Occupy Salt Lake City is over as of 6pm tonight – meaning that the permits that allowed these Occupy protesters to “camp” with tents in the public park have been revoked. Of course signs say no camping (city code) as you enter the park, so do with this what you will.
The reason: A homeless man died of a drug overdose…
And the police/agent provocateurs have, as you can see above, been busy.
As of right now, there are 9 patty wagons and a big blue bird bus waiting to arrest all protesters who are left over. (Video will be posted here of that soon, so check back.)
In about half an hour, all hell will break loose. Or… not. They will probably freely give up their freedom and go quietly into the night – in hand-cuffs. We will see…
Check back here and see.
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–Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
–Saturday, November 12, 2011
We interviewed the County Sheriff Jim Winder – “The Sheriff Who Sold His County” – on local AM radio (K-TALK – 630 AM) in Salt Lake County on June 6, 2011. This is extremely important, so please listen and read the following information.
Remember, this is an elected public office-holder that is talking here. This guy is slippery, but even the best of predators can eventually be backed into a corner…
“…We are moving towards a model that is much more efficient than a regular public entity.”
And hear our interview with the Mayor of the county as he admits to the vast wealth in the county CAFR and over $650 million in funds that could have been used to pay for the police, here:
Note: I confused the term “multi-jurisdictional” with “Unification”, though they are virtually the same thing in this case. The state of Utah has multi-jurisdictional police and other “special district” agency agreements. Sadly, I am learning as I uncover each stone, and while the Sheriff made sure to attempt to discredit me at every turn, he never offers the correct information or facts about what is the Unified Police Department until the very end of this interview. I cannot find the Articles of Incorporation for which he speaks, nor any other pertinent documents as these are no doubt on the “protected records” list as afforded in Utah H.B. 116, now codified into Utah CODE. Therefore, this type of exchange is necessary to uncover even the small crumbs of information that allow me to piece together this new and unknown (to myself) layer of government.
In this interview, our combative and obfuscating Sheriff, who has turned the power of the Sheriff’s Department over to a “Special Tax Financing District” – also called a “Special Service District” – inadvertently reveals his true colors and lets us know that our new corporate police force is actually a 3rd level of government – a district – that can bypass voter approval to raise revenue/fees (taxes) within its county council created boundaries (service area), and charge those fees with late charges to the homeowners property tax if this fee is not paid within a certain time period.
To put this into perspective, Salt Lake County also has a “Unified Fire Department” special district for which similar fees are paid.
And just what happens around the country if you – the home or business owner – don’t pay the “service fee”?
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“FIREFIGHTERS WATCH AS HOME BURNS: GENE CRANICK’S HOUSE DESTROYED IN TENNESSEE OVER $75 FEE (VIDEO)”
One might wish to pose these questions of our police department CEO…
If I don’t pay my “Police Protection Fee“, will I not get police protection?
If my house is being robbed, will the police just watch this crime happen as they sip their coffee and gobble their dozen doughnuts?
If my son is kidnapped…?
If my daughter is being raped…?
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These “special districts” are everywhere. They are your school districts, your sewer, water, phone, and trash districts. Sometimes their fees are specifically apportioned, and sometimes they are not.
When the Sheriff so arrogantly states in this interview that the Unified Police Department “never charged a (police protection) fee” and that “until I understand my financing models I shouldn’t spout off“, and that the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA) was the one that charged the fee, the Sheriff was actually, in his own way, telling the truth.
As it turns out, each “special district” is in fact independent from each other. I made the mistake of thinking logically and reasonably; picturing a series of “districts” very much like a set of puzzle pieces that fit together with actual legal boundaries or borders. But the reality of this districting is that we must consider each individual district in a three or four-dimensional realm. In other words, districts may overlap with each other. I can actually live in 1,000 individual districts that all intersect with and cross over each other. There can be districts inside of other districts, which on paper have nothing to do with each other.
Therefore, I have a Sewer District, a School District, a Fire District, a Water District, a F.E.M.A. district, multiple local, county, state, and a Federal Districts, a Power District, a Police District, a Mosquito Abatement District, an Emergency 911 District, a Trash District, a Zoning District, and on and on and on…
So if you picture a numerous bunch of circles or rings stacked on top of each other on a map of your county, overlapping and conjoining but never being attached with each other – that is what your local, county, and state “special districts” would look like – all completely independent and yet somehow acting as a “unified” incorporated government district operation.
Or if it’s easier, picture the Russian Babushka dolls of old, where inside each doll is a similar but smaller doll; each of these being a separate but smaller district inside another district, independent of each other but collectively controlled as one.
And each district has a “special” function. Some, like the SLVLESA, are strictly there to collect a fee, and work around the voting process which says that by law no taxes can be charged. But a “district fee” is different. It is a hidden tax that must be paid, or else it will eventually be attached as a lien on your property tax in the senior lien position, and the county or state treasurer will eventually take your home for payment of this “fee”. So this tax starts its life as a seemingly innocent fee, and then morphs into a tax when it is not paid.
In other words, this is not a voluntary tax.
It is instead designed to TAKE your money at the barrel of a gun, or in this case, at the cost of what you thought was your home, land, and property.
So these districts are actually worse than I thought… and thanks to this treasonous Sheriff’s slip up and his unintended disclosure towards the end of this interview, we now know that the Unified Police Department (UPD) is a separate “district” as well. And we now know that, even though the sole purpose of the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA) “district” is to collect and provide revenue (fees/taxes) for the Unified Police Department (special district), the UPD is indeed as the Sheriff claims – a separate incorporated entity (an unconnected special district).
While before I was confused as to why the Sheriff kept claiming that the Unified Police Department has never charged a fee or raised a tax, I now understand that this is in fact a very clever way to completely separate his department and himself as CEO of this department (service area) from this “police protection fee” in another district, so that he can claim to be independent of this other unlawful special district’s actions, while he and his department are still the main beneficiary of that “police protection fee” (tax) charged by the independent SLVLESA district. Likewise, the mayor and councilmen can run for re-election on an incumbent campaign, or even a run for the governorship, with the actual slogan that they “have never raised property or other taxes” while in office!!!
Bottom line…
These special service and tax districts are incrementally taking over our government, one function at a time. Like a pie chart with thousands and thousands of slices, traditional government is disappearing as this special district scheme plays out across the country, and the takeover of America’s infrastructure and public departments happens one area at a time.
In a few days, I will interview someone who can explain this from a corporate perspective. Until then, please continue to pass this and my previous interview on, as well as “The Sheriff Who Sold His County” article here:
My only protection for the exposure of this information is your willingness to make this a national issue – to cause outrage and blow back. Demand that your local news outlets cover this story.
I have no one to protect me from this CEO / Sheriff, or his special district of private police…
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–Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
–Monday, June 6th, 2011
I’d like to dedicate this to two of the bravest, most honorable men in the world: Walter Burien (cafr1.com), and Gerald Klatt (cafrman.com).
Rest in peace – and thank you doesn’t even come close – Lieutenant Colonel Klatt…
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The following is an interview on Utah’s local K-Talk AM630 radio station with myself, Dale Williams of FreeWestRadio.com, and the Mayor of Salt Lake County, Peter Corroon.
In this rare historical confession, the Salt Lake County Mayor not only reveals his complete knowledge of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of his county, local, and state government, but tells us that indeed his new “Unified Police District” is a private corporation, and that the elected Sheriff was appointed as the CEO of that private corporate police force after dissolving the Sheriff’s Department, leaving no lawful protection of the people, and creating a gangland style police-state in the “unified” Utah and Salt Lake County.
This completely verifies my previous article, “The Sheriff Who Sold his County”, located here:
In the Great Salt Lake Valley, a once free land settled between the rugged Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountain ranges, the county’s last firewall of protection from outside influence has been extinguished.
The Salt Lake area is renown for its world-class ski resorts, its vast food storage industry, and its uniquely large population of Mormons. The county, with a richly seated and an often mythical, chaotic history, has now become the stuff of legend.
This is the story of what has become of Salt Lake County, and the private militant corporation that has become its new police department. And to this you should pay heed, for this story is happening across the country, and may have already consumed your own county’s last hope, your elected Sheriff.
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Let’s begin at the beginning of the end, when Salt Lake County lost its Sheriff’s Department…
First, understand that the County Sheriff is given the true lawful power of the people as an elected political office, and not a partisan appointment like all of the law enforcement officials beneath him. This political office is (or was) the protectorate of the people within each county; acting as the law of the land and the only instrumentality that has the real power to thwart the encroachments of the Federal government – the power to say NO! If you have a problem with the local police in your town or city (corporate municipality), the County Sheriff and his department is who you would call as the authority of the land (county).
Our current “elected” Sheriff of Salt Lake County, one Mr. Jim Winder, is of course a wealthy member of the local dairy tycoon family, aptly named Winder Farms. He recently won his reelection campaign in the 2010 elections due to the fact that the information I’m about to present to you is absent from the general consciousness and comprehension of the good people of the Salt Lake Valley. The good Sheriff actually campaigned on and was voted into this honorable office toting the success of the newly formed Unified Police Department – the “unification” of the sheriff, municipal, and unincorporated police departments within Salt Lake County into one corporately structured private police force – an act of treason and an assault on everything remotely constitutional.
The people have no idea what this man has done…
As of January 1, 2010, the day that Salt Lake County became a police state, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Department was officially dissolved. In its place was created a brand new corporation, which is now described as “…responsible for all police operations”. This private company is called the “Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake”, or the “Unified Police Department” for short.
This Unified Police Department (UPD) became the “new police force” for all municipal corporations (cities) and all unincorporated areas within the County of Salt Lake, thereby dissolving the only true lawful protective body within the county, the elected Sheriff’s “Department“.
To add to the treasonous nature of this takeover of Salt Lake County, this elected Sheriff was then appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Unified Police Department by the County Council. To clarify, the elected Sheriff Jim Winder was appointed by the elected County Council to be the CEO of the private company called “Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake”, which is in charge of all law enforcement within the County of Salt Lake.
And it gets worse… way worse!
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So who’s idea was this, anyway?
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Well… The local FOX 13 news affiliate reported it this way:
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah —
The details of a new metro police force for Salt Lake County, a feat that has taken several years to accomplish, have now been finalized. As of January 1, 2010, The Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office will be dissolved and will be replaced with a new metro police department. The new department will be run by mayors of participating cities.
“It’s happened, today we are formalizing what has really been a several year initiative to create a consolidated police entity that is managed by municipal (corporation) mayors,”said Sheriff Winder of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Instead of being run by a chief or the sheriff, the metro police force will be controlled by a board made up of the mayors of the participating municipalities (corporations). The sheriff will act as chief executive on that board.
What more could the leaders of organized crime (the mayors) ask for than a private police force that they control and use to take the people’s wealth and property?
And, right from the horses mouth, the county government website had this to say:
Mayor’s Report/UPD Published: Oct. 2009
The Unified Police Department will be born January 1, 2010. A quarter million resident’s of Salt Lake valley will be served by a new police force. I have been honored to serve as the Chair of the UPD transition committee along with Mayor Dennis Webb of Holladay serving as vice chair.
Public Safety is the number one priority for every governmental entity, federal, state or local. The creation of the UPD is another step in providing the highest level of police protection for citizens living in unincorporated areas and cities served by the Sheriff.
The UPD will replace the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s patrol services. As it is currently formulated, the UPD will serve townships and unincorporated areas plus the cities of Bluffdale (which is considering other options), Herriman, Holladay and Riverton. The UPD will also provide limited pooled services to Taylorsville, including SWAT, narcotics and gang prevention.
Mayors of the member cities will join representatives from the unincorporated county as the UPD’s board of directors setting policy and budgets.The Sheriff will be the chief operating officer (CEO) and run day-to-day police operations.
This transformation has been a long time coming.Former Sheriff Aaron Kennard joined Sheriff Jim Winder last month before the Salt Lake County Council to report that groundwork for the UPD started more than a decade and a half ago.
The expertise and experience of the Sheriff’s Office means that police services will continue at its same high level. One major difference is that municipalities will become full partners and part owners of equipment traditionally owned by the county.
Great credit goes to Sheriff Winder, Mayors Lynn Crane of Herriman, Dennis Webb of Holladay, Bill Applegarth of Riverton and Claudia Anderson of Bluffdale Mayor Russ Wall of Taylorsville and our Salt Lake County Council members for their efforts directed at bringing the UPD to fruition.
In the years since the Salt Lake County Fire Department became the Unified Fire Authority/Unified Fire District, we learned that consolidation of services and providing ownership and policy responsibility to member cities creates a positive environment built on trust and common needs.
The Unified Police District will serve 250,000 residents with 339 officers on an annual operating budget of $45.3 million.
