Another Reason to Revolt

2011: A Brave New Dystopia

By Chris Hedges

December 27, 2010 "Truth Dig" -- The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second.

We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through sensual gratification, cheap mass-produced goods, boundless credit, political theater and amusement. While we were entertained, the regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled, the laws that once protected us were rewritten and we were impoverished. Now that credit is drying up, good jobs for the working class are gone forever and mass-produced goods are unaffordable, we find ourselves transported from "Brave New World" to "1984." The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is sliding toward bankruptcy. It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxley's feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy. We are moving from a society where we are skillfully manipulated by lies and illusions to one where we are overtly controlled.

Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where no one wanted to read books. Orwell warned of a state of permanent war and fear. Huxley warned of a culture diverted by mindless pleasure. Orwell warned of a state where every conversation and thought was monitored and dissent was brutally punished. Huxley warned of a state where a population, preoccupied by trivia and gossip, no longer cared about truth or information. Orwell saw us frightened into submission. Huxley saw us seduced into submission. But Huxley, we are discovering, was merely the prelude to Orwell. Huxley understood the process by which we would be complicit in our own enslavement. Orwell understood the enslavement. Now that the corporate coup is over, we stand naked and defenseless. We are beginning to understand, as Karl Marx knew, that unfettered and unregulated capitalism is a brutal and revolutionary force that exploits human beings and the natural world until exhaustion or collapse.

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake," Orwell wrote in "1984." "We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" in his book "Democracy Incorporated" to describe our political system. It is a term that would make sense to Huxley. In inverted totalitarianism, the sophisticated technologies of corporate control, intimidation and mass manipulation, which far surpass those employed by previous totalitarian states, are effectively masked by the glitter, noise and abundance of a consumer society. Political participation and civil liberties are gradually surrendered. The corporation state, hiding behind the smokescreen of the public relations industry, the entertainment industry and the tawdry materialism of a consumer society, devours us from the inside out. It owes no allegiance to us or the nation. It feasts upon our carcass.

The corporate state does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader. It is defined by the anonymity and facelessness of the corporation. Corporations, who hire attractive spokespeople like Barack Obama, control the uses of science, technology, education and mass communication. They control the messages in movies and television. And, as in "Brave New World," they use these tools of communication to bolster tyranny. Our systems of mass communication, as Wolin writes, "block out, eliminate whatever might introduce qualification, ambiguity, or dialogue, anything that might weaken or complicate the holistic force of their creation, to its total impression."

The result is a monochromatic system of information. Celebrity courtiers, masquerading as journalists, experts and specialists, identify our problems and patiently explain the parameters. All those who argue outside the imposed parameters are dismissed as irrelevant cranks, extremists or members of a radical left. Prescient social critics, from Ralph Nader to Noam Chomsky, are banished. Acceptable opinions have a range of A to B. The culture, under the tutelage of these corporate courtiers, becomes, as Huxley noted, a world of cheerful conformity, as well as an endless and finally fatal optimism. We busy ourselves buying products that promise to change our lives, make us more beautiful, confident or successful as we are steadily stripped of rights, money and influence. All messages we receive through these systems of communication, whether on the nightly news or talk shows like "Oprah," promise a brighter, happier tomorrow. And this, as Wolin points out, is "the same ideology that invites corporate executives to exaggerate profits and conceal losses, but always with a sunny face." We have been entranced, as Wolin writes, by "continuous technological advances" that "encourage elaborate fantasies of individual prowess, eternal youthfulness, beauty through surgery, actions measured in nanoseconds: a dream-laden culture of ever-expanding control and possibility, whose denizens are prone to fantasies because the vast majority have imagination but little scientific knowledge."

Our manufacturing base has been dismantled. Speculators and swindlers have looted the U.S. Treasury and stolen billions from small shareholders who had set aside money for retirement or college. Civil liberties, including habeas corpus and protection from warrantless wiretapping, have been taken away. Basic services, including public education and health care, have been handed over to the corporations to exploit for profit. The few who raise voices of dissent, who refuse to engage in the corporate happy talk, are derided by the corporate establishment as freaks.

