The War on Terror Is Over?! Let’s All Celebrate!
Melissa Melton
According to a 2011 Brown University report, the War on Terror has killed over 130,000 civilians—CIVILIANS!—in Iraq and Afghanistan alone. That figure is obviously a conservative estimate. Tallying the actual number of dead soldiers on both sides of this cancerous conflict who have given their lives fighting “terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and other Middle Eastern countries to date would be nearly impossible. Yet, the Obama Administration has offhandedly informed us this week that the War on Terror is over with little fanfare.
Well, before you run out and celebrate, it would appear a few countries (including us) missed the memo, because somehow the now finished War on Terror is still able to continue killing people and enslaving us in a proliferating police state every day.
Here in America, the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we are being bombarded with constitution-shredding laws and executive orders seemingly every other week: highlights include the Patriot Act, NDAA, National Defense Preparedness Resources, SOPA, CISPA, the Trespass Bill, and Obamacare just to name a few.
But the fun does not stop there! The USDA and FDA—apparently bought, paid for, and brought steaming to your dinner table by Monsanto and GMO—are used to terrorize small family farmers and whole foods producers more and more, strangling natural, non-mutated food out of existence by the day. After all, our nation’s Food Safety Czar was formerly a Monsanto lawyer-lobbyist, so the (genetically modified) apple does not fall far from the tree. Speaking of trees, UN Agenda 21 is running amok and if its makers have their way, we will all be paying foreign banks a carbon tax every time we exhale in the name of “sustainable development”.
Speaking of, those “too-big-to-fail” big failing banks and the Fed are cranking this country’s crazy train to economic collapse into overdrive. (Would you like another phony derivative to go with your low-interest student loan for a degree you will not even be able to get a job with after you graduate? Anyone?)
Once-thought-mythical FEMA camps are a reality, Homeland Security is buying egregious amounts of hollow-point bullets, and the TSA gropes and/or radiates us and our children every time we want to ride an airplane. We are constantly reminded we are guilty until proven innocent, which is why undercover TSA agents are even spying on us while we ride city buses now, and VIPR teams are taking to our highways in full-force. The NSA is building a massive two-billion-dollar data hub in Utah which they will not explain. They refused to answer when questioned about it by Congress, so why would they tell you and me?
February signified the approved mass unleashing of unmanned surveillance drones in our skies, some with honing systems and taser devices attached; it could be worse I suppose, they could deploy bombs like the ones sent to assassinate people in other countries without a congressional declaration of war or a public trial of any kind. You know, like the one that killed U.S. citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son without so much as a trial. Did I mention the White House just approved expanding this lovely program in Yemen yesterday?
To top it off, we lack even a pretense of the system this nation was founded on anymore, as our President has openly announced his plans to circumvent Congress (and therefore, our system of checks and balances to rein the executive branch in). Our Secretary of Defense has even informed Congress that our military takes marching orders from the United Nations now, but not to worry, they will inform Congress when they are going to make strategic moves against other nations. According to 2010 Center on Responsible Politics data, there were 12,951 lobbyists who spent a combined $3.5 billion dollars influencing Congress. That averages 24 lobbyists and $6.5 million dollars per Congressperson. Are we even really surprised, then, that Congress has been downgraded to little more than ceremonial political theater at this point?
I am just so sick and tired of this outright attack on our nation and our freedom! The War on Terror is over?!
What a complete mockery of lives lost on 9/11, of every person who has fought and every person who has died in its name since, and of every single one of us just trying to retain somewhat of a semblance of our right to liberty in the once-free Republic of the United States of America.
Orwell’s 1984 was not supposed to be an instructional manual.
I am sorry guys… I’m ranting. I was not even going to enter this contest again, that is, until I saw the announcement offhandedly made by the Obama administration that the War on Terror is “over”.
Move along, nothing to see here…
Once again, I’m so glad the TSA is there to make us feel safe and secure which is the exact opposite of molested, brutalized, and humiliated.
