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GANGSTER GOVERNMENT CHRONICLES: The Hit List Government

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Mark Adams
GCN Live.com

Part Three: Disturbing Evidence of FBI Secret Spy Program.

Is Your Clergyman an FBI Informant??
Salt Lake City Attorney Jesse Trentadue has obtained startling evidence that reveals an FBI secret surveillance program that is not intended to target violations (or even suspected violations) of federal law but nonetheless is so sweeping, so pervasive, it includes instructions on how to recruit clergy members, staff members of Congressman and Senators, White House staff, staff members to federal judges, and staff members to defense attorneys – particularly those engaged in high-profile criminal cases. Confidential informants are also recruited from national media outlets.

FBI’s rogue spy apparatus flagrantly subverts our most cherished rights. In a recent court filing Mr. Trentadue explained:

FBI Defendant’s practice of using private citizens as spies in the media, on defense teams, in religious organizations … is designed to and does result in the circumvention of the protections guaranteed to American citizens by the Bill of Rights and the Separation of Powers Doctrine.

When Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Request for all documents related to FBI use of Sensitive Informants secretly deployed in national news media, clergy, etc. he expected the FBI to respond with denials of ever practicing such blatantly unconstitutional activities. Instead the FBI provided him with pages taken from internal publications including:

• Confidential Human Source Validation Standards Manual
• Corporate Policy Directive
• Confidential Human Source Policy Manual

Many of the pages were heavily redacted due to alleged concerns of “national security.” Jesse Trentadue eviscerated this facetious claim by responding: “it is difficult to see how spying on the media, Senators, Congressmen or federal judges advances national security.” He is now suing the FBI to obtain full disclosure.

The pernicious FBI surveillance program assumes an even more sinister threat when one recalls from earlier editions of the Gangster Government Chronicles criminal activities that were carefully orchestrated by the government gangsters:

In 1979 IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz was caught lying about the need for an armed shakedown of a small town community by gun-toting IRS agents based upon the compilation of a list that allegedly identified citizens eager for a gun fight.

In 1986 the IRS ordered a secret booklet destroyed when it was leaked to the public. A federal court later ruled that the IRS document contained “sensitive and defamatory material which could have been expected to seriously damage the reputation of persons named therein.”

The NSA recently tried to imprison whistleblowers who warned the public about NSA’s plans to spy on every citizen. In Bluffdale, Utah the NSA continues to build a massive spy center. With advanced technology, surveillance state USA will make old style Soviet spying on fellow citizens look like a harmless prank.

The tentacles of Gestapo mentality are everywhere. If the Gestapo mentality is not abolished by the will of the citizens it will destroy whatever precious liberty and freedom that still remain.

“A nation of sheep will be ruled by wolves.” – Alex Jones

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NRA Running Scared After Sandy Hook Shooting

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Kurt Nimmo
GCN Live.com
December 17, 2012

The National Rifle Association, which has claimed for years to be the preeminent champion of the Second Amendment, shut down its Facebook page following the shooting in Connecticut last week. The NRA has also stopped posting on Twitter.

Prior to the shooting, the gun rights organization boasted of having 1.7 million likes on Facebook.

As we noted last week, there was a tsunami of tweets calling for the murder of David Keene, the president of the NRA, following the murders. “Calling for more senseless violence and murder will not bring these shooting victims back to life, neither will enacting stricter gun laws that shooters obviously do not follow when they commit these terrible crimes in the first place anyway,” Melissa Melton wrote for Infowars.com.

The NRA’s social media silence is likely a calculated response to a barrage of anti-gun messages on both Facebook and Twitter. In other words, the NRA apparently believes retreat and silence are preferable to responding to the irrational hysteria of the anti-gun crowd.

“The Daily Dot noted on Friday that the Facebook page had turned into a hotbed of anti-gun sentiment in the wake of the shooting, which may be what prompted the NRA to take it down,” Will Oremus writes for Slate today.

“Some have accused the organization of cowardice for taking down the Page and ceasing to tweet,” writes Josh Constine for Techcrunch. “However, this crisis-management strategy may be succeeding. It’s prevented creating a centralized place under the NRA banner where perspectives of its independent supporters could have been taken as its own. The last thing the NRA wants is to be characterized as sharing an extremist or offensive position posted by someone who doesn’t speak for it or the rest of its fans. Other brands and organizations might follow the NRA’s lead by retreating from social media when they face times of crisis.”

Despite a “war on its wall,” the NRA’s response can only be viewed as unprincipled retreat and surrender to the anti-gun crowd.

