I made a flow chart, that we might better understand.
Once upon a time I was falling in love, and now I’m only falling apart.
Every thought & word is a seed which will produce fruit; the type of fruit depends on the type of seed. -L (Taken with instagram)
Love <3 Nice, but nothing like Monmartre!
Paris in Black and White Mon Amour http://bit.ly/I2pW3y
(Source: thecreativeweb)
Choose to be a positive force. Light up someone’s day. Make a difference. Put a dent in the universe :-) This pic is for you!
by Lance Courtney on Friday, March 2, 2012
I expect to lose a few FB & social networking “friends” over this simply because many people just don’t “like” their boat rocked. Just feed em enough and keep em entertained, but dear God, don’t make em think. Fair enough, “defriend” me if you must, but do yourself a favor and at least research and look into what I’m sharing with you.
Wake up Demopubs & Republicats!
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” -Thomas Jefferson
THE DIRT: Many may choose to look at politics and the world at large with either a left eye (Hillary vs. Obama) or some with a right eye (Romney vs. Gingrich). What would happen if everybody OPENED BOTH EYES and got a better view? When really doing so, looking outside the box as it were, and connecting the remaining dots, we see that underneath the shimmering façade of the party dress, the Democrats & Republicans are not the two diametrically opposed camps they appear to be, but in truth - fastidiously WORKING TOGETHER toward one single objective. It’s a puppet show from a powerful group in a private club of whom political affiliation is completely irrelevant.
To argue Demopub vs. Republicrat is as meaningless as Rwandan Genocide. Yes, it is as meaningless as pitting the once peaceful Hutus and Tutsis (whose impregnable minds somehow shifted to brutally murdering each other in record numbers on the basis that they are and were somehow different – enough to kill) against each other.
Let’s just examine the so-called Republicans: This “party” is well-known for supposedly standing for lower-taxes, less government and more power to the people, right? WHY is it that with a Republicrat ( G.W. Bush 2000-2008) at the helm for eight years, we managed to GROW our obese, over-reaching government to gargantuan size and proportion with increasing loss of freedoms and liberties in the name of the “war on terrorism,” which is about applaudable and laughable as the “war on drugs.” Spend, spend, spend and THEN as according to plan, set up a Demopub (Obama) to win for the next four to eight years and spend even MORE than one could EVER imagine while taxing the life out of Americans (the 20% who create America’s 80%) to the absolute horrific point of no return while instituting laws that build on the previous administrations (unconstitutional) laws. *Think - we would have no NDAA (Obama) without the Patriot Act (Bush).
This, coupled with America’s notoriously short-term memory, obviously makes any other candidate (Romney, Gingrich, etc) from the “other party” seem a little “less evil” and naturally sets up the cycle for another Republicrat to come in and relieve Americans of their tax pains & political gripes – only symptomatically though. – Because just as Oliver Wendall Homes stated, ” The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” A government, once expanded to the dimensions of larger revenues, taxes, public control, learning institutions, corporate farming, federal regulations, etc. never returns to its original size. (Just ask yourself if you’ll ever see Gas prices significantly drop below $1.50 again.) If ANYONE were to look, study & observe long enough, they would SEE a pattern.
GOOD vs. EVIL: The two-party idea is the biggest GOOD COP / BAD COP routine foisted on the American people. And regardless of your ideologies, there will always be a VILLAN for you to hate and a HERO for you to cheer on. How perfect. It’s packaged, produced and sold to the American people with a shiny bow and the voting card tucked conveniently inside.
The political identification (Dem vs. Rep) simply exist to make YOU, Mr & Mrs. John & Jane Q. Public, “FEEL” like their are two diametrically opposed camps, with diametrically opposing ideologies and interpretations of the Bill of Rights & Constitution, when the reality is BOTH camps/parties have expressly exercised their votes (not to carry out the will of the people they’re supposed to represent, but) to abolish and destroy it in the most cunning, apocryphal ambush on … and assault of our Republic and the Rights granted to us as outlined in the documents so many of our forefathers fought for and died to maintain.
In Mark Twain’s book, ‘Following the Equator: a Journey Around the World,’ two maxims or aphorisms, or profundities appear at the top of page 156 to kick off chapter 15; and though these maxims have been butchered, bastardized and bludgeoned over the years, I present them to you in whole:
1. “Truth is stranger than fiction to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”
2. “Truth is stranger than fiction, it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
Over the years, this has been amalgamated, modernized and summed up (or down) to “Truth is stranger than fiction.” However, my favorite is at the bottom of page 156 as Twain is describing the backdrop and scandalous history of a town called Wagga-Wagga, where he expounds on the two statements that begin the chapter, ” …we marvel to see what great chances truth may freely take in constructing a tale, as compared with the poor little conservative risk permitted to fiction.”
