the seeds of doubt, become the Ministry of Disinformation. Lure your new found
friends into uncomfortable situations, like schedule the next meeting, at a church;
Invite them to your house for a neighborhood meeting and schedule your angry,
gun toting, meat eating friends to come by at the same time. Sit back and watch,
or just lure them into the garage and string them from the rafters, like piñata’s on
cinco de mayo. Since you are associating with the scum of the earth, have some
fun with it, schedule them to protest at a park where there is a biker rally or a
veterans reunion. Good times.
I love the smell of victory, it smells like tears falling upon my boots from the
soulless minions of Obama as the spirit of communism is exorcised from their
gelatinous minds. Americans, do not shy away from this battle, if you do the
regrets will haunt you for all the rest of eternity. Our obligation as patriot
warriors is too not only defend America from these evil demons but to drive them
back to the fiery depths of hell from which they came. I know some of you will be
offended by this and think we should turn the other cheek. Go ahead, these evil
beings will kick you in that one too. Make your choice, right now, make your
decision, will you stand for America or will you be a slave of the left? There is a
sign at the White House that reads, “Indentured Servants Wanted, Christians
Only”.
There is an old acronym: A.I.D.A. Attention, do I have it, I believe I do. Interest.
Are you interested? You better be, your freedom is on the line. Decision. Have
you made your decision for Christ? And, Action. It is fight or walk time America.
Will you be a free people, living in America, or will you be serfs in the Peoples
Republic of Amerika? It is a time for action. It is up to you. The fate of a nation
is in your hands. Will you join with me and walk side by side in the fields of
freedom, or will you take the easy way and surrender yourself to the nation state
that B. Hussein Obama is building? I would rather die a free man than live under
the tyranny of an oppressive regime. If I am to leave a legacy, let it be one of
freedom, not one of suffrage.
http://americanpatriotscommission.wordpress.com/
Bill Turner
Western Regional Director
I received a great article by a friend and felt it needed to be posted because I agree with it enough to have written it myself even if I don't have the writing talent that he possesses.
Kudos Bill!
America is involved in the second civil war in our nations history. No shots have
been fired, but the rhetoric is getting stronger and Maximus the Liar is doing all
he can to provoke violent clashes between his brain damaged communist minions
and those Americans left who still love the country and believe in the values of
the Constitution, you know, little things like our God given inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, our right to not have our speech or our
ability to assemble infringed upon, things like that. Americans are pushing back,
in small tribal bands, scattered throughout the land, but have not found a
cohesive strategy to defeat the evil that is within. We must prepare, we must
strengthen ourselves and we must win. The battles are daily and the war rages
on. Come with me if you want to be free.
It is time for conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists, and lovers of America
to come together and defeat the communist threat that is driving America into
the abyss. Put down your Mount Blanc pens, take off your ties, wrap them
around your heads and get ready to rumble. As an American it is in your primal
nature to rise to victory. As a human, it is in your DNA to want to lop off the head
(figuratively or literally) of your opponent and savor the moment as it tumbles
into the pond with a plop. Okay, maybe that is just my vision, maybe yours
involves you on horseback, impaling hordes of whining liberals with your flaming
spear, but that sounds like my vision again. Anyway, you have some vision of
victory and what it should look like for you and if you don’t you better get one
soon, before you find yourself in some liberal, Birkenstock wearing, communist
manifesto reading, Marxist’s vision and are on the wrong side of “plop”. Those of
you with Bic pens, no pens or collarless shirts, don’t worry, we need you and your
vision of victory too.
This is war of the political kind and there is no social
hierarchy, there is only pure aggression, unrelenting hatred, and victory, unless of
course you get dead (figuratively or literally). Either way, you are far less likely to
become “plop” if you find your inner Machiavelli and allow him to rage within
you, venturing forth to scare the crap out of those around you who did not know
you have the warrior spirit. Never mind Tao or Sun Tzu. One was too
philosophical to be a true warrior and the other one spent too much time thinking
of ways to win without engaging the vile, putrid scum that is the enemy. We will
do neither. We will engage the enemy any time, any where, on any street over any
slight, perceived, real, or made up. We are warriors and we are ready to smite thy
enemy back to the tofu counter from whence they came. For thee America, for
thee, we shall create a river of soulless liberals flowing forth to thee, eternally
watering the tree of liberty my country, for thee.
Our mission is vital to the success of freedom in America. Our parents and
grandparents fought the communists and progressives so that we could be free.
We owe those generations to come after us a life of liberty, not a life of servitude
and serfdom. In order to do this, we must fight this war every day. When we
hear a lie, be it in the paper, on the news, or from someone’s lips, we
must/directly confront the lie with the truth. It is no longer acceptable to look
the other way and ignore the lies of the left. But, this is not enough. No. We
must use all of the weapons of war, conventional and guerrilla.
The left has infiltrated the conservative groups, including the GOP. They do this
to gather information and develop strategies to counter what we do. We must do
the same. Slap on some sandals, don’t shave, slip on a hemp shirt and go to an
OfA meeting, become engaged and return to the bunker to plot the demise of
those communist, anti-American fools. Camouflage is good too. Dress like
Barney and show up at an SEIU meeting. Intel folks, it is critical to facilitate that
plopping sound on a consistent basis. Intel leads to counter insurgency. Counter
insurgency leads to victory.
While hanging out with the tofu eating, Birkenstock wearing communists, plant
the seeds of doubt, become the Ministry of Disinformation. Lure your new found
friends into uncomfortable situations, like schedule the next meeting, at a church;
Invite them to your house for a neighborhood meeting and schedule your angry,
gun toting, meat eating friends to come by at the same time. Sit back and watch,
or just lure them into the garage and string them from the rafters, like piñata’s on
cinco de mayo. Since you are associating with the scum of the earth, have some
fun with it, schedule them to protest at a park where there is a biker rally or a
veterans reunion. Good times.
I love the smell of victory, it smells like tears falling upon my boots from the
soulless minions of Obama as the spirit of communism is exorcised from their
gelatinous minds. Americans, do not shy away from this battle, if you do the
regrets will haunt you for all the rest of eternity. Our obligation as patriot
warriors is too not only defend America from these evil demons but to drive them
back to the fiery depths of hell from which they came. I know some of you will be
offended by this and think we should turn the other cheek. Go ahead, these evil
beings will kick you in that one too. Make your choice, right now, make your
decision, will you stand for America or will you be a slave of the left? There is a
sign at the White House that reads, “Indentured Servants Wanted, Christians
Only”.
