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I just can't help myself.

Today opened the official TRADE talks in Columbia.

Two weeks ago Biden came to San Jose and met with a couple of
Presidents... from Guatamala, Honduras, Costa Rica ... to forestall
the hijacking of the summit now taking place in Columbia by the
Central Americans.

It is the stated opinion of these Governments that the war on drugs
has failed and is costing far more than any possible local benefit at
all levels of society.

It seems Bidens visit with Obamas appeal just did not do the trick.
The summit was hijacked....

Here is the opening salvo..... It was delivered by the friendliest
nation to the US (is sometimes called the 51st state) in Central
America... Costa Rica. In English it comes off as a bit of a bitch
and moan... In Spanish it is absolutely scathing. The text of the
speech is attached in the original language. To translate try cut and
paste into http://translate.google.com/

Discurso Laura Chinchilla en la VI Cumbre de las Américas 2012


En el marco de esta hermosa e histórica ciudad, me complace abrir mi
intervención con un afectuoso saludo al Presidente Juan Manuel Santos,
al querido pueblo colombiano, y a todos ustedes, estimados colegas,
amigas y amigos.

Aquí, señor Presidente, me siento en casa. Y me complace que, en ella,
podamos intercambiar puntos de vista sobre la cooperación, la
integración y la conectividad como vehículos para superar desafíos,
atender demandas y materializar legítimas esperanzas hemisféricas.
Son, todas ellas, tareas urgentes, que deben asentarse en un profundo
respeto por la democracia, la libertad, el imperio de la ley y la
dignidad humana. Tengamos presente que los destinatarios de nuestra
tarea como gobernantes son nuestros pueblos. Por cada niña o niño, por
cada hombre o mujer, debemos afanarnos en la creación y distribución
de riqueza, la multiplicación de oportunidades y la generación de
entornos respetuosos y seguros para su pleno desenvolvimiento
individual y colectivo.

En el abordaje de esta agenda, las tecnologías de la información y
comunicación pueden ser poderosos aliados. Su adecuada aplicación
permite fomentar la participación ciudadana, impulsar la
transparencia, facilitar el acceso al conocimiento, y estimular la
generación de riqueza fundamentada en la innovación.


Para una economía como la de mi país, cuya principal ventaja
competitiva es la calidad de nuestro recurso humano las tecnologías
digitales constituyen un instrumento crucial para potencia el
conocimiento y la innovación.

Las tareas a que esta Cumbre nos convoca debemos emprenderlas en
contextos nacionales muy diversos, y en un hemisferio que refleja esa
diversidad. Pero nuestra heterogeneidad, lejos de ser un escollo, debe
convertirse en palanca para la integración y la cooperación.

Defendamos nuestros principios, pero, a la vez, seamos realistas.
Valoremos nuestras tradiciones, pero también abrámonos al futuro. Y
evitemos que anquilosados atavismos ideológicos, o la búsqueda de
culpables en nuestro pasado, nos impidan comprender la realidad y
abrazar la evidencia empírica como guía para las políticas públicas.

En apego a ese realismo, a menudo poco grato, deseo reflexionar sobre
dos riesgos que se han truncado en cruda realidad, para mi país y el
resto de los países de Centroamérica.

Me refiero en primer término a los desastres naturales que como
consecuencia del cambio climático se expresan con especial crudeza en
los países ubicados en la franja tropical. Año con año experimentamos
la pérdida de vidas humanas y la destrucción de infraestructura física
y social. Para un país como Costa Rica, considerado el más verde de
nuestro hemisferio y que tanto ha comprometido con la sostenibilidad
ambiental, resulta incomprensible que, año con año, tengamos que pagar
la factura por las omisiones de otras naciones altamente
contaminantes. La Cumbre Río 20, se convierte en una nueva oportunidad
para reafirmar nuestro compromiso con la protección de la
biodiversidad, y sostenibilidad ambiental y con la adopción de medidas
concretas que nos permitan afianzar dichos compromisos.

El segundo riesgo al que estamos expuestos en la región
Centroamericana, es el de la feroz arremetida del crimen organizado
transfronterizo.


Para Costa Rica, el componente más importante de su estrategia
nacional de seguridad y combate al crimen organizado, ha sido la
prevención del delito mediante la inversión en capital humano y la
construcción de una sólida institucionalidad sustentada en el respeto
al Estado de derecho y la democracia. Estos componentes, junto con
una efectiva acción policial, han permitido a mi Gobierno mejorar la
seguridad cotidiana de nuestra población. Según la Oficina de las
Naciones Unidas sobre Drogas y Crimen, tenemos el índice más bajo de
homicidios de Mesoamérica, pero es mucho más alto que el de hace una
década. Por ello, el fenómeno de la inseguridad nos genera una
angustia sin tregua.

Estoy convencida de que la mejor protección frente al crimen
organizado es una sociedad capaz de generar oportunidades y mantener
una institucionalidad con altos estándares de transparencia,
eficiencia e integridad. Pero las coyunturas y los entornos también
son factores determinantes en el éxito que buscamos obtener. En el
caso de Centroamérica, implican enormes desventajas. Nuestra región es
víctima de una geopolítica perversa. Ubicada entre grandes centros de
producción y el mayor mercado consumidor de drogas del mundo, hemos
sido enganchados a un convoy de muerte y destrucción.

Para conjurar este desafío, todos los países envueltos en esta
ecuación tenemos responsabilidades compartidas, pero también
diferenciadas. Los centroamericanos hemos aceptado las cargas que nos
competen. Sin embargo, nuestros esfuerzos, aún imperfectos, no han
recibido todavía el adecuado apoyo por parte de la comunidad
internacional.

