tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29258932881060752912024-03-19T04:48:42.244-04:00The Bonnie Blue BlogDedicated to the ideals of State's rights, small government, the unregulated truly free market, American individualism and personal freedom.HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.comBlogger869125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-43625150766694492962013-04-19T13:55:00.001-04:002013-04-19T13:55:14.428-04:00Economic consequences of Boston Massacre of 2013<div><p dir=ltr><br>
<a href="http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=219949">Obama's And Boston's Lesson: Jihad Works in [Market-</a>Ticker]</p>
<p dir=ltr>Massive government,  fearful cowed citizenry,  APC's on the streets and M4's pointed at civilian homes.  A city shuts down and hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of commerce (and potential tax revenue) is lost. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Is the cure worse than the disease? </p>
</div>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-64426552526026221822012-07-18T10:47:00.004-04:002012-07-18T10:47:23.890-04:00The 'hideous monster' unleashed by the Obamacare decision<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Here, however, <b>Congress has impressed into service third parties, healthy individuals who could be but are not customers of the relevant industry, to offset the undesirable consequences of the regulation</b>. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Congress’ desire to <b>force these individuals</b> to purchase insurance is motivated by the fact that they are further removed from the market than unhealthy individuals with pre-existing conditions, because they are less likely to need extensive care in the near future. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>If Congress can reach out and command even those furthest removed from an interstate market to participate in the market, then <u>the Commerce Clause becomes a font of unlimited power, or in Hamilton’s words, "the hideous monster whose devouring jaws . . . spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane.</u>"</b> The Federalist No. 33, p. 202 (C. Rossiter ed. 1961).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>(illustration from the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, Melkor and Ongoliant destroying the trees of the Valar)</b></span></div>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-66200535848958921632012-07-17T23:16:00.000-04:002012-07-17T23:16:01.773-04:00Birthers continue to rack up points against Obama re: Birth Certificate and Social Security authenticity<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/arpaio-obama-probe-finds-national-security-threat/">WND.com exclusive story</a>, via <a href="http://drudgereport.com/">Drudgereport.com</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Under Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8, a person only has to be an established resident of Hawaii, not necessarily a U.S. citizen, and pay taxes there for one year to be able to register an out-of-state or foreign-born person with an official Hawaii birth certificate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble,” Arpaio said in a statement. “Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration policy.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The sheriff’s investigators have learned of a birth certificate coding system that indicates the White House document has been altered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">-An interview with the Hawaii official who allegedly signed the Obama document in 1961, Verna K.L. Lee, provided further confirmation of the coding anomalies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Investigators were troubled to find key information missing on the verification document Hawaii provided to Arizona’s secretary of state in May. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Hawaii’s deputy attorney general, Jill T. Nagamine, confirmed the state has a birth document on file for Obama. But she would not confirm on the record that the White House document matched what was on file with the Hawaii Department of Health. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Daniels started her investigation in August 2009. Given her profession, she has been able to access a variety of proprietary databases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">What she learned without much trouble is that Obama has been using a Social Security Number with the prefix “042″ since 1986.
As she discovered, the “042″ number is reserved for the exclusive use of individuals who register in Connecticut. When she ran 10 sequential numbers before and after Obama’s, all returned with the documentation “issued 1977-1979 in CT.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> When Daniels ran the numbers immediately flanking Obama’s, she came to the firm conviction that Obama’s number was issued in March 1977 in Connecticut. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> By all accounts, as Daniels thoroughly documents, Obama was then a 15-year-old living in Hawaii. There is no record of him even visiting Connecticut in or near this time frame.
