9/11 Gave Us a Police State With the ‘un-Patriot’ Act, With Vegas Get Ready for ‘USA Liberty’ Act

 

 

 

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9/11 Gave Us a Police State With the ‘un-Patriot’ Act, After Vegas Get Ready for ‘USA Liberty’ Act

 

After 9/11, the United States government preyed on the fear felt by many Americans to justify the passage of the USA Patriot Act—a law that was supposed to prevent future terrorist attacks. Now, after the Las Vegas shooting, the government has another proposed law ready to go, and just as with the Patriot Act, it also infringes on Americans’ liberties, and does very little for their security.

The USA Liberty Act is the latest trendy name for a law that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2017. According to the House Judiciary Committee, the act would preserve “the core purpose of Section 702: the collection of electronic communications by non-U.S. persons for use in our nation’s defense.”

https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/100517-USA-Liberty-Act.pdf

 

Here’s the Spin from the Horse’s Mouth…

 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), joined by Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), introduced the USA Liberty Act (H.R. 3989). This bipartisan bill reforms and reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of this year, to protect both national security and Americans’ civil liberties.

“The USA Liberty Act protects Americans’ lives and their civil liberties. This bipartisan bill reauthorizes a critical national security tool that keeps Americans safe but also reforms it to protect Americans’ constitutional rights. It contains more accountability, transparency, and oversight so that the American people have confidence that our cherished liberties continue to be protected as the intelligence community keeps us safe from foreign enemies wishing to harm our nation and citizens. The bill also contains a number of measures to further enhance national security so that our country remains free and safe. I thank the many members who have worked on this bill for months and look forward to bringing it up in the House Judiciary Committee soon.”

https://goodlatte.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=990

 

As is the usual case with government speak, it is crock of crap…the citizen will lose more of their liberties just as they did with the so-called, mis-named Patriot Act whereby citizens were FORCED to give up 100% of their privacy among other aspects of their rights under our Bill of Rights [EX:  Only Arabs were involved with the terrorist plot of 911, yet now every citizen must now obtain an expensive passport to visit Canada despite more than 250 years of visitations without problem-why should the entire nation suffer because of a few outsiders?  The reason is simple:  The government used this as an excuse to MONITOR and CONTROL the rest of its citizens…it has nothing to do with our safety.

 Remember the words of our founding father Ben Franklin...

 

 

However, it should be noted that while the purpose of FISA was reportedly only to allow surveillance on the communications of foreign targets who were suspected terrorists, it has been used to spy on the communications of innocent Americans—despite the practice being ruled illegal—and any reauthorization of the law will only allow the practice to continue under the guise of “preventing terrorism.”

The USA Liberty Act claims that it will “better protect Americans’ privacy” by requiring the government to have “a legitimate national security purpose” before searching an individual’s database. Then when they do have that purpose established, they will be required to “obtain a court order based on probable cause to look at the content of communications, except when lives or safety are threatened, or a previous probable cause-based court order or warrant has been granted.”

But what the USA Liberty Act does not advertise is the fact that it does not actually address the legitimate problems that exist with Section 702. The FBI’s “legitimate national security purpose” could be justified by just about any reason the agency chooses to give, and agents will only need supervisory authority in order to search Americans’ metadata.

 

One of the most important things to remember about Section 702 is that, as the Constitution Project noted, it gives domestic law enforcement agencies access to the data seized by the NSA, while allowing the NSA to “retain and disseminate Americans’ communications that may contain any evidence of any crime.”

In a press release on the new act, the House Judiciary Committee bragged about the “bipartisan success” of the USA Freedom Act in June 2015, claiming that it “ended the bulk collection of data, protected civil liberties and national security, and provided robust oversight and transparency of our vital national security tools.”

Ironically, Obama ran on a platform of a more open government and did just the opposite and he actually helped strengthen and the Patriot Act [which has virtually eliminated ALL privacy for Americans] AND he repeatedly ignored court warnings about spying on Americans - all the while telling the American public he was safeguarding their privacy! 

Of course, the lame stream media never reported that their “Saint Obama” was breaking the law and was engaging in the non-stop screwing of citizens and other law breaking ventures [such as using $350,000 of taxpayer funds to secretly attempting to sabotage the election in Israel three years ago…and that is just one example].   

 

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later ...

 

 

Do you ever feel like you're being overwhelmed by events…that our country is spiraling out of control and that mainstream folks no longer have a say-so in their private affairs?

 

Well it is true.  The American Dream is being slowly strangled out of existence.

 

 I think that most of us have that feeling .  The single mom who's juggling work, and parenting and trying to make ends meet. Or the retiree who's having trouble keeping up with ever spiraling food or medical costs.  The college grad who is forced to move back in with mom and dad because no decent jobs can be found.  Imagine starting your adult life already in debt to an average tune of $30,000 or more?

 

The middle class in America is dying. It is estimated that America has lost 10% of its Middle Class and 40% of its purchasing power since 2008 as well. In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be “middle class”.  But by 2014, only 44 percent of all Americans still considered themselves to be “middle class”.

