James Holmes and the VERY plausibilty of a programmed assassin.

A recent Discovery Channel documentary proved that individuals can be mind controlled into carrying out murder, proving the so-called “conspiracy theory” that it is possible to create brainwashed assassins.

The documentary, part of the Discovery Channel’s Curiosity series, is particularly relevantgiven the recent claim by an alleged inmate of ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes who contends that Holmes told him he was “programmed” to carry out the Aurora theater massacre by an “evil” psychotherapist.

Entitled Brainwashed, the experiment was overseen by Harvard University’s Dr. Cynthia Meyersburg and Oxford University’s Dr. Mark Stokes. Certified hypnotherapist Tom Silver was called upon to hypnotize dozens of subjects to test the depth of their hypnotic state and how suggestible they were.

After a series of tests, the sample size was eventually whittled down to four participants, all of whom were hypnotized to withstand near freezing temperatures in an ice bath. Only one of the subjects was able to stay in the ice bath for longer than 18 seconds, and he was chosen as the final participant to be brainwashed into carrying out an “assassination” he was hypnotized into believing was real.

36-year-old corrections officer ‘Ivan’ was told that he was no longer needed on the show and was free to leave. However, during an exit interview, Tom Silver hypnotized Ivan and ordered him to assassinate a foreign dignitary outside a hotel. Ivan was then given a fake gun that had the same blast and recoil of a real firearm.

As Ivan was in the hotel lobby preparing to leave, he was given a trigger signal that the hypnotist had created earlier as a command to carry out the assassination.

As the Discovery Channel website for the show explains, “The experiment was a success, and Ivan carried out his instructions: removing the gun from a red backpack, waiting near the velvet rope line and “assassinating” his target.”

The documentary therefore clearly illustrated that individuals can be brainwashed into carrying out an assassination using hypnosis and other mind control techniques.

A similar documentary was also aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom last year. Entitled The Assassin, the show revolved around British illusionist Derren Brown’s attempt to turn an ordinary member of the public into a mind controlled assassin via hypnotism and neuro-linguistic programming, and have that person “assassinate” a celebrity in public while retaining no knowledge of the act afterwards.

The man chosen by Brown was successfully mind-controlled to “shoot” actor Stephen Fry in front of a live audience and was later subjected to a polygraph test which revealed he had no memory of the incident. Despite the fact that the show set out to debunk “conspiracy theories” surrounding the notion that Sirhan Sirhan was a mind-controlled assassin, it actually ended up bolstering their veracity.

In a similar vein to Sirhan Sirhan, who many now consider to be a patsy in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the individual involved in the Channel 4 show later recalled that he felt like he was in a “shooting range” while he was carrying out the assassination. ‘Batman’ killer James Holmes similarly described how he felt like he was in a “video game” during the Aurora massacre, according to Stephen Unruh, the inmate who claims he talked with Holmes.

Holmes allegedly told Unruh that the programming was only broken when he returned to his car after the massacre was over. Media reports later emerged confirming that Holmes had no memory of the actual massacre.

Holmes’ behavior in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, including his claim that he couldn’t remember what happened, is identical to that displayed by Sirhan Sirhan as well as the mind-controlled assassins created in the two recent television documentaries.

The fact that Holmes was involved in mind control is not up for debate. During his time at Salk Institute of Biological Studies, Holmes designed a computer program to alter mental states using flicker rates. Suspicion has also surrounded a package which included a notebook full of violent details that Holmes sent to his his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, who was disciplined in 2004 for prescribing herself and others psychotropic drugs.

Fenton, who formerly worked with the U.S. Air Force, was treating Holmes via “medication and psychotherapy” at the The University of Colorado before the Aurora massacre. However, the judge in Holmes’ trial ordered defense attorneys to black out this information. CBS News reported that Holmes had been seeing at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado prior to the massacre.

The question of whether or not James Holmes was brainwashed or manipulated through hypnosis into carrying out the Aurora massacre remains unknown. However, his behavior both during and after the ‘Batman’ shooting is identical to Sirhan Sirhan as well as the two individuals who were mind-controlled into becoming “assassins” as part of the two television documentaries.

What can be confirmed is the fact that numerous experiments have proven that it is possible to create a mind-controlled assassin, which is precisely what the CIA did across three decades from the 50′s to the 70′s under a program called MKUltra according to the sworn testimony of direct participants given at the 1975 Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations. That testimony went largely unsubstantiated but only because CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed two years previously.

Murder under hypnosis.The James Holmes story takes a familiar tune.

Related:
The Shadow Patsy Rises Again: How Mind Control Is Connected To Gun Control.
Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist.
Shooter James Holmes and DARPA Weird Science.
David Hammer Talks About McVeigh and Government Prior Knowledge of OKC Bombing.
A Deeper Look At “The Dark Knight Rises” Shooting: A CIA Black Op?

“The big key to the thing is that only the small secrets need to be kept. You can find just about anything the government is doing by going into scientific journals and doing research. But the big secrets are kept by public incredulity and your study and your experience is in an area which is not secret. All this has been known for a long time, but people don’t want to believe it and there is a great deal of denial.” – Walter Bowart, “The Secret History of Mind Control.”

A trained psychiatric professional can put someone under hypnosis and tell him to commit a certain act very easily. Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy who was blamed for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, was put under hypnosis several times by a psychiatrist in his jail cell in which he re-enacted the murder.

For more information, here is an excerpt from an article published in The Milwaukee Journal on March 25, 1969, called, “Sirhan Re-enacted Kennedy Killing Under Hypnosis”:

Sirhan Sirhan re-enacted the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy while under hypnosis in January, it was revealed at his trial today.
The 25-year-old Jordanian, placed in a trance by a psychiatrist, Dr. Bernard Diamond, pulled an imaginary pistol from his belt and fired it convulsively as he shouted, “You son-of-a-bitch, you son-of-a-bitch.”
Sirhan re-enacted the assassination during an interview with Dr. Diamond in a prison cell in Los Angeles, the psychiatrist testified.
Dr. Diamond said he had hypnotized Sirhan on six separate occasions. He put him into a trance each time in less than 10 minutes by holding a coin in front of him and repeatedly ordering him to relax.

Keep this strange news piece from 1969 in mind when reading about Steven Unruh’s account of what James Holmes told him after the Dark Knight Rises shooting in July.

According to Unruh, a fellow inmate, Holmes said he was programmed to kill by a psychiatrist. Unruh has no reason to lie. It is very possible that Holmes was under hypnosis while he was at the scene of the mass shooting on that night in July.

Hypnosis is a science that can be used for deadly ends. Sirhan Sirhan was put under hypnosis in 1969 by a psychiatrist in under ten minutes, so imagine what government psychiatrists can do with mind control subjects and government patsies in our era.