Ante esta realidad no pedimos regalías, sino verdadera coordinación,
adecuada cooperación, y sobre todo, una discusión franca y rigurosa
para garantizar mayores balances en las estrategias hasta ahora
emprendidas.

Hoy sabemos que los abordajes de lucha contra el narcotráfico
aplicados durante las últimas décadas no han resuelto el problema,
simplemente lo han desplazado de una nación a otra con altísimos
costos. Es evidente que debemos revisar el enfoque predominante hasta
ahora que presenta el problema como el de una "guerra contra las
drogas". Costa Rica, por su tradición de paz, sin fuerzas armadas y
por el legado que queremos preservar para las futuras generaciones, se
niega a ser arrastrada a estrategias que han puesto acento en la
acción militar, altamente costosa, e intensivas en la pérdida de vidas
humanas.

Debemos abordar el fenómeno del narcotráfico, al menos, desde cuatro
perspectivas: como un problema de salud pública que no debe
criminalizar el consumo de drogas; como una prioridad de nuestros
sistemas educativos, para poder prevenirlo; como un reto de más
transparencia e integridad en nuestra institucionalidad, y como un
asunto fuertemente tutelado por el Estado Derecho. Además, debemos
entenderlo como un problema global que extiende sus tentáculos a todo
el mundo y no sólo a unos pocos países, por lo que debemos buscar
respuestas que también se articulen a escala global. Es hora de
fortalecer la institucionalidad regional y global de tal forma que las
Naciones Unidas, incluyendo el Consejo de Seguridad, adopte en su
agenda el problema del narcotráfico en Centroamérica como un tema
prioritario.

Los presidentes de la región hemos coincidido en una estrategia mínima
común, la Estrategia de Seguridad de Centroamérica, que supone un
abordaje integral del problema. Logramos, además, que la comunidad
internacional dirigiera sus ojos y algunas promesas hacia nosotros.
Está por verse si las estrategias se transformarán en acciones
eficaces, y si contaremos con suficiente apoyo externo para
impulsarlas. Sin embargo, el temor o la censura no deberán privarnos
del derecho a debatir con rigurosidad, escenarios alternativos a las
estrategias de siempre.

Estimadas y estimados colegas:

Es hora de que quienes luchamos por el bienestar de nuestros pueblos
pongamos en práctica una coordinación aún mayor; una verdadera
integración de esfuerzos para frenar el embate de la violencia y,
sobre todo, para definir y emprender mejores rutas hacia la paz, la
libertad y el desarrollo.

Las mayores responsabilidades son nacionales. Pesan sobre cada
Gobierno. Pero los resultados serán más sólidos si nos conectamos como
verdaderos socios para la prosperidad. Hagámoslo con espíritu abierto
y democrático; con franqueza y sentido autocrítico; con respeto hacia
nuestros conciudadanos y nuestros vecinos; con realismo y
transparencia; con sentido de nuestros deberes y apego a nuestras
ilusiones.

Hagámoslo como gobernantes responsables, hacia nuestros países y hacia
el hemisferio.

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Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone!

Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I've got the perfect solution, a modest proposal that involves just a small adjustment in the Federal Reserve's easy monetary policy. Best of all, it will mean that none of us have to work for a living anymore.

For several years now, the Fed has been making money available to the financial sector at near-zero interest rates. Big banks and hedge funds, among others, have taken this cheap money and invested it in securities with high yields. This type of profit-making, called the "carry trade," has been enormously profitable for them.

So why not let everyone participate?

Under my plan, each American household could borrow $10 million from the Fed at zero interest. The more conservative among us can take that money and buy 10-year Treasury bonds. At the current 2 percent annual interest rate, we can pocket a nice $200,000 a year to live on. The more adventuresome can buy 10-year Greek debt at 21 percent, for an annual income of $2.1 million. Or if Greece is a little too risky for you, go with Portugal, at about 12 percent, or $1.2 million dollars a year. (No sense in getting greedy.)

Think of what we can do with all that money. We can pay off our underwater mortgages and replenish our retirement accounts without spending one day schlepping into the office. With a few quick keystrokes, we'll be golden for the next 10 years.

Of course, we will have to persuade Congress to pass a law authorizing all this Fed lending, but that shouldn't be hard. Congress is really good at spending money, so long as lawmakers don't have to come up with a way to pay for it. Just look at the way the Democrats agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts if the Republicans agreed to cut Social Security taxes and extend unemployment benefits. Who says bipartisanship is dead?

And while that deal blew bigger holes in the deficit, my proposal won't cost taxpayers anything because the Fed is just going to print the money. All we need is about $1,200 trillion, or $10 million for 120 million households. We will all cross our hearts and promise to pay the money back in full after 10 years so the Fed won't lose any dough. It can hold our Portuguese debt as collateral just to make sure.

Because we will be making money in basically the same way as hedge fund managers, we should have to pay only 15 percent in taxes, just like they do. And since we will be earning money through investments, not work, we won't have to pay Social Security taxes or Medicare premiums. That means no more money will go into these programs, but so what? No one will need them anymore, with all the cash we'll be raking in thanks to our cheap loans from the Fed.

Come to think of it, by getting rid of work, we can eliminate a lot of government programs. For instance, who needs unemployment benefits and job retraining when everyone has joined the investor class? And forget the trade deficit. Heck, we want those foreign workers to keep providing us with goods and services.

