Monday, August 31, 2009

Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory "decontaminations"

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
August 28 2009

Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care interrogations and mandatory "decontaminations"

(NaturalNews) The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone "suspected" of being infected to submit to interrogations, "decontaminations" and vaccines.

It's also sets fines up to $1,000 per day for anyone who refuses to submit to quarantines, vaccinations, decontamination efforts or to follow any other verbal order by virtually any state-licensed law enforcement or medical personnel. You can read the text yourself here:

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02pdf/st02028.pdf

Here's some of the language contained in the bill:

(Violation of 4th Amendment: Illegal search and seizure)

During either type of declared emergency, a local public health authority... may exercise authority... to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises; to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be
decontaminated any building or facility; to destroy any material; to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;

(Violation of 14th Amendment; illegal arrest without a warrant)

...an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. [Gunpoint]

(Government price controls)

The attorney general, in consultation with the office of consumer affairs and business regulation, and upon the declaration by the governor that a supply emergency exists, shall take appropriate action to ensure that no person shall sell a product or service that is at a price that unreasonably exceeds the price charged before the emergency.

"Involuntary Transportation" (also known as kidnapping)

Law enforcement authorities, upon order of the commissioner or his agent or at the request of a local public health authority pursuant to such order, shall assist emergency medical technicians or other appropriate medical personnel in the involuntary transportation of such person to the tuberculosis treatment center.

$1,000 / day in fines

Any person who knowingly violates an order, as to which noncompliance
poses a serious danger to public health as determined by the commissioner or the local public health authority, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 30 days or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars per day that the violation continues, or both.

Forced vaccinations

Furthermore, when the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction determines that either or both of the following measures are necessary to prevent a serious danger to the public health the commissioner or local public health authority may exercise the following authority: (1) to vaccinate or provide precautionary prophylaxis to individuals as protection against communicable disease...

Forced quarantine for those who refuse (illegal imprisonment without charge)

An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction.

Arrest for refusal to be "decontaminated"

If an individual is unable or unwilling to submit to decontamination or procedures necessary for diagnosis, the decontamination or diagnosis procedures may proceed only pursuant to an order of the superior court... During the time necessary to obtain such court order, such individual may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal to submit to decontamination or diagnosis procedures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health.

Interrogation

When the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction reasonably believes that a person may have been exposed to a disease or condition that poses a threat to the public health, in addition to their authority under section 96 of chapter 111, the commissioner or the local public health authority may detain the person for as long as may be reasonably necessary for the commissioner or the local public health authority, to convey information to the person regarding the disease or condition and to obtain contact information... If a person detained under subsection (1) refuses to provide the information requested, the person may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health...

Forced isolation and quarantine

An order for isolation or quarantine may include any individual who is unwilling or unable to undergo vaccination, precautionary prophylaxis, medical treatment, decontamination, medical examinations, tests, or specimen collection and whose refusal of one or more of these measures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health.

Forced entry into any home or building...

There's a lot more in this bill, including language that allows Mass. police to enter any home or building without a search warrant, to destroy any object or building they suspect may pose a threat to public safety, to order the closing and / or decontamination of any facility using highly toxic chemical decontamination agents, and to arrest, detain and interrogate anyone who gets in their way.

Meanwhile, all state law enforcement and medical personnel are granted complete immunity from prosecution for their part in violating your Constitutional rights. So if they violate your right to due process, or they accidentally destroy your home, or they kill your family dog because they suspect it might be infected, you have absolutely zero recourse.

Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a medical police state. There is no debating it. It's all written, clear as day, in this law: The citizens of Massachusetts will have no rights, period. The Constitution is ancient history. You are now the property of the State.


Kiss your freedoms goodbye

Massachusetts, it seems, has never met a vaccine it didn't like. This is the same state that rounded up the parents of schoolchildren who hadn't been vaccinated, then corralled them into a courtroom (with attack dogs standing guard outside) and forced vaccine injections onto all the schoolchildren under the threat of jail time for parents who resisted.

Remember, readers, that this is all taking place in the "land of the free," a nation that former President George Bush claimed was so envied around the world that terrorists attacked America because they "hate freedom" and wanted to destroy our way of life. But terrorists need no help attacking freedom as long as Massachusetts is in the vaccine game, because this latest form of "gunpoint medicine" destroys freedom for everyday Americans in a way that terrorists could have never hoped to accomplish with all the bombs in the world.

Massachusetts, it seems, has done what terrorists could not: It has turned "free" Americans into medical slave subjects who no longer have any freedom to decide the details of their own medical care. All options have been stripped from them but one: The Big Pharma option. That's the one that involves using untested, unproven and potentially dangerous vaccines that could paralyze you or even kill you. All to defend you against a virus that's so weak, almost anyone with decent levels of vitamin D and basic nutrition can resist the virus without incident.

But Massachusetts, as you'll see below, is just the beginning. It turns out that the whole nation could soon find itself under a similar forced vaccination policy...


Isolation camps, forced vaccinations and more

In 2006, former President George Bush signed into law the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP). It gives power to the Secretary of the U.S. government's Health and Human Services department (HHS) to declare any infectious disease a "national emergency" and therefore require mandatory vaccination of the entire population. Because of the existence of this PREP Act, the entire population of the USA is now but one pen stroke away from being subjected to mandatory swine flu vaccinations at gunpoint.

Those who resist such vaccines will be arrested and taken away for "isolation" in domestic prison camps. They can't just leave vaccine refusers free to live among the population, of course, because that would send the message that anyone can refuse the vaccines without consequence. So they'll arrest those who refuse the vaccine, labeling them "a threat to national security" (enemies of the state) and imprison them without trial, without charges and without any legal representation whatsoever.

Meanwhile, all those who take part in enforcing these crimes against the American people will be granted complete immunity. From the HHS website: "[the Secretary may] issue a declaration... that provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency..."

There are other laws already on the books that strip Americans of virtually all Constitutional rights in a "pandemic emergency" scenario. One such act is The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678), which probably merits another article altogether.

Have no illusions: At the stroke of a pen, the Constitutional rights of all Americans will be immediately suspended. Mandatory vaccinations and "decontaminations" will kick in and the mass arrest of resisters will begin. There will be no court, no trial, no jury and no due process. Your actions will be dictated to you by a law enforcement officer or a health care worker who has been granted complete immunity, so if you just happen to get kicked around a bit (or shot), there's really nothing you can do about it.

Some might argue these are necessary actions to save a nation from a deadly pandemic. And yet they forget that the pandemic has been intentionally allowed to worsen by censoring information about vitamin D and natural remedies that could stop it. Somebody at the top, in other words, wants this pandemic to get really bad, perhaps because it allows them to invoke precisely the draconian response I've outlined in this article. Seizing power in a Democracy cannot be accomplished by simply declaring war on the rights of the People. Rather, a situation must be engineered where the People are so desperate that they beg to be controlled. Releasing a pandemic into the wild is the perfect way to accomplish precisely that.


Timing

None of these laws will be invoked before the vaccines are ready in large numbers, of course. Part of the purpose in all this is to prop up Big Pharma profits with massive vaccination efforts, so until the vaccines are actually available, don't expect to see any declarations of a public emergency.

It might take until October or November before the vaccines are readily available in sufficient quantity to inject just half the U.S. population. But once that milestone is reached, a declaration of a pandemic emergency is imminent. Trust me on this point: They won't let all those hundreds of millions of vaccines sit around unused; they'll make sure they get injected into the People as soon as possible, because that's the only way to justify making more.

So the sequence of events we're likely to see here are:

#1) Waiting on vaccine manufacturing to procure at least 150 million doses in the U.S. Probable timeframe = October.

#2) Hyping up a few local swine flu breakouts in schools in order to justify step #3. Probable timeframe = November / December.

#3) Declaring a full-blown national emergency and announcing mandatory vaccinations for everyone (to use up the vaccines that are now available). Probable timeframe = January / February / March.

#4) If the disease continues to spread, this is when you'll see forced entry into homes and buildings, forced "decontamination" sprayings, widespread arrests and forced quarantine of resisters, Martial Law and a complete crackdown on freedoms (especially in the inner cities). This will likely continue through the winter until Spring arrives, bringing the sunshine that will suppress the virus around the May 2010 timeframe.

All this is written in black ink. It's already part of the pandemic response plan. Body bags, FEMA camps and much more.