Paul Joseph Watson elaborates on the strange similarities between the Robert F. Kennedy shooting and the Dark Knight Rises shooting in his article, “Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist”:

The parallels between Sirhan Sirhan and James Holmes are alarming. Both were described as behaving as if in a trance or under the influence of drugs, both cannot remember any of the details of the shootings, and in both cases eyewitnesses reported more than one gunman at the scene.

In both the RFK and ‘Batman’ shootings, eyewitnesses described other shooters, dismantling the “lone wolf” narrative. According to Nina Rhodes-Hughes, another man was shooting at RFK and the authorities tried to alter her account of what happened. “What has to come out is that there was another shooter to my right,” Rhodes-Hughes said in 

an interview with CNN

. “The truth has got to be told. No more cover-ups.” 

Sirhan’s lawyers also presented evidence

 that “two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan’s revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy.”

Similarly in the case of Holmes, 

eyewitnesses described two shooters

, noting that one of the gas canisters was thrown from the opposite side of the theater to where the killer was standing. It has also been suggested that Holmes had an accomplice. Eyewitnesses described the killer talking on a cellphone before the shooting and then standing in the emergency exit and beckoning someone else over.

Holmes, a neuroscience student, was also fascinated with mind control. During his time at Salk Institute of Biological Studies, Holmes designed a computer program to alter mental states using flicker rates. Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner was also 

obsessed with mind control

.

While there is no way to confirm Unruh’s account, he seems to have little motive in making it up out of fresh air. Added to the other unexplained inconsistencies surrounding the ‘Batman’ massacre, the story will only serve to bolster the view amongst some that the full story about the tragic events of that night has not yet come to light.

It is a pattern for government patsies to talk openly to fellow inmates about their nerve-racking experiences. David Paul Hammer, who was the inmate of Timothy McVeigh, another famous patsy, informed the world about the true nature of the Oklahoma City bombing in two books called, “Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” and, “Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.”

In May 2010, Hammer spoke with Alex Jones about his conversations with McVeigh in prison and what they revealed about the Oklahoma City bombing.

The Dark Knight Rises shooting was not politically motivated, as the Oklahoma City bombing was said to be, but it has had damaging consequences on the struggle for gun rights. The public perception of the virtues of civilian gun ownership is negatively affected by shocking shooting stories in which ordinary people are mercilessly murdered at public places.

Quickly after the traumatic incident in July, many in the mainstream media jumped on the gun confiscation bandwagon. They no longer held back their true opinions about gun rights in a national period of tragedy and grief.

The government-run media reported the shooting without checking the background of Holmes or informing the public about the history of government staged terror events in the United States.

The media’s strange behaviour was a small clue that a bigger and sinister agenda was at work. Also, the public’s understandable emotional response to the shooting marked another propaganda victory in the establishment’s ideological and political war against gun rights.

Unruh’s revelations about Holmes’s awareness of his own programming is another clue that there is more to this story.

We would be fools to ignore these clues.

Walmart & 112 Dead Factory Workers.

112 Bangladeshi workers perished in a factory fire last week – the cause is still under investigation. And as the tragedy made its way across international news headlines, it quickly became clear the factory was producing clothing for mega-retailer WalMart in the United States.

Associated Press (AP) reported in their article, “Walmart Admits Bangladesh Factory Was Making Clothing For Retailer Before Fire,” that:

The garment factory in Bangladesh where a weekend fire killed at least 112 people had been making clothes for Wal-Mart without the giant U.S. retailer’s knowledge, Wal-Mart said.

The report also stated:

“Today, we have terminated the relationship with that supplier,” America’s biggest retailer said in a statement Monday. “The fact that this occurred is extremely troubling to us, and we will continue to work across the apparel industry to improve fire safety education and training in Bangladesh.”

Regarding the conditions of the factory, AP reported:

Survivors of the weekend fire said an exit door was locked, fire extinguishers didn’t work and apparently were there just to impress inspectors, and that when the fire alarm went off, bosses told workers to return to their sewing machines. Victims were trapped or jumped to their deaths from the eight-story building, which had no emergency exits.

However, what Walmart hopes the public never figures out is that if ever the mega-retailer manages to bring standards and wages up to what the West would consider “acceptable,” their offshore supply chain would no longer benefit them and their profit margins – jobs would be better off kept on American soil, where they began in the first place. Clearly Walmart has no intention of “improving” anything except perhaps better obfuscating their supply chain from the general public.

Additionally, the mega-retailer’s alibi that it “didn’t know” the factory was still producing clothing for their stores is both irresponsible and unacceptable. In order to circumvent safety concerns and liability, Walmart may have just as easily “known” and set up the arrangement to maintain plausible deniability while maintaining its profitable supply chain. Walmart is responsible for its supply chain, and if is difficult to keep track of factories scattered across the planet to fill stores in America, then that’s all the more reason to bring the jobs back home.

Walmart isn’t the only mega-corporation who has offshored American jobs to dungeons and deathtraps overseas – Apple’s relationship with Taiwan’s Foxconn is another example. Operating in mainland China, where windows must be locked and safety nets deployed below to prevent waves of suicide attempts that sweep across the oppressed, underpaid workforce (also here, here, and here) as they churn out iPads and iPhones to sate America’s consumerist hunger, Foxconn has become a notorious name in the generally under-reported world of exploited labor.

Ironically, many who tout themselves as “liberal” and interested in human rights, can be found “tweeting,” updating their Facebook accounts, e-mailing, and discussing their pet humanitarian causes on iPads and iPhones created by the modern equivalent of slave labor.

Don’t Just Boycott Walmart – Replace it Permanently 
Walmart’s questionable supply chain is not a new topic, it is simply back in the news because of a particularly tragic repercussion of its habitual disregard for human life. Campaigns to force Walmart, or Apple, or any other large multinational corporation to reform their behavior has only caused them to bury their abuses deeper, further from necessary oversight. It is only tragedies like the fire in Bangladesh that momentarily bring the truth of Walmart’s continued, willful negligence to the surface.

Many people are quick to call for a boycott – and this is indeed a superb idea. But it is an idea that will never take hold unless it is taken to the next level – by doing so, it will address the myriad of problems Walmart’s business model has created, and not just human rights abuses.

Boycotting Walmart must be done in tandem with a concerted local effort to create citizen-networks, clubs,hackerspaces, and makerspaces to pool resources together and begin replacing permanently, large multinationals like Walmart, not through mere protests or policy changes, but through local innovation and entrepreneurship. These local networks will produce small businesses and jobs, leveraging technology while giving local communities exactly what they want, and a direct hand in the manufacturing process, not merely a chance to “belly up” to the corporate-consumerist troughs filled daily at Walmart.