The NRA launched a tepid response to the vitriol of Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock, who told CNN’s Roland Martin the NRA is comparable to the Ku Klux Klan.

Instead of using Whitlock’s tirade against the Second Amendment to underscore the viciousness of the anti-gun crowd’s agenda, the NRA issued a polite response.

“In the future we hope that Whitlock and others educate themselves on the sordid history of gun control, along with the defensive use of firearms during the civil rights era, before making inflammatory comments about an organization that has worked for generations to protect the rights of all people,” the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action blogged on December 6.

The NRA has demonstrated in the past that it is willing to compromise with enemies of the Second Amendment.

In 2010, the organization came out in support of HR 5667, the Firearms, Microstamping, Evaluation and Study Act. “Gun control advocates believe microstamping technologies combined with a registration list of guns and their owners would create a rapid identification system for firearms used in crime,” Illinois Gun reported on September 27, 2010.

The NRA also threw its weight behind the unconstiutiuonal firearms background check system. In 2007, the organization teamed up with notorious gun-grabbers such as Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Charles Schumer to push through a bill to “fix” the background check system.

“We’ll work with anyone, if you protect the rights of law-abiding people under the second amendment and you target people that shouldn’t have guns,” NRA chief Wayne LaPierre told CBS News.

“The NRA habitually rubs elbows with other declared gun-grabbers, for instance Chucky Schumer and Pat Leahy,” we noted at the time.

Instead of running scared from the gun-grabbers and their irrational and emotional supporters, the NRA would do better to confront them head-on. If that response entails hiring an army of people to post principled pro-Second Amendment responses on its Facebook wall, then the NRA should expend the extra effort.

What are we expected to think when the supposed preeminent gun rights organization backs down at the very moment enemies of the Constitution exploit a national tragedy to empower their effort to ultimately rob Americans of their natural right to self-protection – not only against insane psychopaths but also a tyrannical government?

Tags: conspiracy, police state, U.S. politics
Posted in Fed Watch

Gunman Targeting Nursery School 20 Miles from Newtown

Monday, December 17th, 2012

GCN Live.com
December 17, 2012

Reuters reported early today that schools in Ridgefield, Connecticut, are in lockdown due to a report of a “suspicious person.” Ridgefield is 20 miles from Newtown where a mentally deranged man went on a shooting rampage last week.

The Mirror in the UK reported the person as a “second gunman” who was “feared to be on the loose today and targeting a nursery school.”

“We’re looking for a suspicious person at an elementary school,” said a dispatcher at the Ridgefield Police Department, according to the Mirror.

“Due to a report of a possibly suspicious person in the Branchville Train Station area, all schools have been put into lockdown,” Ridgefield Superintendent Deborah Low said in a statement.

Tags: U.S. politics, war on terror
Posted in Fed Watch

VIDEO: Alex Confronts Feds After Threat To Arrest Infowars Photographer

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

Officials concede it is First Amendment right to film federal property

Steve Watson
GCN Live.com
December 12, 2012

When an Infowars photographer was ordered not to film a judicial building by a suited federal official, Alex Jones himself decided to take matters into his own hands and confront the feds to tell them that photography and filming is not a crime in America.

Magazine Graphic Artist Molly Maroney was photographing surveillance cameras at the Homer Thornberry Judicial Building in Austin Texas recently. Although she was standing on a public sidewalk, and not interfering in any way with the operations of the building, she was told that it was not legal to film federal property, and that she may be arrested if she did not leave.

As we have repeatedly highlighted, filming and photographing is protected under the First Amendment. There is no expectation of privacy, and filming federal property, federal employees, police or any public servants is not illegal in the United States. Not only did a First Court of Appeals ruling last year re-confirm this, but a recent Supreme Court decision also upheld the right to film.

Having encountered this before from the feds, Alex decided that enough was enough, and marched down to the building to confront them on their own turf.

After launching into an impromptu public tirade in front of the building, a security officer emerged only to tell Alex and his crew that he was absolutely aware that filming the building was a First Amendment right, even admitting that he was a listener of Alex’s radio show and a fan of Infowars!

The crew headed inside the federal building in an effort to locate the suited official who had threatened Molly Maroney with arrest.

After being initially told they were not allowed to film in the building, Alex explained the situation to the officials, and they admitted that the Infowars crew was within their rights to film the building and that the suited official had no right to threaten reporters with arrest for doing so.

The case highlights the fact that even though the law allows reporters to film and photograph in public, they are continually being harassed every day for doing so.

A man was recently arrested in California for recording police, sparking outrage as he was jailed four days.

A soldier in Georgia was arrested for filming police on the basis that he was ‘obstructing’ law enforcement activities (he was documenting while questioning police during a traffic stop).

