Episode: 3.8.10 Fast Times at Prepare Radio
Host: Jerry Adams
Ahmadinejad claims that 9/11 was an inside, hmm are we really the good guys? Regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults and the recession. Future Attribute Screening Technology, or “FAST” – designed for the Department of Homeland Security. Not as invasive as the “X-RAY” machines… but good LAWD can that Sally Smith SWEAT or WHAT! All this, and I STILL don’t have my Jetson Mobile?!! UUUUGH! Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important. Plus another episode of snoring with my wife.
Videos and Links:
Video: 9/11 Attacks Were U.S. Intelligence Operation To Justify War In Iraq! Ahmadinejad
Regulators shut down banks in 4 states, making 26 US bank failures this year
Video: “FAST” Coming to an Airport near YOU! – Future Attribute Screening Technology: The Machine That Reads (Malintent) Minds!
Video: CNN: Conspiracy Theorists Are Potential “Suicide Warriors” & Are Mentally Disturbed
Toyoto Simulator
Video: Presidential Reunion
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Dumb Patriots
The US PATRIOT Act must be abolished. I have heard many people say they would be willing to give up some liberty in order to keep their freedom. The thought of this disturbs me because liberty and freedom are the same, if you give up one you lose both. This is the question each person must ask themselves and the answer will let them know if they are living in a “free” country. Are the people afraid of the Government or is the Government afraid of the people? Under this abominable act, I would have to say we the people are subject to the Government and the Government is not remotely answerable to us. Is that not the very definition of despotism? Our founding fathers declared that we have certain unalienable rights: the US PATRIOT Act maintains that we have no rights except those given to us by our Government. Let us examine what the US PATRIOT Act is and what it does. We must also consider the Constitutionality of the act. Moreover, it is only fair to look at applications of the US PATRIOT Act from the perspectives of the Government and the citizens.
The very name US PATRIOT Act would send shivers down the spine of any Senator who would dream of not voting for it. Refusal to vote for such a patriotic bill in the face of impending national security breaches would seem like an endorsement of terrorism. In fact, the very name US PATRIOT Act is an acronym designed for the purpose of entrapping those morally opposed to it. Surly those who would oppose such a measure are not Patriots. This is what the acronym US PATRIOT Act stands for, “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act.” Many Congressmen have stated that the senate floor was pushed into a state of frenzy and they were not even allowed to review the bill before they were told that it had to be passed for the good of the country. It is Thomas Jefferson who stated in the Declaration of Independence that a Government is entrusted to ensure the rights of those being governed. Not allowing the Senators to read the act before its passage clearly goes against that principle. How can they accurately represent the greater body of American citizens, if only their emotions are used and not their intellect? Young Thomas Jefferson went on to say that it is the very responsibility of the people to abolish the Government that does not achieve its purpose of ensuring the liberty and justice of its governed people. The US PATRIOT Act in its very design and purpose strips liberty and justice from the people. Lets us examine a few “Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism,” and let the American people decide if their liberty is what is truly obstructed.
We now know what the US PATRIOT Act stands for; let us look at what it does. This act refuses some of the most basic human and American rights laid forth by the Constitution of The United States, and common moral conscience. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 or (DSEA) was the last bill that amended the US PATRIOT Act, it was passed in 2004. Unfortunately it stripped even more rights away from citizens. Section 501 defines “terrorists” as anyone who breaks State or Federal law. That offending person can also be lawfully detained without an arrest warrant and be legally detained; however it would be illegal for any government agent or citizen to tell where that person is being detained. There is also no time limit to that person’s incarceration. The Government does not even have to tell the media or any other entity if a person has even been detained because Section 201 says so. Section 312, grants law enforcement agents who even suspect someone is breaking a law, the right to use surveillance against those surrounding the accused without a warrant, and makes that agency unanswerable to applicable State and Federal laws. This completely throws out the Third Amendment to the Constitution which gives citizens the right of privacy. Section 106, gives the Government agents the right to hold secret criminal courts, while giving immunity to conduct illegal search and seizures. The Fourth Amendment, which gives citizens defense against illegal search and seizures is completely overturned by Section 106. The current version of the US PATRIOT Act entails far too many atrocities against justice and due process than can even be discussed in current time constraints. I highly encourage every American citizen to realize the importance of examining the bill themselves, because it seems to be our new Bill of Rights. There are some who would argue that the US PATRIOT Act has brought our country greater security in these times of global uncertainty. It is only fair that we further examine these assertions.
