MILITIA
Part 2

The second part of this series really consists of a single link: http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?pid=414

It is the entire report on the resurgence of right wing groups which the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER claims are catching fire all across the land.

It took much of the evening, but I did read the entire report and urge you to do the sam.

Scarey stuff, this. I do suspect that much of the evidence offered is more, perhaps., circumstantial than factual.

You can download the report from the link...we will come back to this topic in a day or two.

Come,
Celebrate
SOULMAN, NEWTON COLLIER’S BIRTHDAY
Saturday, 08/15/2009

Please come to Newton Collier’s Birthday Bash and help him celebrate his arrival into the great land of Senior Citizenry.

Newton is Macon’s very own SoulMan…the real deal….a musician who started his career outside Central Georgia on the stage of the Apollo Theatre at the ripe old age of fifteen.

The details are given below….this will be one super terrific way to spend your Saturday Night and pay due homage to Macon’s greatest living musical treasure.

Read on….Then Join In:

Kop Korner
08/13/2009

Why Is The Government Building Concentration Camps All Across America?

It’s kind of an underground subject, not talked about much in polite society.

Concentration camps, that is.

Concentration camps being erected all across America’s fruited plain, in ever region, concentration camps capable of holding tens of thousands of men, women, and children.

The subject looms large on the internet, but is scarcely whispered anywhere in the mainstream media. Frankly I do not know much if anything about it.

But an article on this morning’s LEW ROCKWELL dot COM newsletter jolted me awake before the first hit of caffeine began to interrupt my morning’s haze.

“WHY ARE INTERNMENT CAMPS BEING BUILT?” is written by Chuck Baldwin and can be found here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/baldwin6.1.1.html

Many of us have heard rumors of such camps. If I recall rightly they were begun in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when it became necessary to shelter thousands of folks from the Gulf and neither the states nor the federales were anywhere near to being up to the task.

But, of course, in a land addicted to conspiracy theories and a b’logosphere where rumor, truth, fiction, and fact are often confused, Internment or Concentration Camps have become a major subject of speculation.

The very term ‘concentration camp’ evokes the horrors of Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Buchenwald, compounds built as the foulest kind of monument to man’s inhumanity to his fellows. Far fetched, possibly. But the more we look into the social and economic programs of the Obama administration, the more they bear stark resemblance to the National Socialism of Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler. Revenge from beyond the grave?

Read the article and check the links, which I have not yet done but will before the morning is done.

Ciao!!

MILITIA
Part One

This little video will serve to introduce a subject we intend to look into over however long it takes.

You probably have seen excerpts from it on the national news. Militiaman with hollow voice. Everybody should own an AR-15 or AK-47. That much is a bit like keen insight intop the obvious.

There is, apparently, a real resurgence of Militia Activity in the U.S., particularly in the South and Midwerst. This is true, we are told, because we are in the middle of a recession, people are afraid of 'change', and there is a Black Man at the helm of the government.

We have also been told to be on the lookout for people who sport anti-)bamaesque slogans on their car bumbers, and/or are returning veterns with chips on their shoulder. People like that are sometimes demonized as being home-grown terrorists.

All I want you to do now is to look at this video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDbWs8q5fek

I won't comment on it yet. But let it serve as the first volley in what I hope will be an important discussion.

Mr. Obama's War:
Mission Accomplished
or
Mission Impossible

The opening paragraph of a recent Reuters article begins, “GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that President Barack Obama has a "winning" strategy in Afghanistan and enough forces on the ground to achieve U.S. goals despite advances by the Taliban.”

“Winning strategy”…sound familiar? Remember the optimism among President Bush’s neocon advisors as U.S. armor sliced into Baghdad? How about, “Mission Accomplished”, just before the roof caved in and our men and women were forced to slog their way through a well-organized insurgency in a far-off, hostile land?

Then there is the enigmatic phrase ‘enough forces on the ground to achieve U.S. goals…’ To date, the president has not announced just what the U.S. ‘goals’ in Afghanistan are, let along supply us with benchmarks delineating the steps necessary to reach them.

We are in serious trouble in mountainous land that has swallowed up invading armies for thousands of years.

I found the Reuters article on Drudge this morning. Its full title is “White House says Obama strategy will win Afghan war”> It may be accessed directly here: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE57A03T20090811

Coalition commander, General David McChrystal, is expected, once a complex study is completed, to ask for anywhere from ten to thirty thousand additional American troops. It is expected that hundreds, if not thousands of our ‘allies’ will withdraw their fighting men some time after next week’s general election, which is likely to return to office the weak and vacillating Hamid Karzai.

Afghanistan is now Mr. Obama’s War, no ifs, and, or buts about that. He announced with fanfare that Iraq was the ‘wrong war’, because the enemy Taliban were not there in full force. So it’s off to Central Asia and a land that has never been successfully conquered.

