Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Agenda Driven Policies of Leftist Intolerance --Part IV- The Oxymoronism of Leftism




" Are they oblivious to this quality. An Equality. Of life unique to every city street."
    Rush. The Camera Eye, Moving Pictures Album. 1981

".. A kid I was when I first left home. Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own. But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet and the truth was known. I have prayed for America. I was made for America. I can't let go till she comes around. Till the Land of the Free. Is awake and can see. Until Her Conscience has been found."
Jackson Browne. For America, Lives In The Balance Album. 1986

        The Oxymoronism of Leftism is prevalent in our everyday lives. The average American breaks three Felony laws a day and does not even realize it. Our government proclaims one thing on Monday, retracts it on Wednesday then blames someone on Friday. This is Federal all the way down to local. Comedian Lewis Black once proclaimed in his HBO Stand Up: "..nobody knows what the fuck they are doing anymore.."
    He is not wrong.

    From Wikipedia: An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.[1][2] A general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the 1902 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.[3]

Here is a short history of the oxymorons our elected leaders have stood on. voted for and campaigned.

‎We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • ‎We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it... - Nancy Pelosi on health care
  • A person who doesn't vote votes for the winner!
  • A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. - Winston Churchill
  • A unified, neutral Germany? Given that nation's heritage, such a phrase may prove to be the oxymoron of the decade. - Kevin M. Matarese, Fulda, West Germany; as seen in 'Letters', Time magazine, March 5, 1990, page 5
  • A‎t least, we fought the good fight. - From a losing politician speech
  • An abstention is a vote for the winner!
  • As famous as the unknown soldier.
  • Deterministic Chaos Theory
  • Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting. - Samuel Goldwyn
  • I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
  • It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
  • Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
  • The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill
  • The only new thing in this world, is the history you did not know. - Harry Truman
  • The soldiers manning the missile launcher will be unarmed.
  • To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille
  • Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
  • United in diversity
  • Waging war to get peace.
  • War is diplomacy by other means. - Carl Von Clausewitz
  • What did the California Governator call the legislaters when they disagree with him???? "Girlie men!"



The scary thing is the American electorate gave all of this a 'Democratic' thumbs up. They voted for it! It's all the new modern lexicon pervading our society.
    Re-read that list. Then break out your Orwell.

    Sorry Conservatives. We did. The Leftists pushed it. Conservatives balked. No one stood up. None of it was defeated because HERE WE ARE!!!
    The Dan Bongino Rule states: Many Republicans are actually Democrats, but no Democrat is EVER a Republican.

    Look.....

    You need to understand that our world is upside down. We know that from a Geo-Political standpoint. But our government and society here in America has crash landed in Bizarro-World.
    And our enemies love it!

Let's take this unhealthy obsession with racism to start.

    Racism is a completely made-up human-centric notion. 

    The term 'racist' was first coined by the Russian revolutionary Ivan Trotsky. During the Bolshevik Revolution entire tribes in central and southern Siberia refused to adopt the Communist Manifesto. Trotsky's original use of the term was to imply how these tribes would cling to their culture and way of life and were unwilling to change. They were racist. They enjoyed their way of life. They loved their culture. They loved who they were. They did not WANT Communism.
      Oddly enough almost 100 years later a Presidential Candidate would refer to segments of American society clinging to their "guns and religion".
    I forget that guy's name...

    But it would be the Agenda Driven Policy of that President to inject racism into every facet of American life. It is Oxymoronic that a black President would oversee one of the most racially charged decades since Brown vs The Board of Education.


"Oxymorons ever so slightly screw with accepted realities. They slam the right combination of the wrong words together in such a way that they open up whole new lines of thought."
"Oxymorons ever so slightly screw with accepted realities. They slam the right combination of the wrong words together in such a way that they open up whole new lines of thought. Oxymorons tamper with established meanings in ways that can be deliciously subversive.."  

    What we should be focusing on is hatred and violence. Hatred and violence are what drives policy. Hatred and violence drive the racial agendas of today. Not one single bit of any of these Leftist movements are interested in equality, harmony or peaceful co-existence.
     It is always about power. 
     BLM is demanding that monuments be torn down. They are even demanding graves be dug up and highway names changed. Just as the Taliban and ISIS are blowing up ancient artifacts, so too are these special interest groups doing such simply for their own self-centered hatred to anything that is different from them. 
    It is reverse racism, or Anti-racism.
    Employing the same hate in order to destroy hate. That is textbook Oxymoronism of Leftism.
   .

    It has become so clear that the Emperor is naked. What is sad is that it took a tire iron upside the head to wake up to the deaths. It was fifteen minutes for The White House to emblazon 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in rainbow colors after the SCJ decision on gay marriage. But, over a week to decide they should lower flags to half-staff after the Chattanooga Recruiter Center shooting.
    We are staring straight into the face of The Oxymoronism of Leftism. Stand up for this. Stay silent about that. 
   
    Check mark The Agenda Driven Policy.

Does it fit the narrative?

    Liberalism is supposed to be about tolerance, freedom, understanding, equal voices. But pure Leftism is anything but! It is about an Agenda Driven Policy.
    Leftists are more obliged to allow a statue of Molech than to allow one piece of Judeo-Christian Law to remain on any state House lawn.
   Sadly, the 2023 Tree Lighting in Rockefeller Center was marred by Leftist protests against Israel. The same happened in Seattle Washington.
    They protest for Human Rights as they stomp on people's human rights who are just there to enjoy the holiday... As humans... Who enjoy rights..
    The Oxymoronism of Leftism.

   The current Iran Deal...

    Let me get this straight...

    Give billions of dollars to a country that hates us and openly vows to destroy us.
    Oh! And do it a couple of times.

    I'm a High School dropout so it might take me a minute..... No, sorry, this sounds like a bad idea.

    But yet. We did it!

     At the various Congressional and Senatorial Hearings neither of the idiots who signed this deal can explain the deal. None of them have read it. But that does not matter as long as you foment and promote the policies of changing this country fundamentally and forever. It no longer matters to Leftists what the language is, as long as it falls within the parameters of The Agenda Driven Policy.

    These retards actually believe that the billions given will not go to anything nefarious. It is for Humanitarian Aid.
    Well, hello Biden. The new 10 billion you just released secured new SU 29 Flankers and attack helicopters from Russia..

    No longer do we negotiate from a position of strength. We negotiate for negotiating's sake.
    Israel got a few old women and children held hostage in exchange for violent Islamic prisoners.

    Then there is the Press Conferences with Jeanne Pierre. (sp?- and who cares?)
     This woman will go down in history as a complete tool amongst normal thinking future American children.

     A few facts:
  "The U.S. economy reached an encouraging milestone this week: the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation showed prices rose 3 percent over the past 12 months, inching ever-closer to their 2 percent target."



Great! The 20-30% rise that has happened since 2021 has slowed down! Well break out the champagne! We are returning to the standard (if the economy is good) rate of 2%...
     Only there is just one problem..
    We are still 20-30% higher than we were 5 years ago...

"Oxymorons ever so slightly screw with accepted realities."
  Huffington Post.



....And That Is The Diatribe...

Monday, July 20, 2015

Agenda Driven Policies of Leftist Intolerance- Part III. Demands and Ultimatums

    " I am here at the podium talking. The ceremonial offerings of urban dysfunctional offspring. What's happening? City governments are eternally napping, trapped in greedy covenants, causing urban collapse."
Linkin Park Forgotten, Reanimation Album

    " But today's Progressives have added a second element... a scorched Earth policy towards the accuser accompanied by vicious intolerance. Add a complicit media and there you have it: A lethal cocktail of venomous Progressivism."
Former MD Gov. Robert Ehrlich  America Hope for Change 2013



 



    Cogent statements are racist.
    Historical facts and referencing those facts are racist.
    Any opinion counter to the manufactured and politically sanctioned opinion is racist.
    Gun owners are murdering racist
    I am a racist.
    You reading this are a racist.

