60 Minutes prove that Congress and Washington is legally morally corrupt

Written By FaithRMichaels
60 minutes  let the world know that members of Congress and Senate practice Insider trading and that it is legal for them to do so!
That is such an  unbelievable egregious,immoral unethical,breach of trust, conflict of Interest, that I am going to say it again
Insider trading is LEGAL for Congress and Senators...and illegal for the rest of us.
Martha Stewart went to jail for Insider trading and so have a bunch of other folks.
Who knew all Martha had to do was get elected before she did her thing...then it would have been perfectly legal..Well we knew we couldn't trust them...The old joke "how do you know when a politician is lying : his/her lips are moving" is certainly true here.
It explains why someone would spend millions to  get a job that only pays 175,000 a yr.
Oh and please do watch the CBS 60 Minutes vid..then please share this far and wide....Say...I wonder... is this "legal Insider trading some form of treason? At the very least it most certainly definitely explains why the American government sleeps in the same bed as the Corporations and ignores the people...What were we the people thinking?? Oh yes that Congress and the Senate were elected by us to serve We The People.
Throw the bums out and write and yell and holler,and let the whole country..hell the whole world know WHY we are in the streets!This article says it all and here is just a sample taste..
"members of Congress have been using secrets that they have learned during the course of their duties to make huge amounts of money in the stock market.  If you can believe it, during the financial crisis of 2008 some members of Congress were making huge stock moves that would only pay off if the stock market crashed really hard at a time when they should have been focusing on creating legislation that would help the U.S. financial system survive.  It is hard not to feel sick after learning how low some of our "leaders" have stooped to enrich themselves. "

GRRRRRRRRRRR!

ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES! Ratigan Spells-It-Out!

This is GREAT- Ratigan identifies the root causes of the Financial Crisis and gives us a solution, or at least the start of one !

PLEASE REPOST THIS VIDEO EVERYWHERE. When Everyone knows what the problem is then we can actually force a solution !

Help Ron Paul...End the Mandate!

I am all for healthcare for all but this healthcare bill without a single payer option is an obama-nation!
It is Unconstitutional!
I signed.
FaithRMichaels

Fellow Patriot,

Big Government took a huge leap forward in 2010.  And you and I will suffer the consequences unless we take action today.

You see, the statists look for every opportunity to gain more power over our lives – and they found another one in the ObamaCare scheme.

It is a huge step toward a full takeover of our personal medical decisions, as well as a massive tax increase and a huge loss of liberty. It will also cause further destruction to our already fragile economy.

I’m not going to let this happen without a fight.  A fight to the end.

That’s why next week I will be reintroducing my END THE MANDATE Act, to eliminate the mandate requiring Americans to carry government-approved health insurance.

I’m asking you to join the battle today.

Please read the email below from Campaign for Liberty President John Tate.  Campaign for Liberty has a great plan to help me win this fight, but they are going to need every Patriot in our Revolution to join them.

I trust you’ll find this effort worthy of your time and support.

In Liberty



Congressman Ron Paul

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March 3, 2011


Dear Faith,

The ObamaCare scheme is designed to do two things statists love more than anything else: vastly increase the size and power of government and give our federal masters more control over our personal business.

Power over our very lives.

It's getting harder and harder for them to conceal their true intentions - and people are waking up to it.

You and I saw the results of this in the recent elections, giving us an opportunity to take action.

Ron Paul has a plan to fight back and END THE MANDATE, but Campaign for Liberty needs your help today to get the battle really moving.

You see, the debate over nationalized health care isn't about what Congress wants to "give" Americans.

It's not even about health care at all.

It's about power.

It's about what THEY take.

It's always been about what they take.

And their "take" is staggering.



Passage of ObamaCare means:

***  Statist politicians will collect more than $570 BILLION in new taxes on everything from prescription drugs and private insurance plans to medical device manufacturers;

***  Big Government will grow even bigger, as the IRS alone will hire more than 12,000 new employees to "ensure compliance";

***  The power of politicians and bureaucrats will expand dramatically as they FORCE U.S. citizens to buy insurance as a condition of citizenship and seize unprecedented control over American health care and businesses of every size.

You and I have a choice to make.

We can give up and give in. Or we can FIGHT BACK.

Well, Ron Paul has made his choice and is preparing to introduce legislation to END THE MANDATE.

Will you help C4L fight back alongside him?

As you know, recently a Florida federal judge correctly ruled that the ObamaCare mandate is unconstitutional.

This follows a similar ruling in Virginia.

While the momentum is on the side of health freedom, President Obama will continue to fight these rulings.

And it's far from guaranteed that the Supreme Court will uphold them.

A final ruling could be YEARS away - more than enough time for the mandate to take effect.

And you know what happens once a new government program is started.

So you and I must take action - IMMEDIATELY - to ensure we permanently defeat the mandate.



If passed, Dr. Paul's bill would end ObamaCare's mandate to force citizens and businesses to carry government-approved health insurance.

And this fight MUST start now.

You and I have seen the anger of the American people over this federal power grab.

After all, you've seen the news reports.

But they don't tell the real story.

No matter how government propaganda agencies manipulate economic statistics, unemployment continues to increase.

Some are reporting the real figure is close to 20%.

Yet, despite the Obama Administration's post-election rhetoric, the plan is to continue the federal spending spree.

In fact, as I write you, the federal debt is over $14 TRILLION and growing.

So I'm not going to sugarcoat this.

If you and I refuse to END THE MANDATE, it could be the last straw that sends our fragile economy nosediving off a cliff.

You see, some reports show ObamaCare could cost as much as $3 TRILLION or more over the next decade.

The new taxes and "fees" intended to partially cover the outrageous cost of ObamaCare will instead most likely stifle any new economic growth and worsen the recession.

Before each provision of the law even takes effect, insurance companies are already either raising their rates or dropping coverage entirely.

That's why it's so critical you sign the copy of Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill IMMEDIATELY.

I can tell you, your signed copy of the bill - and those from millions of others all over the country - will make an
enormous impact.

You see, the statists in Congress believe they've beaten YOU.

After all, the politicians saw the polls.

They knew they weren't doing the "will of the people" when they rammed ObamaCare into law.

But they think they'll get away with it anyway.

You see, the statists are betting you'll just give up.

They hope you'll forget about politics and get back to your life.

They and their willing accomplices in the media and entertainment industries hope to continue to distract you with their "bread and circuses" routine.

But that's not what's going to happen.

Not if Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul, and millions of Patriots come to the rescue.

The establishment doesn't think the American people will work hard enough to make this happen.

It's up to you and me to prove them dead WRONG.

Dr. Paul is ready to fight. Are you ready to help him?

That's why your signature on Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill is so important.



My hope is to distribute millions of signed copies of Dr. Paul's bill on Capitol Hill to SHOCK the political establishment.

Your signed petitions will show the politicians in Washington that we will not go away . . .

. . . that the fight isn't over . . .

. . . and that they'll never get away with ramming another Big Government Bill down our throats again!

Just as importantly, we can send this message to the politicians in BOTH parties in Washington, D.C. - work to DESTROY ObamaCare by cosponsoring Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill... or continue to face the consequences.

Trust me, after this past election, that will resonate in the halls of Congress.

After all, politicians who are concerned almost solely with power are always primarily focused on reelection.

But that doesn't mean this battle will be easy.

Far from it.

Statist politicians in BOTH parties aren't going to give up their newfound taxing, regulating, and spending power over American citizens without an all-out FIGHT.

So that's exactly what I have planned.

In fact, I've already begun contacting supporters throughout the country via the Internet and email to alert them to Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill.

If you and I want to make a real difference in this fight, I need to be able to begin mobilizing an additional fifteen million activists from all over the country IMMEDIATELY.

In addition to vastly expanding the Internet and email program, I hope to mail millions of letters, make hundreds of thousands of phone calls, work talk radio and the media, and, if funding permits, roll out hard-hitting radio and TV ads in targeted districts in the final days before the vote.

So, in addition to signing the first page of Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill, it's vital you chip in your most generous contribution IMMEDIATELY.



I know I don't have to explain how critical this fight is.

If we don't fight back - if we don't prove to the Big Government politicians that we will not rest until ObamaCare is totally DESTROYED - this will only be the beginning.

Regardless of which political party is in power, there will be even greater assaults on our remaining health care freedoms until one day, federal bureaucrats are the decision makers in who receives care and who doesn't . . .

. . . and ultimately, who lives and who dies.

This is not the America I want to live in. And this is not the America I want for my kids and grandkids.

Faith, one reason Dr. Paul has fought against Big Government for over 30 years is that - like me - he believes ordinary folks can ultimately defeat the statists in BOTH parties and chart a new course for liberty for our country


In Liberty,



John Tate
President


P.S. It's up to you and me to show the statists that under no circumstances is the fight over ObamaCare finished.

The good news is, Congressman Ron Paul is preparing to reintroduce his END THE MANDATE Bill to end compulsory participation in ObamaCare.

It's vital you sign the first page of Dr. Paul's END THE MANDATE Bill so I can deliver it to Congress.

What The Heck Is Wrong With Us!!?? What Part of THEY LIE TO US CONSTANTLY Don't You Understand?

an e-mail arrived in my inbox from the Kick them all out campaign and it is worthy of sharing  so here goes:

Quote To Remember

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.... Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies

Carroll Quigley,"Tragedy and Hope:a History of the World in our Time"

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Why Do So Many Fall For These People?

