White House Petitioned to Declare Police Watchdog as Terrorist Group

The ongoing disintegration of what was once a free country into an authoritarian fascist police state under the helm of El Presidente Barack Obama is now evolving. With Barry exercising the divine right of a king in launching yet another war in the Middle East - without the approval of Congress - the forces of government must be free to operate with total impunity in The Homeland. The war on terror which is now well into its second decade has served to restrict civil liberties, enable a criminal government, justify the expansion of a massive surveillance state and transform a good number of our law enforcement personnel into thugs.

Now I am going to be right up front with my standard disclaimer that not all cops are bad. The vast majority are good people tasked with doing a dangerous and thankless job. But there are increasingly more exceptions in the post 9/11 era. The federal government bears a large brunt of the responsibility for encouraging the locals to militarize through the 1033 Program as well the exertion of fed influence through the proliferation of fusion centers.

With the increase in police brutality and misbehavior there has been a corresponding rise in citizens who are fighting back by telling their stories. This certainly doesn't make the government bullies with the badges happy. The logical conclusion to all of the government repression is that political dissent is going to eventually be criminalized. You can already see the early signs. Take for example the Obama regime's use of the IRS to go after groups affiliated with the so-called tea party or the heavy handed crackdown against the Occupy movement. The way that America is headed is best illustrated in the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Blade Runner.

In an early scene, police Captain Bryant makes the retired cop Deckard (played by Harrison Ford), an offer he can’t refuse in order to lure him back into the fold. Deckard appears to ponder it, tosses off the shot of whiskey that he had been poured and gets up. As he turns to leave, stating that he has had enough, Bryant angrily raises his voice barking “Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal! If you’re not cop you’re little people”. Understanding the gravity of Bryant’s words Deckard warily accepts his return to active duty as a replicant killer for one last job. It has come down to a few very basic but pitch black truths in our militarized fascist police state of the post 9/11 ruins of democracy. There are stark dividing lines between that haves and the have nots, there are elitists and peasants, victors and victims, vampires and cattle and cops and little people.

This mentality is evident in a scary story that police watchdog group, Cop Block at copblock.org is being subjected to a petition drive imploring the government to label it as a "terrorist" organization. According to the website Police State USA in a story entitled "Thousands petition White House to consider ‘Cop Block’ a terrorist group":

This week, anti-accountability agents have created an online White House petition to ask President Obama to “Officially label and classify any variation of ‘CopBlock.Org’ members as Domestic Terrorists with DHS.”

The petition alleges that Cop Block — a group which has evolved into a national grassroots network of activists — is “applauding and encouraging violence towards law enforcement officers and their families” as well as “committing terroristic acts by inspiring, inciting, or taking parts in acts that are designed to take human lives in cold blood for political gain.”

The majority of Cop Block affiliates’ tactics involve recording public servants while on duty and bringing awareness to various abuses committed by police around the country. While perceived as annoying to law enforcers, this author knows of no evidence to support the serious claims that Cop Block supports terroristic acts. The petition provides no examples of said behavior.

The petition might be brushed aside as a stunt, but as of this writing (9/22/2014), it has over received over 2,500 signatures. It has also been promoted by several large police advocacy pages, including Law Enforcement Today, which boasts 360,000 fans on Facebook. Its followers include a plethora of official police department pages.

This appears to be an effort to both encourage the federal government to suppress free speech and to demonize activism through baseless accusation.

Were it not for organizations like Cop Block and others there would not have been the appropriate attention paid to this scumbag, or this one, or this one, or this beating, or this dog shooting, or this incident. Groups like this perform a valuable service in shining a light on those cops who have managed to circumvent screening procedures to abuse their power. This not only is a menace to civil society and the traditional duty of the police "to protect and to serve", but such individuals who use their badges as shields to prey on the society only discredit the millions of good cops who are out there laying it on the line every day.

Once the federal government, particularly the tyrannical Obama regime is able to begin to successfully make it fully acceptable to label opponents of the state as "terrorists" there will be no end to it. 

This should serve as a wake up call to everyone who values the last vestiges of liberty.

