Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
For Independent Minded People!
ISSN 2161-5543
In
This Issue:
1. How much more government can taxpayers afford?
2. CA wages to government workers-astronomical
3. TSA – the fascist arm of government in
action
4. Recalling what America used to be
5. Free online skills library for
preppers
"There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do." -- Milton Friedman
Recalling What Used to be America
To our forefathers, living the American Dream meant living as free
men and women, but today it means living under deep socialist tyranny where the
government takes care of us from the cradle to the grave and uses an
increasingly oppressive Big Brother police state control system to guarantee our safety.
There is reason to fear.
I believe many of those who
voted for Obama underestimated the seriousness of the threats our country
faces, especially in terms of lost freedoms.
It sure seems very few give a damn.
All of our DNA will soon be in a database. Barack Obama has been pushing a plan to create a national database that will store the DNA of all individuals who have been arrested, even if they end up not being convicted of a crime.
>You should consider nothing you do on the Internet to be private. It is being reported that the Obama administration is now demanding access to all Internet records of all Americans without court review.
> Just about anything can be used against you in court these days. In one of the very first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a U.S. military judge ruled that confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court.
> But it is not just Islamic terrorists that are going to get this kind of treatment. According to FBI Director Robert Mueller, “homegrown terrorists” represent just as much of a threat to American national security as al-Qaeda does in 2010.
> Be very, very careful about what you post on the Internet from now on. One software company is actually developing software which will be able to identify people from photographs posted on the Internet.
> The frightening thing is that the Internet may actually be literally inside the heads of many Americans soon. Intel has stated that it wants microchips inside the heads of their customers by the year 2020.
>As technology develops, it is inevitable that the government will want to utilize it to track us and to control us. A startup company developing “chipless RFID ink” has already tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats. How soon before it starts getting used on humans?
>“Pre-crime” is not just for science fiction movies any longer. The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place “potential offenders” in specific prevention and education programs.
> Are you ready to start carrying a national ID card? This year U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (one of the most left wing Senators) and Lindsey Graham have been promoting legislation that would institute a biometric national identification card for all Americans.
> These days anyone can be labeled a “terrorist” and denied even the most basic of rights. New legislation being pushed by U.S. Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman earlier this year would allow the U.S. military to round up large numbers of Americans and detain them indefinitely without a trial if they are believed to ”pose a threat” or if they have “potential intelligence value” or for any other reason that the President of the United States “considers appropriate”.
The relationship between the police and the public has fundamentally changed. Once upon a time the police were there to protect and serve. But in 2010 police all too often abuse their positions. Just recently, a 32 year old man was beaten black and blue by two Denver Police officers for no apparent reason at all.
> We are now so tightly regulated that we can’t even honor good police officers any longer. Memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state highway troopers have been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court and must be removed.
>In 2010, it seems like the government wants to investigate just about everyone and everything. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called for opponents of the proposed Ground Zero mosque to be investigated in order to establish who is funding their activities.
> The truth is that it is very dangerous to exercise your free speech in America in 2010. For example, Christians are being arrested in various areas across the United States for quietly passing out Christian literature on public sidewalks.
>The U.S. government has become so paranoid that now even milk is viewed as a major threat. Organic milk is now considered such a national crisis that the FDA has been conducting military style raids on Amish farmers in the state of Pennsylvania.
> We can’t even get on an airplane now without first allowing gawking security officials to get a good look at our naked bodies. The new full body security scanners going into airports all across the United States can actually see through clothing and produce very clear and very detailed images of the exposed bodies of everyone who walks through them.
> But the government would never save any of those naked images, would they? Well, the U.S. Marshals Service confessed recently that it had indeed saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of one Florida courthouse.
>Things have gotten so bad that we can’t even sing the national anthem during a visit to a national monument any longer. A group of high school students made national headlines recently when they revealed that they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.
More insights at:
PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources
Free Skills Library for Preppers. It's more
of an "aftermath" library since it's made up of several thousand
books from the 1800s through early 1900s. They're all public domain books or
expired copyrights which are freely available however they're scattered across
history libraries and other sources all over the world and can be time
consuming to track down.