To have gotten a Social Security card at this time Obama would have had to show up for a “mandatory in-person interview.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This could not have taken place in Connecticut. Obama’s sister, Maya, by contrast, uses a number appropriate for a Hawaiian resident.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Before anyone comments about the 2011 snopes.com debunking the Social security card fraud allegation, save it. This duck keeps walking and quacking like a duck...HM</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-40170057610560592412012-07-03T08:34:00.001-04:002012-07-03T08:34:02.758-04:00Fast and Furious protest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">via </span><a href="http://zerohedge.com/" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Zerohedge.com</a></span></b>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-19388765258283314182012-07-02T08:50:00.000-04:002012-07-02T08:50:01.622-04:00Google shopping/checkout blocks firearms, firearm accessories, and ammo saleshttp://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/06/28/google-shopping-to-censor-all-gun-ammo-accessories-results/<a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/06/28/google-shopping-to-censor-all-gun-ammo-accessories-results/"></a>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-5644037072025949772012-06-28T10:23:00.000-04:002012-06-28T10:23:02.251-04:00Federal tyranny, againACA/Obamacare upheld by Supremes.
Government can make you buy something (expensive), even if you don't want to.
More wealth confiscation and "legal" coercion of the citizenry.
Dead body of the Constitution kicked again; one more Intolerable Act.
'nuff said.HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-32140783280528195852012-05-20T18:33:00.001-04:002012-05-20T18:33:12.410-04:00The Bonnie Blue Blog<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Bonnie Blue Blog is on hiatus/significantly decreased in publishing frequency for personal reasons. I hope to publish articles from time to time. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>My focus needs to be at home.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>My best to anyone who reads my posts regularly.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Anyone who wants to contact me, or wants a Bonnie Blue wristband, just drop me an email at honourablemeans@gmail.com.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">From <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-ecb-greece-banks-idUSBRE84F0SN20120516">Reuters</a>:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The development highlights the weak state of the banking sector in Greece, where Greeks are pulling euros out of the banks in fear that their country may exit the European single currency despite the declared determination of EU powers Germany and France to keep Athens in the monetary union.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">From Brandon Smith at <a href="http://alt-market.com/articles/765-economic-alert-if-youre-not-worried-yetyou-should-be">Alt-Market</a>:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> If you thought the Greek rollercoaster was a pain in the neck for investment markets, just wait until the whole of the EU is in a shambles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spain is next in line, with a 25% official unemployment rate and a massive black market economy forming. As I have been saying for years now, when governments disrupt the financial survival of the people, they WILL form their own alternatives, including black markets and barter markets. It is about survival. <u><b>The Spanish government</b> does not care much for these alternatives, though, and <b>has now banned cash transactions over 2500 euros in a futile attempt to squeeze taxes out of the populace through digitally tracked payment method</b></u><b>s</b>:<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ...Financial disasters have always been a convenient catalyst for a host of even more frightening obstacles, including civil unrest, and blatant totalitarianism. This is the cusp. It is one of those moments that people of later generations read about in awe, and sometimes horror. The “doom” is not in the event, but in the response. What we make of the days approaching determines the darkness that they cast upon the future. <i><b> It is a test. It is not something to be dreaded. It is something to be seized upon, and dealt with, as great men and women before us have done</b></i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>Read the rest here at </b></span><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-peak-government-part-1/75356"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>ChrisMartenson.com</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>, via </b></span><a href="http://zerohedge.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>zerohedge.com</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fourth dynamic of Central State expansion is the State’s <b>ontological imperative to expand. The State has only one mode of being, expansion. <i><u>It has no concept of, or mechanisms for, contraction</u></i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468065084/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=chrismartenso-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1468065084">Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change</a>, I explain this ontological imperative in terms of risk and gain. From the Central State’s point of view, everything outside its control poses a risk. The best way to lower risk is to control everything that can be controlled. Once the potential sources of risk are controlled, then risk can be shifted to others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">In effect, the State’s prime directive is to cut the causal connection between risk and gain so that the State can retain the gain and transfer the risk to others. The separation of risk from gain is called moral hazard, and the key characteristic of moral hazard can be stated very simply: People who are exposed to risk and consequence act very differently than those who are not exposed to risk and consequence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">--Lew Rockwell</span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-10855470416473688962012-05-15T11:51:00.001-04:002012-05-16T08:02:26.182-04:00Probably time to switch to another blog service<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/05/13/another-conservative-blog-shut-down-by-google-ksm-trial-edition"><b>Read the rest</b></a></span><b>.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">This past Sunday morning, I took to my blog, The New York Conservative, to opine on the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“KSM”) and his fellow terrorists. The full text of the post is available further below.