This is just one of the latest instances of small minded individuals given a modicum of power and taking that power to an abusive level. At the very least, they need to be disciplined. Arguably, they should be fired for attacking an individual that did not offer up any threats. Then we have the so-called State Trooper. Ummmmm, really? I sure couldn’t see his “identification”. Upon repeated requests for his name or badge number or identification, he failed to display it. That sure seems suspect, as if he is not really a real State Trooper. He comes off as another security guard that is abusing his power. Now, Alaska is a gun friendly state. There are also several gun owners in Alaska. What happens if you are a gun owner (with a gun on you) and you witness 2 people assaulting an individual and someone masquerading as a State Trooper? Well, it’s not a good scenario. Likely, more than one person would not be sleeping that night very soundly. And I’m not just talking about Mr. Hill.

Torches & Pitchforks. That scenario seems to be getting closer every day.

Activist Post brings us this one:

This first day of the 2010 Alaska State Fair starts with sunny skies and a brutal assault by security personnel on a LaRouche supporter.

At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pioneer Plaza on the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer. Minutes later, a crowd assembles, additional security forces arrive, and they physically assault the man holding the sign. He’s taken to the ground with force and detained.

An unidentified Alaska State Trooper arrives to physically disperse the crowd, and at several points during the conflict, crowd members yell in support of the demonstrator’s right to speak his message. The demonstrator’s personal firearm is confiscated by fair security, and he is held captive until Palmer police arrive to escort the man away in cuffs.

Sidney Hill was in jail awaiting a pre-trial at 1:00 pm on August 27, 2010 at the Palmer Courthouse. He has been charged with Assault 4-Cause Fear Of Injury, Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight, and Criminal Trespass 2- Upon Premises. However, according to the Valley Frontiersman newspaper, “Assistant District Attorney Trina Sears said her office decided not to prosecute Hill on the assault charge.”

Assault on protester at 3:30
Trooper distracts me, but I barely catch the gun in security guard’s left hand at 4:41

Court record of arrest: http://bit.ly/bPSx6D
ADN coverage: http://bit.ly/bwE3u9
Frontiersman coverage: http://bit.ly/9V4gyn
Newsminer coverage: http://bit.ly/bEEq2K
Alaska State Fair official statement: http://bit.ly/cY5U2u

Hey, didn’t I read on El Monitor not so long ago that these pervert machines were now installed in valley airports? Keep that in mind next time you decide to hop on a plane. Choose to take the regular security aisle, where a TSA pervert can merely stroke you down and humiliate you physically instead of snapping a full body naked picture of you.

Yes, you CAN refuse to walk through the pervert machines.

These “devices are designed and deployed in a way that allows the images to be routinely stored and recorded, which is exactly what the Marshals Service is doing,” EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg told CNET. “We think it’s significant.”
William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, acknowledged in the letter that “approximately 35,314 images…have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine” used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse. In addition, Bordley wrote, a Millivision machine was tested in the Washington, D.C. federal courthouse but it was sent back to the manufacturer, which now apparently possesses the image database.
The Gen 2 machine, manufactured by Brijot of Lake Mary, Fla., uses a millimeter wave radiometer and accompanying video camera to store up to 40,000 images and records. Brijot boasts that it can even be operated remotely: “The Gen 2 detection engine capability eliminates the need for constant user observation and local operation for effective monitoring. Using our APIs, instantly connect to your units from a remote location via the Brijot Client interface.”

Well, that makes me feel safer already.

To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

Yes, that’s right. You will be REQUIRED to serve for two years in this entity towards whatever designs BHO has for us. It doesn’t matter if you love it or hate it. You will be required to do so. Well, at least if you are in that age category, which is quite substantive. This is nothing short of a civilian Draft, a topic to which Rangel is no stranger. He has long been a proponent of re-instituting the military, as evidenced by his re-introduction of this similar legislation. He’s already done it 3 other times – H.R. 163 in 2003, H.R. 4752 in 2006, H.R. 393 in 2007, and this latest iteration only a week and a half ago.

