CYBERDECK 13 / EARTH•••Technology, Insight, Gauge, Evaluate, Review, Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape •••2009-06-21T21:01:33ZUser 308http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v308/OrgSpace NewsLogWho watches the watchman?
With all of the hullabaloo concerning/surrounding the Iranian 'elections,' the use of twitter to broadcast student 'events/riots' in the streets of Tehran (No where else it would seem), and with memories of COINTELPRO, the SHAH, the CIA's involvement in toppling governments it's owners don't l... With all of the hullabaloo concerning/surrounding the Iranian 'elections,' the use of twitter to broadcast student 'events/riots' in the streets of Tehran (No where else it would seem), and with memories of COINTELPRO, the SHAH, the CIA's involvement in toppling governments it's owners don't like, and the realities of American blood and guts reality show comsumerism on mind... I thought this article might find some interest here at the supposed New Civilization (New?) Ratworks...
Introduction: Who watches the watchman?
COINTELPRO and the federal government’s clandestine attack on the U.S. constitution
By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 16, 2009
I wonder how many Americans actually remember or are even aware of the excesses of government intrusion during the Vietnam era -- the FBI's COINTELPRO, the CIA's Operation Chaos (later known as "Family Jewels"), the NSA's Operation Minaret, and U.S. Army spying on civilians, as exposed by Christopher Pyle in 1970? All of these were domestic operations carried out against American citizens within the borders of the United States.
And all were ILLEGAL, prohibited by the law of the time. The "inconvenience" of mere law and legalisms, however, didn't stop local law enforcement authorities and the various intelligence agencies during the administrations of Lyndon Johnson and especially Richard Nixon from mobilizing and carrying out illegal wiretaps, break-ins, mail tampering, frame-ups, character assassinations, and, in at least one stunning incident, the real assassination of a charismatic young African-American activist leader, Fred Hampton, by FBI and Chicago police.
A measure of our government's attack on the Bill of Rights and rule of law was documented by the Church Commission in 1975-76. The commission's findings were published in 14 volumes. Very thick volumes filled with chilling specifics.
Introduction:
Who watches the watchman?
COINTELPRO and the federal government’s clandestine attack on the U.S. constitution
By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / June 16, 2009
I wonder how many Americans actually remember or are even aware of the excesses of government intrusion during the Vietnam era -- the FBI's COINTELPRO, the CIA's Operation Chaos (later known as "Family Jewels"), the NSA's Operation Minaret, and U.S. Army spying on civilians, as exposed by Christopher Pyle in 1970? All of these were domestic operations carried out against American citizens within the borders of the United States.
And all were ILLEGAL, prohibited by the law of the time. The "inconvenience" of mere law and legalisms, however, didn't stop local law enforcement authorities and the various intelligence agencies during the administrations of Lyndon Johnson and especially Richard Nixon from mobilizing and carrying out illegal wiretaps, break-ins, mail tampering, frame-ups, character assassinations, and, in at least one stunning incident, the real assassination of a charismatic young African-American activist leader, Fred Hampton, by FBI and Chicago police.
A measure of our government's attack on the Bill of Rights and rule of law was documented by the Church Commission in 1975-76. The commission's findings were published in 14 volumes. Very thick volumes filled with chilling specifics.
I first got to know FBI operating procedures "up close and personal" when in 1967-68 I was indicted on three fabricated federal charges, tried in a "kangaroo" court without due process, convicted, and sentenced to six years in federal prison. My REAL "crime": I was co-founder and editor of one of the earliest underground newspapers in the United States, a small, but apparently very effective weekly published in a part of the American heartland where anti-war and pro-civil rights/social justice views were considered subversive, and the First Amendment only existed for those who proudly displayed their "Bomb 'Em Back to the Stone Age" bumper stickers.
My conviction was literally thrown out of the federal appeals court in 1969; the three-judge panel scolded the U.S. attorney for prosecutorial misconduct during the hearing, then also added a reprimand to the trial judge in a strongly worded written decision.
Yet the damage to me already had been achieved when the government imprisoned me during the beginning of the appeal process, and I was unable to continue as editor of the underground newspaper I helped start.
On the other hand, what I assume to be the government’s main objective — to silence a small dissident weekly newspaper — failed when a courageous young man named Mike King – the same Michael King who currently is news editor of the Austin Chronicle – agreed to take over the editorship. Because of the tenacity and extraordinary dedication of a battle-tested staff, our little newspaper survived COINTELPRO's best shot and continued to publish its progressive message week after week, despite ongoing and relentless attacks from the right. Eventually the everyday folks of the heartland came to reject the government's tone-deaf policies and began to embrace the belief that racial injustice and the Vietnam War did not represent either American values or national interests.
My next experience with FBI investigative techniques came a couple years later in New York City when federal agents removed my next-door neighbor from his apartment and installed themselves and a battery of listening devices aimed at my apartment. I discovered the bugging operation when I became suspicious about the trench coats and "suits" moving in and out of my neighbor's sixth-floor tenement walk-up apartment.
One night I heard a commotion in the hallway outside the two apartments and peeked out the front door peep hole. I saw several men, all dressed in London Fog, leaving the apartment. So I decided to do my own investigation. Crawling out on the fire escape, I looked in through the neighbor’s living room window. Through a gap in the curtains, I could see glowing VU meters and moving tape reels lit up in the semi-darkness. I found out later there was no warrant for this eavesdropping operation.
There was, however, a subpoena delivered a few days later to my door by a contingent of federal marshals backed by a SWAT team in body armor and armed with automatic weapons. Together with five friends and compatriots from New York and California, I had been summoned to the Nixon administration’s nationwide “witch hunt”: the Guy Goodwin grand juries. In addition to the New York inquiry, other Goodwin grand juries convened in Detroit, Phoenix, San Diego, and Seattle. All shut down after witnesses followed our lead in New York. We not only refused to cooperate; we were openly contemptuous of the process.
I showed up to testify wearing a King Kong costume -- hey, I wanted to help Assistant AG Goodwin find those urban gorillas. Goodwin -- and ultimately all government prosecutorial “expeditions” -- depend on intimidation to obtain testimony about the protest movement and the underground. Goodwin was helpless when that tactic failed, and he was left only with whatever information he had obtained by using illegal means.
Very simply, here's what I have learned from my experiences with the police state: Anyone who really believes that government can be expected to police its own activities is at best naive, at worst delusional. Because of Bush-era acts and executive orders, activities which in the mid-70s were clearly unlawful now have become lawful. With all of these well-tested tools now LEGALLY available, do not think for a moment that Homeland Security and intelligence agency snoops and spooks will neglect anything in their black bag of tricks to carry out their objective -- i.e., to maintain and protect the authority (money and power) of government and its corporate allies.
The upcoming series was originally researched and written six years ago and describes in chilling detail how the U.S. government surreptitiously conspired to maintain lock-down social control of American citizens in the period up to and including post-Watergate. I’m not talking about the “fairy tale” of American democracy as taught in high school civics classes. I’m talking about the real U.S. government, i.e., the executives and their highly placed lobbyists representing the nation’s wealthiest, most powerful global corporations (oil and energy, defense, agriculture, telecommunications and information infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, media, the prison industry, etc.), working together with neo-conservative and neo-liberal think tanks, their business partners (Democrat and Republican) in the Administration and the Congress, and their enforcers at the Pentagon and the spy agencies. The single-minded goal of this real U.S. government is to expand and defend domestic and global markets by any means necessary.
A century of paradigm development by the American ruling class produced another success, one never fully realized in previous protofascist regimes: under the control of a new generation of corporate-savvy academicians, the U.S. educational system systematically gutted critical thinking from school curricula from diaper to diploma and began turning out generations of Americans mesmerized by the spectacle of easy credit and conspicuous consumption.
Meanwhile, for those who skipped class, didn’t do their homework, or just plain don’t fit into the program, the real government now has a new, improved police state, one in which the spooks and spies are no longer fettered by law, privacy concerns, habeas corpus, and that nuisance document called the Bill of Rights. In this brave new world order, those things are no longer considered USA-PATRIOTic. Fear replaced Freedom on the new post-9/11 class schedule. Fear works just fine as a social control.
Almost 2,000 years ago, Roman poet Juvenal wrote: "Who watches the watchman?"
It’s a very good question for us here today in the USA.
Coming next: "Who Watches the Watchman? COINTELPRO and the Federal Government’s Clandestine Attack on the U.S. Constitution, Part I."
[James Retherford was a founder and editor of The Spectator in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1966. He is a director of the New Journalism Project, the nonprofit organization that publishes The Rag Blog.]
Also see James Retherford : Brandon Darby, The Texas 2, and the FBI's Runaway Informants http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/james-retherford-brandon-darby-texas-2.html by James Retherford / The Rag Blog / May 26, 2009
And for more background on the history of informants in Texas, read The Spies of Texas http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2343 by Thorne Dreyer / The Texas Observer / Nov. 17, 2006.
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Col. John Boyd (he died in 1997) is considered one of America's best military thinkers. His thinking dramatically influenced the plan of attack in the first gulf war. Boyd's thinking also serves as a good basis for a deeper understanding 4GW http://globalguerri... Col. John Boyd (he died in 1997) is considered one of America's best military thinkers. His thinking dramatically influenced the plan of attack in the first gulf war. Boyd's thinking also serves as a good basis for a deeper understanding 4GW http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/4gw_fourth_gene.html (fourth generation warfare).