We now know what the US PATRIOT Act stands for and what it does; let us consider its performance from a Government and a citizen’s point of view. On Wednesday July 13, 2004 the Justice Department released a report to Congress by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The report stated that 310 people and 179 convictions or guilty pleas resulted from the use of the PATRIOT Act. This report which I read about in the Washington Post, also told of two cases (although there were others) in which the PATRIOT Act was used for traditional criminal convictions. In the two stated cases one was for a child pornographer and the other led to the rescue of an eighty-eight year old woman who had been kidnapped. I do feel like my intelligence was insulted by the report, especially with the inclusion of the child pornographers and granny-nappers. What is easy to miss in the report is that the PATRIOT Act was used on ordinary citizens and not traditional terrorists. No doubt the severity of the crimes was a calculated admission in order to cover up the fact that Americans with much less severe crimes and even those who were innocent were unconstitutionally investigated with the PATRIOT Act. There is a more recent article from the Washington Post, regarding the FBI’s misuse of the PATRIOT Act. The report from the Justice Departments inspector general Glenn A. Fine, states that the FBI have used their PATRIOT Act powers with no restraint, no justification and extremely little oversight. The main point of contention involved the use of exigent letters, which assured telephone companies that it was ok to go ahead and release private information because subpoenas or national security letters were on their way. There were 700 such letters which were uncalled for and without follow-up. FBI Robert S Muller III took full responsibility for the FBI’s involvement in what he called “deficiencies.” Unfortunately, Mr. Muller was not handed a life time jail sentence for unlawfully stripping American citizens of their Constitutional rights; he was simply acknowledging what the media reported and said that he was going to clean it up.
Finally, after carful consideration of what the US PATRIOT ACT is, how continues to steal freedoms from the people, and its history of misuse; we have little choice but to end it. We declare that it must be abolished. Many like to point out that the PATRIOT Act was enacted by the Bush Administration; however the Obama administration is currently seeking to expand its powers. We as American citizens must get out of this left, right paradigm. Fighting this act is about freedom, it is not (everyone’s favorite football game) about Republicans vs. Democrats. Many people have compared this act to Nazi policies in Hitler’s Germany and that is not what I am seeking to do. However, there is a poem that was written by a poet named Martin Niemoller which I believe exactly describes what will happen as long as we fellow Americans continue to act as cowards.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.
We must not allow unrestrained, unconstitutional Government authority to crush us. The Government is ours; we do not belong to the Government. In the first paragraph I asked the question; “are you afraid of the Government or is the Government afraid or you?” I asked myself that question and I would have to say that I am afraid of the American people’s blind acceptance of tyrannical Government powers, just because the Government said that it is to protect them. We must demand our freedom. Peacefully, but we have to be active to the point that, any Congressperson who votes on any bill that so much as hints as impeding the rights of citizens, has ended his career. We also need to educate ourselves on the issues, and turn from the hypnotizing glare of the television. We need to learn what it means to be Americans again. I can’t help but recall the final phrase to the Pledge of Allegiance “to the republic to which it stands one Nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” The only way that liberty and justice for all may be maintained is with a Government of the people for the people and by the people, not by an act that shall forever live in infamy.
Jerry Adams
War is Life
It has been said that a good national defense is to walk softly and carry a big stick. If you observe the history of America’s foreign policy of the past 10 years you will discern a pattern of that same stick violently killing hundreds of thousands. There is surprising little amount of contemporary debate on the issue of the United States being in a constant state of war. American citizens are most recently concerned that our nation will have a mandatory national health care program but what Americans fail to realize is that our government has been the source of thousands of violent deaths per year, due to a constant state of war. There are several major indicators that our government has been involved in systematic public deception, in order to perpetuate its business of global war. Students of history have noticed that America has been in a constant state of war since World War One (WWI). There are many obvious conflicting facts if one briefly observes the circumstances surrounding 9/11.The American government rules the American people by placing them in a constant state of fear, which encourages complacency. War is not a way to grow a country, and it must be stopped for America to survive as a nation.
