Edward Snowden statement

“One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.

On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic “wheeling and dealing” over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.

This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.

For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.

I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.”

Russian forces to provide security at US events

http://www.infowars.com/russian-forces-to-provide-security-at-us-events/

I hope every body has stockpiled as much ammo as I have. A gun behind every blade of grass.

The machine

The machine

has taken on a life of it’s own

It has become purpose

without reason

purpose alone

It’s wiring are rules,

regulations

written for compliance

for blind obedience

only for perpetuation

The cold machinations

have no desire

no meaning

nothing but purpose

to survive and grow

And we,

we, are the lubricant

crushed

between the gnashing gears

to smooth the friction

aid the traction

and slowly, slowly

move the machine

forward

AMERICA’S DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

Our trip down the road to totalitarianism didn’t start in 1934 but that was the seminal year for the formation of the all powerful federal government. It actually started with Lincoln asserting Federal power over the states by making war on the confederates; but that was on the level of establishing federal supremacy over the states rights.  I use 1934  as the year that it really started because  that is when unlimited   federal  power was given over the citizenry.            With the much flawed ruling that banned machine guns. the fate of our nation was sealed; by ruling that machine guns affected interstate commerce and were therefore subject to the commerce clause the door was opened to the unlimited abuse of the clause that we now have. With the SCOTUS perverted interpretation of the commerce clause every aspect of American life could be claimed to be under Federal Jurisdiction. From what type of crops a farmer may grow to it being illegal to grow pot in your backyard has been ruled to be subject to the commerce clause. The Fed now dictates everything from your toilet and shower to your light bulbs the    Now for the scary part; the Obamacare ruling the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius . A lot of people really haven’t thought about the implications of the ruling.      In addition unlimited jurisdiction through the commerce clause the federal government now has the unlimited power to tax; and not the power to tax as set forth in the constitution.  That treasonous bastard Justice Roberts has sold our nation into slavery.  We can now be compelled to do anything or pay a tremendous “Tax”.  There is no limit on the amount of the “Tax” that congress can exact for according to the Roberts court congress makes the call on all taxation.     Worried Yet?  If not, you should be. Think of all the possibilities: Register or turn in your guns or face a $15,000 tax, submit your DNA or face $10,000 tax or  a terrorism screening where you would be compelled to submit your work, financial and family history, your IP address, access to your email accounts and phone records.    You See?  The possibilities are endless. Whether you are left or right or center, name your biggest fear of the government and it can be found with this ruling.  Read it yourself if you don’t believe me.      There are no limitations on civil rights or anything else because you don’t have to comply;All you have to do is pay the tax; Congress has the constitutional authority to tax as it wishes according to this ruling.     Just wait until the scumbags in Washington figure out how to use this. Each party will claim to be the champion of the people protecting them from abuse and tyrannical taxation while they are positioning themselves to get both houses and the presidency so they can tax and oppress the fuck out of their enemies.      But my wonderful story of America doesn’t end here, it only starts here. When you couple unlimited federal jurisdiction and unlimited taxation powers with the increasingly militarized police state you can come up with some very scary scenarios. Anything the police state wants you can be compelled to give them, or be taxed to a pauper, anyone that can afford to not comply will find that under the commerce clause the fed has jurisdiction and they can be compelled by law.    To put it plainly and bluntly, we are fucked.        There is no way of voting your way out of this.  I will never cast a vote again; it does not matter. We have been given over to kings and tyrants by the treasonous scum on our highest court.         But in the end the most important questions are: What are you going to do when it begins?  Will you submit or resist? Will you go on as if life is normal or will you become Edward Snowden?

“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death” Patrick Henry.

You sir are no JFK..Barack Obama bombs in Berlin: a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100222637/barack-obama-bombs-in-berlin-a-weak-underwhelming-address-from-a-floundering-president/

Obama finally being seen for what he is,  “It was a combination of staggering naiveté, the appeasement of America’s enemies and strategic adversaries, and the championing of more big government solutions.”     although stupidity may be a more accurate description than naivet’e.  As North Korea, India, Pakistan  and Iran further their nuclear programs, the boy genius wants to cut our nuclear arsenal by 1/3 and then eventually eliminate them. This will be the utopian society where we will all join hands around the globe and sing we are the world..     It is amazing that a guy who is touted as the smartest guy in the room  adheres to a sophomoric ideology that most have discarded by the 8th grade.  It would be entirely laughable were it not for his position of power and his ties to radical revolutionaries.

