Cops are so out of control these days!

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I know this is a bit off topic. I hope its ok with @Prime C

Take a peek at this shit I dug up today. Not sure how many of you have seen this. No wonder everyone in the White House didnt want Snowden to release this crap. They smeared him, ran him off, and now wanted for treason. OMG really......... Not for the faint of heart. Keep in mind reviewing this is happening to innocents.

I hope I am long gone by the time the "Karma" generated comes to visit us on American soil.

 

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I want to take just a few minutes of your time because this is really important. Please read this article, watch the videos and check out the documentaries linked below. If you’ve got any friends in the Army or know anyone considering joining up please share it with them.

“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, former U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

War is part of human history, we have fought each other for millennia. In most cases wars have been waged to take territories and resources. All major nations have won their power through blood and iron. Not a lot has changed today. Big players still try to dominate the world by playing out a grand chess game. They conspire to deceive and manipulate the public through propaganda campaigns and false flag operations, they often invent non-existent threats to justify their actions. Soldiers are led to believe that they are fighting for a just cause to protect their countries, but in many cases this is a travesty of the truth.

The Iraq war began in 2003 but it was merely one of a legion of conflicts involving the US in the last 200 years. The pretext for invasion was the supposed threat to international security raised by Iraq allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction. These were never found in the end. Initially, the American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claimed that military intervention would cost no more than $60 billion and predicted that the war would not last longer than 5 months. In fact, the American-led occupation lasted for 9 years and may well have to return following the rise of the Islamic State. Brown University has estimated that it has cost the US more than $2 trillion, over 40 times the initial projections, and it could go beyond a staggering figure of $6 trillion. Some sources suggest the death toll has exceeded more than one million people.

SO WHAT WERE THE REAL REASONS FOR THIS WAR?
Just take a moment and watch this testimony by General Wesley Clark:


Some of the countries he mentioned experienced American military intervention. Not everything happened according to plan, but let’s focus on Iraq in this instance. The US and its allies hoped to benefit from this war in several respects but the main prize was oil. Iraq has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and the US had already planned to take control of its supplies much earlier.

The following statement made by Dick Cheney in 1990 before the Senate Armed Services Committee can be seen to reveal the true purpose of the invasion:“Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.”

THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
In September 2000 the policy paper entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century” was composed by the neoconservative think tank Project For The New American Century (PNAC) of which Dick Cheney was a member. Established in 1997 its main goal was “to promote American global leadership”.

The report explains:

“The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” The PNAC document supports a “blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”

This “American grand strategy” must be advanced for “as far into the future as possible”, the report says. It also calls for the US to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars” as a “core mission”.

The PNAC report also: refers to key allies such as the UK as “the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership.”

SWITCHING FROM THE DOLLAR TO THE EURO.
In late 2000 Saddam Hussein switched oil trade from dollars to euros, which infuriated Washington. They decided to do so since they didn’t want to trade “in the currency of the enemy.”

The dollar is a fiat currency, it is not backed by anything, it can only maintain its position because it is used for trading worldwide. If more countries choose to switch to another form of payment it could have catastrophic consequences for the American economy.

OTHER PUPPETS PLAYED THEIR PART.
In this video from 2003, Stephen Harper, a Canadian politician who later became prime minister, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard delivered largely identical speeches urging their nations to join George W. Bush’s Coalition to invade Iraq.


The official explanation was that it was the speechwriter who was responsible for this imitation and that Stephen Harper was unaware of this “plagiarism.”

Whatever the truth of this matter, when a political leader makes such a critical decision like sending their soldiers to war they should have the moral integrity to act in the interests of their own people independently.

IRAQ’S MISSING BILLIONS AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
On January 17th 1961 President Eisenhower, who had been Supreme Allied Commander in WW2,made a famous farewell speech at the end of his term warning the nation about the looming danger of the military-industrial-complex.


Since the date of this speech the American military industry has expanded on an unimaginable scale.

The US spends more on defense every year than the next 10 highest spending countries in the world combined!

According to a recent study conducted by Morgan Stanley (cited in Barron’s, 6/9/14, p. 19) stocks in military-industries have risen 27,699% versus 6,777% for the overall market in the last 50 years. Eisenhower’s fears have turned out to be true. War is a business and there are many ways in which special interests and particular individuals can profit from it.

Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, the Development Fund for Iraq was formed collecting over $20 billion of Iraqi money from oil sales and assets seized from Iraqi bank accounts and wealth funds. The US and the UK were given the authority to use these assets to build new roads, improve health services and rebuild Iraq. Many of the corporations which acquired contracts for the reconstruction were connected to the Bush administration and the largest recipient of Iraq’s resources was Halliburton, whose CEO had happened to be Vice-President Dick Cheney. The whole project ended up being a complete failure: the companies were stealing money, overcharging, delivering substandard work or doing no work at all. This documentary tells the story of what really took place.

IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTS LEAK
On 22nd October 2010, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports gathered from between 2004 to 2009 during the war in Iraq. This leak revealed a rather different view to official reports. Some of the atrocities include civilians ruthlessly killed by coalition forces, physical and mental abuse of prisoners by American troops and the authorities deliberately ignoring torture by the Iraqi security forces. Fortunately enough there were a few soldiers who decided to tell the truth about what has been happening in the wars in Middle East. Please take a moment and listen to what they have to say:


What should be considered before joining the Army.

“I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm and dragged into the street. We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation.” – Mike Prysner, Iraq Veteran

In 2012 the US military suicide rate exceeded the number of deaths on the battlefield. We can not even imagine what horrific traumas these combatants had to suffer and how severely it affected them. Recent reports in the UK, for example, show that more than 10% of the British Army are unfit for duty. These veterans have been injured, are disabled or have serious psychological issues like post-traumatic stress disorder.

In the UK you can become a soldier as early as when you’re 16, and once you are 12 you can become a member of the Army Cadet Force. It isn’t a surprise that at such a young age people are not fully developed emotionally and often don’t realise the implications of joining the Army. They will have been attracted by ads and slogans which offer the prospect of a fantastic adventure. Having been brought up on a diet of violent video games and movies, these kids imagine that it will be great fun – the thrill of a lifetime. The fun ends when you lose your leg or your best friend dies.

