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Just after I was saying that there probably weren’t a lot of police threatening people for passing out Ron Paul literature, I am proved wrong. Apparently not only are police threatening people with arrest for holding signs, in San Antonio, at a FUND RAISER, according to Disinter:

the Gestapo decided that carrying, or wearing, anything bearing “Ron Paul” wasn’t allowed on the public side-walk

Now, just so this is clear. The police in this case went up to a group of people expressing their political views in public, and basically seems to have told them that only the state approved voices are to be heard or seen.

So if it’s so easy to win a title 42 Section 1983 lawsuit, I guess a bunch of people have an actionable claim.

But that would assume that the Judges think that the people actually have any rights left.

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Over at WhatReallyHappened.com there is a link to where ABC has released another poll that they claim supports Americans wanting to have more surveillance cameras. The problem is that even by the usual standards this poll is meaningless, it only included 125 people [correction 1125].

This poll (like most polls) set out to prove A and when that was done, so was the poll. The fact that ABC has published a report that states a conclusion based on this limited sample size says a lot about the lack of integrity at ABC, and nothing about what the American people want.

Just another example of how polls lie.

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I wondered why the GOP was hailing Rudy as the closest thing to the second coming, I mean why would the party that supposedly hates gays and abortions support a cross dressing, philandering, pro abortion candidate whose own children don’t support him for president?

Someone emailed that is because Rudy represents what the GOP secretly represents, pointing out the current White House links to gays, and the previous Bush administration’s links to other scandals. It’s not that I have anything against GBLT, I think they are mostly good people, but I think we need to liberty for everyone, not just temporary privileges for this or that group.
And Romney? I think he’s the backup, with his tacit approval of porn into hotels and his nickname of “Flip for his willingness to take any position to get elected, he has been shown to be the goto guy for people who want to make money.

I left McCain out, because even though I believe him to be an honorable person, and I fear that his policies are a little to similar to controlled socialist countries than I would prefer, he doesn’t seem to really have the backing of the GOP rulers leadership. Unfortunately, unlike Ron Paul, McCain doesn’t take a strict view of the constitution, seeming to prefer the Chinese style of interpretive constitutional law.

Fred Thompson is a little more tame than Rudy/Mitt but he has been available for sale, unlike Ron Paul, who is, as Jon Stewart of the Daily Show said, consistent and principled, too bad most Americans don’t seem to appreciate that.

So there is a choice, between candidates that are available for sale, or for someone who has, gasp, actual principles.

Get out and vote!

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While I am not surprised about Apple being sued over the iPhone, I think that Apple has a meritorious defense in the suit regarding the batteries, even though I have written about how the iPhone would have problems, people still wondered if I was going to get an iPhone.  In fact people would show me their iPhone, and then explain how they have to use a Windows Smart Phone to use the HSDPA network, which makes me wonder why not get a decent PDA phone in the first place (or wait for the HTC Kaiser if you want that).

The iPhone is a great marketing gimmick, but a very limiting device for today.  While there have been some successes getting non approved software to work on the iPhone,  it’s hard to see how that balances out the ongoing notices of iPhone exploits, or the recent crashing of the network at Duke due to the iPhone, but in spite of all the warning signs people went out, bought the iPhone and thought that it was somehow the best thing since sliced bread.

But then again, maybe bread isn’t good for you either.

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After repeatedly seeing Articles about the U.S. Military being used to stifle dissent in Canada, I thought I should write SOMETHING.

After all it’s only a short step from stifling dissent in Canada to stifling dissent in America.  According to Infowars.net:

The US army is to enforce a huge security perimeter around the upcoming North American Union meeting in Canada this August as well as cracking down on expected protests, having already shut down a public forum due to take place close to the event.

With the recent outing of disinformation agents at WikiPedia, and increasing trends by governments to have blogging become “terrorism“, (and there are things that I could go to jail for writing about, or linking to in the United States, in spite of the now abandoned “first amendment“), the liberty of free people has never before been so endangered as it is now.

With senior officials bragging on television how Americans can be tracked better than almost any other group of people and foreign nationals being granted MORE rights privileges than U.S. citizens, it makes me wonder at what point people are going to stop the madness.