<br />The New York Conservative was a blog hosted by Google Blogger. I started the blog in February of this year and had posted 17 columns prior to the KSM entry, commenting on political matters and issues affecting the Catholic Church. I would post my entries on Facebook and occasionally would email a link to friends or other interested parties. I received no complaints about the blog whatsoever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Monday, the pro-U.S. security group Secure American Now posted a link to my KSM piece on its website. The link received numerous hits and generated multiple comments on the Secure America Now page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, a few hours after Secure America Now linked to the New York Conservative, I received a form email, no reply possible, from Google Blogger informing me that the New York Conservative had been deleted. The email classified my blog as “spam” in violation of Google’s terms of service. There was no further explanation. My URL was dead; all of the content, everything I ever posted, was gone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made two telephone calls to Google to protest and demand a reason for the deletion of my blog. The Google representatives told me that Google does not provide “live support” for Google Blogger, meaning you cannot speak with anyone at all about the deletion. The representatives directed me to the Google Blogger website, where the company extols its commitment to free speech and its great reluctance to censor its bloggers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obviously, I do not know why Google deleted my blog, but it's awfully odd that The New York Conservative was summarily executed after a post in which I called for the summary execution of KSM. Could it be that Google found the post politically incorrect and therefore offensive? Could it be that Google thought the post was dangerous because it had potential to incite Islamists?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">Given the company’s self-proclaimed devotion to free speech, I think Google ought to explain why it deleted the blog. If calling for the legal execution of the confessed mastermind of the murders of 3,000 people on American soil is too controversial a topic for Google Blogger, perhaps the famously progressive company should re-think its proclamation of support for the free exchange of ideas on its platforms.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">I for one have no desire to find out that my 900 plus posts for the past two years have gone into ether because of some PC whim of a google admin. Screw that. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Will let you know what happens.</span></b><br />
<br />HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-91930322469237842002012-05-10T13:25:00.001-04:002012-05-10T13:25:07.340-04:00Breaking news: Members of the military: you dont fight for freedom, the Constitution, or your country!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Whoops.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But <strong><em>Mr. Obama actually did bare his soul unintentionally today (perhaps the Biden disease is catching) with his astonishing characterization of American fighting men and women, whom he referred to as “those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting <u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">on</span> my</span><span style="font-size: large;"> behalf</span></u></em></strong>.” Really? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most Americans thought they were fighting for the country, not on Barack Obama’s behalf. Slip of the tongue, to be sure, but can one think of another president who’d have made it? They are fighting under his command, under his orders, to be sure, but this particular locution is offensive and solipsistic. Mr. Obama has switched his position on the sanctity of marriage back and forth and has a new one, again, today, revealed when politics made that advisable to him and to his campaign. Whether this is the end or he will “evolve” some more is anyone’s guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But let’s leave our soldiers out of this. They aren’t fighting for Mr. Obama and his campaign, and no one sent them out to risk their lives to win same sex “marriage.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sheeple: get used to it...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>verbatim from <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/08/2789687/military-training-in-the-middle.html">Miami Herald, FL newspaper</a>, via <a href="http://drudgereport.com/">Drudge</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">No, there was no smell of napalm in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But there was the thunderous whump whump of low-flying helicopters, and even the jarring blast of explosions at the abandoned Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove early Tuesday during a military training exercise that jolted many unsuspecting residents from their beds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It was quite a shocking experience,” said Jane Muir, who was awakened around 1:45 a.m. by the sound of military choppers that later dropped rappelling soldiers onto the Grand Bay’s rooftop. “It was kind of that bizarre feeling that you were surrounded by wind.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">From her third-floor balcony, Muir then watched the soldiers fire off flares and smoke bombs before searching floor by floor through the darkened hotel, their paths marked by flashlights and the pop-pop-pop of gunshots. “The show of force was so overwhelming,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The maneuvers were part of a “realistic urban training” exercise for about 100 military personnel, and organized by the U.S. Special Operations Command, said Maj. Michael Burns, a U.S. Army spokesman. The exercise also included three military helicopters, and the use of simulated explosions and gunfire to mimic real-life military scenarios.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">“They have to train in a realistic environment,” Burns said. “We didn’t use any real bullets,” he added reassuringly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miami police assisted in overseeing the exercises — but <b>they were instructed to keep quiet about the exercises until late Monday, for security reasons. The police also blocked off roads around the Grand Bay during the exercise</b>, Muir said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“</span><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was the federal government’s call on what was being done. We </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">[Note: local government advised, not local citizens]</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> were courteously advised</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">,” said Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff, whose district includes Coconut Grove.