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Updated 10/31/04

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From Jim -

Love This Comeback!

One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also.

But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the US flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen.

 It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered.

Pass it on.... Patriotism is not a "fad"!

From Cal,

I just watched my personal copy of "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal". It is an excellent documentary that every American should see. It explains in detail the great pain and suffering that John Kerry caused to our heroic POWs from 1971 until they finally came home in 1973. The POWs themselves (who are REAL HEROES) tell the story of the torture that was inflicted on them by their captors because of the lies of John Kerry. Even harder for them than the physical torture was the fear that they would be tried as War Criminals and be executed or worse remain in North Vietnam for life based on the enemy's use of Kerry's testimony. They felt abandoned and betrayed because one of their "Band of Brothers" lied to Congress and the world.

I feel great empathy for the POWs because, except for the Grace of God, there went I when I was flying combat missions in Vietnam. I  worried more about being captured than being killed because we started to get information on what was happening in the Hanoi Hilton and other prisons. A number of my friends and fellow naval aviators from Lemoore spent many horrific years in the camps and their time was significantly increased by the words and actions of Kerry. The deaths of many people including some POWs can be attributed to the war being extended several years by his actions.

The documentary is very well done and I can understand why the Democrats don't want it shown. I will do what I can to make sure it isn't squashed. It is a very strong indictment of Kerry, explaining in basic terms the impact of his lies. I would very strongly recommend this film to everyone and try to have anyone who has it show to as many of their Democratic and undecided friends as possible. It tells a very compelling story and I don't see how anyone could vote for Kerry after watching it. No interpretation of the film is required as it says it all.

Chuck

From Ken –

Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff-- including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see.

This was passed on to me from another pumpkin. Now, it is your turn to pass it to a pumpkin. I liked this enough to send it to all the pumpkins in my patch. Happy fall!

10/22/04

From Ken -

KERRY RESUME FOR PRESIDENT

(Please forward this message to all voters. Visit Kerry-04.com for the full story on John Forbes Kerry. You may also view John Kerry's Resume in HTML format at
http://kerry-04.com/about/resume.php .)

JOHN FORBES KERRY, "MAN OF THE PEOPLE"

CAREER OBJECTIVE

President of the United States, Renter of the Lincoln bedroom, Intern Supervisor, Commander and Chief and Defender of the Working Man, I mean Person

EDUCATION

Educated at Swiss Boarding Schools -- because my parents did not like me that much

Attended elite private schools like Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts and St. Paul's in New Hampshire – just like your kids

Graduated Yale University, 1966 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he also went to Yale.)

Graduated Boston College Law School in 1976 (I am much smarter than that Bush guy -- oh, wait, he got an MBA from Harvard.)


VIETNAM MILITARY SERVICE

Served as an officer on a swiftboat in the Mekong Delta in VIETNAM for three long months -- tried my best to come home a hero like JFK after his service on PT-109. I was in VIETNAM --
VIETNAM was a place where I was for a while.  Did I mention that VIETNAM veterans love me?

I collected three Purple Hearts in my three months (had to get three in order to come home and run for Congress as a hero like JFK) and the last one for that scratch on my finger -- it REALLY did hurt!  It was important to have the right connections so I
could get home and run for Congress on my hero status like JFK -- he was not in VIETNAM, but I was.

Brought my own motion camera to make sure images of me in VIETNAM becoming a hero made it back home to the states.  Got a free trip home after three months on my swiftboat where I suffered severe injuries and collected three Purple Hearts (did I mention that), a Bronze and Silver Star for heroism -- ensuring my destiny as a hero and man of the people like JFK.

Got home and found out they were not bestowing hero status on war heroes like me, so I threw my medals, or was it my ribbons, over the White House fence.  Maybe it was someone else's medals.

Co-founder of the VIETNAM Veterans of America and spokesperson for the VIETNAM Veterans Against the War and worked closely with Jane Fonda to make sure everyone knew that all the guys in VIETNAM were war criminals -- I was too, and even testified before the Senate about my own war crimes.

"Represented" my cadre of anti-American misfits in a Paris meeting to discuss how we could better provide "aid and comfort" for the North Vietnamese and to discuss the unconditional surrender of the U.S.  In doing so, I knowingly, directly violated UCMJ
Article 104 part 904, and U.S.  Code 18 U.S.C. 953.

Did I mention that this meeting, and my other anti-American activities, also put me in violation of the Constitution's Article three, Section three, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.

Consequently, I stand subject to the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President...having previously taken an oath...to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

But I don't have to resign -- I am understudy to Teddy Kennedy, now the patriarch of JFK's family.

I topped off my coddling of Commies by authoring a book called The New Soldier -- but since military heroes are back in vogue, I now sue anyone who reproduces the cover of that book on any website, especially a website like http://kerry-04.com/.  (The cover picture is a mockery of the Iwo Jima flag raising -- you can see it at http://kerry-04.com/ until my lawyers get them to take it down.)

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CONGRESSIONAL "SERVICE"

Volunteered as a campaign worker for my mentor, Teddy Kennedy in 1962.  I just love that big lug!

My first campaign for Congress was in 1972 -- I was a war hero like JFK but nobody noticed so I ran on my anti-American platform.  I won the primary with a little help from my campaign manager (brother Cameron) who broke into my opponents campaign
headquarters.  Unfortunately, because of that Watergate thing, I lost the general election to a Republican even after spending more than any other Congressional campaign in the nation.

In 1982, with the help of Uncle Teddy, I got elected as lieutenant governor for governor Michael Dukakis -- then got elected to the Senate in 1984 -- it has been smooth sailing ever since.

I have dedicated the last 20 years, between wives and vacation homes, promoting big government spending (except in defense and intelligence, which I vote against every chance I get), class warfare, the welfare state and general wealth redistribution, any
kind of abortion on demand (without parental consent for minors), and obstructionist tactics in the judicial nominee process.

According to Americans for Democratic [sic] Action, a far-left watchdog group, I have a higher lifetime liberal voting record at 93% than Ted Kennedy with 88%

I am the ranking Democrat member of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  My current millionaire wife is heiress of the Heinz Ketchup fortune -- a "small" business.

Ranking member of the Hispanic Task Force, even though I "borked" Miguel Estrada

Chaired the Senate Democratic Leadership Steering and Coordination Committee

In 1987, teemed up with Teddy to get an override of presidential veto of Boston's Big Dig Boondoggle -- one of the most larded distributions of taxpayer largess in U.S. history.

In 1991 the Senate created the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to investigate the possibility that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam.  Acting as chairman, I helped persuade the group to
vote unanimously that no American servicemen still remained in Vietnam.  In doing so, I helped begin the process of normalizing U.S.-Vietnamese relations.

Wealthiest senator ("man of the people"), with an estimated net worth of nearly $200 million (that's $800 million if you combine it with my current wife's assets)

POLITICAL POSTURING AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

ABORTION

Voted to federally fund abortions

Voted against parental consent for minors

Voted against ban on Partial Birth Abortion (3 times)

Voted against ban on sending money to UN population fund -- the money was sent to pay for China's forced abortion and sterilization policy

Have been warned by Catholic clergy that I will not be served communion due to my stance on this issue

NARAL lifetime rating of 100%; National Right to Life Committee lifetime rating of 0%

DEATH PENALTY

Oppose federal and/or state death penalty (except for innocent unborn children -- see above)

Voted against death penalty for terrorists

Voted against death penalty for drug-related murders

TAXES & ECONOMICS

I like high taxes and want to raise them

Voted against all three Bush tax cuts & want to repeal them

Voted for 1993 Clinton tax hike (largest in history)

Voted against major tax relief packages at least 10 times

Support re-raising taxes on the wealthy to redistribute money for healthcare and education -- i.e., Socialism

Claim I can stop outsourcing and create 10 million new jobs in four years, despite the fact that there are only about 8 million unemployed people in the U.S.

Want to raise the minimum wage, which will result in outsourcing and the loss of jobs Voted at least 5 times against balanced budget amendments

Voted at least 5 times to raid the Social Security Trust Fund

Believe Washington manages your money better than you could

Lifetime rating of 26% from Citizens Against Government Waste

MILITARY & NATIONAL SECURITY

We don't need a military, per se

Favor UN control of remaining U.S. Troops

Voted for 7 major reductions in military funding

Voted against Gulf War I (1991)

Voted for Gulf War II -- but then criticized and voted against military appropriation for troops

Voted against MX missile, Trident Submarine, SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative -- Star Wars), and the B-1 and B-2 Stealth Bomber/Fighter

Supported slashing $2.6 billion from intelligence funding while serving as a member of Senate Intelligence Committee

SECOND AMENDMENT

Against

Have earned a lifetime rating of 0% from the National Rifle Association

FAITH & VALUES

Against/Don't have any

Voted Against Defense of Marriage Act

Favor civil unions for homosexuals until marriage is popular enough to support

Voted to extend hate crimes protections to homosexuals

Voted against voluntary school prayer

Voted against ban on human cloning and support embryonic stem-cell research

EDUCATION

Voted against voucher pilot program

Voted against approving a school-choice pilot program

Support racial profiling and preference for admission to universities, known as "affirmative action"


JUDGES, COURTS & LAW

Against racial profiling and preference when dealing with terrorism

Voted against confirmation William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Voted against confirmation of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court

Only support activist judges who will support abortion, persecute Christians and rewrite the Constitution

Voted against confirmation John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General

Voted against punitive damage limits in products liability cases

As Michael Dukakis' Lt. Governor from 1983-1985, supported granting prison furloughs to hundreds of Massachusetts inmates

FOREIGN POLICY

Against linking Most Favored Nation status to China's human rights record

Voted for Kyoto Protocol on Environment that exempted major Third World polluters, while creating an unfair burden on American taxpayers

Supported Iraq regime change as late as January 2003, but not anymore

Support unilateral nuclear freeze

Support submitting completely to the UN, as well as the International Criminal Court, taking all sovereignty away from the U.S.  and its citizens

Don't know what the Geneva Conventions say, mean or who they apply to


OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Five multi-million dollar mansions

A large multi-million dollar yacht

Many "American" cars, including several gas-guzzling SUVs, which I am opposed to politically

Personal 757 campaign jet

Access to unlimited condiments -- did I mention my current millionaire wife is heiress to the Heinz fortune

Have dual citizenship in France

REFERENCES

General Vo Nguyen Giap -- most celebrated military hero of NORTH VIETNAM, where I served

"Hanoi Jane" Fonda

Teddy Kennedy

John F. Kennedy -- we have the same initials

Howard Dean -- (Albert Gore by proxy)

Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings

"Foreign Leaders" who I am unable to name at this time


FAVORITE WEBSITE

http://Kerry-04.com sponsored by The Federalist:

http://federalist.com/subscribe/kerry.asp

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From Josh –

Subject: You will pay upkeep/Secret Service for 5 Kerry mansions.

It is good to be John F. Kerry....... The F stands for Forbes in case you ever wondered.
He is one of the richest Senators in Government. When someone is elected president, it means the Secret Service has to protect the President and his family as well as his property.

The Kerry's have five US properties not counting the several foreign properties they own too. The cost to run these homes are more than what the average American could afford, even if the rent was free, and all you had to pay the water, gas & electric. Including grounds keepers, maintenance, pool, and house keepers. To be President would require the taxpayers to pay for all that now if elected.  Including a complete staffed Secret Service security 24 hours a day. In addition to that we will have to pay for each of their homes for security improvements even if they never go to them all there is that just in case. Who do you think will pay for all this?  We Pay! This takes all the expense off Kerry and puts it on us.

Nevertheless, factor another major cost to Americans that Kerry does not want you to know about.

Becoming president would automatically include taking care of all their properties with Secret Service Agents that includes 5 agents per 6 hour shift 4 times a day 365 days of the year for the rest of their lives so
long as they own those properties. It comes with being President once you are elected. It requires us the taxpayers, to pay for this as well as his annual salary as well as his retirements including the cost of living adjustments to boot. These salaries and protect all their real estate property with Secret Service Agents and pay the bills for the rest of his life.

In addition, feed the Secret Service Agents and rotate new ones every 6 hours for the rest of his life.

Do the math. Five properties need to be protected. This requires five Secret Service Agents per shift, daily every six hours, per property! That is 20 Secret Service Agents per day per property everyday including Holidays. Wow, what does that cost?

Lets say an average of 20 agents per property, each earning a about $60K per agent to survey the perimeters and protect. Now times that by five properties so far. That is if the Kerrys do not buy any more properties afterwards. This also includes the Agents vehicles and repairs, gas, meals, days off, paid vacation, and medical plan visits etc per agent.

Who pays? YOU pay, the whole time they are alive after becoming President!  Is this the best use of our tax money electing Kerry to take care of all their properties both foreign and domestic? On the other hand,
shouldn't he pay for his own? Yet, the Presidential salary could not afford

The more I think about paying for Kerrys properties everyday, just makes me happy keeping President Bush all the more merrier. Without raising taxes to boot.

How on earth would Kerry pay for everyone to have Healthcare, increase our military, and have us pay to protect his investments, all without raising our taxes? Tax and spend Kerry is his party motto.

Which really has to make you wonder why anyone with his wealth, would take a salary of that of a U.S. Senator, nevermind wanna be President? Do you believe him now why he needs to be the Prez? To serve the people?? On the other hand, the people will serve Him and his wife!

Please pass the Mustard and do America a favor and pass this to your friends, lets keep Bush a resident in the White House, and not have to protect another Kerry house.

Also from Josh –

WORLD SITUATION - A LETTER TO MY SONS This was written by a retired
 attorney, to his sons, May 19, 2004.

 Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted,
 As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share some thoughts on the present world situation.  We have over the years discussed a lot of important things, like going to college, jobs and so forth.  But this really takes precedence over any of those discussions.  I hope this might give you a longer term perspective that fewer and fewer of my generation are left to speak to.  To be sure you understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell you that since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led us through pre and WWII (1933 - 1945) up to and including our present President, I have without exception, supported our presidents on all matters of international conflict.  This would include just naming a few in addition to President Roosevelt - WWII:  President Truman - Korean War 1950;  President Kennedy - Bay of Pigs (1961); President Kennedy - Vietnam (1961); [1]  eight presidents (5 Republican & 4 Democrat) during the cold war (1945 - 1991);  President Clinton's strikes  on Bosnia (1995) and on Iraq (1998). [2]  So be sure you read this as completely non-political or otherwise you will miss the point.

Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).  The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.
      First, let's examine a few basics:
 1. When did the threat to us start?
 Many will say September 11th, 2001.  The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:  Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;  Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;  Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;  Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;  First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;  Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;  Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; New York World Trade Center 2001; Pentagon 2001.  (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide). 
2. Why were we attacked?
 Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. 

3. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush1, Clinton and Bush 2.  We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
4. Who were the attackers?
 In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
5. What is the Muslim population of the World?
 25%
6. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
 Hopefully, but that is really not material.  There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference.  You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated.  There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the
 Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm).  Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities.  Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, Christian or any others.  Same with the Muslim terrorists.  They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way - their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else.  The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing - by their own pronouncements - killing all of us infidels.  I don't blame the peaceful Muslims.  What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?
7. So who are we at war with?
 There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists.  Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal.  There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

 So with that background, now to the two major questions:
  1. Can we lose this war?
  2. What does losing really mean?
 If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is:
We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet.  If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly to terrorist attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them. We would of course have no future support from other nations for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and
 cannot help them.

 They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them.  They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they
 want Spain to do, will be done. Spain is finished. The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast.

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost. Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning.  And it is going to take that 100% effort to win. So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by imploding. That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose.  If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win.

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation.
  - President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
 Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the duration we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to
 lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.
  - Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.
  - Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war by a small
 group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently the same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of an American prisoner they held. Compare this with some of our press and politicians who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners - not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of
 comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned - totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.  Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife.  Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal.  It simply means that they absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in
 and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us for many years.  Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels. That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United States, but throughout the world.  We are the last bastion of defense.
  - We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'.  That charge is valid in at least one respect.  We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world.  We can't. If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are defeated.  And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the Press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the World.

 This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire.  If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read. If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less.  They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

 Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about. Do whatever you can to preserve it.

 Love,

 Dad

From Ken –

This came to me via an old friend, a person I trust. We had a neighbor when I lived in DC who was part of the secret service presidential detail for many years. His stories of Kennedy and Johnson were the same as those I heard from the guys who flew the presidents plane--- [yes, Kennedy did have Marilyn Monroe flown in for secret "dates", and LBJ was a typical Texas "good ol boy" womanizer. Nixon, Bush 41, and Carter never cheated on their wives. Clinton cheated, but couldn't match Kennedy or LBJ in style or variety.

The information below is accurate. Bush 41 and the current president Bush make it a point to thank and take care of the aircrews who fly them around [When the president flies, there are several planes that also go -- one carries the armored limo, another the security detail, plus usually a press aircraft] and both  Bush's made it a point to stay home on holidays, so these Air Force and security people could have a day with their families.

Secret Service Viewpoints: [WHAT WAS, COULD HAVE BEEN, AND WHAT IS)

WHAT WAS:
Hillary Clinton was arrogant and orally abusive to her security detail. She forbade her daughter, Chelsea, from exchanging pleasantries with them. Sometimes Chelsea, miffed at her mother's obvious conceit and mean spiritedness ignored her demands and exchanged pleasantries regardless, but never in her mother presence. Chelsea really was a nice, kindhearted, and lovely young lady. The consensus opinion was that Chelsea loved her mom but did not like her.

Hillary Clinton was continuously rude and abrasive to those who were charged to protect her life. Her security detail dutifully did their job, as professionals should, but they all "loathed" her and wanted to be on a different detail. She was hard work because she was so nasty and mean toward her detail. Hillary Clinton was uniformly despised by the
Secret Service as a whole.

Former President Bill Clinton was much more amiable than his wife Hillary. Often the Secret Service would cringe at the verbal attack antics that Hillary would use against her husband, the then President. They were embarrassed for his sake by the manner and frequency in which she verbally insulted him, sometimes in the presence of the Secret Service, and sometimes behind closed doors. Even behind closed doors Hillary Clinton would scream and holler so loudly that everyone could hear what she was saying.

Many felt sorry for President Clinton and most wondered why he tolerated it instead of just divorcing his "attack dog" wife. It was crystal clear that the Clinton's neither liked nor respected each other and this was true long before the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Theirs was genuinely a "marriage of convenience."

Chelsea was much closer to her father than her mother, even after the Lewinsky scandal which hurt her gravely. Bill Clinton did in fact have "charisma," and occasionally would smile at or shake hands with his security detail. Still, he always displayed an obvious air of superiority towards them. His security detail uniformly believed him to be disingenuous, false, and that he did nothing without a motive that in some way would enhance his image and political career. They did respect him, unlike his wife, but they did not particularly like him and nobody trusted him. He was polite, but not kind.

WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN:
Al Gore was the male version of Hillary Clinton. They were more friendly toward each other than either of them were towards former President Clinton. They were not intimate, so please don't read that in.  They were very close in a political way. Tipper Gore was generally nice and pleasant. She initially liked Hillary but soon after the election she had her "pegged" and no longer liked her or associated with her except for events that were politically obligatory.

Al Gore was far more left wing and very hateful, not just politically opposed, to Republicans than Bill Clinton. Al Gore resented Bill Clinton and thought he was too "centrist." He despised all Republicans. His hatred was bitter and this was long before he announced for the Presidency. This bitter hatred was something that he and Hillary had very much in common. They often said as much, even in the presence of their security detail. Neither of them trusted Bill Clinton and, the Secret Service opined, neither of them even liked Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton did have some good qualities where Al Gore and Hillary had none in the view of their security details.

Al Gore, like Hillary, was very rude and arrogant toward his security detail. He was extremely unappreciative and would not hesitate to scold them in the presence of their peers for minor details over which they had no control. Al Gore also looked down on them in disgust as they finally observed and learned with certainty on one occasion when Al Gore
got angry at his offspring and loudly, in their presence, pointed at his security detail and said, "Do you want to grow up and be like them?"

Word of this insulting and demeaning verbiage by the former
Vice-President quickly spread and he became as despised and disliked by the Secret Service as Hillary. Most of them prayed that Al Gore would not be elected President and they really did have private small celebrations in a few of their homes after President Bush won. This was not necessarily to celebrate President Bush's election, but to celebrate
Al Gore's defeat. He was much disliked. Al Gore was not a good and kind person. That he could have been our President may suggest that God was "answering prayers" and looking out for the country with Al Gore's defeat.

WHAT IS:
Everyone in the Secret Service wants to be on First Lady Laura Bush's detail. Without exception, they uniformly concede that she is perhaps the most nice, kind, and genuinely good person they have ever had the privilege of serving. Where Hillary patently refused to allow her
picture to be taken with her security detail, Laura Bush doesn't even have to be asked, she offers.

She doesn't just shake their hand and say, "Thank you." Very often, she will give members of her detail a kind-hearted hug to express her appreciation. There is nothing false about her. This is her genuine nature. Laura Bush really is this kind of a person and her security detail considers her to be a "breath of fresh air." They actually love her as a human being. They joke that comparing Laura Bush with Hillary Clinton is like comparing "Mother Teresa" with the "Wicked
Witch of the North."

Likewise, the Secret Service considers President Bush to be a gem of a man to work for. He always treats them with genuine respect and he always trusts and listens to their expert advice. They really like the Crawford, Texas detail. Every time the president goes to Crawford he has a Bar-B-Q for his security detail and he helps in serving them their meals. He eats with them, sits with them, and talks with them. He always asks about their family, the names of which he always remembers, and he of course, knows each of them by their first name, and calls them by their first name  as a show of affection.

They believe that he actually loves his security detail and that he is deeply and genuinely appreciative of their service. They could not like,love, or respect anyone more than President Bush, and most of them did not know they would feel this way until they had an opportunity to work for
him and learn that his manner was genuine and consistent. It has never changed in the three years that he has been President. He always treats them with the utmost respect, kindness, and compassion.

{I hope you will want to pass this on to everyone you know. It is important for every-day Americans to have a true inside understanding of their President, versus those who would be President. Finally, the Secret Service still is forming their opinion of John Kerry. They have nothing positive or negative to say that anyone is willing to share as yet. This notwithstanding, they already know what they have in President Bush and they don't want to lose a good thing.}

From Alan –

THE WARNING KERRY IGNORED

By PAUL SPERRY

March 15, 2004 -- SEN. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War."

Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.

Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his state's main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.

"He just did the Pontius Pilate thing and passed the buck" on back through the federal bureaucracy, said Brian Sullivan, a retired FAA special agent from the Boston area who in May 2001 personally warned Kerry that Logan was ripe for a "jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack."

Rewind to May 6, 2001. That night, a Boston TV station (Fox-25) aired reporter Deborah Sherman's story on an undercover investigation at Logan that Sullivan and another retired agent helped set up. In nine of 10 tries, a crew got knives and other weapons through security checkpoints - including the very ones the 9/11 hijackers would later exploit.

The next day, Sullivan fired off a two-page letter to Kerry highlighting the systemic failures.

"With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers?" he warned. "Think what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely." The
toll from such an attack would be economic, as well as human, he predicted with chilling accuracy.

Sullivan followed up by having the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry's office.

More than 11 weeks later, Kerry finally replied to his well-informed and anxious constituent. "I have forwarded your tape to the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General [DOT OIG]," he said in a brief July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which I've obtained.

Yet Sullivan had made it clear in his letter that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere. "The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA," he told Kerry. Sullivan suggested he show the tape to peers on committees with FAA oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.

But he never heard from Kerry again.

At that point, Steve Elson, the other agent who'd teamed up on the TV sting, decided to take a crack at the junior senator. A fiery ex-Navy Seal, Elson spent three years as part of an elite FAA unit called the Red Team, which did covert testing of airport security across the country, before retiring as a field agent in Houston. He offered to fly to Washington at his own expense to give Kerry a document-backed presentation about the "facade of security" at Logan and other major airports.

But a Kerry aide said not to bother. "You're not a constituent," Elson was told just a few weeks before the hijackings. He went ballistic, warning that if Kerry didn't act soon he'd risk the lives of planeloads of his actual constituents. That warning now looks like prophecy: At least 82 Kerry constituents were murdered aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.

"Enhanced security would have prevented the hijackings, virtually without question," Elson now insists. If nothing else, it might have discouraged ringleader Mohamed Atta, who monitored security procedures at Logan weeks before the hijackings.

Yet the warnings apparently did stick in Kerry's mind: In the days after 9/11, Kerry told the Boston Globe that he'd triggered an undercover probe of Logan security by the General Accounting Office in June 2001. But he wrote Sullivan no such thing in his July letter, stating only that he passed his warning and tape on to Transportation, not GAO. And GAO, though it is the investigative arm of Congress, didn't seem to know what the
senator was talking about. The agency had tested security at two airports before 9/11, but neither one was Logan. And Kerry confessed he didn't know the outcome of the probe he says he triggered.

Some follow-up, senator.

Sullivan and Elson, joined by aviation-security experts David Forbes and Andrew Thomas, want to see Kerry hauled before the 9/11 Commission to answer questions about what he knew about Logan's lapses, and specifically what he did about them, before that fateful day. It's a reasonable request - especially since Kerry has complained that President Bush will only give the panel an hour of his time.

Where was Kerry's sense of urgency? Where was his leadership? These are fair questions to ask of someone vying for Bush's job. "We don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to act," Sullivan urged Kerry in his letter. But tragically, that's exactly what happened - at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and on both sides of the aisle.

Paul Sperry is a Washington investigative reporter and author of "Crude Politics."

THIS MUST BE SENT TO EVERY COMPUTER IN AMERICA to expose a hypocrite
who knows no humility or embarrassment!!

From Ken –

This Pastor has guts!!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people.

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and call it Pluralism.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Amen!"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.

In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.

The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God."

If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything."

From Many –

Did You Know?

As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view  ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.

DID YOU KNOW?

James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our Constitution" made the following statement:

"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

DID YOU KNOW?

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".

DID YOU KNOW?

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law - an oligarchy ... the rule of few over many.

How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?

Please forward this to everyone you can. Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was built on.

Thank you!!

Chamber, US House of Representatives

From Pam –

Each year he sent her roses,
and the note would always say,
I love you even more this year,
than last year on this day.
My love for you will always grow,
with every passing year."

She knew this was the last time
that the roses would appear.
She thought, he ordered roses
in advance before this day.
Her loving husband did not know,
that he would pass away.

He always liked to do things early,
way before the time.
Then, if he got too busy,
everything would work out fine.

She trimmed the stems and
placed them in a very special vase.
Then, sat the vase beside
the portrait of his smiling face.

She would sit for hours,
In her husband's favorite chair.
While staring at his picture,
and the roses sitting there.

A year went by, and it was
to live without her mate.
With loneliness and solitude,
that had become her fate.

Then, the very hour,
The doorbell rang, and there
were roses sitting by her door.
She brought the roses in,
and then just looked at them in shock.
Then, went to get the telephone,
to call the florist shop.

The owner answered, and she asked him,
if he would explain, Why would someone would
do this to her, causing her such pain?

"I know your husband passed away,
more than a year ago,"
The owner said,
"I knew you'd call, and you would want to know.
The flowers you received today,
were paid for in advance.
Your husband always planned ahead,
he left nothing to chance.
There is a standing order,
that I have on file down here,
And he has paid, well in advance,
you'll get them every year.

There also is another thing,
that I think you should know,
He wrote a special little card...
he did this years ago.
Then, should ever I find out that
he's no longer here, that's the card
that should be sent to you the following year."

She thanked him and hung up the phone,

her tears now flowing hard.
Her fingers shaking, as she slowly

reached to get the card.

Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note.
Then, as she stared in total silence, this is what he wrote...

"Hello my love, I know it's been a year
since I've been gone I hope it hasn't been too hard for
you to overcome. I know it must be lonely,
and the pain is very real.
Or if it was the other way,
I know how I would feel.
The love we shared made everything
so beautiful in life.
I loved you more than words can say,
you were the perfect wife.
You were my friend and lover,
you fulfilled my every need.
I know it's only been a year,
but please try not to grieve.

I want you to be happy,
even when you shed your tears.
That is why the roses will be sent to you for years.
When you get these roses,
think of all the happiness that we had together,
and how both of us were blessed.
I have always loved you and
I know I always will.
But, my love, you must go on,
you have some living still.

Please...try to find happiness,
while living out your days.
I know it is not easy,
but I hope you find some ways.

The roses will come every year,
and they will only stop,
When your door's not answered,
when the florist stops to knock.
He will come five times that day,
in case you have gone out.
But after his last visit,
he will know without a doubt!
To take the roses to the place,
where I've instructed him
and place the roses where we are,
together once again.

From 03 September 2004

Federalist Patriot No. 04-35

Friday Digest

Special GOP Convention Edition

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THE FOUNDATION

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." --John Adams

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THE PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

Top of the fold -- The "Best of the Best" -- GOP Convention Highlights...

The Republican Convention was a great success -- building mostly on the themes of liberty and security as a matter of national and family survival.

Each evening provided memorable comments around themes of national courage, protecting U.S. interests around the world, this land of opportunity, compassionate conservatives (as Nancy Reagan asked, "Are there any other kind?") and hope for the future.

The Patriot's editors have reviewed every word and give the highest marks to, in order of appearance, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Georgia Democrat Senator Zell Miller, and, of course, President George Bush. In keeping with our practice in election years, we have compiled the "Best of the Best" -- the most memorable quotes from all the speakers -- and we have compiled them by topic for easy review.

On leadership:

"George Bush is a leader who doesn't flinch, doesn't waiver, does not back down. My fellow Americans, make no mistake about it: terrorism is more insidious than communism, because it yearns to destroy not just the individual, but the entire international order. The President didn't go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular. As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite. But leadership isn't about polls. It's about making decisions you think are right and then standing behind those decisions. That's why America is safer with George W. Bush as President." --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"He'll always tell you what he really thinks. You can count on him, especially in a crisis. His friends don't change -- and neither do his values. He has boundless energy and enthusiasm for his job, and for life itself. He treats every person he meets with dignity and respect; the same dignity and respect he has for the office he holds." --Laura Bush

"I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family? The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party. There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush. ... He is not a slick talker but he is a straight shooter and, where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel." --Zell Miller

"Thank God George Bush is our President. ... Since September 11th President Bush has remained rock solid. It doesn't matter how he is demonized. It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him. They ridiculed Winston Churchill. They belittled Ronald Reagan. But like President Bush, they were optimists, leaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom. Some call it stubbornness. I call it principled leadership. President Bush has the courage of his convictions. In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader." --Rudy Giuliani

"For giving America courageous leadership in times of trial, decisive leadership in times of crisis, we thank you, Mr. President. You have restored honor and dignity to the White House." --Elizabeth Dole

"I want to help voters compare President Bush's record of achievement with Senator Kerry's. That way they'll be able to see the difference, which is that President Bush has a record of achievement." --George Pataki

On 9/11 and the campaign against terror:

"George W. Bush knows you don't reason with terrorists. You defeat them. He knows you can't reason with people blinded by hate. They hate the power of the individual. They hate the progress of women. They hate the religious freedom of others. They hate the liberating breeze of democracy. But, ladies and gentlemen, their hate is no match for America's decency." --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"President Bush will make certain that we are combating terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of having to confront it in the streets of New York. John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combating terrorism gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course." --Rudy Giuliani

"Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations. Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide. ... Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democrat leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers. Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers. Tell that to the half a billion men, women and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers. Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier." --Sen. Zell Miller

"[W]e are living in the midst of the most historic struggle my generation has ever known. The stakes are so high. So I want to talk about the issue that I believe is most important for my own daughters, for all our families, and for our future: George's work to protect our country and defeat terror so that all children can grow up in a more peaceful world." --Laura Bush

"Just as surely as the Nazis during World War Two and the Soviet communists during the Cold War, the enemy we face today is bent on our destruction. As in other times, we are in a war we did not start, and have no choice but to win. Firm in our resolve, focused on our mission, and led by a superb commander in chief, we will prevail." --Dick Cheney

On the War with Jihadistan:

"Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls. ... Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war." --John McCain

"President Bush will make certain that we are combating terrorism at the source, beyond our shores, so we can reduce the risk of having to confront it in the streets of New York. John Kerry's record of inconsistent positions on combating terrorism gives us no confidence he'll pursue such a determined course." --Rudy Giuliani

"In fact, in the global war on terror, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Bush has brought many allies to our side. But as the President has made very clear, there is a difference between leading a coalition of many, and submitting to the objections of a few. George W. Bush will never seek a permission slip to defend the American people." --Dick Cheney

"Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most? Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief. What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in? I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. ...Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But, not today. Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. ...Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home." --Sen. Zell Miller

"America did not choose this war. But we have a President who chooses to win it. This is no ordinary time. The stakes could not be higher. Fate has handed our generation a grave new threat to freedom. And fortune has given us a leader who will defend that freedom. This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki

On the economy:

"There's another way you can tell you're a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people and faith in the U.S. economy. And to those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie-men. The U.S. economy remains the envy of the world. We have the highest economic growth of any of the world's major industrialized nations. ... We may hit a few bumps -- but America always moves ahead! That's what Americans do! We move prosperity ahead. We move freedom ahead. We move people ahead. Under President Bush and Vice President Cheney, America's economy is moving ahead in spite of a recession they inherited and in spite of the attack on our homeland." --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Opportunity also depends on a vibrant, growing economy. As President Bush and I were sworn into office, our nation was sliding into recession, and American workers were overburdened with federal taxes. Then came the events of September 11th, which hit our economy very hard. So President Bush delivered the greatest tax reduction in a generation, and the results are clear to see. Businesses are creating jobs. People are returning to work. Mortgage rates are low, and home ownership in this country is at an all-time high. The Bush tax cuts are working." --Dick Cheney

On social issues:

"Our nation has the best healthcare in the world, and President Bush is making it more affordable and accessible to all Americans. And there is more to do. Under this President's leadership, we will reform medical liability so the system serves patients and good doctors, not personal injury lawyers." --Dick Cheney

"Let's be clear: you can no longer be both pro-patient and pro-trial lawyer. John Kerry has made his choice. He put a trial lawyer on his ticket. By his votes and by his actions, he is the 'Dr. No' of tort reform in America." --Bill Frist

"Marriage is important not because it is a convenient invention or the latest reality show: marriage is important because it is the cornerstone of civilization, and the foundation of the family. Marriage between a man and a woman isn't something Republicans invented, but it is something Republicans will defend." --Elizabeth Dole

On Republican principles:

"If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government...then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group...then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does...then you are a Republican! If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children...then you are a Republican! If you believe this country, not the United Nations, is the best hope of democracy in the world...then you are a Republican! And, ladies and gentlemen...if you believe we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism...then you are a Republican!" --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Democrats are running from Senator Kerry's record, and we're running on President Bush's." --Ed Gillespie

On Democrats:

"[John Kerry] also recently said that he doesn't want to use the word 'war' to describe our efforts to fight terrorism. Well, I don't want to use the words 'commander in chief' to describe John Kerry." --Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele

"On Iraq, Senator Kerry has disagreed with many of his fellow Democrats. But Senator Kerry's liveliest disagreement is with himself. His back-and-forth reflects a habit of indecision and sends a message of confusion. And it is all part of a pattern. He has, in the last several years, been for the 'No Child Left Behind Act' and against it. He has spoken in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement and against it. He is for the Patriot Act and against it. Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual -- America sees two John Kerrys. ... Senator Kerry is campaigning for the position of commander in chief. Yet he does not seem to understand the first obligation of a commander in chief and that is to support American troops in combat." --Dick Cheney

"Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security, but Americans need to know the facts. The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40% of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom. The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq. The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora. The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11. I could go on and on and on: Against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel, Against the Aegis air-defense cruiser, Against the Strategic Defense Initiative, Against the Trident missile, against, against, against. This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?" --Zell Miller

"[Kerry] voted NO on Desert Storm in 1991 and YES on Desert Shield today. Then he voted NO on troop funding, just after he had voted YES. He's campaigned against the war all year, but says he'd vote YES today. I don't want Presidential leadership that comes in 57 varieties! I want a strong President who stands his ground." --Mitt Romney

"We heard one word over and over again at the Democrat Convention: Hope. But there is a problem, my friends: Hope is not a strategy. Hope doesn't protect you from terrorists, hope doesn't lower your taxes, hope doesn't help you buy a home, and hope doesn't ensure quality education for your kids. As the book of James reminds us, 'It is not enough just to have faith. Faith that does not show itself by good deeds is no faith at all.' You see, it's results that matter; and President Bush does not just talk about hope, he stands on a record of putting hope into action for America." --Michael Steele

President Bush's remarks on liberty:

"The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more. Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom. ... And we are working to advance liberty in the broader Middle East, because freedom will bring a future of hope, and the peace we all want. And we will prevail. ... I believe in the transformational power of liberty: The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. ... The progress we and our friends and allies seek in the broader Middle East will not come easily, or all at once. Yet Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of liberty to transform lives and nations.

"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. ... I faced the kind of decision that comes only to the Oval Office a decision no president would ask for, but must be prepared to make. Do I forget the lessons of September 11th and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country? Faced with that choice, I will defend America every time.

"I proposed, and the Congress overwhelmingly passed, 87 billion dollars in funding needed by our troops doing battle in Afghanistan and Iraq. My opponent and his running mate voted against this money for bullets, and fuel, and vehicles, and body armor. When asked to explain his vote, the [Kerry] said, 'I actually did vote for the 87 billion dollars before I voted against it.' Then he said he was 'proud' of that vote. Then, when pressed, he said it was a 'complicated' matter. There is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat.

"Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer. ... Free societies in the Middle East will be hopeful societies, which no longer feed resentments and breed violence for export. Free governments in the Middle East will fight terrorists instead of harboring them, and that helps us keep the peace. So our mission in Afghanistan and Iraq is clear: We will help new leaders to train their armies, and move toward elections, and get on the path of stability and democracy as quickly as possible. And then our troops will return home with the honor they have earned.

"I am proud that our country remains the hope of the oppressed, and the greatest force for good on this earth. ... The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. I believe in the transformational power of liberty: The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. ... And as freedom advances heart by heart, and nation by nation, America will be more secure and the world more peaceful. ... I believe that America is called to lead the cause of freedom in a new century. I believe that millions in the Middle East plead in silence for their liberty. I believe that, given the chance, they will embrace the most honorable form of government ever devised by man. I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world."

President Bush on his domestic agenda:

"I believe we have a moral responsibility to honor America's seniors, so I brought Republicans and Democrats together to strengthen Medicare. ... To make health care more affordable and accessible, we must pass medical-liability reform now. ... We must protect small-business owners and workers from the explosion of frivolous lawsuits that threaten jobs across America. ... The American people deserve and our economic future demands a simpler, fairer, pro-growth system. In a new term, I will lead a bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the federal tax code. ... [Kerry's] policies of tax and spend and of expanding government rather than expanding opportunity are the policies of the past. We are on the path to the future and we are not turning back. ... I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.

"Our society rests on a foundation of responsibility and character and family commitment. ... My opponent recently announced that he is the candidate of 'conservative values,' which must have come as a surprise to a lot of his supporters. Now, there are some problems with this claim. If you say the heart and soul of America is found in Hollywood, I'm afraid you are not the candidate of conservative values. If you voted against the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act, which President Clinton signed, you are not the candidate of conservative values. If you gave a speech, as my opponent did, calling the Reagan presidency eight years of 'moral darkness,' then you may be a lot of things, but the candidate of conservative values is not one of them."

President Bush on the new American Century:

"The freedom of many, and the future security of our Nation, now depend on us. And tonight, my fellow Americans, I ask you to stand with me.

"These four years have brought moments I could not foresee and will not forget. I have tried to comfort Americans who lost the most on September 11th -- people who showed me a picture or told me a story -- so I would know how much was taken from them. I have learned first-hand that ordering Americans into battle is the hardest decision, even when it is right. I have returned the salute of wounded soldiers, some with a very tough road ahead, who say they were just doing their job. I've held the children of the fallen, who are told their dad or mom is a hero, but would rather just have their dad or mom.

"And I have met with parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag, and said a final good-bye to a soldier they loved. I am awed that so many have used those meetings to say that I am in their prayers to offer encouragement to me. Where does strength like that come from? How can people so burdened with sorrow also feel such pride? It is because they know their loved one was last seen doing good. Because they know that liberty was precious to the one they lost. And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, and idealistic, and strong.

"My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, and here a nation rose. ... This young century will be liberty's century. ... Now we go forward grateful for our freedom, faithful to our cause, and confident in the future of the greatest nation on earth.

"Two months from today, voters will make a choice based on the records we have built, the convictions we hold, and the vision that guides us forward. A presidential election is a contest for the future."

In summary:

With "moderates" on parade at Madison Square Garden, Kerry's ilk and their Leftmedia minions are apoplectic about the number of Republican moderates speaking at the GOP Convention this week. They complain "the featured speakers don't represent the Republican platform." The Republican "diversity" (as the Left tags it) showcases the tolerance that Puritan Liberal orthodoxy cannot tolerate: Republicans honor diverse views, but majority rules on the platform planks. (You can read current Party platforms on our historic documents page -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/histdocs/platforms/ )

It is the strength of the ideas conservatives hold in common -- like national defense and fiscal responsibility -- that bind, more than the disagreements on social issues divide. Thus, the RNC can show a moderate face, a conservative heart and a calculating mind at their own convention.

In the words of Senator Miller, "This election will change forever the course of history, and that's not any history. It's our family's history. Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive America. Fainthearted self-indulgence will put at risk all we care about in this world. In this hour of danger our President has had the courage to stand up. And this Democrat is proud to stand up with him."

While The Federalist Patriot does not play in the political futures market (which is why we never, for example, report political polls), it is worth noting that in January of 2001, three weeks before George Bush took his oath of office, Patriot No. 01-01 offered this analysis (amid the Left's contention that Albert Gore really won): "Leftists and conservatives alike are significantly underestimating Mr. Bush's ability to breathe new life into the conservative agenda. But one thing the Left is not underestimating is the potential for Mr. Bush to unify the nation around his agenda and win big in 2004. After all, in his first run for Texas governor, he defeated his father's nemesis, Demo-gogue Clintonista Ann Richards, and went on to win a second term in an unprecedented landslide. It should be noted that Mr. Bush will be doing much more than installing new administration faces after January 20th. He will be restoring a few things that have been painfully absent from the presidency for eight long years -- most notably, honor and common decency. For that, all Americans should be thankful."

We stand by this assessment today. Indeed, George W. Bush has restored honor and decency to the White House. Unlike John Kerry, President Bush is an honorable and decent man -- a leader who has proven himself under the most difficult of circumstances while remaining humble. He is plain-spoken, which is to say, he does not speak with a Beltway dialect. But his honor and humility resonate with the majority of Americans.

For that reason, we believe President Bush will overcome the Leftmedia's stranglehold on public opinion, and defeat John Kerry.

For the full text of the major speeches, link to -- http://federalistpatriot.us/histdocs/rnc/2004/
For the text of other speeches, link to -- http://gopconvention.com/news/speeches.shtml

Quote of the week...

"My father served eight years at the side of another great American, Ronald Reagan. His spirit of optimism and goodwill and decency are in this hall, and in our hearts, and will always define our party." --President George Bush

The BIG lie...

John Kerry was up late Thursday night, in what played as a petty rebuttal to George Bush's convention comments. Kerry is still trying to promote his embellished "war hero" image. To that end, we note on his official campaign website bio: "As he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, 'it was the right thing to do.' He believed that 'to whom much is given, much is required.' And he felt he had an obligation to give something back to his country. John...volunteered to serve on a Swift Boat in the river deltas, one of the most dangerous assignments of the war. His leadership, courage, and sacrifice earned him a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V, and three Purple Hearts. [After returning home] John decided he had a responsibility to his friends still serving, the friends he had lost, and his country, to help restore responsible leadership in America. So he decided to become active as a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (VVAW). He became a spokesman for VVAW and...in April 1971...he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."

The BIG truth...

Contrary to Kerry's assertion in his official bio, in Patriot No. 04-34 we noted: "Kerry claims he 'volunteered' for service in Vietnam. Remember Bill Clinton's repetitive 'Send me' paean at the Demo Convention? Try again. Kerry's anti-military sentiments were well known when he was a student at Yale. After graduating, Kerry petitioned his draft board for a student deferment so he could study in -- where else? -- Paris. His deferment denied, Kerry then calculated that he could avoid Vietnam by joining the Naval Reserves rather than getting drafted into the Army or Marines, where he would, likely, see combat. Kerry's service record indicates that on 18 February 1966 he enlisted in the USNR under 'inactive' status and was moved to 'active' status after a slot opened for him in Officer Training School. As fate would have it, Kerry ended up off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Gridley.... As for Kerry's decision to transfer to Swift Boats (most likely because that enabled him to be in command rather than under command), he told the Boston Globe last year, 'I didn't really want to get involved in the war. When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling....' This puts the lie to any assertion that Kerry 'volunteered' for dangerous swift boat duty while George W. Bush somehow slunk off to fly fighter-jets."

Regarding his claimed "leadership, courage, and sacrifice which earned him a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V, and three Purple Hearts," his embellished claims and the medals he asked for have all melted down.

And regarding his "responsibility to his friends still serving," the damage Kerry and his anti-American ilk did to our nation in time of war is incalculable, and with "friends" like Kerry, most Vietnam vets are left asking, "Who needs enemies?"

On 22 April, 1971, under oath, John Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that American troops "had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam."

As we noted last week in Patriot No. 04-34, and as penned this week by Friend of The Patriot Oliver North, Lt. Col., USMC, (who actually earned his Purple Hearts, Bronze and Silvers Stars when serving on the ground in Vietnam), Kerry's congressional testimony severely compromised the safety of those fighting and captive in Vietnam. Here is what a few POWs had to say: Capt. James Warner, who had already spent four years as a POW, was handed a copy of Kerry's testimony by his captors, who told him Kerry's statements "were proof I deserved to be punished." Maj. Kenneth Cordier, an Air Force pilot who spent 2,284 days in captivity, says that his captors "repeated incessantly" Kerry's one-liner about being "the last man to die" for a lost cause. POW Navy Lt. Paul Galanti says that Kerry's accusations "were as demoralizing as solitary [confinement]...and a prime reason the war dragged on. ... John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades took torture to avoid saying."

North notes that in 1988 Jane Fonda apologized to Vietnam vets: "I would like to say something...to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families."

And so, Mr. Kerry, we are all waiting for your apology. Even the Swiftees have indicated they will drop their campaign against you if you will apologize in your address to the American Legion this week for calling those fighting and captive in Vietnam "war-criminals."

If you want to read Kerry's testimony, and read his book "The New Soldier" (also see images of Kerry and his ilk in action), link to our Kerry site -- http://kerry-04.org/new_soldier.php

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On 30 September, our petition calling for John Kerry's prosecution and disqualification from public office for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" in time of war will be delivered to Senate President Richard Cheney, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Attorney General John Ashcroft. Regardless of the outcome of the election in November, since John Kerry made his war record the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, we intend to make it the centerpiece of this call for his prosecution. Please join 140,000 fellow Patriots who have already signed the petition demanding John Kerry's prosectuion. Link to -- http://www.PatriotPetitions.US/Kerry (If you don't have Web access, please send a blank e-mail to: Each e-mail sent to this address will be counted as one signature for the petition -- no duplicates are counted.)

From warfront with Jihadistan...

On Monday, when asked about the "war on terror," President Bush replied, "I don't think you can win it," omitting to continue with what he clearly meant: "in the sense that we won World War II or the Spanish-American War" (precisely why we call it a "campaign against terror").

This being campaign season, Democrats latched onto this verbal gaffe like hyenas onto a wildebeest. John Edwards, falling back on his long career as a prevaricator -- excuse us, we mean litigator -- said: "After months of listening to the Republicans base their campaign on their singular ability to win the war on terror, the president now says we can't win the war on terrorism. This is no time to declare defeat."

"Bush flip-flops on winning the war on terror," pounced a desperate Kerry.

The President and his team have been conducting damage control interviews since then, with the President telling Rush Limbaug, "Listen, I should have made my point more clear. What I meant was that this is not a conventional war. It is a different kind of war. We're fighting people who have got a dark ideology who use terrorists, terrorism, as a tool.... Really what I was saying to Lauer was, is that this is not the kind of war where you sit down and sign a peace treaty. It's a totally different kind of war."

We at The Patriot could not agree more. The campaign against Islamo-fascism will likely last longer than any war Americans have known, including the Cold War. And it will not end with a formal surrender and a treaty. It will end only when the Muslim world has emerged from its Dark Age mindset and Wahabbi Islam loses its appeal. These are no small changes. Few Americans really understand the true philosophy and vast expanse of fundamental Islam. The surest way to succeed in the present struggle is to stay the course: promote the spread of liberty in the Muslim world and defy the barbarians who seek to destroy the West. Afghanistan and Iraq are a good start, but the rest of the Muslim world, from Algeria to Pakistan, Bangladesh to Malaysia, from Morocco to Chechnya, the fresh air of freedom has yet to breathe in their systems.

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From the "Department of Military Readiness"...

On Tuesday, retired General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S forces who crushed the Afghan Taliban and their Jihadi 'guests', as well Saddam's 'elite' rapists and thugs, formally endorsed President George W. Bush for a second term. In an interview, Franks stated he was ending his usual non-partisan stance due to the critical need for the U.S. to have a strong leader who will take the fight to our country's enemies.

In business/economic news...

Despite Demo-gogue protests to the contrary, the economy continued to churn out new jobs in August, adding 144,000. The unemployment rate also dropped to a three-year low of 5.4%. The June and July numbers were also revised, adding 59,000 more jobs than previously thought, bringing the year total to 1.4 million -- not as much as the White House wanted, but growth nonetheless.

Of course, the Democrats have so positioned themselves that what is good for America is bad for them. They continue to caterwaul about a "net loss of jobs" under President Bush, trying to convince you, Patriot, that things are just awful. While it is true that the total job numbers have not recovered since 2001, the idea that the president has much at all to do with it is ludicrous. The government is a burden on the economy -- when it gets out of the way, the economy grows. It's very simple, really.

And last...

In a shock from one of the Left's most loyal constituencies, John Kerry's daughters, who were paraded out before the MTV Music Awards (ostensibly to "get out the vote"), were promptly booed off the stage. "My sister and I are thrilled to be here with you all tonight in Florida, and to get this chance [loud boos] -- AND GET THIS CHANCE -- to suggest that you get involved in this election and vote, and hopefully that you vote for our father [louder boos]," yelled Vanessa Kerry. To no avail, Alexandra put her finger to her mouth and tried to shush the audience. Poor girls....

Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.)

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From Ken –

There is a “hate crimes” bill that has already passed the U.S. Senate. The House will soon vote on the bill. If the bill passes, the ultimate result could be that it is a federal crime to publicly criticize the homosexual lifestyle. It is urgent that you contact your Representative today to oppose this dangerous “hate crimes” amendment that could lay the groundwork for persecution of Christians.

Can’t happen, you say. In Canada, one cannot publicly criticize homosexuality. Because of a “hate crimes” law that includes sexual orientation, even the quoting of Scriptures that condemn homosexuality can be illegal.

Because of “hate crimes” legislation in Sweden a pastor was sentenced to 30 days in jail for preaching a sermon in which he said homosexuality is wrong.

The Kennedy-Smith “hate crimes” bill will give protected status to the homosexual lifestyle.

Laws in civilized nations have always been designed to punish conduct, not thought. But wrong thoughts are the sole aim of Kennedy-Smith. The Kennedy-Smith bill does nothing to aid in fighting crime.

The Kennedy-Smith amendment – The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act – recently passed the Senate and the House will be voting to accept the Senate language any day now.

To contact your Representative through the capitol switchboard, dial 202-224-3121. For the direct number to your Representative, click here. It is important you call today! Ask him or her to oppose The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act or any other federal “hate crimes” bill.

From Judy –

Mayonnaise jar and ....beer

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24  hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the beer.

 A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
 He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it  was.

 So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

 The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. Again, the students responded with a unanimous "yes."

 The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
 "Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your passions, things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else - the small stuff."

 "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another18 rounds.

 There will always be time to clean the house, and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

 One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked," he said. "It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for couple of beers."

From Ken –

Keep Your Fork Please! 

There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things "in order," she contacted her Pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes.

She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, what scriptures she would like read, and what outfit she wanted to be buried in.

Everything was in order and the Pastor was preparing to leave when the young woman suddenly remembered something very important to her.

"There's one more thing," she said excitedly.

"What's that?" came the Pastor's reply.

"This is very important," the young woman continued. "I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand."

The Pastor stood looking at the young woman, not knowing quite what to say.

That surprises you, doesn't it?" the young woman asked.

"Well, to be honest, I'm puzzled by the request," said the Pastor.

The young woman explained. "My grandmother once told me this story, and from that time on I have always tried to pass along its message to those I love and those who are in need of encouragement. In all my years of attending socials and dinners, I always remember that when the dishes of the main course were being cleared, someone would inevitably lean over and say, 'Keep your fork.' It was my favorite part because I knew that something better was coming...like velvety chocolate cake or deep-dish apple pie.  Something wonderful, and with substance!'

So, I just want people to see me there in that casket with a fork in my hand and I want them to wonder "What's with the fork?" Then I want you to tell them: "Keep your fork .the best is yet to come."

The Pastor's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the young woman good-bye. He knew this would be one of the last times he would see her before her death. But he also knew that the young woman had a better grasp of heaven than he did. She had a better grasp of what heaven would be like than many people twice her age, with twice as much experience and knowledge.  She KNEW that something better was coming.

At the funeral people were walking by the young woman's casket and they saw the cloak she was wearing and the fork placed in her right hand.  Over and over, the Pastor heard the question, "What's with the fork?" And over and over he smiled.

During his message, the Pastor told the people of the conversation he had with the young woman shortly before she died He also told them about the fork and about what it symbolized to her. He told the people how he could not stop thinking about the fork and told them that they probably would not be able to stop thinking about it either.

Previously

From John –

Letter to Congressman Vitter

My Dear Congressman Vitter:

The issue of the UN's irrelevance plus its detriment to the USA has been more pronounced now since it started metastasizing in that light since the Korean "conflict" ...   Never has there been any reason since to maintain our support of and membership of an  organization that is NO  LONGER what it was supposed to be and is no longer the SAME!

China and the USSR were signatories and on the Security Council.  China that signed it   NO LONGER EXISTS! They were conquered by Communist China. That 'version' of   China is now on Taiwan. The USSR NO LONGER EXISTS! They were imploded through their own excesses, inefficiencies and immorality; hastened by our beloved  President Reagan's strength and policies.

Accordingly, how valid would our participation be in a treaty/organization that we joined  with Cuba when under Battista??  Of Panama when under Noriega??  Of  Italy when under Mussolini?  Of Germany when under Hitler?? ... ad infinitum?

To my knowledge, no one has raised that question regarding our membership, and  without wanting to trivialize its dire seriousness for our Republic and the world, it now 

resembles the parasitic fleas on a dog that are insatiable, and even wanting more authority than ever on running the dog's life.

I respectfully urge your serious consideration to having us out of the U.N and having it  move to a place more in keeping with its goals and compatibility.

John  Maggiore 

Excellent, John! I wholeheartedly agree!! DebV

Also From John –

A FICTIONAL version of a funeral service for Wm Jefferson Clinton; in a very light  vein coursing through the country after what we experienced two weeks ago ....

United Nations announces Clinton's death -- confirmed, but details to remain sealed for   indeterminate period as in cases of JFK and MLK.  Casket to be draped with flags of   UN and Stars & Stripes.

Forty men in Secret Service detail fired without any federal benefits.  When announcement made of a Clinton death they whooped and hollered, thinking it was   Hillary.

Kofi Annan proclaims world-wide mourning and directs all UN troops wear the Black  Beret; type worn by Monica Lewinsky, who was important to his presidency and even present during his discussions regarding waging of the Kosovo, Wag-the Dog hostilities.

Body to first lie in state in Little Rock at  main entrance to stadium on day of Arkansas--LSU football game.  Purpose is to enter Book of Records for most people to view a casket in matter of two hours.

Half time show has flags removed to allow Hip Hop performers and other entertainers to  stand atop... list includes Michael in a duet with sister Janet Jackson; with closing  number by Madonna, who had many weeping copiously with singing of Clinton favorite, "If You Knew Susie Like I Knew Susie Her Husband Would Be Looking For You Too."

UN issues edict that only flowers permitted must have the Al Gore Tree Huggers seal for  environmental purity.  Paper flowers definitely not allowed.

At Capitol Rotunda, military honor guard selected from now-famous "Don't  Ask  Don't  Tell" brigade.  Background RAP music piped in as gesture for Clinton's preference.

At Rotunda, section set aside for viewers to have/buy photo of themselves taken with  casket in background and to be superimposed with them a choice of: James Courville, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Dan Rather or Sam Donaldson.   All proceeds from sale of pictures split 50-50 with UN and Democrat Party.

Cardinal Law in charge of selecting clergy of all persuasions to perform at services.  Included are: Rev. Al Sharpton, His Holiness Jesse Jackson , a  Jesuit-trained Berrigan and Rev. Jimmy Swaggert.

Appointed as Honorary Escorts for the grieving widow Hillary Rodham and to  administer smelling salts when she gets overcome with grief are Martina Navratilova  and Rosie O'Donnel --- all three dressed in designer purple slacks .

Before closing ceremony at Rotunda, coffin opened to allow John Kerry to pin his Viet Nam medals on Clinton's body.  Much assistance is needed due to tear-filled eyes, plus  difficulty in accomplishing while standing at attention.  His wife Tessie drops into coffin carbon copies of a $10M pledge to ACLU and $5M pledge to Jackson's Rainbow  Coalition.

Musical tributes include songs by hastily-formed chorus comprised of Democrat senators who refused to convict the impeached president.  Most in tears as they closed  singing "Oh Didn't He Ramble", which is usually played on return from cemetery at  Jazz funerals in New Orleans.  Number suggested and led by Mary Landrieu .