Two years ago, this was all the domain of conspiracy theory "wingnuts." Now it's State law. Now it's being openly discussed in security conferences and health care meetings. What will we do when the hospital beds are full? How will we accomplish the "involuntary transportation" of those who are infected? Are there enough zip-tie handcuffs to go around? How do we disarm and arrest citizens who refuse to be vaccinated? How do we prevent National Guard troops from becoming infected themselves?

These are the questions circulating now at high levels, all across the world. And the answers are always the same: Abandon freedoms. Strip the People of any rights. Dictate from the top down and arrest anyone who gets in your way.

Welcome to the Land of the Free. I hope you are prepared for what looks to be coming, because this isn't America anymore, folks. This is Amerika, and the Constitutional rights you thought you had are about to be written right off the books.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026934_health_public_health_quarantine.html

Sunday, August 30, 2009

John Gregory Laughon in a (vegetative state) Courtesy of Jacksonville Sheriffs CO's

I Agree with Val---> God Knows Who you People are. And You Will Know His Wrath for Your Evil Atrocities. ~LisaMarie~

"..Greg was not a murderer, he smoked

marijuana and had less then 26 grams in

his room when law enforcement searched"


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Sunday February 22, 2009

It's been 4 years today since Duval County Corrections Officers beat John Gregory "GREG" Laughon while he was having seizures in the jail and left for dead without medical attention in a Jail Holding area in the hospital.

You see, even though the jail Medical staff cleared Greg for transport to the hospital, corrections staff transported him by JAIL VAN. Greg was in such a condition that they thought he should go to the hospital but did they call him an AMBULANCE?

NO, they did not call him an ambulance, they delayed medical treatment by transporting him by jail van. They lost precious minutes, probably hours (of suffering), and by what I read in depositions in the case, days of beatings, and corrections officers delayed medical assistance even longer by transporting him in a jail van! When they finally got him to the hospital they took him hog tied with shackles behind his back out of the van, PER WITNESSES we spoke to, laid him on his belly on the ground outside the ER and proceeded to have a conversation over his body.

Hospital staff came out and asked if they wanted assistance, they said, " F--- that Mother F---er, he don't deserve SH--!" They let him lay on the ground until they decided to pick him up by the shackles and put him in a jail "HOLDING AREA" in the hospital where they laid him on the floor, still in shackles, still denying him medical attention.

When they finished their conversation outside the ER, they carried him into the hospital, laid him on the floor and he laid there until a nurse passing by saw he was not breathing and yelled for help while starting CPR. Two "guards" sat in this "holding area" allowed Greg to EXPIRE, did not call for help and a nurse found him "pulseless" and "cold to the touch." That is when Greg FINALLY got medical treatment.

Greg suffered many broken ribs in his back, collapsed lungs, broken nose, black eyes, lacerations on his liver and cuts and bruises from head to toe. A Jacksonville sheriff spokesman told the media Greg had "no visible outward signs of visible injury." Let me tell you how the witnesses outside the ER described Greg's condition. They said when he arrived and was removed from the jail van that he had shackles behind his back, he had a BLOOD-SOAKED spit mask on and only boxers and the leg, only the leg of his jail uniform! They said Greg did not move when he was laying on the ground, they were not sure if he was breathing.

It took three rounds of CPR to revive Greg, on the third and final round required by law, he started breathing. Once he was stabilized, hospital staff checked him over from head to toe. The nurse meticulously went over him noting every cut, bruise and scrap and any other injuries visually noticeable in his chart. He was x-rayed, cat scanned, and had a neck brace put on.

So please tell me how Jacksonville Sheriff's department can say he had "no visible outward signs of visible injury?" Does this look like there were "no outward sign of visible injury?"



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Greg's face is thin and his features chiseled. If you notice his head has huge lumps on it. His face is swollen. This picture was taken shortly after he was stabilized.

The sheriff's department claims they did an investigation. They found "NO EXCESSIVE FORCE" was used. How do we define excessive force? I think bruises from head to toe is excessive, I think broken ribs is excessive, I think the lump on his skull and a broken nose are excessive.

Now, supporters of Greg have written the Sheriff and the Sheriff claims I have my facts wrong. I was there, I talked to the doctors, I have read his medical records and shared them with people in the medical field. When Greg's personal neurologist, who works in the hospital the jail transported Greg to, saw Greg, the neurologist said Greg was still having seizure activity. My cousin who is in the medical field said after speaking to doctors and viewing Greg's admittance reports that it looks like Greg laid on the floor in the jail, in the fetal position while being kicked repeatedly in the back. He said he feels they were going for the kidneys and broke many ribs, more on one side of his back then the other.

As I mentioned in the past Mom settled the case out of court so we could move on with our lives and so Greg would get medical treatment that may help him have a better quality of life. Remember Greg was severely beaten, he was non responsive when hospital staff found him lying on the floor in the holding area. He is now, as doctors call it, in a persistent vegetative state. Greg was in his prime when these animals beat him, he owned his own business, he had seizures but was otherwise healthy. He smoked marijuana which he was told probably helped with breakthrough seizures, per medical personnel. He was not a murderer, he smoked marijuana and had less then 26 grams in his room (possession) when law enforcement searched his room. Greg certainly did not deserve to be beaten by corrections officers while entrusted to their care. NO ONE deserves to be beaten like this. What kind of world do we live in where it is justifiable to beat someone who is in jail nearly killing, or killing and then he is revived, and claim they were combatant to justify it. No matter what his behavior, there are definitely other ways to handle him and by all means he should not have been denied access to medical by corrections officers. He is 5'9" and weighed 145 pounds soaking wet. I am sure they could have easily held him down. I have when he had seizures in my home!

Where is Greg's justice? Why are corrections officers all other the United States beating and murdering inmates and getting away with it? Are they above the law? NO! I want change! Hey, Mr. President, lets see your change, change how inmates are treated. Let's see medical care. If you are going to entrust people to the care and control of a jail, the jail should be held fully accountable for all their care including, above all, DOCUMENTED MEDICAL CONDITIONS, like Greg! Oh, I guess I did not mention in this blog, Greg's medical records, concerning his seizures, were supplied to the court and the jail with a list of medications!

I have a message for these lying, abusive *choke* officers. God knows what you did to John Gregory Laughon, you do too! You know in your heart you were wrong for beating Greg and and for all effective purposes, committing murder! Lucky for you he survived, no thanks to you or other officers at the jail, Greg survived. You are murderers, liars, and abusers, you deserve the punishment you bestow on inmates in the name of justice with all your lies. You are not the law, you are not above the law, you do not have the right to set out and perform the sentence you want on inmates, no matter what you claim they have done to you or other officers. The JUDGE set a sentence, you only have to be in care and control over people entrusted to your care! If you can't handle your job, go find another one! You will be punished, if not here, in Heaven, you see you still have to answer to the one great and holy Judge, GOD! About 30,000 people have veiwed this page, 30,000 people know what animals Duval county jail corrections officers are!

I pray for justice and so do many others. We hold Greg and others who have been beaten and abused in the name of the law up to God for healing! Make them whole, in Jesus' name! Amen!

Please share his story with your friends and repost my bulletin about him, we must stop this senseless violence.


Blessings,

Val *Greg's Sister*

www.myspace.com/johnlaughon

THE BIGGEST AND MOST CORRUPT OPERATION IN CA HISTORY

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Marla writes:


Gov. Schwarzenegger declared CA being in "bankruptcy." He recently declared our water crisis a Federal Disaster. Behind the smokescreen, plans are underway for CA to become the next Las Vegas!


As a matter of interest, Fresno has been stripped and pillaged. If it is true that a Katrina-like disaster is being planned, imagine who will collect the insurance claims behind all the real estate theft behind this operation. While covering up all the evidence of what has taken place.


Reports of poisoning,
To keep residents obedient and oblivious.
As innocent people are being killed,
Seizing property to secretly alter the city water system.
Pharmaceutical testing of tap-water is not allowed;
Reports of suspected homicide dismissed.
Facts behind unsolved murders refused;
As trail of forged, fraudulent legal documents continue.
Removal of structures,
Expansion of others;
Altered parcel maps and aerial views
To cover the evidence.
Upon being caught,
Perjury by city employees,
Followed by death threats,
Demanding that reports are stopped.
There is no help,
Only more lies and more death.
We are being annihilated,
Our families, homes, businesses taken from us.
UPCOMING WATER DIVERSION!


