A bit of a rant by Big Al and Alan Butler
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn…my favorite quote….:
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Cite: Edward E. Ericson, Jr., “Solzhenitsyn – Voice from the Gulag,” Eternity, October 1985, pp. 23–4
Amen, Dennis!
Amen, Reverend!
ditto Rev….good POST………..NO GREAT POST
Snowden…..BROKE NO REAL LAW’S…….HE WAS “PROTECTION” THE CONTITUTION……
THAT MAKES HIM A TRUE AMERICAN…..unlike the president…….THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD BE 100% BEHIND HIM…..HE DID NOT BREAK THE LAW, HE JUST TREW AWAY THE MUZZLE THAT THE REAL “TRAITERS PLACED ON HIM…..ANY JUDGE WHO ATTEMPTS TO PROSCUTE HIM IS A BOUGHT & PAID FOR TRAITER, & HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSITUTION…..
PS……AND ANY AMERICAN WHO DOE’S NOT STAND BY HIM IS AS DUMB AS SHIT…….
I CALL ON EVERY AMERICAN WHO HAS KNOLEDGE OF WRONG DOING BY THE STATE TO STEP FORWARD & SPEAK , YOU OWE IT TO YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS……
& YOUR FOREFATHERS WHO FOUGHT SO HARD & DIED TO WRITE THE GREATEST CONSTITUTION EVER WRITTEN…………..A CONSTITUTION FOR “FREEDOM” & “LIBERTY”
Tony……Some of the Lazy fat A..,,,better, get on board, or they will on their way to the camps….that are being set up around the USA…..
The Socialist, are the brown shit..I mean Brown shirts…..of 1938
I can easily agree to this rant and see that behind the scenes the US has since WWII installed some means of surveillance within their old and new allies by contractual consent.
Meantime, after the Cold War, this should have become obsolete, though like f.i. pricing oil in US Dollars the hegemonial Reserve Status would have slowly eroded, if the US also had to give up its asperations as the main and only world power.
As inroads into the reserve status have already weakened the US economic power substantially, the giant started to tread on every potential aggressor from outside and now even from within, disregarding its own great constitution of personal liberty, towards a fascist type of cooperation between corporate (mostly defense related) and political dictatorship.
Once the globe’s envied, admired and prone to imitate the US in its self-confidence it seemed the tower of personal guarantees of liberty was beginning to shake; And so was the US Constitution, the confidence of its allies and lastly the belief of and on an Imperial design trying to walk the walk of pure capitalist, social market economy or fascistoid cum communist directed markets.
Markets, we already see, as they’re only function by and on FED-Speak, major Bankster fraud and lastly on the opposite of general known principals.
Goodbye to free markets and lets find real prices again … by true barter!
Thanks frr
Al:
We need a new holiday in this country. We could simply call it Star Chamber Day. Perhaps it could replace Independence Day.
The Supremes have ruled in favor of continual corruption by throwing out term limits and any meaningful campaign financial reform.
Our best hope is for every American, irrespective of their political affiliation, to join in voluntary bipartisian fashion to refuse to support or vote for any Senatorial candidate who has served 2 terms or for any member of the House, 3 terms. Somehow we must eliminate lifetime pensions for those who have served as little as one term. Furthermore, there should be a 5 year ban for any former member of Congress lobbying the same institution where he or she has previously served.
Not an impossible task as it may have been 10 years ago in this new era of instant and widespread communications provided of course that NSA or the FCC doesn’t start closing down sites……………………….
It is obvious to many that we are at an unprecedented crossroad in terms of preserving our Liberties and our precious Constitutional rights; so far the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Tenth and Fourteenth amendments, to name a few, are in the process of permanent erosion or God forbid, elimination.
And to our buddies at the NSA; have a good day.
To our buddies at the NSA….& every other evil unit…..Your day of reckoning will come , & it wont be pleasant , & it may not be by the hand of GOD…..so yes have a nice day while you still can………
This coming from “the meek”?
AL………….& THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
One of the failings of Christianity, Irish. The Church clearly never followed their own teachings. The Inquisition comes to mind.
The un-meek and the non-christian CFS.