The new board guarantees local control under the power sharing agreement. The UPD provides a framework for future police services in our county. We are proud of our Sheriff’s Office and, starting next year, we will be proud of the Unified Police Department.
The Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake website (http://updsl.org/contact.html) lists its participating “precincts”, which are unincorporated townships and areas, as:
Of course, all municipal corporation (city) police in the Salt Lake County have now become “Unified”, and often have this fact printed on the sides of their shiny, expensive new Dodge Chargers and SUV’s. The “Draper City Corporation’s” Police Department is even the proud owner of an old but quite operational military tank!
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What Really Happened?
The History Of Police “Unification”
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From the Federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website:
“In 1996, the Utah Highway Safety Office and the Salt Lake Sheriff’s Office met to analyze territorial and coordination problems encountered by metropolitan area law enforcement agencies. As a result, the two agencies developed the Salt Lake County Multi-Agency Task Force comprised of all local, county and state law enforcement agencies; law enforcement agencies from schools and universities; and representatives from four other government agencies. Monthly meetings served two purposes: to develop cooperative law enforcement activities, and to showcase best traffic safety practices and programs.”
This single act abolished the traditional jurisdiction of each city (municipal corporation), and gave law enforcement authority and power to neighboring forces. Thus, in Salt Lake County, the Salt Lake City Corporation (city of Salt Lake) Police now have jurisdiction not only in Salt Lake City, but also in all other municipal corporations (cities) and unincorporated areas within Salt Lake County.
This, it turns out, is a national phenomenon that is indicative of the federal takeover of local and state law enforcement – the “Federalization” of all police in the country. It is the selling out of State’s rights as soon as the Federal Government waves grant paperwork and United Nations treaties in front of our legislators and constitutionally ignorant sheriff’s collective, treasonous faces:
“It’s important that people recognize the agency, and they will no longer say ‘Sheriff’s Office.’ It’s anticipated they will say Unified Police Department…”Sheriff Winder told KCPW in August 2009.
But this is only the beginning of the tyranny. To understand what a true police-state means, let’s examine the corporate structure and design of this new Salt Lake County Sheriff’s corporation, the Unified Police (Federal) District…
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The “Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area”
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Once the “Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake (UPD)” was set up as a corporate entity; after this virtual mafia of mayors and council members of the county and cities of Salt Lake County gleefully dissolved the constitutional power of the Sheriff’s Department… the real fun began.
What follows is why the County Sheriff is such an important office, and why you should strive to protect yours if you’re lucky enough to still have one.
The County Council through the UPD then created a “district” called the “Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA)”. This district is what is called in corporate government a “Special Financing District (SFD)”.
UPD referenced the Prima Facie (presumed law) UTAH STATE CODE 17B-1-201 and 17B-2A-901 as justification for their “right” to do this.
It is very hard to come up with a single definition of just what a “Special Financing District” actually is, and yet quite easy to find a multitude of private, non-governmental corporations just itching to help turn your area into one. There is even a “California Special Districts Association” which one can explore and join – online at (http://csda.net/).
A private, non-governmental Florida company describes “Special Taxing Districts” as:
Special District Services, Inc. creates and manages special taxing districts throughout the State of Florida. SDS was organized to meet the growing demand for urban services and provide a public financing vehicle to serve community infrastructure and service needs in a timely and cost-effective manner. SDS is a results-oriented company with the philosophy that a Public-Private Partnership is an essential ingredient for the successful delivery of public infrastructure through the use of special districts. The basic concept being that growth pays for itself. We are committed to tailoring services to provide essential planning, organization, management, financing and construction of public facilities through the use of special taxing districts.
Learn about Public Private Partnerships here (highly recommended):
Part1:
Part 2:
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In Washington State, statutes have defined special districts as:
municipalities
units of local government
municipal corporations
quasi-municipal corporations
public body corporate and politic
Perhaps the worst aspect of Salt Lake County’s plight is that the Unified Police Department actually had the nerve to outsource this crime to another state!
The “NBS” website at (nbsgov.com) – which is the out of state, private, non-governmental company handling Salt Lake County’s SLVLESA – states that:
Special Financing Districts (“SFD’s”) include a wide variety of assessment-based, special tax, and other types of parcel charges such as:
Assessment Districts
Business Improvement Districts (BID)
Community Facilities Districts (CFD)
Connection Fee Financing
Fire and Other Special Purpose Taxes
Local Improvement Districts (LID)
Maintenance Districts
Miscellaneous Charges
Parcel Loans
Special Tax Districts
Exerpted from a “William Blair & Company” brochure entitled “Special Tax District Financing – A Guide to Funding Infrastructure Through Land-Secured Bonds”, this Chicago company might give us some insight as to what is actually happening in districts across the country like the SLVLESA:
This article sets out the basic concepts underlying land-secured municipal finance and how it can be used effectively by municipalities, home builders, and developers.
Land-secured bondsare used to finance the basic public infrastructure required for both new development andexisting communities. Most often, these bonds are issued through-or for the benefit of-special tax districts. The bonds generally are non-rated and exempt from federal income taxes…
Now, I want you to pay special attention to this next part. For this above all else reveals the true nature of your private, corporate municipal “government”. And it proves without a doubt that you, the people, are not the owner of your land, your home, or your property.
The brochure continues:
Owners of properties that benefit from the bond-funded infrastructure agree to a lien on their homes (or commercial property) that is paid off over time through an annual special tax or assessment.That tax or assessment is used to pay debt service on thebonds, which are secured further by the underlying taxed or assessed property as collateral. The special tax or assessment constitutes a senior lien on the property, meaning it is superior to private liens such as construction or mortgage loans.
Land-secured bonds are used to finance many types of public infrastructure. For example, for transportation, bond proceeds can fund streets, sidewalks, traffic signals, highway interchanges, public parking, public landscaping, and street lights. For utilities and related infrastructure, the bonds can fund water supply, storage, treatment, and distribution facilities; wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal facilities; and storm drain systems. For economic development, the bonds can finance public infrastructure associated with shopping centers, business parks, and industrial parks. In addition, land-secured municipal bonds can fund flood control, recreational facilities, parks, and open space. What constitutes an eligible project is subject to specific state statutes, but in many locales the possibilities are expansive.
In short, land-secured bond financing can be used to fund the cost of public infrastructure for almost every kind of real estate development: existing urban and suburban neighborhoods, new master-planned communities, local and regional commercial districts, retail malls, big-box commercial centers, office and business parks, industrial complexes, redevelopment project areas, affordable-housing projects, and military bases being converted to civilian use.
In various states, a voter referendum is required to raise property taxes. This makes it difficult for local governments to cost-effectively finance new projects and existing infrastructure upgrades when they are needed… Consequently, a cash-flow mismatch exists between the up-front costs of public projects and generation of tax revenue. To fill this gap, land-secured bond financing was created so governments can fund infrastructure directly and developers can fund the public-use components of new neighborhoods before the improvements are conveyed to municipalities.
In other words… these bonds are created to bypass the lawful voting procedure that would otherwise be required of the people to raise property taxes. This is literally “taxation without representation”.
It continues:
Land-secured bonds generally are not rated by the rating agencies because they are considered riskier than other municipal bonds and are unlikely to receive investment-grade ratings. As home-builders have come to understand, however, as long as all goes according to plan, the risks lessen over time. Risks are highest as development begins and the project is still dirt’ risk then declines as the project reaches its full potential, builds out, and establishes a diversified tax base with a record of special tax or assessment payments. The annual tax or assessment levy is generally part of the owner’s property tax bill so payment can be routine.
The creative use of land-secured municipal financing through special tax and special assessment districts offers an opportunity for home-builders and real estate developers to partner with local governments to bring new development to fruition.
I am guessing that this answers the question as to why cities and counties across the country are building new housing, strip-malls, mega shopping centers, and business complexes all over the place in “planned communities”, while empty businesses and homes stockpile in the rest of the cities and counties as banks continue their siege of foreclosures on the clueless people.
The more buildings government builds, the more taxation can be brought into the government Special Financing District!
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So What Exactly Is The SLVLESA?
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Well, let’s start with what it is not…
From the SLVLESA website, under the “About the SLVLESA” section, it states:
Mission
The sole purpose of the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA) is to provide funding for police services in the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County. The SLVLESA does not provide police service. Instead, it forwards revenues to the Unified Police Department (UPD), which provides law enforcement services to the unincorporated County. The UPD is responsible for all police operations.
Leadership
The SLVLESA was created by unanimous vote of the Salt Lake County Council (not the voting public). The Council appointed Jim Bradley, Michael Jensen, and Mayor Peter Corroon to serve as the service area trustees. Councilman Bradley serves as the chair.
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This SLVLESA Special Financing District and its self-appointed council, being created without the consent or approval of any of the home or business owners within these incorporated or unincorporated sections of the county, literally, unconstitutionally, and unabashedly forced these private land, home, and business owners to become a part of this Special Financing District.
To be clear, the county council and county mayor created this 4-person council (a special district within the main UPD private corporation), which has no law enforcement authority and does not provide police services, and appointed themselves as its trustees and chairman. They created a fake corporate city (a corporate veil), making themselves the administrators (slave-masters). This would be no different than a king making your unincorporated town or village a part of his kingdom, and then assigning a council (an oligarchy) and tax collectors (city police) to force you to pay for his majesty’s protection.
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term “Trustee” as follows:
Law. One, such as a bank, that holds legal title to property in order to administer it for a beneficiary.
A member of a board elected or appointed to direct the funds and policy of an institution.
A country responsible for supervising a trust territory.
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Webster’s Dictionary defines an “Institution” as such:
1: an act of instituting: establishment
2 a: a significant practice, relationship, or organization in a society or culture ‘the institution of marriage’. also: something or someone firmly associated with a place or thing ‘she has become an institution in the theater’
2 b: an established organization or corporation (as a bank or university) especially of a public character; also : asylum
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Once this Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLEA) was formed, the council then granted themselves the authority to arbitrarily create and charge each land, home, and business owner within their newly created “special financing district”, without the vote or consent of the people who now would be forced into participation within said mandatory “law enforcement service area”, a mandatory fee for police protection by the Unified Police Department.
Service… at the point of a gun.
But remember, this now mandatory “police protection” before January 1, 2010, was paid for by taxes and provided for by the Sheriff’s Department of Salt Lake County. But once that office taken over by a criminal cabal and was dissolved, the law of the land was not there to protect its people from this type of tyranny of government, and a traitorous elected Sheriff literally sold his soul and that of his people to the Federal Government… for profit.
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The Police Protection Fee
Pay It, Or Loose Your Home
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It is important to understand this concept. Our police, our Unified Police Department, is now a business. A business – a corporation – must make a profit to be soluble. A corporation is always designed to make a profit, even in a so-called a non-profit structure. Therefore the Sheriff, as CEO of the UPD Corporation, has been catapulted into a position that now directly conflicts with the lawful purposes for which the voters elected him into office. As the corporate president of this police corporation, he must ensure a profit is made for the company. Therefore, the people of the county will suffer the consequences of their Sheriffs conflict of interest. The result?
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Salt Lake City drivers beware! Police are now patrolling these streets with a new need to write tickets, or face being written up for not doing their jobs.
“…What we are asking, is for officers to be accountable for their time,” says Sgt. Shawn Josephson, Salt Lake City Police.
A spokesperson for the department tells ABC 4, Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank says he’s recently stumbled upon patrol officers within the department who haven’t written one traffic citation in a year. So, he’s writing a new rule requiring every cop to write at least one ticket per week, or they’ll be questioned.
“We’ve got goals we set as a department so we can make sure the officers are out there working,” says Sgt. Josephson…
Officers say that’s the number one complaint they get from people upset about fast moving cars flying through their neighborhoods. But now, cops are going to be ready for them. But the thought of getting slapped with a ticket, is not pleasing to those driving the streets of Salt Lake City.
Chief Burbank will not say what will happen to officers who do not meet this requirement. On average, Salt Lake City 200 patrol officers write between 10 and 20 tickets a day.
Here is a comment posted to the site from a concerned citizen:
The SLPD states via an interview in your broadcast, that the upgraded ticket-writing demand of its officers is to demonstrate to the PD and public that ‘OUR’ officers are doing their jobs. THAT’S BULL!!! PROOF: SLPD and ALL local city police cars have a nifty GPS puck attached to all vehicles. These ‘GPS pucks’ are tracked by FATPOT, SPILLMAN or comparable software. Each police, fire, ambulance and many/MOST other local-government operated vehicles are TRACKED 24/7 with recordings SAVED to computer hard-disks for months and years! The vehicle’s location is placed on maps in very real-time!
But tickets are the least of the people’s worries. For the real dirty little secret of the Unified Police District and its special district “SLVLESA” is much, much worse…
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In March of 2010, the SLVLESA council sent out to each of the land, home, and business owners within this unincorporated part of Salt Lake County a letter of demand. This perversely friendly and polite letter stated that:
“We know you’re not going to be happy getting this letter or the bill in this envelope. It’s never easy paying a new fee or tax. And with the poor economy, the timing is especially inconvenient.