Aldous Huxley, author of ‘Brave New World’ shared, “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.And this seems to be the final revolution.”
I believe this is an interesting and acutely accurate take on our modern culture and society. Ignorance is the greatest weapon of fascism and global atrocities. Huxley’s “painless concentration camp” description is one that even rings back to Ancient Rome and the days of Bread & Circuses, the method that the ruling class of the time employed to maintain power and control of the people, which kept their “sheep” fat and happy, even as they fleeced them and sent them off to plunder the free world.
Though the circuses have changed from the live gladiator contests in the coliseum, to the good vs. evil games on our modern teles, the game remains the same. However, in true spirit of service, we needn’t leave our homes to watch the games in person, as they are delivered to our ”painless concentration camp” in full Technicolor, and on flatscreen with surround sound.
Wake up!!!
EVERY FOUR YEARS the power brokers put on an audience-interactive game, where (in theory) we have a chance to direct the path of government and decide who will be the ringleader for the next four years. This guise is referred to as a Democratic Election, when in truth it is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. It is all a big chess game, and the moves are carefully pre-planned and financed by the Central Bankers who promote BOTH sides.
”Governments never do anything by accident; if government does something you can bet it was carefully planned . “ —Franklin D. Roosevelt
As with the Romans, our modern day sheep have become more interested in the game (but only as it’s been outlined and dictated by the establishment) itself than their own freedom. In the 21st century, a football or basketball contest draws more attention than tyranny, illegal taxation, a protest against an illegal war, where our children are being slaughtered, etc. *This pains me to state such a truth, but the saddest thought today is more people in America can probably share the illicit details of Kim Kardashian’s life that the main articles of the US Constitution which are designed to protect our very life, liberties and freedoms; and it’s because Americans choose to remain distracted, apathetic and ignorant, the power brokers, political criminals and their cronies continue to draft illegally unconstitutional laws bundled in bloated bills that expeditiously rob of of MORE freedoms and liberties.
Have no doubt about it, ANCIENT ROME IS ALIVE AND WELL within the halls of the UN and the Washington elite today. The game is the same: keep the sheep fat, happy, and stupid as they are sent off to die for the enrichment of the State. There seems to be no greater honor than sacrifice for the State, as long as it is someone else’s son or daughter.
Not much has changed in 2,000 years; the sheep are still stupid and will never see the boot on their face, as they are too consumed with watching the games. The puppet masters do a steady job of feeding the sheep with matters of (limited) concern, fear or anger, and like good sheep, we adopt these as our dividing political ideologies which drive the two-party machine and we cheer, stump and route for our gladiator to win. Some sheep are celebratory, some are angry. However, as sheep, we accept the verdict and move on. As long as the State never attempts to take away our football, reality shows or beer, the sheep will continue to be content.
Seeing the whole picture, EVERY election is at best, merely a “regime rotation.” The few exceptions to that would be long-shot candidates such as Lincoln, JFK, & Reagan, and ask yourself exactly what they all had in common. - Ouch! Henry Kissinger put it this way, “It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” And the Al Frankens, Rush Limbaughs, Mark Levins and the Combs & Hannitys to the left & right of the dial are merely willing or ignorant pawns in the game to keep America enthusiastically fat, fed and entertained with surface-level politics that never penetrate the epidermis of truth beneath the duplicitous, convoluted, evil, suck-circus.
“The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight.” (John F. Kennedy Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination)
The truth as I’ve come to know it for the past 15+ years, is simply this: The Government and its shadow operatives hold the intention, among other particulars, to secure for itself absolute power, control, corruption, tyranny and in the name of peace and security … extinguish individual freedom, rights, property, national sovereignty, etc. hereby making everything subject to a one Police State.
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” —Theodore Roosevelt
These men, these public political figures and their evil minions who shamelessly and openly pan-handle for millions of dollars of campaign contributions over $5000 & $10,000 plate dinners are NO “advocate of the people.” As they stock their political war chest with hundreds of millions, (and
now billions) of dollars of play money to run as Chief Ringleader in Command for $400,000 a year; something we are not told is, they are already picked, given the script and part to play. It’s PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, only dirtier, uglier and far better planned and supported with our time, attention, money and Constitutional freedoms at stake. Yes, some will run on slightly different campaigns design to incite passion over one or two issues, which might take the sting out of the bite; however, rest assured that the intention is to BITE, as that is a snake’s nature.
