UPDATE: ACLU SIlent on Florida Police-State Tactics

We STOPPED THEM this time, but they WILL be back again!

UPDATE: Within thirty-minutes of my having sent a FAX to the Florida office of the ACLU, I received a rather interesting e-mail from a representative of that office.

The ACLU, and all the other false-patriot organizations just like them, do NOT go away quietly. It is ONLY through concerted effort that these groups respond to what WE THE PEOPLE demand from them. Remember, their funding comes from people just like you and I, who join because they believe that the ACLU is there to protect us.

However, this couldn't be further from the REAL TRUTH of the ACLU:

The American Civil Liberties Union (founded 1920)

In 1924, a book by R.M. Whitney called THE REDS IN AMERICA made its' appearance. The American Civil Liberties Union, founded by Upton Sinclair [a member of the global elite], had by that time, become an important branch of the Third International, so Mr. Whitney [also a member of the global elite], gave several pages of his book to a description of its' organization and methods. The methods employed were designed to make Communism palatable to those whose nations would be destroyed by this special brand of patriotism.

Here below, are the words of Mr. Whitney, a former Associated Press writer and author of the book THE REDS IN AMERICA (pgs. 120-122):

The American Civil Liberties Union owes its' existence to the notorious pacifist organizations of war-time fame, which were presumably financed by German agents in this country, working desperately, and for a time successfully, to keep the United States from entering the war. To be sure, in its' present form, it has existed only since January 12, 1920, when it was formed as an outgrowth and with the merging of various organizations which were developed during the World War, dating from October 1914, and the members of which were pacifists, defeatists, German agents, radicals of many hues, communists, I.W.W., and socialists. Among the organizations included in the merger were such pacifist bodies as the American League to Limit Armaments, Emergency Peace Federation, First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, People's Freedom Union, People's Council of America, American Union Against Militarism, League for Amnesty for Political Prisoners, Civil Liberties Bureau, National Civil Liberties Bureau, American Neutral Conference Committees and Legal First Aid Bureau.

The activities of this organization are extensive. It assists any radical movement through publications of high standing in order to influence public sympathy toward the radical organizations, furnishing attorneys for radical criminals, conscientious objectors and radical or foreign spies, "bores from within" in churches, religious and labor organizations, Women's Clubs' schools and colleges and the American Federaion of Labour, in order to spread radical ideas. The union maintains a staff of speakers, investigators and lawyers who are working in all sections of the country. Lawyers are furnished on short-notice whenever a radical criminal gets into trouble. A press clipping service is maintained which keeps the organization in close touch with every radical criminal or group of radical criminals in trouble and immediate financial aid, publicity and counsel is offered. Aiding in this service are some 800 co-operating lawyers, and more than a thousand correspondents and investigators, representing 450 weekly labour, farmer, and liberal papers with 420 speakers and writers.

The American Civil Liberties Union was particularly active in aiding the Communists caught in the Bridgman, Michigan raid. An office is maintained in Washington, DC with the Federated Press organization to handle matters requiring direct contact with the Government. The policies of the organization are determined by the National Committee and the carrying out of them is left to the Executive Committee, which meets weekly.

Mr. Whitney quotes the following paragraphs from the 1920 LUSK COMMITTEE report concerning the American Civil Liberties Union:

An examination, however, of the propaganda and agitation which has been carried on in favor of the forceful overthrow of this Government shows that it does not consist of a mere expression of opinion, but invariably advocates measures for its' effectuation. In other words, the representatives of revolutionary Socialsts, Communists, Anarchists and other groups, state that by doing certain acts, this Government may be overthrown and in each instance, the agitator urges his listeners or his readers to commit those acts. [Editor - A well-known example of this is something called Project Mayhem in the 1999 classic film FIGHT CLUB, as well as the copycat crimes of 21 year-old Luke Helder, who was responsible for 18 pipe bombs placed in mailboxes across five states during May 3-6, 2002.] It is a well-sttled principle of law that any reasonable man is responsible for the logical and reasonable consequences of his acts and utterances.

While the Constitution of the State of New York guarantees the right of free speech, it also contains the warning that the citizen may exercise it "being responsible for the abuse of that right." The effect of the American Civil Liberties Union is to create in the minds of the ill-informed people, the impression that it is un-American to interfere with the activities of those who seek to destroy American institutions. They seek to influence legislators and executives to repeal or veto any act calculated to protect the State or the Federal Government from the attacks of agitators.

