There is much talk as of late about rising food prices. We even featured a story a few days ago here on Presenttruth.com. The interest was so great that we decided to post another article that goes further in depth. As we are witnessing all of the revolting going on in the middle east and northern Africa, we see countries with soaring food prices that are drastically throwing their way of life into a tail spin.
God told us this time would come long ago. In Matthew 24, we are told that famines would be a sign of the end. I wonder though if this is different than previous times.
I went and began looking for historical evidence of past uprisings and ‘Revolutions’ and I found something most fascinating. Many wonder if there are ‘ingredients’ to revolution and I believe there are. We may be on the verge of Revolution even in the United States.
Here is some words to consider:
History always repeats: The reasons for the French Revolution: Rising Food costs, failed harvests due to eradicate weather patterns, too much money invested in foreign wars which increased national debt, and a looming financial crisis…This sounds all too familiar with the United States does it not?
So we can see throughout the world rising food prices. I just finished a book entited ‘World on the Edge’ by Lester R. Brown and it showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the greatest crisis that we face is not ‘peak oil’ but peak water. The world is running out of water and this is causing major food shortages around the globe. He made the statement that we are ‘one failed harvest away from global chaos’.
We should not be surprised as we were told this would take place. Here are the words foretelling this many years ago:
While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce [BEGIN P.590] tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. “The earth mourneth and fadeth away,” “the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” Isaiah 24:4, 5. {GC 589.3}
May I suggest that not only is Satan sweeping away the literal harvests of the earth but also the many souls that should have heard a warning message long before now that may never hear it.
Also:
Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into rural districts, where the houses are not crowded closely together, and where you will be free from the interference of enemies.—Letter 5, 1904. – {CL 9.5}
We are told a time of famine is coming on the earth and the question is are we prepared for this time? We should be so that we can be ministers to others in need rather than in need of ministering to.
The Ripening Harvest
Would-be jumper saved by county deputy, local attorney
Would-be jumper saved by county deputy, local attorney
A woman who tried to jump from the sixth floor of the York County Judicial Center's indoor atrium Thursday morning was saved by a sheriff's deputy and a local attorney.
Deputy Dennis Williams and attorney Kurt Blake grabbed the woman and pulled her back to safety after she climbed over the glass railing and was standing on a narrow ledge, York County Sheriff Richard Keuerleber said.
"I believe a life was saved," the sheriff said. "They both need to be commended for their actions."
The 54-year-old woman escaped injury during the 9:40 a.m. incident and was involuntarily committed to York Hospital, Keuerleber said.
"This was two seconds away from a horrible tragedy. It makes me sick to think what could've happened," Williams said. "When she was talked to later, she said she thought she could fly, and she wanted to get away from all that was happening to her. It's sad."
Blake, 43, said he was shaken up, and that even hours later the incident still didn't seem real to him.
"It's sort of a surreal feeling now, like it was a dream and not reality," he said.
'Sixth sense': Williams, 65, spent 31 of his 36 years on the York City Police force as a homicide detective. He credits the job with helping him develop a sixth sense about people and their foibles, including the would-be jumper.
He was sitting at the security desk on the sixth floor and was watching the woman, who was sitting at a bank of chairs along the railing.
"She was real fidgety. ... Something was bothering me about her," he said. "I felt uneasy -- I just didn't feel good about it."
Williams was called to Courtroom No. 4, and he went, but said he almost immediately turned around and came back out.
"Something said, 'You better get out there,'" he said. "She was still sitting there, with her head in her hands."
Williams said he called down to the sheriff's control room to ask other deputies to train a sixth-floor security camera on her, which is when the woman made her move.
"She was up, on the chair, over the rail and she had moved out onto the thin ledge," he said. "I dropped the phone and ran."
Falling away: Meanwhile, Blake was walking out of Courtroom No. 4 and saw what was happening.
"I looked up and saw a woman going over the rail," Blake said, and he dove toward her.
Both men -- along with a third, unidentified man -- grabbed her, and not a moment too soon, according to Blake.