    You need to be arrested, tried for hate crimes and imprisoned.


    Once you get a hold of young people you have changed the course of the argument for the next hundred years or more. As I said in Part II assimilation breeds Americanism. People inevitably break free and set out to find a better life for themselves. The beachball of Freedom doesn't stay under water very long. Removing individuality and replacing it with a collectivist mentality is the wheel. You cannot indoctrinate an entire nation unless you change the thinking of the youth. Destroying the past is just another cog in that wheel. The Holy Grail, the gearing system is in the youth of a nation, As the Besmenov video explains, and Ronald Reagan said we are only one generation away from losing our great Republic.
     We have advanced several generations under Leftist controlled, government-controlled education.
    If you take a page from Saul Alinsky we are now in the phase of militancy. We 'enforce' the new dogmas, we order those hold out states to comply, we 'empower' law enforcement to carry out arrests.       We turn the other way as vigilante mobs run wild. Weak mayors and Governors stand down to let BLM burn a city down. However we arrest and deny due process to Constitutional Civil Disobedience. In fact, we create Star Chambers and indict Americans exercising their Liberties.

   
    Hitler, Mussolini and Mao had their vigilante groups who roamed the streets beating any one they deemed not in compliance and so does this new movement. While the vast majority of these attacks seem random (though still racially based) they are fast becoming organized and concerted. They purposely seek out whites, Conservatives, Podcasters and more recently, Jews. 

    You can Youtube these videos and the page lights up. However, Youtube any video of white gangs attacking black individuals, or families and Youtube defaults back to 'black gangs attacking whites'. In other words, they don't exist. In fact, one needs to narrow down the search to Aryans, or the KKK. Even still, the results are dated and are mostly documentary type videos. Social Media is chock full of black on white violence and almost every day a new one is posted somewhere from somewhere mostly involving a flash mob robbing a Target or Macy's. And the demographic is always the same but you are not allowed to point that out.
    Oddly enough, what few Liberals understand is that it will only be a matter of time before they come for you as well. Besmenov explains in the first video how even a Jane Fonda will be crushed under the yoke of Communism. It will only be a matter of time before militant blacks come for your black neighbor, your black doctor, your black police chief because they are no longer useful.
    But first they will come for the anti American whites; the college professor who once attended Black Panther meetings, the radical white Occupiers, most, if not all white Democrats. They will no longer serve any purpose. The history of totalitarian regimes runs this inevitable course time and time again.
    It has already started. The first phase is to 'identify' who the troublemakers are.




   
    I attended the various Dialogues on Bias and Race in 2015. In the first public forum held at Worcester Quinsigamond College a woman who identified herself as Sonya Connor got up to speak (22:30 mark) to berate the presence of media at the public hearing. She seemed rather upset that a public hearing should have media there to disseminate their public statements to the rest of the public. It was further discussed privately via a phone call with the media director for Worcester City Hall who assured me personally that media was not only allowed but he thanked me for being the ONLY media there covering the event. 
    On the final evening of the meetings July 13th at the DCU Center the entire Agenda Driven Policy was exposed. In cahoots with the mayor's office, the Mass Attorney General's office and the DOJ the evening was spent lambasting and demanding the shuttering of one of Worcester's premier blog sites. The best is at the 1:12:00 mark when Wanda Alvarado gets up to the podium and cries. 
    In the name of tolerance, they have chosen militant intolerance in promoting equality and justice... Well, for them only.
    

    The best part was Joyce McNickles and her rant on "white people".. Way to go with that tolerance thingy Joyce. Much like Sonya Conner at the first event where she gave me the hairy eyeball then took to the podium to tell the audience that the Press should not be allowed at public events.  Sonya never appeared at the other venues. A true Drive-by Liberal in the Rush Limbaugh sense.
     
    Below is my film piece that I loaded up to my Youtube Channel. Joyce McNickles' wonderfully accepted statements can be heard at the 44:30 mark. Unfortunately. None of these people know how to speak publicly, or 'into' a microphone so the audio is very muted and I apologize for that.


    And to further prove to the peons of just who is in charge mayor Petty and (then)AG Maura Healey threatened Turtleboy with arrest for his hilarious expose'.  You see, TB had his fan base write in his name for mayor and send his blog site the pictures. City Clerk Rushford and mayor Petty didn't like that one bit. Turtleboy was epic in his counter argument;

"More importantly, you’re telling me that in the United States of America you can’t show the world who you voted for? What kind of communist bullshit is that? "




     Of course, Rushford forgot to send the same threat to the Worcester Firefighters Union who endorsed Mayor Petty and proudly displayed their ballots on the WFD Facebook page.

    The power these people possess is scary. Voting is useless because Leftists run the elections. It isn't just the state and Federal elections, but with lots of Soros money the influence has seeped down to the Attorney General and Mayoral races as well. The Arizona AG just sent out a message to poll workers threatening them to count all the ballots regardless of inaccuracies. Gov Hochul of NY is all giddy now that a Judge's ruling on COVID Containment Camps has expired.
    As Dan Bongino often says, 'They hate you!"
    They are also stupid.
    The Education Secretary for the Biden Administration misquotes Reagan without skipping a beat. AOC is a treasure trove of stupid. Jean Pierre is a train wreck of fudged facts. And our own Massachusetts Governor is willing to sign a Bill that would make public display of topless women legal!

And YOU better comply! The demands and ultimatums have been handed down in the agenda driven policies of Leftists intolerance.

.... And That Is The Diatribe....


Sunday, July 19, 2015

Agenda Driven Policies of Leftist Intolerance - Part II- Neurotica.

" If a majority can exclude the whole or a part of the minority because it deems the political views entertained by them hurtful, then free government is at an end."
Charles Evans Hughes, Sect of State, Chief Justice 1920


 " Ah! Men of faction! Friends of anarchy! Enemies and willful perverters of the Federal Government! How noisy in clamor and abuse, how weak in reason and judgment, appear all your arguments."
Kentucky Senator Humphrey Marshall 1795


" No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice."
Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld 1886


   
      Wherever there is an act of injustice anywhere in America it affects all of us as a free people. Not just the act itself but the ramifications of such an act. It is never enough to correct the mistake, make amends and mind never to repeat it ever again. No, this nation morphs into a neurotic catharsis and riots. Then there are the 'ban everything' crowd on a coast-to-coast tour.
     Like the Taliban who have destroyed ancient artifacts because of a delusional imagined sense of outrage so too are Leftists and the hand wringing Republicans who remove statues and symbols of our past. 
    History be damned. It has no part in these determinations.

In the last chapter of John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage he states,   "For Democracy means more than popular government and majority rule, much more than a system of political techniques to flatter or deceive powerful blocks of voters. A Democracy that has no monuments of individual conscience in a sea of popular rule is not worthy to bear the name."
    
     All across the south the heritage and history have been replaced with emptiness and meaninglessness. Statues that once told a story with a plaque are now replaced with the image of Molech and formless artwork. During the 11/29/23 broadcast of Glenn Beck he extolled the loss of what matters. The loss of tangible meanings of things being replaced with nothing real or lasting. 
     It is a form of neurosis. No wonder suicides are at an all-time high since 1941. 14%/100,000 people.
   
