Wouldn’t you hope America would remember the advice of legal scholar Felix Cohen, who said the American Indian is the miner's canary for the United States and the general condition of freedom and liberty for America as a whole could be measured by its treatment of Indians? That reflection by Americans has not happened. Instead, American Indian policy has now become general American policy. Look around you.
Consider as you look across the landscape of the USA, the opposite of freedom prevails. Just as American Indians had to battle for freedom for lands, you would have hoped farmers and ranchers would realize they were next on America's sacrificial chopping block. Over the past three decades, family farm after family farm and ranch after ranch has been auctioned off or sharecropped out to corporations. Self-sufficiency has been replaced by dependency on a malevolent federal government, and the love of the land has been replaced by personal desperation and self-interest.
Freedom of thought has been replaced by a state-run educational system that produces docile, self-absorbed robots. Public schools should teach skills, not DNC talking points. War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Instead of learning to be critical thinkers, America's youth are conditioned into an ethic of mass consumerism and corporate careerism.
Today, the thought criminals are the Branch Davidians or the Montana Freemen. Members of different liberation movements are called "commies," "pinkos," "kooks," "criminals" and the "fringe element." These same labels, along with "cultists," are freely used to isolate, marginalize and silence the modern-day thought criminals who dare to express ideas that deviate from the U.S. government's corporate mind-set.
If the Indians at Wounded Knee represented Cohen's canary, then the federal-government attack on the Waco compound in 1993 proves the canary has died. One does not have to embrace the ideologies of the Branch Davidians or those of the Freemen to realize the willingness of the U.S. government to kill its own dissenting citizens, and to see a society operating without a moral compass.
Consider why did it take a federal agent busting down a door in full body armor and with a sub machinegun to remove an 8 year old Cuban boy from his uncle’s house? Yet, no effort is made to stop the flood of illegal across the Mexico border everyday? Why is it ok for the police chief in New Orleans to ‘take all guns, no one will be allowed to be armed’. Am I a ‘pinko commy cultist wacko’ for believing this is WRONG?
Do you think that for the last 1000 years there has been even 1 instance of a person dying from Spinach they grew for themselves? Even 1 time that someone had a problem with the meat from their cattle?
It is funny how much we take in from the news agency as fact. How many times we believe that someone is a ‘nut ball’ because the smiling talking heads told us they were. I am not saying David Koresh wasn’t a crazy cult leader who was slepping with underage girls. I am just saying that it might have been nice if someone that was inside there could tell the other side of the story. I guess since the ATF burned it to the ground with everyone inside that will be impossible. That is what you remember isn’t it. Well check out the ‘important dates’ at FBI.GOV and the feds say only 10 people died then. And 4 of them were federal agents.
Here I will link it for you.
February 28, 1993 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agents raided a compound of the Branch Davidian cult, led by David Koresh. Known as the Mt. Carmel Church, the facility was located nine miles from Waco, Texas. The resulting confrontation resulted in the deaths of four ATF Agents and six Branch Davidians.
Do you feel free? Have you ever felt it? I mean why would an ‘oilman’ or the guy married to the Ketchup Queen, want a job that only pays 6 figures? I’ll tell you why, POWER. Plus the fact that they think you are too stupid to do the job anyway. Hell, you cannot even prepare for your retirement without their help. Is that truly what Freedom means to you? HA!!! Ted Kennedy killed a woman and nothing happened to him.
Randy Weaver was coaxed into selling an undercover agent a sawed off shotgun that was, get this, 1/8 of an inch too short. So they raided his place and KILLED his wife [while she stood in the doorway holding a baby] because she looked outside when they shot her 13 year old son in the back, because he was running from the ‘guys with guns’ coming towards the house. Neither one of them ever identified themselves, which sure sounds just like the 1973 incident that has Leonard Peltier locked up forever.
As I look at the laws that apply to me I find that if someone has just beaten, robbed and raped you and they are leaving, it is illegal to shoot them in the back, because they pose no threat when walking away from you. It does not even matter if the scumbag is carrying an anti-tank rocket launcher and promises to come back tomorrow for your sister. But, somehow this same system of laws finds that, a 13 year old boy with a rifle, running away from 2 unidentified men with weapons provides all the justification the Feds needed to kill him.
I think that New Orleans was another one of these 'testing grounds'. Why did it take 3 days for help to arrive? So, that the 'calvary' could have the power given to them to provide 'help' by whatever means they deemed appropriate.
It is the duty of every responsible American to ensure that their government upholds the spirit and the laws of the United States Constitution. After all, what freedom really means is that you are free to be responsible. Living by the ‘law of the land’ and not the ‘law of the jungle’, remembering to be responsible, not only for your own self, but your own actions as well.
15 November 2006
06 November 2006
VOTE Tuesday 7th
Here is the info on amendments for Tuesday.