"It sort of felt like she was falling away," he said. "I wrapped my arms around her pretty hard."
Williams agreed she had started to fall as they were grabbing her.
"I could feel her pulling out of her sweatshirt," he said. "Thank goodness Kurt was there. ... We pulled her in against the railing and the three of us together pulled her back over the rail. She didn't try to jump, she just let herself go."
Response 'incredible': Blake said Williams got on his radio and called for help.
"You should've seen the deputies come," he said. "The response was incredible."
It's the first time someone has tried to commit suicide by jumping from a ledge bordering the Judicial Center's atrium, Keuerleber said. The woman was there supporting another person who had a court hearing, he said.
Blake's law partner, Ron Gross was given a prestigious Carnegie Hero Fund Commission award in 2004 for rescuing a court reporter under attack by a gun-wielding man a few blocks from the old county courthouse. The attacker was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies.
"I'm just trying to keep up with Ron," Blake quipped. "We're competitive by nature."
-- Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com, 505-5429 or twitter.com/ydcrimetime.
3 Philly priests named in sex report are suspended
3 Philly priests named in sex report are suspended
Joseph Gallagher, Stephen Perzan and Joseph DiGregorio have been removed from ministry while their cases are reviewed.
A city grand jury last week charged five other people—four current or former priests and a former Catholic school teacher—with raping boys in the late 1990s or endangering children by covering up the crimes. An earlier grand jury report, in 2005, blasted the church for ignoring or dismissing sexual-abuse complaints made against 63 priests in the archdiocese over many decades.
While the archdiocese under Cardinal Justin Rigali after the first report formed a panel to handle abuse complaints, the second grand jury found it mostly worked to protect the church, not the victims. Rigali addressed that criticism Wednesday by announcing that he would retain former city child-abuse prosecutor Gina Maisto Smith to reopen complaints made against the active-duty priests.
"Sexual abuse of children is a crime. It is always wrong and gravely evil," Rigali said in a statement, in perhaps his strongest words to date to describe the nature of the offense. "The grand jury report makes clear that for as much as the archdiocese has done to address child sexual abuse, there is still much to do."
Smith is a veteran of the Philadelphia district attorney's office, which issued last week's grand jury report. She will re-examine complaints that internal church investigators previously said they could not substantiate.
District Attorney Seth Williams, whose office faulted the handling of the crisis by both Rigali and his predecessor, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, welcomed Rigali's latest pledge.
"I commend Cardinal Rigali and the archdiocese for this latest action," Williams said. "The cardinal's strong words and recent efforts are the correct steps at this time. I will continue my commitment to working with him to protect our children."
Williams, who is Catholic, has said it pained him to bring the charges against his own church. But, he said, his obligation as a prosecutor required it. He was able to file the criminal charges chiefly because of recent laws that have extended the time child sex assault victims have to come forward. The 2005 grand jury on priest sex abuse in Philadelphia was frustrated by legal time limits and filed no criminal charges.
The new report accuses church officials of downplaying at least two complaints that Gallagher molested boys and frequently talked to them about masturbation during confession. One accuser killed himself after the archdiocese dismissed the allegation he filed in 2007, when he was 36, the report said. The accuser said Gallagher had molested him when he was a young altar boy at St. Mark Parish in Bristol.
An earlier complaint against Gallagher was dismissed because the man who reported it estimated that it occurred in 1968 or 1969, before Gallagher arrived in 1970.
The grand jury wrote that the discrepancy about dates "could have amounted to mere months."
Perzan, according to the grand jury, failed a lie detector test about whether he molested two boys at St. Gabriel's Hall, a residential program for delinquent youth. The archdiocesan review board said it could not substantiate their complaints, despite testimony from adults at the school that Perzan was too friendly with the boys and had them in his room with the door closed.
DiGregorio also failed a lie detector test related to a 2005 complaint from a woman who said he and a second priest had abused her at Our Lady of Loreto in about 1968. The church review board initially found her complaint credible, in part because the other priest admitted his actions, but reversed itself two months later, the report said.
