BREAKING: New Emails Show IRS Attack Came From Washington

Despite President Obama’s claim that there isn’t even a “smidgen” of corruption in the IRS, and that any wrongdoing that may have occurred was because of rogue agents in the Cincinnati office, more and more evidence is emerging to the contrary, showing that the targeting of conservative groups was ordered by officials in Washington DC.

Numerous emails that have been released show that Washington officials, like Lois Lerner, were involved in coordinating the targeting of conservative groups.  It has even been discovered that this targeting took place at the behest of Democrats in Congress, with emails showing Senator Carl Levin and Rep. Elijah Cummingswriting to various IRS officials asking them to harass tea party groups and to provide them with information about said groups.

It has also become apparent that the targeting took place in order to help Democratsduring the 2012 election season, by harassing, delaying and otherwise silencing conservative groups.  Lois Lerner is heavily involved and implicated in this, and lied about it to Congress, leading to her being charged with contempt.

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Now even more information showing that the IRS targeting originated in DC, and not Cincinnati, has been revealed by watchdog group Judicial Watch. (H/TNewsmax)

In one July 6, 2012, email from Holly Paz, manager of Exempt Organizations Guidance (EOT), to IRS lawyer Steven Grodnitzky, Paz asked for an explanation of how tea party group applications were being handled.

“EOT is working the tea party applications in coordination with Cincy. We are developing a few applications here in D.C. and providing copies of our development letters with the agent to use as examples in the development of their cases. [IRS lawyer] Chip Hull is working these cases in EOT and working with the agent in Cincy, so any communication should include him as well. Because the tea party applications are the subject of an [Sensitive Case Report], we cannot resolve any of the cases without coordinating with Rob.”

Judicial Watch thinks “Rob” is a reference to Rob Choi, who was then the IRS’ director of rulings and agreements and was based at the agency’s Washington headquarters, the Daily Caller reports.

This is direct proof that Obama, the White House, Democrats and DC officials, particularly Lois Lerner, have lied about their knowledge and involvement in the IRS targeting scandal.  A newly released email also shows that the targeting took place at the urging of Senator Carl Levin.

Levin, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations, wrote a March 30, 2012, letter to then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman about the “urgency” of the issue of possible political activity by nonprofit applicants, the Daily Caller reported.

Levin asked if the IRS was sending out additional information requests to applicant groups, citing an IRS rejection letter to a conservative group as an example of how the IRS should be conducting its business, the Daily Caller said.

“Some entities claiming tax-exempt status as social welfare organizations under 26 U.S.C.&501(c)(4) appear to be engaged in political activities more appropriate for political organizations claiming tax-exempt status under 26 U.S.C.&527,” Levin wrote, the Daily Caller reported.

“Because of the urgency of the issues involved in this matter, please provide the following information by April 20, 2012,” he wrote.

The then acting Deputy Commissioner, Steven Miller, sent a 16 page email back to Senator Levin, explaining how certain IRS rules would allow for them to “prepare individualized questions and requests” for various conservative and Tea Party groups.

“There is no standard questionnaire used to obtain information about political activities,” Miller wrote. “Although there is a template development letter that describes the general information on the case development process, the letter does not specify the information to be requested from any particular organization . . . Consequently, revenue agents prepare individualized questions and requests for documents relevant to the application.”

What all of this shows is that there was a concerted, coordinated effort on the part of multiple individuals and agencies to deliberately target certain individuals and groups for political reasons.  This is a blatant crime, and at the very least, highly unethical.

Now more than ever, it is apparent that there needs to be a special prosecutorappointed, or a select committee formed, with the express purpose of investigating the IRS, and holding accountable everyone who was involved in this scandal.  People need to be fired, prosecuted and jailed for using to interminable power of the government to abuse law-abiding citizens who are only guilty of exercising their First Amendment right of free speech and freedom of assembly to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

ADHD in the new education

 

ADHD in the new education

by Jon Rappoport

May 12, 2014

www.nomorefakenews.com

“I learned twenty-four new things today at school,” the child said. “One right after the other. I felt so happy. My teacher told me I was learning accelerated. I wrote on my iPad. I saw pictures. I did group harmony. I added. I divided. I heard about architecture. The teacher said we were filled with wonder at the universe. We solved a problem. We’re all together. I ate cheese. A factory makes cheese.”