Crossing point

“I imagine everyone’s experience is different, but for me, there was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress – and therefore the American people – and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper – the Director of National Intelligence – baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed,” Edward Snowden

What does it take to step over to the other side? As Edward Snowden said “It was no single event” that spurred him to do what he did. It was a collection of ever growing lies and deceit from our government that finally built until he reached his breaking point.  The important question is when will that point be reached for normal law abiding citizens? When will they realize the scale of the tyranny building and cross over themselves?     It is becoming ever more obvious that this administration is flagrantly flouting the rule of law and doing as it wishes. It certainly is not one single event but many; From Eric Holder and his contempt of congress to the IRS scandal. Every level of the government is involved in this lawlessness and corruption.      With the IRS scandal it was not just the IRS, some of the victims involved were not only audited , but also investigated by the FBI the ATF and even OSHA. With Bengahzi , the lies came from state and it is almost certain the white house was aware from the beginning but perpetuated them nonetheless.    Fast and furious involved not only the ATF, but also the FBI and state. Hillary used the guns coming in from fast and furious to try to further her gun control agenda when she used erroneous statistics about the guns coming from the US while standing next to a pile of assault rifles.  When Obama said that they were “working on gun control under the radar” it is almost certain that high level administration officials were aware that the ATF was flooding Mexico with guns and the carnage from those very same guns was going to be used to further their agenda.     Now we are  approaching the crossing point for “Normal” citizens; The point where they begin to rebel against the system. This is the point where righteousness begins to out weigh the threat of consequences and outrage overcomes fear. The enormity of these latest scandals are starting to sink into the public consciousness and resonate; This government is losing it’s legitimacy.     In Syria, when the mass protests first started, Assad’s troops began firing into the crowds to disperse them. When the shooting started the protests accelerated rather than diminished. Outrage overcame fear as the last shreds of Assad’s legitimacy evaporated .When he ordered firing upon peaceful protesters he could no longer be perceived as a legal, legitimate ruler.         People will submit to a lot of things , even if they don’t agree with them, if they feel they are legitimate. Take TSA for an example;  No one wants to go through a humiliating pat down, but as a whole, they submit to it.  They undergo the experience in the belief that TSA is, at least trying , to work for the greater good and are acting in good faith.     As soon as that belief in good faith is gone, such as being singled out unfairly or treated rudely, people immediately begin to rebel and a scene quickly ensues.  The context of the pat down changes as soon the perception of the pat down does.    The IRS is another prime example. The much feared financial arm of the Fed is going to find itself in difficult straits because of their malfeasance. It is simply a fundamental change in the perception of the agency.     Instead of fearing what they might find out, the attitude is going to be “” You are a bunch of frauds, crooks and liars, how dare you audit me. You are only auditing me because I write in opposition to the government”      Instead of fearfully submitting to an audit that type of perception can leave a bunch of agents in an office with the wrong end of a five gallon gas can.     The perception of events is all important and it all comes back to the consent of the governed. Even in prisons, they have the consent of the prisoners.Without that consent a prison could never be run. If no one followed the rules it would be chaos and so costly that no state could have one.   The prisons have the consent to run because most convicts know that they have broken the law and done wrong deeds; Even in prisons they have a sense of fairness. When prisoners feel that they are being mistreated or treated unfairly, riots break out or guards are singled out for revenge. (Which is actually fairly rare)  Once the perception of legitimacy is removed the prison quickly becomes ungovernable.    As more comes out about these scandals, more and more of the governments legitimacy is going to be removed. As it sinks in that the IRS was being used for voter suppression, to cheat the very way that we give our consent, more and more people are going to lose faith in the system and withdraw their consent.   As more information is released about the NSA domestic spying program and the true scope of the lies are revealed, one more layer of the veneer of legality will be stripped away from the regime.    As it becomes apparent that all of the powers of the Fed are being used for lawlessness and corruption and political machinations then more and more people are going to reach the crossing point.  I have already reached mine. How about you?

