REJECT THE CCHD AND THEIR PLEA FOR MONEY

Make sure that you put a note in the envelope explaining why you refuse to support this Progressive, evil, Alinsky designed system. And make sure that your priest knows that you aren't supporting it, too. And make sure he understands why.

All we have to do to end evil is refuse to participate in it.

SOROS' ROLE IN KENYA

"In a series of investigative reports this week, Glenn Beck has been analyzing the five-point strategy by which George Soros and his Open Society Institute have destabilized and overturned governments in several countries, including Yugoslovia in 2000, Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine, in the so-called “Orange Revolution” of 2004. Compelling evidence indicates that Soros may have employed a similar strategy in Kenya, but with far more gruesome results.

Following Kenya’s disputed elections of December 2007, activists funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute demanded that the election be overturned. The country erupted into violence, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and some 350,000 homeless. Thousands were injured, tortured, mutilated and raped."

To read more go to Glenn Beck's website.

BOYCOTT AMAZON

"After suffering a public relations nightmare yesterday, online giant Amazon.com removed "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure" from its virtual bookstore – but the company continues to sell at least seven pro-molestation titles that are even more offensive.

One remaining title, David L. Riegel's "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers," drew attention in 2002 when WND reported Amazon refused to remove it amid similar protest.

Amazon also continues to offer four other titles by the unapologetic pro-"boylove" American, Riegel, and two by a notorious Dutch professor and pedophile. Riegel compares himself to human rights crusader Andrei Sakharov in the introduction to one of his books.

In fact, Amazon devotes an entire web page to Riegel and his work. Riegel, in turn, credits Amazon for keeping "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers" available to the public for nearly a decade.

"Nine years have passed since this volume was first printed, and the book has been out of print for some time now. Yet there are still requests for copies, and when amazon.com set up its "print-on-demand" subsidiary, it was an opportunity to meet this demand," Riegel wrote in the preface to the second printing in 2009."
World Net Daily

WEST BANK BLOGGER FACING LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Dan Collins over at POWIP has an intersting post about a West Bank blogger facing imprisonment life for atheistic posts. Just one more example of freedom of speech in countries controlled by the "religion of peace".

QE2 EXPLAINED - PUT DOWN YOUR PITCHFORKS!

H/T The Market Ticker

SCHWAGSTOCK AND POLICE STATE INTIMIDATION

"Grateful Dead music lovers will no longer be truckin' down to Shannon County for outdoor music festivals if three law enforcement agencies get their way in federal court.

On Monday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, the Missouri Highway Patrol and the U.S. Attorney's Office filed a joint complaint in the Eastern District of Missouri asking to seize the 350-acre Zoe Farm, alleging rampant drug dealing and drug use at events.

According to its website, the farm, called Camp Zoe, is located 150 miles southwest of St. Louis near Salem and hosts a popular Grateful Dead festival call Schwagstock every year, as well as biker and pagan rallies and individual concerts. Once a popular summer camp for kids, the property was purchased in 2004 by Jimmy Tebeau, a member of the Schwag, a Grateful Dead tribute band. He opened the grounds to recreational camping and float trips and began hosting the festivals soon after the purchase.

In the complaint, officials said investigators spent four years monitoring and interacting with concertgoers on the farm, witnessing drug use and completing open drug deals with participants during events. Officials allege that the owner and event operators were aware of the activity and "took no immediate action to prevent" the sale and use of cocaine, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, psilocybin mushrooms, opium and marijuana-laced food.

Tebeau has not been charged with a crime. Nor would he have to be for the court to approve the seizure of the property under a civil asset forfeiture law that enables the federal government to take property that is relied upon by criminals as part of an illegal money-making enterprise. The complaint values the farm at $600,000."
STL Today

Right up front, and I've got to be honest, I think the people that attend Schwagstock here in Missouri are a bunch of losers. It's a festival that tries to recreate the "glory days" of the '60's and following the Dead. It's composed mostly of people with glazed over eyes, stinkin' bodies, tie dye shirts and long hair, smokin' joints and hopin' to spread or create some new kind of sexually transmitted disease.

And if that's what they want to do, let 'em. As long as they keep it on the farm. It doesn't break my bones or pick my pockets.

The real problem here is that the government can seize the property of someone because they've witnessed illegal activity on it. Obviously, the guy that owns the farm and the people that promote the concerts know exactly what's happening. How couldn't they. But, so what? Have they been convicted of anything yet?

And why didn't they simply arrest the people they observed breaking the law on the farm at the time they broke it? Why not pull people over as they leave based on what the officers saw at the show? If they really wanted to put an end to the problem just letting everyone know that they were being observed would have done it.

But that wouldn't intimidate on a large enough scale. A few arrests don't get anyone's attention; stealing their property using the law does.

The government has seized the bank accounts of the farm owner, leaving him defenseless in the face of their assault because, once again, they have accused, not convicted him, of fronting a criminal enterprise.

"Tebeau's lawyer, Dan Viets, said the law is unfair and enables the government to bully innocent property owners and take land, money and homes nearly at will.

"One doesn't even need to be accused of a crime, let alone convicted of one to be threatened with the loss of everything you own," Viets said. "That's the threat."

