Breaking news: Members of the military: you dont fight for freedom, the Constitution, or your country!!

Whoops.

But 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 on my behalf.” Really?  

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.

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.”




Dear Father, whom we love!!



Dear Father, for whom we fight!!
















link to Weekly Standard article.

Да здравствует товарищ Обама!!
                           --Long live Comrade Obama!!

Да здравствует великий американский родины, для которых борьба и жертвы!!
                             --Long live the great American Homeland for which you fight and sacrifice!!

Obama's Presidential inaugural oath:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

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"Best of my ability..."-- Not so great, huh...Well, it is a living constitution, after all...

IMHO, that oath of allegience needs to be changed in the future to take out the wiggle room implied in "best of my ablility".

Another softening up op in Miami

Softening up the US populace for a police state, that is.

Sheeple: get used to it...

verbatim from Miami Herald, FL newspaper, via Drudge

No, there was no smell of napalm in the morning.


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.


“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.”


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.


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.


“They have to train in a realistic environment,” Burns said. “We didn’t use any real bullets,” he added reassuringly.


Miami police assisted in overseeing the exercises — but 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, Muir said.


“It was the federal government’s call on what was being done. We [Note: local government advised, not local citizens] were courteously advised,” said Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff, whose district includes Coconut Grove.


Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss said that a news release about the training was sent out around 5 p.m. Monday, but it went largely unnoticed.


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.


Muir, for one, would not have minded a heads up beforehand.


“I thought it was kind of rude, to tell you the truth,” she said. “One neighbor was swearing, he was so annoyed.”


But despite the neighborhood anxiety, the exercise went off safely and quickly, Burns said.


“It seems very high drama, but to us it’s kind of simple,” he said.


Miami Herald staff writer Charles Rabin contributed to this report.



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?


A military special op in the middle of the night in a US civilian area?


What freedom are our troops fighting for abroad, exactly?  What freedom do we still have at home?


Sleeping giant, wake up already!

Ron Paul’s Stealth State Convention Takeover

verbatim


Yike's even WaPo is figuring out what is going on:


Remember Ron Paul?


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.”
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.


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.


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. 


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. 


Here's WaPo's latest on Ron Paul delegate count:


 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.


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.)


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.


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.


In Minnesota, Paul won 20 of 24 delegates allocated at congressional district conventions, and he’s expected to take more at the statewide convention.


Paul supporters teamed up with backers of former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum in Colorado to get 13 delegates.


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. 


Attempts to replicate these successes are taking place in other states across the country — for example, the upcoming state convention in Nevada.

via economicpolicyjournal.com


By any and all honourable means, baby.

Rand Paul leads fight against TSA

Three out of four boxes gone...

via GreenMountainsHomesteading
and Resistor in the Rockies

Plan to use drones in DC

WASHINGTON - Look up. Drones are "certainly" coming to the skies over the Beltway in the next few years, one area police chief says. 


 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. 


 "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." 


 The use of drones over U.S. soil has some in Congress concerned about Americans' privacy rights. 


 "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." 


 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. 

LINK to article.


Feel safe yet?.

Yankeeism strikes again in NYC

The Most Serious Indication of the Decline in the Standard of Living in NYC in NYC

The City of New York is considering banning happy hour.

NyPo has the details:

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.

“It’s absolutely been discussed,” confirmed a department source. “It goes to show you the spirit with which they operate. Everyone is a child...

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.

The happy-haters have no limits.

Interventionists never stop. Once they gain a little power, they dream only of more power.

economicpolicyjournal.com

Appropriate preparedness vs. false flag op?

Frustrating: I don't trust anything the MSM and .gov say anymore...This is a huge expenditure for a theoretical possibility, and the Red Cross, I thought, is independent of FEMA/DHS. Anyone know anything I don't know?


Milwaukee Red Cross Prepared for Evacuees if NATO Summit Disaster Happens 


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? 


 The Milwaukee Red Cross is preparing in case people from Chicago need to evacuate the city during the NATO Summit, reports Milwaukee news radio.


