Well said Rubberneck and thanks for providing the link Richard. In the
"Rational" section of their tiny site was a brief, unspecific, non-linear and convoluted message denouncing the Constitution in favor of "Biblical law".
Wanting to peaceably remove elected officials is one of the founding principals of democracy and the guardians of the free republics is a piss poor example. Whether or not the FBI's impetus is to suppress dissenting voices does not change the fact that a clear signal is sent to the masses that they could be labled "anti-government" if they are not careful.
If you hold up sign at a G-20 conference reading "Globalization Hurts America" you are classified as a "low level terrorists" by the DoD. If you have a "Don't Tread on Me", "Abortion is Murder", "Pro-Constitutionalist", "Pro-Libertarian" or a "far left leaning" bumper sticker you may be classified as a "potential terrorist" to your local LE as directed by the DHS.
OTOH, if a group comes to celebrate the death and slander the memory of a loved one at their funeral because they died in service of the Armed Forces: all the legal protection you currently have to shield mourners from an unimaginably enraging spectacle (at the least political of events) is State and/or Federal legislation mandating a "buffer-zone" with the good soles who maintain it. About 40 states have such "buffer-zones" and voting out a politician who refuses to have his/her state's citizens be broadly categorized as "low level terrorists" or "potential terrorists" would be another example of a Representative Democracy; not unlike voting out a politician who stands against funeral "buffer zones".
I have made political statements I regret, but take responsibility for, as have a lot of people who care about their country having a congressional approval rate of 10% and a congressional re-election rate of 90%.
Those who advocate "gangs" or Green Peace being listed as terrorists might want to take a step back and consider that through EO's, Directives, ect. much of the Constitutional and Bill of Rights freedoms are currently gone seeing as we are at war with terrorists. It's hard to argue that federal failures aren't used as justification for more power or that the war on terror is likely to end.
In the next 30 months we will have to sell an additional 3 trillion in treasuries and I don't see any alternative then the Fed. buying them which would spike inflation and may cause other countries to sell ours also. Inflationary and deflationary effects are not mutually exclusive.
Compound that with additional deficits each year (absent massive taxing increases), 45 of our 50 states being dependant on federal assistance, the interest on our debt alone soon to exceed current total income tax revenues and huge pre-existing "off balance sheet" federal debts: Who will be labled a terrorist if things go bad? I don't know much but I know that often the poorer the country the more corrupt the LE.
That's not to say I don't have the utmost gratitude and admiration for those working hard to keep us safe. Though securing our boarders and testing imports for Gov. level WMD would be an important step IMHO.
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Their first directive from the above link: Ending foreclosure and bank collection actions immediately (our first and seventh directives)
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The "bail-outs" were originally sold to Bush and our other representatives as just that: tapping the Treasury to print money to buy the toxic assests of private companies who's financially unscreened consumers inability to pay their mortgages was the foundation. It was the first time since the Great Depression that the Treasury put public debt in private hands. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson literally on his hands and knees to sign off on it immediately giving Reps a three page summery of a bill that was months in the making and hundreds of pages.
Link The House of Representatives initially rejected this act so Senate leaders amended existing bill H.R. 1424, which had passed the House, to include it and bypass the revenue origination clause of the Constitution. Senator James Inhofe describes Paulson's threats of martial law to select Senators if the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 wasn't passed
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Contrary to the very clear 3 page summery: the day after it passed the money was given to undisclosed private institutions who had the same ability to leverage the money they received 60 to 80+ times the original amount.
It should be noted that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had a role in creating most of the troubled assets, while he was CEO of Goldman Sachs, where he was paid over half a billion.
Link This might explain why he had a secret “social event” with GS, while Treasury Secretary, in Moscow...
Link Not shocking that GS had the fore-sight to bet against their mortgage-related securities and against the U.S. housing market during the crisis.
Link GS was also the largest benefactor of the AIG bail out Paulson oversaw. There was some talk of current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner facing criminal charges over covering up AIG bailout details.
Link Geithner decided AIG would be bailed out just two days after deciding not to rescue GS and Morgan Stanley competitor Lehman Brothers.
Mark Pittman, a financial journalist for Bloomberg news, sued the Fed to disclose what institutions got more than $2 trillion because the Fed said it would cause them “severe and irreparable competitive injury” . He won on Aug. 24, 2009 as Manhattan Federal Court affirmed the public’s right to know and died a few months later from a heart-related illness at 52. The precise cause of death isn't known.
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The Fed appealed but the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld the decision March 19, 2010. The Fed will likely seek a rehearing or appeal to the full appeals court and eventually petition the U.S. Supreme Court.
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