It absolutely confounds me why so many people fall for the STARS that the powers-that-be prop-up in front of us. How can otherwise bright, intelligent people become stupefyingly lame-headed and suckered by people that are clearly just saying exactly what everyone wants to hear? It happens over and over again. Once they are elected, they do nothing for us! Duh!!

Why do you think that is? Could it be that they never gave a damn about us to begin with? Could it be that when those in power offered to "make them rich and famous" and that they may have been seduced? No, that couldn't be it. Not our precious fill in the name of your favorite savior here.

The sad fact is many of us have been socially conditioned to idealize celebrity! It astounds me how easily people will glom onto someone and idealize them beyond any reasonable proportions. How many of our so-called leaders turn out to be worthy of our adoration and idealizations? How many discredited, corrupt political stars can look right into a camera, right into your eyes, smile and LIE without a second thought? That's why they pick these people. They can do this without any trouble whatsoever. Oh, but not Obama. He would never do anything like that. Sarah would never do anything like that. They are real. They are genuine, right? You just "know" they are by what you've seen on TV, or heard at a rally you saw her at. Or my God, she actually spoke to you personally at a rally. She seemed so real, so nice.

I think I may have to projectile vomit. Please excuse me for a moment . . .

Can you detect a bit of ire in my tone? I'm just so tired of seeing good people act out the same stupid behavior. There I said it. I said the "S" word.

Another strange thing that happens to many of us is when we see someone often enough on television we start to feel that we know them, as if they are a friend. Familiarity is not the same thing as friendship everyone. Friendship requires an actual relationship. Can any of you really say you know a darn thing about Palin or any of these people propped up before us? You only know what you've seen and heard through the media. Their sound bites are carefully orchestrated and controlled.

Some people were offended because I put the photo of Obama and Palin dancing in the campaign video. Nobody seems to have a problem with Obama being there, but "How dare I" put Saint Palin in with him! She's the real deal. She's "one of us."

Did any of you notice that Sarah Palin came out of nowhere just like Obama came out of nowhere? Suddenly she was thrust into the limelight with the full might and power of the establishment celebrity machine. She was everywhere and still is. They made her a star overnight and dazzled everyone inclined to be dazzled by her. She's gone from total obscurity to a multimillionaire folks. Do you really think they would have picked her if she wasn't going to serve their purposes?

There is no difference between what they did with Obama and what they are doing with Palin my friends. Look at that photo to the left. Look really hard and next time you watch Sarah, see if you can't see that this is exactly what she is doing. She's a performer. She's being paid a lot of money to do what she's doing. She's telling you exactly what she has been told you want to hear, what will sucker you in and make her more famous and powerful. Yes, she may believe some of what she says but make no mistake. She is not going to help us! Everyone who is gaga for Palin will see she won't deliver any better than Obama if she actually gets elected to anything. She is surrounded and controlled by the same "old guard" that's been in the primary "appointed" positions of power and advisory positions since Kennedy was assassinated.

Some people were also offended by the morphed photo of Obama and Bush I put in the campaign video. Don't you remember that Bush LIED to us about practically everything? Bush and his trusty sidekick Cheney, or was it the other way around, LIED us into Middle East wars that are still raging. If you're short on memory, watch this little video I put together. Bush's reign roughly doubled the size and power of the government, all accomplished through lies. He exploited 9-11 to put into place a domestic police state apparatus that would be right at home in Stalin's Russia, or Mao's China, or China today for that matter. He ended his reign by rubber stamping the first banker bailout. Remember the $700 BILLION which now has become over 24 TRILLION? Oh yea. Bush is a great sacred cow. He's a hero. He's the real deal.

The morphed photo of Obambush is the cold hard truth. There has been a total continuity of agenda passing from one administration to the next, from one Congress to the next and it's been like that for a very long time. Want more proof? Listen to this amazing speech given by Charles A. Lindberg given back in 1941 in which he talks about the exact same lunatics doing the exact same things.

This insanity is not going to stop until we stop being so gullible. To ignore this truth is pure folly. Go ahead and do what the Obama devotees have done, fawn over celebrity and soon you will all be hanging your heads, just like all the Obama zombies are doing right now.

It's Called Controlled Opposition Folks

It is a fact that those in power know how to manipulate and control us. It's a fine art to them. The best way to control the opposition is to become the opposition. They have been doing it for a long, long time. The second they feel a group can pose a threat they will infiltrate it and make sure their people will rise to the top leadership positions.

Another sacred cow to many people is Glen Beck. Folks, we can't afford any sacred cows. We have to see clearly without any wishful thinking sugar-coating our perceptions. Again, do you really think the establishment machine would give Beck a multimillion-dollar studio and an enormous salary if he wasn't going to serve their purposes? Come on!

Yes, he speaks the truth about many things. Great, however, haven't you noticed on every single major issue he has betrayed us? He was for the banker bailout. He's for a VAT tax (value-added tax) to pay down the fraudulent debt owed to the Federal Reserve. He trashed Ron Paul at every turn. He was going to expose the truth of FEMA camps. Oops, no, there aren't any FEMA camps. It's just another conspiracy theory.

Beck is being used to corral and control the Tea Party/Patriot movement. It's so obvious. Just because someone tells you things you want to hear, just because much of it is actually true, doesn't mean you can trust them, especially someone like Beck. He has a history of betraying our trust. We cannot afford to HOPE he is a different man now that he is speaking more truthfully. I would be willing to wager fake Federal Reserve money that he's only doing it because he's being told to do it by those that have made him rich and famous.

Remember the big march in Washington? Millions showed up and there was no media coverage. It's as if it didn't' happen. Remember all the rallies that have been held. Did any of those get the kind of coverage the recent Glen Beck extravaganza got? Hell no! Do you really think Beck's rally got the kind of coverage it got because it stood any chance of producing any real change? Come on! That event was simply a way to make everyone feel as if something is actually happening, that some actual momentum is beginning. It's not. Beck will not lead you anywhere except deeper down the rat hole. You will never hear him promoting anything that will create real change.

We're in deep trouble. We cannot afford to be seduced by the same old tactics we've been seduced by in the past. If we don't snap out of it, we are not going to prevail in this battle. We have to stop "hoping these people will save us." They won't. They are paid to make sure we are contained, that our anger and energy is siphoned off into things that will not lead us anywhere. They are paid to make sure we do not organize into any action that will actually change anything. If I were in real deep danger, I would not want someone like Beck or Palin watching my back!

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We Cannot Effect Change In Congress By Changing Which Party Has A Majority.

The quote by Carol Quigley at the top of this newsletter says it all. The most important part of the quote:

"the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

The only way to effect "real change" in Congress is to THROW THEM ALL OUT! It must be a total house cleaning. Members of both parties must be purged. The system must learn that we are onto them. We have to show them we know the two party system is a sham and that it's just one big party, the big government/globalization party, by stopping support for either party. It's simple to do. Throwing them all out shows the entire system we are not falling for the false left/right paradigm anymore. We want people that will honor their oath of office and "protect and defend our unalienable rights" first and foremost! We don't care what party they suck up to.

Every single election we play out the same stupid behavior. We play their game and only about 15% of the Congress turns over . . . if we're lucky. The vast majority of players remain the same and nothing changes for the better. When we play the "flip the Congress" game, nothing changes because the bureaucracy that really runs the show is set up to ensure the underlying continuity of agenda continues no matter which party is in control.

We have to stop playing their game and hold them ALL accountable. We have to demonstrate that we know the truth of things and stop acting like total idiots.


I agree
www.kickthemallout.com

Republicans are lying about that Ground Zero Mosque

Written By FaithRMichaels
I wasn't going to address this but I can't stand it anymore.
Everyone is talking about it.
It's on FaceBook, on TV, in ads for Republican candidates and my friends have mentioned it and so have my children.

So lets be very clear here:
THERE IS NO PROPOSED MOSQUE BUILDING AT GROUND ZERO!
It is two blocks away and it's not a mosque! It is a proposed cultural center!
One other thing...IT IS IN A ISLAMIC NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR EVER!
See this
and this vid from the Jon Daily show that explains it very well I thought.

This is just another example of the twisted thinking within the Republican party.
God Knows there is nothing more important to talk about than a proposed Cultural center Two blocks away from Ground Zero!

Lets see what could be more important.
Perhaps JOBS??? The ruining of American Industries,by these bought and paid for by Lobbyist Washington politician Critters? see this
The destruction of our Constitution by The Demorats and Repuglicons that has been going on ever since 9/11 and before??? How about the Truth regarding 9/11???
How about our failing FDA that is bought and paid off by Corporations to the point of our food supplies and drugs are unsafe???
How about The trillions of dollars spent in our illegal wars???
How about the bankrupting of America and the Billions of dollars of theft by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve???
NO?? How about securing Americas future by providing support for the Green Technology out there that the Union of Concerned Scientist is proposing????
How about restoring the Gulf Industries that have been devastated by the Oil Gusher they like to call a leak???
How about the proposed GI bill that IVAV is trying to get through the Congress that would support and assist our Veterans????
Last but not least...how about the legalization of the medical marijuana that many states are currently trying to pass????
It seems that these issues are not important enough to address by the Republicans nor the Democrats!.

We just get to hear about a Proposed cultural Center/AKA Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero!

I mean what could be more important than a "Mosque" at ground Zero????
Apparently Nothing at all according to the Mainstream media and the Repuglicons/Demorats PR campaigns.

