Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
04 March 2013
13 February 2012
OPSEC = Keep your head down
This is why you don't volunteer to be on television.
Why is anyone surprised? If you show up on people's radar, especially people who don't like individual freedom (99.999% of cops) they will react. If these people have significantly more power than you, don't have to follow the same rules as you, and are more conformist than you (again, 99.999% of cops) they will make you sorry.
Keep your head down, get yourself ready, and to hell with the neighbors. It's too late for most people anyway, and they won't appreciate being reminded they're about to lose their cable, let alone civilization. All they'll do is lock you up.
Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government.
Why is anyone surprised? If you show up on people's radar, especially people who don't like individual freedom (99.999% of cops) they will react. If these people have significantly more power than you, don't have to follow the same rules as you, and are more conformist than you (again, 99.999% of cops) they will make you sorry.
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| Don't be a Butthead, remember OPSEC. |
Keep your head down, get yourself ready, and to hell with the neighbors. It's too late for most people anyway, and they won't appreciate being reminded they're about to lose their cable, let alone civilization. All they'll do is lock you up.
13 December 2011
I get all the Posse Comitatus I need at home.
Okay, I'm sorry. You try to make a pun on Posse Comitatus and see what you come up with. It's harder than it looks.
That said, it looks like we won't need to worry about making puns about the Posse Comitatus act for long, since apparently it's not in effect anymore.
That said, it looks like we won't need to worry about making puns about the Posse Comitatus act for long, since apparently it's not in effect anymore.
Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.Good to know they're only using it against the backward hillbilly types. Surely they won't come after good ole red blooded, blue blood americans, right? Rest easy, big brother's looking out for you.
He also called in a Predator B drone.
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.
But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.
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| Not all of us can be as sanguine about this as you, Butthead. Unless by sanguine we mean "bloody." In that case, I assume that most of the nation will be "sanguine" fairly soon. |
15 October 2011
On the one hand, I'd like to see the whole thing collapse faster...
... on the other hand, if this did happen and the economy cratered, they'd just do more bullshit just like it.
On the gripping hand, though, it'll hasn't got a chance in hell of passing. We're not quite THAT far down the path to outright communism.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.
On the gripping hand, though, it'll hasn't got a chance in hell of passing. We're not quite THAT far down the path to outright communism.
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| It's this kind of party, but for the economy. |
10 October 2011
Remus vs. voters
Something like this has been my answer every time someone says "if you don't vote, you can't complain":
Ask most so-called conservatives if they're willing to go back to pre-New Deal America. The answer, shorn of its Clintonesque waffling, will be no. Therefore they are New Deal collectivists. No patriotic citizen of conscience will lend legitimacy to this farce by participating in their, formerly our, national elections. Punching the New Deal's ticket every couple of years has no upside. Stay home on election day, spend it immersed in some guilty pleasure or another, vote for "None of the Above" and luxuriate in unblemished righteousness thereafter. - 'Ol Remus and the Woodpile Report
George Carlin (who decidedly did not share Remus' politics) said something along the same lines, and both of them have often reminded me of something the Grand-Master once wrote: "Relaxing to the inevitable is not the same thing as stooling for the guards."
Voting only means you're part of the problem.
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| A cop posted this. Really think about that for a minute. A federal cop. |
24 September 2011
11 August 2011
The trains don't even run on time...
I don't vote, but if I did, it would be for Ron Paul.
“The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions. The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems. Runaway welfarism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the American Republic? Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own:
1. Order assassinations, including American citizens,
2. Operate secret military tribunals,
3. Engage in torture,
4. Enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process,
5. Order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendment,
6. Ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operations as required by the War Power Resolution,
7. Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight,
8. Wage war at will,
9. Treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude x-raying.
And the Federal Reserve accommodates by counterfeiting the funds needed and not paid for by taxation and borrowing, permitting runaway spending, endless debt, and special interest bail-outs.
And all of this is not enough. The abuses and usurpations of the war power are soon to be codified in the National Defense Authorization Act now rapidly moving its way through the Congress. Instead of repealing the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), as we should, now that bin Laden is dead and gone, Congress is planning to massively increase the war power of the President. Though an opportunity presents itself to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Congress, with bipartisan support, obsesses on how to expand the unconstitutional war power the President already holds. The current proposal would allow a President to pursue war any time, any place, for any reason, without Congressional approval. Many believe this would even permit military activity against American suspects here at home. The proposed authority does not reference the 9/11 attacks. It would be expanded to include the Taliban and “associated” forces—a dangerously vague and expansive definition of our potential enemies. There is no denial that the changes in s.1034 totally eliminate the hard-fought-for restraint on Presidential authority to go to war without Congressional approval achieved at the Constitutional Convention. Congress’ war authority has been severely undermined since World War II beginning with the advent of the Korean War which was fought solely under a UN Resolution. Even today, we’re waging war in Libya without even consulting with the Congress, similar to how we went to war in Bosnia in the 1990s under President Clinton. The three major reasons for our Constitutional Convention were to:
1. Guarantee free trade and travel among the states.
2. Make gold and silver legal tender and abolish paper money.
3. Strictly limit the Executive Branch’s authority to pursue war without Congressional approval.
But today:
1. Federal Reserve notes are legal tender, gold and silver are illegal.
2. The Interstate Commerce Clause is used to regulate all commerce at the expense of free trade among the states.
3. And now the final nail is placed in the coffin of Congressional responsibility for the war power, delivering this power completely to the President—a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our Republic.