Stripped of a means of survival, left unemployable, isolated, prohibited from help as the hell continues. $350 Tele-Tap verifies my phones still tapped; $900 r.f. detector indicates devices throughout my home. I am monitored, sabotaged, discredited, prohibited from help. One person informed me, "You may have made it further than the others but for you there is no way out." They are not done with me - they do not leave witnesses behind. I cannot survive this much longer - PLEASE HELP ME!

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Let's work together, to bring justice to Americans! Come on, do you really want to drink and bathe in sewer waste?

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Thank you! May God keep you safe from these evil politicians.

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Return of White



QuietBuck

The Native American prophecy of the white buffalo states that when it is born, the day of the Creator is at hand.

In 1994 this white buffalo was born. Since then other white animals have started to appear. These are not albinos.

Revelation 21:5
And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me,
Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall's U-Tube Channel

 Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall is an aging self serving sociopath who cares nothing about anyone but himself and what money he can con or outright steal off of gullible people. Yes I was one of those gullible people that believed him... ashamed of myself now, but that is part of learning. Damn cults are a virus on humanity.

PROOF Janelle admits Her and Brian Stole Money off a couple in Fiji


Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall is the Christ returned when He was born again through reincarnation (which is what born again means) to the earth in Sydney Australia at 2.22am on January 11th 1944.

This site contains the video teachings of the Christ as He explains to mankind the deception we have all been born into. The videos are the result of 65 years this time of crucifixion. His task is to bring the minds of men back to the earth ...they have been distracted by all manner of deceptions to take their mind into the heavenly realms believing the lies of the devil that mankind comes from other planets or galaxies or they were created by alien's...it is all nonsense... Brian is the KEY of the HOUSE (family) of David. The English gematria for the name David is 4 1 22 9 4 if we multiply we have 4x1x22x9x4 = 3168 and this number in Greek gematria is Lord 800 Jesus 888 Christ 1480 = 3168. Today he lives at a latitude that is 31680 km around the earth and 5813 km from the south pole, this number 5813 is the height of the Great Pyramid number in pyramid inches 5813 P" therefore pinpoints his home in Melbourne.

In 2012 we will cross the equator of the Milky Way Galaxy, this is caused by the sun moving at 69000 kph northward and this causes the rotation around the sun of the planets. Its all over on December 22nd 2012 for we are then on the other side or in the north of the galaxy, the 1000 year reign of Christ begins and all evil eliminated. So this channel is the only truth you will find in the universe, no church, no government, no scientist going on about life in space, its all lies, there is no life in space, we did not evolve, we are a creation, the wife of Christ he the male and we the female souls of all mankind. The earth is the only place that life is and it is really quite simple, all we as a people need to do is search for the most royal man alive and you have the Christ predicted by Jesus and Isaiah 22:22 the key of the house of David. Once we know and understand the teachings of the Christ... the logic of mathematics and astronomy and the prophecies of ancient times all built into the Great Pyramid which is the Altar to the Lord from Is.19;19&20..unfolding now at the Revelation of Who the Christ and His family is today ... we will hasten the over throw of the wicked governments of this world ...they know the Christ is on the earth and have held back the knowledge from the people...

God is using women today to sound the alarm and to do the right thing...women are leading the way for the restoration of all things...the devil through the minds of men have had their way long enough...the Quantum will shift when mankind who have been dumbed down to expecting Jesus to return on a big white horse in the clouds for the bible is a Freemason translation KJV1611, its god Lucifer posing as Jesus, so we have to sort out which of the words of the Lord are intact and those that are not corrected, but in particular Paul was not an apostle he was the assassin for the Pharisee and killed most of the Essene followers of The Way, the way of Jesus narrow and straight. ...mankind must come to grips with reality...the Christ is here ..get used to it and hear what He is saying today ..not 1976 years ago that has been chopped and changed to make it appear the churches are correct, its all a lie, you are in hell and what else could you expect ...truth in hell? ...no way!!!

The name of God today is Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall...

The god of the western religions is Lucifer with the mask of Jesus hung on him...God is Good...end of story. If you are good you have God in you....religion is superstition to control the mind of mankind...

Enjoy the teachings of the Christ and learn from Him...then tell everyone the Christ is already back...the holding back of the knowledge that He is on the planet by the same evil ones who rule the world they have created as hell ...is the biggest conspiracy of all time... 911 or the current UN plans of genocide pale to insignificance beside it.

Brian Leonard Golightly Marshall. The True Royal Genetic Bloodline of King David...the True inheritor of the Throne of David which is the throne of England...time for Elizabeth to step aside...she has been keeping it for the Christ and He is here...The King of kings the Lord of lords the Word of God with the name that he only knows (rev.19.12)and has been revealing to the world for decades..

Tell everyone...the battle is won the more people that are talking about the Christ and focussing on Paradise than talking about the devil's plans for genocide and terror ...

Do not take vaccines of any kind and drink colloidal silver for protection...Silver is the key and has been since the beginning of time....

Love and Peace

Michelle and Janelle (Mary and Martha Magdalene)

http://www.youtube.com/user/MichelleNye

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Let's talk about tasers - By: Digby

Monday Aug. 10, 2009 13:10 EDT
Let's talk about tasers

Editor's note: Glenn Greenwald is on vacation this week. Digby is guest-blogging today.

Like Glenn, I write a lot about civil liberties, which have been at the heart of the national conversation since the beginning of the War On Terror and the expansion of the national security state. But my interest in civil liberties predates 9/11 and until then was usually pointed at the far more prosaic issues of police and prosecutorial misconduct (and the inevitable conclusions any study of those things brings to the issue of the death penalty). Nowadays, the theme of civil liberties seem to be a sub-plot to a James Bond flick rather than "To Kill A Mockingbird." And yet, I think the two are intertwined much more closely that we think. In our apparent acceptance of torture as a legal method of interrogation, the bar of civilized official behavior has been lowered to the point where we are accepting torture in everyday life as if it's nothing. Indeed, we are using it as a form of entertainment.

I'm speaking of the ever more common use of the Taser, an electrical device used by police and other authorities to drop its victims to the ground and coerce instant compliance. The videos of various incidents make the rounds on the internet and you can see by the comments at the YouTube site that a large number of Americans find tasering to be a sort of slapstick comedy, the equivalent of someone slipping on a banana peel, with a touch of that authoritarian cruelty that always seems to amuse a certain kind of person. "Don't tase me bro" is a national catch phrase.

Tasers aren't benign however. They kill people. Nobody knows exactly why some people die from being tasered, and they certainly don't know how to tell in advance which ones are at risk. But there have been hundreds of deaths similar to the one below, which nobody can adequately explain:

A Detroit teenager who police say fled a traffic stop Friday died after being subdued with a Taser. He is the second Michigan teen to die following a Taser stun in less than a month. Warren Police say they don't know why the 15-year-old bailed out of a Dodge Stratus he was riding in during the stop on Eight Mile near Schoenherr, leading officers on a half-block chase that ended in an abandoned house on Pelkey in Detroit. The car was stopped for having an expired license plate. In the scuffle, officers shocked the teen one time with a Taser, police said. Shortly after, he became unresponsive and died.

Taser International has successfully defended themselves in lawsuits by attributing the deaths to drug use and if that doesn't work do to the fact that drugs were not present in the victim, they rely on an unrecognized medical condition called "excited delirium", a disease that only afflicts people who die in police custody. Juries apparently find this convincing. Taser has only lost one case.

But that isn't the real problem, although it may eventually be the path by which tasers are banned for use in civilized countries. As awful as the possibility of death is, tasers would be a blight on any free people even if they weren't so often deadly. Tasers were sold to the public as a tool for law enforcement to be used in lieu of deadly force. Presumably, this means situations in which officers would have previously had to use their firearms. It's hard to argue with that, and I can't think of a single civil libertarian who would say that this would be a truly civilized advance in policing. Nobody wants to see more death and if police have a weapon they can employ instead of a gun, in self defense or to stop someone from hurting others, I think we all can agree that's a good thing.

But that's not what's happening. Tasers are routinely used by police to torture innocent people who have not broken any law and whose only crime is being disrespectful toward their authority or failing to understand their "orders." There is ample evidence that police often take no more than 30 seconds to talk to citizens before employing the taser, they use them while people are already handcuffed and thus present no danger, and are used often against the mentally ill and handicapped. It is becoming a barbaric tool of authoritarian, social control.