One large Gushing Oil Leak Is all that it took!

Written By FaithRMichaels

Dead Fish are washing up all along the east coast by the hundreds possibly thousands.
Hundreds of dead jelly fish wash up on Mississippi's shores.
see this and this
Piles of dead Marine life that are being ignored by the Mainstream media and hidden from Camera view ..( this hiding is sponsored by Homeland Security who is in charge of all media content from the Gulf and BP's fear of a 50,000 dollar per dead animal fine.)
The cause ? less oxygen in the waters, Oil plumes, oil ingested by these sea animals and oil covering their bodies , toxic dispersant's, and methane, plus other gases that came from the oil well gusher.
Many of these fish are food species for all the life in the oceans and this Earth including humans.
The food chain has been disrupted in a large way. Maybe permanently.
This is why environmentalist have been saying ..NO drilling!
Our Congress did not care. Our Senate did not care. Our Presidents did not care.
The people who needed a job from the many industries that depend upon oil did not care.
The government did not offer those folks another job option.
With the save your current job carrot dangling in front of most Americans noses ..The government people who were elected to safeguard America and We the Peoples interests,
led them all to disaster!
ONE gushing Leak, just ONE! .... is all it has taken to bankrupt fishing industries,severely hamper (possibly destroyed) tourist and restaurant industries in multiple states, bankrupt and put out of a job, ALL the industries that depended upon a healthy eco-system within the ocean. Joc Cousteau would weep.
Just ONE Oil spill from ONE well is all that it took to create this .
(There are hundreds of Oil wells in the Gulf and elsewhere around the globe.)

We environmentalist were trying to save ALL the industries and ALL the jobs that depend upon a healthy eco-system, only to have Corporation spokespeople and their paid for politician lackeys say :
"We Environmentalist" are the reason there are no jobs from certain industries.
We the environmentalist KNEW that the Oil corporations could NOT be trusted to safe guard the environment that SO many others depended upon for their livelyhood.
How did we know this?
Well the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior and the Oil companies have a LOONG history of violating the environment and leaving their toxic messes.
After all it's not like Mining corporations and Oil corporations have ever left a huge disaster in EVERY PLACE they have ever been in the world is it?

This damage they leave costs them Millions possibly Billions to clean and people get sick, Crops get contaminated,and our water supply becomes contaminated with poisons...But hey what is that compared to profit?
These Corporations continue to make a profit while passing ALL the expenses on to the consumer for their messes. We the People get to pay for cleaning up the huge mess they made in the first place!
By the way this clean up costs more than the prevention would have cost.
In short they make their money with slow agonizing Death. Why should they care?
They are fine and have made Billions. While WE the People are stuck with paying for it.
How do they repay us for our loyalties???
They take the very same jobs they told us their neglectful processes were "saving" and outsourced them to other countries while they blame it all on the restrictions "Our Bleeding Heart Liberals" have set in place to hold them accountable..
They forgot to mention the fact that these laws would not have been necessary had they not destroyed all other Industries and more in their mad rush for Black Gold.

Instead these corporations just move on to other countries with lax environmental laws like a bad virus..contaminating and killing other parts of the world.

Sarah Palin had the nerve during the spill to attempt to lay the blame for this mega disaster upon the doorsteps of the environmentalists by saying that "if environmentalist had allowed shallow off the coast drilling" then this disaster would not be so huge.
Now how does that make any sense? Would there be less oil coming out from a collapsed line?
Perhaps their would have been a way to cap it better?
Perhaps BP would have paid closer attention to their own peoples warnings regarding a disaster and the dangers they were risking?
Noooooo Mz.Palin. That dog don't hunt .
We environmentalist were trying to create more jobs at home here in America from recycling industries,green technologies etc..only to have all of that fall on deaf ears within our bought and paid for by the oil lobbyist, propaganda spewing,war mongering ,special interest bought politicians government!
In short Mz.Palin People like you.

Unlike the oil companies; Green technology wasn't subsidised by the government so all the promising research and proven to work technology couldn't be taken to the next level.
Other countries created jobs for their people and took care of a huge part of their energy needs with Green Fuel technology ... but not America.

Instead of supporting new industries here in America that would have created millions of jobs for Americans in America; the last 3 administrations (and possibly more) have spent trillions of dollars fighting wars and waging a propaganda war to control the oil and gas resources of the world. Their reasoning???... keep them out of "hostile to American Capitalism" governments in the world.
Translation:
We have to Protect our national interest in the world" and that interest is expanding Capitalistic profit in the corporate sponsored government minds. Not for American People just for them.
In their twisted minds this paradigm equals freedom..(it does ...but only theirs.. not We the People's) so this is the tactic our government has been using to do unethical ,immoral,bad for Americans, business in the world and getting Americans to go along with what they have been doing.
Money creates freedom..right???
Money and jobs create prosperity...right????
after all we Americans must maintain our wealth right???
Then pray tell me the answer to this question.
Why have these "educated "people led us down the path to ruin?
If their Ideas were so great and workable why isn't the world economy in better shape?
Why is Americas economy in the double dipped recession we are now in?
One just ONE! Oil gusher in the ocean is all it has taken at the proper time to cause irreparable harm to a American Industry.
The lists of disasters in America (and the world) recently has been mind boggling.
Freaky weather,is causing many crops and gardens to fail.. (Is this HAARP related?)
Hailstorms have done extensive damage,tornado's,and rainstorms,floods and /or extensive droughts are wreaking havoc on the American farmer and have been doing so for years now.

The fishing industry off of Americas eastern coast is now damaged for years to come maybe for generations, maybe forever.
Our Greedy Bankster and Wall street money changers have wreaked our Construction industries, all the industries that depend upon new home construction, our Credit industries, Loan Programs , and Housing markets.
They have also assisted the drug wars in Mexico by laundering money for them.
Our retail car industries and car manufacturing industries, along with all the associated Industries, also took a heavy hit..and to top it all off "We the People " whose jobs vanished with the outsourcing of America and all the above mentioned situations Bailed many of these industries out with tax dollars, while we struggled to put food on the table and they squabbled and squawked over losing their million dollars bonuses.
Now those self same voices that have brought us to this precipice ..The Republican Party and the Democrat Party have bought up Billions of dollars of campaign ads on television ,radio, newspaper, banners,Internet ads, posters stuck all over every street corner in the nation to say the same thing..It was the other parties fault.
Elect ME! they all say. I will single handily fix it all.
"The Left has ruined our Country by imposing socialism programs" So saith the Right wing "Conservative" politicians.
"The Right has led us all to War bankrupted our nation ,ruined our economy " So saith the Left wing "Liberal" Politicians.
You know what??....we have had these two parties swapping control ...for over a hundred years!
In that time this thinking regarding jobs,World Peace and prosperity and more, have brought us to right here, right now, with these global and national problems outlined within this article.
Each political party has blamed the other or someone else for the problems refusing to take ANY responsibility for their part in these financial and ecological disasters!
We the People have had to deal with their lies,denials and finger pointing at each other while NOTHING HELPFUL In or/FOR THE LONG TERM... GETS DONE!
Their best thoughts got us right here in the now with one disaster after another.
The mind boggling part for me is that the American public will go to the polls again this year and elect one of these parties with proven incompetence at their jobs AGAIN!
The American Voter will say...What other choice is there????
Well if they would REALLY ask and research that question they would find there are MANY OTHER CHOICES!
It is way past time for a new paradigm.
I voted Green!
We the People do not need, nor can America survive anymore Conservatives or Liberals.
What WE the People need is BALANCE and SANE Thinking....not to far to the left nor right..for it is crystal clear that both the left and right have had more than enough time to get this correct and it is clear to even the most blind and/or dumbest among us..that they have FUBAR'ed it beyond anyones wildest nightmares!
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Tarpley: 'Obama, the Wall St. Puppet'

DISGRACEFUL CORRUPTION !!! There are NO limitations on the banks. The financial regulation bill discussed here is simply pure propaganda. We're still facing a lot of trouble thanks to the banksters.

The debt-loss cycle is impoverishing us all. There are solutions, but none of the ones suggested by Tarpley are likely to be enacted unless some level of protest is leveled at the Congress.

This clip highlights exactly who the US Congress is working for. Essential viewing.

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Treason -A Notice to Public Servants

We are all TRUTHERS in America ...land of tyranny,home of Despots

Written By FaithRMichaels
America ...land of tyranny,home of Despots
All across America right now..innocent people who love this country are being targeted and jailed for what they believe in. This is happening in Arizona, in Mississippi,California and many other places in the once upon a time land of the free,home of the brave.
Those of us who are fighting the huge erosion of our freedoms since 9/11 in whatever way we can, are being targeted by those in control and punished ,charged and jailed,for "looking" and "thinking" in a way government does not approve of.
If you are standing for social justice regarding ANY matter whatsoever that is not government approved....you can be labeled a terrorist for LOOKING like you disagree with the status quo.
We ARE ALL TRUTHERS.AND BEING A TRUTHER IS NOT JUST ABOUT 911 TRUTH IT IS ABOUT TRUTH PERIOD.
So we all; no matter what our causes are, should be holding hands metaphorically and come together as one force, under one theme. That theme is truth,nothing but the truth so help us God!