Grand strategy, according to Boyd, is a quest to isolate your enemy's (a nation-state or a global terrorist network) thinking processes from connections to the external/reference environment. This process of isolation is essentially the imposition of insanity on a group. To wit: any organism that operates without reference to external stimuli (the real world), falls into a destructive cycle of false internal dialogues. These corrupt internal dialogues eventually cause dissolution and defeat. BOYD ON AL QAEDA'S GRAND STRATEGY
Col. John Boyd (he died in 1997) is considered one of America's best military thinkers. His thinking dramatically influenced the plan of attack in the first gulf war. Boyd's thinking also serves as a good basis for a deeper understanding 4GW http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/4gw_fourth_gene.html (fourth generation warfare).
Grand strategy, according to Boyd, is a quest to isolate your enemy's (a nation-state or a global terrorist network) thinking processes from connections to the external/reference environment. This process of isolation is essentially the imposition of insanity on a group. To wit: any organism that operates without reference to external stimuli (the real world), falls into a destructive cycle of false internal dialogues. These corrupt internal dialogues eventually cause dissolution and defeat.
The dynamic of Boyd's grand strategy is to isolate your enemy across three essential vectors (physical, mental, and moral), while at the same time improving your connectivity across those same vectors. Here's more detail:
* Physical isolation is accomplished by severing communications both to the outside world (ie. allies) and internal audiences (ie. between branches of command and between the command organization and its supporters).
* Mental isolation is done through the introduction of ambiguous information, novel situations, and by operating at a tempo an enemy cannot keep up with. A lack of solid information impedes decision making.
* Moral isolation is achieved when an enemy improves its well being at the expense of others (allies) or violates rules of behavior they profess to uphold (standards of conduct). Moral rules are a very important reference point in times of uncertainty. When these are violated, it is very hard to recover.
Our progress so far When we evaluate our progress in the war on terrorism based on Boyd's measures of isolation, the following is seen:
* Physical isolation. America has been physically isolated from many of its allies due to its rush to war in Iraq. It also has demonstated (via the slow process by which news of Abu Ghraib reached the President and Congress) that internal communications have been disrupted. The destruction of al Qaeda's training camps and visible communications systems have resulted in a degree of isolation. However, the network-based organizational structure of al Qaeda and its ability to manipulate the media to send messages to supporters has mitigated this effort.
* Mental isolation. The rapid emergence of new threats (al Sadr, al Zarqawi, and Fallujah) and the myriad of geographically dispersed attacks that require response (from Spain to Saudi Arabia -- from Basra to Mosel) have served to isolate the US on the mental plane. It is also very difficult, due to ambiguity of information, to determine who the enemy is (this is true in Iraq and across the world from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia). The bulk of the early effort to continuously attack al Qaeda has subsided as the US concentrates on Iraq -- our early gains have been squandered.
* Moral isolation. The excesses at the Abu Ghraib prison demonstrate a classic violation of moral codes of conduct. The evidence indicates that the US intentionally (in that there was a climate of urgency that permitted it) violated these rules due to desire to gain information needed to fight guerrilla groups in Iraq. Another example of moral isolation is America's insistance on the right to self-defense, at the expense of the rest of the world. There has not been any evidence that al Qaeda sponsored operations have drastically violated any internal moral codes. However, the proliferation of groups associated with al Qaeda have resulted in attacks (for example: attacks on Shiites in Pakistan and Iraq that are against al Qaeda policy) may serve to isolate al Qaeda if their actions are adopted by the main organization.
A vision statement for this conflict From this analysis it is clear that the US is, as the result of this war, more isolated than our enemy. However, Boyd suggests that the best corrective action is for the US to articulate a grand unifying vision for this war. A "with us or against us" approach and unilateral military action is not productive (it drives isolation). A better vision statement (we should have a contest for this):
The United States will commit all of the resources at its disposal to help nations everywhere preserve those values that we all hold as vital to our future success."
Posted by John Robb on Saturday, 08 May 2004 at 10:59 PM | http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/journal_boyd_on.html]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v308/__show_article/_a000308-000477.htm2009-06-09T03:55:51Z2009-06-09T03:55:51ZThe Essence of Government
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is r... "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."
~ H.L. Mencken
The Essence of Government
by Doug Casey
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
~ H.L. Mencken
I give a good number of speeches each year. For some time I’ve asked audiences a question: "What useful purpose does the US government serve?" I do that not to be challenging or provocative, but to actually find out if anyone else can think of a useful purpose the government serves. The question at fist shocks, then amuses and then perplexes almost everyone because it is both so obvious and outrageous that no one ever thinks of asking it. Most people accept the institution of government because it has always been there; they have always assumed it was essential. People do not question its existence, much less its right to exist.
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. Its contributions to the commonweal are wars, pogroms, confiscations, persecutions, taxation, regulation and inflation. And it’s not just some governments of which that’s true, although some are clearly much worse than others. It’s an inherent characteristic of all government.
The essence of something is what makes the thing what it is. But surprisingly little study of government has been done by ontologists (who study the first principles of things) or epistemologists (who study the nature of human knowledge). The study of government almost never concerns itself with whether government should be, but only with how and what it should be. The existence of government is accepted without question.
What is the essence of government? After you cut through all the rhetoric, the doublethink and the smokescreen of altruism that surround the subject, you find that the essence of government is force. And the belief it has the right to initiate the use of force whenever expedient. Government is an organization with a monopoly, albeit with some fringe competition, on the use of force within a given territory. As Mao Zedong said, "The power of government comes out of the barrel of a gun." There is no voluntarism about obeying laws. The consent of a majority of the governed may help a government put a nice face on things, but it is not essential and is, in fact, given with any enthusiasm.
A person’s attitude about government offers an excellent insight into their character. Political beliefs reflect how a person thinks men should relate to one another; they offer a practical insight into how he views humanity at large and himself in particular.
There are only two ways people can relate in any given situation; voluntarily or coercively. Almost everyone, except overt sociopaths, pays at least lip service to the idea of voluntarism, but government is viewed as somehow exempt. It’s widely believed that a group has prerogatives and rights unavailable to individuals. But if that is true, then the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Republican Army, the PLO – or, for that matter, any group from a lynch mob to a government – all have rights that individuals do not. In fact, all these groups believe they have a right to initiate the use of force when they find it expedient. To the extent that they can get away with it, they all act like governments.
Terrorists, Mobs and Governments
You might object that the important difference between the KKK, IRA, PLO or a simple mob and a government is that they aren’t "official" or "legal." Apart from common law concepts, legality is arbitrary. Once you leave the ken of common law, the only distinction between the "laws" of governments and the ad hoc proceedings of an informal assemblage such as a mob, or of a more formal group like the KKK, boils down to the force the group can muster to impose its will on others. The laws of Nazi Germany and the USSR are now widely recognized as criminal fantasies that gained reality on a grand scale. But at the time those regimes had power, they were treated with the respect granted to any legal system. Governments become legal or official by gaining power. The fact that every government was founded on gross illegalities – war or revolt – against its predecessor is rarely an issue.
Force is the essence of government. But the possession of a monopoly on force almost inevitably requires a territory, and maintaining control of territory is considered the test of a "successful" government. Would any "terrorist" organization be more "legitimate" if it had its own country? Absolutely. Would it be any less vicious or predatory by that fact? No, just as most governments today (the ex-Communist countries and the kleptocracies of the Third World being the best examples), demonstrate. Governments can be much more dangerous than the mobs that give them birth. The Jacobin regime of the French Revolution is a prime example.
Is the State Necessary?
The violent and corrupt nature of government is widely acknowledged by almost everyone. That’s been true since time immemorial, as have political satire and grousing about politicians. Yet almost everyone turns a blind eye; most not only put up with it, but actively support the charade. That’s because although many may believe government to be an evil, they believe it is a necessary evil. (The larger question of whether anything that is evil is necessary, or whether anything that is necessary can be evil, is worth discussing – perhaps in another forum.)
What, arguably, makes government necessary is the need for protection from other, even more dangerous, governments. I believe a case can be made that modern technology obviates this function.
One of the most perversely misleading myths about government is that it promotes order within its own bailiwick, keeps groups from constantly warring with each other and somehow creates togetherness and harmony. In fact, that’s the exact opposite of the truth. There’s no cosmic imperative for different people to rise up against one another – unless they’re organized into political groups. The Middle East, now the world’s most fertile breeding ground for hatred, provides an excellent example.
Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together peaceably in Palestine, Lebanon and North Africa for centuries, until the situation became politicized after WWI. Until then an individual’s background and beliefs were just personal attributes, not a casus belli. Government was at its most benign, an ineffectual nuisance that concerned itself mostly with extorting taxes. People were busy with that most harmless of activities, making money.
But politics does not deal with people as individuals. It scoops them up into parties and nations. And some group inevitably winds up using the power of the state (however innocently or "justly" at first) to impose its values and wishes on others, with predictably destructive results. What would otherwise be an interesting kaleidoscope of humanity then sorts itself out according to the lowest common denominator peculiar to the time and place.