WAR DOES NOT SOLVE ANYTHING.
War creates terrible human suffering, causes appalling environmental devastation and also wastes enormous sums of money. In 2012 the military budget in the US had reached $737 billion when only 30 billion dollars would be enough to feed all the hungry people on the planet for the whole year.

Why would you want to kill anyone?

Soldiers follow orders, they go to war, they kill their opponents who are just soldiers like them, they only fight because they are doing what they’re told or because they have to defend themselves from being attacked. Meanwhile those who send people to wars rip off the profits and sit comfortably in their offices while others are dying for their greed.

How can we make a difference?

The example given above showing Iraq war crimes is not an isolated incident, the difference is that it took place in times where it is much harder to control the information and it becomes easier to see the lies thanks to the Internet and independent media. Although I have highlighted the US war in Iraq it doesn’t mean that other nations are any better.

We can stop this slaughter but only if we work together. You can play your part by sharing this material with your friends, and especially anyone you might know who is thinking of joining the military.

There will be several thousand people who will read this article. If everyone could share it via social media or with their network of friends this would massively multiply the numbers of people who read it and potentially change many people’s minds. We do our job trying to find out and connect the dots so please do yours and share this material with as many people as possible. We all have to work together, people are dying, trillions in taxpayer money is being wasted profiting the few. It has to end.

I strongly recommend to watch those documentaries:

Iraq’s Secret War Files
What Happened to Iraq’s Missing Billions
Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
The War You Don’t See

References:

image credit

http://www.businessinsider.com/iraq-costs-way-higher-than-estimated-2013-3#ixzz3GVKrTeLw
http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-forces-troops-unfit-duty-3407272
http://www.heraldscotland.com/bush-planned-iraq-regime-change-before-becoming-president-1.829221
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS21626.pdf
http://rt.com/usa/us-army-suicide-rate-025/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAC209A.html

Mike Sygula is a blogger and activist promoting alternative ideas to raise public consciousness of the important issues facing humankind. He is currently involved in establishing Awe Academy, an open source learning and teaching platform which he is now crowdfunding for. You can learn more about Awe Academy by visiting his Indiegogo campaign Click here to read more articles by Mike Sygula, or follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.sygula

 

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No wonder people hate us!!!!

 

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I just want to point out that in the above video from photography is not a crime, ultimately the situation was handled appropriately.

The most alarming thing in the video is not actually the actions of any of the men involved, it's actually the protocol. One specific part of the protocol actually:

In general both MP and PO protocol (again I say for emphasis--in general) calls for an officer who believes he may be approaching a subject who is armed to hold his firing hand close to his sidearm so that he is prepared to draw in the event the subject is armed and has ill intentions.

There is a glaring problem with this:

Both the right to life and the right to protect one's life are mutual rights between subject and officer. BEGINNING an exchange by signaling that one or the other parties life may be at risk by placing one's hand on a sidearm is psychologically not very helpful.

Unfortunately there is also a problem with suggesting we go the other direction, namely that often enough an officer's life IS in jeopardy when approaching an armed suspect that his prophylactic posturing IS in fact reasonable. It is true that these public officials work for the people and are there to protect people's rights--but their job description does not call for them to put themselves in harms way without any reasonable precautions taken regarding their own safety.

The officers do not stop being people just because they put a uniform on, they have as much right to protect themselves as you do.

LEGALLY none of this plays out that way in court. Legally the MP was outside of his jurisdiction and the photographer could have shot him dead as soon as he reached for his sidearm--assuming he was a faster shot than Spc. Ruiz--but we all know that if he had done that he'd probably be in the middle of a federal case right now. When he saw the officer place his hand on, or even indeed move his hand toward, the weapon he could have easily claimed that his life was in danger and he felt compelled to act in self defense.

All of that being said, I think there's something particularly asinine about framing this whole argument in a way which suggests that officers ought not to have a reasonable suspicion that they might have cause to fear for their lives. We all ALSO know THAT isn't the case. Officers are killed in the line of duty, and they have a right to protect themselves same as you. You might even say they have a duty to their families to protect themselves (so they can continue to provide for them).

So the problem we have is we've got a good old fashioned Catch-22 at play here:

On one hand we want to be free from threatening posturing on the part of law enforcement officials

On the other hand we, of course, want officers to be safe and to go home to their families when their shifts end.

So what is the solution?

Well I think the reality is that there is never going to be a solution that allows us to establish the ideal situation wherein no one ever feels threatened by police and no police are ever killed. That's an unreasonable goal and is as silly to wish for as any other utopian ideal.

That said, I think there is something we can reasonably do to make things easier for people on both sides and to reduce the need for encounters like this one:

Scratch some of the frivolous laws off the books. The more petty ridiculous laws you have, the more likely it is that you end up shooting a guy who was Jaywalking (Michael Brown) or killing a 12 year old for holding an airsoft gun in an open-carry state. If no ones life is in danger and no serious financial offense has occured (larceny, destruction of property, etc) then very often the reality is that the police just are not needed.

The reality is that a great deal of police stops are for the purpose of petty citations which serve the greater purpose of generating income for the very departments issuing them. The citations are, in many cases, an example of ends in themselves.

Even more egregious are stops like this one, where no law is being broken and no legitimate state, county, or local interest dictates that an encounter must even taken place. They are what I like to call "Hey, what's going on" stops.

This is a culture issue, for regular citizens AND for police officers. We cannot deny that things have reached what appears to be a fever pitch in this country. As I've stated we can't deny that there is reasonable expectation that violence might occur on both sides of the thin blue line. I don't think that goes away really from this point onward, owing mostly to the way the world has developed--but I do think that we can mediate some of the nasty effects by changing the culture a bit.

Let's get police officers off these petty beats and put them back to work as a protective, rather than an interrogative, force.

Let's change the way investigations and stops are carried out from top to bottom.

The major problem in the police force is the police are VERY OFTEN looking for chances to upgrade the charges they already have in hand. An example of what I mean:

I'm in college. Sometimes (not really anymore, but bear with me) I throw parties. Sometimes the parties are loud and the police receive a noise complaint from a neighbor. The police come by to issue a citation and ask me to quiet down.