The new education is ADHD.

It’s a method of teaching that surrenders ground on each key concept, deserting it before it’s firmly fixed in the mind of the student.

It hops around from idea to idea, because parents, teachers, administrators, students, departments of education, and educational publishers have given up on the traditional practice of repetition.

Repetition was old-world. For decades, even centuries, the time-honored method of instruction was: introduce an idea or concept or method, and then provide numerous examples the student had to practice, solve, and demonstrate with proficiency.

There was no getting around it. If the student balked, he failed.

There were no excuses or fairy tales floated to explain away the inability of the student to carry out the work.

Now, these days, if you want to induce ADHD, teach a course in which each new concept is given short shrift. Then pass every student on to the next grade, because it’s “humane.”

Think of it this way. Suppose you want to climb the sheer face of a high rock. You know nothing about climbing. You engage an instructor. He teaches you a little bit about ropes and spikes and handholds. He briefly highlights each aspect and then skips to the next.

So later…while you’re falling five hundred feet to the ravine below, you can invent stories about why the experiment didn’t work out.

Since the advent of organized education on the planet, there has been one way of teaching young children…until recently. Explain a new idea, produce scores of examples of that idea, and get the students to work on those examples and come up with the right answers.

Subtraction, division, decimals, spelling, reading—it all works the same basic way.

For the last hundred years or so, however, we’ve seen the gradual intrusion of Teacher ADHD.

School text ADHD.

Not enough examples. Not enough exercises.

Education has nothing to do with “improving the self-esteem” of the student. It has nothing to do with telling children they’re valuable. And it certainly has nothing to do with trying to embed social values and team spirit in children.

No matter how many fantasies educators spin, schools can’t replace parents.

If what I’m writing here seems cruel and uncaring…look at the other side of the picture. Look at what happens when a student emerges from school with a half-baked, “dumbed-down” education.

He can sort of read. He can sort of write. He sort of understands arithmetic. He tries to skate through the rest of his life. He fakes it. He adopts a front to conceal the large territory of what he doesn’t know.

He certainly can’t think straight. Give him three ideas in succession and he’s lost. He goes on overload.

He operates on association. You say A and he goes to G right away. You go back to A and he responds with R. He’s up the creek without a paddle.

That’s what’s cruel.

Forty years ago, I was on the verge of landing a lucrative job with a remedial education company. The owner gave me a lesson plan and told me to write a sample program.

I did. He looked at it and said, “There are too many examples and exercises here. You have to move things along faster.”

I told him the students would never comprehend the program that way. They had to work on at least 20 exercises for each new concept.

He was shocked. “That’s not how it’s done now,” he said.

“Oh,” I said, “you mean now the student and teacher both fake it?”

And that was the end of that.

Several years ago, I explained much of what’s in this article to a sociologist at a US university. His response: “Children are different now. They don’t have patience. There are too many distractions. We have to operate from a new psychology.”

I asked him what that psychology was.

“Children are consumers. They pick and choose. We have to accommodate them.”

While I was laughing at his assessment, he capped his display of wisdom with this: “There is no longer a division between opinion and fact.”

Perfect.

I know all about how the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations torpedoed education in America. But their major effort was cutting off teachers and students from the history of the nation and the meaning of individual freedom.

What I’m talking about here is a different perversion. The unhinging of the young mind from any semblance of accomplishment and continuity. This goes far beyond the agenda of outfitting children to be worker-drones in a controlled society.

This is the induction of confusion and despair about what used to be called thinking. This is the imprinting of “gaps” that make it very hard for a person to operate, even as a drone.