There is an old acronym: A.I.D.A. Attention, do I have it, I believe I do. Interest.
Are you interested? You better be, your freedom is on the line. Decision. Have
you made your decision for Christ? And, Action. It is fight or walk time America.
Will you be a free people, living in America, or will you be serfs in the Peoples
Republic of Amerika? It is a time for action. It is up to you. The fate of a nation
is in your hands. Will you join with me and walk side by side in the fields of
freedom, or will you take the easy way and surrender yourself to the nation state
that B. Hussein Obama is building? I would rather die a free man than live under
the tyranny of an oppressive regime. If I am to leave a legacy, let it be one of
freedom, not one of suffrage.
http://americanpatriotscommission.wordpress.com/
Bill Turner
Western Regional Director
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Obama the new age Nazi?
President Obama signs the National Health Care bill into law on March 23, 2010.
This nearly 3,000 page bill contains, among other things, manditory requirements for membership in national health care which will be enforced by the IRS. There will be monetary penalties and jail for failure to be enrolled. The IRS is empowered to hire 17,000 new agents to assist in this enforcement. There are legislative moves to repeal the bill and several states attorneys general are filing lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality of the bill. It is not clear if any of the measures will be able to stop the bill.
This day in 1933 was also a very significant day.
“On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler’s Enabling Act. It was officially called the ‘Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.’ If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
The ‘distress’ had been secretly caused by the Nazis themselves in order to create a crisis atmosphere that would make the law seem necessary to restore order. On February 27, 1933, they had burned the Reichstag building, seat of the German government, causing panic and outrage. The Nazis successfully blamed the fire on the Communists and claimed it marked the beginning of a widespread uprising.
On the day of the vote, Nazi storm troopers gathered in a show of force around the opera house chanting, “Full powers – or else! We want the bill – or fire and murder!!” They also stood inside in the hallways, and even lined the aisles where the vote would take place, glaring menacingly at anyone who might oppose Hitler’s will.
Just before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he pledged to use restraint.
“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures…The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.” – Hitler told the Reichstag.
He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act.
A two thirds majority was needed, since the law would actually alter the German constitution. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken away by decree.
However, one man arose amid the overwhelming might. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats stood up and spoke quietly to Hitler.
“We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible.”
This enraged Hitler and he jumped up to respond.
“You are no longer needed! – The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!”
The vote was taken – 441 for, only 84, the Social Democrats, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel song.
They achieved what Hitler had wanted for years – to tear down the German Democratic Republic legally and end democracy, thus paving the way for a complete Nazi takeover of Germany.
From this day on, the Reichstag would be just a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler’s pronouncements.”
From Learn History. org:
Full text of “The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation”
“The Reichstag has enacted the following law, which is hereby proclaimed with the assent of the Reichsrat, it having been established that the requirements for a constitutional amendment have been fulfilled:
Article 1
In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich. This includes the laws referred to by Articles 85 Paragraph 2 and Article 87 of the constitution.
Article 2
Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat. The rights of the President remain undisturbed.
Article 3
Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. Articles 68 to 77 of the Constitution do not apply to laws enacted by the Reich government.
Article 4
Treaties of the Reich with foreign states which affect matters of Reich legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies of the legislature. The government of the Reich shall issue the regulations required for the execution of such treaties.
Article 5
This law takes effect with the day of its proclamation. It loses force on 1 April 1937 or if the present Reich government is replaced by another.
Heil Hitler!
Josef Goebbels:
“The authority of the Führer has now been wholly established. Votes are no longer taken. The Führer decides. All this is going much faster than we had dared to hope.”
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/03/obama-signs-health-bill-this-day-in-history/
This nearly 3,000 page bill contains, among other things, manditory requirements for membership in national health care which will be enforced by the IRS. There will be monetary penalties and jail for failure to be enrolled. The IRS is empowered to hire 17,000 new agents to assist in this enforcement. There are legislative moves to repeal the bill and several states attorneys general are filing lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality of the bill. It is not clear if any of the measures will be able to stop the bill.
This day in 1933 was also a very significant day.
“On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler’s Enabling Act. It was officially called the ‘Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.’ If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
The ‘distress’ had been secretly caused by the Nazis themselves in order to create a crisis atmosphere that would make the law seem necessary to restore order. On February 27, 1933, they had burned the Reichstag building, seat of the German government, causing panic and outrage. The Nazis successfully blamed the fire on the Communists and claimed it marked the beginning of a widespread uprising.
On the day of the vote, Nazi storm troopers gathered in a show of force around the opera house chanting, “Full powers – or else! We want the bill – or fire and murder!!” They also stood inside in the hallways, and even lined the aisles where the vote would take place, glaring menacingly at anyone who might oppose Hitler’s will.
Just before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he pledged to use restraint.
“The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures…The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.” – Hitler told the Reichstag.
He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act.
A two thirds majority was needed, since the law would actually alter the German constitution. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken away by decree.
However, one man arose amid the overwhelming might. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats stood up and spoke quietly to Hitler.
“We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible.”
This enraged Hitler and he jumped up to respond.
“You are no longer needed! – The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!”
The vote was taken – 441 for, only 84, the Social Democrats, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel song.
They achieved what Hitler had wanted for years – to tear down the German Democratic Republic legally and end democracy, thus paving the way for a complete Nazi takeover of Germany.
From this day on, the Reichstag would be just a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler’s pronouncements.”
From Learn History. org:
Full text of “The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation”
“The Reichstag has enacted the following law, which is hereby proclaimed with the assent of the Reichsrat, it having been established that the requirements for a constitutional amendment have been fulfilled:
Article 1
In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich. This includes the laws referred to by Articles 85 Paragraph 2 and Article 87 of the constitution.
Article 2
Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat. The rights of the President remain undisturbed.
Article 3
Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. Articles 68 to 77 of the Constitution do not apply to laws enacted by the Reich government.
Article 4
Treaties of the Reich with foreign states which affect matters of Reich legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies of the legislature. The government of the Reich shall issue the regulations required for the execution of such treaties.
Article 5
This law takes effect with the day of its proclamation. It loses force on 1 April 1937 or if the present Reich government is replaced by another.
Heil Hitler!
Josef Goebbels:
“The authority of the Führer has now been wholly established. Votes are no longer taken. The Führer decides. All this is going much faster than we had dared to hope.”