Gallagher, who is retired, has no listed telephone number. Perzan, who recently has been living at St. Helena Rectory in North Philadelphia, and DiGregorio, who remained a parochial vicar stationed at Stella Maris parish in South Philadelphia until his suspension, did not immediately return messages left at their rectories on Wednesday.
The grand jury report cast doubt on the review board's handling of allegations against the priests.
"Our review of just some of these priests' files shows that the review board finds allegations 'unsubstantiated' even when there is very convincing evidence that the accusations are true—evidence certainly alarming enough to prompt removal of priests from positions in which they pose a danger to children," the grand jury wrote.
Smith, the former child-abuse prosecutor retained by Rigali, vowed to bring to the job the vigilance against child abuse that she honed in 20 years as a prosecutor, some covering high-profile child kidnappings and murders. She said she also knows how to defuse the defenses that child predators mount.
"Clearly the grand jury report cites these (37) cases as particular concerns," Smith told The Associated Press. "And that's why I'm here."
Commonwealth Court: County must give locations with 911 call logs
Commonwealth Court: County must give locations with 911 call logs
York, PA -
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that the public is entitled to information identifying the location of 911 calls as part of open records requests.
The court released the ruling Wednesday, overturning a decision in 2009 by York County Judge Richard K. Renn to the effect that the county was entitled to withhold that information.
The decision originated with York Daily Record reporter Ted Czech's 2009 request for county 911 time response logs, including addresses.
Attorney Niles Benn, who represented the York Daily Record/Sunday News in the case, said county officials have 30 days to petition the Pennsylvania Supreme Court if they wish to appeal the decision. Even if the county does appeal, it's up to the state Supreme Court whether to hear the case.
The county denied the locations after Czech's initial request, citing privacy and the industry standard for logs. The newspaper appealed to the state Office of Open Records, maintaining that a meaningful analysis of response times isn't possible without a list of destinations.
The Office of Open Records granted the Daily Record's appeal. The county then appealed to Common Pleas Court, which led to Renn's decision. The Daily Record, in turn, appealed to Commonwealth Court.
York County solicitor Mike Flannelly said county officials still have to decide whether to appeal again. He said they will likely seek input from other organizations that have sided with the county on the issue, including the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence -- which has argued that public disclosure of street addresses would pose a danger to domestic violence victims.
Flannelly said county officials are disappointed. But they see an upside in the fact that the ruling doesn't specify the county has to turn over specific addresses. The decision says the requester would be satisfied with the location of nearby cross streets, making it possible to determine the general location of emergency response calls.
"The absolute, primary concern dealt with the privacy rights of victims of crime and individuals with serious health concerns," Flannelly said.
Benn said he made it clear to the county prior to arguments before Renn that the Daily Record would be satisfied with locations of nearby cross streets rather than specific addresses. But he said the county still declined, so the case proceeded.
Benn considers it to be a "case of first impression," meaning one that will have a bearing on any future legal cases about the issue in Pennsylvania.
Melissa Melewsky, media law attorney for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, said Wednesday's decision could have significant implications for Right-to-Know requests in the state.
"I certainly think it clears up an ambiguous issue," Melewsky said. "It could have been very bad for public accountability if it went the other way."
Terry Mutchler, executive director of the state Office of Open Records, is also pleased with the ruling. The Office of Open Records had sided with the Daily Record on the issue.
She was particular pleased with a portion reaffirming that the Right-to-Know law puts the burden on government to show why records are not public, rather than on members of the public to show why they are.
"That is one of the premiere points of this law," Mutchler said.
Definition
According to the Commonwealth Court decision issued Wednesday, Pennsylvania's Right to Know law defines "record" as:
"Information, regardless of physical form or characteristics, that documents a transaction or activity of an agency and that is created, received or retained pursuant to law or in connection with a transaction, business or activity of the agency. The term includes a document, paper, letter, map, book, tape, photograph, film or sound recording, information stored or maintained electronically and a data-processed or image-processed document."
