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A scandal is rocking the sheriff's department of our neighbors to the
north in Kern County: witnesses say that a helpless drunk was beaten to
death by deputies while the man begged for his life.
On the night of Wednesday May 8, David Silva, 33, went to a hospital
in East Bakersfield to seek help for some sort of emotional troubles. He
was turned away and told that he couldn't sleep at the hospital that
night,David Cohn, an attorney for Silva's family, told the Los Angeles Times. He went across the street and fell asleep there.
Sheriff's deputies said that they got a call about a drunk man, and
they said that when they arrived, Silva was sleeping. In a statement,
they said they tried to restrain him and but he resisted arrest, and
they were forced to use their batons on him. The beating lasted eight
minutes, and eventually deputies performed CPR on him. Silva was
hospitalized but he died within an hour of the beating.
But witnesses said Silva didn't resist arrest. They said when Silva
woke up, he looked afraid and confused and deputies took a swing at him.
Laura Vasquez told the Los Angeles Times,
"Mr. Silva was reaching for his head and the officers said 'stop
moving' and 'stop resisting.' He wasn't resisting.… He rolled on his
back and they kept hitting."
The stories that witnesses told about the scene are horrific. Neighbors told the L.A. Times
that late that night they were woken up by the sound of deputies'
nightsticks striking Silva's head. Witnesses said Silva didn't resist
and was in fact begging for his life as deputies struck him. They say
they watched deputies hogtie him and then drop him on the ground—twice.
They say eight officers eventually responded to the scene and swarmed
Silva. Witnesses say that there was so much blood that they couldn't
make out the features on Silva's face.
Vasquez told the Times, "He was screaming for help. He was laying on
his chest. The cops were still on top of him, still hitting him. My
family and I screamed at them to stop hitting him.… The blood was all
over Mr. Silva's face. We couldn't even tell if he had eyes or a mouth."
Maria Melendez told the New York Times, "He was like a piece of meat.
We were telling them: 'He’s dead. You guys already killed him.'"
Witnesses felt powerless to stop what was going on. A friend of
Vasquez asked someone to call the cops, and Vasquez reported,
"[E]verybody looked at her and said, 'They ARE the cops.'"
One witness Sulina Quair, 34, claimed to take video of the incident and reported it in a 9-1-1 call:
What happened after the beating is spurring allegations that the Kern
County Sheriff's Department is trying to cover up the beating.
Witnesses at the scene took video of what was going on, and told
deputies that they were filming him (perhaps in an effort to get them to
stop). But when the beating was done, deputies confiscated the cell
phones of witnesses.
Two of the cell phones were returned this week, according to a local ABC affiliate KERO.
The clients' attorney John Tello told the TV station that they are
concerned that the videos may have been tampered with in the course of
the last week. They are being sent to the FBI for forensic examining.
Sheriff Donny Youngblood defended the move, telling the Times, "We still
have to secure the evidence, especially when the evidence can tell us
whether we did it right or wrong."
The department is conducting its own investigation of the incident,
and it also asked the FBI to conduct an independent investigation.
Youngblood said: "Our credibility is at stake here."
Two CHP officers also responded to the scene, so there is dash-cam
footage from a CHP car. However, the only video of the incident that has
hit the media is grainy footage from a surveillance camera in which you
can sort of make out some figures beating Silva multiple times:
So far six deputies have been put on administrative leave, and that is
because the Sheriff says that they received death threats and he is
concerned about their safety.
Contact the author of this article or email tips@laist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
Deck Of 51
DECK OF 51
The CIA established Area 51 in 1955
in order to develop and test America’s most secret military projects.
It was named after a grid number on a map. Today, satellite images of
the Nevada desert show seven runways and more than 25 hangars. Area 51
was the subject of speculation primarily because of a hardworking
journalist that broke a story about the facility in 1989. George Knapp, a well-known and respected journalist with KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada,
did a series of interviews with a man named “Dennis” who made a claim.
“Dennis” claimed to have worked at a small test facility near Area 51.
He said he was involved in research that included the testing and
reverse engineering exotic craft.
Knapp reported that the man was working on a series of 9 disks
ranging in shape form a small circular nicknamed the “sports model” to a
larger “top hat” style, were housed at super secret test facility code
named “S4.” A byproduct of the black budget skunk works test program at Groom Lake, Papoose Lake or S4 was a smaller more concealed location.
After several interviews with Knapp in locations ranging from a studio to a van, the true identity of the man emerged as Robert Scott Lazar.
Lazar as it would turn out is perhaps the key element in the “saucer
tales” that have been circulating about Area 51 and over the last
quarter of a century has achieved a status as a pop culture icon within
the UFO community.
Knapp is responsible for much of what we wonder about when it comes
to these strange aircraft that were allegedly housed at Area 51 and
despite many attempts at debunking the stories, George Knapp continues
to be the only credible journalist to does the UFO/ alien beat.
Knapp has now become the go to man with regards to all things UFO and of course many other anomalous activities.
However in 2009 it was becoming more apparent that the so called
secret base at Area 51 was becoming more of a ghost town as it appeared
that activity at the base was becoming scarce.
A 1997 article published by Popular Mechanics magazine
has claimed that the secret operations of the facility had been moved
to Utah and it was later that CIA pilot John Lear had told George Knapp
in an interview that he believed that there was absolutely no operations
that were being carried out and if there were they most certainly moved
them underground and all above air testing was happening in the remote
west deserts of Utah.
Lear stated some of the most advanced work was being done at a sister facility, Area 52, within the Tonopah Test Range.
He also harbored suspicions about an adjunct facility called Base Camp,
which is halfway between Areas 51 and 52. The facility is strictly off
limits to outsiders and those who work on the inside don’t talk about
what they do.
In 2004, I was especially interested in contacting ‘Utah UFO
Hunters’, headed by Alien Dave Rosenfeld, to see if there was any truth
to the rumor of the expansion of the facility. During that time I flew
out to the area to work on a SyFy channel pilot known as the “Unknown
Zone.” Alien Dave
was especially effective in reporting what happened when I arrived with
a film crew to do an investigation into the new Area 51.
“The Air grew thick and the Chem detectors were abundant, as we
moved in on the Deseret Chemical Depot, where they destroy chemical
nerve agents and bio weapons. A week before a mysterious intruder was
spotted on the Depot grounds, dressed in all black. The Depot security,
troops, dogs, FBI, and even a state police helicopter with thermal
imaging cameras, (FLUR) couldn’t find the intruder. Sounds real funny to me. In my eyes there is no excuse for not
finding the intruder, in this rural, desolate area, with so many
involved. This event still has no explanation. We stopped and got out at
the entrance to the Depot, stretched, got into position and shot a
take, (which was the only one Clyde’s crew got in at this location.) As
we approached the fence and walked onto the road, we noticed a Humvee
coming down the road.” — Alien Dave DUGWAY: The Depot, the Desert the Danger 2004
We apparently triggered an armed response to our position and soon we
were being detained by armed troops that were dispatched to the area.
