Secret Service Partied Like Rock Stars: The Psychopathology of Government 'Work'

[onebornfree's commentary: most people suffer under the delusion that government is a "force for good" or similar, and are therefor in complete denial of the truth about governments, the truth about the behavior of most of it's employees, and the psychological explanation as to why it's employees in fact almost invariably act the way they do, as documented in this truly excellent Daily Bell article below concerning  Secret Service parties at Martha's Vineyard,

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Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obamas' Vineyard Vacation ... The president is a lot more popular on Martha's Vineyard than the men and women who guard him ... Long before President Obama's security detail was scandalized in Colombia and new revelations emerged last week about the Secret Service, members of the elite team earned an "Animal House" reputation at the blueblood vacation mecca of Martha's Vineyard. Local residents say wild parties, fights and late-night carousing involving Secret Service members have become commonplace in recent years at the Vineyard, a favorite getaway for the First Family and longtime destination for upper-crust members of the Northeastern political, media and business establishment. – FoxNews

Dominant Social Theme: They work hard so they should play hard.


Free-Market Analysis: The Secret Service is much in the news for their partying ways. But to be shocked at the behavior of the young men and women in the Secret Service is perhaps to betray a naïveté about the way government really works.

In this article, we'll try to shed some light on the relationship between government and the wild behavior often associated with even the most "respectable" civil servants.

Begin with the concept that there is no such thing as government "work" ... or not as those in the private sector understand it. There is instead a whole secret conversation in Washington DC, and those who understand and accept the conversation and its secret code most completely are those who prosper the most in the nation's capital.

Because there is no competition to provide discipline, one is often rewarded on how well one "gets along" and whether or not one can keep his mouth shut. More and more of the US government is devoted to violence as well. IRS agents are armed now, as are members of Homeland Security. There is no legality involved, merely the government's insistence, as a collective facility, on the ability to deliver lethal force.

The perspective of the work force is thus easily poisoned. Workers soon become aware that since Leviathan is almost entirely dysfunctional and devoted more and more to overt intimidation, elements that are the most destructive to civil society are apt to be the most rewarded.
Government, in fact, blossoms as civil society subsides. The more the family is fractured, the most powerful government becomes. The most dysfunctional the private sector becomes, the more government takes over.

Ultimately, like a snake swallowing its own tail, government destroys itself as well. But the merciless logical of government growth cannot be slowed by logic or tamed by rational arguments. It will grind along until finally it grinds down.

Since the larger elements of government policy are conspiring to destroy society, those who work within the grim grasp of Leviathan soon "act out" in various ways via sex, drugs and other behavior that may be seen as destructive and are surely contemptuous – as well as fulfilling of basic urges.
People are expected to believe that such events are the aberration. In fact, they are business-as-usual. The combination of untruths, unwarranted privilege and vast amounts of money make government waste and abuse an ever-escalating norm.

Washington DC is evidently and obviously the elite's "muscle." The head resides in London's City and the religious elements of the global conspiracy are run out of the Vatican and to a lesser extent Tel Aviv, where certain intelligence facilities also may be lodged.

The world's political, military and economic engines are all tuned toward world government. You will prosper in government, especially in the US government, if you understand the real agenda and are willing to accept it and support it. The most successful are often those who are most willing to abandon their principals and actively betray their countrymen and even their own colleagues and families.

Almost "all" the common DC wisdom is a lie. The idea that government officials are dedicated to doing their jobs in a decent and effective manner is contradicted by the essence of what government is – a methodology of imposing force in order to advantage an elite at the expense of everyone else.

The idea of government as a "servant of the people" – especially big government – cannot be anything other than an untruth. The bigger government gets the most pathological it becomes.

Blogger William M. Arkin recently wrote an interesting article following up on various government boondoggles that have been in the news entitled "Government Conferences: The GSA Merely Got Caught in Las Vegas." Here's an excerpt:


No one in their right mind would want to stand up and defend the GSA's $823,000 conference meeting in Las Vegas, which has become the latest paradigm of government waste. Las Vegas in particular provokes images of ID card lanyards swinging around poles as the DC-revelers crowded the strip clubs on Industrial Road.


Now ... the White House is imposing cut backs on conferences and travel expenses, directing agencies in a May 11 memo reduce expenses by at least 30 percent in fiscal 2013. Deputy Secretaries will have to review any conference where the agency spending could exceed $100,000 and no agency can spend over $500,000 on a conference – well, that is, without a waiver.


I can't imagine that anyone thinks this will change a thing, except make every Las Vegas planned event "sensitive." And of course it is just spitting in the wind when it comes to the industry and association sponsored conferences, the modern-day back rooms where deals are made and future careers for military officers are lined up. These military – and increasingly homeland security – conferences are going on almost daily.


From the GovEvents website, I picked up 91 such events scheduled for the next six months. At the bigger events, a dozen or more government and military officials can make presentations (at what cost to the taxpayer?) and loads of military personnel and government employees attend. Looking at some of the more specialized IT symposiums, it can cost up to $500 each for each participant. So if only 20 government participants attend these, not including travel and lost time, the cost is already $1 million. See how ridiculous efforts to save government – taxpayer — money are?