Just a few TSA headlines:
TSA Leaves Note Telling Passenger To “Go To Hell”
Lawyer Slams TSA “Counter-Terror” Bus Program which Violates Fourth Amendment
TSA Treats 95-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Veteran Like a “Terrorist,” $300 Stolen
TSA terrorizes wheelchair-bound three-year-old traveling with his family to Disney World
TSA Brags About Confiscating Can Of Chicken Soup
TSA inspector accused of stealing iPads
Video Captures Woman Sobbing Uncontrollably During TSA Pat Down
TSA forces new mom to pump milk out of her breasts in public restroom before boarding the plane
Outrageous: TSA shake-down quadruple amputee at Phoenix airport
TSA ‘apology’ for conduct with two elderly women filled with lies, say victims
Another TSA Employee Accused of Rape
Just out of curiosity, where’s the one about “TSA Thwarts Terrorists”? Because I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen that one yet. Or ever.
Obama Admin: Surveillance, Censorship (in Iran or Syria) Constitute Human Rights Abuses...But Here? Not So Much.
So the Obama administration has come forward to say that online censorship and surveillance for Syrians and Iranians by their governments constitutes “human rights abuses” and he has even signed an executive order to stop it. How he can even keep a straight face while doing that, I’m not sure. Here in America we had SOPA, the house is getting ready to vote on CISPA, and of course the wonderful NDAA. Drones have been approved to patrol our skies, the TSA is now doing random bag checks on public buses, the NSA is building a $2 Billion dollar data farm in Utah to house, well, we aren’t exactly sure because they won’t even tell Congress at inquiry, so why would they tell the American people?
We are clearly living in a police state, but hey, none of these things are human rights abuses…in America.
Right.
~Mel
Fight CISPA: A Rant | Melissa Melton | Infowars Reporter Contest Entry #2 (by cloudylissa)
The ambiguous Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act aka CISPA is just the newest SOPA successor and big government attempt to regulate our freedom and reduce our privacy on the Internet under the guise of homeland defense and cybersecurity.
This is a completely unscripted rant (there were obviously many more points I could’ve made but I just flipped on the camera and started talking) and is minus bells and whistles…really just a chance to start a conversation about why we need to take a stand against this latest tyrannical injustice masquerading as government protection.
Find out how to write to your representatives and tell them to vote against CISPA here: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
You can also sign a petition against CISPA here: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa/
~Mel
Waking Up: The Bill of Rights Does Not Grant Us Rights
Melissa Melton
(I wrote this last year; I am posting it now because it is more relevant than ever.)
In 2010, after two years of daily research into crime and the state of criminal justice in America, I received an MS degree in criminology. During that time, I worked as a graduate research assistant in addition to being a graduate student. I spent a lot of time engrossed in all aspects of America’s criminal justice system: juvenile justice laws; the Department of Homeland Security and our nation’s post-9/11 security; drug wars; crime policy theory; and the prison complex. I have always been driven by justice and the fight for truth. Just as there are people who have always been able to draw or play piano, I have always researched, always written.
When I “woke up” as they call it to the tyranny enveloping not only America but the globe, it was like something let go of my brain and I was able to comprehend so much and so much more clearly than before. Many things I only realized for the first time. Scenes from The Matrix come to mind when I consider my experience waking up. That movie is the perfect analogy to our modern society in so many ways.
Tonight, once again, I got asked that question for the umpteenth time:
“Why do you care about this when there is nothing you, as an individual, can do about it?”
Answer: Sure, I’m one person, but I’m one person telling another person — you.
As a criminology major, I am positive I have stumbled upon what could possibly be THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MANKIND. I’m not kidding. Sure, many will throw out the phrase “conspiracy theorist” before they even let me finish. Let’s examine the evidence, though, shall we?
Many people think the Constitution and the Bill of Rights give us rights. Let us be very clear on this point: the Bill of Rights does not grant us rights. Instead, the Bill of Rights tells us exactly what the government cannot take away.
We have these rights because we are free human beings.
Amendment I: Freedom of Speech
Amendment I of the Bill of Rights says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Where has this gone? We no longer have the right to peaceably assemble or petition the government for a redress of grievances. Would you like proof? Watch the arrest of a man at the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks who, in a raised yes but calm voice, merely began asking a crowd, “When will we be allowed to know the truth about 9/11?” Within 45 seconds, police officers were pulling him away to arrest him.
In addition, many places require protesters to file a petition to gather and protest. It is hard not to laugh at the irony in the fact that you have to ask permission to exercise your First Amendment right from the very people you are likely protesting against!
