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)
85 Things That Might Get You on a DHS Terrorist Watch List
by Robert Wenzel
Because the Department of Homeland Security has asked parts of the public to report suspicious activity through the “Communities Against Terrorism” program , if you visit an airport, stay in a hotel, drink coffee at an Internet café, or in some other way interact with one of the Halloween G-men in the American public, a full-fledged FBI investigation is only one phone call away, says LaTi.
LaTi lists 85 things that might get you on a watch list, if a Halloween G-man spots you in the act:
1) Use Google Maps to find your way around a strange city.
2) Use Google Maps to view photos of sports stadiums.
3) Install online privacy protection software on your personal computer.
4) Attempt to shield your computer screen from the view of others.
5) Shave your beard, dye your hair or alter your mode of dress.
6) Sweat.
7) Avoid eye contact.
8) Use a cell-phone camera in an airport, train station or shopping mall.
9) Seek to work alone or without supervision.
10) Appear to be out of place.
11) Have bright colored stains on your clothing.
12) Be missing any fingers.
13) Emit strange odors.
14) Travel an “illogical distance” to do your shopping.
15) Have someone pick you up from a beauty supply store.
16) Be nervous.
17) Be a new customer from out of town.
18) Use a credit card in someone else’s name.
19) Chant environmental slogans near construction sites.
20) Enter a construction site after work hours.
21) Rent watercraft for an extended period.
22) Make comments involving radical theology.
23) Make vague or cryptic warnings.
24) Express anti-U.S. sentiments.
25) Purchase a quantity of prepaid or disposable cell phones.
26) Leave store without preprogramming disposable phones.
27) Be overly interested in satellite phones and voice privacy.
28) Ask questions about swapping SIM cards in cell phones.
29) Ask questions about how phone location can be tracked.
30) Rewire cell phone’s ringer or backlight.
31) Express out-of-place and provocative religious or political sentiments.
32) Purchase a police scanner, infrared device or 2-way radio.
33) Act impatient.
34) Drive a vehicle that appears to be overloaded.
35) Depart quickly when seen or approached.
36) Be a person “acting suspiciously.”
37) Make illegible notes on a map.
38) Take photos of the Statue of Liberty or other “symbolic targets.”
39) Overdress for the weather.
40) Ask questions in a hobby shop about remote controlled aircraft.
41) Demonstrate interest that does not seem genuine.
42) Request specific room assignments or locations at a hotel or motel.
43) Arrive at a lodging with unusual amounts of luggage.
52) Make notes that are illegible to passersby.
44) Refuse cleaning service.
45) Avoid the lobby of a hotel or motel.
46) Remain in your hotel or motel room.
47) Leave your hotel for several days, then return.
48) Leave behind clothing and toiletry items.
49) Park your vehicle in an isolated area.
50) Be observed switching a cell phone SIM card.
51) Be observed using multiple cell phones.
52) Make notes that are illegible to passersby.
53) Communicate through a PC game.
54) Download “extreme/radical” content.
55) Exhibit preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attacks.
56) Wear a backpack when the weather is warm.
57) Speak to mall maintenance personnel or security guards.
58) Make racist comments.
59) Mumble to yourself.
60) Pass along any anonymous threats you may receive.
61) Discreetly take a photo in a mass transit site.
62) Arrive with a group of people and split off from them.
63)Demand “identity privacy.”
64) Appear to endorse the use of violence in support of a cause.
65) Make bulk purchases of meals ready to eat.
66) Arrive in America from a land where militant Islamic groups operate.
67) Take a long absence for religious education or charity work.
68) Travel to countries where militant Islam rules.
69) Study technical subjects that would aid a terror operation.
70) Work in a field that “serves as a cover for preparing for an operation.”
71) Exhibit ire at global policies of the U.S.
72) Balk at providing “complete personal information.”
73) Provide multiple names on rental car paperwork.
74) Receive an unusual number of package deliveries.
75) Replace rental property locks without permission.
76) Modify your property to conceal storage areas.
77) Fail to pay rent for a storage unit in a timely manner.
78) Inquire about security systems at your storage facility.
79) Place unusual items in storage units or dumpsters.
80) Avoid contact with rental facility personnel.
81) Access storage facilities an unusual number of times.
82) Request deliveries of items directly to a storage unit.
83) Be part of a group requesting identical tattoos.
84) Request tattoos that could conceal extremist symbols.
85) Fly while appearing to be Muslim on September 11 of any year.
New counterterrorism guidelines would permit data on U.S. citizens to be held longer
The Justice Department is close to approving guidelines that would allow the intelligence community to lengthen the period of time it retains information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism.
TSA Help Wanted: hilarious satire animation about TSA perverts, Janet Napolitano and the Bill of Rights - NaturalNews.tv
The latest activism video from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, hilariously depicts TSA perverts watching naked body scanner porn, stealing expensive electronics from the luggage of air travelers.
“We use humor to drive home a very serious point,” explained Adams. “Our freedoms are being utterly destroyed by a tyrannical federal government which will absolutely not stop unless We the People stand up and make them stop,” he said. “This satire video is designed to wake people up to the reality of what’s happening at airports today, and help motivate them to take appropriate civil action to resist tyranny and restore liberty in America.”
(Source: addtoany.com)
The fact is soon it will be mandatory for all to go through the radiation scanners, taking the opt out will no longer be an option, and think hell i will take the bus, tsa is going to scan you as bus stations, highway check points, NFL games, and even more coming soon. You will get as much tyranny as you are willing to accept, had enough, or not convinced yet?
New World Order: Implantable RFID chips capable of remotely killing non-compliant 'slaves' are here
Recent news reports indicate that an RFID tracking chip capable of killing humans (that presumably do not comply with rogue government demands) has already been invented. There is simply no denying the fact that “the powers that be” are working towards microchipping all of humanity. Countless news reports, including those compiled in the following YouTube clip, openly speak of microchips designed for implant into human skin.
But what many people do not realize is that this technology exists now, and has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in humans. Not only do these chips “silently and invisibly” store and transmit personal data, but they can also be encoded to perform a variety of other functions. (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/…).
Beginning at 00:42, the YouTube clip contains a segment on a “killer” RFID microchip that, upon being remotely triggered, can send a lethal dose of cyanide into a person’s skin. The FOX News reporter that introduces the segment can be heard saying that the chip “will kill you if you get out of line” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2L…).
(Source: addtoany.com)
Justice Breyer warns of Orwellian government - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
A Supreme Court justice on Tuesday expressed major concerns that the government would engage in round-the-clock surveillance reminiscent of the totalitarian world of the George Orwell novel 1984 if the court ruled in the government’s favor.
More States Accept TSA VIPR Teams at Transportation Hubs
“If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening,” Watson noted. “TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Americans at all levels of society, not just at transport hubs but at public events, in the street and on highways and roads across the country.”