THE TWO PARTY RACE IS A LIE - PERIOD. It’s a scam, a farce, a ruse. Using the Superbowl as an example, even if one’s team doesn’t get in, one most likely will still route for one team or against another. Unfortunately, the powers that be would have Americans believe that THERE ARE ONLY TWO PARTIES (teams) and have rigged the game to appear as such; this way, no matter who wins, it’s one of theirs.
“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO THE PEOPLE VOTED FOR; THEY ALWAYS VOTED FOR US.” - JOSEPH STALIN
I grew up with the encouragement from my mother to always “follow the money,” and when looking at the office of the President, EVERYONE would do well to follow the same advice. The rabbit trail leads to the same top sources, sponsers and donors for both parties. Now reread Joseph Stalin’s quote once again to gain a little more stinging clarity.
Let’s take a brief look at what many would have considered a heated political rivalry: G.W. Bush vs. John Kerry. In the “public eye,” they accused each other of heinous positions, shared brutal factoids about each other and created a media blitz of negative ads that would have many believe they came from adamantly and philosophically opposed camps, YET STILL the facts remain …
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States [Bush] the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.” — Sen. John F. Kerry, Oct. 9, 2002
“The President laid out a strong, comprehensive, and compelling argument why Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs are a threat to the United States and the international community.” — John F. Kerry 2004 Post Presidential Election
Both Kerry & Bush are alumni from the same exclusive fraternity in Yale, whose pledge of loyalty is (“above all other pledges and oaths”) to each other (“as brothers”) and the agenda of the order, and NOT to that of the Constitution of the US, which is also prime breeding ground for CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) members, of whom 80% of all US elected Presidents are chosen. Bush, Kerry, Hillary, Obama, McCain, etc. are ALL CFR members as well.
NO DIFFERENCE: Hillary, McCain, Obama & Romney have ALL voted to increase taxes, are Pro-UN, Pro-Patriot Act, Pro-Big Government, Pro-National ID Card, Anti-Limited Government, NOT in favor of overhauling the current corrupt tax code and ALL have publicly stated they are in favor of NDAA, which gives the president power to indefinitely detain Americans in military prisons without probable cause, due process or ever being charged with a crime. Oh, and guess who authored this lovely bill? Yep, Senators John McCain (R - Arizona) and Carl Levin (D -Michigan), both parties working together towards uncontested martial law and signed into law by their buddy, the current president.
NO DIFFERENCE:Hillary, McCain & Obama support big or bigger government, NAFTA, WTO and China as a favored nation status. *Romney, who is endorsed by McCain has publicly been on both sides of the issue.
NO DIFFERENCE:Hillary, McCain, Obama & Romney support “The War on Terror” which is a joke! Geez, every time I have to take off my shoes, remove my laptop, etc before going through a metal detector at the airport, only to now receive a “pat down” by some suspect of marginal intelligence who asks for my ID, I want to scream! Oh, I could on for hours on this …
“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” —Joseph Kennedy, July 26th, l936 The New York Times.
REAL CHANGE: All the spin, fanciful talk and hype about “change” is empty and vacuous wordplay and brainwashing.
RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE: You can ignore the itching truth tugging at you and go back your slumber-like existence, reality shows and steady diet of media-fed soup w grilled retard sandwiches, while believing the government really has your best interest in mind - and that Romney (Newt or Santorum) is really better than Obama, OR …. you could actually TURN OFF the TV and attempt to resist their polish brand of tyranny-for-sale campaigns and LOOK BEYOND the pretty faces, celebrity contest, manufactured polls and sexy sound bytes and do some real research.
I can hear you right now, “But Lance, at least Romney (or Newt, or Santorum) is the lesser of two evils.” To that I say, INSANITY is thinking the the “lesser of two evils” is somehow not evil.
So what now?!?
#1 Well, ignore the billion-dollar hype machine long enough to spend a moment researching. You spent X days, weeks, etc searching for the perfect house, X amount of time searching for the right car, X amount of time searching for the right school, job, mate, etc. Isn’t your freedom worth a little research?!?
#2Truth quite often demands that you ignore the opinions of mom, dad, husband, wife, brother, sister, friends and the editorials of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN and your local talk show hacks, then actually spend a moment examining the FACTS!
#3 Grab your “smartphone and download The Constitution & Bill Of Rights app and study it to compare all rhetoric, campaign promises and proposed bills against the LAW (designed to keep you FREE and our government taking orders from you rather than the other way around). The truth shall indeed set you free, but it’ll most-likely tick you off first. This is good; it will mean you have awoken!