Developing this local infrastructure will not happen overnight, and it will not cause Walmart to shutter its doors tomorrow, or even this week. But technology is already negating the massive, centralized, scale of economy business models employed by Walmart and other mega-multinationals. And while a handful of friends and family getting together after work, pooling their resources to leverage modern technology to create a workspace within which they can create, design, invent, and produce, may seem like a small drop in a very large bucket to fill, people pursuing this solution in parallel around the country, and around the world will quickly gain momentum collectively, creating local supply chains that directly benefit local people – in the United States and in Bangladesh – no disparity required.

With all real solutions, effort, education, organization on a local level, and persistence will be required – but it is a price that is at the same time a benefit, and when compared with the continuously deteriorating economy and social fabric of Western society within the current paradigm it is mired, it seems like a small price to pay, and one that seems it should begin being paid immediately.



In other news. A Foxconn factory smolders after an explosion in Yantai, Shandong province, in September. The accident reportedly occurred while electronics parts were being spray-painted. Flames swept the plant.

The Yantai fire followed an explosion in May that killed three workers at Foxconn's Chengdu plant. The FLA report this week cited inconsistent health and safety policies, with workers being excluded from decisions about health and safety.

Bane's Plan to Bankrupt Batman Doesn't Make Any Sense. What is Batman Rises telling us with its predictive programming???

Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as 'natural progressions', as Alan Watt calls it; thus lessening any possible public resistance and commotion.

If you're watching superhero movies for financial advice, you're probably in trouble. If you're watching The Dark Knight Rises for financial advice, you're probably in worse trouble. Especially if you're looking for ways to sabotage your enemy's finances, like Batman's nemesis Bane.

So, for all the would-be super-villains out there, let me strongly recommend that you skip the final act of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Instead, let's take a moment and talk about why Bane's financial subterfuge is so unnecessarily risky -- if only as a reference for everyone out there with designs on taking over the world. (Disclaimer: If you haven't seen The Dark Knight Rises and don't like spoilers -- and really, who likes spoilers? -- you should stop reading. You have been warned).

You might think that a terrorist able to hold an entire metropolis hostage for half a year would be a stickler for details. You would be wrong. Time and again, Bane leaves things to chance. First, there's the small matter of not killing Batman when given the opportunity -- to draw out his suffering, of course. That's just a de rigueur super-villain mistake. But Bane's hit on the Gotham stock exchange is less understandable. Remember, the point was to leave Bruce Wayne destitute so he'd have to turn to a financial white knight -- who would turn out to not be such a white knight -- to keep Wayne Enterprises and its fusion reactor out of the hands of Bane's corporate benefactor.

So far, so good. 

But how does Bane impoverish Batman? Step one involves hijacking the entire Gotham stock exchange. Step two is breaking into Wayne's personal account directly from the exchange. Step three has something to do with buying lots of puts that expire at midnight on futures. And the fourth step is, of course, profit. Well, not for Bruce Wayne.

Let's count the way this doesn't make sense. As my colleague Jordan Weissmann and I discussed, none of the above steps come close to anything resembling verisimilitude. Trading would almost certainly stop once the attack on the stock exchange started. And if trades did go through, they would probably be canceled afterward. Nor would Bane need to hook into the exchange to trade under Wayne's name.

But the biggest question is why in God's name would Bane buy puts for Wayne? A quick refresher: Puts are contracts that protect the buyer against losses. They entitle the buyer to sell something at a certain price -- the strike price -- by a certain date. For example, say a stock is at 100 and you buy puts on that stock with a strike price of 90 for the next six months. If the price drops below 90 any time over that period, you can still sell it for 90. So why would Bane buy options that protect Wayne against losses when Bane's assault would almost certainly cause huge losses? Presumably because Bane used Wayne's money to buy waaaaaaaaay out-of-the-money puts. In other words, the strike price was very, very low -- something like 70 in our above example. Markets would have to completely collapse for the the puts to pay off. 

But what if they did? Investors would panic big time after a strike on the stock exchange itself. If the panic was big enough, Bruce Wayne's billions would seem like a relative pittance compared to his new riches. Puts that far out of the money are quite cheap -- so even a modest payout on a single contract would be multiplied many, many times over. Of course, this assumes that the exchange would extend the expiration on the puts for as long as markets were closed. But that's a safer assumption than anything Bane figured.

There's a much easier way to do this. Bane could have just used Wayne's money to buy calls. They're the opposite of puts. They entitle the buyer to buy something at a certain price -- the strike price -- by a certain date. In plain English, they're a bet that prices will go up. Given that Bane's attack would send stocks swooning, there's no chance the calls would have paid off.

Oh, and one last pro tip. Never assume you've broken Batman.

 

Is the Batman stock market heist possible?

here’s a basic outline of the scene: Bane, Batman’s nemesis in the movie, attacks Gotham Stock Exchange with a bunch of armed flunkies. Bane coerces a trader into unlocking his terminal, and then uses Bruce Wayne’s fingerprints (which he obtained earlier) to bet all of Wayne Enterprises’ stock on bad futures. The futures don’t pan out (obviously), and the next morning his company is bankrupt. The feds try to interrupt the heist by cutting the stock exchange’s wired connection, but there’s a backup wireless link that the baddies use instead.

There are two key points that don’t quite ring true, which we will investigate the veracity of:

1. Can you simply walk into a stock exchange and execute a bunch of trades?
2. Does a stock exchange only have one or two links to the outside world? Is it easy to cut them?

To begin with, let’s assume that Gotham Stock Exchange is modeled on the New York Stock Exchange. The scene in the movie is shot at the NYSE on Wall Street — but more importantly, the comic’s creators have admitted that Gotham is based on New York City. <<<<coincidance?? no.

The first point, as far as we can tell, is true. There are certainly computers at the New York Stock Exchange that allow you to execute trades, or deal in futures. A stock broker — i.e. someone authorized to act on behalf of a stock holder — could sell all of Bruce Wayne’s stock, if he wanted. We don’t know if fingerprints are actually used at the NYSE (it could just be a password), but presumably this is Bane’s way of authorizing himself as a legit stock broker.

As for “cutting the hard line,” it’s a little bit harder to get exact information on the NYSE’s connectivity. It sounds like the NYSE is connected to other stock exchanges via the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI), which is a private network of high-speed (up to 10Gbps) fiber links. Most cables are pulled through ducting that is fairly easy to access — so as long as you know where the cables run (quick, phone the network admin!) it shouldn’t be too hard to cut them.

