TEXAS VETERAN IMPRISONED FOR 35 DAYS FOR REFUSING TO SURRENDER HIS FACEBOOK PASSWORD~GIVEN DONUTS & INSULIN INJECTIONS

TEXAS VETERAN IMPRISONED FOR 35 DAYS 

FOR REFUSING TO SURRENDER 

HIS FACEBOOK PASSWORD;

FED DONUTS AND INSULIN INJECTIONS

SEE: http://christianpatriots.org/2015/05/13/texas-veteran-imprisoned-for-35-days-for-refusing-to-surrender-his-facebook-password-fed-donuts-and-insulin-injections/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

(NaturalNews) Texas entrepreneur and U.S. Army veteran Jeremy Alcede has been imprisoned for 35 days (and counting) over his refusal to turn over his Facebook account password as part of a business bankruptcy court order. Federal bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the Southern District of Texas ordered Alcede thrown in jail for an indefinite period of time until he surrenders his Facebook account password, potentially creating a dangerous precedent that threatens the privacy and control of all our social media accounts.

For background, see the previous Natural News article Federal judge orders entrepreneur to commit his own Facebook identity theft or go to jail.

Jeremy Alcede is now being incarcerated at the Joe Corley Detection Center in Montgomery County, a for-profit “private prison” run by a corporation. Jeremy Alcede has not been charged with any crime and has been denied a jury trial. He is a “prisoner of conscience” for standing his ground on the issue of social media account ownership, and to my knowledge he is the only American currently being held under indefinite detention for refusing to give up his Facebook password.

Why does his Facebook account matter so much that he’s willing to go to jail to protect it? Before being incarcerated for committing no crime, Alcede told Natural News that his Facebook account contains privileged conversations with his attorney, and that forcing him to turn over his account would violate attorney-client privilege. It would also violate the Facebook terms of service, which states that no Facebook account can be assigned to another party without the written permission of the Facebook company. Turning over his own account password to another party, as ordered by Judge Jeff Bohm, would constitute Jeremy Alcede committing his own identity theft on Facebook because it would allow the party receiving the account to impersonate Alcede to his entire list of friends and followers.

“If this judge is able to force me to surrender my Facebook account password,” Alcede told Natural News, “it would set a dangerous precedent that could see federal courts seizing social media accounts from any person targeted by the government, in gross violation of due process and their First Amendment rights.”

Judge Bohm claims the Facebook account in question belongs to the new owners of the Tactical Firearms business, who acquired it through bankruptcy proceedings. But the Facebook account in question — which has thousands of likes and followers — was used almost exclusively for personal messages, not business communications or promotions. The question posed here is whether a business bankruptcy can cause that business founder’s personal social media accounts to be stripped from them by order of the court. Because there is no precedent on this question, Judge Bohm invented his own answer and appears to be willing to keep Alcede imprisoned until he complies with his demands, no matter how unreasonable they may seem.

Targeted for being a patriot?

Alcede stirs controversy in many quarters, and he’s an outspoken critic of Obama administration policies. He’s the co-founder of the Katy, Texas, firearms retailer known as Tactical Firearms, which made headlines throughout 2013 and 2014 for carrying provocative, satirical messages on its signage visible from a major thoroughfare in Katy called Mason Rd.

The following image shows one of many such signs posted by Tactical Firearms. This one reads, “Criminals obey gun laws like politicians follow their oaths of office.” Other signage poked fun at President Obama, Harry Reid and gun control zealots.

Just as the Obama administration’s IRS targeted conservative non-profits for their political and religious beliefs, Alcede believes he is being held as a “prisoner of conscience” because of his outspoken speech on controversial topics like gun control, Obamacare and illegal immigration. He says that the courts imprisoning someone for an indefinite period of time is a violation of federal and state laws against “cruel and unusual punishment.”

“I have always stood up and voiced my opinion regarding the civil liberties that our founding fathers created. I would not be true to myself or to you if I laid down and blindly obeyed an unlawful order which has currently been placed upon me,” Alcede writes on his GoFundMe page, which has so far raised $3,000 for his legal bills. “I desperately need legal representation but cannot afford it as I have been robbed of everything.”