“The Humvee slowed and stopped in front of the van. We nervously
walked back towards them. The well armed military vehicle alone was
enough deterrent to humble us and make us uneasy about being there . We
were told to leave imediately. We agreed. As we were doing so, the
heavily armed Humvee and its military passengers left, a few minutes
later, here comes a couple white SUVs. From Wackenhut? The white
security SUVs did a blocking manuvere in back of us. keeping us there
until ? We confronted one of them, he didn’t say much, nor did his
backup which was now out of his vehicle, and showing off his weapon,
drawn, by his side, after a few minutes it was holstered, but a nervous
hand was polishing the handle.”—Alien Dave DUGWAY: The Depot the Desert the Danger 2004
Growing up near Dugway Proving grounds and the Air Force’s Utah Test
and Training Range (UTTR) I have witnessed many interesting things that
for some reason were ignored by the mainstream media and the so–called
non establishment media. Dugway Proving Ground
is a facility in service to all branches of the US military. It is
strategically surrounded by three massive mountain ranges. Its hidden
size and secure, remote isolation make it an ideal location for secret
testing of many types. There has been speculation that Dugway has tested
the applications and effects of every known biological, chemical and
radiological substance on earth.
There is a long history of local concern about the harmful effects of
their testing of deadly agents to the environment and to human and
animal health. As recently as last month, the facility was put under a
lockdown due to the loss of an “extremely toxic nerve agent” which was
later recovered.
Common sense and reason tells me that there are no anthropomorphic
aliens on ice there in Utah. However, what I do know is that the site
has been a great place to hide many secrets. While every conspiracy buff
has taken the long and boring drive to Rachel, Nevada, to try and catch
a glimpse of some kind of alien spacecraft flying over the S4 site at
Area 51, there may be more of a treasure trove in the desert sands of
Utah.
In this unforgiving desert wasteland, things that are much more
clandestine take place. If you have the patience and the off–road
vehicles, you may be able to find your way to the facility. Be warned:
the security there is far more aggressive than at Area 51, and it would
be a lot easier to disappear in this area.
Needless to say, that there is a difference of opinion as to what is
happening there, and whether or not the S–4 site at Groom Lake is
somehow connected to the facility at Dugway.
I was also told by an unnamed source that a lot of what is being
guarded in the desert wasteland is not just exotic craft, but a
graveyard of top secret aircraft that are buried in Tooele County and in
various areas of the remote Utah/Nevada borders near Wendover and
Rachel Nevada.
Later in 2001 it was reported that respected aviation archaeologist and historian Peter Merlin told the Las Vegas Review Journal that the combined value of the buried craft could total between $600 million and $1 billion dollars.
This sparked rumors that not only are there buried aircraft, but
buried saucer technology and quite possibly alien bodies as well. An
“X-Files” episode called ‘Anasazi‘
illustrated a fictional account of a teenage boy comes across a boxcar
buried in the ground. He retrieves the corpse of an alien-like figure
from the boxcar, which he takes back to the reservation and presents it
to the Navajo elders.
It brought forth in a fictional sense the burying of evidence and
while the boxcar in the desert full of rotting alien bodies is a graphic
and stark experience, the truth maybe being buried as well in the west
desert.
In 2011, the “secrecy” of Area 51 had been lifted and many workers
there were coming forward to break their silence on the facility and
what happened there during the Cold war. The government finally declassified the OXCART program at Area 51. Operation Oxcart
was a secret operation to develop a supersonic jet that could reach
speeds of Mach 3. This was eventually known as the SR-71 blackbird
project. Those who play in the world of conspiracy theory already had
reported this for many years. The government was merely revealing old
news and the mainstream seemed satisfied with the official revealing of
the secrets of the facility.
The novelty here is that the mainstream media has given the
impression that this was the only program that Area 51 was involved in
and that anything else “speculative” about reversed alien technology can
be put to rest. New ideas are now emerging about what cover stories,
and disinformation about UFO’s and aliens to cover up covert testing of
special craft that were used for our protection in the paranoid era of
the cold war.
What we got in 2011 were only table scraps from a project that was
well known for years. Not that the scraps are not satisfying, they just
create an even bigger appetite for more information, we get the bones
and wait for raw meat. Area 51 is a huge onion with layer upon layer
that perhaps will not be totally disclosed. Nobody is going to find out
about the entire story unless the government wants us to know.
After 18 years of reporting on the UFO phenomena, it has always been
difficult for me to get anyone to talk about anything that goes on at
Area 51. It has always been the mantra of the true believers that aliens
or even alien space craft are there. The thing is it might not be that
way now, and with the cold war a long memory it has now become okay to
declassify some of what happened there and there has been all sorts of
new so called information that still wraps itself around theories that
may or may not be disinformation. However, I side with the idea that
half truths and table scraps rather than raw facts are being dropped in
our laps about Area 51.
Modern flying saucer mysteries have always been sold alongside dime
store pulp science fiction magazines back in 1950’s and interest was
limited to what was on the Hollywood screen invading small town USA.
This, of course, is always used to diminish the value of information
that leads to the science behind the so-called UFO investigative
process.
Reporters like George Knapp have somehow emerged from the speculation, mystery and madness about Area 51 unscathed.
The whole mystery of the Area 51 has been created and permitted as a
cover for other activities that have been going on. The Cold war would
breed a lot of paranoia and no one questioned authority in those times.
If superiors spun tales of aliens and UFO’s we can thank the Cold War
intelligence ops for contributing to the mass hysteria. We can also
conclude that from the new information that there seems to be a need to
confuse people about aliens, space weapons, exotic flying craft and
other such mechanized death because when people are fed confusing
information they just stop caring about the subject matter.
Intelligence ops know this and I believe that this is why the
government permitted the intelligence deployment by dedicated cold war
veterans about their experiences in a compartmentalized military
industrial complex.
They only revealed what they were told they could.
Many of them will tell us that they never saw aliens, or flying
saucers or anything out of the ordinary. They did see Russian planes,
and many of them reverse engineered them. However there needs to be
questions asked about how we were able to get enough titanium for the
Oxcart program and how it all came together.
It is mystery even to brave men and women that risked their lives and families working on these classified projects.
Meanwhile, there has to be a bit of suspicion when it comes to so
called “revelations” by an organization that exists on secrets.
The mystery will continue as long as the barricades are still there
telling people that they have no business snooping into what strange
activities a government might do in the middle of nowhere.