It should be noted that the first implementation in 2003 of this proposed legislation had a roll call of 2-402. Only 2 Representatives voted in favor of it… Jack Murtha and Pete Stark. Every other Representative voted against it. But that doesn’t mean anything to Rangel. He went on to bring the same war conscription legislation up again, 3 more times!

As the dissatisfactions of Americans with their national government grow, so does the likelihood of the breakup of the United States. I believe that most Americans can improve their well-being by ending the national government, that is, ending the Union. I believe that this goal should shape politics if politics is to do much good.

I don’t think Americans are going to be the first people in the modern era to initiate a large-scale anarchy. But Americans might conceivably move back to a federal form of government something like that under the Articles of Confederation. If so, the problem is how to proceed. Many Americans feel (and are) trapped and thwarted by government power.

I see two paths. Americans can do this either acting as individuals formed into a body politic of 300 million Americans or as 50 body politics organized by state. I think action by state has a better chance of success.

To act as one body, Americans would have to alter their Constitution. The divisions among Americans make this highly unlikely. Even if it were pursued, the results would be highly uncertain.

Yes, indeed. The key to success on a large scale is mobilization and activation. Individuals ranting and raving about wrongdoings are portrayed negatively in the public and only get a 10 second soundbyte on the evening news. They aren’t taken seriously and assisted in their dilemma. Why do so when they can be paraded about as a malicious Angry White Man or crazed Right Wing Fringer “bitterly clinging to their guns and religion” as the illustrious BHO would say. They don’t have much to say about their own dilemma because they are ignored by the larger system itself. Good luck trying to get your point across to a newsie. Even if you find a sympathetic ear, you can oh so easily have the entirety of your story demolished by editorial oversight. Far too many people with an ounce of power over something have an agenda to Lord it over everyone else. Just ask a Mall Cop.

Rozeff makes another good point that

A tax revolt that works from and through the state legislatures directly undermines the Union. It directly challenges the power of Congress to tax. That’s a far stronger political platform for restructuring the United States.

which is certainly true, but is a concept so far down the road to most Americans that they haven’t even thought that far ahead. Mostly, they are concerned with just trying to live their lives and minimize Government intrusion and tyranny into it, rather than proactively attempting to fix what is broken within it.

Outright secession is one political measure in a spectrum of possible actions by which one or more states stand up to the U.S. government. Nullification is another. Withdrawal from the banking system is another. A separate payments system at the state level is a fourth. Refusal to obey any of hundreds of U.S. directives is a fifth. The formation of alliances among states is another.

Rozeff makes some points of interest here and almost blows right by them. Secession is certainly an interesting topic of conversation these days. What with Governor Rick Perry making allusions to it (and being attributed to a lot more – wishful thinking on someone’s part) and more than just the local so-called rednecks (one of my local Border Patrol agents) riding around with ‘Secede’ stickers affixed to their vehicles. The topic has gotten to the level of interest in the mainstream that much of the opposition is scoffing at it as illegal. Well, we know what that means. As Gandhi stated, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” Well if this is true, then the Secessionists are probably transversing from stage 2 to stage 3…

Nullification is another topic worthy of discussion. These United States are a collective of 50 individual States (as well as some Protectorates and other Holdings which aren’t quite “states”) which incorporated a Federal Government to oversee a very specific and limited set of Powers. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights explicitly enumerate a finite list of Rights and privileges thereon. Now, the States authorized themselves an Out when it comes to laws that the Federal Government comes up with. Normally, the various states would be beholden to Federal laws, except whereby they are outside the scope of the explicitly delegated Powers of the Federal Government. Nullification is the Right of the state in question to nullify, or invalidate the Federal law because of it’s Unconstitutionality. This is a topic that most citizens don’t understand. However, it is something they really need to understand, because it goes to the heart of an overpowering and tyrannical Federal Government. When all legal means of redress are subverted, how does one seek satisfaction?