If your cause is about the government stealing children ,or the laws about mountaintop removal by corporations,or environment,whaling,anti-war,veterans rights,political,prisoners,Native American issues,immigration,spiritual,awakening,healing, Constitutional,9/11 truth,civil rights, or whatever I forgot to mention,then your cause is the same as mine.
We are all looking for the Truth regarding, and we all have the same entity to petition regarding pursuing justice here in America and that entity is the government,who is anti-truth and makes policies that are anti-life.
Since 9/11 our government has removed our civil rights and ANYONE who disagrees with a particular policy of the government can be branded a terrorist...
Yes that means YOU.
case in point below from http://www.911blogger.com/

WeAreChange LA Organizer Faces Terrorism Charge

WeAreChangeLA’s lead organizer Bruno Bruhwiler is being targeted as a terrorist threat.
It all began when Bruno was sitting in the audience at a civil hearing for another WACLA member.
The Judge literally did not like Bruno’s involuntary facial expressions, and ordered him out of the courtroom.
He was detained in the hall after asking to see the officers’ ID cards before he left the building. They are required according to their own manual to provide ID upon request, but apparently don’t like to be asked for it.
When the supervising officer ordered Bruno to turn around and put his hands behind his back, Bruno instantly turned around and put his hands behind his back with absolutely no resistance. At first he was supposedly being detained for trespassing (which is a misdemeanor) but of course, you can’t trespass on public property so then they dropped trespassing and told him he was being detained for a public disturbance.
About an hour later, when the supervisor actually placed Bruno under arrest, the original charge was changed to misdemeanor contempt of court.
None of the witnesses present heard the judge mention anything about contempt when asking him to leave.
Two felony resisting arrest charges were then tacked on, which means Bruno is charged with physically resisting the officers – twice? - though witnesses observed that Bruno did not ever resist the officers.
The arresting supervising officer claimed that Bruno threatened to assassinate him, then the same officer ordered an underling to back up his claim as a false witness and charged Bruno with making a “terrorist” threat.
After 911, legislation was passed making it very easy to charge ordinary citizens as “terrorists” for almost any reason.
They are calling him a potential cop killer.
We are talking about Bruno, a man who raises money for 9/11 First Responders and the Fealgood Foundation. He’s also a member of So Cal Oath Keepers and the initiator of “Talk to a cop Wednesdays,” an outreach effort to befriend and educate law enforcement throughout Los Angeles.
We are talking about a man committed to non-violent change, peace and social justice. Yes THAT Bruno.
While in custody, at another location for incarceration, Bruno was asked by an officer if he was the lead organizer of WeAreChangeLA, and the officer asked with a snide tone if Bruno had a website, with other officers looking on.
Either they did some quick research on him or they recognized Bruno from some other way, but they knew he was the lead organizer of WeAreChangeLA.
The mention of WeAreChangeLA made it abundantly clear that Bruno is being targeted for who he is.
This is about all of us. This is about freedom.
The struggle for Bruno’s freedom is a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. We cannot allow WeAreChange leaders to be labeled and targeted as terrorists. It can easily be ascertained that Bruno is being railroaded through procedures.
Friends of Bruno and the WeAreChange family are literally spending their life savings fighting in Bruno’s defense.
We know this is a total inconvenience for all of us, but Bruno and WeAreChangeLA are out there in the streets in a big way every chance they can to help make people aware of all the lies and injustices that are being used to steal our rights, our freedoms, and our future, including the biggest lie of them all, the official story of 9-11.
We don’t intend to ever stop reaching out, so please help us defend liberty and freedom by donating ANY amount you can spare. It’s easy, just go to www.wacla.org and click “CHIP-IN” at the top of the page.
Our site has also recently been hacked multiple times but the “CHIP-IN” is still functional. Luckily we have devoted 9-11 Truth web experts working diligently to keep the website clean and up and running. Please step up. This is a very serious, and we need your help! We have strength in numbers. Let’s make our presence known. Thank you so much and love to you all.

America has Tectonic weapons?/or just what kind of weapons do we have?

The answer is most likely and many other exotic kinds of weapons.Is Venezuelan President Chavo crazy? Not according to our 107th Congress. But I get ahead of myself here.
I have been hearing a lot about Haiti's earthquake being man-made. Now at first this sounds so far out that many including me dismissed this instantly as crazy.
But in light of Jesse Venturas episode of Conspiracy Theory show on HAARP and Venezuelan President Chavo stating that America caused Haiti,s quake calling it a tectonic weapon I decided to do some research.
I am going to share something about my thought processes... when I hear about any Conspiracy theory.I set out to debunk it. When I cannot then I start sharing the info as to why and why not. This is how I became a 9/11 truther.I set out to debunk it. Neither believing or disbelieving and this is why I always say to people DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH and approach it with a scientific viewpoint neither believing nor disbelieving,with no preconcieved ideas of outcome, and let the facts speak for themselves. But I digress. On to Tectonic weaponry.
So I search engined Tetonic weapons. I was quite astonished at the military research programs on these kind of weapons.Morerover I was surprised at how long they have been doing this research.Go here
Russia has been researching this technology for years and guess who else?? If you guessed the American military pat your self on the back for you are correct.The American government in a roundabout way confirmed it's research by pointing out that our "enemies are doing this.(you know that if one country that we are in any kind of conflict with is researching something so is the American military)
Tectonic weapons is included in the list of the exoctic weapons banned from being in space This list of banned weapons types is mind boggling.

here is the list from the:
107th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2977
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.

(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--

(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;

(ii) chemtrails;

(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;

(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;

(v) laser weapons systems;

(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and

(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.

(C) The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.
(Apparently Congress was not comfortable with spelling out what space age weapons are or banning something that the American Military could be doing, building or researching so they gutted this bill and produced a generic version known as H.R.316)


OK Sci Fi has become sci-fact by all appearances.

So naturally after finding that yes indeed the American military has been researching this for a very long time I had a question.Just how do you test a tectonic weapon? I mean seriously... how does one know if it works? Is the point of confirmation ..a yes it works... an earthquake??? Once it was successful then you would naturally have to repeat the experiment .I mean scientifically in order for something to be a fact it must be repeatable and you have to repeat it to show it works.. At this point I am thinking OMG!
So I am researching some more ..because I had another question..Just what is the purpose of the Tectonic weaponry..What is a tectonic weapon supposed to do?
This is the definition I found.
"TECTONIC WEAPONS Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, quoted as saying at a conference in April 1997, "Others are engaging even in an eco type of terrorism, whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes or volcanos remotely, through the use of electromagnetic waves."

OK now the question is what causes these kinds of electromagnetic waves and does the American military have such a thing?
The answer is yes.
1991: DESERT STORM: According to Defense News, April 13 - 19, 1992, the US deployed an electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) in Desert Storm, designed to mimic the flash of electricity from a nuclear bomb. The Sandia National Laboratory had built a 23,000 square meter laboratory on the Kirkland Air Force Base, 1989, to house the Hermes II electron beam generator capable of producing 20 Trillion Watt pulses lasting 20 billionths to 25 billionths of a second. This X-ray simulator is called a Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator.
A stream of electrons hitting a metal plate can produce a pulsed X-ray or gamma ray. Hermes II had produced electron beams since 1974.

These devices were apparently tested during the Gulf War, although detailed information on them is sparse." (I am sure it is)

I also found this Then since HAARP has been batted around as a possible source of this kind of electromagnetic field ability .... I researched that.
Here is what I found. It is Called Tesla,s Earthquake Machine. More commonly Known as HAARP,
I am getting chills at this implication but that is not proof enough for me so I decided to take a look at earthquake records prior to HAARPs up and running status.
Here is what I found.
And the answer is... Can't tell for sure,not enough data in as of yet, because there has been more seismic data stations set up world wide so that means more earthquakes are being recorded because we have more stations to pick-up the earth shaking. So I am not totally convinced as of yet that HAARP did this thing in Haiti or anywhere else in the world.
However I am convinced that since HAARP is being used and run by the American Military that whatever it does cannot be good.You see the military deals only in death.They claim they are preserving life through protection... OK I can understand that mentality ... but the bottom line is they do this protection of us thing with death.Right,wrong,doesn't matter for this purpose we are discussing. Weapons = Death for someone pure and simple and all of our modern weapons have severe environmental consequences.This has been proven through the past usage of modern weapons and data collected from scientists around the world.I do not believe that HAARP will be an exception.
It is also possible that these Earthquakes are simply a side effect of HAARP being in use although many feel that this scenario is highly unlikely.
Personally I am reserving my opinion on that for awhile till more info data is available.
However there is enough evidence out there to suggest that the ability to cause an earthquake on purpose is possible and even probable.
That is some scary shit.

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Did HAARP cause Haiti's Quake?

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US government does a disaster drill for Haiti 24 hr.s before earthquake..Coincidence?

Scream used against Americans to stifle their Constitutional rights to peaceably assemble

Freedom requires courage

This article came to my e-mail and I thought HMMMM I should repost this.Recently I have begun to wonder why things have been allowed to get to where they are in America?
I have been a strong advocate for Fire Them All on capital hill. Lord knows if I did my job like they do I would have been canned long ago and so would have anyone else. I looked around and thought either many people in this nation have become wimps or they are Ostriches which is just as bad. I firmly believe that something unholy is going on and Democrats and Republicans are in on the game and We The People no longer matter. Both Democrat and Republican Presidents since GWB senior have been talking about some New World Order. I am not sure what all that means but so far I am not liking any of it. Below is an article sent to me in my e-mail from the Kick Them All Out website.