To prevent Alcede’s story from getting out, Judge Jeff Bohm has denied media visitation access to all reporters, including Andrea Watkins from a local Fox affiliate. As this email shows, the request to interview Alcede was denied.

What kind of prisoner gets held without charge, is sentenced to “indefinite” imprisonment in a for-profit prison run by a corporation, is denied access to the press and fed a health-destroying diet? Welcome to the new Amerikan police state.

Fed donuts and insulin shots, Alcede turns to fasting to protect his health

According to reports from those in direct contact with Alcede, he was fed donuts and processed cereal by the prison staff, causing his blood sugar to experience wild clinical swings. In response, the medical staff at the facility began administering insulin shots to control his blood sugar.

Because prison food is so disastrously malnourished and imbalanced, Alcede’s health status only worsened. It wasn’t long before they tried to put him on metformin, a diabetes drug widely known to cause permanent liver damage. In essence, the prison is now waging a chemical war on Alcede’s physical health, subjecting him to punishment that goes beyond the incarceration itself. Alcede refused the metformin drug, and in a desperate attempt to protect his health from the disastrous diet forced upon him, he went on a six-day fast, during which his blood sugar stabilized.

“I wrote this post at 5 pm after waiting all day in hopes of getting a normal meal which did not happen,” Alcede wrote from prison on April 30. “The medical doctor on staff was ordered yesterday to specify the exact foods I am to be fed. He said that the warden denied the MEDICAL ORDERS and I am being poisoned. I am curious as to why a Muslim is allowed a special diet to appease their God, but a life and death diet is not worthy. Every day that passes I am uncovering MORE and MORE CORRUPTION! With the Texas prisons generating 13 plus billion dollars, yes with a b, a year…it makes perfect sense…”

Human rights violations committed by the government

Alcede remains in isolation at the facility, living in a cell no more than five feet wide. He remains the only known prisoner in America who is serving an indefinite detention for the “crime” of protecting his own social media account.

As this is happening, the United States government is being heavily criticized by a scathing human rights review from the United Nations, which accuses the U.S. government of repeatedly violating fundamental human rights.

“The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty,” reports Al Jazeera. The news publisher also states:

The March findings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on torture were not overlooked by international delegates. Many echoed the concerns of the Danish delegate, Carsten Staur, who recommended that the U.S. “further ensures that all victims of torture and ill treatment, whether still in U.S. custody or not, obtain redress and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation and as full rehabilitation as possible, including medical and psychological assistance.”

With the case of Jeremy Alcede, the United States federal government now stands as a tyrannical regime that will throw someone in prison for daring to protect their control of their own social media account.

Resources

Jeremy Alcede’s Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/Tacticalfirearms

Judge Jeff Bohm:
http://ballotpedia.org/Jeff_Bohm

Go Fund Me page for Jeremy Alcede:
http://www.gofundme.com/Fborjail

Written by Mike Adams
Learn more: Natural News

SPECIAL FORCES TRAIN WITH COPS FOR HOUSE TO HOUSE RAIDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

SPECIAL FORCES TRAIN WITH COPS 

FOR HOUSE TO HOUSE RAIDS

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/special-forces-train-with-cops-for-house-to-house-raids/;

EXCERPT:

Special Forces out of Fort Bragg are training with SWAT officers in Richland County, South Carolina this week for house to house raids, another unnerving sign of the militarization of domestic law enforcement.
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SEE: http://www.patriotortraitor.com/leon-lott/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Leon Lott is a traitor.

Leon Lott is a treasonous Sheriff in charged of law enforcement for the unincorporated area’s of Richland County, South Carolina.

Only a year after the joint drills of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and the US military raised eyebrows, Sheriff Leon Lott of the RCSD has once again announced that the department will be conducting drills that involve the joint training of civilian law enforcement and the US military.

On May 8, 2015 it was reported by WLTX that the Richland County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting drills in conjunction with the 3rd Special Forces Group out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The exercises will take place at late-night and pre-dawn and will run from May 8 until May 15, 2015.

Citizens have now been informed that Sheriff’s Department and Military vehicles will be traveling in the Lower Richland County community near Eastover and Hopkins as well as Elgin near Screaming Eagle Road. The vehicles will also be traveling in the North Richland County area near Monticello Rd.