In addition, seed children with all sorts of debilitating psychiatric drugs, and you have a profound mess that only dedicated parents can undo, one child at a time.

People may wish it weren’t so, but that doesn’t change the facts of the matter.

The upside is, when you explain a concept to a child, and you then take him through a great many exercises designed to help him understand that concept, he’ll achieve a victory.

When you see the lights go on in his mind, it’s very satisfying.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com

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Mon, 12 May 2014 16:58:30 GMT

Internet Taxes Coming?

 

by Peak Crackers

Contributor

Next you will have to pay for a license after you have paid for special training and conduct understanding VIA of schooling  to upload videos or blog content  and pay a tax every time you do along with tax on uses….MPC

Internet Freedom’s Expiration Date

The idea of taxing email is no more popular today than when President Bill Clinton signed the Internet Tax Freedom Act into law. But a dedicated congressional minority now wants to allow states and localities to tax email—unless these governments are given new powers to collect sales taxes on e-commerce.

On Nov. 1—three days before Election Day—the Internet Tax Freedom Act is due to expire. In place since 1998 and renewed three times, it wisely prohibits taxes that discriminate against the Internet. State and local governments can’t impose burdens online that don’t exist offline. And multiple jurisdictions can’t tax the same online transaction—a critical consumer protection in a country with more than 9,600 taxing authorities. The law also bans email taxes and new taxes on Internet access services.

Originally authored by former GOP Rep. Chris Cox and Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), the law has attracted large bipartisan majorities every time it’s been up for a vote in either house. That’s because the law has allowed the Internet to grow into an engine of interstate and international commerce.

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But in a few months customers may begin receiving notices from their Internet providers that new taxes are on the way. Even though nearly everyone in Congress opposes slapping all of America’s heavy traditional telephone taxes on Internet access, a renewal of this successful policy is being held hostage by lobbyists for giant retailers.

They've persuaded Democrats like Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) and even self-styled limited-government advocate Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) that an extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act should be paired with more authority for those 9,600 governments over e-commerce. Unless states and localities are granted new powers to reach outside their borders to force collection of sales taxes on goods purchased online, the plan is to punish all American consumers with new taxes on communication.

Mr. Chaffetz is candid in suggesting the larger moratorium extension won't pass without a new online sales tax. Mr. Durbin's office denies he's among the hostage takers, saying that while he has considered the Internet Tax Freedom Act as a vehicle to increase sales tax collections, "Senator Durbin has not said or implied that he would hold up any piece of legislation" in order to achieve his goal. If that's true, he should support an immediate vote on extending the ban on email taxes.

Since the biggest retailers already collect sales taxes on purchases both online and off, they want to impose a greater tax burden on their smaller competitors. The 1992 Supreme Court decision Quill v. North Dakota found that it would be too great a burden to force a merchant to collect taxes in jurisdictions where it has no physical presence. But the retailers and their allies in state government have pushed hard to run around Quillby rewriting the rules of interstate commerce.

Senators voted last year for such a rewrite when they approved the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force Web merchants to collect for all of America's taxing authorities. But some Senators have had second thoughts. After lawmakers approved the plan, the bill's author, Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.), couldn't say exactly how many governments would gain new authority to audit online merchants. A last-minute change in the bill, courtesy of Majority Leader Harry Reid, exposed Web retailers to harassment not just from state and local governments but "any tribal organization" as well. That could mean close to 600 additional governments.

Even if one favors additional tax collections on e-commerce—which most Americans do not—why should this controversial idea be used to destroy a successful policy on which most Americans agree?

Congress should make the Internet Tax Freedom Act permanent. And then during the August congressional recess, lawmakers can go back to pondering how to rewrite sales tax laws without crushing small merchants and consumers.

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Peak Crackers
Tue, 13 May 2014 01:31:43 GMT

(U//FOUO) NSA COMSEC Custodian Important Phone Numbers and Web Sites List

 

The following listing of important phone numbers and web sites for COMSEC Custodians was obtained from the website of the University of Central Florida.

