Posse Comitatus Act getting eaten alive by the powers that be
I talked to a good longtime friend, smallGod on the phone tonight. I talked about how I have a very powerless feeling with what’s going on with the Wall Street bailout tonight. I told him “I think this ‘immediate crisis’ with the ‘congress better authorize giving a trillion dollars to the guys who fucked it up, by Friday (tomorrow) or the sky will fall’ deadline seems made up, to serve some purpose of swaying the election, or Bush just getting a last unbelievable favor for his buddies when he’s no longer worried about getting reelected.”
My friend totally agreed. Then we got into a discussion of other rights being eroded, and he told me about NORTHCOM which is a plan to deploy US soldiers as police in the US, which is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits such powers.
My friend sent me this NORTHCOM article, from an official Army publication:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
I told him “Yup. You should get and read this book, The Redneck Manifesto.
http://www.stinkfight.com/2008/01/09/jim-goads-redneck-manifesto
“Goad has very interesting things to say, and says them very well. One of his chapters is about tax-protest militia groups. They’re painted by the media as “insane.” But goad asks ‘why?’
“When the gov is about to give a trillion dollars of our money to Wall Street to reward them for fucking up by being too greedy to even be good Wall Streeters, being upset about paying taxes doesn’t sound so crazy, does it?
“I believe there are tax-protest militia groups who believe that Posse Comitatus Act, means that citizens of the US don’t have to recognize any police official higher than the county sheriff (which may work well, some of them are probably related to the county sheriff. lol….) That anything higher than the county sheriff (state police, federal police, FBI, CIA, ATF, etc.) is tyranny as defined by use in the US Constitution. This is a very libertarian (with a small ‘L’) idea for sure. Not sure I buy it, but it seems kinda funky-fresh hip ‘n’ happenin’ to me sometimes.
“That thing I said to you about conspiracy stuff, about how the hidden truth is mixed in with absolute insanity, and it’s easy to get sucked into a painful wormhole, both on the Internet and in your mind and soul…..nowhere is that more true than in 2ed amendment (gun rights) writings and speech. There is some of the most right-on stuff that actually makes me feel patriotic (in the way it should be, not in the knee-jerk way it is with many Americans who believe everything they’re told), and those good parts are always one or two clicks away from the most foul, toxic, nutty, destructive, racist stuff I’ve ever read.
“I was fairly amazed that someone is as political as you doesn’t know the Amendments by name. It’s important to know what’s in the Constitution, so you know when it’s being eroded. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS> here’s an audio study aid me and the wife produced:
www.debrajeandean.com
“Anyway, me and Debra Jean are enjoying our guns. A few pix are attached. The shotgun, a Remington 870, is in the two front seats in most cop cars in California. It’s the most powerful weapon a US citizen can enjoy. It feels nice to be as well armed as the cops. And I’m as responsible as any cop, even the really responsible ones.
“We have a lot of fun with all three guns at the range, and keep them handy for home defense. (Against the possibility of murderous home invasions, which are becoming more common in Southern California, especially as the economy gets worse and the media screams “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!” about everything….it has a ripple effect on everyone.)
“I haven’t given much thought to opposing tyranny with my guns (the original intent of the 2ed amendment), and if I did, I doubt I’d type it in an e-mail. lol……)
“Was nice chattin’ with ya tonight.”
MWD
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My friend also sent me this video of a guy ranting about the government:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d060fWLuVio&eurl=http://wearechange.org/
I replied:
“It’s pretty much mostly true, but I sure hate being yelled at. He’s yelling. (and that creepy mask doesn’t help.)
“Not that he’s a socialist, but one of the problems I have with most socialists and radical leftists (and radical feminists, and most “-ISTs” in general) I’ve met is that many of them have shrill voices, and I can’t stand shrill voices.
“Sarah Palin also has a shrill voice. And I think she would lead that way too. (She sounds like my third-grade teacher talking down to me like I’ve done something wrong. It’s very icky to me.)
“What was the ’surprise at the end of the video’ he promised? The way he was ranting and pissed off, I thought he was gonna blow his brains out (which I would have no desire to see.) I didn’t see any surprise at all. He just kinda stopped. (Maybe to take a throat lozenge?)”