We can stop worrying about education, too. Who needs to understand the value of pi or the history of civilization when all you have to do to make a living is order up a few trades? Let the kids stay home with us. They can play video games while we pop bonbons and watch the soaps and talk shows. The liberals will love this plan because it reduces income inequality; the conservatives will love it because it promotes family time.

I'm really excited! This is the best American financial innovation since liar loans and pick-a-payment mortgages. I can't wait to get my super PAC started to help candidates who support this important cause. I think I will call my proposal the "Get Rid of Employment and Education Directive."

Some may worry about inflation and long-term stability under my proposal. I say they lack faith in our country. So what if it cost 50 billion marks to mail a letter when the German central bank tried printing money to pay idle workers in 1923?

That couldn't happen here. This is America. Why should hedge funds and big financial institutions get all the goodies?

Look out 1 percent, here we come.

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New post on Bare Naked Islam

REASON #83 for never, ever hiring a Muslim

by barenakedislam

NO, YOU AREN'T. YOU ARE A MUSLIM POS WHO IS DESECRATING THE AMERICAN FLAG.

Lefties and Muslims seek to remove the right of private businesses to establish their own dress codes for the safety of the workplace and the comfort of their customers. Hire a Muslim at your own peril.

Hamas-linked CAIR posted the video below. California Assembly member Mariko Yamada announced the introduction of a bill that clarifies the religious rights of workers. 

The democrat from Davis held a news conference in West Sacramento, saying that confusion over the 1964 Civil Rights Act has caused employers to treat Sikhs and Muslims who wear religious head dress and beards differently.

Yamada says workers are often segregated by companies with strict dress codes because workers are often not allowed to deal with customers. Instead, they are assigned office or storeroom duties as an accommodation for religious beliefs. 

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Tiger Woods & Stevie Wonder are in a bar...
 

Tiger turns to Stevie and says, "How's the singing career going?"
 
Stevie replies, "Not too bad. How's the golf?"
 
Woods replies, "Not too bad, I've had some problems with my swing, but I think I've got
that right, now."
 
Stevie: "I always find that when my swing goes wrong, I need  to stop playing for a while and not think about it.
Then, the next time I play, it seems to be all right."
 
Incredulous, Tiger says,  "You play GOLF?"
 
Stevie: "Yes, I've been playing for years."
 
Tiger: "But -- you're blind! How can you play golf if you can't see?"
 
Stevie: "Well, I get my caddy to stand in the middle of the fairway and call to me.
I listen for the sound of his voice and play the ball towards him. Then, when I get to where the ball lands, the caddy moves to the green or farther down the fairway and again I play the ball towards his voice."
 
"But, how do you putt" asks Tiger.

"Well", says Stevie, "I get my caddy to lean down in front of the hole and call to me with his head on the ground and I just play the ball towards his voice."
 
Tiger: "What's your handicap?"
 
Stevie: "Well, actually -- I'm a scratch golfer."
 
Woods, incredulous, says to Stevie, "We've got to play a round sometime."
 
Stevie: "Well, people don't take me seriously, so I only play for money, and never play for less than $10,000 a hole. Is that a problem?"
 
Woods thinks about it and says, "I can afford that; OK, I'm game for that.. $10,000 a hole is fine with me. When would you like to play?"
 
Stevie: "Pick a night."





 

 

 

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The Problem with White Guilt


By Sheria Reid

I recently read an article by Mark Judge in The Daily Caller entitled,
The end of my white guilt. Judge recounts how the theft of his bike on
Good Friday made him let go of white guilt. Judge concludes that black
people use "...the moral authority of past generations for their own
personal gain and self-aggrandizement."

But his grand conclusion is that black pain is no different than white
pain, which is the fall-back position of the "but I'm not a racist"
crowd. We're all alike and it's black people who insist on holding on
to the past.

. . .

"If you are white, and you feel uncomfortable or even attacked by my
consistent reference to white people as including every white person
in this country, you have experienced to some extent what it is like
to be black in this country when every infraction committed by any
black person is attributed to the character of all black people."
- Sheria Reid, The Examined Life

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"The Republicans are fond of claiming that Bill Clinton "forced" them to pass certain legislation by threatening to veto anything they sent to the White House that didn't meet his specs.
"In other cases (as with the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill), they proudly proclaim their misdeeds in the name of bipartisanship -- while carefully forgetting to mention the true nature of what they're doing.
"In still others, they trumpet their triumph over the evil Democrats and claim the mantle of limited government while sticking it to us and to the Constitution. The national database of workers was in the welfare reform bill they "forced" Clinton to accept. The requirement for SS numbers and ominous "security" devices on drivers licenses originated in their very own Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, HR 2202."

LAND-MINE LEGISLATION
by Claire Wolfe
April 1997

Let me run by you a brief list of items that are "the law" in America today. As you read, consider what all these have in common.