After some further analysis, the report says:

The American Civil Liberties Union, in the last analysis, is a supporter of all subversive movements, and its' propaganda is detrimental to the interests of the State. It attempts not only to protect crime, but to encourage attacks upon our institutions in every form.

The American Civil Liberties Union is closely identified with groups in practically every city in the country known as "Parlor Bolsheviki." Speakers are furnished for these dillettante radicals whose influence would amount to little, but for the fact they can be counted upon for financial contributions to any movement that promises them a thrill. It has been said that many idle man and women become identified with this "Parlor Bolshevik" movement through emotionalism and because it gives them something to think about. Whatever the reason, the Communists and the Civil Liberties Union agitators make use of these groups for financial aid and as a means of spreading propaganda.

"It is well known," as Mr. Whitney further explains, "that the Worker's Party, as a branch of the Communist Party, has access to the SUCKER LISTS of people who have contributed to the finances of the Party in various cities, and besides has SUCKER LISTS of its' own which are shared by the Communists. The most remarkable feature of these lists is the number of names of prominent people upon them.

Naturally, most of the people on these SUCKER LISTS have no idea what sort of an organization they are assisting, but their money assists just the same! Hazy notions of helping the poor and downtrodden and bettering the condition of the working classes serve to produce the necessary enthusiasm leading to subscriptions [memberships]. Among the persons whose names have appeared as members or officers of this society, we name the following: Roger N. Baldwin, Albert DeSilver, Scott Nearing, and Max Eastman.


BEING ON THE ACLU's SUCKER LIST:

When I first read this a few year's back, I immediately set about learning the truth about the ACLU. What I did was join the group, and then about six months later, recind my membership. What happened next was interesting as Hell, but also pretty depressing, as well.

I began to be HEAVILY SOLICITED in the following manner . . .

First, I received phone calls from someone with a friendly voice. I was asked why I quit my ACLU membership. I kept things as vague as I could, by answering with a reply that really said nothing of substance. I received these phone calls for more than three years, when I finally said to the caller that if they did not immediately put me on the DO NOT CALL LIST, that I would be filing a complaint with the New York State Attorney General's office, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice. I think I scared the crap out of the poor college slob whose job it was to call me that day, because she started stuttering and stammering.

However, I have not received another call from the ACLU since the day I said this.

Secondly, I was subjected to a two-pronged snail-mail and e-mail attack, where GUILT was heavily used to BLAME ME for not re-joining, should we have another terrorist attack. Pluh-eeeze, give me a break, will you?! I have saved all of these, which I received every couple of weeks, and they used every trick in the book --- blame, guilt, crying poor and/or low on funds --- and there I received emergency alerts, which were more begging and guilt-fests.

It was truly pathetic, and when the begging phone-calls came in, I started asking the caller if they knew that the ACLU was founded under the idea of Communism and International Socialism. I am certain that you can well imagine the responses I received from these callers.

In fact, this NEW WORLD ORDER that George Bush Sr. spoke about so often is built upon the idea of International Socialism.

If one takes the time to study the political philosophies of our so-called elected officials, they will find that NEARLY ALL OF THEM support this International Socialism concept.


THE ACLU REPLIES TO MY FAXes:

What is most likely to have happened in this matter, was this story was either a TRIAL BALLOON to guage public reaction, or outrage was so enormous and immediate, that the matter was withdrawn. My personal feeling is that it was most likely a TRIAL BALLOON, and an organization as savvy as the ACLU being misquoted is very unlikely.

If we have any hope at all of preventing this GLOBAL PRISON PLANET ala NEW WORLD ORDER, each and every one of us needs to send FAXes about every single thing with which we abhor and cannot tolerate. Most people reading this article have FAX ability at home or in their computer.

Why it is crucial that you send FAXes and NEVER e-mail, is because of all office communications, sending a FAX is second only to calling on the telephone --- but there you must know whom it is you are calling --- so you DO get through. FAXes go right to the TOP of the pile --- and proof of this is my own reply within THIRTY MINUTES of sending the FAX earlier this afternoon.

USE IT, or LOSE IT (our remaining freedoms).


Here is the complete text of the reply I received from the ACLU:

The AP story misquoted our Executive Director Howard Simon as endorsing the "Miami Shield" program of conducting random ID checks without suspicion.