The Sheriff’s Department has announced that residents in these areas may hear explosives being detonated and ordinance being set off as well as shots being fired.

Sheriff Leon Lott stated that the department’s Special Response Team, a SWAT-like team formulation that is becoming ever popular in South Carolina Sheriff’s Departments, with the 3rd Special Forces Group. Lott announced that the Sheriff’s department will “provide simulated scenarios for the military” and added that Richland County “an ideal location for training that cannot be replicated at Fort Bragg.”

There were no elaborations as to what these scenarios might be or what the training will involve. This is perhaps because the last time the Richland County Sheriff’s Office conducted training with Special Forces, it was simulating and training to raid farm houses and engaging in domestic raids as well as to set up checkpoints and chopper insertion. See my article “Local Police Train With Special Forces To Raid Farm Houses, Conduct Domestic Raids.”

It is worth nothing that the drills will be taking place in the exact same location as last year’s drills.

With this in mind, and taking into consideration not only the increasing number of military and joint military/law enforcement drills taking place over recent years practicing the round up, disarming, and relocation of American citizens as well as the ongoing Jade Helm exercises taking place across the country, it is highly likely that these drills are of the same category. After all, the last time they were conducted, they apparently contained a number of these elements.

The fact that the police and military are engaging in joint drill exercises in violation of Posse Comitatus and a long-standing American tradition of separation between domestic policing and military activity is concerning enough. However, if they are training for domestic operations such as raiding American farm houses, setting up domestic checkpoints, and conducting other related raids on the home-front should be terrifying to every single American that desires to keep what little shred of freedom they have left.

Unfortunately, it has become abundantly clear that the American military and indeed Sheriff Leon Lott of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department see the American people and the people of South Carolina as the enemy.

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Additional Information

Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1385

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

BREAKING: Special Forces Drill 

with Local SWAT for Domestic Raids

Published on May 12, 2015

RICHLAND | In what appears to be the second such drill, Special Forces have been deployed domestically alongside local Sheriffs to train for midnight raids in Richland County South Carolina.

The footage you’re seeing right now is the 3rd Special Forces Group out of Fort Bragg conducting a nighttime raid during an exercise. This is the special forces unit deployed.

Sheriff Leon Lott stated that “Richland County is “an ideal location for training that cannot be replicated at Fort Bragg.”

Coordinating with the Special Forces will be the county’s Special Response Team - or SWAT to “provide simulated scenarios for the military”

What's more chilling than coordinated domestic raid training is that official reports state that live ordinance and gunfire will be employed.

To top it off the media has been restricted from any kind of embedded reporting to provide Transparency for the drills.

Now you can add this drill to the long list of domestic training exercises that have occurred so far this year. FEMA Camp Roundup drills in Florida, martial law training in California, Marines Prepping for Riot Control in Virginia and of course the mother of all drills JADE HELM.

This is another glaring example of the militarization of local police nationwide who have received nearly half a billion dollars in military equipment from the department of defense.

So this begs the question. Who is training who? When local sheriffs receive military equipment and then the special forces train alongside SWAT the lines are blurred. The color of authority is transferred to local police as they become a militarized force. Local Law enforcement can’t violate Posse Comitatus… but they can use the same equipment and tactics as the military making them one in the same… just a different jurisdiction thus skirting the law and violating the constitution.

The next question is who is the intended target? I’ll leave that up to you in the comments section below the video… I’ll give you a hint. “You Train where you deploy”

http://www.wltx.com/story/news/milita...

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/u...

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/l...

Footage courtesy Department of Defense, Richmond County Sheriff's Office, and Maine National Guard. All footage resides in the public domain. 

BEN CARSON: TEA PARTY DARLING, BUT IS HE REALLY CONSERVATIVE?~BEFRIENDS RACIST RADICAL AL SHARPTON & SUPPORTS MINIMUM WAGE LAW FAVORED BY SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS

BEN CARSON HAS A DREAM:

"HOPE AND CHANGE" 

QUASI-CONSERVATIVE STYLE

MY BLACK BROTHER, THE RACIST?

