Mad World

Greetings good citizen,

Just as yesterday’s story about the ‘ascendancy’ of US energy reserves warned me that Saudi (real and easy to extract) supplies were approaching exhaustion, today’s headlines regarding the Soviet’s ‘redefinition’ of the term ‘treason’ speaks to me of the global assault on civil liberties.

First we must ask ourselves how unfortunate it is that the most famous Vladimir in modern history is ‘Vlad the Impaler’ and then we need to wonder if there’s a dubious connection in there somewhere.

Let’s have a look!

The law, which was drafted by the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency known under its Russian acronym of FSB, also introduced a punishment of up to eight years for simply getting hold of state secrets illegally even if they aren't passed to foreign hands.

The FSB explained in a statement run by the ITAR-Tass news agency that the new clause better protects confidential information. It said the previous law, which dated back to the 1960s, failed to provide an efficient deterrence against foreign spies.

"Tactics and methods of foreign special services have changed, becoming more subtle and disguised as legitimate actions," the spy agency said. "Claims about a possible twist of spy mania in connection with the law's passage are ungrounded and based exclusively on emotions."

It may be helpful to first settle on a ‘true definition’ of what constitutes ‘treason’…often restricted, politically at least, to aiding ‘foreign enemies’ in ‘undermining’ the state.

Ironically, the rest of us have a simpler definition…one that makes the politicians among us, er, ‘uncomfortable’.

To the average citizen, treason is (and always has been) another word for betrayal. Our politicians are uncomfortable with this because much of what they do could easily be interpreted as ‘betrayal’…and we all know the penalty for treason is death.

So, somewhat bizarrely, few people have ever been, er, ‘officially’ prosecuted for betrayal because the people prosecuting them are as guilty as criminals they are judging.

I suspect most of you will agree that it is our failure to hold people in positions of public trust accountable for their action that has resulted in the, er, ‘dismantling’ of our civilization (by those who falsely claim to ‘own it’…a false claim their attorney’s placed in their heads!

Which is how these cretins will defend their actions…but we digress.

The ‘situation’ is disintegrating once the ‘traitors’ start redefining treason to cover their treachery!

This isn’t about betrayal, it is all about ‘discovery’ and keeping ‘treason’ hidden!

Would the revelation that Russia had a ‘stolen election’ on their hands lead to the ‘suspicion’ that it had also occurred in other countries as part of a global conspiracy to manipulate currencies and strip Western cultures of their hard won civil rights?

All for ‘the greater good’ (of the criminals?)

In case you haven’t noticed good citizen, this ‘national security state’ is a global phenomenon and it is omnipresent.

The question we must ask is who is being protected from whom? And the answer is disturbing because there is a whole boatload of criminal activity that isn’t being prosecuted, never mind reported while whistleblowers across the spectrum are being jailed without recourse!

Because that’s the ‘new reality’ good citizen.

You go along with the ‘big rip off’ or YOU get put away and they throw away the key because they don’t need a reason to lock you up.

If you make waves, they silence you.

Which brings us full circle to the question of ‘what kind of world do YOU want to live in?

One where criminals run roughshod over your life with impunity or one with ‘Justice for all’?

Because the ‘choice’ is YOURS!

Justice for all starts with YOU…but we digress, the real issue here is WHY treason is generally understood to mean one thing but isn’t actually defined that way…something it has in common with another ‘popular’ commodity…money.

How fucking odd is it that we all ‘think we know’ what money is but if you ask ten different people to define it, you will get ten different answers (and some of them considerably freaky!)

Well we have the same problem when it comes to ‘betrayal’…(which also gets bizarre treatment under the law.)

Which is to point out that our legislators have no problem with betraying the general public…worse, it is considered ‘common knowledge’ that anyone running for public office is in the ‘betrayal business’.

Which ISN’T what anybody is thinking when they mark their ballots. They expect the politician to be, at least generally, ‘true to their word’.

And most politicians would quibble that they are…generally…in the broadest sense of the term, and that they at least agree whole heartedly that they spoke words…albeit some of them ‘truer’ than others…

How do you try a weasel like that for treason?

Not by their words but by their actions, of course!

Since much of politics is ‘quid pro quo’ the ‘corresponding’ campaign donations and subsequent voting record tells the story.

But nobody is prosecuted for this easily traceable treason and we can only wonder why?

Would politicians suddenly abandon public service if they were held accountable for their voting record…or would the one percenter’s who regularly ‘purchase’ favorable legislation dislike the, er, ‘scrutiny’?