Florida's Redlight Program Designed To Make Driving More Dangerous By Shortening Yellow Lights
from the putting-lives-in-danger dept
For years, we've been critics of red light cameras, which have been shown time and time again to actually increase accidents rather than decrease them -- which you would think should
be the goal. Of course, we all know that's not really the goal. The
goal has always been revenue generation for cities. If they actually
wanted to increase safety there's a very simple way to do it: you increase
the timing of yellow lights (and for the places, like where I live,
that don't have an interval between when one direction turns red and the
other turns green, you add that brief interval where all directions are
red). Do that, and you increase safety and decrease accidents. And
it's incredibly easy and cheap to do.
But, of course, various governments hate that idea, because it would decrease the massive revenue from red light camera fines. That's why over and over and over again, we see that various governments are caught redhanded lowering the time for yellow lights. Make no mistake about it: this increases
the danger, and puts many more people at risk. Stupidly, it probably
also could end up costing the city more in terms of having to respond to
more accidents and deal with more injuries. But, boy, I'm sure it
pumps up the revenue on red light camera violations.
The latest example of this comes via Darby Keene, who points out that the Florida Department of Transportation quietly tweaked its own standards for yellow light intervals
in 2011, allowing them to be shorter without breaking the law (after
many cities have been caught violating official standards). And, of
course, various cities quickly did lower the interval timing. Yes,
revenue at the expense of public safety. Research has shown that
reducing the time of a yellow light by a mere half a second can double
the number of red light camera citations -- and in some cases, the
changes to FDOT's regulations meant cities reduced the length of a
yellow light by an entire second. Smell that? It's the smell of
revenue for cities, intermingled with wrecked cars and destroyed lives!
Even worse: while FDOT is claiming that it changed its regulations to
clean up some wording, and not because of potential revenue, the report
from WTSP, also found emails from FDOT engineers telling local government officials to lower their yellow light intervals
to the absolute minimums allowed. That is, they weren't even saying it
was just an option, they were being told to decrease the timing to make
the intersection less safe, but more profitable.
And, while FDOT defended the whole thing claiming that they changed the
policies to "match federal guidelines," the report explains that federal
guidelines actually recommend longer yellow light times, just as we discussed above.
A USDOT/Federal Highway Administration (FHA) report
said cities should not use speed limit in the yellow interval equation
because it results "in more red light violations and higher crash
rates." And if drivers' average speeds cannot be calculated, it's
recommended engineers use the "speed limit plus 10 mph" variable to
producing more conservative, and safer, yellow intervals.
Another report stresses the importance of using 85th percentile speed to calculate yellow intervals, while slide 28 on this report indicates when yellow light times are lengthened, severe crashes drop.
USDOT also recommends an extra half-second of yellow time at
intersections with lots of trucks or elderly drivers to allow them to
react safely. And despite the fact that Greater Tampa Bay is home tofive of the nation's 12 oldest counties (by median age), it's also home to some of the shortest yellow lights.
Has the Obama Department of Justice Violated the Separation of Powers?
California Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) says that the Department
Of Justice tapped phones in the rooms where Congress members speak
informally and off the record, eat, sleep and socialize when they’re not
on the floor of the House of Representatives or in their individual
offices.
These rooms are known as “cloak rooms”, which are the spaces in which a lot of informal conversations occur … both between Congress members, and Congress members and reporters.
Congressman Nunes told Hugh Hewitt:
[Congressman Nunes]: I don’t think people are
focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP
reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right
where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room.
[Interviewer]: Wait a minute, this is news to me.
Congressman Nunes: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.
[Interviewer]: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Congressman Nunes: So when they went after the AP reporters,
right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone
records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from
where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of
powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have
to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members
of Congress ….
Now that is a separation of powers issue here ….
Liberals rightfully lambasted the Bush administration for considering doing something similar. As Mother Jones reported in 2009:
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau report in the New York Times today that the NSA may have exceeded the wiretapping authority it was given by Congress in 2008.
***
But then there’s this buried in the middle of the story, which isn’t vague at all:
New details are also emerging about earlier domestic
surveillance activities, including the agency’s attempt to wiretap a
congressman without court approval on an overseas trip, according to
interviews with current and former intelligence officials.
….The agency believed that the congressman, whose identity could not
be determined, was in contact as part of a congressional delegation to
the Middle East in 2005 or 2006 with an extremist who had possible
terrorist ties and was already under surveillance, the official said.
The agency then sought to eavesdrop on the congressman’s conversations
to gather more intelligence, the official said.
The official said the plan was ultimately blocked because of concerns
from some officials in the intelligence community about the idea of
using the N.S.A., without court oversight, to spy on a member of
Congress.
Jesus. If a member of Congress isn’t a “United States person”
protected from warrantless surveillance by every version of FISA that’s
ever been on the books, who is? Shouldn’t this have set off alarm bells
at every possible level at NSA, rather than merely being “ultimately
blocked” because “some” officials had “concerns” about it?
But – even though top expert say that Obama is trampling on separation of powers and Constitutional liberties more than Bush or Nixon – many Democrats are still hypnotized by what liberal writer Glenn Greenwald calls the “cult of personality“.
Update: Nunes’ director of communications – Jack Lagner – has issued a clarification:
What Rep. Nunes meant by “tapped” was that the DOJ seized
the phone records, as has been widely reported. There was a little
confusion between him and the host during the conversation: He did not
mean to refer to phone records of the cloakroom itself, but of the
Capitol. This refers to the phone records for the AP from the House
press gallery, which the DOJ admitted to looking at. He was explaining
that if those phone records were seized, they would reveal a lot of
conversations between the press and members of Congress, since reporters
often speak to Members from the press gallery phones. The notion of the
DOJ looking at phone records from the Capitol of conversations between
Members of Congress and reporters is something that concerns Rep. Nunes,
bringing up issues related to the separation of powers.
Nunes’ point still stands, though. The Department of Justice
collection of phone records of conversations between Congress members
and reporters violates the principal of separation of powers.
IRS criminality proves big government is lawless, unrestrained and utterly out of control
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Without any direction from the President, if you believe
the current denials, the IRS went on a politically-motivated rampage
that turned its own agents into weapons of intimidation and censorship against any non-profit which taught the Constitution or used conservative buzzwords like "We the People."
As part of its campaign of tyranny, the IRS demanded from the groups titles of all the books they had recently read, details of Facebook posts and names of all their donors.
They even asked for the names of students they taught! Applications for
non-profit status were routinely denied or delayed, and a huge number
of individuals including Catholic priests
were warned that if they didn't stay silent about opposing Obama, they
would be "scrutinized" even further (i.e. audited or worse).