I doubt that the NYSE has a redundant wireless link. If we assume the wireless connection is local to the building in Wall Street, which is fairly squat, then it must be a satellite link — which doesn’t have the capacity or latency to be a viable connection for market trading. It’s possible that the NYSE has a short-range wireless link to another nearby building — but then you could simply cut the hard line that feeds into that building.

Finally, it’s important to bear in mind that every action on the stock market is logged. Every time you buy or sell a security of some description, there is a digital paper trail. There has never been a real-world stock market heist like the one in Batman, but I suspect it would be easy enough to reverse the fraudulent transactions. It is also possible for stock markets to initiate a trading curb if the market suddenly drops in value. In the US, “circuit breakers” were introduced after Black Monday to prevent any future catastrophic market crashes.

So, is it possible?

In short, yes, if you can gain entry to a stock exchange — hopefully by bypassing security, rather than force — you could pull off a similar heist. In reality, due to the ease in which a stock exchange can be shut down, and the digital paper trail, you are unlikely to get away with it. It would be far more effective (i.e. less traceable) to commit the theft slowly, over a longer period of time — and historically that’s exactly what rogue traders, such as Nick Leeson at Barings Bank, have done.

In other Batman-related physics trivia, a bunch of British university students have calculated whether Batman’s cape is actually large enough to perform a bat-glide. I would spoil it, but you can probably work out the answer yourself.

Aurora shooting, Fast and Furious and Sikh shooting BOMBSHELLS.

Megadeth front-man Dave Mustaine made startling accusations during a recent concert tour stop in Singapore, surfacing Thursday on Youtube, claiming Barack Obama was responsible for Fast & Furious and the Aurora theater and Sikh Temple shootings. Is he on to something?

Multiple media outlets have been on a rampage since, running a typical damage control psyop, even if some unwittingly, that inevitably takes place whenever a celebrity like Dave Mustaine or someone with a bright spotlight oversteps their virtual bounds and speaks truth to power. Even hinting at almost anything outside of the typical sphere of establishment rhetoric can get you chastised.

 

 

Dave Mustaine - "Obama Staged Batman Massacre"Dave Mustaine - "Obama Staged Batman Massacre"

Regardless of how true the accusations may be, without fail, the general media will always use the term conspiracy “theorist” to demonize the individual and, just as it has been stated in this case, almost always without evidence to prove otherwise, other than “official” claims. This has largely been a successful tactic against those unwilling to dig into it themselves as most people would like to believe the US government or factions within would not be allowed to get away with such things. People are naturally prone to sway toward the side of official innocence, especially if everything heard in the general media echoes the same. Albeit with the typical left or right spin, depending on your preference, of course.

In this particular case Mr. Mustaine, while on stage, stated that Barack Obama was responsible for all three Fast & Furious, the Aurora, Colorado theater massacre and the more recent Sikh Temple shootings. He then went on to say that, at this rate, if things keep going the way they are, he is going to be forced to move away from the US, According to Mustaine, “because it looks like it’s turning into Nazi America.”

What in the world is compelling Mustaine to feel that way? Are there instances in US history that would force the mega-rock star to feel compelled to make such incendiary accusations? How about any evidence supporting Obama's involvement in any of these horrific events?

First and foremost is the fact that, not only was Obama's administration caught red-handed shipping tens of thousands of guns known to have been used to kill thousands of innocent civilians on both sides of the border, including US border patrol agents, to a specific Mexican drug cartel that was willing to launder the drug money through Wall Street banks, it also surfaced in December of 2011, via CBS News, that official documents obtained showed a clear agenda to ultimately use those guns to demonize the second amendment and push for strict US gun legislation. Amazing revelations that truly have yet to see anyone but 5 lowly ATF agents take the fall over. All while Obama's justice Dept. continues to stonewall repeated Congressional attempts to obtain further documentation for an official investigation. A situation showing an eery similarity to that of W. Bush administration actions while Congress tried to investigate the 9/11 attacks. Itself having yet to see any official accountability as a result, over 11 years later.

Anyone objectively sorting out the myriad of conflicting stories and evidence that has emerged since the Aurora theater massacre knows the situation there is also screaming with startling unanswered questions of its own.

Multiple eye-witnesses escaping the theater alive corroborate to claim there were multiple parties involved, including tear-gas canisters deployed simultaneously from alternate directions. On top of the fact that 9-11 police dispatch audio reveals at least one more suspect at large, in addition to a second gas mask being found at the scene but at the extreme other end of the parking lot.

Based on facial features of the alleged before and after pictures used by the media, there are even questions as to whether or not the individual in custody for the massacre is even the real James Holmes. Giving credence as to the reason why the judge presiding over the case wanted to immediately seal the case records and why the judge barred any cameras from further recording court proceedings after the alleged gunman looked to be drugged to almost incoherency in the courtroom and unable to speak during his first appearance, almost 3 days after the event.

Equally ironic is the fact that Mr. Holmes alleged father, Robert Holmes, happens to be involved in the ongoing LIBOR banking scandal and was set to testify in a hearing regarding massive international interest rate rigging. As if the web of deceit doesn't stretch far enough, the banks involved may also be tied to the Fast and Furious guns for drugs scandal seeing billions of laundered drug dollars funneled through LIBOR related banks.

Just weeks later, very similar circumstances played out after the Sikh Temple shootings where, again, eye-witness accounts differ from the official narrative. In that case, multiple individual eyewitnesses claim to have seen “four white males,” all dressed in black or dark clothing, perpetrating a “very well coordinated attack.” But not before the Temple owner was tweeted as witnessing multiple “suspicious” men scouting the premises the day before the shootings, likely the same four men. Adding to the laundry list of startling oddities is that, according to the official story, surveillance cameras inside and around the temple happened to be turned off that day. Making it even more coincidental and difficult to get past the official cover-up.

But no stranger is the startling coincidence that the temple owner's son, Amardeep Kaleka, happened to be just weeks away from releasing a highly anticipated new documentary entitled “Sirius,” detailing decades of government cover-ups regarding possible earth/extraterrestrial intervention. Not even Hollywood could make this stuff up.

Perhaps the most startling and glaring aspect of these circumstances, however, has to do with the fact that, despite multiple eye-witnesses and official police audio, independent investigative journalists have been the ones that have had to piece together what happened at the scenes of each of these shootings and have been the lions-share of the reason behind the exposing of Fast & Furious. Whereas the establishment media continues to push the narrative that each of the crimes were carried out by a “lone gunman” or by a couple low men on the government totem pole, easy pawns used to take the fall for those who are likely to be running such sophisticated operations. False narratives the establishment and it's media continue to push that are quite obviously not the case.