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/03/obama-signs-health-bill-this-day-in-history/
Thursday, March 18, 2010
CENSUS WARNING and information before filing
If you ever wondered about the constitutionality of this census and felt somehow this was a violation of privacy or that the government is being too invasive, here is something to include with your census after you have only filled out the number of people in your home...Only the number of people in your home!
Is it constitutional?
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iUMurKinTVE
What rights does the government have? What to say to census takers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsDhkPym01k
This post is long but is a compilation of articles I have received for the last several moths. I felt is was important to become educated on what the governnment wants and if it is within our rights to challenge it. I hope you find this info useful.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/52847.html
To Whom it May Concern,
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524, ―and it cannot be too often repeated, that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”
Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.
(Since the census was addressed without a name... " To resident at" , I will not be including my name because it has no bearing on the purpose of the census, besides they have all of our information anyway.)
If this post makes you nervous, I have included more information to help substantiate the above information.
Are you required by law to answer all the questions on the 2010 Census forms? What are the potential fines if you decide not to?
Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States requires that an "enumeration" shall be conducted every ten years "in a manner as [Congress] shall by law direct." The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that the enumeration shall consist of "counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
There have been no subsequent amendments to the Constitution giving Congress the authority to require an enumeration of the number of bedrooms or toilets in your house.
The first question of the 2010 Census asks, “How many were living in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?” For those who support and defend the Constitution of the United States this is where the census form should end.
But, what are the implications for the person who wishes to take a stand against the encroachments of his unalienable rights by the ever growing bureaucracy of our central government? What if you refuse to fully comply?
The census form American are about to receive in the mail, or the census workers who may appear at the doors of American homes with their GPS devices, should be able to reference only the following from Title 13 the US Code:
TITLE 13 - CENSUS
CHAPTER 7 - OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
SUBCHAPTER II - OTHER PERSONS
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
-STATUTE-
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or
willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any
other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce
or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the
Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his
knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in
connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I,
II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to
the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or
farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not
more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a)
of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances
described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is
false, shall be fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person
shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his
religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
This is the current US Code written expressively for conducting the US Census.
However, we are dealing with a corrupt central government that claims the prerogative to interpret the law as it wishes. This is how we have come to live under a regime that believes it can declare anyone an enemy combatant and torture them up to and including the point of death.
Tsars and their apparatchiks in the US Census Bureau are not immune to this tendency operate with little to no regard for what the law actually says. The US Census Bureau has given the indication that they intend to disregard what Title 13 clearly says about limiting a person's failure to fully comply to not more than a $100 fine — a small amount to risk for many who may wish to take a stand in defense of the Constitution and the limited powers it grants to the central government.
Under the explanation of the American Community Survey (formerly the Census long form) the US Census Bureau claims the following:
The American Community Survey is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, and response is mandatory. According to Section 221, persons who do not respond shall be fined not more than $100. Title 18 U.S.C. Section 3571 and Section 3559, in effect amends Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221 by changing the fine for anyone over 18 years old who refuses or willfully neglects to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers from a fine of not more than $100 to not more than $5,000."
At the bottom of its explanation, the Census Bureau provides a link to what should be the last word on the matter; Title 13 — the specific US Code for conducting the census as referred to in Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution.
The Census Bureau does not provide a link to Title 18, the US Code for federal crimes and sentences, by which the Bureau claims the fine for incomplete census questionnaires is "in effect" amended and raised to "not more than $5,000".
(In his recent commentary on the census Congressman Ron Paul has repeated this claimed potential fine of up to $5,000.)
Could the Census Bureau just be flaunting a potential $5,000 fine threat to scare off those contemplating acts of non-compliance on their census forms? Here are the pertinent excerpts from Title 18, that the Census Bureau references to support its claim that Title 13 has been amended by Title 18 ? (emphasis added):
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART II - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 227 - SENTENCES
SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 3559. Sentencing classification of offenses
-STATUTE-
(a) Classification. - An offense that is not specifically
classified by a letter grade in the section defining it, is
classified if the maximum term of imprisonment authorized is - (1) life imprisonment, or if the maximum penalty is death, as a
Class A felony;
.(9) five days or less, or if no imprisonment is authorized, as
an infraction.
(2) Exception. - With respect to a person convicted of a
Federal offense described in paragraph (1), the court may impose
any lesser sentence that is authorized by law to take into
account any substantial assistance provided by the defendant in
the investigation or prosecution of another person who has
committed an offense, in accordance with the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines and the policy statements of the Federal Sentencing
Commission pursuant to section 994(p) of title 28, or for other
good cause.
SUBCHAPTER C - FINE
Sec. 3571. Sentence of fine
STATUTE-
(a) In General. - A defendant who has been found guilty of an
offense may be sentenced to pay a fine.
(b) Fines for Individuals. - Except as provided in subsection (e)
of this section, an individual who has been found guilty of an
offense may be fined not more than the greatest of -
(1) the amount specified in the law setting forth the offense;
...(7) for an infraction, not more than $5,000.
(e) Special Rule for Lower Fine Specified in Substantive
Provision. - If a law setting forth an offense specifies no fine or
a fine that is lower than the fine otherwise applicable under this
section and such law, by specific reference, exempts the offense
from the applicability of the fine otherwise applicable under this
section, the defendant may not be fined more than the amount
specified in the law setting forth the offense.
No doubt there are more than a few federal legal counsels that will argue in favor of the Census Bureau's claim that their reading of Title 18 means that census officials can threaten Americans with up to a $5,000 fine if they refuse to answer all the bureau's prying questions. The argument of the Census Bureau comes down to this though: Though the rules the Census Bureau is authorized to operate under are clearly defined in Title 13 of the US Code, they believe that they can supersede the intent and will of the Congress on the grounds that a special rule applicable to sections in one Title of the US Code can be interpreted as an implied amendment to an unrelated Title of the US Code. ("It's good to be King" is the shorter argument here.)
If the intent of Congress (not the US Census Bureau) is that Title 18 "amends" Title 13, then Congress needs to legally amend the law set forth in Title 13. By injecting its intention to apply a section of Title 18 to override the clear statements made in sections of the unrelated Title 13, the US Census Bureau is "in effect" indicating that it intends to follow the lead of the IRS and other federal agencies to rule and intimidate the American public through their own arbitrary interpretation and enforcement of the law.
An American wishing to defend the intent of the Constitution, or simply their own privacy, against the census questionnaire should only have to be at risk of being assessed with up to a $100 fine. However, the Census Bureau, likely sensing growing opposition to its extra-constitutional efforts, is attempting to intimidate people with its contrived threat of up to a $5,000 fine.