At cemetery in Little Rock, state police on duty at Meena Airport during WJC's   governorship comprise firing squad--all use double-barreled shotguns to convey his  passion for hunting...  There will NOT be a gas flame on grave in deference to oil  industry in Arkansas and environmental pollution concerns evinced by Al Gore.

Henceforth, in all signatory nations in the UN, all English grammar text books will have  special chapter dedicated to Clinton's exposition on meaning of the word "is".  

May he rest in peace, or "is" that appropriate now ?

John Maggiore 

From Josh -

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following Multiple
Choice test.... No need to keep score. The events are actual cuts from
past history. They actually happened! Do you remember?

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred
by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year-old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair
by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women
problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles
to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one
crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by
the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning former Governors, and leave Muslim Males between the ages
17 & 40 alone because of profiling.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly ashamed of themselves if they have any such sense.

As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does.”

Subject: MRS JOHN KERRY

This could affect you. WorldNetDaily is a dependable conservative source. (You won't learn these facts & inside story from our liberal media):

"Your Future First  Lady?." by Paul R. Hollrah

"Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, and was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in 5 languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a handsome young American, H.John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was in the food business. 

They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food Company. He was elected to the U.S. House f Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate.

Senator H. John Heinz was a friend of mine, not a close friend, not a golfing buddy, but a friend nonetheless. In 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.

Four years later, after inheriting Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion. Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before they were  married.

John Kerry may not have check-writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one example:  

According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?  

a. They support numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.

b. They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from terrorist states.

c. They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.

d.They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind
of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

e. They support Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the Abortion Action Project.

f. They support the most violent of all homosexual action groups, ACT-UP.

g. They support the Barrio Warriors, a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.

These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.

Note: Heinz has 57 of their plants and 72% of their employee's working overseas  -- If you think these facts are significant, please pass them along.

From Ken –

In W.W.II there was an advisor to Churchill that organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every day at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace.

There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America.

If you would like to participate, every evening at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Central/6:00 p.m. Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for God's wisdom, our country's leadership, the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, and for peace in the world.

If you know anyone else who would like to participate, please pass this along.  Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have.  Together, we "CAN" make a difference! Thank You and God Bless America!

Here are quotes from men who served with John Kerry in Vietnam.  Please forward this widely. 

"We resent very deeply the false war crimes charges he made coming back from Vietnam in 1971 and repeated in the book "Tour of Duty." We think those cast an aspersion on all those living and dead, from our unit and other units in Vietnam. We think that he knew he was lying when he made the charges, and we think that they're unsupportable. We intend to bring the truth about that to the American people. We believe, based on our experience with him, that he is totally unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief."

-- John O'Neill, spokesman, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

"I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgment, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty and trust -- all absolute tenets of command. His biography, 'Tour of Duty,' by Douglas Brinkley, is replete with gross exaggerations, distortions of fact, contradictions and slanderous lies. His contempt for the military and authority is evident by even a most casual review of this biography. He arrived in-country with a strong anti-Vietnam War bias and a self-serving determination to build a foundation for his political future. He was aggressive, but vain and prone to impulsive judgment, often with disregard for specific tactical assignments. He was a 'loose cannon.' In an abbreviated tour of four months and 12 days, and with his specious medals secure, Lt.(jg) Kerry bugged out and began his infamous betrayal of all United States forces in the Vietnam War. That included our soldiers, our marines, our sailors, our coast guardsmen, our airmen, and our POWs. His leadership within the so-called Vietnam Veterans Against the War and testimony before Congress in 1971 charging us with unspeakable atrocities remain an undocumented but nevertheless meticulous stain on the men and women who honorably stayed the course. Senator Kerry is not fit for command."

-- Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, USN (retired), chairman, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

"During Lt.(jg) Kerry's tour, he was under my command for two or three specific operations, before his rapid exit. Trust, loyalty and judgment are the key, operative words. His turncoat performance in 1971 in his grubby shirt and his medal-tossing escapade, coupled with his slanderous lines in the recent book portraying us that served, including all POWs and MIAs, as murderous war criminals, I believe, will have a lasting effect on all military veterans and their families. Kerry would be described as devious, self-absorbing, manipulative, disdain for authority, disruptive, but the most common phrase that you'd hear is 'requires constant supervision.'"

-- Captain Charles Plumly, USN (retired)

"Thirty-five years ago, many of us fell silent when we came back to the stain of sewage that Mr. Kerry had thrown on us, and all of our colleagues who served over there. I don't intend to be silent today or ever again. Our young men and women who are serving deserve no less."

-- Andrew Horne

"In my specific, personal experience in both coastal and river patrols over a 12-month period, I never once saw or heard anything remotely resembling the atrocities described by Senator Kerry. If I had, it would have been my obligation to report them in writing to a higher authority, and I would certainly have done that. If Senator Kerry actually witnessed or participated in these atrocities or, as he described them, 'war crimes,' he was obligated to report them. That he did not until later when it suited his political purposes strikes me as opportunism of the worst kind. That he would malign my service and that of his fellow sailors with no regard for the truth makes him totally unqualified to serve as Commander-in-Chief."

-- Jeffrey Wainscott

"I signed that letter because I, too felt a deep sense of betrayal that someone who took the same oath of loyalty as I did as an officer in the United States Navy would abandon his group here (points to group photo) to join this group here (points to VVAW protest photo), and come home and attempt to rally the American public against the effort that this group was so valiantly pursuing. It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle. We lost the war at home... and at home, John Kerry was the Field General."

-- Robert Elder

"My daughters and my wife have read portions of the book 'Tour of Duty.' They wanted to know if I took part in the atrocities described. I do not believe the things that are described happened. Let me give you an example. In Brinkley's book, on pages 170 to 171, about something called the 'Bo De massacre' on November 24th of 1968... In Kerry's description of the engagement, first he claimed there were 17 servicemen that were wounded. Three of us were wounded. I was the first..."

--Joseph Ponder

Since the liberal press is so against the truth we MUST take it upon ourselves to disseminate the words of these real heroes!!

A great piece of email has been circulating the Internet now since the first of 2002. Supposedly it was a speech delivered by General Hawley, (see below), but with some research I have discovered the true author of this version is Larry Miller of The Weekly Standard.com. I have included two web addresses at the end of this piece so that you can read about the mix up and also get the actual words “from the horse’s mouth.” It is just too good not to post it, so enjoy! DebV

This is the piece as I received it -

General Hawley is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the Air Combat Command [our front-line fighters and bombers] at Langley AFB, VA. He is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true patriot!

His thoughts:

"Since the attack [9-11], I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too. Here they are:

1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative."
Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.

2) "Violence only leads to more violence."

This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional, well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not "reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead.

3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us."
For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all, (they reasoned,) you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella." "Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years."

4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us."

Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same today.

5) "Any profiling is racial profiling."

Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says, "No More Pearl Harbors."

http://www.jerseygop.com/general-hawley.htm

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hawley.htm

From Connie

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery. Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news.

That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Caesarean to deliver the couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing. At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound and nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature.

Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. "I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one".

Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived. She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.

"No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.

Through the dark hours of morning as Dana held onto life by the thinnest thread, Diana slipped in and out of sleep, growing more and more determined that their tiny daughter would live and live to be a healthy, happy young girl.

But David, fully awake and listening to additional dire details of their daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive, much less healthy, knew he must confront his wife with the inevitable. David walked in and said that we needed to talk about making funeral arrangements. Diana felt so bad for him because he was doing everything to try to include her in what was going on, but she just wouldn't listen, she couldn't listen. She said, "No, that is not going to happen, no way! I don't care what the doctors say. Dana is not going to die! One day she will be just fine, and she will be coming home with us!"

As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Dana clung to life hour after hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her miniature body could endure. But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw,' the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl.

There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there. At last, when Dana turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn
that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.

Today, five years later, Dana is a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She shows no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she is everything a little girl can be and more. But that happy
ending is far from the end of her story.

One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ballpark where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging
her arms across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?"

Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."

Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"

Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain."

Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."

Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too
sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.

From Helen –

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,449436,00.html

Saturday, May. 03, 2003
Food Fight
When the Food Workers Union stages an impromptu walkout at the U.N., the
diplomats start looting for lunch and booze
By STEWART STOGEL/U.N.

From Christopher –

DOCTORS MAKE NATURAL TREATMENT FOR SARS AVAILABLE

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA A team of Doctors well-known for their research in alternative medicine and emerging diseases has developed an effective treatment for SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) utilizing a little-known antidote to coronavirus. According to the Doctors, coronavirus can be successfully treated with methanolic extracts of two berry bushes common to British Columbia and the northwestern states Amelanchier alnifolia and Rosa nutkana both members of the Rosaceae family of plants.

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard-trained, internationallyknown expert in public health and emerging diseases and Dr. Joseph Puleo, a leading naturopathic physician and a founding member of the World Natural Health Organization (www.wnho.net) developed the treatment from findings originally made in 1995.  Esteemed Canadian botanist Dr. Neil Towers, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia pioneered the decade-old study that proved Rosacaea plants could overcome coronavirus infections in cell cultures, a system far more sensitive to toxicity than living organisms.

Doctors Horowitz and Puleo advanced Dr, Towers’ studies by adding two additional natural ingredients and have named the new treatment the “Urbani SARS Formula.”  The name recognizes Italian communicable disease expert Dr. Carlo Urbani, one of the disease’s earliest victims.   Dr Urbani, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work with Doctors Without Borders, died in Thailand after contracting the disease while caring for patients.

While the Doctors cannot make “cure” claims due to variations between individuals and FDA restrictions, they profess that the ingredients in the Urbani SARS Formula are time-tested, inexpensive, readily available and well proven against the bovine coronavirus and other respiratory pathogens. Dr. Puleo saw rapid improvement among patients who presented in March with SARS-like symptoms at the Natural Health Research Clinic he directs in Sandpoint, Idaho. 

The primary ingredients in the proprietary Urbani SARS Formula are extremely hard to acquire in freshly harvested lots, which are required for maximum strength and effectiveness. The ingredients include:

Lomatium dissectum root extract This has been known for centuries to have potent anti-microbial uses and to be useful as an immuno-stimulant.  It also protects cells from another pathogen, the Rotavirus, which is a common cause of dysentery. SARS has been linked to symptoms of dysentery in a significant number of cases. It was used by Native Americans as a food and as a medicine for treatment of Tuberculosis and other lung infections. It has been used effectively in the treatment of bronchitis and pneumonia.

Devil’s Club (Oplopanax horridus) This is best known as an immune-boosting “adaptogen” that mitigates the effect of stress throughout the body.  It also functions as an expectorant and mucous secretion stimulator when prescribed for respiratory infections. Native Americans have long used Devil’s Club to help heal insulin-resistant type II diabetes.  Dr. Puleo explains that most SARS victims have ongoing blood sugar and immune-suppressive problems that give viral infections the edge over natural immunity.

The Rosaceae (Amelanchier ainifolia and Rosa nutkana or Saskatoons These berries are a naturally-occurring edible fruit once used by Native Americans for stomach problems and for maternal recovery after childbirth. In 1995 it was demonstrated that extracts from these berries were very active against coronaviruses.

Xylitol Sugar Xylitol is a relatively new weapon in the war against infectious diseases.  This five-carbon sugar was largely unappreciated before WW II sugar shortages brought it to attention. Researchers in Finland determined that a 5% solution of Xylitol reduced 68% of Strep and Pneumonia bacteria attachments and 50% of flu viruses.  Small amounts of Xylitol are made naturally in the body, which means it does not have the problems associated with man-made antibiotics.  Bacteria do not develop a resistance to Xylitol and cannot introduce mutating strains to overcome its effectiveness.

The Doctors and Puleo have granted worldwide distribution rights of the Urbani SARS Formula to World Natural Cures, LLC, a firm directed by Mr, John Mills. Mr. Mills can be contacted at 1-800-336-9266 or via e-mail at john@cureforsars.net. The product is available in four formulations, including the Extra Strength Tincture, the Standard Urbani SARS Formula, the Extra Strength Homeopathic, and a nasal spray. The first three are prescribed the same way: “Apply nine drops under the tongue three times per day for up to nine days.” Because the proprietary formulas are not toxic in the manufactured amounts, the dosage does not have to be reduced for children, although the homeopathic remedy is especially recommended for young children and infants.  Costs for the two-ounce bottles are extremely reasonable compared to the risky antiviral drugs and steroids currently prescribed for SARS. The products may be ordered at www.HealthyWorldDistributing.com or by calling toll-free at 1-888-508-4787.

From Echo

communist/socialists movement against minorities

Judge Miguel Estrada and Judge Priscilla Owen are very well qualified and should have been appointed months ago as President Bush went out of his way to find two minority judges that the democrats could be proud to appoint. But, no, these two minority judges are not good enough for the communist/socialists of the left in the democrat party. Most Americans are sick and tired of the childish actions of the democratic party. This is why they lost big on election day and many democrats lost their seats in congress. If they continue to do as they are doing in the Senate more democrats will loose their seats to more republicans, which is going to help our nation in a big way. The fewer communists and socialists we have in congress the better for our nation.

Daschle, Feinstein, Boxer, Clinton, Kennedy, Schumer, Leahy, Byrd and all the other communist/socialists of the democratic party are really doing the republican party a big favor in their acting as little spoiled children in congress. So, I guess, we really should be thanking them for making the republican party look so good. Come election day, this should be a big plus for patriotic Americans who abound in the republican party.

So to all of you communist/socialists in the democratic party, a big THANK YOU and please keep acting as spoiled little brats, a part you play so well. Millions of minority Americans are watching your actions.....or should I say, lack of action.

Thank you,

Mrs E. M. Zettlemoyer

From Ken – Excellent points made in this article!

Hijacking Tolerance: Radical Islam's War with Christianity


By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter

May 12, 2003


Although Saudi Arabia is the geographical heart of Islam, less than one fifth of the world's Muslims are Arabs.


CBN.com - An Egyptian woman and her husband have been sitting in prison for almost three months now. Their crime? The wife converted to Christianity. The husband was already a Christian. The Barnabas Fund, which tracks Christian persecution, said the couple was arrested at the airport while trying to flee the country.

All over the Muslim world, conversion to Christianity can mean more than prison. It can be a death sentence.

In countries where Islam reigns, Christians struggle just to stay alive. But Muslims in the United States and other western countries are protected and free to proselytize. And Islam is thriving here in America, aggressively taking advantage of western religious tolerance.

Post-Saddam Iraq recently provided a vivid example of the worldwide double standard that Islam enjoys. It seems some people would rather let Iraqis suffer than see Christianity offering hope in the midst of a Muslim population. Iraq is in desperate need of necessities like water, food, and medical attention, and Christian charities have offered to help with lifesaving aid. But instead of being applauded, the effort has been attacked
as a cover for Christian evangelization.

Headlines have ranged from concern, like The Los Angeles Times headline, "Bundling of Aid, Christianity Stirs Concerns," to alarm, like The Times of London's headline, "Alarm at American Crusade," to outright opposition, like The Washington Post title, Evangelize Elsewhere."

It is as if Christian groups might share a dangerous virus in Iraq, and not a message of peace and tolerance. There is little tolerance in the Muslim world when it comes to Christianity. Millions of Christians have now died from persecution and war in the Muslim world.

Although Saudi Arabia is the geographical heart of Islam, less than one fifth of the world's Muslims are Arabs. Most Muslims live east of Pakistan. And Islam continues explosive growth in Africa. By one estimate, the number of Muslims in Africa grew from 34 million in 1900 to 300 million in 2000 [Source: The History of Islam in Africa].

Christianity in Africa is actually growing faster, but has not caught up. In 1900, there were 10 million Christians there, and by 2000 there were 250 million [Source: The History of Islam in Africa].

Islam dominates above the 10th parallel, on a line that splits many nations in half. The northern portions of countries like Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, and Somalia are Muslim. Southern parts of these countries are Christian or other religions.

Islam's growth is fueled in part by Saudi oil money, and by Moammar Ghaddafy's pan-Arab aspirations.

In most of Africa, where Islam and Christianity meet, people die. And in Nigeria, Africa's largest country, the rise of Islam in the north has plunged parts of the nation into a religious civil war. Twelve Nigerian states now have Islamic fundamentalist sharia law, in violation of the constitution.

Islamist activist Abdul-Karim Abdullah said, "I am a Muslim. Sharia is the law every Muslim is guided on. It is a rule, a regulation, a binding, every Muslim, wherever he is."

To the renowned human rights expert Paul Marshall, the killings in Nigeria and the killings in New York on 9/11 happened for the same reason. "We don't really think people do things for religious reasons. These people do. They die for religious reasons. They kill for religious reasons. And unless we understand their religion, we will not understand them at all," Marshall said.

Marshall says it's not about America's support for Israel, or about alienation or poverty. It's about getting rid of the biggest obstacle to an Islamic planet: the United States.

"The expression 'Al Qaeda' means, 'The base,' 'The organization.' But it does have an official name, and its name is 'The World Islamic Front for Holy War Against Christians and Jews,'" Marshall said. "Osama Bin Laden, in many interviews, said there are two parties to this conflict. The first is world Christianity and its allies, the Jews, aided by America, Europe and Israel. The second party is the Islamic world. That's how they see this."

Many American Muslim leaders have publicly condemned violence against Christians and Jews. Most American Muslims are peace-loving. But in Islam's holy city of Mecca, in Arabic-language sermons, important Wahhabi preachers continue to call for the murder of Christians and Jews. And Saudi money has made its violent Wahhabi sect the dominant form of Islam in the world, and here, in America.

Christianity may not be welcome in most Islamic states, but Islam has been welcomed here, and it has used America's tradition of religious tolerance to full advantage.

A study by the Council on American Islamic Relations says hundreds of new mosques have been built in the United States in the last 20 years. Estimates on the number of American Muslims vary widely, from three to eight million. Stephen Schwartz, author of The Two Faces of Islam, says we should not be alarmed by the growth of Islam in the United States, but by who controls it.

"I would say billions of dollars have been spent in the United States to advance Wahhabism," Schwartz said. "The Wahhabi sect, backed by Saudi Arabia, controls 70 to 80 percent of the mosques in the United States. That means they control the teaching, the preaching, the literature that's distributed, and they control the training of the Imams. They control all the Imams in the federal and state prisons, and they control the imams in
the U.S. military. That is, they instruct, they indoctrinate and they certify the chaplains in the federal and state prison systems and in the military."

Schwartz says he was not surprised to learn that Sergeant Asan Akbar, the U.S. solider alleged to have killed his commanding officer in Kuwait, had a long trail of Wahhabi association. "That he came from a Wahhabi mosque in Los Angeles, that he belonged to a Wahhabi mosque at the University of California-Davis, that he had belonged to a Wahabbi-controlled branch of the Muslim students association," Schwartz said.

New York Senator Charles Schumer's office is investigating how Muslim chaplains are recruited into the U.S military, and has also demanded that the Federal Bureau of Prisons investigate its own chaplain-recruiting methods.

A lawsuit is pending in New York state alleging that all of that state's more than 40 Muslim prison chaplains are Wahhabi. Schwartz says there need to be congressional hearings into Saudi Wahhabi control of Islam in America.

"We've never previously had the experience of a major attempt by a foreign government to control a religion in the United States," Schwartz said. "Just as the Communist Party recruited spies and traitors, the Wahhabi imams recruit terrorists. Jose Padilla was recruited in prison. Jose Padilla came back to the United States looking for the recipe for a dirty bomb. This is a reality."

The Wahhabis are also continuing to build academies that are alleged to have used anti-Christian and anti-Semitic curricula, while Saudi Arabia does not even allow Christian worship in homes.

Marshall says the United States should tell the Saudis: if you want to keep spreading Islam in the United States, stop banning churches and torturing Christians in Saudi Arabia. "I think it would be perfectly legitimate to say, 'As long as you do that, we're not going to allow you to expand your facilities in our country,'" Marshall said.

The Council on American Islamic Relations, which bills itself as "America's largest Islamic civil liberties group," did not respond to our request for an interview. The Islamic Society of North America, perhaps the leading Wahhabi organization in the country, said it opposes the way Christians are persecuted in many Muslim nations, and called for Christians and Muslims to work together. That might be possible in America, but seems unlikely in those nations where Wahhabi Islam rules.

American Muslim leaders have said they are not under the control of Saudi Arabia because they don't take money from the Saudi government, but only from private Saudi citizens. However, one spokesman admitted to the Associated Press that the "money does not come free. It always comes with strings attached."

Also From Ken –

I spent a year in Saudi one month about three years ago. One of the major reasons for the time warp was the social atmosphere created by the religious police. It didn't matter if you were a foreigner or not they would wail on you all the same for even the slightest offense to the Muslim behavior code in public. There is a lot to be said for denial of political power to clergical organizations. Ken

The law in Saudi and free speech.  I went to the web site to see if some of it is in English its not. (Forward from Allen)

Special Dispatch
May 13, 2003
No.504

To view this Special Dispatch in HTML format, please visit:
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD50403

Saudi Religious Police Launch Website

The Al-Madina regional branch of the Saudi religious and morality police, formally known as "The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices," recently launched its new website. (1) The site posts news items, citizens' violations, and includes a section that allows citizens to inform anonymously on persons they suspect of violating religious and moral laws. The following is a summary of the website's recent content:

The Religious Police Vs. 'Al-Watan'

The news section of the website included a response to an article that appeared in the Saudi government daily Al-Watan. According to the Al-Watan article, one of the newspaper's correspondents was arrested by the Authority and taken to its Riyadh office. Inspector "Abu Abd Al-'Aziz" asked the prisoner to remove his Kaffiyeh, and after he had done so, told him, "Your hair is long and we want to cut it... Such long hair is proper only for the third sex [i.e. homosexuals]."

The correspondent refused to allow his hair to be cut, but the investigator threatened to cut his hair by force. At the same time, the investigators began beating another prisoner until he bled.  A barber then entered and cut the correspondent's hair.

Afterwards, the correspondent was charged five riyals, approximately one dollar, for the haircut, and was forced to sign a sheet of charges including the charge of "lusting after girls by the school gates." According to the newspaper, the charge sheet also included a "strange accusation" that the paper chose not to publish as it deemed it embarrassing. The correspondent initially refused to sign, but did so after he was threatened with more beatings. The investigator destroyed the correspondent's notes and confiscated his money and notebook. He then called Al-Watan's employees "secular" and asked whether "there was mingling between male and female journalists in the newspaper's offices." When the
correspondent refused to answer and threatened the investigator with legal action, the investigator said that the Authority was "an official body that no one can sue." (2)

Following the publishing of the Al-Watan article, the Authority posted a response by Authority Public Relations Director Ahmad bin Muhammad Al-Jurdan. In the response, he wrote: " ...We have been informed by the director of an Authority branch that a 20-year-old man was found in circumstances harming [morality] near one of the girls' schools when the girls were getting out of school. This individual, with the cooperation of the newspaper for which he works, tried to invent lies ... The newspaper should have confirmed the facts before publication, in accordance with the words of the Koran ... and in accordance with Section Nine of the Publications Law ...  It should be noted that the news item had no specific aim and no message at all, and thus it appears that its aim was to create confusion regarding the Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vices. Your paper has in the past published similar items which were incorrect and did not serve the public interest or the desired goals. We hope that you will examine the veracity of what you publish and will cooperate with us in clinging to Allah..."

Confiscating CDs, Burning Shoes, Making Arrests on Charges of Witchcraft

Among other news items posted on the Authority website were articles detailing the confiscation of CDs containing "permissive materials," the arrest of an Asian man belonging to the Sufi sect of Islam who "engaged in witchcraft," a study on the role of the Authority in the struggle against "ideological invasion," a report on the flogging of four people accused of harassing girls as they were leaving school, and a report on the burning of 250,000 forbidden articles such as "texts contradicting the faith, shoes with the name of Allah written on them, [and] items for the Holiday of Love [i.e. Valentine's Day]."

Another posting reported that the Authority was patrolling near girls' schools so as to prevent harassment of the girls and to ensure that the girls were wearing veils. The report stated that the patrols had caught some young men who were "loitering near the school while the girls were leaving," and that the young men had "been advised to cease this, and were told that anyone continuing with this ugly behavior would be flogged before the gates of the school." The item noted that the Authority's "field teams had noticed a reduction in the phenomenon following this practical measure."

The site also reported that a man was arrested selling CDs containing "permissive materials at a minimal price of 10 riyals!!" Also according to the website, "the enemies of Islam" had allowed in to the country video games for Sony Playstation which contained sexual content. "The Authority confiscated 130 such CDs, destroyed them, and punished the criminal."

The Religious and Morality Police and Personal Freedom

The Authority's website posted the text of a book written by Dr. Fadhel Alha of the Department of Islamic Preaching and Communications at the University of Riyadh, which discusses the Authority's activities. Dr. Alha wrote: "There are those who say that we must leave people alone and not interfere in personal matters of virtue from which they refrain, because this conflicts with their individual freedom which is set out in Islam. Those preaching this approach quote the words of Allah in the Koran: 'There is no coercion in religion ...'"

"First of all, there is no such thing as 'personal freedom.' It is a lie. We would like to ask those who argue in this matter: Have you found personal freedom in the east of the land or in its west? In Eastern or Western regimes? None whatsoever, neither here nor there. Man is required to obey rules and regulations against his will everywhere. Is a man permitted, in the East or the West, to cross the street at a red light? In the West, is a man permitted to build a house with his own money ... without observing the municipality's
regulations? In the East, the situation is even more clear, and he has no right to own a house at all."

"Second, the personal freedom granted by Islam to the Muslims lies in [Allah's]liberating them from enslavement to men. This does not mean that man is liberated from enslavement to the God of these men ..."

"Third, the verse 'There is no coercion in religion' does not mean that everyone can do what they want and refrain from doing what they don't want, or that no one is entitled to require them to do the good that they have abandoned or to refrain from the evil that they do. The meaning of the verse ... is that a person must not be forced to convert to Islam - and this too does not concern all non-Muslims, but only the People of the Book [i.e. Jews and Christians]; [regarding] the Bedouin polytheist idol worshippers, you must either force them to convert to Islam, or fight them."

On Witchcraft and Worship

Another section of the website allows visitors to submit questions. One visitor wrote that a woman had bewitched him and that when he went for treatment to one of the sheikhs, a Djinn spoke to him. The Authority answered: "Our dear brother, you must go to the head of the Committee for the Struggle Against Witchcraft in Al-Madina, Sheikh Abdallah Al-Zahrani ... Often, Djinns lie, and their words cannot be trusted. Perhaps the Djinn, if indeed it was he who spoke, wants to make trouble between you and that person. We have already seen many lies of this kind."

The same section allowed citizens to inform on their neighbors anonymously. For example, one visitor wrote that five of his neighbors did not join regular communal worship, especially the dawn worship. He added that some of them hold senior positions and he wanted to know what could be done to make them worship. He received the following reply: "Patience must be employed with this kind of people... You can get help from members of the Authority near where you live."

Warning: 'That Barbie Doll is Jewish!'

Another section of the website, the "Exhibit of Violations," displays confiscated items from the "permanent collection of violations of Islamic law at Authority headquarters in Al-Madina." The section shows photos of perfume bottles shaped like a woman's torso, with text reading: "Perfume, but...! Examples of perfumes with good fragrances for women and evil bottles that harm the honor of the woman and undermine her morality. We must beware. The Prophet Muhammad said, 'Any woman who wears perfume and passes by people so they can smell it is a whore ...'" Also shown is a photo of several Barbie dolls, along with the text: "The enemies of Islam want to invade us with all possible means, and therefore they have circulated among us this doll, which spreads deterioration of values and moral degeneracy among our girls." On the photo, under the heading "The Jewish Doll," is a story titled "The Strange Request."

The story reads: "One girl said to her mother: 'Mother, I want jeans and a shirt open at the top, like Barbie's!!' The dolls of the Jewish Barbie in her naked garb [sic], their disgraceful appearance, and their various accessories are a symbol of the dissolution of values in the West. We must fully comprehend the danger in them."

On Goats and Wolves

Additionally, the website posts issues of the Authority's Al-Hisba magazine. An article titled "The Goat Hunts the Wolf" stated: "In the past, it was the young man who preened in order to attract the girl's attention. He played the part of the sophisticated wolf planning schemes to ensnare [her] ... But these days, with the spread of the satellite channels and their influence, like deadly poison, all is reversed. In our time, the girls preen and dress in a way that attracts attention to ensnare the young man whose heart and religion are weak. The girl begins to devise schemes, and she plays the part of the wolf...
She tries to obtain a luxury watch, a beautiful bag, an evening gown, or even the newest model of mobile phone. And then what?! She goes to hell, as has happened to young people in the past. What is the meaning of these ideas, which lead to the collapse of our entire society? Why don't the girls think of always wearing the veil to stop the corruption? Why don't they seek to become women of value, instead of being easy prey in the mouths of all?"

Endnotes:
(1) http://www.hesbah.com/news.asp. All quotes in the article were taken from the site, unless otherwise indicated.
(2) Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), April 30, 2003.

Good website for veterans –

http://www.goodolddogs.com/veteran.html

From Josh as feedback to my last article –

August 25, 2002 I will send some statistics gained from books I have read.  The books were all read during Black History Month.  The books came from Springfield's library, and libraries at Western New England College, American International College, and Springfield College.  All four-year colleges, plus Springfield Technical Community College, a two-year school.

                             Approximations from information of all books
Country               Slaving Voyages made -  Number of Slaves  - Slaves per trip



Portugal                        30,000                      4,650,000                     155
Spain                              4,000                      1,600,000                     400
France                            4,200                      1,250,000                     300
Holland                           2,000                         500,000                     250
Britain                           12,000                      2,600,000                     217
British N. America           1,500                         300,000                     200
Denmark                           250                           50,000                     200
Germany                           250                           50,000                     200
Totals                           54,200                     11,000,000                     203

   These Countries are the proper payees of Reparations.

I would like to note that there was only one ship during the years of European Slaving that could carry 500 or more Slaves.  That is the ship
"The Brookes" was the only one of it's kind.  The Brookes is the ship that is always shown with Slaves stacked in rows. The New England Clipper ships were fast, but with little cargo space.  They sailed out of New England to Africa with trade goods, bought Slaves with the goods, then went to South America or Indies to trade the Slaves for sugar cane or Molasses.  This was returned to New England.  Rum was made for trading along with other goods for Slaves in Africa.  Even the speed of these ships would not allow tacking back the 4000 plus miles from Africa to United States.  The food, and water supply would have delivered dead or dieing cargo.  There is no money in that.
    From all my reading, I found nothing to indicate that an African came to what is now the USA. The Ship at Jamestown was a Spanish  Slave Ship that lost its course and ran out of supplies.The Slaves were bartered for supplies, and became Indentured Servants such as the Irish in Boston.  The Slaves had been in the Spanish West Indies.  They were freemen after serving their endenture. 
   I did learn that the Slaves Purchased to do farm work in the Southern Colonies Of British North America, and later the USA had been in the
French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugues, or British Indies at least 10 generations before coming to the USA.  I also learned that most of the
present Black Leadership came here as freemen from South America, or the various Indies during, or before those Islands became independent.     
When Black Celebrities are interviewed, they seem to have also come as free.  Louis Brewer (Farrakan) came as a free young man, and graduated
School in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is also part French White.

                 Semper Fidelis
                 Teklis Sesemar
                 Joshua M. Duncan   

From Connie –

Securing our Homeland: Protecting Our Urban Areas

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=677

More blood for oil - Hal Lindsey - www.hallindsey.com

Geopolitical alliances are shifting like the Iraqi sands in the wake of the war and the wealth of documentary evidence uncovered since. That evidence is fracturing old alliances, and creating new ones.

Documents found in Iraq detail years of Russian backroom deals that motivated Moscow to oppose removing Saddam Hussein from power.

Saddam gave billions of dollars worth of oil contracts to Russia's Lukoil in exchange for Russia's opposition to war. Moscow certainly delivered, allying itself in the anti-war effort with the Arab world, the French and the Germans into what the New York Post dubbed the "Axis of Weasels."

Having done their job, from Moscow's point of view, the Russians are now demanding that contracts signed with Iraq before the war be honored.

Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that Russia was also holding Iraq to the $8 billion Saddam owed Moscow. "We believe that the contracts in force must be respected," Kasyanov said. "Debts must be paid and respected."

The Italian oil and gas company Eni SpA's chief executive, Vittorio Mincato, met Friday with Kasyanov and Alexei Miller, head of Gazprom, to discuss working together in the oil and gas sectors, Dow Jones reported.

The three met to look for ways to "enhance cooperation in the gas and upstream oil sectors with a view to a possible alliance." Translation: An alliance of giant oil companies to carve up Iraq's rich oil reserves. That sounds familiar.

Except the anti-warriors had it backwards. These aren't giant American oil companies - like the anti-war protesters claimed. These are the giant oil companies of the anti-warriors!

New evidence is emerging that Russia sold military equipment to Iraq. There is also evidence that the Russians, like the French, passed on details of secret conversations between Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.

Putin denied knowledge that Russia was breaking U.N. sanctions and was, in effect, spying for the Iraqis against the coalition, but the documents found so far say differently.

The Russians were every bit as obstructionist as the French, but while Paris will pay heavily, the White House seems intent on giving Putin a pass.

Why the different treatment? Unlike France, Russia has much the administration needs. Putin is the key to getting U.N. sanctions lifted from Iraq, not Chirac. A decision by Putin to back Bush and lift sanctions would leave Chirac isolated in the United Nations, something Washington believes Chirac can't afford to risk.

And Putin has something to bring to the table in both the North Korean crisis and the war on terrorism that Chirac doesn't.

The hypocrisy of the Russians is as distasteful as it is transparent. In spite of all the high-sounding rhetoric about the immorality of the U.S.-led war to free Iraq, the Russians intend to squeeze every drop they can from the Iraqis.

Moscow is leveraging the lifting of sanctions against collecting its massive "debt" that was little more than a bribe in the first place. But we need the Russians.

Bad luck for the French.

From Helen -

Why Does The Black Caucus Looks The Other Way On Immigration when the jobs
that go to HB 2 and illegals are black American's jobs?


Online source

Why The Black Caucus Looks The Other Way On Immigration
By Joe Guzzardi
May 09, 2003

            Of the dozens of mysteries that surround Congress' adamant
avoidance of the immigration issue, none is so bewildering as why the
Congressional Black Caucus looks the other way. Mass unskilled immigration
has a particularly dramatic impact on their constituents, the most
vulnerable of Americans.

            When I read a new report by the Children's Defense Fund that
found that more black children-about one million-are now living in extreme
poverty than ever (a 40% increase since 2000), I was reminded once again of
the Black Caucus' extraordinary dereliction of duty.

            The Black Caucus has sold out black Americans. Even though black
families live in poverty throughout America, the Caucus is content-eager, in
fact-to import more poor people who will compete head-to-head for jobs at
the lower end of the economic scale.

            Legal and illegal immigration has undercut blacks from the jobs
they once held in meat plants, service industries, and on construction
crews. In many cases those were union jobs that paid good wages with full
benefits. Now those jobs go to illegal aliens who work for pennies above the
minimum wage.

            Yet from the Black Caucus nary a peep is heard.

            For an explanation of this betrayal of blacks by blacks, I
contacted two experts-one black, Terry Anderson, who hosts California's most
popular Sunday evening radio show, and one white, Roy Beck, Executive
Director of NumbersUSA.com and author of the excellent book The Case Against
Immigration.

            Before calling either, I went to the Americans for Better
Immigration website to check the Black Caucus immigration voting records.

            On the website, Congressmen receive report card grades on
amnesty, chain migration, worker protection, etc. The grades are for
"Career" votes and "Recent" votes from January 1, 2003.

            As an example, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo has an A+ for
both "Career" and "Recent."

            Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez has an F and F-.

            The Black Caucus average grade is F and F. Without question, the
Black Caucus votes in support of higher levels of immigration at every
opportunity.

            I asked Terry Anderson to explain it to me. His explanation:

            "Racism, in a word. The disdain and distrust that the Black
Caucus has for white America is so great that it is willing to sell the
black community out in a heartbeat. The Caucus will take a brown face over a
white face any day. If you think for a minute that any Black Caucus member
is going to take sides with the all-white immigration reduction leaders,
you're dreaming."

            Anderson suggested I watch his 1999 Congressional testimony to
then Chairman of the Immigration Sub-Committee Texas Rep. Lamar Smith (A+
and B+) and Black Caucus member Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Grades F and
F).

            Jackson-Lee tipped her hand at outset by warning the witnesses -
who had traveled 2,000 miles to testify about illegal immigration's impact
on their daily lives - not to paint immigrants with "a broad brush" and to
avoid "bashing."

            "We are all God's children; we all come from somewhere," said
Jackson-Lee.

            Terry Anderson testified that illegal aliens have overwhelmed
his once-quiet South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.

            Then, referring to the pro-illegal aliens lobbyists, Anderson
went on:

            "They won't tell you how skilled black workers in Los Angeles
can no longer apply their trade. Body and fender, roofers, framers,
drywallers, gardeners, and now even truck drivers. They won't dare tell you
about all of the race riots in our schools where the blacks are told to take
their black asses back to Africa. Even the news media has refused to tell of
this while we know that they are aware or it. There is NEVER a mention of
all of the billboards in Spanish and how Chevron is now advertising in
Spanish on English language TV.

            "The illegals won't hire us and won't buy from us. But still our
elected black officials won't help us.

            "I met once a few years ago with my Congressman, Julian Dixon.
He said he would check into it. He has done nothing. What he HAS done is
vote against every bill that would help my and his race of people. He now
refuses to meet with me.

            "We, black Americans are being displaced in Los Angeles. We are
being systematically and economically replaced.

            "And the next time somebody tells you that the illegals only
takes jobs that blacks won't do, just remember that WE were doing those jobs
before the illegal got here.

            "AND in places of the country where there is not yet a problem
with illegals, you can STILL get your grass cut, your dinner served, your
dishes bussed and your hotel room cleaned.

            "Funny how in those places Americans are doing those jobs."

            During the question and answer, Anderson said that "racist"
groups like MALDEF, LULAC, MeCHA and La Raza, had Congress' attention.

            But, asked Anderson, "Who speaks for us? Who speaks for our
children?"

            Jackson-Lee had no answer. At the end of the 1999 session,
Jackson-Lee approached Anderson with her hand outstretched. "I don't think
I'll shake your hand. You're not listening to us," Anderson said.

            Roy Beck added his perspective. "You have to remember that the
demographics are shifting very fast," said Beck. "At least half of the Black
Caucus members represent districts whose make-up is one-third or more
Hispanic."

            "But," Beck continued, "I just don't think the Black Caucus
realizes the full extent of the harm they are doing to blacks. The Black
Caucus is vaguely aware but chooses not to dwell on it. The reality may be
too painful."

            In his book The Case Against Immigration, Beck devoted two
chapters to the consequences of mass immigration for blacks.

            During our talk, Beck said that the economic fate of black
workers during the recent thirty years is the same as it has always been
during periods of high immigration: jobs become scarce and wages go down.

            "After years of steady improvement, economic and social
conditions for blacks citizens have deteriorated substantially since the
1970s," said Beck. (See the recent report by the Economic Policy Institute,
"The State of Working America":)

            Roy Beck stressed the importance of looking at the Black Caucus
failures in a historic light.

            "Just as blacks were poised to take advantage of the civil
rights laws of the 1960s, the flow of foreign workers to the highest wage
cities in the North and West blocked them. The difference between this era
and past eras is that black leaders-Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois as
well as dozens of black preachers, scholars and journalists vehemently
denounced the arrival of European, Mexican, Chinese and Japanese workers."

            Beck added that the pro-immigration advocacy of white groups
adds insult to injury to blacks. "Blacks have already repeatedly been
displaced, overwhelmed and intimidated by European immigrants. Now we're
asking them to sit still for it again from Mexicans-here illegally, no
less?"

            Concluded Beck, "Anything that stands in the way of economic and
social progress for blacks is not acceptable under any circumstances."

            Alas, Anderson and Beck's message has not gotten through to the
Black Caucus-especially to Jackson-Lee who has just introduced H.R. 1830,
the Earned Legalization and Family Unification Act.

            This poisonous bill translates into amnesty, in-state college
tuition and, potentially, a long feed at the public trough for lawbreakers.

            Terry Anderson knew four years ago that Jackson-Lee wasn't
listening.

            But he never suspected she was stone deaf.

            Joe Guzzardi [email him], an instructor in English at the Lodi
Adult School, has been writing a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This
column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.

This was received from a foreign source, reproduced here in its entirety. I believe it deserves top billing. See what you think. Deb V

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March 28, 2003: Libertad Digital, Madrid. March 28, 2003: Ambito Iberoamericano Editorial, Madrid (translation from original in Spanish).

Silenced truth: "pacifists" protect tyrants and incite wars

History will record with severity the huge social, human and political cost of the activism of the erroneously named "pacifists"

The so-called "pacifist" movements, articulated by leftists, and their silent accomplice, have decisively contributed to the protection of the most fierce tyrants of the XX and XXI Centuries, since Adolph Hitler and Stalin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il, to Saddam Hussein. With their harmful political formula of "giving in so as not to loose", they paved the way for several of those dictators to increment warmonger attitudes against countries and continents, in addition to enslaving their own people.

Towards the end of the 1930's, it was the English and French "pacifists" who, with the pretext of avoiding war with Germany, pressured the public opinion of their respective countries, to give-in before the annexation of Hitler in Austria and other territories where German was spoken belonging to Czechoslovakia ("Sudentenland"), Poland (Dantzig "corridor"), etc. Those "pacifists" supported their respective Heads of State, Chamberlain and Daladier, in their giving-in attitude before the German despot. It was not in vain when Winston Churchill, the great English statesman, reprimanded Chamberlain by telling him: "Your choice was between shame and war; you chose shame and you will have war". In fact, after so many shameful concessions, peaking with the Munich pact, which legitimately recognized the usurpations of Germany, it invaded Poland, which led to the Second World War, which had a toll of 60 million deaths. During the decade of 1970, the handing over by U.S. government of several Southeast Asian nations to communists -who unleashed indescribable massacres of millions of innocent civilians, such as in Cambodia- was in most part precipitated by pressures on behalf of "pacifists". Other historical examples could also be mentioned.

During the present, the complex circumstances of war in Iraq do not impede us from pointing out similarities and censurable contradictions of Western "pacifist" movements that, with the pretext of condemning the war, lift up a smoke screen in front of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, in front of the conditions of misery and oppression of the Iraqi people, in front of the danger which said regime represents to regional and international peace. As it has already been denounced, those "pacifist" manifestations which are spread throughout the world were previously articulated in the recent Worldwide Social Forum of Porto Alegre, a gigantic catalyst of revolutionary forces which survived communism.

Those same "pacifists" who cry only with the left eye, do not only keep silence as to the crimes of the Iraqi dictatorial regime, but also as to the repressive onslaught unleashed recently by Fidel Castro against oppositionists and independent journalists; the cruelties of Colombian narco-guerrillas; the violations of political-religious rights in countries such as China, Cuba and North Korea; Christian persecutions in Muslim countries; the pro-Castro despotism of the Venezuelan President Chávez; the fratricidal violence of the ETA, in Spain, etc.

It is symptomatic that in the United States entities that promote anti-war protests, such as "Workers World Party" and "Answer" their façade entity (at a cost of an estimated 200 thousand dollars per protest), have initiatives in their curriculum in support of Castro's Cuba, Saddam's Iraq, and Kim Jong Il's North Korea, as demonstrated by the journalist Dan Springer, of Fox News. In Spain, protests of the erroneously named "pacifists" resort to violence, attacking government party headquarters and causing much destruction to public property. According to a denouncement made in editorial of Libertad Digital, in Spain there is a resurgence of the "Jacobean traditional sectarianism", with "violent methods" used by the "extreme totalitarian left" who are counting on the support, through act or omission, of the United Left and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. In England, Ahmed Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress, in exile, denounced that the supposedly pro-peace activists want to "prolong the life of Saddam and the misery of the Iraqi people". In Italy, journalist Ernesto Galli della Loggia, in a front-page article in the "Corriere della Sera", calls attention to the enormous "capacity" of the so-called "pacifists" in that country to "manipulate reality", using as an example the "massive" use in protests of pictures of the Cuban-Argentinean guerilla "Che" Guevara, who is being presented as a symbol of "pacifism" when in reality, his cruelty made him contrary to peace. As Elio Bromuri, another Italian journalist, Communications Director of Perugia Archdiocese, observed, "pacifist" Italian leaders are guided by "an ideology that only maintains pacifism in its name".

After the emotional climate artificially created by the left (with the collaboration of the media), that clouds reason and common sense, History will, without a doubt, record with severity and indignation the gigantic social, human and political cost of the erroneously named "pacifists". The cause of peace is too important to leave it in their hands.

Lastly, it is important to not confuse the pacifists with the peaceful. Jesus Christ promised to those last mentioned an admirable prize: "You shall be named Children of God". The peaceful ones are those that love true peace, defined by Saint Augustine as "the tranquility of order". On the contrary, if the pacifists speak of peace it is as a pretext to fool and immobilize the peaceful, supporters of order.

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From Alan –

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." – Paul Rodriguez

2. "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.

3. "Aim towards the Enemy" - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher

4. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.  (U.S. Marine Corps.)

5. Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs always hit the ground.  (U.S. Air Force.)

6. If the enemy is in range, so are you.  (Infantry Journal.)

7. It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.  (U.S. Air Force Manual.)

8. Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.  (Gen. MacArthur.)

9. Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.  (Infantry Journal.)

10. You, you, and you . . . Panic. The rest of you, come with me.  (U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.)

11. Tracers work both ways.  (U.S. Army Ordnance.)

12. Five second fuses only last three seconds. (Infantry Journal.)

13. Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything. (U. S Navy Swabbie.)

14. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.  (David Hackworth.)

15. If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush. (Infantry Journal.)

16. No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.  (Joe Gay.)

17. Any ship can be a minesweeper . . . once.  (Admiral Hornblower.)

18. Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.  (Unknown Marine Recruit.)

19. Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you.  (Your Buddies.)

20. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.  (Saddam Hussein.)

21. If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.  (David Hackworth.)

From Ken –

Turn your speakers on and relax for a couple of minutes.

http://www.positivepause.com/en/

From Helen –

I read the article about Clinton raping the airforce woman who was acting as a stewardess on Airforce One.  We do not need to make humorous jokes about
him.  Do not call any attention to anything that could lead people to associate him with Elvis Presley!!!  That would get the mindless Jane Six-pack to vote for him in the mistaken idea that it is the King returned.

I have met people who have raised a family and do not have the brain cells or barnacles to rub together to realize that Elvis is not Jesus.

Hammer on the evil, felonious deeds of the last president because it looks like the Dems may try to use him again to test the interpretation of the 2 term limits.  Does it mean two consecutive terms but not alternating terms????  Just what is that interpretation,,,  I can see the conservative judges sacrificing the term limits amendment so that they can get their idiots reelected.  God save us from another Clinton campaign.

And I am a Democrat.....

From Alan –

A Brief Lesson in German History

1871 - Bismarck founds modern Germany.
1890 - Bismarck sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control.
1914 - Germany starts World War I
1914-1918 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
1917 - Germany causes peace loving Americans to enter war.
1918 - Germany loses World War I.
1920's - Germans try democracy.
1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power.
1939 - Germany starts World War II.
1939-1945 - Germany kills millions of it's own people and countless millions of others.
1941 - Germany again causes peace loving Americans to enter war.
1945 - Germany loses World War II.
1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions in food aid to feed them.
1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives billions in Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy.
1948-1949 - America puts ass on line and risk WW3 to save a few Berliners from Soviet hordes.
1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established.
1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet Hordes.
1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America keeps watch on Soviet Hordes.
1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet Hordes.
1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet Hordes.
1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American civil rights.
1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
          - Germans form the Marxist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF).
          - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder parts of West Germany.
          - Neo-Nazi groups formally organize.
1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany from Soviet Hordes, while German leftist bitch about Pershing II missiles.
1987 - American President Ronald Reagan makes "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech.
1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall.
1990 - German Reunification.  Americans spends tens of billions to defend Germany from Islamic Hordes, while Germany stands by as ethnic cleansing occurs in Balkans.
1993 - Germany joins European Union.
1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the sidelines.
1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia.
1998 - Hardliner, far-left socialists come to power under Gerhard Schroeder.
1999 - American's lead air war to save Kosovo as Germans watch from the sidelines.
2001 - Schroeder offers solidarity to America after 9/11 attacks.
2002 - Schroeder bashes America to distract voters during election campaign.
2003 - Germany sees rise in anti-Americanism due to "several decades of poor treatment from America".

AND YOU THOUGHT THE FRENCH WERE A BUNCH OF UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS?

From William –

YOU'D THINK COLORADO WOULD WANT TO KNOW

In mid-March in Colorado, it began to snow. By the time it stopped, everything else had stopped too. It was Colorado's biggest snow since 1913. Although Colorado's snow pack is now "average," Colorado needs five more years of "average" snowfall to end its drought. Ironically, before the blizzard, Colorado was preparing for another terrible fire season.

It was in the midst of that planning to prevent forest fires and the threat posed to the environment, to life, to property, and to the economy, that Colorado's Division of Wildlife (CDOW) announced plans to import 150-180 lynx from Canada to release in Colorado national forests. Earlier such efforts, begun in 1999, had failed: of the 96 Canadian lynx introduced, 62 (64 percent) were dead or missing and thought dead. Still, the CDOW forged ahead.

Some of the CDOW's authority for its lynx plan comes from a cooperative agreement, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), entered into in 1976 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); however, the lynx plan itself is of more recent vintage. In 1995, then Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and then Colorado Governor Roy Romer announced that their agencies would cooperate in protecting ESA-listed
species. Subsequently, the CDOW, the FWS, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service inked an agreement to import lynx to Colorado, which led to the 1999 release.

Although almost all of the authority for the CDOW's lynx plan--including putting wildlife imported from another country onto federal land--came from federal agencies and although several federal agencies participated in the lynx project, contributing hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars, federal agencies said they had not been involved and were not required to prepare an environmental analysis
of the lynx plan. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates a study if proposed federal action "significantly affects the quality of the human environment," positively or negatively. A demand by rural Coloradoans that federal agencies prepare the study was dismissed on procedural grounds, which were reversed, but too late to prevent the lynx release.

In March 2000, after the FWS listed lynx as "threatened" under the ESA, it authorized the CDOW to "take" lynx, defined broadly to include everything from harassing to killing, for the "enhancement of propagation or survival for approved recovery activities." Without that authorization, the CDOW could not implement its lynx plan. Nonetheless, federal agencies asserted, once again, that there was no
federal agency action even though federal regulations define NEPA-triggering action to include issuing permits. Thus, there would be no NEPA-study disclosing to the public the impact of the lynx on, for example, the ability of the Forest Service to manage forests to prevent fires.

One would have thought Colorado leaders would want to know that impact, especially given that the wildfire of 2002 had been so devastating, that the Forest Service had closed portions of Colorado's White National Forest to forest health management due to the lynx, that a federal judge had stopped forest health management in Oregon's Wallowa-Whitman National Forest because of the lynx. But apparently they did not. Instead, rural Colorado residents, some nearly burned out in last summer's fires, sued demanding that federal
agencies disclose whether more lynx means less forest health management and greater risk of fires. After remarking, "lynx don't carry matches," a federal judge dismissed the suit. A Colorado official announced that, on April 3, the lynx releases would begin.

Maybe more snow will fall in April. Maybe the Chinook (snow eater) winds will not come this spring. Maybe it will stay cool and wet this summer. Maybe the drought is over, forever! Maybe the FWS will not require the Forest Service stop forest health management because lynx need more space. Maybe environmental groups will not file lawsuits arguing that forest health activity harms lynx; maybe federal judges will throw out all such lawsuits.

Maybe, but should Colorado be taking that chance?

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From Connie –

The Patriot Act Destroys American Liberty

Here are a few examples.


SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and again strip them of all rights under the “enemy combatant” designation.


SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.


SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.


SECTION 106  states that broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location) gives government agents immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.


SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This sections eliminates the last vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.


SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not unsettled and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us: “this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever.”


SECTION 111 expands the definition of the “enemy combatant” designation.


SECTION 122 restates the government’s newly announced power of “surveillance without a court order.”


SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described by the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads, “thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime.”

*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any
crime is considered domestic terrorism.


SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to totally break down any and all walls of privacy.

The government states that they must look at everything to “determine” if individuals or groups *might* have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.


SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners’ and medical examiners’ operations whenever they see fit.


SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.


SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal agents.


SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have arrested and they never have to
release the names.


SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.


SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a terrorist.


SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national database of “suspected terrorists” and radically expand the database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as “terrorist.” These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.

[Government can define any citizen as a terrorist.]



SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The database will also be used to “stop other unlawful activities.” It will share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same purposes.


SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department.


SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security, violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all preventative measures - has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the access hub for the Total Information
Awareness Network.


SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share information with foreign governments.


SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly remove foreign individuals from their respective countries.


SECTION 402 is entitled “Providing Material Support to Terrorism.” The section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.


SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.


SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or “other criminals” (anyone) to use encryption in the commission of a crime.


SECTION 408 creates “lifetime parole” (slavery) for a whole host of crimes.


SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.


SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.


SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.


SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in terrorist activities.


SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration’s “enemy combatant” definition to all American citizens who “may” have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is “any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.”) Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn’t broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.

Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person “had inferred from conduct” that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act
states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the “enemy combatant” terrorist designation.

The bottom line is that under the "Patriot Act", any act and any person can be defined as terroristic at any time.

From Connie –

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 153

To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2003
Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


A BILL

To restore the second amendment rights of all Americans.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Second Amendment Protection Act of 2003'.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF FEDERAL HARASSMENT PERIOD.

Public Law 103-159 is hereby replaced, and any provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL GUN BAN.

Title XI of Public Law 103-322 is hereby repealed, and any provisions of law amended or repealed by such title are restored or revived as if such title had not been enacted.

SEC. 4. REPEAL OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL DISTINCTION.

(a) Section 201 of title 11 of Public Law 90-618 is amended by striking `which the Secretary finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes,' and `which the owner intends to use solely for sporting purposes.'

(b) Public Law 90-351, as amended, is amended as follows:

(1) In section 902, strike `which the Secretary finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes,' `which the owner
intends to use solely for sporting, recreational, or cultural purposes,' `a projectile which the Secretary finds is primarily intended to be used for
sporting purposes,' `devoted to the collection, competitive use, or other sporting use of firearms in the community,' `determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes and,' `(A) determined by the Secretary to be generally recognized as particularly
suitable for sporting purposes, or determined by the Department of Defense to be a type of firearm normally classified as a war souvenir, and (B),' `and is generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes,' and `provided that such handguns are
generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes,'.

(2) Strike `lawful sporting purposes' and insert in lieu thereof `lawful purposes'.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

The provisions of this Act shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
END

From Helen –

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

From Heather –

If you wanna hate the French, clap your hands....If you wanna hurt their pockets, clap your hands......Just keep your hands together, don't send them a Euro tether, for the clap that's in their pants and in their hands.

sing it everyone.....

BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW THIS

Ever heard of Lagardere SCA? No? Well maybe because it's a French company. OK .. have you ever heard of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.? Probably not, but Hachette Filipacchi publishes some magazines you may have heard of. Those magazines would be Elle, Car &Driver, Women's Day and others. Now it's getting familiar, isn't it?

OK, so we have Car &Driver which is published by Hachette Filipacchi which is owned by Lagardere SCA which is a French Corporation.

So .. are we finished here? No, not quite. It seems that a man who has been the news quite a bit of late owns around two percent of Lagardere SCA. About $90 million dollars worth. His name? Saddam Hussein.

Join the "Boycott France" Campaign.

Please review this list of major French companies that Americans should boycott. France has every right to disagree with America. But France has moved from simple dissent to active hostility toward America. French President Chirac warned East European nations that if they side with America, France will oppose their membership in the European Union.

This week, William Safire reported in the New York Times that France has been secretly helping to arm Iraq – and has been helping Iraq build long range missiles. These same missiles may soon be used against American soldiers.

Just as France is exercising its right to disagree, Americans can exercise their right to boycott -- and avoid helping companies and countries that do not stand with
America.

French Products and Companies to Boycott:

Air France.
Air Liquide.
Airbus.
Alcatel.
Allegra (allergy medication).
Aqualung (including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest).
AXA Advisors.
Bank of the West (owned by BNP Paribas).
Beneteau (boats).
BF Goodrich (owned by Michelin).
BIC (razors, pens and lighters).
Biotherm (cosmetics).
Black Bush.
Bollinger (champagne).
Car &Driver Magazine.
Cartier.
Chanel.
Chivas Regal (scotch).
Christian Dior.
Club Med (vacations).
Culligan (owned by Vivendi).
Dannon (yogurt and dairy foods).
DKNY.
Dom Perignon.
Durand Crystal.
Elle Magazine.
Essilor Optical Products.
Evian.
Fina gas stations and Fina Oil (billions invested in Iraqi oil fields -- guess why they don't want us in there).
First Hawaiian Bank.
George Magazine.
Givenchy.
Glenlivet (scotch).
Hennessy.
Houghton Mifflin (books).
Jacobs Creek (owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989).
Jameson (whiskey).
Jerry Springer (talk show)
Krups (coffee and cappuccino makers).
Lancome.
Le Creuset (cookware).
L'Oreal (health and beauty products).
Louis Vuitton.
Marie Claire.
Martel Cognac.
Maybelline.
Méphisto (shoes and clothes).
Michelin (tires and auto parts).
Mikasa (crystal and glass).
Moet (champagne).
Motel 6.
Motown Records.
MP3.com.
Mumms (champagne).
Nissan (cars; majority owned by Renault).
Nivea.
Normany Butter.
Parents Magazine.
Peugeot (automobiles).
Pierre Cardin.
Playstation Magazine.
ProScan (owned by Thomson Electronics, France).
Publicis Group (including Saatchi &Saatchi Advertising).
RCA (televisions and electronics; owned by Thomson Electronics).
Red Magazine.
Red Roof Inns (owned by Accor group in France).
Renault (automobiles).
Road &Track Magazine.
Roquefort cheese (all Roquefort cheese is made in France).
Rowenta (toasters, irons, coffee makers, etc.).
Royal Canadian.
Salomon (skis).
Sierra Software and Computer Games.
Smart &Final.
Sofitel (hotels, owned by Accor).
Sparkletts (water, owned by Danone).
Spencer Gifts.
Sundance Channel.
Taylor Made (golf).
Technicolor.
T-Fal (kitchenware).
Total gas stations.
UbiSoft (computer games).
Uniroyal.
Universal Studios (music, movies and amusement parks (owned by Vivendi-Universal).
USFilter.
Veritas Group.
Veuve Clicquot Champagne.
Vittel.
Vivendi.
Wild Turkey (bourbon).
Woman's Day Magazine.
Yoplait (The French company Sodiaal owns a 50 percent stake).
Yves Saint Laurent.
Zodiac Inflatable Boats.