COMSEC CUSTODIAN IMPORTANT NUMBERS & ASSOCIATED WEB SITES

• 5 pages
• For Official Use Only
• February 2013

(U//FOUO) NSA COMSEC Custodian Important Phone Numbers and Web Sites List
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Tue, 13 May 2014 02:09:55 GMT

Stash Your Cash!

 

Maybe a child safety seat would be a great place to stash-your-cash while traveling!

As you plan for your summer travels we all need to be on the look out for VIPR’s, I’m not talking about the car, but rather a program developed by the Department of Homeland Security, and deployed at the state level. Tennessee was the first state to experiment with this new form of tyranny. VIPR’s patrol the interstates looking for “terrorist”. That’s right, “terrorist”. With so much evidence supporting the possibility of a terrorist attack on US interstates this program should have been rolled out when the first interstate was built. It seems like every week I read a report about another “terrorist” attack being instigated from one of the major interstates that criss-cross our once proud Republic. Let’s not forget that a viper is also another word for snake. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary the word viper is defined as – a limbless reptile with a long body [a viper sliding silently through the field]. Sounds about right to me.

I am sure a lot of you have read articles regarding how local and state police just randomly stop people while traveling down the freeway. If you happen to be carrying a large amount of cash, you know to make a legitimate purchase or you simply like having a lot of cash, you will need to hide it really well. Another story of a law abiding citizen having there cash stolen by the police state has recently surfaced. These dirtbags are getting more brazen all the time. Let’s not forget the police are here to “protect and serve”. No one ever said who they were protecting and serving. As time goes by the picture is getting quiet clear who is being protected and served, and it ain’t us.

According to PoliceStateUSA.com:

Tan Nguyen was the lucky gambler who was stopped along I-80 in Humboldt County. Nguyen was stopped by Deputy Lee Dove for only going 3 miles per hour above the posted speed limit.

First, raise your hand if, under normal driving conditions and circumstances, while driving on the interstate, you drive slightly above the posted speed limit. I dare say most vehicles, including the ones supposedly representing the law, travel slightly above the posted speed limit. So far, sounds like a target of opportunity.

To establish the grounds for searching Nguyen’s vehicle, the deputy began to claim that he smelled drugs.

“I just smelled weed. I know I did. I know I smelled weed,” said Dove in the dash-cam video available from KLAS-TV.

Deputy Dove is a skilled narcotics agent that knows that accusing someone of drug trafficking is all that is required to walk away with their money and property. The policy that enables him to do this is known as civil asset forfeiture. “How much money you got?” asks the deputy.

What stands out to me, are the words “began” and “just”. What is this so-called “skilled narcotics agent” talking about? When did he “begin” to “just” smell weed? Right before stopping at the doughnut shop or immediately after leaving? Can you say, bullshit? I knew you could. What this establishes is the fact that you and I are wards of the state. We have no rights and the people that are suppose to represent the law are establishing themselves as being above the law. In case after case it is shown that motorist are like an ATM machine for the state.

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You feel you have been wronged and the state simply stole your money? Well, good luck getting your money back. According to a report from Infowars.com, you may need an attorney:

There’s a state law in Tennessee that allows police to keep large amounts of cash from routine stops if they suspect it’s going to be used for drug trafficking. If the money’s owner doesn’t seek legal recourse to get their money back, the agency gets to keep it.

I suspect our Founding Fathers are either rolling in theirs graves or crying for the loss of their Republic. When will the people rise up and say no more? When a state writes into law they can steal your cash, based on nothing, the control mechanism has been greatly enhanced.

Stash your cash when going to make that legitimate large purchase and happy motoring!

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Also, built and maintained Rory’s Glass (Eyes of the Heart Glassworks) – now closed to the public.