Over 1/2 of Senate members skip briefing on NSA domestic spying

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/305765-senators-skip-classified-briefing-on-nsa-snooping-to-catch-flights-home

It is all about priorities. Only 47 out of 100 senate members attended a classified briefing on the NSA domestic spying. The rest hopped on planes early to enjoy the father’s day week end.     Do you feel represented? Do these spoiled elites stand for you or for me or for anything other than themselves ? It is apparent that they care nothing about their obligations to the constitution or their constituents .They have their position and power so why should they care about representing us when it is not an election year ?      If you don’t get it by now then you haven’t been paying attention; We have been had.  Everyone has been waiting for the revolution to start, when in fact it already over.The senate is no more interested in investigating the NSA than the FBI is in investigating the IRS. They are already aware of what is going on and are part of it.   We have been sold wholesale into bondage by both parties. This Government has become above the rule of law and our insignificant liberties will not stand in the way of it growing ever larger until it controls every aspect of our lives. The NSA spying is only the tip of the iceberg.    If you still think that you can vote your way out of this, I think you are sadly mistaken. Unless there are another 99 Rand Pauls waiting in the wings to be elected to the senate, the America that we knew is gone.      Now we are left with hard choices; Either submit or become the resistance.The time to choose will be coming in the near future.

Denver, July 1st magazine swap meet on the steps of the capitol

http://co-ironwill.blogspot.com/2013/06/open-act-of-defiance-magazine-swap-at.html#comment-form

“In defiance of this law, which is repugnant to the Constitution and therefor null and void, we as free Citizens of Colorado and of the united States of America, will join together to freely trade, buy and swap “high-capacity” firearm magazines in front of the State Capitol. We will be joined by other freedom loving Patriots from other States who come to lend their support.”

This is only the beginning. We as free men and free citizens will resist. Don’t think that they are done. They will not stop until we are subjects of the police state. .

57% think that NSA data will be used to harass political opponents

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2013/57_fear_government_will_use_nsa_data_to_harass_political_opponents

57% is an astounding number considering how many idiots are still unaware of what is going on. It seems as if the corruptness of this regime is finally starting to penetrate the public consciousness. This cannot bode well for the emperor and his new clothes.

Republicans in rush to prosecute Snowden

“Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer,” he told the South China Morning Post. “Every level of society is demanding accountability and oversight.” Edward Snowden

The extent of the police state has been unmasked and the Govt. is not happy about it, Calls for prosecution abound from both parties;  “I don’t know exactly the law and I don’t know the extent to which he violated whatever law is there, but he’s got to be prosecuted,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said.   John Boehner called him a traitor, while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) says he’s a “defector.”      Snowden is a threat to their one party rule. What he has unmasked here is that the leadership of both parties are actively working to build this police state. I am sure that what he released is only the tip of the iceberg. I am sure that the warrantless spying is much more extensive and in depth than exposed in the initial release of info.    People are finally starting to wake up to the true state of our Govt.  Let’s see what other info he has.

When law has no moral authority

Natural and legal rights are two types of rights theoretically distinct according to philosophers and political scientists. Natural rights are rights not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable. In contrast, legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system.(Wiki)     Law itself is subjective.  Those upon whom it is applied will in the end decide whether or not it applies to them; It goes back to consent of the governed. When law loses it’s moral authority it is no longer a valid law . Without moral authority a law is nothing more than a rule enforced by punishment; And you can only frighten a man so much with the threat of force or imprisonment.   In 13th century  England, the King  lost his moral authority to impose law and that eventually led to the Magna Carta .  It seems that this is where we are headed now.  Trust in the government is at an incredibly low point. Trust in the system is almost gone.    The highest court in the land , the one that is to protect the constitution, is held in disregard, sellouts to the system.  Whether or not the SCOTUS has ruled one way or another on an issue is irrelevant as they have slowly been ruling our rights away for decades and are losing any semblance of trust.      It is up to us as a people to decide whether or not we will allow the Govt. to surveil our every move or not. It is up to us, when the system has become so corrupt that it no longer has moral authority, to impose our will upon it as the barons did upon the King of England with the Magna Carta. In the end it is we and we alone who will decide whether to live as free men or serve as serfs under the rule of the police state.