You see? Ninety-one events! Many of these "conferences" are military in nature and dedicated to proposing ways to fight the war on terror more effectively. Yet these same participants probably know there IS no war on terror.

It's just a lie intended to justify bigger government and more intimidation of middle classes that must be pacified if world government is to be effectively installed. It is a further element of pathology.

Thousands of powerful men (mostly) get together at enormous expense to discuss Islamic terror – the same terror and terrorists that their own intelligence agencies have been cultivating and supporting.
Osama bin Laden probably died a decade ago. Al Qaeda is apparently a creation of the CIA. Many terrorist acts are facilitated by the FBI and other agencies that then claim their activities are infiltration when in fact they are manipulative and intended to create the very results that are generated.

It is no wonder that people – especially young men – indulge their primal appetites voraciously while working for the government. As much as anything it is a way to dull one's senses while building an ephemeral camaraderie that makes the rest of one's duties at least tolerable.


Conclusion: Government seems perhaps a glamorous and well-paying place. But for many dutiful souls it can doubtless be a kind of torture chamber where they attempt to medicate their growing guilt and shame any way they can.

Apple’s iOS 6 Includes ‘Government Alerts’

[Onebornfree commentary: although the concerns of both the writer of this piece {Paul Joseph Watson}, and of Alex Jones- who is almost in tears come the end of the video below- are very  real, as always, I can already see many simple ways to  legally circumvent, or even disrupt the intent of the new laws mandating "Presidential updates" {basically, mandated interruptions} to your cellphone computer or internet radio broadcasts etc. If interested , contact me here, or at my problem solving blog, or via The Freedom Network . Regards, onebornfree 
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‘Presidential alerts’ to be mandatory for all cellphone users

Apple’s eagerly awaited iOS 6 update for iPhones and iPads will include controversial ‘government alerts’ that some fear are part of the federal government’s takeover of communications networks.

“In compliance with the National Alerting Program, the WEA will be coming to Apple devices that will run on the new mobile OS once it arrives this fall. The iOS 6-compatible devices include iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 4G, iPad 2 and the new iPad. This means that users with older iPhone will be able to receive WEA messages once they upgrade their handset to the new mobile software,” reports AMOG ^[1].

The federal government is keen to implement a centralized system of control over all communications, with last year’s announcement that all new cell phones will be required to comply with the PLAN program ^[2] (Personal Localized Alerting Network), which will broadcast emergency alert messages directly to Americans’ cell phones.

Although users can opt out of receiving the alerts from FEMA and the Amber Alert program, messages direct from the president will be mandatory.

“Consumers will have the option….to block all PLAN alerts except for those issued by the president,” the L.A. Times reported ^[3] last year.

The thought of cellphone users being forcibly targeted with text messages from Barack Obama during the election season has obviously stoked concerns that the emergency alert system could be exploited for political reasons, just as former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge claimed ^[4] he was pressured to artificially raise the national terror alert by the Bush administration to help Bush win re-election.

The system, which went live in the New York and Washington Metro areas ^[5] last December, caused panic in New Jersey ^[6] after Verizon customers received text messages warning them that a “civil emergency” was in progress and to “take shelter,” prompting alarmed citizens to flood 911 lines with anxious calls.

Verizon Wireless later apologized to its customers for causing alarm, admitting that the confusion was caused by a “test” of the PLAN emergency alert system.

As we have documented ^[7], the PLAN program is part of the wider move on behalf of Homeland Security to create a public environment dominated by a pervasive sense of fear and paranoia, a context in which the safe exercise of constitutional freedoms doesn’t normally thrive.

The emergency alerts are eventually designed to be incorporated into the Intellistreets system ^[8] which turns all street lights into surveillance hubs that can record conversations and broadcast messages.

For the first time ever the feds will have a direct line to the millions of Americans who use cell phones and be able to use the messages to transmit whatever they like, whether that be genuine safety information, fearmongering about spurious terror alerts, or political propaganda.
Judging by the response in New Jersey, the overwhelming majority of Americans will simply react by panicking, which in a real emergency situation could only make the crisis worse.

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, June 18, 2012

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com ^[9]. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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Article printed from Prison Planet.com: http://www.prisonplanet.com
URL to article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/apples-ios-6-includes-government-alerts.html
URLs in this post:

[1] reports AMOG: http://amog.com/tech/153734-receive-national-emergency-alerts-apple-devices-ios-6/

[2] PLAN program: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/us/10safety.html?_r=1

[3] the L.A. Times reported: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/president-obama-could-send-text-message-warnings-in-new-plan-system.html

[4] former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge claimed: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

[5] went live in the New York and Washington Metro areas: http://www.hstoday.us/focused-topics/interoperable-communications/single-article-page/emergency-alerts-soon-to-go-wireless-in-new-york-washington-metro-areas.html

