"The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they will fight to protect it. The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
"We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements,...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to government,...and have no time to think, no means to call the mismanagers to account; but to be glad to obtain sustenance by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers...And this is the tendency of all human governments; a departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'till the bulk of society has been reduced to be mere automations of misery...And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt; Taxation follows that and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression."
THE WOLF IS AT THE DOOR ! An excerpt from the best-selling book entitled: "From Freedom to Slavery" written by America's most successful trial attorney,Gerry Spence.
[ If you are the least bit concerned about the erosion of rights in this country, I urge you to read this most relevant commentary regarding the times in which we live. - TJL ]
"THE BLUE PILL PEOPLE" There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look?
A HISTORY OF CORPORATE RULE & POPULAR PROTEST
"The corporation was a legal invention--a socio-economic mechanism for concentrating and deploying human and economic power. The purpose of the corporation was and is to generate profits for its investors. As an entity, it has no other purpose; it acknowledges no higher value." A new populist movement has emerged to challenge corporate power and call for a more equitable economic order that protects traditional cultures and ecosystems and promotes sustainability.
CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL SPEAKS OUT "Under liberty, we built the greatest, freest, most prosperous, most decent country on earth. It's no coincidence that the monstrous growth of the federal government has been accompanied by a sickening decline in living standards and moral standards. The feds want us to be hamsters on a treadmill--working hard, all day long, to pay high taxes, but otherwise entirely docile and controlled. The huge, expensive, and out-of-control leviathan that we call the federal government wants to run every single aspect of our lives. Well, I'm sorry, but that's not America. It's not what the Founders gave us. It's not the country you believe in. It's not the country I believe in." - Congressman Ron Paul
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
- Ayn Rand
ARE WE DOOMED TO BE A POLICE STATE ? "In a free society, the government's job is simply to protect liberty --
the people do the rest. Let's not give up on a grand experiment that has
provided so much for so many. Let's reject the police state." - Rep. Ron Paul, MD (U.S. House of Representatives, June 27, 2002)
WARRIOR COPS
The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in
American Police Departments
by Diane Cecilia Webe. (August 1999) Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
THE CORRUPTIONS OF PATRIOTISM The United States administers a global empire. This used to be a secret. Through the 1990s, our government told us that we stood for democracy, freedom, and independence of nations worldwide (lying to us). But the majority of U.S. citizens refused to critically examine their government out of patriotism. Sheeplike, we acted in defiance of the founding fathers of our nation who distrusted the power of government, who realized that small acts of terrorism (which existed then as now) were nothing compared to the potential for tyranny from those who wield governmental powers.
USA PATRIOT ACT Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
America - Freedom to Fascism
A Film by Aaron Russo
Neither left nor right-wing, this startling examination of government exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with two U.S. Congressmen, former IRS Commissioner and former IRS and FBI agents, tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card, which becomes law in May 2008 and will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Could this be a precursor to an impending police state in America? Watch the film and make your own conclusions.
TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER (Posted February 14, 2003) The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty.
A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as Patriot Act II
MANY TOOLS OF BIG BROTHER ARE UP AND RUNNING New York Times 12/23/02 In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system are already in place.
HAS BIG BROTHER ARRIVED, AND IS HE WATCHING US? Associated Press, 12/15/2002 Steps taken in the name of fighting terrorism are producing changes in American society that, according to critics spanning the political spectrum, could leave citizens with less personal privacy, a government that operates in greater secrecy and a judicial system that denies some defendants due process.
"If we get accustomed to a system of detention and surveilance, we may wake up and find to our dismay that we live in a state that has sold far more of its liberty in exchange for its security than it would do willingly."
Poindexter's Laboratory (The know-it-all plan to fight terrorism)
John Poindexter, a former national security adviser, now heads the Information Awareness Office (IAO), a new division of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This obscure little office with a blandly creepy name has a grand mission: Total Information Awareness, in a word, omniscience.
BIG BROTHER CONTROLLING YOUR HEAD Anyone who thinks someone isn't watching, listening to and constantly plotting to control the minds of the masses might be shocked to view the following list of patents by a string of inventors who apparently found a variety of ways to do it all.
Massive Media: Facts and Figures The world of the mass media is shrinking. How a handful of companies came to exercise such control over the media is one of the astonishing stories of our time. But there are real consequences to what's happening that affect democracy and consumers.
"For several years now I have been getting all sorts of wild reports about "Government Internment Camps." I have generally dismissed these rumblings as classic right-wing paranoia, extrapolation of facts not yet in evidence, or creative writing. However, recently, additional information has been revealed which lends credibility to the myriad concerns which have been expressed."