Well duh. Free will in the hands of a bunch of phuckeed up people. Sorry Professor those folks really make me angry!.
Amen!
Dai……I suggest you become the President of the Organization…..and I would be more than glad to support your efforts in the MIDWEST………
Many thanks Dai.
Consideringyour background I take what you say quite seriously.
ditto…………
Diagramming what Jay Taylor was referencing………
A diagram of your typical tyranny common throughout all history……
God/Deity>>>>>>>>>Government>>>>>>>>>Subjects
Diagram of the unique American experiment:
God>>>>>>>>>People>>>>>>>Government
It makes all the difference as long as we cling to the later diagram.
The fact our country exists was the equivalent of a Doug Flutie walk off “Hail o Mary” pass to his roommate to beat Miami.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ykWbu2Gl0
Great Diagram MR. O……..or Disco…..
Al……A CONTRACT….IS A MEETING OF THE MINDS,,BETWEEN TO PARTIES……., considing ….it is against the Law,,would imply he was Wrong,,,,and the Law, was not harmful…to life, liberty,,,,etc………….
The contract, was signed before, Snowden saw that it was unconstitutional………
A contract to perform an illegal act is void ab initio.
An agreement between parties to perform an illegal act is also a conspiracy.
There I go again!!!!!!!!!!
my same thoughts…..I like what you say……..YOU CAN GO ON FOR AS LONG AS YOU SO WISH…….BRAVO…..DISCO..
Thank you sir!
Good point.
I would say to JAY….continue speaking the TRUTH,,,,,THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
It is not as if the evils we face are hidden.
It is as if an unencumbered exercise of free will is a requirement to enter in an agreement at the crossroads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMLjS3pU9Q
It is as if the seduction of the innocent is what thrilled Mrs. Robinson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBsaCxbAaQ
It would not have been any fun if Benjamin came on to her.
I gotta tell you Dennis I never looked past her daughter!
REMEMBER THIS GOING FORWARD……..a legal mind Is ok, as long as the one you are trying to corral to your side understands your meaning…….I point this out, because going forward , you will have to communicate to the sheeple, who can not understand anything above an 8th.grader…………
OR in other words………….KISS……..KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID(not meaning you of course)
That is why I try to incorporate pop culture illustrations whenever I can think it is appropriate…
You can learn a lot about a lot by watching simple things like the little rascals….Go Fly a Kite!!!!
that might be a little to simple……..
or maybe not………..
There is always a price to pay for FREEDOM……..
Jerry, how can you be free if a whistleblower is proclaimed a traitor. DT
DT…..hello,,,,,My comment on Freedom, was more slanted towards ,what Jay was saying……….I felt ,that his comments of giving in, were kind of sad…..
It is a shame ,when men are afraid to speak out and speak up…….
I did post the other day, I thought Snowden was a patriot, and American hero.
THE proclaimation that he is a traitor……is the someone said …..A KETTLE ,CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK…….THE TRAITORS ARE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND CONGRESS
DT….did you see the clip, that Dennis posted, on” FLY A KITE”. Little Rascels……,,,you will enjoy it…best…….jerry
Very intetesting question.
Anyone sideing with Liberty will be a target?
The facists of the 30s-40s went back 10 years looking for opposition to them once they were entrenched.
They didnt have everything recorded then, this time they do.
Dangerous to be right when your government is wrong.
OK, secret survalence is bad, should be out in the open. OK, its out in the open.
I for 1 dont feel better about it.
Interesting topic for some upcoming editorials.
Its facism, tyranny, pure and simple. I have said for some time, the conversation shouldnt be about what it is, thats obvious, but about how to end it. Thing is, alot of people are going to believe its a good thing. Remember, there are alot of “gung ho” patriots out there that believe their government can do no wrong. That the Bush family is good people etc.
A very hard thing to stop it now. Maybe impossible.
benb……ever been to a gun show……….there are a lot of patriots,,,soldiers , military and police ….who do not like what the govt is doing…………
Unfortunately, patriots are allowing themselves to labelled as Kooks, odd-balls, tea-baggers, nuts, etc.
We need to stop that characterization.
We need to start labelling our politicians as corrupt, slimeballs, incompetent scum, etc. We must not allow them to get away with taking over the Constitution.
