Just In Time For the Patriot Act Renewal!
I'm going to unload. I'm angry beyond words about "counter-terrorism" and "homeland security" - partly due to logic, partly due to my personal experiences with these incompetents.
We have two enemies of freedom here: Muslim extremists and a federal government all to happy to tighten down the screws on the American People under any excuse.
I'll reveal to you the real reason behind the Patriot Act and how this was not designed to increase your safety, but to increase power in Washington. Then the apparent incompetence of Janet Napolitano will make sense. Once you realize the real motivation behind homeland security, her actions will become crystal clear.
A few facts about the underwear bomber.
Ever try to fly internationally without a passport? That is what this guy did, apparently with the help of a well-heeled and fast-talking accomplice. Oh, and of course this fellow was on a terrorist list. His own family squealed to the authorities about him. No baggage and a one-way ticket paid for with cash. Good God, what does a Nigerian Muslim need to do to get someone to take notice?!!
TSA and international security are loathe to typecast Muslim passengers, and so this scum slipped by. Think about that the next time you see a grandmother being felt-up by the local airport gestapo.
Here's another odd fact: a passenger was videotaping the whole flight, then calmly stood when the flames erupted and continued filming to the bitter end.
80g of explosive to bring down an airliner? A primary explosive that burns like a road flare? Please!
I'm sure the mainstream media will tell you that a car can be completely destroyed with only 80g. What they won't tell you is that it usually is placed on the gas tank, where the gasoline does the "heavy lifting". This Nigerian was not in a position to place the explosive on the fuel bulkhead. It was around his huevos rancheros.
I'm completely skeptical about this being a credible terrorist effort. Either the Nigerian was incompetent (quite possible) or something else is afoot...
Where there is smoke, there's a fire.
Remember the anthrax attack and how it shut down Congress? What were they debating at the time? Yes, the Patriot Act. Now they are looking to renew the Act (which has been given a three month extension) and lo and behold, a flaming terrorist arrives. How convenient.
Remember the feds harassing Dr. Hatfill all those years about the anthrax? They backed off, paid him handsomely and then placed the blame on a dead government scientist on the East coast. Again, how convenient.
You can't work as many years as I have in the government and not make some interesting friends and contacts.
A contact told me, from his position in counter-terrorism, the most likely suspect was at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. He called some of the bureaucrats that worked there "unstable" - from his personal interaction with them.
What we find when we poke around many of these terrorist acts is that the Feds usually have a guy on the inside, many times providing the necessary expertise and hardware. I reference the first World Trade Center bombing. Research who provided the explosive ingredients. Have a jaw-sling handy, your jaw may hit the floor.
Ditto for the Oklahoma City bombing. The ATF had at least one informant telling them about what McVeigh was preparing to do. How odd no ATF agents were injured - their office was empty at the time of the blast.
I have long suspected that these agencies track, and even allow a few of these terrorist acts to increase their power and control. Isn't that what we accused King George of 234 years ago? "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us..."
What I'm trying to get at here is for you to be very skeptical about these terrorist acts and watch how the government is more than happy to clamp down on your freedoms.
Ah, the Patriot Act.
Just one month after 9/11, amidst the anthrax scare, a telephone-book sized "Patriot Act" arrived at Congress. Few read it before voting. I've helped prepare similar federal budgetary proposals in the past; a telephone book sized document takes many months of multi-agency review before being presented at the highest levels. Ergo, the document had been prepared before 9/11 and was awaiting cut-and-paste to bring it current.
Are you aware that only a small percentage of investigations that use the Patriot Act involve terrorism?
I read recently that the combined terrorist watch list is close to 1,000,000 names. A few years ago another contact confided to me that the actual list was an order of magnitude larger - at that time the list was claimed to have only 400,000 names - but in actuality had 4 million individuals on it. Truth be told, some of those names are aliases. But it does go to indicate the level of paranoia our federal security organs have.