Obama
says he knows nothing about any of this, even though he was of course
the primary beneficiary of all this activity. But let's assume he's
telling the truth for a moment, as bizarre as that idea may seem to
most. If Obama really knew nothing about all this, it paints an even
more frightening picture of a rogue government group with unlimited power that answers to no one and does whatever it wants, regardless of the legality of its actions or directions from Washington.
And then, once the truth comes out and the criminal behavior is exposed, those who carried out the crimes say, "We were just doing what our bosses told us" while their bosses -- the heads of government -- say, "We had no idea what these people were doing. They went rogue!"
Lawless government out of control
What
the IRS scandal really proves is that big government is completely out
of control. Give an unelected group a bureaucrats enough power -- the IRS
is run by appointees who don't answer to voters -- and they will sooner
or later construct fiefdoms of corruption and criminality.
This
is a universal law of bureaucracy. What the IRS did to conservative
groups, the FDA is routinely doing to natural products manufacturers and
supplement companies. It's what the DEA is doing to medical marijuana
dispensaries and what the FTC is doing to religious ministries that also
happen to sell herbs for cancer.
All bureaucracies become criminal mobs
if given enough time and power. This is a screaming red flag with a
clear message: Government is TOO BIG, too complex, too powerful and is
operating far outside its limits of power.
Government is the biggest threat to freedom and justice in America today.
In fact, this IRS criminality has been going on since at least 2010, and the agency has been getting away with it
until just now when a few facts just happen to come to light. No one
knows just how many people have been threatened and intimidated,
mobster-style, by the IRS which focused its efforts on intimidating
those who were speaking out against Obama. Technically, this behavior by the IRS calls into question the validity of the entire 2012 presidential election.
Had the IRS not been engaged in overtly criminal activity to suppress
the free speech of non-profits critical of big government, the election
may have very well turned out differently.
Government bureaucracies answer to no one
What's
even more frightening in all this is that government bureaucracies --
FDA, IRS, DEA, FTC, etc. -- ultimately answer to no one. And when they
break the laws, nobody is held responsible and no one goes to jail.
If
you or I commit felony crimes and engage in intimidation of fellow
citizens in order to silence their speech and violate their civil
rights, we will get drawn up on felony charges by the feds. But when the feds do it, the crimes are ignored.
No
wonder everyone is so completely fed up with the IRS and the Obama
administration. Across the board, republicans and democrats alike feel
outrage at the realization that the Obama government is a rogue criminal mob
operating far outside the bounds of law and the constitutional limits
of government. There is nothing this government cannot and will not do
to stay in power and destroy its critics, including threatening them
with IRS attacks if they speak out against Obama.
This is how tyrannies come into being. As Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post:
In
each recent case, government used power in ways that were insular,
highly politicized and intimidating. And however individual
responsibility is eventually assigned, these attributes are not
aberrations in the Obama era. The administration tends to view its
actions as above scrutiny and its opponents as beneath contempt.
The
result is a paradox. As the ambitions of government in the Obama era
have expanded, respect for the institution of government has reached new
lows. These scandals add another layer of cynicism. And the practical
political effects are very real. Who is more likely this month than last
to trust the federal government with the implementation of Obamacare
(in part by the IRS), the enforcement of new gun-control laws or the
securing of the southern border?
IRS behavior proves conspiracy theorists right
Another
interesting realization in all this concerns those of us who have been
warning about the runaway criminality of the Obama administration for
the last several years. Websites like www.InfoWars.com and www.NaturalNews.com (as well as others) have been blowing the whistle on the criminality of Eric Holder and the Justice Department, which ran Operation Fast and Furious (smuggling guns into Mexico).
We've
been warning about the selective prosecution of whistleblowers, the
rise of government tyranny, government selling out to global banksters
and the attempts to intimidate critics of government into silence. All
this time, we've been labeled "conspiracy theorists" by the mainstream
media, which somehow believes there are no such things as conspiracies.
Until now. Suddenly the Associated Press has its phone records seized by the Justice Department
in an unlawful attempt to identify the AP's whistleblower sources who
are exposing the criminality of the government itself. The AP has been
crying foul over it, taking on almost the exact same kind of tone that
InfoWars and NaturalNews have been publishing for years while being
accused of "anti-government" leanings. Suddenly the Associated Press is
technically the newest "anti-government" group because it's criticizing
the criminality of government gone bad, too. (Yes, in America anyone who
points out the criminality of government is instantly labeled
"anti-government.")
Now the world is waking up and realizing the conspiracy theorists were right all along.
The Obama administration really is a criminal enterprise run by genuine
mobsters and crooks. America really is "occupied" by an enemy force
that respects no law and uses its power to dominate and intimidate the
people rather than serving them.
We have crossed the Rubicon of criminal government. And the only way to restore liberty at this point is to indict and prosecute the criminals responsible, all the way up the chain as high as it leads.
Because a government that would use the IRS as a political weapon of intimidation would do anything.
It makes you think twice about everything you've heard on FEMA camps,
martial law, false flag attacks, population reduction, fluoride and
vaccines, doesn't it? It forces us all the ask the question: Is there
any limit to how far the Obama administration will go to destroy
opposition to its agenda of a big government takeover of everything?
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Two days after the Associated Press revealed that the Justice
Department had secretly seized telephone records of its editors and
reporters, the Obama administration continued to defend its actions. A
House committee that heard testimony from Attorney General Eric Holder
initiated a bipartisan whitewash of the virtually unprecedented assault
on press freedom.
The Justice Department has rejected AP demands that it return the
thousands of telephone records it subpoenaed, without prior notice to
the press agency, and destroy all copies. It has refused to answer
inquiries from newspapers and television networks as to other possible
subpoenas of internal media communications.
In connection with a criminal investigation ordered by Holder last
June of an alleged leak of classified information in an article
published the previous month by the AP, the Justice Department last
February obtained a subpoena for records of all calls from some 20
telephone lines over a two-month period prior to the appearance of the
article. The lines that were tracked included the national office of the
AP in Washington DC and news offices in Washington DC, New York and
Hartford, as well as the telephone used by AP reporters in the
congressional press gallery in the Capitol.
Also targeted were the home and cell phones of at least one editor
and at least five reporters who were involved in the story, an exposè of
a covert CIA operation in Yemen. The story was denounced at the time by
John Brennan, then President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, as
an “irresponsible and damaging leak of classified information.” Brennan
is currently the director of the CIA.
Holder last June also ordered a criminal probe of alleged national security breaches in connection with New York Times
articles on Obama’s drone assassination program and the White House
“kill list,” and on US collaboration with Israel in the production of
the Stuxnet computer virus, which was used to attack Iran’s nuclear
program.
In a letter Tuesday to Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole,
a media coalition headed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press said its members were “stunned” to learn of the Justice
Department’s actions. The press organization is comprised of more than
50 news organizations, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal .
The letter stated: “In the thirty years since the Department issued
guidelines governing its subpoena practice as it relates to phone
records from journalists, none of us can remember an instance where such
an overreaching dragnet for newsgathering materials was deployed by the
Department, particularly without notice to the affected reporters or an
opportunity to seek judicial review.”
The signatories added that the Justice Department “should announce
whether it has served any other pending news media-related subpoenas
that have not yet been disclosed.”
The revelations of illegal government spying on the press coincide
with a burgeoning scandal over the targeting by the Internal Revenue
Service of organizations at odds with the policies of the
administration. The IRS has admitted to improperly tagging for more
intrusive investigation organizations applying for tax-exempt status
that it believed were linked to the Tea Party and other Republican
groups.
In the midst of these scandals arising from the anti-democratic
methods and policies of the Obama administration, Attorney General
Holder testified for some four hours on Wednesday before the House
Judiciary Committee. What the hearing revealed, however, was not only
indifference among both Democrats and Republicans to the escalating
assault on democratic rights, but overwhelming support for the expansion
of police state measures that is being carried out in the name of the
“war on terror,” of which the attack on press freedom and prosecution of
whistle-blowers is a part.
In his opening statement to the committee, Holder began by hailing
the role of federal, state and local police and intelligence agencies in
the police-military lockdown of metropolitan Boston following the
bombings last month at the Boston Marathon. He made no mention of either
the IRS scandal or the dragnet of AP phone records. Holder had
previously announced that he had recused himself from the AP leak
investigation and played no role in the decision to subpoena the
information. He has referred all questions on the matter to his deputy,
James Cole.
However, Holder implicitly defended the actions of the Justice
Department with the preposterous assertion, “We’ve utilized essential
intelligence-gathering and surveillance capabilities in a manner that’s
consistent with the rule of law, and with our most treasured values.”
And while he refused to answer specific questions about the AP case, he
repeated previous assurances that Deputy Attorney General Cole and the
US attorney in Washington DC had followed all appropriate Justice
Department rules and regulations.
The tone for what was to follow was set in the opening statements of
the committee chairman, Republican Bob Goodlatte, and the ranking
Democrat, John Conyers. Both Goodlatte and Conyers praised the FBI and
the other law enforcement agencies for their de facto state of siege in
Boston.
In his questioning of Holder, Goodlatte cited the supposed failure of
the FBI, CIA and Department of Homeland Security to “connect the dots”
prior to the bombing and suggested that the rules for interrogators be
loosened. Holder replied by saying, “I think you’re right, Mr.
Chairman.” He offered to work with the Republican congressman toward
that end.
Goodlatte also criticized Holder and the Justice Department for not
delaying reading the bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his Miranda
rights longer than 48 hours. This line of attack on the right to remain
silent and the right to counsel was taken up by a number of other
Republicans on the committee.
The chairman questioned the extent of the seizure of AP phone records
and the failure of the Justice Department to give the news service
advance notice, but he did not pursue the matter when Holder dodged the
questions.
In his questioning, Conyers did not even mention the attack on the
Associated Press, setting the pattern for almost all of the other
Democrats on the committee. Only two Democrats, Zoe Lofgren of
California and Hakeem Jeffries of New York, directly criticized the
Justice Department’s dragnet of phone records, and both did so quickly
and perfunctorily.
Lofgren, for example, stated that the Justice Department’s actions
had “impaired the First Amendment,” but went on to suggest that this
“impairment” might be justified by the “criminal violation” under
investigation. When Holder said an “after-action analysis” of the AP
case might be appropriate, Lofgren thanked him and said, “That might be
good.”
Two Democrats, Hank Johnson of Georgia and Cedric Richmond of
Louisiana, openly supported the attack on press freedom. Defending the
seizure of the phone records, Johnson said, “The Espionage Act of 1917
would authorize prosecution of anyone who published classified
information.”
The Republicans for the most part avoided the AP issue, concentrating
instead on the IRS scandal and partisan attacks on Thomas Perez, the
current head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, who
has been nominated by Obama to become the new labor secretary.
11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling this the “biggest global threat to the internet since ACTA.”
TPP
by Patrick McGuire Motherboard May 16, 2013
Remember SOPA? Remember how when we the people finally defeated SOPA
everyone got so stoked that confetti poured out of their eyeballs and
its opponents downloaded films and albums and pirated video games in
celebration? Well, shortly after SOPA there was CISPA—the Cyber
Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—a bill that is both scarier than Zombies and much less well known than SOPA .
On April 18, three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, CISPA
passed in the House of Representatives. Obama’s White House has
expressed “fundamental concerns”
about CISPA. They are justifiably a bit turned off by how CISPA doesn’t
specify precisely how it intends to spy on the internet—and when it is
ok to spy on internet users—and that is a terrifying prospect.
As a Canadian, these American “f#$* up the internet” bills have
always been disconcerting. While Canadian sovereignty would ideally save
anyone who lives in this country and errs on the wrong side of a SOPA
or a CISPA—with so much internet traffic filtering through
American-owned web servers—it is not out of the question that American
jurisdiction could be called against an international cyber-offender.
The state of Virginia, for example, claimed jurisdiction against the Hong Kong-owned Megaupload who was hosting their website in that state.
But now it appears that it’s going to be even easier for
international copyright offenders to be tried in court by the
interests–and lobbying power–of Hollywood. Starting today, 11
countries—Canada, America, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Vietnam, Singapore,
Japan, Brunei, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand—are having a secret (no members of the public and no press) meeting in Lima, Peru
to figure out what can be done about copyright offenders who transmit
Hollywood’s precious content over the interweb’s tubes without paying
for it.
The meeting is held under the banner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) Agreement. They’re looking to sign an international treaty that
will create world government-esque laws to handle anyone who downloads
an early leak of Iron Man 3 illegally.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling this the “biggest
global threat to the internet since ACTA.” If you remember, ACTA (the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an international,
internet-policing treaty that was shut down by the European Parliament with a 92 percent nay vote. Luckily for Europeans, no EU country is anywhere near the TPP negotiations in Peru right now—and European politicians are now quick to distance themselves from the policies that ACTA is trying to ram down the world’s throat.
But in North America, the ACTA movement is still very much alive. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government passed a bill in March
that makes Canada more ACTA-friendly by allowing customs officers to
destroy counterfeit goods and ratcheting up the criminal penalties
against copyright offenders. And the United States has seized hip-hop blog domains without warning or trial, because they were alleged to host pirated material. A leaked chapter
outlining some preliminary discussion to re-examine intellectual
property has revealed that TPP wants to add further checks and balances
to restrict fair use. Those behind TPP want to make sure that if a
teacher is trying to show some copyrighted material in their class for
the purpose of education, or if a humorist using copyrighted material in
an article for the purpose of satire, they’re doing so under what TPP
calls a “good faith activity.”