As leaders in Salt Lake County government, we’d much prefer to be writing you about a new service, but we also have a duty to keep our community safe. And that’s what this fee is about – preserving the safety and security that our families and businesses need to thrive.
Unfortunately, the national economic recession has hurt the budget of Salt Lake County, just like it’s hurt the pocketbooks of everyone in our community. Because sales tax revenues are down 30%, the fund that pays for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County faces a $13 million short fall.
We tried to close the gap with budget cuts. In fact, we cut the budget for non-police services (sidewalk and road repairs, animal services, and snow removal) by 26%. And we reduced the law enforcement budget by 7%. However, these cuts didn’t fill the gap.
In order to avoid a new fee or raising taxes, we would have had to lay off 60% of the police officers serving the unincorporated County. We just weren’t willing to sacrifice the safety of our community, so we instituted this new fee.
You should know that the creation of the Unified Police Department had nothing to do with the creation of this fee. As mentioned earlier, the police budget for the unincorporated county is actually less than what it was last year.
We chose the fee over a property tax increase, not because it sounds better, but because the fee is more transparent and flexible. All of the proceeds go to law enforcement, and we have the flexibility to reduce or eliminate the fee as the economy improves. The fee also allows us to broaden the tax base and charge more to businesses that put a greater burden on law enforcement. We think that’s only fair.
You may have seen some news reports about a franchise tax that might replace this fee. People in cities around Salt Lake County already pay these fees on gas, electric, cable, and telephone bills. However, even if the legislature makes this change, it may not take effect until next year, so we will still need to collect this police fee until an alternative funding source is in place.
We know this is a difficult fee to require you to pay. But, we’re all in this together. Without these funds, we wont be able to afford the police services that keep us safe.
Sincerely,
Jim Bradley
SLVLESA Chair
Salt Lake County Councilman.
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Now, keeping in mind that even though the Sheriff’s Department was dissolved, the same old taxes are still being collected – the second portion of this “courtesy” letter is in the form of a payment stub, or a statement of mandatory fees due. It states:
The annual fee may be paid in full, or paid in three equal installments during the year. If you pay your account in full for 2010, you will not receive another statement until next year. If you pay only the currently due installment, you will continue to receive statements until paid in full. Please see the reverse side for additional details about your payment options, the police fee, and the SLVLESA. Additional information can be found at www.slvlesa.org.
Your total Police Fee is: $174.00
A late penalty charge of $5.80 will apply if paid after 4/1/2010. Postmarks are not accepted. Electronic payments will be accepted soon. Visit www.slvlesa.org for current information.
NBS currently administers the billing for the SLVLESA. Requests for information regarding your fee, billing amount or payment should be directed to Property Owner Services of NBS at (888) 4-SLVLESA (888-475-8537)
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Now the reason that this pathetically apologetic yet demanding letter sounds like a typical, poorly written service notice from one of your utility or cable/Internet companies, is because for all intents and purposes, that is exactly what the SLVLESA is. This “special district service area” is the private servicing, fund raising, and money collection corporate agency for the Unified Police Department Corporation, with the Sheriff of the County acting as the appointed CEO of that mother company.
Also notice here that the website for this “Special Financing District” is not a government website (.gov), and instead ends with the extension (.org), which any organization, private corporation, or individual can obtain.
And just to add insult to injury, Councilman Bradley tells us that the already economically stricken home and business owners in the police-state County of Salt Lake must pay this “police protection fee” despite the fact that the county has already cut more than ¼ of the services that they already pay for with their hard earned tax dollars, and after exclaiming that the police budget was already cut by 7%.
Then, a few months after the first child-like letter was written to the residents and business owners of the unincorporated areas within the Salt Lake County, a new letter appeared in the mailboxes of those who had not responded to the first letter.
This now threatening letter of demand stated:
To Date, the majority of homeowners in unincorporated Salt Lake County have paid their law enforcement district fee. However, there are a number of residents that have not. The fee is necessary to keep our neighborhoods safe, and the fee is mandatory. All residents are required to pay their fair share.
More than 33,000 of your fellow residents in the unincorporated County have already paid the first bill they received from the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area.
Unfortunately, we have not received your payment.
We do want to give you the benefit of the doubt. This is a new fee, and we understand there may still be some confusion regarding your responsibility to pay it. You may have even accidentally discarded your first bill.
Regardless of the reason you haven’t paid, the Board of the Service Area has instituted a grace period on late penalties that normally would have been charged. Late penalties will be waived so long as we receive your payment for the amount due, on the enclosed statement, by July 1st (2010).
For your convenience, we are also now accepting payment via credit cards, online, at www.slvlesa.org.
Note: This is not convenient in any way to the home or business owner! The convenience comes to the UPD, in the form of private corporation in California handling all the billing and paperwork to collect an unlawful tax for a few corrupt council members and a CEO Sheriff! And when we add the mailing costs and profits of this California company, we have a complete waste of taxpayer money into a private out-of-state corporation.
The letter continues:
If we have not received your payment by July 1st, your debt will be reported to the County Treasurer’s office for certification. This is the first step to a lien being placed on your property.
We hope it never gets that far. We do not want to take any of these actions. However, in fairness to all those who have paid the fee, we must take action to ensure everyone is held to the same standard.
If you have already paid your first bill and believe you are receiving this letter in error, please call (801) 468-2342.
Sincerely,
Jim Bradley Board Chair
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You may pay option 1 (remaining annual), or Option 2 (currently due) amount shown below on the Amount Due line. If you pay your account in full, you will not receive another statement until next year. If you pay only the currently due amount, you will receive another statement in early September. Please see the reverse side for additional details about your payment options, the police fee, and the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA). Additional information can be found at www.slvlesa.org.
Your 2010 Police Fee is: $174.00
Amount Due: $116.00
A late penalty charge of $11.60 will apply if paid after 7/1/10. Postmarks are not accepted.
Credit cards will be accepted starting June 1, 2010. Visit www.slvlesa.org to pay online.
The Board has waived late penalties through July 1, 2010.
So the stakes just went up in a big way for the 10’s of thousands of home and business owners in the unincorporated areas of the county. Now, if they don’t pay the “protection fee”, their home will be collateral for the fee, and the SLVLESA will take that home to cover the fee. And business owners will lose their business license, making it impossible to legally do business in the state of Utah!
Houston… we have a problem.
To make matters worse, the “police protection” that this fee is supposed to cover is not for your elected county Sheriff and his lawfully appointed deputies. But instead, it is for a private mercenary security force, that have been described by the people living in these unincorporated areas as “militant, strong, scary, and some have tattoos all the way down to their wrists“. Some residents have even stated that they would feel more safe without these thugs for hire hanging around at their quickie marts.
That takes us up to September, 2010. A new bill was drafted by the private California company on behalf of the Unified Police District, the County Council, and the Elected Sheriff and unelected CEO of the UPD:
2010 Police Fee Statement – Billing Cycle 3
Option 1 (shown below) is the only amount due. Amounts delinquent from prior installment periods, including late penalties, have been reported to Salt Lake County as delinquent. Such delinquent amounts, totaling $127.60, will be included on your 2010 property tax bill. Please see the reverse side for additional details…
Balance due: $54.25
Credit cards are now accepted.
A late penalty of $5.80 will apply if paid after 10/1/2010
Final statement for 2010.
*The County Council and Mayor voted to extend a credit as sales tax revenues were slightly higher than projected.
Now, in September, we see that anyone who did not pay their gangland style protection fee is now subject to a lien on their home through a property tax levy, meaning that now all supposedly free people who falsely believe that they own their home and property, even if it is free and clear of all debts and liens, must pay extortion money to the Unified Police Department or they run the risk of having their home and property stolen from them by their county police department, the one that is supposed to be protecting them from theft!
The County Council, including the Mayor and the Sheriff, now have the ability to take your home if you do not pay the a fee to protect you.
Hopefully, the delicious irony of this whole situation is not lost on you who are reading this.
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And finally, we come to February of 2011, where we see the billing cycle start fresh for the new year of forced “police protection”.
With no poorly-writen apology to accompany it this time in 2011, a new year’s cycle and a new bill has been sent out to the enslaved occupants of the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County, that have now been forced to participate in the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area:
2011 Police Fee Statement – Billing Cycle 1
You may pay the Option 1 (remaining balance), or Option 2 (installments currently due) amount shown on the Amount Due line. If you pay Option 1, you will not receive another statement until next year. If you pay only Option 2, you will receive another statement in April…
Now, it is important to understand what has happened here. The person to which these letters and bills were sent has not in any way acknowledged or offered his participation or support of this action taken by the county. He, nor any of his neighbors, did not vote to implement this corporate police force, this special district run by a foreign (out-of-state) corporation, or this police protection fee. It was not wanted or needed for him to feel safe and secure in his home. The only thing he fears at this point is that the county of Salt Lake, led by the very elected Sheriff who is supposed to protect his rights of property and freedom, will soon claim that they have ownership of his land and property and will confiscate (steal) that home and land he worked so hard to obtain from under his feet.
Is this what the Sheriff is supposed to be? A mafia leader that takes peoples property as a matter of force? A protectorate of tyranny and corruption? A Chief Executive Officer of a private police force that takes peoples property by the unconstitutional legal corporate codes that they voted in without the people’s consent?
Yes. Yes. And yes. This is the new Salt Lake County. And it isn’t the first bunch of suckers to fall prey to this federalization and privatization scheme. Do you know if you still have a Sheriff’s Department? Do you know which government entities within your county have become “Special Financing Districts”?
While we have just covered the police in Salt Lake County, we also have a Unified Fire Department, now run in the same manner as the UPD. And I just recently found out that my Sewer District, named the “South Valley Sewer District” is also a special district. When questioning the receptionist as to why a lien had been put on a certain property by the Treasurer on behalf of the Sewer District, she informed me that we do not have a choice of whether we want to pay the $20.00 or so fee for the already-built-before-this-special-district-came-along sewer system. The county, it turns out, is involved in many of these types of revenue building un-voted upon districts, and the same liens and confiscation of property policies are in effect for each one.
Again, this is the definition of service at the barrel of a gun!
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Addendum:
-The Big Lie-
Is The County Indeed Broke?
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Once again, Councilman Bradley tells us in his first poorly constructed letter/bill that the home and business owners in the County of Salt Lake must pay this “police protection fee” despite the fact that the county has already cut more than ¼ of the services that they already pay for with their hard earned tax dollars, and after exclaiming that the police budget was already cut by 7%.
The stated causality of all of these budget cuts and the sudden necessity to create a fictional district and charge protection money for police services? Even as these same police drive around no doubt federally funded shiny new supped-up gas-guzzling Dodge Chargers and SUV’s, militantly armored in new black uniforms straight out of Pink Floyd’s The Wall ???
Why, “the national economic recession”, of course… Low tax, not enough property tax, and a general economic slump.
Well… I for one did not believe that excuse. You see, I just so happen to know where to look to verify whether or not a corporate government structure like “Salt Lake County”, the “Salt Lake City Corporation”, the “Draper City Corporation”, and all other private corporate “governments” in the United States are indeed telling the truth about their downtrodden economic financial circumstances.
Every government (all private corporations) by federal law must file a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for each fiscal year of business. This report, the CAFR, is the full accounting of what that government is holding (taxes, investments and the returns on those investments, funds, bonds, etc…), as well as what it spent, saved, invested in, purchased (real estate), and transferred into other funds and state or federal governments.
Salt Lake County’s most recent CAFR, for its business year ending December 31, 2009 reveals quite a different story than what our befuddling and grammatically challenged councilman Jim Bradley stated in his diabolical letter. Let’s just examine a few areas where Salt Lake County is hiding, or at least not reporting to the public in its purposefully limited general budgetary statements, more than enough money to pay for police services and beyond!
Remember, this is only the county, and not the individual cities, which each have thier own CAFR’s.
On page 16 of this revealing comprehensive annual financial report, Salt Lake County Auditor Jeff Hatch, along with the Director of Accounting and Operations, Stephen G. Spencer write in the “Manager’s Discussion and Analysis”, under the “Financial Highlights section”, that:
“The County’s government-wide net assets (the amount by which assets exceed liabilities) as of December 31, 2009 were $897.3 million.”
“The portion of net assets which represents the amount the County can use to meet ongoing financial obligations is the unrestricted net assets. This amount was $82.7 million at December 31, 2009, a decrease of $5.9 million from the end of 2008. This decrease is explained generally by the economic decline.” –So, the County had $82.7 million in cash and liquid or sellable assets with no restrictions it could have spent on the “deficit” and on the Police, but did not—
On page 20, under the section entitled “Significant changes in expenses”, it states:
“Combined sales taxes and transient room taxes decreased $13.0 million compared to 2008 due primarily to declining taxable sales and decreased tourism, both coming as a result of the general economic downturn.”
