Police state files

"Two releases of local law enforcement files in recent days have shed new light on just how far the Bush administration, federal, and local law enforcement are going to suppress political dissent in the aftermath of 9-11."

This article was first published back in late March, so this isn't exactly new, but still relevant. This highlights two cases of abuse of power under the guise of fighting terrorism. What they reveal is growing intolerance of political activism and dissent, and makes clear that terrorism played no part in the actions of authorities, other than to create it themselves. Far from combating any terrorists, they're intent is to stiffle any opposition to government policy. The lesson being taught is that "if you have a problem with the way government is being run, then you'd better just stay home, keep quiet, and get over it, because we won't tolerate any peaceful anti-government activites anymore".

And we're supposed to believe we still live in a free country? Bullshit!

Nobody has a problem with cracking down on known violent people or groups, but we should all have a problem when simple acts of free speech are considered acts of terrorism, only because they run counter to the ruling powers. We have the right to speak out, and must continue to do so, whatever the cost, otherwise we will have betrayed the trust of the countless numbers who've fought for and given their lives over the centuries to preserve the freedoms and principles of this country. There have been many setbacks in the past, and no matter how long or short-lived they lasted, it was necessary for people to fight to restore the balance. That time has come again.

This Democratic Republic cannot possibly stand if we all just meekly accept everything the government tells us, and behave only in a manner that praises our government under any and all circumstances.

To acquiesce, is to commit treason.

20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

These are a few little details every American should know, regarding the most vital process of our republic. As with the ones quoted above, all the others on the list involve the two companies that control the machines that we're now forced to use, whether we like it or not.

The fact that both these companies are clearly politically biased should raise a stink, but for some reason it hasn't. Voting has become such a fraud, yet we don't even seem to notice.

Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans

"Good or bad, intelligence gathering by local police departments is back. Interviews with police officers, homeland security officials, and privacy experts reveal a transformation among state and local law enforcement."

Among the changes:

"Since 9/11, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have poured over a half-billion dollars into building up local and state police intelligence operations. The funding has helped create more than 100 police intelligence units reaching into nearly every state."

"To qualify for federal homeland security grants, states were told to assemble lists of "potential threat elements"--individuals or groups suspected of possible terrorist activity. In response, state authorities have come up with thousands of loosely defined targets, ranging from genuine terrorists to biker gangs and environmentalists."

"Guidelines for protecting privacy and civil liberties have lagged far behind the federal money. After four years of doling out homeland security grants to police departments, federal officials released guidelines for the conduct of local intelligence operations only last year; the standards are voluntary and are being implemented slowly."

Some probably think this is a good thing. Some probably say it's necessary to "make us safe". Some say: "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about". The trouble with that line of reasoning is that it goes against everything America is supposed to stand for.

Once upon a time, the activities that are being forced upon us by authorities at every level of government, where all the things that distingushed us from most all other countries in the world. Now, we meekly accept the kind of monitoring and invasive police actions that used to make us glad and above all, proud, that we didn't live in other places that controlled their populations through fear and intimidation. Those days are long gone.

We've been so conditioned to live in a constant state of fear for our safety, that we just accept all efforts to minimize our civil rights, just to keep us safe and warm from all the dark forces that lurk in every shadow, and around every corner. That fear has led us to completely forget (assuming we were ever attentive enough to know) about exactly how the roads to dictatorship were constructed in countless other countries, over countless eons. We still proudly proclaim our freedoms to be the greatest in the world, while totally ignoring the fact that those freedoms are being stolen right out from under us, all in the name of freedom.

We're constantly being told that people hate us for our freedoms, so the solution; just eliminated them, and we'll all be safe.

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Disease Mongering Collection

This page gives a list of links leading to articles about how the pharmaceutical industry has created a number of new "diseases" and hyped up some obscure ones. This is why just about everyone I know is on some kind of extremely expensive meds. This "trend" has pissed me off since the day drug companies began marketing their prescription products directly to the public, instead of just to healthcare workers like they used to. Here are a few of the offerings:

Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD

The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder

Pharmaceutical Marketing and the Invention of the Medical Consumer

Cholinesterase Inhibitors: Drugs Looking for a Disease?

State Would Outlaw Mandatory Microchip Implants

RFID microchips implanted in humans? Who would think of such a thing? Here are a few examples:

* VeriChip RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved
* U.S. Company Implants Chips in Workers
* RFID Tags Proposed to Halt Blackmarket Cadaver Trade

You're not even safe from being 'chipped when you're dead.

But you'll be safe in Wisconsin, if State Representative Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, gets his bill passed. A proposal moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny RFID chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000.

Here's something I'd like to see grow and take root in every state in the union. No one under any circumstances should be forced to become implanted. And that includes criminals. If any one group can be forced into it, eventually we all could.

DEPLETED URANIUM - FAR WORSE THAN 9/11

"In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars."