Sometimes that means along religious lines, as with the Muslims and Hindus in India, or the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; or ethnic lines, like the Kurds and Iraqis in the Middle East or the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka; sometimes its mostly racial, as whites and East Indians found out throughout Africa in the 70s, or Argentines, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and other Latins discovered more recently. Sometimes it amounts to no more than personal beliefs, as the McCarthy era in the 1950s and the Salem trials in the 1690s proved.
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.
October 26, 2001
Doug Casey is the author of four books, and editor of Doug Casey's International Speculator.
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"Reconnaissance Creed"
Realizing it is my choice and my choice alone
to be a Reconnaissance Marine,
I accept all challenges involved with this profession.
Forever shall I strive to maintain the tremendous reputation... http://www.i-mef.usmc.mil/div/1reconbn/_images/1RCNLogo.gif
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"Reconnaissance Creed"
Realizing it is my choice and my choice alone to be a Reconnaissance Marine, I accept all challenges involved with this profession. Forever shall I strive to maintain the tremendous reputation of those who went before me.
Exceeding beyond the limitations set down by others shall be my goal. Sacrificing personal comforts and dedicating myself to the completion of the reconnaissance mission shall be my life. Physical fitness, mental attitude, and high ethics --
The title of Recon Marine is my honor.
Conquering all obstacles, both large and small, I shall never quit. To quit, to surrender, to give up is to fail. To be a Recon Marine is to surpass failure; To overcome, to adapt and to do whatever it takes to complete the mission.
On the battlefield, as in all areas of life, I shall stand tall above the competition. Through professional pride, integrity, and teamwork, I shall be the example for all Marines to emulate.
Never shall I forget the principles I accepted to become a Recon Marine. Honor, Perseverance, Spirit and Heart.
A Recon Marine can speak without saying a word and achieve what others can only imagine.
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1st Reconnaissance Battalion Lineage
1st Reconnaissance Battalion was activated on 1 March 1937 at Quantico, Virginia as the 1st Tank Company and assigned to the 1st Marine Brigade.
The Unit deployed during January through March 1940 to the Caribbean onboard the USS Wyoming. During March 1940 it was relocated to Quantico, Virginia and redeployed during November 1940 to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On 1 February, 1941 the 1st Marine Brigade was redesignated as the 1st Marine Division. On 1 March 1941 the Unit was designated as 1st Scout Company, Division Special Troops and was relocated during April 1941 to Quantico, Virginia and then relocated again during September 1941 to New River, North Carolina.
In August 1942, the Unit was reassigned to 1st Tank Battalion.
On 1 April 1943 the Unit was redesignated as Company E "Scout", 1st Tank Battalion.
On 10 April 1943 the Unit redesignated as Company D "Scout", 1st Tank Battalion.
On 1 April 1944 the Unit was redesignated as Reconnaissance Company, Headquarters Battalion. During this period, the Unit participated in combat operations on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Western Caroline Islands, and Okinawa.
During September of 1945 the Unit redeployed to Tientsin, China.
During June of 1947 the Unit was relocated to Camp Pendleton, California and redesignated on 22 March 1949 as Reconnaissance Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion. The Unit was deployed during August of 1950 to Tokyo, Japan and then participated in the Korean War; operating from Pusan Perimeter, Inchon-Seoul, Chosin Reservoir, the Eastern-Central Front, and the Western Front.
From July 1953 to March 1955 the Unit participated in the Defense of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and then relocated back to Camp Pendleton.
Reconnaissance Company was deactivated on 30 April 1958 and reactivated 1 May 1958 as 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and assigned to the 1st Marine Division.
The Battalion participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis from November through December 1962 and then deployed from August to September 1965 to Camp Schwab, Okinawa. The Battalion redeployed during March of 1966 to Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam.
The Battalion participated in the Vietnam War from March of 1966 to March of 1971 operating from Chu Lai and Da Nang.
The Battalion was relocated during March through April of 1971 to Camp Pendleton, California.
From September 1990 to April 1991 the Battalion participated in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
On 12 June 1992 the Battalion was deactivated.
The Battalion was then activated on 1 October 1993 as Reconnaissance Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion, 1st Marine Division.
On 1 June 2000, it was redesignated as First Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division.
During January 2003, the Battalion deployed to Kuwait, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Battalion deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2003 to June 2003, February 2004 to October 2004; September 2005 to April 2006, March 2007 to October 2007, and October 2008 to April 2009.
The unit insignia of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion adapts the insignia of the First Marine Division, being that "1st Recon" serves the division directly. The division insignia is a night sky blue diamond containing five white, five-pointed stars arranged as to represent the Southern Cross constellation. Also included is a scarlet "1" with the word "Guadalcanal" inside the number. All of this serves to commemorate the division's hard-fought victory on the island of Guadalcanal in the early stages of World War II. To this insignia, 1st Recon has added the motto, "Swift, Silent' Deadly". "Swift" stands for how a reconnaissance unit is inserted into, and extracted from, a mission, as well as how the mission itself is conducted, to include the rapid dissemination of intelligence. "Silent" refers to the manner in which reconnaissance forces use stealth to execute their mission while remaining unobserved and undetected by the enemy. "Deadly" characterizes the Recon Marine's ability to summon the massive firepower of supporting arms against the enemy. Also added is a white skull and crossbones with three round holes and a crack in the skull. The holes symbolize the pain, hurt, and agony Recon Marines often face, while the crack represents the ability to continue with the mission despite adverse conditions. Finally, represented in the insignia is a scarlet streamer with the gold words "1st Recon Bn" to remind us of the colors of our Corps.
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America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
by Andrew Hughes
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most...America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry
by Andrew Hughes
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.
...with some goo thrown in, by moi, at the end. ☺↓☻
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.
Never before had one witnessed such an accomplished use of manipulation, propaganda, imagery and public relations wizardry to sell the public a man who was to take the baton from Bush and run with it in the race to destroy the economy, the rights of the people and help birth a nation totally controlled by those who have always lurked in the shadows of power. "Change" was promised and was delivered in the form of a deepening of the already Dystopic nightmare.
Promises were broken with no apology, the same creative legalese that infested the Bush administration, in the form of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzalez, was again used to deny justice to the inmates of Guantanamo, It was used to justify more torture, more destruction of the Constitution and more illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens.
The President that extended the hand of peace to the Muslim world has murdered hundreds of Pakistani men, women and children. The President who promised accountability in Government has filled his staff with lobbyists, banksters and warmongers. His Attorney General refuses to prosecute some of the worst war crimes committed in modern history and continues to give legal cover to criminals who tortured with impunity.
The country has been further bankrupted by the continuing theft of taxpayer money as the Wall St. campaign donors receive their quid pro quo. Obama has stood by idly as Bernancke states that the private Federal Reserve is not answerable to either Congress of the American public. The U.S. taxpayer is now on the hook for $14.3 Trillion and rising. Foreclosures and unemployment are rising with no meaningful efforts by the administration to alleviate the symptoms, never mind the cause. The new image of America is one of tent cities, lengthening soup kitchen lines, sherrifs evicting countless thousands of young and old from their homes, once prosperous towns descending in to an eerie stillness and an increasingly disillusioned populace.
The "War on terrorism" has mutated in to a control grid for an increasingly aware population. The foundation for this had already been put in place by Bush with the Patriot Act, Patriot Act 2, Military commissions act and numerous executive orders that strangled what was left of Posse Comitatus and the Constitution.
Homeland Security now defines "Terrorists" as those who believe in the Constitution, the first, second and fourth amendments. Returning veterans are being targeted for a denial of their second amendment rights. A "Terrorist Watchlist" of more than a million and rapidly growing, is being used as the basis for denying citizens the rights to travel and to work.
Obama is now mulling over the idea of indefinite detention without trial for U.S. citizens. This, from a teacher of the Constitution ! Bills are in congress to criminalize free speech on the Internet via the Cyberbullying Act which will make hurting somebody's feelings a felony. Just like the Patriot Act this will morph in to a criminalization of political free speech and any criticism of the Government.
"Cyberterrorism" is being used as a pretext to bring government regulation to the the last stronghold of unbiased information. Washington has realized that it's getting harder to get away with their Fascist agenda and are moving to control the field. The populace have become more aware of just what kind of "Change" Obama intended to deliver.
There has been a growing resistance on a state level with several invoking their 9th and 10th Amendment rights in a valiant attempt to stop the Federal Vampire from draining the last drops of blood, the last vestiges of Freedom and Hope.
This is the Dystopic Nightmare that America finds itself in today and each day brings new assaults on Freedom and Sanity. The framework for total control of the citizenry, the economy and the media is being built upon in a relentless aggrandization of Govermental power. Obama sits atop his new Empire still smiling that sickeningly disingenuous smile surrounded by his seasoned courtiers who have worked for decades to bring America in to this new era of the New World Order.