The language in this leaked TPP chapter is incredibly dense and dates
back to February 2011—so not only is it a confusing bit of writing, but
it will also likely be revised over and over during this meeting in
Peru. As it stands, the EFF is worried that “the
United States is trying to export the worst parts of its intellectual
property law without bringing any of the [fair use] protections.”
And just like SOPA or CISPA, many people are concerned that the broad
language in new legal terms like “good faith activity” will potentially
lead to unjust prosecutions.
It may take a while before the results of this TPP meeting in Peru
filter out to the press, but it’s crystal clear that even though SOPA
died, the Hollywood lobby is more than willing to generate new
legislation and international partnerships to protect its interests.
SOPA, for a combination of reasons, incited the ire of the public. We
saw SOPA blackouts where websites like Reddit and Wikipedia went offline
for a day, celebrities spoke out against it on Twitter; there was a
bona fide cultural movement.
But now, the language behind international efforts like ACTA or TPP
is getting more and more obscure, the reporting on such efforts less and
less frequent, and the meetings being held to define these treaties are
being held behind closed doors. The wheels of government are moving
quickly to restrict international copyright online as much as
possible—with the lobby of Hollywood thrusting it forward—in order to
preserve the profits of content gatekeepers like the RIAA and MPAA.
It’s beginning to look like Kern County sheriff deputies not only confiscated phones from witnesses who recorded them beating a man to death last week. It appears they also deleted footage from one of the phones.
by Carlos Miller PINAC May 16
But rather than circle the wagons as we normally see in these
situations, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood has brought the FBI in
to investigate.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
BAKERSFIELD — The FBI launched an investigation Tuesday into the
death of a man who was beaten by authorities amid questions over whether
officials tampered with cellphone videos confiscated from witnesses.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said he asked the FBI to get
involved after learning that one of two phones seized from witnesses had
no footage on it.
Two witnesses told The Times that they watched the videos on each of
the phones last week in the wake of David Silva’s death. The case is
generating widespread attention because several witnesses have come
forward to say deputies ruthlessly beat Silva with batons on the head,
even after he was motionless on the ground.
“Our credibility is at stake here,” Youngblood said in an interview.
He did not dispute the witnesses’ accounts about the videos but said he
would not draw any conclusions until the investigations were complete.
The FBI will also be investigating whether the sergeant and six
deputies involved in the beating acted criminally in the beating death
of 33-year-old David Sal Silva, a father of four, whose crime, at worse,
may have been that he passed out drunk in front of somebody’s house
after being refused care at a hospital across the street.
Several witness accounts indicate the deputies not only beat a
non-resisting man to death, they tried their best to prevent citizens
from recording.
“They must have gotten rid of one of the videos,” said Melissa Quair,
31, who told of seeing deputies pummel and kick Silva after confronting
him across the street from Kern Medical Center in East Bakersfield.
Quair and several relatives and friends were at the hospital because a
family member had been in a car crash.
Quair said a phone video shot by her mother showed a deputy trying to
block her view of the beating. “She went around him and told him, ‘I’m
still recording,’ ” Quair said.
Laura Vasquez, 26, a friend of the Quair family, said she also
watched both videos — the other shot by a friend of Melissa Quair — and
they vividly depicted the violence she witnessed.
Echoing the account of two other people interviewed, Vasquez said the
first two deputies at the scene woke Silva, who was sleeping in front
of a house, and ordered him not to move. When Silva sat up, looking
confused or scared, a deputy hit him in the head, Vasquez said.
“He fell back and then the other officer got out and swung toward his
head,” she said. “Mr. Silva was reaching for his head and the officers
said ‘stop moving’ and ‘stop resisting.’ He wasn’t resisting. … He
rolled on his back and they kept hitting.”
More deputies and two California Highway Patrol officers arrived at
the location. Vasquez said the deputies hogtied Silva, lifted him off
the ground and dropped him twice, and delivered more baton blows and
kicks to his head and body until he went limp.
“He was screaming for help. He was laying on his chest. The cops were
still on top of him, still hitting him. My family and I screamed at
them to stop hitting him.… The blood was all over Mr. Silva’s face. We
couldn’t even tell if he had eyes or a mouth.”
Vasquez said her girlfriend yelled, ” ‘Somebody call the cops,’ and everybody looked at her and said, ‘They ARE the cops.’ “
The California case is beginning to take on shades of the Kelly
Thomas beating death in 2011, which occurred less than three hours south
in Fullerton.
The notable difference being that Sheriff Youngblood appears to be
striving for complete transparency in the investigation while Fullerton
Police Chief Michael Sellers did his best to cover up Kelly’s murder,
eventually being forced to resign.
Like in the Thomas case, a surveillance video camera captured part of
the beating, which you can see below although it is dark and grainy.
But unlike the Thomas case, it was a camera from a residential house, so the owner wasted no time
in giving the footage to Silva’s family members while in the Thomas
case, it took more than a year for the city surveillance video to go
public.
Despite the attempted coverup in the Thomas case, three Fullerton
police officers were indicted on manslaughter and murder charges and are
scheduled to go on trial this summer.
So it doesn’t look good for the six deputies and one sergeant
involved in this death, whose names Youngblood released last week and
have said to be receiving tons negative emails, including death threats.
At least two California Highway Patrol may have participated in the beating, but their names have not been released.
But it was the Kern County deputies who detained two witnesses,
confiscating one camera without a warrant and refusing to let the other
witness out of their sight until they obtained a warrant.
According to a prior Los Angeles Times story:
“I saw two sheriff’s deputies on top of this guy, just beating him,”
Ceballos said in an interview Monday. “He was screaming in pain … asking
for help. He was incapable of fighting back — he was outnumbered, on
the ground. They just beat him up.”
One woman frantically called 911, telling the operator: “The guy was
laying on the floor and eight sheriffs ran up and started beating him up
with sticks. The man is dead laying right here, right now. I got it all
on video camera and I’m sending it to the news. These cops have no
reason to do this to this man.”
In an unusual move, sheriff’s officials later detained for several
hours two witnesses who had videotaped the incident on their phones.
They were released only after they surrendered their phones to deputies.
“It makes it look like a coverup,” said David Cohn, a lawyer for
Silva’s children and parents, adding that he has not been able to see
the footage. “What we’re all concerned about is, ‘Are these videos going
to be altered? Are they going to be deleted?’ “
Obviously, the answer appears to be yes, the video was deleted. Now
the question is, will criminal charges be filed against the deputies who
deleted the footage?