U.S. PLANS 2 LEGAL TRACKS FOR TERRORIST SUSPECTS
Posted December 2, 2002 The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects - U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike - may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.
SPEECH BEFORE THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE Ronald Breitweiser died during the attack on the World Trade Center. His wife, Kristen, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as a representative of the September 11 Advocates. Her testimony is recorded here.
REP. RON PAUL'S HEROIC ADDRESS ON THE 'WAR ON TERRORISM'
"The world today is being asked to side with the U.S. in a fight against global terrorism. This is only a cover. The world is being asked today, in reality, to side with the U.S. as it seeks to strengthen its economic hegemony. This is neither acceptable nor will it be allowed. We must forge together to state that we are neither with the terrorists nor with the United States." - Rep. Ron Paul
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
~ James Madison, while a United States Congressman
NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY Ramsey Clark on American Militarism "But we're not a democracy. It It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we are a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy." An interview with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark by SUN MAGAZINE. [August 2001]
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
~ Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and Luftwaffe Commander in Chief
"Many writers have noted similarities between America today and Germany before Hitler...Our crisis is real. The crisis is the fact that our country, the United States of America -- the freest, the most productive and the most moral country in the world -- is now moving in Hitler's direction. America is moving toward a Nazi form of totalitarianism. It has been doing this for decades. It has been doing so gradually, by default, and for the most part unknowingly, but it is doing so systematically, and without significant opposition...If we are to avoid a fate like that of Germany, we must find out what made such a fate possible. We must find out what, at root, is required to turn a country, Germany or any other country, into a Nazi dictatorship, and then we must uproot that root"
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945.
TERRORISM AND OIL Organized terror in the world today, wherever we find it, traces back to U.S. intelligence agencies. The American people are being terrorized, without doubt. It is time we ask, challenge official fiction and answer with massive evidence the question of the day: By whom?
Just War or a Just War? by Jimmy Carter (March 9, 2003) ATLANTA -- Profound changes have been taking place in American foreign policy, reversing consistent bipartisan commitments that for more than two centuries have earned our nation greatness. These commitments have been predicated on basic religious principles, respect for international law, and alliances that resulted in wise decisions and mutual restraint. Our apparent determination to launch a war against Iraq, without international support, is a violation of these premises.
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums in war to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, they will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
How do I know ? For this is what I have done. And I am Ceasar."
ANTI-WAR PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD! LONDON (Feb. 15, 2003) - Anti-war protests Saturday drew hundreds of thousands of people in cities around the world - from London to Canberra - united in their opposition to a threatened U.S.-led strike against Iraq.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
- Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression
WAR CRIMES
A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal by Ramsey Clark and Others
BLOOD MONEY
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
"WAR IS A RACKET" By:Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General - United States Marine Corps [Retired]
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the
Mount... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
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"Those who fail to take the time to be healthy will ultimately have to take the time to be sick." ~ Dr. James Chappell
SMALLPOX RESULTS ARE IN (Posted December 9, 2002) "The CDC WANTED to release the results of this study.
They wanted to go on the record now, before the stuff really hits the fan. They
are very frightened of being nailed for killing people with the vaccine."
THE POPULATION CONTROL AGENDA One of the most difficult concepts for Americans to accept is that there are human beings dedicated to coercive population control and genocide. Before you scoff, and reject my suggestion as some sort of madness, check out my references, then try to disprove my conclusions. If my allegations are unfounded, you will soon recognize the deception and return to your daily activities, certain that there is no cause for concern. On the other hand, should you determine that my assessment is correct, or even partially correct, then you have a moral obligation to decide just what part you intend to play in response to the unfolding world genocide - how you will protect yourself, your loved ones, and the countless millions of helpless human beings throughout the world who have been marked for destruction.
GULF WAR SYNDROME Biological Warfare Conducted on U.S. Military Members, and
Corporate Bio-Genocide Levied on the Planetary Population. A Lecture By Captain Joyce Riley in Houston, Texas on January 15, 1996
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN [ This letter, written by a fellow American, should be of concern to us all! - TJL ]
NECESSITY FOR DELEGATED AUTHORITY Here you will find cases which adequately demonstrate that a government employee must have some specific delegated authority, based upon statutes, regulations or delegation orders, in order to be authorized to act. The absence of such authority, when challenged, therefore requires a holding that the employee's acts were unauthorized and thus beyond the scope of his employment.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency ... the banks ... will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES The following was presented to the House of Representatives on March
17,1993 and is part of the Congressional Record.