It was just weeks ago when highly respected citizen Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America came forward on the Alex Jones Show to admit that if the Obama administration was willing to stage something so dastardly as Fast & Furious, why would anyone shame an individual for wondering if there was some involvement by the administration in either the Aurora Theater or Sikh temple shootings?
Even Pratt said, prior to Fast and Furious he would have never believed that the government would engage in something so evil as to stage a false-flag event to use as a political pretext against its own citizens and their bill of rights, but now even he has been forced to question everything.

According to Dave Mustaine, in clarifying his remarks at the concert after to the huge media backlash Thursday on InfoWars Nightly News, such is the very reason he too is far more inclined to agree with people like Larry Pratt, independent investigators, citizen journalists and eyewitnesses that were actually there and witnessed it first hand. People that usually have little to no stake in the immediate outcome and are almost always simply speaking or looking for the truth. Something the establishment and it's media refuse to relinquish unless politically or monetarily expedient.

Aurora theater shooting court documents blows inside job conspiracy wide open.

Newly released court documents in the Aurora, CO theater “Batman massacre” case reveals startling inside accusations about who may actually be behind the shootings that left at least 70 people either dead or injured in the early morning hours of July 20th.

Friday's report by the online version of Denver's Westword Magazine details shocking claims made by, what appears to be, a new victim in a case that has throttled a community still in mourning over the tragic events. According to the court documents an individual, whose name has been officially redacted from the documents, came forward to file a “Motion to Intervene” for the right to be reasonably heard under the Crime Victims' Rights Act (a)(4), for the purposes of presenting newly discovered evidence to the court.

The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012 Full Documentary) The James Holmes Conspiracy (2012 Full Documentary)

 

Corroborating much of a recent Conspiracy Examiner story maintaining the situation as potentially being another horrific (rogue government faction) conspiracy and possible false-flag event, the newly discovered evidence, thrown out of court by Judge William Sylvester days later, details stunning accusations against billionaire Philip Anschutz, Police Chief Dan Oates, Arapaho County Dist. Atty. Carol Chambers and, according to the alleged victim, the Illuminati as being potential co-conspirators in the crime.

The stunning accusations, dated August 27, reveal a startling story by the claimant as having been visited at home by police chief Dan Oates and Dist. Atty. Carol Chambers where they forced the unnamed individual to testify as a fake victim of the shootings, under the threat of being arrested for prostitution and escort services and charity fraud, for the purposes of garnering an easy conviction against alleged shooter James Holmes. But not before being shot by the police chief in “non-life-threatening areas” of the body, according to the motion, to appear as having been shot by James Holmes himself. The motion also claims that it is likely some of the victims in the theater were merely paid actors working on behalf of the conspirators and wants multiple individuals involved in the situation to take polygraph tests to prove their innocence.

Claiming that their conscience will not let fraudulent testimony contribute to an improper conviction of James Holmes, the new mystery victim asked that the judge submit the case to the FBI and the US Congress for further investigation into the alleged conspiracy. The judge, however, instead of taking a closer look, decided to strike down the motion as fraudulent, claiming the motion as likely forged by an individual or individuals unassociated with the events. The judge also suggested the situation be investigated by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's office and those responsible for the motion be taken into custody by the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services and “referred to the appropriate mental health agency.”

But it may in fact be the judge that needs the mental attention as all the evidence collected in the case thus far seems to point toward mostly agreeing with the individual who filed the claim, despite the media and the court's attempts to suppress any evidence that doesn't support the official story. Multiple and corroborating eyewitness testimony stated what appeared to be multiple individuals involved in the shooting, including supporting official dispatch audio. Individuals interviewed by local media immediately after the event also claimed to have seen teargas canisters being deployed in the theater simultaneously from two different directions, in addition to side-by-side images of James Holmes prior to the shootings and the orange haired individual taken into custody as the alleged lone gunmen after the event looks startlingly like two different individuals. There also seems to have been two different gas masks found at the scene, in addition to other damning evidence that doesn't jive with the official version of the events.

The individual who filed the motion also added that they wanted their portion of the charity to be donated to James Holmes' prison commissary, after using the money to find Mr. Holmes “real” attorneys who are actually willing to act in the honest defense of James Holmes, or the individual in custody for the crime.
The motion, as certified by the Arapahoe County Dist. Atty. and public defenders offices, was sent via the United States Postal Service, then was quickly denied and subsequently released days ago to the public for reasons yet to be determined.

Perhaps one of the most telling aspects of the circumstances, however, happens to be the creepy dead silence about the motion by the media, especially considering every little detail about a situation like this is normally scrutinized at every angle after being groomed with a fine tooth comb and examined under a microscope.

It was just weeks ago that certain local media outlets were considering suing for access to court records because, according to those outlets, the community had a right to know so the victims and the community could more easily begin the healing process and find some semblance of closure. Perhaps information that may open new wounds, however, regardless of how accurate or important that information may be, may not be the kind of information they were looking for.

Benghazi explained: Interview with an “Intelligence Insider”

This is part one of a multi-part interview with a government insider intimately familiar with the events that took place in Benghazi. In this part, he provides important background, and explains that this administration is engaged in a massive cover-up.

DH: It’s been a while since we’ve discussed Benghazi. What have you heard lately?
II: Before I answer that, I want to get a few things off my chest. Every politician, whether it’s a congressman senator, diplomat, or their spokespeople and the media are lying to the American public every time they call the location of the attack a consulate. It was not. There was absolutely no diplomatic consulate in Benghazi. None. Words are important here. They can create a wrong image, an incorrect picture of what was really going on. The property where our Ambassador and other Americans were murdered was a rented villa consisting of a primary residence with a couple of outbuildings behind the actual house. The reason they’re still calling it a consulate is to subtly divert any questions about our activities there.

DH: Let’s go over this again; exactly what was taking place at Benghazi?
II: As I said, the place where the attack happened is one of the largest, one of the most active CIA operation centers in North Africa, if not in the entire Middle East. It was not a diplomatic station. It was a planning and operations center, a logistics hub for weapons and arms being funneled out of Libya. Unlike the embassy in Tripoli, there was limited security in Benghazi. Why? So the operation did not draw attention to what was going on there.

DH: So in reality there were no actual security issues?
II: Oh yes, there were, in Tripoli. Diplomatic cables show that. But it was for the embassy in Tripoli, the Ambassador and the diplomatic staff  in general, not specifically for the Benghazi location for two reasons. First, the Benghazi location was a CIA operation, not a diplomatic one. Visible security at that location would draw unwanted attention there. They had to blend in. Remember, the villa was located in a somewhat residential area, sort of like the suburbs. Secondly, additional manpower was not needed there, at this CIA center, as the operation was already winding down.