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Tue, 13 May 2014 03:57:33 GMT

Eric Holder: No Plans at DOJ to Investigate Secret Waiting Lists and Veteran Deaths at VA Hospitals

 

3:07 PM, MAY 13, 2014 • BY JOHN MCCORMACK

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Department of Justice doesn't have any plans to investigate allegations that veterans placed on secret waiting lists at VA hospitals died while waiting for care.

"Well, obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable, and the allegations are being taken very seriously by the administration. But I don't have any announcements at this time with regard to anything that the Justice Department is doing," Holder told reporters at a press conference.

"This is something on our radar screen at this point, but there is an investigation being done by the [VA] inspector general, and we'll see what happens as a result of that inquiry and other information that comes to light in some form or fashion," Holder added.

According to CNN, at least 40 veterans died while waiting for treatment at one VA hospital in Phoenix. Members of Congress have said in recent weeks that the inspector general investigation is inadequate and have called on the DOJ to launch its own investigation.

"Because these cases involve individuals working in their capacity as federal employees, and these incidents have occurred at federal facilities throughout the nation, I urge you to work with the state Attorneys General in Arizona and across the country to investigate these preventable deaths thoroughly, determine appropriate criminal charges, and prosecute the offenders accordingly," Rep. Tom Rooney, a Republican of Florida, wrote in a letter to Holder on May 1.

 

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Holder's announcement that the DOJ doesn't currently have any plans to investigate the VA hospital scandal was made Tuesday afternoon at a press conference held to announce that the DOJ was filing a lawsuit against lenders under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, which caps interest rates on student loans at 6 percent for members of the military.

"We are here to announce a landmark step forward in our effort to achieve justice for victims of improper lending practices--and to protect the men and women of America's armed services from anyone who would take advantage of those who wear the uniform," Holder said.

Florida couple fined thousands of dollars, threatened with jail time for feeding the homeless

Florida couple fined thousands of dollars, threatened with jail time for feeding the homeless

What we have here is out-of-control, police-state government at its worst.  A Florida couple is going to court after being fined thousands of dollars and threatened with jail time for feeding the homeless in their community.

from NBC:

Debbie and Chico Jimenez openly admit committing the act that earned them two citations apiece: feeding more than 100 people who are homeless in Daytona Beach.

Police in Daytona Beach also threatened them with arrest and incarceration, if they offer any more of their home-cooked meals at Manatee Island Park, a gathering the Jimenezes say they’ve hosted every Wednesday for the past year.

“The worst thing is, these are people we have grown to love, they’ve become like family to us, and now we’re not allowed to go down and do that anymore. It’s just heartbreaking. I have cried and cried and cried,” said Debbie Jimenez, 52, a retired auto parts store manager. She and her husband, 60, a retired construction manager, operate New Smyrna Beach-based ministry called “Spreading the Word Without Saying a Word.”

“One of our (homeless) friends said that Wednesday is just not going to be Wednesday anymore,” Debbie Jimenez added. “We were given 10 days to either pay the fine or tell them we’re going to court. We’re going to court. The police don’t like it. But how can we turn our backs on the hungry? We can’t.”

In all, police officers ticketed six people, including four volunteers who helped the Jimenezes on Wednesday – one of them, a man in a wheelchair who recently escaped homelessness and participated “to pay it forward,” Debbie Jimenez said. The fines levied by authorities total $2,238.

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The police claim that some of the homeless people have been gathering in the park in a drunk and disorderly fashion, and thus they’re taking it out on the compassionate people who are trying to better the situation. 

This is a perfect example of big government vs private charity.  Statist government hates private charity because it does not allow officials the luxury of control.  

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Laws and Laws and Laws

 

by David Griffith

Contributor

The Law of non interference. I looked it up and it didn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Oh – it’s a spiritual law. Yes – everyone is on their own spiritual journey – however dimly perceived it be and we have no right to interfere – unless asked. Does that have to be verbally expressed?

I’ll accept that this may be true for aliens visiting Earth who don’t want to be mistaken for the panacea of all that ails mankind.

I’ve found breath taking selfishness at all levels of society and although I’ve visited no mansions, hovels I know.