Gas odor reported near site of fatal Allentown blast
Gas odor reported near site of fatal Allentown blast
The Morning Call newspaper reports an evacuation involving at least six Allentown residents Wednesday night.
WFMZ-TV says firefighters and workers from gas company UGI are on the scene and are digging into the street.
A spokesman for UGI hasn't returned a request for comment.
The odor was reported about five blocks from the site of last week's explosion.
The blast sparked an inferno that burned for hours while crews tried to shut off the gas supply. A 16-year-old girl and a 4-month-old boy were among those killed. Eight homes were destroyed.
Neighbors say the blast knocked shelves off walls, brought down ceilings and ripped a front door off its hinges.
York, PA: Deputy, defense attorney stop suicide jumper at judicial center
Deputy, defense attorney stop suicide jumper at judicial center
Daily Record/Sunday News
An apparently distraught woman tried to jump from the sixth floor inside the York County Judicial Center Thursday morning.
Deputy Dennis Williams and defense attorney Kurt Blake wrapped their arms around the woman and pulled her back over the railing.
"I walked out of courtroom 4, and I saw her climbing over the railing," Blake said. "I dropped my briefcase and dove at her."
Blake said the woman was standing on a narrow ledge, holding onto the railing, and was beginning to turn when they grabbed her. The center of the courthouse building features a seven-story open-air atrium.
The woman, described by witnesses as being in her mid-40s, was incoherent and "couldn't answer any questions,"Blake said.Deputy Dennis Williams (Submitted)
York County Sheriff Rich Keuerleber said the woman, who reportedly was the mother of a criminal defendant, was transported by ambulance to York Hospital after the suicide attempt. She was involuntary committed for a mental health evaluation.
"Denny had observed a woman on the sixth floor from his post outside courtroom 4," Keuerleber said.
Keuerleber said he was told the woman did not resist, but Blake said it felt like she was pushing away from them. Keuerleber commended both Williams and Blake for their actions.
Stopping a suicide attempt was new to Blake, but saving lives is not. Blake, 43, worked as a lifeguard at a swimming pool in Vernon, N.J., from 1984 through 1990.
"It had a wave pool, and we'd go into the water 30 to 40 times a day to pull people out," he said.
In 2008, Blake's law partner, Ronald Gross, received the Carnegie Medal for heroism for intervening when a gunman attacked a court stenographer on North Duke Street near the two attorneys' law firm in September 2003.
No one on the street full of people came to the screaming woman's aid. Gross, who was driving to work, stopped and got the woman into his car while the man pointed a handgun -- later determined to be pellet gun -- at Gross's head.
Deputies arrived on the scene and, when the man raised his pistol at them, one deputy fired two shots, killing him.
The shooting was ruled justifiable.
On the blogs
· Ron Gross among 16 York County Good Samaritans honored with Carnegie Medals since 1906.
Wheat Die-off in Oregon
Wheat Die-off in Oregon · February 17, 2011
Investigators are mystified by a yellowing and die-off of 40,000 acres of wheat in two counties in Eastern Oregon. Sixteen fields are affected so far.
“Most of the symptoms in Morrow County are unlike anything I have ever seen,” said. Larry Lutcher, OSU Morrow County Extension associate professor.
“Lutcher said he doesn’t believe the problem will spread to other fields, but he can’t be certain… This does appear to be a new problem — a problem that no one seems to have experience with, he said.”
“In Umatilla County, the patterns are oriented across the fields, with “shadow effects” suggesting protection in areas behind slopes or fence rows,” said Don Wysocki, OSU Extension soil scientist.
But the die-off has never been seen before. Strange weather patterns, temperature swings and rains may have contributed to what could be a “perfect storm” of factors causing the die-off, experts think.
Read more at www.ktfministry.org
Check Vatican Vaults For Mubarak’s 70 Billion
Check Vatican Vaults For Mubarak’s 70 Billion
By Greg Szymanski
Feb. 17, 2011
People are asking where the 70 billion Mubarak of Egypt took actually ended up?