[6] caused panic in New Jersey: http://www.prisonplanet.com/unannounced-verizon-emergency-alert-causes-panic-in-new-jersey.html

[7] As we have documented: http://www.infowars.com/sprint-launches-soon-to-be-mandatory-emergency-alert-messages/

[8] designed to be incorporated into the Intellistreets system: http://www.infowars.com/new-street-lights-to-have-homeland-security-applications/

[9] Prison Planet.com: http://prisonplanet.com

10 Signs That the Highways of America Are Being Transformed Into a High Tech Prison Grid

[ onebornfree commentary: this article clearly lists just a few of the ways that the state is further encroaching on your personal freedom. What do you want to do about it? There are some simple ways to counteract/inhibit  these sorts of encroachments. If you would like to know more about those ways please contact me via my Problem Solving Service - obf]

Once upon a time, the open highways of America were one of our greatest symbols of liberty and freedom. Anyone could hop in a car and set off for a new adventure at any time and even our music encouraged us to "get our kicks on route 66". But today everything has changed. Now the highways of America are being steadily transformed into a high tech prison grid. All over the country, thousands upon thousands of surveillance cameras watch our highways and automated license plate readers are actually being used to track vehicle movements in some of our largest cities. Many state and local governments have come to view our highways as money machines and our control freak politicians have established a vast network of toll booths, red light cameras and speed traps to keep cash endlessly pouring in. If all of that wasn't enough, TSA "VIPR teams" are now hitting the interstates and conducting thousands of "unannounced security screenings" each year. Driving on the highways of America used to be a great joy, but now "Big Brother" is rapidly sucking all of the fun out of it. Eventually, it may get to the point where Americans simply dread having to go out on the highway. The following are 10 signs that the highways of America are being transformed into a high tech prison grid....

  #1 Surveillance Cameras

 All over the United States, a vast network of surveillance cameras is carefully watching our highways. The following is an excerpt from a recent article in the Baltimore Sun about this phenomenon.... The room is large and well lit, and it buzzes with activity even though its occupants remain seated. The video screen at the front of the room is as wide as an IMAX, though not quite as tall. It consists of 64 smaller screens – 16 columns of four apiece – that monitor every inch of interstate between Great Wolf Lodge and the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. There is an emphasis on tunnels and bridges, and one corner screen is tuned in to a 24-hour weather report. If you are driving on an highway in Hampton Roads, VDOT is watching you.

  #2 Automated License Plate Readers

 In a previous article, I detailed how automated license plate readers are being used to track the movements of every single vehicle that enters Washington D.C. A recent Washington Post article explained that most people do not even know that they are there.... More than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But the program quietly has expanded beyond what anyone had imagined even a few years ago. With virtually no public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of vehicles. Nowhere is that more prevalent than in the District, which has more than one plate-reader per square mile, the highest concentration in the nation. Police in the Washington suburbs have dozens of them as well, and local agencies plan to add many more in coming months, creating a comprehensive dragnet that will include all the approaches into the District. A lot of police cruisers are being outfitted with this technology around the nation as well. So if you see a police car pull up behind you, there is a very good chance that a computer has already read your license plate and is giving the officer all of your information.

#3 Ridiculous Regulations


 Some of the new "auto safety laws" going in around the nation are absolutely absurd. For example, do you buckle up your pet when you go for a ride? Well, in New Jersey you can now be fined up to $1000 for not having your pet properly restrained while you are out driving. #4 Outrageous Fines In many areas of the country, unpaid traffic tickets can rapidly become a major financial burden. For example, the new tolls on the 520 floating bridge in Seattle are absolutely killing some commuters..... Registered vehicle owners who do not pay their toll within 80 days or more will be mailed a $40 civil penalty for each unpaid toll transaction in addition to a $5 reprocessing fee. WSDOT confirmed some tolls plus penalty fees have added up to more than $1,000.

  #5 Oppressive Toll Road Fees


 Toll roads have become one of the favorite revenue raising tools" for our politicians. At this point the tolls on some roads have become so incredibly oppressive that many people simply cannot afford to drive on them anymore. And for some reason the toll increases are coming especially fast and furious this year. A recent USA Today article summarized some of the oppressive toll increases that we are seeing all over the nation.... •California and Washington authorized high-occcupancy toll (HOT) lanes, where tolls rise or fall depending on traffic flow. Texas enacted laws authorizing private toll roads and allowing regional authorities to collect tolls. Indiana removed a provision requiring legislative approval for toll roads. •Some Maryland tolls will double this year as the state seeks money to rehabilitate aging roads, bridges and tunnels. The use of tolls on interstate highways also is spreading: •Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, just won approval from the Federal Highway Administration to add tolls on Interstate 95 in his state. The state estimates that tolls on the heavily traveled corridor could generate $250 million over the first five years for expanding, improving and maintaining the highway. •New York and New Jersey recently announced that E-ZPass commuters will pay $1.50 more and cash customers $2 more to cross bridges and tunnels between the two states. •Georgia just created toll lanes on Interstate 85 in suburban Atlanta. The toll hikes are more than chump change: Cash tolls on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge jumped to $4 from $2.50, and to $12 from $8 on all the New York-New Jersey Hudson River crossings. Toll roads are one of my pet peeves. Any time I see a toll booth it immediately puts me in a bad mood.