Would you like to see who has predicted everything correctly for the past 20 years and why so many of our troops are pulling for him? Click this link http://youtu.be/92OV3RbU3ek
BUT, if you were to check out any news outlet, here’s a clip that got Judge Andrew Napolitano immediately fired from Fox News:
Click this link http://youtu.be/4zyo10lusCY
Who’s Ron Paul? Someone who has never voted to ever raise taxes, never voted for congressional pay raise, never taken a government-paid junket, never voted to increase the power of the president, voted against regulating the internet, etc. His integrity cannot and has not been corrupted, compromised or purchased by the CFR, Trilateral Commission, the Bildebergers, the central bankers, special interest groups or lobbyist and his record says it all. ALL INTEGRITY and NO DEEP POCKETS. - Can you imagine that for President? Join the revolution and Vote Ron Paul.
Better to stand in your values, be in integrity – knowing you are true to a cause, than to sellout to the highest bidder. – Lance Courtney
Check what George Carlin had to say about the “Illusion of Truth.”
Ron Paul’s speech on SOPA and NDAA. This is a must!
“When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson
This morning, many Americans approach an interesting choice, a choice many may or may not have given sufficient inventory to in the determining of their final voicing of this choice.
As I continue to read about the TSA’s blatant violation of our (Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…) Constitutional Rights being carried out at airports across the nation, I’m beyond appalled - both as a frequent flier and as an American.
The Constitution does NOT allow blanket strip searches or full-body pat downs of American citizens unless there’s some REASONABLE SUSPICION that criminal activity is afoot. To suggest that Americans somehow must surrender our Fourth Amendment rights when buying a plane ticket is absurd in the highest degree, if not simply criminal itself.
A couple myth busters:
MYTH 1: We’re somehow made safer by the installation of these new x-ray body scanning devices.
WRONG: There are blowers and trained dogs that can detect and sniff out bombs.
MYTH 2: TSA has the right to detain and fine US Citizens.
WRONG: They have the power but not the right. Constitutionally, as a US citizen, I/you/we have the right to move freely within my/your/our country as long as I/you/we can demonstrate proof of citizenship and have demonstrated no reasonable cause to be detained.
MYTH 3: The new body scanning machines are safe and the pictures are secure.
WRONG: Not only has it been publically demonstrated that these machines, nor the pictures they take are not secure, the bigger and much, much more important story is the high energy X-rays and microwaves being shot at Americans who wish to fly. The naked picture stories represent a real intrusion, but somewhat disguise the real danger, or at least the second most dangerous aspect, with the first being the rapid decline and disregard of our individual freedoms and Constitutional rights. These electromagnetic radiations are NOT safe and have not been sufficiently proven by a panel of independent experts to be safe. It is wrong to tell Americans this is safe. Furthermore, I strongly object to the US government redefining what is a microwave…. and calling them “milliwaves.” The micro waves the aimed at Americans and those who choose to subject themselves to the examination of these high-frequency machines is unconscionable - and worse, propagandizing that the x-rays and millimeter waves are safe is a outright LIE.
Please examine the concerns these doctors from the University of California expressed in their letter to the White House back in April of 2009. http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
MYTH 4: If anyone fears radiation exposure or has privacy concerns, they can easily “opt out” and undergo and safe and reasonable alternative.
WRONG: The alternative is not only an aggressive “enhanced pat-down,” which some compare to legalized molestation, but one that doesn’t currently require clean gloves, let alone any reported discretion. For this I refer to an ABC piece featuring Martha Donahue in a commentary at Resistnet, who said she’d spent 30 years in the medical industry.
“For those of you who fly and opt for the ‘pat down,’ you need to demand the TSA thugs change their gloves. I’ve been watching on the news how they operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves … gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do you want those gloves touching you?
“These thugs are protecting themselves from you. You need to be protected from them,” she wrote. “In a hospital, nursing home, in-home care, or even labs, that would never even be considered an option.” ABC reported one of its news employees documented how a TSA worker reached inside her underwear.
“The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around,” the ABC employee said in the network’s report. “It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate.” She wrote that she was wondering “about the possibility of screeners passing everything from bedbugs to skin infections from one passenger to another.”
She continued, “Latex glove issues might seem minor, but there ought to be procedures to require TSA screeners to don fresh gloves each time they encounter a new passenger.”
On a TSA blog promoting the agency’s actions and policies, one screener explained, “Changing gloves is optional and fairly simple … . When I gate screen I carry about 10-12 pairs in my pockets.”
Respondents to the comment were outraged, “That’s just plain disgusting and most certainly not acceptable … procedures as set forth by the CDC for usage of gloves for protection,” said one. “Reasoning being is that the bacteria count in your pockets is about the same is your mouth or armpit.”
MYTH 5: These new measures are a ncessary inconvenience and make flying and traveling safer.
