Is the younger generation starting to feel the boot of tyranny on their throats?
David DeGerolamo
Is the younger generation starting to feel the boot of tyranny on their throats?
David DeGerolamo

Thanks to The Lonely Libertarian
A judge’s formal order releasing protester Shawna Cox makes no mention of a condition issued in court on Friday that the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation would have to end before she could leave jail.
The formal order, signed by U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Stacie F. Beckerman and dated Monday, calls for Cox to be placed on home detention with GPS monitoring and that her travel be limited to Kanab, Utah, Fredonia, Arizona, and Multnomah County for future court appearances.
She also was ordered to not possess or control any firearms, surrender her passport and have no contact with the co-defendants in the case.
The formal order appears inconsistent with the order Beckerman gave Friday during Cox’s detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Portland.
Beckerman had said then that Cox could be released with conditions but not until the occupation outside Burns was over. Four people remain at the bird sanctuary in Harney County.
Cox’s court-appointed defense lawyer Tiffany Harris had objected to the timing of the release, urging the judge to treat Cox independently from others who remain at the refuge.
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It looks to me like the government thinks that they have complete control over their “subjects”. At least she was released, most of the “co-defendents” which she is not allowed to contact were denied bail.
David DeGerolamo

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Update:
Your first clue should have been the title of this post.
What is the point?
The Revolution was won by spreading false information by Gen. Washington and by acquiring information and intelligence through Washington’s Secret Six. It is not enough to gather information: you must be able to analyze it effectively. You must also recognize when the “other side” is providing false information so that you do not fall into their trap.
Do you have a communications’ network? How do you gather information? How do you analyze it? Are you able to spread disinformation? Is this the world that you what to live in? Too bad because these are the cards that we have been dealt.
David DeGerolamo

I’ve been a wild advocate for the Internet since the beginning, and I still believe in it as a massively liberating technology… but not in the current, popular form. The Internet that we know has been recaptured by the power mongers with a massive assist from hucksters. It is, to be very honest about it, all but finished. And considering the massive inertia and mindless obedience of the dominant 9/11 culture, it won’t be saved.
So, we need a Plan B. Many people don’t want to think about such a thing, and while I understand their hesitation, I can’t endorse anyone taking the ‘ostrich position.’
That being the case, I’ll start right out with the naked truth:
Big Brother is now called “Internet.”
Using the existing Internet, as most people do, involves Big Brother reading your mind and sticking his fingers into your brain. And that’s not something that is ‘coming soon’; it is something that is here NOW… and it’s getting worse all the time.
I’ll pass up the details in this article; I’ve covered them repetitively in the past. Whoever doesn’t want to believe me is entitled to his or her choice.
Plan A2
Plan A2 is the one I’ve been talking about for a decade or more: protecting your Internet traffic. I should warn you, however, that this gets harder every day. And that means that fast, easy, and cheap is not possible. To be clear: If you’re using cut-rate protection, you’re not protected.
Yes, I have a dog in this fight – I manage the Cryptohippie Service – but what I’m writing is true all the same. Cheap privacy services are not going to protect you these days. You need professional systems (with their own private key infrastructure, multiple hops, DNS, etc.).
You can still protect yourself (see this guide) but it’s real work… as in spending hours of focused effort, and consistently.
Beyond these things, you MUST stop using free services, especially Google and Facebook. They are the tele-screens from 1984 and are in some ways worse. Like it or not, that’s the truth.
The problem with Plan A2 is that you have to pay for it. It does still work (which is why Big Brother’s operators would like to outlaw anonymity services), but it isn’t free.
Plan A2 flies in the face of the triumphant Internet hucksters who have conned nearly the entire planet into believing that there really is such a thing as a free lunch. And reason be damned, the planet has fallen for it.
Ah well.
Plan B
From YouTube:
Shocking footage claims to show a group of migrant men attacking two pensioners who stood up for a woman they were harassing on the Munich subway.

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Does our existing Constitution permit the federal government to spend money on whatever they want?
No! It contains precise limits on federal spending.
Federal spending is limited by the enumerated powers delegated to the federal government. If you go through the Constitution and highlight all the powers delegated to Congress and the President, you will get a complete list of the objects on which Congress is permitted to spend money. Here’s the list:
♦ The Census (Art. I, §2, cl. 3)
♦ Publishing the Journals of the House and Senate (Art. I, §5, cl. 3)
♦ Salaries of Senators and Representatives (Art. I, § 6, cl. 1)
♦ Salaries of civil officers of the United States (Art. I, §6, cl. 2 & Art. II, §1, cl. 7)
♦ Pay the Debts (Art. I, §8, cl. 1 & Art. VI, cl.1)
♦ Pay tax collectors (Art. I, §8, cl.1)
♦ Regulate commerce with foreign Nations, among the several States, and with Indian Tribes (Art. I, §8, cl.3)
♦ Immigration office (Art. I, §8, cl.4)
♦ The mint (Art. I, §8, cl. 5)
♦ Attorney General to handle the small amount of authorized federal litigation involving the national government (e.g., Art. I, §8, cls. 6 & 10)
♦ Post offices & post roads (Art. I, §8, cl. 7)
♦ Patent & copyright office (Art. I, §8, cl. 8)
♦ Federal courts (Art. I, §8, cl. 9 & Art. III, §1)
♦ Military and Militia (Art. I, §8, cls. 11-16)
♦ Since Congress has general legislative authority over the federal enclaves listed in Art. I, §8, next to last clause, Congress has broad spending authority over the tiny geographical areas listed in this clause.
♦ The President’s entertainment expenses for foreign dignitaries (Art. II, §3); and
♦ Since Congress had general legislative authority over the Western Territory before it was broken up into States, Congress could appropriate funds for the US Marshals, federal judges, and the like for that Territory (Art. IV, §3, cl. 2).