Fortunately there is hope for America, if, in spite of the controlled media’s bias towards the corporate puppets, Ron Paul is elected we can restore the constitution.  Of course that means that people need to get out and VOTE for a republican, but this may be the last chance for change.

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I just saw this video and now I have to wonder what is up with Google.  Maybe there is a sea change at Google, and maybe it was upgrades, but the actual people at Google seem pretty enthused about Ron Paul.

Well it seems that Google has a new feeling towards Ron Paul, much like the Democrat Doug Thompson of Capital Hill Blue.

Once people get past their reflexitive “all politicians are liars” it seems that they like the idea of living in a country with a constitution that means something, unlike the repressive regimes of the USSR.

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The reason for the market correction is supposedly explained at WorldReports.org.

Supposedly there is this man Leo Wanta, and once upon a time he was the secret agent for Reagan, and controlled large sums of money to destabilize the Soviet government.  He was taken out of circulation for a period, and then supposedly in 2005 got his legal problems cleared up and was able to “come back to life”.  In any case World Reports says this, in part:

Clearly, any abandonment of Leo Wanta’s claim, recognised by the banks as soon as they realised he was not dead, on 100% of his funds (plus accruals), remains firmly contingent upon his obtaining economic receipt of the $4.5 trillion – which is one of many pressing reasons why completion of the Wanta Settlement cannot be sidestepped, avoided or cancelled.

The value of these total funds, originally estimated by this service to have ballooned to around $70 trillion by late last year, is now believed to be of the order of $300 trillion, following hyperactive leveraging and hypothecation. The aggregate global VOLUME of illegally generated ‘fiat money’ funds floating around the off-balance sheet sector is believed to be infinitely higher. But whether any of these funds will have retained any VALUE at all by the end of August, may be questionable.

WANTA’S CLAIM TO $27.5 TRILLION (NOW $300 TRILLION?) STANDS
In summary, therefore, absent collection and economic receipt of the $4.5 trillion by Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta (in whose name the $4.5 trillion, to this day, are held and tagged), the Ambassador retains, and can exercise, a claim to the original $27.5 trillion ($300 trillion).

Yep, like the Sleeper Awakes, Leo Wanta supposedly has become the richest man in the world because he had all these vast sums in his name, and because he was unable to do anything, people claimed he was dead so they could play with his money.

Strange that the other fellow talking about the end of the world as we know it didn’t mention it.

In any case this shows the problem with FIAT money.  Since the money is created out of nothing but debt, it can become huge numbers, and overnight the numbers can become irredemable.

So when Ron Paul advocates looking at the current money system and trying to come to a more constitutionally based system, something that ensures that the middle class doesn’t have their houses ripped from them, maybe we should think about it.

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Over at WND, there is a discussion about whether Pat Tillman was murdered and who may have directed that and why, a nice grouping of paragraphs was this (written by a professional journalist, which I am not):

“Wesley Clark was on and believes the orders came from the very top as Tillman was a political symbol,” explains the blog. “No indication if orders were to murder him, but at least to cover it up. I’m not speculating at this point. But I saw in another diary where they claimed executive privilege in the Tillman case. It’s starting to look beyond bad.”

Clark, however, never even remotely suggested the possibility of any high-level conspiracy to kill Tillman. In fact, he was questioning where, in the chain of command, was the decision made to cover up the truth about what happened to Tillman.

The parts in quotes above are from the Daily Kos, and the second paragraph starts out “Clark, however…” as if Daily Kos said that Clark had claimed that this was a sanctioned hit on Tillman by the White House. Daily Kos (and as far as I know, no one else) has accuses General Clark of saying such a thing.

The fact that WND is trying to claim that General Clark has made some authoritative statement about the Tillman shows that there are problems with the incident, and it does seem like someone took Tillman out and should have (at the very least) been charged. After all soldiers have been brought up on charges for much less. There should have been an article 32 hearing at the least.

There must be something to the story, I mean there’s lot’s of news.

And the White House told congress to shove off again, claiming executive privilege . The courts, the people and the congress all are told to take a hike by the people in the executive branch. It’s kinda of astounding.

So what is going on? Is the world going to end as we know it, with a new era of peace and prosperity with a restored constitutional republic in place?

Why do people throughout the country know other candidates (who they don’t seem to like, but they heard them being praised as the front runners on tv, so they must be the ones running) but so little about Ron Paul?