Next we have the topic of withdrawal from the banking system. This is yet again a difficult topic to discuss due to the vast majority of people’s misunderstanding of it. When you ask the man on the street about our banking system, he almost assuredly talks about saving and checking accounts. He thinks that the bank holds your money to loan to other people at higher interest so it makes money and can pay you smaller amounts of interest. This is a bald faced lie. Their are two types of banking prevalent to this conversation, Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking. The former is the macro system while the latter is the micro system. Central Banking in short, is ‘Money as Debt’ which is why we in America have a debt-based economy. It’s all about pushing debt around and debt management. You take on an amount of debt and pay it back with interest. That’s how money is made here. The problem with this is that the debt grows from interest and can never be paid back because their is not enough money in existence to pay it back. This eventually leads to bankruptcy of someone or something. On the large scale, the Federal Government doesn’t even print it’s own money! They buy it from the Federal Reserve through the issue of Bonds in the Bond Market. It is distributed in turn to the regional Federal Reserve branches and then to local banks in said regions.

Fractional Reserve Banking is where the real theft occurs. This is the kind of theft that the man on the street can wrap his head around because it doesn’t have an illustrious number of zeroes after it, boggling his mind. When I deposit $1,000 into a bank, they aren’t holding that money and loaning it to other people to make more money for me. Instead, through the miracle of Fractional Reserve Banking, they have just created more money out of thin air! Banking law allows the bank to loan out more money than they hold on deposit. That $1,000 in the vault means they get to issue “Lines of Credit” to everybody to the ratio of 10 to 1. There are several cartoons on YouTube which eloquently explain this better than I could.

Rozeff’s last 3 arguments are perhaps beyond the scope of this article, and quite a bit more in depth as to their requirements.

In short, the impending tides of  turbulence can bring on any number of effects if the citizenry of the nation unites under their respective States to do battle with the Monsters in the Swamp.

Important as they are, our political divisions are the iceberg’s tip. When pollsters ask the American people whether they are likely to vote Republican or Democrat in the next presidential election, Republicans win growing pluralities. But whenever pollsters add the preferences “undecided,” “none of the above,” or “tea party,” these win handily, the Democrats come in second, and the Republicans trail far behind. That is because while most of the voters who call themselves Democrats say that Democratic officials represent them well, only a fourth of the voters who identify themselves as Republicans tell pollsters that Republican officeholders represent them well. Hence officeholders, Democrats and Republicans, gladden the hearts of some one-third of the electorate — most Democratic voters, plus a few Republicans. This means that Democratic politicians are the ruling class’s prime legitimate representatives and that because Republican politicians are supported by only a fourth of their voters while the rest vote for them reluctantly, most are aspirants for a junior role in the ruling class. In short, the ruling class has a party, the Democrats. But some two-thirds of Americans — a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents — lack a vehicle in electoral politics.

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Today saw the first of several as yet unscheduled meetings to cover the issue of redistricting the borders of the various political districts in Texas. The populations in Congressional, Senatorial, Texas House, and State Board of Education districts will be enlarged significantly next year based on the final tally of the 2010 U.S. Census information. As such, we are in the public commentary phase whereby citizens are able to speak with the committee members of the Redistricting committee as to their wishes regarding potential changes to the existing borders. Many organizations and people will have agendas regarding how new borders will be drawn up. Here in Hidalgo county, it is particularly important that we reunify the region into closer regions.

Following is the testimony that I verbally submitted to the Committee. I also submitted written testimony for the record.

Hidalgo County is currently a split Senate District across SD20 & SD27. It makes sense to reunify the county and place it in a contiguous Senate District based on commonality of its citizens.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Texas has seen a growth rate of 18.8% between the 2000 Census and July 1, 2009. Along that time, Hidalgo County has seen explosive growth outpacing that of the state, with a projected change of 31.8% from 569,463 to 750,714.