 #6 Red Light Cameras


 Red light cameras are another favorite "revenue raising tool" for the control freaks that run things. Unfortunately, these cameras don't always work right so a lot of innocent people end up getting ticketed. But politicians love them because they can raise a lot of cash. The following is from a recent Business Insider article.... According to U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group), nearly 700 U.S. cities and towns installed the cameras, which accounted for more than 90 percent of tickets issued for illegal right turns, or rolling stops. In one New Jersey town, PIRG found 2,500 tickets were issued at one intersection within the first two months of installing a camera.

 #7 Speed Traps


 In the old days, speed traps were mostly about making the roads safer. Today, they are mostly about raising money. One police chief up in Michigan has even admitted that the nature of his job has fundamentally changed.... "When I first started in this job 30 years ago, police work was never about revenue enhancement, but if you’re a chief now, you have to look at whether your department produces revenues." Speed traps are becoming more common almost everywhere, but some areas of the country are worse than others. A recent report from the National Motorists Association ranked how likely you are to get a speeding ticket in each of the 50 U.S. states.... After crunching the numbers, the NMA found that Nevada is the state most likely to issue you a traffic ticket, followed by Georgia and Alabama. In 2010 Florida took the top spot and Georgia and Nevada tied for second place. The state where you’re least likely to get ticketed is Wyoming, followed closely by Montana. These two ranked at the bottom in 2010 as well.

 #8 Government Spying


 It has been revealed that the federal government has been secretly putting GPS tracking devices on thousands of vehicles in order to track the movements of people that they are interested in watching. Most of the time the people involved have not even been charged with any crimes. The following is a short excerpt from a recent Wired magazine article about this phenomenon.... The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose. After contacting Wired and allowing a photographer to snap pictures of the device, it was swapped out and replaced with a second tracking device. A witness also reported seeing a strange man looking beneath the vehicle of the young man’s girlfriend while her car was parked at work, suggesting that a tracking device may have been retrieved from her car. Then things got really weird when police showed up during a Wired interview with the man. The young man, who asked to be identified only as Greg, is one among an increasing number of U.S. citizens who are finding themselves tracked with the high-tech devices. The Justice Department has said that law enforcement agents employ GPS as a crime-fighting tool with “great frequency,” and GPS retailers have told Wired that they’ve sold thousands of the devices to the feds.



#9 Extraction Devices


 If you get pulled over by police, you never know what to expect these days. Previously, I have written about how law enforcement authorities in some parts of the U.S. are using "extraction devices" to download data out of the cell phones of motorists that they pull over. The following is how a recent article on CNET News described the capabilities of these "extraction devices".... The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.



#10 VIPR Teams

If all of the above was not bad enough, now we have to deal with TSA "VIPR teams" terrorizing us on the highways. If you regularly travel across the country, there is a good chance that you have already encountered one of their "unannounced security screenings". The following is from a local news report down in Tennessee about how local authorities are working with VIPR teams to fight "terrorism" on the interstates.... You're probably used to seeing TSA's signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR). "Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate," said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons. Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state. TSA VIPR teams now conduct approximately 8,000 "unannounced security screenings" at subway stations, bus terminals, seaports and highway rest stops each year. Are you starting to see what I am talking about? All of this "security" is becoming extremely oppressive. We don't need "Big Brother" constantly watching us, tracking us and fining us on our highways. 

Reprinted with permission from End of the American Dream. June 12, 2012 Copyright © 2012 End of the American Dream

What If Democracy Is Bunk?

What If Democracy Is Bunk? by Andrew Napolitano [original article source here ]:

"What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn't make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if "one person, one vote" is just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if democracy is dangerous to personal freedom? What if democracy erodes the people's understanding of natural rights and the foundations of government, and instead turns elections into beauty contests?

What if democracy allows the government to do anything it wants, as long as more people bother to show up at the voting booth to support it than to oppose it? What if the purpose of democracy is to convince people that they could prosper not through the creation of wealth but through theft from others? What if the only moral way to acquire wealth – aside from inheritance – is through voluntary economic activity? What if the government persuaded you that you could acquire wealth through political activity? What if economic activity included all the productive and peaceful things we do? What if political activity included all the parasitical and destructive things the government does?

What if governments were originally established to protect people's freedom, but always turn into political and imperialist enterprises that seek to expand their power, increase their territory and heighten their control of the population? What if the idea that we need a government to take care of us is actually a fiction? What if our strength as individuals and durability as a culture are contingent not on the strength of the government but on the amount of freedom we have from the government?

What if we're seeing civil unrest around the world precisely because government is out of control? What if the cocktail of big government and democracy brings dependence and destruction? What if big government destroys people's motivations and democracy convinces them that the only motivation they need is to vote and go along with whatever the government does?