Independent reporter and publisher of the Maui Time Weekly was arrested in Hawaii for ‘obstructing’ while filming police from a distance while they pulled over vehicles, reportedly for petty traffic violations.

Earlier in 2012, the founder of CopBlock.org was sentenced to some 3 months in jail for ‘wiretapping’ in New Hampshire. The organization seeks to hold police accountable by filming their actions.

These are just a smattering of cases.

The age of cell phone cameras and live streaming video has placed extra scrutiny on the behaviour of police and federal officials.

It is paramount that we stand up to such bullying and intimidation tactics, and exert our rights in such situations. Indeed, no more fitting than in these situations is the term “Use them or lose them”.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

Tags: alex jones, police state, U.S. politics
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Lawsuit: Use of “Taser is not unconstitutional when used to compel obedience”

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Cop fired weapon into chest of handcuffed woman at point blank range

Steve Watson
GCN Live.com
December 11, 2012

Cops and attorneys have argued in an ongoing lawsuit that the use of a taser at point blank range on a handcuffed woman does not constitute assault with dangerous weapon, and ” that the use of a Taser is not unconstitutional when used to compel obedience by inmates.”

The arguments were made as part of a motion to dismiss charges against an Oklahoma police officer in a civil suit brought by Nakina Williams following an incident in June.

Officer Sterling Taylor-Santino was filmed tasering Williams in the chest at point blank range while she was already under custody with her hands cuffed behind her back at the Pittsburg County Jail.

Watch the video:

Following the incident, Willams was charged with felony assault and battery on a police officer, and expectorating on a police officer, as well as public intoxication. She was given a 10-year suspended sentence.

In October, officer Taylor was charged with felony assault and battery against Williams who filed suit, seeking over $2 million in damages.

The court records, obtained by the McAlester News Capital, show that Williams’ attorneys contend that the officer violated her civil and constitutional rights.

“The use of force used by Taylor, in shooting Williams with a Taser while she was handcuffed, constitutes an unreasonable and excessive use of force in violation of (her) constitutional rights as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and Amendments,” the suit alleges.

Officer Taylor’s attorney contends that he “used the Taser in the manner in which (it) was intended to be used” and that the information in Williams’ case does not prove that a taser is a dangerous weapon.

Taylor’s motion also makes the claim that the use of the weapon in such a fashion does not violate constitutional rights because he was trained as a police officer that it was within the law to use the weapon to control a dangerous or violent subject.

Because Williams spat at Taylor, he was within his rights to use the taser, as he was attempting to “control her behavior,” rather than purposefully injure her, argues the attorney.

“While it can certainly be argued that (Taylor) was in error as to whether this was an appropriate circumstance to deploy the Taser, the motion states, “There is no evidence that he acted with an intent to injure any person.”

Williams’ lawsuit also states that when officer Taylor stopped tasing her, he yanked out the barbs, which were embedded in her left breast, leaving scarring. Normally officers are required to take the suspect to hospital to remove the barbs.

The lawsuit also claims that Taylor lied on his report of the incident.

“In his ‘use of force report,’ (Mr Taylor-Santino) sought to cover up and/or conceal his actions… by omitting that (Ms Williams) was handcuffed when she was shot with the taser,” the suit alleges.

“As a result, he was found to have acted ‘within policy’ by police department officials.”

The lawsuit also alleges that Taylor has a “violent work history”, and that a “disproportionate number” of “allegations of excessive force” have been filed against him.

According to the McAlester police department, officer Taylor has been put on desk duty until court the proceedings are over.

As we have highlighted many times, tasers are designed to be used in emergency situations only, as a last resort before lethal force.

Despite Taser International’s claims to the contrary, numerous studies over recent years have proven that Taser stun guns can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.

Recently, two police officers in Texas tasered a man who was having a seizure, causing the 50-year-old to suffer a heart attack and permanent brain damage. The cops were so ill equipped to deal with the situation, that they broke out tasers and shocked a man who was already convulsing on the ground.

It took paramedics 11 minutes to revive the man and bring back his pulse. It is a miracle he is still alive, though he will now have to live with severe disabilities for the rest of his life.

Last month it was revealed that a Los Angeles woman who was stopped by police had a heart attack and almost died after the officers tasered her when she refused to allow them to search through her personal belongings.

It is endless amounts of these kind of incidents that show cops are not being trained to use tasers only in situations when they are threatened. They are using the weapons on anyone who does not immediately respond to orders, and now even contending that it is constitutional to force obedience with a taser.

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Tags: police state, U.S. politics
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