Additionally, of the 25 counties that outpaced the rate of growth of the State, only 4 of these counties are outside the I-35 corridor: Montgomery, Fort Bend, Brazoria, and Hidalgo. Of these 4 counties, Hidalgo is the only border county, assuring a swift and continued long term growth.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in White v. Regester established that State legislatures could deviate from the Ideal district population size by as much as 10%. The current Ideal population size based on Estimated 2009 population is 799,429. Collectively, Hidalgo County and Starr County have a total 2009 estimated population of 803,823 which equates to one half of one percent deviation from the Ideal population size. This is essentially a perfect District delineation across existing county lines. Furthermore, the inherent ethnic makeup is similar across both counties.

County                 Year       Hispanic               Anglo                    Black

Hidalgo                 2000       88.3%                    10.5%                    0.3%

Hidalgo                 2008       89.6%                    8.8%                      0.5%

Starr                      2000       97.5%                    0.3%                      0.1%

Starr                      2008       97.3%                    1%                          0.7%

The people of these two counties have more in common with each other than with others spread across the current SD20 and SD21. We both live on the border and share similar concerns, such as border violence, security, and the recent flooding of the Rio Grande river from excess rain during the beginning of the hurricane season. We face the same concerns here along the border and have more in common with each other than those 200+ miles away from us. It makes logistical sense to unify the region into a single Senate District. It will save money in Election costs, requiring less election workers, ballots, and precincts. Starr County is the poorest county in Texas while Hidalgo County is the 8^th poorest county. Why increase election costs by a far flung district?

Representation of this unified Senate District would be most welcome from its tax paying citizens.

The same equally applies towards the Congressional district borders. We have 3 separate and disparate regions that are vertically oriented, stretching from the valley to parts northward up to 250 miles away! What do the people of Laredo have in common with Mission? What do the people of McAllen have in common with Kleberg? What do the people of Harlingen have in common with Corpus Christi? It only makes sense that the regions along the border in an east-west orientation should be unified, as we are the communities of interest here. In McAllen, I have more in common with the people of Rio Grande City, Mission, Edinburg, PSJA, and Donna. I don’t need a Congressional Rep out of Laredo or Seguin representing me, as they have next to no idea as to what my needs are. Instead, I need a Rep from my region that knows what is important to me, such as border security issues, education, emergency services, Veteran’s Administration, and the recent flooding of the Rio Grande River into adjacent land from excess rain during the opening of the Texas Hurricane season. Farmers are still cringing at the prospect of forecast rain right now, which has the potential of destroying what is left of the local sorghum crops! Flooding has risen to the extent that commercial trucking has been diverted all the way to El Paso area. What kind of impact does this have on the economic situation here in the valley? This is the sort of action item we need a regional STRONG representative for, not someone 200+ miles away.

The committee meeting started out with a bit of trouble, as the original Texas House Redistricting website posting had the meeting scheduled for 10AM, but it was a dead link! I had to parse the website URL and manually correct it to get the info. Our group contacted them about this discrepancy and they swore they would correct it. 2 weeks later, and AFTER the scheduled meeting, the link on the website is STILL NOT WORKING. See their homepage at http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/redist/redist.htm and sure enough, the joint public hearing notification is still a dead link. The meeting is already over, yet the notification is still incorrect. Not only that, but they changed the scheduling from 10AM to 12PM. Verbal confirmation was sought beforehand, and the phone answerer stated first 10, then 12. Hmm. Successive calls to the House Committee phone number of (512) 463-9948 were answered immediately by an answering machine. It went straight to voicemail. It was full, so could not record a voicemail. Hmm. Well, it was originally posted for 10AM, so we planned on being there for a 10AM meeting! Arriving around 9:30, we waited a bit for the Convention Center to open up. After heading inside, we waited yet again for another 3 hours or so. SREC Committeeman Eric Opiela was asked about the scheduling info beforehand, and he stated he thought it was at 12PM. He was leaving Austin at 6AM, so it had better be at 12! Everyone signed in and we proceeded inside.