What if the Republican primaries we're seeing unfold aren't actually as democratic as they may appear to be? What if the results you have seen from the states that have voted thus far don't match the composition of the delegates those states send to the Tampa convention this summer because the polls aren't what counts, but what counts are the secret meetings that come after the voting? What if Joe Stalin was right when he said the most powerful person in the world is the guy who counts the votes?

What if the greatest tyrant in history lives among us? What if that tyrant always gets its way, no matter what the laws are or what the Constitution says? What if that tyrant is the majority of voters? What if the tyranny of the majority in a democracy recognizes no limits on its power?

What if the government misinforms voters so as to justify anything the government wants to do? What if the government bribes people with the money it prints? What if it gives entitlements to the poor, tax breaks to the middle class and bailouts to the rich just to keep all of us dependent upon it? What if a vibrant republic requires not just the democratic process of voting, but also informed and engaged voters who understand first principles of limited government and free-market economics, and the divine origin of natural rights?

What if we could free ourselves from the yoke of big government through a campaign of education and information and personal courage that leads to a revolutionary return to first principles? What if the establishment doesn't want this? What if the government remains the same no matter who wins elections?

What if because of Ron Paul's presidential campaign, because he isn't campaigning just for votes as his competition is, because he is educating the population and winning the hearts and minds of a once free people and inspiring them to fight for their freedom once more, freedom wins? What if we can be free again? What will it take to make that happen?"

FBI Murder and Cover-Up; interview with Attorney Jesse Trentadue

Attorney Jesse Trentadue talks to Lew Rockwell about the torture-murder of his brother, Kenneth, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and a highly suspicious sting operation.


Onebornfree's Commentary: I don't think that either Mr Trentadue or Mr Rockwell really "get it", although they could be just deliberately "shucking" I suppose.

As with both the Ruby Ridge incident, and the Waco Massacre, the ultimate goal of the 1995 "false flag" OKC bombing of the federal Murrah building was political- to directly benefit the Clinton administration by discrediting the looming threat of the "extreme right", in other words. [and it worked too.]

McVeigh apparently worked for the Federal government [former cell mate David Hammer has confirmed this] .

McVeigh's role was to directly discredit the burgeoning "Patriot Militia Movement" by appearing to be one of them and to therefor be deliberately seen to have been directly involved in the bombing.

According to the former cell mate the government had promised him immunity; that even if brought to trial and found guilty he would not be executed [ the execution would be faked] . As to whether or not his execution [by lethal injection] was ultimately faked, well its possible I suppose, however it seems to me that it would not make sense for the government to allow him to remain at large, as a "loose end" that might be able to cause political damage in the future. Regards, onebornfree

"A footprint of a shoe on the Moon! "

New World Order Conspiracy Theorists Versus " Financial Illiteracy"

The Daily Bell: Financial Illiteracy of Those Who Mock Conspiracy Theorists

My only real problem with Mr Wile's otherwise excellent analysis :"Financial Illiteracy of Those Who Mock Conspiracy Theorists"
is his claim that the conspiracy towards installing one-world government is a conscious,deliberate policy by "the usual suspects".

Rather, for myself, it [i.e the move towards one-world government] is a completely natural, inevitable occurrence [given the realities of human action] once governments exist, and given the true nature of all governments, everywhere. Why would anyone really expect anything else?

Belief Implications

The belief that the move towards one-world government is part of an "elite's" conspiracy plan implies that without such an elite, there would be no move towards one-world government.

I find this to be a little naive, at best. Governments must grow in order to survive.

In as much as they will always constantly fail to achieve their stated social objectives, their growth [because if something fails, the only option is to pass more laws, and throw more money at any one problem] is an unchangeable given, even without those dreaded Illuminati and their new world order plans for all of us.

Personal Freedom Implications For the Concerned Individual

Given that either with, or without an elite, governments once created, will inevitably grow and consolidate as a "natural" survival instinct, what does this mean for the concerned, freedom-loving individual?

Personal Secession from the System?

As far as I can see, and without going into specific detail here [there would be no point], the only reasonable hope for that concerned individual is to completely eschew political solutions [i.e voting, protesting, agitating for new laws etc.] , and instead to use that newly freed up time, and start to seriously look for direct ways to circumvent, avoid, and otherwise go around "the system" in all its glorious forms, in whatever ways that appear suitable for that individuals own personal morality and belief system [whatever it might be].

Regards, onebornfree

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Obama's FEMA Camps

Obama's FEMA Camps and the Deaths of Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il

by Scott Lazarowitz [N.B. internal links of the original article are not posted here but can be seen in original- please see link at bottom of this page- onebornfree]

"According to this article and this article, Obama’s FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is getting camps ready for not only the post-economic collapse, but for political dissidents and critics of government criminality. This will be made possible by Congress’s just having codified into law Obama’s dictatorship by giving him the power to treasonously turn the military against the American people. Thanks to the imbeciles and criminals of Congress, Obama can have anyone apprehended and detained indefinitely, merely by labeling someone a "terrorist," at his discretion, without any evidence presented against the accused, without any charges or trial.