Now, if you've ever been to such a party, you know that very often officers attempt to either look into or gain entry to the residence. Very seldom is their main focus on actually issuing the citation--it's usually on looking out for underage drinking or drug use or something else WORSE than the noise citiation they are there to issue.

The way I handle this is EXACTLY as follows, every time:

I greet the officers and immediately let them know that I will be stepping out of the residence to speak with them (I announce this to avoid them feeling threatened when I move towards them). I then step out and close the door behind me.

I ask them why the problem is and the story takes one of two forks.

1. They ask me what's going on in the house.
2. They notify me that a noise complaint has been issued and they are here to either warn or cite me.

If #1, I ask them again why they are here completely ignoring their questions until we get to #2.

Once they notify me of the citation or warning, very often the conversation immediately jumps back to what is going on in the residence.

To which my reply is, universally, "It was a noise complaint, not a see what the fuck I'm up to complaint."

The story then usually forks again.

1. They issue the citation/warning and leave.
2. They get all uppity and are subject to my beratement until they issue the citation/warning and leave (usually a citation in this case).

The point I'm making is not that I'm aweome, even though I feel super awesome when I say that line--every time I say it. The point actually may have gone over your head because it's SUCH AN INGRAINED part of policework these days that we overlook it.

This entire time the dude was just looking for something else on me or someone at my residence. There is this searching and grasping nature of police work. Always eyes peeled, always looking for trouble.

I say that's fine if you're out driving your patrol car around or bike-copping it hard on some trail.

It is NOT fine when you have identified a violation and are working through the process of issuing a citation for a misdemeanor or petty crime.

I claim that we could reduce the citizen/police tension enormously if we could ONLY convince police to stop looking for MORE citations to give when they already have one right in front of them.

Think how different things would be if when a traffic stop happened, instead of anyone even getting out of their vehicles--we used some of our insanely robust technology to allow the officer and the citizen to converse from the safety of their vehicles. If license, registration, and insurance information could be easily trasnmitted or accessed by the officer without ever having to step foot out of his car.

This is not something that is outside of our grasp. If we pushed hard enough we could have something like this rolled out in the next 20 years or so.

The REASON things aren't this way is the culture of police dictates that they aren't interested in giving up chances for "extras". They want to pull you over for speeding initially, but they hope they will find drugs or discover that you are impaired. It's not that catching impaired drivers is a bad thing, it's the subtle difference between an officer who is acting on information he has and one who is acting on information he HOPES to have which presents the issue.

We can't ask cops to go out there and just die if someone decides to kill them, and we can't ask them not to be scared someone will--or to exercise their right to defend themselves.

We can ask them to cut the shit, though.

Let's not forget, however, what the root of all of this is. We, or those before us, wanted safety. What ended up happening is we wanted SO MUCH safety that we let the dog off its leash and now we're reaping the benefits. It sounds cliche, but we have in many ways bartered our liberty for safety. That the police are so up in our shit is partly if not mostly a function of this ill-conceived tradeoff. That's not the fault of police.

That is OUR fault.

It's a cliche to be sure, but cliches--like stereotypes--very often are rooted in reality even if they do not universally apply.

TLDR:

Citizens should stop being such pussies.

Cops should stop being so fucking nosy.

We need about 5,000 less laws concerning petty misdemeanors.

We need about 5,000% more competence of the law in our police force.

Make those 4 things happen and we're in business. Keep up the status quo and, well, you get it.

 

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Citizens should stop being pussies

 

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Citizens should stop being pussies

I just want to point out that in the above video from photography is not a crime, ultimately the situation was handled appropriately.

The most alarming thing in the video is not actually the actions of any of the men involved, it's actually the protocol. One specific part of the protocol actually:

In general both MP and PO protocol (again I say for emphasis--in general) calls for an officer who believes he may be approaching a subject who is armed to hold his firing hand close to his sidearm so that he is prepared to draw in the event the subject is armed and has ill intentions.

There is a glaring problem with this:

Both the right to life and the right to protect one's life are mutual rights between subject and officer. BEGINNING an exchange by signaling that one or the other parties life may be at risk by placing one's hand on a sidearm is psychologically not very helpful.

Unfortunately there is also a problem with suggesting we go the other direction, namely that often enough an officer's life IS in jeopardy when approaching an armed suspect that his prophylactic posturing IS in fact reasonable. It is true that these public officials work for the people and are there to protect people's rights--but their job description does not call for them to put themselves in harms way without any reasonable precautions taken regarding their own safety.

The officers do not stop being people just because they put a uniform on, they have as much right to protect themselves as you do.

LEGALLY none of this plays out that way in court. Legally the MP was outside of his jurisdiction and the photographer could have shot him dead as soon as he reached for his sidearm--assuming he was a faster shot than Spc. Ruiz--but we all know that if he had done that he'd probably be in the middle of a federal case right now. When he saw the officer place his hand on, or even indeed move his hand toward, the weapon he could have easily claimed that his life was in danger and he felt compelled to act in self defense.

All of that being said, I think there's something particularly asinine about framing this whole argument in a way which suggests that officers ought not to have a reasonable suspicion that they might have cause to fear for their lives. We all ALSO know THAT isn't the case. Officers are killed in the line of duty, and they have a right to protect themselves same as you. You might even say they have a duty to their families to protect themselves (so they can continue to provide for them).

So the problem we have is we've got a good old fashioned Catch-22 at play here:

On one hand we want to be free from threatening posturing on the part of law enforcement officials

On the other hand we, of course, want officers to be safe and to go home to their families when their shifts end.

So what is the solution?

Well I think the reality is that there is never going to be a solution that allows us to establish the ideal situation wherein no one ever feels threatened by police and no police are ever killed. That's an unreasonable goal and is as silly to wish for as any other utopian ideal.

That said, I think there is something we can reasonably do to make things easier for people on both sides and to reduce the need for encounters like this one:

Scratch some of the frivolous laws off the books. The more petty ridiculous laws you have, the more likely it is that you end up shooting a guy who was Jaywalking (Michael Brown) or killing a 12 year old for holding an airsoft gun in an open-carry state. If no ones life is in danger and no serious financial offense has occured (larceny, destruction of property, etc) then very often the reality is that the police just are not needed.