They detail skills and knowledge that has been lost in the last few generations but are the skills people would need to survive, rebuild and prosper in the aftermath of an EMP event, natural or manmade.
There are a few places that sell them collected on CDs but that's a barrier to some people and we felt they should be freely available to everyone. We're trying to spread the word about the library and we've set up information so any other websites who care to can also post the links directly to the books without having to actually host all of them (40gb-50gb).
The library isn't complete yet but it's growing rapidly and we expect it to continue growing. The number of books that are suitable for inclusion is huge and I've barely scratched the surface.
http://www.lighthousesurvival.com/library.html
They detail skills and knowledge that has been lost in the last few generations but are the skills people would need to survive, rebuild and prosper in the aftermath of an EMP event, natural or manmade.
There are a few places that sell them collected on CDs but that's a barrier to some people and we felt they should be freely available to everyone. We're trying to spread the word about the library and we've set up information so any other websites who care to can also post the links directly to the books without having to actually host all of them (40gb-50gb).
The library isn't complete yet but it's growing rapidly and we expect it to continue growing. The number of books that are suitable for inclusion is huge and I've barely scratched the surface.
http://www.lighthousesurvival.com/library.html
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The Nanny State Updates…
California government wage
insanity: Cop earns $484,000; psychiatrist earns $822,000
(NaturalNews) As California continues to drown in red ink, it's worth noting how the state got into such fiscal dire straits in the first place, as a lesson about how not to run a government. In a move that smacked of blatant political favoritism...
(NaturalNews) As California continues to drown in red ink, it's worth noting how the state got into such fiscal dire straits in the first place, as a lesson about how not to run a government. In a move that smacked of blatant political favoritism...
Can We Roll Back Big
Government?
The Poor Man has stated for years we have TOO MUCH
government burden for America…
Before
we
can truly bring an end to unsustainable federal deficits and debt, we
must first have
a very frank national discussion about what government does. How much more can we afford?
Neither the growth nor the shrinkage of government is inevitable.
Those who insist that progress consists of an ever-larger and more active
government never specify at what point that process should stop. Those who
argue for a minimal government are grappling with the general trend toward
continuity of institutions in a mostly successful society. Despite the growth
of government over the past century, over many years, polls indicate that most
Americans have favored a smaller government that does less over a larger
government that does more…
The Parting Thought-
Welcome to NAZI Amerika – Why we need another
revolution!
APPLICATION TO MAKE U.S. INTO AN AIRPORT SCREENING ZONE
The application was tucked away on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the Federal Register (November 30). It was surrounded by soporific references to forwarding “the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).”
The application for funding from the TSA constitutes a preliminary step toward systematically expanding TSA's authority from airports to highways and almost every other means of public travel. The expansion would erase one of the last remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance
TSA wants to solidify and spread the fledgling and erratic presence it already has.
The official request reads, “TSA's Highway BASE program [Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement] seeks to establish the current state of security gaps and implemented countermeasures throughout the highway mode of transportation by posing questions to major transportation asset owners and operators.” An example would be an owner and the employees of a long-haul truck company. The application continues, “Data and results collected through the Highway BASE program will inform TSA's policy and program initiatives and allow TSA to provide focused resources and tools to enhance the overall security posture within the surface transportation community.”
Meanwhile, the Government Security News Service provides additional details on TSA's plans. TSA wants funding to conduct “security-related assessments” on about 750 “transportation assets” including “140 public transportation agencies.” An example would be bus depots or train stations.
Security Magazine (May 30th) offered a sense of how sweeping the definition of “assets” might be, including “trucking, school bus, and motor coach industries, privately-owned highway assets that may include bridges and tunnels, and other related systems and assets owned and operated by state departments of education and transportation.”
Shoes, wallets, liquids, creams, medical devices – some airports have different procedures for hassling passengers than others. ID checks and personal questions from TSA agents – the agency deliberately targets people at random to try to catch them off guard. Even frequent fliers who are enrolled in TSA's PreCheck trusted-traveler program never know when they'll be singled out and ushered through standard or enhanced screening procedures.