Are they just bluffing? It probably depends on how many people call their bluff.
End Notes: There have been no pertinent changes to the above US Code cited since the 2000 census. Amendments were made to Title 13 in 1976 which struck out the provision authorizing imprisonment for not more than sixty days for refusing or willfully neglecting to answer questions and the provision for authorizing imprisonment for not more than one year for willfully giving a false answer to a question. The last time the will of the Congress was tested then, deference was afforded to the side of the people.
Disclaimer: This author will be answering the census the same way he did in 2000: Question #1 only. Though a note was attached to the partially completed census form indicating a willingness to be assessed the $100 fine, no fine was assessed.
http://www.jbs.org/component/content/article/974-userblogs/6086
Most American's & Constitutional scholars have serious concerns over 'invasive' questions in the 2010 Census.
Questions on the 2010 Census Forms far-exceed normal Census head-count data questions. Citizens are being asked to provide very invasive personal information, including income & source data necessary to re-distribute citizen's assets.
Should the Obama Regime decide to force-through public re-distribution of wealth, the 2010 Census provides key information to enable.
NOTE;
The Census Bureau is 'not' a law enforcement agency, any fines or enforcement must be carried out by Law Enforcement personnel.
Please do your own research if you have any reservations about complying with the Census or the links provided below.
Non-compliance fines;
Below are just two of many Census Links available on the internet.. None as yet have reflected 'any' fines or arrests for non-compliance.
However, should you decide to comply with the Census honesty is highly recommended regardless of how you feel towards our ethically challenged Officials.
Subject: CENSUS, NON-COMPLIANCE About.com: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/asked/13/7/II/221
http://usgovinfo.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=usgovinfo&cdn=newsissues&tm=184&f=10&tt=2&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/13/7/II/221
Subject: Census » fines
http://www.mytwocensus.com/tag/fines/
AMERICANS ARE JUSTIFIABLY REBELLING AGAINST A PRESIDENT WITH MARXIST GOALS & QUESTIONABLE
AUTHORITY. THESE SAME AMERICAN'S ARE WELL-AWARE THAT AMERICA WOULD NOT BE IN SUCH DIRE
STRAIGHTS HAD REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP NOT SOLD THEIR SOULS & CITIZEN'S RIGHTS TO SPECIAL
INTEREST LOBBYISTS..
WIDESPREAD NATIONAL POLITICAL BETRAYAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FUELING AMERICA'S 2nd REVOLUTION.
Threats to obtain personal information often back-fires.. Decisions made in haste often lead to a lifetime of regrets..
LINK, 2010 CENSUS FORM;
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/PDF/2010_English.pdf
more info here:
http://www.erichsmith.com/census.html
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/senseless.htm
Frequently Asked Questions about the Boycott the Census campaign
Why are you urging people to boycott the Census?
The U.S. Constitution says the purpose of the Census is to make an enumeration; that is,
to take an accurate count of Americans for the purpose of apportioning Congressional
districts.
But the federal government has gone far beyond that Constitutional mandate, and uses the
Census to ask dozens of probing questions, such as the color of your skin, the number of
toilets in your home, your disabilities, and even the number of cars you have.
In fact, the long form originally asks 53 questions, which is 52 more than the Constitution
requires.
Libertarians believe that these questions violate your privacy and
will be used as the basis for expanding the size, power
and cost of government.
So we're urging people to answer just one question:
How many people live in your home?
Wasn't there a raging controversy over the Census in 2000?
Yes, the Libertarian Party led a similar campaign in 2000, causing a firestorm over protest over the intrusive questions. The Census Bureau got the message, loud and clear. But instead of eliminating the inappropriate questions, Census bureaucrats are trying to reduce the public outcry by changing the name of the long form and sending it out in waves, rather than all at once. The long form is now called the American Community Survey, and it will be sent to 250,000 households a month starting in January 2005, instead of sending all of them out in 2010.
Don't let them get away with this PR gimmick! Regardless of how and when they send out the forms, the problem remains the same: Nosy Census bureaucrats have no business asking all these questions. So strike a blow for freedom, privacy and responsible government by refusing to answer every question but one: How many people live in your home?
What are some of the specific questions?
Question 8 demands that you pigeonhole yourself into one of 15 "official" racial categories: White; Black; African American or Negro; American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian Indian; Chinese; Filipino; Other Asian; Japanese; Korean; Vietnamese; Native Hawaiian; Guamanian or Chamorro; Samoan; Other Pacific Islander. If we live in America, arent we all Americans?
Question 17a asks if anyone in your home has any trouble "learning, remembering or concentrating."
Question 17b asks whether you have trouble "dressing, bathing or getting around in the home."
Question 24b asks how long it takes you to get to work, and Question 23a wants to know how you get there -- and there are an astounding 11 choices, including streetcar, bus, railroad, ferryboat, or taxicab!
Presumably the government will use this information to justify squandering billions of dollars on all sorts of boondoggles. In fact, a January 10 press release issued by the Census bureau says the data will be used to "allocate states' shares of more than $200 billion a year" in funding. Much of the data is also used by private companies to make marketing decisions, and is therefore a form of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare.
OK; I agree that the government has no business asking these questions. What's the solution?
We're suggesting that the Census Bureau replace the short form and the long form (the American Community Survey) with a one-question Census-On-A-Postcard. Click here to download the postcard. Then when you get your 53-question Census, send in the postcard instead!Boycott the Census!
Legal Authority to Ask Intrusive Questions Not Present in Constitution.
This Constitution and the Laws made in Pursuance thereof... shall be the supreme Law of the Land...all Judges shall be bound thereby...any Thing...to the Contrary notwithstanding. [Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States of America
(1789)]
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void. Unconstitutional law bears no power to enforce, it purports to settle as if it never existed, for unconstitutionality dates from the enactment of such a law and not such time as branded in an open court of law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. No courts are bound to uphold it and no persons are bound to obey it. [16 Am Jur 256]
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments were described in Boyd vs.. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 630, as protection against all governmental invasions ....of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life. We recently referred [381 U.S. 479, 485] in Mapp vs.. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656, to the Fourth Amendment as creating a ....right to privacy, no less important than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people.''
[GRISWOLD vs.. CONN]
Declaration To Make To Census Takers:
"I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 ....requiring me to disclose my race, personal financial data, birth date, or any other personal,
private information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States government, constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my person, house, papers, and/or effects, and a governmental invasion of the sanctity of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and I am not bound to obey them.