DH: I know you’ve gone over this before, but let’s get into the specifics of the operation at Benghazi.
II: Good, I want to be clear. After Gaddafi was taken out, there was the matter of his weapons and arms that were hidden all over Libya, including chemical weapons – gas weapons. According to Obama and Hillary Clinton, we were in Libya to collect and destroy these weapons to make for a ‘safer’ Libya. That’s what they were telling the American public. That’s not really what was going on, though, and it seems like all of the other nations except the average American knew it. Anyway, you can find pictures and videos of weapons caches being destroyed, but that is strictly for the public’s consumption.

What was really happening, before Gaddafi’s body was even cold, is that we had people locating caches of weapons, separating the working from those that weren’t, and making a big show of destroying the weapons, but only the weapons that were useless. The working weapons were being given to Islamic terrorists. They were being funneled through Libya, crisscrossing Libya on a Muslim Brotherhood managed strategic supply route. In fact, Michael Reagan called it the modern day equivalent of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a recent article he wrote, and he is correct.

The entire arms and weapons running operation was headquartered in Benghazi, The weapons were actually being shipped out of Libya from the port city of Dernah, located about a hundred miles east of Benghazi. That was the ‘choke point’ of the weapons being shipped out. Remember the Lusitania? Think in those terms, ships carrying weapons hid among ‘humanitarian aid.’ By the time of the attacks, an estimated 30-40 million pounds of arms were already transported out of Libya.

From there, the weapons were being sent to staging areas in Turkey near the Syrian border, for use by the Free Syrian Army and other ragtag terrorist groups to fight against Assad. The objective was and still is to destabilize the Assad government.

DH: Why Syria, why not Iran?
II:  It’s both, but Syria is the primary target here for this operation. First, look at the bigger picture, look at the so-called “Arab Spring.” Who benefits and by default, who doesn’t? Who is the architect for what’s going on throughout the Middle East and North Africa? Whose agenda is being implemented? To specifically address Benghazi, though, look at the bigger picture here and what is trying to be accomplished.
The Obama administration is playing the role of Saudi Arabia’s private army. I think if Americans knew this, they would be outraged. Our service men and women are being sold out as mercenaries for the wants and desires of the Royal family, for the Saudi’s interests. It’s about religious dominance and oil. Who is really benefitting from, say, what’s going on in Egypt? Mubarek is out, and the Muslim Brotherhood is in. Who does that benefit? Saudi Arabia.

Look at what we see happening in Egypt. Destabilization. Do you think the Russians want that? Hell no. Syria is Russia’s red line in the sand, as you earlier wrote. If Syria is lost to the Muslim Brotherhood by the actions of Obama, Hillary Clinton and others in this administration, what happens? Well, it will have an adverse impact on Russia from a military standpoint. They will likely lose access to their Mediterranean deep water port in Syria, which is Tartus.

But think further – three dimensionally. Russia is still the world’s largest oil producer, and that’s Russia’s primary source of income. Then there’s Turkey, adjacent to Syria. A large amount of Russian oil and gas, consumed by the West, flows through Turkey, which is also a player in this operation.

So, the destabilization of Syria which is exactly what Obama and Clinton are trying to do, presents a direct military and economic threat to Russia. Assad at least has kept things in check in Syria. Can you imagine Assad being replaced by someone like Morsi? That would strike at the very heart of Russia’s economic health and military capabilities. Think of what’s at stake here. Do Americans want a regional war? World War III? Has Obama or Clinton asked the American people if this is what they want?
Make no mistake, we are doing the bidding for Saudi Arabia. The U.S., NATO and other allies are engaged in a proxy war with Iran and Russia.

What about Assad’s war crimes?
Assad is no angel, but don’t be fooled by the death toll attributed to him. Now this is important. Remember the first Gulf War? In the run up to Desert Storm, a young woman testified before the Human Rights Caucus – she only testified under her first name, which was Nayirah. Remember that she testified that Iraqi soldiers were taking infants from incubators in Kuwait, leaving them to die? Her testimony was supposedly confirmed by Amnesty International. Her testimony went viral, and every war hawk in the U.S. government cited her testimony, saying we needed to right the wrongs, the inhumanity. It was all one big lie!

After Desert Storm, it was revealed that Nayirah’s last name was Al-Sabah, and she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Her testimony was part of a publicity campaign organized by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was run by Hill & Knowlton, a PR firm out of New York. People must learn the back story.

So we see a body count attributed to Assad. Who’s doing the killing, Assad’s people? Maybe at times, but the Free Syrian Army and other groups are doing most of the slaughter. It’s one huge ‘false flag’ operation and the media is selling it hard. And Americans are buying it, just like the testimony of the girl from Kuwait.
It’s one big lie being told by Obama, Clinton, Rice, and others. Many Americans are buying the lie, and the media is selling the lie. The people behind this are laughing at us. Don’t you get it?They’re laughing at us.
And do you want to know what’s at stake? Four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Forty thousand have been killed so far in Syria. Tens of thousands of Syrian people have become refugees. Why? For what? To advance the agenda of Saudi Arabia. For oil.

You know, the so-called right wing establishment were all up in arms about Obama’s submissive bow to the Saudi King. Where are they now? Where’ the outrage that the body count will be much greater than Forty thousand? It is anticipated that if the Obama plan succeeds, not only will America be committed to yet another war, but the body count could be as high as FOUR MILLION. Christians, among others, will be slaughtered. This could trigger a third world war, it’s that serious.

What is Russia and Iran doing? Certainly, they must be fighting back.
Benghazi was a strike against us, the Obama-Clinton agenda. A visible strike, and I’ll explain more about this shortly, because there are events I will point out that will put it all into perspective. But think of it this way. How did we successfully collapse the Soviet Union? I mean, what was the last straw? We attacked their currency – the Ruble. They’re still stinging from that, and Putin was in the KGB at the time. Do you think he forgot about that?

So, how does, or will Russia and Iran strike back if Obama and Clinton continue this insanity? Militarily? Possibly in regional conflicts, but to take us out, to stop us, what is the one area we are very vulnerable? It’s our economy – our dollar. What’s our dollar tied to? Not gold or silver anymore, and some say it’s not tied to anything. Well, that’s not quite correct. It’s tied to OIL. The free-flow of oil.

Oil transactions everywhere in the world, including Russia and China, are made with U.S. dollars.  We buy their oil with our dollars, and they return with those same paper dollars and employ Americans by buying our goods and services.  As Michael Reagan wrote: “[t]his system is also crucial to the security of our diplomatic and legal infrastructure, which is ultimately backed by our military.  It’s the core of our foreign policy.”  He also wrote that “any attack on the free flow of oil is an attack on the dollar.  Any attack on the dollar is an attack on our ability to project power and protect Western democracies, economies, and ideals.  God have mercy on us all if that attack is successful!”



The real "Assualt Weapon" is the Lib-TARD media and it's TARD pundents!!