In my view, it appears that the fate of the American Republic is now sealed—unless these recent trends are quickly reversed.
The saddest part of this tragedy is that all these horrible changes are being done in the name of patriotism and protecting freedom. They are justified by good intentions while believing the sacrifice of liberty is required for our safety. Nothing could be further from the truth.
More sadly is the conviction that our enemies are driven to attack us for our freedoms and prosperity, and not because of our deeply flawed foreign policy that has generated justifiable grievances and has inspired the radical violence against us. Without this understanding our endless, unnamed, and undeclared wars will continue and our wonderful experience with liberty will end.”
“The last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions. The rule of law is constantly rejected and authoritarian answers are offered as panaceas for all our problems. Runaway welfarism is used to benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. Who would have ever thought that the current generation and Congress would stand idly by and watch such a rapid disintegration of the American Republic? Characteristic of this epic event is the casual acceptance by the people and political leaders of the unitary presidency, which is equivalent to granting dictatorial powers to the President. Our Presidents can now, on their own:
1. Order assassinations, including American citizens,
2. Operate secret military tribunals,
3. Engage in torture,
4. Enforce indefinite imprisonment without due process,
5. Order searches and seizures without proper warrants, gutting the 4th Amendment,
6. Ignore the 60 day rule for reporting to the Congress the nature of any military operations as required by the War Power Resolution,
7. Continue the Patriot Act abuses without oversight,
8. Wage war at will,
9. Treat all Americans as suspected terrorists at airports with TSA groping and nude x-raying.
And the Federal Reserve accommodates by counterfeiting the funds needed and not paid for by taxation and borrowing, permitting runaway spending, endless debt, and special interest bail-outs.
And all of this is not enough. The abuses and usurpations of the war power are soon to be codified in the National Defense Authorization Act now rapidly moving its way through the Congress. Instead of repealing the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), as we should, now that bin Laden is dead and gone, Congress is planning to massively increase the war power of the President. Though an opportunity presents itself to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Congress, with bipartisan support, obsesses on how to expand the unconstitutional war power the President already holds. The current proposal would allow a President to pursue war any time, any place, for any reason, without Congressional approval. Many believe this would even permit military activity against American suspects here at home. The proposed authority does not reference the 9/11 attacks. It would be expanded to include the Taliban and “associated” forces—a dangerously vague and expansive definition of our potential enemies. There is no denial that the changes in s.1034 totally eliminate the hard-fought-for restraint on Presidential authority to go to war without Congressional approval achieved at the Constitutional Convention. Congress’ war authority has been severely undermined since World War II beginning with the advent of the Korean War which was fought solely under a UN Resolution. Even today, we’re waging war in Libya without even consulting with the Congress, similar to how we went to war in Bosnia in the 1990s under President Clinton. The three major reasons for our Constitutional Convention were to:
1. Guarantee free trade and travel among the states.
2. Make gold and silver legal tender and abolish paper money.
3. Strictly limit the Executive Branch’s authority to pursue war without Congressional approval.
But today:
1. Federal Reserve notes are legal tender, gold and silver are illegal.
2. The Interstate Commerce Clause is used to regulate all commerce at the expense of free trade among the states.
3. And now the final nail is placed in the coffin of Congressional responsibility for the war power, delivering this power completely to the President—a sharp and huge blow to the concept of our Republic.
In my view, it appears that the fate of the American Republic is now sealed—unless these recent trends are quickly reversed.
The saddest part of this tragedy is that all these horrible changes are being done in the name of patriotism and protecting freedom. They are justified by good intentions while believing the sacrifice of liberty is required for our safety. Nothing could be further from the truth.
More sadly is the conviction that our enemies are driven to attack us for our freedoms and prosperity, and not because of our deeply flawed foreign policy that has generated justifiable grievances and has inspired the radical violence against us. Without this understanding our endless, unnamed, and undeclared wars will continue and our wonderful experience with liberty will end.”
29 July 2011
23 July 2011
Lufkin cops arrest a retarded guy for being at home.
Having spent some time in East Texas, this really comes as no surprise.
Lufkin police officers responding to a call about a black male kicking in the door to a home, broke in, terrorized a hispanic male, who retreated to the bathroom to hide. This guy is retarded, and not in the rude sense of the word. It's not like he wears pink polo shirts with popped collars. This guy "doesn't think like you and I do. He has a child’s mind. He operates on a lower level thinking than you and I do. Number two, he doesn’t speak this language.”
Get that? A spanish speaking retarded guy fled from big scary rednecks kicking in his door and trying (successfully) to beat, spray and arrest him, and the court gives HIM 30 days and a $500 fine.
Lufkin police officers responding to a call about a black male kicking in the door to a home, broke in, terrorized a hispanic male, who retreated to the bathroom to hide. This guy is retarded, and not in the rude sense of the word. It's not like he wears pink polo shirts with popped collars. This guy "doesn't think like you and I do. He has a child’s mind. He operates on a lower level thinking than you and I do. Number two, he doesn’t speak this language.”
Get that? A spanish speaking retarded guy fled from big scary rednecks kicking in his door and trying (successfully) to beat, spray and arrest him, and the court gives HIM 30 days and a $500 fine.
05 June 2011
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