All over America, rates of violent crime are absolutely soaring. As you will see below, violent crime overall shot up by 20 percent in Los Angeles last year, and the police are telling people that “they need to be able to protect themselves” because the police may not be able to get there in time when they call. Thanks to deep budget cuts, police departments across the nation are already severely undermanned, and our major cities are now seeing crime rates increase at a pace that we have not seen in ages. In a previous article, I encouraged my readers to focus on the five basics of preparation – food, water, shelter, energy and self-defense. Of those five, it is often self-defense that is the most neglected. When bad people break into your house in the middle of the night intending to do bad things, what are you going to do? Many of us have not had to think about that for a long time, but now conditions are rapidly changing in America.
If you don’t believe me, perhaps you will believe the head of the union for the LAPD. According to him, people living in L.A. “need to be able to protect themselves” because the police “can’t guarantee we’re going to get there in time to help you”…
“The citizens need to know they need to be able to protect themselves because if they call 911, we can’t guarantee we’re going to get there in time to help you,” says Police Protective League President Jamie McBride.
He told Paige that Thursday morning between 5:30 and 10 a.m., there were just three patrol cars assigned to the West LA division. Two cars to protect more than 200,000 people in a 65 square mile radius.
“West Los Angeles, at the minimum, should have seven patrol units, two-man units working,” McBride said.
Have you ever been to Los Angeles?
I have, and even in the best of times it can be quite a mean place.
And of course these are not the best of times. In fact, the overall rate of violent crime in the city was up by 20 percent last year…

Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who led a standoff with the federal government in 2014, wants the protesters in Oregon to stand their ground – directly defying the message of his son, Ammon.
Days after militia leader Ammon Bundy, now in jail in Portland, Oregon, called on the final four occupiers at the Malheur national wildlife refuge to surrender and go home, the elder Bundy sent a letter to government officials declaring that the armed militia would not be backing down.
“This is notice that We the People of Harney County and also We the People of the citizens of the United States DO GIVE NOTICE THAT WE WILL RETAIN POSSESSION OF THE HARNEY COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER,” Cliven wrote in the letter, which he sent on Monday to the local sheriff, Oregon governor Kate Brown, and the White House.
The armed militia in Oregon renamed the federally protected refuge the “Harney County Resource Center” and for weeks since the occupation began said their goal was to return the public lands to the control of local people.
But since 11 people associated with the militia were arrested – and occupation spokesman LaVoy Finicum was shot and killed by state troopers – leader Ammon Bundy has called on the holdouts to end the protest.
Mrs. Cox has corroborated Ms. Sharp’s account of the ambush. Questions:
From Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Who will speak for the people of America to oppose tyranny’s boot? The consequences of bringing light to darkness are right in front of us. I can only use “disgusted” for some of the comments and articles written by those who supposedly were part of the Liberty movement. Let’s us use rationale behavior to gather facts. We already are seeing suppression of evidence by the same police state that came for the patriots.
Will you cower in fear in the hope that Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton will defend your family? Or will you put your faith in Divine Providence once again for guidance back to Liberty? I will guarantee you the fact that history has shown us: they will come for you unless you are in chains or dead. Pay careful attention to the end of this video describing the equipment used and the number of agents.
David DeGerolamo

On October 22, 1981, the national debt in the United States of America hit $1 trillion for the first time in history.
It had taken the US federal government over two centuries to reach that mark. And in that period, America had won its independence and built a nation from scratch.
They created an army and a navy, and used them both to aggressively expand the nation’s domain.
They fought an incredibly bloody civil war in dispute over the most fundamental concepts of freedom.
They engaged in worldwide imperialism, stretching the country’s influence to faraway overseas colonies.
They suffered through the Great Depression and introduced one of the most expensive public spending programs in history.
They fought two world wars and defeated the Nazis.
They developed nuclear technology. They sent people into space.
And all of that– across over two centuries of US history– collectively registered one trillion dollars in debt.
(More than half of that period was an era devoid of any income tax whatsoever!)

A disease linked to the Zika virus in Latin America poses a global public health emergency requiring a united response, says the World Health Organization.
Experts are worried that the virus is spreading far and fast, with devastating consequences.
The infection has been linked to cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
The WHO alert puts Zika in the same category of concern as Ebola.
It means research and aid will be fast-tracked to tackle the infection.
There have been around 4,000 reported cases of microcephaly in Brazil alone since October.
WHO director general, Margaret Chan called Zika an “extraordinary event” that needed a co-ordinated response.