Freedom Requires Courage
By Bruce McDonald

We've all heard it a million times. America is the "Land of the free and home of the brave."
Is it? Is it really?

I've had people write to me and tell me they agree with this campaign to Kick Them All Out but they are afraid to sign on, make themselves known for fear of ending up on some list. I had a good friend tell me the same thing one day while talking on the phone. He confessed that he was afraid our conversation was being listened to by the government and that he may end up on some list. He wasn't shaking in his boots scared. It was more of a "Big Brother is watching" sense in the back of his mind but it was there nonetheless. It was a definite concern that should never have been in his mind in the first place. This is supposed to be a free country, isn't it?

When the idea for The Kick Them All Out Project first popped into my noggin I'll confess one of the first things that occurred to me was "Oh my God. If I'm successful with this they will kill me." Then I realized just how bad our nation must have become when this is one of the first things that occurred to me. This was almost four years ago. The reality is far more real today and much more out in the open.

This fear is one of the most difficult things I've had to deal with. I still feel it to some degree but it hasn't stopped me from doing whatever I can do. The problem is getting people who aren't already involved in fighting back to step up to the plate. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why people hesitate and suddenly, after speaking to another friend, it became clear.

A primary reason people don't step up is that they intuitively know if they do, they will not be able to live a normal life anymore. How do I know this? Because I stepped up and I don't have a normal life anymore. Many people I know have stepped up and they don't have a normal life anymore either. It's simply impossible to face the truth of what is happening and continue to delude yourself. When you really face the truth of what's going on, when you face it squarely, you cannot pretend that life is normal. If you can muster the courage to face the truth you clearly see that everything is not okay. Not even remotely okay.

If we don't do something soon it will be impossible for anyone to live a normal life for God knows how long into the foreseeable future. Our lack of courage is what's condemning our lives and the lives of our children to an immanent tyranny we wouldn't wish on anyone much less our own flesh and blood. If we ALL don't do something we are going to go down in history as the pathetic generation that "just let it all happen" because we didn't want to believe what was happening. We didn't have the strength of character necessary to face the truth with courage and stand up to the petty tyrants we knew were destroying our nation and our lives.

World history shows our little blue planet has been primary ruled by tyrants. We are still ruled by tyrants. There is hope however because our nation still holds the possibility to route them out and prosecute them for the ruthless criminals that they are. Our nation still offers us a peaceful way out if we rise to the occasion NOW and seize the day. We still have the ability to turn out the den of thieves in our Congress and turn it back into The People's House. We can take back control of our election process. We can end the reign of powerful criminal corporate/banking cartels and corrupt career politicians. We can if and only if we step up to the plate and do what needs to be done without fear of finding ourselves on some dreaded list. Fact is we are all on so many lists already it's amazing anyone has such fears about it.

We Are Either Going to Fall To Tyranny Or We Will Conquer It

Our site is loaded with information about what is really going on and how urgent our situation is. Just a cursory reading of what's on our site tells you we no longer have the luxury of time. The freedom that was the promise of our Constitutional Republic is very close to vanishing. It's not enough to protest. It's not enough to have "liberty lovers parties." We have to sober up and face what's happening with every drop of courage we can muster and do something about it!

We need everyone to step up and help us unify all the groups fighting the fight. Everyone knows the only way to get our government back is to hold members of Congress accountable. Everyone knows the ONLY way to hold members of Congress accountable is to remove them from office. Until we make them all pay a price for their constant betrayals nothing is going to change. These are the people responsible for allowing the corporate/banking cartel to destroy our country! It's not rocket science. We can't afford to screw around anymore! If we don't boot those most directly responsible and consequently the only people we can get our hands on, our nation will fall.

We have another golden opportunity coming up in about one year's time to effect change in the most peaceful way imaginable. You have a choice to make. It's going to take every second between now and the next election to teach everyone what needs to be done to remove the traitors in Congress. If we don't make it the absolute most critical priority that it is, I guarantee you the exact same criminals will win reelection again and they will finish the job of destroying what little is left of our country. If you don't help us prepare enough people to go to the polls fully knowledgeable and prepared to do the most damage possible to incumbents, then kiss our country goodbye and try to explain to your children why you didn't do anything to stop these people in Congress sooner.

We just allowed our criminal Congress to hand over TRILLIONS to the very corporate/banking cartels responsible for getting our nation in the mess it's in right now. We just allowed our Congress to hand them all the resources they need to finish the job. If we don't stop acting like total idiots and mess things up for them in the next election by removing their henchmen and henchwomen in Congress we have nobody to blame for what is going to happen but ourselves.

It's time to step up. It's time to act like courageous Americans. We need you NOW. We need your support now in every obvious way or the next election will arrive and we will participate in the same old idiotic way, which virtually guarantees the same old den of thieves will return to Congress and shovel the last bit of dirt on the grave of our Constitutional Republic. If we don't act with deliberate intent through our peaceful Constitutional power to vote these traitors out, it will come to violence. These people will not stop.

We either take the peaceful action of voting out their minions in Congress now or face the full force of the police state that will be the inevitable outcome if we don't slam on the breaks. If we fail again in the next election it will not be long before we will have to be prepared to do what Russia's Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Russian people would have done with Stalin's secret police. In "The Gulag Archipelago" Solzhenitsyn stated categorically that Stalin’s bloodthirsty secret police would have been thoroughly defeated if only the Russian people had shown the character to resist with whatever tools and implements they could find. A thoroughly oppressed people, they could have hidden in closets and under stairwells, wielding broomsticks, coat hangers, rocks, or whatever other items they could find. Stalin’s enforcers would have been met by overwhelming numbers that would have quickly destroyed them all.

Many people think I'm exaggerating or being too extreme. For those of you who think that way, you obviously have not taken the time to read the information posted on our site and you're not willing to face the truth of what's really going on. Have fun at your "Liberty Lovers Parties."

Ron Paul -The Making of a Police State

Congressman Ron Paul
U.S. House of Representatives
June 27, 2002



Is America a Police State?

Mr. Speaker:

Most Americans believe we live in dangerous times, and I must agree. Today I want to talk about how I see those dangers and what Congress ought to do about them.

Of course, the Monday-morning quarterbacks are now explaining, with political overtones, what we should have done to prevent the 9/11 tragedy. Unfortunately, in doing so, foreign policy changes are never considered.

I have, for more than two decades, been severely critical of our post-World War II foreign policy. I have perceived it to be not in our best interest and have believed that it presented a serious danger to our security.

For the record, in January of 2000 I stated the following on this floor:

Our commercial interests and foreign policy are no longer separate...as bad as it is that average Americans are forced to subsidize such a system, we additionally are placed in greater danger because of our arrogant policy of bombing nations that do not submit to our wishes. This generates hatred directed toward America ...and exposes us to a greater threat of terrorism, since this is the only vehicle our victims can use to retaliate against a powerful military state...the cost in terms of lost liberties and unnecessary exposure to terrorism is difficult to assess, but in time, it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but instead is a threat to our liberties.

Again, let me remind you I made these statements on the House floor in January 2000. Unfortunately, my greatest fears and warnings have been borne out.

I believe my concerns are as relevant today as they were then. We should move with caution in this post-9/11 period so we do not make our problems worse overseas while further undermining our liberties at home.

So far our post-9/11 policies have challenged the rule of law here at home, and our efforts against the al Qaeda have essentially come up empty-handed. The best we can tell now, instead of being in one place, the members of the al Qaeda are scattered around the world, with more of them in allied Pakistan than in Afghanistan. Our efforts to find our enemies have put the CIA in 80 different countries. The question that we must answer some day is whether we can catch enemies faster than we make new ones. So far it appears we are losing.

As evidence mounts that we have achieved little in reducing the terrorist threat, more diversionary tactics will be used. The big one will be to blame Saddam Hussein for everything and initiate a major war against Iraq, which will only generate even more hatred toward America from the Muslim world.

But, Mr. Speaker, my subject today is whether is a police state. I'm sure the large majority of Americans would answer this in the negative. Most would associate military patrols, martial law and summary executions with a police state, something obviously not present in our everyday activities. However, those with knowledge of Ruby Ridge, Mount Carmel and other such incidents may have a different opinion.

The principal tool for sustaining a police state, even the most militant, is always economic control and punishment by denying disobedient citizens such things as jobs or places to live, and by levying fines and imprisonment. The military is more often used in the transition phase to a totalitarian state. Maintenance for long periods is usually accomplished through economic controls on commercial transactions, the use of all property, and political dissent. Peaceful control through these efforts can be achieved without storm troopers on our street corners.

Terror and fear are used to achieve complacency and obedience, especially when citizens are deluded into believing they are still a free people. The changes, they are assured, will be minimal, short-lived, and necessary, such as those that occur in times of a declared war. Under these conditions, most citizens believe that once the war is won, the restrictions on their will be reversed. For the most part, however, after a declared war is over, the return to normalcy is never complete. In an undeclared war, without a precise enemy and therefore no precise ending, returning to normalcy can prove illusory.

We have just concluded a century of wars, declared and undeclared, while at the same time responding to public outcries for more economic equity. The question, as a result of these policies, is: "Are we already living in a police state?" If we are, what are we going to do about it? If we are not, we need to know if there's any danger that we're moving in that direction.