 1. A national database of employed people [Note A]
 2. Dozens of pages of new "health care crimes," for which the penalty is (among other things) seizure of assets from both doctors and patients [Note B]
 3. Confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship [Note C]
 4. The largest gun confiscation act in U.S. history -- which is also an unconstitutional ex post facto law and the first law ever to remove people's constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor [Note D]
 5. A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones; random roadblocks may be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents may become federal criminals just by stepping outside their doors or getting into their vehicles. [Note D]
 6. Increased funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, an agency infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude [Note D]
 7. A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "terrorist" -- without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government.  [Note E]
 8. A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people [Note E]
 9. A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000. "...A Federal agency may not accept for any identification-related purpose a drivers' license, or other comparable identification document, issued by a State, unless the license or document satisfies the [requirements set forth in this legislation]. In other words, drivers licenses and government non-driver IDs will still look different in all 50 states, but they will, in fact, be part of a national ID system. If your drivers license doesn't meet the federal standard -- no Social Security, no passport, no federal contracts, no "benefits." And just try cashing a check at your federally regulated bank.[Note F]
10. And my personal favorite -- a national database, now being constructed, that will contain every exchange and observation that takes place in your doctor's office. This includes records of your prescriptions, your hemorrhoids and your mental illness.  It also includes -- by law -- any  statements you make ("Doc, I'm worried my kid may be on drugs," "Doc, I've been so stressed out lately I feel about ready to go postal.") and any observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical condition, whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or not. For the time being, there will be zero (count 'em, zero) privacy safeguards on this data. And, of course, the information will, by law, be filed under your "unique identifying number." But don't worry, your government will protect you with some undefined "privacy standards" in a few years. Oh, guess what? If the proposed rule implementing this legislation (issued by the Department of Health and Human Services in mid 1998) is adopted, you won't be able to get health care -- even privately paid health care -- without your Citizen ID Number.[Note G]

All of the above items are the law of the land. Federal law. What else do they have in common?

Well, when I ask this question to audiences, I usually get the answer, "They're all unconstitutional."

True.

My favorite answer came from an eloquent college student who blurted, "They all SUUUCK!"

Also true.

But the saddest and most telling answer is: They were all the product of the 104th Congress. Every one of the horrors above was imposed upon you by the Congress of the Republican Revolution -- the Congress that pledged to "get government off your back."


BURYING TIME BOMBS

All of the above became law by being buried in larger bills. In many cases, they were what my friend, gun-rights activist Charles Curley, calls "Pearl Harbor Legislation" -- sneak attacks upon individual liberty that were neither debated on the floor of Congress nor reported in the media.

For instance, three of the most horrific items (the health care database, asset confiscation for foreign residency and the 100 pages of health care crimes) were hidden in the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (House version: HR 3103). You didn't hear about them at the time because the media was too busy celebrating this "moderate, compromise" bill that "simply" ensured that no American would ever lose insurance coverage due to a job change or a pre-existing condition.

Your legislator may not have heard about them, either. Because he or she didn't care enough to do so.

The fact is, most legislators don't even read the laws they inflict upon the public. They read the title of the bill (which may be something like "The Save the Sweet Widdle Babies from Gun Violence by Drooling Drug Fiends Act of 1984"). They read summaries, which are often prepared by the very agencies or groups pushing the bill. And they vote according to various deals or pressures.

It also sometimes happens that the most horrible provisions are sneaked into bills during conference committee negotiations, after both House and Senate have voted on their separate versions of the bills. The conference committee process is supposed simply to reconcile differences between two versions of a bill. But power brokers use it for purposes of their own, adding what they wish. Then members of the House and Senate vote on the final, unified version of the bill, often in a great rush, and often without even having the amended text available for review.

I have even heard (though I cannot verify) that stealth provisions are written into some bills after all the voting has taken place. Someone with a hidden agenda simply edits them in to suit his or her own purposes. So these time bombs become "law" without ever having been voted on by anybody. And who's to know? If congresspeople don't even read legislation before they vote on it, why would they bother reading it afterward? Are power brokers capable of such chicanery? Do we even need to ask? Is the computer system in which bills are stored vulnerable to tampering by people within or outside of Congress? We certainly should ask.

Whether your legislators were ignorant of the infamy they were perpetrating, or whether they knew, one thing is absolutely certain: The Constitution, your legislator's oath to it, and your inalienable rights (which preceded the Constitution) never entered into anyone's consideration.

Ironically, you may recall that one of the early pledges of Newt Gingrich and Company was to stop these stealth attacks. Very early in the 104th Congress, the Republican leadership declared that, henceforth, all bills would deal *only* with the subject matter named in the title of the bill. When, at the beginning of the first session of the 104th, pro-gun Republicans attempted to attach a repeal of the "assault weapons" ban to another bill, House leaders dismissed their amendment as not being "germane."

After that self-righteous and successful attempt to prevent pro-freedom stealth legislation, Congresspeople turned right around and got back to the dirty old business of practicing all the anti-freedom stealth they were capable of.


STEALTH ATTACKS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

Three other items on my list (ATF funding, gun confiscation and school zone roadblocks) were also buried in a big bill -- HR 3610, the budget appropriation passed near the end of the second session of the 104th Congress.

No legislator can claim to have been unaware of these three because they were brought to public attention by gun-rights groups and hotly debated in both Congress and the media. Yet some *90 percent* of all congresspeople voted for them -- including many who claim to be ardent protectors of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

Why?

Well, in the case of my wrapped-in-the-flag, allegedly pro-gun, Republican congressperson: "Bill Clinton made me do it!"

Okay, I paraphrase. What she actually said was more like, "It was part of a budget appropriations package. The public got mad at us for shutting the government down in 1995. If we hadn't voted for this budget bill, they might have elected a Democratic legislature in 1996 -- and you wouldn't want THAT, would you?"

Oh heavens, no! I'd much rather be enslaved by people who spell their name with an R than people who spell their name with a D. Makes all the difference in the world!


HOW SNEAK ATTACKS ARE JUSTIFIED

The Republicans are fond of claiming that Bill Clinton "forced" them to pass certain legislation by threatening to veto anything they sent to the White House that didn't meet his specs.