ON STATE CITIZENSHIP
The government recognizes two distinct classes of citizens: a state Citizen and a federal citizen. Each has different rights and responsibilities. State Citizens created the states who created the federal government who created federal citizens. Most people are born state Citizens and become federal citizens without their knowledge sometime after birth. You can reclaim your state Citizenship status through a legal procedure.
DEFINITIONS OF "PERSON" & "INDIVIDUAL" The word ‘person’ (persona) does not in the language of the law, as in ordinary language, designate the physical man.
THE OFFICIAL STATE OFFICE KNOWN AS "PERSON" The state creates many other offices such as police officer, prosecutor, judge etc. and everyone understands this concept. However, what most people fail to recognize and understand is the most common state office of all, the office of "person." Anyone filling one of these state offices is subject to regulation by their creator, the state legislature. Through the state created office of "person," the state gains its authority to regulate, control and judge you, the real human. What they have done is apply the natural law principle, "what one creates, one controls.
On Law and Tyranny by The Agitator"
This article covers 3 areas of personal interest:
1. What a modern tyranny needs to function.
2. The mechanisms used to accommodate tyranny and subvert the Constitution.
3. A few challenges to the generally accepted reality using a subject almost everyone can relate to.
"A nation of well informed men who have been
taught to know and prize the rights which God has
given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the
region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
HIDING BEHIND THE "BAR" (Why Attorneys are not lawyers) In the U.S., they're collectively called everything from "attorney" to "lawyer" to "counselor." Are these terms truly equivalent, or has the identity of one been mistaken for another? What exactly is a "Licensed BAR Attorney?" This credential accompanies every legal paper produced by attorneys - along with a State Bar License number. As we are about to show you, an "attorney" is not a "lawyer", yet the average American improperly interchanges these words as if they represent the same occupation, and the average American attorney unduly accepts the honor to be called "lawyer" when he is not.
PRO SE LITIGATION ". . . the right to file a lawsuit pro se is one of the most important rights under the constitution and laws." (Elmore v. McCammon (1986) 640 F.Supp. 905,911): This Right is now under Attack by the Bar Associations and Judges.
OVERCOMING THE ABSURD: LEGAL STRUGGLE AS PRIMITIVE REBELLION When conditions of existence become unsatisfactory, people may either acquiesce or resist. One reform strategy that has come into vogue since the social activism of the 1960s has been the use of law. Are those who use law in attempts to change the conditions of social existence rebels, revolutionaries, or merely ineffective idealists? Drawing upon themes in existential literature as a heuristic guide, we address this question by looking at one category of active litigants, prison jailhouse lawyers (JHLs).
"NETWARS" AND ACTIVISTS POWER ON THE INTERNET Written by Jason Wehling [March 25, 1995] [Currently there are a myriad of social activist campaigns on the Internet. The network system of activism is not only working and working well but is growing rapidly in numbers of people involved and growing in political
and social effectiveness. This article is a must read for all who seek to change the status quo - TJL]
INFORMATION WAR
A talk given by Christoph Fringeli in Vienna.
GETTING FREE POST 911 By Sunni Maravillosa
So, how do we "get free"? In reality, it isn't so much about getting freedom as it is about creating it. For those of us who want to live freer lives, there are ways to accomplish that, even as the busybodies try all the harder to prevent it. Here are some ideas, all fairly quick and easy starters.
THE BATTLE FOR LIBERTY - (An awesome picture!)
Shelli Jones Baker of Oklahoma painted a vision she received on July 4, 1987. Beginning on July 9, she spent 1500 hours painting acrylic on four canvas panels totaling 4 by 8 feet.
To obtain a video tape of
THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER'S 4 hour Seminar ($75) or a copy of THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER'S Criminal Self Defense Manual ($85) please send a postal money order to: Scott Thurston, C/o P.O. Box 373, Juliaetta, Idaho 83535. THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER'S Seminar Video
and THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER'S Criminal Self Defense Manual will give Pro Se litigants and laymen valuable and useful knowledge that will help equip them in the battle for Liberty. Learn how to demand your rights and defend yourself when you are falsely or wrongfully accused.
If we had the power to peer into the future, and had used that power two years ago, most of us would have been appalled by what we saw. But here we are, and that future is now, and to a good many of us, 'things' don't seem any different now, and certainly no worse, than they were then.
If we were to use that power again to look a few years into the future we are headed towards, most of us would again be horrified. But when that future arrives, as it surely will, most of us will have adapted perfectly to our new reality, our paths eased by a relentless psychological warfare assault.
It's comforting to think that history will one day redeem those who challenge the official orthodoxy. It's comforting ... but it's a lie. In the brave new world of the not-too-distant future, control of the 'truth' will be absolute.