Send a message to France that will not be forgotten!

From Ken –

http://www.gaspricewatch.com

From Helen –

Hi, spent last evening with a literacy instructor who is a former military woman.  Her friend attended the digital divide class because you need to have so many to continue to get the state aid to keep the computers up and running.  The friend of the instructor is also the widow of a Viet vet who died a few years ago.  The friend, who happens to be black, has a son and daughter who are also military.

After the president's speech, the "black widow" called her home.  Her son who is in Germany with the 101st called home and said that he is posted to Kuwait and the wife and kids are coming home.  She didn't even know where Kuwait is located.  She teaches GED students prep for the test!  So of course I showed her how to look up atlases and encyclopedias on the Net. Now she can visualize where her son may die.  A generation ago she learned about southeast Asia and now she learns about the middle east.  Grief indeed indelibly etches the geography in her mind.

Maybe if more people learned about their global neighbors sooner, and I am including the people of Saudi Arabia and other foreign hotspots, we would be
less likely to think that mothers of the attacking soldiers are any different than we.

That said, how would the Mullahs feel about a room full of volunteers preparing to educate those less educated than themselves, said tutors who just happened to be women...

From Bob –

The Irish Soldier in America's Wars

The Irish fought bravely for America from the very beginning, when they eagerly filled the ranks of George Washington's Rebel Army against their British rulers.

During the Civil War, when America recruited the recent wave of Famine Irish immigrants to fight for their country, 144,000 of them volunteered to fight for the Union. Others, in smaller numbers, fought for the Confederate States.

At a time when the loyalty and patriotism of the Catholic Irish immigrant was being questioned, all doubts were dispelled by the all Irish-Catholic 69th New York Regiment. They distinguished themselves at Bull Run, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, and, most of all, at Fredricksburg. This distinguished unit today is still called simply "The Fighting 69th," the name earned by it's original Irish-Catholic soldiers.

An Irish immigrant, Lt. James Rowan O'Bierne, of the 37th N.Y. Regiment, rose from 2nd Lt. to Brigadier General during his service to the Union Army. At Chancellorsville he was wounded in the "lung, right leg, right knee, forehead, and shot through the body," according to military records. He survived, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. A total of 202 Irish immigrants have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; America's highest military honor. That is more than any other immigrant group in America. In World War II, an Irish - American, Audie Murphy, became America's most decorated war hero in history, and was yet another example of Irish America's devotion to it's adopted country.

From Heather –

The French Connection

By WILLIAM SAFIRE

WASHINGTON

France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American and British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the world to discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying Saddam Hussein with materials used in building long-range surface-to-surface missiles.

We're not talking about short-range Al Samoud 2 missiles, which Saddam is ostentatiously destroying to help his protectors avert an invasion, nor his old mobile Scuds. The delivery system for mass destruction warheads requires a much more sophisticated propulsion system and fuels.

If you were running the Iraqi ballistic missiles project, where in the world would you go to buy the chemical that is among the best binders for solid propellant?

Answer: to 116 DaWu Road in Zibo, a city in the Shandong Province of China, where a company named Qilu Chemicals is a leading producer of a transparent liquid rubber named hydroxy terminated polybutadiene, familiarly known in the advanced-rocket trade as HTPB.

But you wouldn't want the word "chemicals" to appear anywhere on the purchase because that might alert inspectors enforcing sanctions, so you employ a couple of cutouts. One is an import-export company with which Qilu Chemicals often does business.

To be twice removed from the source, you would turn to CIS Paris, a Parisian broker that is active in dealings of many kinds with Baghdad. Its director is familiar with the order but denies being the agent.

A shipment of 20 tons of HTPB, whose sale to Iraq is forbidden by U.N. resolutions and the oil-for-food agreement, left China in August 2002 in a 40-foot container. It arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus (fortified by the Knights Templar in 1183, and the Mediterranean terminus for an Iraqi oil pipeline today) and was received there by a trading company that was an intermediary for the Iraqi missile industry, the end user. The HTPB was then trucked across Syria to Iraq.

Syria has no sophisticated missile-building program. What rocket weaponry it has comes off the shelf (and usually on credit) from Russia, so it therefore has no use for HTPB. But cash-starved Syria is the conduit for missile supplies to cash-flush Saddam, as this shipment demonstrates. We will have to wait until after the war to find out how much other weaponry, for what huge fees, Saddam has stored in currently un-inspectable Syrian warehouses.

The French connection — brokering the deal among the Chinese producer, the Syrian land transporter and the Iraqi buyer — is no great secret to the world's arms merchants. French intelligence has long been aware of it. The requirement for a French export license as well as U.N. sanctions approval may have been averted by disguising it as a direct offshore sale from China to Syria.

I'm also told that a contract was signed last April in Paris for five tons of 99 percent unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine, another advanced missile fuel, which is produced by France's Société Nationale des Poudre et Explosifs. In addition, Iraqi attempts to buy an oxidizer for solid propellant missiles, ammonium perchlorate, were successful, at least on paper. Both chemicals, like HTPB, require explicit approval by the U.N. Sanctions Committee before they can be sold to Iraq.

Perhaps a few intrepid members of the Chirac Adoration Society, formerly known as the French media, will ask France's lax export-control authorities about these shipments. U.N. inspectors looking at Iraq's El Sirat trading company might try to follow its affiliate, the Gudia Bureau, to dealings in Paris.

Is this account what journalists call a "keeper," one held back for publication at a critical moment, made more newsworthy by the Security Council debate? No; I've been poking around for only about a week, starting with data originating from an Arab source, not from the C.I.A. (Anti-Kurdish analysts at Langley have it in for me for embarrassing them for 18 months on Al Qaeda's ties to Saddam, especially in the terrorist Ansar enclave in Iraqi Kurdistan.)

This detail about the France-China-Syria-Iraq propellant collaboration makes for dull reading, but reveals some of the motivation behind the campaign of those nations to suppress the truth. The truth, however, will out.

From Ken –

Apparently car thieves have yet again found a way around the system and steal your car or truck without any effort at all. 

The car thieves peer through the windshield of your car or truck, write down the VIN number from the label on the dash, go into the local
 dealership for that car brand and request a duplicate key for it from the VIN number.  Car dealerships make up a duplicate key from the VIN number, collect payment from the 'customer' who's really a would-be car thief for making up the duplicate key -- the car thief goes back to your vehicle, inserts the key they've just gotten and off they drive with your car or truck.

They don't have to break in, don't have to damage the vehicle and draw no attention to themselves as all they have to do is to walk up to
 your car, insert the key and off they go to their chop shop with your vehicle!!!

Can you believe it? 

To avoid this from happening to you, simply put opaque tape (like a strip of electrical tape, duct tape or medical tape) across the VIN label
located on the dash board.  You can't remove the VIN number legally under most state laws, so cover it so that it can't be viewed through the  windshield by a car thief.

From Heather –

Last Century's Wash - Day Instructions

Years ago a Kentucky grandmother gave a new bride the following recipe for washing clothes.  It appears below just as it was written and,
despite the spelling, has a bit of philosophy.

This is exactly as written and preserved in an old scrap book (with spelling intact).

1.  Bilt fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.

2.  Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.

3.  Shave one hole cake of lie soap in bilin water.

4.  Sort things, make 3 piles.  1 pile white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and rags.

5.  To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with bilin water.

6.  Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and then bile.  Rub colored don't bile, just rinch and starch.

7.  Take things out of kettle with broomstick handle, then rinch, and starch.

8.  Hang old rags on fence.

9.  Spread tea towels on grass.

10.  Pore rinch water in flower bed.

11.  Scrub porch with hot soapy water.

12.  Turn tubs upside down.

13.  Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.  Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.



(Tape this over your washer and dryer and next time when you think things seem bleak, read it again and give thanks for your blessings!)

From Ken –

STATEMENT AT A FOOTBALL GAME

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at a football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee, by school Principal, Jody McLoud. I thought it was worth sharing with the world and hope you will forward it to all your friends. It shows clearly just how far this country has gone in the wrong direction.

"It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country. Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK. I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem. I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth" and call it "ecology." I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment."

However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and to ask Him to bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated. This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except God and His Commandments. Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time.

However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God and ask Him, in the name of Jesus, to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."

One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box! The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America - the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under God."

Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise God that His remnant remains! Celebrate Jesus in 2003!

From Ken –

MILITARY FLIGHT

Thought you might be interested in the experience of a Flight Attendant. Whether you believe in the war or not, I hope you will respect the lives of those who risk their lives to serve and protect this country. Much like we do.

Dear Friends:

I have just returned from doing a small part in our efforts against world conflict. Just got home early from Frankfurt after having picked up a planeload of troops in Alexandria LA and taking them one leg of their trip....onward. They had just gotten word 24 hours earlier that full alert was "on" and they were getting ready to be transported.

We arrived in Alexandria on the military airfield in our 777, and the busses were waiting. The troops started to appear from the busses and they were all dressed in their desert uniforms. They looked so clean! Everything was new, including the weapons. Every soldier had weapons, and some had knives hanging off their belts, too. They were young and handsome.

We were told that all weapons were unloaded, and that all the ammo was in the belly. Upon arrival at their destination, they would be given ammo, and they were on full alert and active duty as of the moment of landing at their destination. They had camel packs on their backs, too, and we were told that each soldier had 2 liters of water in those. Each soldier was also given 3 K ration packages to get them through the journey. (We feed and watered them with a good meal and lots of soft drinks, too.)

First class was filled with the rank, and also some very young men and women. We figured it out fast...they had won a prize...and another right guess....they were all sharpshooters. Business class was filled with the best of the sharpshooters, too. Even though all got the same food and the same service, these soldiers were thrilled to be in a big seat on an airliner, and they kidded each other about getting to sit in the better cabins. Camaraderie filled the air in every cabin and there was lots of intermingling as they explored who got what, and how wonderful it was to be transported on an airliner with a crew and service! I never heard so many people say m'am in my life. They treated us with respect, and boy, we treated them that way, too. We couldn't do enough for them. "No," was not in our vocabulary! If we had it...they got it. Without exception, all the crew felt the same way.

We all felt that it was a great honor to be able to participate in getting these troops over there. Some of the flight crew had to step into the lavs and cry occasionally. I had a lump in my throat the entire flight. I was proud to be part of this....so proud!

We stepped over guns, we served cokes, we listened to stories, we served a meal, and then the soldiers took over. They got out in the aisle in their desert uniforms and passed out water and candy. They seemed to get a charge out of taking over from us, and maybe they had an ulterior motive, too, because those guys got every crumb of extra food that we had. They were young men and they were hungry!

I could go on and on about some of the stories I heard, but I will just close by saying that when we landed, we all had tears. A few of the guys passed out the door with, "would you mind kissing me, m'am?" My response was, "You bet I'll kiss you." I put lots of lipstick on lots of cheeks, and the guys just grinned.

The pride in country and uniform is overwhelming in a situation like this. I remember my Dad, the three wars he fought in, the pride with which he wore his uniform, his patriotism, his absolute belief that the United States was worth giving your life for, and that he survived it all.

God Bless America. I am so grateful to have been able to do something....anything...for our boys and girls, too. Lets hope against all hope that every single one of them comes home to their families.

GOD FIRST...PEOPLE ALWAYS

JOHN M.STEPP

Chaplain (MAJ) USA

From Judy –

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.

"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me."

"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."

"There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."

"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."

"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him.

A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide.

The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know - their son had only one arm and one leg.

From Alan –

Naval Air Station
Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico

Another lesson learned the hard way: Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it..One of the messes George W. Bush inherited was the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques.

In the waning years of the Clinton Administration, protesters demanded the US Navy abandon bombing and naval gun fire exercises there. It became a leftist cause.
Liberals bumped into each other to fly to Puerto Rico and get arrested: Al Sharpton, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Edward James Olmos, Mrs. Jesse Jackson, just to name a few.

Mrs. Clinton, running for Senate, criticized the Pentagon for not caving, which her husband then did, ordering a phase-out of the facility. The Bush administration reluctantly decided to close the range contrary to the recommendations of the Navy.

So last week marked the Navy's final bombing exercises. Protesters showed up waving Puerto Rican flags and shouting, "Navy Get Out!"

Well, they're getting out.

In fact, now Navy officials are talking about closing the major support base. That's right; there goes the Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station, one of Puerto Rico's largest employers, estimated to pump around $300 million dollars into the local economy every year.

Suddenly, the governor says, "Wait a minute! The people of Puerto Rico don't have any interest in the closing of the Roosevelt Roads base. The government of Puerto Rico is interested in that base staying in Puerto Rico for all the economic benefits."

No doubt, Madam Mayor. No doubt...

Admiral Robert Natter, the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, says, "Without Vieques there's no way I need the Navy facilities at Roosevelt Roads. None."

So...Yanqui go home? Fine! But we're gonna take our money with us!!!

Hasta la vista...baby!

From Heather –

Windshield Message from a child

One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra  precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick. Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen, spoke up from her relaxed position in her seat. "Dad, I'm thinking of something." This announcement usually meant she had been pondering some fact for a while, and was now ready to expound all that her six-year-old mind had discovered. I was eager to hear.

"What are you thinking?" I asked.

"The rain;" she began, "is like sin, and the windshield wipers are like God wiping our sins away."

After the chill bumps raced up my arms I was able to respond. "That's really good, Aspen."

Then my curiosity broke in. How far would this little girl take this revelation? So I asked... "Do you notice how the rain keeps on coming? What does that tell you?"

Aspen didn't hesitate one moment with her answer: "We keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us."

I will always remember this whenever I turn my wipers on.

From Helen –

Homeland Security chief, former representative from Erie, Pa. & former Gov. of Pa., Tom Ridge voted for Clinton's anti-gun bill.  What will Bush do? The NRA supported these guys! We only have 18 months to stop the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill from being renewed.  Bush has put more cops on the street which Clinton couldn't!

How will you protect yourself and your family from terrorists and child molesters if the cops won't? 

Dial 911 and Die.
By Robert A. Waters -
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless. Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter. "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask. "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choir boys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to  Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses  this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

From Lewie –

Thought you would like to see the attached copy of a story about a Viet Nam vet and Ann-Margaret which is written by the vet's wife. It is unique and well worth reading.
Gary

Richard, (my husband), never really talked a lot about his time in Viet Nam other than he had been shot by a sniper. However, he had a rather grainy, 8 x 10 black &white
photo he had taken at a USO show of Ann-Margaret with Bob Hope in the background that was one of his treasures.

A few years ago, Ann-Margaret was doing a book signing at a local bookstore. Richard wanted to see if he could get her to sign the treasured photo so he arrived at the
bookstore at 12 o'clock for the 7:30 signing.

When I got there after work, the line went all the way around the bookstore, circled the parking lot, and disappeared behind a parking garage. Before her appearance, bookstore employees announced that she would sign only her book and no memorabilia would be permitted. Richard was disappointed, but wanted to show her the photo
and let her know how much those shows meant to lonely GI's so far from home.

Ann-Margaret came out looking as beautiful as ever and, as 2nd in line, it was soon Richard's turn. He presented the book for her signature and then took out the photo. When he did, there were many shouts from the employees that she would not sign it. Richard said, "I understand. I just wanted her to see it."

She took one look at the photo, tears welled up in her eyes and she said, "This is one of my gentlemen from Viet Nam and I most certainly will sign his photo. I know what
these men did for their country and I always have time for "my gentlemen". With that, she pulled Richard across the table and planted a big kiss on him. She then made quite a to-do about the bravery of the young men she met over the years, how much she admired them, and how much she appreciated them. There weren't too many dry eyes among those close enough to hear. She then posed for pictures and acted as if he was the only one there.

Later, at dinner, Richard was very quiet. When I asked if he'd like to talk about it, my big strong husband broke down in tears.  "That's the first time anyone ever thanked
me for my time in the Army", he said.

That night was a turning point for him. He walked a little straighter and, for the first time in years, was proud to have been a Vet.

I'll never forget Ann Margaret for her graciousness and how much that small act of kindness meant to my husband. I now make it a point to say Thank You to every person I come across who served in our Armed Forces.

Freedom does not come cheap and I am grateful for all those who have served their country.

If you'd like to pass on this story, feel free to do so. Perhaps it will help others to become aware of how important it is to acknowledge the contribution our service people make.

I hope this gets around to Jane Fonda.

From Helen -

Fact 1 - in addition to tossing grenades in 3 tents, he stood outside of at least one and shot two of the troops that were making a hasty exit out of what was left of their shattered quarters.

Fact 2 - when the Sgt that allegedly did the crime was born, his given middle name was "Fidel". Seems that his mama was a member of some kind of leftist militant group e. g., The Black Panthers.

Fact 3 - Sometime after Fidel was born, his mama apparently gave up her affiliation with her current group and became a Muslim. When she did that, she changed her young son's name from Fidel whatever it was he was called to Akbar (whatever his muslim name is now).

Fact 4 - her son was both academically and athletically talented into and throughout his high school career. He was apparently very charismatic and open with his classmates.

Fact 5 - he then attended the University of S. California at Davis, where he excelled academically. I don't know if the grade point average was maintained throughout high school and/or while in college.... but it was 3.47 - which ain't bad. He studied engineering.... taking the same courses that Osama bin Ladin had or was taking.

Fact 6 - he spent 9 years in college. While there, he apparently isolated himself from classmates.... though he wasn't overly friendly, he wasn't hostile acting. He did not participate socially with his classmates and didn't eat with them in the board and room homes he lived in. He ate at the mosque.  (It was reported by the media that he had just recently converted to Islam.  I don't understand that....since his history indicates a long association with the religion of Allah.)

Fact 7 - when he finished his activities at USC he joined the Army.... which surprised many of the people who knew him.

My comment: I don't know how old he was when he got out of college and joined the Army.... but, back when I was making the rounds (1960-64) if you were over 26.5 years old, you were too old to apply for OCS (Officer Candidate School). I joined the Air Force, specifically, to apply to OCS and work for a commission. Got caught in a student pipeline that prevented me from applying for OCS before I reached the 26.5 year age limit. One of the low points in my life. Anyway, your education level didn't make any difference in this matter. I went to radar school with a man that was 30..... having just entered the air force as  prior service (following a recent divorce).... had a Master's Degree in mathematics.... and couldn't go to OCS because he was too old.   Stupid rule (when they gave out high ranked commissions to Washington politicians, like LCDR Lyndon Baines Johnson, during WWII. Stupid and Talent wasting Regs!

Anyway, it was obvious that the muslim Sergeant couldn't go to OCS or make higher rank, despite his education, because those stupid Regs are probably still in place.  (LACK OF ADVANCEMENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE, IT IS MILITARY REGS FOR EVERYONE.)

Fact #8 - Regardless of all of that, a "field" tribunal should be established, long enough to get a conviction for his crimes and then, the Sergeant Muslim should be tied to a post and shot to death by a rifle squad selected from the 101st. Then his carcass should remain tied to that post in plain view until those desert flies have had their fill and the rest of him has dehydrated away. Write your Congressmen and tell them to see to it that the military is allowed to finish this business in a military way and without interference from some civilian group of lawyers, etc.

THIS WAS SENT TO ME BY A FORMER MILITARY DUDE...
Also, do you know that the white guys who admit to Klan affiliation can not join the military?  Why is it not also a regulation for Calypso Lewy's followers?  They hate white people and black people who believe in integration and intend to kill them when the opportunity arises.  Stupid PC non-application of regs to hate organizations caused this problem in the 101st.  This Muslim soldier would have killed Colin Powell based on his hatred of Christian black integrationists.

Helen

From Ken –

A Combat Soldier’s Prayer

http://pzzzz.tripod.com/prayer.html

From Sage –

A Ranch Rescue appeal – Close Our Borders Now!

Read story from this link –

http://www.patriotvocals.info/PatriotActivismCaptainRanchRescueRRMembersTXMissionJailed.htm

From Helen –

OLD SOLDIERS

I've said that if I could, I'd enlist today and help my country track down those responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in New York City and Washington, D.C. But, I'm over 60 now and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 35 to join the Army.

They've got the whole thing backwards.

Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more that
28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy, we'll complain them into submission. "My back hurts!" "I'm hungry!" "Where's the remote control?"

An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're at least old enough to legally drink. An average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer by the time he's 35 and a jaunt through the desert heat with a backpack and M-60 would do wonders for the old beer belly.

An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys get up early just to show we can (and to steal the neighbor's newspaper and pee).

If old guys are captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd probably forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would actually be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we actually like soft food. We've also developed a deep appreciation for guns and rifles. We like them almost better than naps. The army could lighten up on the obstacle course, however. I've been to the desert and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side. I can hear the Drill Sergeant now, "Get down and give me...er...one."

And the running part is kind of a waste of energy. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave. To actually carry on a conversation. To wear pants without the top of the boxer shorts sticking out. To learn that a pierced tongue catches food particles. And that a 200-watt speaker in the back seat of a Honda Accord can rupture an eardrum. All great reasons to keep our sons at home and to learn a little more about life before sending them off to a possible death.

Let us old guys track down those dirty, rotten cowards who attacked our hearts on September 11. The last thing they'd want to see right now is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.

From Heather –

IT IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU TREAT THE PROTECTORS OF OUR LAND.

I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating its reservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required to hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up...

Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years. I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution.

I suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves.

Previously

From Judy –

McDonald's Play Areas

In addition to the following true story, I will also add that my own sons were laying in the ball pit at Discovery Zone one day. One son lost his watch, and was very upset. We dug and dug in those balls, trying to find the watch. Instead, we found vomit, food, feces, and other stuff I do not want to discuss. I went to the manager and raised heck. Come to find out, the ball pit is only cleaned out once a month. I have doubts that it is even done that often. My kids will never play in another ball pit.

Now read this:

"Hi my name is Lauren Archer. My son Kevin and I lived in Sugarland, Texas. On October 2, 1994, I took my only son to McDonald's for his 3^rd birthday. After he finished lunch, I allowed him to play in the ball pit. When he started crying later, I asked him what was wrong. He pointed to his back and said, 'Mommy, it hurts.' I looked, but couldn't find anything wrong with him at the time. I bathed him when we got home, and it was at that point that I found a welt on his left buttock. Upon investigation, it seemed as if there was splinter under the welt. I made a doctor appointment for the next day to have it removed.

In the meantime, he started vomiting and shaking. Then, his eyes rolled back in his Head. We immediately went to the emergency room! My only son died later that night. It turned out that the welt on his buttock was the tip of a hypodermic needle that had broken off in his skin. The autopsy
revealed that Kevin had died from a heroine overdose.

The next day, the police removed the balls from the ball pit and found rotten food, half-eaten candy, diapers, feces, the stench of urine, and several

hypodermic needles." (If you question the validity of this story, you can find the article on Kevin Archer in the October 10, 1994 issue of the
Houston Chronicle.)

Please forward this to all loving mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. Note: Some children have also gotten lice from ball pits.

From Lewie

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

There are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some native Americans, need to understand.

First of all, it is not our responsibility to continually try not to offend you in any way. This idea of America being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.

As Americans, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language, and our own lifestyle. This culture, called the "American Way" has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

Our forefathers fought, bled, and died at places such as Bunker Hill,  San Juan, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Korea, Vietnam...

We speak English, not Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.

Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society -- learn our language!"

"In God We Trust" is our national motto. This is not some off-the-wall, Christian, Right Wing, political slogan -- it is our national motto. It is engraved in stone in the House of Representatives in our Capitol and it is printed on our currency. We adopted this motto because Christian men
and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation and this is clearly documented throughout our history.

If it is appropriate for our motto to be inscribed in the halls of our highest level of Government, then it is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.

God is in our pledge, our National Anthem, nearly every patriotic song, and in our founding documents. We honor His birth, death, and resurrection as holidays, and we turn to Him in prayer in times of crisis. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture and we are proud to have Him.

We are proud of our heritage and those who have so honorably defended our freedoms. We celebrate Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Flag Day. We have parades, picnics, and barbecues where we proudly wave our flag.

As an American, I have the right to wave my flag, sing my national anthem, quote my national motto, and cite my pledge whenever and wherever I choose.

If the Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don't like Uncle Sam, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.

The American culture is our way of life, our heritage, and we are proud of it.

We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. Like it or not, this is our country, our land, and our lifestyle.

Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion about our government, culture, or society, and we will allow you every opportunity to do so. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our national motto, or our way of life,
I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great American freedom:

THE RIGHT TO LEAVE!

Another thing: To those who do complain about the usage of words like 'God' and 'American' and speaking the language of our great nation, TRY GOING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND SPEAK AGAINST WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE. YOU WILL MORE THAN LIKELY END UP JAILED OR EVEN KILLED.

In America, you take your right to complain for granted.

The more patriotism that is removed from where our children are taught, the less our children will learn about what it is to be an American and our nation's spirit will slowly be killed.

Keep patriotism alive.

If you agree, pass this onto other Americans!

It is time to take a stand! God Bless America and our Military and Veterans!

Hi!

Myles Brand (Jewish), the new President of the NCAA victimized my 16-year old daughter. You may read about it here www.IndianaUniversity.org

You’ll also learn about the relationship among Myles Brand, basketball coach Bobby Knight, and my daughter.

You’ll further learn about the Jewish Supremacist Group called the American Jewish Committee and how Myles Brand dirtied Indiana University’s name.

Finally, you’ll discover how certain NCAA officials, Myles Brand, and the Indiana University Trustees “failed to deport themselves in accordance with the generally recognized high standards of honesty normally associated with the conduct and administration of intercollegiate athletics.”

Sincerely,

E. LeVin

From Helen –

I attended a book promotion by Bill Keisling who wrote a book about the murder of the preacher's daughter in York, Pa.  33 years ago.  Title is The Wrong Car  Keisling was in the midst of a messy custody battle when his daughter was about 7, she is 13 now.  His ex-wife or perhaps just estranged wife because I believe that he is Roman Catholic is according to him bipolar.  However, as a woman I reserve judgment even in the situation where a Democratic activist tells me something.  One of the bits of information he gave me on Wednesday night was that his former wife worked for Dauphin County CYF and York County CYF all during the custody battle.  No one felt it incumbent upon the judges or hearing officers to recuse themselves because she was a colleague except Mr. Keisling.  I know that we have lots of crazy people working within CYF but did not know that the disabilities Act forces us to be evaluated by such diagnosed crazies.  She could do a clerk typist job but I do not want someone who has mood swings and on medication making decisions for children's existence.

The most important thing I learned was that he is planning to write about the Children and Youth system for his next political type expose'.   He has an old printing press of some sort and has a co-op that publishes for freelance authors.  His website is www.yardbird.com

Since I mentioned that the police corruption was not just a few apples in York County back in 1969 but very widespread to a patron of the arts who attended he mentioned that he would get in touch with me for information.  So many people do not see the connection between the ignoring of civil rights cases for blacks and the handling of child custody, divorce and other legal situations.  The entire judicial system is malfunctioning but most people first experience it with divorce and child custody.

If he gets back to me I will be in touch with you so that you can give him individuals to interview.  He is the son of a deceased politician/finance person here in Penna.  He tilts at windmills but I have all of his books about political corruption in Penna. 

A Republican "radical" is Ron Harper from Lancaster County.  He was instrumental in forcing a prominent political bagman to resign from the House in Penna.  Rep. Barley handled the bribes for the politicians since the 1960's according to a pro-life Democratic businessman I know.  Harper's website is http://www.5thestate.com/ .

I tried to introduce the two men, Bill Keisling and Ron Harper who are about the same age and even though from somewhat different political backgrounds doing the same exposing of the political hacks in their respective communities.

There is strength in numbers.  Both of these men could be shot in a dark alley for what they have written and exposed to the light of day.

From Alan -

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby....somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, normal is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct..... somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.

Somebody said being a mother is boring.....somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.

Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good.".....somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee. 

Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices...... somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother....somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.

Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first....somebody doesn't have more than one child.

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books......somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery.....somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten.

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back......somebody never organized seven giggling Girl Scouts to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married.....somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home.....somebody never had grandchildren.

Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her......somebody isn't a mother. 

From Lewie –

President Bush was very Presidential and stood on very firm grounds about the forth-coming IRAQ war. It has to be done with or without the help of other countries, however I think we will have more  help besides UK. And if UN keeps treading water on different things .... will end up showing the UN has a group of whimps. I know we have to take Hussein out. I think it will be short. President Bush has brass. One thing that bothers me is all the call up of the National Guard and the Reserves will leave us kinda vulnerable on our borders and many places here at home. There is much to many of the enemy living right around us. That is a concern. America will not survive if there is not a return to the original thinking of its founders. And America has to understand our Constitution or die. Take Article IV Section 3 cl. 1 or 2. Clause one was America after the signing of the Constitution and prior to 1933. We are financing our own destruction. In short ... clause 1 are free and sovereign people and clause 2 are slaves to the system. Then our economic system was built on the assumption that the average citizen would be honest and ethical in his dealings. It is must to understand why we must reverse this fatal trend in America before it is too late. It is the people's choice not the government.

From Helen –

This is a great idea for a SciFi story...  Could Alex Jones use this? 

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/31jan_kelley.htm?list680519

From Cal –

“"I'm a normal person and when I don't have enough money I have to change my habits," 26-year-old Heather Bryan told the Associated Press, explaining her vote against the measure. "Government should be the same way." How's that for a bellwether?”  WSJ, 2-1-03

The Democrats say they want a “balanced” plan to address the budget crisis in California.  Translated, this means they are willing to give up SOME of the increased spending they wanted to do if the Republicans will agree to some very REAL tax increases.

The scare tactics have already begun with the battle to triple the car tax with Democrats saying that thousands of police officers and fire fighters will lose their jobs if this is not done.  There are some real lessons to be learned from what just happened in Oregon last Tuesday and the Wall Street Journal has done a good job of pointing them out below.

If you have not joined the growing volunteer army that is going to help Senator McClintock stop the effort by the Democrats to TRIPLE the car tax then go to www.TomMcClintock.com and do so today!  If you already have then pass this on to some friends and get them signed up as well.

John E. Stoos

Chief Consultant for Senator Tom McClintock

From Helen –

One of the things that we SciFi aficionados do not comprehend is the inability of the space program to provide escape pods for astronauts.  It is such a simple thing to provide.  If the astronauts were in their space suits and had individual pods for seats with parachutes that could sense altitude they could have survived.

I think that we need an educational program in the schools that will enable USA students to build the ships needed to explore the universe.  Our population is expanding and the way we have solved that problem was to go West or exploit other nations.  Now we have the know how to reach other planets.  We should have multiple space stations for research and be working on getting to the moon and learning how to terraform.  We should also be terraforming the deserts on earth.  Saddam should be removed and the Muslims told that they either turn the desert into a land of milk and honey or they forfeit ownership.

Some of my own rants...

From Cheryl –

Something to think about!

Two Very Good Questions.....

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?

Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer of this one.

Question 2:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.

Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Candidate B is Winston Churchill,
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And by the way: Answer to the abortion question if you said yes, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone...and remember, Amateurs built the ark .... Professionals built the Titanic

From Bev –

I just read today's commentary. I was surprised at the shared memories and feelings that crept in as I was reading. It was a huge part of my life and I was  awestruck as we sat in the auditorium at school watching those massive rockets shudder and leave this earth. I remember well July 20th 1969. It was a full moon. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was also my fathers 54th birthday. We all went outside with our binoculars and watched the moonrise, marveling that there were men, our men standing on that beautifully gleaming silver orb. My first thought was terrorism. It still lays there in my mind. Will we ever learn the real truth? I know we will be fed bits and pieces by the elitist press. A kernel of truth here and there no doubt. Initially they reported there was rejoicing in the streets of Baghdad. I noticed that report was not repeated. I wonder why?????

From Robert –

Friends..

My long time friend, Arlean, is a rock solid Christian woman...she has put her money AND mouth into the fight for a long time....

She has been to Israel and elsewhere to spread the gospel.

I am forwarding this request from Arlean for prayer for her friends, who are missionaries in the midst of the "peaceful" Muslims that we hear our President speak of.

If you know ANYthing about the Sudan, you know what rotten evil savagery the Muslims commit on the innocent Christians.  This is the longest war in the past century but you NEVER hear a word about it from the Media.

Ask yourself why.

Prayer needed here.  Thank you all.

Bob

----- Original Message -----

Dear ones,

The woman that wrote the following e-mail to me, and her husband, are friends of Richard's and mine from years ago. Would you consider praying for them and the other teachers, school children and parents and, above all, contact your congressmen and the President. If you have friends or family that might be concerned enough for these people to do the same, please pass this on.

Norma feels it is important that the world know what is happening. I am not going to include the full names of my friends here because I'm alarmed that she says that she is at risk telling me but that someone must speak for the refugees.

They have been in Muslim territory for years, giving aid to Sudanese refugees that are trying to escape Muslim persecution in the Sudan, and operating a Christian school. Believing in Jesus is forbidden in Muslim countries for the most part. A large number of people have been arrested there and you can read the details below.

I will include my e-mail address here in case you pass it on and someone wants to verify. I'll also include the date of this writing so you'll know it's current.

Arlean
arleankelley@yahoo.com
Dated February 3, 2003



Date: 2/3/2003 12:08:17 PM
Subject: RE: Arrested
(Name deleted)

Arlean,

[edited for brevity]

Our situation here is that 4-6 million Sudanese have come here to flee persecution from the N. Sudanese people who are both Arab and Muslim.  S. Sudan are mostly Christian and they have come here for refuge.   These are the ones we work with. On little technical charges.....no warnings and with cruel treatment
along with insults and name-calling these woman and children and whole families get pulled out of their homes to be hauled in a truck to the police station.   They end up one to 2 nights on the prison floor with no blankets, food or water.....babies and children cry and are terrified. We just want the world to know that this is a humanitarian issue.   A father could be taken and documents examined....given time to take care of discrepancies, etc. but one of our staff came home to find his wife and a 2 year old and a baby 2 mos. old were gone.... some of our children were snatched on their way to our school.

The men are kicked and women and children pushed and all of them are referred to as dogs.

Our church sent food to the prison, but the guards didn't give to many of them.  One of our teachers was there 2 nights with no food and no water and no blanket.  She and her mother huddled together to comfort each other.   Her brother and husband were with the men.  There is no rhyme or reason to the treatment.   All of our people speak 3-4 languages and many have college degrees and the guards who kick them can't even read and write.  God must be so sad at the way his creative beings treat each other.   Yet our people pray for the captors and forgave them and Praise God. We just want it to go public.....We want people to know   Billions of Am. dollars flow freely into this country.   Perhaps Americans should know about this.   I know I am at risk telling you all this, but who is going to speak for refugees?  I hope this is clearer...

Love you.  Norma

From Lewie –

Forsaken Roots in the United States

Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and in His personal intervention.

It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.

Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death." But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he actually said: "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not to the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian? You be the judge. The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator "

He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role.

On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."

In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."

William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the "Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. For all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."

Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures:

"Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of our new nation not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

So much for the so-called "separation of church and state."

Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him? Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America and is still unwelcome in all of our public schools.  Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots.

"I tremble for my country when I recall that God is just, and that His justice will not sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson

From Helen –

So you don't know what to do with a child some afternoon....

http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/nav/thinkingfountain.html

From Ronnie –

This has merit; I've had the pleasure of spending time down a dirt road as a child.  Visiting the Grandparents and being opened to a world lost.  Now we had, ignorance and prejudice in the times past but there was also a sense of community on those dirt roads; when a neighbor came upon bad times.  People believed that the land and one another had needs and a sense of respect was still heavy in everyone's heart.  There was the view that a prayer would help smooth the hardness, heal the sick, and lift those who were down.  The older generations that came out of the dirt roads had there faults but there are lessons that can be learned from the bumpy roads they traveled and ones this society definitely needs to view on our super highways and lighting communication bi-ways.

I thank you for sharing a line or two from this story of the dirt road; maybe there can be some people touched and seek some of the past dirt roads to find some sort of truth lost today.

From Ken –

There is a new chain letter spreading rapidly on the Internet. This chain letter is requesting that recipients who want to speak out against a possible war with Iraq send an e-mail to the United Nations.

 Users that receive this message should delete it immediately, without forwarding it. These e-mails can be used to gather information on government personnel such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers. In addition, using the ARMY's network to send chain letters is a violation of the Joint Ethics regulation for DA Civilians and a UCMJ violation for ARMY personnel. It is also a violation of the Government Furnished Equipment Clause for contractors, which is written into all government contracts.

 The chain letter has the following characteristics:
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 Subject: war with Iraq
 Body:   If you want to speak against it, the UN is collecting signatures to work against this tragic event. Please do COPY this e-mail to a new mail, sign it at the end of the attached list and send it to all the people you know. If you've received a list with more than 500 signatures, please send another copy to the United Nations: e-mail address
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx


 If you receive this e-mail delete it immediately.

From Cheryl -

BREAKFAST AT MCDONALD'S...READ TILL THE END
This is a good story and is true, please read it all the way through till the end!  (After the story there are some very interesting thoughts):

I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with. Her last project of the term was called "Smile." The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions.

I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello anyway, so, I thought this would be a piece of cake, literally. Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and I went out to McDonald's one crisp March morning. It was just our way of sharing special play time with our son. We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden everyone around us began to back away, and then even my husband did.

I did not move an inch .....  an overwhelming feeling of panic welled up inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved. As I turned around I smelled a horrible "dirty body" smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was "smiling". His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched for acceptance. He said, "Good day" as he counted the few coins he had been clutching.

The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend.  I realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue eyed gentleman was his salvation. I held my tears as I stood there with them. The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted. He said, "Coffee is all Miss" because that was all they could afford. (If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something.  They just wanted to be warm).

Then I really felt it -- the compulsion was so great I almost reached out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes. That is when I noticed all eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action.

I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray. I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot.  I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand.

He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, "Thank you."

I leaned over, began to pat his hand and said, "I did not do this for you.  God is here working through me to give you hope."

I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son.  When I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, "That is why God gave you to me, Honey. To give me hope."

We held hands for a moment and at that time we knew that only because of the Grace that we had been given were we able to give. That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love.

I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand. I turned in "my project" and the instructor read it. Then she looked up at me and said, "Can I share this?"

I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class. She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and being part of God, share this need to heal people and to be healed.

In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald's, my husband, son, instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.

Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who may read this and learn how to LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS - NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE..

If you think this story has touched you in any way, please send this to everyone you know.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.

From Cheryl –

Why Women Cry...

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will.

"Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said: "When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and takes care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any
and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.”

“You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

From Jesse –

TPS

 1) Flies or bees bothering you? Spray them with hairspray and they will take a quick dive.

2) Sealed envelope - Put in the freezer for a few hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The envelope can then be resealed. (hmmmmmm...)

3) Use Empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords. It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what appliance it belongs to.

4) For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dishwashing liquid in it. Pour it all over the steps. They won't refreeze. (wish I had known this for the last 40 years!)

5) Crayon marks on walls? This worked wonderfully! A damp rag, dipped in baking soda. Comes off with little effort (elbow grease that is!).

6) Permanent marker on appliances/counter tops (like store receipt BLUE!) rubbing alcohol on paper towel.

7) Whenever I purchase a box of S.O.S Pads, I immediately take a pair of scissors and cut each pad into halves. After years of having to throw away rusted and unused and smelly pads, I finally decided that this would be much more economical. And now a box of S.O.S pads last me indefinitely! In fact, I have noticed that the scissors get sharpened this way!

8) Opening brand new jars can be a feat in itself. Well, I have found a way to make it the easiest thing to do. Instead of banging a jar of jam,  pickles, etc., with a knife until it loosens up, I simply reach into the drawer and pull out the handy nutcracker. It adjusts to the size of the jar and I simply give it a good twist and off pops the lid!

9) Blood stains on clothes? Not to worry! Just pour a little hydrogen peroxide on a cloth and proceed to wipe off every drop of blood. Works  every time!

10) Use vertical strokes when washing windows outside and horizontal for inside windows. This way you can tell which side has the streaks. Straight vinegar will get outside windows really clean. Don't wash windows on a sunny day. They will dry too quickly and will probably streak.

11) Spray a bit of perfume on the light bulb in any room to create a lovely light scent in each room when the light is turned on. Place fabric softener sheets in dresser drawers and your clothes will smell freshly washed for weeks to come. You can also do this with towels and linen.

12) Candles will last a lot longer if placed in the freezer for at least 3 hours prior to burning.

13) To clean artificial flowers, pour some salt into a paper bag and add the flowers. Shake vigorously as the salt will absorb all the dust and dirt and leave your artificial flowers looking like new! Works like a charm!

14) To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stovetop.

15) Spray your TUPPERWARE with nonstick cooking spray before pouring in tomato based sauces and there won't be any stains. (Key Word:-Tupperware)

16) When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of  the cake.

17) Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.

18) When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help bring out the corn's natural sweetness.

19) Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

20) Don't throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.

21). To get rid of itch from mosquito bites, try applying soap on the area and you will experience instant relief.

22) Ants, ants, ants everywhere ..... Well, they are said to never cross a chalk line. So get your chalk out and draw a line on the floor or wherever ants tend to march. See for yourself.

23) Use air-freshener to clean mirrors. It does a good job and better still, leaves a lovely smell to the shine.

24) When you get a splinter, reach for the scotch tape before resorting to tweezers or a needle. Simply put the scotch tape over the splinter, then pull it off. Scotch tape removes most splinters painlessly and easily.

25) Now look what you can do with Alka Seltzer. Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets, wait twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action clean vitreous China.

        Clean a vase. To remove a stain from the bottom of a glass vase or cruet,  fill with water and drop in two Alka Seltzer tablets.

        Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka Seltzer tablets into a glass of water and  immerse the jewelry for two minutes.

       Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water, drop in four Alka Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or longer, if necessary).

        Unclog a drain. Clear the sink drain by dropping three Alka Seltzer tablets down the drain followed by a cup of Heinz White Vinegar. Wait a few minutes, then run the hot water.

From Heather –

C 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Recent polls show that all-too-many Americans believe that the United States should not go after Saddam Hussein militarily unless the United Nations goes along. It's alarming to think that so many Americans are actually willing to subrogate our nation's ability to act in its own interests on matters of national security to the United Nations! Are we going nuts?

Speaking plainly (easy for me): This is idiotic.

In order to maintain any faith at all in the American people, I have to force myself to believe that the "not unless the United Nations says so" crowd is merely reacting mindlessly to the words they hear from leftist politicians, Hollywood foreign-affairs "experts" like George Clooney, and liberal pundits. It's easy to understand when that bloated icon of the left, Ted Kennedy, mumbles, "Whatever we're going to do ought to be done within the United Nations." This is a man who has fought hard to weaken the strength and sovereignty of the United States at every turn. But what's your excuse?

It's time for some strong talk about the United Nations – time for you to learn some things you probably didn't know. The United Nations was designed to be, has operated as, and stands today as a fundamentally anti-American institution. Since its inception, the taxpayers of the United States have been paying the lion's share of U.N. operating costs while Third World nations have used it as a sounding board for their Yankee-go-home rhetoric. Here's a few "betcha didn't know that" facts to chew on.

When the United Nations was formed, every single member nation got one, and only one vote in the United Nations General Assembly. Every single member nation that is, except one. That one nation was the Soviet Union. The USSR got three votes. No single member nation is allowed to have more than one citizen sitting as a justice on the United Nations World Court at any one time - except, that is, the Soviet Union. Until the USSR dissolved, they were allowed to have three citizens sitting on the World Court. Are you getting the picture here?

From its very inception, the United Nations was designed to give the Soviet Union a greater voice in the General Assembly, and stronger representation on the World Court than the United States. In late 1999, Bill Clinton held a little ceremony at the White House. The purpose of this gathering was to honor the greatest document in support of freedom in the history of civilization. So . which document do you think that Clinton chose to honor?

The Declaration of Independence? Nope.

How about the Constitution of the United States? Wrong again.

OK, then, it must have been the Magna Carta. Sorry, you're out of guesses.

Clinton's affections were bestowed upon the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights - a document completely unknown in any detail to all but a handful of Americans.

So, just what do we get from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Well, for starters we get the "right to live, liberty and security of person." So far, so good. We also get the "right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law." We are generously given "the right to own property" and "the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion." There's also the "right to freedom of opinion and expression" and "the right to peaceful assembly and association."

It all sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Pretty good until you reach Article 29 (3), which reads: "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

So, there you have it. Your right to live, your right to liberty, your right to own property and to think as you please, your right to express your opinions and to gather peacefully with others are all gone – eliminated if your exercise of those rights places you at odds with the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

We can rewrite the entire human-rights declaration in one sentence. "You folks are pretty much free to do what you want to do unless it interferes with what the government is trying to do." And this is the document that Bill Clinton hailed as the greatest document in the history of free men.

If you're still enamored of the United Nations – if you still think that our president simply must get the stamp of approval from the U.N. before he can act in what he believes to be the best interests of the United States - then consider this: Several years ago, the United Nations removed the United States from the Human Rights
Commission and replaced us with Syria.

In a few months, the United Nations is going to crank up a conference on disarmament. There will be two countries chairing this conference. One country will be Iran. The other country co-chairing the disarmament conference? Iraq.

So, tell me. Do you still want to submit our national interests to the veto of the United Nations?

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion.  All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage.

Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin

From Alan –

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

a. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

b.. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

c.. Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.

d.. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

e.. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

f.. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

g.. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

h.. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.

i.. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

j.. The United States Constitution ? . All Rights Reserved.

k.. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand ?

l.. The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.

m.  64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

n.. Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Politicians.

o.. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.

p.. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

q.  911 - government sponsored Dial a Prayer.

r.. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

s.. Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer.

t.. If Guns cause Crime, then Matches cause Arson.

u.. Only a government that is afraid of it's citizens try to control them.

v.. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

w.. Enforce the "gun control laws" we have, don't make more.

x.. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

y.. The American Revolution would never have happened with Gun Control.

z. "...a government by the people, for the people..."

From Helen –

Please review the article on the URL below.

As a gun toting feminist, N.O.W. member, who has been a member of Larry Pratt's GOA, I think that this should be used as a reason to take out the terrorists.  Why isn't the Republican Public Relations firms using this?  I have read about the sale of young girls for marriage in communities of the immigrants from these raghat nations right here in the USA.  The girls go to the Children and Youth agencies and school nurses for help.  These facts are documented by both the feminists and the Christian organizations like Pat Robertson.  How many missing young girls have been kidnapped by these sex crazed Arabs?  White slavery is rampant in Saudi Arabia and should be used to rouse the women of this nation so as to fight the basic tenants of the Mullahs in Medina.

http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7519

From Papa Bear – Sorry I didn’t get this posted sooner! Deb V

Thought you and your readers would like to know about American Border Patrol's upcoming event.

BIG MISSION PLANNED CORRECTED DATES SAT 21/SUN 22
American Border Patrol (ABP) is launching an all-out effort on the U.S./Mexico Border during the weekend of February 22/23.  This mission is being executed with the full cooperation of local ranchers and will involve an area covering more than 75,000 acres of private property along and near the border.  This will be a 48-hr. mission and will include night operations.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
All American Border Patrol Hawkeyes are urged to check in for this mission.  Please call Billie at 520-803- 7703, or send an email to:

mailto:billie@americanborderpatrol.com

If you are not a Hawkeye, please sign up now and plan to be on this important mission:

Go to
http://www.americanborderpatrol.com/application.asp

Print the application and send it in.
FAX: 520-803-7730
Email mailto:info@americanborderpatrol.com
Address
ABP
2160 E Fry Blvd., #426
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

If you want to help with the financial end, go to:
http://www.americanborderpatrol.com/Donate.asp

American Border Patrol

From Helen –

How Great Thou Art
http://home.hiwaay.net/~singer/HowGreatThouArt.htm

Previously -

From Connie –

Habersham County Eliminates All Land Use Regulations
Author: Greg Lackner
Published: The Heartland Institute 12/23/2002

Chicago, Illinois: Fed up with the complexity of zoning ordinances and various other land use restrictions already in existence, and a new raft of rules handed down by the state government, elected officials in Habersham County, Georgia, took a radical and unprecedented step. They voted to eliminate all land use regulations for the county, as well as the planning commission and building inspectors. The County Commission took action at a December 16, 2002, meeting.

Habersham County is a mostly rural county in central Georgia, whose county seat is Clarkesville. The action was initiated by outgoing Commissioner Jerry Tanksley, who proposed doing away with the land use regulations, planning commission, and inspectors. Challenged to do more than just complain about the situation, he said he would make a motion to abolish all land use regulations if someone would second it. To his surprise, fellow commissioner Dennis Fish seconded the motion. After some heated debate, the motion passed by a 3-2 vote. The commissioners voting to eliminate the regulations were Mr. Tanksley, Mr. Fish, and Dewey Tench. Commissioners Greg Popham and Douglas Vermilya voted to maintain the regulations.

"What a great way to end the year," said Joseph L. Bast, President of The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank based in Chicago, Illinois, which has long advocated property rights and opposed restrictive land use regulations.

"This was a courageous action by a group of local officials who were obviously fed up with the cost, complexity, and loss of freedom caused by these restrictions on development efforts and private landowners," Mr. Bast stated. "While it's unknown at this point whether this vote will stand or not, we applaud this effort and hope other local officials will take an example from Habersham County."

From Connie -

It creeps me out, just thinking that this sort of information is out there. It's a comprehensive listing of the largest chemical storage facilities, their locations, nastry-chemical constituent and the maximum single-stage storage capacity. It's presented in the context of:

On this fifteenth anniversary of the Bhopal catastrophe, this report asks:
where do such chemical hazards exist in the United States and what safeguards ensure that we will not suffer our own American Bhopal?

Getting 1/2 way into the PDF will give you state-by-state listings.


http://www.pirg.org/chemical/accidentswaitingtohappen.PDF

From Helen –

This was sent to the feedback page of the following airline via their feedback page, because a pilot with 16 years experience who works for Comair a subsidiary of Delta was arrested because he had a 3 inch pocket type knife in his carry on luggage. :

Comair, Inc.
Customer Relations
Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport
P.O. Box 75337
Cincinnati, OH 45275


Upon opening my morning paper, The Patriot-News, I was very angry.  I used
to work for HIA as a screener for seven weeks on the weekends when our
illustrious former governor who is now head of the facist "Homeland
Security"  had just started flying in regularly with his family.  Testa did
not care, nor did the Huntleigh bunch of idiots who are in charge of
security if guns, machetes, and anything that was larger than a silver
dollar couldn't be passed through the X-ray machines.  I suspect that what
happened to Mayle of Comair was payback...

The only thing that upset the people in charge was the fact that the
airlines regularly could sneak all sorts of contraband through and cost the
airport huge fines.  The airlines knew that the private companies were
hiring people for next to nothing and the turn over was hideous.  What they
did not know was that no one in the management allowed the screeners to do
the job the screeners were supposed to do.

Only pilots and stewardesses were particular targets of security and we were
told to make sure that all of their bags and clothes were checked.  Other
baggage was not checked as thoroughly at that time and I suspect the same
sort of thing is going on at this time.  Huntleigh was mentioned as the
private company that runs the baggage screening a few weeks ago in the
newspaper, which I read every morning.  Huntleigh was located in St. Louis,
Mo.  Huntleigh always took extra money out of the minimum wages of the
employees.  I got nowhere with that complaint either.  Maybe it was used to
contribute to a certain politician from Mo.

When I complained to the FAA in the early part of 1995, I was told that the
company did not have enough hours for me to continue working.  I only worked
on weekends as I had a job that paid 3 times the pay from Huntleigh as a
full time position.  I also was told by a cleaning crew person how the drugs
were moved in and out of Harrisburg back in 1995.  The cleaning crews never
had to have the trash containers checked when they went into the flight area
and certain people involved in the drug trade left the trash containers in
the locked closet which was accessible to anyone with a key.  There were
certain rows of lockers that were not viewable from the rotating cameras in
the ceiling.  Whomever was supposed to get the stashed stuff had a key to
the door.

I noted that the cameras were still blocked from the same row of lockers
when I flew out of HIA on the 25th of Sept. 2002.  I did not observe any
cleaning crews entering the departure area at that time so I do not know if
the same lack of security exists concerning the trash containers which could
be used to transport anything into the allegedly secure area.

Also, at the time I worked for HIA the baggage handlers and everyone else
could approach the planes from a non secure entry in the lower part of the
facility.  Lots of undocumented persons worked at HIA 7 years ago and none
of my Republican representatives, or senators gave a damn.

My credentials include a Shippensburg University degree in Criminal Justice
so I was planning on using the experience to go on into management in a
security operation but it was the same old bullshit of lazy idiots running
the show.  I personally spoke with Testa at the time and still have the fax
I sent to the FAA.

I also tried to find out why the article was not on the net page of the
pennlive.com section where The Patriot-News has daily stories.
The submission said that I did not fill out all of the sections required...
but I did.  Do you think it is carnivore's successor? :

"I tried to find the article on this morning's front page titled "Cops say pilot bag at HIA had knife". I suspect that the heavy handed arrest of a pilot who is not a terrorist is just paybacks by HIA and Huntleigh for all the years that the airlines used pilots and stewardesses to show that the security was weak. I worked there seven years ago and just flew out from there the last week of Sept. this year so I suspect that security is not all it is cracked up to be and if you contact me I will share my reasons. I wanted to send it to my friends who fly so that they would know that HIA is more interested in the continuation of a tit for tat war with the airlines than with real safety. I would rather fly with a pilot with 16 years experience who has a 3 inch knife than Mr. Testa."

From Connie –

Good article! http://mercola.com/2002/dec/30/smallpox.htm

From Bobby –

Hanoi Jane Fonda in Jerusalem by Nadia Matar

This should happen everywhere.  Once a Lefty always a Lefty.

Jewish World Review Dec. 23, 2002 / 18 Teves, 5763

JERUSALEM DIARIST

http://www.jewishworldreview.com

On Monday, CNN called me and asked if Women in Green, of which I am a head, was planning to demonstrate against Jane Fonda once she arrived in Jerusalem. I answered we would not give that American traitor the time of day.

Later, on my English and Hebrew radio show on the Artuz 7 network, I discussed the CNN call and our position and gave my listeners some background on Fonda --- how the nickname "Hanoi Jane" came about; the story of her betraying the POWs, etc.

On Thursday, my mother-in-law, Ruth Matar, and Ruthie Shwartz (of Efrat) and myself decided to go to the Anna Ticho House restaurant in Jerusalem. We frequent the spot regularly, and often discuss Women in Green matters there.

As it happens, I arrived early to find our normally peaceful haunt swarming with media --- both print and broadcast. I asked one scribe what was amiss. He tells me that in five minutes Jane Fonda will be arriving to have lunch with her Israeli hosts, Bat Shalom.("Women in Black," leftist Jews.)

I couldn't believe it! After telling CNN we weren't demonstrating, we were now about to come face to face with Jane Fonda. It was simply too much. It was almost unbelievable.

The Israeli media gathered in front of the restaurant, I soon learn, know nothing of Jane Fonda's 1960s activities. They simply view her as a visiting American celeb.

Our first instinct was to find a different restaurant and ignore Fonda. But here she falls right into our lap!

The three of us decide we just have to heckle this "humanitarian." The world needs to know what many here think of Fonda and her global "visits." Particularly this one, where she yet once again is bonding with an enemy; this time, Arabs who butcher Jews daily.

A few moments later, Fonda's fancy minibus arrives and out jumps her PR flack. She proceeds to rudely bark instructions at the journalists.

"Listen fellows, Jane Fonda is just arriving from Jordan where she got a royal treatment. You are allowed to film her but don't you dare ask her any questions. She should not feel your presence. Everybody should stay quiet and distanced and respect her privacy. And I repeat --- don't talk to her, don't ask her any questions!"

Though we're inconspicuous, this woman manages to spot the three of us. We purposely are not wearing our signature Women in Green hats, lest we be discovered. I quickly cover my face with my scarf. As an activist, people will recognize me even without my green hat. Luckily, I'm overlooked by the PR flack, but my mother-in-law is not.

"Who are you and what are you doing here!?" the PR flack demands. Ruth Matar, a grandmother several times over, answers innocently and in English: "Oh, we are waiting for some friends to have lunch --- why? Is there a problem?"

The woman leaves, heading to the minibus, all the while thinking the coast is clear.

The air is tense and the media are ready --- and so are we.

The bus' door opens, and out emerges Jane Fonda. A dozen Jewish women -- local leftist sheep – follow her.

The cameramen click away and roll film, according to the strict instructions. The journalists are practically silent. They are all "very quietly respecting her privacy."

Then Fonda and her entourage reach us --- and we turn around and begin our heckling:

"Hanoi Jane! Hanoi Jane! You are an American traitor! How many Americans were killed because of you? You are an American traitor and you came to Israel as a guest of Peace Now, Israeli traitors-

You constantly identify with the enemies of the Western world. Once it was in Vietnam where you identified with those who murder Americans and now you came to identify with those Arabs who murder Jews. GO HOME! Shame on you! Shame!"

The PR princess is now livid! She goes to the trouble of browbeating the ordinarily rambunctious Jerusalem press corps into not bothering poor little Jane and three ladies wind up shouting at her.

