Remember the old line “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?” George W. Bush couldn’t remember this admonishment, but all Americans should. Below World Affairs Brief editor Joel Skousen dissects the latest in government-sponsored false-flag events. Based on my independent research, I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment. How long will we tolerate such devious and freedom-destroying activities by our Government, which is supposedly there to serve and protect us?

Jim

ANOTHER PHONY UNDERWEAR BOMBER PLOT

By Joel Skousen
World Affairs Brief
May 11, 2012

It is no coincidence that Sen. Rand Paul’s bill to abolish the TSA is met the following week with yet another phony airline bomb plot. The only reason for the government choosing a second underwear bomb scheme is to make sure Congress doesn’t impose a ban on those irritating body-revealing airport scanners, which are making rich men of insiders like former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. This week’s CIA backed plot, however, did more than simply reinforce the need for Millimeter wave scanners, it also managed to provide a plug for using killer drones—again, just when public discontent about civilian casualties by drone warfare was reaching a crescendo.

I have long contended that the government can and does manufacture terror plots anytime a significant portion of the American public gets fed up with TSA harassment, in order to overwhelm this growing body of critics with the fearful hand-wringing of millions in the unthinking public domain.

The story by the New York Times typified the establishment propaganda that blossomed like a plague overnight: “The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of al-Qaida [another phony terror group financed and recruited by Saudi and Pakistani intelligence, at the behest of the CIA] last month to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, U.S. and foreign officials said Tuesday [...the propaganda leak heard round the world. Newspapers did nothing but simply repeat what government officials told them. There was absolutely no outside confirmation of this anywhere].

“In an extraordinary intelligence coup [how can a double agent infiltration one of the CIA’s own terror groups be an extraordinary coup?], the double agent left Yemen last month, traveling by way of the United Arab Emirates, and delivered both the innovative bomb [details based solely on what the CIA says—there is no independent proof of any statement in this story] designed for his aviation attack and inside information on the group’s leaders, locations, methods and plans to the CIA, Saudi intelligence and allied foreign intelligence agencies.

“A senior U.S. official said the new device was sewn into ‘custom-fit’ underwear and would have been very difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down [this is absolute baloney. I’ve been through pat downs (since I refuse to go through active emitting scanners). Underwear padded with dense plastic explosives would be easily detected by these kinds of searches]. Unlike the device used in the unsuccessful 2009 attack, this bomb could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the official said [implying that the original underwear bomber had only one method–a match–that failed. Trouble is, ANY trained terrorist that can get plastic explosives would have known that you can’t explode them with a match. It simply burns rather than explodes].

“Officials said the agent, whose identity they would not disclose, works for the Saudi intelligence service [The Saudis are the main financiers of terror directed by the Central Intelligence Agency], which has cooperated closely with the CIA for several years against the terrorist group in Yemen [The Saudi government pays the bills for these terror groups so the CIA has plausible deniability and can stand at arm’s length to avoid the charge of complicity. In exchange the Saudis get protection against revolution from within and external invasion from without. The US also suppresses the huge body of evidence documenting the Saudi Royal family’s trafficking in sex slaves and pedophilia]. He operated in Yemen with the full knowledge of the CIA but not under its direct supervision, the officials said [hard to believe].

“After spending weeks at the center of al-Qaida’s most dangerous affiliate [says who?], the intelligence agent provided critical information that permitted the CIA to direct the drone strike Sunday that killed Fahd al-Quso, the group’s external operations director and a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, a destroyer, in Yemen in 2000 [Where’s the proof? A CIA patsy teams up with a CIA terror training center to send information back to the CIA about themselves, and they finish the job by taking out yet another person claimed to be a terror chief via drone. But all the prime terror chiefs work for the US, so we know the US isn’t killing their own (usually). Such news about the successful use of drones is meant to obscure the ugly fact that the US kills far more civilians with drones than real enemies].

He also handed over the bomb, designed by the group’s top explosives expert to be undetectable at airport security checks [a necessary claim to justify even more costly scanner machines that are probably in the pipeline already], to the FBI, which is analyzing its properties at its laboratory at Quantico, Va. The agent is now safe in Saudi Arabia, officials said. The bombing plot was kept secret for weeks by the CIA and other agencies because they feared retaliation against the agent and his family — not, as some commentators have suggested, because the Obama administration wanted to schedule an announcement of the foiled plot, U.S. officials said [that last remark is the Times shilling for government. Of course it was schedule for impact, like all manufactured terror plots].

“But U.S. intelligence officials were angry about the disclosure of the al-Qaida plot, first reported Monday by The Associated Press, which had held the story for several days at the request of the CIA [completely bogus. How can the CIA be angry about a story that only they could have planted in the first place? This is a story with only a single source—the CIA]. They feared the leak would discourage foreign intelligence services from cooperating with the United States on risky missions, said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee [another lackey for the government].

“Intelligence officials believe the explosive is the latest effort of the group’s skilled bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Al-Asiri also is believed to have designed the explosives used in the failed Christmas bombing of an airliner over Detroit in 2009 and packed into printer cartridges and placed on cargo planes in October 2010 [another phony planted bomb already discredited by numerous critics, and certainly not the work of any genius. Any teenage prankster could tell that substituting black powder for black toner in a cartridge would be undetectable—and it is. It’s only because this was a government operation that it was “discovered in time,” and provided valuable propaganda value to the very government that planted it].