JESUS WAS A FRIEND OF SINNERS, 

BUT WAS SINLESS

BIBLICAL SEPARATION FORGOTTEN WHEN 

POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY IS MORE IMPORTANT

Ben Carson: Al Sharpton and I 

"Have the Same Goal"

SEE: http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-al-sharpton-and-i-have-the-same-goal/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Dr. Ben Carson has previously rejected liberal arguments about race, but last week he spoke at Reverend ‘s National Action Network and, in a piece for National Review today, talks about how both he and Sharpton “have the same goal.”

Carson says he was encouraged by the “productive dialogue and conversation” he engaged in at the event, and said both he and Sharpton just want an America “that provides equal opportunities and access to the underserved and forgotten.”

Carson touts how he rejects a “victim mentality” that others have perpetuated.

For his part, when Carson spoke days ago, Sharpton spoke of the potential GOP candidate in good humor:

“I think Dr. Carson and I don’t even agree today is Wednesday. We’re going to show we can listen and we make intelligent decisions. You cannot deal with putting things on the agenda in 2016’s election unless those that are running can be heard—and they have to hear us.”

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AL SHARPTON:
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton

Ben Carson Befriends Al Sharpton; Color of Skin Bonds

Ben Carson Will Blow Up In The Tea Party's Face; Remember Colin Powell, Who Was Thought to Be "Conservative", But Voted For Obama?

SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell

QUOTE: "Powell donated the maximum allowable amount to John McCain's campaign in the summer of 2007 and in early 2008, his name was listed as a possible running mate for Republican nominee McCain's bid during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. However, on October 19, 2008, Powell announced his endorsement of Barack Obama during a Meet the Press interview, citing "his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities," in addition to his "style and substance." He additionally referred to Obama as a "transformational figure"."

FREE SOCIETY, FREE MARKET, 

WITH EXCEPTIONS?

"Ben Carson Favors Raising Minimum Wage, 

But Is That a Good Idea?"

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/20869-ben-carson-favors-raising-minimum-wage-but-is-that-a-good-idea;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson (shown) answered "probably" to the question of whether the federal government should increase the minimum wage. The retired neurosurgeon has staked out a position that is at odds with the view that the free market — not government — should decide wages and prices.

In an interview with John Harwood of CNBC, Carson appeared to favor a higher minimum wage as a way to encourage those who draw government benefits to join the work force. "In several states you can get as much or more on government assistance as you can by working a minimm wage job," said Carson, adding that he could not "necessarily blame people" for taking the attitude of simply drawing government assistance rather than working. "I can stay home and I can make this money, or I can go and work this little chicken job that doesn't have many benefits," is how Carson summed up the attitude of many beneficiaries of government assistance.

"However, recognize that if you go and take that chicken job, you gain skills, relationships, the possibility of moving up the ladder," Carson argued. "So a year or two or five down the road, you're no longer in that position. This is what people have forgotten."

Carson's reasoning seems clear. If the government were to raise the minimum wage, then the higher wage would make a job more desirable than the government "assistance" the person is presently receiving. Following through on his line of thought, if the government forced a business owner to pay his workers higher wages, then the taxpayer would not have to pay for their government benefits, and the person would become a productive member of society, instead of a drain on others in society who must pay taxes to fund those government benefits.

While this may seem logical, Carson's scenario neglects to mention the negative consequences of the minimum wage. First, if the government should be able to set a minimum wage, why not a maximum wage? After all, why should neurosurgeons make more than a bus boy in a restaurant? In a free enterprise situation, the supply of those who can perform highly techical surgeries is quite limited. The supply of those who can bus tables, on the other hand, is quite high. The argument usually made by advocates of raising the minimum wage is that those receiving the present minimum wage cannot support a family on it. Under this reasoning, since Carson received far more as a neurosurgeon than what was necessary for him to make a living, then the government should have capped his wage.

Why does a business owner hire anyone? The answer should be obvious. He believes he can make more money by adding that additional employee than by not. In a growing and strong economy, the minimum wage usually becomes irrelevant. This is because more businesses are in need of more employees to care of the increased number of customers, making them pay a higher wage for those additional employees.

In an economic downturn, however, the minimum wage forces the business owner to make some difficult decisions. While he may need an additional worker, with business activity down, he may simply not be able toafford another employee. Because of the minimum wage, the business owner often decides he can make more money by laying off one employee. After all, the owner opens up a business to make money for his own family, not to give someone a job. It should also be noted that a person takes a job for his own family's benefit as well, not to help the business owner make more money.