We had what is called an intervention here in Australia and did it kick in some furious debate. Did we have the right to prohibit – to a large degree – the massive sale of alcohol into vulnerable Aboriginal out stations and communities when the damage done is obvious to all but the venal and the stupid.

“Freedom of choice.” goes up the cry with echoes of “Dignity of risk” and yet – and yet – an Aboriginal voice cries out the truth of the matter.

To paraphrase : if your family were disintegrating before your eyes – from many causes undoubtably – would you accept that continuous drunken behaviour was somehow a ‘freedom of choice’ issue?

You’d take the steps needed to rectify the situation. You would fail in your duty as a parent or a family member if you did otherwise.

None of us are so inherently daft that we can’t recognise evil consequence when we see it.

The law of non interference isn’t a law. It’s a general guide and probably stated as a law to perhaps prevent us from wasting our resources and getting into ‘deep shit.’

I was brought up with a degree of such folk wisdom as “If you’ve got nothing nice to say about a person then say nothing at all.”

It’s got echoes of  “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” and I understand that in a similar way as I do ” For God’s sake please don’t discuss politics or religion at the dinner table.”

Judgement and discrimination aren’t even related concepts as I understand it. I don’t judge but I do discriminate.

So it’s often about ‘polite and decorum’ and it saddens me to call anything evil – evil doesn’t like to be publicly named as such – but I find myself – in one lifetime having great sympathy, as a child, for the poor Jews of the Second World War….. and then losing it. I didn’t lose the sympathy for wrongs done but gained a horror as the state of Israel used the same tactics as the Nazis did in order to fulfill their aims.

Rwanda had a holocaust as did Cambodia as did millions more elsewhere. They don’t get a mention in the world press – neither does Palestine.

Re-incarnated Nazis or otherwise infest Israel and play out their miserable games of superiority just as others have done over eons no doubt.

Do I hide behind some spiritual law which the Divine has not made known to me except by virtue of ‘You could shorten this particular life by speaking up.’

Meanwhile, in Gaza ……

There are limits to everything – apart from the Divine – and polite doesn’t cut it anymore. You don’t personally have to take action now, speak up or be revealed. Different times at different moments for different folks applies.

That, I think I understand.

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David Griffith
Tue, 13 May 2014 14:28:35 GMT

Indiana Gets New Military Helicopters for “Homeland Security Missions”

 

The Indiana National Guard has purchased two military UH-72 Lakota helicopters which will also be used by local law enforcement and the DHS for “homeland security missions”.

“The Lakotas, manufactured by the Airbus Group, will also aid local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in case of an emergency,” reports the Indiana Daily Student, adding that the helicopters “will also aid in homeland security missions”.

The chopper is renowned for its “maneuverability and power” and also features sophisticated sensor technology used for “automatic target tracking” that can “spot a weapon or read a license plate from a distance where the Lakota remains undetected,” according to a promotional video for the helicopter.

The on board system can also transmit live video feed to a ground station up to 30 miles away while an individual can easily be followed via high power search lights linked up with the sensor system.

The chopper is normally used to pursue drug traffickers on the Mexican border as well as for search and rescue missions, but will now be utilized to keep tabs on residents of Indiana, which some will see as another sign of America’s increasing lurch towards a militarized police state.

Given that the Department of Homeland Security is now targeting groups named “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny” as part of its exercises, it’s unsurprising that many conservatives fear the federal government is paying an unhealthy amount of attention to people with certain political beliefs while some 68,000 convicted illegal immigrants are released each year.

As we have exhaustively documented on numerous occasions, federal authorities and particularly the Department of Homeland Security have been involved in producing a deluge of literature which portrays liberty lovers and small government advocates as extremist radicals, a chilling trend given the Lakota helicopter’s specialty at detecting guns from a distance.

The increasing use of military hardware in the field of domestic law enforcement has caused consternation amongst some who see the police’s role as changing from ‘protect and serve’ to treating the American people as some kind of enemy. Since the winding down of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Department of Defense has been donating armored vehicles to the Department of Homeland Security which in turn has been selling them to police departments across the country.