    Years ago, I had the opportunity to attend and film the Dialogue on Bias and Race in Worcester Mass. I did this for a number of reasons, but primarily, I was interested in seeing how this multi-week seminar would be handled and I wanted to experience what real bias looked like.
    I was NOT disappointed.
    To summate. Everything is the fault of white males and white male privilege.


      In an evolutionary sense Western Civilization assimilates all immigrant races over time. Barriers dissolve away.
   However, there are two caveats that toss this idea into the bin.
   The first is, does that immigrant race want to be assimilated?
   One of the great American success stories is how immigrants came here (with all the racism) and assimilated into becoming Americans. Our culture is full of multi-ethnic traditions and cuisine that have become uniquely American. The term 'melting pot' has real teeth and it makes America what it is today.
      Then there is institutionalized equality. Forced acceptance via legislation. People are forced under penalty of law to accept something (someone) they might not agree with. The Civil Rights Movement (while historic) only forced Southern states to comply with Federal Law. It still took decades for the barriers to dissolve away, decades before the lynching stopped, job equality, integration. 

      However today, we now have imposed a form of discrimination to individual opinion and thought. We even have reverse racism, or Anti-racism. As I said before, cities, counties and whole states are boarding the 'ban everything' bus as well.
     It truly is neurotic.

    So, what will we gain from all of this? Will we be a more homogeneous society? Quite the opposite. We will be a divided society of enclaves. Enclaves of social strata exude racism towards the other enclave, a form of 21st Century Tribalism. Multi -Culturalism is the polar opposite of assimilation.
    In fact, Multi-Culturalism is designed to root away natural assimilation. Assimilation breeds more Americanism. People choose to make a better life for themselves. By keeping society divided it becomes easier to control. 
    And Leftism is about control. This obsession with control is neurotic.
   Control now extends to public events and public hearings. Town meetings are routinely closed to the public, cameras are banned, reporters banned and those few venues that are still open to the public won't waste a New York minute tossing your ass out if you dare to question any of the Council people. School Board meetings usually end with an arrest. The DOJ now lists parental rights groups as Domestic Terror groups.
    It is as if the use of hatred and intolerance is perfectly acceptable in combating hatred and intolerance. It is not. It is not acceptable at all, and we have little oversight to curb the abuses. 





 
.... And That Is The Diatribe....

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Agenda Driven Policies of Leftist Intolerance -- Part I


 " This is Home. This is Mean Street. Turns you from hunted into hunter. Gonna hunt somebody down. " 

Van Halen. Fair Warning Album 1981



"... we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of.. government policy and not justice. By clothing policy in the forms of legal procedure we may disregard the whole idea of justice for... years to come... We cannot teach... government by suppressing Liberty and justice.... the English speaking peoples have one great responsibility: That is to restore to the minds of men a devotion to equal justice under the law."
    " Liberalism implies particularly freedom of thought, freedom from orthodox dogma, the right of others to think differently from one's self. It implies a free mind, open to new ideas and willing to give attentive consideration."
    " When I say Liberty, I mean Liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts and live his own life as he desires to think and live..."

    The late Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, son of President William Howard Taft.

    


      Freedom is a dangerous thing. It is supposed to be. It neither judges, denies, accepts, grants, forgives or accuses. It is almost like an element on the Periodic Table. It just is.  And like handling any dangerous element, (as Senator Taft said) it demands great responsibility from all of us. It requires a level of tolerance as well for we (as free people) must recognize other's interpretation of their freedoms.
      Government policy and groupthink dogma are counter intuitive to our Western idea of freedom. Leftism seems to be the main driver of such dogmas post Taft. Leftism today is nothing more than an instituted policy of control. It disguises itself in the forms of safety, awareness, re-education and demands compliance to its own ideology. Failure to do so can sometimes result in fines and/or imprisonment.
    This is hardly the 'Liberalism' Taft was referring to.


    What results from such a demand is a form of institutionalized intolerance. Not 'racism' in the invented sense of the word but intolerance of anything counter to the "orthodox dogma" that Taft spoke of. It becomes perfectly fine to deny and denigrate a religion, political ideology, way of life and culture in order to advance a set wrote of new ideologies, ways of life and religion completely made up.
    These agenda drivers can be bureaucracies, political parties, civil rights groups, unions, schools and a laundry list of advocacies. In fact, they can be anyone or anything that pushes to enforce any type of self-righteous agenda. Many times, these things begin simply because someone doesn't 'like something' other people are doing. Language, then, becomes specifically tailored to promote that agenda. Words are carefully chosen to generalize the agenda while never really explaining the purpose of the agenda. For if we were to understand the purpose of the agenda no one would sign up for such nonsense in the first place.

   
    Where agenda driven policies become irrational is when the line is crossed to include inanimate objects as examples. The Confederate Flag insanity is a perfect analogy. It becomes perfectly fine to hold up the Confederate Flag as an example of intolerance and completely disregard a private citizen's right to fly that flag. In fact, agenda driven policy outlaws it. Some states have removed the flag, deemed it an example of racism and for anyone to attempt a display of it could be subject to arrest. 
    Defacto 'intolerance'. Institutionalized intolerance. Legally binding intolerance.
    It becomes perfectly fine to educate our children on the joys of Islam but any discussion of Christianity in public schools is strictly forbidden under legal statutes. Use of the word 'nigger' is abhorred in our society, yet gansta-rap is rife with it, and it makes billions in revenue. 
    Instead of in-tolerating ALL forms of intolerance these 'groups' have managed to compart-mentalize who, how and when it is ok. In other words, control.

    This allows the elbow room on an issue and ability to adjust accordingly as the political winds shift. It also allows various groups pushing their agenda to create the dogma necessary to implement their it through legislation.
    And it doesn't stop at legislation alone. The will of the majority of people can be completely disregarded through the Courts. The use of 'end runs' around Congress are a common tactic. Years ago, the referendums on Gay marriage in Massachusetts and California (two uber-Leftist states) were overwhelmingly voted down by a huge majority of voters yet the LGBT Alliance took their agenda directly to the Supreme Courts of those states and won!
     A more recent issue was the Vaccine Mandates issued by companies and many state legislatures. The power grab of our elected officials and bureaucracies trampled upon the sovereignty of the people. It wasn't UNTIL these laws were challenged in Court did, we see a shift back to sanity.
    Well, only when it suits a purpose. Agenda driven policy makers are always picking and choosing, always compart-mentalizing, always carefully picking the fights they can win.


    Upon becoming law these agenda driven policies never stop there. It is never about equality. It is never about parity. It is about power. There is always 'the next step'. We are never short of a politician always proclaiming, "..we need to do more!"

      Another analogy would be what happened in Texas a few years back to a pig farmer upon realizing an Islamic group bought the property next to his and erected a Mosque and Islamic Center. Never mind that the pig farmer was there first, never mind that the farm was handed down to him by his father. The onerous was immediately put upon the pig farmer to 'tolerate' Islam and shut down his farm. 
    He refused. It became the farmer's fault. He was intolerant, he was racist.
    Soon, the Islamic Center grew regardless. The man's farm has been vandalized; his family threatened. All of this from a religion that purports itself to be 'tolerant' and 'peaceful'. All, also, from the very government that is tasked with protecting the farmer's rights, especially his 'property rights'.

    Then, there were the Christian bakers and caterers who were purposely targeted by Gay and Lesbian groups. Legislators rushed to the cameras to point out how intolerant these business owners were. Many called for legally binding intolerance laws to be passed. It took years before these business owners were able to get closure through the Supreme Court. 
     I have a friend who took his case over being denied flying the Christian flag on Flag Day in Boston all the way up to the top. He won, 9-0.
    