Now, those two linked articles go to Infowars.com. Some people have smeared Infowars as a "conspiracy theory" website, but Alex Jones and his crew are very responsible and conscientious researchers and reporters, and they present and link to information that documents and gives evidence to their assertions of government "conspiracies." So, they are not ‘theorists," they are conspiracy factualists. And you can see various things by Gov. Jesse Ventura as well. While Ventura actually calls his show "Conspiracy Theory," he goes out on location and investigates such theories and allegations of possible government wrongdoing, and, especially from this unbelievable video posted just recently (especially starting at about 25 minutes into it), you can decide for yourself whether Ventura is just a "theorist" or a factualist.

In that linked video, Ventura exposes a large "residential" center, with locked front doors and surrounded by high fences with barbed wire facing inward. While it looks exactly like a prison, there were children playing on swings in one area within the grounds. Thanks to the emotionally frantic, post-9/11 dupes for the Bush/Obama’s police state, we seem to be on the road to Soviet-Nazi tyranny — unless someone actually takes action such as arresting Obama and those aforementioned senators and congressmen and charging these government officials with treason.

Yes, I know there are many people who are in denial, and so trusting of their beloved government, especially their federal government, regardless of how much the government abuses them. "They would never do anything of a criminal nature to us." But just look at Katrina, and the BP-government police state with that oil spill last year. Look at what our military people have done to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As I pointed out in this article, look at what our military people have been doing to their own fellow comrades. Being in denial will not help you when you are a target of military aggression, let alone a target of your local police.

Jacob Hornberger noted here and here how dangerous a government’s military could be.

And, regarding this new law codifying Obama’s dictatorship and his merely labeling someone a "terrorist" without evidence shown, only someone extremely naive could think that Obama or any political ruler or prospective one such as Romney wouldn’t have his goons nab someone who challenges their power grabs and who openly presents views that could convince others to withdraw support of the Regime.

Unfortunately, the naive and gullible dupes for police statism cry,"But we have to allow officials to sweep up those ‘terrorists’ based on the judgment of military personnel or police (and without evidence) because we can’t wait for the process of a trial with a jury to prove someone’s guilt and then imprison him, we have to risk rounding up innocents!"

One thing that Gov. Ventura noted in the video was that, with all this stuff, we’re headed for either tyranny or liberty.

Interestingly, there were two deaths this week of two world leaders who contrasted one another in that liberty-tyranny fork in the road: Kim Jong-Il, the crazy dictator from North Korea; and Vaclav Havel, the sensible political dissident who opposed communist Soviet rule and worked for freedom in his country of the Czech Republic (formerly a merged Czech and Slovak Czechoslovakia).

According to Wikipedia, Havel, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, "was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. He also received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, the Ambassador of Conscience Award and several other distinctions." (Need I say, beyond what I’ve exhaustively already written, what Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama has done?)

While still in Czechoslovakia under Soviet dictatorial rule, Havel founded the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted, whose main goal was to educate the population about the persecution of dissidents, people who disagree with government policy and either withdraw their consent and/or openly and actively work to make changes. Yes, the U.S. has the American Civil Liberties Union, and other similar organizations, but it seems that, especially with the latest acts of Congress and Obama and their implicit threats to jail American dissidents, "civil liberties" organizations in the U.S. seem as powerless as they seemed to be in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s.

One of Havel’s first acts as President of Czechoslovakia, before it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, was to give amnesty to and release the country’s political prisoners. Can we possibly expect any U.S. president to do the same here? Particularly with the War on Drugs, which imprisons a much higher proportion of inner-city minorities than others amongst the general population. But what exactly will Obama, the military and FEMA (and Obama’s ACORN and Obama’s obedient union militants) do to political dissidents in the U.S., especially if there is to be economic collapse, civil unrest, looting and so forth?

And, in contrast to Vaclav Havel and all his work toward greater freedom and individual liberty, what did Kim Jong-Il do? According to Human Rights Watch,

"Kim Jong-Il exercised total control for 17 years over one of the world’s most closed and repressive governments. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of North Koreans through widespread preventable starvation, horrendous prisons and forced labor camps, and public executions. Kim family rule, starting with his father, Kim Il-Sung in 1948, is projected to continue with Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-Un…

"Kim Jong-Il’s legacy includes the fate of the tens of thousands who have died in the kwanliso camps for alleged enemies of the state, where today an estimated 200,000 North Koreans continue to work and die in conditions of near starvation and brutal abuse. In this system, the sins of one member of the family condemn an entire generation to imprisonment. A steady stream of former prisoners who escaped North Korea have testified to Human Rights Watch and other organizations how even children born inside such camps grow up to inherit their parents’ prisoner status.

"Leaving the country without official permission is considered an act of treason, punishable by torture and imprisonment, yet tens of thousands have fled in the last two decades, and thousands more continue to risk their lives every year to escape."