I talked with a friend of mine who is a grandfather but having lived in a communist country in his younger years had never voted in his life. I mentioned Ron Paul and he said he had never voted and didn’t see the point. I gave him a Ron Paul handout and now he assures me he will vote for Ron Paul, he was going to go and register to vote (for the first time in his life). He isn’t even counted by the current polling methods, which are usually paid for results.

The other candidates have spent literally millions and millions of dollars to reverse the Ron Paul message, and they look like they are going to spend millions at the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.

I mean you should remember that other campaigns have spent 10 times more than Ron Paul has taken in already.

Supposedly campaigns pay buseloads of people to travel to Ames to vote. And there is a “Poll Tax” of $35.

I really don’t know, I do know that while it’s possible for Ron Paul to win at Ames there has to be some way to reach the vast majority of people, and I think that this announcement from Restore the Republic might be a good plan:

Jen in Iowa is asking for some help. She has 13,000 DVDs in nice professional movie cases that are completely focused on Ron Paul and the straw poll. She’s trying to get them out to voters in Ames this weekend. paulforall.com They will have someone at brookside park in Ames, Iowa from 8am to 8pm this Saturday and Sunday. You can come any time you like in this range and work for as long as you’d like. You’ll be provided with maps that show what areas need to be covered. The address of the park is 325 6th st Ames, IA. Email jen@paulforall.com .

I hope that the people of Iowa will be able to get informed and realize that if they really want to make a difference they need to get to Ames Iowa and vote for Ron Paul on August 11th.

Or they can continue have more of the same with just the names being changed to protect the guilty.

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Microsoft recently set up a new web portal for it’s open source outreach program.  Given Microsoft’s past record with interoperability I can’t help but think of the 3E approach that Microsoft has employed in the past, Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.  While this approach has “killed” the projects that Microsoft has applied it to in the past, it has confused the market and made a mockery of the “standards” that Microsoft has adopted (some exceptions apply, read your Microsoft licensing agreement for no details).

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In what seems to be a page out of the seemingly prescient 1995 movie “The Net”, Prison Planet reports that Loose Change Producer Korey Rowe was taken into custody for desertion, in an operation that involved cutting the phone lines to his house.

What’s so strange about it is that Rowe was honorably discharged in 2005. To make matters even more strange there are supposed at least 4000 army soldiers that are actually AWOL.

While the U.S. government won’t go after illegal immigrants, it appears to be willing to go to any length to silence critics of the current regime. Since the traditional method of “suicide” ala Hunter Thompson apparently wasn’t on the table, the old stand by of faking an arrest warrant was trotted out.

Thankfully there are still some people in the U.S. military who take their oath to uphold the constitution seriously, unlike the members of the current regime who constantly thumb their noses at congress.

Of course, you can’t really blame them since most members of congress don’t seem to care about the Constitution (with the exception of Ron Paul).

While Rowe is now free to go, the question is who is going to be next, and will the next charge be as easy to clear up?  Or will some new folks be sent to the gulag for decades for crimes that they didn’t commit?

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According to TheInquirer.net, Nvidia pulled it’s developer blog that provided information and links to drivers, specs, etc.  Supposedly a PC maker who makes high priced systems took umbrage with the suggestion that you didn’t need 4 gigs of ram and quad core for running games.

Seems kinda stupid to me.

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Over at theInquirer.Net, there is an article about U.S. Senators debating on how to ensure that children are not exposed to any thoughts that the government does want them to have.

How this will differ from the Chinese censorship of the internet would remain to be seen. Since the free exchange of ideas on the internet has already been eroded over the years (in the name of protecting people from terrorists, drugs, etc) it is only a logical next step before the only voices on the internet would those that have government licenses to speak.

Kinda like radio, where the FCC goes after micro broadcasters and other seemingly harmless people to control what Americans can (and more importantly) can’t hear.

Unfortunately only one person running for president of the United States has shown a commitment to the constitution and the principles of liberty that are there:

Ron Paul

While some people may pillory Ron Paul because he didn’t vote for some bill with a cute name like “Save the Children” or “Net Neutrality”, the point is that the federal government is supposedly not supposed to be some big brother entity that listens to everything and stores all that information to be used for some purpose (purely benign we are always assured, and after all it’s to protect the children).