Andrew Hughes is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Andrew Hughes
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May 16-Since at latest the mid-1920s, Adolf Hitler had wanted to institute mass programs to kill off Germany's chronically ill and other "useless eaters," but, at the same time, he knew that the German population would not let him get away with it yet. This was still the case even after Hitler became Germany's absolute dictator in February 1933, in the aftermath of the Reichstag Fire. He had to wait six years longer; only the beginning of World War II gave him the opportunity he had been waiting for. Thus, it was not until October 1939, that Hitler finally issued his (top-secret) decree launching the "T4" extermination program against tens of thousands of selected patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and insane asylums. The Fuehrer himself emphasized the connection to the war by backdating his order to Sept. 1, the first day of the war. http://www.rense.com/general85/obbdmm.htm
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In order to fully understand the following documents there needs to be an explanation of the background behind the case.
Please note that the assignment of the case to Judge Mahoney was through standard lawful practices and that the Chief Justice o... In order to fully understand the following documents there needs to be an explanation of the background behind the case.
Please note that the assignment of the case to Judge Mahoney was through standard lawful practices and that the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court assigned an associate justice to assist in the trial
These actions give total and complete lawful jurisdiction to the actions of the Court
We will now let the participants set the stage.
THE CREDIT RIVER DECISION (.pdf file) http://www.constitutionalconcepts.org/credit%20river.pdf
INTRODUCTION
A Minnesota Trial Court's decision holding:
* the Federal Reserve Act unconstitutional and VOID * holding the National Banking Act unconstitutional and VOID * declaring a mortgage acquired by the First National Bank of Montgomery, Minnesota in the regular course of its business, along with the foreclosure and * the sheriff's sale, to be VOID
This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds held by the Federal Reserve, National and State Banks to be null and VOID.
This amounts to an emancipation of this nation from personal, national and State debt purportedly owed to this banking system.
Every True American owes it to himself/herself, to his or her country, and to the people of the world for that matter, to study this decision very carefully and to understand it, for upon it hangs the question of freedom or slavery
BACKGROUND LETTER ON CREDIT RIVER MATTER by: Jerome Daly, Attorney at Law 28 East Minnesota Street Savage, Minnesota 55378 February 7, 1969 INTRODUCTION
On May 8, 1964 the writer executed a Note and Mortgage to the First National Bank of Montgomery, Minnesota, which is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Both Banks are private owned and are a part of the Federal Reserve Banking System.
In the Spring of 1967 the writer was in arrears $476.00 in the payments on this Note and Mortgage. The Note was secured by a Mortgage on real property in Spring Lake Township in Scott County, Minnesota. The Bank foreclosed by advertisement and bought the property at a Sheriff's Sale held on June 26, 1967 and did not redeem with the 12 month period of time allotted by law after the Sheriff's Sale.
The Bank brought the Action to recover the possession to the property in the Justice of the Peace Court at Savage, Minnesota. The first 2 Justices were disqualified by Affidavit of Prejudice. The first by the writer and the Second by the Bank. A third one refused to handle the case. It was then sent, pursuant to law, to Martin V. Mahoney, Justice of the Peace, Credit River Township, Scott County, Minnesota, who presided at a Jury trial on December 7, 1968. The Jury found the Note and Mortgage to be void for failure of a lawful consideration and refused to give any validity to the Sheriff's Sale. Verdict was for the writer with costs in the amount of $75.00.
The president of the Bank admitted that the Bank created the money and credit upon its own books by which it acquired or gave as consideration for the Note; that this was standard banking practice, that the credit first came into existence when they created it; that he knew of no United States Statutes which gave them the right to do this. This is the universal practice of these Banks. The Justice who heard the case handed down the opinion attached and included herein. Its reasoning is sound. It will withstand the test of time. This is the first time the question has been passed upon in the United States. I predict that this decision will go into the History Books as one of the great Documents of American History. It is a huge cornerstone wrenched from the temple of Imperialism and planted as one of the solid foundation stones of Liberty.
/s/ JEROME DALY SAVAGE, MINNESOTA
A WORD FROM AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WHO KNEW AND WORKED WITH JUSTICE MARTIN V. MAHONEY STATE OF MINNESOTA ABOUT THE CASE.
The "Credit River Decision" handed down by a jury of 12 on a cold day in December, in the Credit River Township Hall, was an experience that I'll never forget.
The Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court had phoned me a week before the trial and asked me if I would be an associate justice in assisting Justice Martin V. Mahoney since he had never handled a jury trial before. I accepted, and it took me two hours to get my car running in the 22 below zero weather.
I got to the courtroom about 30 minutes before trial, and helped get the wood stove going, since the trial was being held in an unheated storeroom of a general store. This was the first time I met Justice Mahoney, and I was impressed with his no nonsense manner of handling matters before him. My object was to help pick the jury, and to keep Jerome Daly and the attorney representing the Bank of Montgomery from engaging in a fist fight. The courtroom was highly charged, and the Jury was all business.
The banker testified about the mortgage loan given to Jerome Daly, but then Daly cross examined the banker about the creating of money "out of thin air," and the banker admitted that this was standard banking practice. When Justice Mahoney heard the banker testify that he could "create money out of thin air," Mahoney said, "It sounds like fraud to me." I looked at the faces of the jurors, and they were all agreeing with Mahoney by shaking their heads and by the looks on their faces.
I must admit that up until that point, I really didn't believe Jerome's theory, and thought he was making this up. After I heard the testimony of the banker, my mouth had dropped open in shock, and I was in complete disbelief. There was no doubt in my mind that the Jury would find for Daly.
Jerome Daly had taken on the banks, the Federal Reserve Banking System, and the money lenders, and had won.
It is now twenty eight years since this "Landmark Decision," and Justice Mahoney is quoted more often than any Supreme Court justice ever was. The money boys that run the "private Federal Reserve Bank" soon got back at Mahoney by poisoning him in what appeared to have been a fishing boat accident (but with his body pumped full of poison) in June of 1969, less than 6 months later.
Both Jerome Daly and Justice Martin V. Mahoney are truly the greatest men that I have ever had the pleasure to meet. The Credit River Decision was and still is the most important legal decision ever decided by a Jury. - Bill Drexler
JUDGMENT AND DECREE
The above-entitled action came on before the Court and a Jury of 12 on December 7, 1968 at 10:00 am. Plaintiff appeared by its President Lawrence V. Morgan and was represented by its Counsel, R. Mellby. Defendant appeared on his own behalf.
A Jury of Talesmen were called, impaneled and sworn to try the issues in the Case. Lawrence V. Morgan was the only witness called for Plaintiff, and Defendant testified as the only witness in his own behalf.
Plaintiff brought this as a Common Law action for the recovery of the possession of Lot 19 Fairview Beach, Scott County, Minn. Plaintiff claimed title to the Real Property in question by foreclosure of a Note and Mortgage Deed dated May 8, 1964, which Plaintiff claimed was in default at the time foreclosure proceedings were started.
IN THE JUSTICE COURT STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF SCOTT TOWNSHIP OF CREDIT RIVER
JUSTICE MARTIN V. MAHONEY
First National Bank of Montgomery, Plaintiff vs Jerome Daly, Defendant
JUDGMENT AND DECREE
The above entitled action came on before the Court and a Jury of 12 on December 7, 1968 at 10:00 am. Plaintiff appeared by its President Lawrence V. Morgan and was represented by its Counsel, R. Mellby. Defendant appeared on his own behalf.
A Jury of Talesmen were called, impaneled and sworn to try the issues in the Case. Lawrence V. Morgan was the only witness called for Plaintiff and Defendant testified as the only witness in his own behalf.
Plaintiff brought this as a Common Law action for the recovery of the possession of Lot 19 Fairview Beach, Scott County, Minn. Plaintiff claimed title to the Real Property in question by foreclosure of a Note and Mortgage Deed dated May 8, 1964 which Plaintiff claimed was in default at the time foreclosure proceedings were started.
Defendant appeared and answered that the Plaintiff created the money and credit upon its own books by bookkeeping entry as the consideration for the Note and Mortgage of May 8, 1964 and alleged failure of the consideration for the Mortgage Deed and alleged that the Sheriff's sale passed no title to plaintiff.
The issues tried to the Jury were whether there was a lawful consideration and whether Defendant had waived his rights to complain about the consideration having paid on the Note for almost 3 years.
Mr. Morgan admitted that all of the money or credit which was used as a consideration was created upon their books, that this was standard banking practice exercised by their bank in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, another private Bank, further that he knew of no United States Statute or Law that gave the Plaintiff the authority to do this. Plaintiff further claimed that Defendant by using the ledger book created credit and by paying on the Note and Mortgage waived any right to complain about the Consideration and that the Defendant was estopped from doing so.
At 12:15 on December 7, 1968 the Jury returned a unanimous verdict for the Defendant.
Now therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me pursuant to the Declaration of Independence http://www.constitutionalconcepts.org/declarationindependence.htm , the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 http://www.constitutionalconcepts.org/nwordinance.htm , the Constitution of United States http://www.constitutionalconcepts.org/constitution.htm and the Constitution and the laws of the State of Minnesota not inconsistent therewith;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED:
1. That the Plaintiff is not entitled to recover the possession of Lot 19, Fairview Beach, Scott County, Minnesota according to the Plat thereof on file in the Register of Deeds office.