However…
“Property taxes increased $5.8 million or 3.1% compared to 2008…” -meaning that our dear County Council and the SLVLESA either lied to the people of Salt Lake County, or is just more corrupt than anyone can imagine.
And…
“Government-wide expenses overall were $31.6 million less than the prior year. This represents a 5.5% decrease compared to 2008.”
And…
“Public works expenses decreased approximately $5.0 million. Due to shrinking budgets, less funding was available to maintain roads, plow snow, etc. Therefore, actual expenses had to be reduced to adjust to budget cuts.”
And…
“Interest on long-term debt decreased $2.3 million (13.4% less than 2008 expense) primarily because certain bonds were recently paid off…”
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Therefore, when Councilman Bradley stated in his original letter that sales tax revenues were down for 2009/2010, he may have (purposely) forgot to disclose the above-mentioned facts, which quite belittle this fearful but well-played talking point used in his letter of demand to the people of the unincorporated county, now labeled the SLVLESA, for payment of a police “protection fee”.
But these are just small inconsequential potatoes when we realize what other wealth the County is hiding from us…
On page 23, as stated within the “Financial Analysis of Salt Lake County Funds” section, it states:
“As of December 31, 2009, aggregated fund balances of all governmental funds were $270.5 million, which is a $27.8 million increase over the prior year…”
“Approximately 57.3% (or $154.9 million) of the aggregated fund balances is unrestricted and undesignated, which represents $54.0 million of the General Fund equity which is available for appropriation by the County Council at its discretion, and $56.2 million in capital projects funds and $44.7 million in special revenue funds assigned for fund purposes.”
“As compared to 2008, the undesignated fund balance of the General Fund increased 37.5%, or $8.5 million. In general, this increase occurred as a natural consequence of the budget plan. Namely, the governing body determined the General Fund equity should be built up during 2009 so the minimum reserve policy could be preserved. So, the budget was structured to achieve that goal.This plan included substantial budget reductions and one-time transfers in.”
On page 52, we can see that Salt Lake County has some money socked away in the “Utah Public Treasurers’ Investment Fund (PTIF)” to the tune of $303,803,493.00 as of December 31, 2009.
This fund is described in the CAFR as:
“A voluntary external local government investment pool managed by the Utah State Treasurer to improve investment efficiency and yield. These monies are invested in securities permitted by the (Utah Money Management) Act and contain no withdrawal restrictions other than timely notice of intent to withdraw an amount greater than $2 million. Investment activity of the State Treasurer in the management of the PTIF is reviewed monthly by the Council and is audited by the Utah State Auditor. Monies invested in this fund are not insured and are subject to the same market risks as any similar investment in money market funds.”
To add even more insult to our community’s economic pain, it states:
“Government and agency securities include long-term loans issued by the Agency for InternationalDevelopment which are registered and fully guaranteed by the Federal government.”
And, so instead of using that money to benefit the people of Salt Lake County or even the State of Utah, it is invested in federal:
“…certificates of deposit, U.S. Treasury obligations, U.S. agency issues, high-grade commercial paper, banker’s acceptances, repurchase agreements, corporate bonds, money market mutual funds, and obligations of governmental entities within the state of Utah (meaning obligations to the Fed and other private corporations).”
And much of it is invested For “International Development”, leaving us poor tax-strapped Utahans out in the cold.
In fact, on page 152 it reports the total (on balance sheet) governmental fund balance totals since the year 2000 (not including funds like the above mentioned Public Treasurers’ Investment Fund (PTIF) listed above, as this is not a designated government operational fund, just an extra risky, barely legal investment fund). This is a good look at how governments continue to grow their power and wealth base over time, and why you should always look at what government totals are for a period of many years or decades, and not just one year (Note: these are just governmental funds, not all funds).
This chart shows that:
1) End of fiscal year 2000 fund balances totaled over $20 million for the general fund, and almost $80 million for all other governmental funds combined.
2) End of fiscal year 2005 fund balances totaled over $47.5 million for the general fund, and almost $179 million for all other governmental funds combined.
3) End of fiscal year 2009 fund balances totaled over $36.2 million for the general fund, and almost $235 million for all other governmental funds combined.
4) The actual portion of these fund totals as of fiscal year 2009 ending December 31 of 2009, again listed as unreserved (not appropriated/apportioned for anything specific in the future) for all of these funds is listed at $190,731,914.
So, not including the $303.8 million from the State Treasurers Investment Fund above as well as other listed investments, Salt Lake County has more than $190 million dollars that could have been spent on the budgetary obligations of the county, like police, schools… (and how about those ever-expanding potholes?) – but are instead sitting in a multiple funds being invested and building wealth – not for the people, but for the corporate government called Salt Lake County, its Council, its Sheriff, and its Mayor. Instead, taxes are raised, fees are charged, and necessary public services – including school and police services – are cut to the extreme!
And yet even trickier ways of hiding money and assets can be found hidden within the comprehensive annual financial reports, as we can see on page 64, where it states:
“8.6 Defeased Bonds—In prior years, the County defeased certain general obligation and lease revenue bonds by placing the proceeds of the new refunding bonds in an irrevocable trust escrow account to provide for future debt service payments on the old bonds. Accordingly, the trust account assets and the liability for the defeased bonds are not included in the statement of net assets. At December 31, 2009, $152,500,000 general obligation and lease revenue bonds outstanding are considered defeased.”
That’s another $152.5 million dollars we can add to the list of hidden of “off-balance sheet” assets not reported to the people of the county on the taxpayer budget.
And so the moral of the story is that the County of Salt Lake and that of the 99.9% of governments across the nation are not losing, but rather gaining money hand over fist each year, but not reporting this to its people in any comprehensible way, except on this comprehensive annual financial reporting system which is not discussed in any open or candid way with the public, ever. Instead, the people get the taxpayer budget report, accounting for tax in and tax and deficit out, never mentioning these hidden funds and investments; knowing that Americans have been dumbed down by design to never even imagine that this shell game and massive theft of taxpayer money, land, and corporate takeover and governance can possibly be taking place right under our noses.
And these “Special Financing Districts” are being set up all over the country as well, unnecessarily double-taxing the people within, and using their land and property as collateral without even their slightest comprehension.
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I have now given you this information, even with the fear of retaliation from my police-state, my corporate CEO Sheriff Winder, his private police force, the Mayors of each city and the County, and the County Council – who are all involved in this scheme.
Remember, the mayors of each city are on the board of directors of this UPD, along with the County Council and the Mayor, as stated above, “The new department (UPD) will be run by mayors of participating cities.” It is also rumored (from a reputable inside anonymous source) that the mayors of each city and the county mayor are meeting monthly, all together, at a different undisclosed private location each month, the knowledge of which is kept secret from the public.
This is organized crime… a well-oiled machine of corruption.
And this is not at all dissimilar to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which now that we understand the above information, could really be considered the ultimate in “Special Financing Districts”, covering the whole district of the United States, and taking the homes and property of millions of Americans for not paying what they also call a mandatory un-apportioned tax!
And for all of this, I am calling for an immediate recall and subsequent arrest and imprisonment by Grand Jury indictment of all parties involved, for the reinstatement of the lawful and constitutional Sheriff’s Department, and a reaffirmation of its lawful, constitutional purpose in Salt Lake County and the state by new law.
I am hopeful that the few elected lawful and constitutional Sheriff’s of other counties left in Utah, to which I will be sending this information, will rise up at their Sheriff’s Association meetings and commit to supporting those like me who wish to resolve this situation in the lawful manner described above, as well as helping to disseminate this information nationally to all law enforcement and military outfits, but especially to our still lawful Sheriffs. And I am hopeful that they will be supportive of a law that will never allow this type of corruption to happen again.
And now, if you have gotten this far, I am asking you who are reading this to please pass this information on, with the author’s (my) permission, to be posted, edited, re-written, and placed in any publication, newspaper, or website. I only ask that my name also be submitted as the original writer and researcher of this article, without any compensation or contract required.
This is too important to be shelved. Copyrights and credits be damned, for we are in serious collective trouble as a people. And this police-state tyranny, if it hasn’t already, is coming to a county near you.
Please stand up for your rights, and play this forward…
Is America at war with Iraq? How about Afghanistan? Pakistan?
The answer to these questions is perhaps the most important concept that the citizens of the republic of the United States can possibly understand.
The answer is… NO!
No legal or constitutional declaration of war has ever been stated, and therefore America is not officially in a state of war. And the implications of this are more far reaching than any of us realize.
Why is this fact so vitally important to the heath and welfare of America?
If you understand nothing else about the so-called “war on terror”, I wish it to be this: without an official declaration of war by way of congressional decree under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States, America has no authority or legitimacy to attack, occupy, kill, or enter forcibly into another country. The president of the United States cannot declare war; only the congress can approve war. This means that our president, his cabinet, the Congress, and judicial branches of government are all in violation of our most cherished laws under the Constitution of the United States.
The following are the reasons this fact is so important to comprehend, and why if we don’t stop this from continuing to occur – in Pakistan, then Iran, and eventually in our own beautiful, once free United States itself – We The People of the United States of America will lose everything our Constitution grants to us.
—-> The Geneva Convention – this set of documents, of which America is a signatory, are international treaties binding all States that have accepted them. Almost every State in the world has signed the Geneva Conventions. The 1st and 2nd Geneva Conventions straight forwardly state that the sick, wounded and shipwrecked must be cared for humanely and adequately by the enemy state. “Combatants” must treat members of the enemy armies who are wounded, sick or shipwrecked as carefully as they would treat their own injured or sick. All efforts must be made to collect the dead quickly, to confirm death by medical examination, and to identify bodies and protect them from robbery. Medical equipment must not be intentionally destroyed, and medical establishments and vehicles must not be attacked, damaged or prevented from operating even if they do not contain patients. The 3rd Geneva Convention states: “Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War” members of the armed forces who fall into enemy hands are to be considered without exception to be in the power of the enemy State, not in the hands of the individuals or troops who have captured them. The state is therefore responsible for their soldier’s treatment of POW’s.
The convention clearly states that Prisoners of war MUST BE:
– Treated humanely with respect for their persons and their honor.
– Enabled to inform their next of kin and the Central Prisoners of War Agency (ICRC, the International Red Cross) of their capture.
– Allowed to correspond regularly with relatives and to receive relief parcels.
– Allowed to keep their clothes, feeding utensils and personal effects.
– Supplied with adequate food and clothing.
– Provided with quarters not inferior to those of their captor’s troops.
– Given the medical care their state of health demands.
– Paid for any work they do.
– Repatriated if certified seriously ill or wounded, (but they must not resume active military duties afterwards).
– Quickly released and repatriated when hostilities cease.
In addition, prisoners of war MUST NOT BE:
-Compelled to give any information other than their name, age, rank and service number.
– Deprived of money or valuables without a receipt (and these must be returned at the time of release).
– Given individual privileges other than for reasons of health, sex, age, military rank or professional qualifications.
– Held in close confinement except for breaches of the law, although their liberty can be restricted for security reasons.
– Compelled to do military work, nor work which is dangerous, unhealthy or degrading.
The fourth Geneva Convention is: “Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, all individuals “who do not belong to the armed forces, take no part in the hostilities and find themselves in the hands of the Enemy or an Occupying Power”
Protected civilians MUST BE:
– Treated humanely at all times and protected against acts or threats of violence, insults and public curiosity.
– Entitled to respect for their honour, family rights, religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs.
– Specially protected, for example in safety zones, if wounded, sick, old, children under 15, expectant mothers or mothers of children under 7.
– Enabled to exchange family news of a personal kind. – Helped to secure news of family members dispersed by the conflict.
– Allowed to practise their religion with ministers of their own faith. Civilians who are interned have the same rights as prisoners of war. They may also ask to have their children interned with them, and wherever possible families should be housed together and provided with the facilities to continue normal family life. Wounded or sick civilians, civilian hospitals and staff, and hospital transport by land, sea or air must be specially respected and may be placed under protection of the red cross/crescent emblem.
Protected civilians MUST NOT BE:
– Discriminated against because of race, religion or political opinion. – Forced to give information.
– Used to shield military operations or make an area immune from military operations.
– Punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. – Women must not be indecently assaulted, raped, or forced into prostitution.
In reference to torture, the Geneva Convention states:
“Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission … causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited, and will be regarded as a serious breach of the present Convention. Likewise, prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.
“No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind.”
“Prisoners of war shall enjoy complete latitude in the exercise of their religious duties, including attendance at the service of their faith, on condition that they comply with the disciplinary routine prescribed by the military authorities.”