As Adam Smith observed many years ago in his famous book Wealth of Nations, the butcher does not prepare us our supper for our benefit, but his own. However, the only way the butcher can benefit himself is by preparing us our supper.

The cold, hard reality is that if the minimum wage is higher than the market price for that worker, then the business owner has limited options. He can, of course, raise his prices to pay for the additional worker; but in a stagnant economy, this may not be possible. Raising the price of the product might actually lead to even fewer customers, and reduced income for the business. If the business owner is unable to get his customers to pay the higher wage through higher prices for the product, then he must resort to cutting staff. Whereas before, the business may have operated witth seven workers, now it might have to cut back to six, or even five.

Another tactic used by business owners who are looking for ways to reduce their costs of doing business (and labor costs are usually the most expensive single item) is to experiment with some technology. After all, if you have a machine to take orders, you don't have to worry about it calling in sick (or just not showing up). If a machine is cheaper than a human being would be after an increase in the minimum wage, then a business owner who must put his own family first could very well opt to cut staff.

While these basic economic principles are no doubt not taught in medical school, there are multitudes of physicians who have demonstrated their understanding of liberty and free market principles. Former U.S. Representative Dr. Ron Paul and now-deceased former U.S. Representative Dr. Larry McDonald are just two examples who come to mind.

Carson's scenario that a person may opt to take a job rather than continue to simply draw government benefits no doubt could happen. As the great French philosopher Frederic Bastiat said, however, that is what is seen. Not seen are those employees who are willing to work for a lower wage, but cannot get a job because the minimum wage has priced them out of a job. It is also not seen when the minimum wage actually forces a business owner to close. Perhaps the owner would have taken a chance on a low-skilled, inexperienced person at a lower wage, but would not take that chance at the higher wage. All this is not seen.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an open socialist, favors raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. That should really get some fellow off the couch to take a job! But, we must ask Sanders (running for president on the Democratic ticket) and even Carson a pertinent question: If $10 an hour is good, and $15 an hour is better, why not just make it $100 an hour? Ludicrous? Of course. But once one accepts the premise that it is the proper role of government to set wages at all, why not?

The truth is, wise men have always realized that in a free society, wages and prices should be set by the free market, not by government.

COMMON CORE: LONG ISLAND MOTHER SAYS MY KIDS DON'T HAVE 10 YEARS FOR BILL GATES~GATES HAS GIVEN ANOTHER $10 MILLION TO COMMON CORE DESPITE WIDESPREAD REJECTION

Christine Tamke-Barbara Maintains
Common Core Fight:
"My Kids Don't Have 10 Years For Bill Gates"

Published on Mar 23, 2015

GARDEN CITY, NY-- Christine Tamke-Barbara, mother of two and co-founder of Stop Common Core on Long Island (SCCLI) will not stop fighting Common Core until kids are safe and learning appropriately. "My children don't have 10 years to give to Bill Gates" experiment. March 22, 2015

Stop Common Core on Long Island was founded by a group of moms who have come together to raise awareness and take action against Common Core, having witnessed the effects that this ill-conceived and developmentally inappropriate curriculum has had on their own children both in and out of the classroom.

For more information visit:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/StopC...

Gates Foundation Gives More Than $10 Million To Common Core Despite Growing Opposition

SEE: http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/11813/20150512/gates-foundation-common-core-donation-opposition.htm

MARCO RUBIO FOR PRESIDENT: UNINFORMED, WILLFULLY IGNORANT OR COMPLICIT?~WHEN BEING CLEAN SHAVEN, WEARING A TAILORED BLUE SUIT, WHITE SHIRT & RED TIE DOESN'T NECESSARILY QUALIFY YOU TO BE PRESIDENT

DOES BEING A "CLEAN CUT" HISPANIC 

MAKE ONE QUALIFIED FOR PRESIDENT NOW?

REMEMBER, WE ELECTED "CLEAN CUT" OBAMA IN IGNORANCE TOO!