Last week there were three taser episodes that made the rounds on the internet. (There may have been more, but these were the three most discussed.) The first was of a drunken, belligerent man at a baseball game who after 41 seconds of discussion was tasered while sitting in his seat. Indeed, the video shows that the taser threw him down onto the cement steps where he rolled down several. Since this scene must have happened literally thousands of times over the years, you have to wonder what they must have done in the past. Somehow I doubt they pulled out a gun and shot them.

The second incident was this sad tale of a man who allegedly refused to come out of a store restroom. Police blew pepper spray under the door, kicked it open and instantly tasered the man. It was only afterward that they discovered he was deaf. Police tried to book the man anyway, but the magistrate refused to accept the charges.

It was the third incident, however, that should get civil libertarians' serious attention. It featured an Idaho man on a bicycle who happened to ride past a police stop in progress on the side of the road. He had nothing to do with the stop, but was pulled over by the police and told to produce his ID. He said, correctly, that he had no legal obligation to produce ID and the police insisted he must. The situation escalated and he demanded that they call a supervisor to the scene when the police said they were going to arrest him. He ended up being tasered seven times -- you can hear him moaning in pain on the tape at the end. (In an especially creepy moment, the police try to confiscate the tape of the incident.)

Now, many people will say that he should have just showed his ID, that it's stupid to confront police, that like Henry Louis Gates you get what you deserve if you mouth off to the cops. And on a pragmatic level this is certainly true (although I would reiterate what I wrote here about a free people not being required to view the police in the same way they view a criminal street gang, which is to say in fear.) But the fact remains that there is no law against riding a bicycle without ID, and there is no law against mouthing off to the police. Certainly, there can be no rationale behind using a weapon designed to replace deadly force seven times against someone under these circumstances.

These are just three incidents that happened last week. There's nothing special about them. They happen every day. Even this horrific scene, which is so shockingly authoritarian (excuse the pun) that it makes you feel sick, is not unusual:

A former Southern Virginia University and Brigham Young University adjunct professor of political philosophy and jurisprudence, Dr. Lowery entered the Utah Third District courtroom alone on November 22, 2004, to make oral argument before Judge Anthony Quinn. Two Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriffs sat at the back of the courtroom, one on each side of the door. Other deputies were in the foyer of the courtroom. No members of the public were present.

Dr. Lowery suffered from major depression, bipolar disorder, paranoia disorder, delusional disorder, and psychotic disorder. Judge Quinn granted one of Dr. Lowery's motions made under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II, which allowed for reasonable modifications of court rules, policies, or practices in order to accommodate Dr. Lowery's multiple mental disabilities.

Near the end of his oral argument, the traumatic content of the argument moved Dr. Lowery into moderate mania, and he characterized a previous crabbed ruling by Quinn as "bullshit."

Impatient for the speech to end, Judge Quinn took that as an opportunity to order the bailiffs to take the professor into custody and cool him off.

The plaintiff's state of agitation was caused by his mental disabilities. The deputy sheriffs' approach only caused the situation to escalate. As five or more Salt Lake County deputy sheriffs/bailiffs seized Lowery from behind, he shouted, "I am cooled off; I deserve to be heard. I deserve to be heard, your Honor, and you are violating my access to due process at this very moment. I am not violent and --"

Judge Quinn interrupted him with ordering the bailiffs to take Dr. Lowery to a holding cell. A split second later -- unclear whether following the judge's orders or acting on his own accord, a bailiff sent 50,000 volts of incapacitating electricity into the lower back of the unsuspecting professor. As the courtroom video shows, nothing in Dr. Lowery's behavior suggests that the bailiffs had any reasonable motive to believe they or the judge were in physical danger.

Yet the taser gun fired more than once.

The repeated electric shocks blew Dr. Lowery over the podium, and he landed face down on the floor, with two bailiffs on his back. The electric blasts caused Dr. Lowery's bowels to empty twice. He screamed, "Help me!" while he complied with a bailiff's order to stay on his belly, neither capable nor willing to offer resistance. Then, suddenly, he went unconscious.

Remembering they were still on camera, the bailiffs shouted at Dr. Lowery to not resist again (though his resistance was only instinctive) and threatened him with more electrocution. When they realized that he could no longer hear them, they dragged the man across the floor, put him in a chair, and massaged his heart. One bailiff called for paramedics. [...]

Since no one but the victim and the abusers were in the courtroom, this crime remained unknown to the public until recently.

Here's the Youtube of the event. You can see for yourself if there was justification for the reaction of the judge or the police.



Representatives of the government torture innocent citizens into unconsciousness, on camera, in United States courtrooms with tasers. They use them on prisoners and on motorists and on political protesters and bicycle riders, on mentally ill and handicapped people and on children And it's happening with nary a peep of protest.

America's torture problem is much bigger than Gitmo or the CIA or the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The government is torturing people every day and killing some of them. Then videos of the torture wind up on Youtube where sadists laugh and jeer at the victims. It's the sign of profound cultural illness.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/10/tasers/index.html

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I.R.S. - The Real Facts

I.R.S. :
The Real Facts



Many believe that they are required to pay an "income tax" to a branch of the United States government called "The Internal Revenue Service". The origins and history of the IRS shows just how in error these beliefs are. Not only is there no law that requires most Americans to file an individual tax return, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wasn't even created by an act of Congress!


Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, of the Constitution of the United States of America, in pertinent part, provides that:

". . . direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons . . . three-fifths of all other Persons."


In 1894, Congress passed a law which purportedly imposed a "direct income tax" on the Citizens of the several States within this Union, but failed to make any provision for apportionment, as required by Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, of the Constitution of the United States of America.

In the case of Pollack vs. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., US (1895), the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down, as being unconstitutional, because it failed to make any provision for apportionment, as required by Article I, Section 2, Clause 3.

Thereafter, Congress passed the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was "declared" to have been ratified in 1913. The Sixteenth Amendment provides that:

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

The Constitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment was challenged in the case of Brushaber vs. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 240 US 1 (1916). The U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the apparent conflict between Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, of the Constitution, which required all direct taxes to be apportioned, and the Sixteenth Amendment, which appeared to eliminate the apportionment requirement.

The Court pointed out that the Sixteenth Amendment did not repeal Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, but noted that it was under a duty to uphold the Sixteenth Amendment, if it could be interpreted in such a way so as to eliminate the conflict. The Court did hold the Amendment constitutional, but only because it interpreted the Amendment as applying only to "indirect taxes" or "excise taxes", and not to "direct taxes". Brushaber and other cases that followed, stated that the Sixteenth Amendment did not give Congress any new or additional taxing powers that it did not already have, but merely put into written form the state of the law as it previously existed.

Congress did not pass any other law intended to impose a direct tax on income until 1939, when the Public Salary Tax Act of 1939 was passed. The Public Salary Tax Act, Section 1, (which is now designated as 26 USC 1) imposed a tax upon the income of federal employees, U.S. citizens, and non-resident aliens. The term "United States" is defined in 26 USC 7701(9), as: "When used in a geographical sense, the term ‘United States’ means only the states and the District of Columbia.

Section 7701(10) defines the term "States" as follows: " The term ‘States’ shall be construed to include the District of Columbia when necessary to carry out the purpose of this title". It is always necessary to construe the term "States" as including the District of Columbia, because Congress did not include the fifty (50) states, nor the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa.

The Public Salary Tax Act of 1939 did not apply to Citizens of the forty-eight (48) States (now the fifty (50) States).

After Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, Congress declared war, and passed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, in order to raise money to support an Army. This was done in accordance with Article I, Section 8, Clause 12, of the Constitution of the United States of America, which provides:

"The Congress shall have Power . . . To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;"


In 1942, for the first time in the history of this country, the Bureau of Internal Revenue sent out 1040 Form to the general public in the forty-eight States. This was done even though the Victory Tax Act of 1942 only applied to citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, and non-resident aliens.

Most people thought that the Victory Tax Act required everyone to file a tax return and pay tax on "income", so they voluntarily filed a Form 1040 in 1942, 1943 and 1944.

On May 29, 1944, Congress repealed the Victory Tax Act of 1942, but the news media did not publicize that fact.

In 1945, the Bureau of Internal Revenue decided to mass mail 1040 Forms to the general public, just to see what would happen. Why not? The vast majority of the people had voluntarily file tax returns before. Since the public believed that the Victory Tax Act was mandatory in the then forty-eight (48) States, and did not know that it had been repealed, they filled out the 1040 Forms and mailed them in, along with their checks. The Bureau of Internal Revenue was ecstatic and committed itself to continue perpetrating the fraud on the Citizens of the forty-eight (48) States. So, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has continued to send out Form 1040's each and every year since.