It’s a mad world good citizen and it will only get madder if you continue to do nothing.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner

Fortress

Greetings good citizen,

Um, Markets around the globe are bleeding from the eye-sockets yet again as the perpetual game of ‘idiot’s delight’ continues unabated.

Run ‘em up then sell ‘em off. You know somebody’s losing their shirt but again it’s not the ‘paper rich’.

They aren't losing any sleep/money over the ‘controlled gyrations’ of the stock markets.

(A tool mainly used to whip politicians with.)

Irrationally, the markets tank and Joe Six-pack gets pissed at the local pols (thanks to his being indoctrinated by the conservo-whackos!)

Either way, the destruction of our feeble civilization proceeds apace.

More in keeping with recent posts we have this article from Alternet that confirms something we already knew, that Willy Jeff Clinton was a DINO…

The Republican and Democratic Party conventions later this summer will probably witness the mass arrest of many American citizens assembling to exercise their First Amendment rights. Mass arrests accompanied the Republican conventions held in New York in 2004, when 900 people were busted, and in St. Paul in 2008 when 300 were detained, including 30 journalists.

A political convention is designated a National Special Security Event (NSSE), a category of state security originally established by President Clinton through a classified 1998 directive. NSSEs also include the Olympics, the Super Bowl and gatherings of world leaders like the G20 or NATO summits. An event receiving a NSSE designation gives federal and local law enforcement wide discretion, often leading them to treat protesters as potential terrorists and threats to national security.

This attitude was visible in the recent NATO summit held in Chicago at which approximately 70 people were busted over two days, including three for “terrorism,” allegedly planning to fire bomb the Obama campaign headquarters.

These National Special Security Events will soon be declared by local politicians seeking to protect their own sorry ass from the fall-out of their superior’s reckless decision-making.

Now let’s take a moment and look at ‘who’ will have ‘overtime’ dangled under their greedy little noses to work these decidedly dangerous ‘details’.

Yup, we have yet another post centering on the guys in the (increasingly) Black Uniforms.

What is the likely outcome of this?

They (the cops) are going to be ordered to show the demonstrators ‘whose boss’…

And the demonstrators are going to get hurt…some of them will incur thousands of dollars worth of legal fees and still others will be getting close up shots of the assholes who are harassing them…

And that’s the ‘fine line’ there, isn’t it? It’s all fun and games until somebody starts keep track.

Now the original purpose of these tapes will be to press criminal charges against police over-stepping their authority…but what judge is going to convict the very people he relies on for his own personal safety?

No…these tapes will be taken and studied by the relatives of the victims…and then vigilante groups will rise up seeking ‘retribution’.

And remember good citizen, THE PEOPLE ARE THE LAW!

Understand what we have here good citizen, we now have laws that deny you justice while protecting the criminals who enforce the denial of your rights.

And what will be the ‘ultimate outcome’ of this Darwinian stand-off?

The families of these officers will shunned, beaten and humiliated and yes maybe even die out of revenge for the sins of the officer.

“Hey, I was just trying to make a few extra bucks!”

Better think long and hard, cameras are EVERYWHERE!

And don’t think nobody has noticed you don’t wear your name badges to these ‘special affairs’.

If your superiors can’t identify you then who knows who is in the blue suit beside you?

Anyone wearing ‘the badge of injustice’ will have to seek refuge behind the walls of a garrison. It will NOT be safe for their families to live among the ‘general population’.

Not that the > One Percent care about this. They long ago separated themselves from the rabble they loathe so much.

So why would anyone ‘take a bullet’ for a decidedly corrupt government as outlined by this article?

And that’s the second question that should have hit you in the eye when you read about this disturbing development. How much more ‘secret legislation’ is hiding out there, waiting to be sprung on an unsuspecting public?

Where were the conservo-whacko watchdogs when this shit was going down?

More disturbing than a barking dog is one who doesn’t bark when he should!

Worse, is the other ‘imponderable’ here. The > One Percent loathe the very people who produce the wealth they consume so copiously so maybe it’s a ‘love-hate’ thing?

Nobody but a cop likes other cops (and even that is extremely ‘conditional’…)

To the extent that ‘like’ only goes so far.

But I digress,

Let us leave today’s offering with the unanswered questions of what else is lying in wait to be sprung on an unsuspecting and worse, unresisting populace and what will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?

I find it difficult to imagine what further proof anyone would need of a ‘renegade government’ than the authorization of armed force to protect the criminals raping our civilization!

If this isn’t ‘class war’ then your head is so far up your backside as to be beyond removal, even by surgical means.

Thanks for letting me inside your head, (despite that disturbing final mental image!)

Gegner

PS. Officers, remember your oath, protect the people, not the criminals!