RUBIO: "THE PERCEPTION HAS BEEN CREATED"

(THAT YOU ARE NOT READY TO BE PRESIDENT)

SEE: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150508/16371230941/these-clueless-politicians-are-ones-determining-if-nsa-gets-to-keep-spying-all-us.shtml
SEE: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/nsa-data-collection-ruled-illegal-tyrants-congress-pushing-police-state/

PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER RUBIO SUPPORTS MASSIVE SPYING ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Says NSA not interested in your phone calls, has broken no laws

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/presidential-contender-rubio-supports-massive-spying-on-the-american-people/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Marco Rubio, said to be the favorite of Republican voters for the 2016 presidential race, wants to extend the NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance program.

Rubio defends NSA surveillance, calls critics liars.

“The government is not listening to your phone calls or recording them unless you are a terrorist or talking to a terrorist outside the United States,” Rubio writes in a USA Today op-ed posted on May 10. He insists there “is not a single documented case of abuse of this program.”

“Despite recent court rulings, this program has not been found unconstitutional, and the courts have not ordered a halt to the program,” Rubio adds.

He then cites the secret court responsible for issuing surveillance warrants as a benchmark. “In fact, this program has been found legal and constitutional by at least 15 federal judges serving on the FISA Court on 35 occasions,” Rubio claims.

Rubio conveniently ignores the fact the surveillance program has operated without the consent of Congress or the American people since its inception. The Florida Republican excuses this illegality by saying “the federal government mobilized to defend the country and prevent further loss of innocent life” after September 11, 2001. He also mentions the PATRIOT Act.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled last week that the NSA surveillance program is rogue and is not authorized by section 215 of the PATRIOT Act (the act was ruled unconstitutional in 2007, a violation of the Fourth Amendment).

“We hold that the text of § 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and that it does not authorize the telephone metadata program,” the Court of Appeals ruling last week reads. “We do so comfortably in the full understanding that if Congress chooses to authorize such a far-reaching and unprecedented program, it has every opportunity to do so, and to do so unambiguously. Until such time as it does so, however, we decline to deviate from widely accepted interpretations of well‐established legal standards.”

The NSA has routinely violates rules set down by the secret FISA court. Information from Intelligence Community Documents Regarding Collection under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reveals the agency crossed referenced a selected list of some 16,000 phone numbers against databases which contained millions of records on Americans’ telephone numbers.

US District Judge Reggie Walton, who oversaw the secret court, said in 2009 he was “deeply troubled” by the NSA accessing domestic phone records without “articulable suspicion.”

Moreover, an independent government review board said last year “certain aspects of the program’s implementation raise privacy concerns” and the NSA has pushed “the program close to the line of constitutional reasonableness.”

While establishment Republicans and Democrats alike insist the illegal surveillance program prevents terrorism and stops the “further loss of innocent life,” as Rubio writes, studies reveal NSA spying on the American people does nothing to prevent terrorism.

“Our investigation found that bulk collection of American phone metadata has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity, such as fundraising for a terrorist group,” said Peter Bergen, director of the New America Foundation. The group analyzed cases involving 225 people recruited by al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups.

Despite the findings by the New America Foundation, government officials continue to claim terror threats have been averted as a result of massive, unchecked and unconstitutional surveillance.

“Fifty-four times this and the other program stopped and thwarted terrorist attacks both here and in Europe — saving real lives,” Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said in July, 2013.

The claim, cited initially by NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, has been debunked.

“We’ve heard over and over again the assertion that 54 terrorist plots were thwarted” by NSA surveillance, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told Alexander at the Judiciary Committee hearing in October, 2013. “That’s plainly wrong, but we still get it in letters to members of Congress, we get it in statements. These weren’t all plots and they weren’t all thwarted. The American people are getting left with the inaccurate impression of the effectiveness of NSA programs.”

Real Reason for NSA Surveillance Grid: Political and Social Control

Congress continues to promote the fallacy that the NSA is valiantly protecting American innocents from evil terrorists because the surveillance grid now in place is required by the state and the elite that control it.

“These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power,” whistleblower Edward Snowden said in December, 2013.

“Instead of focusing on catching actual terrorists, police spy on Americans who criticize the government, or the big banks or the other power players,” notes Washington’s blog.