Ever the actress, Jane Fonda manages to freeze a smile on her shocked and angry face as the cameras continue to roll and click. The Peace Now women are too shocked to utter a word. They surround Fonda in order to "protect" her.

She is quickly whisked away inside the restaurant. Once inside, the media begin interviewing us at length about what we have against Jane Fonda. Part of the interview is eventually broadcast worldwide.

After its airing, our group was bombarded with hundreds of e-mails from people thanking us for what we did. Among them, are folks who had loved ones killed in Vietnam and who still do not forgive Fonda.

Nadia Matar

From Helen –

Wow! In the mainstream news!!!!

Amen, Helen! This from the New York Times – copyrighted, of course – but well worth reading.

December 30, 2002

A Campaign Law That Curbs More Than Contributions

By Charles Fried

Imagine a law that made it a crime for a newspaper to publish any article or editorial that "refers to a clearly identified federal candidate" or "supports" or "attacks" a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. Few doubt that this would be a flagrant violation of the First Amendment. But Section 204 of the new Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, known as the McCain-Feingold law, makes it a crime for the Sierra Club or the National Rifle Association to buy airtime to support or attack a candidate.

These nonprofit groups are not like corporations or unions, which exist to serve their stockholders' and members' economic interests and have for that reason been banned from electioneering for nearly a century. These groups exist to further their members' political goals — just as The New York Times or Fox News exists not only to report the news but also to give their opinions on political matters.

Earlier this month a special appeals court heard arguments over whether McCain-Feingold is constitutional. Most provisions of the law certainly are. But in restricting the free speech of ideological organizations, the law goes too far.

The basic structure of America's campaign finance regime, as set out by the Supreme Court in 1976 in the case of Buckley v. Valeo, makes a rough kind of sense: the government can set limits on political contributions but not on political expenditures. The theory is that money is speech in the sense that every act of speaking entails an expenditure — of breath, of shoe leather, of ink, of airtime. To limit what a person may spend in making himself heard is therefore to limit the amount he may speak. On the other hand, the court also acknowledged that spending money to speak for yourself is not the same as giving someone else money so she can speak.

The untidy but sensible accommodation reached in our constitutional doctrine is that while the government cannot tell you how much you can spend on your own speech, it may set limits on the amount you donate to others. So long as the N.R.A. or the N.A.A.C.P. is speaking for itself, it must be free to tell people to vote for candidates who support its positions.

Federal campaign finance laws establish what those limits are: individuals may give only a few thousand dollars to a candidate in each federal election and now are limited in the total amount they may contribute to all federal candidates. Business corporations and labor unions may not contribute at all. The money candidates collect within these limits is called "hard money," and such money is all candidates may spend in federal elections.

McCain-Feingold is a response to 30 years of accumulated schemes to manipulate campaign finance rules. Wealthy individuals, corporations and unions used tricks to make unlimited contributions to a candidate look like independent expenditures — they might pay for an ad produced by their favorite candidate, for example. Sometimes political parties even pretended they were speaking independently of their chosen candidates.

The new law makes it much harder to evade the distinction between independent expenditures, which may not be limited, and expenditures that are in some way coordinated with a candidate's campaign and thus are contributions in disguise. This is the first major loophole McCain-Feingold tries to close. The law also clamps down on the second loophole, which allowed political parties to contribute money to campaigns by saying it was for "party building" or get-out-the-vote drives.

There are two impulses at work in this law, one admirable and one not. The first seeks to respect the bedrock principle that a person must be free to speak his mind and spend his money doing so. The second comes from the belief that government knows best not only who should speak but also how much. With its limits on speech by ideological organizations just before elections, McCain-Feingold unconstitutionally turns this second impulse into law.

Charles Fried, solicitor general from 1985 to 1989, teaches constitutional law at Harvard Law School.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html

From Roland –

A couple of good links and great quotes below. If you go to www.notmilk.com  I hope you have a strong stomach.

Cow's milk constitutes biological warfare.
See www.notmilk.com

Chemical warfare includes: aluminum, alcohol, aspartame, caffeine, canola, carageenan, chlorine, fluoride, MSG, malathion, nitrites, Nutrasweet, sucralose, sugar, tobacco and vaccines.

www.dorway.com www.trufax.org

"The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential...there are of course, many ways to make the death rate increase.---
Former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara in New Solidarity, Mach 30, 1981.

In the Coinage Act of 1792, Congress permanently fixed the dollar as a measure of silver being 371 1/4 grains and they provided a penalty of DEATH for officers of the mint who might participate in debasing our gold and silver coins.

In the Federal Reserve act of 1913, a later, treasonous Congress provided presses, paper, ink and labor for counterfeiters!  Pandora's box with all of its evils was opened in passage of this act.

Nobel Laureate, Paul Samuelson described the Federal Reserve as an "omnipotent counterfeiter" in his: Economics, Fourth Edition and the Federal Reserve wrote that their unlimited counterfeit would "keep its value if there were fewer people bidding against each other," --booklet, Keeping Our Money Healthy.  The
poisons listed above, along with abortion and phony wars, help reduce the number of people who are bidding against each other.

For five years, the professionals at the EPA have been telling the world that fluoride is killing people.  Some say that water is fluoridated to make us docile and to inhibit thinking.  There are sure plenty of docile dolts who won't be caught dead thinking about extermination by fluoridation!

"If governments should refrain from regulation (of our longevity) the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer."--Economic Consequences of The Peace by John Maynard Keynes.
   "We are all Keynesians!"  Richard M. Nixon

"One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death."
-Psychologist Barbara Marx Hubbard, - member and futurist/strategist of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank, Traitor, mass-murderer, demented nutcase.

"We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
-Jacques Cousteau, globalist, mass-murderer, nutcase, control freak, in the UNESCO Courier, Nov. 1991

"By the time of his death in 1924, Lenin had willfully and remorselessly created an unparalleled system of warfare against his own people. And thus, out of the maw of the "War to end all wars" there arose a hideous new form of warfare: "perpetual institutionalized terror against ones own citizens, even to the point of exterminating them" --George H. Nash, Presidential Biographer, IMPRIMIS, 4/92

The Federal Reserve act filled the 5th plank of Marx's Communist Manifesto and all 10 planks were implented to a degree, before we slaughtered 5 million Asians under the pretext of "halting communist expansion" and losing 110,000 young Americans there.
"My people perish for lack of knowlege" Hosea 4:6

From Roland –

More conditioning with more technology as we head into more police state.

You OIregan slaves under the Corporation and not God will really appreciate this. Another bow down and kiss the boots that feed you.

http://www.rense.com/general33/mile.htm

From Roland –

FEMA Region Camp Preparation Committee - Camp Locations 

ALABAMA Opelika - WWII German/Italian camp - may be renovated.
Aliceville - WWII German POW camp - capacity 15,000 Ft. McClellan (Anniston) - Opposite side of town from Army Depot; Maxwell AFB (Montgomery) - Civilian prison camp established under Operation Garden Plot, currently operating with support staff and small inmate population. Talladega - Federal prison "satellite" camp.

ALASKA Wilderness - East of Anchorage. No roads, Air & Railroad access only. Estimated capacity of 500,000 Elmendorf AFB – Northeast area of Anchorage - far end of base. Garden Plot facility. Eielson AFB - Southeast of Fairbanks. Operation Garden Plot facility. Ft. Wainwright - East of Fairbanks

ARIZONA Ft. Huachuca - 20 miles from Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales. Rex '84 facility. Pinal County - on the Gila River – WWII Japanese detention camp. May be renovated. Yuma County – Colorado River - Site of former Japanese detention camp (near proving grounds). This site was completely removed in 1990 according to some reports. Phoenix - Federal Prison Satellite Camp. Main federal facility expanded. Florence - WWII prison camp NOW RENOVATED, OPERATIONAL with staff & 400 prisoners, operational capacity of 3,500. Wickenburg - Airport is ready for conversion; total capacity unknown. Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) - Fully staffed and presently holding prisoners!! Sedona - site of possible UN base.

ARKANSAS Ft. Chaffee (near Fort Smith, Arkansas) - Has new runway for aircraft, new camp facility with cap of 40,000 prisoners Pine Bluff Arsenal - This location also is the repository for B-Z nerve agent, which causes sleepiness, dizziness, stupor; admitted use is for civilian control. Jerome - Chicot/Drew Counties - WWII Japanese camps Rohwer - Descha County - WWII Japanese camps Blythville AFB – Closed airbase now being used as camp. New wooden barracks have been constructed at this location. Classic decorations - guard towers, barbed wire, high fences. Berryville - FEMA facility located east of Eureka Springs off Hwy. 62. Omaha - Northeast of Berryville near Missouri state line, on Hwy 65 south of old wood processing plant. Located on or near toxic waste dump. FEMA facility.

CALIFORNIA Vandenburg AFB - Rex 84 facility, located near Lompoc & Santa Maria. Internment facility is located near the oceanside, close to Space Launch Complex #6, also called "Slick Six". The launch site has a flawless failure record and is rarely used. Norton AFB - (closed base) now staffed with UN according to some sources. Tule Lake - area of "wildlife refuge", accessible by unpaved road, just inside Modoc County. Fort Ord - Closed in 1994, this facility is now an urban warfare training center for US and foreign troops, and may have some "P.O.W. - C.I." enclosures. Twentynine Palms Marine Base -
Birthplace of the infamous "Would you shoot American citizens?" Quiz. New camps being built on "back 40". Oakdale - Rex 84 camp capable of holding at least 20,000 people. 90 mi. East of San Francisco. Terminal Island - (Long Beach) located next to naval shipyards operated by ChiCom shipping interests. Federal prison facility located here. Possible deportation point. Ft. Irwin - FEMA facility near Barstow. Base is designated inactive but has staffed camp. Manzanar - Inyo County WWII Japanese detention camp. Ready for possible renovation. McClellan AFB - facility equipped for 30,000 - 35,000 Sacramento - Army Depot - No specific information at this time. Mather AFB - Road to facility is blocked off by cement barriers and a stop sign. Sign states area is restricted; as of 1997 there were barbed wire fences pointing inward, a row of stadium lights pointed toward an empty field, etc. Black boxes on poles may have been cameras.

COLORADO Trinidad - WWII German/Italian camp being renovated. Granada - Prowers County - WWII Japanese internment camp Ft. Carson - Along route 115 near Canon City

CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE No data available.

FLORIDA Avon Park - Air Force gunnery range, Avon Park has an on-base "correctional facility" which was a former WWII detention camp. Camp Krome - DoJ detention/interrogation center, Rex 84 facility Eglin AFB - This base is over 30 miles long, from Pensacola to Hwy 331 in De Funiak Springs. High capacity facility, presently manned and populated with some prisoners. Pensacola - Federal Prison Camp Everglades - It is believed that a facility may be carved out of the wilds here.

GEORGIA Ft. Benning - Located east of Columbus near Alabama state line. Rex 84 site - Prisoners brought in via Lawson Army airfield. Ft. Mc Pherson - US Force Command - Multiple reports that this will be the national headquarters and coordinating center for foreign/UN troop movement and detainee collection. Ft. Gordon - West of Augusta -
No information at this time. Unadilla - Dooly County - Manned, staffed FEMA prison on route 230, no prisoners. Oglethorpe – Macon County; facility is located five miles from Montezuma, three miles from Oglethorpe. This FEMA prison has no staff and no prisoners. Morgan - Calhoun County, FEMA facility is fully manned & staffed – no prisoners. Camilla - Mitchell County, south of Albany. This FEMA facility is located on Mt. Zion Rd approximately 5.7 miles south of Camilla. Unmanned - no prisoners, no staff. Hawkinsville – Wilcox County; Five miles east of town, fully manned and staffed but no prisoners. Located on fire road 100/Upper River Road Abbeville - South of Hawkinsville on US route 129; south of town off route 280 near Ocmulgee River. FEMA facility is staffed but without prisoners. McRae - Telfair County - 1.5 miles west of McRae on Hwy 134 (8th St). Facility is on Irwinton Avenue off 8th St., manned & staffed – no prisoners. Fort Gillem - South side of Atlanta - FEMA designated detention facility. Fort Stewart - Savannah area - FEMA designated detention facility

HAWAII Unknown - There are several military installations on Honolulu that could be equipped for detention / deportation. More data is needed.

IDAHO Minidoka/Jerome Counties - WWII Japanese-American internment facility possibly under renovation. Clearwater National Forest – Near Lolo Pass - Just miles from the Montana state line near Moose Creek, this unmanned facility is reported to have a nearby airfield. Wilderness areas - Possible location. No data.

ILLINOIS Marseilles - Located on the Illinois River off Interstate 80 on Hwy 6. It is a relatively small facility with a cap of 1400 prisoners. Though it is small it is designed like other concentration camp facilities high fences topped with barbed wire and guard towers. Being located on the Illinois River it is possible that prisoners will be brought in by water as well as by road and air. This facility is approximately 75 miles west of Chicago. National Guard training area nearby. Pekin - This Federal satellite prison camp is also on the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. It supplements the federal penitentiary in Marion, which is equipped to handle additional population outside on the grounds. Chanute AFB - Rantoul, near Champaign/Urbana - This closed base had WWII - era barracks that were condemned and torn down, but the medical facility was upgraded and
additional fencing put up in the area. This base was closed on the recommendation of former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, but not sold, which makes this location a likely camp. Air Force personnel still maintain and occasionally use the airstrip, which is capable of handling large cargo planes like C-130's. Marion – Federal Penitentiary and satellite prison camp inside Crab Orchard Nat'l Wildlife Refuge. Manned, staffed, populated fully. Greenfield – Two federal correctional "satellite prison camps" serving Marion - populated as above. Shawnee National Forest - Pope County - This area has seen heavy traffic of foreign military equipment and troops via Illinois Central Railroad, which runs through the area. Suspected location is unknown, but may be close to Vienna and Shawnee correctional centers, located 6 mi. west of Dixon Springs. Savanna Army Depot - NW area of state on Mississippi River. Lincoln, Sheridan, Menard, Pontiac, Galesburg - State prison facilities equipped for major expansion and close or adjacent to highways & railroad tracks. Kankakee - west side of town - abandoned industrial area designated as FEMA detention facility.

INDIANA Indianapolis / Marion County - Amtrak railcar repair facility (closed); controversial site of a major alleged detention / processing center. Although some sources state that this site is a "red herring", photographic and video evidence suggests otherwise.
This large facility contains large 3-4 inch gas mains to large furnaces (crematoria??), helicopter landing pads, railheads for prisoners, Red/Blue/Green zones for classifying/processing incoming personnel, one-way turnstiles, barracks, towers, high fences with razor wire, etc. Personnel with government clearance who are friendly to the patriot movement took a guided tour of the facility to confirm this site. This site is located next to a closed refrigeration plant facility. Ft. Benjamin Harrison - Located in the northeast part of Indianapolis, this facility has had numerous personnel reductions. Portions of the facility are ideally converted to hold detainees. Helicopter facilities exist on-base for prisoners to be brought in by air, land & rail. Crown Point - Across street from county jail, former hospital. One wing presently being used for county work-release program, 80% of facility still unused. Possible FEMA detention center or holding facility. Camp Atterbury – Closed facility is being converted to hold prisoners of the New World Order. Located just west of Interstate 65 near Edinburg, south of Indianapolis. Terre Haute - Federal Correctional Institution, Satellite prison camp and death facility. Equipped with crematoria reported to have a capacity of 3,000 people a day. FEMA detention facility located here. Fort Wayne - This city located in Northeast Indiana has a FEMA detention facility, accessible by air, road and earby rail. Kingsbury - This "closed" military base is adjacent to a state fish & wildlife preserve. Part of the base is converted to an industrial park, but the southern portion of this property is still used by the military. It is bordered on the south by railroad, and is staffed with some foreign-speaking UN troops. A local police officer who was hunting and camping close to the base in the game preserve was accosted, roughed up, and warned by the English-speaking unit commander to stay away from the area. It was suggested to the officer that the welfare of his family would depend on his "silence". Located just southeast of LaPorte. Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area – Youth Corrections farm located here. Facility is "closed", but is still staffed and being "renovated". Total capacity unknown. Grissom AFB - This closed airbase still handles a lot of traffic, and has a "state- owned" prison compound on the southern part of the facility. UNICOR. Jefferson Proving Grounds - Southern Indiana - This facility is an
active base with test firing occurring daily. Portions of the base have been opened to create an industrial park, but other areas are still highly restricted. A camp is believed to be located "downrange". Facility is equipped with an airfield and has a nearby rail line. Newport - Army Depot - VX nerve gas storage facility. Secret meetings were held here in 1998 regarding the addition of the Kankakee River watershed to the Heritage Rivers Initiative.

IOWA No data available.

KANSAS Leavenworth - US Marshal's Fed Holding Facility, US Penitentiary, Federal Prison Camp, McConnell Air Force Base. Federal death penalty facility. Concordia - WWII German POW camp used to exist at this location but there is no facility there at this time. Ft. Riley - Just north of Interstate 70, airport, near city of Manhattan. El Dorado - Federal prison converted into forced-labor camp, UNICOR industries. Topeka - 80 acres has been converted into a temporary holding camp.

KENTUCKY Ashland - Federal prison camp in Eastern Kentucky near the Ohio River. Louisville - FEMA detention facility, located near restricted area US naval ordnance plant. Military airfield located at facility, which is on south side of city. Lexington - FEMA detention facility, National Guard base with adjacent airport facility. Manchester - Federal prison camp located inside Dan Boone National Forest. Ft. Knox - Detention center, possibly located near Salt River, in restricted area of base. Local patriots advise that black Special Forces & UN gray helicopters are occasionally seen in area. Land Between the Lakes - This area was declared a UN biosphere and is an ideal geographic location for detention facilities. Area is an isthmus extending out from Tennessee, between Lake Barkley on the east and Kentucky Lake on the west. Just scant miles from Fort Campbell in Tennessee.

LOUISIANA Ft. Polk - This is a main base for UN troops & personnel, and a training center for the disarmament of America. Livingston - WWII German/Italian internment camp being renovated?; halfway between Baton Rouge and Hammond, several miles north of Interstate 12. Oakdale - Located on US route 165 about 50 miles south of Alexandria; two federal detention centers just southeast of Fort Polk.

MAINE Houlton - WWII German internment camp in Northern Maine, off US Route 1.

MARYLAND, and DC Ft. Meade - Halfway between the District of Criminals and Baltimore. Data needed. Ft. Detrick – Biological warfare center for the NWO, located in Frederick.

MASSACHUSETTS Camp Edwards / Otis AFB - Cape Cod - This "inactive" base is being converted to hold many New Englander patriots. Capacity unknown.

MICHIGAN Camp Grayling - Michigan Nat'l Guard base has several confirmed detention camps, classic setup with high fences, razor wire, etc. Guard towers are very well-built, sturdy. Multiple compounds within larger enclosures. Facility deep within forest area. Sawyer AFB - Upper Peninsula - south of Marquette - No data available. Bay City - Classic enclosure with guard towers, high fence, and close to shipping port on Saginaw Bay, which connects to Lake Huron. Could be a deportation point to overseas via St. Lawrence Seaway. Southwest - possibly Berrien County - FEMA detention center.
Lansing - FEMA detention facility.

MINNESOTA Duluth - Federal prison camp facility.

MISSISSIPPI These sites are confirmed hoaxes. Hancock County – NASA test site De Soto National Forest. "These two supposed camps in Mississippi do not exist. Members of the Mississippi Militia have checked these out on more than one occasion beginning back when they first appeared on the Internet and throughout the Patriot Movement." -
Commander D. Rayner, Mississippi Militia

MISSOURI Richards-Gebaur AFB - located in Grandview, near K.C.MO. A very large internment facility has been built on this base, and all base personnel are restricted from coming near it. Ft. Leonard Wood - Situated in the middle of Mark Twain National Forest in Pulaski County. This site has been known for some UN training, also home to
the US Army Urban Warfare Training school "Stem Village". Warsaw - Unconfirmed report of a large concentration camp facility.

MONTANA Malmstrom AFB - UN combat groups stationed here, and possibly a detention facility.

NEBRASKA Scottsbluff - WWII German POW camp (renovated?). Northwest, Northeast corners of state - FEMA detention facilities - more data needed. South Central part of state - Many old WWII sites - some may be renovated.

NEVADA Elko - Ten miles south of town. Wells - Camp is located in the O'Niel basin area, 40 miles north of Wells, past Thousand Springs, west off Hwy 93 for 25 miles. Pershing County - Camp is located at I- 80 mile marker 112, south side of the highway, about a mile back on the county road and then just off the road about 3/4mi. Winnemucca Battle Mountain area - at the base of the mountains. Nellis Air Force Range - Northwest from Las Vegas on Route 95. Nellis AFB is just north of Las Vegas on Hwy 604. Stillwater Naval Air Station - east of Reno . No additional data.

NEW HAMPSHIRE / VERMONT Northern Vermont - near Lake Francis - (Renovated?) WWII detention camp.

NEW JERSEY Ft. Dix / McGuire AFB - Possible deportation point for detainees. Lots of pictures taken of detention compounds and posted on Internet, this camp is well-known. Facility is now complete and ready for occupancy.

NEW MEXICO Ft. Bliss - This base actually straddles Texas state line. Just south of Alomogordo, Ft. Bliss has thousands of acres for people who refuse to go with the "New Order". Holloman AFB (Alomogordo)- Home of the German Luftwaffe in Amerika; major UN base. New facility being built on this base, according to recent visitors. Many former USAF buildings have been torn down by the busy and rapidly growing German military force located here. Fort Stanton - currently being used as a youth detention facility approximately 35 miles north of Ruidoso, New Mexico. Not a great deal of information concerning the Lordsburg location. White Sands Missile Range - Currently being used as a storage facility for United Nations vehicles and equipment. Observers have seen this material brought in on the White Sands rail spur in Oro Grande New Mexico about thirty miles from the Texas, New Mexico Border.

NEW YORK Ft. Drum - two compounds: Rex 84 detention camp and FEMA detention facility. Albany - FEMA detention facility. Otisville - Federal correctional facility, near Middletown. Buffalo – FEMA detention facility.

NORTH CAROLINA Camp Lejeune / New River Marine Airfield – facility has renovated, occupied WWII detention compounds and "mock city" that closely resembles Anytown, USA. Fort Bragg - Special Warfare Training Center. Renovated WWII detention facility. Andrews – Federal experiment in putting a small town under siege. Began with the search/ hunt for survivalist Eric Rudolph. No persons are allowed in or out of town without federal permission. Travel through town is highly restricted. Most residents are compelled to stay in their homes. Unregistered Baptist pastor from Indiana visiting Andrews affirmed these facts.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot AFB - Home of UN air group. More data needed on facility.

OHIO Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus - FEMA detention facilities. Additional data needed. Lima - FEMA detention facility. Another facility located in/near old stone quarry near Interstate 75. Railroad access to property, fences etc.

OKLAHOMA Tinker AFB (OKC) - All base personnel are prohibited from going near civilian detention area, which is under constant guard. Will Rogers World Airport - FEMA's main processing center for west of the Mississippi. All personnel are kept out of the security zone. Federal prisoner transfer center located here (A pentagon-shaped
building where airplanes can taxi up to). Photos have been taken and this site will try to post soon! El Reno - Renovated federal internment facility with CURRENT population of 12,000 on Route 66. McAlester - near Army Munitions Plant property - former WWII German /Italian POW camp designated for future use. Ft. Sill (Lawton) - Former WWII detention camps. More data still needed.

OREGON Sheridan - Federal prison satellite camp northwest of Salem. Josephine County - WWII Japanese internment camp ready for renovation. Sheridan - FEMA detention center. Umatilla - New prison spotted.

PENNSYLVANIA Allenwood - Federal prison camp located south of Williamsport on the Susquehanna River. It has a current inmate population of 300, and is identified by William Pabst as having a capacity in excess of 15,000 on 400 acres. Indiantown Gap Military Reservation - located north of Harrisburg. Used for WWII POW camp and
renovated by Jimmy Carter. Was used to hold Cubans during Mariel boat lift. Camp Hill - State prison close to Army depot. Lots of room, located in Camp Hill, Pa. New Cumberland Army Depot - on the Susquehanna River, located off Interstate 83 and Interstate 76. Schuylkill Haven - Federal prison camp, north of Reading.

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville - Unoccupied youth prison camp; total capacity unknown. Charleston - Naval Reserve & Air Force base, restricted area on naval base.

SOUTH DAKOTA Yankton - Federal prison camp Black Hills Nat'l Forest - north of Edgemont, southwest part of state. WWII internment camp being renovated.

TENNESSEE Ft. Campbell - Next to Land Between the Lakes; adjacent to airfield and US Alt. 41. Millington - Federal prison camp next door to Memphis Naval Air Station. Crossville - WWII German / Italian prison camp may be renovated. Nashville - There are two buildings built on State property that are definitely built to hold prisoners. They are identical buildings - side by side. High barbed wire fence that curves inward.

TEXAS Austin - Municipal airport has a restricted-access area off limits to everyone. Ft. Hood (Killeen) - Newly built concentration camp, with towers, barbed wire etc., just like the one featured in the movie Amerika. Mock city for NWO shock- force training. Some
footage of this area was used in "Waco: A New Revelation" Reese AFB (Lubbock) - FEMA designated detention facility. Sheppard AFB – in Wichita Falls just south of Ft. Sill, OK. FEMA designated detention facility. North Dallas - near Carrolton - water treatment plant, close to interstate and railroad. Mexia - East of Waco 33mi.; WWII
German facility may be renovated. Amarillo - FEMA designated detention facility Ft. Bliss (El Paso) - Extensive renovation of buildings and from what patriots have been able to see, many of these buildings that are being renovated are being surrounded by razor
wire. Beaumont / Port Arthur area - hundreds of acres of federal camps already built on large-scale detention camp design, complete with the double rows of chain link fencing with razor type concertina wire on top of each row. Some (but not all) of these facilities are currently being used for low-risk state prisoners who require a minimum of supervision. Ft. Worth - Federal prison under construction on the site of Carswell AFB.

UTAH Millard County - Central Utah - WWII Japanese camp. (Renovated?) Ft. Douglas - This "inactive" military reservation has a renovated WWII concentration camp. Migratory Bird Refuge - West of Brigham City - contains a WWII internment camp that was built before the game preserve was established. Cedar City - east of city - no data
available. Wendover - WWII internment camp may be renovated. Skull Valley - southwestern Camp William property - east of the old bombing range. Camp was accidentally discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting; they were discovered and apprehended. SW of Tooele.

VIRGINIA Ft. A.P. Hill (Fredericksburg) - Rex 84 / FEMA facility. Estimated capacity 45,000. Petersburg - Federal satellite prison camp, south of Richmond.

WEST VIRGINIA Beckley - Alderson - Lewisburg - Former WWII detention camps that are now converted into active federal prison complexes capable of holding several times their current populations. Alderson is presently a women's federal reformatory. Morgantown – Federal prison camp located in northern WV; just north of Kingwood. Mill Creek - FEMA detention facility. Kingwood - Newly built concentration camp just outside Camp Dawson Army Reservation. More data needed on Camp Dawson.

WASHINGTON Seattle/Tacoma - SeaTac Airport: fully operational federal transfer center Okanogan County - Borders Canada and is a site for a massive concentration camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people for slave labor. This is probably one of the locations that will be used to hold hard core patriots who will be held captive for
the rest of their lives. Sand Point Naval Station - Seattle – Federal prison detention camp, used actively during the 1999 WTO protests to classify prisoners. Ft. Lewis / McChord AFB - near Tacoma - This is one of several sites that may be used to ship prisoners overseas for slave labor.

WISCONSIN Ft. McCoy - Rex 84 facility with several complete interment compounds. Oxford - Central part of state - Federal prison & satellite camp and FEMA detention facility.

WYOMING Heart Mountain - Park County N. of Cody - WWII Japanese interment camp ready for renovation. Laramie - FEMA detention facility Southwest - near Lyman - FEMA detention facility East Yellowstone - Manned internment facility - Investigating patriots were apprehended by European soldiers speaking in an unknown language. Federal government assumed custody of the persons and arranged their release.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ~ SUSPECTED SITES

There are many other locations not listed above that are worthy of consideration as a possible detention camp site, but due to space limitations and the time needed to verify, could not be included here. Virtually all military reservations, posts, bases, stations, &
depots can be considered highly suspect (because it is "federal" land). Also fitting this category are "Regional Airports" and "International Airports" which also fall under federal jurisdiction and have limited-access areas. Mental hospitals, closed hospitals & nursing homes, closed military bases, wildlife refuges, state prisons, toxic waste dumps, hotels and other areas all have varying degrees of potential for being a detention camp area. The likelihood of a site being suspect increases with transportation access to the site, including airports/airstrips, railheads, navigable waterways & ports, interstate and US highways. Some facilities are "disguised" as industrial or commercial properties,
camouflaged or even wholly contained inside large buildings (Indianapolis) or factories. Many inner-city buildings left vacant during the de-industrialization of America have been quietly acquired and held, sometimes retrofitted for their new uses.

CANADA

Our Canadian friends tell us that virtually all Canadian military bases, especially those north of the 50th Parallel, are all set up with concentration camps. Not even half of these can be listed, but here are a few sites with the massive land space to handle any
population: Suffield CFB - just north of Medicine Hat, less than 60 miles from the USA. Primrose Lake Air Range - 70 miles northeast of Edmonton. Wainwright CFB - halfway between Medicine Hat and Primrose Lake. Ft. Nelson - Northernmost point on the BC Railway line. Ft. McPherson - Very cold territory ~ NW Territories. Ft. Providence -
Located on Great Slave Lake. Halifax - Nova Scotia. Dept. of National Defense reserve.... And others.

OVERSEA LOCATIONS

Guayanabo, Puerto Rico - Federal prison camp facility. Capacity unknown. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - US Marine Corps Base - Presently home to 30,000 Mariel Cubans and 40,000 Albanians. Total capacity unknown.

WHITE BOXCARS and CAMP CARS
Mojave, Ca.- Chicago Hts., Ill. - Albion, Pa. - Portland, Oregon:
Patriots who watch the railroads for evidence of UN military vehicles and tanks have reported a new development in the concentration camp program for America. In September 1998, spotters noticed boxcars painted white showing up out west. Since all rail cars have to have a special number on the side in order to be routed to their destination, these boxcars stood out like a sore thumb. Typically, a boxcar would have a number like CSXT 119626, for example. CSXT is a "reporting mark" indicating that the railroad that owns the car is CSX Transportation. Burlington Northern - Santa Fe railroad is BNSF, Union Tank Car is UTLX, et cetera.

An employee of a manufacturer of the boxcars spoke on condition of anonymity about the boxcars. This company, Gunderson Rail Car Co., received a contract to build over 400 boxcars for transporting prisoners. They have shackles and racks built inside by another company before they are shipped out. The boxcars were ordered and paid for by the UN, and have been shipped to parts unknown for over a year now. These prisoner boxcars are being manufactured by several companies like Gunderson, including Thrall Railcar, but are not limited to these companies. Although coincidental, the name "Thrall"
means "slave". Or maybe it isn't a coincidence?

Another railcar that seems to be popping up all over the USA is the old fashioned "camp car" which was used for maintenance-of-way crews to live in while out repairing railroad tracks. These resemble mobile homes and are anchored to the frames of flat cars. These camp cars are designed to accommodate six to eight railroad workers but could hold over two dozen persons if it were used to transport passengers. The problem with these is that most railroads today have all but eliminated the use of these expensive-to-maintain railcars in favor of cheap motels. So, all these railcars have to go somewhere, why not
give them to the UN? It seems that they have been going to Pennsylvania, California, and Canada to be "retrofitted" for prisoner transport. Especially revealing is the fact that these "camp cars" are still being made when railroads don't use them much anymore; and there can be only one possible explanation for the new demand for these railcars.

Most recently, the retrofitted auto carriers have been added to the list of "prisoner boxcars". These railcars are actually not boxcars. These are articulated A-B type units with a rubber "accordion" vestibule connecting them and small square ventilation vents
perforated in the smooth sheet metal. Although these railcars are painted white, they do have normal railroad markings on them such as "Kansas City Southern", suggesting that they may be recouping the investment in them by using them for moving livestock such as pigs and cattle. Cattle today, and chattel tomorrow.

Many of the detention facilities and concentration camps have railheads, which allow for massed prisoner transport. The identification of these boxcars closes the loop on this subject, and illustrates just how complete the plans for detention have become.

NATIONAL RESPONSE PLAN - THE WACO CONNECTION

It was learned in the two years following the Waco incident that Jeff Little & Wayne Martin were investigating government activities from Mount Carmel. According to Wally Kennett, cited in the documentary "Day 51: The True Story of Waco", the Branch Davidians had stumbled upon data relating to the US concentration camp program that deals with the disarmament of the American people. They learned that tens of thousands of Russian AK rifles had been smuggled into the US by the government, and was being stored / distributed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. This may have very well been the unspoken reason why the Davidians were targeted for elimination by the government. What the Davidians learned went beyond a knowledge of the plans for the global takeover in America; They became the unwitting target for the "National Response Plan", which is the latest incarnation of the martial law program for the USA. It is unknown if Little & Martin had obtained additional information on the coming martial law program; nearly all of the knowledge they acquired died with the Davidians on April 19, 1993. Whatever was discovered, it so alarmed the government that they felt it necessary to not merely destroy all materials capable of holding copies of that data; but to also destroy all persons (Davidians) who may have been exposed to knowledge of that data, even children.

The National Response Plan is mentioned obliquely in the Treasury Report on David Koresh and its' review of the assault on the Davidians. It is the national police/military take-over plan for the nation; what happened in Waco was a very small-scale implementation of the National Response Plan. A full examination of the National
Response Plan is given at the Waco Museum website, at http://www.Public-Actio n.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum Documentary details are provided.

http://www.rense.com/general17/statebystate.htm

From Roland –

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=221

Gov't Admits Concentration Camp Plan

By David Rydel

From Roland –

BREAKING NEWS!

WHITE HOUSE READIES NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER.

In the boldest move to date, Pres. Bush is readying an executive order which will change the face of American higher education. The order will completely revise the present system tenure for University faculties. Any American College or University receiving federal funds for any purpose whatsoever will be required to demand that its faculty members sign an oath in support of the U.S. Patriot Act. Once that this new program is successfully under way, there are plans to extend the oath demand to graduate students.

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/

From Richard –

School Choice without vouchers!

http://4brevard.com/choice/

From Connie –

Trouble for British survivalists ??

HM Govt is considering creating a 7000 thousand strong force of armed specialists to help enforce a quarantine around any area that may be attacked by terrorists using Chem or Bio warfare agents.They will be NBC specialists, and confinement teams whose sole purpose is to use whatever means available to stop citizens leaving the cities and towns if they are attacked .

So City dwelling brit survivalists are getting yet another problem to worry about, not only will HMG use cops and troops to stop people from bugging out, they will also have a team of 7000 specialists to help prevent them from escaping.

I guess its cheaper than HMG providing its people with decent Civil Defense systems and equipment.

Personally I think this is a final warning for brit survivalists to get moved out of the towns and cities, Urban decay, rising violent crime, racial disharmony, faltering social systems such as police, schools, hospitals, public transport etc, gross overcrowding, the resurgence of chronic diseases like TB, Plague, MRSA, and other reintroduced pestilences, naturally many of em always have many more pressing reasons why they just can not move now, but each to their own.

City dwellers that are also claiming to be survivalists are now walking along the precipice with a blindfold on.

From Helen –

Source:
startribune.com - Minneappolis - St Paul
http://www.startribune.com/

FBI performs a nasty little sequel to whistle-blower saga
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3547688.html

by Doug Grow mailto:dgrow@startribune.com

A nasty political sequel is being played out before our eyes. "The
Bureaucracy Strikes Back" is the story flowing from the courageous saga of
Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who blew the whistle on higher-ups in
the FBI's bureaucracy.

Just seven months ago she was being heralded as a national hero for daring
to testify that top-level FBI officials had stymied efforts by Minneapolis
agents to search records of Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. A go-ahead from Washington for a search in Minneapolis
might have yielded information that might have prevented the horrid
attacks. A search of Moussaoui's belongings after 9/11 found clues to the
plot.

When Rowley appeared before congressional committees in Washington, there
were concerns being expressed that she might pay a price for her courage.

"The real question is not what happens today or tomorrow," the late Sen.
Paul Wellstone said at the time Rowley was testifying. "It's what happens
in the next year or two, or after that. That's always the case with
whistle-blowers. It's going to be important for us to remain vigilant in
her case."

What's happened?

Even in the midst of her testimony in Washington early last June, the FBI
seemed to deliver a pointed message to Rowley that she was on her own.
During a break in her testimony, Rowley had gone to FBI headquarters.
Rather than provide a vehicle or any sort of escort for the agent when she
left the FBI building, Rowley was left to fend for herself. She stepped out
the door and into swarms of TV news crews. The situation was so chaotic
that Rowley was concerned that some of the TV people might be injured by
passing traffic.

Now come reports of what appears to be another message being delivered to
Rowley and her ilk.

The Star Tribune's Greg Gordon reported last week that at a quiet little
ceremony earlier this month, Marion (Spike) Bowman was one of nine people
in the bureau to receive an award for "exceptional performance." The award
carries with it a cash bonus of 20 to 35 percent of the recipient's salary
and a framed certificate signed by the president.

What does this have to do with Rowley?

Bowman heads the FBI's National Security Law Unit. That's the unit that
blocked Minneapolis agents from pursuing their suspicions about Moussaoui.

Bowman received the big pats on the back (and cash) a few days before the
House and Senate Intelligence committees turned in their reports of
pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures. The committees said that Minneapolis
agents deserved honors for their work and that those who performed poorly
should be disciplined. The National Security Law Unit was singled out by
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., for inept performance.

There were no FBI honors for the Minneapolis office. There was a big honor
for the lead antagonist of the Minneapolis office.

But the beauty of a truly slick bureaucracy is that you can never really
know the motive for an action.

Obviously, no FBI official ever said that Rowley was shoved out of the
bureau's headquarters and into the thundering media herd last June as a
little payback for her integrity. And FBI director Bob Mueller isn't about
to say that Bowman is getting heralded for "exceptional performance" as a
way of showing whistle-blowers who's got the biggest whistle.

In fact, there are Mueller-defenders who gasp in horror at the suggestion
that the FBI would ever be so crass as to play Machiavellian games with its
prestigious awards. We're supposed to believe that despite that
disappointing little experience with the Minneapolis agents before Sept.
11, Bowman's office had done just a great job.

Brian Atwood, dean of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of
Public Affairs since Oct. 1, is an expert on the subject of bureaucracies.
Until global realities changed, Atwood was being credited with streamlining
the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He said it's very possible that top officials in the FBI feel that Bowman
deserves being defended from what they see as unfair "political" attacks.

"He would be seen as one of the best [in the FBI hierarchy], otherwise he
would not be in a position to make [such] a mistake," Atwood said.

So when Bowman was criticized by Rowley and politicians, it's very likely
that top FBI officials would ask, "What can we do to spit in their eye?"

The FBI's Minneapolis office has not commented on Bowman's award for
"exceptional performance." Presumably, agents in Minneapolis are so busy
bracing for the next message from Washington they don't have time to talk.

-- Doug Grow is at dgrow@startribune.com.

From Roland –

TELEVISION AND THE HIVE MIND
by Mack White

http://www.ar.utexas.edu/Staff/White/tv.html

Sixty-four years ago this month, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare.

It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape the alien invaders.

Later, psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done groundbreaking research on, among other things, mass brainwashing.

Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril÷and Rockefeller money÷assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study Nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying Nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council.

Thus, by the end of the 1940s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up--just in time for the Dawn of Television ...


Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.

This numbing of the brain's cognitive function is compounded by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not--the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised--and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers.

It is not just commercials that manipulate us. On television news as well, image and sound are as carefully selected and edited to influence human thought and behavior as in any commercial. The news anchors and reporters themselves are chosen for their physical attractiveness--a factor which, as numerous psychological studies have shown, contributes to our perception of a person's trustworthiness. Under these conditions, then, the viewer easily forgets--if, indeed, the viewer ever knew in the first place--that the worldview presented on the evening news is a contrivance of the network owners--owners such as General Electric (NBC) and Westinghouse (CBS), both major defense contractors. By molding our perception of the world, they mold our opinions. This distortion of reality is determined as much by what is left out of the evening news as what is included--as a glance at Project Censored's yearly list of top 25 censored news stories will reveal. If it's not on television, it never happened. Out of sight, out of mind.

Under the guise of journalistic objectivity, news programs subtly play on our emotions--chiefly fear. Network news divisions, for instance, frequently congratulate themselves on the great service they provide humanity by bringing such spectacles as the September 11 terror attacks into our living rooms. We have heard this falsehood so often, we have come to accept it as self-evident truth. However, the motivation for live coverage of traumatic news events is not altruistic, but rather to be found in the central focus of Cantril's War of the Worlds research--the manipulation of the public through fear.

There is another way in which we are manipulated by television news. Human beings are prone to model the behaviors they see around them, and avoid those which might invite ridicule or censure, and in the hypnotic state induced by television, this effect is particularly pronounced. For instance, a lift of the eyebrow from Peter Jennings tells us precisely what he is thinking--and by extension what we should think. In this way, opinions not sanctioned by the corporate media can be made to seem disreputable, while sanctioned opinions are made to seem the very essence of civilized thought. And should your thinking stray into unsanctioned territory despite the trusted anchor's example, a poll can be produced which shows that most persons do not think that way--and you don't want to be different do you? Thus, the mental wanderer is brought back into the fold.

This process is also at work in programs ostensibly produced for entertainment. The "logic" works like this: Archie Bunker is an idiot, Archie Bunker is against gun control, therefore idiots are against gun control. Never mind the complexities of the issue. Never mind the fact that the true purpose of the Second Amendment is not to protect the rights of deer hunters, but to protect the citizenry against a tyrannical government (an argument you will never hear voiced on any television program). Monkey see, monkey do--or, in this case, monkey not do.

Notice, too, the way in which television programs depict conspiracy researchers or anti-New World Order activists. On situation comedies, they are buffoons. On dramatic programs, they are dangerous fanatics. This imprints on the mind of the viewer the attitude that questioning the official line or holding "anti-government" opinions is crazy, therefore not to be emulated.

Another way in which entertainment programs mold opinion can be found in the occasional television movie, which "sensitively" deals with some "social" issue. A bad behavior is spotlighted--"hate" crimes, for instance--in such a way that it appears to be a far more rampant problem than it may actually be, so terrible in fact that the "only" cure for it is more laws and government "protection." Never mind that laws may already exist to cover these crimes--the law against murder, for instance. Once we have seen the well-publicized murder of the young gay man Matthew Shepherd dramatized in not one, but two, television movies in all its heartrending horror, nothing will do but we pass a law making the very thought behind the crime illegal.

People will also model behaviors from popular entertainment which are not only dangerous to their health and could land them in jail, but also contribute to social chaos. While this may seem to be simply a matter of the producers giving the audience what it wants, or the artist holding a mirror up to society, it is in fact intended to influence behavior.

Consider the way many films glorify drug abuse. When a popular star playing a sympathetic character in a mainstream R-rated film uses hard drugs with no apparent health or legal consequences (John Travolta's use of heroin in Pulp Fiction, for instance--an R-rated film produced for theatrical release, which now has found a permanent home on television, via cable and video players), a certain percentage of people--particularly the impressionable young--will perceive hard drug use as the epitome of anti-Establishment cool and will model that behavior, contributing to an increase in drug abuse. And who benefits?

As has been well documented by Gary Webb in his award-winning series for the San Jose Mercury New, former Los Angeles narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, and many other researchers and whistleblowers--the CIA is the main purveyor of hard drugs in this country. The CIA also has its hand in the "prison-industrial complex." Wackenhut Corporation, the largest owner of private prisons, has on its board of directors many former CIA employees, and is very likely a CIA front. Thus, films which glorify drug abuse may be seen as recruitment ads for the slave labor-based private prison system. Also, the social chaos and inflated crime rate which result from the contrived drug problem contributes to the demand from a frightened society for more prisons, more laws, and the further erosion of civil liberties. This effect is further heightened by television news segments and documentaries which focus on drug abuse and other crimes, thus giving the public the misperception that crime is even higher than it really is.

There is another socially debilitating process at work in what passes for entertainment on television these days. Over the years, there has been a steady increase in adult subject matter on programs presented during family viewing hours. For instance, it is common for today's prime-time situation comedies to make jokes about such matters as masturbation (Seinfeld once devoted an entire episode to the topic), or for daytime talk shows such as Jerry Springer's to showcase such topics as bestiality. Even worse are the "reality" programs currently in vogue. Each new offering in this genre seems to hit a new low. MTV, for instance, recently subjected a couple to a Candid Camera-style prank in which, after winning a trip to Las Vegas, they entered their hotel room to find an actor made up as a mutilated corpse in the bathtub. Naturally, they were traumatized by the experience and sued the network. Or, consider a new show on British television in which contestants compete to see who can infect each other with the most diseases--venereal diseases included.

It would appear, at the very least, that these programs serve as a shill operation to strengthen the argument for censorship. There may also be an even darker motive. These programs contribute to the general coarsening of society we see all around us--the decline in manners and common human decency and the acceptance of cruelty for its own sake as a legitimate form of entertainment. Ultimately, this has the effect of debasing human beings into savages, brutes--the better to herd them into global slavery.

For the first decade or so after the Dawn of Television, there were only a handful of channels in each market--one for each of the three major networks and maybe one or two independents. Later, with the advent of cable and more channels, the population pie began to be sliced into finer pieces--or "niche markets." This development has often been described as representing a growing diversity of choices, but in reality it is a fine-tuning of the process of mass manipulation, a honing-in on particular segments of the population, not only to sell them specifically-targeted consumer products but to influence their thinking in ways advantageous to the globalist agenda.

One of these "target audiences" is that portion of the population which, after years of blatant government cover-up in areas such as UFOs and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, maintains a cynicism toward the official line, despite the best efforts of television programmers to depict conspiracy research in a negative light. How to reach this vast, disenfranchised target audience and co-opt their thinking? One way is to put documentaries before them which mix of fact with disinformation, thereby confusing them. Another is to take the X Files approach.

The heroes of X Files are investigators in a fictitious paranormal department of the FBI whose adventures sometimes take them into parapolitical territory. On the surface this sounds good. However, whatever good X Files might accomplish by touching on such matters as MK-ULTRA or the JFK assassination is cancelled out by associating them with bug-eyed aliens and ghosts. Also, on X Files, the truth is always depicted as "out there" somewhere--in the stars, or some other dimension, never in brainwashing centers such as the RAND Corporation or its London counterpart, the Tavistock Institute. This has the effect of obscuring the truth, making it seem impossibly out-of-reach, and associating reasonable lines of political inquiry with the fantastic and other-wordly.

Not that there is no connection between the parapolitical and the paranormal. There is undoubtedly a cover-up at work with regard to UFOs, but if we accept uncritically the notion that UFOs are anything other than terrestrial in origin, we are falling headfirst into a carefully-set trap. To its credit, X Files has dealt with the idea that extraterrestrials might be a clever hoax by the government, but never decisively. The labyrinthine plots of the show somehow manage to leave the viewer wondering if perhaps the hoax idea is itself a hoax put out there to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials. This is hardly helpful to a true understanding of UFOs and associated phenomena, such as alien abductions and cattle mutilations.

Extraterrestrials have been a staple of popular entertainment since The War of the Worlds (both the novel and its radio adaptation). They have been depicted as invaders and benefactors, but rarely have they been unequivocally depicted as a hoax. There was an episode of Outer Limits which depicted a group of scientists staging a mock alien invasion to frighten the world's population into uniting as one--but, again, such examples are rare. Even in UFO documentaries on the Discovery Channel, the possibility of a terrestrial origin for the phenomenon is conspicuous by its lack of mention.

UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, the real-life model for the French scientist in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, attempted to interest Spielberg in a terrestrial explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallee said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"

How convenient that what Spielberg says the people expect is also what the Pentagon wants them to believe.

In Messengers of Deception, Vallee tracks the history of a wartime British Intelligence unit devoted to psychological operations. Code-named (interestingly) the "Martians," it specialized in manufacturing and distributing false intelligence to confuse the enemy. Among its activities were the creation of phantom armies with inflatable tanks, simulations of the sounds of military ships maneuvering in the fog, and forged letters to lovers from phantom soldiers attached to phantom regiments.

Vallee suggests that deception operations of this kind may have extended beyond World War II, and that much of the "evidence" for "flying saucers" is no more real than the inflatable tanks of World War II. He writes: "The close association of many UFO sightings with advanced military hardware (test sites like the New Mexico proving grounds, missile silos of the northern plains, naval construction sites like the major nuclear facility at Pascagoula and the bizarre love affairs ... between contactee groups, occult sects, and extremist political factions, are utterly clear signals that we must exercise extreme caution."

Many people find it fantastic that the government would perpetrate such a hoax, while at the same time having no difficulty entertaining the notion that extraterrestrials are regularly traveling light years to this planet to kidnap people out of their beds and subject them to anal probes.

The military routinely puts out disinformation to obscure its activities, and this has certainly been the case with UFOs. Consider Paul Bennewitz, the UFO enthusiast who began studying strange lights that would appear nightly over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. When the Air Force learned about his study, ufologist William Moore (by his own admission) was recruited to feed him forged military documents describing a threat from extraterrestrials. The effect was to confuse Bennewitz--even making him paranoid enough to be hospitalized--and discredit his research. Evidently, those strange lights belonged to the Air Force, which does not like outsiders inquiring into its affairs.

What the Air Force did to Bennewitz, it also does on a mass scale--and popular entertainment has been complicit in this process. Whether or not the filmmakers themselves are consciously aware of this agenda does not matter. The notion that extraterrestrials might visit this planet is so much a part of popular culture and modern mythology that it hardly needs assistance from the military to propagate itself.

It has the effect not only of obscuring what is really going on at research facilities such as Area 51, but of tainting UFO research in general as "kooky"--and does the job so thoroughly that one need only say "UFO" in the same breath with "JFK" to discredit research in that area as well. It also may, in the end, serve the same purpose as depicted in that Outer Limits episode--to unite the world's population against a perceived common threat, thus offering the pretext for one-world government.

The following quotes demonstrate that the idea has at least occurred to world leaders:

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." (President Ronald Reagan, speaking in 1987 to the United Nations.

"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets." General Douglas MacArthur, 1955)

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." (John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917)

And where was this "alien threat" motif given birth? Again, we find the answer in popular entertainment, and again the earliest source is The War of the Worlds--both Wells' and Welles' versions.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that H. G. Wells was a founding member of the Round Table, the think tank that gave birth to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) and its American cousin, the CFR. Perhaps Wells intentionally introduced the motif as a meme which might prove useful later in establishing the "world social democracy" he described in his 1939 book The New World Order. Perhaps, too, another purpose of the Orson Welles broadcast was to test of the public's willingness to believe in extraterrestrials.

At any rate, it proved a popular motif, and paved the way for countless movies and television programs to come, and has often proven a handy device for promoting the New World Order, whether the extraterrestrials are invaders or--in films like The Day the Earth Stood Still--benefactors who have come to Earth to warn us to mend our ways and unite as one, or be blown to bits.

We see the globalist agenda at work in Star Trek and its spin-offs as well. Over the years, many a television viewer's mind has been imprinted with the idea that centralized government is the solution for our problems. Never mind the complexities of the issue--never mind the fact that, in the real world, centralization of power leads to tyranny. The reptile brain, hypnotized by the flickering television screen, has seen Captain Kirk and his culturally diverse crew demonstrate time and again that the United Federation of Planets is a good thing. Therefore, it must be so.

It remains to be seen whether the Masters of Deception will, like those scientists in The Outer Limits, stage an invasion from space with anti-gravity machines and holograms, but, if they do, it will surely be broadcast on television, so that anyone out of range of that light show in the sky, will be able to see it, and all with eyes to see will believe. It will be War of the Worlds on a grand scale.


Jack Kerouac once noted, while walking down a residential street at night, glancing into living rooms lit by the gray glare of television sets, that we have become a world of people "thinking the same thoughts at the same time."

Every day, millions upon millions of human beings sit down at the same time to watch the same football game, the same mini-series, the same newscast. And where might all this shared experience and uniformity of thought be taking us?

A recent report co-sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department calls for a broad-based research program to find ways to use nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences, to achieve telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified sensory experience, enhanced intellectual capacity, and mass participation in a "hive mind." Quoting the report: "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur. Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind--an enormous, single, intelligent entity."

There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)

This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.

And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.

In a sense, those people who fled the Martians that night were right to be afraid. They were indeed under attack. But they were wrong about who was attacking them. It was something far worse than Martians. Had they only known the true nature of the danger facing them, perhaps they would have gone to the nearest radio station with torches in hand like the villagers in those old Frankenstein movies and burned it to the ground, or at least commandeered the new technology and turned it towards another use--the liberation of humanity, instead of its enslavement.

RELEVANT LINKS

U.S. Government Report: Human Beings to be Merged with Technology to Create a "Hive Mind"
Sydney Morning Herald

To receive a free copy of Mack White's book,
FACTS ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11, write him at mackwhite@austin.rr.com

From Michael –

HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2035. 

1.  Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, California.  

2.  White minorities still trying to have English recognized as California's third language. 

3.  Spotted Owl threatens northwestern US crops and livestock. 

4. Baby conceived naturally...scientists stumped. 

5.  Authentic 2000 "chad" sells at Sotheby's for $4.6 million. 

6.  Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon).

7.  Iraq still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels. 

8.  Cuban leader Fidel Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking. 

9.  George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.

10. Postal Service raises prices of First Class stamps to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesday only. 

11. 35-year study: Diet and exercise are the keys to weight loss. 

12. Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative. 

13. Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights. 

14. Upcoming NFL draft likely to focus on the use of mutants. 

15. Average height of NBA players now 9 feet, 7 inches. 

16. Microsoft announces it has perfected its newest version so it crashes BEFORE installation is completed. 

17. New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2036.

18. Congress authorizes direct deposit of illegal political contributions to campaign accounts. 

19. IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75%.

From Heather -

A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company.

I pass it along, for your information.

The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them.  If someone takes your check book they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name but your bank will know how you sign your checks.

Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address.  If you do not have a PO Box use your work address.  Never have your SS# printed on your checks -- you can add it if it is necessary.  But if you have it printed, anyone can get it.

Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine, do both sides of each license, credit card, etc.  You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place.  I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or abroad.

We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a name, address, Social Security number, credit cards, etc.

Unfortunately I, an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month.  Within a week, the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information on-line, and
more.

But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know we have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately.  But the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call.  Keep those where you can find them easily.

File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where it was stolen, this proves to credit providers you were diligent, and is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

But here's what is perhaps most important:

(I never even thought to do this)
Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name.  The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was
stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was
advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done.  There
are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert.  Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in).  It seems to have stopped them in their tracks.

The numbers are Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289
Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271

From Helen –

You must find the book, new at your local library, titled - "Problems of Plenty, the American Farmer in the Twentieth Century" by R. Douglas Hurt.

It is 173 pages of very interesting history of the federal government and the farmers groups in every section of the nation.  These groups were the controllers of Congress prior to the present Oil and Industry Corporations when the one man one vote redistricting hadn't been demanded.  The population shift created a time when the votes of the large areas of the nation that were rural no longer had the numbers but did have the greater number of representatives and senator.

A must read to understand how we got to where we are with the food supplies.

From Connie –

Please DO NOT take, or let your loved ones take, ANY shots or vaccinations until you KNOW, I SAID KNOW, EXACTLY what you are doing!!!!  Below is only one of many unbelievable sad examples!!!  I SAID ANY!!!!!

Billy-Joe..Mauldin

Read
Death By Lethal Vaccine Injection

Source:  http://mercola.com/2002/aug/7/vaccine_death.htm

From Bob –

This is sent in the hope that you will open your eyes to the truth about how ALL governments suppress truth and eventually turn on their own people to TOTALLY either control their every movement and thought, or keep them sick, or worse.

Thursday, December 19, 2002

MORE ON COLLAPSE OF SMALLPOX VACCINE PROGRAM

DECEMBER 19. For almost 15 years, I've been blowing on a little spark of a story I was fed by a very reliable biologist in 1987:

When the smallpox eradication campaign came to a close in Africa and Latin America in the early 1970s, there was a secret meeting held in Geneva.

The people present were part of the World Health Organization. They decided they would never use that vaccine again.

Why? Because it was so dangerous. Because, in part, it produced so many cases of smallpox.

They shelved that vaccine.

To that story I'll add: Ever since the White House began its crazed push of this vaccine, certain medical people have been sending messages through: DON'T DO IT. DON'T STARTING SHOOTING EVERYONE UP.

Right now, there are more messages coming in to Bush's people: Okay, you stopped it for now. But if you happen to discover a single case of smallpox in the US, don't go off half-cocked and shoot up the whole population of the country. If you do, the consequences will be dire.

Which leaves the "problem" of the soldiers and the health workers, who are getting the vaccine right now.

If Bush says STOP to that, the game is completely over. Right now, he's not stopping. He's rolling the dice with the lives of these people, these human guinea pigs.

You might recall that, a decade or so after the smallpox eradication campaign ended in Africa, the first so-called AIDS cases began appearing there. Actually, they appeared sooner than that.

I've covered this AIDS hoax many times in past articles. ONE of the causes of these "AIDS cases" was the smallpox vaccine---NOT BECAUSE HIV WAS COVERTLY INSERTED IN THE VACCINE. Because the vaccine, given to millions of people who were ALREADY severely immune suppressed, pushed them over the edge into horrible debilitation and death.

If a few doctors are screaming in protest now about using this vaccine on the population of America, you have to ask, WHY DID THEY USE IT ON MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE SO IMMUNE SUPPRESSED IN THE THIRD WORLD?