 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. 


 Evacuation of part of the city? What the hell are these crazy bastards plotting?

via economicpolicyjournal.com

The Liberty Summit

I just came back from the weekend. 


The meeting was epiphanic for me in many ways. 


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. 


I am grateful that I had a very positive experience. That of course is a positive reflection on the other participants. 


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): 


 Brave. Forthright. Highly intelligent. Highly motivated. Community and family oriented. Guided by the Golden rule. Anxious to obey the law. 


 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 meant 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.    


We had much in common, even though we were from different corners of the country, and had different backgrounds and economic situations. 


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). 


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...") 


 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. 


 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.


 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. 


Lately these "wake up calls" are coming with increasing frequency. Liberty in the United States is undergoing a horrific bombardment.


I want to address my fellow attendees: 


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. 


 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. 

 To wit:

 But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? 


The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.


The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. 


--John Adams, letter to Hezekiah Niles, 1818. 

 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. 


 God speed you all.

(Updated) Sgt Gary Stein dismissed from USMC for Facebook posts, loses all benefits

Marines discharge sergeant for Facebook posts 


The Associated Press 
Published: Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 - 11:17 am 


SAN DIEGO -- 


The Marine Corps has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook.


 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. 


 The discharge will mean he loses all benefits.


 Read more here

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..."

 SAN DIEGO – 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. 


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. 


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. 


Attorney J. Mark Brewer told Huff the entire process violates the First Amendment, which federal courts have the right to uphold[sic] and WTF-HM. 


Huff disagreed, calling Stein's postings "truly troubling."


 Service members have had their speech limited since the Civil War, especially if their comments are believed to disrupt good order and discipline. 


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." 

  Read more: Link


Sgt Stein is ENTIRELY justified in making a statement that he will not "follow ALL orders from him".


He has a legal and moral obligation to himself, and his brothers in arms, to DISOBEY unconstitutional orders.

Major C. Miller, USMC, Ret., Delegate for Ron Paul

Liberty Summit, Mercer, PA, April 27-29

Verbatim post from TLinExile.blogspot.com 

 Every Branch And Vine 

 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? 


 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. 


 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. 


 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." 


 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. 


 The Liberty Summit 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. 


 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. 


 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. 


 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. 


 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.
------------------------------

The premise of American Insurgents, American Patriots, 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.


From the Introduction of American Insurgents, American Patriots: 


 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. 


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. 


Without the people, however, there would have been no Revolution, no independent nation. 


Confident of their God-given rights, driven by anger against an imperial government that treated them like second-class subjects, 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. (emphasis added-HM)


It is with this hope, and in this spirit, that I will attend the Liberty Summit next week.

My Propertea

;-)
via Daniel Hannan at The Telegraph blogs.

Ron Paul at Cornell University, 4/19/2012

Seeds planted. Will bear fruit in the future. Hope springs eternal...4400 attended at my alma mater.

Virginia passes nullification of NDAA, becomes law

Today, the Virginia legislature once again approved House Bill 1160 (HB1160), what many refer to as the NDAA Nullification Act. The support was overwhelming, again. In the House today the vote was 89-7 and the Senate concurred a few hours later, 36-1.


The bill “Prevents any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a United States citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation.”


According to an inside report, bill sponsor Delegate Bob Marshall spoke twice in support of the bill on the House floor today. Delegate Barbara Comstock (a long-time Patriot Act supporter) invoked Michael Chertoff and others as high government officials opposing HB 1160. Basically, she said state legislators have no business questioning the federal government.


Marshall responded with citations to a CRS report demonstrating the vagueness of the law, and its effort to circumvent the Treason Clause. He also noted that state legislators are to be watchdogs against the Federal Government.


In the Senate today, Senator Dick Black (R-Loudoun) and Senator Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax) spoke in favor before the final vote.


THE FULL STORY


HB1160 originally passed the Virginia house in February by a vote of 96-4. It went to the Senate where opponents tried to hold it over until next year, effectively killing it. The vote was a tie- and failed. In two short days, thousands of grassroots activists contacted their Senators to support the bill and the next vote, taken quickly, was a different story – 39-1.