The FBI and its precursor at the Justice Department have used surveillance and sabotage to undermine and neutralize political movements for more than a hundred years.

The behavior of the government in response to the nonviolent Occupy movement bears out this assertion. The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and elements of the private sector — a combination that represents the true nature of fascism — teamed up to undermine and destroy the movement.

“Do we hear an echo from the abyss of the counterintelligence programs of the 1960s and 1970s, when FBI memos — I have some in my own heavily redacted files obtained through an FOIA request — were routinely copied to military intelligence units? “ asks Washington’s blog.

It should come as no surprise the leading presidential candidates, with the notable exception of Rand Paul, all routinely support illegal and unconstitutional NSA surveillance of Americans.

As the Occupy experience and earlier COINTELRPO operations reveal, the elite need massive and unprecedented surveillance to maintain control of politics in America. The NSA is not concerned with a handful of unruly and largely ineffective terrorists. The NSA and the state are seriously concerned about the real enemy — the American people.
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Marco Rubio Champions For The NSA:

Published on May 14, 2015

“The government is not listening to your phone calls or recording them unless you are a terrorist or talking to a terrorist outside the United States,” Rubio writes in a USA Today op-ed posted on May 10. He insists there “is not a single documented case of abuse of this program.” http://www.infowars.com/presidential-...

ALEX JONES: 

"This Man Is An Enemy Of This Country"

Former NSA Head Exposes Agency's Real Crimes

Published on Apr 30, 2015

William Binney, a legendary NSA mathematician developed the revolutionary logic and architecture that is now used to spy on everybody in the world. When the NSA decided to use his programs on US citizens he became one of the biggest whistleblowers in the history of the NSA. He started the debate and the avalanche of understanding in regards to illegal surveillance, and is revealing inside knowledge on some of the biggest government secrets to date.

Related:
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: MASS SURVEILLANCE THREATENS FREE MARKET CAPITALISM - http://www.infowars.com/nsa-whistlebl...

NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: ‘WE’RE NO LONGER A COUNTRY WITH A GOVERNMENT, WE’RE A GOVERNMENT WITH A COUNTRY’ -http://www.infowars.com/nsa-whistlebl...

THE PROOF THAT RUBIO MAY BE DECEIVED OR COMPLICIT:

NSA scours web for images to use in facial recognition program

Published on Jun 2, 2014

The National Security Agency is collecting millions of images via social media and private communications to use in a facial recognition system, according to new leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. Saturday, journalists James Risen and Laura Poitras published an article in The New York Times detailing an increasingly complex facial recognition system used by the spy agency. Also included in the documents are mentions of plans to use iris scans to compliment the program. Discussing these latest NSA revelations with RT's Lindsay France is John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

John Whitehead - US is a police state

Uploaded on May 28, 2011

"What stands between us and an authoritarian state is the Constitution," says Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead. Unfortunately Whitehead says the government is bypassing the Constitution, particularly the 4th Amendment, thanks to the Patriot Act. As activists are arrested and fear spreads across America, Whitehead says we are watching the US transform into a police state in front of our very eyes.

Government turning America into 'electronic concentration camp'

Published on Jul 29, 2013

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency have received a lot of unwanted attention after the two agencies secret spying practices surfaced in the past few months. Many privacy advocates claim that by the government eavesdropping on its citizens, the US is slowly transitioning into a police state eliminate the right to free speech. John Whitehead, constitutional attorney and author of A Government of Wolves joins us to discuss the ever-growing police state and how it is threatening our First Amendment rights.

All of the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You

Published on Mar 16, 2015

Privacy as we once knew it is dead. We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology—specifically the technology employed by the government against the American citizenry. As a result, warns John W. Whitehead in this week's vodcast, we are becoming a nation where even the most virtuous citizen risks becoming an outlaw. 

The Electronic Concentration Camp

Published on Mar 4, 2014

The electronic concentration camp—as John W. Whitehead has dubbed the American surveillance state—is perhaps the most insidious of the emerging police state's many tentacles, impacting almost every aspect of our lives and making it that much easier for the government to encroach on our most vital freedoms, ranging from free speech, assembly and the press to due process, privacy, and property, by eavesdropping on our communications, tracking our movements and spying on our activities.