You can’t defend freedom by eliminating freedom

Marti Oakley           (c) copyright 2013 All rights reserved

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“As a country we have been attacked and overtaken.  It was not a foreign terrorist who took us down; it was the enemies inside the gates that proliferated in the District of Criminals.”

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You can’t defend freedom by eliminating freedom, or by terrorizing your own country.

This is not the America I grew up in.  Maybe it never was what I had believed it to be.  Regardless, what is before us now as a nation, is the growing police state complete with total surveillance and the targeting of any individual as a possible “domestic terrorist” for expressing their own thoughts, for rejecting government policies that are meant to limit or eradicate any freedom we may have had.

The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy

The Bush Administration created the “war on terror” paradigm not to protect us from future attack, although that was what they claimed, but rather to put in place a radical expansion of power that sought to place the president outside domestic and international law.

A perusal of the laws passed by congress and presidents many of which are a direct attack on freedom and liberty, do not affect terrorists in the least.  These laws, all passed with the caveat that it was necessary if they were to keep us safe, affect no one but US citizens.  They have no bearing on terrorism and are only the excuse being used to keep you quiet as they continue limiting your freedom and expanding the federal corporation.

One of the greatest freedoms we had, was the freedom to be left alone by government.  The NSA spy grid and the massive data collection center in Utah are the official end to any pretense of privacy.  We have a government populated by people who have in essence, declared war on the country as a whole.  Just because they have not yet opened fire on us, does not mean they do not consider us their sworn enemies or, that they would not move immediately to wipe us off the face of the earth should we become too insistent on our freedom.  Nevertheless, we do insist on preserving our freedom wherever and whenever possible.

Warning to Seattleites: You Are Being Targeted by Greenwashed DHS/SPD

Guest Author:  Rebecca Campbell

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Seattle now under DHS surveillance

1.  Victorian-style, solar-powered lamp lights, attached to the sides of existing streetlight/telephone poles or standing alone, are now in the process of being installed on all major street intersections/along all major streets in the business districts of all fifty neighborhoods of Seattle.  Arc streetlight heads are being removed, leaving their tall, arched metal poles with an odd, decapitated look.  These solar-powered lamp lights are found in at least four styles, mostly variations of black-and-white, but also including one with a red, pagoda-like look being placed in the International District.

2. This comes just after the revelation that thirty waterfront cameras had just been installed from Alki to Ballard, along the length of Seattle’s waterfront, supposedly to protect the Port of Seattle from terrorist activity. This program was cancelled/corrected, after it was found that many of these cameras were pointed toward citizen walkways on land, rather than at the docks, where this alleged terrorist activity against the port was supposed to occur. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn also abruptly cancelled the DHS/SPD aerial drone surveillance program, against the wishes of the Seattle City Council majority. Investigation of DHS/SPD Waterfront Surveillance Cameras

Seattle Mayor Abruptly Cancels DHS/SPD Surveillance Cameras

3. Although these solar-powered lamplights are being portrayed by the City of Seattle as part of its Sustainable Development/Smart Cities Initiative, they are actually Intellilights,part of, and being funded by, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS’) Operation Trapwire/Intellistreets, a massive new land-based citizen surveillance program to complement an air-based urban drone program that they plan to eventually implement throughout our country. Operation Trapwire is now being rolled out as pilot programs in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as well as Seattle.

Seattle/Tacoma Police Roll Out DHS-Funded “Predictive Policing” Surveillance Program

4. Large public construction projects, especially that of the massively ill-conceived, overrated and underfunded, allegedly green Central Link Light Rail, are being used as a cover under which these Intellilights, as well as new on-street surveillance cameras, are being placed at major neighborhood intersections, and along many major thoroughfares throughout Seattle.