With minor amendments, the bill needed to go back to the House for approval. A number of parliamentary maneuvers were used to stall and kill the bill. Various votes to delay (“pass by”) actual approval were held. Eventually, the House rejected the Senate amendments and the bill was sent back to the Senate for another consideration.


Again, the grassroots got on board – and activists from groups across the political spectrum called and emailed their Senators to move the bill forward. The Senate, after a few days of jousting, “receded” from their original amendment by a vote of 37-1 in March, effectively passing the original House bill from the previous month.


HB1160 then went off to the Governor’s desk. Inside sources had been telling us at the Tenth Amendment Center that Governor Bob McDonnell did not want to sign this bill. Vetoing would certainly keep him in a good place with the establishment who supports NDAA detentions, but would also be a slap in the face of a huge portion of his own state’s population, considering the massive outpouring of support from the people there.


McDonnell had until mid April to sign or veto the bill. On the very last day, after some strong behind-the-scenes work by supporters and sponsors, the Governor announced that he recommended some minor amendments – and he would support that version of HB1160.


The bill’s sponsor, Bob Marshall, released the following statement:


Over the past few weeks, Governor McDonnell has heard from a number of Virginians regarding House Bill 1160, sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall. During the consideration of this legislation and since its passage, he has expressed both the shared concern that Virginia does not participate in the unconstitutional detention of U.S. citizens and the desire that this legislation does not impact legitimate law enforcement activities.


Preserving public safety is the foremost priority of any government. Every day, state and local law enforcement personnel work together and work with the federal government to keep Virginians safe by fighting crime, responding to emergencies, and combating terrorism. The governor believes we must encourage and promote these collaborative efforts while ensuring that core constitutional principles enjoyed by all U.S. citizens are respected. He believes these standards are expected by all Virginians and want to take appropriate steps to reaffirm that position. In the governor’s view, this legislation now accomplishes that goal.


Since the legislation’s passage, staff has worked with the patron to come up with amendments that will achieve the goal of not supporting unconstitutional detentions while preserving the ability of law enforcement and our state defense forces to carry out their responsibilities. The amendments Governor McDonnell sent down achieve those goals, and Delegate Marshall has expressed his support for them. The governor hopes the General Assembly will support them, as well.


The bill is now expected to be promptly signed by Governor McDonnell.


May the other states now follow the lead taken today by Virginia.


UPDATE – according to sponsor Bob Marshall, because the legislature passed the bill as recommended by the Governor, a signature is not required. HB1160 becomes law on July 1st.

SIC SEMPER TYRANIS, BABY.


LINK to the Tenth Amendment Center Blog.

Sgt Gary Stein vs. the slave mentality

In the initial stages of nearly every recorded tyranny, the saucer eyed dumbstruck masses exhibit astonishing and masterful skill when denying reality. 


 The facts behind their dire circumstances and of their antagonistic government become a source of cynical psychological gameplay rather than a source of legitimate concern. Their desperate need to maintain their normalcy bias creates a memory and observation vacuum in which all that runs counter to their false assumptions and preconceptions disappears forever. It is as if they truly cannot see the color of the sky, or the boot on their face. The concrete world of truth becomes a dream, an illusion that can be heeded or completely ignored depending on one’s mood. For them, life is a constant struggle of dissociation, where the tangible is NOT welcome…


This is the problem that we in the Liberty Movement deal with most often in our writings and films. Our confrontation with willful ignorance has been epic, even by far reaching historical standards. The gains in social awareness have been substantial, and yet the obstacles are incredible. Unprecedented. As an activist trend, we have an almost obsessive drive to draw back the curtain so that the public has at least the opportunity to see what is on the other side. Unfortunately, there is another danger that must be taken into account…


It is one thing to bear witness to the rejection of truth in our time and the oblivious attitudes of many towards the growth of totalitarianism. Eventually, though, a second phase in the development of oligarchy arises. I am speaking of the point at which tyranny becomes so blatant that the skeptics have to acknowledge its existence, but after doing so, they choose to rationalize it as necessary. Yes, there are many in this world that will laugh at the prospect of the Orwellian nightmare only to happily embrace it when it arrives in full color.