John Boehner : NSA leaker a “Traitor”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/house-speaker-john-boehner-nsa-leaker-a-traitor/

The weepy one weighs in on the NSA leak. No surprise here, after all it was the republicans who started all this crap.

Eric Cantor vows serious investigation into NSA leak : Intel officials overheard saying Snowden should be “Disappeared”

http://thehill.com/video/house/304409-cantor-congress-will-launch-very-serious-investigation-into-snowden

A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be ‘disappeared.’

Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the ‘disturbing’ conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington’s Dulles airport

This is the America we now live in. The powers that be have been exposed for what they are and they are not happy about it. Snowden now has to worry about that knock comes on his door; Nacht Und Nebel.  Night and fog.  Sound familar ?     “The Night and Fog Decree, issued by Hitler in 1941 and disseminated along with a directive from Keitel, was operated within the conquered territories in the West (Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands). The decree allowed those “endangering German security” to be seized and made to disappear without trace. Keitel’s directive stated that “efficient intimidation can only be achieved either by capital punishment or by measures by which the relatives of the criminal and the population do not know his fate.”    That is what we are, conquered territory. It is not Obama or the Democrats; It is the federal government.  It is out of control and now has a life of it’s own. Both parties are in on it and will do whatever they can to perpetuate it’s power because it’s power is their power.   What the federal government was supposed to be was representatives from each state and the president.  Collectively they would govern national affairs and protect the country.   What we now have are endless layers of bureaucracy that would make Kafka marvel. Bureaucracies  such as the EPA and the ATF that are able to make “rules” that carry the weight of law and are not able to be overturned by congress because congress empowered those agencies when they created them. This has even been upheld by the SCOTUS in their decision on the clean air act. (Traitorous  lot that they are)   Yes we are conquered territory. Maybe Nacht Und Nebel has not been enumerated yet but it is here in spirit .The federal government is actively targeting dissenters with the IRS, targeting reporters for prosecution, singling out news organizations that don’t agree with them and collecting information on us all.    Our freedom is gone; We are subjects of the federal government. The government has found out that someone let their secrets out and they are not happy about it. They will attempt to make the consequences as severe as possible.This is only the start.    Be careful what you say…Comrade.

Welcome to North Colorado; 8 counties to attempt secession from Colorado

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/07/eight-colorado-counties-want-to-leave-the-state/

Welcome to the future of America.  The rifts in this  country are so incommensurable that division is the only possible future .The progressive leftists and statists are so  far off in their ideological and moral beliefs that there is no common ground to even have a talking point with them.     It is not possible to live with or around these people as they insist on forcing their ideals on others.They are not content to be Atheist or gay or amoral; They will attempt to force those things on everyone around them.  From any seat of power they have,  no matter how menial they will attempt to further their agenda.    Their agenda has no morals, no judgement, no religion and no values. It also has no room for you having any of these things either, as that would leave you in judgement of them. The only way that they can achieve this is either through political correctness or a statist government; Thus their belief in the power of the state.     Yes , I see division as the only endgame for our country, be it sooner or later.  These are wounds in the fabric of our society that cannot be healed and every push they make for their agenda pushes us closer to the edge.