In other cases (as with the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill), they proudly proclaim their misdeeds in the name of bipartisanship -- while carefully forgetting to mention the true nature of what they're doing.

In still others, they trumpet their triumph over the evil Democrats and claim the mantle of limited government while sticking it to us and to the Constitution. The national database of workers was in the welfare reform bill they "forced" Clinton to accept. The requirement for SS numbers and ominous "security" devices on drivers licenses originated in their very own Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, HR 2202.

Another common trick, called to my attention by Redmon Barbry, publisher of the electronic magazine, *Fratricide*, is to hide duplicate or near-duplicate provisions in several bills. Then, when the Supreme Court declares Section A of Law Z to be unconstitutional, its kissing cousin, Section B of Law Y, remains to rule us.

Sometimes this particular form of trickery is done even more brazenly; when the Supreme Court, in its *Lopez* decision, declared federal-level school zone gun bans unconstitutional because Congress demonstrated no jurisdiction, Congress brassily changed a few words. They claimed that school zones fell under the heading of "interstate commerce." Then they sneaked the provision into HR 3610, where it became "law" once again.

When angry voters upbraid congresspeople about some Big Brotherish horror they've inflicted upon the country by stealth, they claim lack of knowledge, lack of time, party pressure, public pressure, or they justify themselves by claiming that the rest of the bill was "good."

The simple fact is that, regardless of what reasons legislators may claim, the U.S. Congress has passed more Big Brother legislation in the last two years -- more laws to enable tracking, spying and controlling -- than any Democratic congress ever passed. And they have done it, in large part, in secret.

Redmon Barbry put it best: "We the people have the right to expect our elected representatives to read, comprehend and master the bills they vote on....If this means Congress passes only 50 bills per session instead of 5,000, so be it. As far as I am concerned, whoever subverts this process is committing treason."

By whatever means the deed is done, there is no acceptable excuse for voting against the Constitution, voting for tyranny. And I would add to Redmon's comments: Those who do read the bills, then knowingly vote to ravage our liberties, are doubly guilty. But when do the treason trials begin?


BILLS AS WINDOW DRESSING FOR AN UGLY AGENDA

The truth is that these tiny, buried provisions are often the *real* intent of the law, and that the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages that surround them are sometimes nothing more than elaborate window dressing. These tiny time bombs are placed there at the behest of federal police agencies or other power groups whose agenda is not clearly visible to us. And their impact is felt long after the outward intent of the bill has been forgotten.

Civil forfeiture -- now one of the plagues of the nation -- was first introduced in the 1970s as one of those buried, almost unnoticed provisions of a larger law.

One wonders why on earth a "health care bill" carried a provision to confiscate the assets of people who become frightened or discouraged enough to leave the country. (In fact, the entire bill was an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code. Go figure.)

I think we all realize by now that that database of employed people will still be around enabling government to track our locations (and heaven knows what else about us, as the database is enhanced and expanded) long after the touted benefits of "welfare reform" have failed to materialize.

And most grimly of all, our drivers licenses will be our de-facto national ID card long after immigrants have ceased to want to come to this Land of the Once Free.


CONTROL REIGNS

It matters not one whit whether the people controlling you call themselves R's or D's, liberals or conservatives, socialists or even (I hate to admit it) libertarians. It doesn't matter whether they vote for these horrors because they're not paying attention or because they actually like such things.

What matters is that the pace of totalitarianism is increasing. And it is coming closer to our daily lives all the time. Once your state passes the enabling legislation (under threat of losing "federal welfare dollars"), it is YOUR name and Social Security number that will be entered in that employee database the moment you go to work for a new employer. It is YOU who will be unable to cash a check, board an airplane, get a passport or be allowed any dealings with any government agency if you refuse to give your SS number to the drivers license bureau. It is YOU who will bee ndangered by driving "illegally" if you refuse to submit to Big Brother's licensing procedures.

It is YOU whose psoriasis, manic depression or prostate troubles will soon be the reading matter of any bureaucrat with a computer. It is YOU who could be declared a member of a "foreign terrorist" organization just because you bought a book or concert tickets from some group the government doesn't like. It is YOU who could lose your home, bank account and reputation because you made a mistake on a health insurance form. Finally, when you become truly desperate for freedom, it is YOU whose assets will be seized if you try to flee this increasingly insane country.

As Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged, "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

It's time to drop any pretense: We are no longer law-abiding citizens. We have lost our law-abiding status. There are simply too many laws to abide.

And because of increasingly draconian penalties and electronic tracking mechanisms, our "lawbreaking" places us and our families in greater jeopardy every day.


STOPPING RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT

The question is: What are we going to do about it?

Write a nice, polite letter to your congressperson? Hey, if you think that'll help, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying. (And it isn't your "bridge to the future," either.)

Vote "better people" into office? Oh yeah, that's what we thought we were doing in 1994.

Work to fight one bad bill or another? Okay. What will you do about the 10 or 20 or 100 equally horrible bills that will be passed behind your back while you were fighting that little battle? And let's say you defeat a nightmare bill this year.  What are you going to do when they sneak it back in, at the very last minute, in some "omnibus legislation" next year?  And what about the horrors you don't even learn about until two or three years after they become law?

Should you try fighting these laws in the courts? Where do you find the resources? Where do you find a judge who doesn't have a vested interest in bigger, more powerful government? And again, for every one case decided in favor of freedom, what do you do about the 10, 20 or 100 in which the courts decide against the Bill of Rights?