    The concept never once occurs to these groups (nor the politicians) that they go elsewhere to conduct their business. I am sure there are plenty of LGBT owned bakeries all over America. I am sure Texas is big enough that Muslims can find plenty of open space to build another Islamburg or Dearbornistan. But that never becomes the discussion. There is a purposeful targeting going on here.
    Intolerance gets turned on its head.
    No one is forcing Islamic bakeries to bake Gay wedding cakes; that would be intolerant and disrespectful of their religion. And we certainly don't see the LGBT people soliciting these businesses now do we?
     Bill Maher has even labeled this "The Gay Mafia". And they have politicians and the lower courts in their pockets to purposely mis-interpret the Constitution and the protection of individual rights.    They are using intolerance and misunderstanding for their own agenda driven policy.

    This what Cultural Marxism is and does. When Karl wrote his manifesto, the lynchpin of his form of Communism was the removal of every Western value and societal norm to achieve a pure form of his political end. Modern Leftists have taken this one step further to include EVERYTHING!
    Once you have cleared the deck of all historical norms that have built modern society then you can fill that void with practically anything you want.

.... And That Is The Diatribe....
   
   

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

I Have Had It Up To Hea-ya!

 



   Who are these self appointed politicos and event organizers who are convinced that THEY have the ability and the balls to deny the filming of public events just on their say so? As someone who has repeatedly been denied access and or challenged in my ‘right’ to be there to film and cover any public event (especially any political event) I have had just about enough of this crap!
   As a Citizen Journalist and owner of my own Network I not only have every right to film a political event, I have a responsibility to cover that event. My only limitations are that I can’t be everywhere all the time. Does my lack of an official ‘Press Pass’ put me into some sort of journalistic Purgatory? If that is the case I know plenty of people for a few bucks will issue me one just by taking a simple ethics oath and affirmation. Does that NOW make me one of the Sneetches on the Beaches with stars upon thars?
   Hell, for that matter I will just download some fancy card fonts, copy and paste my mug on the side of it, print it and laminate it… POOF! I am a journalist with a Press Pass.
   Benjamin Franklin never had a Press Pass to my knowledge, nor did many of the early pamphleteers during the War of Independence. But you can bet your bottom dollar there were plenty of snoots out there urging the British Crown to arrest these muckrakers.
   The same exists today with self appointed spooks who try to barge and intimidate people like me with false claims that  “... the Press is not allowed at this event..”


   Let me clue some of you twits in on some common knowledge.


   It is called the First Amendment to our Constitution. The second is a little known Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that protects the right of the individual to film what is known as ‘plain sight’.. If it is in front of you and you do not interfere with the action, person, place or thing you can film it. Third there is no reasonable expectation of privacy when holding a public event. The key word here is ‘public’. If you don’t want cameras there then don’t call it a public event. Don’t advertise it on Social Media. Don’t send out a million mass e-bombs and then get all your panties in a twist when someone shows up with a camera.
   While I am on the subject of cameras; Do you actually think that NO ONE is going to film? That NO ONE is going to record? That NO ONE  will want a ‘selfie’ of themselves with the guest of honor? If you do then you need to follow the guidelines I have set in the previous paragraph.
   However, if you do? Then be ready to have nothing but negative Press. Denying the First Amendment Right of the free flow of information and the Press casts a shadow over your event and organization and therefore you will draw more questions of why. Why did you deny coverage? What are you hiding? The ramifications will last longer and run deeper than some inadvertent comment being taken out of context and published in any medium.


   The controlling of mass media is not a ‘Corporate’ problem alone. It is fomented by thin skinned handlers with a false sense of authority to deny coverage as well. During the last ‘public’ hearing on Bias and Race at Quinsig. College Walter Bird and Tom Quinn from Worcester Magazine, Gordon Davis from Incity and myself all covered the event and experienced the same cold shoulder from the ‘facilitators. You could not have four people with diametrically opposed political ideologies come to the same conclusion in our articles’ if we tried half as hard. Neither one of us spoke to each other during the event. Neither one of us collaborated on our articles yet we all came to the same conclusions which were: Who the hell do these people think they are shunning any publication of a taxpayer funded event?
   At the Rand Paul event in Massachusetts a while back a good friend of mine had his Press Pass removed off his pocket clip by a handler and was told not to film. So, Rand Paul DOES NOT  WANT  press coverage at his events? That would make a far better story than anything Rand could say that might ( I emphasize, might) be used against him?
   I have been tossed out of Charlie Baker events, Kate Campanele events. I get rejection e-mails all the time from candidates who do not want to be covered by Citizen Press. I have been trying to write about the Mass Republican Assembly schizm from last December but can get no one to speak publicly. I have tons of information “off the record” but I cannot divulge or write the story until someone comes forward publicly. What is worse is that I cannot get anyone from MARA to counter these ‘off the record” claims. MARA Spokeperson Brian Kennedy was supposed to call into my radio show last winter and was told last minute not to appear by his superiors within MARA.
   All that these people are doing is cooking their own goose when the time comes to write the story. And that time is coming very soon.


    The next time I get an earful from some dimwit at a public event telling me I cannot film I will file Civil Rights charges against any one responsible or complicit in the violation of my God given and Constitutionally secured rights to freedom of the Press.

…. And That Is The Diatribe….

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Better Government? Is That NOT an Oxymoron?





Not quite sure what I attended last night. It WAS billed as a Public Forum. The Public showed up. At least 100 or so of us settled into the auditorium of the Suprenant Building on the Quinsigamond College Campus to attend a forum on Better Government and Race Relations in the City of Worcester.

I was greeted by John Hill, Communications Specialist for the city. We exchanged cards and he welcomed M&P to the event. This was the first, last and only warm greeting I would receive the whole evening.

I am not sure why but for some reason the DOJ was invited by the city to speak about the perceived problems existing between the Worcester City Council and the citizens of the city. My first question was; what the hell is the Federal Government doing coming into a sovereign city to pick the brains of the local populace?

Oh, that's right. The city invited them!

Well, I would make one suggestion to help promote better government in the city. Don't EVER invite the Feds to hold these types of forums! Just hold one yourselves Worcester. With only 14% of registered voters actually showing up at the polls last year in the city I think the problem is more systemic than what a two hour forum can possibly cover. Especially one co-hosted by the DOJ. Their record of public concern these days is not a top 10 example of 'better government'.

The first flaw was in the "handouts". If there is one thing you can depend on at events like these are those damned "handouts". These things are nothing more than prescribed talking points designed to steer the conversation down a prescribed path. Information gathering is the only purpose. It does not necessarily result in an 'end to the means'. Least of all the one we hope for.

Some of the 'fact finding' that went on covered the idea of electronic voting. This is a jewel in the crown idea of Technocrats who would love nothing more than a data base of who is voting for whom. With the computer hacking that occurs regularly and the historical record of electronic machines being tilted to skew Democrat despite the repeated pushing of the 'R' button electronic voting is a very bad idea. The continued false narrative that Voter ID is racist and oppressive was heard in more than a few circles. Again, this is a prescribed notion and is utterly false. The problem is that there is way too much non-certification of eligibility to vote. Hell, you can get a mail in registration card anywhere. They show up every election cycle in the red Referendum books, There are stacks of them on the DMV counter and candidates send them out with their mailers. In Massachusetts there is no Voter ID and any one (anything) with a pulse (in many cases that does not have to apply) can register to vote.



Then there was the discussion on 'access'. Access to Government. There seemed to be some thread that average people (minorities) are not allowed to access local government. I have no idea what these people are talking about. Just show up!

Show up at a City Council meeting. I do it often.. And I film it! I see people of all creeds, colors, genders.. I swear some are ET's.

