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'Stewart Rhodes, founder and Director of Oath Keepers, discusses his organization’s focus on educating
those in the military and law enforcement on their oath to defend the Constitution, the ten orders that oath keepers must
not obey, preventing “tripwire” domestic events that may lead to insurrection or revolution and how executors
of the law can use selective enforcement to keep both their oaths and their jobs.'
'Yemen, who would have thought of Yemen as the new front? Somalia for sure, maybe Mauretania,
Mali, or Chad. And it all happened because of a Christmas surprise on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Good thing
a couple of guys in Sana’a were able to fit a confused Nigerian with an underwear bomb that failed to go off otherwise
we Americans would not have been alerted to the Yemeni threat. Why, by some reports there are as many as two or three
hundred al-Qaeda supporters in the country. Time to land a couple of Marine divisions, if we had them to spare.'
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'Since thousands of passengers have items confiscated from them every day at airports, the new TSA fines
should help to pay the salaries of TSA's "professional screeners" – which are triple the amount paid to private
screeners in the days before the TSA. In addition, to the TSA legal confiscations and fines, dozens of TSA agents have been
charged with stealing cash from passengers wallets, and laptop computers, cameras, jewelry and other expensive property from
their baggage. Over 7,000 complaints are currently pending against the TSA. Many complainants will wait years before they
receive a response.'
'The event is designed to honor not only their military accomplishments, but also their personal lives,
faith and character. Visitors are encouraged to walk the streets and explore the town upon which both men left their permanent
mark and legacy.'
Is Rand Paul the leader of the Tea Party movement?
'While names such as Sarah Palin and Gary Johnson are thrown around as the potential leaders of the
Tea Party movement, it is Rand Paul that is on the ground raising real dollars that look as though they will soon translate
into real votes.'
Protests in Florida and South Carolina; student attacked over Confederate flag; protesting the Feds in a
small Yankee-infested police state town; and the secession movement in Vermont. Check it out!
'The United States is rather rapidly sliding into a fascist-type state (you can use the “corporatism”
euphemism if the truth is too difficult to swallow). The government and their corporate oligarchy are stealing from the people
and no longer care if the people have any cake to eat. The process was gradual at first, then accelerated during George Bush
Jr’s tenure. Socialism does not describe what has been happening to the United States at all over the past decade. The
military industrial complex, Homeland Security, war against a military tactic (i.e. the “War on Terror”), and
unusually aggressive unprovoked invasions into tiny third world countries with no real military are the hallmarks of a more
aggressive form of developing collectivism than socialism.'
The Constitution Party and Patricia Lewis for Governor - will be attending the rally! If anyone has contact
info for the Tea Party and SC Abate Clube, please contact them and invite them to the party. The 'Smokers' band will
play at the State House Rally. See you at the Statehouse!
'A group in Vermont has formed the Vermont Independence Day Party, which believes that Vermont should
secede from the United States. It plans to place nominees on the 2010 ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 7 State
Senate seats.'
'Peter Garritano thinks it's time for Vermont to call it quits with America. The way the 54-year-old
automobile salesman sees it, the "empire" is about to implode and tiny Vermont can lead the way by becoming its
own independent republic. So he's running for lieutenant governor, topping a slate of secession-minded candidates seeking
statewide offices this year.'
Monthly Confederate flag rally coming up in Orange Park, FL
'We are having our monthly flag wave this Saturday. We are meeting at 7664 Normandy Blvd. (the
old Publix). We are meeting at 4 pm and departing at 4:30 and heading to BJ's. We are going to the BJ's in Orange Park at
560 Blanding Blvd. We should be there around 5pm. Any questions or directions please call Dawn at 294-0932 or Bobby at 294-4118.'
Today I applied for a permit to hold a demonstration in Aiken, SC against the Feds the last
Saturday in Feb. The police chief will review the application and get back with me, I was told. Remember, Aiken is a police
state with no freedom, no fun and way too many Yankees. So it's very possible they will deny my application. After all, we
can't have freedom of speech in the so-called 'land of the free', can we? It's just amazing to me that in a so-called
'free country' we have to put in applications in order to hold demonstrations and these applications can be turned down by
the police.
'I don’t think Avatar is an attack on capitalism. One could leave the movie and have
no idea, based on just the movie, about James Cameron’s view of capitalism. And while it did have some clichés
(most movies do), I didn’t find it loaded. So what is Avatar? In fact, Avatar is a powerful antiwar movie – and
a defense of property rights. For that reason, I found it easy to identify with those whose way of life was being destroyed
by military might.'
I must say that I haven't seen Avatar yet (in fact, I rarely go to the movies)
but based on this review and others I am interested and might give it a try.
'A confederation is an association of sovereign member states, that by treaty have delegated certain
of their competences to common institutions, in order to coordinate their policies in a number of areas, without however constituting
a new state on top of the member states. Under international law, a confederation respects the sovereignty of its members
and its constituting treaty can only be changed by unanimous agreement.'
Notice that the primary difference,
at least according to this Wiki article, between a federation and confederation is that membership in a confederation is voluntary.
This gives a moral edge to confederations over involuntary federations, does it not?
Long-shot GOP candidate stirs up the Texas Tea Party crowd
'She lacks campaign money, is not well known and would have to win the March primary against the two
biggest GOP names in Texas – incumbent Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But Medina has a message that resonates
among the party's Ron Paul faction at a moment when anti-Washingtonism is in full bloom. About 200 followers leaped up and
cheered when she extolled them: "It's the revolution of 2009 and 2010. And you are the revolutionaries! You are the patriots!"'
'Ron, an OB-GYN, has been a pro-life activist since medical school. He has counseled many young
women out of abortions, and delivered their babies for free. He even wrote a book against abortion.'
Southern Sudanese fear Lincoln-style invasion if they secede
'Southern Sudanese living in the north fear intimidation or even war if a referendum next year results
in secession from the rest of the country and many are calling for international monitoring to protect their rights. After
a civil war which has raged on and off since 1955, southern Sudanese on January 9, 2011 will vote on whether to remain one
country or change the map of Africa by becoming independent from the north.'
Why should any people anywhere
be forced to remain in a union they don't wish to be part of? Why must secessionists continually face threats of invasion
if they exercise their natural right to be free and self-governing? This is a moral issue that we decentralists must push
more strongly.
'[Left libertarians] typically look favorably upon Lincoln and the Union government because the Union
victory over the secessionist Confederacy resulted in the abolition of slavery, but fail to recognize that this way of achieving
the libertarian goal of abolishing slavery must lead to a drastic increase in the power of the central (federal) government
, and that the Union victory in the Southern War of Independence indeed marks one of the great leaps forward in the growth
of the modern federal Leviathan and hence represents a profoundly antilibertarian episode in American history.'