THEY ABSOLUTELY KNEW WHAT ITS EFFECTS WOULD BE. EVEN ROBERT GALLO, ON MAY 11, 1987, TOLD THE LONDON TIMES HE HAD BEEN WARNING PEOPLE ABOUT USING THAT VACCINE ON THOSE WHO WERE ALREADY SUFFERING FROM EXTREME IMMUNE SUPPRESSION.

The smallpox campaign in the Third World resulted in depopulation.

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20 Reasons Not To Take the New Smallpox Vaccine
by Amy Worthington

1.  George W. Bush has said of smallpox vaccination:  "One of my concerns if we were to have universal vaccination, some might lose their life." ~The Times (in London), November 09, 2001

2.  For each million people vaccinated with the smallpox vaccine, as many as 250 could die, according to the American Medical Association. Multiply 250 times 285 (millions of Americans) and the possible deaths from universal smallpox vaccination could equal 71,250. ~ Journal of the American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, p. 2132

3.  "The American Medical Association said on Tuesday it was not in favor of an immediate mass U.S. smallpox vaccination program, saying the potential threat of a bioterror attack did not warrant inoculating every American against the disease."  ~Reuters, December 12, 2001

4.  "Right now the risk of getting the vaccine is higher than the benefit. You could get a secondary infection, a full-blown systemic infection."  ~Marie Rau, Panhandle Health District nurse, quoted by The Spokesman-Review, November 20, 2001

5. CDC director Jeffrey Koplan has admitted that universal smallpox vaccination could unleash a significant number of side-effects. He said that because many parts of our population do not have a "robust immune system," a fair number of people could  have serious reactions.  ~Koplan speaking on the PBS special "Bioterror Propaganda"
aired by WETA, November 14, 2001

6.  If the entire nation were to receive a smallpox vaccine, several thousand people would likely develop encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001

7.  Roger J. Pomerantz, chief of the infectious disease department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said that doctors have no idea what the smallpox vaccine might do to people at the extremes of life--less than 2 and older than 65.  He said that an even greater concern would be its effect on people with weakened immune systems from HIV infection, chemotherapy or transplants.  ~Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2001

8.  "Researchers have been reluctant to recommend a new vaccination program which would use the smallpox vaccine for the local population because the vaccine can cause disease and death in persons with inadequate immune systems."  ~ Science, Vol. 277, July 18, 1997, pp. 312-13.

9.  Routine smallpox vaccination in the United States ended in 1972. Officials are hesitant to resume the immunizations because the vaccine is the most reactive of all and has been linked to serious side effects, including death. ~ Reuters, November 29, 2001.

10.   Eight printed pages of medical studies documenting the many serious side effects of smallpox vaccination can be obtained at: www.whale.to/vaccines/smallpox.html See "smallpox vaccine adverse reactions 66-76."  [Note: go to the home page above and put “smallpox vaccine adverse reaction” in the search engine.] Repercussions include serious brain and heart diseases, autism, abnormal chromosomal changes, diabetes, various cancers and leukemias, plus demyelination of nerve tissue years after vaccination.

11.  The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that vaccination must not be forced on persons whose physical condition would make such vaccination "cruel and inhuman."  In other words, the state has no right to command that an individual sacrifice his life in the name of public health. ~Jacobsen V. Massachusettes, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).

12.  By the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated.  This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective and predisposed vaccinated persons to more lethal disease.  ~Vaccination, Dr. Viera Scheibner, Australia, 1993, pp. 205-220.

13.  Getting a vaccination does not guarantee immunity. ~CDC, January 28, 1994.

14.  By  1987, scientific evidence indicated that the World Health Organization's 13-year global smallpox vaccination campaign may have awakened dormant HIV infection in many vaccinees.  ~Times (in London) May 11, 1987.

15.  Vaccines made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are impossible to filter out.  By 1961, scientists discovered that animal viruses in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when given to mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even in amounts too small to induce tumors alone. They concluded that vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production.  ~Science, December 15, 1961.

16.  Some of the new smallpox vaccine doses will be created with animal substrate.  Because the vaccine will incorporate vaccinia, the cowpox virus, many wonder about possible mad-cow contamination. Fifty-five million doses of  the new vaccine  will  be created using  a cell line dating back to 1966 and cultured from the lung tissues of an
aborted human fetus.  ~World Net Daily, December 4, 2001.

17. The new smallpox vaccine will be genetically engineered. Many scientists believe that genetically engineered vaccines may be responsible for the global epidemic of auto-immune disease and neurological dysfunction.  ~American College of Rheumatology, annual meeting, Nov. 8-12, 1998.  Merck's genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine, Recombivax HB, is a classic example. According to Dr. Bonnie Dunbar of Baylor College of Medicine, many thousands of reported adverse reactions to the hepatitis B vaccine include:  chronic fatigue, neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and MS-like disease. ~Testimony of Dr. Dunbar to Texas Dept. of Health, March 12, 1999.  Over 15,000 French citizens sued the French government to stop mandatory hep B injections for school children because of resulting auto-immune diseases. ~Science, July 31, 1998.   Dr. John Classen has published voluminous data showing that the hepatitis B and other vaccines are closely linked to the development of insulin dependent diabetes. ~Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, October 22, 1997

18.  The British vaccine manufacturer Medeva has a horrendous record of contamination and blunders.  In 2000, the FDA found that Medeva was making vaccines in conditions of  filth, resulting in contaminated products.  Medeva had been illegally using bovine medium to culture its polio vaccines, then lied about it.  Medeva also used the blood of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob victim (mad cow) to manufacture 83,000 doses of polio vaccine used for (against?) Irish children.  Nevertheless, the FDA allowed the USA to accept Medeva's flu vaccine (Fluvirin) for the year 2000.  ~London Observer series:  October 20-26, 2000

19.  In 2001, the British socialized health care system was reported to be in a state of collapse, with many hospitals and labs operating in abysmal filth.  Five thousand people die each year from infections contracted in British hospitals; 10,000 become deathly ill from such infections.  Sterilization procedures are barely adequate and said to be risking the spread of mad cow disease. Government ministers are reportedly trying to hush up the scandal. ~www.itn.co.uk/ Jan 06, 2001; The Sunday Times of  London, November 12, 2001.

20.  The U.S. government apparently intends to conduct NO double blind studies on the safety and efficacy of the new smallpox vaccine. It has ordered 286 million doses, one for every man, woman and child in America at a cost of $428 million. At least half of this vaccine will be delivered by Acambis PLC of great Britain.

Tip of the Week:  Keep all vaccine needles away from your body!

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Ingri Cassel, President
Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter
P.O. Box 1444
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816
(208) 255-2307 / 765-8421
vaclib@coldreams.com
www.vaclib.org

"The Right to Know, The Freedom to Abstain"

From Helen –

Now I realize that the grandparents are having a tough time but if the
government lets you have your grandkids why would you want to have the money
that requires you to let the CYF into your home every quarter for a search!
The grandparents should be getting social security survivors benefits for
the kids if their parents are dead.  They could adopt the kids and put them
on their social security and get payments for the kids without the state or
federal government sticking its nose into their business.

Just my view of things.
Helen - Amen Helen! Deb V
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Payment due for foster care
Judge rules for Beaver Falls grandparents

Thursday, December 19, 2002

By Mackenzie Carpenter, Post-Gazette Staff Writer

A federal judge says a Beaver County couple will get their day in court to
seek foster care payments for the two grandchildren they've raised since
1997.

In a strongly worded ruling handed down last month, senior U.S. District
Judge William L. Standish rejected a request by the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Welfare to dismiss the lawsuit, thus clearing the way for the
claim by Ron and Sandra DeSalle of Beaver Falls to proceed.

With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the couple filed a
lawsuit two years ago against the state and Beaver County's Department of
Children and Youth asking to be paid the same amount in fees that any other
foster parents would be paid.

In the lawsuit, the two alleged that Beaver County officials never informed
them that they were eligible for the payments as foster caregivers, instead
encouraging them to take legal custody. When the DeSalles later asked for
payments, Children and Youth said they couldn't get them because they had
legal custody.

Under the law, foster caregivers, who must undergo home inspections,
criminal background checks and other procedures, have physical custody but
not legal custody, which means they cannot make medical and legal decisions
about the child's welfare. That responsibility remains with the state.

The judge rejected the defendants' contention that they did not have to pay
equal subsidies to kinship providers because they weren't licensed foster
parents.

"Defendants may not avoid the federal law mandate of equal reimbursement for
related foster parents by simply refusing to certify them as licensed
caregivers," said Standish.

Beaver County officials have disputed the DeSalles' version.

"Our position is that in Beaver County, we do inform [relatives] and have
informed them of the availability of kinship care benefits," said Marie
Milie Jones, an attorney for Beaver County.

The ACLU's legal director, Vic Walczak, said he was happy with the judge's
ruling, which "unmistakably says the law is clear about the DeSalles' right
to foster care payments." But he expressed concern about the state's
apparent determination to proceed with the case instead of trying to come to
a settlement.

"We've just spent two years arguing over the county's and the state's
contention that the DeSalles do not have an enforceable right to equal
foster care payments, equal to those given to nonkinship care providers, and
the judge roundly rejected those arguments.

"In the meantime, here are grandparents who are struggling mightily to care
for these children at significant expense. The grandfather is working two
jobs to support them, and it's affecting the kids," he said.

But Jones would not rule out a possible settlement to the case.

Welfare department spokeswoman Stacy Ward said the department can't comment
on pending litigation.
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Mackenzie Carpenter can be reached at mcarpenter@post-gazette.com or

412-263-1949.

From Bob –

With full Editorial Credit to:

Jon Rappoport

http://www.stratiawire.com

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Friday, December 20, 2002

SMALLPOX VACCINE DEFECTIONS

DECEMBER 20. It's one day later and the controlled media, cowards and liars that they are, have not yet dared to pick up on the fact that the White House has completely reversed its position on the smallpox vaccine.

I mean COMPLETELY.

REVERSED.

And now the hospitals are beginning to defect. The Washington Post reports that Grady Memorial, with close ties to the CDC, and Virginia Commonwealth, are REFUSING TO ORDER VACCINATIONS FOR THEIR WORKERS.

And the CDC is coming in behind that and saying FINE, NO PROBLEM, WE'RE HAPPY, ALL IS WELL.

HELLO? ANYBODY OUT THERE?

And here is a choice quote from the Washington Post article: "Bush also promised that the vaccine would be made available to any adult American who 'insists' on being inoculated, but he stressed that the government strongly discouraged average citizens from being vaccinated."

I MEAN, AM I WRITING FOR A TIME CAPSULE HERE?

Just recently, Bush and his cronies were talking about A VIAL OF THE VACCINE WITH EVERYONE'S NAME ON IT. Remember?

And now, it's a 180 and NOBODY IS SAYING HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON?

Bob Editing note:  For those of you who are not pilots, doing a "180" is making a precise turn to the opposite heading, or a 100% opposite turn ie; due North to due South.

I guess the whole country is finally on tranquilizers.

WELL, FROM MY TIME CAPSULE I'M SAYING, HEY MR. PRESIDENT, HOW COME YOU WENT THE OTHER WAY? WHAT MADE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND?

WHY ARE YOU TELLING PEOPLE TO AVOID THE VACCINE NOW, AND WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THOSE MEDICAL WORKERS TO GET THE SHOT IF IT'S SO DANGEROUS?

AND WHAT ABOUT THE SOLDIERS?

YOU KNOW, MR. PRESIDENT, A HOSPITAL IS THE WORST PLACE TO VACCINATE, BECAUSE THE VIRUS IN THE VACCINE SPREADS TO ALL THOSE SICK PEOPLE WHOSE IMMUNE SYSTEMS CAN'T DEAL WITH IT.

Somebody wrote me and asked if this situation is like the swine flu vaccine fiasco of the 1970s I wrote about recently.

I guess he's the only person in America who isn't on a heavy dose of valium. YES, IT'S LIKE THE SWINE FLU FIASCO.

SOME PEOPLE ARE BEING TOLD NOT TO GET THE VACCINE BECAUSE IT COULD KILL THEM, AND OTHER PEOPLE ARE BEING TOLD TO GET THE VACCINE, WHICH COULD KILL THEM.

But of course in America, we've all learned that you have to be NICE, first and foremost. You have to be polite. If something seems strange or offends you, just ignore it and turn your back. That's the NICE thing to do. Be a good little boy. Be a good little girl.

Don't make waves.

Yeah, well from my time capsule, I'm writing a letter to King George. It's quick. It says, "You know what, sir? You were right. We should have stayed under your thumb. The war in 1776 was a big mistake. It looked good for a minute, but we were really just looking up the road for something else we could surrender to. I miss Keats and Shakespeare and Cecil Rhodes and the Roundtable. I want my fish and chips. I want London Bridge and the moss-covered stones. America has gone bust. Winkin, blinkin, nod. Over and out.

In the USA, yes and no now mean the same thing. I did and I didn't mean the same thing. It's safe and dangerous mean the same thing. You have to do it and don't do it mean the same thing."

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Friday, December 20, 2002

USA TODAY FINALLY GETS IT RIGHT

DECEMBER 20. For some time we have been getting false assessments of the number of immune-suppressed people in the US.

These low-ball figures have been used to assure the public that the smallpox vaccine---which causes extreme effects like death among the immune-comprised---will only kill 700 or so Americans if given to the whole population.

But now that the government smallpox-vaccine program has collapsed, everything is leaking.

USA Today reports: "An estimated 60 million Americans with certain medical conditions [relating to immune suppression] are most likely to develop severe reactions from the vaccine..."

That would be roughly one out of five Americans.

Maybe that 60-million stat for how many people have significant immune problems is too high. But it's a lot closer than what we've been told.

The news these days is full of all sorts of stunning revelations about the smallpox vaccine. Don't mark this down to sudden courage on the part of media outlets. All this info is being released by the government and its medical minions.

As I've been writing, it's a complete 180. (Bob Editing note:  See above red print explanation of what a "180" is.) I've been mentioning the reasons. Here is another one: the vaccine honchos are terrified that, if the smallpox vaccine is given to the whole population, the resultant deaths, maimings, and chaos will break public faith in ALL THE OTHER VACCINES THAT ARE HARD-WIRED INTO THE MANDATED SYSTEM.

(My Personal Note: As well it should !!!  Strange, isn't it, how Dr. Benjamin Rush, during the debates on the Constitution, tried to get MEDICAL FREEDOM as a part of the written Bill of Rights.  But since the absolute rights of the individual versus no rights at all for any government, other than allowed by an individual, was the cornerstone of freedom and the reason for the parting from England,  the Medical Freedom issue was assumed to be included, a "given", so to speak.  Even then, Dr. Rush (Medical Doctor)  knew of the closed minds and evil deeds committed in the name of "medicine")

And if families of those killed by the smallpox shot discover the federal government's puny $$ cap on liability claims, there will be an outroar, which could put the whole scam re gov payouts on vaccine injuries in severe jeopardy.  END of Jon Rappoport's daily editorial.....

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

(My personal note:  The slime without conscience that have sold the American people a bill of goods are no different today than in the days of Thalilomide (sp?) when they rushed that to market against the wise advice of honorable men and women, and we can ALL remember the tragic birth deformities that resulted from women taking THAT billion dollar profit scam. Not one or two deformities, but hundreds and hundreds of them. 

Is anyone old enough to remember the uncontrollable sobs that wracked your body and soul back in the 1960's,  as you saw those babies born without arms, or worse?)

From Connie –

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From Michael –

Next time you want to bleed green send it to this guy, not Heston or Pratt!

Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/

Gary Gorski A lonely fight for gun rights
Scrappy lawyer mounts challenge to state's assault weapons ban
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/12/23/MN210896.DTL

by Katherine Seligman, Chronicle Staff Writer

Just before it became illegal to own military-style assault weapons in
California about three years ago, Gary Gorski went shopping. The suburban
Sacramento lawyer already had one high-powered rifle sitting in his home
safe, but he rushed out to buy seven more. Just on principle.

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He consulted gun advocates -- what were they going to do about this ban,
what advice did they have? -- but no one pledged support. So, by himself,
he hunkered down in his small office and cranked out a lawsuit to overturn
the assault weapons ban.

"No one is backing me on this," Gorski said the other day, about a week
after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled
against him.

But that didn't stop him. While many people assume this latest fight
against gun control in California is being waged by the National Rifle
Association or state gun owner groups, the real contestant is Gorski, a
virtual unknown, who filed the challenge on behalf of nine plaintiffs --
most of them rugby buddies. Variously described as a "loose cannon" and a
dogged worker "with the heart of a champion," Gorski, 40, is definitely one
thing -- persistent.

A solo practitioner who usually takes employment cases, has no secretary
and copies and collates his own briefs at Kinko's, Gorski has filed a
petition for a rehearing before a larger panel of judges and vows if that
fails to take his arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court. By himself, if
necessary.

Not even the state gun lobby, gun owners' associations or the NRA are
stepping in to help him fight what many feel is a futile attempt to
challenge the ban on Second Amendment grounds before the federal court in
San Francisco. One gun lobbyist calls some of the vehement language in
Gorski's appeals court brief "inflammatory and unwise." That would be the
part where he invokes the example of Nazi Germany.

So now Gorski is hunkering down again, this time in a cost-cutting home
office. He calls it the War Room: a spare bedroom equipped with his Dell
computer, a phone, a few law books and a cherished autographed picture of
his hero, pro wrestler-turned-politician Jesse Ventura, Minnesota's
governor.

More than one person has pointed out the resemblance: similar hairdo, or
lack of it, similar buffed muscles and, Gorski's favorite, similar
independent streak. If the gun groups won't support him, so be it, he said.

"I'm the kind of person to take the horse by the reins and go with it,"
said Gorski, at home recently wearing his usual work gear, a sweatshirt and
jeans -- he only wears suits when he goes to court. Around him, there was
the usual whirlwind of activity.

Several of his rugby friends -- big guys, with even bigger shoulders -- had
dropped by and were standing around the kitchen. His German shepherd, Zeus,
was running around with a toy soccer ball. His wife of five years,
Caroline, was chopping onions.

'GARY'S WORLD'

"Welcome to Gary's world," she said. "It's Grand Central here. People hang
out here because they want to be around Gary."

"Gorby," as his rugby friends call him, grew up in Delaware, where his
father was an electrician and his mother was a keypunch operator on an
assembly line making pipes. His father never had guns at home, but didn't
mind his son having one, said Gorski, who recalls bringing a gun to his
Catholic school so he could go goose hunting later that day.

"The principal says, 'Is that loaded?' " Gorski said. "I told him no and he
said, 'Keep it in your locker.' "

Asked about horrific school shootings, such as Columbine, and the fact that
students brought guns on campus he said he blames "rich parents" for
failing to control and care for their kids.

What about gun accidents? Like many advocates of the right to own guns, he
believes that responsible ownership is the answer. He keeps his own guns in
a safe. When a reporter visited him, Gorski showed off the guns, but made a
point of not letting anyone see where the gun safe is.

After high school in Delaware, where by his own description he "was not a
stellar student," Gorski enlisted in the Army in 1980, serving in an air
cavalry unit in the United States and in Europe. Later, determined to get
the college education his parents never had, he went to the University of
Delaware and then, after hitchhiking west, to Sacramento State University.
He studied law at Delaware Law School and supported himself working as a
bouncer at a strip club.

After passing the bar, he briefly did insurance company defense work, but
found that didn't suit him. So he moved to Sacramento and went into solo
practice in 1994.

THE LOUT IN THE BAR

Caroline Gorski, a software saleswoman, recalls meeting him for the first
time when he bumped into and then spilled his drink on her in a bar. She
expected an apology. What she got, instead, was, "That's the breaks, kid."

Fortunately, she didn't recognize him as the lout in the bar when the two
met again six months later. Soon they were engaged and married.

In her entire life, Caroline Gorski said, she's shot a gun only once --
during a brief lesson from her husband. But it's not something she wants to
repeat, and her husband agrees. If people broke into their house, she would
be safer giving them "a tongue lashing," he said.

"Personally, I don't agree that we have all these guns," she said. "But I
agree with the principle."

And the principle is what it's about, Gary Gorski said. He is the kind of
lawyer who spent 100 hours getting the last $300 check owed to a client
from the government. Seeing himself as the brash, scrappy lawyer who
relishes battling the powerful Harvard-trained government lawyers who sit
at the other table, Gorski usually handles cases of employees who claim
they were fired unjustly or faced retaliation from bosses. He has
represented deputy U.S. marshals in a suit against supervisors and a
homeless woman suing police for brutality.

In the gun control case, he said, he's not fighting for the right to own
assault weapons because he loves them. He's fighting because he loves his
constitutional rights and is wary of government power. He believes, like
many gun advocates, that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of
citizens to bear arms. Without that, he said, citizens have no recourse
against the possibility of government tyranny.

"I don't fear anyone," he said, "but my government."

The appeals court judges, in a 3-0 decision, upheld the legality of
amendments adopted in 1999 to an earlier ban. The amendments -- adopted in
response to a proliferation of shootings involving military-style assault
weapons -- outlawed 75 high-powered weapons with rapid-fire capabilities.

The judges disagreed that the Second Amendment applies to individual rights
to own guns, but instead was adopted to ensure effective state militias
could be maintained. But the fact that the court saw fit to issue a lengthy
analysis of the case was noteworthy in itself, said Tim Rieger, a deputy
attorney general who argued against Gorski. The court's ruling contradicts
one made by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which could
prompt the highest court to take up the matter, he said.

"To have gotten the analysis, I would say he certainly has gotten the
opportunity and justification to bring it to the U.S. Supreme Court,"
Rieger said. "I don't know if they'll hear it."

'PASSIONATE' LEGAL BRIEF

Rieger, used to reading dry legal briefs, said he found Gorski's "unusual"
and "passionate." In the brief, Gorski uses the argument often employed by
opponents of gun control that by taking guns away from citizens, Germany's
Nazi regime ensured that firearms ultimately went only to such groups as
the Nazi Waffen-SS and Hitler Youth.

Chuck Michel, a spokesman for the California Rifle and Pistol Association
and an NRA lawyer, said he sympathized with Gorski's impatience, but said
his approach was "not the way to go about correcting the problem." Michel
has filed a lawsuit in Fresno Superior Court challenging the weapons ban on
the basis of its ambiguity. Gorski, he said, is a "well-intentioned loose
cannon."

Gorski shrugs off such criticism. He's approaching the case the same way he
does rugby -- to win.

"I never underestimate my friend Gary Gorski," said Marcus Davis, one of
the rugby-playing plaintiffs, who is a bank vice president living near
Roseville (Placer County). "He has the heart of a champion. . . . He does
everything he does 110 percent."

Davis said he owns a few deer rifles and shotguns but has no assault
weapons himself. Most of the other plaintiffs also own guns, but some
don't, Gorski said. They come from all political backgrounds, but most have
a libertarian bent and are not part of a gun club. Gorski himself said he
no longer hunts. He doesn't have time, but is saving his guns as props for
his legal case and for future generations.

These days, he is taking on other cases to help pay the bills, sharing some
of them with Dan Karalash, a criminal defense lawyer who helped work on the
assault weapons brief. But mostly, he is focused on his mission -- getting
his case heard.

"There is no gray area with Gary," said his wife, Caroline. "People think
he's a Neanderthal or they love him."

E-mail Katherine Seligman kseligman@sfchronicle.com.

From Helen –

Share with all your groups please!!!  Especially important for anyone who
travels regularly.

From: Terrence Bressi mailto:tbressi@seds.lpl.arizona.edu

Sunday, December 22, 2002

Last night while travelling back to Tucson after working the day at Kitt
Peak, I was detained/arrested at a police check point in the Tohono O'odham
Reservation - Pima County, Arizona.  The check point  was a joint task
force operation involving the Tohono O'odham police, U.S. Customs, and
INS/Border Patrol.  Below appears my account of the events that transpired.

I plan on vigorously defending myself against the charges levied and am
seeking legal advice/council.  Names of individuals who I could contact or
who would be willing to contact me would be greatly appreciated.  My
initial court date has been set for January 3, 2003.  Thanks for any
assistance that can be offered.  I will be out of town for a few days next
week but should have access to email.  I've done some initial legal
research but need to confer on the best approach to take with someone more
knowledgeable then myself at this point.

Terrence Bressi tbressi@seds.lpl.arizona.edu
1-520-808-2054

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On 21 December 2002 - 1700: I came upon a police check point on
Arizona  Route 86 at mile marker 143 in the Tohono O'odham reservation -
Pima County, Arizona.

I called a coworker on a cell phone while waiting in backed up traffic &
informed him of the circumstances.  He stayed on the line the entire time I
interacted with the enforcement officers up to the time I was forcibly
removed from the vehicle.  My co-worker heard most of the conversation.

The road block was setup in such a place as to provide no prior warning as
to its presence and no ability to bypass it.  Route 86 is the only viable
route back to Tucson from Kitt Peak & there is no shoulder along large
sections of the route which would allow an  individual the opportunity to
turn around prior to entering the checkpoint.

Spotters were present along the side of the road some distance before  the
checkpoint.  Their purpose was not obvious until after coming upon the
roadblock.

I was traveling back to Tucson after working the day on Kitt Peak.

A dozen or so enforcement vehicles were present along the side of the road
at the checkpoint.

Tohono O'odham police, U.S.  Customs, & INS/Border Patrol Vehicles were
present along with several unmarked enforcement vehicles.

I was stopped by the officer in charge who worked for the Tohono O'odham
Police.

Upon request, the officer indicated the purpose of the checkpoint was
sobriety & license checks which seemed inconsistent with the presence of
U.S.  Customs & INS law enforcement personnel.

Upon request, the officer provided his name but failed to provide photo
identification.  The officer then requested my license.  I requested to
know why he wanted it.  The officer indicated everyone was being asked for
their license for identification purposes and to check for compliance with
traffic laws.

I requested to know if the stops being made were based upon individualized
probable cause of wrongdoing.  He indicated there was  no probable cause &
everyone was being treated the same.

Others officers were beginning to gather around my vehicle at this time -
including the U.S.  Customs Agent.

The officer in charge asked me for my drivers license again.  I asked  him
if he had any reason to believe my drivers license wasn't in order or
whether or not he had probable cause to believe I was in violation of any
statute of the State.

He indicated he had no such belief but that I needed to provide my license
to him.

I indicated that I was uncomfortable providing my license given the current
set of circumstances.  He then asked for my name which I provided along
with a contact name and number for my boss who could verify my identity and
purpose for being in the vehicle.

I then reiterated my request to know what law authorized him to stop me
without probable cause of wrongdoing and demand my identification papers.
No answer was forthcoming.

At some point during this conversation, a Tohono O'odham detective spoke up
and indicated that he could tell I hadn't been drinking because my eyes
were not bloodshot, I was communicating effectively, and exhibited no signs
of being impaired but that I still needed to provide a license.  He
indicated this was an area known for drug smuggling and illegal immigrants
and consequently folks needed to be identified before they could go on.

Although having no jurisdiction over the subject matter at hand, the U.S.
Customs Agent forcefully entered the conversation and demanded that I
comply with the request along with some other commentary.

I asked the U.S.  Customs Agent who had jurisdictional & operational
control over the check point.  The officer in charge indicated at this time
that it was a joint task force consisting of the Tohono O'odham, U.S.
Customs, & INS.

I indicated the Supreme Court had made a distinction between check  points
set up for public safety, i.e.  sobriety check points, Vs law enforcement
checkpoints and that only the former met Constitutional muster when no
individualized probable cause is present.  I then indicated the following

Due to the presence of U.S.  Customs and INS/Border Patrol Agents - law
enforcement as opposed to public safety was obviously a fundamental aspect
of the check point.

The detective indicated he was satisfied I had not been drinking &  hence
any public safety aspect of the check point with regards to me personally
had been satisfied

A license check primarily serves a law enforcement function - not a public
safety issue - thus a mandatory license check relating to a 'public safety'
stop with no actual or perceived wrongdoing is onerous on my right to
travel unmolested on the public highways.

The officers present were clearly getting agitated at this point. The
officer in charge asked me to pull the vehicle over to the side of the
road.  I asked him why and he replied they needed to ask me further
questions.

I asked if I was being detained.  He clearly indicated I was NOT being
detained.

I indicated that if I was not being detained then it follows that I must be
free to leave.

At this point a different officer (Tohono O'odham K-9 unit) indicated he
had had enough of this and that I was to turn off the vehicle and exit the
car. A few of the officers present put their hands on their guns.

I slowly turned off the vehicle as commanded, removed the keys from the
ignition and placed the keys in full view on the dashboard.  I then sat
very still in the front seat with my hands in full view for all to see.

The driver side door was opened, my seatbelt was unclipped by one of the
enforcement agents, and I was forcibly removed from the vehicle and laid
down on the pavement .  My hands were placed behind my back and I was
handcuffed.  I was then picked up under the armpits and dragged off the
road over to one of the police vehicles.

At no point was I informed whether or not I was under arrest, nor was I
read my miranda rights.

I was left on the ground for the next 30-40 minutes (time not exact).  A
few times, the K-9 officer came over acting hostile & belligerent & made
several less than exemplary comments regarding myself.  I heard the U.S.
Customs enforcer refer to me as a 'Peace Protester' & the K-9 officer refer
to me as a 'Green Freak'.  While I like the color green - neither reference
was accurate or justified.

Early on, my wallet was taken from me and my drivers license removed from
the wallet presumably to run a check.  At my request, the detective counted
the money in my wallet before walking off with it.  It was returned with my
driver's license presumably after the check was complete and no further
reason to hold on to it was found.

During my time on the ground, I observed checkpoint operations.  For the
first 40 minutes - vehicles were NOT stopped in any particular order or
pattern.  Officers were clearly using their own judgment to determine which
vehicles were stopped and which were waved through.  At times, several
vehicles in a row would be stopped followed by 10 or so vehicles allowed to
pass unmolested.  This would be followed by stopping every second or third
vehicle and so on.  After an hour or so, the procedure appeared to become
more repetitive with nearly very vehicle being stopped but the first half
of the operation was clearly arbitrary in nature.  Everyone was NOT treated
the same from the inception of the operation.

While watching the vehicles being stopped, I also noticed enforcement
officers checking license plates against registrations along with demanding
that car drivers pop their trunks so they could be searched.  The purpose
of such an action didn't appear related to sobriety checks but rather the
search for contraband material.  Sometime during this time frame, I
observed one of the Tohono O'odham officers approach the Customs enforcer
and gesture at a vehicle that had just passed.  The Customs enforcer
started running toward his vehicle.  This made it clear that information
gathered by Tohono O'odham officers druing the 'sobriety checks' was openly
being shared directly with federal enforcement agents for law enforcement
purposes.

As time went on, what appeared to be illegal immigrants were loaded  into
an INS bus.  These individuals were most likely identified by their failure
to have a drivers license - indicating the license check, for which I was
being detained, was being used to share information with the INS for
federal law enforcement purposes.   Additionally I was informed later that
several hundred pounds of pot had been seized (probably through the trunk
searches being conducted by the enforcement officers at the check point.)

After some time had passed, the detective came over and informed me  that a
citation was being drawn up & I would have the option of  either signing it
and being released on scene or not signing it and being brought down to the
Pima County Jail in Ajo for processing.  Upon his return, I opted not to
sign and was lead over to one of the Tohono O'odham vehicles to await
transport.

While waiting, I was informed my boss had been reached and that he was
heading down to the scene to recover the vehicle and I would be allowed to
talk with him at that time.  Another hour passed before my boss and a
co-worker arrived from the University.  I talked with them at length
regarding the situation and decided to sign the Arizona Traffic Ticket &
Complaint so I could leave and start preparing my defense.

After signing the complaint, we conversed with the detective and the
officer in charge.  They indicated that while they have jurisdiction to
enforce State laws on the section of the highway nearest their reservation,
because I was not a citizen of the reservation my case would be transferred
to the jurisdiction of Pima County.

I asked if there would be a problem with recording the license plate
numbers and other marking of law enforcement vehicles present.  The officer
in charge indicated that was fine at which point I proceeded to do exactly
that.  The list appears below

INS/Border Patrol H9739 J-25037 H9483 J-25581 E0703 J-26973 U1192  J22316
(Bus containing alleged illegal immigrants)

Tohono O'odham
83251 G-415CB
75781 G-450CB
30939 G-874CZ (w/trailer - G-590CJ)
51420 G-135CE
92432 G-461CE
83254 G-413CB

Unmarked CA-52937 Blue Dodge 4x4 CA-50064 Silver Dodge 4x4 G-34 5DD White
Crown Victoria G-419DD White Ford Expedition CB-88166 White Crown Victoria
CB-32748 White utility truck

Tow vehicles were on site a ways off as well as many vehicles that  had
been forced to pull over for further questioning.  There was a pile of
unopened containers of alcohol off to the side as well.  At this point we
departed the scene.

I was cited with two class 2 misdemeanors - each of which carries a maximum
jail time of 4 months and a maximum monetary fine of $750.00

* ARS 28-1595B - Operator fails/refuses to exhibit drivers' license

* ARS 28-622A - Failure to obey officer while directing traffic

It would appear that it is now unlawful to drive home from work these days
without getting proper clearance from the local authorities.

National Road Block Registry
http://www.roadblock.org/

Links Page - National Motorists Association
http://www.motorists.org/other_links.html

From Beaver –

"If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have:  no federal
meddling in our schools;  no Federal Reserve;  no U.S. membership in the
UN;  no gun control;  and no foreign aid.  We would have no welfare for big
corporations, or the "poor";  no American troops in 100 foreign countries;
no NAFTA, GATT or "fast-track;  no arrogant federal judges usurping states
rights;  no attacks on private property;  no income tax.  We could get rid
of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the
budget.  The government would be small, frugal, and limited." --
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) 1998

The Public Servants are not acting in the best interest of the American
people. The New World Order wants to take all jobs out of America and send
them to other countries. America is the biggest block to the success of World
conquest by a few rich and Powerful international families who hate the
American People....
Jack Aiken Lancaster, People Committee, Grants Pass,
Oregon. Mission: Return God to government and Freedom to the People. The
Committee is asking all 25,000,000 loyal American veterans to join
www.avidd.com

City Feels Early Effects of Plant Closing in 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/26/national/26MAYT.html?todaysheadlines
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

GALESBURG, Ill. - Throughout the 90's, this prairie town of 34,000 felt
blessed because it managed to escape the scourge of factory closings that
hit Peoria and Decatur and other heartland communities.

But when Maytag announced this fall that it was closing the area's largest
factory, a refrigerator plant with 1,600 employees, the news hit Galesburg
like a bomb. Despite this city's gritty optimism, home prices are slipping,
shop owners are complaining about flat Christmas sales, and Maytag workers
do not know what to tell their children.

"This reflects a lot of what's going on in America, whether it's East
Coast, West Coast or Middle West," said Galesburg's mayor, Robert Sheehan.
"The economy is changing. People say that's a part of life. When it hits
elsewhere, people can just shrug their shoulders and say life goes on. But
when it hits your own area, well, then it has a very different meaning.
It's going to be tough."

What has sharpened the pain is that Maytag plans to replace the Galesburg
factory, where wages average $15.14 an hour, with a new refrigerator plant
in Reynosa, Mexico, with wages around $2 an hour. The company was stung by
the fierce anger of workers, Galesburg officials and Illinois lawmakers,
who thought concessions they had made since 1994 would be enough to keep
the plant here. Maytag explained that its rivals were moving operations to
countries with lower wages and that it had to do likewise if it was to
continue selling refrigerators at a competitive price.

Suddenly, Galesburg feels it has caught the infection that has hit so much
of industrial America: the exodus of factory jobs. With the nation losing
two million factory jobs in the past two years, manufacturing employment,
now 16.5 million, has sunk to its lowest level in 40 years.

"This used to be a strong factory town," said Robert Eichorn, who opened
his jewelry shop on Main Street 47 years ago. "But the factory base is
evaporating not only here, but all over the country. They're going to
China, Mexico, you name it."

William Beer, president of Maytag's appliance division, said Maytag
executives were mindful of the human cost. "We deeply regret that we
couldn't identify a cost-effective solution that would allow us to
continue long-term production of refrigerators in Galesburg," Mr. Beer said.

The Maytag workers are fuming about the North American Free Trade
Agreement, about Maytag's embrace of low-cost labor south of the border
and about politicians who trumpet the benefits of free trade.

"This is heartbreaking," said Aaron Kemp, a Maytag worker who attaches
door hinges. "This is one of the most unpatriotic, most un-American things I
can imagine a company doing. They want Americans to buy their products, but
they don't want to put Americans to work making those products."

In many ways, Galesburg epitomizes America. Lincoln debated Douglas here.
Carl Sandburg was born in a tiny prairie home alongside the rail yards. As
a boy, Ronald Reagan lived at 1260 North Kellogg Street.

Even though Maytag's layoffs will not begin until next summer and the
plant will not be completely shut until 2004, the city's boosters are
feeling a
pall this Christmas. Galesburg officials fear that once Maytag closes, the
city will lose 2,000 other jobs that depend on Maytag - in distribution,
auxiliary industries and retailing.

"Obviously, it's going to be a more somber Christmas than normal," Mr.
Kemp said. "For the kids, we'll try to do something normal, but all this puts
people under a lot of stress."

Many Maytag employees have little idea what they will do next.

Take John and Stacy Ester. He has worked at the huge factory for 26 years,
she for 8. Her mother worked there for 31 years, a grandmother for 25 and
a grandfather for 30.

"When we went to her family's house for Thanksgiving, there literally
wasn't a life in that room that wasn't touched by Maytag's decision," Mr.
Ester said.

Ms. Ester said she might return to school to become a medical technician.
"I want to look for a career in a medical department somewhere," she said.
"That way they can't send my job overseas."

Despite their deep roots here, the Esters are thinking of leaving because
there are slim job prospects for John. "I can't believe we might have to
move," Ms. Ester said.

Maytag is providing job counseling, and federal money is available to
retrain workers who lose their jobs when factories move to other
countries.

Mr. Beer, the appliance division president, said the decision to close the
52-year-old factory was part of Maytag's long-time competitive strategy.
___________End__________

Welcome To One World Government!

From Roland –

Ladies & gentlemen:

For those who understand the difference between spiritual wisdom and worldly wisdom, we are instructed by Jesus to assess another by what a person does, rather than what that person says.  What he does tells you whether or not you can trust his words.

The recent demise of Trent Lott is a lesson in politics, but far more importantly, it was a study in subtle evil.

Senator Trent Lott intended to present another ban on "partial birth" abortions before President Bush, in his assumed capacity as Speaker of the Senate.  He never got that far.

Both the House and the Senate had passed previous partial birth abortion bans twice, and both bills were vetoed by then President Bill Clinton.  When Bush was elected president, it was wrongly assumed by Trent Lott that he would immediately sign such legislation.  As it turned out, President Bush let Trent Lott know he did not want to be placed in a position having to make that choice.

Lott intended to push the issue.  The rest is history.

I want to remind every reader just what a partial birth abortion is, so that you can appreciate what George W. Bush did in order to avoid making a public decision on that procedure.

First, a partial birth abortion occurs in the third trimester, and the baby is almost always viable and healthy.  For whatever the reason, the mother chooses to terminate her pregnancy at that late date.  This procedure is rarely done when it is discovered the baby is physically or mentally impaired in some way.  In almost all cases, the baby is healthy and viable.

Maybe it is because her relationship with the father has soured.  Who knows, but the baby is well on its way, and "Mommy' has suddenly changed her mind -- in almost all cases studied.

In order to make this procedure "legal" in human terms, the "physician" reaches into the womb of the mother and turns the baby around to make it come out feet first.  With the head of the baby left in the birth canal to satisfy legal proceedings, the "doctor" drives a shiv into the back of the baby's neck and up into the brain, where he scrambles the brain of the infant and kills it.  After the baby is determined dead, the body is pulled out and disposed of.

That is what a "Partial Birth Abortion" is.  If you think that is okay, then you have serious mental issues that need immediate care.

We have a president named Bush who claims to be a born-again Christian, who has taken extraordinary steps to avoid being placed in a position to sign a bill banning Partial Birth Abortions.

Is that man a Christian?

Carl F. Worden

From Connie –

SNIPER TIPS TO AID HUNT FOR FIREARMS

Arlo Wagner and Matthew Cella
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20030103-95731792.htm

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  Montgomery County police said yesterday that they will use tens of thousands of tips from the October sniper hunt to track down those who violate Maryland gun laws.
     "Our goal is to reduce illegal firearm possessions and violent crimes," said Capt. Nancy Demme, spokeswoman for the Montgomery County Police Department. She also said the intensive crackdown would begin in the county in a few weeks.
     The mission will be carried out by a task force of county and state police officers, as well as federal agents of the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
     Police authorities said many of the nearly 100,000 tips and the names of tipsters and offenders were set aside during the sniper investigation because it was clear they did not pertain to the shooter or shooters, who were using a rifle.
     "If, for instance, someone called to say, 'The guy next door has a couple handguns,' that did not apply," explained Michael Bouchard, special agent in charge of the ATF office in Baltimore.
     Though police say the tips could help solve cases and get illegal guns off the street, gun groups are uneasy about such a task force using information often submitted by neighbors.
     "I just plain don't like it," said Robert Culver, co-chairman of Montgomery Citizens for a Safer Maryland, a Montgomery County-based gun-advocacy group.
     Mr. Culver said the task force could go overboard while investigating gun owners, relying on "rumors" or fraudulent or misguided tips.
     The sniper hunt ended Oct. 25 at an Interstate 70 rest stop near Myersville, Md., with the arrest of John Allen Muhammad, 42, and John Lee Malvo, 17. They are in Virginia jails awaiting capital-offense trials.
     Six of the 10 sniper slayings occurred in Montgomery County. The first took place Oct. 2, with four more occurring in the county the next day, causing thousands of Maryland, Washington and Virginia residents to call a special tip-line telephone number with information about suspects and dubious circumstances.
     "We are still getting a lot of tips as a result," Mr. Bouchard said, and those tips are being examined for possible violations of Maryland and D.C. gun laws.
     Though the task force will focus on handgun owners convicted of violent felonies, Mr. Bouchard acknowledged that some tips already have led to persons who had no idea they owned guns illegally.
     "We are not looking to take away any guns or ammunition that are legally possessed," he said.
     Still, advocacy groups remain concerned.
     A Web site for Maryland gun owners, www.direct-action.org, stated in an October article that the sniper shootings could lead to a "wanton politicizing of a crisis, leading to apparently unconstrained police activity."
     The site offered advice to gun owners interviewed by authorities based on tips.
     Gun advocates portray the crackdown as evidence of continuing hostility toward gun owners by county officials.
     In 2001, the county failed in an attempt to ban gun shows at the Montgomery County Agricultural Center in Gaithersburg. When Silverado Promotions, the show's promoter, challenged the ban, a federal judge ruled that the Montgomery County Council broke the law when it tried to withhold county money to support the event.
     The ruling is being appealed. In the interim, Silverado Promotions is holding a gun show at the Gaithersburg agricultural center this weekend.
     Other jurisdictions are also following on tips received during the sniper shootings.
     "We have detectives working on tips  but we do not have a special task force," Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Cheryl Farrell said.
     Prince George's County police are responding similarly. Capt. Andy Ellis, a department spokesman, said investigators are checking tips that might help solve other crimes or reveal new crimes.
     Still, Virginia police officials in the commonwealth will work much differently on this issue compared with Montgomery or Prince George's counties because Maryland gun laws are "far more restrictive," said John Ritter, an Arlington County police detective.

From Roland –

MARTIAL LAW

The following guide will help you plan, prepare, and get ready in the event that martial law threatens you safety and well being. It is divided into two parts. The first part describes the framework for martial law and the second part the actions to take in preparing or the actual declaration of martial law.

INTERESTING FACTS

· Martial law is defined as: military rule or authority imposed on a civilian population when the civil authorities cannot maintain law and order, as in a time of war or during an emergency.

· Hitler turned Germany into a Nazi dictatorship through executive orders.
· Executive Order 10995: All communications media are to be seized by the Federal Government. Radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, and the internet will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely.

· Executive Order 10997: All electrical power, fuels, and all minerals well be seized by the federal government.
· Executive Order 10998: All food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized by the government. You will not be allowed to hoard food since this is regulated.

· Executive Order 10999: All modes of transportation will go into government control. Any vehicle can be seized.
· Executive Order 11000: All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.
· Executive Order 11490: Establishes presidential control over all US citizens, businesses, and churches in time of "emergency."

· Executive Order 12919: Directs various Cabinet officials to be constantly ready to take over virtually all aspects of the US economy during a State of National Emergency at the direction of the president.

· Executive Order 13010: Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in time of emergency. FEMA is under control of executive branch of the government.

· Executive Order 12656: "ASSIGNMENT OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS RESPONSIBILITIES", "A national emergency is any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States. Policy for national security emergency preparedness shall be established by the President." This order includes federal takeover of all local law enforcement agencies, wage and price controls, prohibits you from moving assets in or out of the United States, creates a draft, controls all travel in and out of the United States, and much more.

· Martial law can be declared due to natural disasters, Y2k Crisis, Stock Market crash, no electricity, riots, biological attack, .... anything leading to the breakdown of law and order.

SURVIVING MARTIAL LAW

· Prepare before any declaration of marital law by becoming self reliant. You may become subject to a bureaucratic system and be prepared to stay one step ahead of it which is easy to do if you are prepared and in a position to be self reliant. You may also face mob rule, chaos, panic, or a complete breakdown in law and order. Survival situations may be easier to handle in rural areas than urban.

· Avoid areas of marital law. Can be imposed due to natural disasters or man caused events. Important to have a retreat or place in a rural area away from populated areas.

· Create alliances with like minded neighbors or community members that share your views. Team work and numbers may help your situation.

· Become transparent in the sense that you do not draw attention to yourself or your family. For instance, do not tell people that you are storing food just store food. Be prepared to render assistance to neighbors if need be. You never know when you will need them.

· Remain calm! Do not panic.
· Avoid areas of civil unrest if possible. If caught in civil unrest take appropriate action.
· Get informed and stay informed. Understand martial law can be a temporary crisis or an extended one. In extreme cases the shape of a whole nation can change.

· Declaration of martial law means your rights are suspended and it is government by decree. Your constitutional rights may no longer apply. This could mean a state of National Emergency.

· People can be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without charges.
· Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly can be suspended, and censorship of the media imposed.
· Gun ownership will also come under severe attack during marital law. We could see house to house searches by the military or National Guard looking for guns and seizing any they find along with stored food.

· Take a stand on issues and make a choice that fits your beliefs and the situation. Do you believe as Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death?" Realize you may have some hard choices to make. Understand you may have to sacrifice your principles on trivial matters or take a hard stand. Always remember that you may have to come back and fight another day.

From Judy -

Wisdom worth heeding!

One day an old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life.  "A fight is going on inside me he said to the boy.  "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil-he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.  The other is good-he is joy, peace, love, hope serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.  This same fight is going on inside you- and inside
every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

From Helen -

http://www.abuse-excuse.com/home.html

REMEMBER: Whether you've been accused of sexual child abuse, physical child
abuse, domestic violence, or sexual harassment, you must follow Tongs 2-Prong Test:

(1) You must prove your innocence, which equates to psychological, and/or psychosexual testing; and
(2) You must impeach the credibility of your false accusers.

"We will not win the war against child abuse until we win the battle against false accusations, first" Dean Tong, Author/Forensic Consultant

From Papa Bear –

Should any readers be in "need" of tax right offs, American Border Patrol
requests many donations for the purpose of privately securing the border.

SAVING ON TAXES WITH ABP DONATION
An IRS ruling dated October 24, 2002, granted American Border Patrol tax-exempt
status under an Advance Ruling that began June 19, 2002 and ends December 31, 2006, at which time a permanent status ruling will be made.

If you made a contribution to ABP after June 18, 2002, it is tax-deductible.

YEAR-END TAX CONSIDERATIONS
Contributions made to ABP before January 1, 2003, are tax deductible.

Send your contribution to:
American Border Patrol
2160 E Fry Blvd
#426
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

For online donations, log on to
http://www.americanpatrol.org/ADMINISTRATION/Donate.html

OR CALL US AT 1-800-600-8642

DONATING ITEMS AND TAX DEDUCTIONS
American Border Patrol can accept donations of certain items to be used in its
operations.  Donations are tax-deductible.  ABP will acknowledge receipt of the donations. The donor is responsible for setting the value of the donated item.

Items needed include
Off road vehicles (4 wheel drive, ATVs)
GPS units (Magellan, Garmin, etc.)
High-Powered Binoculars
Digital cameras video and still
Field Communications Equipment
Aircraft
Computers (Windows XL and Apple OS 9.0 +)
Satellite telephones
Software (video editing, photo editing)

Please call us at1-800-600-8642 if you have any questions.

GIFT IDEAS FOR HAWKEYES
Give your favorite Hawkeye what he/she needs for a busy time at the border next year.
http://www.americanborderpatrol.com/GIFTS/

Glenn Spencer

From Papa Bear – Read if you haven’t seen this

KISSINGER OUT OF THE CLOSET
http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt3.htm

by: Charlotte Iserbyt

And Also –

SELECTION OF KISSINGER TO HEAD 9/11 COMMISSION A HUGE MISTAKE

Master of Secrecy and Deceit Must be Removed

Prelude to a Cover-Up

Judicial Watch to Investigate Through Freedom of Information Act Requests How and Why Kissinger Was Selected

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it condemns the selection by the Bush administration of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head the commission chartered to investigate the September 11th terrorist attacks. Kissinger is uniquely “unqualified” to lead an investigation that should be committed to ferreting out how the careerist, secretive, self-serving mentality and actions of the America’s national security establishment contributed to the vulnerabilities the terrorists have successfully exploited since they began their serial bombing campaign against United States interests and facilities in the mid-1990’s.

Kissinger’s record from the Nixon and Ford administrations reveals a compromised, self-aggrandizing bureaucrat who, like so many other Washington DC “players,” has successfully parlayed his political appointments into a very lucrative “consulting” business. Kissinger’s known business relationships raise conflicts of interest directly related to the people, industries, and countries related to the scope of the commission’s inquiry. Though Kissinger pledged that he will sever ties with clients who may cause a conflict of interest, his assurances are not enough in light of his past behavior.

“Kissinger is precisely the person to guarantee a cover-up and the perpetuation of secrecy, half-truths and the status quo. President Bush publicly resisted any effort to investigate the government failures that contributed to the September 11th attacks. Although Congress launched 9 inquiries into the Pearl Harbor attacks, somehow the Bush administration thought it could get a “pass” on public accountability. The appointment of Kissinger to head the September 11th commission is the next closest thing to not having an investigation at all. The American people deserve the truth, not Nixonian cover-ups and double-talk,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.

Judicial Watch’s book, Fatal Neglect: The U.S. Government’s Continuing Failure to Protect American Citizens from Terrorists, reveals the disturbing truth and provides answers to the terror challenge facing the American people.

From Ken –

Whether this story is true or not, we all have to be careful during this
time of the year.

I wanted to share a TRUE story with all of you. I heard about this last week and found out, that it is indeed TRUE. This happened to Cathy Conaway's sister, who lives in North Guyton. She went to the Wal-Mart in Pooler about 11:00 one night about 1-2 weeks ago.
(I'm sure this is familiar for a lot of us) When she parked her car, there was a van parked right next to her. She heard noise coming from inside but didn't see anyone in it. (didn't think much about it then) About 1a.m. she was leaving and noticed that the van was now parked in front of her vehicle. Getting a little nervous (that gut feeling) she went back
inside and asked if a security guard could walk her out. As they were loading her car, the van pulled out and left. As she got on the road, she noticed the same van behind her. She went a little ways (between Pooler and Faulkville) and her car began to spit and sputter. By this time she was really scared and called 911 from her cell phone. As she pulled over, the police was right there, and the van went on by. While talking to the police the van had turned around and went back by. She pointed it out and the police went after it. The man inside was arrested and taken to jail, but was released on a $700 bond. In his van they found: HER gas cap, a gun, hunting knife, duct tape, rope, a gallon jug of sugar water, and two pairs of women's underwear!!!!!!!!!! After getting her vehicle checked out for the problem, it was determined that sugar and water had been poured into her gas tank.

They have found the man and he is back in jail. He is from Walterboro, S.C. I thought I would share this with you since Christmas shopping nights are just ahead. PLEASE be aware of your surroundings where ever you go. As for me, I'm getting a LOCKING gas cap. They sell (where else but) Wal-Mart. Anyway, the bottom line is: BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember the lady that went missing from Rincon several months ago? They found her car, I think in the Fred's parking lot, but still have not found her. Makes you wonder, doesn't it??????

PLEASE send this to all of your email buddies, male or female. Females, beware!!! Males, go shopping with your wives, girlfriends, or whatever when they ask!!!

From Roland –

Ladies & gentlemen:

Whenever and wherever a failure of local law enforcement and United States
federal government intervention into crime against the citizens exists, a
vigilantism, or Militia of common citizens, will arise.  That is the "Worden
Rule".  That is the American way of doing things, so count on that response
every time it happens.  That is how we were born in fire and blood as a
nation, it is our independent American nature, and it is ultimately
effective whenever necessary.

We American citizens have a constitutional right to bear personal firearms,
and we have personal property to protect, independent of our government;
therefore we are not dependent upon our government to protect us when they
won't.  Such is the case with regards to our border with Mexico.

The Republicans don't want to stem the tide of illegal immigrants galloping
across our border with Mexico because their corporate handlers demand the
cheap labor these illegal immigrants provide.  The Democrats don't want to
interfere with the illegal immigrants because they provide votes for anyone
deemed a Democrat because it is always the Democrats who call for amnesty
for illegal immigrants already established here.  In the afterglow of those
treasonous government failures to act, the citizens' Militia has predictably
filled that void.
http://i.am/jah/politics.htm

The refusal of the American media to nationally report incidents where
citizen Militias have proven effective in arresting and detaining illegal
immigrants on our border with Mexico has been circumvented by Internet news
organizations like WorldNetDaily, Sierra Times and Newsmax, among others,
not afraid or inhibited to report these incidents.

For example, a Texas-based Militia group calling itself "Ranch Rescue"
recently stopped 279 pounds of high grade Marijuana from being smuggled
across a ranch owned by the Nature Conservancy in Arizona.  They were staked
out on a trail on that ranch that looked like a herd of buffalo had recently
crossed at 3 AM when they detected another group coming over.  When the
heavily armed Militia group, largely manned by former special forces
personnel yelled, "Alto!", the group tossed their cargo and scampered back
from whence they came, leaving their shipment for the Militia to gather it
and alert the media.

When the local sheriff was notified of the seizure, he told the media this
was a very serious problem and it could have gone very badly.

Oh really?  How badly?  Where was this sheriff and his deputies when this
shipment was coming through?  Home asleep, perhaps?  Yes, and what was this
sheriff really complaining about?  Perhaps that he didn't get his "cut" off
that shipment?  One can only speculate.

The bottom line is that America is being invaded daily on both southern and
northern borders, not only by illegal immigrants looking for a better life,
but by drug smugglers bringing in contraband that is a whole lot more
dangerous to our American youth than 300 pounds of high-grade pot.  They are
also bringing in Heroin and a number of other drugs.

A Tombstone weekly newspaper publisher recently called for the formation of
a citizen militia to combat illegal immigration on the border.  They asked
for vote on the issue, and 95% of the respondents were in favor of it.

But what was the response of the government officials?  According to
reporter Ignacio Ibarra of the Arizona Daily Star, " Arizona leaders at the
state and federal level are calling for investigations into armed civilian
patrols along the state's border with Mexico."

"U.S. Rep.-elect Raúl Grijalva, a Tucson Democrat who takes office in
January, said he will push for federal hearings into the activities of the
civilian patrols. Grijalva's pledge echoes proposals this weekend during
border forums in Mexico, made by leaders including Gov.-elect Janet
Napolitano, Gov. Jane Hull and Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales."

Since when did these elected miscreants think the American citizen was some
lower class not "authorized" to interdict drug trafficking?  We Americans
are all members of the Militia under the United States Code, and the
Constitution of the United States authorizes the Militia to "Enforce the
laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and to repel invasions."  As
such, the American Militia is a law enforcement entity authorized by every
state and federal law in the nation to make citizen arrests.

The American people are waking up and taking action, and these elected
officials had better do the same.

Carl F. Worden
Liaison Officer
Southern Oregon Militia

From Echo –

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood did so in order to wipe the black race off the face of the earth. She was a racist and is responsible for the death of billions of babies of all races. Now, her organization is responsible for hiding and abeting rapists and child molesters as pregnant little girls as young as thirteen are given abortions and the adult men who raped and got them pregnant are not reported to the police. Their names are held in secret by Planned Parenthood employees. After all, the more pregnant little girls there are, the more money this evil organization collects from we, the tax payers. If you wish to know more about their founder, the racist Margaret Sanger, get the book "Killer Angel" by George Grant. Planned Parenthood needs to be stamped off the face of the earth. All Black Americans need to read this book........   

Planned Parenthood Uses Taxpayer Money to Recruit Children
Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/3/120350.shtml

From Sarah –

On the last day before Christmas, I hurried to go to the supermarket to buy the remaining gifts I
didn't manage to buy earlier. When I saw all the people there, I started to complain to myself: 'It is going to take forever here and I still have so many other places to go...'

'Christmas really is getting more and more annoying every year. How I wish I could just lie down, go to sleep and only wake up after it...'

Nonetheless, I made my way to the toy section, and there I started to curse the prices, wondering if after all kids really play with such expensive toys.

While looking in the toy section, I noticed a small boy of about 5 years old, pressing a doll against his chest. He kept on touching the hair of the doll and looked so sad. I wondered who was this doll for.

 Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: 'Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?'

The old lady replied: 'You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.'
Then she asked him to stay here for 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly.

 The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand. Finally, I started to walk toward him and I asked him who did he want to give this doll to.

 'It is the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for this Christmas. She was so sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.'

I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus will bring it to her, after all, and not to worry.