Viets, who is representing his client pro bono, said Tebeau discovered this week that officials had cleaned out his bank account, yet he has not been served legal notice on that forfeiture.

"It's pretty darn hard to hire legal counsel if you don't have any money — and the government knows that," Viets said. "It's just heavy-handed and mean-spirited, and entirely uncalled for."

Special, isn't it?

Now, I have no doubt that the owner of the property and the promoters of the show have broken all kinds of laws and they've made money doing it. Fine. Arrest them and charge them. But don't strip them of their assets and their ability to defend themselves first!

We are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. This kind of crap flips that concept right on its head. This is the government using its power to intimidate, nothing more, nothing less. When it does these sorts of things it send a message to the rest of of us that we better toe the line and do as we're told or we could be destroyed with the stroke of a pen.

Further, I've never believed that these laws were enforced fairly, justly or consistently. They're used as a tool of intimidation as often as not.

I remember, years ago, when the son of St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Dee Joyce Hayes was arrested, in a car she owned, with a trunk full of pot, some of which he had sold. I followed this pretty closely at the time and from what I could tell her car was never seized, even though if a normal person had been pulled over and even a roach was found in an ash tray, bye-bye car and probably the money in the wallet and maybe in the bank account if the government wanted.

One law for them; another for us.

What good's a legal system if it's not also a system of justice? And if the government can use these coercive and intimidating techniques on the guy that owns this farm why can't they use them against you or me if they don't like what we say or do? How is this any differnt than say having the IRS investigate a political opponent. It's not! These are the state powers that are so often used in third world countries or by Communist regimes to silence those that oppose them.

We're supposed to be a nation of laws and I suppose we are. One set of laws to frighten and control the people and another to enrich and empower the connected.

Welcome to our brave new America.

THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATHILDA

I've always been partial to this song and I listen to it every Veterans Day. Sometimes we get all wrapped up in the flag and patriotism, which is a good thing. But I think sometimes we forget what we ask of our soldiers. They go to places they don't care about to fight and maybe die for, more often than not, people that would rather they weren't there.

Politicians, many times the same people that used their influence to stay out of battle, send our sons and daughters to fight for things that we'd rather not be involved in, to support governments we may not agree with or to make a country safe for corporate interests. This is true today just as its been true all through history.

And even with all this, men and women, most often young and idealistic, find the courage to put their lives on the line and do the job their government asks of them. They do it for their buddies, they do it for honor, they do it because they signed on to the job and they'll follow through and finish it.

Thanks for your sense of duty and your service. I pray that all of you live to tell your stories to your grandkids and show them the scars you earned in battle.

We owe you.

LAME DUCKS MAY GIVE BANKS LICENSE TO STEAL

I don't normally post entire articles but this is too important not to. If what this guy at Garfield Continuum reports is true the Congress, during the upcoming lame duck session will try to sneak a bill into some legislation that will effectively let the banks off the hook using the Commerce Clause (what a surprise). It will change contract law retroactively to protect the law breakers. This is forbidden by the Constitution. Not to mention that it would run roughshod over state laws which govern real estate.

All in the name of protecting their friends on Wall Street and in the banks, the ones sending the money.

Call or write your representatives and tell then you will not stand for this!

After years of negative judicial decisions about the use of a straw-man on mortgages, MERS was about to lose its existence as well as its credibility. But now all of that is set to change as Wall Street money is pouring into the coffers of those who are receptive (i.e., almost everyone in Congress). The legislation is already being drafted under the interstate commerce clause to ratify MERS and everything it did retroactively. It appears that the Obama administration is ready to pardon all the securitization deviants by signing this bill into law. This information is corroborated by several people who are in sensitive positions — persons who would be the first to know such proposals. Fortunately, there are some people in Washington who have a conscience and do not want to see this happen.

Besides the obvious seediness of this maneuver, it runs roughshod over state property laws, and the rights of investors, homeowners and borrowers. It amounts to a permanent installation of a Federal system that supersedes the county records for recording property rights. Off-record comments I’ve heard from people in power are outraged at this assault on states’ rights. But these people are not legislators, who are getting promises larger than anything in your imagination, if they will support such a bill. It might be couched as a uniform law to be adopted by the states to get around the states rights issues, but it will permanently remove some of the power over property that lies solely within the jurisdiction of the states and place it preemptively within federal jurisdiction.

All of this is scheduled to happen during the lame duck session of congress between now and the end of the this year, 2010. That means in a manner of days, some bill that may look like it has nothing to do with property, mortgages or foreclosures is going to have attached to it a provision whose effect will go even further than the notarization bill that went through Congress like S–t through a goose and almost got signed by the President. We caught that one AFTER it was passed by Congress unanimously but before Obama signed it.

We announced it as an attempt at a presidential pardon to all those who committed crimes in the notarization of documents that were fabricated and forged, all those who committed forgery and perjury and all those who created counterfeit documentation that was presented to courts as original documents.

This time we got the information, we think, before it was stitched into some innocuous looking bill. If we don’t find it and block it, the plight of homeowners will get that much worse.

H/T The Market Ticker