I have completed the only those sections of the Census form pertaining to the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:
1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans;
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2;
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration of the populace of the United States.
Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be challenged in a court of law."ECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)]
The LAw and the Constitution, then and Now
http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael118.htm
As many of you know, what is constitutional to us and to this government means next to nothing. If they want to impose fines for something even if it is your right not to pay, you will have to decide if fighting for your right is worth the fines that may be imposed just because its what they want.
I personally will fill out the number of people in my home, no name, nothing else. It wasn't addressed to me, I questioned even opening it, it wasnt sent registered mail, it could have gone anywhere.....
Good luck !
Is it constitutional?
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iUMurKinTVE
What rights does the government have? What to say to census takers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsDhkPym01k
This post is long but is a compilation of articles I have received for the last several moths. I felt is was important to become educated on what the governnment wants and if it is within our rights to challenge it. I hope you find this info useful.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/52847.html
To Whom it May Concern,
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My “name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure” have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
“Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524, ―and it cannot be too often repeated, that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it’s employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, ‘of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.’”
Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.
(Since the census was addressed without a name... " To resident at" , I will not be including my name because it has no bearing on the purpose of the census, besides they have all of our information anyway.)
If this post makes you nervous, I have included more information to help substantiate the above information.
Are you required by law to answer all the questions on the 2010 Census forms? What are the potential fines if you decide not to?
Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States requires that an "enumeration" shall be conducted every ten years "in a manner as [Congress] shall by law direct." The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that the enumeration shall consist of "counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
There have been no subsequent amendments to the Constitution giving Congress the authority to require an enumeration of the number of bedrooms or toilets in your house.
The first question of the 2010 Census asks, “How many were living in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?” For those who support and defend the Constitution of the United States this is where the census form should end.
But, what are the implications for the person who wishes to take a stand against the encroachments of his unalienable rights by the ever growing bureaucracy of our central government? What if you refuse to fully comply?
The census form American are about to receive in the mail, or the census workers who may appear at the doors of American homes with their GPS devices, should be able to reference only the following from Title 13 the US Code:
TITLE 13 - CENSUS
CHAPTER 7 - OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
SUBCHAPTER II - OTHER PERSONS
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
-STATUTE-
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or
willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any
other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce
or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the
Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his
knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in
connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I,
II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to
the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or
farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not
more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a)
of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances
described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is
false, shall be fined not more than $500.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person
shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his
religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
This is the current US Code written expressively for conducting the US Census.
However, we are dealing with a corrupt central government that claims the prerogative to interpret the law as it wishes. This is how we have come to live under a regime that believes it can declare anyone an enemy combatant and torture them up to and including the point of death.
Tsars and their apparatchiks in the US Census Bureau are not immune to this tendency operate with little to no regard for what the law actually says. The US Census Bureau has given the indication that they intend to disregard what Title 13 clearly says about limiting a person's failure to fully comply to not more than a $100 fine — a small amount to risk for many who may wish to take a stand in defense of the Constitution and the limited powers it grants to the central government.
Under the explanation of the American Community Survey (formerly the Census long form) the US Census Bureau claims the following:
The American Community Survey is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, and response is mandatory. According to Section 221, persons who do not respond shall be fined not more than $100. Title 18 U.S.C. Section 3571 and Section 3559, in effect amends Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221 by changing the fine for anyone over 18 years old who refuses or willfully neglects to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers from a fine of not more than $100 to not more than $5,000."
At the bottom of its explanation, the Census Bureau provides a link to what should be the last word on the matter; Title 13 — the specific US Code for conducting the census as referred to in Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution.
The Census Bureau does not provide a link to Title 18, the US Code for federal crimes and sentences, by which the Bureau claims the fine for incomplete census questionnaires is "in effect" amended and raised to "not more than $5,000".
(In his recent commentary on the census Congressman Ron Paul has repeated this claimed potential fine of up to $5,000.)
Could the Census Bureau just be flaunting a potential $5,000 fine threat to scare off those contemplating acts of non-compliance on their census forms? Here are the pertinent excerpts from Title 18, that the Census Bureau references to support its claim that Title 13 has been amended by Title 18 ? (emphasis added):
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART II - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 227 - SENTENCES
SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 3559. Sentencing classification of offenses
-STATUTE-
(a) Classification. - An offense that is not specifically
classified by a letter grade in the section defining it, is
classified if the maximum term of imprisonment authorized is - (1) life imprisonment, or if the maximum penalty is death, as a
Class A felony;
.(9) five days or less, or if no imprisonment is authorized, as
an infraction.
(2) Exception. - With respect to a person convicted of a
Federal offense described in paragraph (1), the court may impose
any lesser sentence that is authorized by law to take into
account any substantial assistance provided by the defendant in
the investigation or prosecution of another person who has
committed an offense, in accordance with the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines and the policy statements of the Federal Sentencing
Commission pursuant to section 994(p) of title 28, or for other
good cause.
SUBCHAPTER C - FINE
Sec. 3571. Sentence of fine
STATUTE-
(a) In General. - A defendant who has been found guilty of an
offense may be sentenced to pay a fine.
(b) Fines for Individuals. - Except as provided in subsection (e)
of this section, an individual who has been found guilty of an
offense may be fined not more than the greatest of -
(1) the amount specified in the law setting forth the offense;
...(7) for an infraction, not more than $5,000.
(e) Special Rule for Lower Fine Specified in Substantive
Provision. - If a law setting forth an offense specifies no fine or
a fine that is lower than the fine otherwise applicable under this
section and such law, by specific reference, exempts the offense
from the applicability of the fine otherwise applicable under this
section, the defendant may not be fined more than the amount
specified in the law setting forth the offense.
No doubt there are more than a few federal legal counsels that will argue in favor of the Census Bureau's claim that their reading of Title 18 means that census officials can threaten Americans with up to a $5,000 fine if they refuse to answer all the bureau's prying questions. The argument of the Census Bureau comes down to this though: Though the rules the Census Bureau is authorized to operate under are clearly defined in Title 13 of the US Code, they believe that they can supersede the intent and will of the Congress on the grounds that a special rule applicable to sections in one Title of the US Code can be interpreted as an implied amendment to an unrelated Title of the US Code. ("It's good to be King" is the shorter argument here.)
If the intent of Congress (not the US Census Bureau) is that Title 18 "amends" Title 13, then Congress needs to legally amend the law set forth in Title 13. By injecting its intention to apply a section of Title 18 to override the clear statements made in sections of the unrelated Title 13, the US Census Bureau is "in effect" indicating that it intends to follow the lead of the IRS and other federal agencies to rule and intimidate the American public through their own arbitrary interpretation and enforcement of the law.