WRONG: A necessary inconvenience? Not at all. Consider this … Since 9-11 there have been approximately 29,200,000+ flights in the domestic US. During that time neither body scanners nor “enhanced pat-downs” were being utilized. Beyond a few false flag incidents, the most popular one known as the “underwear bomber,” we have not had one incident where any human being was harmed or killed. Interesting from that one “underwear bomber” event the TSA (Totalitarian State of America) justifies the new body scanners and enhanced pat-downs, of not just terrorist types who fit the EXACT or SIMILAR profile of ANYONE who has EVER attempted a terrorist act on or with a plane, but everyoneincluding grandmothers and young children, who now must also endure this “guilty until proven innocent” security theatre charade.
It can quite accurately be said, through these new measures, (which I hope, pray and actively encourage you to vehemently protest against), the US government has now officially made it unsafe for Americans to fly in the US.
MYTH 6: If it wasn’t safe our Government wouldn’t be installing these new measures.
WRONG: See the following by Fredreka Schouten, of USA Today: “The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington, government records show. AND one of the CEO’s was Obama’s guest while he was in India recently.”
These “security measures” have NOTHING to do with the public safety and EVERYTHING to do with corporate greed and political power.
L-3 Communications, which has sold $39.7 million worth of the machines to the federal government, spent $4.3 million trying to influence Congress and federal agencies during the first nine months of this year, up from $2.1 million in 2005, lobbying data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show. Its lobbyists include Linda Daschle, a former Federal Aviation Administration official.
“Rapiscan Systems, meanwhile, has spent $271,500 on lobbying so far this year, compared with $80,000 five years earlier. It has faced criticism for hiring Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security secretary, last year. Chertoff has been a prominent proponent of using scanners to foil terrorism. The government has since spent $41.2 million with Rapiscan.” This year, L-3 Communications reported lobbying on nearly two dozen bills, ranging from homeland security appropriations to military construction.
ON A RECENT BLOG, a commercial airline pilot had this to say, “Hopefully they will reign in TSA with some sort of legislation, because they have gone too far. I’m a pilot, and the way they search us is absurd. We are behind a locked door and have a crash axe and possibly a gun if a crewmember is FFDO. In reality we don’t even need any of that stuff, since we have control of an entire airplane as well. Why they treat us like terrorist is unknown. We do have to pass a 10 year FBI criminal background check! The interesting thing is that there are all sorts of ground personnel at airports that do NOT go through screening. They could meet a terrorist at the gate after going through security and give them the explosives. Most of the terror acts done today circumvent security, so TSA isn’t helping.
So What Now?
If we allow TSA to continue to reverse the burden of proof so that “we, the people” have to prove our innocence, then we might as well give up on the Constitution altogether. As a tax-paying citizen, I am disgusted that innocent Americans are being targeted as suspects of a surveillance state in the name of security theatre - even moreso that it’s being supported with our hard-earned tax dollars. And that is the biggest crime. Remember, it STILL reads “WE, THE PEOPLE.” Whether you or someone is traveling or not this season I implore you to do your civic duty and take just 3 minutes over coffee, and at the very least email your congressman and senators and urge them to fight against this vicious attack on our liberties and freedoms. Use this link if you need:https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
and if you’re short on time simply copy and paste this (and fill in your name) and send it to your US Rep!!
“My name is _______ and I am writing to ask that you please co-sponsor Rep. Ron Paul’s piece of legislation H.R. 6416: The American Traveler Dignity Act. I, as well as many other Americans, are appalled by the freedoms that are constantly being violated by the post-9/11 Federal Government in the name of “national security”. It is imperative to me that you support this bill. Thank you and I greatly appreciate your time.”
I continue to hear a lot of citizens say, “This has just gone way too far!” which is perhaps the biggest understatement of the year. Yesterday I emailed my congressman, 2 senators, my airline, my governor and the ACLU, not because I wasn’t busy, but because I can’t possibly fathom looking at my daughter’s eyes while some blue-shirt Government worker gropes and fondles her in the name of “security.” This has got to STOP – NOW! A free country should not and cannot give it’s citizens the choice between being microwaved and irradiated or being groped with dirty gloves. Please contact your congress and senate reps and make your voice heard.
Lastly, I leave you with the words of Benjamin Franklin, who wrote, “ Those who give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.”
Thank you,
Lance Courtney
P.S. If you have 5 minutes, this clip is WELL worth your time.
http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-11-17/ron-paul-to-tsa-stop-radiating-our-bodies-and-fondling-our-children/
“Don’t talk about it, be about it.” — Lance Courtney
Taking the tumblr plunge, and officially using the word “yall” in no particular order.