But he replied to me sadly. 'No, Santa Claus can not bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mother so that she can give it to her when she goes there.'

His eyes were so sad while saying this. 'My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy say that Mummy will also go to see God very soon, so I thought that she could bring the doll with her to give it to my sister'

My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said: 'I told daddy to tell mummy not to go yet. I asked him to wait until I come back from the supermarket'

Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing. He then told me: 'I also want mummy to take this photo with her so that she will not forget me.'

'I love my mummy and I wish she didn't have to leave me but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister'

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.

I quickly reached for my wallet and took a few notes and said to the boy. 'What if we checked again, just in case you have enough money?'

'Ok' he said. 'I hope that I have enough.'

I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll, and even some spare money.

The little boy said: 'Thank you God for giving me enough money.' Then he looked at me and added: 'I asked yesterday before I slept for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll so that mummy can give it to my sister. He heard me. I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mummy, but I didn't dare to ask God too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and the white rose. You know, my mummy loves white roses.'

A few minutes later, the old lady came again and I left with my trolley. I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local newspaper article 2 days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck who hit a car where there was one young lady and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-assisting machine, because the young lady would not be able to get out of the coma. Was this the family of the little boy?

Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young lady had passed away. I couldn't stop myself and went to buy a bunch of white roses and I went to the mortuary where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wishes before burial.

She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little
boy and the doll placed over her chest.

I left the place crying, feeling that my life had been changed forever. The love that this little boy
had for his mother and his sister is still, to that day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunk man had taken all this away from him.

From Roland –

First they came for.

Rev. Martin Niemoller, commenting on events in Germany 1933-1939 said:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and
I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to
speak up." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoeller, July 1,
1937; arrested by the Third Reich

In America, they came first for the Communists,
and you didn't speak up because you weren't a Communist.
Then they came for the Constitutionalists,
and you didn't speak up because you weren't a Constitutionalist.
Then they came for the second amendment supporters,
and you didn't speak up because you didn't want a gun.
Then they came for the patriot,
and you didn't speak up, because you weren't a patriot.
Then they came for those who believe in free-speech,
and you didn't speak up because you didn't believe in free-speech.
Then they rounded up the useless-eaters,
and you were surprised to find out, too late, that you were one of those.
By that time no-one was left to speak up for you, or anyone else.

Dedicated to all those millions due to be eliminated by the NWO.

The following URGENT Breaking News is available at:
"http://www.HalTurnerShow.com"


Please copy and distribute to everyone you know ASAP!

SECRET COURT CAN ISSUE SECRET WARRANT FOR SECRET SEARCH OF U.S. CITIZEN
HOMES, AND, BASED UPON WHAT IS FOUND, CITIZEN MAY **** SECRETLY **** BE
DECLARED AN "ENEMY COMBATANT."

ONCE THIS SECRET DECLARATION HAS BEEN MADE, CITIZEN CAN BE ARRESTED AND
JAILED WITHOUT ANY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!
May then be subjected to "trial" by secret military tribunal, without
benefit of seeing evidence against you, without cross-examining witnesses
and, of course, without a lawyer! This, ladies and gentlemen, is tyranny. It
must be confronted.

There is only one way to put an end to this and that is to enforce The Plan:-
http://i.am/jah/plan.htm

From Helen –

The following regards a warning about medicines containing phen... (with
info from FDA).  All drugs containing Phenylpropanolamine are being
recalled.  See link at end of this message.

Please read this CAREFULLY, as you may USE one or more of these drugs
(Alka
Seltzer Plus for one).

Also, please pass this on to everyone you know. STOP TAKING anything
containing this ingredient. It has been linked to increased hemorrhagic
stroke (bleeding in brain) among women ages 18-79 in the three days
after
starting use of medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA
recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative medicine.

The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine:

Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant Plus Dietary Supplements
Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control
Alka-Seltzer Plus Children's Cold Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (cherry or orange)
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &Cough Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &Flu Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold &Sinus Effervescent
Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine Effervescent
BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder
BC Sinus Cold Powder
Comtrex Deep Chest Cold &Congestion Relief
Comtrex Flu Therapy &Fever Relief
Day &Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules
Contac 12 Hour Caplets
Coricidin D Cold, Flu &Sinus
Dexatrim Caffeine Free
Dexatrim Extended Duration
Dexatrim Gelcaps
Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free
Dimetapp Cold &Allergy Chewable Tablets
Dimetapp Cold &Cough Liqui-Gels
Dimetapp DM Cold &Cough Elixir
Dimetapp Elixir
Dimetapp 4 Hour Liquid Gels
Dimetapp 4 Hour Tablets
Dimetapp 12 Hour Extentabs Tablets
Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops
Permathene Mega-16
Robitussin CF
Tavist-D 12 Hour Relief of Sinus & Nasal Congestion
Triaminic DM Cough Relief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest & Head Congestion
Triaminic Syrup Cold & Allergy
Triaminic Triaminicol Cold &Cough

A friend found out and called the 800# on the container for Triaminic...and
was informed that they are voluntarily recalling the following medicines because of a certain ingredient that is causing strokes and seizures in children:

Orange 3D Cold &Allergy Cherry (Pink)
3D Cold &Cough Berry
3D Cough Relief
Yellow 3D Expectorant

They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot number on the box so they can send you postage for you to send it back to them, and they will also issue you a refund. If you know of anyone else with small children, PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF.

DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST so people are informed. They
can then pass it along to their families. To confirm these findings, please take time to copy and paste the following URL into your browser and check it out!

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/default.htm

The Phenylpropanolamine Information Page from the Center for Drug
Evaluation
and Research, USFDA

From Roland –

To All,

Sometime back I got my hands on a book entitled "EARTH RISING; The Revolution (Toward a Thousand Years of Peace)". Dr. Nick Begich and James Roderick co-authored the book. Their research in writing the book revolved around the High-frequency Auroral Active Research Program (H.A.A.R.P.). Very interesting "stuff" about radio waves, how they effect the mind and body and how the technology will be used for population control and warfare. Had I not been studying for years to get me to the point of reading "EARTH RISING" (in other words I had foundational information) I may have dismissed the article below as so much paranoia "fluff'. If I have any credibility with you at all...I assure you...this is not fantasy or "fluff". Please read all of it so that you will not be caught unaware.

LLTF,

Roland

This is from the International Free Press in Canada.
Note: Serge Monast and another journalist, both of whom were researching Project Blue Beam, died of "heart attacks" within weeks of each other although neither had a history of heart disease.
Serge was in Canada. The other Canadian journalist was visiting Ireland. Prior to his death, the Canadian government abducted Serge's daughter in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing his research into Project Blue Beam. His daughter was never returned.
Pseudo-heart attacks are one of the alleged methods of death induced by Project Blue Beam.
The International Free Press network is not a religious group, neither is it a political organization, but an independent worldwide investigation press agency in the field of politics, economics, medical and military.
We specialize in investigating and publishing special reports and audio tapes to expose the underworld of the United Nations conspiracy to implement a New World Order.
Our task is to make the people realize that the agenda of the New World Order is not a dream or some wild, paranoid theory; it is a real ongoing Satanic project.
For what?
To abolish all Christian traditional religions in order to replace them with a one world religion based on the cult of man. To abolish all national identity and national pride in order to establish a world identity and a world pride.
To abolish the family as known today in order to replace them with individuals all working for the glory of the new one world government.
To destroy all individual artistic and scientific creativity to implement a one world government one-mind sight.
And that kind of declaration of war from the United Nations is for the implementation of a universal, obligatory membership to the United Nations, a strengthening of the UN by a multi-military and multi-police force, a worldwide justice department through the UN with an international tribunal, a worldwide new trade agreement for all nations, the end of cold war and local wars as they are today, and the obligation for peace by scrapping all national and state constitutions.
Also, a new world religion and a new culture for all men.
If we really wish to understand the NASA Blue Beam Project, we have to return to the Œdawning of the age of Aquarius.¹ Remember that song? That song said, ŒWhen the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars, then peace will guide our planet and love will steer the stars.¹
This related with the year 1982 to be, at that time, the opening for the conspiracy of the age of Aquarius, just before the implementation of the new world order, supposed to begin sometime in 1983.
I have to say that the Blue Beam Project was set up for the year 1983. It has been delayed; we don¹t know exactly why. But, since 1983 (eighteen years before the publication of this report), they have really improved themselves with new technology and innovations in space hardware and software in which they are involved right now to make their systems possible.
So, the goals of the new age movement under which the United Nations operates right now, are the implementation of a new world Œmessiah.¹
The tools of the new world order are,
1. an international army;
2. an international police force;
3. a world bank for the economy;
4. a world government under the United Nations;
5. a world conservatory bank for wilderness preservation around the world. That means all Œgreen¹ movements will be melded into the new international bank or disappear altogether;
6. a world religion where all church doctrines will be destroyed at the roots to be replaced by the new world religion of the age of Aquarius;
7. the world seven-races classification for all human slaves who will fulfill predetermined work tasks whether they agree with it or not;
8. the world concentration headquarters at the United Nations for those who will not accept the new system;
9. the world agriculture and food supply control which will control food and vitamin supplies around the world.

The new world order will be an Œin-between¹ government system for USSR, Great Britain and all its commonwealths, and the United States with its melting-pot population.
This is, at the end, a new spiritual and political world order which will replace the old ones under which we live right now.

What are the New World Order plans?

They plan on the destruction of all people who believe in the Bible or worship Jesus Christ, and the complete disappearance of Christianity. To achieve this plan, the new world order is changing national laws to assure that Christian beliefs and symbols - like the cross, for instance, will become outlawed and unlawful. Religious holidays and ceremonies will be replaced with new age festivities around the world.
The elimination and complete destruction of all secret societies and secret brotherhoods, lodges and sanctuaries, all of which they view as the most serious threats to their survival after the implementation of the one world religion and one world government.
The new world order also plans the abolition of all national currencies, and the transfer of commerce to electronic cash through the superhighway.
The thinkers and the basic doctrine of the new age conspiracies books are:
Elena Petrovna Blavatsky, who wrote ŒIsis Unveiled¹ and ŒThe Secret Doctrine.¹
Alice A. Bailey who wrote ŒThe Race and the Initiation and Externalization of the Heirarchy;¹ ŒInitiation: Human and Savior;¹ ŒThe Reappearance of the Christ.¹ (Their Christ is the new messiah). ŒThe Destiny of the Nation,¹ in which are plans for the disposition of the nation-states; ŒThe Unfinished Autobiography;¹ ŒDisciplineship and the New Age;¹ ŒEsoteric Psychology.¹
These books are very important for new age thinkers who are exactly the ones who are conspiring to implement the New World Order.
Also, the writing of Nicola Roerich, who wrote, ŒMatraia, (Maitreya)¹ (that¹s their new messiah); ŒShambala, The Resplendent,¹ and ŒThe Agni Yoga Series.¹
David Spangler who wrote, ŒRevelation: The Birth of a New Age,¹ considered as the Œbible¹ inside the new age movement; ŒReflections on the Christ,¹ which is related to the Luciferian initiation; ŒLinks With Space,¹ which maintains that off-world aliens are supposed to come to save earthlings from themselves; ŒRelationship and Identity,¹ ŒThe Love of Manifestation,¹ ŒNew Age Rifts,¹ and ŒToward a Planetary Vision,¹ which is directly related to the visions of the new world order, as they plan it to be.
Now...what those people also plan - and I repeat, this is not a dream and is not paranoid thinking, this is real. They plan that in order to accept the new world order, all people must first accept the new age religion; to enter into the new world religion, the Christian will have to abdicate their own beliefs. So, as they said, the initiation will be on a worldwide basis inside the newly organized new Christian church (which will be a reorganized and strictly controlled Masonic temple) occult organization based on a Luciferian initiation. What we have to understand here is that no one will be able to maintain their old beliefs and, at the same time, enter into the new age religion. It will be impossible.
For those who will not accept the new world order, who will reject it, the new world order people have already built re-education concentration camps and, for those camps, they have established what they call the Œrainbow classifications¹ of the new world order prisoners.
The rainbow is considered as the Œbridge¹ leading to the Satanic empire of the new world order.

http://i.am/jah/starwar.htm

We already know, for instance, that everyone will have to take an oath to Lucifer in order to cross that bridge into the new age. All who resist that initiation will be sent to detention facilities where they will be separated into different categories, known as the rainbow classification of the new world order prisoners.
1. Classification of Christian children, as planned, is to be as human sacrifices where, within the black mass ceremonies, they will be forced to participate in any kind of sexual orgies or be kept as sexual slaves.
2. Classification of prisoners to be used in medical experiments where drugs and new technologies will be tested on humans.
3. Classification of healthy prisoners for the International Organ Donation Center where vital organs will be removed one by one while they are kept alive by mechanical devices.
4. Classification of all healthy underground workers. The new world order is basically a worldwide dictatorship based upon the Luciferian religion; a dictatorship with the illusion of democracy. In order to maintain the illusion of democracy, camps and slave labor will be hidden underground in massive colonies that are being built as we write this report.
5. Classification of ŒUncertain Prisoners.¹ In the international Œre-education¹ center, political and religious prisoners will be re-educated (by whatever means are required) so that they may repent on international television programs and glorify the virtues of the one world government for the benefit of all humanity.
6. Classification of the International Execution Center. Clear enough!
7. Classification seven. We are still waiting on the details of the Seventh Classification, and we are awaiting verification of the colors to be assigned to these classifications of prisoners, but this is the basic agenda of those who have planned the new Œparadise¹ world of the future.

You must understand that when I decided to release, about six months ago, some of their plans and information concerning their most important project, which is the NASA Blue Beam Project, I wasn¹t certain if I would survive my stand against the new world order¹s plans to put down on their knees all of the world¹s cultures and religions.

http://i.am/jah/illumin.htm

But, now, following my own Christian conscience, my real and deep love for all my unknown brothers and sisters in America and throughout the world, I freely accept to give my life if it has to be the case for the truth, for Jesus Christ, by releasing for the first time, the four major steps of the Satanic Blue Beam Project.
I ask everyone who reads the following descriptions not to be paralyzed by their natural fears but to spread to everyone the contents of this special report, and to gather together in order to pray and to think and to organize ways to survive the new world order government showdown and power taking, because what we have to understand is that the new world government will not be something permanent, immortal; this is not the case. But what we have to do right now is learn how to organize to survive such Satanic plans.
EDITOR¹S NOTE:
The author of this report and his colleague were both killed only weeks apart; one in Canada and the other while visiting Ireland. Now we must carry on their work.

PROJECT BLUE BEAM

The infamous NASA Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement the new age religion with the Antichrist at its head. We must remember that the new age religion is the very foundation for the new world government, without which religion the dictatorship of the new world order is completely impossible.
I¹ll repeat that: Without a universal belief in the new age religion, the success of the new world order will be impossible!
That is why the Blue Beam Project is so important to them, but has been so well hidden until now.

The first step in the NASA Blue Beam Project concerns the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. It deals with the set-up with artificially created earthquakes at certain precise locations on the planet where, supposedly, new discoveries will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines. The falsification of this information will be used to make all nations believe that their religious doctrines have been misunderstood for centuries and misinterpreted. Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the film, Œ2001: A Space Odyssey;¹ the StarTrek series, and ŒIndependence Day;¹ all of which deal with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders. The last films, ŒJurrassic Park,¹ deals with the theories of evolution, and claim God's words are lies.
What is important to understand in the first step is that those earthquakes will hit at different parts of the world where scientific and archaeological teachings have indicated that arcane mysteries have been buried. By those types of earthquakes, it will be possible for scientists to rediscover those arcane mysteries which will be used to discredit all fundamental religious doctrines.
This is the first preparation for the plan for humanity because what they want to do is destroy the beliefs of all Christians and Muslims on the planet. To do that, they need some false Œproof¹ from the far past that will prove to all nations that their religions have all been misinterpreted and misunderstood.

The second step in the NASA Blue Beam Project involves a gigantic Œspace show¹ with three-dimensional optical holograms and sounds, laser projection of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different image according to predominating regional national religious faith.
This new Œgod¹s¹ voice will be speaking in all languages. In order to understand that, we must study various secret services' research done in the last 25 years. The Soviet¹s have perfected an advanced computer, even exported them, and fed them with the minute physio-psychological particulars based on their studies of the anatomy and electromechanical composition of the human body, and the studies of the electrical, chemical and biological properties of the human brain.
These computers were fed, as well, with the languages of all human cultures and their meanings. The dialects of all cultures have been fed into the computers from satellite transmissions. The Soviets began to feed the computers with objective programs like the ones of the new messiah. It also seems that the Soviets - the new world order people - have resorted to suicidal methods with the human society by allocating electronic wavelengths for every person and every society and culture to induce suicidal thoughts if the person doesn't comply with the dictates of the new world order.
There are two different aspects of step two. The first is the Œspace show..¹ Where does the space show come from? The space show, the holographic images will be used in a simulation of the ending during which all nations will be shown scenes which will be the fulfillment of that which they desire to verify the prophecies and adversary events.

http://i.am/jah/prophecy.htm

These will be projected from satellites onto the sodium layer about 60 miles above the earth. We see tests every once in a while, but they are called UFOs and "flying saucers."
The result of these deliberately staged events will be to show the world the new Œchrist,¹ the new messiah, Matraia (Maitreya), for the immediate implementation of the new world religion. Enough truth will be foisted upon an unsuspecting world to hook them into the lie. "Even the most learned will be deceived."
The project has perfected the ability for some device to lift up an enormous number of people, as in a rapture, and whisk the entire group into a never-never land. We see tests of this device in the abduction of humans by those mysterious little alien greys who snatch people out of their beds and through windows into waiting "mother ships."
The calculated resistance to the universal religion and the new messiah and the ensuing holy wars will result in the loss of human life on a scale never imagined before in all of human history.
The Blue Beam Project will pretend to be the universal fulfillment of the prophecies of old, as major an event as that which occurred 2,000 years ago. In principle, it will make use of the skies as a movie screen (on the sodium layer at about 60 miles) as space-based laser-generating satellites project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet in every language and dialect according to the region. It deals with the religious aspect of the new world order and is deception and seduction on a massive scale.
Computers will coordinate the satellites and software already in place will run the sky show. Holographic images are based on nearly identical signals combining to produce an image or hologram with deep perspective which is equally applicable to acoustic ELF, VLF and LF waves and optical phenomena.
Specifically, the show will consist of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different image according to the specific national, regional religion. Not a single area will be excluded.
With computer animation and sounds appearing to emanate from the very depths of space, astonished ardent followers of the various creeds will witness their own returned messiahs in convincing lifelike reality.
Then the projections of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, etc., will merge into one after correct explanations of the mysteries and revelations will have been disclosed. This one god will, in fact, be the Antichrist, who will explain that the various scriptures have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, and that the religions of old are responsible for turning brother against brother, and nation against nation, therefore old religions must be abolished to make way for the new age new world religion, representing the one god Antichrist they see before them.
Naturally, this superbly staged falsification will result in dissolved social and religious disorder on a grand scale, each nation blaming the other for the deception, setting loose millions of programmed religious fanatics through demonic possession on a scale never witnessed before.
In addition, this event will occur at a time of profound worldwide political anarchy and general tumult created by some worldwide catastrophe. The United Nation even now plans to use Beethovan¹s ŒSong of Joy¹ as the anthem for the introduction for the new age one world religion.
If we put this space show in parallel with the star wars program we get this: combination of electromagnetic radiation and hypnosis which have also been the subject of intensive research. In 1974, for instance, researcher G. F. Shapits, said of one of the research proposals that, Œ...in this investigation it will be shown that the spoken words of the hypnotist may also be converted by electromagnetic energy directly and to the subconscious part of the human brain without employing any mechanical device for receiving or transcording the message, and without the person exposed to such influence having a chance to control the information input consciously. It may be expected that the rationalized behavior will be considered to have been taken out of their own free will.¹
Anyone investigating so-called Œchannelling¹ phenomena right now would be wise to take this area of research into consideration. It will be noted that those who think of themselves as Œchannelers¹ has escalated rapidly since this type of research was conducted.
It is uncanny how similar their messages are, despite which entity they claim to be their source of divine guidance. It would suggest any individual considering the credibility of channelled information should be discerning and critically evaluate where the message they are receiving originates, and if the messages are specifically beneficial to the new world order.
The Sydney Morning newspaper published an item on March 21st, 1983 which announced that the Soviets were invading the human mind, the article having been submitted to the foreign editor by Doctor Nathan Abnuengy <sp>, assistant professor in the faculty of agriculture in Asia. It is worth quoting the article at length even though his grammar is a little old.
This article relates to the Soviets who created the supercomputer we were discussing earlier and which is really important because these types of computers can be run through satellites and through space. The computers were fed with all the different languages and their meanings, the dialect of all peoples were fed to the computers with objective programs.
But we are no longer talking about the Soviets; we are talking about the United Nations, the minions of the new world order, who are feeding the computers with the necessary information.
The editor of the column in which the article appeared even states that the piece made points too important to ignore. I think it is possible that the persons who have created this mega-mind control program could sell the software to an organization and not be aware that the client might use the program and data to enslave all of humankind. Just imagine how far they have advanced since that article was published!
The advancement of techniques propel us toward the third step in the Blue Beam Project that goes along with the telepathic and electronically augmented two-way communication where ELF, VLF and LF waves will reach each person from within his or her own mind, convincing each of them that their own god is speaking to them from the very depths of their own soul.
Such rays from satellites are fed from the memories of computers that have stored massive data about every human on earth, and their languages. The rays will then interlace with their natural thinking to form what we call diffuse artificial thought.
That kind of technology goes into the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s research where the human brain has been compared to a computer. Information is fed in, processed, integrated and then a response is formulated and acted upon.
Mind controllers manipulate information the same way a computer for grammar manipulates information.
In January 1991, the University of Arizona hosted a conference entitled, ŒThe NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Current and Emergent Phenomena and Biomolecular Systems.¹ What does that mean exactly?
It means this: We refer to one paper that was delivered at the conference which stands out for its different attitude towards the development under discussion at that time. It was, in effect, a protest and chilling warning to the attending scientists about the potential abuse of their research findings.
Their findings, of course, stated that the United States has already developed communications equipment which can make the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk. It can relieve the terminally ill from pain without the use of drugs or surgery. I¹m not talking about science fiction.
A man might retain the use of all his faculties right up to the moment of his death. This communications equipment depends upon a completely new way of looking at the human brain and neuromuscular systems and radiation pulses at ultra-low frequencies.
Some of this equipment is now operational within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation. It will never be used to make the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk because it is central to the domestic political agenda and foreign policy of George Bush and his puppet-masters of the new world order.
Domestically, the new communications equipment is being used to torture and murder persons who match profiles imagined to be able to screen a given population for terrorists; to torture and murder citizens who belong to organizations which promote tolerance and peace and development in Central America; to torture and murder citizens who belong to organizations who oppose the development and deployment of nuclear weapons, and to create a race of slave cult automatons, or what is popularly called Œthe Manchurian Candidates.¹
Overseas experimentation is taking place on hostages held by the United States and Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Finland and France. Additionally, there has been a long series of bizarre suicides among British computer scientists, all of whom have had some connection to the United States Navy.
What it is possible to ask before such a psychology of terror is this: would any government, corporation or psychiatrist wilfully promote such horror today?
The answer is quite obviously, ŒYes.¹ Government agencies and the corporations that work with them toward new world order are prepared to promote anything that will help them achieve their objective of total social control.
As for the question of why: For one thing, if you terrify the public and make them fear for their safety, they will allow you to implement draconian law enforcement practice, disarm them and keep extensive records on them, and they only have to tell you that it is all to protect you, of course.
Secondly, it promotes the decay of the present democratic forms of political systems, and leads societies to search for alternative methods of political ideology. Of course, the alternative has already been planned. It is called the new world order and it will not have your safety or interests at heart. As George Bush said: ŒRead my lips.¹
Fear has always been used by powerful elite to control and subjugate the masses. The old maxim, divide and conquer is being played out to the limit worldwide to ensure that everyone is frightened for their personal safety, and to be suspicious of everyone else. This, too, is mind control.
To go further in regard to the new technology which is at the base of the NASA Blue Beam Project, we have to consider this statement by psychologist James V. McConnell which was published in a 1970s issue of Psychology Today. He said, ŒThe day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with drug hypnosis and astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain almost absolute control over an individual¹s behavior. It should then be possible to achieve a very rapid and highly effective type of positive brainwashing that would allow us to make dramatic changes in a person¹s behavior and personality.¹
Now, when we talked before about that kind of ray and the telepathic and electronically augmented communication, the kind of rays that are fed from the memories of computers which store massive data about humans, human language and dialects, and we said that the people will be reached from within, making each person to believe that his own god is speaking directly from within his or her own soul, we refer to that kind of technology and that kind of thinking that same psychologist was espousing, that is: we should be trained from birth that we should all do what society wants us to do rather than what we want to do for ourselves; that because they have the technology to do it, no one should now be allowed to have their own individual personality.
This statement and these ideas are important because it is the basic teaching of the United Nations that no one owns his or her own personality. And that same psychologist claims that no one has any say-so about the kind of personality they acquire and there is no reason to believe you have the right to refuse to acquire a new personality if your old personality is considered Œantisocial.¹
What is important in this declaration is that the new world order will be set up over the current system , meaning the old way of thinking and behavior and religion will be considered the Œold¹ and incorrect way of thinking and that they can change it at one of the eradication camps of the United Nations to make sure that anyone with this Œantisocial¹ behavior will be disposed of quickly so that other modified individuals will be able to fulfill the needs and agendas of the new world order without being distracted by the truth.

Could this be the greatest mind control project ever?

The NASA Blue Beam Project is the prime directive for the new world order¹s absolute control over the populations of the entire earth. I would suggest you investigate this information carefully before dismissing it as fanatic lunacy.
If we go further in the different reports we have presented, we find that the mind control operations and technology include a transmitter that broadcasts at the same frequency as the human nervous system, which transmitter is manufactured by the Loral Electro-Optical System in Pasadena, California.
Loral, a major defense contractor, has previously conducted research on directed energy weapons for Lt. Gen. Leonard Perez of the U. S. Airforce who was searching for a weapon that could implant messages into the minds of the enemy while urging his own troops on to superhuman deeds of valor!
The device employs electromagnetic radiation of gigahertz frequencies pulsed at extremely low frequencies (ELF). It is used to torture people both physically and mentally from a distance. Weapons of this type are thought to have been used against a British woman protesting the presence of American Cruise Missiles at Greenham Common Airbase during the 1970s.
This weapon can be used to induce total sensory deprivation by broadcasting signals into the auditory nerve at such high power that it blocks the ability of the individual to hear themselves think!
The process employed by such ELF technology are described in various U. S. Defense Department publications, including one entitled, Œ The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Low Intensity Conflict,¹ by Captain Paul E. Tyler, Medical Commandant, U. S. Navy, which is included in a collection entitled, ŒLow Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology Edict,¹ by Lt. Col David G. Dean, USAF.
The paper was delivered in 1984 and the collection published 1986 by Air University Press, Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama.
Another pulse microwave device can deliver audible signals directly to an individual while remaining undetectable to anyone else. The technology is very simple and can be built by using an ordinary police radar gun. The microwave beam generated by the device is modulated at audio frequencies and can broadcast messages directly into the brain.
Now here we come to the NASA Blue Beam Project. The broadcasting of subliminal two-way communication and images from the depths of space correspond directly to that kind of technology.
In his book, ŒThe Body Electric,¹ Nobel Prize nominee Robert Baker describes a series of experiments conducted in the early 1960s by Allen Frie where this phenomena was demonstrated as well as later experiments conducted in 1973 at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research by Dr. Joseph C. Sharp who personally underwent tests in which he proved he could hear and understand messages delivered to him in an echo-free isolation chamber via a pulsed microwave audiogram which is an analog of the word¹s sound vibration beamed into his brain.
Baker then goes on to state, ŒSuch a device has obvious application for covert operations designed to drive a target crazy with unknown voices or deliver undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin."
Now figure out when we hear that voice from the new world messiah who would be speaking from space to all of the sane people of the earth who might give instructions to zealots and religious fanatics, we would see hysteria and social mayhem on a scale never witnessed before on this planet.
No police forces in the world, even as a combined front, could deal with the disorder that will follow!
A 1978 book entitled, ŒMicrowave Auditory Effect and Application,¹ by James C. Lynn describes how audible voices can be broadcast directly into the brain. This technology could actually allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Instead, it has been turned into a weapon to enslave the world.
Allen Frie also reports that he could speed up, slow down or stop the hearts of isolated frogs by synchronizing the pulsed rate of a microwave beam with the heart itself.
According to Robert Baker, similar results have been obtained using live frogs, which shows that it is technically feasible to produce heart attacks with rays designed to penetrate the human chest.
EDITOR¹S NOTE: Both the author of this report and his colleague died of Œheart attacks¹ only days apart.
I should mention also that Dr. Baker does NOT participate in such research.
It has been demonstrated that focused ultra high frequency UHF electromagnetic energy beams can be used to induce considerable agitation and muscular activity or induce muscular weakness and lethargy.
Microwaves can also be used to burn human skin and aid the effect of drugs, bacteria and poisons or affect the function of the entire brain. These effects were all revealed at length by the CIA on September 21, 1977 in testimony before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb <sp>. who directed the MK-Ultra program at that time was forced to discuss the scope of the CIA¹s research to find techniques of activation of the human organism by remote electronic means.
So this is something that exists right now, that has been pursued to its highest degree, that can be used from space to reach any person, anyplace on the face of the earth.
If we go deeper in that process of mind control over the people we find that the equipment and technology has been used to influence politics in a much more direct fashion.
Michael Dukakis, the Democrat candidate running against George Bush in the 1988 election was targeted with microwave technology in order to impede his public speaking performance once the public opinion polls showed he posed a serious threat to Bush¹s election prospects.
He also claims that the equipment was used against Kitty Dukakis and drove her to the brink of suicide.
In the Disneyland world of U. S. politics, a presidential candidate with problems such as these, would obviously lose their race to the White House.
In the December 1980 edition of the U. S. Army Journal, called the Military Review, a column by Lt. Col John B. Alexander, entitled, ŒThe New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock,¹ provides further insight into the technical capabilities at the disposal of the comptroller. He writes, ŒSeveral examples will demonstrate areas in which progress have been made. The transference of energy from one organism to another; the ability to heal or cause disease to be transmitted over a distance, thus inducing illness or death from no apparent cause; telepathic behavior modification which includes the ability to induce hypnotic states up to a distance of 1,000 kilometers have been reported. The use of telepathic hypnosis also holds great potential. This capability could allow agents to be deeply planted with no conscious knowledge of their programming. In movie terms, the Manchurian Candidate lives, and does not even require a telephone call.
ŒOther mind-to-mind induction techniques are being considered. If perfected this capability could allow the direct transference of thought via telepathy from one mind or group of minds to a select target audience. The unique factor is that the recipient will not be aware that thought has been implanted from an external source. He or she will believe the thoughts are original.¹
This is exactly what we were talking about.

The third step in the NASA Blue Beam Project is called the Telepathic Electronic Two-Way Communication. Lt. Col Alexander¹s article continues: ŒIf it is possible to feed artificial thought into the multigenic field via satellite, the mind control of the entire planet is now possible. An individual¹s only resistance would be to constantly question the motivation behind their thoughts and not act upon thoughts which they consider to be outside their own ideological, religious and moral boundaries.¹
Once again, it is wise to consider how television, advertising, modern education and various types of social pressure are used to manipulate those boundaries.
It has been reported by Lt. Col Alexander who said, in the summary of his Military Review article, ŒThe information on those kinds of technologies presented here would be considered by some to be ridiculous since it does not conform to their view of reality. But some people still believe the world is flat.¹
Now, this means a lot, because if people do not believe this kind of technology is possible, or that it is science fiction, those people put themselves in great jeopardy, because on the night when those thousand stars will shine from space, during the night when the new messiah will be presented to the world, they will not be prepared and will have no time to prepare to save themselves against that kind of technology. They don¹t believe and they won¹t take time to prepare.

This is exactly what happens to people who are convinced by Satan into believing that he doesn¹t exist, so they have no defence against him. JAH.

Step Four of the NASA Blue Beam Project.
The fourth step concerns the universal supernatural manifestation with electronic means. It contains three different orientations.
One is to make mankind believe that an alien (off-world) invasion is about to occur at every major city on earth in order to provoke each major nation to use its nuclear weapons in order to strike back. This way, the United Nations Court will require that all those nations which launched nuclear weapons to disarm when the invasion is shown to have been false.
And how will the United Nations know that the invasion was false? They will have staged it, of course.
The second is to make the Christians believe that the rapture is going to occur with the supposed divine intervention of an alien (off-world) civilization coming to rescue earthlings from a savage and merciless demon. Its goal will be to dispose of all significant opposition to the implementation of the new world order in one major stroke, actually within hours of the beginning of the sky show!
The third orientation in the fourth step is a mixture of electronic and supernatural forces. The waves used at that time will allow "supernatural forces" to travel through optical fibers, coaxial cables (TV) electrical and phone lines in order to penetrate to everyone at once through major appliances. Embedded chips will already be in place. The goal of this deals with global Satanic ghosts projected all around the world in order to push all populations to the edge of hysteria and madness, to drown them into a wave of suicide, murder and permanent psychological disorders.
After the night of the thousand stars, worldwide populations will be ready for the new messiah to re-establish order and peace at any cost, even at the cost of abdication of freedom.
The techniques used in the fourth step is exactly the same used in the past in the USSR to force the people to accept Communism. The same technique will be used by the United Nations to implement the new world religion and the new world order.
A lot of people ask when this is going to happen and how they will accomplish the visions of the night of a thousand stars, and the events that will point to the days when it will begin.
According to the many reports we have received, we believe it will begin with some kind of worldwide economic disaster. Not a complete crash, but enough to allow them to introduce some kind of in-between currency before they introduce their electronic cash to replace all paper or plastic money.
The in-between currency will be used to force anyone with savings to spend or turn in their cash because they understand that people who have money and are not dependent upon them might be the very ones who will mount an insurrection against them. If everyone is broke, no one can fund a war of any kind: paper currency will cease to exist. This is one of the first signs.
But to implement the worldwide electronic money system, everyone in the world who might have money in the future, will have to have a way to transfer money electronically. Before that time, everyone will have spent, before the year 2,000, all of their cash, reserves and assets. Everyone has to be 100% dependent upon the Council for their existence.
To prevent any kind of independence, the new world order has already implanted micro chips in wild animals, birds, fish, etc. Why? They want to make certain that the people who will not accept the new world order will not be able to hunt or fish any where in the world. If they try, they will be tracked and traced by satellites, then hunted down and imprisoned or killed.
The new world order is already changing the laws of all nations to make everyone dependent upon a single food and vitamin supply. They are changing laws about religion and psychiatric disorders in order to identify anyone who is potentially threatening to the NWO. Those who are found defective will be sent to eradication camps where their organs will be taken and sold to the highest bidders. Those who are not killed outright will be used as slave labor or used in medical experiments.
The goal of a dictatorship is to control everyone, everywhere on the planet, ruthlessly and without exception.
That¹s why the new technology being introduced everywhere is a technology for the control of the people. The technology of the 1940s and 1950s was used to help the people have an easier and more productive life. The new technology is designed and built to track down and control people everywhere. This technology is being manufactured for a specific purpose and to refuse to see and recognize that purpose, which is to enslave the entire populations of the world, is to deny the emergence of the Antichrist and the establishment of the new world order religion and government.
If you cannot see, if you cannot learn, if you cannot understand, then you and your family and friends will succumb to the fires of the crematoria that have been built in every state and every major city on earth, built to deal with you.
No one is safe in a totalitarian police state!

Subject: MORE ON OPERATION BLUE BEAM
JESUS IS COMING - KILL THE ENEMIES OF G_D
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:05:15 -0400
From: ŒHPK¹ <hpkawaja@nc.tds.net>
To: ŒDSWCC-OneList Group¹ <DSWCC@onelist.com>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin020199.htm
When Seeing and Hearing Isn¹t Believing
By William M. Arkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, Feb. 1, 1999
ŒGentlemen! We have called you together to inform you that we are going to overthrow the United States government.¹ So begins a statement being delivered by Gen. Carl W. Steiner, former Commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command.
At least the voice sounds amazingly like him.
But it is not Steiner. It is the result of voice Œmorphing¹ technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
By taking just a 10-minute digital recording of Steiner¹s voice, scientist George Papcun is able, in near real time, to clone speech patterns and develop an accurate facsimile. Steiner was so impressed, he asked for a copy of the tape.
Steiner was hardly the first or last victim to be spoofed by Papcun¹s team members. To refine their method, they took various high quality recordings of generals and experimented with creating fake statements. One of the most memorable is Colin Powell stating ŒI am being treated well by my captors.¹
ŒThey chose to have him say something he would never otherwise have said,¹ chuckled one of Papcun¹s colleagues.

A Box of Chocolates is Like War

Most Americans were introduced to the tricks of the digital age in the movie Forrest Gump, when the character played by Tom Hanks appeared to shake hands with President Kennedy.Ê [ See the movie FACE OFF also. ]Ê
For Hollywood, it is special effects. For covert operators in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, it is a weapon of the future.Ê [ A weapon to be used against ANYONE who is considered ENEMY OF THE STATE ]Ê
ŒOnce you can take any kind of information and reduce it into ones and zeros, you can do some pretty interesting things,¹ says Daniel T. Kuehl, chairman of the Information Operations department of the National Defense University in Washington, the military¹s school for information warfare.
Digital morphing - voice, video, and photo - has come of age, available for use in psychological operations. PSYOPS, as the military calls it, seek to exploit human vulnerabilities in enemy governments, militaries and populations to pursue national and battlefield objectives.
To some, PSYOPS is a backwater military discipline of leaflet dropping and radio propaganda. To a growing group of information war technologists, it is the nexus of fantasy and reality. Being able to manufacture convincing audio or video, they say, might be the difference in a successful military operation or coup.ÊÊ
[Your head on Lee Harvey Oswald¹s body - you ARE guilty and a jury of YOUR PEERS will convict YOU Œfor them¹!]

Allah on the Holodeck
Pentagon planners started to discuss digital morphing after Iraq¹s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

http://i.am/jah/theiofk.htm

Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world.Ê [NO - they did it DURING DESERT STORM - see DSWCC ŒThe voice of God¹]Ê
The tape war never proceeded, killed, participants say, by bureaucratic fights over jurisdiction, skepticism over the technology, and concerns raised by Arab coalition partners.Ê [ BUZZZ - it proceeded, tested - perfected. ]Ê
But the Œstrategic¹ PSYOPS scheming didn¹t die. What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad urging the Iraqi people and Army to rise up against Saddam, a senior Air Force officer asked in 1990?
According to a military physicist given the task of looking into the hologram idea, the feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air.
But doing so over the skies of Iraq? To project such a hologram over Baghdad on the order of several hundred feet, they calculated, would take a mirror more than a mile square in space, as well as huge projectors and power sources.
And besides, investigators came back, what does Allah look like?
The Gulf War hologram story might be dismissed were it not the case that washingtonpost.com has learned that a super secret program was established in 1994 to pursue the very technology for PSYOPS application. The ŒHolographic Projector¹ is described in a classified Air Force document as a system to Œproject information power from space ... for special operations deception missions.¹

War is Like a Box of Chocolates

Voice-morphing? Fake video? Holographic projection? They sound more like Mission Impossible and Star Trek gimmicks than weapons. Yet for each, there are corresponding and growing research efforts as the technologies improve and offensive information warfare expands.
Whereas early voice morphing required cutting and pasting speech to put letters or words together to make a composite, Papcun¹s software developed at Los Alamos can far more accurately replicate the way one actually speaks. Eliminated are the robotic intonations.
The irony is that after Papcun finished his speech cloning research, there were no takers in the military. Luckily for him, Hollywood is interested: The promise of creating a virtual Clark Gable is mightier than the sword.
Video and photo manipulation has already raised profound questions of authenticity for the journalistic world. With audio joining the mix, it is not only journalists but also privacy advocates and the conspiracy-minded who will no doubt ponder the worrisome mischief that lurks in the not too distant future.
ŒWe already know that seeing isn¹t necessarily believing,¹ says Dan Kuehl, Œnow I guess hearing isn¹t either.¹
William M. Arkin, author of ŒThe U.S. Military Online,¹ is a leading expert on national security and the Internet. He lectures and writes on nuclear weapons, military matters and information warfare. An Army intelligence analyst from 1974-1978, Arkin currently consults for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, MSNBC and the Natural Resources Defense Council.ÊÊ
GET READY: Emails re-arranged to seem like a death or bomb threat, your telephone conversations re-arranged after you use words to describe a movie you saw and over Œtime¹ with ECHELON recording your conversations, they will have your vocabulary of words in YOUR VOICE and now when they want to prosecute you of a crime THEY COMMIT - suddenly they can have audio recordings and video footage of you being in some location and the jury hear you say what your enemies want them to hear. GUILTY - OFF WITH HIS HEAD, DEATH!Ê A jury of your peers will believe and convict you. We are coming full in this civilization where all deception will become the way of life, all lies will become truth, and truth will no longer exist. IT WILL BE TOTAL ILLUSION NOW OVERT based on Evil.
DSWCC > http://www.nonwo.com/dswcc/

Isaiah   5:20 Woe unto them that call evil (lies) good (truth), and good (truth) evil (lies); that put darkness for Light, and Light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Introducing Project Blue Beam Patrol

In cooperation with TRW Space and Technology, NASA and other world space agencies, the Bilderberg group has developed a series of three stationary satellites with advanced laser technology that enable them to project holographic images onto the earth¹s surface from outer space!
This amazing technology allows Project Blue Beam Patrol to create holographic decoys of Police Officers that will patrol our city streets along with and among our own finest. The criminals will not be able to tell which are the real officers and which are the holograms.
BLUE BEAM PROJECT by Jim Seabourn (crtisad@inland.net) 8/19/98
This is an article from CONTACT! [August 11, 1998-page 8-9]
Phone 1-800-800-5565.
PLEASE THIS IS LONG BUT ITS ŒCUTTING EDGE¹ INFORMATION! WE HAVE MANY TALENTED FOLKS ON OUR ŒLISTS¹ AND WE MUST HAVE A WAY TO ŒSURVIVE¹ THIS SITUATION! I believe that some kind of ŒWHITE NOISE¹ MAY LET US KEEP OUR ŒSANITY¹ Can anyone HELP??? PLEASE FORWARD TO THE ŒKNOWN¹ WORLD!!

WHAT IS THE ŒBLUE BEAM PROJECT¹?

From the INTERNET, courtesy of Calvin Burgin, wrldline@texas.net>
7/29/98:
It involves two things. A technologically simulated Œsecond coming¹ and the re-emergence of the new ŒMONTAUK¹-type projects that have the ability to take up a whole bunch of people as in a Œrapture¹ type of situation and whisk the whole bunch into never-never land. Ironically, portions of the holographic projections have the potential for changing the planet into oneness with God. Unfortunately, this operates on the premise that Man shall somehow become God in human form and control other Men and dictate all actions and thoughts.
The calculated resistance to the new religion, the New World Order and the new ŒMessiah¹ will entail human loss on a massive scale in the ensuing Œholy wars¹. The ŒBLUE BEAM PROJECT¹ will pretend to be the universal fulfillment of the prophecies of old; as major an event as that which took place 2000 years ago. In principle, it will make use of the sky as a holographic projection screen for space-based laser-generating satellites [star wars]. These projectors will project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet, in every language by region. It deals with the religious aspect of the New World Order. The system has already been tested. Holographic projections of the ŒChrist Image¹ have already been seen in some remote desert areas. These have only been reported in tabloid papers, so they are instantly rendered moot. They can also project images of aliens, monsters, angels - you name it. Computers will coordinate the satellites and software will run the show-and-tell. Holography is based on very nearly identical signals combining to produce image, or hologram, with depth perception. This is equally applicable to acoustic [ELF, VLF, LF] waves as it is optical phenomena. Specifically, the Œshow¹ will consist of laser projections of multiple holographic images to different parts of the planet, each receiving different images according to the predominating regional religious faith. Not a single area will be excluded.
With computer animation and sound effects appearing to come from the depths of space, astonished followers of the various creeds will witness their own returned Messiah in spectacularly convincing lifelike realness. The various images of Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, etc., will merge into ONE after Œcorrect explanation¹ of the mysteries, prophecies and revelations are disclosed. This ŒONE GOD¹ will in fact function as the Anti-Christ¹, who will Œexplain¹ that the various scriptures Œhave been misunderstood¹ - that the religious of old are responsible for turning brother against brother, nation against nation - that the religions of the world must be abolished to make way for the GOLDEN AGE [NEW AGE] of the One World Religion, representing the One God they see before them.
Naturally, this superbly staged, full-scale production will result in social and religious disorder on a massive scale. Wonder what the television transmitters of religious networks will be doing on that day? But before all this, they have to go through four different steps in order to get to Project Blue Beam.
1: The first step concerns the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. It deals with staging earthquakes at certain precise locations around the planet where supposed new Œdiscoveries¹ will finally explain [for them] that the meaning of the basic doctrines of all the world¹s major religions are Œwrong¹. This falsification will be used to make the population believe that all religious doctrine has been misunderstood and misinterpreted.. The falsification started with the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the TV-series STAR TREK, the INDEPENDENCE DAY film, E.T., all of which deal with space Œinvasion¹ and Œprotection¹. JURASSIC PARK was to push the theory of evolution.
2: The second step deals with the gigantic space show: 3D optical holograms and sounds, laser projections of multiple holographic images in different parts of the world, each receiving a different image, according to its predetermined original national religious faith. This new Œgod¹ image will talk in all languages. As an example, the Soviets have manufactured the advanced computers and have programmed them with the minute psychological particles based upon their studies of the anatomy and biology of the human body, as well as their studies on the anatomy, chemistry and electricity of the human brain. These computers have also been fed with the different languages of the world.
3: The third step deals with the telepathic electronic two-way communications, where ELF [Extra Low Frequency], VLF [Low Frequency] waves will reach the people of the Earth through the insides of their brains, making each person believe that his own God is speaking to him from within his own soul. Such rays, from satellites, are fed from the memory of computers that store much data about the human being and his languages. These rays will then interlace and interweave with the natural thinking processes to form what we call the ARTIFICIAL TALK.
4: The fourth step involves universal supernatural manifestations using electronic means. This step contains three different orientations: The first one is to make mankind believe that an alien invasion is about to occur upon every major city on the Earth. This is to push each major nation into using its nuclear capability to strike back. In this manner, it would put each of these nations in a state of full disarmament before the United Nations after the false attack.
The second is to make the ŒChristian¹ believe that a major rapture is occurring, with a simple Œplayed¹ divine intervention of an alleged Œgood¹ alien force coming to save the good people from a brutal satanic attack. Its goal is to get rid of all significant opposition to the NEW WORLD ORDER. The third orientation is a mixture of electronic and supernatural forces. The waves [frequencies] used at that time will allow supernatural forces through fiber optics cable, coaxial cable, electric and telephone lines in order to penetrate all electronic equipment and appliances that will by then all have a special microchip installed. The goal of this step deals with the materialization of satanic ghosts, spectres, and poltergiests all across the globe in order to push all populations to the edge of a wave of suicide, killing and permanent psychological disorder. After that night of the THOUSAND STARS, HUMANITY IS BELIEVED TO BE READY FOR THEM TO ENTER IN A ŒNEW MESSIAH¹ TO REESTABLISH PEACE EVERYWHERE AT ANY COST, EVEN AT THE COST OF FREEDOM.

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ŒDavid Esur¹ - a military soldier who actually released secrets from the NSA (it is believed). Last reported as Œhe is worried for his life¹ because of releasing it, he has disappeared from my email list. But then again, I never really was able to contact him to begin with - he contacted me, once. He released:
ŒSubliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions and Scripts Using Acoustically Delivered and Phonetically Accelerated Posthypnotic Commands without Somnambulistic Preparation in the Subject for Intelligence and Counterintelligence Applications by the United States National Security Agency.¹
I think he disappeared....like Ross Adey.... and I think that the writer of the article below, Timothy Thomas, may have too. But who knows?
Foreign Military Studies Office 101 Meade Ave Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-1351
WARNING! The views expressed in FMSO publications and reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

The Mind Has No Firewall

Mr. Timothy L. Thomas Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS.
This article first appeared in the Spring 1998 issue of Parameters
ŒIt is completely clear that the state which is first to create such weapons will achieve incomparable superiority.¹ -Major I. Chernishev, Russian Army 1
The human body, much like a computer, contains myriad data processors. They include, but are not limited to, the chemical-electrical activity of the brain, heart, and peripheral nervous system, the signals sent from the cortex region of the brain to other parts of our body, the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that process auditory signals, and the light-sensitive retina and cornea of the eye that process visual activity. 2 We are on the threshold of an era in which these data processors of the human body may be manipulated or debilitated. Examples of unplanned attacks on the body¹s data-processing capability are well-documented. Strobe lights have been known to cause epileptic seizures. Not long ago in Japan, children watching television cartoons were subjected to pulsating lights that caused seizures in some and made others very sick.
Defending friendly and targeting adversary data-processing capabilities of the body appears to be an area of weakness in the US approach to information warfare theory, a theory oriented heavily toward systems data processing and designed to attain information dominance on the battlefield. Or so it would appear from information in the open, unclassified press. This US shortcoming may be a serious one, since the capabilities to alter the data processing systems of the body already exist. A recent edition of U.S. News and World Report highlighted several of these Œwonder weapons¹ (acoustics, microwaves, lasers) and noted that scientists are Œsearching the electromagnetic and sonic spectrums for wavelengths that can affect human behavior.¹ 3 A recent Russian military article offered a slightly different slant to the problem, declaring that Œhumanity stands on the brink of a psychotropic war¹ with the mind and body as the focus. That article discussed Russian and international attempts to control the psycho-physical condition of man and his decision making processes by the use of VHF-generators, Œnoiseless cassettes,¹ and other technologies.
An entirely new arsenal of weapons, based on devices designed to introduce subliminal messages or to alter the body¹s psychological and data processing capabilities, might be used to incapacitate individuals. These weapons aim to control or alter the psyche, or to attack the various sensory and data-processing systems of the human organism. In both cases, the goal is to confuse or destroy the signals that normally keep the body in equilibrium.
This article examines energy-based weapons, psychotropic weapons, and other developments designed to alter the ability of the human body to process stimuli. One consequence of this assessment is that the way we commonly use the term Œinformation warfare¹ falls short when the individual soldier, not his equipment, becomes the target of attack.

Information Warfare Theory and the Data-Processing Element of Humans

In the United States the common conception of information warfare focuses primarily on the capabilities of hardware systems such as computers, satellites, and military equipment which process data in its various forms. According to Department of Defense Directive S-3600. 1 of 9 December 1996, information warfare is defined as Œan information operation conducted during time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries.¹ An information operation is defined in the same directive as Œactions taken to affect adversary information and information systems while defending one¹s own information and information systems.¹ These Œinformation systems¹ lie at the heart of the modernization effort of the US armed forces and other countries, and manifest themselves as hardware, software, communications capabilities, and highly trained individuals. Recently, the US Army conducted a mock battle that tested these systems under simulated combat conditions.
US Army Field Manual 101-5-1, Operational Terms and Graphics (released 30 September 1997), defines information warfare as Œactions taken to achieve information superiority by affecting a hostile¹s information, information based-processes, and information systems, while defending one¹s own information, information processes, and information systems.¹ The same manual defines information operations as a Œcontinuous military operation within the military information environment that enables, enhances, and protects friendly forces¹ ability to collect, process, and act on information to achieve an advantage across the full range of military operations. [Information operations include] interacting with the Global Information Environment . . . and exploiting or denying an adversary¹s information and decision capabilities.¹ 4
This Œsystems¹ approach to the study of information warfare emphasizes the use of data, referred to as information, to penetrate an adversary¹s physical defenses that protect data (information) in order to obtain operational or strategic advantage. It has tended to ignore the role of the human body as an information- or data-processor in this quest for dominance except in those cases where an individual¹s logic or rational thought may be upset via disinformation or deception. As a consequence little attention is directed toward protecting the mind and body with a firewall as we have done with hardware systems. Nor have any techniques for doing so been prescribed. Yet the body is capable not only of being deceived, manipulated, or misinformed but also shut down or destroyed - just as any other data-processing system. The Œdata¹ the body receives from external sources - such as electromagnetic, vortex, or acoustic energy waves - or creates through its own electrical or chemical stimuli can be manipulated or changed just as the data (information) in any hardware system can be altered.
The only body-related information warfare element considered by the United States is psychological operations (PSYOP). In Joint Publication 3-13. 1, for example, PSYOP is listed as one of the elements of command and control warfare. The publication notes that Œthe ultimate target of [information warfare] is the information dependent process, whether human or automated .... Command and control warfare (C2W) is an application of information warfare in military operations.... C2W is the integrated use of PSYOP, military deception, operations security, electronic warfare and physical destruction.¹ 5
One source defines information as a Œnon-accidental signal used as an input to a computer or communications system.¹ 6 The human body is a complex communication system constantly receiving non-accidental and accidental signal inputs, both external and internal. If the ultimate target of information warfare is the information-dependent process, Œwhether human or automated,¹ then the definition in the joint publication implies that human data-processing of internal and external signals can clearly be considered an aspect of information warfare. Foreign researchers have noted the link between humans as data processors and the conduct of information warfare. While some study only the PSYOP link, others go beyond it. As an example of the former, one recent Russian article described offensive information warfare as designed to Œuse the Internet channels for the purpose of organizing PSYOP as well as for Œearly political warning¹ of threats to American interests.¹ 7 The author¹s assertion was based on the fact that Œall mass media are used for PSYOP . . . [and] today this must include the Internet.¹ The author asserted that the Pentagon wanted to use the Internet to Œreinforce psychological influences¹ during special operations conducted outside of US borders to enlist sympathizers, who would accomplish many of the tasks previously entrusted to special units of the US armed forces.
Others, however, look beyond simple PSYOP ties to consider other aspects of the body¹s data-processing capability. One of the principal open source researchers on the relationship of information warfare to the body¹s data-processing capability is Russian Dr. Victor Solntsev of the Baumann Technical Institute in Moscow. Solntsev is a young, well-intentioned researcher striving to point out to the world the potential dangers of the computer operator interface. Supported by a network of institutes and academies, Solntsev has produced some interesting concepts. 8 He insists that man must be viewed as an open system instead of simply as an organism or closed system. As an open system, man communicates with his environment through information flows and communications media. One¹s physical environment, whether through electromagnetic, gravitational, acoustic, or other effects, can cause a change in the psycho-physiological condition of an organism, in Solntsev¹s opinion. Change of this sort could directly affect the mental state and consciousness of a computer operator. This would not be electronic war or information warfare in the traditional sense, but rather in a non-traditional and non-US sense. It might encompass, for example, a computer modified to become a weapon by using its energy output to emit acoustics that debilitate the operator. It also might encompass, as indicated below, futuristic weapons aimed against man¹s Œopen system.¹
Solntsev also examined the problem of Œinformation noise,¹ which creates a dense shield between a person and external reality. This noise may manifest itself in the form of signals, messages, images, or other items of information. The main target of this noise would be the consciousness of a person or a group of people. Behavior modification could be one objective of information noise; another could be to upset an individual¹s mental capacity to such an extent as to prevent reaction to any stimulus. Solntsev concludes that all levels of a person¹s psyche (subconscious, conscious, and Œsuper-conscious¹) are potential targets for destabilization. According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a person¹s psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors that allegedly put computer operators into a trance. The subconscious perception of the new pattern eventually results in arrhythmia of the heart. Other Russian computer specialists, not just Solntsev, talk openly about this Œ25th frame effect¹ and its ability to subtly manage a computer user¹s perceptions. The purpose of this technique is to inject a thought into the viewer¹s subconscious. It may remind some of the subliminal advertising controversy in the United States in the late 1950s.

US Views on ŒWonder Weapons¹: Altering the Data-Processing Ability of the Body

What technologies have been examined by the United States that possess the potential to disrupt the data-processing capabilities of the human organism? The 7 July 1997 issue of U.S. News and World Report described several of them designed, among other things, to vibrate the insides of humans, stun or nauseate them, put them to sleep, heat them up, or knock them down with a shock wave. 9 The technologies include dazzling lasers that can force the pupils to close; acoustic or sonic frequencies that cause the hair cells in the inner ear to vibrate and cause motion sickness, vertigo, and nausea, or frequencies that resonate the internal organs causing pain and spasms; and shock waves with the potential to knock down humans or airplanes and which can be mixed with pepper spray or chemicals. 10
With modification, these technological applications can have many uses. Acoustic weapons, for example, could be adapted for use as acoustic rifles or as acoustic fields that, once established, might protect facilities, assist in hostage rescues, control riots, or clear paths for convoys. These waves, which can penetrate buildings, offer a host of opportunities for military and law enforcement officials. Microwave weapons, by stimulating the peripheral nervous system, can heat up the body, induce epileptic-like seizures, or cause cardiac-arrest. Low-frequency radiation affects the electrical activity of the brain and can cause flu-like symptoms and nausea. Other projects sought to induce or prevent sleep, or to affect the signal from the motor cortex portion of the brain, overriding voluntary muscle movements. The latter are referred to as pulse wave weapons, and the Russian government has reportedly bought over 100,000 copies of the ŒBlack Widow¹ version of them. 11
However, this view of Œwonder weapons¹ was contested by someone who should understand them. Brigadier General Larry Dodgen, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Policy and Missions, wrote a letter to the editor about the Œnumerous inaccuracies¹ in the U.S. News and World Report article that Œmisrepresent the Department of Defense¹s views.¹ 12 Dodgen¹s primary complaint seemed to have been that the magazine misrepresented the use of these technologies and their value to the armed forces. He also underscored the US intent to work within the scope of any international treaty concerning their application, as well as plans to abandon (or at least redesign) any weapon for which countermeasures are known. One is left with the feeling, however, that research in this area is intense. A concern not mentioned by Dodgen is that other countries or non-state actors may not be bound by the same constraints. It is hard to imagine someone with a greater desire than terrorists to get their hands on these technologies. ŒPsycho-terrorism¹ could be the next buzzword.