When you take a look at our young people, the numbers become even more pronounced.  In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be “lower class”.  But in 2014, an astounding 49 percent of all Americans in that age range considered themselves to be “lower class”.

Incomes are stagnating, but the cost of living just continues to rise steadily.  This is especially true of basic things that we all purchase such as food.  As I wrote about earlier this year, the price of ground beef in the United States has doubled since the last recession.

We live a frugal life.  No credit cards.  No mortgages.  No loans or car payments.  However, the cost of government mandated insurances and our government managed water system exceeds the cost of my annual college tuition payments and that doesn’t even include tax payments!

 In a healthy economy, lots of new businesses are created and now many are being forced to shut down.  But for each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened.    Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history.  Government regulation and red tape is choking the life blood out of entrepreneurism and new job creation…but the bureaucrats don’t care as long as their job and gold plated perks are safe.

The United States has dropped to 13^th place in terms of economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity – something unheard of 30 years ago when we led the world in free enterprise.

What will government parasites do when there aren’t enough worker drones left to support them?

Most of us feel powerless against well entrenched political elite and their armies of bureaucrats which are destroying the American dream.  Most of us simply want the government to stop interfering in our lives, to just leave us alone, to stop stealing so much of our hard earned money.

The social contract that once existed between corporate America has evaporated and no longer is there any sense of civic duty among so-called civil servants to actually serve the people.  There are few consumer advocates such as Ralph Nader and his famous ‘Nader’s Raider’s” fighting for your rights anymore [perhaps Elizabeth Warren]…for all intents and purposes, you are on your own!

Politicians have been stealing more than 100 million dollars an hour from future generations of Americans since Barack Obama entered the White House.

The destruction of taxation and inflation that are destroying this nation, your finances and that of your children is no accident.  The average American has been the target of an elaborate con game losing billions of dollars in this sting to what I call the Washington-Wall Street Cartel.  While the political elite live high off insider trading and political favors, you have been fleeced and swindled.

 

In a frenzy of insatiable greed, we have been taking trillions of dollars that belong to our children and our grandchildren and spending it ourselves.  When you break it down, it comes to more than 100 million dollars every single hour of every single day.  This is a crime of unimaginable proportions, and if we lived in a just society a whole bunch of our “top politicians” would [should] be going to prison for this.

 

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"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." — John Basil Barnhill (often incorrectly attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

 

 

How Politics are Manipulated to Dupe the Masses

 

Many of us are becoming Ashamed to be an American-What many of us are thinking about this 4^th of July

 

My annual “State of Freedom” message…

 

Those who have studied history, should perhaps not find it surprising that the political outrage that is felt so keenly by people on all sides of the political “spectrum” should be controlled by spinning them off into partisan politics.

“Nor should they be surprised to see how effective this technique is.

“After all, the strategy of keeping people pitted against each other instead of against their oppressors is one of the oldest political stratagems known to human civilization.”

The strategy is simple: “Divide and conquer.”

Wikipedia’s two cents:

Elements of this technique involve:

• creating or encouraging divisions among the subjects to prevent alliances that could challenge the sovereign

• aiding and promoting those who are willing to cooperate with the sovereign

• fostering distrust and enmity between local rulers [or groups]

• encouraging meaningless expenditures that reduce the capability for political [organization or opposition]...

Keep in mind the lies Mrs. Clinton has gotten away with regarding her home server & emails or her role in Benghazi or their foundation slush fund…

 

   Since 2005 we’ve lost 40% of our purchasing power and since 2009, we’ve lost 8-10% of our middle class.  Few jobs pay a living wage any longer and many, many Americans can barely afford their rent payments [now in excess of 45% of income in the United States].

 

Corporate America and Washington has broken the social contract which used to exist…college graduates can’t find decent jobs to pay down the excessive tuition loan payments they have and families are finding it tough to feed their families – even with food stamps at an all time high.

 

Just what the hell went wrong with this country?

 

Some of you know I’ve spent a lot of times [more than six months total] in the hospital during the past couple of years and my conversations with nursing and other professional medical staff tells me that even these folks are having a hard time making ends meet and hospitals too are paying less or cutting benefits.

 

It used to be corporations paid for health care and pensions and more…no longer.  Firms like Walmart expect taxpayers to support employees with food stamps and Medicaid – all at taxpayer expense.

 

Congress critters and their employees face no problems as they get gold plated benefits and automatic annual pay raises while living a lavish lifestyle paid for by special interests who are busy buying selling politicians at the state and federal level…insider trading among many members of Congress allowed many to amass huge wealth while you and would be arrested if we did the same.

 

Congress is busy gutting the Bill of Rights, our treasury, our privacy and more all the while enriching their campaign donors while ignoring how inflation is killing the middle class’ purchasing power.

 

“The mere fact that all the items that the average person buys increase in price every month is of no interest to economists. They rely instead on government statistics.”