I was recently looking into the divisive issue of U.S. Marine Sgt. Gary Stein, whose position has come under threat due to his criticisms of Barack Obama and his founding of the ‘Armed Forces Tea Party Facebook Page’. What I discovered was a large number of Americans in support of Stein’s right to speak as a citizen (even under Marine regulations) against the unconstitutional actions of any president or presidential candidate. I also discovered a considerable number who wanted to see the soldier dishonorably discharged, or even set upon a noose as punishment.


read the rest of the article by Brandon Smith of alt-market.com:

Jury Nullification charges dismissed against Heicklen in NY Federal Court

Associated Press Story:

NY judge tosses out jury nullification charges

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press
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From that article, quoting:


NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge threw out charges Thursday against a man who urged jurors in multiple East Coast cities from Florida to New Hampshire to sometimes disregard the law and vote their conscience.


U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan tossed the case against Julian Heicklen, saying the First Amendment protects speech concerning judicial proceedings as long as the speech doesn’t prevent fair and impartial justice. She noted that the essence of the First Amendment is that falsehoods are better exposed through discussion than through suppression.


Heicklen, a retired chemistry professor, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for repeatedly handing out pamphlets to people outside a lower Manhattan courthouse near the World Trade Center site between October 2009 and May 2010, urging a practice known in legal circles as jury nullification.


Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca Mermelstein had reminded Wood during oral arguments last month that Heicklin also has regularly distributed pamphlets in front of federal courthouses in Philadelphia, Boston, Tampa, Fla., Alexandria, Va., Concord, N.H., Springfield, Mass., Hartford, Conn., and Albany and White Plains in New York state. She called him a “significant threat” to the integrity of the judicial system.


Wood wrote that Heicklen did not violate the law by handing out pamphlets discussing the role of juries in society and urging jurors to follow their consciences regardless of instructions on the law. She said the law would be violated only if Heicklen tried to influence the action or decision of a juror on a specific case pending before that juror.

A letter from Julian Heicklen himself:


Hi Tyranny Fighters:
            Today, I was notified by Sabrina Shroff, my federal defender stand-by counsel and by Ben Weiser, the federal court reporter for the New York Times that the jury tampering case against me in the U. S. District Court in Manhattan, NY Has been dismissed.  This means that the jury has the right, actually the duty, to judge the law as well as the facts.  I have not yet seen either the dismissal order nor the court opinion.
            This is a great victory for the country and will keep me out of federal  prison.  However all the federal judges in the United States should be removed from office and tried for perjury with the intent to obstruct justice, since they all instruct the jury that it must uphold the law as they give it.  This is a double lie.  If the jury decides to uphold the law, it must be the law in the written statute.  If the judge does not provide the jury with the written statute, the jury MUST find the defendant not guilty, because of reasonable doubt. 


            On Monday, April 23, 2012, I will be distributing jury nullification literature on the plaza in front of the U. S. Federal Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street, Manhattan, NY 10007, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm.  You all are invited to join me.  At 1:30 pm there will be a victory luncheon for everyone who wishes to attend at their own expense at one of the best Chinese restaurants in near-by China Town.  Please send me your suggestion for which restaurant you prefer.
     The luncheon will to thank Sabrina Shroff and Steven Statsinger, my federal defender stand-by counsels, for their invaluable work to bring the case to a successful solution.  I hope to see as many of you as possible at either the distribution or the luncheon, or both.  If you plan to attend the luncheon, let me know, so that I can notify the restaurant of how many of us there will be.
           One small step for a shabby old man, but a giant leap for justice and our country.  On to Orlando on Tuesday, May 8, 2012.