The way that Jesse Ventura described those "residential" facilities with barbed wire run by FEMA and Homeland Security, it would seem like Dick Cheney, Obama and Janet Napolitano are learning about government-civilian relations more from Kim Jong-Il than from Vaclav Havel.

One wonders about what kind of country America has become when we have the choice between Statist A or Statist B, the Affirmative Action President Obama who collects Spider Man and Conan the Barbarian comics, or Romney who put his dog on the roof of the car for a long trip. (Who would do that?)

And in the current Obama Administration, we have the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs chief Cass Sunstein, who wants to "cognitively infiltrate" Internet websites and social networking sites, and we have an Obama Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan who said that freedom of speech "depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs" (i.e. government-approved speech).

And a "science czar," John Holdren, who believes that a born human infant "will ultimately develop into a human being," but believes that trees should have rights to sue in court. And Obama’s former health care czar and current director of the National Institute of Health bioethics (sic) department, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, believes the government should have the power and control to allocate and ration health care, not the doctors and patients.

Why does it seem that so many people in government are just plain nuts?

As the Economic Collapse Blog noted in this article, the legacy of Kim Jong-Il and his North Korean regime is one of "weirdness," just plain crazy yet frightening stuff. The writer concludes, "Please do not let that happen to America." I think it already is happening, and we have good reason to believe that. Just where are the Vaclav Havels of our time? (I think we know the answer to that question!)

The real crimes in America are not being committed by or planned by private civilians who believe in personal and economic freedom, private property and the philosophy of Live and Let Live, and who want to speak out against intrusions and threats posed by those with armed, compulsory government legal authority and power.

No, the real crimes are those of our government officials who are extremely clueless about liberty and who are totally drunk with power grabs. Seizing and detaining innocent civilians? Suppressing speech and political dissent? "Emergency" camps? Government degenerates and outlaws have become the most dangerous amongst our increasingly vulnerable population under centralized rule.


Scott Lazarowitz is a commentator and cartoonist, visit his blog.

[original article with many internal linkshere ]
Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com.

You Might Be a Zombie If...

The top ten signs that you might be a zombie
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) If you burn your yard rather than mow it, you might be a redneck, says comedian Jeff Foxworthy. But how might you realize you're a zombie? Here are the top ten signs that you just might be a zombie...

Sign #1: If you routinely take flu shot vaccines and then wonder why you still catch the flu every winter, you might be a zombie
Annual flu shots are "medicines for the mindless." Even according to the medical scientists who are pro-vaccine, flu shots simply don't work on 99 out of 100 people (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v...). So if you find yourself standing in line at the pharmacy waiting to get a flu shot, think to yourself, "Whoa! I might be a zombie!"

Sign #2: If you find yourself watching mainstream media news, but still can't make sense of world events, you might be a zombie
The purpose of the mainstream media is not to keep you informed, but to make you obedient. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033893_m...) Mainstream news stories are chosen to promote a corporate agenda, not to bring you accurate information about events that might impact your life in meaningful ways. Those who watch mainstream news television quickly become zombies and then go on to succumb to vaccines and other brain poisons such as fluoride in the water (see below).

Sign #3: If you find yourself mindlessly following your doctor's advice even while your sickness gets increasingly worse, you might be a zombie.
Conscious people realize that if what they are doing isn't working, they need to change what they are doing! But zombies keep doing the same thing over and over again, all while wondering why they keep getting the same results. And doctors promote it with weird zombie logic such as: if that last round of antibiotics was useless, let's try another round of antibiotics and hope for a different outcome!

Sign #4: If you automatically do what you're told by police officers and "authorities," you might be a zombie.
A police officer shows up at your doorsteps and politely asks, "May I come in?" A zombie says, "Sure!" and mindlessly opens the door. But an intelligent, conscious person knows this is a zombie mind trick that allows law enforcement officers to testify that you gave them consent to search your entire home. When a police officer asks to enter your home, they are not being polite. They are asking you to surrender your Fourth Amendment rights, and they are using clever social contracts to manipulate you into giving up those rights without you noticing. Don't be a zombie! Know your rights! Learn more at: www.FlexYourRights.org

Sign #5: If you only read the front of food packages -- and not the back -- you might be a zombie
While shopping at the local grocery store, you notice a package of cereal that claims to be "all natural" and says it may "lower cholesterol," too. The back of the cereal, however, may reveal that the ingredients are not organic, meaning they're made with pesticides and GMOs (http://www.naturalnews.com/033838_b...). Zombies only read the marketing claims on food products. Conscious people read the ingredients and learn how to see beyond the marketing hype of dishonest food companies.

Sign #6: If all your savings are currently held in U.S. dollars, you are almost certainly an economic zombie
Thanks to the inflationary actions of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. dollar is losing value with each passing day. Before long, it will likely collapse in value. As that happens, all the people left holding useless dollars (both physical ones or electronic ones in your bank account) will discover they have been acting like "economic zombies" because they put all their currency eggs in the same basket. Conscious people diversify their savings into land, real estate, gold, non-U.S. currencies, corporate stocks and even barter items like silver dimes, storable foods, salt, sugar or common ammunition.