The thin end of the wedge has been driven in. I detest this divide and conquer technique set up by the Devil Incarnate from the very start of his administration.
He seized powers to act like an emperor from the get-go. And no one spoke out; no one still speaks out. It was pamphleteers that started the Boston Tea Party, it will be
people speaking out that take back the country.
As a devout coward, I will be speaking from outside its border, but I will never be silenced until they screw down the lid. In the meantime I’ll keep a watch out for drones.
(You still think killing by drone is OK? It is assassination. It always has been assassination. It always will be assassination. It violated the UN charter and the American Constitution by denying the right to trial. It still violates the constitution and it always will violate the Constitution.
Since when did the Constitution only apply to US Citizens. It always was meant to apply to american citizens and all people on american soil. I realized, when the puppet Attorney General took so long to state that killing Americans by drones was inappropriate, not morally wrong, not unconstitutional, we had a rogue immoral administration, rotten to the core. When Congress allowed Holder to knowingly lie to them, without punishment, I realized the whole government of the US was rotten to the core. This what happens when you allow a bastard to polarize along party lines; to divide and conquer; to bribe citizens for votes using tax-payers money. Rotten to the core, from the top down.
Sorry for the rant, Big Al. But, although I am not a supporter of Ron Paul, in many specifics, I did not like the way the stooges in the media separated him out and marginalized his candidacy – divide and conquer tactic, very effective.
Sad to say, my thoughts exactly!
the gung ho….individuals are getting a fat check from the govt. service…., wait and see how gung ho they are when the check stops……..
More and more people are questioning.
“OUR GOV HAS REPLACED GOD”……..YIKES!!! Jay is right on………
TO BAD FOR THE GOVT…………..the morons do not know, who they are dealing with
Correct me if yoh think I am wrong.
The government will never replace God.
Might try, but it is simply not possible.
It worked in the Soviet Union for almost a hundred years; it worked under Mao in china for over 50 years and it’s still working in N. Korea.
What makes you think it is not about to start in the US?
You don’t think the Imperial presidency is a start?
Not that it matters, but I dont think governments are trying to replace “god” in the least.
For myself, if any serious opposition were to happen, I would hope Liberty would be the goal and not any religions.
Why did anyone place a value on privacy during the wake of the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal?
One million people refusing to pay taxes, alas, will not affect the government. They will just print.
So peaceful extreme non-compliance will not work.
Snowden broke his contract, Snowden agreed not to divulge information.
But did he brake the law, if the law is unconstitutional?
I would submit whistle-blowing on unconstitutional acts can NEVER be ILLEGAL.
TYRANNIES HAVE NO RIGHT TO CLAIM LAW IS ON THEIR SIDE.
UP yours, Auntie.
RIDE ON…….OR… WRITE ON….OR… RIGHT ON…….any ways……..great comment.
I’m really proud of myself. I have been biting my tongue for over twelve hours, just to see what others would say.Alas, I believe intelligent people in this country are in the minority.
I am amazed at the lack of protest at government behavior.
I am most glad I made the decision a year ago to leave the country, because I do not believe the stupid peasants will ever protect the constitution.
So peasants they will become, even if they do not realize it yet.
Most sick of all is the mainstream media leading the stupid peasants into poverty,
Beguiled by the Devil Incarnate and his corrupt minions.
…and the credits roll to Serfing USA, by The Peasants.
Cute Matthew!
ditto……the beach boys should run the country …
I don’t know man. Some of their past issues are concerning.
Very big rock and roll fan Al
Good one, Matthew.
It will soon be possible to accurately model human thought and behaviors across all regions, age groups, cultures and time periods by virtue of compiling the vast amounts of collected data that represents the mundane daily interactions of people.
The source of data is of course phone records, emails, video, blog commentary, legal records, interactions with authority, preferences of a million varieties, shopping habits, credit usage, driving records and status of health to only mention a very few of the easily gathered access points into the daily life of an individual.
The great change now is that social groups no longer need to be studied in attempting to divine the habits of individuals as it is now the individual himself who in aggregation of the details of his life will offer insights into determining broad social behavior.