2. That because of failure of a lawful consideration the Note and Mortgage dated May 8, 1964 are null and void.
3. That the Sheriff's sale of the above described premises held on June 26, 1967 is null and void, of no effect.
4. That the Plaintiff has no right title or interest in said premises or lien thereon as is above described.
5. That any provision in the Minnesota Constitution and any Minnesota Statute binding the jurisdiction of this Court is repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and to the Bill of Rights of the Minnesota Constitution and is null and void and that this Court has jurisdiction to render complete Justice in this Cause.
The following memorandum and any supplementary memorandum made and filed by this Court in support of this Judgment is hereby made a part hereof by reference.
BY THE COURT Dated December 9, 1968 Justice MARTIN V. MAHONEY Credit River Township
Scott County, Minnesota
MEMORANDUM
The issues in this case were simple. There was no material dispute of the facts for the Jury to resolve.
Plaintiff admitted that it, in combination with the federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which are for all practical purposes, because of their interlocking activity and practices, and both being Banking Institutions Incorporated under the Laws of the United States, are in the Law to be treated as one and the same Bank, did create the entire $14,000.00 in money or credit upon its own books by bookkeeping entry. That this was the Consideration used to support the Note dated May 8, 1964 and the Mortgage of the same date. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that no United States Law Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note. See Ansheuser-Busch Brewing Company v. Emma Mason, 44 Minn. 318, 46 N.W. 558. The Jury found that there was no consideration and I agree. Only God can create something of value out of nothing.
Even if Defendant could be charged with waiver or estoppel as a matter of Law this is no defense to the Plaintiff. The Law leaves wrongdoers where it finds them. See sections 50, 51 and 52 of Am Jur 2nd "Actions" on page 584 – "no action will lie to recover on a claim based upon, or in any manner depending upon, a fraudulent, illegal, or immoral transaction or contract to which Plaintiff was a party."
Plaintiff's act of creating credit is not authorized by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, is unconstitutional and void, and is not a lawful consideration in the eyes of the Law to support any thing or upon which any lawful right can be built.
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States limits the jurisdiction of this Court, which is one of original Jurisdiction with right of trial by Jury guaranteed. This is a Common Law action. Minnesota cannot limit or impair the power of this Court to render Complete Justice between the parties. Any provisions in the Constitution and laws of Minnesota which attempt to do so is repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and void. No question as to the Jurisdiction of this Court was raised by either party at the trial. Both parties were given complete liberty to submit any and all facts to the Jury, at least in so far as they saw fit.
No complaint was made by Plaintiff that Plaintiff did not receive a fair trial. From the admissions made by Mr. Morgan the path of duty was direct and clear for the Jury. Their Verdict could not reasonably been otherwise. Justice was rendered completely and without denial, promptly and without delay, freely and without purchase, conformable to the laws in this Court of December 7, 1968.
JEROME DALY'S OWN ENTRY REGARDING JUSTICE MAHONEY'S MEMORANDUM
FORWARD: The above Judgment was entered by the Court on December 9, 1968. The issue there was simple - Nothing in the law gave the Banks the right to create money on their books. The Bank filed a Notice of Appeal within 10 days. The Appeals statutes must be strictly followed, otherwise the District Court does not acquire Jurisdiction upon Appeal. To effect the Appeal the Bank had to deposit $2.00 with the Clerk within 10 days for payment to the Justice when he made his return to the District Court. The Bank deposited two $1.00 Federal Reserve Notes. The Justice refused the Notes and refused to allow the Appeal upon the grounds that the Notes were unlawful and void for any purpose. The Decision is addressed to the legality of these Notes and the Federal Reserve System.
The Cases of Edwards v. Kearnzey and Craig v. Missouri set out in the decision should be studied very carefully as they bear on the inviolability of Contracts. This is the crux of the whole issue. Jerome Daly.
SPECIAL NOTATION. Justice Mahoney denied the use of Federal Reserve Notes, since they represent debt instruments, not true money, from being used to pay for the appeal process itself. In order to get this overturned, since the bank's appeal without the payment being recognized was out of time, it would have required that the Bank of Montgomery, Minnesota bring a Title 42, Section 1983 action against the judicial act of Justice Mahoney for a violation of the Constitution of the United States under color of law or authority, and if successful, have the case remanded back to him to either retry the case or allow the appeal to go through. But the corrupt individuals behind the bank(s) were unable to ever elicit such a decision from any federal court due to the fact that because of their vile hatred for him and what he had done to them and their little Queen's Scheme, had him murdered (same as them murdering him) just about 6 months later. And so, the case stands, just as it was. Amazingly, if they hadn't been so arrogant about the value of their federal reserve notes and paid the Justice just 2 measly silver dollars, or else 4 measly half dollars, or else 8 measly quarters, or else 20 measly dimes, or else 40 measly nickels, or else 200 measly pennies, they could have had their appeal and would not have had to get blood on their hands.
As it is, they are now known for their bloody ways, and the day will come when the American people will reap vengeance upon them for such a heinous and villainous act. Amen.
BY THE COURT December 9, 1968 Justice Martin V. Mahoney Credit River Township
Scott County, Minnesota
Note: It has never been doubted that a Note given on a Consideration which is prohibited by law is void. It has been determined; by independent of Acts of Congress, that sailing under the license of an enemy is illegal. The emission of Bills of Credit upon the books of these private Corporations for the purpose of private gain is not warranted by the Constitution of the United States and is unlawful. See Craig v. Mo. 4 Peters Reports 912. This Court can tread only that path which is marked out by duty. M.V.M.
JEROME DALY had his own information to reveal about this case, which establishes that between his own revealed information and the fact that Justice Martin V. Mahoney was murdered 6 months after he entered the Credit River Decision on the books of the Court, why the case was never legally overturned, nor can it be.
ASSOCIATION JUSTICE'S LETTER OF EXPLANATION
Jerome Daly was from Savage Minn. and a close friend of mine. The "Credit River" decision (was) where a jury in a Justice of the Peace court trial found that Federal Reserve Notes were not Moneys of Account of the United States and the court in his opinion found them to be 'FRAUDS'.
This case was on Dec. 7, 1968 before Justice Martin V. Mahoney of Credit River Minn. and I was an associated Justice since Justice Mahoney had never tried a jury trial and I was asked by "Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Oscar Knutson, (commonly known as "King Knute") to assist Justice Mahoney, since the Bank of Montgomery was represented by an attorney, and Jerome Daly was an attorney, and the case was about "Failure of Consideration" by a bank in a mortgage foreclosure on Jerome's cabin at Prior Lake, Minn..
Justice Mahoney declared that only "Gold and Silver Coins" were moneys of account of the United States, and that the Constitution is still the LAW today. "No state shall make any "THING" but Gold and Silver Coin a tender in payment of debts..."
And of course since the Federal Government had been given only 18 to 20 powers under the Constitution it was a "Limited Government", and according to the 9th and 10th amendments the states and the people were Sovereign, and retained for themselves all of the other rights not specifically given to the Feds.
When news of the jury's decision was picked up by Vern Myers and written about in his newsletter, "Myers Finance and Commerce" and sent world wide the whole world was afraid to accept FRAUDS and it got so big that they had Justice Mahoney killed within 6 months and Jerome and I had a couple of close calls too.
I've published the book: "The Credit River Decision" for 20 years now, but sold my last copy about 6 months ago, since like Waco, no one was interested in it after the Govt put their "SPIN DOCTORS' to work to try to discredit it. This like the "Special Appearance" really needs to be studied to learn the real truth about our "Funny Money" system of creating Money "Out of thin Air" by the Banksters.
During the trial, on cross examination the President of the "Bank of Montgomery" testified that the banks regularly "create money out of thin air."
Jerome asked the Bank President:
"If you were just opening up your bank and no one had yet made a deposit, and I came into your bank, and wanted to take out a loan of $18,000.00, could you loan me that money?
When the Bank President said, "Yes." I thought the jury would faint.
Jerome than said , "Does this mean that you can create money out of thin air?"
The Bank President said: "Yes. We can create money out of thin air."
Justice Mahoney then said "IT SOUNDS LIKE FRAUD TO ME" and everybody in the court room nodded their heads indicating that they agreed with Justice Mahoney.
The jury went out and returned a verdict in favor of Jerome Daly on the basis that the Federal Reserve Notes were not legal and valid consideration for a mortgage note contract.
Those that have a copy of "The Credit River Decision" just won't part with it, and it's too expensive to print just a few copies, so I really don't know where you'll get a copy.
Good luck on your case, and I hoped that I helped you a little.
Bill Drexler
LINCOLN ON TEACHING THE CONSTITUTION
Abe Lincoln said teach the Constitution in our schools, preach it from the pulpits. We see the Internet is both and more.
SYNOPSIS OF CREDIT RIVER DECISION
Following are two letters giving a brief synopsis by Minnesota Attorney Jerome Daly, concerning his "Credit River Decision" from December 7, 1968.
I have a complete transcript of this case, including the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, as well as Jerome Daly's scathing letter to the members of the Bar, to whom Jerome refers to as "The Boys in the Back Room."
The letter is addressed to Patrick Foley, U.S. Attorney for Minnesota on December 27, 1968, and follows below here, in addition to Jerome's "Introduction" letter. Further below my e-mail signature line is a letter from Bill Drexler, who was an associate Justice in the Jerome Daly case in Minnesota, which you should find VERY interesting.