There was the first topic of discussion in the handouts about 'Representative Government'. The discussion group I was in could not wrap their heads around the idea that we are a Constitutional Republic. Even the former Soviet Union had a 'Representative Government' known as The Politburo. I hardly think that qualifies as 'better government'. A Constitutional Republic is based on the Rule of Law and protection of the minority voter's rights. More specifically, the rights of the individual. The idea that nine out of ten people in a room agree to shoot themselves in the head does not constitute a fair voting process. Maybe that one person who dissents has a better idea. Majority rule is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. Unfortunately, the discussion groups I roamed through seemed to think that 'Representative Government', or, a Democracy was a perfectly grand idea!

This brings me to one idea that was tabled and was heard throughout the entire evening. That Civics need to be re-introduced into the classroom. I couldn't agree more. Civics left the classroom some 20-30+ years ago. We now have grown children from that time raising children now who have absolutely ZERO idea on what it means to partake in the political process. The school system could not be happier that they don't have to inform children of our Republic. This way they can foment the false paradigm of Democracy, or, thinly veiled Socialism. Republic means that a teacher would have to inform the student that they are sovereign and bow to no authority, they are free to choose who, what, where, why and how they will develop and find their place in the world. The only authority for them are their parents. Parental control over children is one of the many pillars currently under erosion by Leftists. Individual Sovereignty, under a Technocratic State, would be the proverbial Sabo in the machinery of a Totalitarian State.

I spoke earlier about the only warm greeting. Once we divided into groups ( Ahh, divide... Another axiom of Technocrats) it was made known to me that filming the groups posed a problem for some individuals. Interesting.

While the very same people thought a Democracy was a good idea they still held onto their own self centered idea of individualism, or, how they 'feel'. The two in my group 'felt' intimidated by my filming; that they would not be able to speak openly knowing a camera was there. Oddly enough, once I shut the camera off three people came over to our group to film and snap pictures.... No one said a thing.

One woman pointed me out because I wore a Worcester Tea Party button. Apparently she thought (and said) I was with a political party. The WTP is a public education group and is covered under IRS status as such... I did not retort. Her ignorance was enough for me. It underplayed the level of intelligence and prescribed narratives for which I was dealing with. I had mentioned that this was a public forum and that people should not show up to public forums if they have problems with being inadvertently on film....
 Crickets.



It didn't end there. Once the wrap up began we resumed filming and there was one woman named Sonia (sp?) who made it clear that the press was not exactly welcomed. Her comments are towards the 22:49 mark of the video included above at the top. Apparently (according to her) media presence stifles the discussion on race. Sonia went on to suggest that events such as these are designed to create a 'safe space' and that media access should be reconsidered in order to allow a more constructive dialogue. Way to go Sonia. Keep that free flow of ideas and information going there kid..

The whole forum was about 'Bias'.. Right? Bias from what side?

So, let me get this straight. The public is invited to a public forum to discuss a very public issue at a tax payer funded Community College Auditorium, hosted by the tax payer funded local/Federal Government, advertised on the tax payer funded public page of the city of Worcester and on Social media but the rest of the public who did not, or could not, attend is not welcomed to view the public forum later on? What part of "Public Forum" does this woman not understand?



Well, it is the DOJ after all. Freedom of information is NOT in their lexicon.

I placed a call to Communications Specialist John Hill to clarify who exactly hosted this forum and what his opinion was on the possible barring of media from events like this. The call was placed around 9am Tuesday morning following the event.

John was very gracious to return my phone call. Turns out the Worcester City Manager set up a Coalition Against Bias And Hate and thus these forums were launched. Good idea! It was suggested that future meetings would give the public knowledge that these events be publicly noticed that this IS a public event. There should be some 'self understanding' that there WILL be media there.

The whole idea that the Feds showed up was just a reaching out to a higher authority. It would still behoove the city to just do something like this on their own. Any time you allow the Feds into your circle you invite and open a can of worms. Should the city continue these forums it would be best to just allow the local citizens to chair, own and run these discussions..

Oh, and no more prescribed 'handouts' with false narratives..

.... And That Is The Diatribe....

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Fucking Idiots. Morons At The Helm

    Turns out this Engineer for Amtrak was Warp driving around 106 mph when he went into this curve. Hello, meat-brain? Did you not, ever, run this route EVER in your short stay after your stint punching a cash register with Target? Come to find out than ANOTHER train de-railed on the same line in the same state.. Who the fuck is in charge here?

    Retards. That is who!
    Oh, and the NSTB-I You-He-She-It-We-They Board had known for the past 25 years that technology existed that could de-celebrate the train to avoid such a crash..
    Are you fucking serious?  Dick fucks at the helm.
  
    Really? I have a five page resume and cannot get a job but Target Guy gets to run an Amtrack train?

     We are definitely in Bizarro-World.. Lets extrapolate.
    
     Obama is holding a Middle Eastern Summit. Turns out some countries refused to attend. I agree with them. I wouldn't attend anything Obama holds is there were underage hookers and Rush was the headline band.. If Iran wants the bomb? Saudi Arabia can build one too.. Even crazy Muslims know.."... watch out for those Persians.."
    Speaking about underage hookers.. The Clinton Global Initiative... Hey Hillary, how's your brother's gold mining operation going in  Haiti? Hey, Bill?  Been to 'The Island' lately? Your 12 year old Haitian sex slave misses you. Keep donating America.. It is for the children..
    This blood soaked cunt is running for President! She is still paying the cleaning bill of Benghazi!

    Speaking of 'blood soaked cunts'.. This poster child for abortion Mayor of Baltimore Rawlings Blake. If it wasn't for Affirmative Action she would be a porn star with those lips.
    She gave rioters permission to destroy her city. Told police to stand down. Welcomed Al Sharpton. This city is Democrat Central since 1967, black owned, black run, Congressman Cummings (Lib-tard, D. for decades)... How's that 'Hope and Change working for ya' Baltimore?
     Like Detroit.. Another Leftie bastion of success.
  
    What burns my bacon are all the fruitcake Liberals who are lining up behind Hill-Billy or 2016! I know! I have been given access to come to her local Worcester Fund Rising event on Shrewsbury St.
    You do realize we will be running the very SAME election since 1992?
     I cannot wait to be thrown out from this event. Been there, done that twice during the Charlie Baker Campaign. Another candidate for Dim-Wit of the Week.

    Jesus Christ!... RINO'S, Liberals, Sharia, Climate Change, Common Core, Medicating our kids..

    Jeb Bush got into it with some college kid too young and too stupid to say NO to a Ruffi at a Phi-Kappa-Gang-Rape Pledge about how George Jr. created ISIS. What was more scary was NOT the statement but how Jeb stammered his way in his answer.
     This guy makes drunk Uncle Joe Biden look believable. And possible!.. Hell, Target Guy gets to run a train!  Why not drunk Uncle Joe with his twitchy finger on the button?

    Here I go again.. Speaking of... These twitchy Muslim idiots and the Leftie numb-jobs who think that Free Speech  only applies to them as they set something on fire... Geller is the pinnacle of Free Speech. Mohammed can kiss my left one as I drink a bottle of Jack Daniels and jerk off to porn..

    Look.. I am going to smoke a bowl now..
    What? You have a problem?.. Maybe I should take some SSRI's instead?.. Ooohh, yeah, these fetal mistakes..

   Speaking of that.. I filmed the Dr. Duke Pesta seminar a few weeks back and then filmed the PARCC Hearings at Fitchburg U. This Common Core fiasco is going to render our children even more stupid than they are now. Considering most of our kids today are born from... Kids.. It is no wonder more idiocracy exist.  More morons...
    Where are the Saber Toothed Tigers who would have eaten these dumb fucks 30.000 years ago?..
    Darwin!!..
    Stupid Teachers with great pensions and no medical knowledge have government approved mandates to demand your kid be drug darted as they run wild on the field. This way, we can tag them, watch them, monitor them.. Like animals.. To be trained.