There won't be any random ID checks, and the AP story ran a correction saying that and printing the correct quote from Howard Simon.

Here's our statement:

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Contact: [contact information redacted]


ACLU Statement on Miami Shield Program

The ACLU has received conflicting reports as to whether the City of Miami police plan to protect us from terrorism, dubbed "Miami Shield,” will include random checks of identification by police.

The ACLU opposes as unconstitutional any plan to stop people and demand identification without reason to believe that there is criminal activity.

When law enforcement stops people based on individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, that is always both more effective and consistent with constitutional principles. Other post 9-11 law enforcement tactics such as randomly searching subway users in New York City or conducting mass pat-down searches of everyone entering the Raymond James Football Stadium in Tampa violate constitutional principles and are a waste of law enforcement resources.


The revised AP story is pasted below:

Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror
MIAMI, Nov. 29, 2005

(AP) Police are planning "in-your-face" shows of force in public places, saying the random, high-profile security operations will keep terrorists guessing about where officers might be next.

As an example, uniformed and plainclothes officers might surround a bank building unannounced, contact the manager about ways to be vigilant against terrorists and hand out leaflets in three languages to customers and people passing by, said police spokesman Angel Calzadilla. He said there would be no random checks of identification.

"People are definitely going to notice it," Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez said Monday. "We want that shock. We want that awe. But at the same time, we don't want people to feel their rights are being threatened. We need them to be our eyes and ears."

Howard Simon, executive director of ACLU of Florida, said the Miami initiative appears aimed at ensuring that people's rights are not violated.

"What we're dealing with is officers on street patrol (making informed decisions on which individuals to stop), which is more effective and more consistent with the Constitution," Simon said. "We'll have to see how it is implemented." One example of a legitimate stop might be an officer questioning a person entering a crowd while wearing a heavy coat on a summer day.

The operations will keep terrorists off guard, Fernandez said. He said al-Qaida and other terrorist groups plot attacks by putting places under surveillance and watching for flaws and patterns in security.

Police Chief John Timoney said there was no specific, credible threat of an imminent terror attack in Miami. But he said the city has repeatedly been mentioned in intelligence reports as a potential target.

Timoney said 14 of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 attacks lived in South Florida at various times and that other alleged terror cells have operated in the area.

Under the program, both uniformed and plainclothes police will ride buses and trains, while others will conduct longer-term surveillance operations.

Mary Ann Viverette, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, said the Miami program is similar to those used for years during the holiday season to deter criminals at busy places such as shopping malls.

"We want people to feel they can go about their normal course of business, but we want them to be aware," said Viverette, the police chief in Gaithersburg, Md.

At Monday's Heat game against the New York Knicks, season ticket holder Tony Gonzalez, 34, said he wasn't worried about any potential violation of civil liberties.

"When you enter an arena or stadium at full capacity you just don't know who is going through the turnstiles," said Gonzalez, an attorney. "Everything that helps our security, I'm for it."


Sources:

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American Civil Liberties Union

Police: Suspect planned smiley face bomb pattern (May 9, 2002)

Whitney, R.M. - Reds in America; 1924, pgs. 120-122.

ACLU Silent on Florida Police-State Tactics

THIS is the NEW police-state! Feeling safer already?

At the bottom of this article, the reader will find an article from Prisonplanet.com, concerning the recent Florida police plan to ILLEGALLY SEARCH RANDOM CITIZENS (not civilians!!!) where they will be asked to produce their I.D. papers. This is a disgusting plan, which smacks of NAZI GERMANY of the late 1930's and early 1940's. I suppose that I should not be surprised of this, as Prescott Sheldon Bush (Dumbya's Grampa) was one of Hitler's Wall Street financiers. For his collaboration, Bush was prosecuted and jailed for violations of the Trading With The Enemy Act.

When I read the article, I was sickened to learn just how far down the path of totalitarianism this country has come. I immediately drafted a letter to the ACLU national and Florida offices, and FAXed them to the attention of the Executive Director of BOTH offices. I have reproduced this SAMPLE LETTER below, for your use.

I encourage everyone reading this to spend a few moments to FAX these people, and tell them of your displeasure with their silence on these police-state tactics.