Russian Views on ŒPsychotropic War¹
The term Œpsycho-terrorism¹ was coined by Russian writer N. Anisimov of the Moscow Anti-Psychotronic Center. According to Anisimov, psychotropic weapons are those that act to Œtake away a part of the information which is stored in a man¹s brain. It is sent to a computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those who need to control the man, and the modified information is then reinserted into the brain.¹ These weapons are used against the mind to induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, Œzombification,¹ or even death. Included in the arsenal are VHF generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves. Russian army Major I. Chernishev, writing in the military journal Orienteer in February 1997, asserted that Œpsy¹ weapons are under development all over the globe. Specific types of weapons noted by Chernishev (not all of which have prototypes) were:
A psychotropic generator, which produces a powerful electromagnetic emanation capable of being sent through telephone lines, TV, radio networks, supply pipes, and incandescent lamps.
An autonomous generator, a device that operates in the 10-150 Hertz band, which at the 10-20 Hertz band forms an infrasonic oscillation that is destructive to all living creatures.
A nervous system generator, designed to paralyze the central nervous systems of insects, which could have the same applicability to humans.
Ultrasound emanations, which one institute claims to have developed. Devices using ultrasound emanations are supposedly capable of carrying out bloodless internal operations without leaving a mark on the skin. They can also, according to Chernishev, be used to kill.
Noiseless cassettes. Chernishev claims that the Japanese have developed the ability to place infra-low frequency voice patterns over music, patterns that are detected by the subconscious. Russians claim to be using similar Œbombardments¹ with computer programming to treat alcoholism or smoking.
The 25th-frame effect, alluded to above, a technique wherein each 25th frame of a movie reel or film footage contains a message that is picked up by the subconscious. This technique, if it works, could possibly be used to curb smoking and alcoholism, but it has wider, more sinister applications if used on a TV audience or a computer operator.
Psychotropics, defined as medical preparations used to induce a trance, euphoria, or depression. Referred to as Œslow-acting mines,¹ they could be slipped into the food of a politician or into the water supply of an entire city. Symptoms include headaches, noises, voices or commands in the brain, dizziness, pain in the abdominal cavities, cardiac arrhythmia, or even the destruction of the cardiovascular system.

There is confirmation from US researchers that this type of study is going on.

Dr. Janet Morris, co-author of The Warrior¹s Edge, reportedly went to the Moscow Institute of Psycho correlations in 1991. There she was shown a technique pioneered by the Russian Department of Psycho-Correction at Moscow Medical Academy in which researchers electronically analyze the human mind in order to influence it. They input subliminal command messages, using key words transmitted in Œwhite noise¹ or music. Using an infra-sound, very low frequency transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message is transmitted via bone conduction. 13
In summary, Chernishev noted that some of the militarily significant aspects of the Œpsy¹ weaponry deserve closer research, including the following non-traditional methods for disrupting the psyche of an individual:
ESP research: determining the properties and condition of objects without ever making contact with them and Œreading¹ peoples¹ thoughts
Clairvoyance research: observing objects that are located just beyond the world of the visible - used for intelligence purposes
Telepathy research: transmitting thoughts over a distance - used for covert operations
Telekinesis research: actions involving the manipulation of physical objects using thought power, causing them to move or break apart - used against command and control systems, or to disrupt the functioning of weapons of mass destruction
Psychokinesis research: interfering with the thoughts of individuals, on either the strategic or tactical level
While many US scientists undoubtedly question this research, it receives strong support in Moscow. The point to underscore is that individuals in Russia (and other countries as well) believe these means can be used to attack or steal from the data-processing unit of the human body.
Solntsev¹s research, mentioned above, differs slightly from that of Chernishev. For example, Solntsev is more interested in hardware capabilities, specifically the study of the information-energy source associated with the computer-operator interface. He stresses that if these energy sources can be captured and integrated into the modern computer, the result will be a network worth more than Œa simple sum of its components.¹ Other researchers are studying high-frequency generators (those designed to stun the psyche with high frequency waves such as electromagnetic, acoustic, and gravitational); the manipulation or reconstruction of someone¹s thinking through planned measures such as reflexive control processes; the use of psychotronics, parapsychology, bioenergy, bio fields, and psycho energy; 14 and unspecified Œspecial operations¹ or anti-ESP training.
The last item is of particular interest. According to a Russian TV broadcast, the strategic rocket forces have begun anti-ESP training to ensure that no outside force can take over command and control functions of the force. That is, they are trying to construct a firewall around the heads of the operators.

Conclusions

At the end of July 1997, planners for Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration Œ97 Œfocused on technologies that enhance real-time collaborative planning in a multinational task force of the type used in Bosnia and in Operation Desert Storm. The JWID Œ97 network, called the Coalition Wide Area Network (CWAN), is the first military network that allows allied nations to participate as full and equal partners.¹ 15 The demonstration in effect was a trade fair for private companies to demonstrate their goods; defense ministries got to decide where and how to spend their money wiser, in many cases without incurring the cost of prototypes. It is a good example of doing business better with less. Technologies demonstrated included: 16
Soldiers using laptop computers to drag cross-hairs over maps to call in air strikes
Soldiers carrying beepers and mobile phones rather than guns
Generals tracking movements of every unit, counting the precise number of shells fired around the globe, and inspecting real-time damage inflicted on an enemy, all with multicolored graphics 17
Every account of this exercise emphasized the ability of systems to process data and provide information feedback via the power invested in their microprocessors. The ability to affect or defend the data-processing capability of the human operators of these systems was never mentioned during the exercise; it has received only slight attention during countless exercises over the past several years. The time has come to ask why we appear to be ignoring the operators of our systems. Clearly the information operator, exposed before a vast array of potentially immobilizing weapons, is the weak spot in any nation¹s military assets. There are few international agreements protecting the individual soldier, and these rely on the good will of the combatants. Some nations, and terrorists of every stripe, don¹t care about such agreements.
This article has used the term data-processing to demonstrate its importance to ascertaining what so-called information warfare and information operations are all about. Data-processing is the action this nation and others need to protect. Information is nothing more than the output of this activity. As a result, the emphasis on information-related warfare terminology ('information dominance,' 'information carousel') that has proliferated for a decade does not seem to fit the situation before us. In some cases the battle to affect or protect data-processing elements pits one mechanical system against another. In other cases, mechanical systems may be confronted by the human organism, or vice versa, since humans can usually shut down any mechanical system with the flip of a switch. In reality, the game is about protecting or affecting signals, waves, and impulses that can influence the data-processing elements of systems, computers, or people. We are potentially the biggest victims of information warfare, because we have neglected to protect ourselves.
Our obsession with a 'system of systems,' 'information dominance,' and other such terminology is most likely a leading cause of our neglect of the human factor in our theories of information warfare. It is time to change our terminology and our conceptual paradigm. Our terminology is confusing us and sending us in directions that deal primarily with the hardware, software, and communications components of the data-processing spectrum. We need to spend more time researching how to protect the humans in our data management structures. Nothing in those structures can be sustained if our operators have been debilitated by potential adversaries or terrorists who - right now - may be designing the means to disrupt the human component of our carefully constructed notion of a system of systems.

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ENDNOTES
1. I. Chemishev, ŒCan Rulers Make ŒZombies¹ and Control the World?¹ Orienteer, February 1997, pp. 58-62.
2. Douglas Pasternak, ŒWonder Weapons,¹ U.S. News and World Report, 7 July 1997, pp. 3846.
3. Ibid., p. 38.
4. FM 101-5-1, Operational Terms and Graphics, 30 September 1997, p. 1-82.
5. Joint Pub 3-13.1, Joint Doctrine for Command and Control Warfare (C2W), 7 February 1996, p. v.
6. The American Heritage Dictionary (2d College Ed.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), p. 660, definition 4.
7. Denis Snezhnyy, ŒCybemetic Battlefield & National Security,¹ Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, No. 10, 15-21 March 1997, p. 2.
8. Victor I. Solntsev, ŒInformation War and Some Aspects of a Computer Operator¹s Defense, Œ talk given at an Infer Conference in Washington, D.C., September 1996, sponsored by the National Computer Security Association. Information in this section is based on notes from Dr. Solntsev¹s talk.
9. Pasternak, p. 40.
10. Ibid., pp. 40-46.
11. Ibid.
12. Larry Dodgen, ŒNon-lethal Weapons,¹ U.S. News and World Report, 4 August 1997, p. 5.
13. ŒBackground on the Aviary,¹ Nexus Magazine, downloaded from the Internet on 13 July 1997 from www.execpc.com/vjentpr/nexusavi.html, p.7.
14. Aleksandr Cherkasov, ŒThe Front Where Shots Aren't Fired,¹ Orienteer, May 1995, p. 45. This article was based on information in the foreign and Russian press, according to the author, making it impossible to pinpoint what his source was for this reference.
15. Bob Brewin, ŒDOD looks for IT Œgolden nuggets,¹¹ Federal Computer Week, 28 July 1997, p. 31, as taken from the Earlybird Supplement, 4 August 1997, p. B 17.
16. Oliver August, ŒZap! Hard day at the office for NATO's laptop warriors,¹ The Times, 28 July 1997, as taken from the Earlybird Supplement, 4 August 1997, p. B 16.
17. Ibid.

Also From Roland –

To All,

Canadian banking practices (as outlined below) seem mighty familiar.

LLTF,

Roland

CHAPTER THREE

The Erosion of Democracy through Banking Practices

What has transpired from the creation of a National Bank under the British model, is that presently most countries currency is issued in debt. It is loaned out by affiliated chartered banks, at the current interest rate, without any currency being sent in circulation for the future interest fee.

For example, if 10 people each borrowed $100, this would bring $1,000 into circulation. Using an interest rate of ten percent, at the end of one year there must be $100 allotted for the interest leaving only $900 to be divided up between ten debtors who must pay back the $1,000. This guarantees that there must be at least one bankruptcy in the process and likely more.

This example, in a microcosm, clearly shows us tragic flaws in our currency-issuing process. A process which is very unfair to the borrowers but also highly detrimental to our economy as a whole. It is obviously beneficial to the banks in getting secured assets that backed these loans. This is why usury has been condemned in various cultures over many centuries. In the early days of Christianity and during the lifetime of Islam, usury has been considered a crime against humanity.
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Under the current system, affiliated chartered banks get their currency from a central bank at the cost of printing. Thus, they expend a minimal amount of money and reap tremendous profits. Through the fractional reserve (or non-reserve requirements as now allowed in Canada), they are able to multiply their assets on paper. Through this method, immense and obscene profits are achieved, on the backs of the people.

The way in which many countries get money for the operation of their government¹s infrastructures (such as social programs) expands the national debt tremendously. In Canada, we have two processes for the federal government to obtain money.

The first process used, was to issue the money directly to government as an IOU from the Treasury, at a minimal administrative fee. This process was written into our British North America Act of 1867. The authors of the act recognized the dangers of outside powers creating the national currency and so, in order to protect the citizens, wrote the act so that only the government had the right to issue currency.

The second process, developed through the bank¹s influences and implemented with the Bank Act of 1913, is to first issue the currency to the affiliated chartered banks at a minimal fee. The government then creates bonds and treasury bills and pays a brokerage fee to issue them. The government then sells them at the current compounded interest rate on the open market. The banks, who invest heavily in the bonds, receive immense profits by using the currency originally issued, at a minimal fee, from the Treasury through the Bank of Canada.

While both of these processes are still in place and functioning in Canada, less than 3% of our currency is issued under the first process. In agreement with the Bank of Canada, the affiliated chartered banks receive and issue over 97% of our new currency for which they pay a minimal cost.

Using an example of $1 Million borrowed 80 years ago under the two systems, you will clearly see the danger of the second process. Under the first process, the Treasury directly loans the money to the Government as an IOU at an administrative fee of 1.5 %. The cost, if the debt is rolled over as is presently done, would result in a debt of $1.2 Million.

Under the second process, $1 Million borrowed at a 7% interest rate and compounding, on a rollover practice of borrowing from the outside market to pay the outside market, results in a cost over $223 Million. For Canada, 7% is a low interest rate. Still the cost of the second process is over 200 times more than the first process and will continue to expand at an exponential rate.

Until the owners of the banks finally end up owning everything, as is and always has been their plan/scam - JAH.

This second process is obviously to the extreme benefit of the banking community and to the great detriment of the taxpaying public who are carrying the burden of the government¹s debt. As we realize, these funds are being bled out of our social programs and national services. We soon understand the tragedy involved, whether it be in Medicare, hospitals, schools, U.I.C. or pensions.
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Finally, we see that due to this process, Democracy cannot function. Our elected representatives are at the mercy of the banking community to keep our country operating.
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The solution is to have all our government needs issued as an IOU to the Treasury. This process is what both Solon of Athens and Lycurgus of Sparta instituted to free their city states from the Babylonian banking controls ruining their respective city states. History repeats itself.
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We know that there are great pressures to abuse the currency-creating process placed on parties and elected officials. This is why highly functional Recall and binding Initiative Referenda processes must be in place to allow the citizens to control the amount of currency issued. A good example of this is found in the Swiss constitution.

I consider it a criminal act of treason against the populace of a country to knowingly continue pushing the nation and it¹s citizens into debt slavery. This is the aim of a self-appointed elite in the banking circles, the World Bank and I.M.F., who work for the deliberate detriment of the Divine seed light in humanity and for the Luciferian consciousness.
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Those spirits who have attained the momentum of Guardians of Democracy must dare to take up the challenge in this lifetime. We must work to stop the enslavement of mankind and the repression of the seed light in humanity, by those who have knowingly dedicated themselves to the fallen ones.
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The Luciferians have always used the same process in controlling countries. They¹ve always focused on the issuing of a nation¹s currency, as this is the life¹s blood of any nation. Through this process they have total control of the economy. Through the creation of depressions or booming economies, they exercise total control over rulers and elected governments.
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I suggest you elect to work with Archangel Michael and the Angel Victory, who was beautifully depicted in the Samothracian Mystery school.
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From Mario –

There is a new book out that is a must read.

It is called "The Flag-Kidnapped by Red China"

It is written by Steve Kiba, a prisoner of war (POW)
that was captured during the Korean War and shipped

to China. I met Steve during the Senate Select Committee

on POW/MIAs. He is an honorable man that spoke the

truth and not even Senator John McCain or Senator John

Kerry could discredit him even though they tried. He

stood his ground and did not let those wimps scare him.

This book will inform you about Red China and the brutal

treatment our Korean POWs were subjected to and why

Steve Kiba believes many live American POWs were

abandoned. After 43 years Steve Kiba has a book that will
educate and make you mad.

The book is now available at www.1stbooks.com

Select KIBA and search. I just ordered my book. The book

will be available in bookstores next month but why wait.

Danny "Greasy" Belcher
Infantry Sgt. Vietnam 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn 1st Air Cav.

From Roland –

In his classic Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt illustrates the difference between mere economic activity and real wealth creation. Breaking a window creates economic activity. After all, one has to buy a new window and have it installed. But does it add to
the net wealth of the society? No. It merely redistributes wealth from one person to another.
Yet that little transaction is added to the GDP for the year, which means that if a lot of windows get broken, the government and the newspapers will report substantial economic "growth." After WWII Germany and Japan had phenomenal economic growth rates.
But only because they had to replace lots of broken windows, and a whole lot more. Without the war, the Germans and the Japanese would be far richer than they are today, even if they had been far less diligent since 1945. Perhaps we should speed up the US economy by fire-bombing a few of our own cities. (Actually, that might increase real wealth--but only because of the high concentration of social parasites in inner cities.)
The following from FAEM indicates that the broken window theory of economic "growth" is alive and well in the USA. How much of the economic boom of the Clinton years was merely frenzied--and, to some, highly profitable—social breakdown?
A sort of Saint Vitus Dance before the final collapse? Answering that question would be a really interesting research project.

Subject:
25 November 2002 -- Maguire

A reader who just wrote to FAEM (see A Ventilation in the Letters folder) agreed with what all three of us have been continually stating at various times. Namely, the 'economy' is in a real long term decline and has been for a long time. I think subsequent generations historically will mark the end of the Apollo moon program as the 'Crossover' marking peak and subsequent decline of the USA as a civilization.

This fact is concealed by a variety of reporting devices and tricks. The sum total of these lead the unalert into the comparison of apples and oranges. After making these false comparisons our Judeo neo-conned Republicans conclude that Jewish economics are progressively leading them forward into the Millennium.

Here are some of the leading factors leading to the vanishing but still widespread false image:

1. A controlled media. For a long time now what passes for economic reporting and analysis has increasingly resembled Soviet economic statistics. Stories not fitting the
need, such as the disappearance of grain reserves, are simply not reported widely. I said, almost two years ago during the California energy crisis, that there would be a wave of 'surprise' collapses as we subsequently saw with Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing and many others. In plainer words, 'They' were lying to you (and still are).
Who 'They' are is often subject to intense debate. FAEM typically includes racial factors among its assessment of 'They'.

2. Economic 'measurement' of previously uncounted or illegal activities. This has been a key method of perpetuating the illusion of endless 'growth'.

Sex. Quite a bit of what's reported today as "Gross Domestic Product" was listed in the Police Report section of the newspaper in bygone eras. This includes pornography, 'escort services' that accept Visa, Mastercard and Discover, 'massage parlors' and strip clubs. The idea that a whorehouse society is a post-industrial substitute for real industries is an illusion.

Gambling. Here's another formerly and largely illegal activity that is now reported by the Department of Commerce as 'economic growth' and listed on the the New York Stock Exchange. Over 22 states have legalized casinos, not counting Indian reservations in non-spinning states. Then there's the lottery and pari-mutuel gambling on horses and dogs. This 'industry' depends for profit solely on people's incorrect understanding of statistics. The 'profit' is generated by divesting tens of thousands of trade-level competent personnel to shuffling cards and tossing dice. None of this adds to available goods and services that can either sustain or enhance the life, such as the life of the next generation.

Economic Speculation. This is gambling that is based upon economic activity, rather than the speed of a particular horse or dog down at the track. The velocity of turnover of shares and derivative 'securities' continues to hit new highs. That is, holding periods are progressively shorter and shorter. This activity of itself also adds nothing although the repetitively counted gross numbers work their way into the GDP down the line. Recycling the ownership of an apple 28 times a day does not of itself increase the available number of apples.

Old age care. Previously a responsibility of the larger family, this also has been largely
offloaded onto government budgets, private insurance plans and nursing homes. This is all duly reported as 'economic activity'.

Uncounted inflation. The Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor and Uncle Al over at the Fed are notorious for both excluding some economic measurements and inverting others. It remains a mystery to me why anyone regards a doubling in housing
prices, combined with a decline in quality and durability of materials, as 'growth'. I agree
it's good news for the mortgage shylocks. How this benefits the average white family
escapes me.

The 'Security' Industry. We speak here of the vast private armies of security guards, alarm systems and other technologies used to defend against larger and larger numbers
of criminally minded individuals. These persons' growth rate far exceeds the growth rate of the general population. In former eras 'military' or 'security' spending was considered to detract from the total of capital and consumer goods available. At the current time this is not happening because all of this social war spending is being quantified with the remaining productive industries in the 'private' sector. The real decrease in quality of life resulting from this shift in resources is real, if unquantified.

"Law" and other illusory therapies. Another huge share of resources are consumed by the operators of the legal system, plus megatons of 'therapists' specializing in 'therapies' of dubious or non-existent scientific basis.

Child Care. Concentration camps for young white children has been another strong growth industry of recent decades. These are typically called "day care centers" and
duly add their "output" to the increasingly Gross ZOG National Product.

Many other examples could be adduced but the above are sufficient.

From Roland –

To All,

After reading the article below I wondered..."so what do the elite wish to
accomplish? are they making sure there is a 'level playing field' or enough
'war machines' in the world to ASSURE 'mutual' destruction?" Or is it pure
greed, with no regard for the future of mankind? Or, is it a part of their
overall plan to reduce the world population by 80 to 95%?

What do you think? We (U.S. government) give billions to Israel in FRN's and
sophisticated weaponry who in turn sells it to China? NATO was "established"
to ward off the threat of Russia after WWII but "NATO" countries sell
armaments to communist allies of Russia? What kind of madness is going on?
China states plainly we are their enemy and then we give them favored
nations trading status and allow their presence in most of our seaports? And
we as a people stay busy at funding our own destruction by giving Wal-Mart
it's biggest retail day ever in the U.S. about a week ago? While CNN just
reported this morning the U.S. just lost another 40,000 jobs? This goes on
and on but I know you haven't the time to read all that I send you now.

The news and articles I forward are bleak and dark but that is only because
that is what is out there. We are being warned  of what is sure to come. Let
us prepare. At the bottom of this article there is an offer for the
"Armageddon Survival Kit". May I suggest getting it. I have it and I don't
know how anyone will survive our future without it. Surely we can see
clearly the world (masses) is insanely RUNNING headlong towards destruction.

US Technology Appears In New Chinese Warplane Via Israel
By David Isenberg
Asia Times
12-3-2

The recent unveiling (sort of) of China's first domestically-designed (sort of) fighter jet was the culmination of a long saga of international military-hardware wheeling and dealing that has seen US-designed or -funded high-tech weaponry fall into the hands of potential military rivals.

The showpiece of many years' work, dating back to the late 1980s, recently happened - albeit unobserved - when China confirmed the existence of, but did not unveil, the Jian-10 fighter jet. It had been reported that the J-10 (F-10 being the export version, using North Atlantic Treaty Organization designation) would be shown in public for the first time during the fourth China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China 2002) held in Zhuhai in southern Guangdong province from November 4-10, but the plane did not appear.

The J-10 is a multi-role single-engine and single-seat tactical fighter, with a combat radius of 1,000 kilometers. Although billed as a domestically produced fighter, in truth the J-10 could not have happened without the help of other countries, especially Israel.

The program began in the late 1980s and is thought to be based on an Israeli design. It contains Israeli and Russian avionics, and is powered by Russian engines.

Chinese engineers developed the J-10 from a single F-16 provided by Pakistan, and with assistance from Israeli engineers associated with Israel's US-financed Lavi fighter program, which was canceled in 1987, according to the Federation of American Scientists website.

The Lavi was based on the US F-16 and built with US$1.3 billion in aid from Washington. In 1983, when US support for the Lavi commenced, the program was opposed vigorously by the Defense Department, partly because of re-export concerns. An early supporter of the Lavi was George Shultz, then secretary of state in the administration of US president Ronald Reagan. Shultz would later label his advocacy of the program a "costly mistake".

Only in early 1995 did the US government make public its concerns about Israel's Lavi-related technology re-exports to China. David Lari, director general of Israel's Ministry of Defense, acknowledged in an Associated Press interview that "some technology on aircraft" had been sold to China and that some Israeli companies may not have "clean hands".

Yet China's acquisition of the Russian Su-27, after China had attempted for years to develop the J-10 aircraft with equivalent technology to perform similar functions, is seen by some experts as a sign that China lacks confidence in its domestic industrial capabilities.

Though it has never been certain precisely what specific technologies and systems Israel provided, it was reported that the Jian-10's radar and fire-control system is the Israeli-made ELM-2021 system, which can simultaneously track six air targets and lock on to the four most threatening targets for destruction.

In December 1991, US intelligence officials announced that Israel planned to open a government-coordinated and sponsored "arms office" in China. Given what the Israelis had to offer, and what the Chinese needed, it was most likely that a transfer of avionics and other technologies developed in the Lavi program would ensue, since there was a void in the Chinese avionics and fire-control system capability due to the 1989
termination of a US-Chinese program in response to Tiananmen Square. China and Israel started collaboration in the early 1980s and full-scale cooperation was under way officially by 1984. As neither China nor Israel was capable of developing the propulsion system required by the J-10, in 1991 China acquired the AI31F turbofan engine from Russia for incorporation into the J-10 fighter. This engine is also used in the Su-27 air-superiority fighter that Chinese acquired from Russia. As the performance of the AL31F engine is significantly better than that of the American PW1120 originally slated for the Lavi, it may be anticipated that the performance of the J-10 will be accordingly enhanced. Built by the Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Corp, the J-10 attempts to rival current fourth-generation Western fighters. China has inked a 10-year deal with the Russian engine maker SRPC Salut for 300 Al-31F engines for its J-10 program and will begin production of the jets next year.

The plane is said to have capabilities similar to the Su-27, the Russian MiG-29 and the US F-16 fighter jets, but with an estimated cost of less than $10 million, it could rival other jet makers on the international market.

In March 1997, despite official denials from Israeli officials, the US Office of Naval Intelligence in its unclassified "Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare" restated more strongly than it had the previous year its belief that US-derived technology from the canceled Israeli Lavi fighter was being used on China's new F-10 fighter. It said, "The design has been undertaken with substantial direct external assistance, primarily from Israel and Russia, with indirect assistance through access to US technologies." In fact, according to the annual intelligence report, "the F-10 is a single-seat, light multi-role fighter based heavily on the canceled Israeli Lavi program".

Until it was canceled in 1987, much of Lavi technological development was paid for by the United States. Ironically, the potential capability of F-10 fighters was cited by both the US Navy and Air Force as one of the future threats justifying the expenditure of billions on new tactical aircraft, such as the F-22, F/A-18F, and Joint Strike Fighter. The fact that possibly US-derived technology provided by an ally might be contributing to that potential threat is a delicate subject.
http://i.am/jah/freedman.htm

However, this is not the first time accusations of illegal technology have been made. A March 1992 report by State Department inspector general Sherman Funk, "Report of Audit: Department of State Defense Trade Controls", states that alleged Israeli violations of US laws and regulations "cited and supported by reliable intelligence information show a systematic and growing pattern of unauthorized transfers ... dating back to about 1983".

The 1992 Funk report was the first time the US government had publicly released evidence that Israel was improperly re-exporting US-origin weapons technology. Israel and some of its US supporters quickly denounced it. So that their work would not be classified - and thus off-limits to the public - the writers of the report referred to Israel
only as a "major recipient" of US technology, and misdeeds were not specified in detail. The classified version, of course, did name Israel as well as other states, and it cited instances of unauthorized retransfers, US officials said in interviews.

The Funk report criticized State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for ignoring scores of intelligence reports of apparent violations of Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms regulations retransfer restrictions and for not reporting them to senior officials and Congress, as required by law. Israel denounced the report, especially as its release followed allegations of improper transfer by Israel of Patriot missile technology to China.

In the summer of 2000, the Washington Times reported that a memo circulating inside the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency told analysts they no longer had to gain input from the Defense Intelligence Agency before deciding whether controlled technology should be transferred to Israel. The DIA had compiled evidence that Israel had violated US export regulations by transferring missile, laser and aircraft technology to China.

Subsequently, when Israel tried to sell the Phalcon to India, the US government demanded that Israel limit arms exports. Israel was told that it must inform the US of all weapons transfers to 27 nations regarded as "countries of concern" such as China, India and Yugoslavia.

"Israel ranks second only to Russia as a weapons-system provider to China and as a conduit for sophisticated military technology, followed by France and Germany," stated a report this year by the US-China Security Review Commission, a panel established by Congress to examine security and economic relations between the two countries. "Recent upgrades in target acquisition and fire control, probably provided by Israeli weapons
specialists, have enhanced the capabilities of the older guided missile destroyers and frigates" in the Chinese navy's inventory, it said.
http://i.am/jah/horse.htm#1917

The commission cited Israel as a supplier to Beijing of radar systems, optical and telecommunications equipment, drones and flight simulators.

Arms exports have not only played a crucial role in offsetting Israel's trade imbalance but have also performed a key role in furthering its diplomatic efforts. The sale of arms and technology has become one of the most effective techniques to furthering Israeli goals overseas. The quiet ties with China and India and the growing alliance with Turkey in
the 1980s and the 1990s are good examples of strong links based on such cooperation.

The J-10 is hardly the only result of Israeli-Chinese military cooperation. For example, the Chinese F-8, the same type of plane that collided with the US reconnaissance plane last year, is armed with Israeli Python-3 missiles. The Python, adapted from the US ALM-9L Sidewinder missile, has a high degree of US technology. Ironically for Israel, China apparently sold its version of Python-3, called the PL-8, to Iraq.

And, as was widely publicized, Israel was set to sell China the Phalcon, an airborne early-warning radar system, until it was forced by the United States to cancel the deal. The US Central Intelligence Agency also believed Israel was marketing its STAR cruise missile in China. The STAR incorporates sensitive US technology.

And former US officials report that both Israel and the Dutch company Delft made unauthorized sales of US thermal-imaging tank sights to, among others, China. The sights were installed on China's 69 MOD-2 tanks, some of which were sold to Iraq. The United States acquired physical evidence of this transfer after these tanks were used against US marines in the 1991 Gulf War.

http://atimes.com/atimes/China/DL04Ad01.html

From Josh -

I feel that the URL below was a nice season's reminder.  Especially so, that we are in for a long drawn out war.  Please remember that during hostilities the government will make promises.  They have no intention to live up to those promises.  Ask any past COMBAT Service man.

http://www.fathershands.com/finalinspection/

From Helen –

I found this book club in Psychology Today.  I purchased the two cheaper
enticements about 'Forensic Psychology' and 'The DMS IV made easy' .  I
would suggest that if you want to know what the opposition is teaching it
would be advisable to read the textbooks.

And yes, the courses in psychology that I had at Shippensburg University
were not in depth but that is because the incremental teaching is geared
toward forcing social workers and psychologists into spending lots of money
to obtain education.  Then they buy into the "koolaide" so as to be able to
get a job to pay off the school loans and not become hod carriers and maids.

One book on the list...

INTERVIEWING FOR CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE by Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Ph.D.,
A.C.S.W.
Guilford Press/ January, 1998/ Ready to Ship
Member's Price: $ 52.99 / Publisher's Price: $ 95.00 / You Save: $42.01
(44%)

Crystallizing the major differences between clinical and forensic
interviewing, Faller presents legally-sound guidelines for questioning
children about sexual abuse, from the non-intrusive phrasing of questions to
the use of drawings and anatomical dolls to clarify the answers. Featuring
real and simulated session materials, the video takes the viewer through the
interview process to the evaluation of the findings. The accompanying manual
summarizes the salient issues and provides supplemental facts and findings.
35-minute color VHS with 36-page video manual. 1998. 3 bonus credits.

From Helen –

What did Tom Ridge do in Vietnam?

http://www.counterpunch.org/ridge2.html

From Josh –

Weathered old Barn

~Author Unknown
      .
        A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to
thinking. He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway. I
told him right off he was crazy. He was a city type, you could tell by his
clothes, his  car, his hands, and the way he talked. He said he was driving
by and saw that beautiful barn sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to
know if it was for sale. I told him he had a funny idea of
      beauty.

       Sure, it was a handsome building in its day. But then, there's been a
lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind. The summer
sun's  beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone, and the wood
has turned silver gray. Now the old building leans a good deal, looking
kind of tired. Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.

       That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood
there, gazing at that old barn. The stranger said he planned to use the
lumber to line the walls of his den in a new country home he's building
down the road. He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful. Only years of
standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun, only that
      can produce beautiful barn wood.

       It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I. Only it's on
the inside that the beauty grows with us. Sure we turn silver gray too...
and lean a bit more than we did when we were young and full of sap. But the
Good Lord knows what He's doing. And as the years pass He's busy using  the
hard wealth of our lives, the dry spells and the stormy seasons, to do a  job of

beautifying our souls that nothing else can produce. And to think how often folks

holler because they want life easy!

       They took the old barn down today and hauled it away to beautify a
rich man's house. And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven
to take on whatever chores the Good Lord has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.

       And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been
through here... and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's
house.

       May today there be peace within you.

      May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

      "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when
our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

From Helen -

Try to get the sentencing papers so that you can do it
yourself...  This is a way to get money by lawyers...  more job security for
lawyers if we don't know this exists.

It seems strange that non-violent people are incarcerated and UNICOR, a
company in operation since 1933 controls all jobs and provides low wage
workers who are stable, as in always on time and controllable.
http://www.unicor.gov/

I just found this website and it is an EYE OPENER!
http://www.federalprisonconsultants.com/programs.htm#pb


::::: some of the stuff on website above????!!!!!!

Federal Prison Consultants, Inc.
2000 Hamilton Street - No. 580
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Toll Free: 866.311.0100
Office: 215.739.3311
Email: ClientServices@federalprisonconsultants.com

Pricing Policy

Federal Prison Review and Placement Package A $3975.00
Federal Prison Review and Placement Package B $2975.00
Treaty Transfer $2575.00
500-Hour RDAP $2275.00
ICC-Boot Camp $1975.00
Executive Clemency, Pardon, & Expungements $1875.00
Mothers and Infants Together (MINT) Program $1875.00
Plea Agreement Consulting & Review $1875.00
Pre-Sentence Report Consulting and Review $1875.00
Institutional Transfers $1875.00
Commutation of Sentence $1875.00
CCC-Half-Way House $1875.00
Home Confinement $1875.00
Compassionate Release $1875.00
Initial Prison Placement Services $1575.00
Parole, Probation, & Supervised Release $1575.00
Furloughs $1575.00
Federal Tort Claims Act $1575.00
Motion by a Federal Criminal Attorney $675.00
Our Rates Per Hour (Other Services) $175.00

Intensive Confinement Center (ICC) Boot Camp or  Shock Incarceration
BOP Program Statement 5390

This program is for Direct Court Commitments and BOP Transfer Candidates.
Direct Court Commitments (30 month sentence or less) receive a sentence
reduction followed by Half-Way House/CCC Placement and Home Confinement. BOP
Transfer Candidates can not have more than a 60 month sentence and must be a
non-violent offender. Typically each institution has its own rules. For
acceptance most candidates are placed between 18 and 24 months (short)
including good time. You will then spend approximately 6 months at ICC then
followed by the remainder of your sentence split between Half-Way House/CCC
and Home Confinement. (Crimes of Violence may not be eligible for this
Program)


Transfers (Nearer, Educational, Hardship under the BOP Security Designation
and Custody Classification Manual)
BOP Program Statement 5100

After serving 18 months within your current institution with clear conduct
time, you are eligible to receive a Nearer Transfer. You may also qualify
for Educational or Hardship transfers based upon certain criteria or
circumstances.

 Commutation of Sentence Including Fines And Restitution
BOP Program Statement 1330

Upon petition to the U.S. Pardon Attorney or Warden, you may be eligible to
have your sentence, fines, and/or restitution reduced based on certain
exceptional and/or extraordinary circumstances, such as family or personal
hardships, etc.

Half-Way House / Community Corrections Center (CCC)
BOP Program Statement 7310

You are normally considered for between 1 and 6 months of Half-Way House/CCC
Placement by your Case Manager/Unit Team when you are approximately 1 year
(short) in your sentence with good time. With Regional Approval and
exceptional and/or extraordinary circumstances, you may qualify for
additional placement. Individual conditions will determine if you are
eligible for maximum placement. At your 10% date you may be eligible to be
placed in Home Confinement.


Home Confinement BOP/U.S. Probation Dept.
BOP Program Statement 7320

You are eligible to receive the last 10% of your sentence on Home
Confinement whether or not you take Half-Way House/CCC Placement. You are
also eligible to have this supervised by the BOP/DOC or the Probation
Department. You may be eligible to have more Home Confinement if the
Probation Department supervises it. Normally though, it must be ordered as
part of your sentence.

Compassionate Release
BOP Program Statement 5050

 You may be eligible to be released to the custody of your family or have
your sentence reduced based on certain exceptional and/or extraordinary
circumstances, such as serious medical problems or family matters,  with
approval of your Warden and/or Regional Director.

Federal Tort Claims Act
BOP Program Statement 1320

 When you are physically, mentally, or emotionally injured while confined by
the BOP (whether it be a work injury or loss of property) you are entitled
to be compensated by filing a Federal Tort Claim. If your claim is denied,
you then can file suit in Federal

Parole, Probation, & Supervised Release

These services are based on the terms and conditions of law enforced by the
U.S. Probation Department, the U.S. Parole Commission, and all State
Probation Departments and Parole Boards.  These services are presented in
part, by Custom Reports based on family support and circumstances, release
planning, positive information regarding the inmate,  and other
professionally developed information.

 Furloughs
BOP Program Statement 5280

After serving 6 months within your current institution with clear conduct or
6 months of clear conduct and 24 months or less in your sentence (short)
including good time, you are eligible to receive Furloughs for a variety of
reasons and time-frames. You must be eligible to receive Community Custody
Status and be Camp Status.

From Roland –

. http://www.2600.com/news/display/display.shtml?id=1441

From Lewie –

Judging, from reading the newspapers, there seems to be a diversity of opinions as

to just what Home Land Security means. Some are relieved, now they are protected.

Some are wary the government just became closer to a Nazi like condition with total

control. Let us take a look at events from the past so as to understand the present.

The “Union of States” (the United States of America) begins association under the

master charter “The Constitution for the United States”. The Master Charter incorporates an association of states into the Union through the provisions of Article 1V section 3, clause 1. The Constitution also incorporated by reference the Articles of Confederation and announces the unincorporated powers of Congress over other property in Article IV sect. 3 cl.2. To the discerning eye we now see that there are two kinds of states, incorporated and unincorporated as an unincorporated territory. The incorporated states of Art. IV. Sect 3, cl.1 are defined in reality by physical borders as noted in your state’s early constitution. For instance, the original constitutions of the 50 states under Article IV Sect. 3 cl.1--the first order of business describes the physical borders of where in reality the state exists that is contrary to Art. IV. Sect. 3, cl.2 as noted:

The Supreme Court ruling on the property clause of Art. IV. Sect. 3, cl.2 stated:

Literally, the word “territory”, as used, signifies property, since the language is

not “territory or property”, but “territory or other property.” There arises and

evident difference between the words “the territory” and “a territory” of the

United States. The former merely designates a particular part or parts of

the earth’s surface-the imperially extensive holdings of the Nation; the latter

is a governmental subdivision which happened to be called a “territory”, but

which quite as well could have been called a “colony” . . . “province”. . .

“A territory, under the Constitution and laws of United States is an inchoate state’,

O’Donoghue v. United States, 289 US 516 (1933). (Italics in original)

Note: an inchoate state is an incomplete state - - - it has no charter of

incorporation, hence no borders defined as it possess no physical reality (existing as a

political subdivision of the mind (which is considered other property of the United States).

Check out your state’s constitution for where it exists today. There are no borders. The condition of state of being today is “a territory” as defined in O’Donoghue above.

Congress may legislate directly with respect to the local affairs of a territory or it

may transfer that function to a legislature elected by the citizens thereof, Binns v. United

States, 194 US 491 (1904). Are you starting to understand Federal mandates?

The Constitutional guarantees of private rights are applicable in territories which have been made a part of the United States by congressional action but not in unincorporated territories Downes v. Bidwll, 182 US 244.

The reason for the above is to demonstrate that there are two jurisdictions announced by the Constitution, incorporated and unincorporated, either in which you may exist. Both are constitutional. In one you control yourself with full responsibility for your actions protected by the Bill of Rights in its absolute form; in the other you demand limited liability for your actions but controlled by Congress without the Bill of Rights, only civil rights that are only relative to the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.

You may be asking yourself, how did I arrive in “a territory” subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The answer is, you did it to yourself. Hint... It has to do with payment of debt, debtors, creditors, Scottish law, charitable trusts, communes, private Roman law, international law, the money/credit system, and protecting the land from an ENEMY. Do you want to know more? What and where is the Home Land? From whom does it need protection? Who is the enemy? Why are there executive orders since the 1930’s stating we have been in continuing state of war/emergency? Who are the conspirators? What can I do?

THE SPIRIT AND TRUE MEANING?

“Public Policy” is the private law of the commune. Public policy, color of law, private Roman law, the Unites States Code, your state’s compiled laws are not law, only prima facie

evidence of law. What the above represent are the publics mental picture of what is, a requirement to support the publics illusion of how things are. The court identifies this condition as the “Spirit and True Meaning of the Constitution” as opposed to the letter of strict meaning of the Constitution. The condition evolves similar to what happens in so-called religions where the people sitting in the pews are exposed to tidbits of information. These sound bites do not satisfy most to become comfortable, in the mind, an invention takes place. In other words, the people invent their understanding of how things work and why they work the way they do. These inventions of the mind becomes public policy of the masses. Politicians turn these illusions into power and economic base. It is the mental picture of how things work to support the illusions that provide comfort for the masses. If most people were exposed to the official dogma of their church they would not recognize it as their church. The same goes for how Government works. It is why so many think there is a grand conspiracy at the highest levels of government. A good example of this is the 2nd. Amendment. The Constitution states what it states, but Government has enacted many controls that seem opposed to the strict meaning. Remember the two jurisdictions? In the incorporated state the letter or strict meaning is applied; in the unincorporated state condition (mental/governmental subdivision/property) public policy rules.

Once again how did I get into the unincorporated state? Previous to 1933 and the

emergency in agriculture and banking, the courts operated under the presumption that all people were acting privately with two party contracts paying their debts with Standard lawful money of account of the United States with full access to the common law of Article I Section 10 and absolute ownership as opposed to relative ownership of land.

Because of the emergency, Congress forbade the people to pay debts in law. Despite one’s belief, nobody in United States has paid a debt since June 5, 1933. All debts have been “discharged”, not in law but in equity with H.J.R. 192. (See attached at end) The people caused the emergency because of unwarranted foreign speculation (trying to make money instead of producing money). The result was that the president issued executive orders under the authority conferred by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917 (commonly known as “the trading with the enemies Act”). Congress responded and amended the Act at Title 12 USC 95 (a): “. . . so as to provide that during any period of national emergency declared by the president, he might “investigate, regulate, or prohibit’ by means of licenses or otherwise, ‘any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by . . . . . , any person. . . . within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof’. Note: The emergency is reannounced every two years....the war on drugs, the war on poverty, etc.

Remember your history, the 14th Amendment was already in place announcing a new class of “persons subject to” the Jurisdiction of the United States. This new class of persons reside, having privileges and immunities as opposed to the people domiciled in the incorporated states with property rights and the strict meaning of the Bill of Rights protecting life, liberty and property.

Congress further responded to the presidents executive orders by enacting H.J.R. 192 of June 5, 1933 which effectively forbids you to pay debts or demand payment responding to further executive orders Nos. 6260, 6261, 6556, 6560, where Congress provided for the delivery of gold coin, bullion and gold certificates to the United States Treasury.

You must keep in mind that with all the business about rescinding the gold standard and payment of debt, with HJR 192, Congress was not acting under its general lawmaking powers of Article I of the U.S. Constitution, but under its unincorporated powers of Article IV. Sect, 3, cl.2.

To understand the import of the above one must understand money and payment of debt. One also must understand credit and how it applies to the prohibition in the Constitution at Article I Section 10, “No State shall . . . make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debt”, and to the condition of the incorporated state.

The first Ten Amendments to the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution deal with the Incorporated side under the general (commercial) federal common law. Until H.J.R. 192, the courts operated under the presumption that everyone could pay their debts at law. With the Erie Railroad v. Tompkins 304 U.S.64 (1938) decision, the presumption was changed from the fact that everybody existed in the incorporated state with payment of debt; to the fact that it is now presumed everyone exist in a unincorporated political territory as a perpetual debtor.[1][1] A proper description of the unincorporated state is a federated unincorporated association involved in debt/credit banking, and is the reason the judges legislate like they do. It is called “political activism” and it is accomplished, not under Article I, but through H.J.R. 192 and Article IV Section 3 cl. 2, a commune. Now you know who are the communists, as opposed to the phony communist of the old USSR. A shell game derived from the philosophy of George Hegel, 1770-1831, a German materialist. He devised what is called the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. In other words, you have a problem. Under Hegels ideas, you do not treat that problem, instead you create another problem and offer a solution to the created problem therefore, the original problem is never solved.[2][2] Hegel’s dialectic appealed strongly to the socialist and was developed into Marxian dialectical materialism which promotes the state as being superior to the individual. It is interesting to note that every year, a college or university has Hegel day. And we are led to believe that communism only exists today in China and Cuba.

If you write a check, you are creating (making money) credit (in a fiction state) and

importing it into the incorporated state (reality), where you are standing physically. It is not really

money in payment of debt, because of HJR 192 above, but intangible credit and is foreign to the

incorporated state. With your checks you are importing foreign money into the state (transferring

credit, see Title 12 sect. 95 (a) above), and is considered interstate commerce, transferred from a

political subdivision/fiction of your mind into the reality of the incorporated state. The credit you

create can far exceed your one body ability to extract wealth from the Earth, you can now

make multiple demands of the Earth. You have become a threat to the land and the common law

which requires payment of debt. Congress has taken a Oath to protect the incorporated state

(land,/reality). You are now considered the Enemy of the common law under Article I Section 10 and an incompetent, and is the reason for the EPA and all the rest of the bureaucracies. The commune now oversees and takes care of you and the land.

Remember Article IV section 3 cl. 2 and Title 12 U.S.C. Section 95 (a)? The Congress has power over the unincorporated property and the President has authority to license and regulate the enemy who transfers credit. When you write a check and sign a W-4 form, you create the evidence the governmental agencies use against you as being an enemy. You now access privileges and immunities of the 14th Amendment with its spirit and true meaning (see above) and have given up life, liberty and property with the Bill of Rights with its strict meaning. In other words, the law considers you as having quasi corporate franchises (privileges and immunities) that the common law of your state under Article I Section 10 does not recognize. Now you have a better understanding about the Homeland Security Act and the 2^nd amendment and how the feds can do what they do.

Gives a little different view on things.

Free Will?

You have become involved in a federated unincorporated banking association.

What now! If its your will to stay in that condition, that is your free choice to choose privileges

and immunities of the 14th Amendment, why you even have civil rights/allusions.

Writing the check creates evidence (with your signature attached) that the judge will take silent judicial notice thereof upon any controversy between you and the state/commune because of H.J.R. 192. Most issues of controversy are considered to involve you as the defendant (whether its a driving infraction, income tax problem, code violation, etc.) having unjustly profited from the commune. In other words, you have pledged/contracted your residency/subsidization/performance but are not performing to the policy. It is a contract issue, this is why the lawyers are all working for the plea agreement. It is really a negotiation of the penal clause of the contract you signed at the

bank when you opened your checking account and these checks travel interstate commerce. The penal clauses are the prima facie evidence of law explained previously. The way this all works is that you must pledge your bodies energy, all your property, car, home, boat, children, etc. to the commune to be used as collateral for the credit that the commune extends to you. The public has a claim on all these descriptions, deeds, titles, birth certificates, etc. The public claim is superior to any claim you may have as a debtor as in this case the public is the creditor. The law of the creditor always prevails over that of the debtor. It is why you do not own your land, it can be taken for taxes, your car, can be confiscated, your children, they can be taken away, etc. The name of the game is compelled performance in equity under Article IV Section 3 cl.2.

You do have free will, where do you want to be?

As noted in Munn v. Illinois 94 U.S. 113: “This brings us to inquire as to the principles upon which this power of regulation rests, in order that we may determine what is within and what without its operative effect. Looking, then, to the common law, from whence came the right which the Constitution protects, we find that when private property is ‘affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only’. . . . Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he must submit to the control.”

You may withdraw your grant/pledge from the public and remove yourself from the control, by discontinuing the use. After all, this is a free will issue. Again, looking to the past to gauge the present and the future, and judging from what happened at George Rapp’s Harmony society, I would give a warning: Once you remove yourself from the commune, stay removed. Do not avail yourself to the use.

HJR192 73 rd Cong., 1st session (48 STAT 113) June 5, 1933 to wit:

Joint resolution to assure uniform value to the coins and currencies of the United States.

Whereas the holding of or dealing in gold affect the public interest, and are therefore subject to proper regulation and restriction; and

Whereas the existing emergency has disclosed that provisions of obligations which purport to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency of the United States, or in an amount in money of the United States measured thereby, obstruct the power of the Congress to regulate the value of the money of the United States, and are inconsistent with the declared policy of the Congress to maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar, coined or issued by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of debts. Now, therefore, be it.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) every provision contained in or made with respect to any obligation which purports to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency, or in an amount in money of the United States measured thereby, is declared to be against public policy; and no such provision shall be contained in or made with respect to any obligation hereafter incurred. Every obligation, heretofore or hereafter incurred, whether or not such provision is contained therein or made with respect thereto, shall be discharged upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. Any such provision contained in any law authorizing obligations to be issued by or under authority of the United States is hereby repealed, but the repeal of any such provision shall not invalidate any other provision or authority contained in such law.

(b) As used in this resolution, the term “obligation” means an obligation (including every obligation of and to the United States, excepting currency) payable on money of the United States; and the term “coin or currency” means coin or currency of the United States, including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations.

Sec. 2. The last sentence of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section 43 of the Act entitled “An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agriculture purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agriculture indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes.” approved May 12, 1933, is amended to read as follows:

“All coins and currencies of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion of their actual weight.”

Approved, June 5, 1933, 4.40 p.m.

There is a distinction between a “debt discharged” and a “debt paid.” When discharged the debt still exists though divested of its character as a legal obligation during the operation of the discharge. Something of the original vitality of the debt continues to exist which may be transferred, even though the transferee takes it subject to its disability incident to the discharge. The fact that it carries something which may be a consideration for a new promise to pay, so as to make an otherwise worthless promise a legal obligation, makes it the subject of transfer by assignment. Stanek v. White, 172 Minn. 390, 215 N.W. 784.

By Lee Brobst

Hesston, PA

eagleeye@pennswoods.net

Anyone wishing to know more about Mr. Brobst and wish to know about the above subject can either e-mail Mr. Brobst or give us a call here in Tulelake.

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From Roland –

There is a Storm Brewing
by Michael Peirce
mpeirce@mindspring.com
Originally at LewRockwell.com

Special to TLE

There was a headline on Drudge recently that contained a strong hint of the coming storm: Song Mocking Schroeder Tops German Pop Charts [link] ... It's about the lies and broken promises of the head of state in Germany, Europe's strongest nation. Herr Schroeder claimed he was going to cut taxes and get control of the kleptocracy -- he sounded much like Clinton in fact. Now his erstwhile German supporters are publicly mocking him.

The fabric is coming unraveled in Europe, in the United States, South America, all over the world. Wherever men sought to worship government as their god, their god has been profaned. The problem with idols is that they don't deliver. It feels good at first, dancing around the altar and swearing fealty to some graven image that promises the lifetime gravy train, and of course, all the illicit sex you can handle. But it always comes unwound.

"The 'eathen in 'es ignorance, bows down to wood and stone ..." Yep, and not just 'eathens but folks who ought to know better. The worship of government however, is waning -- that is one god that even the lamest are starting to see, cannot deliver. No matter how much you sacrifice to government of your substance and of your blood, it is never enough. Yet government continues to insist that it is the god of this age, and perhaps it is that -- but a false god none the less.

It's not that collectivism/socialism will not stand. No, that suggests that men have become sane. It's that it cannot stand. It doesn't work. God is not mocked.

You may repeal the law of gravity but see what happens when you jump off the World Trade Center -- but wait, that isn't there anymore. There is just an empty hole where it used to be and Americans, like the Germans, have learned what government promises are worth. Revenge would be ours, said the President, and you* can take that to the bank. What Señor Bush forget to mention was that it would not be the justified revenge of the American people upon the perpetrators of that act of war, but upon the Iraqis, whose sin was so much worse than that -- they annoyed Señor Bush's daddy ... Osama Bin who?

* His friends who co-own the Carlyle Group, etc. - JAH.

Like the Germans, Americans have plenty of reason to be annoyed with lying lawmakers. There was some mild pleasure in watching those sniveling democrats get slaughtered in the last election. Their addiction to Marxism and its spawn, political correctness, is very dangerous and they would destroy this country in a heartbeat, all the while prattling about their great love for the "people." Unlike their communist brethren in the un-lamented USSR there is no pretense of love for the "verkers." With the democrats you can be sure that the one group for whom they have no love at all is the working class.
http://i.am/jah/workers.htm

So, the "right wing" won? Not hardly. While lying brazenly about new tax cuts, that particular group of scoundrels continue to neglect their duty to defend our borders while destroying our currency by spending more money than we have. If you doubt my words ask yourself a very important question, "Where is the forty to sixty billion dollars for Homeland Security coming from?" Since they haven't got it lying around somewhere, and since they haven't raised a tax or a bond, it can only follow that they are simply printing that money. So long savings, so long future, just line up and chant like the mercenaries do, "Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive la mercenaire."

Why? Because we are ruled by mercenaries, men without a country. National sovereignty is nothing to them, nor is patriotism. History for them does not exist. Grudge wars and the war on some drugs, the constant power plays and lust for ever more control -- these are not the actions of patriots.

It will get worse before it gets better so get ready for the long haul. They have hoodwinked much of the electorate by beating the war drums. "Let's go kick some ass," has a certain charm to the mouth-breathing public, and who cares if we are treated as serfs ... or whose ass gets kicked. That however, is a tune that has been played maybe a time or two more often than it should -- even "Born To Be Wild" gets old after a while.

There is another force brewing out there and if I know about it you may assume they do as well. They, the self-proclaimed forces of truth, justice and the American Way -- usurpers of the Republic and murderers of Waco, who seek to rule for the sheer sake of ruling.
http://i.am/jah/politics.htm

Congress (according to Free Republic last week) authorized a poll after the horror of the beltway sniper atrocities, to see if the time was ripe for yet another round of unconstitutional serf control laws (gun control they call it.) To their dismay, the results were that out of 11,000 polled in the vicinity of the sniper attacks, a whopping 88% rejected more gun control out of hand. People have seen in the person of that appalling Chief Moose character, that they had better be armed, because the doctrinaire ideologues of the secularist state will ignore a barrel full of facts to get to a lie, and actually let people die, rather than deviate from the collectivist mantra.

You want to be defended; you better talk to Mr. Glock because Mr. Moose and those like him are dedicated only to defending the failed collectivist doctrine of the sixties. Moose and company are desperately clinging to power but mean ole Mister Reality is in town and that means trouble.

Last week a senior judge in Alabama calmly rejected the ruling of a crazed federal court that required of him that he remove the tablets of God's own Ten Commandments from outside the State Supreme Court. That this is an outrage is not debatable among civilized American patriots. What is remarkable is that Judge Moore called their bluff, showing that finally, an American has had enough of this despicable and ongoing attack upon our heritage and our religion.
http://i.am/jah/comand.htm

What has the government worried, and well it should be, is this: Judge Moore could simply say, "I need one hundred thousand armed Americans to protect my court house." He'd have them by Wednesday.

Should the governor of a state on our Southern border call for those same volunteers they would be there quite as precipitously. Indeed -- some have already answered their own call and are acting in our defense on that very border. Government is outraged -- after all, it's their job to protect the border and those folks "are in the way."

Meantime Jorge Bush is resurrecting his despicable plan to reward illegal immigrants with "amnesty," making him the biggest scofflaw since Abraham Lincoln turned the Republic into just another coercive statist abomination. This is two powerful forces pulling in the opposite direction -- it bodes ill for our future as Americans.

In the eyes of the government usurpers the actions of free Americans are nothing less than a challenge to their ability to rule as they please. They had no idea how serious we are. How dare we take matters into our own hands? First Klamath Falls where Americans confronted authorities and even cut the locks off the fence put up by the masters. Now armed men are patrolling our borders without even deigning to ask permission of those in power.

Government is no longer in control -- all the fancy computer systems and surveillance techniques in the world can't change that. It is not an accident that these systems are pointed at us rather than the external enemies but for government; it is too little, too late. There might be hope for them if they were belatedly to take up the causes of the American people but they remain entranced by their own platitudes, and by the constant blathering of the increasingly irrelevant mainstream media.

Americans have become so enraged at ACLU and the constant attacks on our freedoms and our religion, supposedly in the name of the constitution, that it would take a very foolish man to wear an ACLU button in most neighborhoods, let alone in a workingman's pub.
http://i.am/jah/workers.htm

What so many on the right are missing is this simple fact: Bush and his buddies come down on the side of ACLU. Colin Powell, the government mouthpiece stated last week that Christian fundamentalists are as bad as the Islamists, clearly missing the fact that this country was founded by Christians, that he presumably works for us, and that we, the Christian people of America, did not blow up those skyscrapers!

Why would he say such a stupid thing? Why does the Bush regime actually sponsor and encourage Islamic immigration, knowing full well that they are creating a fifth column and at the very least, destroying our cultural homogeneity? How on earth can they justify welfare and business loans to immigrants, which would be a disgrace even if many Americans were not out of work?

The answer is easy. Those folks they are bringing in may occasionally kill people or blow up buildings, but on the whole they are conditioned to the lash, and have no tradition of freedom. Such people are much less of a problem for government than those nasty rednecks that Chief Moose still believes perpetrated the sniper shootings.

There is also another factor -- our government is primarily secular in mindset -- how many of those power mad bureaucrats in DC or New York ever bend the knee to almighty God? How can they know how important religion is to us? And to the Islamic immigrants as well ... Northern Ireland anyone?
http://i.am/jah/godgovmt.htm

On the other side of the fence, some left-wingers actually rejoiced last week when a sexual pervert stabbed a Christian woman to death, who was attempting to share her faith with him. They blamed a right wing conspiracy for the death of the collectivist leader Paul Wellstone. Tom Daschle's hysterical outbursts blaming Rush Limbaugh for threats against his person were very much a sign of the times. Battle lines are being drawn.

The problem with living in history is that events are more difficult to discern from up close -- witness the surprise when the USSR finally lurched into oblivion. The American empire is headed likewise for the scrap heap of history and much of the world will heave a sigh of relief. What will be missed are the ideals upon which America was founded, and for which we fought two great wars of secession.
http://i.am/jah/horse.htm#1917

Where will it end up? Given current policies toward mass migration, it seems obvious that the South West will be flying another flag within ten years. There are in the hinterland, many who still cling to our original freedoms while the coastal cities remain hotbeds of communist sedition. Will we become the Balkans of North America? Or merely collapse into barely controlled anarchy, ruled by criminal gangs fronted by empty suits like in Russia?