It wasn’t too long ago that the thought of this would be
inconceivable, which was why so many cops in this country act as if they
could get away with it, including the Miami-Dade and Miami Beach cops
in my last two arrests. Never mind the fact that it did them no good
considering I was able to recover the footage both times as I explained
in this recent Blaze article.
But earlier this month, a Nebraska prosecutor filed felony evidence tampering
charges against two cops who stole a citizen’s memory card and threw it
away to prevent evidence of police abuse from leaking out.
And if it can happen in a state like Nebraska, never known for its precedence, then it could surely happen in California. UPDATE: Here is a pretty candid press conference with Sheriff Donny Youngblood.
In a frontal assault against the Bill of Rights, the District of
Columbia is moving to force firearms owners to purchase prohibitively
expensive liability insurance.
California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and
Pennsylvania have also proposed forcing gun owners to buy liability
insurance.
Democrat City Council member Mary Cheh proposed the law. It requires
residents purchase at least $250,000 in insurance coverage before city
government would consider applications to register a firearm.
If passed, the law will be the first in the country and serve as a
precedent for Democrats and gun-grabbers working to dismantle the Second
Amendment.
No such insurance policy currently exists, according to the Washington Times.
“We oppose proposals that would mandate gun liability insurance as
property-casualty insurance does not and cannot cover intentional
criminal behavior,” said Willem O. Rijksen, vice president of public
affairs for the American Insurance Association.
Not purchasing insurance or allowing a policy to lapse would result
in a loss of Second Amendment rights in the District. The legislation
would be retroactive and current gun owners would be mandated to
purchase insurance within 30 days.
“Conjuring new gun control schemes and further taxing law-abiding
residents exercising a constitutional right will not result in a
reduction of violent crime in the District. Ensuring that criminals are
arrested, prosecuted and punished will,” Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman
for the NRA, told the newspaper. “Regrettably, D.C. leaders are focused
more on pushing their political and social agendas than on working to
keep their residents safe.”
Breaking: IRS Commissioner Resigns Amid Mass Outrage
In a victory against corruption, IRS commissioner Steve Miller has resigned by the request of the treasury secretary after it was found that the agency specifically targeted groups that taught the Constitution or were considered ‘patriots’.
Steve Miller
by Anthony Gucciardi Story Leak May 16, 2013
According to the latest Associated Press feed report,
the confirmation comes from Obama just minutes ago today. While this is
certainly the beginning of the massive resignations that should (and
will likely) come from the massive exposure on the IRS corruption that
has been covered by
major news outlets for the past few days, it is important to remember
that the real action here needs to go beyond a few layoffs and more
towards criminal charges. At the same time, it is a victory when it
comes to the spread of information and the overall impact that
syndicated awareness has on the flow of the nation.
Even so-called ‘left’ wing groups were outraged at the fact that the
IRS had openly declared financial warfare on all groups considered to be
‘conservative’ in nature, and the admission by the agency here shows
that we are facing corruption seated at the deepest levels of United
States government wings. Corruption that can be rooted out if enough
outcry is presented through all channels of media and social networking —
usually staring with the alternative news media and working its way ‘up
the ladder’ in popularity until the mainstream is forced to cover it.
And it’s important to remember, the scandal that has now led to the IRS Commissioner’s resignation was labeled a ‘conspiracy theory’ back in 2012. A label we know is used to dismiss real issues by the media.
It was actually back in June of 2011 that IRS official Lois G. Lerner said that
they were not engaged in any type of attacks on conservative-based
groups, denying that those speaking out against their unfair treatment
had any credibility whatsoever. This, of course, was a complete
lie. And one that the news agencies picked up on as the ‘official word’
— something that we have come to know as more than likely bogus these
days.
Expect more resignations very soon, but don’t stop calling for
justice through criminal trials and the ultimate uproot of all corrupt
individuals inside the IRS. After all, the last thing we need is to be
taxed into oblivion even more than usual thanks to slimy IRS agents with
a vendetta against reality.
In the latest scandal to hit the IRS and the Obama administration, news
has come out that the IRS has stolen over 60 million medical records
from over 10 million Americans, including ALL California state judges. A
class action lawsuit has now been launched against this illegal and
intrusive agency. Knowing what we know now, do we REALLY want these IRS
criminals and thugs to enforce un-Constitutional Obamacare? An
informative video report below examines what may be in store for us if
they do. First from Healthcare IT News.:
The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over
allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of
some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California
state judges.
According to a report by
Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is
suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10
million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health
information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling,
gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical
treatment data.
”This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by
several Internal Revenue Service agents,” the complaint reads. “No
search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena
authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000
Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation
and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search.
IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and
the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives
each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records,” it continued.
Video report on IRS and Obamacare below.
This is just the latest scandal involving the IRS and might very well
be a taste of things to come as the Obama administration has stated
that the IRS will be in charge of enforcing Obamacare. Will the IRS
bring on the much feared ‘mark of the beast’?
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of
27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working
on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke
Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the
Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired
Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of
recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious
distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why? “Because
she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an
unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution,
the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of
confidentiality.”
Read More EO History: Hillary Clinton fired for lies, unethical behavior What difference does it make?
By Doc Vega A lot has been said and written, but this promises to break the case wide open!
Ambassador
Stevens carried through the streets of Benghazi for 5 hours while US
media alleged he was being helped to the hospital? More Obama White
House lies!
There have been many theories and accusations about the Benghazi
fiasco that not only cost Ambassador J. Christian Stevens his life, but
the lives of his staff and one Navy Seal body-guard as well. This action
which led to a complete conflagration of terrorist attacks against US
diplomatic buildings throughout the Middle East and North Africa still
remains largely uninvestigated by the government, unprosecuted by AG
Eric Holder’s Depart of Justice, and refuses to bring the guilty parties
to justice while many know the truth and are not coming forward. Even
though President Obama is implicated in this oversees tragedy still the
truth has not emerged.
That has all changed. Finally, an authoritative figure with the
proper credentials has stepped up to the plate to tell the true story of
what did happen without the lies and cover-ups that have so far kept
those guilty of murder from standing trial. The admission on the part of
this man will likely blow the Benghazi scandal wide open and lead to
arrests if we can get our legal system to act as it should. That,
however, is a big if.
Related: Read Letter: Special Ops Vets Demand Benghazi Congressional Investigation The story as it truly unfolded
According to a report from the Washington Times, retired 4 Star Admiral James Lyons
reveals the entire plot that led to the deaths of Americans in Libya
that could have been prevented, who gave the orders, and why events took
place as they tragically did. Admiral James Lyons is probably the
highest ranking figure ever to intervene in a federal government
criminal case, and testify. Thanks to this man’s dedication to his
country and the truth, we will finally know the truth and who was
responsible.