This is an incredible turning point in understanding (and therefore managing) social behavior and the society they are a part of. In the past we looked to groups and group behavior to understand humanity whereas now we will gain a greater depth of understanding through the details of the individual mind itself.
Surveillance across so many varied platforms now offers insights into predicting almost exactly how individuals will respond under a wide variety of circumstances. There are hundreds of millions of people all being analyzed at once. Computer modeling and the analysis of so much data will soon be able to give extremely precise definitions of specific individuals by knowing their past characteristics and how they respond over time to a variety of changes.
Psychologists, Sociologists and behavioral scientists will have a field day with the vast amount of information at their fingertips. I have absolutely no doubt that such modelling is now being contemplated or is underway and will perhaps form the basis of sorting people in the future according to defined attributes.
In the past we have sometimes been amazed by the accuracy of how social sciences have been able to gain insights into the minds of individuals based on studies of relatively small groups and how this understanding has allowed predictive capabilities that were often quite accurate.
Appreciating how much could be done with those small study groups is in itself offering insights. How much more accurate can the models become when the group being examined now comprises virtually all of humanity that is connected to the grid. Even the portion that is not connected is not immune to being understood.
So are there really any secrets remaining unknown in the world of people when computer analysis can quickly boil your personality down to little more than a number on a scale based on all that has been studied and analyzed?
I suspect there will soon be no secrets left to discover and that action and reaction will be tied to specific knowledge of individuals based on details of their histories. More to the point, it might not even be necessary to watch individuals so closely afterwards as the means will exist to understand a personality based on a very brief survey or quiz.
To an extent, all people are the same. We like to consider ourselves individuals and unique but from an outside perspective we look not that different than large groups of penguins. Essentially indistinguishable from one another in look and pattern behavior.
The possibility now exists for computer models to randomly pose questions to an interview and arrive at an incredibly accurate assessment of who that person is and what they represent (whether they like it or not). They can by virtue of the model decide who is a risk to society and who is an asset.
Based on the vast amount of material being examined it will also soon be possible to divine nature from nurture and therefore make determinations of behavior that are based on genetics as opposed to the wide number of variables introduced into the equation by politics, religion or environment that have in the past befuddled a good understanding of the individual.
I hope everyone here appreciates that the outcome of data collection is virtually always a deep analysis of the data that has been collected. What else is the point? I also should not need to point out that the knowledge of humanity encapsulated by the models gives tremendous power to those who possess it.
You may as well go into an argument naked and unarmed when the opposition already knows with a high degree of probability what you will do and say ahead of time. Like I said…we all imagine ourselves individuals but the truth is that most people are all too predictable.
And so we head in the future, naked against the phalanx of computing power that is arrayed against us that has an advantage more potent than that held by the spear throwers upon encountering others who had little more than rocks as a defense, we need to keep in mind our outward behaviors are what define us.
What you do and say now matters more than ever now. Can it be any simpler?
Just like young David Bird Man who as good as naked took on Goliath.
Remember evil only appears so formidable because it calls on all manner of human agencies with which to try and terrify us…..If God is for us WHO, JUST WHO can be against us?
The more I think through the real implications of all the data collection and the routines now being written to compile it all into making a picture of clarity representing the very nature of the human mind, I am simply astonished Andrew.
This is the future though. I am only speaking to what is the obvious outcome of the collections.
What is really happening at its root is that our minds are being examined by a complete and thorough understanding of our actions and reactions to events, news and other variables. It is possible to do it in real time now too which makes it an incredibly useful too for those who control the data.
From here, it is therefore just a small leap to making the thought processes of the individual public in every way imaginable. There is no sanctuary left that cannot be intruded upon after that, not even the human mind itself.
This truly is the Brave New world. We are all naked before an immensly formidable power.
Thanks Bird.
I am starting to rethink my position about surveilance.
Good to hear, Al. We all need to wake up to the future that is coming.
Thanks Bird.
We jusy need to stay informed. Not saying my opinion is correct, it is simply my opinion.
535 (amongst numerous others in the Kleptocracy) are breaking the law each and every day~
If I understand what you are saying, I think you are really low!
536 you left out plugs Biden who technically presides over the Senate and breaks ties.