The fact that the agency lamented the lack of a “single database” on public transportation is not reassuring. (Federal Register, Vol.77, No.104, pg. 31867, May 30.) The entire push seems aimed at not merely expanding but also centralizing information, efforts and authority, with BASE itself being a consolidation of several other TSA programs.
The TSA finds $400,000 every year in loose change left behind by travelers. It goes into their piggybank!
The case of Amtrak is instructive.
On March 3rd, 2011, Trains: The Magazine of Railroading ran the headline: “TRAINS Exclusive: Amtrak police chief bars Transportation Security Administration from some security operations.” The article went on to describe how TSA personnel “took over” an Amtrak station on their own authority and “thoroughly searched every person who entered.” When Amtrak Police Chief John O’Connor found out, he was reportedly “livid” and insisted on restricting the TSA's authority before he would consider “allowing them back on Amtrak property.”
On October 9th, 2012, Homeland Security Today – the official magazine of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – announced that DHS had forged a partnership Amtrak by which “over 8,000 frontline transportation employees and Amtrak Police Department officers” will be trained.
How did Amtrak go from threatening to evict the TSA (an agency within DHS) to joining enthusiastically in the harassment of passengers? What happened in a year-and-a-half?
Money happened. In 2011, Amtrak received $1.5 billion in federal funds and broke records with 30 million passengers; it still lost money. Amtrak's losses were so huge and persistent that one of Mitt Romney’s campaign promises was to privatize the behemoth. By partnering with national security in October, however, Amtrak guaranteed both funding and survival no matter who won the election.
Airport-style control of travel within America is coming. Some would argue it has been here for decades in the form of speed limits. But what's coming is different in kind. The unmarked police cars hiding in bushes are after your money; the uniformed TSA agents and their “partners” want your freedom, your obedience.
CONCLUSION
The Constitution will not protect the right to travel. Although many legal scholars consider it to be a Constitutional right akin to freedom of association, the word “travel” or its equivalent does not appear in the document except to guarantee the right of Congress members to travel back and forth from 'work'. The Supreme Court case Sáenz v. Roe (1999) rejected the Constitutional basis of free travel and rooted it instead within judicial precedent. These are weak roots and shallow soil.
Those who fret over their continued ability to travel abroad should glance over their shoulders to glimpse what is happening to travel within America. The two are politically connected, intimately so. Many of the same methods that now restrict foreign travel will be used within America because the same agency will handle both: the TSA in its many manifestations. They might be called BASE agents or VIPRs (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response), like the ones who partnered with law enforcement in 2011 in Tennessee to conduct random “terrorist” checkpoints on highways. They may be the specially trained clerks who sell you a ticket . But TSA agents in whatever guise are coming to the highway, bus stop and train station you frequent.
Editors Note:
Our
government is Anti-liberty...anti-freedom...anti-individual...anti, in a word,
You! Maybe those who wish to secede from
the union are right!
TSA Delays wheel chair bound pre-teen
A Texas mom was dumbfounded and angry
when her preteen, wheelchair-bound daughter was left sobbing at the security
gate at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport when
reps from the Transportation Security
Administration detected traces of explosive on her hand.
Shelbi Walser,
12, has brittle bone disease, and was flying
to Tampa, Fla., to receive treatment on Sunday when she was randomly selected
for an explosives screening on her way through security. Tammy Daniels, Walser's mother, said that her
daughter tested positive for explosives when a screener swabbed Walser's palms
and fingers.
Separating a
12 year old child from her parents for an hour, while they question her is
ILLEGAL in every state! You are NOT allowed to question a minor without a
guardian present…
Wendy McElroy is a renowned individualist anarchist and
individualist feminist. She was a co-founder along with Carl Watner and George
H. Smith of The Voluntaryist in 1982, and
is the author/editor of twelve books, the latest of which is "The Art of Being Free". Follow
her work at http://www.wendymcelroy.com
“Until the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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