Don’t be fooled. The "Internal Revenue Code" was first enacted in 1939 and was called the "Public Salary Tax Act of 1939". Since that time, the name of the Public Salary Tax Act was changed to the "Internal Revenue Code", which was amended in 1953 and 1987. However, the amendments did not change the fact that it only applies to the District of Columbia and the federal territories and possessions.

There is no provision in the Internal Revenue Code that imposes a direct income tax on the Citizens of the fifty (50) States, nor a requirement to file an income tax return, unless employed by the Federal Government. If you are a Citizen of Florida, a Republic, or any other state, and not a Federal Employee, nor a citizen or resident of the District of Columbia, you are not required by law to file a U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.

Form 1040
26 CFR 602.101, contains a cross-reference table, showing that the only form authorized for use in filing a "U.S. Individual Income Tax return" is assigned OMB Number 1545-0067. That number only appears on Form 2555, entitled "Foreign Earned Income", and states that it is to be attached to a Form 1040. Form 1040 is assigned OMB Number 1545-0074, and is only authorized to be used for reporting various types of "credits" to be set off against the "Foreign Earned Income" reported on Form 2555. If you did not have any "Foreign Earned Income" during a year, you cannot file a Form 2555 without committing perjury. If you did not need to claim any tax credits during the year, there is no need or requirement to file a Form 1040.

Form 941
The definition of "Withholding Agent" contained in 26 USC 7701(16), which provides:
Section 1441 is entitled "Withholding of tax on nonresident aliens". Section 1442 is entitled "Withholding tax on foreign corporations". Section 1443 is entitled "Foreign tax-exempt organizations". Section 1461 is entitled "Liability for withheld tax" and provides that:

"Every person required to deduct and withhold any tax under this chapter is hereby made liable for such tax and is hereby indemnified against the claims and demands of any person for the amount of any payments made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter."


26 USC, Chapter 24, Collection of Income Tax At Source, Withholding From Wages, Section 3401, Definitions, states:

"(a) Wages.
For purposes of this chapter, the term "wages" means all remuneration (other than fees paid to a public official) for services performed by an employee for his employer,
. . . .

"(c) Employee.
For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" includes an officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing. The term "employee" also includes an officer of a corporation."

"(d) Employer.
For purposes of the chapter, the term "employer" means the person for whom an individual performs or performed any service, of whatever nature, as the employee of such person, . . ."


If you have never applied for appointment, nor have been appointed, as a "Withholding Agent", and have never been required to withhold "wages", pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1441, 1442 or 1443. Nor if you have never paid any "wages" to a "foreign alien" or "foreign corporation", you would not be liable for any wages withheld from nonresident aliens or foreign corporations under the provisions of Section 1461, of the Internal Revenue Code, therefore, you would not be required to file a Form 941.


The Authority of the Internal Revenue Service
to operate within the fifty (50) States


The Bureau of Internal Revenue and the alleged Internal Revenue Service were not created by any Act of Congress. These are not organizations or agencies of the Department of the Treasury, or of the federal government. They appear to be operated through pure trusts administered by the Secretary of the Treasury (the Trustee).

The Settlor of the trusts and the Beneficiary or Beneficiaries are unknown. According to the law governing trusts, that information does not have to be revealed. You will not find the Bureau of Internal Revenue, or the Internal Revenue Service, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms fisted in 31 USC, Chapter 3, as an authorized agency of the Department of the Treasury.

The Philippine Customs Administrative Act was passed by the Philippine Commission between 1900 and 1902, which created Trust Fund #1, the Philippine special fund (customs duties) (31 USC 1321). The Act was administered under the general supervision and control of the Secretary of Finance and Justice. The Philippine Commission passed another Act known as the Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen Hundred and Four.

This Act created the "Bureau of Internal Revenue" and the federal government's second trust fund, Trust Fund #2, the Philippine special fund (internal revenue).
Article 1, Section 1, of the Act provides that:

"There shall be established a Bureau of Internal Revenue, the chief officer of which Bureau shall be known as the Collector of Internal Revenue. He shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, and shall receive a salary at the rate of eight thousand pesos per annum. The Bureau of Internal Revenue shall belong to the Department of Finance and Justice."

At some unknown date, before 1940, another Bureau of Internal Revenue was established in Puerto Rico, along with Trust fund #62 Puerto Rico (Internal Revenue). These two Bureaus are the only Bureaus of Internal Revenue which have ever existed, one in the Philippines and the other in Puerto Rico. In 1953, the United States relinquished its control over the Philippines.

The Federal Alcohol Administration Act of 1935 was declared unconstitutional in 1935, and the operation was then transferred off shore to Puerto Rico. 27 CFR 250.1 1 provides the following definitions:

"Revenue Agent. Any duly authorized commonwealth Internal Revenue Agent of the Department of the Treasury of Puerto Rico."

"Secretary. The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico.

"Secretary or his delegate. The Secretary or any officer or employee of the Department of the Treasury of Puerto Rico duly authorized by the Secretary to perform the function mentioned or described in this part."


In the absence of any other definition describing revenue officers and agents, Secretary, or the Department of the Treasury, the definitions above are uniformly applicable to all IRS and BATF departments, functions and personnel.

Through Reorganization Plan No 3 of 1940, the federal Alcohol Administration and the offices of the Administrator were abolished and their functions were thereafter administered under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury through the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Department of the Treasury. On July 9, 1953, the Secretary of the Treasury, G. K. Humphrey, created the Internal Revenue Service with the stroke of a pen, by issuing Treasury Order 150-06, without the approval of Congress. On June 6, 1972, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Charles E. Walker signed Treasury Order Number 120-01, which established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, pursuant to his authority conferred under Reorganization Plan No. 26 of 1950. This was also done without the authority of Congress.

Based upon all of the foregoing citations, it is obvious that all Revenue Agents and Officers work as employees of the Department of the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The Internal Revenue Service does not have any jurisdiction or authority over a Sovereign Citizen of Florida, a Republic, or any other state or commonwealth, to enforce the inapplicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, with which the IRS may contend that you are required to comply. The "Internal Revenue Service" has no legal jurisdiction in Florida or any of the other forty-nine (49) States.

Everything the Internal Revenue Service does, assumes a self-appointed, self-serving authority and pseudo jurisdiction, under color of law, to conduct an administrative proceeding against anyone. The IRS is perpetrating the greatest income tax fraud on the Citizens that this country has ever seen.


For those who have ears, let them hear two translations
of the same words of the Lord God:


Woe to those who drag iniquity
with the cords of falsehood, and
sin as if with cart rope;

Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil;

Who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness;

Who substitute bitter for sweet, and
sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and clever in their own sight!

Who justify the wicked for a bribe
and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!


18 Woe to those who draw crookedness
with cords of falsehood, and sin as with wagon ropes,

19 who are saying, "Let Him hurry! Let Him hasten
His work, so that we see it And let the counsel of the Set-apart One of
Yisra'e1 draw near and come, so that we know."

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil;
who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and
clever in their own sight!

22 Woe to the mighty to drink wine, and brave men
to mix strong drink,

23 who declare right the wrong for a bribe,and the
righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him!
-Isaiah 5.-18

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for Better Government


Revised July
6, 1999

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

People Speak Out About The Bad Side Effects Of Tamiflu

SWINE FLU DRUG INFORMATION AND USER REVIEWS

Only two drugs are approved for treating 2009 Influenza A (Swine Flu or H1N1) virus: Tamiflu and Relenza. Both of these drugs are in a class of drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs). Neuraminidase is a protein on the surface of an influenza virus that helps it spread the virus to other cells. NAIs can help stop that protein from infecting other cells. Both drugs can help shorten the duration of flu symptoms, such as fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, congestion, and cough. However, it is important that the drug treatment begin within 2 days of when the symptoms of the Flu begin.

This article provides an overview of what each drug does, where to get warnings and FDA information, and highlights and analysis of the ratings received for Tamiflu on Askapatient.com.

TAMIFLU (oseltamivir phosphate) by Roche Pharmaceuticals,
is available as a capsule or in a liquid (oral suspension) formulation. The capsule form was approved by the FDA October 27, 1999, and the liquid formulation was approved December 14, 2000. Tamiflu is more frequently prescribed than Relenza and is approved for patients over the age of 1. This drug was widely used in 2005 during the avian flu outbreak in Japan and other parts of southeast Asia. When Tamiflu is used to treat flu symptoms, it is usually taken two times a day (morning and evening) for 5 days. When oseltamivir is used to prevent flu, it is usually taken once a day for at least 10 days, or for up to 6 weeks during a community flu outbreak.