Legendary game show host Chuck Woolery has a message for Americans, and he delivers it with an AR-15 in hand.

There is no doubt that it’s a tragedy when anyone takes the life of another without cause.
But to blame assault weapons for this tragedy would be like, well, blaming airplanes for the 9-11 attacks.
The problem lies with the perpetrator, not the tool used to commit the crime.
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As of right now, the Constitution is still the law of the land. And since we are a nation of laws and not men, we need to follow it carefully.
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The second amendment allows for assault weapons. The left argues that the founding fathers didn’t even know what an assault weapon was. As usual, this argument is wrong again.
To say that the Constitution limits the kind of guns we can own would be like saying the Constitution limits the kind of religion people can practice.
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Our founding fathers wanted every citizen to be armed equal to the army in case of takeover by a tyrannical government. They wanted us to have protection… from them!
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Crazed criminals shooting up innocent people is a tragedy, but all the gun bans in the world will not stop them. Criminals will always find the weapons they need to carry out their crime.
The only people that will be going unarmed are the law-abiding citizens like you and me.
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When you hear people talking about banning assault weapons, know the real assault weapon is the liberal media.

Chuck Woolery’s Five Reasons For Why We Cannot Ban Firearms in America:

With more guns sold in America last year than there are soldiers in the world’s ten largest armed forces, Americans are vehemently rejecting the notion that the U.S. Constitution is an outdated document.

Whether it’s California democrat Dianne Feistein attempting to ban rifles across the country, attempts to restrict the purchase of ammunition, or the United Nations making a power-play over America’s sovereignty, the fight for our right to bear arms is in full swing.

Victory must be had, because the alternative is a world where the people will forever be wards and slaves of a State bent on total control.

U.S Military Plans to Prevent Veteran Suicides by Taking Away their Guns

 

 By JG Vibes

It has long been known that there are more veterans who end up committing suicide than there are who actually die on the battlefield.

 

 This fact has been so unsettling for many people in the mainstream because it exposes the true nature of what war is all about.

 When the people on the front lines are so depressed about what they have seen and what they have been forced to do, it opens up a whole list of questions that people in the US have been running from for over a decade.

As of last month, 270 active-duty service members killed themselves this year alone, and half were from the Army.

Instead of targeting the underlying psychological issues and traumatic memories that are pushing veterans towards suicide, the establishment has been putting forward false solutions that just cover up the symptoms, instead of addressing the causal factors behind the depression.

As suicides continue to rise in 2012, the Defense Department officials are developing a suicide prevention campaign, part of which will encourage soldiers to give up their weapons.

Under current legislation when troops are identified as high risk, commanders have the authority to confiscate their service weapons, but they can not ask them to hand over their personal firearms.

These new policies that have been suggested by congress and the pentagon are hoping to change that, giving commanders and law enforcement the ability to confiscate their personal arms.

This is by far the most offensive and alarming attempt by the US government to lower veteran suicides, but it is not the first time that they have put forward a solution to this problem which misses the point entirely.
Earlier this year the US Army awarded a scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine $3 million to develop a nasal spray that eclipses suicidal thoughts.

The underlying problem here, the bottom line, is that human beings are not cut out for the kind of carnage that plays out on the battlefield.

Despite the cultural mythology surrounding human nature, and the dark history of subjugation that has plagued humanity for centuries, violence has a very traumatic impact on the human consciousness.
The human nature debate is something that i cover frequently in my work, i even released an article last week reporting on recent scientific studieswhich added more evidence to back up the argument for a peaceful human nature.

In my hardback book “Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance” i give a more in depth description of how post traumatic stress disorder is an indication that human beings are not built for lives of violence.
In chapter 12, “Inhuman Nature” i discuss how:
“war is the most inhumane and unnatural phenomena on the planet, yet due to endless propaganda and indoctrination it is revered as honorable in most cultures. Dehumanizing programs such as the American “boot camp” are used by governments to remove any traces of empathy, compassion or free thought from the minds of potential soldiers. During these programs the military conditions soldiers into accepting violence through imposing racist and hateful ideologies.  This kind of psychological manipulation coupled with the horror of war often results in what doctors describe as post-traumatic stress disorder, a severe emotional condition in which extreme circumstances cause severe depression and panic attacks.  If violence was a natural part of the human condition then soldiers would not be coming home from war with post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Veteran suicide is a serious problem, that certainly deserves a great deal of attention.

However, these solutions that have been put forward by the establishment are nothing more than band-aids that overlook the causal factors behind the depression.

These people are suffering through a very traumatic time in their life, where they need to work through their issues and face their demons head on before coming to terms with what they have experienced.

To cover up these issues and act like these veterans have no good reason to be depressed is to bury them even deeper in their trauma and increase their risk of depression and suicide.

Dogs Exposed to War are Getting Diagnosed with PTSD

By JG Vibe
November 27, 2012

As I have discussed very often, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its prevalence following violent situations like wars and arrests, show us how violence is visibly unhealthy for human beings.

People often argue about how long violence has been a part of the human condition as if that somehow negates the damage that it causes, but of course, it does not.

Another argument that is put forward in debates about the morality of war is violence in the animal kingdom, which is not even really comparable to the kind of mass murder and genocide that the human race goes along with.

Despite these popular misconceptions, it seems that members of the animal kingdom have an aversion to violence as well, and can develop the same sort of PTSD symptoms that humans can.  Many professional animal trainers have even been diagnosing dogs returning from war with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
According to the LA Times:

“Veterinarians and senior dog handlers at Lackland have concluded that dogs, like humans, can require treatment for PTSD, including conditioning, retraining and possibly medication such as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax….
Walter Burghardt Jr., chief of behavioral medicine and military working-dog studies at Lackland, estimates that at least 10% of the hundreds of dogs sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to protect U.S. troops have developed canine PTSD.”

It is likely that this 10% statistic is far understated on account of the test subjects not actually having the ability to verbally communicate their feelings and symptoms.

It has long been known that there are more veterans who end up committing suicide than there are who actually die on the battlefield.

This fact has been so unsettling for many people in the mainstream because it exposes the true nature of what war is all about, and the effect it has on those who experience it.

When the people on the front lines are so depressed about what they have seen and what they have been forced to do, it opens up a whole list of questions that people in the US have been running from for over a decade.

Taking over for Monsanto, DuPont Hunts Down Farmers for Violating the “Intellectual Property” of GMO Seeds :

Just behind Monsanto, DuPont is the second largest supplier of genetically modified seeds in the world, and recently they have gotten more involved in the persecution of farmers and the enforcement of intellectual property claims on the seeds.