 

We now live in a nation where ‘freedom’ is becoming just a memory as bureaucrats and politicians at every level create so many ‘laws’ that no one can keep up…creating an atmosphere where everyone is a lawbreaker.

 

We have too much government and especially too many unelected pinheads who create red tape out of thin air without benefit of public input or proper legislation.  This is not how our forefathers envisioned our lives to be.

 

Their goal was to keep government off our back and out of our lives…today EVERY damned thing we do is looked at by Big Brother who sticks its nose into all elements of life.

 

Us ‘old timers’ have also noted the lack of tolerance in America too…

 

No longer is anyone permitted to speak their mind freely.  We live in a land where intolerance in the name of tolerance is the new norm…otherwise, the media is quick to condemn!

In America, we have to tiptoe around on ever thinner eggshells” and “the forces of ‘tolerance’ are intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval.”

 

Beloved children's book author Judy Blume warned recently that the left's unyielding effort to create a world where no one is ever offended by anything is a threat to literature…

 

In such a climate of intolerance, there can be no freedom speech, expression or thought.

 

How much freedom do you still have?

 

·         don’t expect privacy in public,

·         don’t let your kids walk to the playground alone,

·         don’t engage in nonviolent protest near where a government official might pass,

·         don’t try to grow vegetables in your front yard,

·        don’t play music for tips in a metro station

·       don’t expect to do anything on your own property without permission from an unelected bureau-twit

·       don’t expect to feed the poor without permission

·       don’t expect to govern your financial affairs, enroll in school, receive medical care, etc. without government monitoring [aka: social security numbers]

·       don’t expect to travel the roads, trains or airports without government inspections [after all, it is for your safety]

 

Far from being a shining example of democracy at work, America has become a lesson for the world in how quickly freedom turns to tyranny.

 

Sadly, most young Americans don’t seem to have a clue what freedom is or how it was achieved or how it is being lost in this nation.

 

The failure of the two-party system is merely a symptom of a larger disease…

“In a society where a government is weak, decentralized, and unable to enact the more radical wishes of any majority group,” Ryan McMaken writes on Mises.org, “a losing side is less likely to regard the winning side as a genuine threat to one’s daily life.

There’s  precious little difference, in the big scheme of things, between the political parties. Anyone who’s paying attention can see that party elites get along fine while most of the rancor can be found among the naive rank and file.

“There’s a reason for this.

“Regardless of who wins, virtually nothing will be contemplated that might lead to meaningful reductions in regulation, taxation, or the punitive excesses of the criminal justice system. The larger trend in the growth of the state overwhelms any tiny adjustments that D.C. is willing to make in the present political climate.”

Reminds me of NAFTA and one of the reasons I no longer trust politicians…

“In 1992 Bill Clinton promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high quality jobs for Americans, and it would reduce illegal immigration.

That worked well, didn’t it.  Just like our current set of –un-Patriot Act laws…more hogwash that mainstream Americans have swallowed hook, line and sinker.

 

Is it any wonder why we’re witnessing an America where freedom is shrinking?

 

I feel life in America has become an episode of the Twilight Zone where the ever-increasing story has become 1984!

 

It’s why my motto is:

 

We don’t need another election, We need another revolution!  It’s why since 1999 I’ve been preaching…

Freedom, Self-reliance, and Action

 

This Independence Day, let us reclaim the power of our Declaration of Independence

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P.S.  Consider what the late John Pugsley thoughts were on a prosperous strategy for living:
Pugsley was one of the pioneers of the 1970s “hard money” movement, publishing a newsletter that urged readers to buy gold as soon as gold once again became legal for Americans to own in 1974.  Here’s his Alpha Strategy in a nutshell.

The Alpha Strategy entailed three levels…

1. Invest in production. If it’s something you need to make a living -- education, a skill set, tools -- this takes priority over anything else.
2. Save consumables. This is the stuff you use on a day-to-day basis -- razor blades, pasta, tires -- if you use it up and it has a decent shelf life, it falls under Level 2.
3. Save real money. If after Level 2 you still have savings left, then you can put them into precious metals and other tangible assets.

The best part about the Alpha Strategy is you can start with any amount of capital. “If you have only $100, you can protect it completely against inflation and all investment risks by simply buying things now that you know you will have to buy next week, next month, or next year. If you have $1,000 or $10,000, the same thing holds true.”

Better yet, all your “gains” are tax-free.

 

“The greater the investment you make in education [real world education, not college] and tools,” Pugsley wrote in The Alpha Strategy, “the more you will produce and the higher your income and standard of living will be.

 

Still have some cash left after building up your stash? “You are ready to explore the third level of the strategy: the accumulation of real goods that you can eventually sell or exchange.”  Things I’ve addressed for nearly 10 years in this newsletter.

 

Pugsley refined his guidance in a pathbreaking book called The Alpha Strategy: The Ultimate Plan of Financial Self-Defense. Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Pugsley defined the Alpha Strategy as “the first plan for any individual to protect his wealth.”

 

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