RELENZA (zanamivir) by Glaxo Smithkline, is available as a powder to inhale (breathe in) by mouth. Zanamivir comes with a plastic inhaler called a Diskhaler (device for inhaling powder) and five Rotadisks (circular foil blister packs each containing four blisters of medication). It is only approved for patients over the age of 7. It was approved by the FDA July 26, 1999. Manufacturer information is at Relenza.com

read more here: http://www.askapatient.com/research/swinefludrugs.htm

People Speak Out About The Bad Side Effects Of Tamiflu
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=21087&name=TAMIFLU&sort=satisfaction&order=1&page=1

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America

By Jo Macfarlane
15th August 2009

A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.
The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.

It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine.
GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.

The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications.
It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:

More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu.
500 cases of GBS were detected.
The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times.
The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear.
The US Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected.
Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown.
It is being developed by pharmaceutical companies and will be given to about 13million people during the first wave of immunisation, expected to start in October.
Top priority will be given to everyone aged six months to 65 with an underlying health problem, pregnant women and health professionals.
The British Neurological Surveillance Unit (BNSU), part of the British Association of Neurologists, has been asked to monitor closely any cases of GBS as the vaccine is rolled out.
One senior neurologist said last night: ‘I would not have the swine
flu jab because of the GBS risk.’

There are concerns that there could be a repeat of what became known as the ‘1976 debacle’ in the US, where a swine flu vaccine killed 25 people – more than the virus itself.
A mass vaccination was given the go-ahead by President Gerald Ford because scientists believed that the swine flu strain was similar to the one responsible for the 1918-19 pandemic, which killed half a million Americans and 20million people worldwide.

The swine flu vaccine being offered to children has not been tested on infants

Within days, symptoms of GBS were reported among those who had been immunised and 25 people died from respiratory failure after severe paralysis. One in 80,000 people came down with the condition. In contrast, just one person died of swine flu.

More than 40million Americans had received the vaccine by the time the programme was stopped after ten weeks. The US Government paid out millions of dollars in compensation to those affected.

The swine flu virus in the new vaccine is a slightly different strain from the 1976 virus, but the possibility of an increased incidence of GBS remains a concern.

Shadow health spokesman Mike Penning said last night: ‘The last thing we want is secret letters handed around experts within the NHS. We need a vaccine but we also need to know about potential risks.

‘Our job is to make sure that the public knows what’s going on. Why
is the Government not being open about this? It’s also very worrying if GPs, who will be administering the vaccine, aren’t being warned.’

Two letters were posted together to neurologists advising them of the concerns. The first, dated July 29, was written by Professor Elizabeth Miller, head of the HPA’s Immunisation Department.
It says: ‘The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use.

‘GBS has been identified as a condition needing enhanced surveillance when the swine flu vaccines are rolled out.
‘Reporting every case of GBS irrespective of vaccination or disease history is essential for conducting robust epidemiological analyses capable of identifying whether there is an increased risk of GBS in defined time periods after vaccination, or after influenza itself, compared with the background risk.’

The second letter, dated July 27, is from the Association of British Neurologists and is written by Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, chair of its surveillance unit, and Professor Patrick Chinnery, chair of its clinical research committee.

It says: ‘Traditionally, the BNSU has monitored rare diseases for long periods of time. However, the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic has overtaken us and we need every member’s involvement with a new BNSU survey of Guillain-Barre Syndrome that will start on August 1 and run for approximately nine months.
‘Following the 1976 programme of vaccination against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective study found a possible eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS.

‘Active prospective ascertainment of every case of GBS in the UK is required. Please tell BNSU about every case.

‘You will have seen Press coverage describing the Government’s concern about releasing a vaccine of unknown safety.’

If there are signs of a rise in GBS after the vaccination programme begins, the Government could decide to halt it.

GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, leaving them unable to transmit signals to muscles effectively.
It can cause partial paralysis and mostly affects the hands and feet. In serious cases, patients need to be kept on a ventilator, but it can be fatal.

Death is caused by paralysis of the respiratory system, causing the victim to suffocate.
It is not known exactly what causes GBS and research on the subject has been inconclusive.
However, it is thought that one in a million people who have a seasonal flu vaccination could be at risk and it has also been linked to people recovering from a bout of flu of any sort.

The HPA said it was part of the Government’s pandemic plan to monitor GBS cases in the event of a mass vaccination campaign, regardless of the strain of flu involved.
But vaccine experts warned that the letters proved the programme was a ‘guinea-pig trial’.

Dr Tom Jefferson, co-ordinator of the vaccines section of the influential Cochrane Collaboration, an independent group that reviews research, said: ‘New vaccines never behave in the way you expect them to. It may be that there is a link to GBS, which is certainly not something I would wish on anybody.

‘But it could end up being anything because one of the additives in one of the vaccines is a substance called squalene, and none of the studies we’ve extracted have any research on it at all.’

He said squalene, a naturally occurring enzyme, could potentially cause so-far-undiscovered side effects.

Jackie Fletcher, founder of vaccine support group Jabs, said: ‘The Government would not be anticipating this if they didn’t think there was a connection. What we’ve got is a massive guinea-pig trial.’

Professor Chinnery said: ‘During the last swine flu pandemic, it was observed that there was an increased frequency of cases of GBS. No one knows whether it was the virus or the vaccine that caused this.

‘The purpose of the survey is for us to assess rapidly whether there is an increase in the frequency of GBS when the vaccine is released in the UK. It also increases consultants’ awareness of the condition.

Panic over? The number of swine flu cases has fallen sharply in the past few weeks

‘This is a belt-and-braces approach to safety and is not something people should be substantially worried about as it’s a rare condition.’

If neurologists do identify a case of GBS, it will be logged on a central database.

Details about patients, including blood samples, will be collected and monitored by the HPA.

It is hoped this will help scientists establish why some people develop the condition and whether it is directly related to the vaccine.

But some question why there needs to be a vaccine, given the risks. Dr Richard Halvorsen, author of The Truth About Vaccines, said: ‘For people with serious underlying health problems, the risk of dying from swine flu is probably greater than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

‘But it would be tragic if we repeated the US example and ended up with more casualties from the jabs.

‘I applaud the Government for recognising the risk but in most cases this is a mild virus which needs a few days in bed. I’d question why we need a vaccine at all.’

Professor Miller at the HPA said: ‘This monitoring system activates pandemic plans that have been in place for a number of years. We’ll be able to get information on whether a patient has had a prior influenza illness and will look at whether influenza itself is linked to GBS.

‘We are not expecting a link to the vaccine but a link to disease, which would make having the vaccine even more important.’

The UK’s medicines watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, is already monitoring reported side effects from Tamiflu and Relenza and it is set to extend that surveillance to the vaccine.

A Department of Health spokesperson said: ‘The European Medicines Agency has strict processes in place for licensing pandemic vaccines.

‘In preparing for a pandemic, appropriate trials to assess safety and the immune responses have been carried out on vaccines very similar to the swine flu vaccine. The vaccines have been shown to have a good safety profile.
‘It is extremely irresponsible to suggest that the UK would use a vaccine without careful consideration of safety issues. The UK has one of the most successful immunisation programmes in the world.’


I COULDN''T EAT OR SPEAK... IT WAS HORRENDOUS

Victim: Hilary Wilkinson spent three months in hospital after she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome
When Hilary Wilkinson woke up with muscle weakness in her left arm and difficulty breathing, doctors initially put it down to a stroke.

But within hours, she was on a ventilator in intensive care after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

She spent three months in hospital and had to learn how to talk and walk again. But at times, when she was being fed through a drip and needed a tracheotomy just to breathe, she doubted whether she would survive.
The mother of two, 57, from Maryport, Cumbria, had been in good health until she developed a chest infection in March 2006. She gradually became so weak she could not walk downstairs.
Doctors did not diagnose Guillain-Barre until her condition worsened in hospital and tests showed her reflexes slowing down. It is impossible for doctors to know how she contracted the disorder, although it is thought to be linked to some infections.
Mrs Wilkinson said: ‘It was very scary. I couldn’t eat and I couldn’t speak. My arms and feet had no strength and breathing was hard.
I was treated with immunoglobulin, which are proteins found in blood, to stop damage to my nerves. After ten days, I still couldn’t speak and had to mime to nurses or my family.