(UPDATE: In February 2012, Congress approved a bill making it illegal to protest when government officials are nearby — even if you do not know they are there.)
Amendment II: Right to Bear Arms
Amendment II of the Bill of Rights says, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Militias have long been demonized in our mainstream media and by the government in recent decades. Department of Homeland Security’s 58 fusion centers now collect information daily on so-called domestic terrorists. In February 2009, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) released a report entitled, “The Modern Militia Movement” which basically laid out the idea that militias are a domestic threat out to overthrow the government, militias hate police and consider them enemies, and any so-called conspiracy theorist is lumped into that group. The report then goes on to say if you watch anti-Federal Reserve films such as Zeitgeist, or you display a Gadsen “Don’t Tread on Me” sticker on your bumper, or even if you merely show a general distrust of the government construct (like I am doing right now in writing this), you are also a potential government threat.
But go back to the original Amendment II and read it again: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state…”
Let us not forget that, during 2005’s hurricane Katrina, police forced people from their homes and confiscated the weapons they had the right to own. Don’t believe me? Watch for yourself
(UPDATE: Last month, the mainstream media was caught using the Trayvon Martin shooting to perpetrate racial tension and further divide in our country, but the ultimate target is likely going to be an attempt to further limit our Second Amendment, as even our Vice President has come out against these rights following Martin’s death.)
Amendment VI: Right against unreasonable searches
This amendment says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
We have the right to be secure. Does it make you feel secure to watch a five-year-old get stripped searched at the airport? Were you all worried that little boy might have a bomb in his Spiderman underoos? Does it make you feel secure that the TSA forces a pregnant woman to be felt up just because she doesn’t want to subject her unborn baby to a potentially harmful x-ray body scanner?
Just how reasonable do you honestly think these searches are? According to Webster’s New World Law Dictionary, probable cause in regard to the Fourth Amendment is defined as, “a reasonable ground to believe that someone is committing or has committed an offense.” Apparently we are no longer innocent until proven guilty in this country; now we are guilty until proven innocent.
(UPDATE: The National Defense Authorization Act Obama signed last December and the National Defense Resource Preparedness executive order he signed a few weeks ago effectively eat this amendment for dinner. And the Fifth and Sixth Amendments too.)
Additionally:
AND DON’T FORGET AMENDMENT X, which limits the federal government ONLY to what is written in the Constitution, because apparently everyone else in our government already has. Obamacare, anyone?
If the government can force us to buy healthcare and fine us thousands of dollars if we do not, that fundamentally changes our relationship to our federal government forever. What is next? Forcing us to exercise because the government says it is good for us, then fining us if we choose not to? Then what? Then what? Then what? Slippery slope does not even begin to describe this 17 trillion dollar unconstitutional bag of fail, and once this door is officially opened on us all, there will always be a “What’s next?” coming.
1984 was not supposed to be a operational manual.
Make no mistake about it; America is sliding into a fascist dictatorship police state faster and faster every single day. You can try to ignore it if you want to, bury your head in your iPhone and go back to watching your sitcoms and playing your video games, but this country as a Constitutional Republic is being murdered. It may not directly affect you today, but there is always tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the next.
Eventually this tyranny will spread so far and so wide, no one will be able to ignore or deny it anymore.
It would appear the United States Constitution is quickly becoming a suggestion rather than the law of our land and the document our whole country was founded on. So many people seem clueless about what it says, or more importantly, what it means to us as American citizens.
I wonder if that is why it is dying with a whispered sigh rather than a scream.
(Source: trusthreammedia.com)
Bill Allows IRS to Deny Americans Right to Travel
Kurt Nimmo
April 5, 2012
Senator Barbara Boxer’s MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) is headed to the House after clearing the Senate last month. Boxer’s bill allows the federal government to revoke the passports of citizens the IRS claims owe taxes.
“There is no requirement that the tax payer be guilty of or even charged with tax evasion, fraud, or any criminal offense — only that the citizen is alleged to owe the IRS back taxes of $50,000 or more,” reports The Daily Economist.
In other words, the Fourth Amendment will become irrelevant in many taxes cases if this legislation makes it through the House.