Here are the unpublished FAX NUMBERS for BOTH offices of the ACLU:

American Civil Liberties Union - National Office (New York City):
Anthony D. Romero - Executive Director
FAX NUMBER - (212) 549-2646

American Civil Liberties Union of Florida - Office (Miami):
Howard Simon - Executive Director
FAX NUMBER - (305) 576-1106

Also, the SAMPLE LETTER OF PROTEST below contains the address for the New York National Office. Here below is the correct office address for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, which needs to be inserted into the letter to Howard Simon:

Mr. Howard Simon
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
3000 Biscayne Blvd - Suite # 215
Miami, Florida 33137-4129

Also, send a FAX instead of either a postal snail mail or an e-mail. FAX transmissions are always given the highest priority, while snail-mail and e-mail are given a lesser priority.


This is the NEW Miami Police! Feeling safer already?



Here is the SAMPLE LETTER:

November 30, 2005




Mr. Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street – 18th Floor
New York, New York 10004-2427

Re: ACLU Silent on Florida Police-State Tactics

Greetings, Mr. Romero:

I am outraged at your organizations position on the recent news that Miami police are performing random ID SEARCHES on peaceful and law-abiding citizens (NOT civilians!!!). The comment by ACLU Florida Executive Director Howard Simon, that “What we are dealing with is officers on street patrol, which is more effective and more consistent with the Constitution,” is flat-out nonsense, and has no bearing on the Constitution whatsoever.

This police-state behavior is a clear violation of four of the ten amendments that make up the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights:

1st Amendment – Peaceable Assembly.

4th Amendment – To be secure in their persons and papers, and from unreasonable searches.

8th Amendment – Unusual punishments inflicted.

9th Amendment – To deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

I am a former member of the ACLU, and I resigned my membership when I realized that your organization is what is known as a Trojan Horse, whereupon you appear to be helping, but when REAL HELP is needed, the ACLU is nowhere to be found. This very case is a perfect example of this destruction of our Constitutional rights.

This dangerous precedence set forth by the Florida police is designed to frighten the citizens (not civilians!!!) into cowering before the police, and submitting to unreasonable searches, while the true culprits of these heinous terrorist events go unpunished. It is because of this type of behavior by the ACLU, that I recommend to ALL of my friends and family that they DO NOT join your organization.

Sincerely Yours,





Your Name Here



Source:

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Miami Model: ACLU Shysters Stab America In The Back Again (November 30, 2005)

Sutton, Antony C. - Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

GOLD Crosses $500.00 Barrier!

How high will the price of GOLD rise before you consider buying some?

Earlier today, GOLD crossed the $500 per ounce barrier, for the first time since 1987! What is fueling this rise in the value of GOLD, SILVER, and all other precious metals, is the massive imminent collapse of the United States economic system.

I started telling all my friends and family that they need to start buying GOLD about eight years ago. What I saw, was a nation's economy on the brink of collapse --- with no hope of saving the USA from catastrophic disaster.

The nation's debt is now $8 TRILLION DOLLARS . . .

The net savings of the nation's citizens is now BELOW ZERO --- and this is because their debts are exceeding their savings . . .

Both GENERAL MOTORS and FORD MOTOR COMPANY are now both bankrupt --- which threatens the MACHINE-TOOL MANUFACTURING capabilities of this country . . .

The stock market is once again fattened from the PUMP AND DUMP ethics of brokerage houses that are once again fleecing people of their life savings --- those who are stupid enough to fall for this YET AGAIN . . .

The CRIMINAL SYNDICATE known as the FEDERAL RESERVE recently announced that they are no longer posting public information regarding the nation's M3 money supply. This has been done to hide the fraud and the manipulations that will have to be increasingly deployed in an attempt to keep this whole system from collapsing. They are hoping to push this off into the future as far as possible . . .

The housing market, the stock market, and the money supply have been manipulated in an effort to provide the illusion that everything is okay --- and it is business as usual.

Major global corporations are now being caught for LYING about the true financial condition of their company and business . . .

Major mass media news outlets are lying about their readership and viewership. For instance, the circulation of my hometown newspaper THE BUFFALO NEWS is so low that the management has adopted the tactic of giving out FREE NEWSPAPERS on every major holiday. After asking my deliveryperson to PLEASE STOP leaving me these free papers, I finally had to cancel the paper entirely, even though my wife wanted it for the food coupons from the Sunday morning paper.

