[email hidden] (Steve Harris [email hidden])
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Quoted message said:
Really? If *I* live in a fascist state, how come I have a pretty nice
legal gun collection, including all kinds of pistols and semiautomatic
weapons, whereas you live in a place where the laws keep you more or
less helpless? I'm the one that can buy all kinds of megadose
vitamins, herbs and whatnot without a prescription, remember?
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Warning To The World
About The New America
By Baldknobber
11-7-3
For years I have told Americans to wake up and see what was happening
to
their country before it was too late for America. Now it is time for
me to tell
the world to wake up about America before it is too late for them.
I have been aware of a disturbing change in the US government for the
last 12
years. It seems that the world has slept through this change and does
not
realize what America has become. I will outline some major problems,
go into
specific subjects and cite examples of how America has changed, yes,
we are indeed
no longer free. Much of what is written in this report is from my own
personal experience.
This is a warning to the world to watch out for the new America.
America is
no longer the moral guardian you knew it to be, in recent years
America has
become a tyrant unprecedented.
Control Of Media
The American press can no longer be trusted. When the Government
passed the
Telecommunications act of 1996, it allowed consolidation of the media
and
control of all information received by the people to a small group of
sources. This
showed itself as large media mergers and virtually all information was
soon
controlled by the same small group of people. In June of 2003
additional
legislation was passed which now allows all the news to be controlled
from a single
source. The day I typed this I called CN8 live, a national cable news
program
to speak on the air. They took my personal information including name,
address
and phone number. They then hung up and called me back to verify that
I
really was at that address. They then said something that scared me
half to death,
They said that if I did not stay on subject and say what I told them I
would
say that they would "notify the authorities". I am someone who has
called news
programs frequently in the past, and that never happened before. Itís
obviously a new policy. So much for a free press.
Police Brutality
I know a man who manages a store close to where I live. His brother
has a
sixteen year old boy and seven year old girl. Outside his brotherís
house some
police were beating a man who was laying down on the road and not
fighting back.
The sixteen year old opened the window and shouted at the police,
telling
them that they were doing too much and that they did not need to beat
the man so
hard.
They did not let up, instead they kicked in the door to the house and
assaulted the boy. So now they were beating up the man on the street
and beating up
the kid in the house. The seven year old girl ran to the officer who
kicked in
the door and tried pulling him off her brother. The officer pushed her
away so
hard that she hit the wall and broke her arm. It never made the news.
This is
not an isolated incident, it is the new America. Contrast this with
the
glossy happy-go-lucky "police are great and accountable for their
actions" media
coverage on shows like Real TV and "Cops", there is much more to the
truth than
we are allowed to see.
In the past I had heard stories like this from strangers but did not
believe
them until I heard it from someone I knew well. Indeed the foreign
governments
who have started to call the US a police state are much more correct
than
they realize. I am waiting for them to have the courage to say it
without
retracting comment.
Asset Forfeiture
America has a new policy towards personal property called "asset
forfeiture".
This is the act of confiscating property without a trial. The way it
works is
this: The police accuse you of a crime and take whatever they say you
had in
your possession when the alleged crime was committed. This could be a
vehicle
such as a boat or car, or a computer, or even your house. You have to
go to
court to prove your innocence to get it back, and if you win your case
you have
to pay a return fee which is usually 50% of the property value. If
they take a
car that was worth 12,000 you will have to pay 6,000 to get it back.
If you c
annot afford the 6,000 they will sell it at auction to "recover" their
"funds". If you have a loan or mortgage on the property they sell at
auction, you are
still obligated to pay the bank for what you no longer have.
This happens frequently and the evidence is easy to find. Go to Google
and
type the search term "US government auctions" or "asset forfeiture
auction" or
pick any state and add the word auction. The auctions are everywhere,
selling
property seized from people who were often judged by the courts
innocent.
If you are a property owner with tenants in a 200 room apartment
complex and
one of the tenants gets arrested in an apartment for possession of
drugs or
stolen property, or committing a crime such as calling a prostitute to
his room,
the city or state can take the apartment building away from the owner
who was
not involved in any way and say that the property committed the crime
and
therefore needed to be taken. Confiscation of large complexes has
happened more
than once, confiscation of single family rental houses and private
homes is
frequent.
Forcing A Crime
It has become common for a judge to force a crime. The way this is
done is to
issue a civil judgement that cannot possibly be implemented by the
person the
judgement is against. When the person the judgement is issued against
fails
to implement the judgement, a civil matter becomes criminal due to
"contempt of
court". This is commonplace in family law when a man is forced to pay
ìchild
supportî Child support judgements often leave a man with less than 20
percent
of his income after taxes, despite the 50% rule. This forces the
person the
judgement is against to make a decision - pay "child support" as
ordered and
suffer severe hardship, often including dependence on friends or being
homeless
or living in a car or camper, or get behind on "child support" and
become a
"criminal" due to contempt of court.
Violation Of Ex Post Facto
In the constitutional republic the United States used to be, there was
a rule
of ex post fato which prevented any government, be it federal state or
local
from writing retroactive laws. But since 1987 there has been a new and
disturbing trend.