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By the way, our founding fathers weren’t too hot on ideas like the Federal Reserve:
Thomas Jefferson said, “If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
The Federal Reserve, contrary to popular beliefe, is not part of the US Government. It is a private institution that prints money and then rents it to the US, with interest. The Federal Reserve was hastily created under politicians threat of an imaginary deadline to deal with the Panic of 1907. This deadline was pushed by government for their friends J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. the “Wall Street” honchos of their day. (Think “Mr. Burns” from the Simpsons. He’s a cross between Rockefeller and a praying mantis.
Sweet dreams, kitties. Hope tomorrow brings good news, not that any of us have any say in it…..
September 26th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Whoever wins the election, his actual job won’t be President. It’ll be captain of the motherfucking Titanic, steaming full speed ahead towards the icebergs, any one of which could severely damage the boat if not sink it completely.
The things you’re witnessing are a direct result of an ever-more fascist-leaning government. I’m not so sure the Dems, if they get power, will be less inclined to institute some extreme measures. Humans like power, including Democrat humans.
BTW, the other reason this shit happens is at least in part due to the complete unwillingness of average Americans to hit the motherfucking streets, and hit them OFTEN. No news media can ignore millions of people in the streets, shouting (or saying it in a reasonable tone of voice, if you prefer) in essence: We will NOT put up with this shit and you WILL put an end to it or you won’t have a job come next election. That gets their attention.
I don’t hold any place up as a utopia. But I have reason to go to Europe twice a year and the difference between it and the US is like night and day. There’s a lot America and Americans can learn from Europe. You can’t ignore the differences when you compare America with Europe as opposed to, say, comparing it with Mexico or other third-world places.
It’s time for Americans to stop saying: Our situation / living conditions are better than [insert name of shithole country here] and START saying: How come we don’t have it as good as [insert name of almost any other Western nation here]?
September 26th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I think the answer to all this lies in quantum physics.
Something I have been thinking about - Quantum Entanglement.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
>I’m not so sure the Dems, if they get power, will be less inclined to institute some extreme measures.
Yup. I’m in a real quandary this election, because I feel that, more than any election in my life, voting will be voting for the lesser of two evils. I CANNOT vote for McCain, but I can’t stomach voting for Obama. Hell, I’d actually love to vote for a black guy, think it would be a kick, but not one who wants to take my guns away.
I watch a lot of C-SPAN. I was pretty happy to see the Republicans actually acting like Republicans and fighting harder than the Dems against the blank check for Wall Street. The Democrats are giving pretty speeches against it (I liked seeing Congressman Brad Sherman, from So Cal, saying early this morning, “The establishment is demanding a trillion dollars in unmarked bills….”) but the Dems seem pretty much ready to sign regardless of their feelings.
>the other reason this shit happens is at least in part due to the complete unwillingness of average Americans to hit the motherfucking streets, and hit them OFTEN.
I’d take it further. I think it’s the unwillingness of average Americans to even know what’s going on. Everyone knows who’s on American Idol, but how many Americans even know who their congressman is??????
There was a rare Dead Kennedy’s song years ago called, “Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ‘Round.” It was the instrumental track for “Holiday in Cambodia”, without the singing, with Jello talking over it, doing voices, pretending as a phone call between Reagen and Thatcher. It had Reagen talking Thatcher into going to war with anyone they can, to help the economies of both countries. Thatcher is getting turned on by it, and sounds like she’s having an orgasm.
In the song “Reagen” says “We’ve got our college kids so interested in beer, we can put a nuclear stockpile in their backyard and they won’t even know what it is.”
THAT is the problem with America. (If you add a few items after beer, like “Reality TV, flat-screen TVs, SUVs, iPods, MySpace, shitty bloodless fake alt-rock bands”, etc, then terrorize America about terrorism and gay marriage through manipulating the media.)
And in the old days, going to war, if nothing else, DID help the economy. The New Bush Order has even changed that rule.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Well when choosing the lesser of two evils,
maybe you’d consider your personal bottom line in dollars and cents:
I would, if I had to pay.
http://www.electiontaxes.com/
September 27th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
This whole thing about deploying troops within the borders of the country is, I believe, a response to the fact that the powers-that-be are scared shitless, and they know that the levee’s about to break any minute now.
Sometimes I think I’d like to get the hell out of this country before it does.