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Big Questions

Do you think it is wise for the U.S. government to borrow money from China to pay for the occupation of other countries and to pay for non-defensive wars?

Do you think that U.S. citizens are slowly losing their constitutional rights?

Do you believe the official government explanation for what occurred on 9-11?

Tender Teddies Tasering Ten Year Old

Police were called to the Tender Teddies Daycare in Martinsville, Indiana to slap and taser a 10 year old boy.
No statement from the officers was available but it might have gone something like this: "He was big and scary, we were in fear for our lives."
"He was being naughty kicking, fighting, and swearing, we started to shoot him with our real guns but then remembered our cool new toy, the taser!"
"Besides, it's always nice to have a few days off with pay, thanks tax payers!"

Re-thinking Jury Duty

Maybe we should re-think jury duty. Maybe instead of saying "Oh no, how do I get out of this?" We should say, "Good!" Good because I'm going to find this person not guilty if he is charged with a victimless crime. Good because I'm smart enough to know what the judge says about it means nothing to me. It's up to me, I can set him free. Like if it's some kind of charge for having a gun. You don't have to listen to how he violated some state or local law and is guilty. You know that the constitution says that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Drug charges? So what? They should be legal for adults anyway.
On the other hand when it's the police on trial and there's a video of them beating the shite out of someone, find them guilty!
I think you get my drift, if you are lucky enough to get jury duty, do the right thing for your fellow human beings, don't get caught up in all the legal technicalities, don't be bullied, don't be a wimp.

Thoughts to Brighten Your Day

Militias that have been infiltrated by Feds for years are suddenly being busted.

All of the Democrats have committed political suicide by voting for a hugely unpopular bill.

WTF?

The militia thing makes me wonder if there is soon going to be another Oklahoma City bombing type attack, staged by the government and blamed on a militia. (or at least Tea Party people, Libertarians, gun owners or people that believe in our constitutional rights.) If people were smart, that last classification would include everyone in the United States.

The political suicide thing makes me wonder if there are even going to be elections in November.
Which could go hand in hand with an attack on America, staged by the government and blamed on a militia but also used as an excuse to declare Martial law

I'm just saying "Some of these things that have been happening don't add up."

It is Now Official: The U.S. is a Police State

Paul Craig Roberts – LewRockwell.com

Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” which continues under the Obama administration and is essentially a war on the Constitution and U.S. civil liberties.

The Bush regime was determined to vitiate habeas corpus in order to hold people indefinitely without bringing charges. The regime had acquired hundreds of prisoners by paying a bounty for “terrorists.” Afghan warlords and thugs responded to the financial incentive by grabbing unprotected people and selling them to the Americans.

The Bush regime needed to hold the prisoners without charges because it had no evidence against the people and did not want to admit that the U.S. government had stupidly paid warlords and thugs to kidnap innocent people. In addition, the Bush regime needed “terrorists” prisoners in order to prove that there was a terrorist threat.

As there was no evidence against the “detainees” (most have been released without charges after years of detention and abuse), the U.S. government needed a way around U.S. and international laws against torture in order that the government could produce evidence via self-incrimination. The Bush regime found inhumane and totalitarian-minded lawyers and put them to work at the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) to invent arguments that the Bush regime did not need to obey the law.

The Bush regime created a new classification for its detainees that it used to justify denying legal protection and due process to the detainees. As the detainees were not U.S. citizens and were demonized by the regime as “the 760 most dangerous men on earth,” there was little public outcry over the regime’s unconstitutional and inhumane actions.

As our Founding Fathers and a long list of scholars warned, once civil liberties are breached, they are breached for all. Soon U.S. citizens were being held indefinitely in violation of their habeas corpus rights. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui an American citizen of Pakistani origin might have been the first.

Dr. Siddiqui, a scientist educated at MIT and Brandeis University, was seized in Pakistan for no known reason, sent to Afghanistan, and was held secretly for five years in the U.S. military’s notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Her three young children were with her at the time she was abducted, one an eight-month old baby. She has no idea what has become of her two youngest children. Her oldest child, 7 years old, was also incarcerated in Bagram and subjected to similar abuse and horrors.

Siddiqui has never been charged with any terrorism-related offense. A British journalist, hearing her piercing screams as she was being tortured, disclosed her presence. An embarrassed U.S. government responded to the disclosure by sending Siddiqui to the U.S. for trial on the trumped-up charge that while a captive, she grabbed a U.S. soldier’s rifle and fired two shots attempting to shoot him. The charge apparently originated as a U.S. soldier’s excuse for shooting Dr. Siddiqui twice in the stomach resulting in her near death.

On February 4, Dr. Siddiqui was convicted by a New York jury for attempted murder. The only evidence presented against her was the charge itself and an unsubstantiated claim that she had once taken a pistol-firing course at an American firing range. No evidence was presented of her fingerprints on the rifle that this frail and broken 100-pound woman had allegedly seized from an American soldier. No evidence was presented that a weapon was fired, no bullets, no shell casings, no bullet holes. Just an accusation.

Wikipedia has this to say about the trial: “The trial took an unusual turn when an FBI official asserted that the fingerprints taken from the rifle, which was purportedly used by Aafia to shoot at the U.S. interrogators, did not match hers.”

An ignorant and bigoted American jury convicted her for being a Muslim. This is the kind of “justice” that always results when the state hypes fear and demonizes a group.

The people who should have been on trial are the people who abducted her, disappeared her young children, shipped her across international borders, violated her civil liberties, tortured her apparently for the fun of it, raped her, and attempted to murder her with two gunshots to her stomach. Instead, the victim was put on trial and convicted.

This is the unmistakable hallmark of a police state. And this victim is an American citizen.

Anyone can be next. Indeed, on February 3 Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee that it was now “defined policy” that the U.S. government can murder its own citizens on the sole basis of someone in the government’s judgment that an American is a threat. No arrest, no trial, no conviction, just execution on suspicion of being a threat.

This shows how far the police state has advanced. A presidential appointee in the Obama administration tells an important committee of Congress that the executive branch has decided that it can murder American citizens abroad if it thinks they are a threat.

I can hear readers saying the government might as well kill Americans abroad as it kills them at home – Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Black Panthers.

Yes, the U.S. government has murdered its citizens, but Dennis Blair’s “defined policy” is a bold new development. The government, of course, denies that it intended to kill the Branch Davidians, Randy Weaver’s wife and child, or the Black Panthers. The government says that Waco was a terrible tragedy, an unintended result brought on by the Branch Davidians themselves. The government says that Ruby Ridge was Randy Weaver’s fault for not appearing in court on a day that had been miscommunicated to him, The Black Panthers, the government says, were dangerous criminals who insisted on a shoot-out.

In no previous death of a U.S. citizen by the hands of the U.S. government has the government claimed the right to kill Americans without arrest, trial, and conviction of a capital crime.

In contrast, Dennis Blair has told the U.S. Congress that the executive branch has assumed the right to murder Americans who it deems a “threat.”

What defines “threat”? Who will make the decision? What it means is that the government will murder whomever it chooses.

There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as a “threat.”

Ironic, isn’t it, that “the war on terror” to make us safe ends in a police state with the government declaring the right to murder American citizens who it regards as a threat.

Read more at LewRockwell.com

Propaganda Stunt Designed by Democrats

Looks more like a case of "Say it, don't spray it."