And the truth be known the true # of people who control the 536 in Congress and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would comfortably sit around a single malt tumbler topped poker table.
I would like to be there along with you and the rest of our “family”.
I don’t recall a time in History when so many geniuses gathered together in one spot at the same time, and for the common good of humanity, to right “The American Declaration Of Independence.”
The only other period in History and it was very close in time is during The French Revolution and The Age Of Napoleon and that includes some on The British side like Nelson and Wellington, but many of their brilliant leaders were military men, not the same as having society being improved by allowing free thought and the basic principles of freedom and liberty to be their guide.
I hope society gets back to improving the life’s of men like it was meant to, after all shouldn’t we be better at governing ourselves over time, isn;t that one of the goals of all men. DT
Yes it is Machine Gun!
Al, when I look at the leaders America has, I am starting to see Rick Perry as a man I would like to see as a frontrunner.Ron Paul doesn’t have a chance but Perry does and I like what I am seeing with this man in comparison to the past and the future.
Try to get him on your site , I think we need more information, and I agree with some of his policies but we should try to reach out because he has made his state progressive. DT
By the way, I am serious because we need to have more political involvement on this site that is the only way to bring about meaningful change. DT
Fair enougj Machine Gun.
I have been trying to find out what all this NSA spying is costing. However, everything seems to be off-budget.
I did come across some data that is possibly of interest courtesy of the ACLU (.org).
This in connection with formal request for wiretaps in connection with drug crimes.
Number of formal requests to a judge for a wiretap: 3,395
Cost of a wiretap on average: $500,452
Conviction rate resulting from wiretap and related information 18%
So apart from wiretaps being darned expensive, roughly 4 out of 5 suspected people who were wiretapped produced no damning evidence from being wiretapped.
This does not seem to be a very efficient process, even when you suspect someone.
How efficient a process can it be when everyone is randomly spied upon?
Will it be $ 1 million per person caught? $ 10 million? $100 million? At what expense is the concept economically one of the most stupid ideas of doing something, just because it can be done, and Congress has totally lost control of budgeting?
That is apart from it being UTTERLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
I call for the immediate dismissal and loss of all pension rights for those involved in the NSA spying project. FURTHER such unconstitutionalists should be permanently barred from Federal employment.
(I only suggest this because I believe hanging, drawing and quartering uncivilized; even though the spies deserve it.)
Where Oh where is the call from the peasants for a closure of the spying apparatus?
Alas the sheeple are too involved watching their soap operas to give a darn.
The parallels of Rome shout loud. Pax Americana mortum est.
Brad Thor was on Coast2Coast Saturday night.
The interview starts at 40 minutes, and goes for 2 hours.
http://youtu.be/GMTKwlvwPlY?t=39m31s
Warning: don’t listen if boiling blood (yours) interrupts sleep.
Thanks Irwin.
Thanks, Irwin, Brad Thor is interesting, even if he does not know who Hegel was.
These young whippersnappers never studied history.
Thor is very confused about communism. I don’t know where he got his crazy definition.
You’re welcome, guys.
I see some of his books available at the library. Will pick one up and see how his fiction flows.
Hi Al, its amazing what the government view of personal privacy is ? Like its no problem in what they think about spying, and TSA guards groping people, strip search a persons body, then say concerning from the other side of their mouths that there is privacy of a woman body on Abortion on demand is OK, for her to (murder/destroy tissue)kill her baby ? Where do you draw the line between these two cases of (subjective) law. Like if it feels good do it, type reasoning, its insane at best to say there is any difference. Where ?
Good point Dennis F!
Bless you Jay, Alan, A. A phrase by Alexander Sozhenitsyn springs to mind here: ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’.
Evil always appears very formidable, very scary…but we who trust the Lord are told to BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE! Why, because evil always over-reaches itself!
It’s like in Egypt. True, the army broke the law by ousting Morsi. But Morsi broke the law by re-shaping the constitution as he saw fit. And the people rose up! So many stories in the Bible tell of God working through solitary voices that then become a great shout of rage. Think of Elijah, or David, or Gideon….the more they trusted God the more God overthrew his enemies.
We have NOTHIG to fear except fear itself!
Blessings, Andrew