Perhaps you'd consider trying to stop the onrush of these horrors with a constitutional amendment -- maybe one that bans "omnibus" bills, requires that every law meet a constitutional test or requires all congresspeople to sign statements that they've read and understood every aspect of every bill on which they vote. Good luck! Good luck , first, on getting such an amendment passed. Then good luck getting our Constitution-scorning "leaders" to obey it.

It is true that liberty requires eternal vigilance, and that part of that vigilance has been, traditionally, keeping a watchful eye on laws and on lawbreaking lawmakers. But given the current pace of law spewing and unconstitutional regulation-writing, you could watch, plead and struggle "within the system" 24 hours a day for your entire life and end up infinitely less free than when you began. Why throw your life away on a futile effort?

Face it. If "working within the system" could halt tyranny, the tyrants would outlaw it. Why do you think they encourage you to vote, to write letters, to talk to them in public forums? It's to divert your energies. To keep you tame.

"The system" as it presently exists is nothing but a rat maze. You run around thinking you're getting somewhere. Your masters occasionally reward you with a little pellet that encourages you to believe you're accomplishing something. And in the meantime, you are as much their property and their pawn as if you were a slave. In the effort of fighting them on their terms and with their authorized and approved tools, you have given your life's energy to them as surely as if you were toiling in their cotton fields, under the lash of their overseer.

The only way we're going to get off this road to Hell is if we jump off.  If we, personally, as individuals, refuse to cooperate with evil. How we do that is up to each of us. I can't decide for you, nor you for me. (Unlike congresspeople, who think they can decide for everybody.)

But this totalitarian runaway truck is never going to stop unless we stop it, in any way we can. Stopping it might include any number of things: tax resistance; public civil disobedience; wide-scale, silent non-cooperation; highly noisy non-cooperation; boycotts; secession efforts; monkey-wrenching; computer hacking; dirty tricks against government agents; public shunning of employees of abusive government agencies; alternative, self-sufficient communities that provide their own medical care and utilities.

There are thousands of avenues to take, and this is something most of us still need to give more thought to before we can build an effective resistance. We will each choose the courses that are right for our own circumstances, personalities and beliefs.

Whatever we do, though, we must remember that we are all, already, outlaws. Not one of us can be certain of getting through a single day without violating some law or regulation we've never even heard of. We are all guilty in the eyes of
today's "law." If someone in power chooses to target us, we can all, already, be prosecuted for *something*.

And I'm sure you know that your claims of "good intentions" won't protect you, as the similar claims of politicians protect them. Politicians are above the law. YOU are under it. Crushed under it.

When you look at it that way, we have little left to lose by breaking laws *creatively and purposefully*. Yes, some of us will suffer horrible consequences for our lawbreaking. It is very risky to actively resist unbridled power. It is especially risky to go public with resistance (unless hundreds of thousands publicly join us), and it becomes riskier the closer we get to tyranny. For that reason, among many others, I would never recommend any particular course of action to anyone -- and I hope you'll think twice before taking "advice" from anybody about things that could jeopardize your life or well-being.

But if we don't resist in the best ways we know how -- and if a good number of us don't resist loudly and publicly -- all of us will suffer the much worse consequence of living under total oppression.

And whatever courses of action we choose, we must remember that this legislative "revolution" against We the People will not be stopped by politeness. It will not be stopped by requests. It will not be stopped by "working within a system"
governed by those who regard us as nothing but cattle. It will not be stopped by pleading for justice from those who will resort to any degree of trickery or violence to rule us.

It will not be stopped unless we are willing to risk our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors to stop it.

I think of the words of Winston Churchill: "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."


NOTES on the laws listed above:

 A. (Employee Database) Welfare Reform Bill, HR 3734; became public law 104-193 on 8/22/96; see section 453A.
 B. (Healthcare Crimes) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HR 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96.
 C. #3 - (Asset Confiscation for Citizenship Change) Same law as #2; see sections 511-513.
 D. #4, 5 & 6 - (Anti-Gun Laws) Omnibus Appropriations Act, HR 3610; became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96.
 E. #7 & 8 - (Terrorism & Secret Trials) Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; S 735; became public law 104-132 on 4/24/96; see all of Title III, specifically sections 302 and 219; also see all of Title IV, specifically sections 401, 501, 502 and 503.
 F. #9 - (De-facto National ID Card) Began life in the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996,sections 111, 118, 119, 127 and 133; was eventually folded into the Omnibus Appropriations Act, HR 3610 (which was itself formerly called the Defense Appropriations Act -- but we wouldn't want to confuse anyone, here, would we?); became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96; see sections 656 and 657 among others.
 G. #10 - (Healthcare Database) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,HR 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96; see sections 262, 263 and 264, among others. The various provisions that make up the full horror of this database are scattered throughout the bill and may take hours to track down; this one is stealth legislation at its utmost sneakiest.

And one final, final note: Although I spent aggravating hours verifying the specifics of these bills (a task I swear I will never waste my life on again!), the original list of bills at the top of this article was NOT the result of extensive research. It was simply what came off the top of my head when I thought of Big Brotherish bills from the 104th Congress. For all I know, Congress has passed 10 times more of that sort of thing. In fact, the worst "law" in the list -- #9, the de-facto national ID card--just came to my attention as I was writing this essay, thanks to the enormous efforts of Jackie Juntti and Ed Lyon and others, who researched the law. Think of it: Thanks to congressional stealth tactics,
we had the long-dreaded national ID card legislation for five months, without a whisper of discussion, before freedom activists began to find out about it.  Makes you wonder what else might be lurking out there, doesn't it? And on that cheery note --                                              THE END

http://prernalal.com/banned%20books/Land-Mine%20Legislation%20-%20by%20Claire%20Wolfe.pdf


New post on Bare Naked Islam

CANADA: 'Muslim Baghead with Bra' photo ignites free expression firestorm

by barenakedislam

A photo of a Muslim woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding up a bra as she sorts laundry is stirring controversy in Kamloops, B.C., and the Saudi Arabian Embassy is now involved.