I remember Ashcroft telling us, with fear in his eyes, of 4,000 Muslim sleeper agents lurking within the United States. Think about that for a minute. Let's say these were very lazy terrorists, inclined to one terrorist act every four years. That would be 1,000 terrorist acts per year, or three per day. Perhaps I've been sleeping, but I don't recall anywhere that many. Oh, I'm sorry, the FBI is so competent they have a handle on them all. Please!
We are being played, pure and simple.
Never mind the fat Napoleonitano behind the curtains.
I believe that purpose of "homeland security" is to condition us to a severe reduction in freedoms. The real enemy of those elitists in power is not some underwear bomber. It's you. You hold the reins to their power.
What are those reins? What I'm doing now, the first amendment. The voting process. The second amendment. The jury of our peers. Constitutional rights, checks and balances.
Regarding the underwear bomber, Janet Napolitano first said the system seemed to work as planned. That was the most truthful thing she has said in the last eleven months. The system wasn't designed to find Abdul the Terrorist; it was designed to slowly take your freedoms, one liberty at a time.
Using terror as a pretext, this is what your tax dollars have been paying for in the name of homeland security:
- Email being handed over for data-mining and profiling
- Internet activity being logged
- What library books have been checked out
- Telephone conversation recording (CALEA) and archiving
- Bank records open to any federal investigator with only a writ of assistance (no judge involved)
- Travel monitoring / profiling
- A 4th Amendment - free zone 100 miles from any U.S. border
- I worked at a satellite development center when DHS came and asked if we could design a domestic imaging satellite for them!
And many other infringements. No need to worry, you have nothing to hide if you are not a Muslim extremist, tea party protester, Constitutionalist, gun owner, blogger...
The federal government knows well who the real enemy is, and I must give the devil due for throwing such a wide net over all of us.
What can you do?We have two enemies of freedom here: Muslim extremists and a federal government all to happy to tighten down the screws on the American People under any excuse.
I'll reveal to you the real reason behind the Patriot Act and how this was not designed to increase your safety, but to increase power in Washington. Then the apparent incompetence of Janet Napolitano will make sense. Once you realize the real motivation behind homeland security, her actions will become crystal clear.
A few facts about the underwear bomber.
Ever try to fly internationally without a passport? That is what this guy did, apparently with the help of a well-heeled and fast-talking accomplice. Oh, and of course this fellow was on a terrorist list. His own family squealed to the authorities about him. No baggage and a one-way ticket paid for with cash. Good God, what does a Nigerian Muslim need to do to get someone to take notice?!!
TSA and international security are loathe to typecast Muslim passengers, and so this scum slipped by. Think about that the next time you see a grandmother being felt-up by the local airport gestapo.
Here's another odd fact: a passenger was videotaping the whole flight, then calmly stood when the flames erupted and continued filming to the bitter end.
80g of explosive to bring down an airliner? A primary explosive that burns like a road flare? Please!
I'm sure the mainstream media will tell you that a car can be completely destroyed with only 80g. What they won't tell you is that it usually is placed on the gas tank, where the gasoline does the "heavy lifting". This Nigerian was not in a position to place the explosive on the fuel bulkhead. It was around his huevos rancheros.
I'm completely skeptical about this being a credible terrorist effort. Either the Nigerian was incompetent (quite possible) or something else is afoot...
Where there is smoke, there's a fire.
Remember the anthrax attack and how it shut down Congress? What were they debating at the time? Yes, the Patriot Act. Now they are looking to renew the Act (which has been given a three month extension) and lo and behold, a flaming terrorist arrives. How convenient.
Remember the feds harassing Dr. Hatfill all those years about the anthrax? They backed off, paid him handsomely and then placed the blame on a dead government scientist on the East coast. Again, how convenient.
You can't work as many years as I have in the government and not make some interesting friends and contacts.
A contact told me, from his position in counter-terrorism, the most likely suspect was at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. He called some of the bureaucrats that worked there "unstable" - from his personal interaction with them.