The reality is that a great deal of police stops are for the purpose of petty citations which serve the greater purpose of generating income for the very departments issuing them. The citations are, in many cases, an example of ends in themselves.

Even more egregious are stops like this one, where no law is being broken and no legitimate state, county, or local interest dictates that an encounter must even taken place. They are what I like to call "Hey, what's going on" stops.

This is a culture issue, for regular citizens AND for police officers. We cannot deny that things have reached what appears to be a fever pitch in this country. As I've stated we can't deny that there is reasonable expectation that violence might occur on both sides of the thin blue line. I don't think that goes away really from this point onward, owing mostly to the way the world has developed--but I do think that we can mediate some of the nasty effects by changing the culture a bit.

Let's get police officers off these petty beats and put them back to work as a protective, rather than an interrogative, force.

Let's change the way investigations and stops are carried out from top to bottom.

The major problem in the police force is the police are VERY OFTEN looking for chances to upgrade the charges they already have in hand. An example of what I mean:

I'm in college. Sometimes (not really anymore, but bear with me) I throw parties. Sometimes the parties are loud and the police receive a noise complaint from a neighbor. The police come by to issue a citation and ask me to quiet down.

Now, if you've ever been to such a party, you know that very often officers attempt to either look into or gain entry to the residence. Very seldom is their main focus on actually issuing the citation--it's usually on looking out for underage drinking or drug use or something else WORSE than the noise citiation they are there to issue.

The way I handle this is EXACTLY as follows, every time:

I greet the officers and immediately let them know that I will be stepping out of the residence to speak with them (I announce this to avoid them feeling threatened when I move towards them). I then step out and close the door behind me.

I ask them why the problem is and the story takes one of two forks.

1. They ask me what's going on in the house.
2. They notify me that a noise complaint has been issued and they are here to either warn or cite me.

If #1, I ask them again why they are here completely ignoring their questions until we get to #2.

Once they notify me of the citation or warning, very often the conversation immediately jumps back to what is going on in the residence.

To which my reply is, universally, "It was a noise complaint, not a see what the fuck I'm up to complaint."

The story then usually forks again.

1. They issue the citation/warning and leave.
2. They get all uppity and are subject to my beratement until they issue the citation/warning and leave (usually a citation in this case).

The point I'm making is not that I'm aweome, even though I feel super awesome when I say that line--every time I say it. The point actually may have gone over your head because it's SUCH AN INGRAINED part of policework these days that we overlook it.

This entire time the dude was just looking for something else on me or someone at my residence. There is this searching and grasping nature of police work. Always eyes peeled, always looking for trouble.

I say that's fine if you're out driving your patrol car around or bike-copping it hard on some trail.

It is NOT fine when you have identified a violation and are working through the process of issuing a citation for a misdemeanor or petty crime.

I claim that we could reduce the citizen/police tension enormously if we could ONLY convince police to stop looking for MORE citations to give when they already have one right in front of them.

Think how different things would be if when a traffic stop happened, instead of anyone even getting out of their vehicles--we used some of our insanely robust technology to allow the officer and the citizen to converse from the safety of their vehicles. If license, registration, and insurance information could be easily trasnmitted or accessed by the officer without ever having to step foot out of his car.

This is not something that is outside of our grasp. If we pushed hard enough we could have something like this rolled out in the next 20 years or so.

The REASON things aren't this way is the culture of police dictates that they aren't interested in giving up chances for "extras". They want to pull you over for speeding initially, but they hope they will find drugs or discover that you are impaired. It's not that catching impaired drivers is a bad thing, it's the subtle difference between an officer who is acting on information he has and one who is acting on information he HOPES to have which presents the issue.

We can't ask cops to go out there and just die if someone decides to kill them, and we can't ask them not to be scared someone will--or to exercise their right to defend themselves.

We can ask them to cut the shit, though.

Let's not forget, however, what the root of all of this is. We, or those before us, wanted safety. What ended up happening is we wanted SO MUCH safety that we let the dog off its leash and now we're reaping the benefits. It sounds cliche, but we have in many ways bartered our liberty for safety. That the police are so up in our shit is partly if not mostly a function of this ill-conceived tradeoff. That's not the fault of police.

That is OUR fault.

It's a cliche to be sure, but cliches--like stereotypes--very often are rooted in reality even if they do not universally apply.

TLDR:

Citizens should stop being such pussies.

Cops should stop being so fucking nosy.

We need about 5,000 less laws concerning petty misdemeanors.

We need about 5,000% more competence of the law in our police force.

Make those 4 things happen and we're in business. Keep up the status quo and, well, you get it.

Lol damn squiggly I was so lucky I didn't get myself shot.....three guns on me all screaming look away or were going to shoot you, and I said no way, I'm going to watch you guys shoot me! And they let me go with a warning of death with out getting shot but I got two misdemeanors I have court for. I must admit I felt like a pussy the whole time. I didn't want to get shot. My chest has not been the same sense, first of September this happen ive had constant intense chest pressure and migraines, anxiety plus other symptoms but I doubt it's related....

 