“The following acts are and shall remain prohibited … cruel treatment and torture; … Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment; “
“Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory … are prohibited, regardless of their motive.”
(Geneva Convention, 1949)
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So, this certainly and without a doubt states that torture is specifically not permitted under these conventions. So why is our government and military (and private security forces contracted by the U.S. government) torturing, maiming, raping, humiliating, water-boarding, and mistreating prisoners and civilians and getting away with it? Why hasn’t anyone called foul: a violation of the Geneva Conventions against innocent civilians and prisoners of war?
Quite simply, it’s because no declaration of war was ever legally made. This is key to understanding America’s disposition…
– No declaration of war means there are no official prisoners of war.
– No declaration of war means the Geneva conventions do not apply.
– No declaration of war means that U.S. soldiers can do whatever they please with no repercussions, since the convention that places responsibility for our soldier’s actions onto the state do not apply.
– No declaration of war means that we are occupying another country or “state” against Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution, which states:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States …To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water… To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years…”
The term “enemy combatants” has replaced the terms “prisoner of war” and “civilians”.
Proof of this fact – that no war has been declared in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc… can be found in the following, which aired on CSPAN in October 2002:
During the October 2nd and 3rd, 2002 House International Relations Committee hearing on the Iraq resolution, Ron Paul introduced an amendment which actually would have simply and officially declared war against Iraq. The following is that simple amendment, which would have put the United States legally and constitutionally at war and, more importantly, subject to Geneva Convention guarantees and other war crimes documents:
AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. Ll
To be titled: “Joint Resolution declaring a state of war between the United States and the Government of Iraq”
OFFERED BY MR. PAUL
– Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: ‘‘That pursuant to article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution, a state of war is declared to exist between the United States and the Government of Iraq and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the United States Armed Forces to carry on war against the Government of Iraq and to bring the conflict to a successful conclusion.”
Mr. Paul also stated earlier of the resolution, as it existed without his amendment:
“We are giving the President the authority to defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq. In other words, we are transferring the power to declare war to the President. He can declare the war and fight the war when he pleases. And that is number one. Number two, equal to number one; (the president will) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. In this bill that we are working on, they mention United Nations 32 times — I am sorry, 25 times. They never mention article 1, section 8, once.”
“…No matter what you call it, we are talking about a resolution that permits the President to wage war.” – Ron Paul
The committee put Rep. Paul’s amendment to rest (into the trash) with no dissenting votes, and on the afternoon of 10/03/02, the House International Relations Committee passed this resolution, which gave the president (Bush) the power to send our armies into Iraq without a formal declaration of war by congress, without consideration of the unconstitutional act of preemptively attacking a state or country which poses no imminent threat to the United States according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and without the international constraints of the Geneva Convention or any war crimes legislation to restrain our troops from committing heinous acts of torture and violence against innocent woman and children, civilians, Iraqi resistance to foreign invaders, dogs, cats, livestock, or any other living thing in Iraq while “just following orders”.
And now, President Obama has sent troops illegally and unconstitutionally to Pakistan, without an official Congressional declaration of war. He has withdrawn troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and replaced them with even more private security “peace-keepers” like Blackwater (who changed its name to Xe due to such horrible publicity and war crimes charges). And he is about to make the mistake of “preemptively” invading and attempting to occupy Iran, which would be a fatal error in foreign relations considering Iran’s alliance and friendship with both China and Russia.
But then, Obama’s mentor Zbigniew Brzezinski has been after a conflict with Russia since his post as National Security Advisor in the Carter and Reagan administrations.
-Brzezinski advised Carter in 1978 to engage the People’s Republic of China and traveled to Beijing to lay the groundwork for the normalization of relations between the two countries. This also resulted in the severing of ties with the United States’ longtime anti-Communist ally the Republic of China. Also in 1978, Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected Pope John Paul II—an event which the Soviets believed Brzezinski orchestrated.
In 1979 Brzezinski saw the overthrow of US ally the Shah of Iran, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Iranian Revolution precipitated the Iran hostage crisis, which would last for the rest of Carter’s presidency. Brzezinski anticipated – indeed some some have claimed he even engineered [Matthew Carr, The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from Alexander II to Al-Qaeda, chapter 10.] the Soviet invasion, and, with the support of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the PRC, he created a strategy to undermine the Soviet presence. – [Wikipedia: Zbigniew Brzezinski]
Brzezinski has had his hands in almost all American conflicts and foreign relations, from Red China to Iran Contra to Russia to Afghanistan to Vietnam. In 1981 Brzezinski revealed that he encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. This was part of a wider policy of forcing the Vietnamese out of Cambodia by funding anti-Vietnamese guerrilla groups that the U.S. helped create. [America Abroad – TIME Magazine]
Understanding that Obama is a student of and was mentored by Zbigniew Brzezinski is imperative to understanding the mentality and intentions of our president and his multitude of not-elected, appointed cabinet members. From Obama’s Chief of Staff – duel Israeli citizen Raum Emanuel, to foreign born Special Adviser Henry Kissinger, these elitist appointees rule our elected officials.
To further decry the importance of the illegality and unconstitutionality of the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan… a memo was given by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, dated January 25, 2002, urging President George Bush to declare the war in Afghanistan exempt from the Geneva Convention. In the memo, the corrupted White House lawyer referenced the 1996 law passed by Congress known as the “War Crimes Act”, which banned any American from committing war crimes – defined in part as “grave breaches” of the Geneva convention. The memo warns that the law applies to “U.S. officials” and that punishments for violators “include the death penalty.” (NewsWeek, May 17, 2004)
Shortly after Gonzales’ memo came out, Secretary Powell wrote a dissenting memo arguing that Alberto Gonzales’ attempt to declare the war in Afghanistan exempt from the Geneva convention undermines more than a century of U.S. policy and practice. In that memo, he states:
“It will reverse over a century of U.S. policy and practice in supporting the Geneva conventions and undermine the protections of the law of war for our troops, both in this specific conflict and in general. … It may provoke some individual foreign prosecutors to investigate and prosecute our officials and troops. … We will be challenged in international forums (UN Commission on Human Rights; World Court; etc.).”
On March 19, 2003, despite these warnings by Powell and others, Bush (not Congress) declared a preemptive war in Iraq.
This one act alone – especially since it was proven that no “weapons of mass destruction” were anywhere near Iraq, nor that Iraq had the capability to produce such weapons, nor that Iraq or Sadam Huesain had anything to do with the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers 1, 2, and 7 and the attack on the pentagon – and since Iraq posed no “imminent threat” to the United States, constitutes a “grave breach” of the Geneva Convention, which states:
“Law enforcement officials shall not use firearms against persons except in self-defense or defense of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury, to prevent the perpetration of a particularly serious crime involving grave threat to life, to arrest a person presenting such a danger and resisting their authority, or to prevent his or her escape, and only when less extreme means are insufficient to achieve these objectives. In any event, intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.” (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Fall 1990)
The U.S. Military Code specifies that it is a crime to violate the Geneva convention:
“Whoever, … commits a war crime, … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, … and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death. … Definition: As used in this section the term ‘war crime’ means … a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949 [or acts] prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907 … ” (Section 2441: U.S. Military Code on War Crimes)
Also, after WWII in 1945, the United States led the formation of the “Nuremberg Principles” which formed the United Nations Charter. This charter binds every country in the world. It defines as a crime:
“Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances…”
For a chronological account of the actions taken by the U.S. Military under the leadership of George W. Bush as Commander-in-Chief which lead to multiple violations of the Geneva convention and U.S. Military Code, please go here: http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/pages/torture.html
I could go on and on with countless violations of the Geneva Conventions, war crimes, Nuremburg principles, etc… but what would be the point? We are not at war.
This one little fact that has been overlooked and not reported by the media is the key to ushering in peace. Acknowledging it would mean the end of these illegal and unconstitutional occupations of innocent countries, and the unwarranted murder and impoverishing of whole populations. It would mean that torture, outrageous POW camps like Guantanamo Bay, and any other war crimes committed by this administration, our troops and Blackwater thugs overseas, and crimes against Americans themselves would be treated as such and punishable by the Geneva Conventions and other war crimes treatises.
The new president continues to abuse the jargon of the previous administration, calling for a “war on terror”. This is ridiculous, and is about as winnable as a war on mosquitoes. This war on terror can best be described as a never ending, un-winnable war, which will continue to allow the United States and the United Nations to invade and terrorize any country, any home, and even any American who challenges the corporate fascist control of America and abroad.
While we as mindless sheep continue to refer to the events in the middle east as:
the “warin Iraq”
the “war in Afghanistan”
the new “warin Pakistan”
and the impending “warwith Iran” – which will no doubt lead to something akin to a “war with the world”…
These politicians and appointed officials are making fortunes for their lobbyists and elitist co-conspirators though the corporations they own, chair, direct, advise, and profit from by awarding no-bid contracts to them in these occupied countries, but only after our military destroys them to create the need for reconstruction.
It is time for the American people to wake up and take responsibility for the war crimes and human rights violations that our government is perpetrating against the people, the families, and the innocents of the Middle-East. This will not stop until they have taken over, through the United Nations, all of the nation-states, not excluding our own. We, as responsible citizens can no longer afford to ignore these crimes. For the only other way that this will stop, is for the citizenry to stand up and say, “NO MORE KILLING”
We must do something now… for the hour is late, and every innocent death is on all of our hands. And they get bloodier by the hour.
Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
Sunday, October 11, 2009
If I were part of a very small group of elite individuals and families from around the world whom together held 90% of the entire world’s wealth along with the power to print its money and manipulate the value of that money, and I wanted to keep it that way for myself and pass this fortune and privilege on to my sons and daughters… what would I do to make sure I (we) remained in control of both the money, and more importantly my power over the world, specifically the United States?
The following is what I would do:
*** Disclosure: Any similarities to actual events or happenings from the last 50-100 years, with regards to people, beliefs, lies, manipulations, theft, treason, genocide, politics, religion, culture, money, industry, media or entertainment are strictly coincidental, and are, I assure you, accidental in very much a purposeful way:
1. I would implement incremental change slowly over many, many years.
This simply means that I would manipulate the laws, cultures, beliefs, medias, entertainments, religions, and truths of the entire nation in such a prolonged yet purposeful manner that the vast majority of its citizens would not notice my efforts. Generationally speaking, the change would be both alien and destructive to the cohesion of any older generation’s morals and values, which they would attempt in vein to transfer or pass down to their new age children. The “New Age” would be every generation’s own crusade against the last. In fact I would change these things so slowly, say over a 60 year period, that these people would not only accept these incremental changes (changes which separately add up to a total change over time), but would actually think that the ideals behind them were in fact their own, pulling the spotlight away from my small group of elites who hide behind the celebrities, public officials, and politicians who sell and implement these changes. Adolph Hitler – whose efforts are used here as an example of the non-incremental fascist take-over of a society – in my eyes could not succeed due to the rapid degradation of the impression or illusion of freedom amongst the people of Germany and around the world. I, as part of this elitist group, would even fight against this type of take-over (and they did) in order to put into place my more sound incremental technique of domination over a society, until the country was no longer a sovereign nation, but one of corporate ownership under our foreign banks and partners, which would be controlled by a central construct (like the United Nations) that would slowly (incrementally) strip the nation of its property, land, and infrastructure, as well as its deeply rooted independence and sovereignty.
2. I would put into place a puppet government whose strings I could pull, which would take the blame both currently and historically for my secretive groups’ undertakings.
In order to plausibly deny any and all connections to me with regards to public policy, our totalitarian laws, unjust or illegal taxes and legislation that is overtly anti-Constitutional, socialist, and fascist, or any type of less incremental (sudden) changes which would only benefit us and our corporate monopolies, I would rig or fix elections in order to give the people the illusion of their participation in the voting process for their favorite candidate – in most cases their favorite Cult of Personality spokesman – who in reality would be culled, prepped, empowered, funded, and completely controlled by us. Thus, the responsibility for all of the problems within the economy of the country (though they be caused by us), the attacking of other countries (though this too is our doing), and the constant ups and downs in monetary instability, recession, and depression (again us), would be blamed solely on the President of the United States and his cabinet, of whose invisible strings I would pull. If a president or any other elected or appointed candidate of whom we put into power were to have a change of heart or attempt a coo against us, I would simply set up or assassinate them, and quickly replace him or her with our standby safety measure (like the vice-president) until the next election. I would slowly (incrementally) replace paper ballots, which leave a transparent and re-countable paper trail, with voting machines made by one of our conglomerate corporations in which the programming and systems information are kept top secret by federal law from any regulatory bodies, including the senate and congress (whom incidentally, also do our bidding). In this way, tallies can be instantly modified to ensure the correct candidate be placed into office, and we can ensure that no paper trail be left behind to double-check the actual individual voter tallies. Since both candidates in the two-party system we created and control would be placed there by us, we could rest assured that the losing candidate would never chase or require a full recount in the election, and would accede the vote to our other candidate. In this and other ways, checks and balances would be dissolved while keeping up the appearance of a fair election process. This left/right paradigm of political competition would pit those voters who are conservative against those who are liberal, keeping both sides busy fighting amongst themselves and blaming each other’s administrations for the political and economic problems that we engineer, while we at the top of the power pyramid continue to clandestinely take control of the country.