The panel of committee members was a bit more extensive than I had expected. I’m glad to see that some of the Representatives from Central and North Texas, specifically Larry Phillips (R-62), Jim Jackson (R-115), Tryon D. Lewis (R-81), and Bryan Hughes (R-5) actually sought me out in the hallway prior to the beginning of the meeting, asking who I was and if I represented any group. This was behavior I had not expected, as in every other case of my personal interaction with Representatives in Texas, I always had to seek them out first, begging an audience. At no point did Representatives CLOSER to me geographically seek me out to converse. Specifically, my own House Representative Veronica Gonzales (D-41) and Ryan Guillen (D-31), Abel Herrero (D-34), Aaron Pena (D-40), Armando Martinez (D-39) and Eddie Lucio (D-38) merely passed me in the hallway as they entered the conference room, exhibiting no interest in my presence. Now, I don’t want to read too much into the letters after their names and the level of their politeness towards me prior to the meeting, but I certainly find it interesting to see that those Texas Representatives closest to me geographically completely ignored me, whereas those from Central or North Texas exhibited interest in my presence.

Unfortunately, an attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF) had been given nearly a full hour to talk and be questioned by the committee. He was also recognized as the same individual who had given the same testimony to the same committee in San Antonio. Local citizens (of which the MALDEF attorney apparently is not) were made to wait for their chance to speak for a mere 5 minutes in comparison. I didn’t have to wait too long once we were in public comments time after the MALDEF attorney before I was called to testify.

I was called to the podium to speak in an out-0f-order queue. I’m not sure what order the speakers were scheduled in, but it was certainly not in order as they signed in to do so. I had expected a typical give and take of For/Against commentary is in Robert’s Rules of Order (RRO) but this committee was scheduled as a precursor to any legislation, so topics were not For/Against but rather your respective thoughts on the particular issue were. As I stepped up to the podium, I introduced myself to the committee, which was currently approximately at half strength. Nearly half the members were no longer on the dais, as they had left the room to conduct an interview, answer the call of nature, or for some other reason which was apparently more important. After an internal sigh, I welcomed the committee to the valley, especially the Central and North Texas Representatives, for whom we have so few occasions to meet and speak with. I also expressed my surprise and dismay that there were no U.S. or Texas flags in the room, to which we should have opened the committee meeting with a Pledge of Allegiance. I spoke my mind and submitted my written testimony, as listed above.

The end outcome of this event will be either 3 or 4 new Congressional seats next year, and some changes to existing political borders across the state when the final U.S. Census information is tallied. In particular, Hidalgo county has seen explosive growth over the past decade.

Here are some pics.

Additionally, after the meeting stood in adjournment, Chairman Todd Hunter(R-32) approached me and thanked me for my participation and comments. He informed me that the issue of the flags had not been brought up, and he was thankful that I had notified him of it. I have a little feeling that he was surprised by the turnout of local Republicans to the meeting, expecting a strong contingent of local Democrats instead. This was not the case. Several people spoke regarding the issues surrounding redistricting, but most people were identified as Republicans. Much thanks to Chairman Hunter for the personal picture after the event!

The gallery is at http://rgvrlc.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3779 for the rest of the photos.

The whole gallery is available at http://rgvrlc.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3430

Tired of being ignored by Washington?   We must focus our attention on Austin. They are beginning to feel the heat, but we must keep up the pressure.

We understand that under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the US Constitution, Texans have the right and duty to judge when the Federal government oversteps its authority. Our state government has the duty to shield Texans from consequences or penalties that may occur by crafting legislation that will truly protect us.

I will print and personally hand deliver your petitions to the officials listed at the bottom of the resolution on July 23rd.  Please let me know if you can join me!

If you can pitch in a few dollars to help me with printing costs, travel expenses, etc. I would very much appreciate it.  I can’t do this alone.

For Liberty,

Debbie McKee

Campaign for Liberty – Texas

netxlc@gmail.com

Ms. Wests’ county website is located at http://www.milwaukee.gov/West

If you would like to contact her and instruct her in geography, her contact information is as follows:

MILWAUKEE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Milwaukee County Courthouse
901 North 9th Street, RM 201
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Phone: 414-278-4222 Fax: 414-223-1380