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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use. > Soren Kierkegaard
Has America Become a Two-Caste Society?
>And no, I’m not referring to Hillary’s lame comment
about Trump supporters but I have no doubt she sincerely believes what she said…
Listening to the various broadcasts
commemorating the horrific 9/11 events reminded me that I had left New York
City only a few days before those airliners struck the Twin Towers. I had been staying but a few blocks from the
attack and sincerely counted my blessings and said a quick prayer for those who
did not make it that fateful day.
It also reminded me how many freedoms we’ve given up in
the name of freedom as a result of that fateful day due to the set of laws
known as the “Patriot Act” which seemed to pass nearly overnight. Ironically, those laws have turned our nation
into the proverbial Big Brother* where privacy no longer exists. Another irony which has not escaped most of
us is that the bulk of the ‘bad guys’ who have been caught have been through
the hands of average citizens or more often than not, have been set up by the
FBI.
Still, terrorism is a never-ending battle fueled mostly
by religious ideology…the most challenging scourge mankind has faced through
the centuries.
America used to be famous for its melting pot image. Refuges came from every corner of the globe
seeking a better way of life. They would
assimilate into a new life, usually within a generation or two. That does not seem to be taking place as
readily today, especially among Middle Easterners whose customs are often
seemingly in conflict, and especially in open conflict among women who wear
burkhas making themselves openly different.
Further, morality today has changed considerably compared
to when Ronald Reagan was President. He
led a healthy society, ours if fragmented and decaying.
Since 9/11 we’ve become so heavily regulated no one can
keep up [not even the lawyers] and non-elected alphabet-soup agencies churn
them out at mind-boggling speed and it is costing our society an estimated more
than $2 trillion annually! This is the
number one reason why the United States is no longer the Middle Class job
engine the world once envied…We live in a two-caste system now. Americans no longer seem to agree on much of
anything: faith, morality, abortion, gun
control, taxes, religion, immigration and more…
Personally, I don’t envy the job of the next President
whether it be he or she. Healing our
divided nation will be a monumental task and unlike Obama [who in my opinion,
blew it on many levels] I would focus my initial efforts on getting a sane
economy back on tract again!
The following article by David French from the National
Review goes into more detail – Enjoy!
Mourning in America
Reagan led a healthy society; ours
is fragmented and decaying. I was 15 years old when Ronald Reagan won his
reelection campaign, and after all these years I still remember his legendary
“Morning in America” campaign ad. Looking back at it even in this cynical age,
one can recapture the feeling. The music seems maudlin, the voice a little too
grandfatherly, but the ad told a true story. America was back. It was back in a
very specific way, however, one that in some ways now seems quaint. Yes, the ad
speaks of jobs, inflation, and interest rates, but also of homes and marriages
— boasting that on that very day 2,000 families would buy new homes and 6,500
men and women would get married. It was painting a picture of an American ideal
— of the nuclear family, employed and hopeful, optimistic about the future.
Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016-09-12-0100/ronald-reagan-morning-america-legacy
Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016-09-12-0100/ronald-reagan-morning-america-legacy
Cyberdisaster:
How the Government Compromised Our Security
>Our
cybersecurity under Obama has been a disaster
A new report details how serious the
OPM hack really was. Last year, John McCain told National Review that “the most
disturbing briefing that I have ever received” had to do with cyberwar, adding:
“We better start doing a helluva lot better job” addressing cybersecurity
threats. Given the current presidential prospects, the chances of that are
slim. Donald Trump has made noises about “cyber” (it’s “becoming so big”), but
has not outlined any plan. Meanwhile, it’s become undeniably clear that Hillary
Clinton’s effort to avoid transparency requirements as secretary of state by
setting up a private e-mail server endangered national security, including
human-intelligence assets abroad, and that, unable to find
more-plausible-sounding excuses, Clinton has opted to plead incompetence: She
recently explained that she never realized the “(C)” in certain e-mails she
forwarded indicated classified material.
In March 2014, the Department of
Homeland Security alerted OPM that its security had been breached and data stolen.
