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Many of
the freedoms we enjoy here in
the U.S. are quickly eroding as
the nation transforms from the land
of the free into the land of the
enslaved, but what I’m about to
share with you takes the assault on our
freedoms to a whole new level!
Would
President Obama’s Environmental
Protection Agency really
force Americans to pay a
tax on
“rainwater runoff” from homes and small
businesses?
You bet
they would. In fact, the EPA, under
radical environmentalist Lisa
Jackson, is proposing regulations to
do just that.
Take a
look at the EPA’s own Federal
Register filing, where the EPA
generally describes the initiative it’s
proposing:
…requirements,
including design or performance
standards, for stormwater discharges
from, at minimum, newly developed and
redeveloped sites. EPA intends to
propose regulatory options that would
revise the NPDES regulations and
establish a comprehensive program to
address stormwater discharges from
newly developed and redeveloped sites
and to take final action no later than
November 2012. (Source)
This is
bureaucratic-speak for having the EPA
force cities and counties to limit storm
water runoff to levels the EPA deems
acceptable. Limiting “rainwater
runoff” will mean forcing homeowners and
businesses to pay new
taxes in
order to rein in rainwater, and that’s no
pun intended .....
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“For the
first time in all of human history mankind
is politically awakened – that’s a total
new reality – it has not been so for most
of human history.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski,
May 2010
The
duties of citizenship in the United
States of America began during colonial
times as an active civic participation in
local government marked by frequent
public debate on matters of issue and
broad participation in democracy. A
variety of factors and forces changed
this relationship over the nation’s
history.
Today,
citizenship is essentially a legal status
signifying a right to live and work in
the nation as well as enjoy certain
rights and privileges defined by
law.
In our
modern society many still practice the
spirit of civic participation via the
internet through blogs, alternative news
sites and forums.
Recently
however a growing number of strange,
seemingly unreal reports have been
popping up across the internet concerning
your
right to
free speech on the internet.
Think I’m kidding?
The news
that the government pressured Burst.net
to take down 73,000 websites still hasn’t
made much of a mark in the mainstream
media.
Although
early reports stating the target of the
government action may have been piracy or
file sharing, it is now clear tht the
agency behind the takedown of
Blogetery.com was not the office of the
Intellectual Property Czar and that the
Digital Millenium Copyright Law may not
have been involved. The new story is that
the target was an online magazine called
Inspire which has connections to Al-Qaeda
and was .....
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As reported
before in a previous newsletter the
Documentary "End of
Liberty" is being censored in the
US.
What are
they afraid of?
Truth
that's what.
The truth
that America is slipping ever faster into
a fascist well armed state piece by piece
from the land of the free into the land
of the enslaved.
Be rest
assured that we are working on another
solution to get this eye opening
obviously feared documentary into the
hands of all that are interested in
seeing what big brother wants to
hide.
If you
are one of the censored and want to see
or download this documentary you can get
it
here.
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Americans like me were born in freedom so
we have a hard time even considering that
it is possible for us to become as unfree –
domestically – as many other nations.
Because we no longer learn much about our
rights or our system of government – the
task of being aware of the constitution has
been outsourced from citizens’ ownership to
being the domain of professionals such as
lawyers and professors – we scarcely
recognize the checks and balances that the
founders put in place, even as they are
being systematically dismantled.
Also, as we don’t learn much about
European history, the setting up of a
department of “homeland” security –
remember who else was keen on the word
“homeland” – didn’t raise the alarm bells
it might have.
Naomi
Wolf wrote these when Bush was in office
in her book titled
The End of
America: Letter of Warning to a Young
Patriot
10 Steps
that Close an Open Society Checklist
(most of which have already been
accomplished in the soon to be
Amerika)
-
Invoke an internal
and external threat – People who are
afraid are willing to do things that
they wouldn’t otherwise
do.
-
Establish secret
(unaccountable) prisons where torture
takes place – In a secret system, the
government does not have to provide any
proof of wrongdoing by those it holds,
so it can incarcerate anyone it
wants.
-
Develop
a paramilitary force – A private
military force — under the exclusive
direction of the “commander in chief”
with no accountability to Congress, the
courts, or the public — blurs the line
between a civilian police force and a
militarized police state.
-
Surveillance on
ordinary citizens – People who believe
they are being watched are less likely
to voice opposition. To scare a
population into silence, the government
need only monitor the activities of a
few to make everyone fear that they are
being surveilled. Every closed society
keeps a “list” of so-called opponents
it tracks.
-
Infiltrate
citizen’s groups – Spies in activist
groups put psychological pressure on
genuine activists by undermining their
trust in one another. They may also
disrupt legal activities, undermining
the effectiveness of group
efforts.
-
Detain
and release ordinary citizens –
Detention intimidates or
psychologically damages those arrested
and also lets everyone know that anyone
could be labeled an “enemy combatant”
and “disappeared.”
-
Target
key individuals – People are less
likely to speak out when those who are
highly visible, like journalists,
scholars, artists, or celebrities, are
intimidated or have the livelihoods
threatened. Targeting those who are
especially visible makes it less likely
that people will speak out and robs
society of leaders and others who might
inspire opposition.
-
Restrict the press
– The public is less likely to fi nd
out about government wrongdoing if the
government can threaten to prosecute
anyone who publishes or broadcasts
reports that are critical of the
government.
-
Recast
criticism as espionage and dissent as
treason – People who protest can be
charged with terrorism or treason when
laws criminalize or limit free speech
rather than protect it.
-
Subvert
the rule of law – The disappearance of
checks and balances makes it easier to
declare martial law, especially if the
judiciary branch continues to exercise
authority over individuals but has no
authority over the Executive
branch.
If we
(the community) can work together
responsibly then there is a bright future
in news as a service. Most certainly
vital news, education and information
should never be used as a sales tool that
does not include the entire community and
violates a right to that information in a
easily accessible manner.
If we
do not act now and exercise our right to
free speech, then it will be taken away.
Either by the Government to quell a
rising anger within the population
against issues many feel are spiraling
out of control, or by the desperate main
stream news organizations whom are
finding advertising profits fall and
readership in so called “old media”
channels decline.
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