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im a pussy too Caveman. Im so pussy my coolots are riding up. Oh i felt such the pussy when 5 cops beat me while in the assumed position at 14 y.o. Boy . What a puss eh . I cant count how many times guns have been on me. Man , they swatted my grandma when i called and was turning myself in for attempted murder. My grandma wanted to know why they had to come in like that at 11 pm.. What a pussy she was or asking eh. Talk about over doing it ! lol . At 16 I had at least 8 guns on me at once by cops stopping 1-5 traffic across from boeing field seattle mid day being forced over with stolen car , guns and assault which i beat because never happened. lol. Causack dude shouldnt have drank and pull guns on kids while trying to get them drunk . DUMBFUCK . He dropped all charges when he found out i was being sent back. lol. Yep , Didnt get shot but plenty of death threats by the cops that time. Yes sir , Showing us kids how manly they are . lol. Down in l.a. back when gangs were grooving in l.a. way before the m.t.v. bullshit they would put rookie cops in sunland tahunga area and i never seen this fear then . and PCP labs were blowing up right and left.Never till recent have i had cops act frightened of me when walking up like that dude on the vid. I rented from a cop for 18 years and he says the fear bulshit is outta control. funny in 18 years and standing 5 foot from my grow of stinky trainwreck and u.w.for about a decade ., He never new. lol. trained professional . lol. He even picked a leaf outta my hair one time . Was a great landlord though . Left me alone. The soverning stuff the cops mentioned cracked me up. I felt like one of them more than a pussy when a cop ask me for my ssi because i had no record and told him i dont have to give him my number ! For that backup was called. And oh ya. He dropped the charge thier and then. The brainiack was looking at highschhool girls getting outta school and i pass him in school zone doing speed limit. I get up to a 4 way and stop. He throws on his lights. Me and wife are like WTF now. This liar then proceeds to tell me i was going 45 in a school zone. Im tell him ver batim ," you gotta be one dumbfuck idiot to pass a cop in a school zone speeding." I had brainfog and only left house once a year for haircut because pretty homebound and forgot my liscense unfortunatly . Hadnt drove in months.Wrote me for that. I guess my inlaws are pussies . oy ya, cops see them with friends at houses and cops stop by just to do unwarranted search and hit on thier girlfriends as soemone puts flower in one car and saying its coke and taking them to jail one time . He got off . Or a young girl i knew. She lived next to a cop in burien wa. The cop got shot and his family still lived in house. So this girl is 8 months pregnant and has a few friends over for a baby shower . They had asked the cops wife if they can park in her driveway next door too because of neighboorhood parking be next to nill there on thier hill . So this cop sees cars in the shot cops driveway. He stops goes up to the house and knocks and when she opens the door he violently grabs her pussy wrist and turns her arm behind her back in a stress position causing mass pain while questioning her and she calls for her mom to straighten this out. . She was 17 about. Underage. He actully stepped into the house and grabbed her up before anything happened or a question was asked. Can you believe the shit they do.
Theres a reason the " pussy " feds are looking at law enforcment in seattle area. For how they treat teen girls i especially call these psychopaths
" PUSS in BOOTS " .:)


I'd like to thank Snowden and Wikileaks for spillin the beans. Oh , off topic but i found my pop on wikileaks the other day.. :p

 

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I want to take just a few minutes of your time because this is really important. Please read this article, watch the videos and check out the documentaries linked below. If you’ve got any friends in the Army or know anyone considering joining up please share it with them.

“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, former U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

War is part of human history, we have fought each other for millennia. In most cases wars have been waged to take territories and resources. All major nations have won their power through blood and iron. Not a lot has changed today. Big players still try to dominate the world by playing out a grand chess game. They conspire to deceive and manipulate the public through propaganda campaigns and false flag operations, they often invent non-existent threats to justify their actions. Soldiers are led to believe that they are fighting for a just cause to protect their countries, but in many cases this is a travesty of the truth.

The Iraq war began in 2003 but it was merely one of a legion of conflicts involving the US in the last 200 years. The pretext for invasion was the supposed threat to international security raised by Iraq allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction. These were never found in the end. Initially, the American Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claimed that military intervention would cost no more than $60 billion and predicted that the war would not last longer than 5 months. In fact, the American-led occupation lasted for 9 years and may well have to return following the rise of the Islamic State. Brown University has estimated that it has cost the US more than $2 trillion, over 40 times the initial projections, and it could go beyond a staggering figure of $6 trillion. Some sources suggest the death toll has exceeded more than one million people.

SO WHAT WERE THE REAL REASONS FOR THIS WAR?
Just take a moment and watch this testimony by General Wesley Clark:


Some of the countries he mentioned experienced American military intervention. Not everything happened according to plan, but let’s focus on Iraq in this instance. The US and its allies hoped to benefit from this war in several respects but the main prize was oil. Iraq has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and the US had already planned to take control of its supplies much earlier.

The following statement made by Dick Cheney in 1990 before the Senate Armed Services Committee can be seen to reveal the true purpose of the invasion:“Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.”

THE PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
In September 2000 the policy paper entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century” was composed by the neoconservative think tank Project For The New American Century (PNAC) of which Dick Cheney was a member. Established in 1997 its main goal was “to promote American global leadership”.

The report explains:

“The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” The PNAC document supports a “blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”

This “American grand strategy” must be advanced for “as far into the future as possible”, the report says. It also calls for the US to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars” as a “core mission”.

The PNAC report also: refers to key allies such as the UK as “the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership.”

SWITCHING FROM THE DOLLAR TO THE EURO.
In late 2000 Saddam Hussein switched oil trade from dollars to euros, which infuriated Washington. They decided to do so since they didn’t want to trade “in the currency of the enemy.”

The dollar is a fiat currency, it is not backed by anything, it can only maintain its position because it is used for trading worldwide. If more countries choose to switch to another form of payment it could have catastrophic consequences for the American economy.

OTHER PUPPETS PLAYED THEIR PART.
In this video from 2003, Stephen Harper, a Canadian politician who later became prime minister, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard delivered largely identical speeches urging their nations to join George W. Bush’s Coalition to invade Iraq.


The official explanation was that it was the speechwriter who was responsible for this imitation and that Stephen Harper was unaware of this “plagiarism.”

Whatever the truth of this matter, when a political leader makes such a critical decision like sending their soldiers to war they should have the moral integrity to act in the interests of their own people independently.

IRAQ’S MISSING BILLIONS AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
On January 17th 1961 President Eisenhower, who had been Supreme Allied Commander in WW2,made a famous farewell speech at the end of his term warning the nation about the looming danger of the military-industrial-complex.


Since the date of this speech the American military industry has expanded on an unimaginable scale.

The US spends more on defense every year than the next 10 highest spending countries in the world combined!

According to a recent study conducted by Morgan Stanley (cited in Barron’s, 6/9/14, p. 19) stocks in military-industries have risen 27,699% versus 6,777% for the overall market in the last 50 years. Eisenhower’s fears have turned out to be true. War is a business and there are many ways in which special interests and particular individuals can profit from it.

Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, the Development Fund for Iraq was formed collecting over $20 billion of Iraqi money from oil sales and assets seized from Iraqi bank accounts and wealth funds. The US and the UK were given the authority to use these assets to build new roads, improve health services and rebuild Iraq. Many of the corporations which acquired contracts for the reconstruction were connected to the Bush administration and the largest recipient of Iraq’s resources was Halliburton, whose CEO had happened to be Vice-President Dick Cheney. The whole project ended up being a complete failure: the companies were stealing money, overcharging, delivering substandard work or doing no work at all. This documentary tells the story of what really took place.

IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTS LEAK
On 22nd October 2010, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports gathered from between 2004 to 2009 during the war in Iraq. This leak revealed a rather different view to official reports. Some of the atrocities include civilians ruthlessly killed by coalition forces, physical and mental abuse of prisoners by American troops and the authorities deliberately ignoring torture by the Iraqi security forces. Fortunately enough there were a few soldiers who decided to tell the truth about what has been happening in the wars in Middle East. Please take a moment and listen to what they have to say:


What should be considered before joining the Army.

“I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl, like the one I grabbed by the arm and dragged into the street. We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation.” – Mike Prysner, Iraq Veteran

In 2012 the US military suicide rate exceeded the number of deaths on the battlefield. We can not even imagine what horrific traumas these combatants had to suffer and how severely it affected them. Recent reports in the UK, for example, show that more than 10% of the British Army are unfit for duty. These veterans have been injured, are disabled or have serious psychological issues like post-traumatic stress disorder.

In the UK you can become a soldier as early as when you’re 16, and once you are 12 you can become a member of the Army Cadet Force. It isn’t a surprise that at such a young age people are not fully developed emotionally and often don’t realise the implications of joining the Army. They will have been attracted by ads and slogans which offer the prospect of a fantastic adventure. Having been brought up on a diet of violent video games and movies, these kids imagine that it will be great fun – the thrill of a lifetime. The fun ends when you lose your leg or your best friend dies.

WAR DOES NOT SOLVE ANYTHING.
War creates terrible human suffering, causes appalling environmental devastation and also wastes enormous sums of money. In 2012 the military budget in the US had reached $737 billion when only 30 billion dollars would be enough to feed all the hungry people on the planet for the whole year.

Why would you want to kill anyone?

Soldiers follow orders, they go to war, they kill their opponents who are just soldiers like them, they only fight because they are doing what they’re told or because they have to defend themselves from being attacked. Meanwhile those who send people to wars rip off the profits and sit comfortably in their offices while others are dying for their greed.

How can we make a difference?

The example given above showing Iraq war crimes is not an isolated incident, the difference is that it took place in times where it is much harder to control the information and it becomes easier to see the lies thanks to the Internet and independent media. Although I have highlighted the US war in Iraq it doesn’t mean that other nations are any better.

We can stop this slaughter but only if we work together. You can play your part by sharing this material with your friends, and especially anyone you might know who is thinking of joining the military.

There will be several thousand people who will read this article. If everyone could share it via social media or with their network of friends this would massively multiply the numbers of people who read it and potentially change many people’s minds. We do our job trying to find out and connect the dots so please do yours and share this material with as many people as possible. We all have to work together, people are dying, trillions in taxpayer money is being wasted profiting the few. It has to end.

I strongly recommend to watch those documentaries:

Iraq’s Secret War Files
What Happened to Iraq’s Missing Billions
Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
The War You Don’t See

References:

image credit

http://www.businessinsider.com/iraq-costs-way-higher-than-estimated-2013-3#ixzz3GVKrTeLw
http://borgenproject.org/the-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/armed-forces-troops-unfit-duty-3407272
http://www.heraldscotland.com/bush-planned-iraq-regime-change-before-becoming-president-1.829221
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS21626.pdf
http://rt.com/usa/us-army-suicide-rate-025/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAC209A.html

Mike Sygula is a blogger and activist promoting alternative ideas to raise public consciousness of the important issues facing humankind. He is currently involved in establishing Awe Academy, an open source learning and teaching platform which he is now crowdfunding for. You can learn more about Awe Academy by visiting his Indiegogo campaign Click here to read more articles by Mike Sygula, or follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.sygula

Good stuff .Jumpin . Its all tied together !As earlier posted videos show art reflects reality , yet to these unfortunate souls , reality reflects art ......



Kissinger is so evil !! FUCK EVIL !

 

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Just for the hell of it :D

 

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Ive done what you say about spreading all that and more to family members Jumpin . They are to brainwashed to realize reality in front of them. For my trouble i got one nefew just sighned up for 8 years with the service. Ah , fun with D.U. Pick a subject where we are being led down the wrong path and they will still follow it. You can show them things like this " Flu vaccine kills 13 in Italy; death toll rises " they disregarde and line up for chance at the wheel of death still . For this one nefew is ten and now talks like a little baby . Baby talker ! Neato , SSRI up. so sad. 2 down , 3 to go. FUCK !
Hey but what would one expect from a person trained in law inforcement and who sucks down aspartame like its going out of style and who did all the cop training except academy before back problem curbed that. Yep , my last wish was to help others before i died. Dont know why i wasted my time. Heres how out their people can be. Dude takes his ten year old to dr. for heartburn. He was telling me how pissed off at the dr. he was for his help and that he was going to complain top higher up.. His wife an indoctrinmated nurse. 'fleeced " !i laughed at after he told me the dr. told him to change his diet. seamed like the best advice he could get . unreal man .

 

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r.i.p. Kelly Thomas. What a pussy he was eh.!

 

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It so telling how the scumball pigs dont like you being actually protected. Perfect example in Fergasun.....

 

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Lets take a trip in the way back machine for another example....



Just when people actually need thier guns .Go figure.

 

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Damn cold dry air. Wheres my lip gloss.:)

Just Like The Stasi
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Don't you just love those Americans who celebrate how free they are under America's national-security state system?

I wonder if such Americans also celebrated how free people were who lived under East Germany's national-security state system.