TV ratings are down --- especially the NEWS --- which is more propaganda and conditioning of the viewer's mind --- than it is actual NEWS.

Those who listened to me eight years ago, have now more than doubled their money. Those who listened understand that GOLD will eventually reach $1,500 or more per ounce before this country is totally destroyed from within.

Those who DID NOT listen and stayed with their stocks, have lost everything they had in the market --- and are now too embarrased to talk to me or anyone else about the loss of their life's savings.

Those who told me that GOLD at $500 per ounce was a conspiracy theory have laughed at my advice, which lost them everything. Those who listened are already set to have an excellent chance of surviving the HARD TIMES that lie ahead.

Next up for GOLD --- $800 per ounce . . .

Will YOU buy some, or continue hoping that your GOOGLE stock stays north of $500 per share?

WHO will have the LAST LAUGH?

He who holds the GOLD . . .

NOTE: Here below is a historical chart showing the growth of the price of gold in the last five-plus years . . .


Again I ask --- How high will the price of GOLD rise before YOU protect your financial future, and the future of your family?


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Gold strikes above 500 dollars for first time since 1987 (November 29, 2005)

Zimbabwe Hyper-Inflation Currently 411 Percent!

With the AmeriKan economy just about dead, the concern of many who are in-the-know is the possibility of runaway hyper-inflation. Below is a letter from within Zimbabwe, which is currently in the throes of an 411% inflation death-grip, which is wreaking serious havoc on the local economy.

Will this type of hyper-inflation rear its' ugly head here in the USA?

In Zimbabwe, the current price is $25,000 for a single loaf of bread!!!

Last week, the Federal Reserve Bank announced that they are suspending regular public reporting of the M3 monetary supply, which is a BAD SIGN of things to come. Why would they want to suspend reporting of the M3 monetary supply? Well, it is quite simple. They have done this to keep SECRET the forthcoming manipulations that will have to be done to keep this evermore wobbly structure from falling apart.

Check out the letter below, and ask yourself is this is the future of the USA staring you in the face?

It appears that it is very much our potential future, here in the USA . . .

Here below, is a chart of what happened in Weimar, Germany in just the year of 1923 alone . . .




Dear Family and Friends,

I was at a small local function this week when a father stepped forward and addressed the gathering about the dire needs of an institutional home for mentally handicapped people. He told of how the institution had always been massively subsidised by farmers and businessmen. Farmers who would just arrive with sacks of vegetables, potatoes, meat and fruit. Businesses which gave bedding, furniture or cash donations to help with plumbing, maintenance and upkeep. In the last six years as the majority of farmers have been forced off their properties and as more and more businesses have closed in our shrinking economy, it has become almost impossible for specialist institutions to keep going.

At the end of his short appeal for help, there was clapping and encouragement from the audience and the man returned to his seat. As he did so the electricity went off in yet another power cut but before the candles had even been found, people were coming forward in the dark. One after another they passed over handfulls of cash and others gave bottles of brandy and vodka to be used as prizes in a raffle. Someone suggested the bottles be auctioned and amid cheering and applause an auctioneer was nominated and the bottles of spirit came under the hammer. There was nothing at all special about these bottles, they were the cheapest locally made spirits with unknown brand names which sell for around a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.The bidding for the first bottle began at a hundred thousand and with much laughter, taunting and insults it rose to two, three, six, eight hundred thousand dollars. "One Bar" shouted the auctioneer, "I have one bar" which is the latest Zimbabwean slang for one million dollars.This became two bars, and then three bars. At last the bidding was done and the sale made.The hammer went down in the candle light, the applause was defeaning and a desperately struggling home for mentally handicapped people was given a small reprieve.

Not long after the impromptu auction, talk turned to the ludicrous situation these days where the banks are short of big denomination notes. In a country with galloping inflation, presently at 411 percent, none of us ever seem to have enough money. A businessman told how he'd been short of 30 million in cash to pay his small work force. The bank said that at such short notice they could only provide it in one thousand dollar notes. Can you imagine drawing 30 million dollars in one thousand dollar notes? Later that night with a large sheet of paper, a calculator and kitchen scale I worked out what this entailed. Thirty thousand bank notes, three thousand paper clips and 30 elastic bands make up thirty million dollars. This large pile of paper weighs a staggering 45 kilograms and when the businessman got to the bank to collect his money, they had to loan him a tin trunk and two security guards to carry it. And what can you buy for thirty million dollars in Zimbabwe this week: twelve hundred loaves of bread or 90 frozen chickens or a drum and a half of petrol on the black market. It has all become very much like living in the land of Alice in Wonderland but the people are still the friendliest, kindest and most generous people in the world.