I suggest investigators who are not on the take, if there are any, look inside the Vatican Bank.
If the Pope won’t let them look, I suggest they dig deep below the Vatican catacombs.
And if not there, check the pockets of every high level Bishop and Vatican Cardinal who drive around in limousines, drink expensive Italian wines and usually can be seen dining at one of the Pope’s opulent mansions on the outskirts of Rome.
Wherever Mubarak’s New World Order stash is hiding, you can bet your life savings that the Jesuit Order has its hands on some of it, most of it or about all of it.
That’s just the way it works at the top levels whether its Egypt, Beijing or Washington.
So let’s see what the news media is saying about the 70 billion and I bet, as usual, not a word about the Vatican
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Facebook & Google are CIA Fronts
Sandeep Parwaga
HenryMakow.com
February 17, 2011
There used to be a saying: ”No one makes a name for himself without giving something up”
As a youngster, I was awed by people who ”made it to the top” by creating and innovating corporations, technologies, or simply establishing themselves through sports, music, entertainment, etc. thus becoming millionaires.
Now as I have grown older, I realize how illusory this paradigm really is. I came to the conclusion that if you want to reach the ”top’,’ you have to give up your soul.
Take Mark Zuckerberg for example. He is one of the most ”successful entrepreneurs” in the last decade. Having made a fortune through his Facebook empire, he reaches more than 500 million people worldwide. It seems like a fairytale. A student creates a new interface to connect the people throughout the world. Well, it sounds great doesn’t it? It would, if we were true.
Here is a good video that demonstrates that Facebook was indirectly funded by the CIA with the goal of learning and storing everything there is to know about you. Why? To monitor and ultimately control.
Again, the people have been totally duped by the Facebook-mania and can only see what they are told to see. As my friends say: ”It is to connect people and share information”. In the wake of the recent crisis in Egypt, we might add that Facebook has become not just a data-mining operation, but also a soft power proxy for crisis-creation.
Let’s look at headlines that should cast no doubt about the true character of CIAbook:
The Face of Facebook - (Pay particular notice to the IMs that got leaked and confirmed to be true by the New Yorker)
US spies invest in internet monitoring technology – Quoted from this article: ”In an attempt to sift through the blizzard of information, the investment arm of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, has invested in a software firm that monitors social media.”
Nihilists of The World Unite: Wikileaks Is The “Cognitive Infiltration” Operation Demanded by Cass Sunstein -
TIME Mag Person of the Year 2010 - This link is just a mere reminder of past history and the perversion of ”honoring”those who don’t deserve it. Would you like to share this front cover with Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, etc.? I sure wouldn’t. Obviously Zuckerberg has done something ”great”. Just my 2 cents about this garbage.
Google has come under scrutiny over its attempt to eliminate competing search engines and block ”controversial” sites and people, but the biggest controversy came over its alleged ties to the CIA and NSA.
Google founders Sergey M. Brin and Lawrence E. Page are portrayed as average folks, Stanford University students, who teamed up to create a ”superior search engine”. Their attempt to do just that turned out to be so successful that they started to get funding from big players, for example Sun Microsystems. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Search_engine_development)
It can be assumed that the CIA and NSA funded them as well. As in the above example of Facebook, don’t forget the Google scandal connected to China last year, where Google simply evaded censorship laws by moving to Hong Kong.
The CIA might have used Google as a soft power proxy in China as well for destabilization operations. Here are a few issues that made the news regarding Google:
YouTube’s Parent Google is a Corporate Member of the Council on Foreign Relations -
Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google -
CONCLUSION
I admit I have Facebook. I am not particularly happy about it, but it does facilitate being connected with friends from other places. I try to keep a low profile. Don’t reveal anything or don’t click on trivial buttons, for example the ”Likes”.
Use alternatives to make contact if you can, e.g. email or other messengers. If you have Facebook, you have probably realized how people have literally sold their lives over to it.