Democrats Continue to Milk Obama "Impeachment" for Donations

Just to get things out of the way right off the bat so there is no doubt where I stand President Barack Obama should be impeached and removed from office - but it isn't going to happen. Obama should be ousted from power primarily due to his manifest and ongoing unfitness for the gig in the first place. He has always been an amateur, an incompetent and a man who immediately surrounded himself with cronies, crooks and political foes - that slick media hyped team of rivals thing - and has not only carried on with the job that George W. Bush started in destroying the country but has taken it to new levels. Obama presided over the taxpayer funded bailout (and later the coverup) of the great heist pulled off by the Wall Street banksters - not one of whom has gone to prison.

Mr. Hope and Change also bears primary responsibility for that big wet kiss (with plenty of tongue) to the parasitical insurance industry commonly known as Obamacare - the shakedown of Americans to buy crappy health insurance with the power of the government enforcing it. Corporations are already jacking up dependent health care insurance rates in a blatant effort to purge employee family members from their bottom lines and feed them into the maw of Obamacare - actual employees will soon be divested by the big boys in this massive scam that should have been strangled in the crib.  El Presidente has also completed the destabilization of the Middle East that Bush began with the attack on Iraq, trashed the reputation of the U.S. with his above the law NSA spying on everyone on the planet, thrown US backing behind the same type of Nazi filth in Ukraine that the fathers and grandfathers of Americans defeated in World War II and with his ongoing personal vendetta against the leader of a nuclear armed country who embarrassed him has us sitting at the brink of World War III which could be a thermonuclear cataclysm all because of dear leader's wounded pride.

So yeah, the bastard should be impeached but given the level of complicity in his high crimes and misdemeanors that is shared by the enemy of the American people that is Congress he will serve out the remainder of his lamentable second term before turning the keys of the war machine over to his preordained successor Hillary Rodham-Clinton. Obama has been good for business if one is a sociopath who deals in bad paper and human blood and at the end of the day in the smoking remains of what used to be a great country a swine like Obama and his contemptibly corrupt regime is the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg - and the oligarchy is not going to kill it. The impeachment threat does make for good politics in an election year that serves both of our political crime syndicates but especially the putrid Democrats who are making hay off of the non-issue to solicit money from the five to twenty dollar flock of suckers whose small donations fund Democratic party front groups like Move On and Democracy for America.

I was forwarded this email from the latter money mill DFA:

Can you believe this? Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst just said that she wants to impeach the President for being "a dictator."

That kind of extremist rhetoric is not unusual for Joni Ernst. It's one reason why Sarah Palin, another impeachment supporter, endorsed her. Ernst and Palin are firing up the Tea Party base and reminding all of us that Joni Ernst's positions are just too extreme for Iowans.

This race could determine who controls the U.S. Senate. If Joni Ernst wins, the Republicans could control both houses of Congress for the rest of President Obama's term. That means no equal pay for equal work, and no funding to rebuild our nation's crumbling infrastructure. It means more votes to repeal Obamacare, and an escalation of the war on women.

Most importantly, if Joni Ernst wins, she and her fellow Tea Party extremists will feel emboldened to impeach President Obama.

Stop Joni Ernst and Sarah Palin from impeaching President Obama. Donate $3 now to keep Iowa blue by electing Bruce Braley to the U.S. Senate!

There's nothing too extreme for Joni Ernst. She would vote for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality. Joni Ernst wants to ban all abortions -- even in the terrible cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother. Those aren't just radical ideas, they're an attack on working people, women, and LGBT Americans. Joni Ernst won't address real problems or put Americans back to work.

With these radical positions, Joni Ernst walks in lock-step with the Tea Party extremists -- and out of sync with middle class Americans and their values.

That's why we need you to pitch in for Bruce Braley for Senate. During his time in Congress, Bruce has secured back pay owed to our veterans, helped 100,000 unemployed Iowans get back on the job, and fought for equal pay for equal work. He believes that every woman has the right to consider the hardest of choices with her doctor. And he won't support the impeachment of our president.

Donate $3 to help Bruce Braley push back against this destructive right-wing ideology -- and stop the impeachment of President Obama!

Thanks for everything you do to keep Iowa -- and the Senate -- blue.