CBC(H/T Martin)  The photo, taken by Thompson Rivers University fine arts student Sooraya Graham, features one of Graham's friends wearing a niqab, a veil covering the face, and an abaya, a full-body cloak.

The picture was a class assignment and was originally displayed with other student photos in mid-March, until some (Muslim?) students complained and a staff member tore it down a week later. "I was pretty shocked and I kind of felt my personal space as an artist and a Canadian had been invaded," said Graham.

Christopher Seguin, the vice president of advancement at Thompson River University, said the art work was removed by a staff member who was acting on their own, and not in an official capacity.

Once the institution learned of the action, it immediately returned the art and made a commitment to cover any costs for its repair or replacement.

"The university is committed to honouring artistic expression and on a campus with many international stakeholders it is important that we balance cultural sensitivity with freedom of speech, and we value the conversations that this piece of art and all our others inspire," said Seguin. Graham was allowed to display it at the university's art gallery, as part of an art show, until April 12th.

Saudi rep says photographer 'irresponsible'

But the Saudi Education Centre in Kamloops, which is funded by the Saudi Arabian government and provides support to Saudi students and their families, is taking issue with the photo. "The artist didn't approach the artwork let's say in a very professional way that can state and can clarify the information and clarify the idea behind the picture," said centre president Trad Bahabri.

Bahabri said he thinks text explaining the photo's meaning is needed. "I'm pretty sure many people misinterpret and many people misunderstand it. I can guarantee that," he said. (That's what art is, idiot, open to many different interpretations)

Graham counters it's up to the viewer to interpret the meaning, but says she had hoped the photo would show the public that women who wear the niqab are the same as everyone else. (Well, that IS a stretch)

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GERMANY: Muslims hand out 25 million free pooper scoopers
(aka qurans)
URL        : http://barenakedislam.com/2012/04/11/germany-muslims-hand-out-25-million-free-pooper-scoopers-aka-qurans/
Posted     : April 11, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Author     : barenakedislam
Categories : Islamization of the West

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/64217-vi.jpg A
QURAN IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD: Germans will find many uses for the sudden
influx  free qurans - pooper scoopers for their dogs, kindling, door
stops, even bathroom tissue in an emergency.

> Salafists also believe that democracy, because it is a man-made form of government, must be destroyed.. According to Die Welt, the Salafists have launched a "frontal assault" against people of other faiths and "unbelievers". Many Islamists believe Islamic Sharia law is a divine ordinance that is to replace all other legal systems. The number of Islamic radicals in German is surging. Islam is giving them respectability.

Gatestone Institute
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3007/germany-koran)  (H/T Martin)
Islamic radicals in Germany have launched an unprecedented nationwide
campaign to distribute 25 million copies of the Koran
(http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/article106165597/Salafisten-verteilen-25-Millionen-Korane.html)
, translated into the German language, with the goal of placing one
Koran into every household in Germany, free of charge.

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/korns-for-germans.jpg

The mass proselytization campaign -- called Project "Read!"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKq3umvvPgA&feature=relmfu)  -- is
being organized by dozens of Islamic Salafist groups located in cities
and towns throughout Germany, as well as in Austria
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWJCGFu26xk)  and inSwitzerland
(http://www.izrs.ch/index.php/de/islam-infostaende.html) .

Salafism is a branch of radical Islam, practiced in Saudi Arabia, that
seeks to establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle
East, North Africa and Europe -- and eventually the entire world. The
Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which
would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. Salafists also
believe, among other anti-Western doctrines, that democracy, because
it is a man-made form of government, must be destroyed.

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/quran-verses.jpeg
 (http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/quran-verses.jpeg)
Although Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für
Verfassungsschutz (BfV), regards the Salafist groups as a threat to
German security, Salafists have free reign in the country, and
Salafist preachers are known regularly to preach hatred against the
West in mosques and prayer centers that are proliferating across
Germany.

The campaign to place a Koran in every German household is being
spearheaded by a Rheinland-based Salafist, Ibrahim Abou-Nagie, a
Palestinian preacher of hate, who leads a radical Islamic group called
"The True Religion (http://diewahrereligion.de/jwplayer/index.html) "
("Die Wahre Religion").

In September 2011, German public prosecutors launched an investigation
into Abou-Nagie after he called for violence against non-believers
(http://www.bild.de/regional/koeln/islamismus/so-gefaehrlich-ist-der-koelner-hass-prediger-wirklich-19926430.bild.html)
 in videos posted on the Internet. In his sermons, Abou-Nagie
glamorizes Islamic martyrdom and says that Islamic Sharia law is above
the German Constitution. He outspokenly believes that music should be
prohibited, that homosexuals should be executed, and that adulterers
should be stoned.

Abou-Nagie has tens of thousands of followers across Germany. Among
them are two German Muslim converts-turned-terror suspects
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/26/two-german-men-terrorism-act)
 trained by Abou-Nagie and recently arrested in Dover, England, after
British border police searched their luggage and found a document
entitled "How to Build a Bomb in Your Mom's Kitchen," an article from
the English-language online magazine "Inspire
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_%28magazine%29) " produced by
Al-Qaida in Yemen.