I had a chance to meet and confer with Jerome Daly in 1991, when he assisted me with an unlawful foreclosure on my home in Puyallup. That case is not over yet. At that time he was living out in California. He drafted some of the legal documents on my behalf. The brief he prepared in support of my position will knock your socks off. One of these days I'll post it with attachments, because it does take a "picture" to explain the fraud.
If any of you still have Federal Reserve Notes, circa 1920's through the 1960's, you know what I'm talking about. And if you research and read Public Law 90-269 of March 18, 1968 followed by the Legislative History of Public Law 94-564, and the contents of Public Law 95-147 on October 28, 1977, you will begin to understand the FRAUD that has been perpetrated by the Congress of the United States upon the People of this Nation. Public Officials need to be held STRICTLY accountable to their Oath of Office and the Law of the Land.
In my case, a certain Court Commissioner and a Superior Court Judge are yet to be prosecuted for their fraudulent perpetrations. Sometimes the wheels of "Justice" move slowly - but they will ONLY move when forced to do so by the Citizenry -- "We the People" -- who hold ALL the power over our ordained and established Constitution, Bill of Rights, and proper Organs of Government through Delegated Powers and Authority to Act on OUR behalf.
Perhaps after reading this you'll begin to understand why those who are enlightened to the fraud try to deal in Coin, as it is the ONLY medium of exchange specifically authorized under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 & 6, and Article I, Section 10, as well as the Coinage Act of 1792, neither of which has ever been repealed, notwithstanding the fraudulent assertions otherwise by the totally compromised and corrupted Congress and Legislatures. As the Maxim of Law states, "Fraud and Justice never dwell together." And it should be remarked here that thanks to Congressman Philip M. Crane, you NOW have Gold and Silver Coin pursuant to Public Law 99-61 (July 9, 1985) and Public Law 99-185 (December 17, 1985).
These two Public Laws made it possible for the minting and distribution of American Gold Eagles and Silver Eagles, available at your local Coin shop. Everyone should have some real "money" in their possession; but you need to know that your PAPER Federal Reserve Note with $1 printed on it won't buy a One Dollar Silver Eagle -- you'll have to give about $8.00 to $9.00 FRN's for the REAL "Dollar". Read Public Law 90-269 and you'll understand why. The paper FRN and the Silver dollar should be at "parity".
By the way, "FRAUD" stands not only for the crime, but "Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Device".
Mr. Daly passed away a couple of years ago . . . but his Credit River Decision lives on, even though the members of the Bar have sought to suppress this case from public view. It is probably fitting to insert here Jerome's "Introduction" letter of February 7, 1969, as well as a copy of the letter to the US Attorney on December 27, 1968, so you have some idea of the gravity of what occurred, and before you read what Bill Drexler, a friend of Jerome, wrote below my signature line. I quote herein the two letters, as follows:
Jerome Daly Attorney At Law 28 East Savage Street Savage, Minnesota 55378 December 27, 1968
Mr. Patrick Foley United states Attorney for Minnesota United States Court House Bldg. Minneapolis, Minnesota Re: First National Bank of Montgomery vs. Jerome Daly
Sir: As you are on my mailing list, at your request, attached kindly find 2 copies of a decision rendered at Credit River Twp. Justice of the Peace court on December 9, 1968 by Justice Martin V. Mahoney, who by occupation is not dependent upon the fraudulent Federal Reserve Mob for his sustenance; thus he was able to view the whole fraud, which is Global in scope, with a mind in the settled calmness of impartiality, disinterestedness, and fairness, in keeping with his Oath and with a completely friendly feeling toward the Constitution of the United States of America.
In truth and in fact the Justice of the Peace Court is the highest Court in the land as it is the closest to the People. Every Judge who is dependent upon this fraudulent Federal Reserve, National and State Banking System for his sole support is DISQUALIFIED because of self interest and had no jurisdiction to sit in review of this Judgment. If any Appellate Court, including the Supreme Court of the United States, in review of this Judgment, perpetrates a fraud upon the People by defying the Constitutional Law of the United States, Mahoney has resolved that he will convene another Jury in Credit River Township to try the issue of the Fraud on the part of any State or Federal Judge, and in an action on my part to recover the possession if the Jury decides in my favor, the Constable and the Citizens Militia of Credit River Township will, pursuant to the Law, deliver me back into possession. So you see, this Justice of the Peace can keep the peace in Scott County, Minnesota, not with the help of these State and Federal Judges who have fled reality, but in spite of them. This Thomas Jefferson's prophesy with reference to Chattel Slavery once again rings true; "God's Justice will not sleep forever.". (emphasis added - now you may understand one of the lawful purposes of the Militia!)
One wonders sometimes what the United States, and its leaders, including the Shylock usury element, did to bring on a Pea[r]l Harbor Attack on December 7, 1941, with such suddenness and devastation. It could be the Judgment of a Just God giving vent to a stored wrath in retaliation to the money changers. It is ironic in deed that the Jury should return its verdict on the same day 27 years later and the National and International Banking and Oil Mob shudder in their back rooms where they have cornered the money of the World and where they sit pulling the strings; fostering, conniving and perpetrating War with profit to themselves paid for by the blood, sweat, tears and toil of the farmer, the mechanic, the laborer and the humbler members of society; and well they might tremble, for, as they listen they can hear, with every increasing distinctness, the sound of the waves at low tide as they wash across the lonely decks of the U.S.S. Arizona with over 2,500 men entombed in her hold, with oil still seeping therefrom to the surface.
It is better to be charitable than miserly, honest than dishonest, direct than indirect, upright than underhanded, intelligent than unintelligent, to have courage than be a coward, to be free than slave, in body and in mind.
I remain, Quite Independently Yours,
/s/ Jerome Daly
P.S. Give my best wishes for a New Year to the Boys in the Back Room. J.D.
USEFUL QUOTATIONS TO ACT UPON
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man ("Conclusion")
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." --Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (2 Cranch) 137 (1803)
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"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!" - George Orwell, 1984
TH... "To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free...to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone...From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink--greetings!" - George Orwell, 1984
THE PARTY LINE
A party line is a fixed idea, pet theory, or other philosophical vanity that when confronted by evidence or reason that it is wrong, over rules that evidence or reason.
People may be stuck in one or more party lines.
The core party line is the perfect certainty that perfect certainty is useless, undesirable or impossible.
We call this 'mind broke'.
Perfect certainty of uncertainty is the beginning of personal integrity.
Homer Wilson Smith
IMPERIUM
"This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, "Her bið feoh læne, her bið freond læne, her bið mon læne, her bið mæg læne, eal þis eorþan gesteal idel weorþeð!"
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead, When Time shall count from the date That the Saxon began to hate.
We will not tolerate the dictates of Marxian Socialism! The tyrants day will come assuredly and swiftly, Justice will be meeted out to the traitors Amongst us who've sold us out to Babylon.
Justice, Freedom, and Liberty for all!
]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v308/__show_article/_a000308-000472.htm2009-05-19T23:44:57Z2009-05-19T23:59:48Z~S Fravia ++ R.I.P.Fravia passed away on Sunday, 3rd May 2009
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http://www.searchlores.org/This is very sad...but also very poetic as befits the man. ~S Fravia I'll miss you but trust that you' be there reversing all quadrants of deep space till again we meet in that starry vastness. Good luck brave voyager...who scaled heights that few ever see. Thankyou...
OSS ~S R.A.
A 56 anni si è conclusa la vita di mio figlio;
una persona coraggiosa, tenera, generosa.
Era sempre assetato di giustizia,
sempre curioso e attento nella ricerca,
sempre pronto e originale nella sperimentazione.
Non sei qui, a confortarmi, figlio caro,
Tua Madre
Les roues du temps ont broyé ce grain.
Pourtant, la semence tombe en terre fertile.
I wish the world's surface could shrink
and I would suddenly find you by my side.
Imprinted by your broad and lively mind,
and by your even broader and generous heart,
I am most lucky -
I had the luck to be
Your Sister
The stones of time crushed this grain
Still, the seed falls on fertile ground
The death of a much beloved man always causes much sorrow.
A warrior's death is unbearable.
P. - very old friend
Le ruote del tempo frantumano il grano.
Ma il seme cade su un terreno fertile.
Leaving the scene in May
with an ironic smile,
typical of you.
PA. - old friend
Dieses Korn wurde von den Mühlen der Zeit vermahlt.
Doch die Saat fällt auf fruchtbaren Boden.
Giant,
be sure you will always be remembered and beloved by all of us
like we were a human net holding you tight.
More than ever.
C.+M., B. and others - old friends
Forgive me one more time, much beloved brother,
I will miss you every single second.
Your Sister
http://www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v308/__show_article/_a000308-000471.htm2009-05-15T04:55:45Z2009-05-15T04:59:06ZBlinkers and Arslycus
I've just been musing through some old stuff, articles, I posted - long ago - here at NCN. Also keeping an eye on twitter at the same time ... which seems somehow related to the piece I'm posting here, which was a comment on the article called ARSLYCUS.
Those in the know, and those who don... I've just been musing through some old stuff, articles, I posted - long ago - here at NCN. Also keeping an eye on twitter at the same time ... which seems somehow related to the piece I'm posting here, which was a comment on the article called ARSLYCUS.