3. I would never let a third political party gain any considerable control in the state or federal governments, unless I either controlled them as well, or had access to information which would discredit their candidacy once elected.
A number of third party candidates would always be allowed to appear on the ballot in order to keep the illusion of voter freedom, free will, and free-choice alive in the conscious of the uneducated voting pubic who, through carefully crafted and projected propaganda, would actually still believe that they live in a free country and that their votes are legally counted. But these alternative candidates would never be allowed to actually win any seat of power that would take away from my accessibility to the electorate, which I control. Of course the occasional dark horse, grass-roots, or “no other choice” candidate would be allowed to be “elected” in the short term to an insignificant political position, but the sheer majority of the two-party, democrat/republican, left/right paradigm will always trump any truly altruistic attempts at politically changing the system for the good of the people. I would also spread a doubt and disinformation campaign amongst the voting masses, convincing them against all logic and reason that a third-party candidate could never actually win an important post, nor would he or she ever possibly be able to effect change within the dominant two-party system, portraying them as a “lone wolf” with no supporters from the two dominant parties in the legislature. This would ensure even against the most tenuous of election campaigns that a third party candidate, from an intellectually brainwashed voters standpoint, could never be elected. I would also fund the campaigns of certain unpopular, off-the-wall, politically incorrect, or downright crazy third party candidates in order to further discredit the very ideal of voting for anything other than the established two-party system. This brainwashing would manifest in political conversations as anger, irrational confrontation, absolute denial, or sheer ignorance of the fact that any third party candidates are even on the ballot until voting day arrives. It would also show in the unreasonable shame one would feel when voting for an alternative candidate in the voting booth; a subconscious irrational feeling of guilt, dismay, or hopelessness for even the most ardent supporters of said third party candidate.
Essentially, when one party would begin to fall, the other one would be there to win the election. This teeter tottering of popularity between left and right would continuously serve to prop up the opposite party for election. When one becomes obviously corrupt, our controlled media would shine favorably on the other. By establishing an eight year term limit, which would be enough time for the people to forget or forgive the previous president – or more importantly his or her affiliated party – and by perpetrating nonsensical ideals such as ‘presidents always win re-election campaigns during war-time’, we would appease each supporting group of the populace every four or eight years, as they celebrate the triumph over the competing party. By using idealistic and emotional concepts like good and evil, liberal and conservative, left and right… each party would consider themselves to be on the correct side of modern politics. This combined psychological operation would ensure our two-party system’s un-fatigable, perpetual motion.
4. I would use each generation gap against the next, ensuring differing views, ethics, and ideals that would make one generation blame the others before and after them for the corruption and problems in society as a whole.
Responsibility breeds reaction. Blame insures inaction. Perpetual blame and inaction assures the continuity of government. Fads, fashions, movie stars and themes, music, sitcoms, technology, beliefs, traditions, institutions, and educational differences and limitations would all contribute to the differing views and ideals of each new generation. While the elderly would remember the way things used to be and wonder at the degradation of society, the middle-aged will be wondering what happened to their youth, while changing the rules and laws to benefit themselves and their future retirement at the expense of even their own children, as these youth are busy with the impression of changing the world (to the extent that we allow and promote) and realizing the middle-agers are becoming corrupt and are responsible for their lower work standards, wages, and seemingly poor economic outlook. This never-ending cycle will be repeated until the end of time, as we will always be there to corrupt the middle-aged and guide the youth into middle age. I would promote disparaging nicknames for each new generation through the media (such as Generation X), providing continuous negative commentary on the supposed fact that each new generation is “lost” or “misguided”.
5. I would decimate or make illegitimate the idea of the “role model” or “hero”.
By slowly changing the perceptions of the younger sections of our society who would ordinarily admire and strive to seek vocational, heroic, professional, or even family oriented individuals as their mentors… I would flood the media and entertainment outlets, including large percentages of the news, with sports and sports figures: individuals who in the eyes of our youth would become like idols. (Also: rock stars, actors, entertainers, models, porn stars, etc…). Thus, regardless of the fact that the chances of success in professional sports are literally a one in a million long shot, the perception that this or other non-realistic goals are attainable will illogically take precedence over scholastic goals and realistic career choices. So much so, that most youth will put such a low emphasis on education that they will be easily assimilated into the skill-less workforce which will tower up around them, and which will be the only alternative to their dreams. Farming, ranching, industry, health-care, fire-fighting, and so many other essential vocations would be reduced to second-chance jobs; consolations whose standards and practices we would simultaneously yet incrementally lower over time in order to accommodate the 99.9% of failures to these idealistic, popular, unrealistic dream jobs and sports star aspirations.
6. I would shift the countries independent export economy into a dependant import economy.
Simply put, I would ruin the food and agricultural economy at home by imposing inane mandates and laws through a central governing body (like the FDA) which again is funded by us, replacing wholesome and nutritious crops with unnecessary and unhealthful commodities that could be traded predictably and profitably as futures, for the purposes of producing non-food items such as fuel (like ethanol), feed crops (like hay and aleph-alpha), and filler foods (such as soy beans). I would impose government subsidies or incentives for farmers to switch from growing healthy food to growing what we wanted them to grow. In this way, a farm eventually could not operate without money from the government, which as you remember, is controlled and funded by me, through your taxes. I would slowly invest in all of the seeds and seed companies which farmers must buy to plant their fields each year, and once we owned a majority of these seeds – including ones we genetically modify and then patent as intellectual property so that no one may use them without our permission, I would pass legislation that farmers be required to buy my seeds and use my pesticides or pay heavy fines. I would design these seeds so that they’re fruit would bear no seeds of their own, thus forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year, instead of traditionally re-using the seeds which were produced in the previous years crop yield. Thus, by incrementally slowing or stopping the production of common whole and nutritious fruits, vegetables, and nuts in this county, America would then be forced to purchase from other countries (import) most of it’s eatable produce. Of course I would also have control of these countries of export, meaning that we would be making the profits from this international trade and would also be able to set the health, pesticide use, and growing standards for these foreign and domestic farms of import. I would then sabotage the laws regarding the labeling of nutrition information on these foodstuffs, so that the facts about where they were grown, whether or not they’re organic or GMO (genetically modified organisms), and they’re nutrition information would no longer be required to be listed by U.S, international, or United Nations law. Of course we would have the corporations that produce these pesticides and GMO seeds and foods in our back pockets, and award lucrative, no-bid contracts to them for “research and development” purposes, in exchange for huge kickbacks to us, systematically destroying any smaller independent companies who seek market shares in the food industry. And finally, once the industry was in ruins and the food market and farmers were in serious trouble, I would establish a new governmental body controlled by me to replace the FDA, which would be “legally” voted in by the congress and senate, whom of course we would control with equally transparent strings, and signed by the president. A few contrived or “false flag” food emergencies and contaminations leading to total recalls of meat, dairy, or produce, would serve to help pass this new administration – under the guise of protecting the food supply, or for food safety. What better way to control people than to control the people’s food supply? Also, by allowing monopolistic corporations like Wall Mart and Target to overtake the marketplace (which would import most of their cheaply made products from Asian, African, and South American markets for pennies on the dollar, while putting quality American farms, manufacturers, and small businesses out of business), I would ensure a declining industrial and manufacturing base in America until the economy was almost completely consumer oriented and import dependant. Pride in one’s country would be incrementally destroyed, and younger generations would never know the difference as they seek work in the only industry remaining: the service industry. And finally, I would develop technology which would allow larger companies to outsource work to other countries for cheaper wages, even while American workers go unemployed, and not punish these companies for atrocities and crimes committed in these foreign places related to pollution, sweatshops, unfair wages and working conditions, and other human rights violations.
7. I would systematically dumb down the population through the destruction of its system of education, and through it’s entertainment outlets.
“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.” – Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.
By slowly (incrementally) and legally altering the very definition of education over many years, I would transform the school system in this country from one of learning to one of socialization, liberalism (wealth sharing and welfare conscious), law enforcement, military, and non-skilled job training. I would organize a methodically efficient board of “education specialists” whose main objective is to covertly manipulate the parents and taxpayers into supporting controversial “education” programs (Sex Education, Health Education, Drug and Alcohol Education, Death Education, Critical Thinking Education, etc…) against their better judgment. I would liberalize the majority of kids and young adults in order to pressure the still critical thinking older conservative minority into submission and acceptance of this re-education process. I would slowly alter and rewrite the history books to reflect a more pro-military, pro-Federal Government, pro-world-government, anti-republic, pro-democracy, anti-Constitution, pro-socialism, pro-depopulation, and pro-illegal-immigration agenda, so that future citizens would conform easily to the incremental take-over of America by the United Nations and other international organizations, and bankers like us. I would replace critical thinking problems and exercises with multiple choice answer sheets. I would introduce machines for testing and grading, so that writing became obsolete. Fill in the blank would become fill in the bubble, with alternative test answers so obviously wrong that failure would be nearly impossible. I would first manipulate, and then require the use of teaching materials such as text-books, educational films, and other modified tools of education, basically re-writing history and text books so that our cause is cast in a positive light. I would then universally ban the use of certain non-fiction writings and all too relevant or realistic fiction books and movies in the classroom, to ensure the conformity of our new re-education process. Through media outlets I would change perceptions about home-schooling in the general populace, and then outlaw this form of education through use of the courts, mandatory inoculations, claiming parental incompetence, and threatening custody battles for non-compliance of education and vaccine laws.
8. I would attack the family structure in America.
A constant attack campaign on the traditional ideal of the family unit through media and news outlets would be employed. Its goal would be to destabilize the structure and bond of the family and to liberalize and empower women and children in order to turn them against their parents or spouses on most issues, and disrupt any natural harmony in the family unit. This combined with other assaults to the moral fabric of society, such as the establishment and acceptance of the abortion and porn industries, would surely reduce the reality of family for young people from an ideal to a consequence of unsafe sex. Homosexuality would be projected as fun and acceptable and laws would be passed to protect its sanctity, with dissent thereof to be punishable by federal and state laws. I would produce, introduce, and maintain harmful and even deadly sexually transmitted diseases in order to promote condoms, reinforce birth control, and contribute to our depopulation agenda through the communicable spread of these transmittable diseases and fear of sex. Christmas and Thanksgiving would be morphed into repulsive, twice a year get-togethers, which families would actually see as a dreadful experience and begin to feel disdain and even stress towards these once cherished holidays, while the actual spiritual meaning would loose out to consumer advertising, Santa Claus, and gift giving. Sons and daughters would lose any appreciation of the sacrifices their parents made for them while growing up, and would be too busy or not care enough to take care of their mother and father when old age, senility or health issues strike in later life. The very idea of the duty and responsibility of parental care would be transformed into a repulsive subject through media outlets. Convalescence would become a state responsibility through insurance and hospice centers with little or no quality of care. And these businesses along with pharmaceutical manufacturers would take over the industry of death, profitably prolonging misery and sickness while allowing their consumer-minded children to continue in their full-time work as contributing members of society, ignoring the natural duty of parental care. By changing the economy from an industrial and food producing country into a service, consumer, and skill-less work based society, longer work hours and the necessity of both parents to work, specifically mothers, would consequentially make home-schooling and family values begin to degrade. Nanny’s, teachers, and baby-sitters would log more hours with children than their actual parents possibly could, making the juxtaposition towards outside influences opposed to family values and parental influence unavoidable. This constant struggle would hopefully serve to drive a wedge between father and son, mother and daughter. Beloved animated movies and children’s programming, which might subtlety steer children away from the foundations of family and morals, would take the place of parental guidance and quality family time. Unhealthy, mentally debilitating, and disease causing snack foods would be pushed onto the palates of children through advertising on kids programming and cartoons, magazines, and in schools causing serious health, developmental, social, learning and behavioral problems. Simultaneously, pharmaceutical drugs that would counter these developmental problems would be introduced and prescribed as a cure for the contrived side effects of these poisonous food ingredients we have inundated the food supply with. Of course, these built in side effects of prescription drugs would make children docile, socially inept, and ultimately controllable for life. For as they get older, adult versions of these drugs would be made available as well, since almost all of the manufactured consumer food supply would eventually be tainted in this way. How? We would simply purchase or take over all food-manufacturing companies and destroy the farming, meat and dairy industries by forcing them to use our GMO seeds, growth hormones, and GMO feed for their livestock. Our FDA or equivalent governing body would ensure that this was done legally, imposing largely un-payable and probably bankrupt-able fines and taxation for non-compliance of the rules and regulations we set. Since most farmers would already be subsidized by us the government (us), they would be forced to comply or loose these subsidies and go out of business.
