When They Come for the Smaller Groups. . . .

Posted: May 25, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

h/t WRSA

“The government never has the resources and the manpower to terrorize the whole society. State terrorism, therefore, is done by separating and marginalizing social groups: first smaller groups, then larger groups, until each group is subdued.

This is the old Roman principle of divide et impera: divide your enemies so that neither of them associate with the others. Thus, none of them will come to each other’s aid. Then your hand is free to conquer them one by one.”

Read the whole thing here…

When They Come for the Smaller Groups. . . .

Remember this one…

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Read.

Learn.

Train.

Do More PT !

Resist-always- any way you can and  any time you can

Memorial Day

Posted: May 25, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Sacramento, CA — Sacramento cops are rolling out a new program this Memorial day to allegedly combat drunk drivers. While the reasoning for this new program may sound just, its implementation is anything but.

If you are out in a bar this weekend, be prepared to have multiple officers come in and ask the patrons in the bar to blow into a breathalyzer.

DUI roadblocks are apparently not invasive enough, so the Sacramento PD instituted a program to attack the source, the places where alcohol is consumed.

Obviously the site of several armed officers walking into a bar with breathalyzers in hand is a buzz kill, to say the least.

One of the bar patrons who’s been exposed to the program explains, “Admittedly we were a bit put off when we were gonna walk in and saw a bunch of cops with breathalyzers.”

A “bit put off” is an understatement, however

While these officers are promising not to “test and arrest,” the very idea of police entering private property and having people submit to breathalyzer tests is appalling. The inside of your body is no business of the state and when this clear violation of your personal space is accepted, freedom loses.

This program also leaves the door wide open for entrapment and further rights violating searches by creating unnecessary confrontations.

Hopefully, this program does not take wings and spread to other municipalities as it is a leap forward for the nanny surveillance state, and giant step back for liberty.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dui-checkpoints-tip-iceberg-cops-bars-breathalyzers/#OVamTCcgwfsDpPcy.99

Anyone still doubt that we are living in a police state?

San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department doesn’t tell judges it’s using spy device.

 The sheriff in San Bernardino County—east of Los Angeles County—has deployed a stingray hundreds of times without a warrant, and under questionable judicial authority.

In response to a public records request, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department (SBSD) sent Ars, among other outlets, a rare example of a template for a “pen register and trap and trace order” application. (In the letter, county lawyers claimed this was a warrant application template, when it clearly is not.) The SBSD is the law enforcement agency for the entire county, the 12th-most populous county in the United States, and the fifth-most populous in California.

Stingrays, or cell-site simulators, can be used to determine location by spoofing a cell tower, but they can also be used to intercept calls and text messages. Once deployed, the devices intercept data from a target phone as well as information from other phones within the vicinity. For years, federal and local law enforcement have tried to keep their existence a secret while simultaneously upgrading their capabilities. Over the last year, as the devices have become scrutinized, new information about the secretive devices has been revealed.

This template application, surprisingly, cites no legal authority on which to base its activities. The SBSD did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.

“This is astonishing because it suggests the absence of legal authorization (because if there were clear legal authorization you can bet the government would be citing it),” Fred Cate, a law professor at Indiana University, told Ars by e-mail.

“Alternatively, it might suggest that the government just doesn’t care about legal authorization. Either interpretation is profoundly troubling,” he said.

The documents sent to Ars by the SBSD’s county attorneys also show that since acquiring a stingray in late 2012, the agency has used it 303 times between January 1, 2014 and May 7, 2015.

Further, the SBSD, like other departments nationwide, maintains a questionable non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the FBI that indicates that the agency will work with local prosecuting authority to dismiss cases rather than reveal information in court about stingrays. (This has happened in at least some known jurisdictions elsewhere in the country.)

Just last week, the FBI released a statement regarding the use of stingrays, which claims the opposite of what its NDA with local law enforcement actually says. The SBSD also declined to produce policies, guidelines, training materials, nor the specific cases where stingrays were used.

The FBI and the Harris Corporation, the manufacturer of the device, have repeatedly declined to respond to Ars’ specific questions.

Read the rest @ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/county-sheriff-has-used-stingray-over-300-times-with-no-warrant/

Read the whole thing,there’s a lot of good info in the article!

Banzai!

Posted: May 25, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Why Islamic State Is Winning, by Daniel Lazare

Posted: May 25, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

A good analysis of why Islamic State is winning in Syria and Iraq, by Daniel Lazare at consortiumnews.com:

Exclusive: The Saudi-Israeli alliance and U.S. neocons have pressured President Obama into continuing U.S. hostility toward the secular Syrian government despite major military gains by the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, leading to an emerging catastrophe in the Mideast, as Daniel Lazare explains.

President Barack Obama and his foreign policy staff are not having a very merry month of May. The Islamic State’s takeover of Ramadi, Iraq, on May 15 was one of the greatest U.S. military embarrassments since Vietnam, but the fall of Palmyra, Syria, just five days later made it even worse. This is an administration that, until recently, claimed to have turned the corner on Islamic State.

In March, Gen. Lloyd Austin, head of U.S. Central Command, assured the House Armed Services Committee that the Islamic State…

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An Outstanding Piece of Woodworking by Bill…

Posted: May 23, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Lots to do yet finishing on this one to get it ready,

Need something from wood, email Bill  at

billsbilletboxes@gmail.com

The cutting board I got from Bill is great,wife wants to hang it on the wall-but I’ll be using it Mon. when the  Boston butt pork roast I’m doing in the smoker gets turned into pulled pork.

It still looks like this now…

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I’ll post a pic Mon. or Tues that shows I’m using it for it’s intended purpose.

She can order her own to hang on the wall,or maybe I’ll buy her one for her birthday,or else I’ll just let her pick something she likes other than a cutting board.

From Fran…

Part 1

http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2015/05/to-fight-for-freedom-part-1-who.html

Part 2

http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2015/05/to-fight-for-freedom-part-2-what.html

Of course they didn’t solve any cases-other than the ones they invented and supplied the “terrorists” with fake explosives.
Their goal is to shut down citizens opposition to the government.

newsfortherevolution's avatarNews for the Revolution

By WashingtonsBlog
May 22, 2015
Washington’s Blog

Most Americans value privacy and oppose mass surveillance.

The minority who don’t – and who think spying is okay because they have “nothing to hide” –  are grossly misinformed (and don’t know that spying is meant to crush dissent and consolidate power … not stop terrorism).

Edward Snowden noted today in a Q&A on Reddit:

Some might say “I don’t care if they violate my privacy; I’ve got nothing to hide.” Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they “need” a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can’t give away the rights of others because they’re not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.

But even…

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