An American wishing to defend the intent of the Constitution, or simply their own privacy, against the census questionnaire should only have to be at risk of being assessed with up to a $100 fine. However, the Census Bureau, likely sensing growing opposition to its extra-constitutional efforts, is attempting to intimidate people with its contrived threat of up to a $5,000 fine.
Are they just bluffing? It probably depends on how many people call their bluff.
End Notes: There have been no pertinent changes to the above US Code cited since the 2000 census. Amendments were made to Title 13 in 1976 which struck out the provision authorizing imprisonment for not more than sixty days for refusing or willfully neglecting to answer questions and the provision for authorizing imprisonment for not more than one year for willfully giving a false answer to a question. The last time the will of the Congress was tested then, deference was afforded to the side of the people.
Disclaimer: This author will be answering the census the same way he did in 2000: Question #1 only. Though a note was attached to the partially completed census form indicating a willingness to be assessed the $100 fine, no fine was assessed.
http://www.jbs.org/component/content/article/974-userblogs/6086
Most American's & Constitutional scholars have serious concerns over 'invasive' questions in the 2010 Census.
Questions on the 2010 Census Forms far-exceed normal Census head-count data questions. Citizens are being asked to provide very invasive personal information, including income & source data necessary to re-distribute citizen's assets.
Should the Obama Regime decide to force-through public re-distribution of wealth, the 2010 Census provides key information to enable.
NOTE;
The Census Bureau is 'not' a law enforcement agency, any fines or enforcement must be carried out by Law Enforcement personnel.
Please do your own research if you have any reservations about complying with the Census or the links provided below.
Non-compliance fines;
Below are just two of many Census Links available on the internet.. None as yet have reflected 'any' fines or arrests for non-compliance.
However, should you decide to comply with the Census honesty is highly recommended regardless of how you feel towards our ethically challenged Officials.
Subject: CENSUS, NON-COMPLIANCE About.com: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/asked/13/7/II/221
http://usgovinfo.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=usgovinfo&cdn=newsissues&tm=184&f=10&tt=2&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/13/7/II/221
Subject: Census » fines
http://www.mytwocensus.com/tag/fines/
AMERICANS ARE JUSTIFIABLY REBELLING AGAINST A PRESIDENT WITH MARXIST GOALS & QUESTIONABLE
AUTHORITY. THESE SAME AMERICAN'S ARE WELL-AWARE THAT AMERICA WOULD NOT BE IN SUCH DIRE
STRAIGHTS HAD REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP NOT SOLD THEIR SOULS & CITIZEN'S RIGHTS TO SPECIAL
INTEREST LOBBYISTS..
WIDESPREAD NATIONAL POLITICAL BETRAYAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FUELING AMERICA'S 2nd REVOLUTION.
Threats to obtain personal information often back-fires.. Decisions made in haste often lead to a lifetime of regrets..
LINK, 2010 CENSUS FORM;
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/PDF/2010_English.pdf
more info here:
http://www.erichsmith.com/census.html
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/senseless.htm
Frequently Asked Questions about the Boycott the Census campaign
Why are you urging people to boycott the Census?
The U.S. Constitution says the purpose of the Census is to make an enumeration; that is,
to take an accurate count of Americans for the purpose of apportioning Congressional
districts.
But the federal government has gone far beyond that Constitutional mandate, and uses the
Census to ask dozens of probing questions, such as the color of your skin, the number of
toilets in your home, your disabilities, and even the number of cars you have.
In fact, the long form originally asks 53 questions, which is 52 more than the Constitution
requires.
Libertarians believe that these questions violate your privacy and
will be used as the basis for expanding the size, power
and cost of government.
So we're urging people to answer just one question:
How many people live in your home?
Wasn't there a raging controversy over the Census in 2000?
Yes, the Libertarian Party led a similar campaign in 2000, causing a firestorm over protest over the intrusive questions. The Census Bureau got the message, loud and clear. But instead of eliminating the inappropriate questions, Census bureaucrats are trying to reduce the public outcry by changing the name of the long form and sending it out in waves, rather than all at once. The long form is now called the American Community Survey, and it will be sent to 250,000 households a month starting in January 2005, instead of sending all of them out in 2010.
Don't let them get away with this PR gimmick! Regardless of how and when they send out the forms, the problem remains the same: Nosy Census bureaucrats have no business asking all these questions. So strike a blow for freedom, privacy and responsible government by refusing to answer every question but one: How many people live in your home?
What are some of the specific questions?
Question 8 demands that you pigeonhole yourself into one of 15 "official" racial categories: White; Black; African American or Negro; American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian Indian; Chinese; Filipino; Other Asian; Japanese; Korean; Vietnamese; Native Hawaiian; Guamanian or Chamorro; Samoan; Other Pacific Islander. If we live in America, arent we all Americans?
Question 17a asks if anyone in your home has any trouble "learning, remembering or concentrating."
Question 17b asks whether you have trouble "dressing, bathing or getting around in the home."
Question 24b asks how long it takes you to get to work, and Question 23a wants to know how you get there -- and there are an astounding 11 choices, including streetcar, bus, railroad, ferryboat, or taxicab!
Presumably the government will use this information to justify squandering billions of dollars on all sorts of boondoggles. In fact, a January 10 press release issued by the Census bureau says the data will be used to "allocate states' shares of more than $200 billion a year" in funding. Much of the data is also used by private companies to make marketing decisions, and is therefore a form of taxpayer-funded corporate welfare.
OK; I agree that the government has no business asking these questions. What's the solution?
We're suggesting that the Census Bureau replace the short form and the long form (the American Community Survey) with a one-question Census-On-A-Postcard. Click here to download the postcard. Then when you get your 53-question Census, send in the postcard instead!Boycott the Census!
Legal Authority to Ask Intrusive Questions Not Present in Constitution.
This Constitution and the Laws made in Pursuance thereof... shall be the supreme Law of the Land...all Judges shall be bound thereby...any Thing...to the Contrary notwithstanding. [Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States of America
(1789)]
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void. Unconstitutional law bears no power to enforce, it purports to settle as if it never existed, for unconstitutionality dates from the enactment of such a law and not such time as branded in an open court of law. It confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. No courts are bound to uphold it and no persons are bound to obey it. [16 Am Jur 256]
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments were described in Boyd vs.. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 630, as protection against all governmental invasions ....of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life. We recently referred [381 U.S. 479, 485] in Mapp vs.. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656, to the Fourth Amendment as creating a ....right to privacy, no less important than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people.''