First of all, there is no debate that America herself was founded, by blood sweat and patriotism in the Revolutionary War, however that she has been in a constant state of war in order to maintain her economy is controversial. After the Revolutionary War, there was the war of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI,WWII just to name a few. America has been in a constant state of war since WWI, which is over 60 years of death and carnage. I don’t believe that that William S Knudsen General Motors president’s famous wartime quote “This wartime economy is great can we continue this?”,was a coincidence but a taste of things to come. One might argue that there is a war gap in the 1980’s thus rendering my thesis obsolete; however Ronald Reagan championed what he termed “The Cold War”. The Cold War was responsible for maintaining wartime spending on nuclear armaments and military aircraft while keeping citizens afraid of Soviet boogie men. The Berlin wall came down, and The Cold War warmed, so there was a new need for war. The Gulf war against Sadam Hussein, (who I might add was put into power by the United States to fight the Soviet boogie men), raged on in the early 1990’s satisfying America’s ruling corporate powers with economic satisfaction. During this time America’s central intelligence agency (CIA) was funding a group they called “Al-Qaeda”, the translation is “the base”, referring the CIA’s computer data base of radical Muslim militants enlisted to fight against the Soviet boogie men in the Afghanistan War. The most recent and continuing war that America continues to generate and involve itself in is “The War on Terror”, which has recently been changed by the Obama administration to “overseas contingency operations”, yet it still rages on.
Now that we have surveyed a brief overview of America’s established war fueled economy, lets focus on a few interesting yet obvious facts concerning our governments reactions to the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centers. Many people feel that the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks were not perpetrated by rouge Muslim terrorists but by the United States government themselves. We will not examine the U.S. government’s involvement in the attacks, because we are looking for the obvious, common sense evidence, not in-depth investigations. Then President George Bush stated that the attacks were perpetrated by Al-Qaeda, led by Osama Ben Laden, so we must go to war with Sadam Hussein. Then the President went on to declare a “Global War on Terror”. Attacking Sadam Hussein because of what Osama Ben Laden supposedly did does not make sense. Now if we observe the continuing numbers of those who have been killed by this War on Terror we find that it not being called off makes even less sense. Just slightly over 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2009. In Iraq since the war began in 2003 up until the date this paper was written 4,677 coalition solders have been killed. Afghanistan has seen the death of 1,507 coalition solders since 2001 until this date. The death of the civilians of those countries is between 753,399 and 1 million. If the world trade centers were indeed attacked by, “Terrorists”, and 3,000 people were killed, would the death of over 1 million not make the U.S. government, “Terrorists”, also? If not, how many deaths would it take?
After we have examined the history of America’s war time economy and some obvious facts surrounding the 9/11 attacks we are naturally led to the way the American government rules, which is by fear. The reason that the U.S. government rules by fear, is because, that is what is required to maintain a wartime economy. I personally served in the “Operation Iraqi Freedom”; otherwise know as The Second Iraqi War. One thing that we were constantly taught was that we had to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Handing out food rations was one way this was accomplished. This war for the hearts and minds is not a new concept; in fact this war is the only war that has ever raged in America. The war for the hearts and minds, if won enables any government to do whatever they wish because they have convinced the people that they know best. The United States government accomplished this in WWII, by convincing its citizens that Hitler and the Japanese were evil personified. The American people were even willing to undergo rationing of very basic items such as toothpaste, meat, and rubber. America’s modern citizens have given up even some of their most basic civil liberties. It is frightening to consider that the events of Pearl Harbor and our modern 9/11 have certain similarities. The government ran in to trouble in Vietnam, as a majority of the public did not accept our need for the war. The United Stated did not lose the war in Vietnam, what the American government lost was a battle in the war of the hearts and minds of the American people. The modern war of the hearts and minds of the American public is still raging, and the government has encountered some recent setbacks. Government setbacks in the modern battle for the hearts and minds are made evident by the, “9/11 Truth Movement”, and the growing, “Tea Party Movement”. However, both movements are only a loss in the battle not the whole war. The government has made a counter strike with the, “World Financial Crisis”, and the, “H1N1 Scare”. The, “H1N1 Pandemic”, which statistically speaking is less virulent than the regular flu; has truly scared the American public. During the American publics recent terrors it is hard for them to focus on foreign wars, when there are issues that truly hit close to home like foreclosures and the swine flu.
Finally, after reviewing the history of America’s war economy, peculiar truths surrounding the 9/11 attacks and bearing in mind that the American government rules by fear, it leads you to the question of why. The reason is obvious if one decides to take responsibility for consuming their own facts, and not those feed to them by the corporate sponsored media. Money makes the world go around. Unfortunately there are some people in positions of power that feel that their not being in power would be a greater crime than the death of hundreds of thousands of less important peasants. Peasants would be those solders who fight in wars and innocent civilians who die. Death has been in the world since Cain slew Able. The Holy Bible goes on to say, “We struggle not against flesh and blood but against principalities in high places.” I have no reason to believe that this struggle will end soon, not until people learn to be less trusting and more discerning. However, I am of the firm opinion that war is not a way to grow a country, and it must be stopped for America to survive as a nation.
Jerry Adams