“[Now come the “new warnings” to keep up the facade of terrorism:] Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration repeated a security message previously sent to airlines and foreign governments. The security guidance notes that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula still intends to attack the United States, probably using commercial aviation, and warns TSA agents to look out for explosives in cargo, concealed in clothing or surgically implanted, officials said.

“Over the past eight months, U.S. counterterrorism officials have monitored with growing alarm a rising number of electronic intercepts and tips from informants suggesting that al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen was ramping up plots to attack the United States [We know from long experience that all this internet “chatter” is simple self-generated by the CIA’s own paid internet provocateurs. The Agency also creates falsified videos by supposed terror leaders like Osama bin Laden, years after he was already dead].

James E. Miller of the Von Mises Institute had these additional comments: “It would seem that what the CIA recovered was essentially just a crudely made bomb. The supposed bomber was nowhere to be found. There is no evidence presented as to a real threat or plan to use it.

The truth was finally revealed as the would-be bomber was, in fact, a double agent of the CIA.

“When considering the nature of the state, this new instance of government supported terrorism is unsurprisingly comparable to previous cases. Looking back at the original underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the mainstream narrative nowhere matches the disturbing details. Not only was Abdulmutallab’s explosive device determined not to be functional but, according to undersecretary for management at the State Department Patrick Kennedy, his visa wasn’t confiscated and he was given access to the airplane [by a CIA handler who forced the Dutch to put him on the plane without documentation] for the purposes of conducting further investigation. This came at the request of federal counterterrorism officials.

“Think about the airliner shoe-bomb plot, the shampoo-bottled water plot, and the underwear-bomb plot. Experts, other than the whores hired by the US government, say that these plots are nonsensical. The ‘shoe bomb’ and ‘underwear bomb’ were colored fireworks powders incapable of blowing up a tin can. The liquid bomb, allegedly mixed up in an airliner toilet room, has been dismissed by experts as fantasy.

“Just this past May Day, the FBI reportedly foiled an attempted bombing of a bridge near Cleveland. But like many instances of domestic terrorism, this operation was aided and facilitated by the FBI itself. On cue, authorities assured the public it ‘was never in any danger.’

“Far from having their liberty secured, the American public is being lulled into a sense of infant dependency from engineered threats from abroad and at home. The art of governing can be broken down into two easy steps: scare the citizenry into capitulation with manufactured threats and legislate yourself increasing amounts of power.

“The danger in such juvenile acceptance of war propaganda is the creeping hand of despotism that must emerge. For if the public is lead to believe danger lurks in every shadow of the world, it will demand greater and greater protection from exactly those who salivate at the chance to provide it. From the Patriot Act to the National Defense Authorization Act, private correspondence and due process have been casually tossed aside for the promise of safety. This vicious cycle is reinforced by contrived instances of impending doom. The ruling class creates them and then feeds off the panic. Even Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted that fake terror alerts were used in 2002 to quell growing criticism amongst the public and particular Congressmen.”

“This isn’t conspiracy theory; just a recognition of the various hobgoblins, as H.L. Mencken described them, invented to justify encroaching totalitarianism.” Well, if this isn’t a conspiracy, Mr. Miller, then the word has lost its meaning in our politically correct society. Don’t be so anxious to evade the term. It’s only by a wider public recognition of these plots as part of a much larger conspiracy to take down liberty that can arouse the American sleeping giant.

Having ridden with the police for more than a dozen years, I am one who understands that police work is tough and generally thankless, but also one of the most helpful and necessary professions in our society. But recently, thanks to declining standards and federal intrusions, police departments are becoming worrisome. There have always been problems with the police outlook of “you are either with us or against us.” But today it’s gotten worse. Now it seems to be “I’m the good guy and you are the bad guy until proven otherwise.” They also seem to have forgotten who pays their salary. But let L. Neil Smith explain. Then be sure and read the stories of cops who try to defend the public.

Jim

A Policeman’s Lot

By L. Neil Smith
The Libertarian Enterprise
April 29, 2012

An individual I know on the Internet—someone I have come to consider a good friend, although I’ve never met him face-to-face—recently expressed shock and horror upon learning that I was once a cop. Actually, for a time, I was a member of the local auxiliary police.

I have never made a secret of it. It’s in almost all of my various biographies floating around. I wanted to write my first book about a cop, and I wanted to make him as authentic as I could. My best friend at the time was a cop. Apparently, my research was successful. The character I created was Detective Lieutenant Edward William “Win” Bear, and everybody who reads The Probability Broach seems to love him.

Eventually, I met the famous libertarian thinker, writer, and lecturer Robert LeFevre at a seminar in Wichita, Kansas, one of the most significant events in my life, On learning that I was a police officer, Bob took me aside privately, “You know, someday you’re going to have to destroy somebody’s life over an issue you don’t believe in.”

I did know. I’d been evading it. When I got home, I resigned and told them why. They were unhappy. I’d made the highest score on the written test in the memory of anybody on the force. (These days, of course, they won’t hire anyone whose IQ is above some predetermined number.)

But another couple of things were gnawing at me, as well. One was a certain kind of squad room banter, in which my nominal superiors bragged to each other about the dents their heavy aircraft aluminum flashlights had acquired. They were a new thing at the time and were being used as batons. There was also an ongoing debate about whether it was more fun to beat up Mexicans, who fought back, or hippies, who didn’t.

Mostly though, Lefevre’s point to one side, it was about taking orders and acting on policies generated by people less intelligent than me. For example, there was the matter of weapons and ammunition. I was a ballistician and gunsmith by trade. I knew being forced to carry a .38 Special revolver, and not being allowed to use them newfangled speedloader thingies, was not conducive to health and long life. Nor was the edict against hollowpoint bullets, which was pure public relations garbage meant to mollify ignorant liberal activists. Hollowpoints are superior, not only in stopping-power, but public safety: they won’t go right through somebody you’re shooting and hurt somebody else. They’re far less likely to ricochet off buildings and sidewalks.

I think my best friend was the first officer on the local force to carry an automatic pistol, a matte nickel-plated Colt Combat Commander chambered for .38 Super, a much better cartridge than the .38 Special. He had to go through hell to get the damned thing certified as a duty weapon. Today, about 40 years later, most cops carry autopistols, most of them Glocks, most of them .40 caliber or better. That, and a great many other things about police work, have changed over the past four decades.

The cops are now the standing army the Founding Fathers feared.

How did we get here, to this ugly police state we find ourselves trapped in? Well, look at it this way: every uniformed public employee out there, with his Kevlar vest, his double-stacked autopistol on his hip, his can of Mace, his Taser, his little backup weapon wrapped around his ankle, not to mention the shotgun, scoped rifle, and/or submachinegun in his cruiser trunk, every single one has a salary in at least the middle five figure range that’s essentially inflation proof. He has full medical coverage for himself and his family, and good dental insurance, too. He has a pension almost as plush as a Congressman’s.

Unlike you and me, these days, he lives in a house that’s nicer than his parents’ was, possibly in a gated and guarded community, with an unlisted telephone phone number. And it all comes out of our hides, yours and mine, every bloody cent of it cut from our flesh, and the flesh of our children, as surely as if we were beef cattle being butchered.

Forget the President. Forget the Congressman. Well, don’t really forget them. But keep your eyes on the guy with the gun, because, in the final analysis, from both ends of the proposition, it’s all about him.

He knows who his masters are and he knows who’s his meat. He knows what his bosses require of him, and he’s been systematically trained—and more importantly, viscerally conditioned—to treat the people who pay his salary (and how he hates to hear that from them—he sees them as his lowly subjects) with more and more contempt and brutality every year, because the system he really works for—call it the New World Order, the United Nations, or Agenda 21—is designed to run on fear.

But here’s the humor of it: if only a few—history says three in a hundred—of his comrades, his colleagues, his accomplices in the imposition of state terrorism, the men and women he trusts to watch his back and help keep him alive, if they don’t agree with him, if, instead, they determine to keep the solemn promises they made when they signed on, to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic (there’s a list of illegal orders they won’t obey, and, implicitly, certain actions on the part of other officers they’ll interfere with), then everything that he has sold his soul for is at risk.

He knows this and it fills him with the same fear and dread he’s supposed to make others all around him feel. It’s why his masters have to protect him whenever, with increasing frequency, he breaks the law. It’s why they have to try to comfort him with more—and more deadly and powerful—weapons, bulletproof underwear, armored cars, eyesight destroying lasers, sonic disruptors, agonizing heat-rays, and even tanks. All of it while armed drones circle overhead like mechanical vultures.

He has stopped being a keeper of the peace, a friendly, protecive neighborhood patrolman (to any extent he ever was) and become part of an occupying military force, imposing the will of outsiders on his neighbors. He is as thoroughly miserable and out of place as a Roman legionary, stuck in Britain with the cold, the drizzle, the mud, and with women who don’t bathe twice a day like the girls back home. He is miserable and out of place, and his rates of divorce and suicide prove it.

When he was a goodguy, he didn’t need a union—or a shrink.

This situation isn’t stable. It has to change, to get better or get worse. How do I know this? Because once, to the continuing shock of many libertarians who learn about it (my Internet friend is not the first) a long time ago, I tried being a policeman for a while. Even way back then, they were driven by a siege mentality, a “them vs. us” mentality, deeply embedded in what even then was called a “police culture”.

The first time I ever saw the word “asshole” in print was in one of Joseph Wambaugh’s books. He was another writer who had been a cop, but much longer and in a rougher town than I was. He explained that the word was reserved for those who are not part of the police culture, and that “civilian” was a word for criminals who hadn’t been arrested yet.

But, as always, I digress.

Can we fix this situation before it kills us? Certainly we have a great deal of work to do, even if we successfully jettison Obama next November, and even if we avoid the faux president’s nightmare mirror image Romney, who makes up the other half of Batman’s mortal enemy Two-Face. Even if we elect Ron Paul, we have a great deal of work to do.

A good start would be legislation forbidding state, county, and municipal governments from accepting money or “gifts” (like armored personnel carriers) from the federal government for purposes of “law enforcement”. Another would be banning city police forces altogether, leaving peacekeeping in the hands of an elected offical, the county sheriff.

At the least, there should be a continuous series of compulsory oath-keeping seminars for all police personnel and other civil servants.

Miss a class, flunk a test, violate a right, you’re out.

 
L. Neil Smith is the Publisher and Senior Columnist of L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE, as well as the author of 33 freedom-oriented books, the most recent of which is DOWN WITH POWER: Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis.

SOURCE: http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle668-20120429-06.html

NOW FOR ANOTHER STORY WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE SCARY SLIDE OF POLICE FROM PUBLIC PROTECTORS TO GESTAPO THUGS AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO DON’T GO ALONG WITH THE PROGRAM:

Officer Regina Tasca Goes “Rogue”

Pro Libertate

April 27, 2012

Regina Tasca is a “rogue cop” – and God bless her for it.

Tasca is in the middle of disciplinary hearings that may result in her termination from the Bogota, New Jersey Police Department. She stands accused of “bizarre and outlandish” behavior in two incidents a year ago during which she revealed herself to be “A danger to other police officers.”

Her first supposed offense — which wasn’t mentioned until after the second — was a failure to assist another officer who was “attacked” by a drunken woman who was roughly half his weight and barely five feet tall. Her second was was to intervene when a police officer from another jurisdiction viciously assaulted an emotionally troubled young man who was not suspected of a crime.

“I consider myself a peace officer,” Tasca told Pro Libertate. “My thing is to help make sure that people are safe, and that they don’t have a reason to fear the police – that we treat them like human beings. The incident that started all of this was one in which I intervened to prevent excessive force against a kid who was the subject of a medical call, not a criminal suspect.”

On April 29, 2011, Tasca was on patrol when she got a call for medical assistance. Former Bogota Council Member Tara Sharp, concerned about the erratic behavior of her 22-year-old son Kyle, called the police to take him to the hospital for a psychological evaluation. Requesting police intervention, particularly in cases of this kind, is never a good idea. Sharp was exceptionally fortunate that Officer Tasca was the first to respond: She has years of experience as an EMT and had just completed specialized training on situations involving psychologically disturbed people.

Once on the scene, Tasca acted quickly to calm down the distraught young man.

“When the call came, I heard that a couple of officers from Ridgefield Park were coming to provide backup, which I thought was OK, Tasca related to Pro Libertate. “Kyle had been shouting and swearing when I got there, but I got him calmed down.” The young man’s mood changed abruptly when he saw the other officers arrive.

“He noticed them and asked me, `Why is there another police officer here from another town?’ Then he said that he was leaving, and he moved maybe two or three steps when one of the Ridgefield officers jumped him.”

Sgt. Chris Thibault tackled Kyle, wrapped him in a bear hug, and attempted to handcuff him. Within an instant, Sgt. Joe Rella piled on and began to slug Kyle in the head while his horrified mother screamed at the officers to stop.

Tasca instinctively did what any legitimate peace officer would do: She intervened to protect the victim, pulling Rella off the helpless and battered young man. Eventually the Ridgefield officers handcuffed Kyle – then turned their fury on Tasca.

“One of them yelled at me, `We can’t have this!’” she recalled. “I said, we `can’t have’ what? There was no reason to take that kid to the ground and start slugging him. This was a medical assistance call, and the mother was sitting their screaming at them to stop beating on their son. I didn’t fail to aid another officer; I acted to stop a beatdown.”

Two days later, Tasca was summoned by her captain, who informed her that she was being suspended pending a disciplinary hearing. She learned that in addition to “using force” to stop Rella’s assault on Kyle Sharp, Tasca was accused of failing to assist Bogota Officer Jerome Fowler when he was “assaulted” by an intoxicated woman on April 3.

“Nobody had said anything to me about the earlier case until after the incident with the Ridgefield officers,” Tasca pointed out to me.

Tasca was on night patrol when she came across “this young girl walking in the middle of the street, crying, with one broken heel. She was very drunk, and the officer who had picked her up had just dropped her off at the apartment of somebody who was described as a `male friend’ – but practically nothing was known about this guy. He just left her there without finding out anything about the situation at that apartment; she could have been assaulted, raped, or killed. Whoever it was, he just threw her back out on the street – which actually might have been the best outcome. So she was crying hysterically and very distraught when I found her. I radioed HQ that I would be assisting her, and the officer who had picked her up arrived, and we went to the hospital with me carrying her in the back seat of my police car.”

The young woman was taken to the Emergency Room at Holy Name Medical Center.

“Once we got there, our job was done,” Tasca continues. “I stuck around for a little while to make sure everything was OK. There were about a half-dozen hospital security personnel on the scene, as well as about four or five EMTs and nurses there. The girl walked over to the nurse’s station, then decided that she didn’t want to go to the hospital. When Jay [Officer Fowler] reached for her, she started flailing her arms, and hit his hand, opening up an old cut he had on one of his knuckles.”

This was the “assault” that figures so prominently in the charges against Tasca. The officers who ganged up on Kyle Sharp have not been charged or subjected to administrative discipline – but Tasca’s refusal to help ground and pound a tiny, intoxicated woman who had made incidental contact with a fellow officer is being treated as a career-imperiling delinquency.

“Apparently, Jay believed I should have pushed all these people aside and help him subdue a tiny girl — she was about five foot one, and very skinny – who had given him a scratch,” Tasca pointed out.

After being put on suspension, Tasca was subjected to a psychological evaluation by Dr. Matthew Geller, a psychiatrist who does contact work for New Jersey law enforcement agencies. Geller provided the diagnosis he had been paid for, ruling that Tasca was unfit for duty. At the same time, the Bogota PD’s internal affairs officer produced a report concluding that Tasca’s refusal to assist Officer Fowler in the April 3 incident demonstrated her unfitness.

The internal affairs review wasn’t exactly a model of investigative rigor, Tasca observes: “There were nearly a dozen other people who witnessed the incident – and the only one he interviewed was a 14-year-old Ambulance Corps volunteer who happened to be his niece!”

Tasca, an openly gay female police officer, believes that at least some of the problems she’s experienced are the product of a cultural clash with what she describes as “the Old Boys Club.” More importantly, however, she has been targeted for the unforgiveable offense of “crossing the Blue Line” by taking the side of a Mundane being attacked by a member of the Brotherhood.

“I’ve been an officer here in Bogata for eleven years, and spent seven or eight years as a Class 2 Special Officer in Fairview, which is where I grew up,” Tasca told Pro Libertate. “Until now, I’ve never had problems with anybody on the force, or anybody in the community. Oh, sure, when you work near people for ten or twelve hours every day, you’ll have disagreements and maybe say some things you shouldn’t, but that’s typical of just about any relationship, professional or otherwise. But never in my career had I been accused of unfitness for duty until after that incident a year ago.

As a veteran with nearly twenty years in law enforcement, Tasca has noticed a dramatic change in the institutional culture of law enforcement in recent years.

“I think what we’re seeing is a lot of kids who are given power and immediately begin to abuse it,” Tasca observes. “Some of these guys are as young as 18 years old. You give them a uniform, and it goes right to their head. And even many of those that don’t do abusive things miss the point, which is that we’re supposed to be peace officers. They get a badge and a gun and they think they’re gods, or at least that they’re entitled to treat people like dirt. I see them as people, and insist on treating them like I’d want to be treated.”

In contemporary law enforcement, commitment to the Golden Rule is a firing offense. Just ask Ramon Perez, whose experience is strikingly similar to that of Regina Tasca.

Perez, a probationary officer who had won the top leadership award at his police academy, was cashiered by the Austin, Texas Police Department as a result of his refusal to use a Taser on an elderly, non-violent man during a domestic disturbance in January 2005. The order was unconstitutional, illegal, a violation of the guidelines in the department’s handbook and, most importantly, immoral.

A few days after that incident, Perez was given a punitive transfer to the night shift. Two months later, Perez was told to report to APD psychologist Carol Logan to undergo what he was told would be a “communication” exercise. In fact, it was a disguised “fit-for-duty review” intended to ratify the pre-ordained decision to fire him.

Logan’s four page report focused entirely on Perez’s moral and religious beliefs. Perez is a self-described non-denominational fundamentalist Christian, an ordained minister who home-schools his children. He is also firmly convinced that protection of civil liberties is the paramount duty of a peace officer – a duty he regarded, literally, as a sacred trust.

According to Logan, the depth of his commitment to his beliefs – beginning with that perennially unpopular tenet called the Golden Rule — produces an “impairment” of his ability to absorb new facts, to communicate with his superiors, and to deal with “feedback.”

As was the case with Regina Tasca, Ramon Perez’s detractors dredged up a second incident of “misconduct” involving a refusal to use unnecessary force.

By twice displaying a peace officer’s preference for de-escalation, Perez had established himself as a repeat offender. He was purged from the APD, a department that has since done much to distinguish itself – in the face of fierce and plentiful competition — as one of the most abusive in the country.

A vast geographic and cultural gulf separates Ramon Perez, a Fundamentalist Evangelical from Texas,  and Regina Tasca, an openly gay Roman Catholic from New Jersey. They have at least one critically important thing in common: Both of them intervened in defense of helpless citizens facing criminal violence from fellow cops, and learned that for people who have chosen a career in law enforcement, behaving like a peace officer is a firing offense.

SOURCE: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/officer-regina-tasca-goes-rogue.html

What?! The much vaunted FBI is behind recent terrorist attacks?! Now even the normally staid and Establishment New York Times finally is admitting that most of the terrorist attacks we have heard about are the result of FBI informants (usually criminal hoping for leniency or pay)or undercover agents. Faithful readers might recall that I tried to tell everyone this long ago but when the Times admits it, it is no longer the preserve of conspiracy theorists. So, just remember when you pay your taxes and the TSA puts their hands down your pants, it is your own government that is the greatest terrorist.

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Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.

By DAVID K. SHIPLER
The New York Times
April 28, 2012

THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.

When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud , thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust.

This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.

Carefully orchestrated sting operations usually hold up in court. Defendants invariably claim entrapment and almost always lose, because the law requires that they show no predisposition to commit the crime, even when induced by government agents. To underscore their predisposition, many suspects are “warned about the seriousness of their plots and given opportunities to back out,” said Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman. But not always, recorded conversations show. Sometimes they are coaxed to continue.

Undercover operations, long practiced by the F.B.I., have become a mainstay of counterterrorism, and they have changed in response to the post-9/11 focus on prevention. “Prior to 9/11 it would be very unusual for the F.B.I. to present a crime opportunity that wasn’t in the scope of the activities that a person was already involved in,” said Mike German of the American Civil Liberties Union, a lawyer and former F.B.I. agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups. An alleged drug dealer would be set up to sell drugs to an undercover agent, an arms trafficker to sell weapons. That still happens routinely, but less so in counterterrorism, and for good reason.

“There isn’t a business of terrorism in the United States, thank God,” a former federal prosecutor, David Raskin, explained.

“You’re not going to be able to go to a street corner and find somebody who’s already blown something up,” he said. Therefore, the usual goal is not “to find somebody who’s already engaged in terrorism but find somebody who would jump at the opportunity if a real terrorist showed up in town.”

And that’s the gray area. Who is susceptible? Anyone who plays along with the agents, apparently. Once the snare is set, law enforcement sees no choice. “Ignoring such threats is not an option,” Mr. Boyd argued, “given the possibility that the suspect could act alone at any time or find someone else willing to help him.”

Typically, the stings initially target suspects for pure speech — comments to an informer outside a mosque, angry postings on Web sites, e-mails with radicals overseas — then woo them into relationships with informers, who are often convicted felons working in exchange for leniency, or with F.B.I. agents posing as members of Al Qaeda or other groups.

Some targets have previous involvement in more than idle talk: for example, Waad Ramadan Alwan, an Iraqi in Kentucky, whose fingerprints were found on an unexploded roadside bomb near Bayji, Iraq, and Raja Khan of Chicago, who had sent funds to an Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan.

But others seem ambivalent, incompetent and adrift, like hapless wannabes looking for a cause that the informer or undercover agent skillfully helps them find. Take the Stinger missile defendant James Cromitie, a low-level drug dealer with a criminal record that included no violence or hate crime, despite his rants against Jews. “He was searching for answers within his Islamic faith,” said his lawyer, Clinton W. Calhoun III, who has appealed his conviction. “And this informant, I think, twisted that search in a really pretty awful way, sort of misdirected Cromitie in his search and turned him towards violence.”

THE informer, Shahed Hussain, had been charged with fraud, but avoided prison and deportation by working undercover in another investigation. He was being paid by the F.B.I. to pose as a wealthy Pakistani with ties to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terrorist group that Mr. Cromitie apparently had never heard of before they met by chance in the parking lot of a mosque.

“Brother, did you ever try to do anything for the cause of Islam?” Mr. Hussain asked at one point.

“O.K., brother,” Mr. Cromitie replied warily, “where you going with this, brother?”

Two days later, the informer told him, “Allah has more work for you to do,” and added, “Revelation is going to come in your dreams that you have to do this thing, O.K.?” About 15 minutes later, Mr. Hussain proposed the idea of using missiles, saying he could get them in a container from China. Mr. Cromitie laughed.

Reading hundreds of pages of transcripts of the recorded conversations is like looking at the inkblots of a Rorschach test. Patterns of willingness and hesitation overlap and merge. “I don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Mr. Cromitie said, and then explained that he meant women and children. “I don’t care if it’s a whole synagogue of men.” It took 11 months of meandering discussion and a promise of $250,000 to lead him, with three co-conspirators he recruited, to plant fake bombs at two Riverdale synagogues.

“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,” said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a “fantasy terror operation” but called his attempt “beyond despicable” and rejected his claim of entrapment.

The judge’s statement was unusual, but Mr. Cromitie’s characteristics were not. His incompetence and ambivalence could be found among other aspiring terrorists whose grandiose plans were nurtured by law enforcement. They included men who wanted to attack fuel lines at Kennedy International Airport; destroy the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago; carry out a suicide bombing near Tampa Bay, Fla., and bomb subways in New York and Washington. Of the 22 most frightening plans for attacks since 9/11 on American soil, 14 were developed in sting operations.

Another New York City subway plot, which recently went to trial, needed no help from government. Nor did a bombing attempt in Times Square, the abortive underwear bombing in a jetliner over Detroit, [see pp. 308-309 in my book The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy to learn how the underwear bomber was another set-up by U.S, Intelligence agencies] a planned attack on Fort Dix, N.J., and several smaller efforts. Some threats are real, others less so. In terrorism, it’s not easy to tell the difference.

David K. Shipler is the author of “Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America.”

Here’s more atrocities from the Transportation Security Administration, already the object of scorn for the number of perverts, porno fans, thieves and misfits it employs. If anyone reading this were to perform the same acts on others, you would be subject to arrest for assault, theft, and sexual groping. It has been said that no government agency ever goes away, it only grows bigger, meaner and more costly. Let’s turn this around for once and abolish the TSA. How to do this? Stop flying. Complain to the airlines. Write (no emails, which go largely unnoticed) to your congress members. Contact your local media and insist they provide ongoing coverage of the TSA. Most importantly, study the full spectrum of information regarding the attacks of 9/11, the strange cases of the shoe and the underwear bombers and the rush to sell the full-body scanners by former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, who represents the scanner’s manufacturer. Then, start spreading the truth of these manipulations of the public. Help wake up your friends and neighbors and restore the Republic.

Jim 

Terrorizing, Smuggling, And Assault: All In A Week’s Work At The TSA

By Becky Akers
Forbes
April 27, 2012

The TSA’s had a banner week. It began with former Head Cheese, Kip Hawley – the guy who foisted the liquids-in-baggies nonsense on us – bleating that the agency is “broken” and it’s no wonder Americans hate it. As if to prove him right, screeners beat up on little girls – twice. And it was only Monday. By Wednesday, cops had arrested four screeners at Los Angeles International who took a break from pawing passengers to smuggle illicit drugs through checkpoints. Meanwhile, a Congressman alleged assault after a “very aggressive … pat-down.”

Hmmm. Seems there are several clues here that perhaps we might want to, oh, I don’t know, abolish this vile agency.

Four-year-old Isabella Brademeyer was flying out of Wichita, Kansas with her mother, brother and grandmother after a stint as flower-girl in her uncle’s wedding. Isabella successfully negotiated the checkpoint’s charade, but her grandmother wasn’t as fortunate, and the TSA ordered her aside for a groping. Isabella offered the lady a child’s best comfort: she ran to her and hugged her for a “few seconds,” according to her mother’s account on Facebook.

Or, in the TSA’s words, Isabella “had completed screening but had contact with another member of her family who had not completed the screening process.” Uh-oh. That shot across the Homeland’s bow galvanized the Warriors on Terror. Thank Heaven for their practice in neutralizing cupcakes and strip-searching octogenarians: these crack troops knew exactly how to protect us from affectionate grandkids. Isabella’s mother reports that they began “yelling” at the little girl, “demand[ing] she too must sit down and await a full body pat-down.” Indeed, they scared her so badly that she “did what any frightened young child might, she ran the opposite direction. … I will never forget the look of pure terror on her face.”

Ergo, the TSA declared Isabella a “high-security-threat.” But fear not: two Warriors chased this “not cooperating” “suspect” (their actual phrasing, per Ms. Brademeyer) while ordering her mother “to have no contact with my child.” Eventually, they captured Isabella, frisked her to ensure that Granny hadn’t slipped her a WMD during their brief hug, and allowed the family to board their flight. “It was an awful sight,” Ms. Bradenmeyer says in understatement as vast as the federal debt. “…My daughter is very shaken up about this, and has been waking up with nightmares.”

As should we all. What has the country become that we permit such savaging of children? Yet the TSA defended the indefensible, as usual: ”TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child.” Parents, take note: the TSA justifies traumatizing little ones as “proper screening procedures.” You may want to boycott flying lest concerned citizens sic Child Welfare Services on you.

Isabella isn’t the bureaucracy’s only pint-sized victim, even if we limit its atrocities to the last hundred or so hours. Screeners at New York’s JFK International molested 7-year-old Dina Frank so “aggressively” her family missed their flight. Dina suffers from cerebral palsy, yet her assailants still showed no compassion or mercy. And when her father tried to film the abuse, an agent “screamed” at him to stop — though “TSA does not prohibit the public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping or filming at security checkpoints…,” or so the agency’s website insists. ”They make our lives completely difficult,” Joshua Frank, told The Daily, a newspaper for iPad. “They’re harassing people. This is totally misguided policy.”

You can’t sink lower than assaulting handicapped little girls. Perhaps that’s why Wednesday’s story about the four screeners at Los Angeles International seems positively benign: couriers bribed them to ignore the cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana flowing through their checkpoints – similar to the screeners on the East Coast who pled guilty the preceding week to smuggling Oxycodone. But these criminals may well be among the TSA’s least harmful: rather than irradiating and hassling unwilling passengers, they shielded entrepreneurs supplying product to willing customers from the government’s failed War on Drugs.

One such reluctant passenger is Rep. Francisco Canseco (R-TX). At San Antonio International, his close encounter with the TSA earlier this month “got very uncomfortable so I moved [the screener’s] hand away,” he told KENS 5-TV. “That stopped everything and brought in supervisors and everyone else.” And you can see why: only terrorists object when Big Brother manhandles their junk.

On Sunday, the Warriors took revenge. They once again boldly went “where no one is supposed to go” when Canseco caught another flight out of San Antonio.

“The American people expect and deserve to be safe and secure from the threat of terrorism when they board a commercial aircraft,” Canseco stated to MSNBC. Especially when the terrorists wear blue shirts and gloves. The TSA’s clear and present persecution of 13 million passengers every week hurts us far more than the distant, enervated Al Qaeda ever will.

Canseco “believe[s]… there are other ways of securing airways we in Congress should look into…” He may want to talk to his fellow Texan and Republican, Rep. Ron Paul – the only candidate for the presidential nomination who promises to free us from the TSA’s depredations. He’s even introduced legislation to do so (“American Traveller Dignity Act of 2011,” H.R. 2438) that Canseco should support.

Absent the TSA, responsibility for securing their multi-billion-dollar inventory, highly trained personnel, and customers will revert to the airlines, where it should have been all along. Indeed, 3000 people might be alive today if it had resided there on 9/11. But tragically, the FAA controlled aviation’s security then. “Private” screeners staffed checkpoints, it’s true, but the FAA dictated every move they made and every item they confiscated – or didn’t. And it was the FAA that ordered passengers and crew to cooperate with hijackers, easing the way for Mohammed Atta and Co. When it established the TSA, Congress merely transferred the FAA’s lethal incompetence to a new bureaucracy.

And one so vicious it gives little girls nightmares. “To a 4-year-old’s perspective,” Isabella Brademeyer’s grandmother explained to the Associated Press, “… someone was trying to kidnap her or harm her in some way.”

Out of the mouths of babes.

Becky Akers is a free-lance writer and historian. Her novel set during the American Revolution will be published this summer.

They say what you don’t know can’t hurt you. But, that’s wrong! What you don’t know CAN hurt you. Just give a read to this article concerning the ongoing release of radiation from Japan and the attendant rise in radioactivity here in the USA. Perhaps you’d best purchase a Geiger counter today before they become unavailable like they did following the first announcements of the Fukushima disaster. None were available for months.

Jim

Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?

By Christina Consolo
April 21, 2012
Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.

What he saw was horrific.

And now he is saying that we are in big trouble.

See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC’s Chairman Gregory Jaczko here:

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ambassador-Fujisaki.pdf

But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011. March 17^th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California.

And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between.

Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since.

The scientists most upset are those who have studied the effects of radiation on health. I’ll say it again, so its really clear: we are in big trouble.

The most preliminary reports of soil contamination are starting to come in from the USGS, who has seemed reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado, so far have the highest radioactive particle contamination out of the entire US.

That being said, every single city tested across the country showed contamination from Fukushima. What is even more alarming, however, about the numbers coming in, is that they are from samples taken April 5^th, of last year.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has only recently confirmed that there were three meltdowns, and they have been ongoing, unabated, for thirteen months, and no effort has been made to contain them.

Technology has to be developed/invented to deal with the melted out corium under the reactors. Until then, they will keep doing what they have been doing.

TEPCO just keeps dumping water on them, after which they let it pour into the ocean, and steam up through the ground, every second of every day. The jet stream, and a highly dynamic portion of our atmosphere called the troposphere, have been swirling around massive amounts of radioactive particles and settling them out, mostly in rain, over the entire northern hemisphere, especially the west coast of North America, from Alaska down to Baja and even further.

Iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium, and a host of other fission products have been coming directly from Japan to the west coast for thirteen months.

Maybe you have heard about sick seals, polar bears, tainted fish, mutations in dandelions and fruits and vegetables, possibly even animals already, and seaweed. In fact the kelp from Corona del Mar contained 40,000,000 bcq/kg of radioactive iodine, as reported in Scientific American several weeks ago.

If you don’t know your becquerels, its a lot. That’s what your pacific fish feed on. And that was only ONE isotope reported. There were up to 1600 different isotopes that have been floating around in our air, pouring out of the reactors, and steaming out of the ground, every second of every day, for 13 months.

And there has been silence from our mainstream media, for which the depths of depravity are so severe I will devote an entire article just to the “why” at a future time.

But back to the research: reports in the past week indicate the pollen in southern California is radioactive now too, and it is flying around, and if you live there and go outside, you are breathing it in. And so are your children.

Along with fission products blowing over from Japan. And radiation in your drinking water. And in your rain. And in the fish you are eating. And your vegetables. And the milk supply. And its happening every second, of every day. For 13 months. Are you starting to see a problem here?

Problem is, that’s not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is what Senator Wyden is all bent out of shape about, even though independent researchers and nuke experts have been warning about this for a year.

And that is that the Reactor #4 building is on the verge of collapsing. Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them “fresh fuel” that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11^th when the earthquake and tsunami hit.

If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods.

That is, if we aren’t in one already. Nuke experts like Arnie Gundersen and Helen Caldicott are prepared to evacuate their families to the southern hemisphere if that happens. It is that serious.

So now you know, if you didn’t before. We are in big trouble.

Get informed. Start paying attention to this. Every single statement in this article is verifiable, and I will continue to verify and validate the seriousness of this situation at every opportunity I have.

This may be the most important thing you ever pay attention to, for the sake of your family, friends, your neighbors, every one you know and meet, all of humanity.

It’s been thirteen months, you have some catching up to do.

Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing; a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors, Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society; A peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography; She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmogy for the past 24 years; She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12-1:00 pm EST on the Orion Talk Radio Network.
SOURCE: http://EndtheLie.com/2012/04/21/fukushima-is-falling-apart-are-you-ready/#ixzz1stFtM7lS

If this story was about anyone else but the giant multinational chemical company Monsanto, there would be headlines and sounds bites about “conflict of interest,” and “institutional cover-up.” But considering the advertising revenues involved, you are unlikely to hear much about this on any major corporate mass media outlet. So read it here and know that Monsanto, whose products have been banned in Europe and other nations, is not only corrupting agriculture but damaging the entire food chain and our basic DNA.

Jim

Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee
Research Firm

By Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
April 19, 2012

Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.

It can be found in public company reports hosted on mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back in September 2011. During this time the correlation between Monsanto’s GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the mainstream, and in fact it was hardly touched upon until Polish officials addressed the serious concern amid the monumental ban. Owning a major organization that focuses heavily on the bee collapse and is recognized by the USDA for their mission statement of “restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination” could be very advantageous for Monsanto.

In fact, Beelogics’ company information states that the primary goal of the firm is to study the very collapse disorder that is thought to be a result — at least in part — of Monsanto’s own creations. Their website states:

While its primary goal is to control the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) infection crises, Beeologics’ mission is to become the guardian of bee health worldwide.

What’s more, Beelogics is recognized by the USDA, the USDA-ARS, the media, and ‘leading entomologists’ worldwide. The USDA, of course, has a great relationship with Monsanto. The government agency has gone to great lengths to ensure that Monsanto’s financial gains continue to soar, going as far as to give the company special speed approval for their newest genetically engineered seed varieties. It turns out that Monsanto was not getting quick enough approval for their crops, which have been linked to severe organ damage and other significant health concerns.

Steve Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, states it quite plainly. It was a move to help Monsanto and other biotechnology giants squash competition and make profits. After all, who cares about public health?

“It is a concern from a competition standpoint,” Censky said in a telephone interview.

It appears that when Monsanto cannot answer for their environmental devastation, they buy up a company that may potentially be their ‘experts’ in denying any such link between their crops and the bee decline.
Source: http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-bee-collapse-buys-bee-research-firm/#ixzz1sVQ1JZZU