Resistance to tyranny is obeying God

Resistance is in the mind. You are who you say are, if you have the will to back it up.  You may say you are a citizen or a worker or a writer. You may also say that you are a dissident or a revolutionary.   It is up to you.  Bad things are coming. You must decide who you are.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Yes there really is one) grants the FBI all Verizon phone records in secret order

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1

Do you get it yet? The police state is here. This behemoth that we call the federal government is so far out of control that there is no reigning it in.  All the apparatus is in place. All that is needed are a few final moves. They have moved dangerously close to their goal.      Do you think that they are done with gun control?  No, it is only the beginning. The only thing that stands between them and their final solution are men with guns and the resolve to stand against tyranny..They have figured out that an outright ban is going to spark a shooting war so they are going to backdoor it.     They will teach your children about how bad guns are. They will pervert the constitution and “Educate” people on what the second amendment really means. They will spend endless dollars to influence elections to ban guns on a state level. They will have advertising campaigns about gun violence.  They are not done by a long shot. They are just going to try another avenue.   In the mean time, the police state grows more powerful. DHS moves farther into domestic policing and more military assets are put in place. TSA grows and becomes more public (as in “surprise” shake downs at Florida bus stations) The NSA now surveils all citizens indiscriminately . The worst part is that all of this goes without mentioning Obamacare, the ultimate in data collecting.     They have now put this on a path that is going to end with a showdown, us against the police state. We are not voting this out; It has gone too far. The beast has taken on a life of it’s own.  Romney was not going to stop this, he was just going to give you his version of it.  Don’t forget that it was GWB that started all of this.

DNA testing is not like finger printing. Can you tell if someone is Jewish by a finger print?

It seems that many people are not even bothered by the SCOTUS decision on DNA swabbing after an arrest.  They are falling back on the argument that DNA testing is just modern finger printing. The problem is that DNA reveals a lot more about a person than a finger print does.It shows if you are black or white or , perhaps, Jewish.  Your family members can be identified, your medical predispositions and more. Researchers recently discovered the gene that makes a person predisposed to be a liberal.      http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/28/researchers-liberal-gene-genetics-politics/      Is this the kind of information we want compiled into a giant database that is controlled by an all powerful government?    I don’t know about you , but I don’t think it too far fetched for the government to single out opposition members and persecute them. You won’t even  have to show opposition; All you will have to do is have the gene that gives you a trait undesirable to the powers that be. Maybe you lack the liberal gene or maybe you are Jewish or whatever group they want to suppress.    Now that the bar has been lowered on obtaining DNA it will certainly go even lower. I would say that we can anticipate the day in the future  when we will need a national ID card and a DNA swab to go along with it to prove our identity.       Justice Roberts is a true scum bag and his most recent decisions, have set us upon a course that will end only in tyranny or war. In the end when the fall of our republic happens, history I am sure will judge him as one of the causes of our great catastrophe. You wonder sometimes how a free society can slip into totalitarianism without a shot fired. I say look around and you have the answer.

IRS head visited the W.H at least 157 times

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/29/irss-shulman-had-more-public-white-house-visits-than-any-cabinet-member/

The stink rises all the way to the top. As much as they deny any knowledge, it is almost certain that it was done with the full knowledge of the administration as part of an orchestration to suppress the vote.  If you think that any part of Chairman Zero being re-elected was legitimate, then I believe you are misguided.      Any laws being passed now are illegitimate and carry nothing but the power of a usurper backed by men with guns. Any law that passed the senate after Al Franken’s  fraudulent election are also illegitimate and are laws with no moral authority.  http://washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots/article/2504163   This is no longer a process by and for the people; This is now about the elite gaining power and retaining it by lying, cheating, and fraud.    We have officially become a banana republic where our dear leaders will do as they wish without regard for the rule of law or the will of the people.  Just remember that without moral authority their laws mean nothing. They simply become rules enforced by the threat of imprisonment or death ; The dictates of a a totalitarian regime.

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. 

But they are gazing in the wrong direction. 

The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

 

There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, “Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don’t watch out.” These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. 

They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within the form, when “one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution in the state.”   Garet Garrett 1938

Let my blood bleed

Slowly circling chains

forged with deceit,

hammered out with contempt

are fitted for us.

Freedom bleeds upon

the ground of history

The lifeblood of our nation

darkly pools

As we lay dying

Our choice will be

the chain or the sword

Let my blood bleed

As I will die free

Is this still America? Obama administration “Drunk on power”

Is it finally starting to sink in what the true aims of Chairman Zero are? Someone in DC finally asked the question that we have been asking all along; Is this still America?  This administration will not be stopped by subpenas, court orders or any normal constitutional methods that the congress may try.