Attitudes and temperament have been cleverly engineered by the corporate state, as with Huxley's pliant characters in "Brave New World." The book's protagonist, Bernard Marx, turns in frustration to his girlfriend Lenina:

"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?" he asks.

"I don't know that you mean. I am free, free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays."

He laughed, "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We have been giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way."

"I don't know what you mean," she repeated.

The façade is crumbling. And as more and more people realize that they have been used and robbed, we will move swiftly from Huxley's "Brave New World" to Orwell's "1984." The public, at some point, will have to face some very unpleasant truths. The good-paying jobs are not coming back. The largest deficits in human history mean that we are trapped in a debt peonage system that will be used by the corporate state to eradicate the last vestiges of social protection for citizens, including Social Security. The state has devolved from a capitalist democracy to neo-feudalism. And when these truths become apparent, anger will replace the corporate-imposed cheerful conformity. The bleakness of our post-industrial pockets, where some 40 million Americans live in a state of poverty and tens of millions in a category called "near poverty," coupled with the lack of credit to save families from foreclosures, bank repossessions and bankruptcy from medical bills, means that inverted totalitarianism will no longer work......

....The noose is tightening. The era of amusement is being replaced by the era of repression. Tens of millions of citizens have had their e-mails and phone records turned over to the government. We are the most monitored and spied-on citizenry in human history. Many of us have our daily routine caught on dozens of security cameras. Our proclivities and habits are recorded on the Internet. Our profiles are electronically generated. Our bodies are patted down at airports and filmed by scanners. And public service announcements, car inspection stickers, and public transportation posters constantly urge us to report suspicious activity. The enemy is everywhere.

Those who do not comply with the dictates of the war on terror, a war which, as Orwell noted, is endless, are brutally silenced. The draconian security measures used to cripple protests at the G-20 gatherings in Pittsburgh and Toronto were wildly disproportionate for the level of street activity. But they sent a clear message-DO NOT TRY THIS. The FBI's targeting of antiwar and Palestinian activists, which in late September saw agents raid homes in Minneapolis and Chicago, is a harbinger of what is to come for all who dare defy the state's official Newspeak. The agents-our Thought Police-seized phones, computers, documents and other personal belongings. Subpoenas to appear before a grand jury have since been served on 26 people. The subpoenas cite federal law prohibiting "providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations." Terror, even for those who have nothing to do with terror, becomes the blunt instrument used by Big Brother to protect us from ourselves.

"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?" Orwell wrote. "It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself."

WE NEED ANOTHER AMERICAN REVOLUTION...NOW!!!

What is needed is a 21st Century version of the 1932 Bonus Marchers, to include vets returning from Iraq/Afghanistan who cannot find jobs as well as unemployed civilians. Probably 99% of Americans have never heard of this incident!

Our country, our freedoms, our future has been sold to the highest bidders on Wall Street and in China. We are no longer governed by statesmen or even politicians but elected corporate handlers.

We have run out of time as a country and a people, to reclaim our country, our freedoms and our future. Brute force seems to be the only way because elections are meaningless when both parties represent the same thing: serfdom! Letters and emails to our corporate handlers result in form letter responses. They are out of touch with working Americans but not with the perks and bribes associated with their offices.

The economic outrage of 2010: Cowardly leaders failed to help working people -- and coddled the rich

…With one of six Americans who would like a full-time job still not able to get one, with more than 40% of those unemployed being without a job for more than six months - a level not seen since such records were kept - but with the bankers who caused the whole mess receiving the same megabonuses as before the crisis as if nothing had happened, no wonder the anger within the country is palpable.

The bankers had used their money and political influence first to buy deregulation, then to get a massive bailout and finally, this year, to prevent effective reregulation….

…Some of the pain felt by the middle class could have been averted if our politicians had gotten up the gumption to pass a second round of stimulus.

Contrary to what you may have heard, the first round worked: But for the $800 billion stimulus passed in February 2009, unemployment would have peaked in excess of 12%. It just wasn't big enough, and wasn't well enough designed, to get unemployment down to an acceptable level.

Instead, Congress has now passed a tax cut, much of the benefit of which will go to the richest Americans - including the bankers responsible for the crisis. They will receive quintuple benefits: lower payroll taxes, lower income tax rates, low taxes on capital gains, lower taxes on dividends and lower taxes on the money they pass on to their heirs. The national debt will be larger and the stimulus will be limited….

…And what is the logic that says that Americans who work for a living should be taxed at twice the rate faced by speculators, who strive to bring down whole economies and have repeatedly succeeded in creating havoc around the world? Yet that is what the Republicans insisted, as the price for a one-year reduction in the payroll tax paid by workers and a two-year extension of the minuscule middle-income tax cut….

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/12/22/2010-12-22_the_economic_outrage_of_2010_cowardly_leaders_failed_to_help_working_people__and.html#ixzz19L6UxwBQ

Merry Christmas

Nativity Scene
by ~dashinvaine

Rationed Health Care Here Already!

As if higher deductibles and co-pays weren’t enough, now sudden and unexplained shortages of drugs that treat cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. What better way to cull the herd than to make it too expensive to obtain medical treatment then make the meds unavailable? “Developing priority trees” means triage, the battlefield practice of determining who receives immediate treatment that can save lives, who is too far gone for treatment and who can wait because of less serious wounds. If you need crash cart meds, you’ve probably had a massive heart attack which will keep you out of work for weeks, months or permanently…removing you as a taxpayer. Some chemo patients can work part time during their treatment regimen. I can see the corporate/government bean counters deciding the man below who spent 15 years managing a rare abdominal cancer is a negative return on investment, a drain on the health care system. Much more to come, no doubt!

Life-Saving Hospital Drugs in Limited Supply





…Most drugs in short supply are known as injectables and include sedation medication such as propofol, the popular blood thinner heparin, and hard-hitting chemotherapy drugs like doxorubicin.

"I've been in practice more than 30 years and this is the first time I've encountered shortages that may affect patient care," said Dr. Michael Link, president-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Limited manufacturing, lagging production time, and lack of profits from these drugs are contributing to the shortage…The production cost outweighs the profits for some companies. Since many firms would rather produce cheaper generic drugs, manufacturers are shunning some costly brands.

Doctors at local hospitals are frustrated and many times they're not even informed of the shortage, according to survey results released in September by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Of those surveyed, 85 percent said they were given little to no information on how long the shortages would last….

…"It has caused us to spend a great deal of physician and pharmacy time developing priority trees to allocate available drug if necessary as well as to scour suppliers for drug shipments," Dr. Jeffrey Goldberg, pediatric oncologist at University of Miami Medical Center wrote in an email response to ABC News' Medical Unit….

… Mark McKee's doctors have spent 15 years managing his rare abdominal tumor. But in the last year and a half, his tumor grew significantly, so Dr. Craig Howe, McKee's doctor at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., upped his treatment to the more aggressive chemotherapy regimen that included doxorubicin.

The regimen seemed to be working, said McKee, 39, of Minneapolis. But last month, the afternoon before he was scheduled for his routine chemotherapy, McKee was told the hospital did not have enough doxorubicin that he needed for his infusion.

Something may be better than nothing, McKee said Howe told him. McKee received a quarter less than the full dose needed to regulate his tumor….

… His doctor Howe agreed, saying he's not sure whether taking lower doses will be an adequate treatment for McKee's tumor. But then again, Howe said he's not sure about waiting either.

"If I had to [lower the dose] consistently over the course of four to six months, then I think we really are compromising care," said Howe.

Fat Dumb & Happy

This is the future of USA, Inc.: fat, stupid geeks who can play the Call of Duty video game but have never used a firearm, receive diplomas for having learned nothing and care more about Survival than surviving!

When I took the ASVAB, I thought I flunked because it seemed too easy, much easier than the SAT or exams I took in college!

Nearly 1 in 4 Students Fails U.S. Military Exam

…"Too many of our high school students are not graduating ready to begin college or a career — and many are not eligible to serve in our armed forces," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the AP. "I am deeply troubled by the national security burden created by America's underperforming education system."…

…The report by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don't get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. Questions are often basic, such as: "If 2 plus x equals 4, what is the value of x?"…

…Kenneth Jackson, 19, of Miami, enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school. He said passing the entrance exam is easy for those who paid attention in school, but blamed the education system for why more recruits aren't able to pass the test.

"The classes need to be tougher because people aren't learning enough," Jackson said….

…Even those passing muster on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, usually aren't getting scores high enough to snag the best jobs….

…Recruits must score at least a 31 out of 99 on the first stage of the three-hour test to get into the Army. The Marines, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard recruits need higher scores.
Further tests determine what kind of job the recruit can do with questions on mechanical maintenance, accounting, word comprehension, mathematics and science….

…Retired military leaders say the report's findings are cause for concern.

"The military is a lot more high-tech than in the past," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip. "I don't care if you're a soldier Marine carrying a backpack or someone sitting in a research laboratory, the things we expect out of our military members requires a very, very well educated force."

A Department of Defense report notes the military must recruit about 15 percent of youth, but only one-third are eligible. More high school graduates are going to college than in earlier decades, and about one-fourth are obese, making them medically ineligible.

In 1980, by comparison, just 5 percent of youth were obese.

Surveillance State

Houston PD's Surveillance drone



Long but worth reading the entire article!

Monitoring America

Part of the series Top Secret America (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/)

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States….

…The months-long investigation, based on nearly 100 interviews and 1,000 documents, found that:

* Technologies and techniques honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America.

* The FBI is building a database with the names and certain personal information, such as employment history, of thousands of U.S. citizens and residents whom a local police officer or a fellow citizen believed to be acting suspiciously. It is accessible to an increasing number of local law enforcement and military criminal investigators, increasing concerns that it could somehow end up in the public domain….

…The Obama administration heralds this local approach as a much-needed evolution in the way the country confronts terrorism….

…On a recent night in Memphis, a patrol car rolled slowly through a parking lot in a run-down section of town. The military-grade infrared camera on its hood moved robotically from left to right, snapping digital images of one license plate after another and analyzing each almost instantly.

Suddenly, a red light flashed on the car's screen along with the word "warrant."

"Got a live one! Let's do it," an officer called out.

The streets of Memphis are a world away from the streets of Kabul, yet these days, the same types of technologies and techniques are being used in both places to identify and collect information about suspected criminals and terrorists.

The examples go far beyond Memphis.

* Hand-held, wireless fingerprint scanners were carried by U.S. troops during the insurgency in Iraq to register residents of entire neighborhoods. L-1 Identity Solutions is selling the same type of equipment to police departments to check motorists' identities.

* In Arizona, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Facial Recognition Unit, using a type of equipment prevalent in war zones, records 9,000 biometric digital mug shots a month….

* U.S. Customs and Border Protection flies General Atomics' Predator drones along the Mexican and Canadian borders - the same kind of aircraft, equipped with real-time, full-motion video cameras, that has been used in wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan to track the enemy…….

Excellent Editorial!!!

From a small newspaper in Pennsylvania:

Big brother may be watching

Dear Editor:

Well, we see that downtown Carlisle has bought into the scheme of installing high resolution surveillance cameras by taking a $200,000 grant from the federal government who, by the way, is already over $13 trillion in debt. Who's paying that bill?

We might as well have military police standing on the corners of Carlisle's downtown area. Don't we just love being watched? Oh, I'm sorry, it's for our security.

Ben Franklin said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, Tue, Nov. 11, 1755)

Haven't you heard the argument that if you haven't done anything wrong, what's there to hide?

Per the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Bill of Rights) and Article I, Section 8, of the Pennsylvania Constitution (Declaration of Rights) we are to be secured in our person. Just leave us alone.

Privacy is not about hiding a wrong; it's about an inherent, God-given human right and a necessity of maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. We should not be living in a surveillance society.