What we find when we poke around many of these terrorist acts is that the Feds usually have a guy on the inside, many times providing the necessary expertise and hardware. I reference the first World Trade Center bombing. Research who provided the explosive ingredients. Have a jaw-sling handy, your jaw may hit the floor.
Ditto for the Oklahoma City bombing. The ATF had at least one informant telling them about what McVeigh was preparing to do. How odd no ATF agents were injured - their office was empty at the time of the blast.
I have long suspected that these agencies track, and even allow a few of these terrorist acts to increase their power and control. Isn't that what we accused King George of 234 years ago? "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us..."
What I'm trying to get at here is for you to be very skeptical about these terrorist acts and watch how the government is more than happy to clamp down on your freedoms.
Ah, the Patriot Act.
Just one month after 9/11, amidst the anthrax scare, a telephone-book sized "Patriot Act" arrived at Congress. Few read it before voting. I've helped prepare similar federal budgetary proposals in the past; a telephone book sized document takes many months of multi-agency review before being presented at the highest levels. Ergo, the document had been prepared before 9/11 and was awaiting cut-and-paste to bring it current.
Are you aware that only a small percentage of investigations that use the Patriot Act involve terrorism?
I read recently that the combined terrorist watch list is close to 1,000,000 names. A few years ago another contact confided to me that the actual list was an order of magnitude larger - at that time the list was claimed to have only 400,000 names - but in actuality had 4 million individuals on it. Truth be told, some of those names are aliases. But it does go to indicate the level of paranoia our federal security organs have.
I remember Ashcroft telling us, with fear in his eyes, of 4,000 Muslim sleeper agents lurking within the United States. Think about that for a minute. Let's say these were very lazy terrorists, inclined to one terrorist act every four years. That would be 1,000 terrorist acts per year, or three per day. Perhaps I've been sleeping, but I don't recall anywhere that many. Oh, I'm sorry, the FBI is so competent they have a handle on them all. Please!
We are being played, pure and simple.
Never mind the fat Napoleonitano behind the curtains.
I believe that purpose of "homeland security" is to condition us to a severe reduction in freedoms. The real enemy of those elitists in power is not some underwear bomber. It's you. You hold the reins to their power.
What are those reins? What I'm doing now, the first amendment. The voting process. The second amendment. The jury of our peers. Constitutional rights, checks and balances.
Regarding the underwear bomber, Janet Napolitano first said the system seemed to work as planned. That was the most truthful thing she has said in the last eleven months. The system wasn't designed to find Abdul the Terrorist; it was designed to slowly take your freedoms, one liberty at a time.
Using terror as a pretext, this is what your tax dollars have been paying for in the name of homeland security:
- Email being handed over for data-mining and profiling
- Internet activity being logged
- What library books have been checked out
- Telephone conversation recording (CALEA) and archiving
- Bank records open to any federal investigator with only a writ of assistance (no judge involved)
- Travel monitoring / profiling
- A 4th Amendment - free zone 100 miles from any U.S. border
- I worked at a satellite development center when DHS came and asked if we could design a domestic imaging satellite for them!
And many other infringements. No need to worry, you have nothing to hide if you are not a Muslim extremist, tea party protester, Constitutionalist, gun owner, blogger...
The federal government knows well who the real enemy is, and I must give the devil due for throwing such a wide net over all of us.
Give 'em hell! Every time I get harassed by airport security, or come across some goon with a federal badge, I raise their blood pressure to the point they almost put me in cuffs. Three examples:
- While traveling through LAX I saw a wheelchair bound citizen being felt-up by some TSA thugs. I looked one of these goons in the eye and said, "Boy, he really fits the profile, doesn't he?!!" The thug looked at me with eyes that would kill if given a chance.
- While traveling through Arizona, far from the border, I was pulled over by an INS vehicle. An agent came out and demanded I answer all sorts of questions; I told him pointedly that my SUV was empty, no Mexicans here, and that his authority had limits. After waiting five minutes I walked aggressively back to the INS vehicle to tell him I was leaving the scene; the driver actually began to back away before stopping and cracking the driver's window into which I cast my invectives.