Even Canada is breaking up -- as freedom-loving Westerners shout their contempt for the collectivists in Ottawa who have turned their country into an international joke and jailed farmers for daring to sell their goods on the open market.

Freedom in America remains a possibility but the window is closing -- there is, as theologians know, a period of grace -- we are at the end of ours. We could repent and beseech the Lord to forgive us for having mocked His many blessings. We could stop slaughtering our unborn and stop waging aggressive war. Sadly, I don't see this happening.
http://i.am/jah/plan.htm

In my horror at the loss of our freedoms I take some satisfaction in knowing these things, but then again, I've lived in a country torn apart by war and that teaches some bitter lessons so I see no good coming out of this.

We're that close folks. That close. ...

http://i.am/jah/signs.htm



Mr. Peirce fought with the Rhodesian freedom fighters (the Ian Smith side, of course).

From Roland –

Ronald Breitweiser died during the attack on the World Trade Center. His wife, Kristen, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as a representative of the September 11 Advocates. Her testimony is recorded below.

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I would like to thank the families of the 3000 victims for allowing me to represent them, here today, before the Joint Intelligence Committee. It is a tremendous honor. Testifying before this committee is a privilege and an enormous responsibility that I do not take lightly. I will do my best not to disappoint the families or the memories of their loved ones.

Toward that end, I ask the members present here today to find in my voice the voices of all the family members of the 3000 victims of September 11. I would also ask for you to see in my eyes, the eyes of the more than 10,000 children who are now forced to grow up without the love, affection, and guidance of a mother or a father who was tragically killed on September 11.

I would now like to thank the members of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Eleanor Hill, and her staff for giving the families this opportunity to be heard. It has been an excruciating and overwhelming 12 months, and it is now time for our words and our concerns to be heard by you.

My three-year-old daughter's most enduring memory of her father will be placing flowers on his empty grave. My most enduring memory of my husband, Ronald Breitweiser, will be his final words to me, "Sweets, I'm fine. I don't want you to worry. I love you." Ron uttered those words while he was watching men and women jump to their deaths from the top of Tower One. Four minutes later, his Tower was hit by United Flight 175. I never spoke to my husband, Ron, again.

I don't really know what happened to him. I don't know whether he jumped or he choked to death on smoke. I don't know whether he sat curled up in a corner watching the carpet melt in front of him, knowing that his own death was soon to come or if he was alive long enough to be crushed by the buildings when they collapsed. These are the images that haunt me at night when I put my head to rest on his pillow.

I do know that the dream I had envisioned, that I so desperately needed to believe - that he was immediately turned to ash and floated up to the heavens - was simply not his fate. I know this because his wedding band was recovered from ground zero with a part of his left arm. The wedding band is charred and scratched, but still perfectly round and fully intact. I wear it on my right hand, and it will remain there until the day I die.

September 11 was the devastating result of a catalogue of failures on behalf of our government and its agencies. My husband and the approximately 3000 others like him went to work and never came home. But, were any of our governmental agencies doing their job on that fateful morning? Perhaps the carnage and devastation of September 11 speaks for itself in answering this question.

Our intelligence agencies suffered an utter collapse in their duties and responsibilities leading up to and on September 11. But, their negligence does not stand alone. Agencies like the Port Authority, the city of NY, the FAA, the INS, the Secret Service, NORAD, the Air Force, and the airlines also failed our nation that morning. Perhaps, said more cogently, one singular agency's failures do not eclipse another's. And it goes without saying that the examination of the intelligence agencies by this Committee does not detract, discount, or dismantle the need for a more thorough examination of all of these other culpable parties.

An independent blue-ribbon panel would be the most appropriate means to achieve such a thorough and expansive examination, in large part, because it would not be limited in scope or hindered by time limits. An independent blue-ribbon panel would provide a comprehensive, unbiased, and definitive report that the devastation of September 11 demands.

Soon after the attacks, President Bush stated that there would come a time to look back and examine our nation's failures, but that such an undertaking was inappropriate while the nation was still in shock. I would respectfully suggest to President Bush and to our Congress that now, a full year later, it is time to look back and investigate our failures as a nation. A hallmark of democratic government is a willingness to admit to, to analyze and learn from mistakes. And, it is now time for our nation to triumph as the great democracy that it is.

The families of the victims of September 11 have waited long enough. We need to have answers. We need to have accountability. We need to feel safe living and working in this great nation.

Specific Threats as to Using Planes as Weapons

On May 17, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice stated emphatically, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center . . . that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

The historical facts illustrate differently:

* In 1993 a $150,000 study was commissioned by the Pentagon to investigate the possibility of an airplane being used to bomb national landmarks. A draft document of this was circulated throughout the Pentagon, the Justice Department and to FEMA.

* In 1994 a disgruntled FEDEX employee invaded the cockpit of a DC-10 with plans to crash it into a company building in Memphis.

* In 1994 a lone pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds.

* In 1994 an Air France flight was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic Group with the intent to crash the plane into the Eiffel Tower.

* In January 1995 Philippine authorities investigating Abdul Murad, an Islamic terrorist, unearthed "Project Bojinka." Project Bojinka's primary objective was to blow up 11 airliners over the Pacific, and in the alternative, several planes were to be hijacked and flown into civilian targets in the U.S. Among the targets mentioned were CIA headquarters, the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower, and the White House. Murad told U.S. intelligence officials that he would board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger. And he would then hijack the aircraft, control its cockpit, and dive it at the CIA headquarters.

* In 1997 this plot resurfaced during the trial of Ramsi Youssuf - the mastermind behind the 1993 bombings of the World Trade Center. During the trial, FBI agents testified that "the plan targeted not only the CIA but other U.S. government buildings in Washington, including the Pentagon."

* In September 1999, a report, The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism, was prepared for U.S. intelligence by the Federal Research Division, an arm of the Library of Congress. It stated, "Suicide bombers belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (c-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House."

This laundry list of historical indicators - in no way exhaustive - illustrates that long before September 11 the American intelligence community had a significant amount of information about specific terrorist threats to commercial airline travel in America, including the possibility that a plane would be used as a weapon.

Failure to Make Warnings Public

On March 11, 2002, Director of the CIA, George Tenet stated, "in broad terms last summer that terrorists might be planning major operations in the United States. But, we never had the texture - meaning enough information - to stop what happened."

On May 8, 2002, Director of the FBI, Robert Mueller stated, "there was nothing the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the attacks."

Once again, the historical facts indicate differently:

* Throughout the spring and early summer of 2001, intelligence agencies flooded the government with warnings of possible terrorist attacks against American targets, including commercial aircraft, by al Qaeda and other groups. The warnings were vague but sufficiently alarming to prompt the FAA to issue four information circulars, or ICs, to the commercial airline industry between June 22 and July 31, warning of possible terrorism.

* On June 22 the military's Central and European Commands imposed "Force Protection Condition Delta," the highest anti-terrorist alert.

* On June 28 National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice said: "It is highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks."

* As of July 31 the FAA urged U.S. airlines to maintain a "high degree of alertness."

* One FAA circular from late July noted, according to Condoleeza Rice, that there was "no specific target, no credible info of attack to U.S. civil aviation interests, but terror groups are known to be planning and training for hijackings, and we ask you therefore to use caution."

* Two counter-terrorism officials described the alerts of the early and mid-summer 2001 as "the most urgent in decades."

One thing remains clear from this history. Our intelligence agencies were acutely aware of an impending domestic risk posed by al Qaeda. A question that remains unclear is how many lives could have been saved had this information been made more public.

Airport security officials could have gone over all the basics, again, of the steps needed to prevent hijackings. The policy of allowing passengers to carry razors and knives with blades of up to four inches in length certainly could have come under scrutiny. Indeed, officials could have issued an emergency directive prohibiting such potential weapons in carry-on bags. Finally, all selectees under the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System (CAPPS), and their carry-on luggage and checked bags, could have been subjected to additional screening. Apparently, none were on September 11, although internal FAA documents indicate that CAPPS selected some of the hijackers.

And how many victims may have thought twice before boarding an aircraft? How many victims would have chosen to fly on private planes? How many victims may have taken notice of these Middle-Eastern men while they were boarding their plane? Could these men have been stopped? Going further, how many vigilant employees would have chosen to immediately flee Tower 2 after they witnessed the blazing inferno in Tower 1, if only they had known that an al Qaeda terrorist attack was imminent?

Could the devastation of September 11 been diminished in any degree had the government's information been made public in the summer of 2001?

Failure to Investigate and Share Information

On July 5 the government's top counter-terrorism official, Richard Clarke, stated to a group gathered at the White House, "Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon."

The group included the FAA, the Coast Guard, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the INS. Clarke directed every counter-terrorist office to cancel vacations, defer non-vital travel, put off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid response teams on much shorter alert.

For six weeks last summer at home and abroad, the U.S. government was at its highest possible state of readiness - and anxiety - against imminent terrorist attack.

A senior FBI official attending the White House meeting on July 5 committed the bureau to redouble contacts with its foreign counterparts and to speed up transcription and analysis of wiretaps obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), among other steps.

But when the field agent in Phoenix, Arizona, reported the suspicions of a hijacking plot just five days later, the FBI did not share the report with any other agency. One must ask, why?

That report written by Agent Kenneth Williams, now well known as the "Phoenix Memo," recommended that the FBI investigate whether al Qaeda operatives were training at U.S. flight schools. Williams posited that Osama bin Laden's followers might be trying to infiltrate the civil aviation system as pilots, security guards or other personnel, and he recommended a national program to track suspicious flight school students. Agent Williams was dead-on point.

But, in the summer of 2001, while our nation was at its highest state of alert, his memo was flatly ignored. And, what result if it hadn't ben ignored? What if his memo was promptly placed on INTELINK, SIPRNET, or NIPRNET? What if other agents had the same suspicions in Florida, California, Georgia, Ohio, and Nevada. Could the terrorists have been stopped?

On August 15, 2001, an alert civilian instructor at a Minnesota flight school called the FBI and said, "Do you realize that a 747 loaded with fuel can be a bomb?" The next day, Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested. After investigating Zacarias Moussaoui's past, the FBI (with the help of French Intelligence) learned that he had Islamic extremist connections. They also knew that he was interested in flight patterns around New York City, and that he had a strong desire to fly big jets, even though at the time he didn't have so much as a license to fly a Cessna.

And then, what happened?

The FBI office in Minnesota attempted to get a FISA warrant, but they were rebuffed. A crucial mistake, because Zacarias Moussaoui's possessions contained evidence that would have exposed key elements of the September 11 plot.

But, why was this request denied? Again, the historical facts must be analyzed.

In March 2001 an internal debate ignited at the Justice Department and the FBI over wiretap surveillance of certain terrorist groups. Prompted by questions raised by Royce C. Lamberth, the Chief Judge of the FISA Court, the Justice Department opened an inquiry into Michael Resnick, an FBI official who coordinated the Act's applications. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller (then deputy Attorney General), ordered a full review of all foreign surveillance authorizations.

Justice Department and FBI officials have since acknowledged the existence of this internal investigation, and said that the inquiry forced officials to examine their monitoring of several suspected terrorist groups, including al Qaeda. And while senior FBI and Justice Department officials contend that the internal investigation did not affect their ability to monitor al Qaeda, other officials have acknowledged that the inquiry might have hampered electronic surveillance of terror groups. The matter remains highly classified.

What is not classified is that in early September a Minnesota FBI agent wrote an analytic memo on Zacarias Moussaoui's case, theorizing that the suspect could fly a plane into the World Trade Center. And, tragically, this, too, was ignored.

Also ignored by U.S. intelligence agencies was the enormous amount of trading activity on the Chicago Exchange Board and in overseas markets. Our intelligence agencies readily use Promis software to analyze these kinds of market indicators that presented themselves in the weeks prior to September 11. Why were these aberrational trades and market swings ignored? We were at the highest state of alert. An attack by al Qaeda was expected to occur at any given moment. And yet, massive amounts of trades occurred on American Airlines, United Airlines, Re-insurance companies, and leaseholders in the World Trade Center and none of our watchdogs noticed?

Perhaps even more disturbing is the information regarding Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, two of the hijackers. In late August the CIA asked the INS to put these two men on a watchlist because of their ties to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. On August 23,2001, the INS informed the CIA that both men had already slipped into the country. Immediately thereafter the CIA asked the FBI to find al-Midhar and Alhazmi. Not a seemingly hard task in light of the fact that one of them was listed in the San Diego phone book, the other took out a bank account in his own name, and, finally, an FBI informant happened to be their roommate.

But, again, our intelligence agencies failed.

Were the Terrorists Already Under Surveillance?

It was only after the devastation of September 11 that our intelligence agencies seemed to get back on track.

On September 12, 2001, The New York Times reported, "On Tuesday a few hours (emphasis added) after the attacks, FBI agents descended on flight schools, neighborhoods, and restaurants in pursuit of leads. The FBI arrived at Huffman Avia2tion at about 2:30 a.m., Wednesday morning. They walked out with all the school's records, including photocopies of the men's passports."

The New York Times also reported that students at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University said that within hours (emphasis added) of the attacks FBI investigators were seen at their school.

How did the FBI know exactly where to go only a "few hours" after the attacks? How did they know which neighborhoods, which flight schools, and which restaurants to investigate so soon into the case?

The New York Times went on to report that "federal agents questioned employees at a store in Bangor, Maine, where five Arab men believed to be the hijackers tried to rent cell phones late last week. Store employees at first refused to sell the phones because the men lacked proper identification, but they gave in after the five offered $3000.00 cash, store employees and an airport official said."

The article goes on to state, "the men then phoned Bangor airport trying to get a flight to Boston but were told there was no flight that matched their desired departure time, the authorities said. The men then phoned Portland International JetPort, where two of them apparently made reservations for a flight to Boston on Tuesday morning."

How would this information be gleaned so quickly? How would the FBI know to visit a store in Bangor, Maine, only hours after the attacks? Moreover, how would they know the details of a phone conversation that occurred a week prior to the attacks? Were any of the hijackers already under surveillance? It has been widely reported that the hijackers ran practice runs on the airline routes that were chosen on September 11. Did our intelligence agents ever shadow these men on any of their prior practice runs?

Furthermore, on September 12, The New York Times reported that, "authorities said they had also identified accomplices in several cities who had helped plan and execute Tuesday's attacks. Officials said they knew who these people were and important biographical details about many of them. They prepared biographies of each identified member of the hijack teams and began tracing the recent movements of the men."

How were complete biographies of the terrorists and their accomplices created in such short time? Did our intelligence agencies already have open files on these men? Were they already investigating them? Could the attacks of September 11 been prevented?

The speed by which the FBI was able to locate, assimilate, and analyze a small amount of information so soon after the attacks - barely one day later - perhaps answers this question for itself? But, if the terrorists were under investigation, then why were they ever permitted to board those planes? Perhaps, even more potently, why if such an investigation was already underway, why was our nation so late in responding to the emergency that quickly unfolded that day?

Too Many Questions Remain

Too many questions remain. Topping the list of unanswered questions are those that involve our nation's coordination, communication, and response to the attacks that morning. The 24 hours that presented themselves on September 11 beg to be examined. Questions like:

Why did the NY/NJ Port Authority not evacuate the World Trade Center when they had an open phone line with Newark Traffic Control Center and were told that the second plane was bearing down on the South Tower? NY/NJ Port Authority had at least eleven minutes of notice to begin evacuations of the South Tower. An express elevator in the World Trade Center was able to travel from top to bottom in one minute's time. How many lives may have been saved had the Port Authority acted more decisively or, rather, acted at all.

Were F-16's and Stealth bombers seen and tracked on radar screens at approximately 8:05 a.m. the morning of September 11 in the vicinity of the New York metropolitan area?

Washington Air Traffic Control Center knew about the first plane before it hit the World Trade Center. Yet, the third plane was able to fly "loop de loops" over Washington, D.C. one hour and 45 minutes after Washington Center first knew about the hijackings. After circling in this restricted airspace - controlled and protected by the Secret Service who had an open phone line to the FAA - how is it possible that the plane was then able to crash into the Pentagon? Why was the Pentagon not evacuated?

Why was our Air Force so late in its response?

What, if anything, did our nation do, in a defensive military posture that morning?

Three thousand innocent Americans were killed on September 11, leaving behind families and loved ones like myself and my daughter. There are too many heartbreaking stories to recount. There are too many lost opportunities and futures to be told.

But what can be said to you today is that the families continue to suffer each and every day. All we have are tears and a resolve to find the answers because we continue to look into the eyes of our young children who ask us, why? We have an obligation as parents and as a nation to provide these innocent children with answers as to why their mother or father never returned home from work that day.

We need people to be held accountable for their failures. We need leaders with the courage to take responsibility for what went wrong. Mistakes were made and too many lives were lost. We must investigate these errors so that they will never happen again. It is our responsibility as a nation to turn the dark events of September 11 into something from which we can all learn and grow, so that we, as a nation, can look forward to a safe future.

In closing, I would like to add one thought. Undoubtedly, each of you here today, because you live and work in Washington, D.C. must have felt that you were in the bull's-eye on September 11. For most of you, there was a relief at the end of that day; a relief that you and your loved ones were in safe hands. You were the lucky ones. In your continuing investigation, please, do not forget those of us who did not share in your good fate.

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President Bush claims he wants an independent investigation of the terrorist attack, but his administration is blocking efforts to establish a "blue-ribbon commission." Why? Because the Bush administration is using the tragedy to:


* Enact laws to restrict our freedom
* Justify the attack on Afghanistan
* Justify the coming war with Iraq
* Lead America into World War III
* Establish a New World Order, and
* Divert public attention from our economic problems

We are entering difficult times. Argentina's economy has collapsed. France and Germany are slipping into recession, and the U.S. economy is beginning to falter. The Dow Jones average has declined 30%, the Standard and Poors Index has fallen 49%, and the NASDAQ has lost almost 80% of its value. What does the future hold?

From Roland –

If the United States is at war against terrorism to preserve freedom, a new coalition of conservatives and liberals is asking, why is it doing so by wholesale abrogation of civil liberties? They cite the Halloween-week passage of the antiterrorism bill — a new law that carries the almost preposterously gimmicky title: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act" (USA PATRIOT Act). Critics both left and right are saying it not only strips Americans of fundamental rights but does little or nothing to secure the nation from terrorist attacks.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, one of only three Republican lawmakers to buck the House leadership and the Bush administration to vote against this legislation, is outraged not only by what is contained in the antiterrorism bill but also by the effort to stigmatize opponents. Paul tells Insight, "The insult is to call this a 'patriot bill' and suggest I'm not patriotic because I insisted upon finding out what is in it and voting no. I thought it was undermining the Constitution, so I didn't vote for it — and therefore I'm somehow not a patriot. That's insulting."

Paul confirms rumors circulating in Washington that this sweeping new law, with serious implications for each and every American, was not made available to members of Congress for review before the vote. "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote — at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote."

And why would that be? "This is a very bad bill," explains Paul, "and I think the people who voted for it knew it and that's why they said, 'Well, we know it's bad, but we need it under these conditions.'" Meanwhile, efforts to obtain copies of the new law were stonewalled even by the committee that wrote it.

What is so bad about the new law? "Generally," says Paul, "the worst part of this so-called antiterrorism bill is the increased ability of the federal government to commit surveillance on all of us without proper search warrants." He is referring to Section 213 (Authority for Delaying Notice of the Execution of a Warrant), also known as the "sneak-and-peak" provision, which effectively allows police to avoid giving prior warning when searches of personal property are conducted. Before the USA PATRIOT Act, the government had to obtain a warrant and give notice to the person whose property was to be searched. With one vote by Congress and the sweep of the president's pen, say critics, the right of every American fully to be protected under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures was abrogated.

The Fourth Amendment states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is joining with conservatives as critics of the legislation, the rationale for the Fourth Amendment protection always has been to provide the person targeted for search with the opportunity to "point out irregularities in the warrant, such as the fact that the police may be at the wrong address or that the warrant is limited to a search of a stolen car, so the police have no authority to be looking into dresser drawers." Likely bad scenarios involving the midnight knock at the door are not hard to imagine.

Paul, a strict constructionist (see Picture Profile, Sept. 3), has a pretty good idea of what Americans may anticipate. "I don't like the sneak-and-peak provision because you have to ask yourself what happens if the person is home, doesn't know that law enforcement is coming to search his home, hasn't a clue as to who's coming in unannounced … and he shoots them. This law clearly authorizes illegal search and seizure, and anyone who thinks of this as antiterrorism needs to consider its application to every American citizen."

The only independent in the House, Rep. Bernie Sanders from Vermont, couldn't support the bill for similar reasons: "I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this legislation fundamentally violates that oath. And the contents of the legislation have not been subjected to serious hearings or searching examination."

Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU and professor of law at New York University, tells Insight, "The sneak-and-peak provision is just one that will be challenged in the courts. We're not only talking about the sanctity of the home, but this includes searches of offices and other places. It is a violation of the Fourth Amendment and poses tremendous problems with due process. By not notifying someone about a search, they don't have the opportunity to raise a constitutional challenge to the search."

Even before the ink on the president's signature had dried, the FBI began to take advantage of the new search-and-seizure provisions. A handful of companies have reported visits from federal agents demanding private business records. C.L. "Butch" Otter (R-Idaho), another of the three GOP lawmakers who found the legislation unconstitutional, says he knew this provision would be a problem. "Section 215 authorizes the FBI to acquire any business records whatsoever by order of a secret U.S. court. The recipient of such a search order is forbidden from telling any person that he has received such a request. This is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property."

Otter added that "some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support."

Like most who actually have read and analyzed the new law, Strossen disagrees with several provisions not only because they appear to her to be unconstitutional but also because the sweeping changes it codifies have little or nothing to do with fighting terrorism. "There is no connection," insists Strossen, "between the Sept. 11 attacks and what is in this legislation. Most of the provisions relate not just to terrorist crimes but to criminal activity generally. This happened, too, with the 1996 antiterrorism legislation where most of the surveillance laws have been used for drug enforcement, gambling and prostitution."

"I like to refer to this legislation," continues Strossen, "as the 'so-called antiterrorism law,' because on its face the provisions are written to deal with any crime, and the definition of terrorism under the new law is so severely broad that it applies far beyond what most people think of as terrorism." A similar propensity of governments to slide down the slippery slope recently was reported in England by The Guardian newspaper. Under a law passed last year by the British Parliament, investigators can get information from Internet-service providers about their subscribers without a warrant. Supposedly an antiterrorist measure, the British law will be applied to minor crimes, tax collection and public-health purposes.

Under the USA PATRIOT Act in this country, Section 802 defines domestic terrorism as engaging in "activity that involves acts dangerous to human life that violate the laws of the United States or any state and appear to be intended: (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping."

The ACLU has posted on its Website, www.aclu.org, a comprehensive list of the provisions and summarizes the increased powers for federal spying. The following are a sample of some of the changes as a result of the so-called USA PATRIOT Act. The legislation:

minimizes judicial supervision of federal telephone and Internet surveillance by law-enforcement authorities.

expands the ability of the government to conduct secret searches.

gives the attorney general and the secretary of state the power to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations and deport any noncitizen who belongs to them.

grants the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about individuals without having to show evidence of a crime.

leads to large-scale investigations of American citizens for "intelligence" purposes. More specifically, Section 203 (Authority to Share Criminal Investigative Information) allows information gathered in criminal proceedings to be shared with intelligence agencies, including but not limited to the CIA — in effect, say critics, creating a political secret police. No court order is necessary for law enforcement to provide untested information gleaned from otherwise secret grand-jury proceedings, and the information is not limited to the person being investigated.

Furthermore, this section allows law enforcement to share intercepted telephone and Internet conversations with intelligence agencies. No court order is necessary to authorize the sharing of this information, and the CIA is not prohibited from giving this information to foreign-intelligence operations — in effect, say critics, creating an international political secret police.

According to Strossen, "The concern here is about the third branch of government. One of the overarching problems that pervades so many of these provisions is reduction of the role of judicial oversight. The executive branch is running roughshod over both of the other branches of government. I find it very bothersome that the government is going to have more widespread access to e-mail and Websites and that information can be shared with other law-enforcement and even intelligence agencies. So, again, we're going to have the CIA in the business of spying on Americans — something that certainly hasn't gone on since the 1970s."

Strossen is referring to the illegal investigations of thousands of Americans under Operation CHAOS, spying carried out by the CIA and National Security Agency against U.S. activists and opponents of the war in Southeast Asia.

Nor do the invasion-of-privacy provisions of the new law end with law enforcement illegally searching homes and offices, say critics. Under Section 216 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Modification of Authorities Relating to Use of Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices), investigators freely can obtain access to "dialing, routing and signaling information." While the bill provides no definition of "dialing, routing and signaling information," the ACLU says this means they even would "apply law-enforcement efforts to determine what Websites a person visits." The police need only certify the information they are in search of is "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation."

This does not meet probable-cause standards — that a crime has occurred, is occurring or will occur. Furthermore, regardless of whether a judge believes the request is without merit, the order must be given to the requesting law-enforcement agency, a veritable rubber stamp and potential carte blanche for fishing exhibitions.

Additionally, under Section 216, law enforcement now will have unbridled access to Internet communications. The contents of e-mail messages are supposed to be separated from the e-mail addresses, which presumably is what interests law enforcement. To conduct this process of separation, however, Congress is relying on the FBI to separate the content from the addresses and disregard the communications.

In other words, the presumption is that law enforcement is only interested in who is being communicated with and not what is said, which critics say is unlikely. Citing political implications they note this is the same FBI that during the Clinton administration could not adequately explain how hundreds of personal FBI files of Clinton political opponents found their way from the FBI to the Clinton White House.

And these are just a few of the provisions and problems. While critics doubt it will help in the tracking of would-be terrorists, the certainty is that homes and places of business will be searched without prior notice. And telephone and Internet communications will be recorded and shared among law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, all in the name of making America safe from terrorism.

Strossen understands the desire of lawmakers to respond forcefully to the Sept. 11 attacks but complains that this is more of the same old same old. "Government has the tendency," she explains, "to want to proliferate during times of crisis, and that's why we have to constantly fight against it. It's a natural impulse and, in many ways, I don't fault it. In some ways they're just doing their job by aggressively seeking as much law-enforcement power as possible, but that's why we have checks and balances in our system of government, and that's why I'm upset that Congress just rolled and played dead on this one."

Paul agrees: "This legislation wouldn't have made any difference in stopping the Sept. 11 attacks," he says. "Therefore, giving up our freedoms to get more security when they can't prove it will do so makes no sense. I seriously believe this is a violation of our liberties. After all, a lot of this stuff in the bill has to do with finances, search warrants and arrests."

For the most part, continues Paul, "our rights have been eroded as much by our courts as they have been by Congress. Whether it's Congress being willing to give up its prerogatives on just about everything to deliver them to an administration that develops new and bigger agencies, or whether it's the courts, there's not enough wariness of the slippery slope and insufficient respect and love of liberty."

What does Paul believe the nation's Founding Fathers would think of this law? "Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place." Says Paul with a laugh, "They revolted against much more mild oppression."

Kelly Patricia O'Meara is an investigative reporter for Insight.

From Roland –

Attention All Parents – Thimersal Causes Autism

Before the age of two, most infants in America receive EIGHTEEN (18) vaccinations, and on average about 12 of them contain a preservative that's loaded with mercury.

The evidence that mercury poisoning from those vaccines sometimes causes autism in otherwise healthy kids is so overwhelming that it's got plenty of people very scared. And no one is more scared than the executives at Eli Lilly, the drug giant that makes thimerosal, the mercury-based vaccine preservative.

The higher-ups at Lilly are addressing this situation aggressively. Are they making sure that not one child will ever again be injected with a vaccine containing mercury? No. But they are going to enormous trouble and expense to protect their company from lawsuits filed against them by parents whose children now suffer severe neurological damage.

And this protection comes courtesy of the U.S. Senate, through the Homeland Security Act, signed into law just
a few days ago.

Two articles about this controversy appeared in the New York Times last week. The first made me angry - then the second just made me angrier. Because this transparent "gift" to a well-connected drug company gets more and more unseemly with each new revelation.

The "Ticking" Bomb!!!

More than 75 years ago, Eli Lilly & Company developed thimerosal, the vaccine preservative that contains approximately 50% mercury. In recent decades, scientists have shown that mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin (MEANING, IT DESTROYS NERVE ENDINGS, ESPECIALLY IN SMALL CHILDREN!).
http://i.am/jah/why.htm
No surprise then that the high levels of mercury detected in many young children in America have been directly linked to permanent neurological damage, including autism. And the one thing all of these children have in common is that they received multiple vaccinations, beginning in the first months of their lives.
http://i.am/jah/why.htm

Lilly denies this connection, of course. But it obviously scares the heck out of them. Even the FDA has admitted the connection, although this admission is couched in the softest possible language, stating that "concerns" have been raised, and claiming that the agency is working with vaccine manufacturers to "reduce or eliminate thimerosal from vaccines." And even though it sounds as light as air, we know the FDA doesn't make this sort of statement lightly. Especially when a major drug company has so much at stake.
http://i.am/jah/heal.htm

Defusing the "Bomb"!!

But when you run an international pharmaceutical company, you don't just let the chips fall where they may. Not at all - you get out there and flex some influential muscle.
http://i.am/jah/politics.htm

During the recent political season, Lilly donated $1.6 million dollars to various candidates - more than any other pharmaceutical company. So it hardly seems like a mysterious coincidence that less than two weeks after the mid-term elections someone in the senate sneaked this vaccine provision into the homeland security bill.

And "sneaked" is no exaggeration - the provision was introduced at the 11th hour, as were six other provisions that had nothing whatsoever to do with homeland security.

But while tucking "pork" into bills that are about to pass is business-as-usual for congress, the unusual thing about this particular pork chop is that no one is taking credit for it.

As The New York Times reported last Friday, nobody seems to know, or will admit to knowing, who placed the provision in the bill, or even who wrote it.

It's almost as if someone is ashamed to be associated with this addition that will simply brush aside both class-action and individual thimerosal lawsuits aimed at Eli Lilly.

A spokesman for Lilly said that the company knew absolutely nothing about the sweetheart provision.

Right.

I suppose that includes Sidney Taural, the chairman, president and C.E.O. of Eli Lilly, who has a seat on President Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Right. "Working it out!"

Well none of this has a very good smell, does it? Even the current senate minority leader Trent Lott recognizes the fishy odor. So to force through the passage of the Homeland Security bill, Senator Lott promised that three of the last-minute provisions (including the vaccine protection) would be reviewed when congress reconvenes next year. He said,
"We need to work on those three provisions."

Note that he didn't say that the provisions would be removed, reworded, or changed. He only said, "we need to work" on them. And that's a perfect example of some beautifully vague political-speak for you.

Meanwhile, the provision currently stands as law, sufficiently complicating all of those existing lawsuits.
It will be very interesting to see just how diligently Senator Lott's "work" proceeds on behalf of a handful of citizens against a deep-pockets pharmaceutical
giant like Eli Lilly.

Don't get me wrong. I am not a proponent of litigation. But this is not a hot cup of coffee at McDonald's we're talking about. And even if it were, the way it was swept off the table is shameful.

"Take care of the kids"

Last year, under pressure from the Centers for Disease Control, the Public Health Service, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, pharmaceutical companies agreed to stop manufacturing vaccines that contain thimerosal.

But while this mercury-based preservative is no longer in production, stores of vaccines that contain it are still being used. This is a very important detail that all parents of young children should know about because they can tell their pediatricians to use only thimerosal-free vaccines on their children.

Whether or not you're a parent of young children, I hope you'll share this critical information with friends and loved ones whose children are young enough to receive vaccinations.

Likewise, if you have a child or know of a child who is showing signs of autism, you can get further information and assistance from the Coalition for SAFE MINDs (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders) - a non-profit organization founded by parents to raise awareness about the exposure to mercury from medical products (www.safeminds.org).

Personally, I am going to take a few minutes to write to Senators Mikulski and Sarbanes and let them know that I don't consider autistic children terrorists from whom we require protection. You know, for when they "work" on those last-minute provisions.

From Helen –

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From Papa Bear –

Reinstate the Constitutional Republic of the U.S. peacefully.  It appears the only way is for all business owners, "mom and pops", self-employed, etc. to stop with-holdings from paychecks to employees.  Now is the time for all such persons to rally around We The People Foundation and organize into state and national organizations for the recovery of the Republic.  We The People has provided evidence that the federal income tax, as per the 16th amendment of 1913, is a fraud. However, our so-called elected representatives in government, at all levels, fail to heed the call to reason and to uphold and protect Constitutional redress of grievances. 

Hey folks, if you want to pay federal income taxes, then do so.  Willfully give to the government all that you possess, if that is your desire.  But to illegally take from us our property, and if necessary, at the point of a gun is tyranny...not a condition of 'freedom' as so many of you are conditioned to believe.

Hanging By a Thread:  Divinely Inspired Civil Government

We Must Not Acquiesce:  It Would Be Un-American.   It Would Be Un-Godly.

We Must Retain Our Money:  It is The Only Remaining Non-Violent Option

No one should doubt the historical significance of November 14^th. History will come to record that The Moment of Truth on the National Mall, culminating Freedom Drive 2002, marked the place and the moment in the 21^st century when the People took a stand against governmental tyranny in America and began the process of restoring the Constitution of the United States of America to its rightful place.

Key to the restoration of our Constitution is the Peoples’ unalienable right to Petition for Redress of Grievances and our servant government’s obligation to respond.

As Bob Schulz detailed in his speech before the crowd that day, our Founding Fathers knew that if the People allowed the government to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances it would be the final expression of tyranny and despotism in America, the beginning of the end of our Constitutional Republic with its system of "separate powers’ and checks and balances, the beginning of the end of the Great American Experiment -- government of, by and for the People , the beginning of the end of government based on the consent of the People, and the beginning of the end of the most wonderful and powerful expression of the Creator’s intent for civil government – popular sovereignty and constitutionally guaranteed individual, unalienable rights.

If the People rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, without opposition and discontent, allowing the government to turn a deaf ear to the People’s intelligent and rational Petitions for Redress of Grievances, the People will, in effect, be turning their backs on the Creator and on humanity.

Must the People acquiesce? No, of course not. As a free People we were given the ultimate Power in our society. We just have to learn how to use it.

Read, learn and inwardly digest the divinely inspired words of the Founding Fathers: "If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility."

The founding fathers could hardly have used words more clear when they declared, "the people … may retain [their money] until their grievances are [remedied]."

By these words, the founding fathers fully recognized and clearly stated: that the Right of Redress of Grievances includes the right of redress before payment of taxes, that this right of redress before taxes lies in the hands of the People and that this Right is the People’s non-violent, peaceful means to procuring a remedy to their grievances without having depend on -- or place their trust in -- the government’s willingness to respond to the People’s petitions and without having to resort to violence.

This very American Right of Redress of Grievances Before Taxes has always been deeply embedded in our law. The time has come to use it.

As Bob Schulz reported, citing historical documents from the Revolution, the only practical, peaceful and morally appropriate option available to the People, under our present circumstances, is to withhold the payment of taxes from the government. Without money, the government cannot continue to operate outside the boundaries the People have drawn around its power, i.e., it cannot continue its abuse of power.

On November 14, 2002 our government refused to respond to the proper and well- researched Petitions for Redress concerning grave matters of freedom and liberty. They chose the line of direction the People must now take. Our mission is now clear.

Since November 14, the We The People organization has been preparing THE PLAN for the People to engage the government using strategies and tactics we have not deployed to this point. The details of the elements of THE PLAN will be posted soon. Suffice it to say, we believe the only non-violent option available is for employees, employers and the self-employed across this nation to hold and keep in their possession money they would otherwise have turned over to the government.

Ironically, in the context of income taxes, and as the research of a growing body of credentialed professionals and researchers in the Tax Honesty Movement has conclusively established, federal tax laws do not apply to most Americans’ "income" and, in any event, cannot be enforced by the US government inside the fifty states for lack of bona fide federal legislative jurisdiction. So in effect, we will be issuing a call for massive "civil obedience", i.e., "Redress BEFORE Taxes", i.e., "No Answers, NO TAXES."

Significant New Developments

There has been a significant development involving a recent letter from Daniel Bryant at the Department of Justice to Congressman Roscoe Bartlett regarding WTP and the Peoples’ Petition for Redress regarding the federal income tax. The letter came into our possession on November 21, 2002. WTP is currently preparing a substantial, detailed response to this important official document and will release it soon in conjunction with its posting of the details of the elements of THE PLAN to restore the Constitution.

We The People is also currently drafting a formal complaint against CNSNews.com and Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League for the story and defamatory quotes that appeared in an internet news story relating to WTP and Freedom Drive 2002.

From Helen –

Check out www.yardbird.com
If you are
writing a book he can help you publish as he has a printing facility and
some expertise.

From Pam –

Did you know that it's Beautiful Women Month?

Facts on Figures:  There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels
and only eight who do.
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.
If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her
proportions.
The average woman weighs 144 lb. and wears between a 12-14.

One out of every four college aged women has an eating disorder.
The models in the magazines are airbrushed -- not perfect!
A psychological study in 1995 found that three minutes spent looking at a
fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed, guilty,and shameful.

Models twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman.
Today they weigh 23% less.

~Beauty of a Woman~
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
The figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart,
The place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman Is not in a facial mole,
But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
The passion that she shows.
The beauty of a woman
With passing years -- only grows.


  An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing,"
on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."

The Images of Mother
4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything!
8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE ~ That old woman? She's way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE ~ Well, she might know a little bit about it.
35 YEARS OF AGE ~ Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.
45 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

From Connie –

http://www.mediabypass.com/

The uncensored national news. There mission is: To educate Americans with regard to their unalienable rights. To investigate and publish the relevant news that is withheld by the mainstream media. To expose and raise public awareness of misinformation and injustices perpetrated by government. To advance alternatives and support those working to preserve and restore traditional American values.

From Roland –

It wasn't that long ago if you mentioned the CFR you would be accused of being another one of those wacked out conspiracy theorist nuts. Now they talk about the CFR in mainstream press regularly. As Alex Jones often says, "they are in your face!"

Council on Foreign Relations Directors--Source 2001 Annual Report

Council on Foreign Relations
HISTORICAL ROSTER OF DIRECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS and DIRECTORS
[This completes the List of Directors, past and present of the organization known as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). You will note many military admirals, and generals that have complete control over our armed forces. You will note many heads of our three branches of Government, deputies, and associate directors of our federal government...]

Isaiah Bowman 1921-50
Archibald Cary Coolidge 1921-28
Paul D. Cravath 1921-40
John W. Davis 1921-55
Norman H. Davis 1921-44
Stephen P. Duggan 1921-50
John H. Finley 1921-29
Edwin F. Gay 1921-45
David F. Houston 1921-27
Otto H. Kahn 1921-34
Frank L. Polk 1921-43
Whitney H. Shepardson 1921-66
William R. Shepherd 1921-27
Paul M. Warburg 1921-32
George W. Wickersham 1921-36

Allen W. Dulles 1927-69 (Nation's First CIA Director)

Russell C. Leffingwell 1927-60
George 0. May 1927-53
Weslev C. Mitchell 1927-34
Owen D. Young 1927-40
Hamilton Fish Armstrong 1928-72
Charles P. Howland 1929-31
Walter Lippmann 1932-37
Clarence M. Woolley 1932-35
Frank Altschul 1934-72

Philip C. Jessup 1934-42 (Supreme Court Justice and probable Soviet spy)

Harold W. Dodds 1935-43
Leon Fraser 1936-45
John H. Williams 1937-64
Lewis W. Douglas 1940-64
Edward Warner 1940-49
Clarence E. Hunter 1942-53
Myron C. Taylor 1943-59
Henry M. Wriston 1943-67
Thomas K. Finletter 1944-67
William A.M. Burden 1945-74
Walter H. Mallory 1945-68
Philip D. Reed 1945-69
Winfield W. Riefler 1945-50

David Rockefeller 1949-85 (co-founder of Trilateral Commission; longtime
World Govenment proponent)

W. Averell Harriman 1950-55 (Ambassador to the Soviet Union; probably Soviet spy)

Joseph E. Johnson 1950-74
Grayson Kirk 1950-73
Devereux C. Josephs 1951-58
Elliott V. Bell 1953-66

John J. McCloy 1953-72 (former CIA Director)

Arthur H. Dean 1955-72
Charles M. Spofford 1955-72
Adlai E. Stevenson 1958-62
William C. Foster 1959-72
Caryl P. Haskins 1961-75
James A. Perkins 1963-79
William P. Bundy 1964-74
Gabriel Hauge 1964-81
Carroll L. Wilson 1964-79
Douglas Dillon 1965-78
Henry R. Labouisse 1965-74
Robert V. Roosa 1966-81
Lucian W. Pye 1966-82
Alfred C. Neal 1967-76

Bill Moyers 1967-74 (Public Broadcasting Service Honcho and Anchor)

Cyrus R. Vance 1968-76, 1981-87 (Carter's Secretary of State)

Hedley Donovan 1969-79
Najeeb E. Halaby 1970-72
Bayless Manning 1971-77
W. Michael Blumenthal 1972-77, 1979-84

Zbigniew Brzezinski 1972-77 (Carter's National Security Advisor; co-founder, Trilateral Commission)

Elizabeth Drew 1972-77
George S. Franklin 1972-83
Marshall D. Shulman 1972-77
Martha Redfield Wallace 1972-82
Paul C. Wamke 1972-77
Peter G. Peterson 1973-83, 1984-
Robert 0. Anderson 1974-80
Edward K. Hamilton 1974-83
Harry C. McPherson Jr. 1974-77
Elliot L. Richardson 1974-75
Franklin Hall Williams 1975-83
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach 1975-86

Paul A. Volcker 1975-79, 1988-99 (Reagan-era Federal Reserve System Chief)

Theodore M. Hesburgh 1976-85
Lane Kirkland 1976-86

George Herbert Walker Bush 1977-79 (former President; ex-CIA Director; Skull & Bones)

Lloyd N. Cutler 1977-79 (Clinton's Lewinsky-eruption Legal Apologist)

Philip L. Geyelin 1977-87

Henry A. Kissinger 1977-81 (Nixon's Secretary of State; Bush's 9/11
Oversight Chairman Pick)

Winston Lord 1977-85 (former Ambassador to China; Skull & Bones)

Stephen Stamas 1977-89
Marina v.N. Whitman 1977-87
C. Peter McColough 1978-87
Richard L. Gelb 1979-88
Graham T. Allison Jr. 1979-88
William D. Ruckelshaus 1979-83
James F. Hoge Jr. 1980-84

George P. Shultz 1980-82 (Reagan's Secretary of State)

William D. Rogers 1980-90
Walter B. Wriston 1981-87
Lewis T. Preston 1981-88

Warren Christopher (Clinton Secretary of State) 1982-91

Alan Greenspan 1982-88 (Current Chairman, Federal Reserve System)

Robert A. Scalapino 1982-89
Harold Brown 1983-92
Stanley Hoffmann 1983-92

Juanita M. Kreps 1983-89

Brent Scowcroft 1983-89 (Current Bush Advisor; former George Bush National
Security Council Director)

Clifton R. Wharton Jr. 1983-92
Donald F. McHenry 1984-93

Bobby R. Inman 1985-93 (ex-Deputy Director, CIA)

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 1985-94 (Reagan's "Ambassador" to the UN)

Peter Tarnoff 1986-93
Charles McC. Mathias Jr. 1986-92
Ruben F. Mettler 1986-92
James E. Burke 1987-95

Richard B. Cheney 1987-89, 1993-95 (Gerald Ford advisor; Bush I Defense
Secretary; GW Bush's Vice President)

Robert F. Erburu 1987-98
Karen Elliott House 1987-98
Glenn E. Watts 1987-90

Thomas S. Foley 1988-94 (ex-House Majority Leader; Clinton Ambassador to
Japan; Rumored to be Homosexual)

James D. Robinson III 1988-91

Strobe Talbott 1988-93 (Clinton State Department Hack; Rumored to be
Homosexual)

John L. Clendenin 1989-94

William S. Cohen 1989-97 (Liberal Republican; Clinton Defense Secretary;
Rumored to be Homosexual)

Joshua Lederberg 1989-98
John S. Reed 1989-92

Alice M. Rivlin 1989-92 (Clinton Economic Analyst)

Admiral William J. Crowe Jr. 1990-93 (Clinton's Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff)

Thomas R. Donahue 1990-2001

Richard C. Holbrooke 1991-93, 1996-99, 2001- (Clinton Deputy Director,
Defense Department; Rumored to be Homosexual)

Robert D. Hormats 1991-
John E. Bryson 1992-
Maurice R. Greenberg 1992-
Karen N. Horn 1992-95
James R. Houghton 1992-96

Charlayne Hunter-Gault 1992-98 ("Ms. Diversity" CNN Media Mouth)

Kenneth W. Dam 1992-2001

Donna E. Shalala 1992-93 (Clinton's Health & Human Services Secretary;
probable lesbian)

Alton Frye 1993
Richard N. Cooper 1993-94
Rita E. Hauser 1993-97
E. Gerald Corrigan 1993-95

Leslie H. Gelb 1993-2001 (ex-NY Times Chairman)

Paul A. Allaire 1993-
Robert E. Allen 1993-96
Theodore C. Sorensen 1993-

Garrick Utley 1993- (Feel-good Media Mouth)

Carla A. Hills 1994- (Mentor to Victoria "Torie" Clarke, Deputy Defense
Secretary for Public Affairs--who posts at FreeRepublic.com as "Torie")

Helene L. Kaplan 1994-96
Frank G. Zarb 1994-96
Robert B. Zoellick 1994-2001

Les Aspin 1995 (Clinton's 1st Defense Secretary; died of heart attack)

Mario L. Baeza 1995-2001
Peggy Dulany 1995-
Jessica P. Einhorn 1995-
William J. McDonough 1995-
Frank Savage 1995-

George Soros 1995- (The man who "broke the Bank of England" in speculative
currency trading)

Hannah Holborn Gray 1995-98

George J. Mitchell 1995- (Co-Chair of 9/11 Investigation Commission)

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. 1995- (ex-IBM Chairman, and who has now been tapped
by retired Admiral John Pointdexter to create the Total Information
Awareness supercomputers)

Lee Cullum 1996-
Vincent A. Mai 1997-

Warren B. Rudman 1997- (ex-New Hampshire Senator; Liberal Republican;
McCain backer, 2000 Presidential Campaign)

Laura D' Andrea Tyson 1997-
Roone Arledge 1998-2002

Diane Sawyer 1998-99 (Puffball News Mouth)

Martin S. Feldstein 1998-
Bette Bao Lord 1998-
Michael H. Moskow 1998-

John Deutch 1999- (Disgraced CIA Director & probable Soviet mole)

Robert E. Rubin 2000- (Clinton's Treasury Secretary)
Andrew Young 2000-


Kenneth M. Duberstein 2001- (Liberal former Reagan aide and who posts at
FreeRepublic.com as "Darth Reagan")

Henry S. Bienen 2001-
Joan E. Spero 2001-
Vin Weber 2001-

From Roland –

In the end...each of us will have to decide if we will take the shot or not. Here is more information to help in that decision.

By Don Harkins
December 8, 2002
NewsWithViews.com

Health districts all over the nation are mobilizing to mass vaccinate
entire populations within their service areas against smallpox. The
Idaho Observer and Vaccination Liberation are mobilizing to counter a
mass vaccination campaign that could result in the worst public
health disaster in human history.
http://i.am/jah/heal.htm

The IO, in cooperation with VacLib will publish an eight-page edition
called, The Smallpox Alert that will contain a full history of
smallpox, smallpox vaccination and details of the mass vaccination
plan. The edition will also include the packet insert for the Dryvax
smallpox vaccine and reviews of studies published in medical
journals. We intend to orchestrate eight pages of science and common
sense to derail the Bush administration plans to vaccinate America
against smallpox. We will also publish some basic, inexpensive health
and nutrition protocols that promote health and disease resistance,
said VacLib President Ingri Cassel.

This story is developing very fast. It will be a race to reach enough
Americans with accurate smallpox information before the CDC announces
the one case that will put the national mass vaccination machinery
into motion.

Voluntary or involuntary?
Early last November Panhandle Health District (PHD) Director Jeanne
Bock told Cassel that the smallpox vaccine would always be voluntary.
We have since been getting reports which indicate Bock lied. A
captain of the Grants Pass, OR Police Department told Paul Walter
editor of http://www.NewsWithViews.com at a special City Council
meeting December 2, 2002 that he will get the shot or, ...be arrested
as a health risk to others. A nurse in Spokane described the intense
organizational activity going on at this time. She also said that
people who refuse the shot, even those who are contraindicated with
skin disorders or immune dysfunction, will be arrested.

Bonner County Sheriff Phil Jarvis reportedly explained that they are
expecting mobs of people fighting to be first in line to get their
shots. He told several witnesses that he has the authority to declare
martial law if things get out of hand and that he wouldn't
hesitate to do it. A shot with every American's name on it.

In October, 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) released the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act which, if
adopted, would allow states to declare medical martial law. October,
2001 was also the month Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson announced that his agency was arranging to
secure 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine one dose for every
American.

Secretary Thompson believes that terrorists are planning to attack
Americans with smallpox and that mass vaccination will protect them.
Since The IO became aware of the federal government's plan to
vaccinate every American against smallpox it has published several
articles that prove Thompson's plans are scientifically flawed.
Both science and field experience indicate that the plan is likely
to precipitate a public health disaster of unprecedented proportions.

Thompson's plan comes together
Last September 22, the CDC released a 49-page report to the
nation's public health community that details how to vaccinate
millions of people within days. The report also instructed local
health districts to forward a copy of their mass vaccination plan to
the CDC by November 22, 2002. Bock sent a letter dated Nov. 13, 2002,
to community leaders and elected officials, doctors, nurses,
paramedics, police, firemen, school administrators and staff asking
them to volunteer to help mass vaccinate their communities.

Panhandle Health is requesting your help in responding to an urgent
directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to
develop a plan for mass immunization against smallpox. The
requirement would provide for `post-event' mass immunization
vaccinating 180,000 residents [the entire population of the five
northern counties of Idaho comprising the Panhandle Health District].
As of Nov. 4, 2002, PHD has enlisted the support of over 1,050
volunteers. Mass vaccination clinics will be set up in area high
schools, hospitals and clinics.

Bock is apparently counting on total cooperation from north Idaho
citizens who boast the lowest vaccination rate in the nation. In an
email message dated Dec. 1, 2002, Cassel reiterated several points of
concern with regard to mass vaccination against smallpox,
particularly with regard to the experimental nature of the Dryvax
smallpox vaccine. Cassel indicated her concern that the mass
vaccination will likely be followed by epidemics of secondary and
systemic infections. Cassel's concerns are justified as published
science and vaccine packet inserts provide a long list of people
whose health conditions drastically increase the risk of medical
complications that include death.

According to a handout PHD recently presented at a meeting of retired
police and firemen in Sandpoint, its vision during the administration
of the mass smallpox vaccination campaign is, To safeguard the public
against acts of bioterrorism, other infectious disease outbreaks and
other public health emergencies. PHD's vision appears to be
purely Orwellian. The nation's most influential medical
associations have publicly stated their opposition to mass
vaccination against smallpox. Citing the likelihood that such a
campaign will spread, rather than prevent the disease and will cause
significant numbers of people to suffer permanent injuries and death,
the American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons, the American Medical
Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American
Association of Family Physicians all oppose mass vaccination against
smallpox.

The plan
Once the CDC sounds the alarm that one case of smallpox has been
diagnosed, health districts all over the nation will be prompted to
spring their mass vaccination plans into action. The trigger will be
based on the claim that, because vaccination wiped out smallpox, just
one reported case will indicate that we are under attack.

According to the CDC, smallpox is clinically indistinguishable from
cowpox and monkeypox, diseases that occur regularly in third world
countries where people are subjected to poor nutrition and unsanitary
conditions. Therefore, the claim that one case of smallpox will
indicate we are under attack is based on fraud.

Once the mass vaccinations begin, potential recipients will be
subjected to traige and instructed to fill out forms. Triage will
categorize people by visible physical condition; the forms will
require the disclosure of personal medical information and will
relieve the staff, the medical facility and PHD of all liability for
sickness and death that may result from the vaccine.

Recipients will then be given an orientation and will see a video on
smallpox produced by the CDC. There will then be a review, after
which people will either go right in to be given the shot or given a
physical evaluation to determine if the evaluee is at risk for
complications from the shot.

Shot worse than disease
For the October, 2002 edition of The IO we front-paged photos of
children who contracted smallpox from the vaccine. In its natural
state, ordinary quarantine procedures and sanitation are sufficient
to stop the spread of smallpox. The vaccine, however, produces a
pustule at the site of injection that is extremely contagious and
spreads on contact. Eyes, ears and noses secondarily inoculated with
fluid from the pustule that erupts at the injection site become
hideously disfigured.

There is no credible science that justifies the planned smallpox
vaccination campaign. Previous editions of The IO (May, June, July,
August, Sept.,Oct., 2002), available at: http://www.idaho-
observer.com have covered the high points of the science that
indicates mass vaccination will spread an extremely virulent form of
the disease. Copies of The Smallpox Alert will be available by
December 18, 2002 just in time for Christmas for ten cents apiece for
100 copies. If you wish to help us defeat this potentially
devastating campaign by circulating the facts, or receive previous
editions of The IO that contain smallpox info, contact The IO at
(208) 255-2307.

From Connie –

December 13, 2002

Citing Dangers, Experts Warn Against Vaccinating Children

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

As smallpox vaccination for the public comes closer, many experts say the risky vaccine should not be offered to children and teenagers, even on a voluntary basis.

While federal health officials have not yet said whether children would be vaccinated under the plan President Bush is to announce today, they and doctors who advise the government on smallpox policy suggested yesterday that in the absence of a smallpox attack, good sense dictated that only adults get preventive vaccinations.

Vaccinating even part of a population can drastically slow an epidemic, experts said, and children are relatively easy to protect by closing schools and keeping them home. Nor would they be needed, as many adults would be, to serve on the front lines in a smallpox outbreak — running hospitals, giving emergency vaccinations, caring for the sick, delivering medical supplies and food, keeping water and sewer and phone systems running.

At the same time, the smallpox vaccine is the most dangerous in existence, especially to children. It is a cousin of the vaccine developed 200 years ago, when Dr. Edward Jenner pricked the sores of a milkmaid infected with cowpox and jabbed the lancet into the arm of a boy, giving him the virus, which protects humans against smallpox.

Experts say vaccinating children poses major ethical problems and legal liabilities that were unknown decades ago, when schoolchildren were routinely vaccinated. Children under age 18 cannot give informed consent, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “and that’s an important ethical difference.”

Existing stocks of vaccine have been in storage since the 1970’s, and the new vaccine expected to be ready by 2004 has not been tested on children. Any child vaccinated would, in effect, be part of a large human experiment. If there were side effects, the government might be held liable.

Although severe reactions to smallpox vaccines are relatively rare — estimates of future reactions range from 1 in every 8,000 vaccinations to 1 in every 67,000 — they are much more common in younger children.

In the past, said Dr. Martin Blaser, chief of medicine at New York University Medical School, children with undetected immune problems were the most likely to suffer or die.

“If you reached 18, you were probably not immuno-deficient,” Dr. Blaser said. “Getting a live vaccine was the acid test of immuno-deficiency.”

Routine smallpox inoculations stopped in 1972. Today, many more people are vulnerable to complications, including anyone who is H.I.V. positive, is receiving chemotherapy, has had an organ transplant, or has a history of eczema, which has become more common in the last 30 years.

A 1968 study found that the 14 million smallpox vaccinations given that year caused nine deaths, seven of them in children under 10 years old, according to Dr. William Bicknell of the Boston University School of Public Health.

Encephalitis from vaccination, a dangerous inflammation of the brain, occurs almost exclusively in younger children. If children and teenagers are excluded, the chances of “contact vaccination,” in which the vaccine virus is passed from one person to another who touches the sore, are sharply reduced.

Of 114 cases of contact vaccinations in 1968, Dr. Bicknell said, “almost all were in children.” The only other two he could remember were of a hospital nurse and between a couple who had had sex. Contacts between adults in workplaces are rare, Dr. Fauci said. By excluding teen-agers, he said, “you’re not vaccinating people who are spending all day horsing around with each other in school.”

Experts said that although parents might now be eager to have their children vaccinated, their enthusiasm might wane with the inevitable reports of serious side effects among some military and emergency personnel.

“People are frightened about smallpox because it’s in the news a lot,” said Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “It’s possible that by 2004, that will settle down.”

Dr. Offit opposes vaccination not only of children, but also of emergency personnel on the ground that there is not one case of smallpox in the world. “If you were trying to make a smallpox vaccine today and this was it, it wouldn’t be licensed,” he argued.

In contrast, he said: “Flu will kill 20,000 people this year, mostly less than 4 years old — and we have a vaccine. It’s too bad that Saddam Hussein’s not behind influenza. We’d be doing a better job.”

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[1][1] The more debt (both public and private, more so public) that is created, the less liberties there are going to be. In today’s public policy, the conservatives stress more responsibility upon the individual; the liberals stress more responsibility upon the Government. The 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the 2^nd amendment reflects the peoples attitude toward how the people want Government to take care of them. The more debt, the less liberties, a cancer that will eventually consume (consumers) the public policy; health care being the catalyst that will complete the cycle from capitalism to socialism, to communism through the Hegelian Dialectics.

[2][2] Today’s medical system as it pertains to health is a perfect example, not to mention the legal system. The drug ads on TV are not designed to cure anything, only treat the symptom in order to perpetrate the thing that was treated; the tread mill syndrome. If you have a cold and take drugs, the cold will last 21 days. If you have a cold and take nothing the cold will last 3 weeks.