While I hope and pray that people will wake up, I am amazed at the hypnogogic states that most people seem to be in, where they go from a job where they don’t think to their house where they watch controlled (and to me substantially the same) media performances.

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According to Rense.Com, the world as we know it is going to undergo radical changes.  Supposedly a former Forbes correspondent called Ben Fulford who has his own radio show in Japan has become a senior member of an ancient Chinese secret society that includes most of the Yakuza.

Mr. Fulford has issued an ultimatum to the  Rockefellers, after his first ultimatum supposedly the Rockefellers caused the recent earthquake in Japan.

So what does Mr. Fulford do?

He issues another ultimatum.  At this point the whole thing begins to look more like the Leo Wanta story where one side makes all these statements, and nothing ever comes of it.  If someone makes an ultimatum, and then is dismissed out of hand, failure to follow through does not indicate (to me at least) a good strategy.  Supposedly in spite of the death and destruction that the Rockefellers caused by means of some earthquake device, the Japanese are willing to let the Rockefellers walk still.

Maybe that’s true.  More likely is that the supposed 100,000 assassins that Mr. Fulford claims to be holding in check do not exist.   I am sure that Mr. Fulford fully believes what he is saying, but frankly he’s a Candian who thinks he is a senior member of some ancient chinese secret society, and I think it’s more likely he’s just been misled.

Of course, I could be wrong.  I’ve been before when I thought that the U.S. courts would uphold the constitution.

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According to WND.com, the IRS

lost a lawyer’s challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.

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Spokesman Robert Marvin in Washington’s IRS office told WND the Internal Revenue Code provides for taxation on salaries or wages, but when pressed for a specific citation, or constitutional provision, he said, “I can’t comment.”

Cryer’s encounter with tax law began more than a decade ago when a friend told him the income tax was sham. Cryer started researching, hoping to keep his friend out of trouble. But his conclusions, after years of research, were exactly what his friend told him.

He researched not only tax laws, but also the documents pertaining to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution as well as the first income tax.

He said throughout his battle, he’s offered at every turn to pay taxes if the IRS could show him the authorization, and that never has happened.

“The Criminal Investigation Division and Department of Justice both responded only with ‘your position is frivolous.’ I had never stated a position, so how could they know whether it was frivolous?” he said. “Imagine my sending you a bill for $1,000 and when you call me and ask what the bill was for I simply said, ‘that position is frivolous, just write the check and send it in.’”

While the IRS has gotten by with winks and nods from Federal Judges for years, putting people like Retired Navy Commander Ward Dean (and former Delta Force member) in jail for questioning what law requires them to pay taxes on their labor, and judges have told people like Irwin Schiff “Don’t Bring the law into my court”, this election season makes this verdict more prominent, in that Ron Paul has advocated dismantling the IRS and replacing this repressive system with….

NOTHING.

Sounds good to me.

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I’ve written about Google’s apparent bias before, and every day it seems like someone brings something new to my attention.  One of the things that Google has is “google news”.  Whoever decides which sites are news has an obvious bias, while allowing sites that make up much of what they report to stay on, they ban other sites because of their political positions.

It’s not that the example site that is included in Google News doesn’t spew speech that is hateful, misleading and flat out wrong, it’s just that that site attacks republicans, so it’s ok.

Of course Google can at any time remove CHB from it’s list of “news” sites, but the point is that they didn’t do it on their own initiative, unlike what they have been doing to so called conservative sites (which I tend to disagree with about many things, I am pointing out a bias that Google has).

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Some of the responses I have gotten to the article about Joel Ferguson being threatened for passing out Ron Paul literature in the park have advocated trying to sue the police.

Unfortunately the police have been put above the law.  If you videotape them breaking the law, you are the person that is likely to be charged with a crime.  And the vast (and virtually unlimited) resources of the state will rally around the ‘poor’ officer, who was probably doing what he was told.

The FBI doesn’t care a fig about civil rights if the complaint is made out by a white male (and probably many others).  So the only recourse would be to file a civil suit, which will probably be tossed sua sponte by the judge.
Unfortunately the courts are more likely to bend over backwards for well heeled litigants (or at least well connected law firms) than for the average joe.

Almost every success (notable exceptions include Gideon v. Wainwright) for the average person in the legal system has been hard fought, and more often they end as did the Hibel case, with the state getting even more powers as liberty is decreased.