Sign #7: If you believe what you were taught in public school, you are definitely a zombie
American scientists developed the nuclear bombs dropped in World War II, right? Wrong. It was Nazi scientists who processed the nuclear fuel and designed those first two bombs. (Read Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs.)

Columbus treated the indigenous Indians with great friendship, right? Not exactly: He and his crews raped the female Indians, then tortured and murdered many of the males. To celebrate "Columbus Day" is to celebrate a mass murderer. (No wonder all the government workers get the day off!)

The federal government exists to protect the rights of the People, right? C'mon -- today's government goes out of its way to violate the Bill of Rights, violate federal law and destroy the very Constitution it was sworn to protect. For example, did you know the Obama administration runs a secret "kill list" of Americans to murder without any trial or due process? This has now been openly admitted and confirmed by the White House. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033835_W...)

Sign #8: If you drink fluoridated tap water, you are a fluoridated zombie (which is, of course, the whole point of fluoride)
The Nazi war machine used fluoride as a mind-numbing agent to keep its population under control while it committed genocidal murder. Have you ever wondered for what purpose the U.S., Canada, Australia and other countries are now using the same chemical cocktail in the water supply?

The medical fiction that "fluoride prevents cavities" is a complete quack science hoax. Fluoride is actually a highly corrosive toxic industrial chemical, as revealed in this hidden camera footage: http://www.naturalnews.com/033753_w...

Sign #9: If you find yourself rooting for any presidential candidate other than Ron Paul, you're probably a political zombie
Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate who has offered a genuine balanced budget (all the other candidates want to keep spending us into financial oblivion). Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate who stands firmly for health freedom, ending prohibition against medical marijuana, legalizing the farming of industrial hemp, and allowing nutritional supplement companies to make accurate, scientifically-validated health claims for their products. All the other candidates are just corporate puppets who have nothing to offer America other than a continuation of the problems that have driven our nation into economic and political turmoil.

To vote for Romney, Perry, Cain or even Obama is to mindlessly vote for continuing the same broken system of puppet Presidents who answer to their corporate globalist masters (just like Bush).

Sign #10: If you think that Bigger Government is the way to solve the problems that have already been caused by Big Government, you might be a zombie
Irrational faith in government is a sure sign of cognitive zombie-ism. As government itself is the cause of most of society's problems -- financial bankruptcy, political corruption, the waste of taxpayer money, the promotion of a culture of criminality, deadly health care monopolies and so on -- it is completely irrational to think that MORE government can solve the very problems it has created!

• Zombie Obamanomics, for example, is the practice of spending more government money to eliminate government debt -- also known as "Zombienomics."

• Obamacare, also known as "Zombiecare," is the practice of treating the health of the population with the very same medications and surgery that only "manage" disease symptoms rather than curing disease.

• "Zombocracy" is what I call a government run by zombie politicians who are voted into office by zombie voters.

• "Zombiflation" is the creeping upwards of prices on everyday goods at a pace too slow to be readily noticed by the zombie population. The Federal Reserve is constantly trying to create new money to expand the money supply at precisely the outer limit of Zombiflation.

• "Zombruptcy" is what happens when zombie consumers go bankrupt and can't pay their home mortgages anymore, at which point zombie banks take them over and try to sell them at reduced prices to other zombies.

• "Zombie elections" are contests between two or more globalist zombies who compete to receive the highest number of votes from a mass of zombie voters, none of which have any real knowledge about the character or voting records of the zombie candidates they are electing into office. Zombie voters tend to vote for people based on what they look like. "We need a black President because skin color is what matters!" Or better yet, "We need a fat President, because he looks like the rest of the zombie Americans!"

What about this instead? "We need a President who defends the Constitution and wants to stop the Federal Reserve from stealing more of our money!"

You can be a zombie for Halloween, but don't be one in real life
This Halloween, I was thinking of walking around wearing a mask of Anderson Cooper, because I can't think of a more frightening image of corporate-controlled zombie mindlessness. I could carry a microphone with the letters ZNN -- Zombie News Network -- and do interviews with "zombies on the street."

Hey there, parents, did you know the high fructose corn syrup in the candies your children are sucking down tonight is made from genetically modified corn? Did you know the chocolate in those name-brand candies was harvested from cacao plantations using child labor? Did you know the artificial food coloring chemicals in the candy promotes symptoms of hyperactivity and ADD?

Ah, but you see, the parents don't want to hear that, because they too are zombies. Who else lets their kids run around and collect bags full of mystery foods from the houses of total strangers?

By the way, it's okay to appear as a zombie for Halloween if you want. Just don't run around acting like a zombie in real life. Use your brain for a change... a global change!

Think about what you're doing, who you're supporting, what you're buying, where you're getting your information and what you choose to believe. Don't be a sucker for mainstream news fictions, pharmaceutical propaganda, medical system quackery and political hucksterism. Always ask skeptical questions; always demand accountability; and if you catch yourself in one of the top ten zombie situations described here, get out and take back your brain as quickly as possible!