The federal government along with many states and municipalities has
started
to write and enact retroactive laws. As an example, let's say that in
1998 you
painted your house and at that time it was legal to paint your house
without
a permit. If in 2003 your municipality writes a retroactive law that
states
that you now needed a permit to paint your house, and makes it
retroactive to
1995, you will be in violation and guilty of breaking the law in 1998.
Retroactive laws are commonplace now and are usually enacted in the
areas of
taxes, family policy, and land usage. It is a frequent event now to
have
people suddenly discover they owe huge sums of money or are now
subject to
punishment for doing things that were legal when they did them.
The public tolerance of the now commonplace violations of ex post
facto has
opened an avenue through which governmental bodies are prosecuting
people for
violations they did not commit, collecting taxes that were never owed
and
seizing properties which were "improperly used" in the past.
Legislation Without Representation
Starting in the late 1980's, most states authorized the practice of
legislation without representation. It is standard practice now for
un-elected people
in state agencies to enact policy and write laws that were never voted
on,
approved, or asked for by the public. Legislation without
representation often
takes place in secret, with the public unaware of what is happening
until the new
law is put in place and enforced. This has removed accountability from
government and allowed serious abusive practices to be implemented
without the
presence of any individual or group to be held accountable.
My own personal experience with legislation without representation
occurred
when I calculated that over 80 percent of my income was being taken in
taxes
and "child support" for two children. I called the child support
agency and
asked them who wrote the laws that made such a thing possible. I
wanted to know
which senator, representative or other elected official was
responsible for
enacting such a draconian policy.
The state agent replied: "The child support statutes were enacted by
this
child support agency and have nothing to do with elected officials. As
for the
individuals who write the policy, you are not permitted to know who is
involved".
This most serious practice, probably the one that has destroyed our
freedom
the most, is occurring everywhere through many avenues, not only
"child
support". Legislation without representation allows a corrupt
government to thrive
because the people who write the legislation are employees of the
government who
work in secret, will never be held accountable and cannot be voted out
of
office.
In a democracy, the people can effect change by voting the people who
are
going against their will out of power. Legislation without
representation
circumvents the democratic process and takes the will of the people
out of
government. Due to the now common practice of legislation without
representation,
America can no longer be considered a true democracy.
Road Closures
In the back country they are closing down the roads to limit access.
If you
get caught riding even a bicycle on the road beyond the barrier,
having left
you car at the barrier, they will confiscate the bike, the car, and
throw you in
prison, and you will lose everything 100%. I was familiar with the
back
country of the intermountain west and noticed that around 1996 the
road closures
began to happen. I believe the closures are an attempt to
de-familiarize the
public with alternate routes of escape in the event of a police
lockdown or
martial law. They also closed down any road that led to safe water in
remote
regions. In High School, I had a German teacher who was alive during
[censored]'s reign
and she said that [censored] closed down access to the wilderness areas
after the
Reichstag was burned which proved to be an effective method of
eliminating
resistance from the portion of the population which did not agree with
him. She
warned us to never let it happen here.
Road closures are usually done with very large immovable barriers such
as
boulders or trenches and signs warning of what will happen if you get
caught
attempting to travel beyond them.
Citizen Spies
In the name of fighting terrorism, the so-called "department of
homeland
security" has employed a network of citizen spies who may have in
reality been
hired to identify people who are upset with the new government
policies. When the
Reichstag was burned, [censored] also set up his network of citizen spies.
Was
Sep11 a Reichstag? One thing is certain, the videos you can download
now are not
the same as the ones I downloaded on Sep12. Immediately after Sep11
they
clearly showed explosives going off in sequence, bringing the
buildings down in a
perfect demolition wave. Most of the ones you can find now no longer
show the
explosions, they have been "photoshopped" out.
Terror is a common tactic or excuse used by oppressive governments to
get the
people to give up their freedoms for a little bit of security. [censored]
used
this tactic after the burning of the Reichstag to justify the military
actions
he took in the opening days of World War II. To keep the population
safe from
terror, [censored] also employed his network of citizen spies who did
little but
turn their neighbors in for expressing dissenting views.
Common Police Searches
It has become commonplace now for police to stop people for no reason
and
search them. This began long before Sep11. This has happened to me
personally
three times, once at a roadblock, once when I was walking on my way to
work, and
once when I was sleeping in my van due to homelessness caused by a
divorce. It
would have happened many times, but I got good at spotting the
roadblocks -
just look for a traffic jam with evenly timed cars coming toward you
in the
opposite lane. Normally, the traffic jam would be long enough to allow
me to pull
a u-turn without being seen. I never did anything wrong, but I hate
those
road blocks.
Anonymous Accusation
In recent years, Federal, state and local law enforcement bodies have
started
arresting and punishing people due to anonymous accusations. Now when
you
show up in court you have no right to know who has accused you of a
crime.
Without any chance of any repercussions, individuals, groups and
organizations now
commonly issue accusations to get revenge, gain unfair advantage, or
simply
because they were going on assumption rather than actually being
witness.
The right to know your accuser was a cornerstone of American justice;
it
created an environment which brought accountability to legal
prosecution. Without
it, people are now going to jail, being fined, and losing their
children in
civil disputes without ever knowing why.
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