Oh man, HOLD ON FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

This freaky storm is wreaking havoc over all of Florida, people are seeking cover from the mayhem and it is feared that this could be THE END OF THE WORLD.

Ok, folks, get real now, this was noting more than a good storm in reality. I cannot believe how many people got sucked up into the panic that the media spread around just like propaganda.

Just so you know, I don't watch the typical media, I get my news from the internet and I only pick and choose what I want to know and form my own opinion, I so very rarely listen to the local radio, even my weather news I get from the internet, I would rather my own weather reports be wrong from my own interpretation rather than what some idiot with an agenda says on the boob tube, then all I have to blame is myself.

I was surprised Monday morning on my way to work how strange the traffic was and how the lines were backed up at the fuel stations, I really did not know that people were freaking out until I saw it. This whole time I have felt kinda like I was Neo in the Matrix, millions of people, living out their lives, oblivious. It just goes to show you how far we have come in America, that fear can grip us so bad just through the words of the media, I hope that at least some people wake up this morning and realize just how stupid they were for believing and reacting the way they did.

It would not have been so bad if it would not have been built up so much, just simple warnings and telling people THE TRUTH instead of making this out to be the next killer hurricane. Trust me, I have been through several hurricanes, as have many people down here, you would think that in their experience that they would be able to figure out the difference between the nasty ones in the past and this storm now.

So, we should all learn a little lesson here: don't believe everything that the media says, most definitely. We have the examples of the past to tell us that is how evil regimes have controlled the people. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, present day Communist China, anywhere there is a government control of the people you can see that the media is one of the primary tools utilized to instill fear in the people. If the people are afraid of the government and their many tentacles of control then they can keep their people subdued, divided and under control.

Wake up people, take your freedoms seriously and seek to be independent, start with not allowing the government to scare you. The stakes are very high, and the gallows could be waiting for many of us and our families if we let it get too far.

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
~Samuel Adams

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August 19, 2006

Jim Bryson Trying to Emulate Sen. Allen in Attacking Counter-Message Team
It appears that TN GOP gubernatorial candidate is trying to follow in the footsteps of Sen. Allen. Instead of using racial slurs, Bryson's staff is using laser pointers into the eyes of the Governor's counter-message team.

The war of words between Democrats and Republicans has escalated to include laser beams and physical confrontation in gubernatorial candidate Jim Bryson's bus tour of East Tennessee, according to somewhat conflicting accounts from campaigners.

Members of Republican Bryson's staff stand accused of directing beams from pocket laser-pointers into the eyes of Democrats who have been following the Bryson bus, making videotapes of the candidate and distributing pamphlets.

And, just like in the Allen case, repugnut operatives are trying to turn the tables and accuse the counter-message team.

Bryson spokesman Lance Frizzell denied that Democratic eyes were targeted by lasers and, in turn, accused the Democratic team of "shoving" a Republican and other "unruly behavior," including "defacing" the bus with Bredesen bumper stickers.
Accusing the accuser, I find to be extremely childish. If you did it, own up to it. Hey, William Pierce, I'm talking to you.

The fact of the matter is, several of the counter-message team's eyes were targeted, and a police report was filed. Then, Humphrey reports that the GOP team states, they will "probably stop using the lasers," after being advised by police of the ramifications of laser pointers.
Shows me that the repugnuts are lying to save their asses and laser pointers were being used.
Pointing a laser beam into someone else's eyes is reprehensible, childish, and dangerous. These staff members should not be retained by a candidate that is serious in holding or retaining an elected office.

As for laser pointers and if they are harmful or not, the FDA has classified laser pointers as being harmful. Lasers are classified according to their degree of hazard from Class 1 to Class 4, Class 4 being the most hazardous. Most laser pointers in the US are Class 2 and Class 3a lasers. The eye's blink reflex (0.25 seconds) is usually enough to protect the eye from damage due to visible lasers, however Class 3a lasers do have the potential to cause damage if viewed directly for greater than 0.25 seconds.

The FDA requires warning labels to be placed on laser pointers including it's classification and instructions telling users to not look directly into the beam. Unfortunately, there are now reports of lasers being imported from China and Russia that are not properly labeled. These lasers are significantly more dangerous and contain a green beam rather than a red one. Before buying a laser pointer, be sure to check that it contains a FDA warning label.

Which brings me back to GOP campaign operations. Yes, there will always be counter-message teams, for both sides. Candidates and their campaign staff expect it, and set up their own. But, what I find horrifying is the emerging trend of GOP candidates and staff resorting to unseemly behavior. When this unseemly behavior is seen by voters, it should not be condoned, but be chalked up to a big, fat check mark in the "con" column of why that candidate is not acceptable to hold an elected office, particularly the higher levels of our state and national governments.
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Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'

Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:07 pm (PST)
Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'
GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

* Airport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror
plot
* Six out of ten believe government is not exaggerating terrorism
threat
* Reid reaction to terror has seen his public profile soar as
Blair's successor

Key quote
"As we face the threat of mass murder we have to accept that the
rights of the individual that we enjoy must, and will be, balanced
with the collective right of security and the protection of life and
limb that our citizens demand." - JOHN REID, THE HOME SECRETARY

Story in full BIOMETRIC testing is set to be introduced at European
airports under plans for stringent new security measures revealed
yesterday in the wake of last week's alleged terror plot.
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Passengers would have their fingerprint or iris scanned under the
measures proposed by EU interior ministers, which would also use
passenger profiling to try to identify potential terrorists.

The move to beef up relaxed security procedures in Europe came as John
Reid, the Home Secretary, warned that human rights would have to be
balanced against the threat from terrorism and that the current terror
threat was Europe-wide and needed to be tackled on an international level.

The EU minister in charge of justice, Franco Frattini, said ministers
were looking at the "positive profiling" of passengers, carried out
well in advance of their flights, based on "biometric identifiers"
such as iris scans or fingerprints.

However, both he and Mr Reid stressed that there were no plans for
profiling based on passengers' ethnic origins. Rather, the profiling
would be drawn from biometric information.

This would actually speed up airport security procedures, he argued.

But the scheme could also pave the way for an EU-wide database,
provoking outrage from privacy rights campaigners last night.

The plan to extend biometric procedures - already enforced in the
United States, Canada and Australia - to European airports was
revealed after an informal meeting of EU interior ministers in London
yesterday.

Other measures agreed include a commitment to stamping out radicalism
by stricter policing of the internet, replacing extremism with a
"European" model of Islam, a 250 million research project into liquid
explosives and a meeting of security services across Europe this month.

The details emerged after ministers from the current Finnish EU
presidency, as well as future EU presidencies Germany, France,
Portugal and Slovenia, were briefed along with Mr Reid and Mr Frattini
yesterday by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the MI5 director general,
and Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, the head of special operations
at Scotland Yard.

Responding to the plans, Phil Booth, the national co-ordinator of
NO2ID, a UK campaign group which lobbies against a centralised
biometrics database, said the biometric scheme could not work unless
Europe had the fingerprint of every international terrorist on record.

"If [interior ministers] do not have that, then what they are
proposing is the construction of the largest haystack of all time to
find a few needles," he said.

"This magical thinking about biometrics identifying terrorists is
plainly crazy. What is more worrying is that John Reid is
grandstanding and using an alleged incident to conflate our security
and our freedom."

Mr Booth added that biometrics could also be used for de facto racial
profiling of passengers: "Because it is a measure of the body,
biometrics will often identify people's ethnic origin."

Other proposals revealed by Mr Frattini included the training of imams
at EU level after concerns that extremists were taking over mosques,
while radicalisation across schools and prisons would also come under
closer scrutiny.

"We do want a European Islam and that is very important not only to
show to the Muslim communities that we fully respect other religions
... but we also want [them to] respect national laws, European laws
and fundamental rights - first of all the right to life," he said.

The bloc will look into a suggestion by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French
interior minister, to set up counter-terrorism expert teams at EU
level ready to help countries if needed, he said.

Meanwhile, a separate 250 million fund was announced to help to
research and detect liquid explosives.

Mr Frattini said that he would make proposals in coming days on the
detection of explosives.

Yesterday, Mr Reid said Europe would not allow terrorists to undermine
the "common European values that bind our societies together".

The proponents of terror "would abuse our open societies, would misuse
our freedoms and adapt the latest technology to their evil intent and
have no regard for human life or for human rights".

"As we face the threat of mass murder, we have to accept that the
rights of the individual that we enjoy must, and will be, balanced
with the collective right of security and the protection of life and
limb that our citizens demand," he added.

Meanwhile, a YouGov poll out today reveals that more than half of
people in the UK questioned wanted a "more aggressive" foreign policy.
And 55 per cent supported passenger profiling at airports.

Related topics

* Terrorism in the UK
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=758
* Identity cards
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=428
* Tony Blair's leadership
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=926

This article: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1202152006

V for Vendetta

So, I watched it for the second time last night, first time was opening night in the theater this spring. Honestly, it is not my absolute favorite movie of all time but it is pretty high up there, but the most important aspect of it is how well true fascism is portrayed in the film. The cause and fight for freedom and the reactions of the people is so amazing to see portrayed, and it makes me think about our conditions here in the US today.

You probably know me enough by now to understand that I believe the U.S. Government is on a fast nose-dive to collapse and structural failure. Watching V for Vendetta helps to solidify that in my mind as well, but one thing that it makes me reconsider is how soon. When looking at that depiction, albeit fiction, it shows conditions far worse than we currently have here in the U.S. at this time, and I can only wonder how much more people will take before they feel the need to get up off their asses and do something about it.

V does very well to tell the people that their problem is them, that they are the ones that should be in control and that actually it is not so much the government that the people are afraid of, it is fear of fear.
"People should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of the people."
This concept is something that the Founding Fathers understood very well, they wrote documents, passed laws and started a nation in spite of potential fears of a mighty government. And knowing all that they had to go through they also understood what powers to restrict from the government and give to the people so that the government does not get so large that the people begin to fear it. It is though the cleverly designed plan of evil people, of a similar ilk to those fictional characters in V for Vendetta and other real historical well-known tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Moussolini, Sadam Hussien and others, that have given way to what we have in America today.

Americans need to wake up!!! This is happening to us, look at this movie, understanding that it is through small steps in the wrong direction that you realize in 30 years that you are living in a box shaking with fear because you have been conditioned to do so. In reality, we don't have that long because we have been going down that path for much longer, just that the culmination of these things has been stalled due to the hard work of some people, but the fact still remains: we must get serious about getting educated on what is really going on here and then to get active against it. We do still have some powers left, but if we do not exercise them now we will have lost a great opportunity and we will be headed down a long, dark road that will be hard to come out of.