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss said that<b> a news release about the training was sent out around 5 p.m. Monday</b>, <i><b>but it went largely unnoticed</b></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The explosions, however, did not. A handful of alarmed Grove residents called the police and City Hall to ask about the armed choppers flying over their homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Muir, for one, would not have minded a heads up beforehand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I thought it was kind of rude, to tell you the truth,” she said. “One neighbor was swearing, he was so annoyed.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But despite the neighborhood anxiety, the exercise went off safely and quickly, Burns said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It seems very high drama, but to us it’s kind of simple,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>Tell me: if the cops keep it quiet from the people they are charged to protect, and the citizens don't know what is happening, who will hold any armed citizens liable for resisting with force?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>A military special op in the middle of the night in a US civilian area?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>What freedom are our troops fighting for abroad, exactly? What freedom do we still have at home?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sleeping giant, wake up already!</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-79452877845629105902012-05-02T16:02:00.000-04:002012-05-02T16:02:30.793-04:00Ron Paul’s Stealth State Convention Takeover<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>verbatim</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yike's even WaPo is figuring out what is going on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember Ron Paul?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">He has yet to win a primary. All his other fellow long-shots have dropped out (or will by the end of the day). The Republican National Committee is calling former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney the “presumptive nominee.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet at state conventions around the country, Paul supporters are increasing the candidate’s support by taking over state party committees and educating fellow Paul fans in arcane rules.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">While at many conventions Romney backers are split between numerous would-be delegates, Paul supporters are showing up in droves and voting with discipline for a delegate slate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">With a plurality of delegates from five states, Paul supporters could nominate him from the convention floor — the goal of at least some Paul supporters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">A brokered convention is still unlikely. But a strong showing..Paul has only 80 delegates to Romney’s 847, according to an AP count. When all the various state conventions are over we’ll see how much support he’s gathered — and whether Romney should have paid more attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> At Massachusetts’ state convention less than half of Romney’s 27 chosen delegates won tickets to Tampa. Paul supporters were chosen instead. While all of the state’s delegates are committed to vote for Romney, the delegates get to decide on the party chairman, platform, and VP nominee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul backers in Alaska were elected as party chairman and co-chairman but failed to change the rules to give Paul the state’s 24 delegates. (He will get six.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul supporters are a majority in the Iowa GOP’s State Central Committee, and he’s set to claim a majority of the state’s delegates despite finishing third in the caucuses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">They dominated the caucuses in Louisiana, carrying four out of six congressional districts with a tie in a fifth. That means 74 percent of the state’s convention delegates will be Paul backers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Minnesota, Paul won 20 of 24 delegates allocated at congressional district conventions, and he’s expected to take more at the statewide convention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul supporters teamed up with backers of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum in Colorado to get 13 delegates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The candidate has also picked up small delegate gains in states where Romney won big — for example, five delegates in Pennsylvania and four in Rhode Island. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Attempts to replicate these successes are taking place in other states across the country — for example, the upcoming state convention in Nevada.</span><br />
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WASHINGTON - Look up. Drones are "certainly" coming to the skies over the Beltway in the next few years, one area police chief says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The use of drones in the D.C. area became public information last week, after the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of agencies currently or previously permitted to use the unmanned aerial vehicles. It included many federal departments, such as Agriculture, Homeland Security and Energy as well as local organizations such as Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "Drones will certainly have a purpose and a reason to be in this region in the next, coming years," said Fairfax County Police Chief David Rohrer, while speaking on WTOP's "Ask the Chief" program on Monday. "Just as a standpoint as an alternative for spotting traffic and sending information back to our VDOT Smart Traffic centers, and being able to observe backups." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The use of drones over U.S. soil has some in Congress concerned about Americans' privacy rights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "The potential for invasive surveillance of daily activities with drone technology is high," wrote Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., in an April 19 letter to FAA. "We must ensure that as drones take flight in domestic airspace, they don't take off without privacy protections for those along their flight path." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said in the same letter he "proudly suppported" the FAA Modernization and Reform Act that allowed for the domestic use of drones. There are many institutions in his home state that the FAA has cleared for done use, including Texas A&M University, and the police forces in the city of Arlington outside Dallas-Fort Worth and in Montgomery County near Houston.