‘It was absolutely horrendous and I had no idea whether I would get through it. You reach very dark moments at such times and wonder how long it can last.

But I’m a very determined person and I had lots of support.’

After three weeks, she was transferred to a neurological ward, where she had an MRI scan and nerve tests to assess the extent of the damage.

Still unable to speak and in a wheelchair, Mrs Wilkinson eventually began gruelling physiotherapy to improve her muscle strength and movement but it was exhausting and painful.
Three years later, she is almost fully recovered. She can now walk for several miles at a time, has been abroad and carries out voluntary work for a GBS Support Group helpline.

She said: ‘It makes me feel wary that the Government is rolling out this vaccine without any clear idea of the GBS risk, if any. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone and it certainly changed my life.

‘I’m frightened to have the swine flu vaccine if this might happen again – it’s a frightening illness and I think more research needs to be done on the effect of the vaccine.’


Hotline staff given access to confidential records

Confidential NHS staff records and disciplinary complaints could be accessed by hundreds of workers manning the Government’s special swine flu hotline.

They were able to browse through a database of emails containing doctors’ and nurses’ National Insurance numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and scanned passport pages – all details that could be used fraudulently.

And private and confidential complaints sent by hospitals about temporary medical staff – some of whom were named – were also made available to the call-centre workers, who were given a special password to log in to an internal NHS website.

It could be a breach of the Data Protection Act.
The hotline staff work for NHS Professionals, which was set up using taxpayers’ money to employ temporary medical and administrative staff for the health service.

The not-for-profit company runs two of the Government’s swine flu call centres – with 300 staff in Farnborough, Hampshire, and 900 in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley described the revelations as ‘disturbing’.

Anne Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Unison, said: ‘There’s no excuse for such a fundamental breach of personal security. Action needs to be taken as soon as possible to make sure this does not happen again.’

A spokeswoman for NHS Professionals would not confirm whether access to the confidential files had been granted.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206807/Swine-flu-jab-link-killer-nerve-disease-Leaked-letter-reveals-concern-neurologists-25-deaths-America.html

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Alabama Destroying ANCIENT MOUNDS for Sam's Club

By Sue Sturgis on August 4, 2009 8:43 AM

Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam's Club


City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.

A University of Alabama archaeology report commissioned by the city found that the site was historically significant as the largest of several ancient stone and earthen mounds throughout the Choccolocco Valley. But Oxford Mayor Leon Smith -- whose campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project -- insists the mound is not man-made and was used only to "send smoke signals."

"The City of Oxford and its archaeological advisers have completed a review and evaluation of a stone mound that was identified near Boiling Springs, Calhoun County, Alabama, and have concluded that the mound is the result of natural phenomena and does not meet the eligibility criteria for the Natural [sic] Register of Historic Places," according to a news release Smith issued last week.

In fact, the report does not conclude the mound is a result of "natural phenomena" but says very clearly it is of "cultural origin." And while the University's Office of Archaeological Research does not believe the site qualifies for the National Register of Historic Places, the Alabama Historical Commission disagrees, noting that the structure meets at least three criteria for inclusion: its "association with a broad pattern of history," architecture "embodying distinctive characteristics," and for the information it might yield to scholars.

The site is also significant to Native Americans. The Woodland and Mississippian cultures that inhabited the Southeast and Midwest before Europeans arrived constructed and used these mounds for various rituals, which may have included funerals. There are concerns that human remains may be present at the site, though none have been found yet.

United South and Eastern Tribes, a nonprofit coalition of 25 federally recognized tribes from Maine to Texas, passed a resolution in 2007 calling for the preservation of such structures, which it calls "prayer in stone." Native Americans have held protests against the mound's demolition, and last week someone altered a sign for the Leon Smith Parkway that runs past the development to read "Indian Mound Pkwy."

A local resident named Johnny Rollins told the Anniston Star how his Native American grandmother taught him that when she died he could "go to that mountain" to talk to her:

"It seems like it's taking part of you away," he said of the demolition. "I always felt I had ties to that there."

Since the media began reporting on the site's demolition, city officials have revised their story and are now claiming that dirt from the mound is not being used as fill, despite earlier statements to the contrary. But eyewitnesses say they have seen workers hauling dirt from the mound to the Sam's Club development.

"I mean really, I went there, saw the giant trucks deliver the earth straight from the mound to the construction site, and I still can't believe what they are doing," writes the seventh-generation Alabamian behind the blog Deep Fried Kudzu. She shared the photo above showing roads for construction vehicles now cut to the top of the mound and has other photos and her story of visiting the site at the website.

'More prettier' than an Indian mound

Deepening the development's controversy is how the contracting has been handled. The force behind the project is Oxford's Commercial Development Authority, a public board that uses taxpayer money to lure businesses to the area. The CDA owns the land where the mound is located.

Alabama law exempts CDAs from bid requirements, which means contracts can go to whomever the board chooses. A recent Anniston Star investigative series about the CDA revealed among other things that the group has awarded nearly $9 million in contracts since 1994 but has taken bids for none of them.

The newspaper also detailed the financial ties between the CDA, firms it does business with, and Mayor Smith's political campaign.

For example, the $2.6 million contract for preparing the Sam's Club site went to Oxford-based Taylor Corp., with the money for that coming in part from the sale of city property to Georgia-based developers Abernathy and Timberlake. Taylor Corp. owner Tommy Taylor, who has received thousands of dollars in city contracts for non-CDA work, donated $1,000 to Smith in 2004 and $1,000 in 2008, while Abernathy and Timberlake donated $1,000 to Smith's re-election campaign in 2004, the paper reports.

The Anniston Star also found that the CDA paid engineering firm Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood of Montgomery, Ala. $45,000 in engineering contracts for the Sam's Club project, with part of that money paying for the archaeological study. The firm contributed $500 to Smith in 2004.

An Alabama Ethics Commission official said the relationships could violate state law "depending on facts," but the mayor said he's done nothing wrong.

Meanwhile, the controversy over the damaged mound's fate rages on. After getting an earful from alarmed preservationists, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R) forwarded their concerns to the state Historical Commission -- but said his office has no intention of getting involved. According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Tommy Taylor contributed $1,000 to Riley's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, while Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood contributed $1,500.

For now, it appears Oxford officials are pressing ahead with the project. As Mayor Smith said in its defense, "What it's going to be is more prettier than it is today."

www.southernstudies.org/2009/08/alabama-city-destroying-ancient-indian-mound-for-sams-club.html

The War Against Children

From: BLUE EYED ANGEL

The Systematic Destruction of Humanity

The perps want your children. They want to influence them in such a way that their young
minds can be molded to suit the perp plans for the global government. There are several ways
to accomplish this brainwashing of the next generation.

The most common method is to arrest the child for any reason whatever. All schools, churches, and summer camps are infiltrated with perp spies who get paid a bonus for each kid they can turn into a criminal. First they will identify the children who appear to be good candidates. Then, their targets selected, they will use peer pressure to get the child involved in drugs, sex, vandalism, and theft. Kids who do not go along with the agenda cannot belong to the exclusive club and will be bullied and made fun of until they do go along with the agenda, or until they do something rash or violent out of frustration and anger. Children can then be sent to reform school.

A method that is becoming more common is to have Child Protective Services take the child
from the parents on some pretext. Child abuse or neglect is a common charge. Occasionally the parents can be charged with drug abuse or some other crime. If the parents are poor, it is almost certain neglect can be proven. Children will be sent to a foster home.

The shock of children being separated from their parents is just part of the trauma based mind control that will be used to change their morals and beliefs. While the child is away from their
parents, perp infiltrators program their brain over time to make them more suitable for the over all plan. The goal is to instill in the child that the end justifies the means and that sacrifices have to be made to achieve long term goals. Everyone is expendable, especially if they might interfere with the over all plan. Eliminating obstacles to the implementation of the global plan is not immoral, some "collateral damage" is to be expected.


As if that were not enough:

The economic war against the working class has mandated a two income household, with some folks working two jobs, just to make ends meet. This provides less quality time for parents and children. With less time spent with parents, small wonder children are more likely to get into trouble. Add to that the fact that children now mature physically much earlier than the previous generation and the formula is complete for disaster. However, this problem pales in comparison to the covert, relentless, global onslaught against all the children of the world.

While starvation, homelessness, and forced child labor continue beyond the borders of the US, children the world over are vulnerable to pedophiles.