In his words Lyons says that the attack on Benghazi
was a bungled kidnapping attempt to be perpetrated upon Ambassador
Stevens. This was to appear to be a hostage exchange for a terrorist
prisoner who was to be released in trade for a supposedly captured US
ambassador. The trade would have been for Omar Abdel Rahman an
international prisoner, known as the Blind Sheikh.
This apparent abduction by terrorists of our ambassador and then
negotiated trade for the Blind Sheikh would have been the “October
Surprise” that would have elevated President Obama’s flagging popularity
and boosted his approval ratings for a re-election. A dramatic prisoner
exchange that saved our ambassador’s life However, something went
horribly wrong. A cunning and illegal bit of treachery by the Obama
White House turned into something entirely different. Obama’s October
surprise turned into a carnage orchestrated by the White House itself as
the President, Leon Panetta, and CIA Director, David Petraeus watched
via a UAV real-time feed as a 7 hour attack on the Benghazi Embassy
raged. Reportedly, stand down orders were given several times to
different units within striking distance. A plot of pure deception
With what should have been only a staged kidnapping of Ambassador J.
Christian Stevens, instead, Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty
refused a stand down order and began doing their job of protecting the
ambassador using force. Immediately the well-trained Seals began
inflicting heavy casualties upon the terrorists who thought they were
merely in a cake walk to abduct Ambassador Stevens without mishap. As a
result of the plan going awry, a massive attack arose from the anger of
the terrorists who felt they had been betrayed by President Obama. In
the aftermath of the battle which saw Navy Seal Glen Doherty was killed
after the embassy had been overrun along with the ambassador’s staff.
Ambassador Steven’s whose body showed up 5 hours later at a Benghazi
hospital supposedly overcome by smoke as the initial press reports
indicated was, in fact, raped, tortured, and dragged around Benghazi in
retaliation for the botched Obama White House plan. Obama hands over Libya to Al Qaeda
Was this just a freak occurrence that belies the true nature of
dealings in Libya with American diplomatic efforts, just one glitch in
normal standard operating procedure? No, according to former Admiral Lyons
and many others such as Glen Beck, who have all uncovered evidence that
lead to much more sinister deeds being undertaken. Evidence of a
working relationship between the US and its alleged terrorist enemies
had already delivered Libya to the Al Qaeda terrorist organization
through infiltration of the government, media, and general society prior
to the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi that toppled the dictator last
year. That the US has worked with Al Qaeda awarding them security
contracts for all US embassies and consulates as well as border
protection has instead allowed Libya to become a haven for numerous
terrorist operators who have automatic access to Libya’s territory to
carry out their training. All this with the support and blessing of the
Obama administration. This is not only unthinkable, but beyond excuse or
rationalization. There should already be indictments for many in the
state department, in the DOJ, all the way up to the oval office, yet, so
far nothing has been done. Treason plain and simple
It goes even farther than that. Evidence indicates that Ambassador
Stevens was being used as an arms dealer to supply Jihadists in the
region to support yet another uprising in Syria. Just prior to the
murder of our ambassador, he was trying to locate guns that had been
walked across Libya’s border to other countries just as the ATF had done
in operation Fast and Furious on the border of Mexico. These are not
the actions of inexperience or bad intelligence. They are the actions of
traitorous intention. President Obama will, no doubt, be linked to
these deaths and operations if Congress will only act, and do its duty
in prosecuting a treasonous president who is endangering national
security.
There is no where else for a Congressional investigation to turn
other than naming the conspirators, determining when officials knew, and
assembling the evidence that murder was committed on behalf of the
White House to silence those who knew and could testify. Through out the
Obama presidency over the last four years the administration has master
minded operations that have caused numerous controversies and crises. When will the GOP take action?
The Republicans have missed opportunities to discredit the President,
to impeach Obama in the wake of waging war against Libya without
Congressional approval, and allowed executive privilege to quash
subpoenaed demands for evidence on Fast and Furious never released by AG
Eric Holder. John Boehner, Speaker of the House, has refused to
exercise initiative whenever the GOP could have used much-needed
momentum to stem the tide against the incessant assaults against state’s
rights, constitutional rights, and the traditional institutions of
America. Will the recent damning evidence now uncovered over the
Benghazi fiasco thanks to Admiral James Lyons be implemented to convict
the President of potential high treason, or will we see yet another case
of criminal acts ignored and hidden at the expense of the American
people? If you bother to take interest and act as a responsible citizens
contact your congressman and demand action!
Men who are physically strong are
more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are
inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study. Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength. Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.
Men who are physically strong - like Arnold Schwarzenegger - are more likely to take a right wing political stance
The principal investigators -
psychological scientists Michael Bang Petersen, of Aarhus University in
Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of California in the
U.S., believe that the link may reflect psychological traits that
evolved in response to our early ancestral environments and continue to
influence behaviour today. Professor
Petersen said: ‘While many think of politics as a modern phenomenon, it
has - in a sense - always been with our species.’ In
the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of
resources were not made in courthouses or legislative offices, but
through shows of strength.
With this in mind, Professor
Petersen and Professor Sznycer hypothesised that upper-body strength - a
proxy for the ability to physically defend or acquire resources - would
predict men's opinions about the redistribution of wealth. The
researchers collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status, and
support for economic redistribution from hundreds of people in the
United States, Argentina and Denmark. In
line with their hypotheses, the data revealed that wealthy men with
high upper-body strength were less likely to support redistribution,
while less wealthy men of the same strength were more likely to support
it.
Men with less upper body strength are more likely to support the welfare state - like Labour leader Ed Miliband
Professor Petersen said: ‘Despite the
fact that the United States, Denmark and Argentina have very different
welfare systems, we still see that - at the psychological level -
individuals reason about welfare redistribution in the same way. ‘In all three countries, physically strong males consistently pursue the self-interested position on redistribution.’ Men with low upper-body strength, on the other hand, were less likely to support their own self-interest. Wealthy men of this group showed less resistance to redistribution, while poor men showed less support. Professor
Petersen said: ‘Our results demonstrate that physically weak males are
more reluctant than physically strong males to assert their
self-interest - just as if disputes over national policies were a matter
of direct physical confrontation among small numbers of individuals,
rather than abstract electoral dynamics among millions.’ However, the researchers found no link between upper-body strength and redistribution opinions among women. Professor
Petersen argued that this is likely due to the fact that, over the
course of evolutionary history, women had less to gain, and also more to
lose, from engaging in direct physical aggression. He
said, together, the results indicate that an evolutionary perspective
may help to illuminate political motivations, at least those of men. Professor
Petersen added: ‘Many previous studies have shown that people's
political views cannot be predicted by standard economic models. ‘This
is among the first studies to show that political views may be rational
in another sense, in that they're designed by natural selection to
function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history.’ The findings were published in the journal Psychological Science.
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