"However, if used improperly or unethically, drones could endanger privacy and I want to make sure that risk is taken into consideration," he said. </span><br />
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Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.<br />
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“It’s absolutely been discussed,” confirmed a department source. “It goes to show you the spirit with which they operate. Everyone is a child...<br />
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Sources said the happy-hour ban is being pushed by the agency’s marathon-running boss, Commissioner Thomas Farley, and is serious enough for one source to say the alcohol lobby had better find itself a good lawyer.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Milwaukee Red Cross Prepared for Evacuees if NATO Summit Disaster Happens </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Should we expect some kind of false flag operation/agent provocateur activity in Chicago during the NATO Summit that will result in a further crackdown on our liberties? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Milwaukee Red Cross is preparing in case people from Chicago need to evacuate the city during the NATO Summit, reports <a href="http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/149081905.html">Milwaukee news radio</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Spokeswoman Barbara Behling told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Jay Sorgi that if an incident happens during the NATO summit that leads to an evacuation of at least part of the city of Chicago, Milwaukee's Red Cross will be ready with beds, food and doctors ready for evacuees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Evacuation of part of the city? What the hell are these crazy bastards plotting?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>via economicpolicyjournal.com</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-67461278576546210342012-04-29T21:12:00.001-04:002012-04-29T21:12:13.010-04:00The Liberty Summit<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>I just came back from the weekend. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>The meeting was epiphanic for me in many ways. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>I wasn't personally acquainted with a single participant, and I had no idea what to expect. I had decided that I could not sit at a desk anymore, I needed to do something, if only learn from others. I mentally prepared myself for lots of scenarios. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>I am grateful that I had a very positive experience. That of course is a positive reflection on the other participants. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>First, I just want to throw out a few labels to describe the men I met at the Summit (y'all don't let your heads swell too much, but this is sincere): </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> Brave. Forthright. Highly intelligent. Highly motivated. Community and family oriented. Guided by the Golden rule.
Anxious to obey the law. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> To a man, (forgive the non PC term, there were several women at the summit) the one term I could apply to each person that I met was-- competent.
These were men <i>meant </i>to live lives of liberty. They know how to take care of themselves. Men in the classic sense. Men of a quality of character you do not meet every day. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>We had much in common, even though we were from different corners of the country, and had different backgrounds and economic situations. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>For instance, each participant, or so I believe, had a "wake up" moment in their lives that jarred them out of their daily complacency (and faith in government and/or law enforcement). </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>For some it was early encroachment on the prime question of Natural Rights: "Do we own our bodies?", such as a law to require seat belt use. ("I think its a good idea to wear one, but you in government have no damn right to tell me I HAVE to do anything with my own body...") </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> For others, it was an encroachment one or another of the enumerated Rights of the Bill of Rights, such as the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban: ("I came back from a combat deployment to find out Congress had passed it...").