Former Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino, who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers, warned last year that the Department of Homeland Security is working with law enforcement to build a “domestic army,” because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens.

Martino was speaking at a council meeting concerning a decision to purchase a BearCat armored vehicle. The purchase of the vehicle has surrounded by controversy after the city’s Police Chief wrote in an application filing to the DHS that the vehicle was needed to deal with the “threat” posed by libertarians, sovereign citizen adherents, and Occupy activists in the region.

Another resident at the meeting who grew up in Czechoslovakia also warned of parallels between Communists using tanks in her former country as a means of intimidation to suppress free speech.

Indiana’s purchase of the two military choppers, partly for “homeland security missions,” is another disturbing benchmark of the increasingly blurred line between military operations and domestic law enforcement.

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Tue, 13 May 2014 15:00:09 GMT

Missouri Bill to Protect Electronic Communications and Data Bypasses Governor and Moves to Voters

 

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The Missouri House gave final approval Friday to legislation protecting electronic communications and data. As a proposal for a state constitutional amendment, it bypasses the governor’s desk and goes directly to the people for consideration on the ballot this November.
When proponents of mass, warrantless surveillance find themselves backed into a corner on the basis that such activities violate Fourth Amendment warrant requirements, they often make the claim that electronic data falls outside the scope of the constitution because it doesn’t qualify as “persons, houses, papers, or effects.”
Instead of engaging in a long legal debate with opponents who likely hold a political agenda, the Missouri legislature took a different path. It passed legislation to expressly gives “electronic data and communications” the same state constitutional protections as “persons, homes, papers and effects.”
Introduced by Sen. Rob Schaaf, Senate Joint Resolution 27 (SJR27) passed the full House Friday. It previously passed the Senate by a vote of 31-1.
The text of SJR27 is short and concise, replacing the “privacy rights” section in the state constitution with the following language, adding electronic communications to the objects protected from search or seizure without a warrant.

That the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes [and], effects, and electronic communications and data, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, or access electronic data or communication, shall issue without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to be seized, or the data or communication to be accessed, as nearly as may be; nor without probable cause, supported by written oath or affirmation.

The effect of this resolution would prove significant. The addition of electronic communications to the list of privacy items would make emails, phone records, Internet records and other electronic information gathered without a warrant inadmissible in state court. That would include data gathered illegally by overzealous state and local law enforcement as well as the federal government.
OffNow coalition spokesman Shane Trejo welcomed the progress that SJR27 represents in the on-going battle against warrantless spying.
“While Missouri might not be able to physically stop the NSA and other federal agencies from collecting our data without a warrant, legislation such as this can significantly reduce the practical effect of what they are trying to do with it. Compliance with the NSA’s illegal spying program would be illegal in Missouri if this is passed, and that is no small feat,” he said.
SJR27 addresses one aspect of OffNow’s campaign to thwart NSA spying at the state and local level – data sharing.
As Reuters reported in August, 2013, the secretive Special Operations Division (SOD) is “funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.”
Documents obtained by Reuters show that these cases “rarely involve national security issues,” and that local law enforcement is directed by SOD to “conceal how such investigations truly begin.”
Reports in the Washington Post and USA Today last fall documented how “the FBI and most other investigative bodies in the federal government” are regularly using a mobile device known as a “stingray” to intercept and collect electronic data without a warrant. Local and state police “have access through sharing agreements.”
SJR27 will now move to the November ballot, where approval by a majority vote of the people will make it a part of the state constitution and give it legal force.
The OffNow coalition is group of grassroots organizations and individuals spanning the political spectrum committed to stopping unconstitutional NSA spying through state and local activism.
Source:
The Tenth Amendment Center

Missouri Bill to Protect Electronic Communications and Data Bypasses Governor and Moves to Voters
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Fri, 16 May 2014 23:01:00 GMT