Those in the know, and those who don't know, will remember that ARSLYCUS had a mean rep througout all the galaxies infiltrated by our Hub. The piece was originally posted here: http://langrrr.blogspot.com/ So, since it has already been posted in the comments to ARSLYCUS, and since I have permission from Fred so to do, I'm reposting it - in it's all it's glorious hilarity and darkly shining wit-dom. I said Wit, not Wis, for they are of the same, the very same, root.
I like root beer don't you?. Especially after it has fer-mented! Onward faithful Commodore! The Admiral awaits us...
28 Mar 2007 @ 03:56 by Andrew Langer @138.88.19.56 : someone posted it to my Liberty Blog http://langrrr.blogspot.com/
Wow I just had no idea so many people were interested in Scientology. I got a lot of emails from people all over the world about it. But I guess you have to admit it is pretty wild stuff and with Tom Cruise it is very much in the headlines.
Just to remind you I bought a bunch of their books and stuff at a Kalorama garage sale.
In the stuff I bought were these bulletins maybe they are internal memos or something like that. They were in a binder with tabs but there was nothing on the tabs but numbers so I don't know why they did that.
L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986 and then the new leader is David Miscavige who used to help Hubbard with this special typewriter. I saw a picture where he and Tom Cruise are saluting each other like sailors would do when they pass by on the street.
There are a lot of these bulletins about Miscavige. One says that Miscavige, also is also called the Admiral, is not the Marcabian Poodle. It says that Hubbard and Miscavige were the loyal officers during the rebellion. That sounds like Star Wars to me but they do believe aliens blew things up. It also kind of makes a litlte sense because in the older stuff they do call Hubbard the Commdore.
I do not know who or what the Marcabians are or were but if they are aliens it is quite odd that they would have a poodle unless possibly they are somehow French. I say that because somewhere in there I'm pretty sure Hubbard was also talking about Napoleon when he talked about this war the aliens had. In one course they have a thing called the Obscene Dog and that is a kind of dog statue. You get trapped inside it by energy beams. Maybe the Poodle of the Marcabians has something to do with this Obscene Dog. I also thought that maybe the Marcabian Poodle is the real thing that the Obscene Dog is the statue of.
But this Marcabian Poodle is serious as they said you would do rocks and shoals in the estate if you said it. I don't know what that means. Maybe it is like a special Scientology swear word or something. This idea of the Marcabian Poodle comes from the Suppressing Squirrel but they don't really explain what that Suppressing Squirrel is all about. They talked about how this comes from the Manual of Justice but I do not have that book or maybe I just cannot find or remember it. Maybe if the Obscene Dog can trap you this Suppressing Squirrel can force you to swear against the Scientology leaders and they don't much care for that kind of thing. Of course this last part is just my own idea and it may not make sense. It would seem to me that the Obscene Dog would be the one to make you swear and that the Suppressing Squirrel would trap you but maybe these aliens are just doing tricks.
It is kind of interesting that they put out this thing telling you how Miscavige invented this microphone for the stage and that is how you should answer if anyone asks you about Miscavige's accomplishments. It could also be that this special microphone is for those big stage events they have like the one with Tom Cruise. They said that even though Miscavige dropped out of high school to work for Hubbard he is the most qualified Scientologist on the planet. That's their words not mine! There are a lot of these magazines and they do have a lot of these events at various places as well as on this ocean liner that they use. I guess it is in the memory of Hubbard who liked boats that they do this.
But let me get back to the Dogs and Squirrels and such like. There sure are a lot of these alien beings and other things in their different writings. They teach that along with these aliens there are also special beings or something. Some I can find are the Halver, the Grinder, the Wall of Fire and the Weeper. I wonder if this is like marching band where just the drum major has a special name. It would be very hard for me to keep track of all of these things and their different antics.
The Halver is like a ball and one half is black and the other is white. It can fly around and spin around and you get confused from looking at it because it makes an optical illusion or something. At one point a lot of of them hover over some city and everyone in the city falls under their hypnosis.
The Grinder shoots you with rays from a machine with handle you have to turn and electrodes that pop up when the handle is turned and it goes "bap bap" when it is shooting the rays at you. All of the Grinders wear glasses so that their eyes do not get hurt from the electric rays.
The Wall of Fire is something to do with the aliens coming to earth and how it is dangerous to go through the Wall of Fire without the Theta Tone which seems like it is headphones to keep you from hearing these other aliens who tell you different things. They say that you can really get hurt if you go through the Wall of Fire without this Theta Tone. The Wall of Fire and Theta Tone do not seem to be aliens but they are certainly depicted as actual things so that's why I included them here.
But you know now that I have looked at these and meter pieces are lying out and I see the Tone Arm of the meter now I just really have to wonder if this has something to do with the Theta Tone. I guess that just goes on my list of questions about all of this stuff.
The Weeper makes me sad. They say she is a mommy alien and her babies are all either killed or kidnapped by the bad aliens who seem to be friends with the Grinders and so on. She sits by the water and cries for them. One book says she does this for a trillion years. I do not like this story and it bothers me to think about it too much. If Hubbard and Miscavige fought these Grinders and could make the Theta Tone don't you think they should have done something about saving the mommy alien's babies?
But there is also one of these types of aliens that I kind of like. They are mentioned in one of the courses along with some other aliens. There is also a whole bulletin about them and from the wording you get the idea that this is current stuff. They are called Blinkers. It says that they are like little cats and you can only really see them if you have eliminated your reactive mind. Once again, that is something I do not completely understand about Scientology. What they do is hop on your head and hurt you. It says that they never like to go on the floor which is kind of like a real cat. They jump on you and then they jump on someone else. Sometimes it seems like they jump and in one lecture it says that they can teleport or something around. Maybe the last part is why they call them Blinkers? They have an incident where some of these Blinkers show up attack a whole room full of people and never once does even one of them touch the floor.
This kind of reminds me of the Halle Barry Catwoman movie where she makes her bed up on a shelf.
But the bulletin goes on to talk about this place called the Golden Studio. Apparently Admiral Miscavige and some of the other leaders of Scientology live there. It seems like it is out in the desert somewhere but then again it also seems like it has something to do with ships.
But anyway there is some part of it called the Messenger Berth and everything is on the floor there. That is to say there is nothing high up and certainly no ledges so the windows are set flat into the walls. This bulletin says that if you go there you should know about this as you will most likely have to sit on the floor and some of the rooms have low ceilings and special doors like you would see in a submarine movie. They believe that the Blinkers want to come and attack the Admiral.
It says that they have what they call a lot of mock up rooms. In these rooms they do have high shelves. On each high shelf they said that they put a big mousetrap underneath a large piece of silk. Sometimes they say that they have a person wear the same kind of uniform as the Admiral go to these rooms. They have pictures of him and it is a very nice blue uniform with lots of brass buttons and the like. But the idea is that then the Blinkers will go into these mock up rooms. They will jump up and get trapped when the mousetrap lever flies through the silk. I do not know what they do with them after that.
They tell you this so in case you are visiting you will not get confused if you see a lot of people looking like the Admiral or suddenly wonder why he is going into a dangerous room. They say that if you are there for the Admiral Hat then you should stay in the low room or maybe that is the same as the Messenger Berth. There is in fact an Admiral Hat bulletin but it is very much faded. I could read that it is a special invitation and that the Admiral teaches a special course using a special kind of meter. I think they call it that because you get to wear a hat like he does and he is an Admiral. Apparently there is stuff in this course that the Blinkers don't like so they have to be really cautious. It talks about how they check for them when you go there, they look up on your head and shoulders and also if you were carrying a backpack they have to look for Blinkers.
Anyway that is a story that I kind of like. I wish the Blinkers were not bad but if they were good I would not mind having one as a pet as long as they did not mess when they are flying around or whatever they do.
The last thing I am going to write about is the initiation rite they have when they give you the Grade of Clear. They seem to have these things that are kind of like collegiate degrees or maybe they are like being priest and then bishop and then pope.
It is called "The Book and the Bottle" and it is at least pretty interesting. They put you in a room with two tables. On one is a book and on another is a bottle. They tell you to go get the book and look at it. You have to tell them everything about the book. I could not figure out if you have to end up reading it or not. There is something in Scientology about Alice in Wonderland but I cannot for the life of me work out how they go together. I do not know if you have to use Alice in Wonderland for "Book and Bottle" of if just any book you happen to have at hand will do for this. Then they tell you to put it down and go to the bottle. You pick up the bottle and describe that for them. You go back and forth until they are happy with you. There is something about not spilling out of the bottle but that is not real clear to me. I read somewhere that the Masons will dunk you in water when you join up so maybe this is along the same lines. I never rushed in school so I could not tell you about that.
So there you go. I am by no means any kind of authority on this stuff. I thought some of the books might be fun to read. It gives you a better idea of what Tom Cruise is thinking. He must have had to read all of this himself and they do talk about how psychiatrists are evil and so on. It says that they are evolved from these grinders and so on. I read something about how one of Hubbard's kids went suicidal and maybe that is where they get this idea as well as the story of the weeper. This is another one of those special things in the bulletin binder you can't talk about without the estate's rocks and shoals but I'm pretty sure Hubbard and his wife got pretty sad when this happened.