I just read an interesting story in the New York Times about how the East German Stasi was confiscating art from wealthy East Germans. They would simply raid people's homes, take valuable art, and then sell it, putting the money into the state's coffers. According to the article, "between 1973 and 1989 the East German police, known as the Stasi, seized more than 200,000 objects in hundreds of raids."

Why did the authorities do that? Because the government needed the money.

Why not simply raise taxes? Because people don't like paying taxes. Anyway, why go through the taxing process when you can just barge into people's homes and take their possessions?

As I read that article, what immediately occurred to me was that that is precisely what law-enforcement officials, the DEA, and the IRS are doing today in the United States. They're simply stopping people on the highways and seizing large amounts of cash from them or going to banks and ordering the bank to turn over people's money to the state. They call the process "asset forfeiture," a name that I'm sure the Stasi would have approved of for what they were doing.

Under asset forfeiture, people aren't charged with a crime. They just have their assets forcibly taken from them. If anyone forcibly objects, he is carted away to jail for resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer in the performance of his duties.

At least that's not as bad as what the East German regime did to 79-year-old German Helmuth Meissner, who objected to the taking of his artwork. They committed him to a psychiatric hospital and labeled him an enemy of the state. And why not? What could be crazier and more unpatriotic than to oppose the government's stealing of your property to fund its activities?

Moreover, the Stasi didn't limit their looting to artwork. In Meissner's case, they also hauled away typewriters, measuring tapes, and coffee makers.

U.S. officials do not limit their looting to cash either. They are currently stealing people's cars, homes, businesses, and other assets. In fact, I'll bet that in some instances the loot even includes art work.

Why are state, local, and federal officials engaged in the same sort of conduct that the Stasi were involved in? The answer is the same: state and local governments and the federal government are strapped for cash. The federal government is especially desperate, just like the East German government was, given its need to pay for the ever-burgeoning expenses of both a welfare state and warfare state.

Anyway, taxes are unpopular. Why not just go out and confiscate people's money directly? It sure is easier.

Well, that caused me to wonder where the name Stasi came from, and so I went to Wikipedia. You'll love this. The actual name for the Stasi (in English) was: The Ministry of State Security.

Yes, state security! Isn't that what America's national-security state all about -- to protect the security of the state?

Guess how the Stasi protected state security.

Yes, through massive surveillance over the East German people! Yes, just like the NSA does over the American people! According to Wikipedia, "People in East Germany were subjected to a variety of techniques, including audio and video surveillance of their homes, reading mail..."

Whoa! Sound familiar? That's what the NSA does! To keep us free, of course.

Think about the Stasi's looting of wealthy people's artwork and its massive, secret surveillance of East Germans the next time you hear someone singing, "Thank God I'm an American because at least I know I'm free under America's national-security state apparatus."
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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano's show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.

 

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http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=48909

Former Police Chief Admits Involvement in Federal Anti-Patriot Operation
"I was sent out by agencies to go out and attract and investigate... Second Amendment groups, patriot groups..."

Flashback Video: Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark Kessler, “I Will Take My Uniform Off And I Will Stand With Freedom Before I Stand With Tyrannical Thugs.”Former Pennsylvania Police Chief Mark Kessler admitted on the Alan Colmes Show Tuesday that his viral gun rights videos were created under a covert federal operation to attract and take down patriot groups across the country.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Kessler, who made headlines in 2013 after being fired for one such profanity-laced video, stated that the multi-agency operation was specifically used to target supporters of the Constitution.





“I was sent out by agencies to go out and attract and investigate, whatever I can do to find out who's who and what's what among these groups,” Kessler said.”When I say groups, I'm talking about Second Amendment groups, patriot groups, alleged patriot groups, militia groups.”

According to Kessler, the operation was so secretive that he was barred from informing anyone within his department as federal agents handled his every move. “I could not say a word to anyone about the operation,” Kessler said. “So again it was bigger than me. I'd seen an opportunity to advance my law enforcement career, and there was no way I was going to turn it down.” Despite the government’s well documented history of fabricating well over 90 percent of disrupted terror plots, Kessler claims the operation was an attempt to prevent terrorist attacks from unfolding.



Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how the federal government purposely creates terror plots

Here is the interview transcript via Fox News:KESSLER: I signed up with those agencies, several different agencies and began an operation where I was just a magnet. I was sent out there to attract the worst of the worst and frankly it worked.

COLMES: You were sent out by whom?

KESSLER: I was sent out for, well I can't really say exactly who but, I was sent out by agencies to go out and attract and investigate, whatever I can do to find out who's who and what's what among these groups. When I say groups, I'm talking about Second Amendment groups, patriot groups, alleged patriot groups, militia groups. **********

KESSLER: They were put out by me and they were put out by the people that I worked for at the time.

COLMES: Were you not working for the police department of Gilberton PA?

KESSLER: No I wasn't

COLMES: Were you working for the federal government?

KESSLER: Yes, I can't say what agency. **********

KESSLER: I couldn't tell anybody. I just couldn't, it was complete deniability. I could not say a word to anyone about the operation. So again it was bigger than me. I'd seen an opportunity to advance my law enforcement career, and there was no way I was going to turn it down.

COLMES: Is this the first time you revealed this?

KESSLER: Yes absolutely, yep

COLMES: Were you promised a job by somebody in the federal government to do this?

KESSLER: No, it was volunteer work.

COLMES: What was in it for you?

KESSLER: I got to save a lot of lives, I can tell you that. **********

KESSLER: I'm happy to say that we took down several plotted attacks that didn't go through, we took down a group in Georgia. We took down a group in Texas.

COLMES: Can you name any of the groups you took down?

KESSLER: The Triple X Minutemen is one group.

COLMES: Who are they?

KESSLER: They are from the Georgia area, and they were planning to blow up a federal building.

COLMES: Any other groups you can cite that you took down?

KESSLER: We took some lone wolves down in Texas that were militia guys, I should't say militia, they were wanna be terrorists.


