MILITARY GOVERNMENT

Todays article was received from Rebekah Sutherland

Distinction between enemies who are subjects of a foreign government, and are therefore called” alien enemies,” and those who are denizens and subjects of the United States, and being engaged in civil war, are called” public enemies. ”

An alien owes no allegiance or obedience to our government, or to our constitution, laws, or proclamations. . A citizen subject is bound to obey them all. In refusing such obedience, he is guilty of crime against his country, and finds in the law of nations no justification for disobedience. An alien, being under no such obligation, is justified in refusing such obedience. Over an alien enemy, our government can make no constitution law, or proclamation of obligatory force, because our laws bind only our own subjects, and have no extra-territorial jurisdiction.

An Absurd Bureaucracy

This was forwarded to us today.  If this letter, whether real or not, does not point out the the ridiculousness of what we allow ourselves to endure to stay safe from those “terrorists”……I don’t what does.  

 The Man has a point!!

Actual letter or not, this points up the absurd bureaucracy that has been put up in lieu of significant steps to actually protect us from terrorism.  As a diversionary tactic, it has been monumentally successful.

For diversions, how about ginning up the same-sex “marriage” issue again, just in time for another national election?

Do they really think we are that stupid?  Are we really that stupid?  Will there be an election?  Stay tuned!

An actual letter to the passport office

 

Dear Sir,  
I’m in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.  How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
 
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my social security card, and it is on all the income tax forms I’ve filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver’s license, on the last eight @#$&# passports I’ve had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I’ve had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother’s name is Maryanne, my father’s name is Robert and I’d be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!! !!!
!@#*!

I apologize, I’m really pissed off this morning. Between you and me, I’ve had enough of this bs.! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my #$&@ing address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal #@@holes working there??? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don’t want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for *#@* sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach.  

And would someone please tell me, why would you give a @#*@ whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I’d sure as hell not want to tell anyone!  
 
Well, I have to go now, ’cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another @#*#ing copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day??  Nooooo, that’d be too damn easy and maybe makes sense. You’d rather have us running all over the @#!@#’ place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some @##hole to confirm that it’s really me on the @#!!#!* picture – you know, the one where we’re not allowed to smile?! (@#!%@’ morons)

Hey, you know why we can’t smile? We’re totally pissed off!  Signed – An Irate @#!*#!@ Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it’s me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang. However, I have to get someone ‘important’ to verify who I am — you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST @#!#@&@#@ CHINA !

 

 

Canadians Fighting Lockheed/Martin & Loss of Confidence in Government: PART 2

HALIFAX MONTHLY MEETING

of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

comprising Halifax Friends Meeting, Antigonish Worship Group, Dartmouth Worship Group and South Shore Worship Group

Lucienne Robillard

Minister of Industry

House of Commons

Ottawa ON K1A 0A6

February 15, 2004

Dear Lucienne Robillard,

The Halifax Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is very concerned about the Canadian government’s decision to award a $20.5 million dollar contract to a unit of the U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT).

The $20.5 million dollars is the amount to be spent to contract out work of Statistics Canada on the 2006 National Census. Lockheed Martin Canada Inc.

is to lead a consortium that includes IBM Canada, Transcontinental Printing Inc. Canada and ADECCO Employment Services Ltd. Canada.

In February 2003, Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. was also awarded a multi-year contract by the Canadian Department of National Defence to provide a health care information system on Canadian Forces personnel. That contract is worth approximately $17 million and covers only the first 14 months of the project. The contract has the potential to exceed an estimated value of $56 million, however, if all four phases are delivered over the anticipated 10-year period.

These decisions were made while Alan Rock was serving on Jean Chrétien’s Cabinet as Minister of Industry. We are writing to you, the new Minister of Industry, to make you aware of our continuing objections.

While Quakers realize that, under the North American Free Trade Agreement

(NAFTA) and World Trade Organization Agreement regulations, non-Canadian firms are eligible to bid on contracts to provide essential public services, we are loathe to see the Canadian public’s tax dollars flow to a military contractor that benefits richly from the development (and deployment) of weapons of mass destruction.

We are also loathe to assist a principal member of the U.S.

military-industrial complex to further develop its capacity to collect, store, analyze, and retrieve sensitive information on citizens of any country.

We have read that a spokesperson for former Public Works Minister Ralph Goodale has stated that under the obligations of the NAFTA, Canada cannot alter contracts with Lockheed Martin and if we were to do so we could be sued for millions of dollars. (Toronto Star, October 15, 2003)

We ask you, in your capacity as Industry Minister and in conjunction with other members of Cabinet, to find a way forward that would best extricate our country from these contracts.

While many would welcome an outcome in which Statistics Canada would be allotted the funding and capacity to fully carry out an activity as important as the Canadian census, it is of particular importance to Quakers

– because of our Peace Testimony* – that contracts not be let to a subsidiary of a trans-national corporation that sold almost $27 billion dollars worth of weapons in 2002.

We therefore ask:

1. that your government cancel all its contracts with Lockheed Martin and 2.

that you pledge not to grant millions more to Lockheed Martin in the future.

We would appreciate hearing from you soon in regards to this important matter.

 

Sylvia Mangalam

Clerk of the Halifax Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

1388 Bedford Highway Bedford NS B4A 1E2

* George Fox’s declaration of 1661 to Charles II is referred to as the Friends Historic Peace Testimony: “We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any ends or under any pretence whatsoever. And this is our testimony to the whole world.”

cc: Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada; Stephen Owen, Minister of Public Works; Jim Peterson, Minister of International Trade; Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs; David Pratt, Minister of National Defence; Ivan P.

Fellegi, Chief Statistician of Canada

Our Monthly Meeting will also be sharing this letter with other Friends’

Meetings, as well as the general public.