The letter was signed "Jim" who is James Dean, brother of former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, the Vermont screamer. It is just the latest variation of the solicitation email that has been according to what I hear hitting targeted recipients daily in the run-up to the November mid-terms. The Democrats are useless hypocrites and phonies in accusing Republicans of using dog whistle appeals to voters and inflammatory discriminatory words in the "culture wars" that drives so many of their base voters. As anyone can see by reading DFA's appeal for money, from the same people who were screwed over by Obama's ongoing subsidizing of Wall Street gambling casinos and are now being crushed by the hidden inflation of rising food prices and smaller packaging as a result the Democrats use exactly the same tactics. The email is replete with references to bogeymen "Sarah Palin" and the "Tea Party" and panders to identity based demographics such as gays, women and non-white voters - the usual suckers who the party riles up every election cycle with cries of imminent Republican persecution and then shits all over after the votes have been counted and the money socked away.

It is quite the scam but there are likely millions of suckers who are going for it and despite DFA's fear-mongering plea that the dough is needed to prevent the takeover of the Senate by the GOP (which is imminent) the money is likely destined for 2016 to fund the great crusade of Queen Hillary the Intevitable, the Joan of Arc of the poor and the downtrodden who will immediately renege on all of her promises - just like Obama did - once the voting is over and there is no longer the need for an army of useful idiots who will be summarily shit upon until the need for their money again arises in 2018.

As the great American writer H.L. Mencken once remarked about the nature of our political system:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

This is as relevant in 2014 as the day that he wrote it. BOTH of these wretched excuses for political parties in America should be outlawed and their leaders jailed before they can finish destroying this once great country from within. 

US Mired in Cold War Mentality as Cuban Twitter Scheme Exposed

It's back to the future in The Homeland circa 2014. When the neocons and the dimwitted Obama administration are not actively poking the bear in Russia, for example the destabilization and overthrow of the democratically elected leader in Ukraine and hurling propaganda stink bombs at the Sochi Winter Olympic games they are still to this day trying to foment revolution in Cuba. Jesus Christ, have any of the lunatics who are running this great star-spangled asylum ever studied history? The government that Castro built - after kicking out mobsters and rapacious corporate interests, not that there is much if any difference - has endured for nearly sixty years and eleven US presidents. It would just have to be the ultimate narcissist, Barack Obama who thinks that he can be the one to finally stick a fork into it.

The latest example in an endless series of botched plots is that of ZunZuneo, or the "Cuban Twitter" that was revealed to be a covert attempt by the Obama regime to destabilize the government. Hell, we can't do anything rational such as to normalize relations and open Cuba to American investment and trade the proverbial rising tide that would lift all boats, if anything the ongoing debacle in Iran is proof of that, the dirty trick bag has to be opened and the Cuban government subverted in the finest of post WW II US foreign policy tradition. The story of this show of stupidity by Team Obama was broken by the Associated Press. I excerpt the following from the piece entitled "US SECRETLY CREATED 'CUBAN TWITTER' TO STIR UNREST":

In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba's communist government.

McSpedon and his team of high-tech contractors had come in from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Washington and Denver. Their mission: to launch a messaging network that could reach hundreds of thousands of Cubans. To hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruit executives who would not be told of the company's ties to the U.S. government.

McSpedon didn't work for the CIA. This was a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for International Development, best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.

According to documents obtained by The Associated Press and multiple interviews with people involved in the project, the plan was to develop a bare-bones "Cuban Twitter," using cellphone text messaging to evade Cuba's strict control of information and its stranglehold restrictions over the Internet. In a play on Twitter, it was called ZunZuneo — slang for a Cuban hummingbird's tweet.

Documents show the U.S. government planned to build a subscriber base through "non-controversial content": news messages on soccer, music and hurricane updates. Later when the network reached a critical mass of subscribers, perhaps hundreds of thousands, operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize "smart mobs" — mass gatherings called at a moment's notice that might trigger a Cuban Spring, or, as one USAID document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society."

So the cover is now blown on USAID as being just another front for the endless series of escapades by the US government and the NGO's which are really for the most part front groups in the meddling in the affairs of other countries. The Cold War may officially be over but the dead enders just never stop. Just look at the escalating mess in Ukraine where the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which took place of the more ostentatious CIA in doing the dirty work of toppling governments not sufficiently following the Washington line. Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland during a speech to predatory corporations looking to feast on the spoils of the carved up Ukraine boasted of the $5 billion that the US government had plowed into the country - hell, it's not like it could be used to actually do some investment in America. The NED's role in spreading "democracy" at gunpoint and beating the concept into all who refuse to go along with the corporate colonization in the torture chambers of the murderous despots that we the US taxpayers fund was already well established but USAID. at least had some semblance of legitimacy - good job Obama, there that one goes as well. Is it too late to get George W. Bush to come back?