    These Liberal tools are going to re-write American history to fit a narrative? Yes, they are. They are funded and well supported. It is what allows a Community Organizer to become President. It is what allows a failed Sect of State to run for that same office in 2016. It allows a Bilderbrerger to manipulate the Polls and Media to 'self proclaim' he is the Front-Runner (Jeb Bush).

    We are being led by dick-fuck morons, at the helm on a speeding train heading into a curve in Pittsburgh...
 

.... And That Is The Diatribe....

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Can We All Spell 'Irony'

    When does one come to the epiphany that everything is now completely off the rails?   
    It happens in those moments one would least to be aware of them the most. 

    How does the City Council of Worcester routinely ignore the rights of it's citizens and (then) in one night declare that Worcester will celebrate the 100 Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by declaring a day titled Armenian Martyrs?
    PC...That is what it boils down to.
    How systemic is this affliction? American citizens, local citizens who have requested that the City Council reject the tyrannical attempt of our government to round up and inter citizens of this city and who have decided this does not apply to "Rule 33" because it 'does not pertain' to city business: Some how find it perfectly well to recognize an event that happened over 100 years ago and extoll the virtues of 'tolerance' to recognize a race of people while ignoring, and purposely rejecting, the pleas of their own people.
   
    Can we all spell 'IRONY'?

    This story has been covered by myself, Worcester Magazine and Gordon T. Davis who wrote in INCITY VOICES March 9th, 2015... I quote..

    " The Council often argues it is a local political body and national affairs are outside its purview. If so, then why the recent vote to support the Worcester Police Department after Ferguson?..."

    Allow me to continue with Mr. Davis..

    "When a Worc. City Council Mmb. wants to pass a resolution it is put on the agenda without review or delay. When a resident wants to have a resolution on the agenda, the only sure way to get it on the agenda is to have a City Councilor sponsor it... unsponsored resolutions are (considered to be) harassment.."

    Unless you fall under the PC rule of recognized groups. Apparently, (other) citizens of Worcester do NOT fall into that category.
   
    It was a trip into (one old blog post) Bizarro World. I, quite literally, stumbled into this evening. I was there to cover the protest outside the City Hall and film Act Now Worc. in their weekly protest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfvHcfxtDU&list=PLU_Z4p-v1UQZSKw62f2lfyrEoRg1xxWNb&index=177


    Right there... In the hall!! The City Council and Mayor were hot to trot in recognizing the slaughter of a race of people. If this was any other time, any other event I would have no problem with this. I don't have a problem with it now!
    I just have a problem within the context of what Act Now Worc. has been doing these last four weeks!
    Armenians, who never had a group like Act Now Worc speak out for them during the genocide 100 years ago are allowed to circumvent 'Rule 33' , pass a resolution to declare a day of remembrance and Act Now Worc. cannot speak out for the citizens of Worcester Mass because of ' Rule 33'?

    Can we all spell 'IRONY'?
   
    Perhaps.. If there was an Act Now Worc. (of sorts) in Armenia 100 years ago we might be seeing a different future. Past is prologue and we all know that history.
    What is 'telling' is that there IS  an Act Now Worcester and the local City Council has refused to hear their concerns.... mmmm...mmmm..

     Well, maybe.. Some day... A future City Council will usher in and celebrate the genocide of local residents, American citizens slaughtered in some future genocide...
     Perhaps that will pertain to 'Rule 33'..

....And That Is The Diatribe...


Monday, March 30, 2015

How to Prosecute A Ham Sandwich

Ham Sandwich Prosecution.                                                 4/6/2015

Part I; The Zero Sum Game   

                         
    The District Court system of the United States is a zero sum game for offenders. While, it should be a zero sum game for criminals caught in the act of egregious crimes the vast amount of cases heard on the District level are trivial and fall under the scope of a 'misdemeanor'. The zero sum means the defendant giving up their rights to trial, plea bargaining cases, making deals with prosecutors and levied a hefty fine. For the judicial system however, the balance sheet is always in the black.
     A small time petty crook can have his pay garnished, forced to pay a monthly fee to Probation or undergo some sort of re-education (ie; anger management, counseling) depending on the crime. Depending on the size of the District Court the amounts of revenue raised can be in excess of tens of thousand of dollars a day. Cases heard in District Court range from traffic tickets, DUI's, driving after suspension, probation violations, breaking and entering to domestic violence. While these cases are very serious and do carry stiff penalties criminals can usually avoid jail time by ante-ing up the cake. Career criminals know the system and are able to avoid their debt to society by craftily manipuating the system with a wad of cash.
    If you sit in a court of law and hear the cases you soon find an underlying theme. How much do they owe? How much do you have on your person now? Court fees, fines are assessed and probation handed down. It is an exception that some one is sent to jail for negating their obligation to Court. Even then the sentence is a short stay, not an actual 'sentencing' per se'.
    We must address the use of 'Bail'. Defendants should know to hide their cash in modern day NDAA/DHS America once arrested. Local police confiscate cash then demand high levels of bail based on what is in the offender's wallet. The town of Westford Mass did this to me twice on 2014. The 'actual' Bail was only $40 for an old arrest warrant: Failing to appear. Yet Police of Westford (after they searched me) found $200 in my wallet. My bail became $240. The second time they only tacked on a 'nominal' fee of $100 simply because I emptied my wallet to a friend before hand.
     Civil Forfeiture (as it is known) raked in over $2 billion nationwide in 2014. HBO comedian/talk show host John Oliver reported on one of his shows the ridiculous things local law enforcement purchased with stolen money. Sports cars, vacations and (in one case) a frozen margarita dispenser to name a few. Sadly, there is no accounting process in place, no reprimanding in place and no sign that Civil Forfeiture will be curbed in the future.
     The Plea Bargain is a great source of revenue for the State. By amassing multiple crimes a person is forced to 'make a deal' with Prosecutors. They plea guilty to crime A in lieu of crimes B,C,D struck from the case. Defendants are threatened with larger prison sentences if they choose to go to trial. It is as if the Prosecutor is annoyed that he/she would actually have to prove their burden of reasonable doubt. Many times this results in the accused forfeiting their right to trial and a judge hands down a decision based on recommendations of the Prosecutor. In addition, costs associated with defending oneself is a key mitigating factor. Public Defenders are employees of the State and are usually backlogged with more cases they can handle. The chances of a defendant having that Public Defender go the extra mile to win the case are slim. He/ she gets paid by the State in addition to what the defendant has to pony up regardless of outcome.
    It is a fatal fallacy to think that Prosecutors are interested in truth and justice. They are interested in winning. The American Judicial system is rife with historical examples of botched prosecutions yet there is no letting go of the case. There is only 'saving face' and getting something out of the defendant. Some prime historical examples would be the OJ Simpson case, Casey Anthony and, more recently, the Zimmerman case.
    Our criminal justice system, as presently practiced is basically a 'plea bargain system with actual trials being the froth that floats to the top. In a New York Yimes editorial piece July 16th 2012 Justice Kennedy noted a stunning and often overlooked reality of the American legal process: A vast majority of criminal cases (97% of Federal, 94% of State) are resolved by guilty pleas before any trial takes place. The system is loaded with pleas and not a system of trials.
    Five proposals to curb this abuse of power would be:
1; Reduce the absolute immunity of prosecutors to a qualified, good faith immunity.
2; Require prosecutions of police officers be handled by 'out of district' prosecutors to avoid a conflict of interest.
3; Enact a prorated 'loser pays'  rule for prosecutors to offset criminal defense costs. For instance, if a person is charged with 10 crimes yet is only convicted of 1 the prosecution must bear the costs of the defense of the other 9. Or, in the case of a complete exoneration, 100% of the costs.
4; Restrict the use of plea bargaining altogether. Require that every charge be backed up in court with tangible evidence or dropped completely.
5; Remove 'entity based' charges. Require that prosecutors no longer take over a case but that the person accusing is the person who bears the witness (and cost). Domestic abuse cases and Family Court cases are overwhelmingly handled this way resulting in a defendant facing the state prosecutor's office rather than a Plaintiff.
    In a November 2014 National Review article by Conrad Black;
    Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the federal district court in New York..... laments the breakdown in American criminal justice caused by abuse of the plea-bargain system. He writes, correctly, that “the criminal-justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated, what the movies and television portray, or what the average American believes.” He quotes Jefferson’s expression of faith in the jury trial as “the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”
    “The drama inherent in these guarantees is regularly portrayed in movies and television programs as an open battle played out in public before a judge and jury. But this is all a mirage. In actuality, our criminal-justice system is almost exclusively a system of plea bargaining, negotiated behind closed doors and with no judicial oversight. The outcome is very largely determined by the prosecutor alone.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/392417/print#pq=gX8txI
    Conrad Black describes the historical path of plea bargains. Prior to the Civil War practically every case was a jury trial. Given the war, immigration, a growing urban population the need to streamline an overburdened court was instituted. Black states that this was grave mistake. To this day other nations are forbidden to adopt this policy. You are more likely to receive a fair and unbiased trial in Australia, or, Malta than you are here in the United States regardless of the 5th and 6th Amendments.
    Prosecutorial power is immense in America. Mandatory sentencing rests in the hands of a Prosecutor not the Law, a judge's or jury's final verdict. This broad scope of power leaves little room for scrutiny or restraint. It (quite literally) allows prosecutors the ability to indict a ham sandwich should they find cause.
Part II; Injury of Injustice
 