Most police states, surprisingly, come about through the democratic process with majority support. During a crisis, the rights of individuals and the minority are more easily trampled, which is more likely to condition a nation to become a police state than a military coup. Promised benefits initially seem to exceed the cost in dollars or lost freedom. When people face terrorism or great fear- from whatever source- the tendency to demand economic and physical security over liberty and self-reliance proves irresistible. The masses are easily led to believe that security and liberty are mutually exclusive, and demand for security far exceeds that for liberty.

Once it's discovered that the desire for both economic and physical security that prompted the sacrifice of liberty inevitably led to the loss of prosperity and no real safety, it's too late. Reversing the trend from authoritarian rule toward a freer society becomes very difficult, takes a long time, and entails much suffering. Although dissolution of the Soviet empire was relatively non-violent at the end, millions suffered from police suppression and economic deprivation in the decades prior to 1989.

But what about here in the United States? With respect to a police state, where are we and where are we going?



Let me make a few observations:

Our government already keeps close tabs on just about everything we do and requires official permission for nearly all of our activities.

One might take a look at our Capitol for any evidence of a police state. We see: barricades, metal detectors, police, military soldiers at times, dogs, ID badges required for every move, vehicles checked at airports and throughout the Capitol. The people are totally disarmed, except for the police and the criminals. But worse yet, surveillance cameras in Washington are everywhere to ensure our safety.

The terrorist attacks only provided the cover for the do-gooders who have been planning for a long time before last September to monitor us "for our own good." Cameras are used to spy on our drug habits, on our kids at school, on subway travelers, and on visitors to every government building or park. There's not much evidence of an open society in Washington, DC, yet most folks do not complain- anything goes if it's for government-provided safety and security.

If this huge amount of information and technology is placed in the hands of the government to catch the bad guys, one naturally asks, What's the big deal? But it should be a big deal, because it eliminates the enjoyment of privacy that a free society holds dear. The personal information of law-abiding citizens can be used for reasons other than safety- including political reasons. Like gun control, people control hurts law-abiding citizens much more than the law-breakers.

Social Security numbers are used to monitor our daily activities. The numbers are given at birth, and then are needed when we die and for everything in between. This allows government record keeping of monstrous proportions, and accommodates the thugs who would steal others' identities for criminal purposes. This invasion of privacy has been compounded by the technology now available to those in government who enjoy monitoring and directing the activities of others. Loss of personal privacy was a major problem long before 9/11.

Centralized control and regulations are required in a police state. Community and individual state regulations are not as threatening as the monolith of rules and regulations written by Congress and the federal bureaucracy. Law and order has been federalized in many ways and we are moving inexorably in that direction.

Almost all of our economic activities depend upon receiving the proper permits from the federal government. Transactions involving guns, food, medicine, smoking, drinking, hiring, firing, wages, politically correct speech, land use, fishing, hunting, buying a house, business mergers and acquisitions, selling stocks and bonds, and farming all require approval and strict regulation from our federal government. If this is not done properly and in a timely fashion, economic penalties and even imprisonment are likely consequences.

Because government pays for much of our health care, it's conveniently argued that any habits or risk-taking that could harm one's health are the prerogative of the federal government, and are to be regulated by explicit rules to keep medical-care costs down. This same argument is used to require helmets for riding motorcycles and bikes.

Not only do we need a license to drive, but we also need special belts, bags, buzzers, seats and environmentally dictated speed limits- or a policemen will be pulling us over to levy a fine, and he will be toting a gun for sure.

The states do exactly as they're told by the federal government, because they are threatened with the loss of tax dollars being returned to their state- dollars that should have never been sent to DC in the first place, let alone used to extort obedience to a powerful federal government.

Over 80,000 federal bureaucrats now carry guns to make us toe the line and to enforce the thousands of laws and tens of thousands of regulations that no one can possibly understand. We don't see the guns, but we all know they're there, and we all know we can't fight "City Hall," especially if it's "Uncle Sam."

All 18-year-old males must register to be ready for the next undeclared war. If they don't, men with guns will appear and enforce this congressional mandate. "Involuntary servitude" was banned by the 13th Amendment, but courts don't apply this prohibition to the servitude of draftees or those citizens required to follow the dictates of the IRS- especially the employers of the country, who serve as the federal government's chief tax collectors and information gatherers. Fear is the tool used to intimidate most Americans to comply to the tax code by making examples of celebrities. Leona Helmsley and Willie Nelson know how this process works.

Economic threats against business establishments are notorious. Rules and regulations from the EPA, the ADA, the SEC, the LRB, OSHA, etc. terrorize business owners into submission, and those charged accept their own guilt until they can prove themselves innocent. Of course, it turns out it's much more practical to admit guilt and pay the fine. This serves the interest of the authoritarians because it firmly establishes just who is in charge.

Information leaked from a government agency like the FDA can make or break a company within minutes. If information is leaked, even inadvertently, a company can be destroyed, and individuals involved in revealing government-monopolized information can be sent to prison. Even though economic crimes are serious offenses in the United States, violent crimes sometimes evoke more sympathy and fewer penalties. Just look at the O.J. Simpson case as an example.

Efforts to convict Bill Gates and others like him of an economic crime are astounding, considering his contribution to economic progress, while sources used to screen out terrorist elements from our midst are tragically useless. If business people are found guilty of even the suggestion of collusion in the marketplace, huge fines and even imprisonment are likely consequences.

Price fixing is impossible to achieve in a free market. Under today's laws, talking to, or consulting with, competitors can be easily construed as "price fixing" and involve a serious crime, even with proof that the so-called collusion never generated monopoly-controlled prices or was detrimental to consumers.

Lawfully circumventing taxes, even sales taxes, can lead to serious problems if a high-profile person can be made an example.

One of the most onerous controls placed on American citizens is the control of speech through politically correct legislation. Derogatory remarks or off-color jokes are justification for firings, demotions, and the destruction of political careers. The movement toward designating penalties based on the category to which victims belong, rather the nature of the crime itself, has the thought police patrolling the airways and byways. Establishing relative rights and special penalties for subjective motivation is a dangerous trend.

All our financial activities are subject to "legal" searches without warrants and without probable cause. Tax collection, drug usage, and possible terrorist activities "justify" the endless accumulation of information on all Americans.

Government control of medicine has prompted the establishment of the National Medical Data Bank. For efficiency reasons, it is said, the government keeps our medical records for our benefit. This, of course, is done with vague and useless promises that this information will always remain confidential- just like all the FBI information in the past!

Personal privacy, the sine qua non of liberty, no longer exists in the United States. Ruthless and abusive use of all this information accumulated by the government is yet to come. The Patriot Act has given unbelievable power to listen, read, and monitor all our transactions without a search warrant being issued after affirmation of probably cause. "Sneak and peak" and blanket searches are now becoming more frequent every day. What have we allowed to happen to the 4th amendment?

It may be true that the average American does not feel intimidated by the encroachment of the police state. I'm sure our citizens are more tolerant of what they see as mere nuisances because they have been deluded into believing all this government supervision is necessary and helpful- and besides they are living quite comfortably, material wise. However the reaction will be different once all this new legislation we're passing comes into full force, and the material comforts that soften our concerns for government regulations are decreased. This attitude then will change dramatically, but the trend toward the authoritarian state will be difficult to reverse.

What government gives with one hand- as it attempts to provide safety and security- it must, at the same time, take away with two others. When the majority recognizes that the monetary cost and the results of our war against terrorism and personal freedoms are a lot less than promised, it may be too late.

I'm sure all my concerns are unconvincing to the vast majority of Americans, who not only are seeking but also are demanding they be made safe from any possible attack from anybody, ever. I grant you this is a reasonable request.

The point is, however, there may be a much better way of doing it. We must remember, we don't sit around and worry that some Canadian citizen is about to walk into New York City and set off a nuclear weapon. We must come to understand the real reason is that there's a difference between the Canadians and all our many friends and the Islamic radicals. And believe me, we're not the target because we're "free and prosperous".

The argument made for more government controls here at home and expansionism overseas to combat terrorism is simple and goes like this: "If we're not made safe from potential terrorists, property and freedom have no meaning." It is argued that first we must have life and physical and economic security, with continued abundance, then we'll talk about freedom.

It reminds me of the time I was soliciting political support from a voter and was boldly put down: "Ron," she said, "I wish you would lay off this freedom stuff; it's all nonsense. We're looking for a Representative who will know how to bring home the bacon and help our area, and you're not that person." Believe me, I understand that argument; it's just that I don't agree that is what should be motivating us here in the Congress.

That's not the way it works. Freedom does not preclude security. Making security the highest priority can deny prosperity and still fail to provide the safety we all want.

The Congress would never agree that we are a police state. Most members, I'm sure, would argue otherwise. But we are all obligated to decide in which direction we are going. If we're moving toward a system that enhances individual liberty and justice for all, my concerns about a police state should be reduced or totally ignored. Yet, if, by chance, we're moving toward more authoritarian control than is good for us, and moving toward a major war of which we should have no part, we should not ignore the dangers. If current policies are permitting a serious challenge to our institutions that allow for our great abundance, we ignore them at great risk for future generations.

That's why the post-9/11 analysis and subsequent legislation are crucial to the survival of those institutions that made America great. We now are considering a major legislative proposal dealing with this dilemma- the new Department of Homeland Security- and we must decide if it truly serves the interests of America.