What this means exactly is that these companies are actually claiming ownership over the seeds biology, which entitles them to a portion of every single seed that shares specific characteristics with their patent.

The fee that is attached to this patent is transferred onto farmers, and to ensure that farmers everywhere pay up, GMO companies send out police and testing units to farms across the world so they can determine as to whether or not the farmer is using GMO seeds.

Unfortunately, this process gets extremely complicated as a result of the cross pollination that takes place between GMO crops and organic ones.  In many cases in the past organic farmers have had their crops tainted with GMO’s, then on top of that they are sued by companies like Monsanto or DuPont for the “privilege” of having their crops randomly and involuntarily pollinated with genetically modified biology.

In the past DuPont has taken a back seat as far as the dirty work is concerned, but now copyright patents for certain organisms are being transferred from Monsanto to DuPont.

According to Bloomberg Business Week:

“The world’s second- biggest seed company, is sending dozens of former police officers across North America to prevent a practice generations of farmers once took for granted.
The provider of the best-selling genetically modified soybean seed is looking for evidence of farmers illegally saving them from harvests for replanting next season, which is not allowed under sales contracts. The Wilmington, Delaware-based company is inspecting Canadian fields and will begin in the U.S. next year, said Randy Schlatter, a DuPont senior manager.”

The fact that we have come to a place in this world where government protected corporations are able to leverage their political influence through intellectual property and tell farmers what they can and cannot do with their own seeds is a very sad predicament.

A research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources named Charles Benbrook told Buisnessweek That:

“Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties.  The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”

This is a multi-layered racket that has been developing for a very long time, and is now culminating in one of the most dangerous monopolies that this world has ever seen.

Is Secession Racist?

by: Austin Petersen

Almost one million American citizens have petitioned the White House in recent weeks to secede from the Union. That is more than the amount of people who died in the War Between The States. Anti-government sentiment in the United States is at an all time high and job performance opinions of congress are very low. The nation seems gripped with Civil War fever in light of the secession issue and the success of the recent historical motion picture biopic Lincoln. A great many from the social democratic underclass responded quickly with demands that petitioners be stripped of their citizenship.

Documentarian Ken Burns was quick to point out that secessionists and those who opposed the elevation of Amb. Susan Rice to Secretary of State were probably racist.

But is secession racist? 

It depends.

Of course the concept of secession in and of itself is not racist by definition. Secession is merely a political separation of a region away from a governing authority. The United States seceded from England over issues of taxation, economics and civil liberty. Catalonia is attempting to separate from Spain for similar reasons. As Spain suffers from the Euro Crisis, Catalonia is attempting to get more say in how its finances are used. Seeing as how they make up 20% of the Spanish economy it’s no wonder that they are attempting to separate from the rest of the nation that benefits greatly from that productive region. Congressman Ron Paul, a libertarian Republican from Texas stated on secession that, “Secession is a deeply American principle,” he added: “There is nothing treasonous or unpatriotic about wanting a federal government that is more responsive to the people it represents.” Indeed secession may be deeply patriotic if done for the purpose of liberty and independence. It is widely known amongst historians that it was Northern abolitionists who were the first to advocate for secession in the United States from the South. Antebellum abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously quipped that the Constitution was ”a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell,” because he believed it permitted slavery.

Social Democrats who revere the Dalai Lama and are for a “Free Tibet” are in essence advocating for secession from China so it is very curious that they would have such a knee-jerk reaction to the petitions. Or I would think that it was curious if I was not aware that House Democrats are deliberately coached to declare any opposition to a government program or institution as racist.  Despite social democrat ad-hominems it is certain that from Catalonia to Tibet there are plenty of clear cases of historical and modern day secession that are not racist.

But were the Confederate States of America in 1860 seceding for racist reasons?

Undoubtedly.

In the Articles of Secession filed by the state of Texas it read, “[Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery– the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits– a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.“ And Mississippi: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.”

What can one conclude from all of this? It seems fairly clear that secession is not racist. But it is possible to desire to secede for racist reasons. The question therefore is not “Is secession racist?”, it’s “Is secession morally or legally acceptable?”

The moral issue.

The ethics of separation to any libertarian are simple. Anyone should be able to voluntarily withdraw from any contract voluntarily entered. Free people have the right to alter or abolish any government that becomes hostile to their life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. That precedent was established in the Declaration of Independence. Catalonia or Tibet have every right to secede and to enjoy the same Independence that Americans now enjoy. However, it is not ethical to secede for the express purpose of violating the individual rights of others. Secession for the clear-stated purpose of subjugating other individuals and denying them natural rights is illegitimate and unethical.

The legal issue.

Secession in the United States is absolutely illegal under American law. If the brutal War of Northern Aggression and Southern Ignorance wasn’t enough to convince you then the Supreme Court case of Texas Vs. White should be. In this 1869 Reconstruction-Era case, it was decided that despite Texas having joined the Confederacy it had always remained a state. Secession hadn’t technically occurred and the entire war was written off as a “rebellion” in the eyes of the US Government.

Glory, Glory, Hallelujah

    In the film Lincoln, director Steven Spielberg sets the story in the background of the ratification of the 13th Amendment. The 13th Amendment of the United States was passed to outlaw slavery and involuntary servitude. There were two major attempts at passing this amendment before the Civil War to stop the conflict, one of which would have made slavery legal for all time. The Corwin Amendment was a measure proposed and passed by the government that effectively would make slavery legal for all time. It was ignored by the Confederacy who had already committed to independence. Abraham Lincoln supported the amendment in his inaugural address stating, “I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service….[H]olding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”

    America now appears to be very lucky that Lincoln was not given the option to commit to the Corwin Amendment. Had the Southern states not gone out of their way to provoke hostilities, Lincoln could have permanently engrained slavery in our constitution for all time. Because of the war America was able to pass the 13th amendment to outlaw slavery and involuntary servitude indefinitely.

Looking at the Gettysburg Address with a fresh perspective from the Corwin amendment, it is no wonder that the Sage of Baltimore H.L. Mencken criticized Lincolns famous speech as disengenous when he wrote, ” It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost child-like perfection—the highest emotion reduced to one graceful and irresistible gesture. Nothing else precisely like it is to be found in the whole range of oratory. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—”that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and veto of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that veto was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary.”

So is it inherently racist?

No. Not if done for the express purpose of advancing individual liberty.

But are Democrats who use racism as a tactic to further their agenda racist?

Undoubtedly yes.

Post Script

Saul Alinsky‘s Rules for Radicals is a book describing the tactics used by the left to advance their agenda. Take a look at the rules listed below. Is it any wonder our national dialogue is so hostile and venomous? Would conservatives and libertarians do well to use these tactics against their opponents? Leave your thoughts below.

• RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
• RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions