Senator Rand Paul is taking a lot of heat from establishment
Conservatives and some in the media for his unwavering stand against the
Patriot Act. The party line that is emerging says that we are now vulnerable to
terrorist attack. Even Senator Paul, himself, said he was being accused of
damaging America’s defenses against such attacks.
These accusations are almost humorous considering that many
of these same establishment Republicans have refused to force Barack Obama to
enforce immigration laws. That fact now allows literally anyone who wants to
harm our nation to cross over the border and to not only remain here, but also
to receive tax payer benefits and perhaps even the right to vote. Reportedly,
Obama is allowing people from the same Middle Eastern nations that give rise to
terrorism to flood into our nation at horrific rates.
Newly announced presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is
especially guilty of this let down in American security as he has pushed for
policies to open our borders even further. So too have Hillary Clinton and Jeb
Bush. Has anyone accused them of damaging American national security?
The fact is Rand Paul is a defender of American security
unlike any other candidate currently running to lead this nation. He’s one of a
very few to openly stand for the Constitutional rights of all Americans to be
secure in their homes and free of government snooping into their private
business.
The created hysteria over the Patriot Act being a guardian
of our freedom is hog wash. This is the Patriot Act that was rushed into place
just after a horrific terrorist attack – 911. Of course the nation was scared and
of course out went the cry – “Do something NOW to protect us.”
When introduced, we were assured by the Justice Department
that the Patriot Act was simply to give federal law enforcement agencies the
surveillance and investigative tools they needed to deter future terror
attacks. However, the emotional rush to “do something” by quickly passing the
Patriot Act, left little time for lawmakers to put its measures under scrutiny.
In fact, then Congressman Ron Paul said he couldn’t even get a copy of the Act
before the vote.
As a result, provisions of the Act offered major
opportunities for government abuses of law-abiding private citizens. The Act
says that the government does not need to have a suspect or to even be
conducting an investigation related to terrorism to monitor your visits into
web sites on the Internet.
The Patriot Act changed the definition of terrorism,
allowing even legitimate protestors, such as pro-life activists, to be at risk
of being labeled “terrorists” if violence erupted at their events. And since
its enactment, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has officially contracted
with the Department of Homeland Security to create definitions of what and who
constitute domestic terrorists. Just as predicted, that definition does not include
Middle Eastern men connected with groups like Al-Qaeda or ISIS. Instead, in
many official circles it has come to mean those Americans who demand that the
United States government adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
The Patriot Act expands the capability to obtain warrants
and conduct searches without disclosing them immediately. Under the Act, law
enforcement can walk into your home and take records without your knowing they
were there. If a warrant is obtained, you may never know about it. It doesn’t even
require a real judge to obtain one anymore.
The Act requires fuller identification of bank customers. A
year before 9-11 more than 150,000 Americans protested these very provisions in
a scheme by the FDIC called “Know Your Customer.” Congressman Ron Paul wrote of
the Know Your Customer plan, “Under these regulations, banks will be required
to first create a profile of all new and current customers. The profile will
include such information as their credit history and other standard financial
reviews, but will be expanded to include the customer’s deposit and withdrawal
habits. This information will be gathered over the first few months of the
account’s creation. After that, any account activity that deviates from the
profile will be considered suspicious behavior.”
Rep. Paul went on to say, “Not only will ‘unusual’ deposits
into your account trigger suspicion, but so too might large cash withdrawals.”
Privacy advocates were able to officially stop the Know Your Customer scheme.
But most of its provisions returned in the Patriot Act. And just this year,
2015, the Justice Department announced its intention to carefully watch the
activities of all Americans and their bank accounts by suggesting banks report
anyone withdrawing at least $5000.
Under the Patriot Act, a special software was developed to
help firms in 25 finance-related industries, covered by the law, to compare
millions of customer records with thousands of entries on federal blacklists.
Businesses such as car dealers, insurance companies, investment
brokers, lenders and real estate firms are required to file “Suspicious
Activity Reports” to the Treasury Department.
Here’s an interesting fact. The Patriot Act only mentions
protecting our northern border. It says not a word about the southern one. Our
southern border remains, absolutely wide open, allowing anyone to literally
walk into this country. And the Obama Administration has used that loophole
beyond what any normal American could have ever foreseen at the writing of the
Act.
In the name of fighting terrorism, we have witnessed a new
kind of government “urban sprawl” oozing out of Washington, D.C. into every
back alley, bedroom, and underwear drawer in America.
In 2004 the Government Electronics and Information
Technology Association (GEIA) reported that there were more than 100 federal
entities involved in forging the largest conglomeration of government/private
contractor interests since the creation of the Pentagon. GEIA represents
hundreds of corporate members which had cashed in on the Homeland
Security-citizen-surveillance-spending spree.
In September 2002, dozens of major high-tech companies
formed the “Homeland Security Industries Association.” A key objective of the
association was to win a piece of the action for the creation of national ID
cards for travelers.
Business Week reported that the SAS Institute was among many
corporations scrambling to launch a whole new line of anti-money laundering
software designed to help insurance companies, investment banks and brokerage
firms spy on their clients’ financial activities on behalf of the government in
compliance with the Patriot Act.
Bert Ely, the head of a consulting company for financial
institutions, warned that the anti-money laundering provisions of the Patriot
Act would do nothing to stop the financing of international terrorists. At
best, he said, the new provisions would actually provide evildoers with a road
map to avoid detection.
What the Patriot Act provisions are really about, said Ely,
is to have the United States fall into line with an international campaign
being waged by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and
the Financial Action Task Force against countries that serve as tax havens.
It’s all about tax collection!
Business Week also reported that private-sector software
makers were racing to develop programs to zero in on gambling. Business Week
noted that, “the feds have put casinos on notice that they’re next in the line
of security.” Now, how many terrorists have actually raised their funds in Las
Vegas?
In mid-September 2002, the U.S. Department of Commerce and
the Office of Homeland Security held an expo in Washington. Medium and small
firms from across the nation were invited in to showcase the very latest in
citizen surveillance wares.
The US Chamber of Commerce hired the former deputy assistant
to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to act as a liaison between the chamber and
businesses seeking homeland security contracts. Political Moneyline reported
that 444 groups and individuals had registered as lobbyists to deal with
“terror” and “security” issues.
IBM has opened a “Government Solutions Center” in Vienna,
Virginia. The high-tech Unisys Corporation established a similar exhibition for
inspection by federal surveillance planners, called the “Homeland Security
Center for Excellence.”
Both corporations raced to cash in on billions of dollars
for facial recognition systems at airports and, in anticipation of “trusted
traveler” cards, a high-tech ID tied to extensive background checks and biometric
identification.
So, in the name of fighting terrorism, America was saddled
with a massive control over the actions of all Americans, yet it failed to foil
even a single terrorist plot. What it did accomplish, however, was a massive
buildup of government policing power, designed to keep tabs on every movement
of the American people. In addition, the Patriot Act created massive financial
opportunity for industries that produced surveillance equipment and software.
All of this is what Senator Paul was objecting to. This
massive growth of government and the obvious loss of liberty that comes with it
is what he was trying to stop.
Does it then come as a surprise that Senator Rand Paul has
become public enemy #1 by establishment Republican hawks, big money Republican
fund raisers, all big government proponents and their Patriot Act-dependent
industries? As said in the landmark movie “Network,” he has messed with the
natural order of things.”
Senator Rand Paul is a hero to all who value their liberty,
personal privacy and private property rights. He is the only candidate now
running for President to actually take positive action to try to preserve and
protect our freedoms. He deserves the respect and support of all who claim to
favor those liberties.
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NewsWire Articles
Social Justice Warriors don’t want justice; they want to
upend civilization by Kathleen Marquardt
Social Justice has nothing to do with justice; it is a tool
– an especially big and powerful tool in the Sustainable Development realm –
being used to tear apart Western Culture and replace it with chaos and civil
war. As a tool it is doing the job very
well. In this Observer article, Cathy
Young does an excellent job of shining the light on SJWs.
The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild
“Working to correct inequities is a noble goal—which
explains the appeal of the “social justice” movement to many fair-minded
people. But the movement in its current form is not about that. It elevates an
extreme and polarizing version of identity politics in which individuals are
little more than the sum of their labels. It encourages wallowing in anger and
guilt. It promotes intolerance and the politicization of everything. It must be
stopped—not only for the sake of freedom, but for the sake of a kinder, fairer
society.”
[Read more
(http://observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/?mc_cid=0142020783&mc_eid=5f675b1de6#ixzz3g3jygEJe
) ]
What do the EPA, Endangered Species Act, Center for
Biological Diversity, new Floodplain Standards, Environmental Justice and Obama
have in common?
by Kathleen Marquardt
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to
protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to
freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded
rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
(dissenting)]” ― Louis D. Brandeis
What they have in common is the desire for complete control
over private property and thus nothing less than our liberty, our freedom. Without the right to private property man
cannot be free. What you see are
bureaucrats (and their laws) conspiring with NGOs to take our land by a
proliferation of restrictions, edicts, executive orders and laws. The cfact article enumerates just a few of
them.
Below that is the URL for the EPA’s Environmental Justice
Screen mentioned in the cfact article.
Greens, Feds team up to link land-use restrictions to
climate change: Their goal -- complete control over all private property
“In determining what constitutes a ‘future flood risk,’ the
White House assured the nation that such decisions would be closely tied to, in
Obama’s words, ‘a national policy on resilience and risk reduction consistent
with my Climate Action Plan.’ In other
words, the administration’s policies to ‘combat climate change’ will serve to
justify a new bundle of regulations and standards imposed on communities
throughout the country in the name of protecting them from flooding.”
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(http://www.cfact.org/2015/06/23/greens-feds-team-up-to-link-land-use-restrictions-to-climate-change/?mc_cid=0142020783&mc_eid=5f675b1de6#sthash.G90QWfj7.dpuf)
]
For EPA’s Environmental Justice Screen go to: http://www2.epa.gov/ejscreen?mc_cid=0142020783&mc_eid=[UNIQID]
Featured Video
Last week I spoke in the tiny community of Rindge, NH. Here
local citizens discovered strange things happening in their local government.
Turned out to be Agenda 21. So they took action to stop it. Changed the local
government and made it mandatory that before the government could apply for a
HUD grant they first had to have a vote of the people. Creative, inspiring
stuff! I went there to congratulate them and to warn them to stay vigilant
because the battle isn't over. - Tom DeWeese
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New manual to teach you how to Stop Agenda 21 by Tom DeWeese
The Wrenching Transformation of America: Agenda 21
Here's what's in my manual
* I outline the treaties, policy papers, and international
meetings that have set the policy.
* I show how those international policies directly enter
local communities disguised as innocent-sounding development projects or
historic preservation.
* I reveal how those international plans are moving past
Congress and directly into local communities through a network of
self-proclaimed “stakeholders.”
* I explain how the Supreme Court has helped them do it.
* I expose how private organizations are able to take
control of your community and enforce these policies without a vote or any
input from you. I also demonstrate how Agenda 21 is affecting you right now:
* International policy is currently directing local
communities to enforce cutbacks on water use by as much as 75%.
* The Sierra Club’s plan forces 500 families to live on one
acre of land and they deem it “Smart Growth.”
* The new corporate law called “Benefit Corporations”
enlists corporations to enforce sustainable development policies in their
products and promotions. Nearly every state has now either passed or is
considering this legislation.
I’m not only talking about radical environmental policy!
There is so much more.
* Do you think Obama’s healthcare policy is his brainchild?
Of course not. In the manual, I show you its direct connection to sustainable
development and the true purpose behind the planned destruction of America’s
health care system.
* Do our children receive poor educations because there is
not enough money and teachers in the classrooms? I will show you that the
dumbing down of American children is intentional and that the schools are
operating for what they have been “reformed” to do. It is called “Common Core.”
* I will show you how global warming is the greatest hoax
ever played on man and I’ll show you why the Sustainablists cannot drop this
discredited issue for fear of losing all of their demands for Agenda 21 policy.
* I will show you some of the victims of these tyrannical
policies and how they have been robbed of their property and livelihood simply
because a government has too much power.
Most importantly, to complete this manual, I have included
special reports from a team of experts, including former Senate Environment
Committee staffer Marc Morano, one of the world’s top experts on the global
warming hoax; the late Henry Lamb, the man who first exposed the UN’s global
governance agenda; Mike Coffman and Michael Chapman, two of the nation’s
leading experts on sustainable development and the international treaties and
policies that are changing our nation; Author Wynne Coleman, one of the nation’s
leading experts on Benefit Corporations; Joan Swirskyand Dr. Karen Effrem, two
of the nation’s leading experts on Common Core; and the late Dr. Madeleine
Cosman, a pioneer in exposing the destruction of our nation’s once-great health
care system by connecting the dots to Agenda 21.
Of course there are lots of newsletters, blogs, and Internet
sites out there with “insider” information. However, I have seen most of them
and I know for a fact that many are missing the big picture! They will tell you
about federal policies, taxes, bailouts, corrupt politicians, secret deals, and
lots of stuff that–while it may be important–fails to connect the dots to the
real root of the problem.
Other “experts” are missing the core threat: it is not
discussed in the media, at many TEA party rallies or in national conferences,
and certainly not in Congress or other levels of government.
The core threat is revealed in detail in my special report.
Only in this manual will you learn:
* How our language is being manipulated to control policy
* The threat we face is not a Republican or Democrat issue.
* The ruling principle that will completely reorganize our
society.
* The three E’s of control.
* The threat of the “precautionary principle” and how it
will destroy our economy.
* How Public/Private Partnerships are destroying free
enterprise.
* How the politically-based radical environmental movement
uses fear of environmental damage as camouflage while they work to transform
the American systems of government, justice, and economics
* The dawn of “Common-ism” that transformed national
sovereignty, natural resources, and private land into “common property” for the
UN’s “global commons.”
* How the public education system has been transformed to
create “global village idiots.”
* The four international commissions that are transforming
the world towards global governance.
* The full definition of an NGO and where they came from.
* The most powerful environmental group in the world and why
it is the most dangerous.
* How UN policies become American law.
* The Smart Growth fraud.
* The lunacy of the Wildlands Project.
* How “green” industry is costing taxpayers millions in
additional costs and with no benefit.
Most importantly, the manual includes step-by-step details
on how to fight against Agenda 21 in your community, including:
* The exact language necessary to protect property rights.
* The “Resolution for the Protection of Citizen’s Property
Rights” and how to use it as an effective tool to stop Agenda 21 in your
community.
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