Every time I see people revealing things to the finest detail, they don’t think about any consequences, or let’s say, they are not smart enough to care. The scientific dictatorship has done a ”good” job in brainwashing and manipulating the masses. Don’t be fooled by the deceit. The mainstream media has been very reluctant to cover the disturbing Google/Facebook ties as it would expose important assets for the Big Brother machine and its secret use to destabilize.
Zuckerberg or the Google founders would never have gotten the publicity, wealth and success without a CIA or NSA connection. To elaborate on the opening quote, I assume they have been initiated into the Illuminati Order and sold their soul.
Sandeep Parwaga is a 22 yr old Indian student who currently lives in the UK.
Betrayed! Tea Party Politicians Vote for Patriot Act
The American Dream
February 17, 2011
For a moment, imagine that you are awakened one night by a heavily-armed team of federal agents dressed in all black breaking into your home. As you confront them, they hand you a piece of paper that says that your son has been identified as a “terrorist” and that they are there to take him away. They pull your son out of bed, they throw him on the floor and the use a taser on him repeatedly. Then they handcuff him and haul him away without telling you a thing about where they are taking him. Your son suddenly has no rights because the Patriot Act supersedes the U.S. Constitution. That’s right – because your son has been identified as a “terrorist” because of something that he has said on the Internet he no longer has any constitutional rights. Your underage son is held indefinitely and is subjected to “enhanced interrogation” because he has been identified as a “threat”. You are not able to get your son back for years even though it turns out that he is completely and totally innocent. If you think that such a thing cannot happen to you then you are a fool, because this kind of thing is happening over and over across the United States and it is all legal because of the Patriot Act.
America is rapidly turning into a horrible Big Brother police state and most of our politicians are fully supporting this transformation. In fact, the U.S. House of Representatives gave us quite a Valentine’s Day gift the other day when it voted to once again extend provisions of the Patriot Act that allow for domestic surveillance of American citizens, wire tapping of American citizens and warrantless searches of the homes of American citizens.
What was perhaps most disappointing was that a large number of “Tea Party politicians” cast votes in favor of renewing the Patriot Act provisions.
The majority of Americans were absolutely disgusted when the Bush administration instituted the Patriot Act and many other police state measures and they voted for Barack Obama hoping for something different.
Well, it turns out that Barack Obama has been even worse.
Have you been to an airport lately? Yeah, those “naked body scanners” and “enhanced pat-downs” are a lot of fun, aren’t they?
Many Americans voted for Tea Party candidates during the last election hoping that they would be willing to stand up for liberty and freedom.
Well, it turns out that many of them caved when it came time to vote on the extension of Patriot Act provisions.
So is there anyone out there that we can vote for that will stand up for liberty and freedom?
The truth is that this is not a conservative issue and it is not a liberal issue.
This is an American issue.
But doesn’t the Patriot Act keep us safe from terrorism?
No.
Just the other day Dr. Vahid Majidi, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, admitted that even with all of our “security measures” the chance that the U.S. will be hit a weapon of mass destruction is 100 percent….
But even if the Patriot Act could keep us “safer”, is that any reason for us to live the rest of our lives as “cattle” in a Big Brother police state that is becoming more like George Orwell’s 1984 every single day?
Are we willing to forever renounce being “the land of the free and the home of the brave” just so that we can feel a bit more secure?
The truth is that the U.S. government is not really protecting us anyway. Our border with Mexico is wide open and millions of people have been pouring across it unchecked. It would be ridiculously easy for any potential “terrorists” to smuggle dangerous weapons into this country.
So please don’t try to tell me that the U.S. government is actually serious about national security. Until the U.S. government is willing to do something about the border they should not be asking the American people to give up a single ounce of liberty or freedom for the sake of “security”.
But instead of securing the border and doing other practical things that would actually keep this country safer, our government has become absolutely obsessed with watching us, tracking us, listening to us, “assessing” us and controlling us.
In the process, the America that we all once loved is rapidly being destroyed. Because of laws like the Patriot Act, our country now more closely resembles East Germany during the Cold War than the nation that our founding fathers originally established.