Anyone with a computer connected to the internet has received unsolicited advertisements in their email termed spam. A certain percentage of this is invariably pornographic. Even those who have never clicked on a porn site, receive at least some of this trash. Out of this porn spam there will invariably be a few emails advertising kiddie porn. Children, being naturally curious, will click
on this trash, triggering an onslaught of smut and attracting predatory sex addicts.

The pedophiles are taking over the world! World wide pedophile rings provide a black market dealing in children, many of them kidnapped and smuggled far from home. Advertisements promoting pedophilia are sent out as spam eating up bandwidth and clogging email. Much of the time, this filth cannot even be traced back to the source. Sting operations, while laudable, only
scratch the surface of this problem.

How can this be? Isn't this illegal? Aren't there laws against this kind of exploitation of children? Laws notwithstanding, the smut peddlers can forge a return email address, send anonymous email, or do other hacking tricks to make the tracing of this kind of trash difficult
or impossible.

The elimination of kiddie porn should be a priority as high as that of the pursuit of hackers, with the penalty being life in prison, for it does indeed contribute to the enslavement of the helpless, innocent children of the world.

The recent increase in child and teenage abductions proves that this smut is not harmless and only serves to embolden those twisted individuals who would exploit our children. While the newly installed Amber Alert system appears to work to find stolen children when implemented immediately, we all need to be aware that there are already thousands of children who have grown up in this abusive environment and remain enslaved to this day, even in America. Hopefully, there are enough concerned citizens who will be responsible enough to take a little time out of their busy schedule to study and fight this problem. A must read book on this subject:

Carol Rutz, "A Nation Betrayed" Describes brutal atrocities performed on
American children by our government. From Fidelity Publishing,
P.O. Box 365,
Grass Lake, MI 49240-0365

Also: Cathy O'Brien & Mark Phillips, "Trance Formation of America"

As for the unsolicited smut, there should be some way to jail the sender. Perhaps there are hackers out there somewhere who at least know how to track down the smut peddlers.

A complaint to the attorney general of your state may be helpful. In Texas, the link is:
http://www.texasag.org/forms/online/ib_complain_crime.asp

As public awareness has increased, outrage has lead to world wide efforts to stop the crimes against children: http://www.networkof.com/pages/rcp/rcp01.htm

US Hailed for Signing Two Human Rights Protocols
Protocols Consisting of strong provisions that define the terms "sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography," the protocol for the first time requires that these abuses be treated as criminal acts.


This Crime is Global!
"Every day around the world and even here in the United States,
children are sold into virtual slavery or trafficked for the worst
forms of sexual abuse."---President Clinton,
July 5, 2000
(at protocol orders signing ceremony at the United Nations)
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/july00/02_02_005.html

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Lawmaker faces angry Pa. crowd on health care

By ERICA WERNERThe Associated Press
Tuesday, August 11, 2009; 4:50 PM

LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — Voter fears of a government takeover of health care and rampant costs were on stark display Tuesday at a longtime senator's noisy town hall, a session that underscored the challenge for President Obama and Democrats in overhauling the nation's system.

Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter faced hostile questions, taunts and jeers as he gamely tried to explain his positions. It was likely a moment of deja vu for the five-term lawmaker facing a tough re-election next year. Just a week ago, Specter encountered a tough crowd at a Philadelphia town hall.

VIDEO: Sen. Specter faces angry crowd at town hall

HEALTH CARE: Obama pitches plan to the insured

At a crowded community college, Specter heard from speaker after speaker who accused him of trampling on their constitutional rights, adding to the federal deficit or allowing government bureaucrats to take over health care. "You'll be gone, by God the bureaucrats will still be here," said one man." "My children and grandchildren are going to pay for this," said another. "One day God will stand before you and judge you!" shouted a third man before security guards approached and he left the room.
Specter said he wouldn't vote for a bill that adds to the deficit. He also said he wouldn't support a bill that extends coverage to illegal immigrants. None of the bills in Congress would provide health insurance to illegal immigrants.

Specter explained repeatedly that there is no single Senate bill yet for him to talk about since the Finance Committee hasn't finished writing one. That explanation was usually met by boos from the crowd. Many had read portions of a bill passed by three committees in the House and tried to get Specter to respond to that.

One woman tried to make it personal for Specter, alleging the Democrats' plan would not provide care to a man in his 70s with cancer, like Specter had.

"You're here because of the plan we have now," she said. Specter showed some heat at that.

"Well you're just not right," he said. He called her claim a "vicious, malicious" rumor.
The passions of the crowd illustrated the problems for Democratic lawmakers around the country as they try to use the month-long August recess to promote Obama's health care overhaul agenda. There's not a single plan to promote, which Specter later told reporters made his job harder, along with the complexity of the issue. The House bill is more than 1,000 pages long.

And, Specter said: "The objectors have gotten ahead of the curve." Asked why, he cited talk radio, among other factors.

Democrats are trying desperately to regain control of the debate, with the White House posting a new website designed to dispel what it called "the misinformation and baseless smears that are cropping up daily." House Democratic aides have set up a health care war room out of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's office designed to help lawmakers answer questions about the legislation.

Though his popularity is slipping in polls, Obama himself is repeatedly trying to make the case to the public for passage of comprehensive legislation this year to bring down costs and extend coverage to many of the 50 million uninsured.

Specter said that in a long life in politics he hadn't seen anything like what he witnessed Tuesday and at a town hall last weekend that turned even uglier.

"There is more anger in America today than at any time I can remember," Specter said. Many in the crowd said they came of their own accord, and several told Specter they objected to Democrats characterizing them as mobs or organized opposition shipped in by lobbyists or the Republican Party. National conservative groups are encouraging people to attend town halls, but liberal groups are doing the same — with less apparent success.

Several in the crowd wore T-shirts proclaiming: "Proud Member of the Mob."

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-11-specter-health-meeting_N.htm?csp=34#uslPageReturn

Neutralizing A TASER Gun Assault

8-9-09

Editor's Note: The reason that so many in "law enforcement" today act like uncaring, inhumane barbarians is because they are CHOSEN and TRAINED to behave that way. You can see from news reports that the level of barbarity against relatively NON-THREATENING individuals who have usually committed the 'crime' of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, has been increasing dramatically over the past few years in Britain and here in the US and Canada.

Cops are being encouraged to behave this way using the same sort of dehumanizing mind set that has been employed for the past decade to "train" US military personnel. It's part of the agenda to federalize and militarize local police. Civilians that cops encounter in the street are viewed as the "enemy", much as civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan are viewed as the "enemy" and the threshold of restraint falls to ever lower levels as the goons who get away with this abusive behavior never pay a price for their thugery.

The police who TASER and maim people or TASER and kill innocent people face NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION, nor a loss of pay, nor a loss of job, nor are they indicted for any crimes, so naturally the barbaric behavior only increases over time. Victims of police TASER abuse and concerned citizens need to organize into a national group to STOP the use of TASER guns entirely. A legal team needs to be organized nationally to bring lawsuits down on every police department, every police chief, every city government, and every cop who tortures or kills people with TASER guns. It's NEVER going to stop until those who were responsible for putting those TASER guns in the hands of irresponsible thugs are brought to task for their betrayal of the public trust. When the savages masquerading as policemen are forced to pay a price for their criminal behavior, it will stop--and not a day before. --Ken Adachi

August 8, 2009

Neutralizing a TASER Gun Assault (Aug. 8, 2009)

Subject: Taser Defeat
From: Hank
Date: Sun, August 2, 2009
To: Ken Adachi

Hi Ken,

Info on your website very informative and eye opening for many. Now that things are escalating and getting real serious, it5 is now time we take more active roles in stopping these bastards. So they are coming up with even more advanced tasers huh, how about pulling the rug out from under these mindless fools and defeat them for mere pennies?

And this simply can be done by shorting out the dart probes. A simple body armour can be nothing but a piece of tin foil worn under the clothes. That would short out the electrical currents even if the darts pierce through it. Two or three layers of the foil would even be better if the dart probes pierced it and would provide small holes so the taser electrical arcs would short out more and faster. Even a piece of cardboard or heavy cloth wrapped in tin foil would do the trick. These mindless fools need to be brought back in their place after maybe spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions to be defeated by pennies.

This is power to the people. Every thing that these so-called control bastards spend big money on to control us needs to be countered attacked with everyday, common and cheap measures. Maybe this taser counter attack can be the starter. Will they out law tin foil next? Do a little research from your members and post an article for the simpliest and cheapest methods for the people to use.

Hank

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