9. I would make all valuable and medically necessary drugs illegal, and covertly import illicit and addictive substances, ensuring they are dispensed throughout the nation by illegal means.
By owning or micro managing pharmaceutical companies and the drugs they manufacture, I would require that they be available by prescription only (illegal substances unless prescribed) and require a doctor to prescribe them. In this way, the medical industry (also controlled by me) will have a constant influx of citizens seeking permission to acquire illegal drugs through medical prescription. The slow sabotage and removal of healthy food choices, the inclusion of harmful substances into most manufactured food products, the fluoridation of the water supply, and the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and “sugar free” additives such as Aspartame and Sucralose would insure this influx of sick citizens with chemically induced illnesses. I would ensure the need of even more pharmaceutical drugs and prescriptions by systematically building side effects into these medicines, so that drugs to ease the side effects of the original drugs would be required. Knowing the cornucopia of health, medical, clothing and other benefits derived from hemp, I would equate this weed to the marijuana family of the cannabis plant in order to control its use and production, though it has no psychedelic or THC properties. Inversely, I would slowly (incrementally) make marijuana a medically permissible and easy to acquire prescription drug (still illegal) one state at a time, fooling the public into thinking that it is now a legal substance, as opposed to the still highly government grown, controlled illegal plant that it is. I would invade Afghanistan and take over the poppy seed fields, using low-level, uneducated enlisted army soldiers to guard the fields: pawns and cannon fodder who don’t ask questions. This would ensure the oversight and continued controlled production of mood-altering and addictive opium-based prescription drugs like Valium, Xanax, Provigial, and other anti-depressants and anti-anxieties, as well as illicit and more deadly addictive compounds like heroin. The Opium of the masses, as they say…
10. I would promote abortion as birth control.
I (we) would incrementally push the logic and righteousness of abortion as a legitimate form of birth control, specifically in the less wanted ethnicity groups (African-American, Hispanic, etc…). In this way, population control of what we as eugenicist’s consider the lesser forms of the human species with respect to race, geographic location, and poverty levels could be accomplished through the enabling powers of cooperative group-think acceptance. Simultaneously, we would set up “Family Guidance” centers (like Planned Parenthood), mostly in these poorer neighborhoods, sponsored by apparently altruistic means (like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc…). By offering free and at cost “services” like counseling and abortion procedures, eugenics would become an unfathomed reality. Also, we would establish such clinics in third world populations and require through international law these services by local and world government (United Nations) decree. Denial of “mentally unstable”, single, or financially inadequate mothers to the privilege of bearing a child would be necessary, and so forced abortions and one child policies would become commonplace and even eventually acceptable. Constant propaganda through mass media and respected public figures would reinforce the fallacious and deceptive worldly perspective that over-population is on the verge of destroying the planet. Thus, we would ensure a non-empathetic response from the masses as we depopulated the planet. Abortion would play a key role in this effort, ensuring that only evolutionally superior races would substantially propagate.
11. I would incrementally set up a surveillance grid, systematically requiring a national ID card, RFID, and biometric identification measures, ultimately leading to a computerized, plugged-in, cashless society in a complete and total control grid.
Slowly building confidence in the public through the media and entertainment venues, shows like Cops, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Candid Camera, Cheaters, and “undercover investigative” news programs would be used to push public acceptance of the positive and entertaining effects that constant surveillance and closed circuit television (CCTV) have on a society through crime-prevention and security. “Reality shows” like Big Brother, The Real World, and many others would be created to downplay the intrusiveness of cameras in the home and to get the masses used to being under 24 hour surveillance. A total surveillance grid could then be slowly (incrementally) put into place – virtually under (or over) the noses of the public – in the form of traffic light cameras, built-in computer web-cameras, security cameras on every corner, cable box and video game console cameras, satellite high definition surveillance feeds, and eventually mandatory government monitored in-home cameras (first in child custody and criminal cases, and later for every home), as well as digital wireless wire taps, cell-phone conversation recordings, collection and filing of text messages and emails (in federal fusion centers), and tracking through GPS positioning on cell-phones, products, and ID cards containing RFID tags, RFID embedded car license plates and on-board services like On-star and other GPS based devices. Playing on the ease and convenience of ATM, credit card, radio frequency ID (RFID), microchip, and other paper-free solutions, I would then push to make cash an obsolete form of payment, incrementally phasing out paper money in lieu of bank cards, credit and biometric scanning (thumb, body, and eye scans). By creating a cashless society, all forms of payment could then be tracked without discrepancy, taxed without fail, clandestinely monitored for suspicious activities (against us), sold to product placement organizations, and would ensure that the privacy of cash transactions be abolished. In this way, a total control and tracking system of all money and wealth would be accomplished. If a citizen steps out of line or is found to be contemptuous of the puppet government or our new social order, this dissenter and anyone involved with him would be shut off, his credit and digital bank account drained, his life ruined or his rendition approved… squashing any rebellion before it can receive adequate funding or become an menace to us. Also, by requiring permits for any type of protest or group meetings or gatherings, no unapproved, underground, political, or dissenting clubs or groups would be able to be formed, and secrecy would be increasingly difficult for these groups to maintain. They could easily be infiltrated, assigned provocateurs and watchers, and be remotely listened to or spied upon through cell phones and other clandestine listening and recording devices.
12. I would ask citizens to monitor the actions of other citizens and offer rewards for tips and information, so that the people began to police themselves.
With the fear of being turned in or reported by their neighbors and friends, policies of conservation, curfew, housing conformity, rationing, wealth-sharing, auto maintenance, yard maintenance, diet guidelines, child welfare, association codes, criminal activity, public displays of emotion or affection, visitor logs, and general societal conformity would be strictly adhered to for fear of fines, confiscation, child custody loss, and imprisonment for violation of the law. Punishment would be a constant fear no matter where a citizen traveled. A small percent of the population would thrive on this type of “tattletale” behavior and feel empowered by it… and even volunteer to be trained as unpaid “thought police”. The use of RFID readers could be implemented here so that no cases of mistaken identity could take place, ensuring the total accuracy of citizen reporting (once the cataloging and mandatory RFID chipping of the population had taken place).
13. I would give law enforcement powers to private security firms and use them to police the masses.
Blackwater, Bid Patrol, and other private security mega firms and corporations would be given no-bid contracts to assist police in their patrol and monitoring of the citizenry, once presidential directives and legislature mixed with secretive martial law mandates were put into effect. I would give these private security patrols “stand down” power, meaning they would have authority over state and local police officers. Felons, disgruntled immigrants, ex-military, dishonorably discharged ex-military and police, and other undesirables in law enforcement would be sought after to fill the ranks of these security firms. This would accomplish the same loyalty to the security firm as it would to such organizations as the mafia, and ensure the willingness to fire upon, arrest, and force civilians into internment camps: innocent men, woman and children. Foreign soldiers would also be utilized (through the United Nations or similar global governing body), since firing upon and imprisoning a foreign populace is not as difficult as firing on your own countrymen.
14. I would start a media empire (like Hollywood) in order to subliminally project our views, policies, and propaganda through the entertainment industry.
We would write and produce books, movies, and television series that actually tell the people of our plans, but that are portrayed in a way that makes them seem fictional or even impossible. Thus, the masses would train themselves that terms like world government, conspiracy theory, New World Order, Illuminati, Free Masonry, secret societies, and Big Brother to name a few, are ridiculously unreal concepts and that the people who talk about them are crazy or insane conspiracy theorists. At the same time, these media outlets would covertly project our controversial themes and ideals such as global depopulation, eugenics, sterilization, quarantine and forced vaccination, the correctness of war, illogical patriotism towards these wars and the country, belief in the holocaust, placement of troops in the streets against the very Constitutional laws forbidding it, color (green) revolutions, political correctness, non-rebellion, anti-Constitutional views, pro-police state views, surveillance and tracking, positive or humorous drug and alcohol use, desensitization from blood, torture, police brutality, and violence, and many other global themes. I (we) would feminize the idea of the masculinity of men, promoting the positive aspects of homosexuality, and give the impression through television and movies that women are stronger and more intelligent than men, and that men are the unintelligent dreg of society.
15. I would degrade the quality of music and its lyrics to the point that, only through intense repetition and hype could a song be liked or accepted as popular music.
After incrementally purchasing or corporately taking over almost all of the radio stations in the country, as well as the corporations which produce, chart, and sell such music, I would only allow to be aired on radio those songs and bands whose lyrics were non-dissenting, non-anti-government, non-anti-war, and generally degrading towards women, police, family values and morals. By establishing a federal censoring hub (such as the CDC) I could ensure that only group approved themes and conforming lyrical messages get airplay. I would force popular music to be kid and high school oriented: so immature in fact, that older generations would not be able to relate to the childlike, unimpressive, and immature messages in the music. I would actively discredit culturally significant forms of music and label them as alternative, unpopular, or old. In retrospect, I would disassemble music programs in public schools through budget cuts to reinforce the cultural hole I’ve created by these actions, filling that hole with sports and other non-vocational activities and re-educational types of subjects. I would create nationally syndicated talent shows in order to let the “voting” public decide their favorite entertainer, and then contractually exploit their “choice” as the next big thing. I would ensure that drugs and alcohol be introduced and/or sustained within bands to ensure the short lived legendary status of truly great musicians and artists.
16. I would build a corporate empire out of the prison industry.
I would imprison at least 1% (1 out of 100 people = 3 million people) of the entire United States population and hold that minimum internment percentage on a permanent basis. I would in turn grant government and corporate business contracts to these private, state, and federally run prisons, essentially turning them into forced labor camps, paying much less than minimum wage and saving our corporate partners huge amounts of capital. Funding for the overhead of these prisons could easily be taken from each state tax fund, and this would continually help to keep states on an over-budget mode, forcing state debt to our central banks through their borrowing to pay for their falsely inflated budgets. I would project a sense of the righteousness of these prisons through media and entertainment, blacking out of the news the true nature of these facilities as indentured servitude, for-profit institutions.
17. I would form an international representative group of all countries (very much like the United Nations) in the name of international law, conservation, and humanitarian efforts to halt poverty and hunger… and slowly (incrementally) turn over the country, its military, and its laws to this group.
While the state and local propositions and laws would have the illusion of being decided by ballot initiatives as well as local and state legislature, I would ensure that through presidential directives, federal mandates, congressional billing, and senatorial decree, that the law and power structure in the United States and world-wide would be transferred steadily yet incrementally over time to this international, or new world government (order). I would keep this information secret from the public for as long as possible, and even project it (the U.N.) as weak and un-influential in world and U.S. policy through the controlled media.
18. I would implement social networking websites.
Sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube would be portrayed as the ultimate form of expression, where your virtual self can be free of physical constraints, and where you can say whatever you want without fear of persecution, castigation, or criminal charges. In reality, they would become voluntarily storable catalogs of each citizens’ personal information, tastes, likes, dislikes, product placement preferences, sexual preferences, criminal thought processes, buying habits, musical tastes, legal and illegal download and upload histories, future plans and travel destinations, conformity scale (susceptibility to brainwashing and hypnotic suggestion), opinions about their puppet government, and weather or not they have an actual comprehension of their ruling elite class (us).
19. I would slowly (incrementally) and covertly gain influence over religious institutions as a means to further control the easily suggestible church-going masses.
“What better way to conquer a nation, than to take away it’s spiritual release?” – The Fixx: 1986
I would place on the payroll and give airtime to the most charismatic of evangelical speakers to preach the word of God, as I would require it to be projected. In turn, these evangelists would subvert the churches and use their members by way of voting in elections for our interests on measures, initiatives, and for certain two-party candidates. Through a Federal regulatory body (like F.E.M.A.), I would institute a set of mandates to religious leaders, ideals like gun control, gun bans and confiscation, obeying the laws of the land no matter how tyrannical, and submitting to checkpoints and internment or “relocation” camps without crime or guilt in the case of quarantine or martial law. In turn, these mandates would be passed down to individual church ministers across the land, dubbed – Clergy Response Teams – which would include these mandates as part of their lessons and sermons. A general message to obey and submit to the government by decree of God would be disseminated through these institutions of faith, as well as the use of only non-violent, peaceful response or protest.
20. I would project a constant state of irrational fear onto the hearts and minds of all citizens through our corporate controlled media.