          Yours in freedom and justice—Julian


Heicklen is doing our labor, and we owe him a debt of gratitude. Vintage video:




First Amendment appropriately upheld. 
FIJA.org.

Originally via Oathkeepers.org

Why did McVeigh bomb the Murrah building in Oklahoma City?

This subject, now history, seems more and more relevant today.


From a September 2001 Vanity Fair article by Gore Vidal (the whole article is well worth reading): 


Finally, McVeigh sent me three pages of longhand notes dated April 4, 2001, a few weeks before he was first scheduled to die. It is addressed to “C.J.”(?), whose initials he has struck out.

I explain herein why I bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.


I chose to bomb a Federal Building because such an action served more purposes than other options. Foremost, the bombing was a retaliatory strike: a counter-attack, for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco). From the formation of such units as the FBI’s “Hostage Rescue” and other assault teams amongst federal agencies during the 80s, culminating in the Waco incident, federal actions grew increasingly militaristic and violent, to the point where at Waco, our government—like the Chinese—was deploying tanks against its own citizens.


… For all intents and purposes, federal agents had become “soldiers” (using military training, tactics, techniques, equipment, language, dress, organization and mindset) and they were escalating their behavior. Therefore, this bombing was also meant as a pre-emptive (or pro-active) strike against those forces and their command and control centers within the federal building. When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the fight to the enemy. Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile, by bombing a government building and the government employees within that building who represent that government. Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. From this perspective what occurred in Oklahoma City was no different than what Americans rain on the heads of others all the time, and, subsequently, my mindset was and is one of clinical detachment. (The bombing of the Murrah Building was not personal no more than when Air Force, Army, Navy or Marine personnel bomb or launch cruise missiles against (foreign) government installations and their personnel.)


I hope this clarification amply addresses your question.


Sincerely, T.M., USP Terre Haute (In.)

In the end, McVeigh, already condemned to death, decided to take full credit for the bombing. Was he being a good professional soldier, covering up for others? Or did he, perhaps, now see himself in a historic role with his own private Harper’s Ferry, and though his ashes molder in the grave, his spirit is marching on? We may know—one day.

Deo Vindice

From Texas SCV on Facebook

Deo Vindici by Rickey Pittman:


I am a Southerner...
I won't apologize
I won't be reconstructed.
I will not surrender
My identity, my heritage.
I believe in the Constitution,
In States' Rights,
That the government should be the
Servant, not the Master of the people.
I believe in the right to bear arms,
The right to be left alone.


I am a Southerner...
The Spirit of my Confederate ancestor
Boils in my blood.
He fought
Not for what he thought was right,
But for what was right.
Not for slavery,
But to resist tyranny, Machiavellian laws,
Oppressive taxation, invasion of his land,
For the right to be left alone.


I am a Southerner.
A rebel,
Seldom Politically Correct,
At times belligerent.
I don't like Lincoln, Grant, Sherman,
Or modern neocon politicians like them.


I like hunting and fishing, Leonard Skynyrd,
The Bonnie Blue and Dixie.
I still believe in chivalry and civility.


I am a face in the Southern collage of
Gentlemen and Scholars, belles and writers,
Soldiers and sharecroppers, Cajuns and Creoles,
Tejanos and Islenos, Celts and Germans,
Gullah and Geechi, freedmen and slaves,
We are ALL the South.


The South...my home, my beautiful home,
My culture, my destiny, my heart.
I am a Southerner.

DEO VINDICI.

How to preserve your weath through stealth...anecdote from Soviet days

Keep this story in mind, which was told to me yesterday.


During the height of the Soviet Empire a physicist was planning to escape the USSR. He was cleared to travel, but, of course, he was not allowed to take with him any wealth he had.


The man cleared the Soviet checkpoint with one piece of luggage and a couple of suits thrown in. And, oh yeah, he managed to take all his wealth with him.


How did he do it?


Before he left, he sold off all his assets and bought platinum with the funds. He stretched the platinum into wire and made coat hangers out of the wire. He threw his suits over the "hangers" and cleared the checkpoint without incident.

via economicpolicyjournal