In one video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgTu8H9Jic) , Abou-Nagie
tells his audience that "whoever follows the Christian Bible or the
Jewish Torah instead of the Islamic Koran will go to Hell for
eternity."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgTu8H9Jic

Not surprisingly, Abou-Nagie sees it as his calling to save the German
people from the wrath of Allah by converting them to Islam. To achieve
this aim, Abou-Nagie founded Project "Read!" to distribute tens of
millions of copies of the Koran throughout Germany.

The campaign is now well under way. More than 100 Salafist
"information booths" have already been set up in dozens of German
cities, particularly in the regions of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower
Saxony, Hessen and Hamburg.

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GermanyIslam-vi.jpg
 (http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GermanyIslam-vi.jpg)
Abou-Nagie's approach is simple and effective
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOOG5JO0GwU&feature=related) : German
Muslims are encouraged to purchase a copy of the Koran (red cover) in
order to fund the free distribution
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JebqMg84DxU&feature=relmfu)  of
additional copies of the Koran (blue cover). In addition to the public
distribution of the Koran on the streets and market places,
non-Muslims can order a free copy of the Koran on an Internet website
called hausdesqurans.de (http://www.hausdesqurans.de/) .

During the extended Christian Easter weekend from April 5-9, Project
"Read!" entered into a new phase. According to the Berlin-based
newspaper Die Welt
(http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/article106165597/Salafisten-verteilen-25-Millionen-Korane.html)
, the Salafists have launched a "frontal assault" against people of
other faiths and "unbelievers". On April 7, for instance, Project
"Read!" organized a nationwide campaign to distribute the Koran in 35
German cities, including Berlin,Cologne
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4qcdbYmPo&feature=relmfu) , Dresden,
Frankfurt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZrFCtNd31o&feature=related)
, Hamburg, Hanover, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Munich
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_dIbwJK5e0&feature=related)  and
Osnabrück.

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/german-hijab.jpg
(http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/german-hijab.jpg)
According to Die Welt, German authorities view the Koran project,
which fundamentalists are using a recruiting tool, as a "most
worrisome" campaign for radical Islam. Security analysts say the
campaign is also a public-relations gimmick intended to persuade
Germans that the Salafists are transparent and "citizen friendly."

In an effort to improve their image, the Salafists have removed from
their "information booths" all literature about the role of women in
Islam or the supremacy of Islamic Sharia law over democracy. Moreover,
the German translation of the Koran has edited out many of the verses
which call on Muslims to make war on non-believers. According to BfV,
the German domestic intelligence agency, the German version of the
Koran is "rather non-controversial." (Most English versions have been
sanitized as well)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAPip4H8Mw

German authorities also say, however, that Project "Read!" is being
organized by Islamist networks that hold an extremist world view and a
militant ideology.

A spokesperson for the Berlin branch of the BfV told Die Welt
(http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/article106165597/Salafisten-verteilen-25-Millionen-Korane.html)
 that "the objective of this campaign is to help bring those who are
interested into contact with the Salafist scene in order to influence
them in the context of their extremist political ideologies."

Although not everyone who takes a Koran into their home will convert
to Islam, German authorities say Abou-Nagie's Project "Read!" is a
establishing a breeding ground for anti-constitutional ideas.

http://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/masjid-minaret-n-germany-flag-550x3141.jpg

In any case, the number of Islamic radicals in Germany is surging.
According to the BfV, there are an estimated 29 Islamist groups in
Germany with 34,720 members or supporters who pose a major threat to
homeland security. Many of them want to establish a "Koran-state" in
Germany because they believe Islamic Sharia law is a divine ordinance
that is to replace all other legal systems.

The head of the German Police Union (DPolG), Rainer Wendt, has told
the Hamburg-based Bild newspaper
(http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/terrorismus/1000-schlaefer-in-deutschland-wo-verstecken-sich-die-terroristen-19771886.bild.html)
 that he is concerned about the presence of clandestine Islamic
sleeper cells made up of Muslim immigrants and converts in Germany. He
has called for the recruitment of undercover agents to infiltrate the
Islamic environment. It is the "only way to monitor the scene," Wendt
said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlpv9LoDXqk

"Radical Islamists live everywhere and nowhere in Germany. One cannot
rule out that that nice young man from next door, who brings grandma
her fresh bread every morning, is not in fact an Islamic sleeper and
terrorist," Wendt warned.

The BfV is particularly concerned about Muslim youth who are prone to
"rapid radicalization patterns," and who possess a "high willingness
to use force" and "to attack." Some of them are under surveillance by
the security authorities, according to Wendt.

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The BfV is also monitoring a surge in online Islamist propaganda, much
of which warns Muslims that they are not to integrate into German
society. With an estimated 4.3 million Muslims, Germany has Western
Europe's second-biggest Islamic population after France.

Some of the home-grown Muslim radicals are being alienated from German
society by means of Sharia law, which is now competing with the German
criminal justice system
(http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2397/islamic-sharia-law-germany)
in all major cities in Germany.

According to Kirsten Heisig, the author of the book "The End of
Patience (http://www.amazon.de/Das-Ende-Geduld-jugendliche-Gewaltt%C3%A4ter/dp/3451302047)
": In Germany "the law is slipping out of our hands. It is moving to
the streets or into a parallel system where an imam or another
representative of the Koran determines what must be done."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXs42z66CtQ

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