While people decry Bush’s new executive order, as if it’s some strange new power, few remember that Roosevelt outlawed the possession of the constitutional money of the United States, something that was upheld for almost 40 years, by the same method.
Freedom has always hung by a tenacious thread in America, going back to the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Whiskey rebellion (where more troops were deployed than George Washington had at many points during the revolutionary war).  Natural Rights are rarely mentioned in courts today (those are the rights in that forgotten document, the Declaraction of Independence).

There is a reason why students spend more time with the model UN and other programs that reinforce the subservience to the state than they do studying the founding documents of the United States, and that is that the United States of today bears little resemblance to the revolutionary government that promised to stay out of people’s personal lives, and deal mostly with the state governments.

With the questionable 17th amendment the states have gone from being partners with the federal government to being vassal states, and yet people continue on their way, thinking that there is some resemblance to the constitutional republic that was because the flag looks similar.

It’s not that people are stupid, for the most part they are just trying to get through the day, working harder and harder for less and less real money while sending their children off to what poses as school, but has become more and more of a prison for the unfortunates that are condemned to every day, conditioning the next generation that they have no rights.

So just because I am not (yet) in jail for writing a blog doesn’t mean that I have substantial freedoms, rather it’s that my privilege to write hasn’t been substantially challenged yet.

The best chance to save America seems to be Ron Paul’s campaign, if there is some doubt in your mind (because you believe that America will collapse if the government is restricted to it’s constitutional role) then maybe you just haven’t had the privilege of turning around in your house and having police point weapons at you yet.

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For whatever reason, I have begun getting an error that states, in part,

… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.

whenever I try to do a “blogsearch” for Ron Paul lately.  Apparently one way that Google has decided to “cool” interest in Ron Paul is to decide that only fake people want to find out about him.

If you can’t search for something, then traffic goes down, then you can claim there is no support for Ron Paul.

I’ve gotten emails from other people claiming:

… Google has stopped (this had to be done manually) retuning results from my blog if the words “Ron Paul” are searched for.  However, if you search for another word in the article, it will show up.

Apparently someone at Google has decided that the Ron Paul support is the result of automated spyware and spam, not frustration with the fascist police state mentality.   So the answer to Ron Paul support is more fascist police state methods.

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Apparently the anti-freedom forces are alive and well, while nothing has happened about Mitt Romney’s campaign impersonating police officers, it’s apparently quite a challenge to hand out Ron Paul information.

Even after clearing that it’s legal to pass out information in a public park, Joel Ferguson was threatened by police for passing out political information in Hammond recently.

The first time, the police claimed the park was private property, and he had no rights, so Joel went and contacted the city attorney, who said that it was public property.

Even after that Joel has been threatened by the police (and if you think some thug with a gun threatening you isn’t frightening, good for you), who have reportedly said “She’s not here, I am”.

It’s not just censorship and vilification by the so called “mainstream media” that is the problem, it’s the members of the fascist police state who want to stamp out all meaningful dissent.

If Ron Paul is silenced, the constitution in the United States will provide as much protection for individual liberty as did the Soviet Constitution and the Chinese Constitution.

[Update]

Please, before you claim that there is some ordinance about passing out fliers,  realize that the City Attorney had given Joel the go ahead.  This is just police deciding that Ron Paul doesn’t have the right to be a candidate for president.

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According to the Inquirer, Hitachi has a new 1TB drive. It seems to have good performance specs, you can find more at Hitachi. Seems like a good thing to me.

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SunRocket has shut down operations, leaving many customers without phone service. It could have been due to the pressure to require phone taps, or maybe due to only having 206,000 subscribers, but in any case, SunRocket has crashed.

The Washington Post offers this helpful information:

Other Internet phone companies have announced special deals to lure SunRocket customers. Vonage, which has 2.4 million subscribers, is letting SunRocket customers move their phone numbers at no cost and get two months of free service under a premium calling plan. McLean-based Primus offered a free month for its Lingo service; Kansas-based Nuvio Corp. is offering a rate similar to SunRocket’s.

Hopefully these other companies will be around for a while.

[Update]

Supposedly Packet8 is considering buying SunRocket’s customer list, whatever happens, better happen fast.  (Packet8 seems to be a good replacement for SunRocket).

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