But the president is putting himself out on a dangerous limb. Other than Defense Secretary Gates, nobody in his inner circle has ever fought a war other than those inside the smoke-filled rooms of Chicago Politic. His closest advisors are more street brawlers, not men with military experience. From here it looks as if the same kind of presidential hubris that so engulfed his successor is overtaking our sitting POTUS.

If things go badly in Afghanistan, and they might well, given the President’s evaporating poll numbers, this savior of his people might just become a one term wonder.

DO NOT TRY THIS ON AN AIRPLANE
Especiall;y On A Flight To The Middle East

Here is a hilarious item from a reader in New England. BUT DO NOT TRY THIS ON AN AIRPLANE. It would be very diffic ult to explain thisvideo to the mirthless homeland securty boys and girls

UPDATE:
Slow Recovery

No, that's not a comment on the world economy, just an observation from my own midsummer bug.

Feeling better here, but not up to snuff. This bug has hung on for a week now, going slowly away, but ever so slowly.

It started with a sore throat then selectively hit various parts of my biosphere: head, chest, intestines, nose.

A couple of my friends seem to have the same thing....maybe I gave it to them; maybe one of them to me. Who knows? Matters not!!!

To gauge how sick I have been, I turned down three opportunities to take some trigger time this weekend. That's really sick for me.

The good news is that I had stocked up on cold/flu remedies from two years ago. No need to hurry off to the drugstore.

So don't expect much in the way of political or sociological observation from this end for a day or two, anyway.

Back just as soon as I can.

Kop Korner
08/10/2009

This is from a Area Agency on Aging staff in Northwest Georgia.

There is a phone scam that the Avondale Police Department has reported

THE SCAM": a female caller will call a homeowner and say that she is from GA Power and that the homeowner sent a check for payment that has the wrong year on it. The caller will then tell the homeowner that he or she can make the payment good by just giving the suspect caller a credit card or debit card number. The suspect caller will then also advise the homeowner that if payment is not received, their power service will be "cut off" the following morning. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. If the homeowner advises the suspect caller that they pay electronically, the suspect caller will ask the card number to verify that the payment was credited properly to the right account.

In a second part to this "SCAM" a male caller will call after the first suspect called, if the homeowner used a bank check, and state that he is from whatever bank was given in the first call and use several different presentations in order to obtain the account number. These two suspects have also obtained several METRO PCS cell phones listed under the name of GA POWERS and will tell the homeowner that they can just look at their caller ID and see that they are in fact from GA Power.

Currently there are six arrests warrants outstanding for the two suspects in this case. As of this date, GA Power has received 160 complainants from customers about this SCAM with 60 customers being victims taken for money.

GA POWER SAYS THAT IF YOU, THE CUSTOMER, DID NOT MAKE A CALL- DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS PITCH. GA POWER WILL NEVER ASK FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE. IF YOUR ARE IN DOUBT, HANG UP AND CALL GA POWER.

Lt. George Meadows
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
Crime Prevention Unit
Neighborhood Watch & Youth Programs
Bibb Sheriff’s Training Range
110 Confederate Way
Macon, Georgia 31217
Office: 744-9700
gmeadows@co.bibb.ga.us

DON'T TAZE ME, BRO....

Ironically, many law-and-order conservatives come uncomfortably close to Lenin's view of the state when they reflexively take the side of agents of state coercion – the "who" in the typical encounter between police officer and citizen. The American view of rights, however, is overwhelmingly weighted on behalf of the latter, even when the "who" is a winsome and well-dressed policeman, and the "whom" is a scruffy and unappealing individual.

I want you to read this article, for it is important to help us gain an understanding of what appears to be a rash of heavy-handed police tactics against innocent, often helpless civilians.

For the record, I have long been a strong supporter of local law enforcement. I know many of these folks. They are fine people, thoroughly professional with more than a touch of the milk of human kindness within. “Some of my best friends are cops.”

But there does seem to be a trend nationally for more than necessary roughness in dealing with the civilian population. Will Griggs addresses this important issue in a LEW ROCKWELL dot COM column. The article is titled “THE PLAGUE OF PUNITIVE POPULISM” and may be accessed directly at http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w105.html

Many think the United States is on the cusp of a revolution, or that one or more bloc’s of states will most likely go the secession route in the near future.

Maybe. It is all speculative but it should be clear to anybody that despite the increasing nannystatism of the federal government, people are coming around to the notion that we, each of us, is responsible for our own safety, protection, and survival. The anger and sometimes violence of the current Townhall Meetings is one small example.

Wrap your brain around Mr. Grigg’s article. Then get back to me if you wish.