A lot of you said I should eBay this stuff. Well I would but that's a hassle and since I paid like next to nothing for this stuff I don't want anything back. There's a guy who runs a museum of this stuff and I have made arrangement to get it to him with the understanding that he will let other people look at it if they are interested.
One last thing and people have emailed about it. If you want to repost this to other boards or put it on your web site, that is utterly fine with me!
And, in case you've not been there, please visit the Crowned Jew El here: http://twitter.com/vaxen_var
Mrs Calabash, we love you...
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Well, it's been awhile since I posted anything here; I've been reading a work called "Children of the Stars" and have excerpted a bit of it here for your perusal. The work deals with the present society's lack and what caused it. The mutilation of the human beings living in it and why. Deals w... Well, it's been awhile since I posted anything here; I've been reading a work called "Children of the Stars" and have excerpted a bit of it here for your perusal. The work deals with the present society's lack and what caused it. The mutilation of the human beings living in it and why. Deals with all kinds of social ills and the causes behind them and recommends a course of delivery which begins, of course, at home with one's self. Hope it strikes a cord with some of you. It is a .pdf file so if anyone is interested I could send you the file.
Hope everyone is doing super well and that you are remembering your theta endowment and who you really are as opposed to the holo-reality being created for you by the oppressors, suppressors, and implanters who wish to not only control the human race but wipe us off the face of the Earth. Lots of love your way from me and the Galac Patra.
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Today, the usual mode of coping is to become even more unconscious.
When we bring into the open that which had been placed out of sight we regain the light, life and connection with the source that we had forgotten. To be reborn is simply a process of remembering...
What needs to be emphasized is that technologies are developed and used within a particular socio-cultural, economic and political context. There have already been vast studies and the compilation of research documentation illustrating the fact that most areas throughout society utilize top to bottom, oneway control. They are isolationist, alienating and mechanical modes of systematizing and organizing people using technologies stemming from prescriptive methods and models of control. This mechanization of people is disempowering in the fullest sense of the word: “authoritarian, competitive and exclusive”.
Characterized by an artificially created division of labor, prescriptive technology, by its very nature, i.e. mathematical and quantitative mechanization is obsessively concerned with efficiency and productivity. This translates into materialism and consumerism. When productivity and efficiency become more important than human quality of existence; indeed when material consumption becomes the yardstick of “human progress” what has to suffer, in addition to the larger environment, is the basic sustenance derived from interdependent relationships. Most importantly this has to include the spiritual sustenance that can only be obtained by growth upwards on the vertical axis towards Heaven; and I am not referring to some far away place up in the stars. The location of Heaven is to be found within the higher, less Earth-bound levels of the psyche. In psychological terms our relationship to the vast majority of our psyche, including our Souls – our deep psyches - and therefore the World or Universal Soul, suffers when there is not a conscious connection with the higher, egoless areas; areas that are more concerned with evolution rather than possessions, image and control over others. The path is to join Heaven and Earth. It does not have to be a dog-eat-dog and cat-eat-mouse world.
In many respects, holarchical (and therefore holistic) interaction is a profound form of communication - communion with the environment. Healthy existence and growth requires reciprocal interaction with one’s environment. The prerequisite for this is true individuality and self-control: and subsequently interdependence. In prescriptive technologies “communion” is one-sided. People who utilize prescriptive technologies become people conditioned to having a very limited and narrow range of consciousness. This prevents them from being able to see with an accurate wide-lens contextual overview: a holarchic and holistic grasp of things. They become acculturated to only being able to see small parts or elements of the whole picture. This creates a cultural and societal atmosphere that is conducive to an over-reliance on the specialist, the “expert” they become disempowered. 10 When this becomes widespread in a social sense the results are increased levels of alienation and isolation. It is produces a culture of frustration, of violence; an environment of dependence, conducive to the development of addictive personalities.
The grave impact (pun intended) of this is evident when one realizes that peoples’ ability to have an impact, especially a creative and constructive impact because of their own participation in the world around them dramatically affects their self image and therefore overall psychic and in extension physical strength. When this creative and reciprocal process is prevented it adversely affects people’s ability to create and maintain healthy self-identity. 11 Especially important is the positive feedback we receive from our environment. This is expressed both through material sustenance or stimulating mental interaction in the form of support, validation and cooperation, inside our own psyches and inter-psychically. It is a prerequisite for the horizontal growth outwards in a healthy life-enhancing manner as well as evolutionary movement upwards in consciousness. This is why a cross with four equal quadrants is a perfect symbolic representation of the process of centering, individuation and full human potential. This type of positive, dynamic mental stimulation and health is a prerequisite for physical health.
Labeling, scapegoating, hypocrisy and the vast amount of harm created this way is a symptom and a prime example of the destructiveness of a prescriptive and segregating environment when this sustenance is not available for the maintenance and growth of health. Logically, if people’s psyches become disconnected from the whole of their living environment, this very disconnection results in the creation of separation and a magnification of differences, responsible for the development of bigotry. This is only possible when we lose our sense of interdependent mutuality. We need to regain that and this can only happen by recollecting ourselves, individually and collectively. We need the ability to be imaginative and interested enough to ask why, to be creative enough to subsequently develop methods to promote continuous learning. People need the ability to be empowered enough to have a constructive and sustaining impact on their environment and in turn, feeling valued and needed.
The two scenarios I have described will either create autonomous and empowered individuals or dependent individuals that allow others to take over control of their lives. 12 Being a people-pleaser instead of learning how to be true to your-self increases alienation: of self and therefore of others.
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The following piece is not from "The Children of the Stars" but may be of use to you in focusing issues. ;)
From Build Freedom: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/
WAKE UP YOUR POWERFUL REAL SELF!
"Deep within humans dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish them, that they never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize their lives if aroused and put into action." -- Orison Marden "The problem is that most people do not know what they are capable of until forced to survive in extreme conditions." -- Al Siebert, Ph.D. ('The Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties... and How You Can Be, Too') "It seems clear that the breakthroughs of the next age must come in the form of advances in our individual and collective abilities to tap existing human capabilities and to overcome the negative internal forces that interfere with their expression." -- W. Timothy Gallwey ('The Inner Game of Golf') "There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. For without this knowledge, he will have no focal point in his search. Socrates' words "Know thyself" remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being." -- G. I. Gurdjieff ('Views from the Real World') "Humans are the only species on earth with the ability to interfere with their own performance. Self-interference is a learned skill; we are not born with it." -- Michael Hebron ('Golf Swing Secrets... and Lies') In his "Inner Game" books, W. Timothy Gallwey makes a distinction between "Self 1" and "Self 2." Self 1 is an invented or alien self. Self 2 is your natural self.
This is similar to Gurdjieff's distinction between "personality" and "essence."
"Death must come before rebirth. But what must die? False confidence in one's own knowledge, self-love and egoism. Our egoism must be broken. We must realize that we are very complicated machines, and so this process of breaking is bound to be a long and difficult task. Before real growth becomes possible, our personality must die." -- G. I. Gurdjieff ('Views from the Real World')
You may have noticed some conversation or chattering going on inside your head. For example, while having a conversation with someone, all kinds of judgmental thoughts go through your mind about what the other person is saying. While listening, you may also be rehearsing what you're going to say next. This is your Self 1 in action.
In tennis there is a typical "Self 1 downward spiral." You hit a poor backhand into the net. Your Self 1 comments in your head, "That was a terrible shot!" After a few more weak backhands, your Self 1 says, "My backhand is terrible!" Not too long after that, the comment becomes, "I'll never be able to play good tennis!" -- or some similar putdown.
The "Self 1 downward spiral" may not stop there. It might be followed with, "I'm too clumsy to be good at any sport." And even, "I'm a worthless person."
Your Self 1 may also be constantly telling you what to do and what not to do. The essence of Self 1 is that it INTERFERES with the powerful abilities of your natural Self 2.
Gallwey has come up with the formula: Performance = Potential - Interference.
In any area of your life you can improve your performance by reducing interference from your Self 1.
Your Self 2 is your Powerful Real Self or essence. To wake up your Self 2, you may have to "kill" aspects of your Self 1. By "kill" I mean become aware of and UNLEARN a host of more or less unconscious thinking habits designed to keep your Self 1 in control and suppress your Self 2.
Your Self 2 has powerful, natural learning abilities. Your Self 1 may interfere with your natural learning. Much of "formal education" is styled after Self 1 interference and is more of a hindrance than an aid to natural learning. Most humans have largely lost their natural learning abilities -- a big disadvantage! Fortunately, by reducing Self 1 interference, you can recover your natural learning abilities.
If you're trying to make money on the Internet, you may experience interference from your Self 1 in the form of negative comments circulating in your mind. Your Self 1 may be sabotaging you in other ways -- like steering you into making bad decisions.
In all kinds of activities ranging from sports to ordinary communication and to making money on the Internet, there is an Inner Game and an Outer Game. The Outer Game has to do with hitting the ball. The Inner Game has to do with what goes on in your mind.
By becoming better at the Inner Game, you can greatly improve your Outer Game. If you're not as successful as you would like to be with your Outer Game of making money on the Internet (or anything else), you may want to work on improving your Inner Game.