[GRISWOLD vs.. CONN]
Declaration To Make To Census Takers:
"I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 ....requiring me to disclose my race, personal financial data, birth date, or any other personal,
private information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States government, constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my person, house, papers, and/or effects, and a governmental invasion of the sanctity of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and I am not bound to obey them.
I have completed the only those sections of the Census form pertaining to the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:
1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form, excluding untaxed Native Americans;
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2;
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.
I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration of the populace of the United States.
Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be challenged in a court of law."ECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)]
The LAw and the Constitution, then and Now
http://www.newswithviews.com/LeMieux/michael118.htm
As many of you know, what is constitutional to us and to this government means next to nothing. If they want to impose fines for something even if it is your right not to pay, you will have to decide if fighting for your right is worth the fines that may be imposed just because its what they want.
I personally will fill out the number of people in my home, no name, nothing else. It wasn't addressed to me, I questioned even opening it, it wasnt sent registered mail, it could have gone anywhere.....
Good luck !
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Why you should question your government
Your Federal Government At Work. This is why we should question those in power.Share
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 8:20pm
The Chemist's War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
By Deborah Blum
Posted Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at 10:00 AM ET
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.
Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.
Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-cal! led gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government.
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s! , liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination." Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order.
I learned of the federal poisoning program while researching my new book, The Poisoner's Handbook, which is set in jazz-age New York. My first reaction was that I must have gotten it wrong. "I never heard that the government poisoned people during Prohibition, did ! you?" I kept saying to friends, family members, colleagues.
I d id, however, remember the U.S. government's controversial decision in the 1970s to spray Mexican marijuana fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. Its use was primarily intended to destroy crops, but government officials also insisted that awareness of the toxin would deter marijuana smokers. They echoed the official position of the 1920s—if some citizens ended up poisoned, well, they'd brought it upon themselves. Although Paraquat wasn't really all that toxic, the outcry forced the government to drop the plan. Still, the incident created an unsurprising lack of trust in government motives, which reveals itself in the occasional rumors circulating today that federal agencies, such as the CIA, mix poison into the illegal drug supply.
During Prohibition, however, an official sense of higher purpose kept the poisoning program in place. As the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1927: ! "Normally, no American government would engage in such business. … It is only in the curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any means, however barbarous, are considered justified." Others, however, accused lawmakers opposed to the poisoning plan of being in cahoots with criminals and argued that bootleggers and their law-breaking alcoholic customers deserved no sympathy. "Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?" asked Nebraska's Omaha Bee.
The saga began with ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.* High-minded crusaders and anti-alcohol organizations had helped push the amendment through in 1919, playing on fears of moral decay in a country just emerging from war. The Volstead Act, spelling out the rules for enforcement, passed shortly later, and Prohibition itself went into effe! ct on Jan. 1, 1920.
But people continued to drink—and in larg e quantities. Alcoholism rates soared during the 1920s; insurance companies charted the increase at more than 300 more percent. Speakeasies promptly opened for business. By the decade's end, some 30,000 existed in New York City alone. Street gangs grew into bootlegging empires built on smuggling, stealing, and manufacturing illegal alcohol. The country's defiant response to the new laws shocked those who sincerely (and naively) believed that the amendment would usher in a new era of upright behavior.
Rigorous enforcement had managed to slow the smuggling of alcohol from Canada and other countries. But crime syndicates responded by stealing massive quantities of industrial alcohol—used in paints and solvents, fuels and medical supplies—and redistilling it to make it potable.
Well, sort of. Industrial alcohol is basically grain alcohol with some unpleasant chemicals mixed in to render it undrinkable. The U.S. government started requiring this "denaturing" proce! ss in 1906 for manufacturers who wanted to avoid the taxes levied on potable spirits. The U.S. Treasury Department, charged with overseeing alcohol enforcement, estimated that by the mid-1920s, some 60 million gallons of industrial alcohol were stolen annually to supply the country's drinkers.
In response, in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's government decided to turn to chemistry as an enforcement tool. Some 70 denaturing formulas existed by the 1920s. Most simply added poisonous methyl alcohol into the mix. Others used bitter-tasting compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable.
To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to "renature" the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So! federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far mo re deadly.
By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly.
The results were immediate, starting with that horrific holiday body count in the closing days of 1926. Public health officials responded with shock. "The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol," New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. "[Y]et it continues its poisoning processes, heedless of the fact that people determined to drink are daily absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with ! the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible."
His department issued warnings to citizens, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: "[P]ractically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic," read one 1928 alert. He publicized every death by alcohol poisoning. He assigned his toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, to analyze confiscated whiskey for poisons—that long list of toxic materials I cited came in part from studies done by the New York City medical examiner's office.
Norris also condemned the federal program for its disproportionate effect on the country's poorest residents. Wealthy people, he pointed out, could afford the best whiskey available. Most of those sickened and dying were those "who cannot afford expensive protection and deal in low grade stuff."
And the numbers were not trivial. In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alc! ohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700. These numbe rs were repeated in cities around the country as public-health officials nationwide joined in the angry clamor. Furious anti-Prohibition legislators pushed for a halt in the use of lethal chemistry. "Only one possessing the instincts of a wild beast would desire to kill or make blind the man who takes a drink of liquor, even if he purchased it from one violating the Prohibition statutes," proclaimed Sen. James Reed of Missouri.
Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist's war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition—and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it—had never quite happened.
Correction, Feb. 22, 2010: The article originally and incorrectly said that the 18
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 8:20pm
The Chemist's War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
By Deborah Blum
Posted Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at 10:00 AM ET
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.
Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.
Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-cal! led gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government.
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. As one of its most outspoken opponents, Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s! , liked to say, it was "our national experiment in extermination." Poisonous alcohol still kills—16 people died just this month after drinking lethal booze in Indonesia, where bootleggers make their own brews to avoid steep taxes—but that's due to unscrupulous businessmen rather than government order.
I learned of the federal poisoning program while researching my new book, The Poisoner's Handbook, which is set in jazz-age New York. My first reaction was that I must have gotten it wrong. "I never heard that the government poisoned people during Prohibition, did ! you?" I kept saying to friends, family members, colleagues.