Since the new department is now a forgone conclusion, why should anyone bother to record a dissent? Because it's the responsibility of all of us to speak the truth to our best ability, and if there are reservations about what we're doing, we should sound an alarm and warn the people of what is to come.

In times of crisis, nearly unanimous support for government programs is usual and the effects are instantaneous. Discovering the error of our ways and waiting to see the unintended consequences evolve takes time and careful analysis. Reversing the bad effects is slow and tedious and fraught with danger. People would much prefer to hear platitudes than the pessimism of a flawed policy.

Understanding the real reason why we were attacked is crucial to crafting a proper response. I know of no one who does not condemn the attacks of 9/11. Disagreement as to the cause and the proper course of action should be legitimate in a free society such as ours. If not, we're not a free society.

Not only do I condemn the vicious acts of 9/11, but also, out of deep philosophic and moral commitment, I have pledged never to use any form of aggression to bring about social or economic changes.

But I am deeply concerned about what has been done and what we are yet to do in the name of security against the threat of terrorism.

Political propagandizing is used to get all of us to toe the line and be good "patriots," supporting every measure suggested by the administration. We are told that preemptive strikes, torture, military tribunals, suspension of habeas corpus, executive orders to wage war, and sacrificing privacy with a weakened 4th Amendment are the minimum required to save our country from the threat of terrorism.

Who's winning this war anyway?

To get popular support for these serious violations of our traditional rule of law requires that people be kept in a state of fear. The episode of spreading undue concern about the possibility of a dirty bomb being exploded in Washington without any substantiation of an actual threat is a good example of excessive fear being generated by government officials.

To add insult to injury, when he made this outlandish announcement, our Attorney General was in Moscow. Maybe if our FBI spent more time at home, we would get more for the money we pump into this now- discredited organization. Our FBI should be gathering information here at home, and the thousands of agents overseas should return. We don't need these agents competing overseas and confusing the intelligence apparatus of the CIA or the military.

I'm concerned that the excess fear, created by the several hundred al Qaeda functionaries willing to sacrifice their lives for their demented goals, is driving us to do to ourselves what the al Qaeda themselves could never do to us by force.

So far the direction is clear: we are legislating bigger and more intrusive government here at home and are allowing our President to pursue much more military adventurism abroad. These pursuits are overwhelmingly supported by Members of Congress, the media, and the so-called intellectual community, and questioned only by a small number of civil libertarians and anti-imperial, anti-war advocates.

The main reason why so many usually levelheaded critics of bad policy accept this massive increase in government power is clear. They, for various reasons, believe the official explanation of "Why us?" The several hundred al Qaeda members, we were told, hate us because: "We're rich, we're free, we enjoy materialism, and the purveyors of terror are jealous and envious, creating the hatred that drives their cause. They despise our Christian-Judaic values and this, is the sole reason why they are willing to die for their cause." For this to be believed, one must also be convinced that the perpetrators lied to the world about why they attacked us.

The al Qaeda leaders say they hate us because:

-We support Western puppet regimes in Arab countries for commercial reasons and against the wishes of the populace of these countries.

-This partnership allows a military occupation, the most confrontational being in Saudi Arabia, that offends their sense of pride and violates their religious convictions by having a foreign military power on their holy land. We refuse to consider how we might feel if China's navy occupied the Gulf of Mexico for the purpose of protecting "their oil" and had air bases on U.S. territory.

-We show extreme bias in support of one side in the fifty-plus-year war going on in the Middle East.

What if the al Qaeda is telling the truth and we ignore it? If we believe only the official line from the administration and proceed to change our whole system and undermine our constitutional rights, we may one day wake up to find that the attacks have increased, the numbers of those willing to commit suicide for their cause have grown, our freedoms are diminished, and all this has contributed to making our economic problems worse. The dollar cost of this "war" could turn out to be exorbitant, and the efficiency of our markets can be undermined by the compromises placed on our liberties.

Sometimes it almost seems that our policies inadvertently are actually based on a desire to make ourselves "less free and less prosperous"- those conditions that are supposed to have prompted the attacks. I'm convinced we must pay more attention to the real cause of the attacks of last year and challenge the explanations given us.



The question that one day must be answered is this:

What if we had never placed our troops in Saudi Arabia and had involved ourselves in the Middle East war in an even-handed fashion. Would it have been worth it if this would have prevented the events of 9/11?

If we avoid the truth, we will be far less well off than if we recognize that just maybe there is some truth in the statements made by the leaders of those who perpetrated the atrocities. If they speak the truth about the real cause, changing our foreign policy from foreign military interventionism around the globe supporting an American empire would make a lot of sense. It could reduce tensions, save money, preserve liberty and preserve our economic system.

This, for me, is not a reactive position coming out of 9/11, but rather is an argument I've made for decades, claiming that meddling in the affairs of others is dangerous to our security and actually reduces our ability to defend ourselves.

This in no way precludes pursuing those directly responsible for the attacks and dealing with them accordingly- something that we seem to have not yet done. We hear more talk of starting a war in Iraq than in achieving victory against the international outlaws that instigated the attacks on 9/11. Rather than pursuing war against countries that were not directly responsible for the attacks, we should consider the judicious use of Marque and Reprisal.

I'm sure that a more enlightened approach to our foreign policy will prove elusive. Financial interests of our international corporations, oil companies, and banks, along with the military-industrial complex, are sure to remain a deciding influence on our policies.

Besides, even if my assessments prove to be true, any shift away from foreign militarism- like bringing our troops home- would now be construed as yielding to the terrorists. It just won't happen. This is a powerful point and the concern that we might appear to be capitulating is legitimate.

Yet how long should we deny the truth, especially if this denial only makes us more vulnerable? Shouldn't we demand the courage and wisdom of our leaders to do the right thing, in spite of the political shortcomings?

President Kennedy faced an even greater threat in October 1962, and from a much more powerful force. The Soviet/Cuban terrorist threat with nuclear missiles only 90 miles off our shores was wisely defused by Kennedy's capitulating and removing missiles from Turkey on the Soviet border. Kennedy deserved the praise he received for the way he handled the nuclear standoff with the Soviets. This concession most likely prevented a nuclear exchange and proved that taking a step back from a failed policy is beneficial, yet how one does so is crucial. The answer is to do it diplomatically- that's what diplomats are supposed to do.

Maybe there is no real desire to remove the excuse for our worldwide imperialism, especially our current new expansion into central Asia or the domestic violations of our civil liberties. Today's conditions may well be exactly what our world commercial interests want. It's now easy for us to go into the Philippines, Columbia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or wherever in pursuit of terrorists. No questions are asked by the media or the politicians- only cheers. Put in these terms, who can object? We all despise the tactics of the terrorists, so the nature of the response is not to be questioned!

A growing number of Americans are concluding that the threat we now face comes more as a consequence of our foreign policy than because the bad guys envy our freedoms and prosperity. How many terrorist attacks have been directed toward Switzerland, Australia, Canada, or Sweden? They too are rich and free, and would be easy targets, but the Islamic fundamentalists see no purpose in doing so.

There's no purpose in targeting us unless there's a political agenda, which there surely is. To deny that this political agenda exists jeopardizes the security of this country. Pretending something to be true that is not is dangerous.

It's a definite benefit for so many to recognize that our $40 billion annual investment in intelligence gathering prior to 9/11 was a failure. Now a sincere desire exists to rectify these mistakes. That's good, unless, instead of changing the role for the CIA and the FBI, all the past mistakes are made worse by spending more money and enlarging the bureaucracies to do the very same thing without improving their efficiency or changing their goals. Unfortunately that is what is likely to happen.

One of the major shortcomings that led to the 9/11 tragedies was that the responsibility for protecting commercial airlines was left to the government, the FAA, the FBI, the CIA, and the INS. And they failed. A greater sense of responsibility for the owners to provide security is what was needed. Guns in the cockpit would have most likely prevented most of the deaths that occurred on that fateful day.

But what does our government do? It firmly denies airline pilots the right to defend their planes, and we federalize the security screeners and rely on F16s to shoot down airliners if they are hijacked.

Security screeners, many barely able to speak English, spend endless hours harassing pilots, confiscating dangerous mustache scissors, mauling grandmothers and children, and pestering Al Gore, while doing nothing about the influx of aliens from Middle-Eastern countries who are on designated watch lists.

We pump up the military in India and Pakistan, ignore all the warnings about Saudi Arabia, and plan a secret war against Iraq to make sure no one starts asking where Osama bin Laden is. We think we know where Saddam Hussein lives, so let's go get him instead.

Since our government bureaucracy failed, why not get rid of it instead of adding to it? If we had proper respect and understood how private property owners effectively defend themselves, we could apply those rules to the airlines and achieve something worthwhile.

If our immigration policies have failed us, when will we defy the politically correct fanatics and curtail the immigration of those individuals on the highly suspect lists? Instead of these changes, all we hear is that the major solution will come by establishing a huge new federal department- the Department of Homeland Security.

According to all the pundits, we are expected to champion this big-government approach, and if we don't jolly well like it, we will be tagged "unpatriotic." The fear that permeates our country cries out for something to be done in response to almost daily warnings of the next attack. If it's not a real attack, then it's a theoretical one; one where the bomb could well be only in the mind of a potential terrorist.

Where is all this leading us? Are we moving toward a safer and more secure society? I think not. All the discussions of these proposed plans since 9/11 have been designed to condition the American people to accept major changes in our political system. Some of the changes being made are unnecessary, and others are outright dangerous to our way of life.