Frederic Bastiat

    Frederic Bastiat wrote; "... Law is the common force organized to act as an obstacle to injustice. In short, law IS justice."  So, how is it that force is organized in such a way to create a system where everything is illegal? What weakness exists in the law that requires it to be omnipresent in order to ensure it's own enforcement?
    The weakness is the law's inability (and it's original intent) to control every aspect of our lives. However, by creating a system where a person can be charged with a litany of prescribed crimes the law asserts it's control over everything we do.
    For instance; say a person is arrested for a large amount of narcotics in their home/person. The individual isn't charged with simple possession. That would be too simple and would not fall far enough under the scope of control. He/she had to have either purchased the narcotics or manufactured them. For the sake of time we will say it was purchased. We do not have the time and length of paper to cover the laundry list of violations should we be dealing with a 'Breaking Bad' scenario.
    The individual is charged with possession and procurement. Two charges already. Then, there is the question of 'how much' was confiscated? We now enter the scope of possession and procurement over a 'certain amount'. Who determines this is another vein to explore at another time.
    We have yet to explore how it was stored (Federal violations). Environmental effects, zoning laws, fire codes.. The list can be (and usually is) endless.
    What about intent to distribute? Was there any evidence of material to package, sales rosters, measuring devices? We can now attach these 'crimes' as well.
    Given the fact that there are true manufacturers and distributors of narcotics and given the facts that law enforcement monitors these people in order to remove them lawfully from our midst the evidence must be clear, the process should be sound thus the verdict inevitable. But that is not always the case.
    Allow for a moment a scenario:
    An individual is arrested for possession of 1 pound of marijuana in his/her home. How does law enforcement assume or gather evidence of intent to distribute. If this individual does not sell, distribute or, in any way fit the profile of a 'drug dealer', how does the state bring to court this indictment?
     They manufacture the evidence.
    Perhaps this person bags lunch for work. Confiscating a box of Ziploc bags from the kitchen as evidence would be first on the list. Perhaps, in bagging the lunch, they are on a diet and use a food scale. That becomes second on the list. Maybe they keep money, or a gun in a safe for emergencies. What if they have rolled a few 'joints' and keep them in a case purchased at a legal tobacco shop? All of these are perfectly reasonable and totally legal behaviors yet, all of these become a form of de-facto evidence.
    By manufacturing this evidence law enforcement adds any and all charges they wish. All of them 'painting' a picture of criminal intent where none existed before. Regulating and classifying everyday behavior as potential criminal activity allows law enforcement to control every aspect of our lives.
    Bastiat goes on to write; "...It is not true that the function of law is to regulate our... work, our trade, our talents or our pleasures.. If you exceed this proper limit.. Then you will be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty.. in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it upon you.."
    In the 2015 spring issue of Intercollegiate Review Magazine British House of Commons Member Daniel Hannan writes; "  ..In the Eurocrat's mind unregulated and illegal are synonymous concepts. The idea that lack of regulation should be your default option... is seen as a bizarre Anglo-Saxon peculiarity"
    Here in the US we make up laws simply because they don't exist in the first place. We regulate everything forcing a person to be at the whim of some nebulous law they never knew existed. In Harvey Silvergate's book, "Three Felonies A Day" the concept of 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' becomes Orwellian at this point.
Part III; Prosecutorial Victimization
    1990 in Madison County New York Delbert Ward was arrested for the murder of his brother. The Ward brothers are (or, were) four elderly, illiterate, border line retarded cattle and hay farmers in the upstate community of Munnsville NY. They all lived together in a small shack, were generational natives to the area and frequented the town's shops and the county auctions. Though labelled by the prosecuting attorney as outcasts they were anything but outcasts to the townspeople who knew them well. The video documentary 'Brother's Keeper' by filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky follows the Ward brothers in the weeks leading up to their trial.

Delbert Ward
 
 
    One morning William Ward was found dead in his bed next to his brother Delbert. William had long suffered from various ailments including coronary disease, infections from a chainsaw wound in his foot and respitory pneumonia. However, despite the outpouring of support and sympathy from the town of Munnsville State Police investigators arrested and interrogated Delbert Ward and eventually charged him with the murder of his brother.
    The suspicion of murder came from the forensics examiner who found various 'abnormalities' during the autopsy and suggested to the investigators that a natural cause of death may have to be ruled out. Oddly enough, forensics held onto the final report until notified by State Police investigators that they had secured a written confession from Delbert Ward. At that point forensics finalized the report and labelled the death of William Ward as a homicide. Normally, a person would not think twice about a written confession except for one small fly in the ointment. Delbert cannot read or write. Nor, is he mentally capable of understanding the charges as they were presented to him. The investigators created a scenario where (somehow) 66 year old Delbert had the strength and temerity to asphixiate his brother with his hand over the nose and mouth. The rationale behind this was that Delbert didn't want his brother to suffer anymore. Considering the IQ of the Ward brothers, their farm upbringing something like this would make perfect sense to Prosecutors. After all, he (Delbert) wouldn't let one of his animals suffer in pain. Why should his brother?
    State Police Investigators wrangled a written confession from one of the other brothers as well. Lyman Ward is the worse off of the Wards as far as mental capacity is concerned. During the actual trial when presented with his confession he was neither able to understand what was being said to him, the confession (as it was written) nor able to formulate a cogent answer to the Prosecutor's questions. In the documentary you can see the Lyman visibly trembling so badly that the Judge had to stop the trial and Lyman had to be removed by medical personnel and hospitalized.
Part IV: One Big Happy Family
    Cases like the Ward's are not isolated. We have reached a point where anytime, anywhere in the United States a botched prosecution can take place and usually does. What makes this more dangerous is that the search for the truth takes a back seat to the search for a prosecution. Investigators are not 'looking' for the truth, they are looking to make a 'collar'. The precept that everyone arrested is automatically guilty destroys our Constitutional principles of Fair Trial, right to face accusers, due process and the adage of 'innocent until proven guilty".
    In a University of Tennessee Law School paper written in 2012, author Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes about one Southern District of New York where the Prosecutors would play a game naming a famous person and then searching the law books for any crime that could be attached to that person. Here in the Ward case Madison County Prosecutors turned this concept on it's head by creating the crime, forcing a confession and pinning it on Delbert Ward.
    Forensics in the Ward case defaulted to claiming the death 'suspicious' after hearing that there was a written confession. The Dr. knew nothing of the Wards, could only piece together a 'probable' cause of death and failed to take into account the prior health conditions of the deceased. It didn't matter. All these agencies worked together for one common purpose; to secure the evidence necessary (even if they created it) to result in a verdict of 'guilty'.
    Grand juries (once sequestered) are not required to search for the truth but rather examine the evidence supplied by investigators and prosecutors to determine if an indictment is possible. Opposing witnesses are rarely allowed to give testimony as was the situation in the Grand Jury that convened to hear the Ferguson Missouri incident. Though we can scarcely argue here the minutia of the shooting that took place that fateful evening it must be pointed out that the Grand Jury was only given reports, testimony and evidence presented by the police involved in the case. The Eric Garner Grand Jury in New York City was sequestered and also given police reports, testimony and evidence. Both examples reflect one of the five solutions proposed earlier in this essay; that cases involving police should be heard by 'outside the District' Prosecutors to avoid a conflict of interest.
    What unfolded on national television in the weeks afterwards are now history.
    Where this takes an even further dangerous step is the militarization of our local law enforcement. DHS money is being poured into communities for the purchase of surplus military equipment, spy technology and cell phone capturing technology. Prosecutors now have the machinery in place to execute warrants, arrests and confiscation of private property.
    Frighteningly, the urge from lawmakers to confiscate arms from citizens is growing across the country. Connecticut is leading this charge with their recent demand to have citizens register grandfathered weapons magazines over 10 rounds or have them confiscated. Branford Police Officer Joseph Peterson made the famous Facebook remark of, "... I cannot wait to get the order to kick your door in...." when referring to the confiscation of these magazines. Constitution be damned and more power to prosecutors to imprison law abiding citizens with lengthy charges.

 
    Noah Webster wrote, ".... The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed." But, how much longer? Unjust laws are so vast and complex today that the average American commits three felonies a day and does not even know it (Silvergate). The right to keep and bear arms is clearly defined in our Constitution but not so in today's tangled web of codes and statutes.
    Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist #29, "... should at any time... the government form an army... that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people... a large body of citizens.. in discipline (in) the use of arms." While there are plenty of law enforcement officials who will not obey Un Constitutional laws there are those who will and they will gladly work hand in hand with prosecutors as one big happy family to bring these 'criminals' to justice.
Part V; Incarceration Nation/SWAT Nation


    This quote, from the 2014 Massachusetts Department of Corrections Report states;
    " The Massachusetts DOC’s total prison population increased by
9% between 2005 (10,138) and 2014. Total population (11,034)
. The population rose almost 3% between 2011 and 2012 and
reached the highest total in a decade; (11,723) this was followed
by a decrease of 6% between 2012 and 2014. During this time
the crime rate decrease."
     " The cost per inmate per year varies from $36,000 to as much as
$114,000 for those needing the services of the Bridgewater State
Hospital. These costs are increasing while our Commonwealth
reduces what it spends on Education and runs a deficit...."
     From Wikipedia in 2013;
    ...... the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners. Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners, costing $24,000 per inmate per year, and $5.1 billion in new prison construction, consumes $60.3 billion in budget expenditures.
     Oddly, as crime has fallen here in Massachusetts as well as nationwide the prosecution of people seems to be increasing. Prison populations are still on the rise. With these prosecutions come confiscation of property and assets. If the costs are rising to imprison a person then what is happening to the property and assets seized? Aren't these confiscations turned over to defray the costs of incarceration? As we mentioned before they are not!
 
     One account for these high population numbers is the mandatory sentencing, which restricts the discretion of a Judge. The second is the increased length of these sentences (Wikipedia).
    Drug offenses account for over 31 million arrests and over half of the prison population. Drug raids account for over 75% of the 'No-knock' raids that occur daily in the United States. This calls into question the over use of law enforcement and the machinery in place to execute those raids. Prior to 9/11/2001 there were roughly 300 SWAT raids a year and were comprised primarily of a hostage situation, bank robbery, gang shoot out or a terrorist act. Today there are over 180 SWAT raids a day and the vast majority are drug busts.


     In the Sept. 8th 2014 issue of The New American magazine by Joe Wolverton he cites the horrific account of a 19 month old severely burned by a flashbang grenade tossed into the child's crib during a botched drug bust. The police had the wrong house.
 
    Wolverton continues with the example in April 2014: Nassau County SWAT raid a house after a report of an armed gunman. It turned out to be a hoax.
    On the website copblock.org and thefreethoughtproject.com one can find hundreds of examples nationwide of poorly executed raids, wrong houses, wrong people, innocents being shot and killed (unofficial numbers hover around 5000 since 9/11), pets being killed, police brutality and stunning visual examples of police looking more like combat shock troops than police officers. With the increase in raids comes the increase of deadly mistakes.
    What makes things worse for the victims is that police are exempt from criminal prosecution. Civil liability is exempt as well. The victims still have to pay all the court costs, hire an attorney, face possible jail time (even for defending themselves) and bear all the costs to repair their destroyed home.
    As Radley Balko said about the 'New' American Police in an August 2013 Wall St. Journal editorial; ".. the warrior cop... armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.."



Conclusion;
    It is difficult to trace how we arrived at this juncture in American History without adding several more pages to this dissertation. What we can say is that we are definitely here now and there seems to be now end in sight. As our central government takes liberties away from us at an accelerated pace the same seems to be true for local officials as well. The criminal justice system is basically a meat grinder whose sole purpose is to wring whatever they can from us; our money, our liberties, even our lives. Disturbingly we hear many admonitions from our elected, judges, thinkers and writers but, that is about it.. Nothing actually gets done to reverse the situation.
    Guest on The M&P Conservative Media Network Col. Reid Reasor once described during an interview in 2014 how all of this is; "...purposeful.. It is designed to hurt us". The Colonel also spoke about how there may be an element of mental dysfunction in the minds of the people who adopt these policies and implement them. Surely, they must know these things are wrong and violate Civil Liberties yet they are employed none the less. Is it designed to pacify the population? What was that famous saying about government fearing the people vs people fearing the government?
     "Our law enforcement is now openly adopting a mentality that every single American citizen is a potential threat and should be approached, dealt with and remanded, according to this precept. Any attempt by said citizen to question, film, defend themselves, resist, argue, or fight back against any violation of their implicit and defined Constitutional rights are subject to arrest, potential assault by law enforcement; and in too many tragic cases, death." Christopher Maider. The Lexington Green. Nov. 2013.
    Virtually every single one of us knows that rush of adrenaline every time a police car pulls up behind us, pulls us over. We are a nervous population now. A simple misdemeanor can become a  legal nightmare. The Justice System does not dispense 'justice' any more it dispenses fines, deals and incarceration. It is a 'pay to play' system with the cost being born disproportionately by those who can afford it the least.
Christopher A.W. Maider, CEO
The M&P Conservative Media Network
Worcester Tea Party Media Liaison
2015