Over the next two months, OPM monitored the hacker’s activity inside its
system, developing with DHS a plan to expel him. So narrowly focused was OPM on
its target that it did not notice that a separate hacker had gained access to
the system in early May, posing as an employee of an OPM contractor. For almost
a year, this second hacker operated at leisure in OPM’s system, stealing
security-clearance background-investigation files, personnel records, and
fingerprint data. The two attacks, which the Oversight committee says were
almost certainly coordinated, constitute the worst cybersecurity breach in
American history: “Attackers exfiltrated personnel files of 4.2 million former
and current government employees and security-clearance background-investigation
information on 21.5 million individuals,” dating back to the Reagan
administration. That background-investigation information, the Standard Form 86
or SF-86, which is required of anyone applying for a security clearance,
demands an extraordinary range of personal information, as James Comey
explained to the Washington Times last year: “My SF-86 lists every place I’ve
ever lived since I was 18, every foreign travel I’ve ever taken, all of my
family, their addresses. So it’s not just my identity that’s affected. I’ve got
siblings. I’ve got five kids. All of that is in there.” (Comey’s was among the
data taken.) The hack has been described as “Cyber Pearl Harbor.” Joel Brenner,
senior counsel at the National Security Agency, called the stolen information “crown
jewels material . . . a gold mine for a foreign intelligence service.” John
Schindler, a former analyst at the National Security Agency, has written:
“Whoever now holds OPM’s records possesses something like the Holy Grail from a
[counterintelligence] perspective
The report does not identify the source
of the hacks — the consensus is that it was Chinese intelligence — instead
focusing on OPM’s grievous incompetence. “The OPM Inspector General (IG) warned
since at least 2005 that the information maintained by OPM was vulnerable to
hackers,” the Committee writes. But a 2014 audit found that crucial aspects of
OPM’s security infrastructure had not been updated since 2007. Meanwhile, OPM
had generally declined to implement protections as basic as multi-factor
authentication when logging into its network (a violation of Office of
Management and Budget regulations). “Had OPM implemented basic, required
security controls and more expeditiously deployed cutting-edge security tools
when they first learned hackers were targeting such sensitive data,” the
Committee writes, “they could have significantly delayed, potentially
prevented, or significantly mitigated the theft.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439869/opm-hack-house-oversight-committee-report
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439869/opm-hack-house-oversight-committee-report
Yours for another revolution,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
The Bill of Rights has been
eviscerated, sacrificed
on the altar of “national security” with little more than a whimper from the
American people. We have entered a post-constitutional America.
*The Patriot
Act so broadly expands the definition of terrorist activity that the 1st
Amendment right of civil disobedience or even contrarian speech can get people
labeled as terrorists. Revealing that government has requested information from
records in banks, physician’s offices and hospitals or even about searches for
specific topics in the library can get people arrested.
Government
can now monitor and even infiltrate activities and organizations engaged in
previously-protected activities without even the suspicion of a crime. And
government has cracked down on whistleblowers like never before. Exposing
illegal government activity is now a crime, and the American people support it,
with the majority calling for the arrest, imprisonment and even execution of
people like Edward Snowden and Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning. This demonstrates
the power of propaganda built around “national security” fearmongering.
We no longer
have the right to not be spied upon. Government and police agents can now
monitor our activities day and night by conducting secret searches and wiretaps
without even showing probable cause. Our electronic communications are
constantly monitored. Our personal and medical records can be seized by law
enforcement under the most specious of reasons and people who are forced to
turn over those records are forbidden from telling you about it.
The
president now possesses “legal authority” to assassinate
American citizens on a whim, a direct violation of 5th Amendment and due process.
The “white paper” granting him that “legal authority” states that attacks will
take place anywhere outside the United States and that an “informed,
high-level” official of the U.S. government may determine that the targeted
American has been “recently” involved in “activities” posing a threat of a
violent attack.
Chillingly,
the paper says no clear evidence that the person poses an imminent threat
against the United States, its citizens or interests is necessary to justify
the targeted assassination. Nor does it define “recently” or “activities.” It
cites congressional authorization that gave President George W. Bush the basis
to respond to 9/11 attacks.
You can be
arrested and detained without formal charges and without the right to confront
the witnesses or view the evidence being used against you. You can be prevented
from traveling (placed on a no-fly list) for any reason or none at all, and not
even know you are on the list or be told why you’re on it. Statists are now
trying to use the no-fly list to deny people the ability to legally buy and own
a gun – a direct violation of their 2nd Amendment rights and right
to due process.
Innocuous
and perfectly legitimate activities like buying long-term storage food and
survival items, attending a pro-2nd Amendment rallies, being a
military veteran, attending a Ron Paul speech, wearing stained clothing, having
an unusual smell or carrying what someone deems a “large amount of cash” can
get you searched, investigated, arrested and/or placed on a list of potential
“terrorists.”
The freedom
to travel without government harassment is gone. To board a plane you are
exposed to long security lines and are forced to either endure what amounts to
a sexual assault by government agents and/or submit to a bombardment of
radiation waves in government scanners.
TSA agents
are setting check points miles from the border and searching cars for no
reason. Courts are granting police the authority to draw blood and take DNA
samples from people against their will.
LEOs
(legally entitled to oppress) have been gathering surplus military weapons and
rolling stock and making it part of their arsenal. The ranks of LEOs are
largely populated by veterans of the Middle East wars who apparently have
brought their it’s-us-vs.-them mentality to American policing, making
LEOs increasingly militarized and increasingly militant and violent toward
American citizens.
So 15 years
of war has brought us no closer to peace and has cost us our freedoms. After
all, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Additional
Resources
The Anatomy of a Breakdown
The Prepper’s Blueprint: The Step-By-Step Guide To Help You Through Any Disaster
Prepper’s Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary
Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival
Arm Up System-Defense Without Regulation
PM’s Guide to Home Defense
PM’s Guide to Home Defense
When it comes to college safety, most parents and
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an escalating wave of campus crime, including rapes and deadly attacks by
active shooters.
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lives of your children and grandchildren on college campuses. It’s all or
nothing. You have either prepared them or you have not. In a life-or-death
situation, your children can only survive or not.
Your children and grandchildren are at serious risk. Just
look at the statistics: One-in-five students is sexually assaulted during
college. In 90% of rape cases, the attacker is acquainted with the victim. And
the average perpetrator has committed multiple sexual assaults.
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