Others were jarred awake by Katrina--orders to confiscate legally owned weapons of citizens who needed them for self defense. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> You can list many others that might jar a liberty minded person awake: Ruby Ridge, Waco, false flag operations, TARP, TSA 4th amendment violations, NDAA, HR 347, CISPA, The Executive order for National Defense Resource Preparedness, etc etc.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> I myself had many wake up calls. The crash of 2008 was the major one. It has been a four year journey of continuing education to see more of the scope of the crimes being committed by the powers that be against the productive class of this country. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lately these "wake up calls" are coming with increasing frequency.
Liberty in the United States is undergoing a horrific bombardment.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>I want to address my fellow attendees: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>It was an honor to meet each and everyone of you. I learned a lot, and I got exactly what I wanted for myself by attending...perspective on what my own role will be going on from here. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> I have a certain skill set. I am a Constitutional conservative. I love to teach people that have an open mind and want to learn--I will work to drive people into our ranks. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> To wit</b></span>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i> But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. ... <b>This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution</b>.</i></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">--John Adams, letter to Hezekiah Niles, 1818.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> I've got my mission. I will do what I can to support and drive the body politic toward our beliefs.
I have your backs. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> God speed you all.</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-16580195645145994112012-04-25T14:25:00.001-04:002012-04-25T17:41:29.476-04:00(Updated) Sgt Gary Stein dismissed from USMC for Facebook posts, loses all benefits<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Marine Corps has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Corps says Wednesday that Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge for violating Pentagon policy limiting speech of service members.
The San Diego-area Marine has served nearly 10 years in the Marine Corps. He has said he was exercising his free-speech rights. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The discharge will mean he loses all benefits.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Raw deal, not unexpected. Stein served the American people and the Constitution faithfully for 10 years, did nothing morally or constitutionally wrong, and is now stripped all benefits, with "less than honorable discharge..."</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <b>SAN DIEGO</b> – The Marine Corps said Wednesday it has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook.
The Corps said Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge for violating Pentagon policy limiting speech of service members. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The San Diego-area Marine has served nearly 10 years in the Marine Corps. He has said he was exercising his free-speech rights.
The discharge will mean he loses all benefits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">A federal judge previously denied a request to block military discharge proceedings against Stein, who called Obama an enemy on Facebook.
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff ruled then that the military has the right to respond to Stein's online comments in a case that has called into question the Pentagon's policies regarding social media and the limits regarding the speech of active duty military personnel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Attorney J. Mark Brewer told Huff the entire process violates the First Amendment, <i>which federal courts have the right to uphold</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>[sic] and WTF-HM</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Huff disagreed, calling Stein's postings "truly troubling."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Service members have had their speech limited since the Civil War, especially if their comments are believed to disrupt good order and discipline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The judge pointed out Stein's March 1 comments on a Facebook page used by Marine Corps meteorologists in which the sergeant stated, "Screw Obama and I will not follow all orders from him." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Read more: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/25/marine-corps-discharges-sergeant-who-posted-facebook-posts-critical-obama/#ixzz1t5eRvYe3">Link</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sgt Stein is ENTIRELY justified in making a statement that he will not "follow ALL orders from him".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>He has a legal and moral obligation to himself, and his brothers in arms, to DISOBEY unconstitutional orders.</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-31187659578413798682012-04-23T17:24:00.000-04:002012-04-23T17:24:37.104-04:00Major C. Miller, USMC, Ret., Delegate for Ron Paul<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0OVgYCMjr8c" width="560"></iframe>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-68734179636519154432012-04-22T18:27:00.000-04:002012-04-22T18:27:09.996-04:00Liberty Summit, Mercer, PA, April 27-29<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Verbatim post from <a href="http://tlinexile.blogspot.com/">TLinExile.blogspot.com</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> If one were standing on the brink of societal collapse and they knew it deep down, but society moved along, normalizing the absurd and treasonous, desperately trying to deny the obvious, what would you do? What have you done? It is at that point right now, is it not? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is time for action, pure and simple. This is a nation gone insane, rationalizing everything designed to protect the people as a reason to protect the government from the people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We, as citizens of America, have been given a valuable resource in the Constitution, but more importantly the letters and thoughts of those who fought the war for independence and those who inspired and led it. Nothing in their writing suggests that the government should be given ultimate authority over the people and that the people should submit for their own safety. This is an alien thought to those brave founders, it was in violent protest to this prospect which began the conflict. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The TSA, instituted by George Bush, is the exact sort of reasonable oppression that the gullible public typically embrace, which, a few years later, runs amok. The threat is always dire predictions of catastrophe that would befall the people were they to resist the tyranny. In the days of the American Revolution the British offered protection from Indian attack, from the hardships of the frontier and yet our forefathers shrugged off their compassionate threats and said: "We can do for ourselves." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Ours is a complex society. The government has stepped in to provide many things: maintained highways and roads; social security; protection from terrorism; protection from each other; all in the name of liberty, the freedom to travel, to conduct business for ourselves, but that is no longer an easy burden to carry and the yoke must be shrugged off and the chances taken. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Liberty-Summit/">Liberty Summit</a> is next weekend in Mercer, PA. It is a gathering of those who have acknowledged this fact, or it would seem. It is not so important that we see hundreds of people for the sake of numbers, it is important to know who will take the time to participate when the chips are down and the roll has been called. It is important to find the twenty or so people with whom one might begin their resistance to this onslaught of government oversight and control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But, even if one does not participate in a gathering, their dedication to the idea, the principles that this government cannot go on ruling itself constitutional when it is not, is vital. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Tyranny does not begin with midnight trains and internment camps, it begins with a little safety rule, that while a good idea, buried deep within it is the concept that the government will help us keep ourselves safe. It begins with something as seemingly innocuous as a seat belt law, but in that seed is the growth of a giant tree extending every branch and vine into our lives, because we have accepted the idea that the government should enforce our own good thoughts on others. It comes when we think we can only be safe by making other people be safe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is a dangerous world out there. There are a lot of things that could hurt us and each one, each concern becomes a weapon of the tyrannical force that is our government. The fear of improperly prepared food, of sharp toys, are all that it takes to transform a nation of freedom into a prison. Every TSA agent who sifts through your things like a Nazi guard at a concentration camp, has that license to do so by your assent, by your concern for others and if you thought you were going to avoid them by taking a train, or driving a car, you are wrong. They will chip our cars and search the trains for our papers. They have the bug, they see the power and no government is able to resist that drug. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is time to act against it, to take some chances, to let dangers exist before we find ourselves the safest of all people, those restrained from themselves, locked away in a padded room and fed sterile food and filtered water.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>The premise of <u>American Insurgents, American Patriots</u>, by T.H. Breen, is to demonstrate with historical evidence that the people (ideologically and in body) led the representatives of the Continental Congress to the secession from and fight against the Monarchy and Parliament. The book focuses on 1774 and 1775.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>From the Introduction of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Insurgents-Patriots-Revolution-People/dp/0809075881">American Insurgents, American Patriots</a>:</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> Two years before the Declaration of Independence, a young, evangelical colonial population accomplished something truly extraordinary. In small communities from New Hampshire to Georgia, it successfully challenged the authority of Great Britain, then the strongest empire in the world. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The vast majority of Americans have never heard the people's story. Instead, we have concentrated attention on the lives of a small group of celebrated leaders. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Without the people, however, there would have been no Revolution, no independent nation. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Confident of their God-given rights, driven by anger against an imperial government that treated them like second-class subjects, </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">American insurgents resisted parliamentary rule, first spontaneously, as loosely organized militants who purged the countryside of Crown officials, and then, increasingly after late 1774, as members of local committees of safety that became schools for revolution</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>(emphasis added-HM)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>It is with this hope, and in this spirit, that I will attend the Liberty Summit next week.</b></span>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925893288106075291.post-36772245670555440982012-04-20T16:11:00.000-04:002012-04-20T16:11:16.646-04:00My Propertea<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xAl7zvdYKKk" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">;-)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">via <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100150943/no-briton-can-be-indifferent-when-it-comes-to-making-a-proper-cup-of-tea/">Daniel Hannan</a> at The Telegraph blogs.</span></b>HonourableMeanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17184364710831158238noreply@blogger.com0