The White House naturally denied that the Cuban Twitter plot was a covert operation but there are Congressional (yes those worthless bastards) probes forthcoming. With Senator Robert "whore chaser" Menendez already chiming in approvingly:  "The whole purpose of our democracy programs, whether it be in Cuba or other parts of the world, is in part to create a free flow of information in closed societies" - the sheer hypocrisy is incredible, given that the New Jersey based kingpin of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continue to be one of the most vocal advocates of the unconstitutional NSA Stasi mass domestic surveillance and data-mining programs. For further elaboration on the ZunZuneo operation as well as other more nefarious aspects of the collaborative program between the NSA and those Norsefire fascists across the pond at GCHQ Glenn Greenwald has just published a very good piece over at his new platform The Intercept entitled "The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket", it like all of his work is strongly recommended reading.

So on and on it goes with this sick obsession with Cold War style skullduggery and an absolute refusal to become an honest partner in what is an increasingly globalized world where the US establishment as well as the deep state and shadow government that lie underneath continue with their wretched, dishonest and murderous ways. The one place that is so badly in need of one of those regime changes is right here in the US of A. 

Eat This! Americans Go Without as Billions Sent to Ukraine

If there was any remaining shadow of a doubt about where regular Americans stand in the sewer of corruption that is Obamaworld let it now be removed. While food stamp programs, long-term unemployment and veterans benefits are cut to the bone there is plenty of money to send to support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Both Barack Obama as well as the real enemies of the American people in the US Congress just stuck it to us all good and hard. In yet another of those truly amazing shows of bipartisanship that is always able to cut through the gridlock whenever it comes time to fuck over the citizens of this country in order to shower undeserving foreign governments with money stolen from the US taxpayer the Congress voted overwhelmingly today to send billions in aid to the illegitimate, coup d'etat installed puppet government in Kiev and its neo-Nazi component.

This big star-spangled bag of loot is only awaiting Barry's signature but that is of course a formality. Never has a US president been such a complete stooge of the global finance mafia nor has a sitting US Congress approached this level of wanton - in your face - corruption. Where Americans anything but the television lobotomized sheep that they are they would be the ones out in the streets where the would be quickly confronted with all of the force that the rogue government has to bear and the blood would be knee deep in the streets. The audacity of the government here daring to engage in demagoguery over an inside job of extremist instigation and questionable sniper fire in Kiev when the fully militarized police state would turn any similar mass protest into piles of bloody chunks of human hamburger.

But in Der Homeland it is always about contradictions and hypocrisy, look at polls that show an enormous level of disapproval with the way that Obama has handled the now fully Hitlerized Russian president Vladimir Putin. The squadrons of couch bound warriors want Putin's head on a fucking pike paraded through the streets, mummified and then used as the game ball during the next Super Bowl in Tempe, and of course the immediate nuclear attack that would turn Moscow into a the world's largest parking lot  However it never once occurs to the average American thumb-sucking dumbass that the money going to fund the endless wars of imperial aggression and prop up puppet governments that enforce crushing austerity measures sold as "democracy" that the money is being stolen from them to finance it all. Not that long ago I thought that the movie Idiocracy was a prediction of the future of this country but given the ability of boobus Americanus to be once again suckered into supporting the planetary looting spree and the likes of Obama and the bought and paid for Congress it is obvious that it is already here.

Adding insult to injury is the inconvenient truth that Americans are being squeezed by spiking inflation - not of course that which is revealed by official government statistics which are total horseshit as food and energy costs are conveniently omitted in the calculation. Food prices are already up 19 percent this year, the prices are going up and the packages are getting smaller by the month as our criminal political class continues to enrich themselves at the public trough and earn every dime that big energy cartels, agribusiness conglomerates, the military industrial complex, the surveillance industrial complex, Wall Street gamblers and the global high finance parasites are paying them.  The average American schmuck who is all for a war with a nuclear power like Russia can't be bothered with such vagaries though as their long and slow slide into slavery continues. 

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