Proposed Amendment No. 1Act 511 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo extend the special assessment level to homesteads owned and occupied by any person with a service-connected disability rating of fifty percent or more and by certain members of the armed forces of the United States or members of the Louisiana National Guard killed or missing in action or who were prisoners of war, and to any person designated as permanently totally disabled, subject to other conditions and requirements provided under the present constitution, and to require annual certification of eligibility by persons under sixty-five years of age who have qualified and received the special assessment level. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(i) and (iii) and 2(a); ADDS Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(iv)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 2Act 864 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo increase the maximum amount of the severance tax imposed and collected by the state on natural resources, other than sulphur, lignite, and timber, which is remitted to the parish governing authority where the severance occurs from seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to eight hundred fifty thousand dollars effective July 1, 2007, and provides that this maximum amount be increased to reflect the increase in the Consumer Price Index beginning July 1, 2008. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 4(D)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 3Act 510 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo exempt from ad valorem property tax medical equipment leased for a term exceeding five years to a nonprofit corporation or association which owns or operates a small, rural hospital and if the equipment is used solely for health care purposes at the hospital; to provide that "small, rural hospital" shall mean a hospital which meets all of the following criteria:(1) It has less than fifty Medicare-licensed acute care beds. (2) It is located in a municipality with a population of less than ten thousand which has been classified as an area with a shortage of health manpower by the United States Health Service. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 21(B)(1)(a)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 4Act 512 of the 2005 Regular SessionExempts motor vehicles from municipal ad valorem taxes and removes language that authorizes a municipal governing authority or a district thereof to impose ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 21(E)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 5Act 509 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo exempt consigned art from ad valorem property tax; that is, all artworks such as sculptures, glass works, paintings, drawings, signed and numbered posters, photographs, mixed media, collages, or any other item which would be considered as the material result of a creative endeavor. (Effective January 1, 2007) (ADDS Article VII, Section 21(C)(19)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 6Act 862 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo authorize the legislature to enact laws establishing new judgeships of district courts as new divisions having limited or specialized jurisdiction within the territorial jurisdiction of the district court and subject matter jurisdiction over family or juvenile matters as provided by law. (Effective January 1, 2007.) (AMENDS Article V, Section 15(A)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 7Act 863 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo provide for a single tax assessor in Orleans Parish to be elected at the same time as the municipal officers of New Orleans. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 24) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 8Act 861 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo grant the Central community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted parishes for purposes of Article VIII, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, including purposes related to the minium foundation program, funding for certain school books and instructional materials, and the raising of certain local revenues for the support of elementary and secondary schools. (AMENDS Article VIII, Section 13(D)(1)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 1Act 511 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo extend the special assessment level to homesteads owned and occupied by any person with a service-connected disability rating of fifty percent or more and by certain members of the armed forces of the United States or members of the Louisiana National Guard killed or missing in action or who were prisoners of war, and to any person designated as permanently totally disabled, subject to other conditions and requirements provided under the present constitution, and to require annual certification of eligibility by persons under sixty-five years of age who have qualified and received the special assessment level. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(i) and (iii) and 2(a); ADDS Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(iv)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 2Act 864 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo increase the maximum amount of the severance tax imposed and collected by the state on natural resources, other than sulphur, lignite, and timber, which is remitted to the parish governing authority where the severance occurs from seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to eight hundred fifty thousand dollars effective July 1, 2007, and provides that this maximum amount be increased to reflect the increase in the Consumer Price Index beginning July 1, 2008. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 4(D)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 3Act 510 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo exempt from ad valorem property tax medical equipment leased for a term exceeding five years to a nonprofit corporation or association which owns or operates a small, rural hospital and if the equipment is used solely for health care purposes at the hospital; to provide that "small, rural hospital" shall mean a hospital which meets all of the following criteria:(1) It has less than fifty Medicare-licensed acute care beds. (2) It is located in a municipality with a population of less than ten thousand which has been classified as an area with a shortage of health manpower by the United States Health Service. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 21(B)(1)(a)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 4Act 512 of the 2005 Regular SessionExempts motor vehicles from municipal ad valorem taxes and removes language that authorizes a municipal governing authority or a district thereof to impose ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 21(E)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 5Act 509 of the 2005 Regular SessionTo exempt consigned art from ad valorem property tax; that is, all artworks such as sculptures, glass works, paintings, drawings, signed and numbered posters, photographs, mixed media, collages, or any other item which would be considered as the material result of a creative endeavor. (Effective January 1, 2007) (ADDS Article VII, Section 21(C)(19)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 6Act 862 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo authorize the legislature to enact laws establishing new judgeships of district courts as new divisions having limited or specialized jurisdiction within the territorial jurisdiction of the district court and subject matter jurisdiction over family or juvenile matters as provided by law. (Effective January 1, 2007.) (AMENDS Article V, Section 15(A)) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 7Act 863 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo provide for a single tax assessor in Orleans Parish to be elected at the same time as the municipal officers of New Orleans. (AMENDS Article VII, Section 24) -->
Proposed Amendment No. 8Act 861 of the 2006 Regular SessionTo grant the Central community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted parishes for purposes of Article VIII, Section 13 of the Constitution of Louisiana, including purposes related to the minium foundation program, funding for certain school books and instructional materials, and the raising of certain local revenues for the support of elementary and secondary schools. (AMENDS Article VIII, Section 13(D)(1)) -->
02 November 2006
VOTE Tuesday 7th
While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by
a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts,
you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is
have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose
where to spend eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the
senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down,
down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of
a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in
front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked
with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him,
shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while
getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and
champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a
good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time
that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator
rises...
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St.
Peter is waiting for him.
"Now it's time to visit heaven."
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls
moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a
good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St.
Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now
choose your eternity."
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would
never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I
think I would be better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down
to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren
land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and
putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I
don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there
was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank
champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland
full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were
campaigning...... Today you voted."
a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts,
you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is
have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose
where to spend eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the
senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down,
down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of
a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in
front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked
with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him,
shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while
getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and
champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a
good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time
that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator
rises...
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St.
Peter is waiting for him.
"Now it's time to visit heaven."
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls
moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a
good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St.
Peter returns.
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now
choose your eternity."
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would
never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I
think I would be better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down
to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren
land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and
putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I
don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there
was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank
champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland
full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were
campaigning...... Today you voted."
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