Whether you agree with her politics or not, this woman handles an encounter with the FBI brilliantly … and gives wise advice on how the rest of us can, too. Of course, the feddies didn’t arrive at her doorstep at 5:00 a.m. in ninja suits and with itchy trigger fingers. But still … brilliantly done, lady. This also makes me realize (once again) that I really need to invest in a video camera. I don’t even have one on my cellphone. Anybody got a used one to sell? Or advice on what I should look for in a video camera…
Category: Mind and Spirit
Spirituality, moods, feelings, and thinking free to live free.
Morpheus: Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. … Do you know what I’m talking about? Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take…
Sign of the times: that the FBI can create a new secret police to spy on the Internet and the big reaction is a nationwide yawn. Is it information overload? Outrage fatigue? Or just acknowledging the reality that “our” government is so out of control, so committed to secrecy, and so determined to rule us no matter what we do that our activist energies are better directed elsewhere? Is the building anger against government so big that it blows right past new secret police agencies? —– Why would this be okay — really, seriously, why would this be judged entirely…
This is from the Facebook page of Mike Nelson. I can’t see it, but C^2 sent it along to me: “…that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 1863 “Remember the Maine” 1898 “Making the world safe for democracy” 1917 “…an unprovoked and dastardly attack” 1941 “Our purpose is peace. We have no military, political or territorial ambitions in the area.” 1964 “…babies in incubators” 1990 “They hate us for our freedom” 2001 “…weapons of mass destruction” 2003 This Memorial Day, let’s remember the LIES that led us to sacrifice…
Courtesy of Ellendra, here’s an intriguing weekend read for you: “Low-tech solutions to high-tech tyranny” by Brandon Smith: Imagine, if you will, a fantastic near future in which the United States is facing an unmitigated economic implosion. Not just a mere market crash, or a stint of high unemployment, but a full spectrum collapse driven by unsustainable debt spending and hyperinflationary printing. The American people witness multiple credit downgrades of U.S. Treasury mechanisms, the dollar loses its reserve status, devaluation of the currency runs rampant, and the prices of commodities and imported goods immediately skyrocket. In the background of this…
Been stressed and grouchy dealing with a maddening foster dog who came in at a maddening time and stayed under maddening circumstances. Thank heaven he leaves this morning for doggie reformatory a wonderful program to help pit bulls and pit mixes. And thank heaven wonderful volunteers have stepped up to transport him so I don’t have to. Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay! This has been a great (bad) time for considering things that hack me off. Yeah, yeah, I know that’s not the most noble use of what small brainpower I have. But a little venting is good for the…
Back on the subject of snitching … A friend of mine with, shall we say, interested and varied experiences in life (e.g. having seen the justice system from both sides), wrote this in response to my earlier posts on this subject: If I could have seen [you know who] right before she got busted, I would say this: 1. Cops lie. They lie and lie and lie. They care about nothing except busting people. If they say they care, they are lying. You are meat to them. Smelly meat. You are cluttering up their life, and they want to get…
I’d like to say I have no experience with snitches. In a way; I don’t. I’ve never (knock wood) gotten in trouble via a snitch. But over the years, countless numbers of fools have approached me asking my advice on how to do illegal acts. No doubt some of them weren’t fools, but lazy or unskilled informants. I’ll never know. Carl Bussjaeger writes a pretty good account of how that sort of thing works. Through a combination of luck and not-total-stupidity, most of us have evaded the trap. But I’ll bet everybody here knows somebody whose life has been ruined…
NOTE: This post started out to be one thing, then turned into another. So it’s not the most organized piece I’ve ever written. Bear with me. Toward the end, I’m going to ask your thoughts on what might be a worthwhile project. —– I should have remembered this clip from Firefly. Instead, H/T JB for this most elegant method of dealing with a snitch: Of course, few of us have spaceships or fantastic script writers for dealing with betrayers, so we have to wing it and probably not do so well. Let’s talk about that. This post is not about…
Yesterday I wrote about activist-turned-drug-war-informant Stacy Litz. Stacy commented on that post to say she knew her acts were heinous (her word), but that I was being unfair to her by making accusations, slanting my account, and using stale information. At the time I blogged, I hadn’t been able to find any statements from Stacy herself. I knew they existed, but I kept getting dead links. This morning I found two examples of Stacy talking about her experiences as an informant (and afterward). So here’s Stacy on Stacy, without any filtering from me: “I Am a Victim of the American…