- On leaving for an overseas trip I was accosted by U.S. Treasury agents and had my luggage searched at the boarding gate of LAX. They said they were looking for large sums of money leaving the country and subjected me to all sorts of questions and indignities. They found nothing. When I returned to the States I convinced a white sorcerer to lay a curse on those evil agents. It's amazing what kind of people you meet in Los Angeles!
So What can you do? Give 'em hell. Let them know you are not their property, that you are an American Citizen!
- Hugh Farnham
10 comments:
Wow! Our liberties are in jeopardy, no doubt. I don't know if I'm prepared to go a deep as you suggest, but at this point nothing is outside the realm of possibility.
You Arizona story reminded me of a time long ago when two young GIs were driving back from El Paso and got stopped by the border patrol.
Hugh said "Si Senor" when the agent asked us if we were US citizens, and I feared they would tear my car apart in retaliation. I still remember the look on that guy's face...
Wow! Is right. I believe that any Muslim, American or not, should be profiled closely, especially those at a young age. I don't care if it does offend them.
There is a lot of pertinent information that I am glad you are sharing. We must be aware of how our government works against us.
I am so glad that I either travel by car or train to get to my destination. I hate airports. And now you have given me another reason not to fly the unfriendly skies.
Well said, and I'm thankful that others are speaking out with some boldness.
I agree with Leticia 100%. Our biggest problem with islam is filtering the fundie radicals from the ordinary muslims. To accomplish this, we really need the mainstream to point out the radicals. Most don't like doing this. But a little pain-in-the-butt for them at the airports, a little profiling, a little stigma - and maybe they'd be more willing to cooperate in stamping out radicalism.
Just what I was trying to tell people a few years. Back then, I kept saying that the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security had more to do with controlling us then it did with protecting the homeland. If the government was so damned concerned with protecting our country from attack, then how come they NEVER secured our borders?
Almost all of the things that were put into place under the Patriot Act had already been set in place during the Clinton administration and they were just waiting for a reason to enact them.
It is a perfect example of the Hegelian Dialectic: "If you want to take total control over large populations, first you device a solution to a problem that does not exist. Once you know that your solution will work, you then cause or allow the problem (or incident), for which you devised your solution, to take place so that you can implement your solution."
Our government, both political parties, along with One World global elitists, have been following this dialectic to the letter for years to nibble away at our freedoms, and we have sat back and let it happen.
Well said, Reverend. Good explanation of the Hegelian dialectic. Did you used to teach? Back when kids still learned stuff?
Kurt:
That fat guy in an INS truck on the side of the road 20 years ago has now turned into a nice checkpoint pavilion with heated offices and restrooms. Reagan said that the closest thing to immortality was a government program.
Once upon a time I was called on to design surveillance and personnel tracking systems for a military base I was stationed at. I still remember how my soul began to be darkened by the feelings of importance, those first swigs before power drunkenness sets in. I turned away from that and have never looked back.
I have touched the darkness that animates people like Napolitano, Ashcroft, and Chertoff. There's no use for logic with these people, and ridicule has run it course.
Have you considered what level of sacrifice it will take to regain your freedoms?
I pray it don't come to that... Gut check time.
I also fear that nothing short of a complete collapse will make enough people see reality as it is. But then it's too late. We're Argentina, or a slightly more upscale Somalia...
My only claims to teaching was back during my days in the monastery when I used to teach the Orthodox Catechism to 7th graders, and later teaching Iconography to seminary students for two years before being assigned to my first parish. I wish I could teach young people about the Constitution and the true history of America.
I always liked raising both arms above my head when being wanded.
Or just one arm at a time.
When it comes to the right arm: straight out and lifted to a 45 degree angle.
Simon: Pretty soon it will just be a simple bend over and grab the ankles...
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