Oh, and by the way, did you know that PennDOT has a biometric number of your face? It's used for facial recognition. All an operator of the surveillance camera has to do is take your picture, convert it to biometrics and compare it to PennDOT's database and, bingo, the operator knows who you are, where you live and everything else in the database about you. Let's hope we don't have any bad apples operating the surveillance cameras, be they government employees or contractor personal.

We can thank our Congress for passing the Real ID Act of 2005 and PennDOT's implementation of the Homeland Security's regulations of the act. Did you know that when you applied or renewed your driver's license that PennDOT captured your picture, converted it to a biometric number and included it in the PennDOT database, which also includes everything on the front of your license plus your Social Security number?

In the Security and Prosperity Partnership 2005 Report to Leaders document, members from the United States, Mexico and Canada stated under the biometric section that they will devise a single, integrated global enrollment program for North American trusted traveler programs.

Real ID is that integrated global enrollment program for the United States. Welcome to George Orwell's "1984."

Jim Compton

Boiling Springs

Glenn Beck Warns Of Food Riots, Martial Law & Gun Confiscations

It makes no difference whether you agree with Glenn Beck or not, what is in this video is inevitable. It is pretty apparent that the government of USA, Inc. views its citizens/tax-payers as a threat. While we have to beware of society's predators (today's criminals and opportunists after any disaster) we must be aware of government's intentions. Plan, prepare, stock up and arm up!

Coming to USA, Inc.

Student protests in London turn violent...

· 20,000 students and activists lay siege to Westminster
· Three officers seriously injured in scuffles with activists

Thousands of protesters try to break through police barricades at Parliament...




BUT FIRST.......

Oil tipped to bubble over $100 barrel...

REPORT: Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach US... Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?

Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise...

UNEMPLOYMENT WEEK: DOWN TO 421,000; REVISED UP LAST WEEK 438,000...

POLL: Most Americans Say They’re Worse Off Under Obama...

Home Values May Drop by $1.7 Trillion This Year...

US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off since LEHMAN...

Prices Plunge for 2nd Day on Deficit Fears...

RIP USA, Inc.: 1776 - 2025

A portion of a very long read from the Huffingtoon post but worth it!!!

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025

…Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.

Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administration’s rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this 21st-century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare….

…By 2020, according to current plans, the Pentagon will throw a military Hail Mary pass for a dying empire. It will launch a lethal triple canopy of advanced aerospace robotics that represents Washington's last best hope of retaining global power despite its waning economic influence. By that year, however, China's global network of communications satellites, backed by the world's most powerful supercomputers, will also be fully operational, providing Beijing with an independent platform for the weaponization of space and a powerful communications system for missile- or cyber-strikes into every quadrant of the globe….

…Viewed historically, the question is not whether the United States will lose its unchallenged global power, but just how precipitous and wrenching the decline will be. In place of Washington's wishful thinking, let’s use the National Intelligence Council's own futuristic methodology to suggest four realistic scenarios for how, whether with a bang or a whimper, U.S. global power could reach its end in the 2020s (along with four accompanying assessments of just where we are today). The future scenarios include: economic decline, oil shock, military misadventure, and World War III. While these are hardly the only possibilities when it comes to American decline or even collapse, they offer a window into an onrushing future….

Economic Decline: Present Situation

Economic Decline: Scenario 2020

Oil Shock: Present Situation

Oil Shock: Scenario 2025

Military Misadventure: Present Situation

Military Misadventure: Scenario 2014

World War III: Present Situation

World War III: Scenario 2025

…In a dark, dystopian version of our global future, a coalition of transnational corporations, multilateral forces like NATO, and an international financial elite could conceivably forge a single, possibly unstable, supra-national nexus that would make it no longer meaningful to speak of national empires at all. While denationalized corporations and multinational elites would assumedly rule such a world from secure urban enclaves, the multitudes would be relegated to urban and rural wastelands….

…All of these scenarios extrapolate existing trends into the future on the assumption that Americans, blinded by the arrogance of decades of historically unparalleled power, cannot or will not take steps to manage the unchecked erosion of their global position.

If America's decline is in fact on a 22-year trajectory from 2003 to 2025, then we have already frittered away most of the first decade of that decline with wars that distracted us from long-term problems and, like water tossed onto desert sands, wasted trillions of desperately needed dollars.

If only 15 years remain, the odds of frittering them all away still remain high. Congress and the president are now in gridlock; the American system is flooded with corporate money meant to jam up the works; and there is little suggestion that any issues of significance, including our wars, our bloated national security state, our starved education system, and our antiquated energy supplies, will be addressed with sufficient seriousness to assure the sort of soft landing that might maximize our country's role and prosperity in a changing world.

Europe's empires are gone and America's imperium is going. It seems increasingly doubtful that the United States will have anything like Britain's success in shaping a succeeding world order that protects its interests, preserves its prosperity, and bears the imprint of its best values.

Even Paranoids Have Enemies!

Thanks to an anonymous commenter on my last post, I have added Sherrie Questioning All to the blogs I follow:


CPS Investigated a Reader - Because he feeds his children Organic Food - Drinks Non- Fluorinated Water and has a Bug Out Bag! Police were standing by!


Is The Govt. trying to Find out, Who has What now? I ask, because - Child Services Interviewed My Child - Wanted to Know if We Had Solar Panels, Exactly Where We Go Camping and Hiking , If have Alternative Energy, If Food Stored, Then Came to my House! Updated Article on 12/3/10 with Video Clips From Interview

...When my child got home, I got a bigger shock! My child told me, child services had come to her school that day and interviewed her! I told her to wait, to tell me anything, as I wanted to put her on speaker phone with her father so she could tell us at the same time, what questions they asked.

My child said, these are the questions they asked " Does your mother have SOLAR PANELS? Where Exactly does your mother take you camping? Where exactly have you gone hiking? Do you hike and then camp? Does anyone else go with you camping? What do you do when you go camping? Does your mother have alternative energy? Does your mother have stored food? Does your mother have any guns? Does your mother saying anything about "The end of the world"? What kind of remodeling has your mother done to your home? Do you have a "safe room", like a bomb shelter in your home?...

...I sat back down with my child and asked her.. "was there anyone else in the room besides the child services people?" My child said "No". I then asked my child "Did they ask, if I have ever hit you, did they ask if I drink, did they ask if I do drugs"? She said "No", they did not ask ANY questions such as that! I was NOW completely confused! How in the heck, is it Child services did NOT ask what I would think would be NORMAL Child Abuse questions that would be abusive to a child! NOT ONE NORMAL CHILD ABUSE QUESTION WAS ASKED!...

Videos of Accusations against me - This goes with the Original Article of "Is the Govt. Checking on Who has What"?

View These Before They Are Removed!!!

As a rule, I am NOT into conspiracy theories. However, documentation that provides evidence makes one of these theories more probable. This documentation includes executive orders from presidents Reagan (penned by COL Oliver North) through the O-Man this year and contracts to build prisons...uh, residential centers given to Halliburton and KBR. Residential centers that include playgrounds all surrounded by double perimeter fences and razor wire, allegedly for illegal aliens whom we do not arrest.

There is also the surveillance of everyday citizens who, for example, campaign for legitimate candidates such as Ron Paul or expressing "extremist views" and putting them into databases and adding them to watch lists.

If you've watched the new series on TRU TV hosted by former Minnesota Gov. Jessie Ventura called Conspiracy Theory, you may have seen the original airing of the episode titled "Police State". Reruns of that episode have been pulled because of "background pressure".

Watch these three 15 minute segments. Judge for yourself and prepare. I will take the word of a fellow U.S. Navy vet over those lying sacks of shit under ANY crapital dome! The only rules of engagement are that there are no rules of engagement!!!

Unsustainable!

As unemployment runs out for the able-bodied, desperate for work (my son included):

...Even if both houses of Congress move quickly, there will still be administrative odds and ends that will likely delay checks for at least a few weeks....


...the self-absorbed, narcissistic savages take to the streets.

What will happen when it is food instead of bargains they seek? It is not our job to lift them up. They are exactly that, lost, and not worth the effort. If they will stampede for bargains they will kill for food. INVEST IN LEAD!!!