In a state of perpetual fear, hypnotized citizens would become compliant, develop controllable patriotism in support of warfare, and concede to the willingness to relinquish rights and freedoms in exchange for government protection and intervention… and to the loss of their individual liberties. Therefore, I would ensure that through lies, false flag (government staged) terrorist attacks, media propaganda, seemingly humanitarian efforts, and the alleged spread of freedom and democracy throughout the world, the perception of imminent threat be thrust onto the citizenry in return for their support of our corporate take-over of the world through military intervention and occupation. Our ownership of the media would ensure that the United States was always portrayed in a positive light, while the millions of innocent men, women, and children who are in the way of our progress are continuously bombed, killed, displaced, and forcibly removed from their homeland… blaming the terrorists (us) and insurgents (native people fighting to preserve their homeland we invade – or us playing this part) for the many war crimes and atrocities we deliver. After destroying the infrastructure of the country we occupy (the electric grid, water supply, gas lines, living conditions, food stocks, and supplies) I would award taxpayer funded no-bid contracts to our own corporations who would, in a deliberately slow and sub-standard fashion, rebuild the economy and restore the weakened (by us) infrastructure. I would place a U.S. government friendly leader or dictator in power who would have no recourse but to sign over the newly built up economy (food, mineral deposits, oil, water, etc…) as debt paid to the United States (or the United Nations) for our “help” in the restoration of the their country and its infrastructure (which again, we destroyed in the first place). If the new leader has a change of heart and refuses to continue to pay the debt at the expense of his peoples welfare, instead using the profits to actually help rebuild and assist in the livelihood of his or her people and country… we would simply invent a new reason to attack and occupy that country, assassinate or forcibly remove that U.S. funded and appointed leader or dictator, stage a political coo to remove the leader through subversion of the countries media or through our (CIA, MI6, or Mossad) assets, and start the whole process over again. I would continually stage nearly successful terrorist plots, which were narrowly avoided using “known terrorists” (our agents and assets) as suspects, and continuously televise these events. The continuance of these never-ending warlike operations, campaigns, and occupations would be necessary to keep the terror scheme in motion (but never actual declarations of war, since that would involve Geneva Convention war crimes and other human rights law protections and restrictions). Torture, indefinite imprisonment, rendition, assassination, and other usual “war crimes” would be incrementally publicized to the masses as acceptable forms of interrogation and prisoner management, since these are only crimes during “declared” wartime. However, the “War On Terror” would not fall under the category of declared war, but instead as an offensive and preventative measure for the protection of the homeland. The use of private security contractors (like Blackwater) for these actions would be most imperative for the success of this type psychological operation, since they are not subject to U.S. military law while serving privately in other foreign regions.
21. I would kill the 2nd Amendment, ban all guns and ammunition, and disarm the public.
Through news media, movies, uninformed “liberal” revolutions, and staged (false flag) shootings at schools and in public places, the right to own firearms would be challenged on a daily basis from all sides though the constant projection of these incidents. Gang shootings, domestic violence, crime, and suicide with gun-related angles would be the headlines and main stories on news programs, newspapers, and editorials by highly respected public figures and news-castors, which are actually change-agents on our (CIA) payroll. This increase in gun-related incidents would seem true due to our constant publicity of it, and despite the actual lessening of gun-violence statistics in America due to the fluoridated water supply, prescription anti-depressants and other calming medications, and through our psych campaigns. “Clergy response teams” (local priests and key religious figures) would be instructed to preach about the evil of gun-ownership, why they should be banned, and for good churchgoers to obey the laws of confiscation – and all “laws of the land”. Gun rights groups would be portrayed in a dark light through extremely emotionally disheartening anti-gun documentaries funded by us and pushed by the controlled media (though they appear to be grass-roots, very much like Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine”). The more these groups appeared to be outlawed and crazy, the more guns would be universally disliked. Of course, as board members and owners of the largest weapons manufacturing companies in the world, we would still distribute guns and other weapons to foreign countries we later intend to attack, occupy, use the armies of to invade other countries – including our own, or use them as large-scale media examples of why guns are evil. As with other Constitutional infringements, clandestine legislation would be passed in our corrupt, bought and paid for legislature long before the actual confiscations would take place, which would allow us to outlaw guns under “extraordinary circumstances”. Of course, we would then manufacture an extraordinary circumstance, event, plague, riot, revolution, or other reason to ban guns which would comply with that previous legislation, that would allow us to declare martial law if necessary, and to unconstitutionally place the military on public streets per that legislation. The logical incremental order of this process would be: (1) guns released into society by us to gangs and criminal elements, (2) hunting portrayed as cruelty to animals, (3) gun vilification, (4) gun registration, (5) mandatory licenses to carry a gun, (6) bullet registration, (7) automatic (machine) gun ban and confiscation, (8) semi-automatic gun ban and confiscation, (9) handgun confiscation, (10) collectable weapon confiscation, (11) hunting to be outlawed, (12) total rifle confiscation, (13) bow and arrow confiscation, (14) and finally knife and sword vilification and later (15) confiscation.
22. I would implement a psychological warfare campaign through all of my resources that would convince the masses that non-violent protest is the only politically correct form of dissent.
This is perhaps our most important objective, for keeping these naïve unsuspecting slaves under absolute dominative power and control by only a handful of men is absolutely required… for if even 2% of the people ever united as one and fought back against us with the 2nd Amendment behind them, they would without question defeat us and our goals. Despite the fact that the United States is celebrated as historically winning its independence only through violent revolution against England and its monarchy, and that it was written by one of it’s founders, Benjamin Franklin that, “Occasionally, the tree of liberty must be stained with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” I would convince the people that although we – as an elite minority – work completely outside of and free from the constraints of the laws that supposedly govern us all, they (the people) must work only from within them. This hidden paradox is the key to our success. Through red tape and corruption in the highest levels of the government and in the court system, we would ensure that no punishment or consequences would befall any in our faction. Though we would allow for protests and dissenting views, they would receive no media attention and would eventually only be allowed in what we might call “free-speech zones”, by permission of a permit, and under police surveillance in a blocked off area away from the actual thing being protested. We would portray these dissenters as racist, unpatriotic, violent extremists, and anti-American. We would actively portray militia groups in the same light. We would make movies like ‘Gandhi’, which would reinforce the fact that non-violent protest is actually a viable form of implementing change, though in truth much violence ensued during that particular part of history, and no peaceful resistance has ever changed or replaced a government. We would use deterrents like police brutality and the arresting of protesters as scare tactics to prevent others from protesting at later dates. Once again, conformity would be garnered and the feeling of helplessness would be etched into the patriot movement since they would gain no access to our controlled medias, except the dark light that I would allow to be shown on them. Only the craziest fringe elements of these groups would be given the media spotlight, as well as our imposters and provocateurs posing as parts of these groups, discrediting the rest of the movement in the eyes of our media viewers. Lastly, under the guise of some unfathomable and improvable medical benefit, I would poison the country’s water supply with a toxin that would subdue its victims, ensuring complacency and eliminating the urge to fight back against our tyranny. Fluoride would be the ideal substance for this, since it was tested and worked beautifully in the Nazi concentration camps and in other tests on populations and prisoners in the early 1900’s. It also has the added benefit of causing osteoporosis and other toxic bone and tissue disease, which would increase profits in our medical and pharmaceutical endeavors. And, since fluoride is the waste product of the aluminum industry, our conglomerates will save millions of dollars from not having to dispose of this highly toxic substance, and instead would make a profit from selling this byproduct to the government. Everyone wins!
23. I would destroy man’s symbiotic connection and dependence on nature, replacing it with a dependence on my corporations, products, and institutions which would actually purge over time the ancient and intimate knowledge of farming, ranching, and natural medicines and healing, and eliminate the peoples capability of real self-sustainability, ethics, respect for nature, and even their love for one another.
“They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum, and charge us all a dollar and a half to see them… They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” – Joni Mitchell
By transforming the rugged natural terrain and beauty of rural areas, cities, and communities into landscaped, manicured, manufactured, and easily recognizable or familiar settings (i.e. strip malls, grocery stores, fast food, department stores, recognizable chain stores, etc…) the feeling of comfort and unending sustenance would be established. So much so in fact, that roads would merely become paths to the next set of the same brand name stores, and travelers would be disappointed at having to try something new. Vacationers would begin to prefer a hotel with a chlorinated pool as opposed to natural beauty of a lakeside cabin. They would begin to leave unpopulated areas alone, except to populate them with more of the same. They would begin to care less about these wild places, not even noticing as species extinction, depopulation, mass pollution, and deforestation was taking place. And since I or my colleagues and co-conspirators would own the majority of environmental foundations and clubs, this type of news would never even reach the ears of the average consumer, and they would instead be sold on protecting species who need no protection at all. For instance, I would force farmers off their land by denying them water, making the land worthless to grow food. I would simply make these now liberalized consumers believe that a fish or bird, which was dependent on that water for its very survival, was going extinct due to the divergence of that water. No proof would be needed as long as it was presented in an emotional media campaign backed by our environmental groups. The water would be diverted by legislative act, the land would dry up, the farmers and their families would be forced to move off the newly infertile and dry farmland, and the vacant land would be ripe for the picking so to speak, under the guise of a drought or water crisis. Food shortages would be a welcome side effect of this land grab, making food prices soar and only benefiting our corporate partners, not to mention some starvation leading to more depopulation. A general lack of appreciation for nature would thus ensue, and would even manifest in the most inundated of city dwellers as abhorrence for anything natural, dirty, or living (animals, bugs, weeds, dirt, etc…). Un-manicured or uninhabited wild areas within or on the edge of these cities would be considered dirty and uncivilized. These still natural unpopulated areas would then lose value, both organically and monetarily, leaving vast expanses of undesirable land to be bought up by our companies for pennies on the dollar. Concern for those who we would force off of these sparse locations, families who might have settled that land hundreds of years previous, would be non-existent due to our control of the media. I would use eminent domain to forcibly buy their property either in the name of conservation or for government need. I would then, after a necessary period of time, use that land for mining, drilling, logging, factories, highways, or other reasons and resource management which were opposite of the supposed altruistic reasons that we originally acquired it. In this way, I would eventually force all people to live in the unnatural, unappealing, unhealthy, competitive, socialistic, non-self-sustaining, and smart grid biometrically wired mega-cities I would incrementally set up.
In a setting of constant competition, the system of ethics in the workplace could be suppressed or even eliminated. In a “dog-eat-dog-world” which I would create… manipulation, cutting corners, and even lying, cheating and stealing would be rewarded with promotion, praise and bonuses. Persons who either through proper upbringing or are morally and ethically idealistic by nature, would be forced to conform, quit, or become stagnant in their workplace. I would project this noble value system as unproductive, making it appear weak in the eyes of business management – though the opposite is true – so that non-conformity to the competitive system would leave the most strong-willed of people in a constant state of melancholy and dejection, never being able to get ahead. This would ensure only the most ruthless competitors would remain in charge, and serve to ensure that this competitive, non-ethical work environment would ultimately stay in place… eventually without even our supervision. As before, re-education in schools, media, and entertainment venues would be used to reinforce this conundrum. ‘From the top’ memos and propaganda from our CEO’s and board member meetings would also be used to strengthen this resolve and underpin these desired non-ethics, which would be repeated over and over again by news anchors and portrayed in television and film for reinforcement.
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This not-so-fictional work is very much what I see happening in this country today. Through the organizations and funds of the United Nations, our country has incrementally lost its independence from foreign domination. Be it England and its queen or the United Nations and its ambassadors, the effectual tyrannical rule is the same. The cost is astounding. And the loss of liberty is unacceptable. Our military is now under the control of this world governing body, and is unconstitutionally being used to patrol our streets and occupy the world. Our leaders are under its influence, and its policies are now our own.
The only way to stop this tyranny and to regain our sovereignty as a free nation is for the people to stand up as one united group and demand from our leaders that the United States, its government, and its legislature must immediately and unequivocally withdraw from the United Nations with no-strings-attached. The longer we wait, the more ingrained we will be in U.N. sanctions and red tape, and the harder it will be to get out. This is our last chance as an independent country; for the policies of this wicked organization has all but engulfed our constitution, our rights, and our freedoms with its anti-sovereign, pro eugenic agendas. If we don’t make a stand against our own corrupt government and this horrific United Nations stranglehold over our country, then the concept of America as a free and sovereign nation is all but over.
Freedom is not free. We must fight for it… together.
I hope that it is not too late.
God speed.
Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
September 16, 2009
*** My wholehearted thanks to the true heroes, researchers, and patriots like Alex Jones, Steve Quayle, Mike Rivero, Alan Watt, Ron Paul, and so many others before them who have risked or lost their lives in the uncovering, publication, and exposing of these elites and their horrific agendas of which I speak, and which I assure you without hesitation are as real as you or me. They have opened my eyes to reality, and because of them I can attest that the truth will indeed set you free. Please turn off your televisions (controlled media outlets) and visit and support these brave people by clicking on their names, which will link to their websites. Read, listen, learn, and be free…