I think these fox moments are akin to Capones soup kitchens personally.. lol

 

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Ive done what you say about spreading all that and more to family members Jumpin . They are to brainwashed to realize reality in front of them. For my trouble i got one nefew just sighned up for 8 years with the service. Ah , fun with D.U. Pick a subject where we are being led down the wrong path and they will still follow it. You can show them things like this " Flu vaccine kills 13 in Italy; death toll rises " they disregarde and line up for chance at the wheel of death still . For this one nefew is ten and now talks like a little baby . Baby talker ! Neato , SSRI up. so sad. 2 down , 3 to go. FUCK !
Hey but what would one expect from a person trained in law inforcement and who sucks down aspartame like its going out of style and who did all the cop training except academy before back problem curbed that. Yep , my last wish was to help others before i died. Dont know why i wasted my time. Heres how out their people can be. Dude takes his ten year old to dr. for heartburn. He was telling me how pissed off at the dr. he was for his help and that he was going to complain top higher up.. His wife an indoctrinmated nurse. 'fleeced " !i laughed at after he told me the dr. told him to change his diet. seamed like the best advice he could get . unreal man .

@diamond2.0 I hear ya Bro..... Sort of like...... you can lead a horse to water,,,,,,,,, Whats a man to do??

 

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Damn cold dry air. Wheres my lip gloss.:)

Just Like The Stasi
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Don't you just love those Americans who celebrate how free they are under America's national-security state system?

I wonder if such Americans also celebrated how free people were who lived under East Germany's national-security state system.

I just read an interesting story in the New York Times about how the East German Stasi was confiscating art from wealthy East Germans. They would simply raid people's homes, take valuable art, and then sell it, putting the money into the state's coffers. According to the article, "between 1973 and 1989 the East German police, known as the Stasi, seized more than 200,000 objects in hundreds of raids."

Why did the authorities do that? Because the government needed the money.

Why not simply raise taxes? Because people don't like paying taxes. Anyway, why go through the taxing process when you can just barge into people's homes and take their possessions?

As I read that article, what immediately occurred to me was that that is precisely what law-enforcement officials, the DEA, and the IRS are doing today in the United States. They're simply stopping people on the highways and seizing large amounts of cash from them or going to banks and ordering the bank to turn over people's money to the state. They call the process "asset forfeiture," a name that I'm sure the Stasi would have approved of for what they were doing.

Under asset forfeiture, people aren't charged with a crime. They just have their assets forcibly taken from them. If anyone forcibly objects, he is carted away to jail for resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer in the performance of his duties.

At least that's not as bad as what the East German regime did to 79-year-old German Helmuth Meissner, who objected to the taking of his artwork. They committed him to a psychiatric hospital and labeled him an enemy of the state. And why not? What could be crazier and more unpatriotic than to oppose the government's stealing of your property to fund its activities?

Moreover, the Stasi didn't limit their looting to artwork. In Meissner's case, they also hauled away typewriters, measuring tapes, and coffee makers.

U.S. officials do not limit their looting to cash either. They are currently stealing people's cars, homes, businesses, and other assets. In fact, I'll bet that in some instances the loot even includes art work.

Why are state, local, and federal officials engaged in the same sort of conduct that the Stasi were involved in? The answer is the same: state and local governments and the federal government are strapped for cash. The federal government is especially desperate, just like the East German government was, given its need to pay for the ever-burgeoning expenses of both a welfare state and warfare state.

Anyway, taxes are unpopular. Why not just go out and confiscate people's money directly? It sure is easier.

Well, that caused me to wonder where the name Stasi came from, and so I went to Wikipedia. You'll love this. The actual name for the Stasi (in English) was: The Ministry of State Security.

Yes, state security! Isn't that what America's national-security state all about -- to protect the security of the state?

Guess how the Stasi protected state security.

Yes, through massive surveillance over the East German people! Yes, just like the NSA does over the American people! According to Wikipedia, "People in East Germany were subjected to a variety of techniques, including audio and video surveillance of their homes, reading mail..."

Whoa! Sound familiar? That's what the NSA does! To keep us free, of course.

Think about the Stasi's looting of wealthy people's artwork and its massive, secret surveillance of East Germans the next time you hear someone singing, "Thank God I'm an American because at least I know I'm free under America's national-security state apparatus."
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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano's show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.

I am very, or too familiar with this form of Gov theft. It took 14 months to get back 15,000 cash that I had taken out of the bank to buy my daughter a car.

Freedom is but an ILLUSION......... Only place left is down the rabbit hole.

 

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After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways.

Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security and Justice spent millions on police training.

ABOVE: : Video images from YouTube, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Seward County Sheriff’s Office.

The effort succeeded, but it had an impact that has been largely hidden from public view: the spread of an aggressive brand of policing that has spurred the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from motorists and others not charged with crimes, a Washington Post investigation found. Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back.

Stop and Seize: In recent years, thousands of people have had cash confiscated by police without being charged with crimes. The Post looks at the police culture behind the seizures and the people who were forced to fight the government to get their money back.
Part 2: One training firm started a private intelligence-sharing network and helped shape law enforcement nationwide.
Part 3: Motorists caught up in the seizures talk about the experience and the legal battles that sometimes took more than a year.
Part 4: Police agencies nationwide routinely buy vehicles and weapons with money and property seized under federal civil forfeiture law from people who were not charged with a crime.
Part 5: Highway seizure in Iowa fuels debate about asset-forfeiture laws.
Part 6: D.C. police plan for future seizure proceeds years in advance in city budget documents.
Chat transcript: The reporters behind “Stop and Seize” answered your readers’ about the investigative series.

Behind the rise in seizures is a little-known cottage industry of private police-training firms that teach the techniques of “highway interdiction” to departments across the country.

One of those firms created a private intelligence network known as Black Asphalt Electronic Networking & Notification System that enabled police nationwide to share detailed reports about American motorists — criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop.

Many of the reports have been funneled to federal agencies and fusion centers as part of the government’s burgeoning law enforcement intelligence systems — despite warnings from state and federal authorities that the information could violate privacy and constitutional protections.

A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing “trophy shots” of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.

“All of our home towns are sitting on a tax-liberating gold mine,” Deputy Ron Hain of Kane County, Ill., wrote in a self-published book under a pseudonym. Hain is a marketing specialist for Desert Snow, a leading interdiction training firm based in Guthrie, Okla., whose founders also created Black Asphalt.

 

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Damn you have been busy man.