There is no need for us to be forced to choose between security and freedom. Giving up freedom does not provide greater security. Preserving and better understanding freedom can. Sadly today, many are anxious to give up freedom in response to real and generated fears..

The plans for a first strike supposedly against a potential foreign government should alarm all Americans. If we do not resist this power the President is assuming, our President, through executive order, can start a war anyplace, anytime, against anyone he chooses, for any reason, without congressional approval. This is a tragic usurpation of the war power by the executive branch from the legislative branch, with Congress being all too accommodating.

Removing the power of the executive branch to wage war, as was done through our revolution and the writing of the Constitution, is now being casually sacrificed on the altar of security. In a free society, and certainly in the constitutional republic we have been given, it should never be assumed that the President alone can take it upon himself to wage war whenever he pleases.

The publicly announced plan to murder Saddam Hussein in the name of our national security draws nary a whimper from Congress. Support is overwhelming, without a thought as to its legality, morality, constitutionality, or its practicality. Murdering Saddam Hussein will surely generate many more fanatics ready to commit their lives to suicide terrorist attacks against us.

Our CIA attempt to assassinate Castro backfired with the subsequent assassination of our president. Killing Saddam Hussein, just for the sake of killing him, obviously will increase the threat against us, not diminish it. It makes no sense. But our warriors argue that someday he may build a bomb, someday he might use it, maybe against us or some yet-unknown target. This policy further radicalizes the Islamic fundamentalists against us, because from their viewpoint, our policy is driven by Israeli, not U.S. security interests.

Planned assassination, a preemptive strike policy without proof of any threat, and a vague definition of terrorism may work for us as long as we're king of the hill, but one must assume every other nation will naturally use our definition of policy as justification for dealing with their neighbors. India can justify a first strike against Pakistan, China against India or Taiwan, as well as many other such examples. This new policy, if carried through, will make the world much less safe.

This new doctrine is based on proving a negative, which is impossible to do, especially when we're dealing with a subjective interpretation of plans buried in someone's head. To those who suggest a more restrained approach on Iraq and killing Saddam Hussein, the war hawks retort, saying: "Prove to me that Saddam Hussein might not do something someday directly harmful to the United States." Since no one can prove this, the warmongers shout: "Let's march on Baghdad."

We all can agree that aggression should be met with force and that providing national security is an ominous responsibility that falls on Congress' shoulders. But avoiding useless and unjustifiable wars that threaten our whole system of government and security seems to be the more prudent thing to do.

Since September 11th, Congress has responded with a massive barrage of legislation not seen since Roosevelt took over in 1933. Where Roosevelt dealt with trying to provide economic security, today's legislation deals with personal security from any and all imaginable threats, at any cost- dollar or freedom-wise. These efforts include:

-The Patriot Act, which undermines the 4th Amendment with the establishment of an overly broad and dangerous definition of terrorism.

- The Financial Anti-Terrorism Act, which expands the government's surveillance of the financial transactions of all American citizens through increased power to FinCen and puts back on track the plans to impose "Know Your Customer" rules on all Americans, which had been sought after for years.

-The airline bailout bill gave $15 billion, rushed through shortly after 9/11.

- The federalization of all airline security employees.

-Military tribunals set up by executive order-undermining the rights of those accused- rights established as far back in history as 1215.

- Unlimited retention of suspects without charges being made, even when a crime has not been committed- a serious precedent that one day may well be abused.

- Relaxation of FBI surveillance guidelines of all political activity.

- Essentially monopolizing vaccines and treatment for infectious diseases, permitting massive quarantines and mandates for vaccinations.

Almost all significant legislation since 9/11 has been rushed through in a tone of urgency with reference to the tragedy, including the $190 billion farm bill as well as fast track.

Guarantees to all insurance companies now are moving quickly through the Congress.
Increasing the billions already flowing into foreign aid is now being planned as our interventions overseas continue to grow and expand.

There's no reason to believe that the massive increase in spending, both domestic and foreign, along with the massive expansion of the size of the federal government, will slow any time soon. The deficit is exploding as the economy weakens. When the government sector drains the resources needed for capital expansion, it contributes to the loss of confidence needed for growth.

Even without evidence that any good has come from this massive expansion of government power, Congress is in the process of establishing a huge new bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security, hoping miraculously through centralization to make all these efforts productive and worthwhile.

There is no evidence, however, that government bureaucracy and huge funding can solve our nation's problems. The likelihood is that the unintended consequences of this new proposal will diminish our freedoms and do nothing to enhance our security.

Opposing currently proposed and recently passed legislation does not mean one is complacent about terrorism or homeland security. The truth is that there are alternative solutions to these problems we face, without resorting to expanding the size and scope of government at the expense of liberty.

As tempting as it may seem, a government is incapable of preventing crimes. On occasion, with luck it might succeed. But the failure to tip us off about 9/11, after spending $40 billion annually on intelligence gathering, should have surprised no one. Governments, by nature, are very inefficient institutions. We must accept this as fact.

I'm sure that our intelligence agencies had the information available to head off 9/11, but bureaucratic blundering and turf wars prevented the information from being useful. But, the basic principle is wrong. City policeman can't and should not be expected to try to preempt crimes. That would invite massive intrusions into the everyday activities of every law-abiding citizen.

But that's exactly what our recent legislation is doing. It's a wrong-headed goal, no matter how wonderful it may sound. The policemen in the inner cities patrol their beats, but crime is still rampant. In the rural areas of America, literally millions of our citizens are safe and secure in their homes, though miles from any police protection. They are safe because even the advantage of isolation doesn't entice the burglar to rob a house when he knows a shotgun sits inside the door waiting to be used. But this is a right denied many of our citizens living in the inner cities.

The whole idea of government preventing crime is dangerous. To prevent crimes in our homes or businesses, government would need cameras to spy on our every move; to check for illegal drug use, wife beating, child abuse, or tax evasion. They would need cameras, not only on our streets and in our homes, but our phones, internet, and travels would need to be constantly monitored- just to make sure we are not a terrorist, drug dealer, or tax evader.

This is the assumption now used at our airports, rather than allowing privately owned airlines to profile their passengers to assure the safety for which the airline owners ought to assume responsibility. But, of course, this would mean guns in the cockpit. I am certain that this approach to safety and security would be far superior to the rules that existed prior to 9/11 and now have been made much worse in the past nine months.

This method of providing security emphasizes private-property ownership and responsibility of the owners to protect that property. But the right to bear arms must also be included. The fact that the administration is opposed to guns in the cockpit and the fact that the airline owners are more interested in bailouts and insurance protection mean that we're just digging a bigger hole for ourselves- ignoring liberty and expecting the government to provide something it's not capable of doing.

Because of this, in combination with a foreign policy that generates more hatred toward us and multiplies the number of terrorists that seek vengeance, I am deeply concerned that Washington's efforts so far sadly have only made us more vulnerable. I'm convinced that the newly proposed Department of Homeland Security will do nothing to make us more secure, but it will make us all a lot poorer and less free. If the trend continues, the Department of Homeland Security may well be the vehicle used for a much more ruthless control of the people by some future administration than any of us dreams. Let's pray that this concern will never materialize.

America is not now a ruthless authoritarian police state. But our concerns ought to be whether we have laid the foundation of a more docile police state. The love of liberty has been so diminished that we tolerate intrusions into our privacies today that would have been abhorred just a few years ago. Tolerance of inconvenience to our liberties is not uncommon when both personal and economic fear persists. The sacrifices being made to our liberties will surely usher in a system of government that will please only those who enjoy being in charge of running other people's lives.

Mr. Speaker, what, then, is the answer to the question: "Is America a Police State?" My answer is: "Maybe not yet, but it is fast approaching." The seeds have been sown and many of our basic protections against tyranny have been and are constantly being undermined. The post-9/11 atmosphere here in Congress has provided ample excuse to concentrate on safety at the expense of liberty, failing to recognize that we cannot have one without the other.

When the government keeps detailed records on every move we make and we either need advance permission for everything we do or are penalized for not knowing what the rules are, America will be declared a police state. Personal privacy for law-abiding citizens will be a thing of the past. Enforcement of laws against economic and political crimes will exceed that of violent crimes (just look at what's coming under the new FEC law). War will be the prerogative of the administration. Civil liberties will be suspended for suspects, and their prosecution will not be carried out by an independent judiciary. In a police state, this becomes common practice rather than a rare incident.

Some argue that we already live in a police state, and Congress doesn't have the foggiest notion of what they're dealing with. So forget it and use your energy for your own survival. Some advise that the momentum towards the monolithic state cannot be reversed. Possibly that's true, but I'm optimistic that if we do the right thing and do not capitulate to popular fancy and the incessant war propaganda, the onslaught of statism can be reversed.

To do so, we as a people will once again have to dedicate ourselves to establishing the proper role a government plays in a free society. That does not involve the redistribution of wealth through force. It does not mean that government dictates the moral and religious standards of the people. It does not allow us to police the world by involving ourselves in every conflict as if it's our responsibility to manage a world American empire.

But it does mean government has a proper role in guaranteeing free markets, protecting voluntary and religious choices and guaranteeing private property ownership, while punishing those who violate these rules- whether foreign or domestic.

In a free society, the government's job is simply to protect liberty- the people do the rest. Let's not give up on a grand experiment that has provided so much for so many. Let's reject the police state.