Government whistleblower Susan Lindauer, who has been arrested under the Patriot Act for protesting the Iraq war, recently authored an article in which she described why Americans should be much more frightened by the Patriot Act….
The American people are not nearly as frightened as they should be. Many Americans expect the Patriot Act to limit its surveillance to overseas communications. Yet while I was under indictment, Maryland State Police invoked the Patriot Act to wire tap activists tied to the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, an environmental group dedicated to wind power, solar energy and recycling. The DC Anti-War Network was targeted as a “white supremacist group.” Amnesty International and anti-death penalty activists got targeted for alleged “civil rights violations.”
Lindauer is speaking from experience when she talks about the Patriot Act. Just hope and pray that you never have to go through what she had to go through because of the Patriot Act….
I cannot forget. I cannot forget how I was subjected to secret charges, secret evidence and secret grand jury testimony that denied my right to face my accusers or their accusations in open court, throughout five years of indictment. I cannot forget my imprisonment on a Texas military base for a year without a trial or evidentiary hearing.
I cannot forget how the FBI, the US Attorneys Office, the Bureau of Prisons and the main Justice office in Washington — independently and collectively verified my story— then falsified testimony to Chief Justice Michael Mukasey, denying our 9/11 warnings and my long-time status as a U.S. intelligence Asset, though my witnesses had aggressively confronted them. Apparently the Patriot Act allows the Justice Department to withhold corroborating evidence and testimony from the Court, if it is deemed “classified.”
At least there are a few members of Congress that attempted to oppose the renewal of the Patriot Act. For example, Senator Rand Paul recently explained why he opposes renewal of this freedom-killing law….
“The Senate yesterday proposed a three-year extension of the PATRIOT Act, a move that would not have allowed for any hearings, amendments, or debate. I objected to this deal. I realize that I might not have the votes to stop this bill, but we should at least discuss this in public as adults.
“We should have the opportunity to explain why the Constitution is being violated. We should talk about how we do not have to give up who we are in order to fight terrorism. It is not acceptable to willfully ignore the most basic provisions of our Constitution—in this case—the Fourth and First Amendments—in the name of ‘security.’”
Unfortunately, most of our other politicians have stood by and have done nothing to stop the horrific abuses that are taking place under this law. A good friend of ours, Charlie McGrath, recently lamented this fact in a recent video….
What in the world is happening to this country?
One of the worst things about all of this is that Christians are actually some of the strongest supporters of the Patriot Act.
The mainstream media has brainwashed many of them into believing that the Patriot Act is “conservative” and that it is going to keep us safe from terrorism. Somehow Christians have been duped into believing that the more power Barack Obama and his minions have to control our lives the safer we all are going to be.
But the truth is that laws like the Patriot Act are transforming this nation into a totalitarian regime. We are becoming more like North Korea, Communist China, the USSR and Nazi Germany every single day.
As a Christian, I deeply oppose laws such as the Patriot Act. The Scriptures warn us of a time when a future world government will attempt to brutally dominate all the nations on the planet. Just read the book of Revelation some time.
Any law that takes our liberties and freedoms away is another step in the direction of totalitarianism. Every time another new law like the Patriot Act gets passed we get closer to the time when government completely dominates and controls every single aspect of our lives.
Christians should be loudly denouncing any attempt to strip our liberties and freedoms away. Christians should be loudly denouncing the destruction of our constitutional rights.
Transforming our government into a hardcore socialist police state and handing it all kinds of extreme “Big Brother” powers is not going to make us safer.
We were sold a pack of lies by the Bush administration and now the Obama administration is trying to cram even more lies down our throats.
Many of us had hoped that Tea Party politicians would be different and would stand up for our liberties and freedoms, but now we can clearly see that many of them will not.
In the past, Americans would ready George Orwell’s 1984 and would think that nothing like that could ever happen in the United States of America.
Well, it is happening in the United States of America.
Are you going to stand up and say anything about it?