I d id, however, remember the U.S. government's controversial decision in the 1970s to spray Mexican marijuana fields with Paraquat, an herbicide. Its use was primarily intended to destroy crops, but government officials also insisted that awareness of the toxin would deter marijuana smokers. They echoed the official position of the 1920s—if some citizens ended up poisoned, well, they'd brought it upon themselves. Although Paraquat wasn't really all that toxic, the outcry forced the government to drop the plan. Still, the incident created an unsurprising lack of trust in government motives, which reveals itself in the occasional rumors circulating today that federal agencies, such as the CIA, mix poison into the illegal drug supply.
During Prohibition, however, an official sense of higher purpose kept the poisoning program in place. As the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1927: ! "Normally, no American government would engage in such business. … It is only in the curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any means, however barbarous, are considered justified." Others, however, accused lawmakers opposed to the poisoning plan of being in cahoots with criminals and argued that bootleggers and their law-breaking alcoholic customers deserved no sympathy. "Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?" asked Nebraska's Omaha Bee.
The saga began with ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.* High-minded crusaders and anti-alcohol organizations had helped push the amendment through in 1919, playing on fears of moral decay in a country just emerging from war. The Volstead Act, spelling out the rules for enforcement, passed shortly later, and Prohibition itself went into effe! ct on Jan. 1, 1920.
But people continued to drink—and in larg e quantities. Alcoholism rates soared during the 1920s; insurance companies charted the increase at more than 300 more percent. Speakeasies promptly opened for business. By the decade's end, some 30,000 existed in New York City alone. Street gangs grew into bootlegging empires built on smuggling, stealing, and manufacturing illegal alcohol. The country's defiant response to the new laws shocked those who sincerely (and naively) believed that the amendment would usher in a new era of upright behavior.
Rigorous enforcement had managed to slow the smuggling of alcohol from Canada and other countries. But crime syndicates responded by stealing massive quantities of industrial alcohol—used in paints and solvents, fuels and medical supplies—and redistilling it to make it potable.
Well, sort of. Industrial alcohol is basically grain alcohol with some unpleasant chemicals mixed in to render it undrinkable. The U.S. government started requiring this "denaturing" proce! ss in 1906 for manufacturers who wanted to avoid the taxes levied on potable spirits. The U.S. Treasury Department, charged with overseeing alcohol enforcement, estimated that by the mid-1920s, some 60 million gallons of industrial alcohol were stolen annually to supply the country's drinkers.
In response, in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's government decided to turn to chemistry as an enforcement tool. Some 70 denaturing formulas existed by the 1920s. Most simply added poisonous methyl alcohol into the mix. Others used bitter-tasting compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so awful that it became undrinkable.
To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to "renature" the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So! federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far mo re deadly.
By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly.
The results were immediate, starting with that horrific holiday body count in the closing days of 1926. Public health officials responded with shock. "The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol," New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. "[Y]et it continues its poisoning processes, heedless of the fact that people determined to drink are daily absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with ! the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible."
His department issued warnings to citizens, detailing the dangers in whiskey circulating in the city: "[P]ractically all the liquor that is sold in New York today is toxic," read one 1928 alert. He publicized every death by alcohol poisoning. He assigned his toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, to analyze confiscated whiskey for poisons—that long list of toxic materials I cited came in part from studies done by the New York City medical examiner's office.
Norris also condemned the federal program for its disproportionate effect on the country's poorest residents. Wealthy people, he pointed out, could afford the best whiskey available. Most of those sickened and dying were those "who cannot afford expensive protection and deal in low grade stuff."
And the numbers were not trivial. In 1926, in New York City, 1,200 were sickened by poisonous alc! ohol; 400 died. The following year, deaths climbed to 700. These numbe rs were repeated in cities around the country as public-health officials nationwide joined in the angry clamor. Furious anti-Prohibition legislators pushed for a halt in the use of lethal chemistry. "Only one possessing the instincts of a wild beast would desire to kill or make blind the man who takes a drink of liquor, even if he purchased it from one violating the Prohibition statutes," proclaimed Sen. James Reed of Missouri.
Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist's war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition—and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it—had never quite happened.
Correction, Feb. 22, 2010: The article originally and incorrectly said that the 18
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Auto industry recalls, fabricated?
My father in law has been a truck driver for 30 years. He has been politically astute for many years longer and has been sceptical of anything the government has ever done, almost to the point I thought he had to be off a bit somewhere
When we get together we talk politics and current events and share ourthoughts on the issues and I have learned alot from his perspective and from his knowledge of American history and enjoy our time together and what I didn't or couldn't believe I enjoyed because they were great stories, I know better these days.
"One day we were discussing issues about the auto industry recalls and he had said something I was unfamiliar with and had to do with when he was driving cross country. I was rather disturbed. He says it this way:
"Did you know that a few years ago when I was driving my truck there were rumors of trucks brakes locking up and no one seemed to know why? Research was performed and the cause was found.
Evidentally, the power grid and trucks electronics experienced some interference causing the trucks brakes to lock up or for the engines to die, really strange problems, I as a diesel mechanic had never seen anything like this before. The final solution ,they were told, was to install a resistor or transistor to prevent further interverence." To my knowledge their have been no more problems since."
I guess the reason for my post is to offer an alternative perspective on what may be the cause of these recalls. It sure seems coicidental to have all of these recalls fall on the heels of one another especially when the largest part of this began after the government got involved in the auto industry.
If this is any indication of how our government works, our founders had tremendoous foresight to keep our government "limited."
When we get together we talk politics and current events and share ourthoughts on the issues and I have learned alot from his perspective and from his knowledge of American history and enjoy our time together and what I didn't or couldn't believe I enjoyed because they were great stories, I know better these days.
"One day we were discussing issues about the auto industry recalls and he had said something I was unfamiliar with and had to do with when he was driving cross country. I was rather disturbed. He says it this way:
"Did you know that a few years ago when I was driving my truck there were rumors of trucks brakes locking up and no one seemed to know why? Research was performed and the cause was found.
Evidentally, the power grid and trucks electronics experienced some interference causing the trucks brakes to lock up or for the engines to die, really strange problems, I as a diesel mechanic had never seen anything like this before. The final solution ,they were told, was to install a resistor or transistor to prevent further interverence." To my knowledge their have been no more problems since."
I guess the reason for my post is to offer an alternative perspective on what may be the cause of these recalls. It sure seems coicidental to have all of these recalls fall on the heels of one another especially when the largest part of this began after the government got involved in the auto industry.
If this is any indication of how our government works, our founders had tremendoous foresight to keep our government "limited."
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