"Imagine a far worse scenario. Terrorists acquire a million pounds of the deadly dust and scatter it in populated areas throughout the U.S. Hundreds of children report symptoms. Many acquire cancer and leukemia, suffering an early and painful death. Huge increases in severe birth defects are reported. Oncologists are overwhelmed. Soccer fields, sand lots and parks, traditional play areas for kids, are no longer safe. People lose their most basic freedom, the ability to go outside and safely breathe. Sounds worse than 9/11? Welcome to Iraq and Afghanistan."

These are the weapons being used by the U.S. military every day. They know full well the dangers posed to anyone in the area where these weapons are used, yet they still use them. In my book, this is a crime against humanity. Read on, and decide for yourself.

How to spot a terrorist

"I really had no idea how to spot a terrorist until I studied the manuals published by the Phoenix FBI, the state employees of Virginia, and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Now that I have absorbed these manuals, I not only know how to spot a terrorist, but I have discovered that I probably am a terrorist."

This article shows how U.S. agencies have targeted practically every U.S. citizen as being a terrorist. The criteria is so broad that it would be difficult for most to avoid being considered a terrorist. As you read them, it will become clear that the primary targets are meant less to catch actual terrorist, then to stiffle anyone who dares exercise their constitutional rights. Here are a few examples:

Phoenix FBI manual

Defenders of the U.S. Constitution against federal government and the UN.
Those who make numerous references to the U.S. Constitution.
Those who attempt to police the police.

Virginia manual

Property rights activists.
Environmental and animal rights activists.

Texas manual

Focused and committed.
Team-oriented and disciplined.
Familiar with their physical environments.
Employ a variety of vehicles and communicate by cell phone, email, or text messaging.

There's a little more to those lists, and some, arguably, could be debatable, but the message is clear; if you stand up for your constitutional rights, you will be considered a terrorist in the eyes of authorities.

If you've yet to question the motivation behind the war on terror, start paying attention!

The Corporate Control Of Society And Human Life

"Large transnational corporations are clearly the dominant institution of our time. They're preeminent throughout the world but especially in the Global North and its epicenter in the US. They control or greatly influence what we eat and drink, where we live, what we wear, how we get most of our essential services like health care and even what we're taught in schools up to the highest levels. They create and control our sources of information and greatly influence how we think and our view of the world and them. They even now own patents on our genetic code, the most basic elements of human life, and are likely planning to manipulate and control them as just another commodity to exploit for profit in their brave new world that should concern everyone. They also carefully craft their image and use catchy slogans to convince us of their benefit to society and the world, like: "better things for better living through chemistry" (if you don't mind toxic air, water and soil), "we bring good things to life" for them, not us), and "all the news that's fit to print" (only if you love state and corporate friendly disinformation and propaganda). The slogans are clever, but the truth is ugly."

This piece goes into why multi-nationals cannot be trusted to have the consumers best interests at heart. In spite of the promises of "globalization", it means no good for the average person. Many of the economic problems now plaguing the U.S. and others, can be traced directly to corporate greed and the corruption it's brought to political processes. Their campaigns to bring about their own version of the U.S. militarys' "full spectrum dominance" has so deluded the publics' perception of what they're actually doing, that many of those who are being driven to economic ruin by globalization, still believe that globalization, or a completely free trade economy, is the only road to prosperity. These same people still fail to notice that the gap between the top percent and the rest of us is growing wider and wider every single day.

One hundred years ago, this very same threat to the economic security of the average citizen was recognized, confronted, and combated, yet today, all the progress of the previous century has been eroded away by the politicians who've been bought and paid for by the mega-corporations. "Monopoly" was once a bad word, but within the last 25 years all the restraints placed upon corporations have been reversed, and now companies that had been broken up to stop monopolies are once again consolidating at an alarming rate, and gathering so much power with the aide of their political flunkies, that neither politicians nor the public are even mentioning the word "monopoly" any more, and worse, they're now welcoming the dawning of global coporate empires, many of whom already wield more power than most countries in the world.

Far too many people are simply blinded by all the sparkling baubles dangled in front of their eyes.

Project for the New American Century

"The Project for the New American Century is arguably the most influential right-wing advocacy group since the Committee on the Present Danger in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Established in 1997 by two leading neocon figures, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, PNAC aims to put the United States back on a course toward "global leadership" and to promote a "Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity." It is located in a warren of offices in the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) building in Washington, DC, that are also home to the Weekly Standard and various other Kristol brainchildren. More than an advocacy outfit, PNAC serves as a revolving door for administration officials, congressional aids, up-and-coming neoconservative wonks, and corporate players from such esteemed institutions as Lockheed Martin."

This page gives a short summary of activities of the group that currently controls the actions of the U.S government. You'll also find a list of its' members and contributors. This is the group that has pushed American onto the road towards "total spectrum dominance", and shows why simply impeaching Bush will have absolutly no impact on diverting our course away from what must inevitably result in our downfall. It doesn't matter if they're successful in the begining, there's no precedent in history that would lead any intelligent human to believe that this New American Century will last. All empires eventually fail, and there's no reason to think it won't happen again. History is filled with examples of what happens to imperial powers once they spread themselves too thin. In our case, the collapse will be devastating for all our succeeding generations, unless reversed in time.