Until next week,



Love, Cathy


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"I have one bar!" Letters From Cathy Buckle (November 19, 2005)

Where Is The World I Was Promised As A Child?

“Where is the world I was promised as a child?”
--- Stephen Ames


WHERE IS THE WORLD I WAS PROMISED AS A CHILD?
by Kentroversy

When I first saw the above quote, it resonated with me in a big way. The world that I was told to expect when I was in school (elementary, high school, and college: 1967-1982), simply did not exist by the time of my graduation -- if it ever did at all. Since that time nearly twenty-five years ago, things have gone steadily downhill, with all that is good and honest being left behind in favor of all that perpetuates the illusion that things are running just fine.

I cannot stand silent, while the country I love so much is being destroyed from within.

The form of government in the United States is said to be a democracy. However, there is a power elite that behaves in the manner of their being above and beyond all laws, and George W. Bush is just the latest of a long line of traitors that go back more than forty years, when John F. Kennedy was the last elected official that had more than superficial honesty to his name. For his troubles, President Kennedy was shot in the head, while his Secret Service patrol stood down in Dealey Plaza for only two minutes. When the police frequencies were unjammed mere moments after the assassination, the Morse Code for VICTORY could be heard across all police radios, proving it was an inside job.

I have made a sincere effort at trying to educate people about true and provable government crimes, and for my troubles, I have lost friends, enraged family members, and been called a conspiracy theorist and worse. Funny I should be called these things, especially as all of my writings are meticulously researched, and footnotes and source notes are always provided, just as they are at the end of this essay. My concern today is this; that it is simply too late to take back our own government, especially when folks are so obsessed with their own distractions -- and the machine has created so many of these that a person can spend their entire life hopelessly lost in their grips.

Where IS the world I was promised as a child?!?!

Public schools in the United States condition their students instead of teaching them anything real and worthwhile. The conditioning is B.F. Skinner-based behavior modification, and 95% of both the students and their parents do not even realize that anything is amiss. The few times that these schools actually teach something, it is merely the material that will appear on the standardized test at the end of the year. As far as teaching anything that can actually be useful in later life, forget it. The reader is invited to take a look at the writings of past New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto; and former Reagan Education Department administrator Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt for the full details of the covert program to corrupt the minds of America’s school age children. Recommended books by these two authors appear at the end of this essay, in the Source Notes section.

In my lifetime, the percentage of high school seniors that actually graduate has fallen nearly 30% in my own area of the country. For example, in the 1980 Chicago, Illinois public school system, only about half of the 39,500 public school students who were freshmen in that year ended up graduating four years later. Only about 30% of those who did graduate, could read on a 12th grade level. In 1986-1987, only 23.1% of high school graduates in the Rochester, New York school system had Regents Diplomas, just like I did when I graduated. By 1990, this figure had fallen to 17.5%. When I graduated high school twenty-five years ago, I graduated with a Regents diploma, as did most of my senior class. We were told that it would help our chances to make a better impression on the college we were planning to attend. Three years ago in my city of Buffalo, New York USA, the passing grade in city public schools was lowered to 55%.

As Frosty Wooldridge pointed out in his September 19, 2005 article that had been published on Rense.com: “A perfect example occurred in Denver Public Schools this spring. According to the Rocky Mountain News, May 16, 2005, ‘What Happened?’ in 1999, 5,663 students started the eighth grade in Denver. Five years later, only 1,884 graduated from DPS. That's a 70 percent dropout/flunkout rate. Additionally, one in five teachers quits or transfers out of DPS during the nine month school year. Why? Total futility in schools! Why? Over 20,000 illegal alien kids that are functionally illiterate with functionally illiterate parents that can't help their kids. Also, over 40 languages are spoken by all those illegal alien students. Final result? Utter confusion, frustration and failure of education not only for the illegals, but American students!” As Mr. Wooldridge pointed out, part of the reason for the complete failure of the American public school system is the language barrier between American citizens and foreign immigrants.

Nearly all organized religions seek to control the behavior of their adherents, instead of instilling spiritual ascension and personal freedom. Such people are told that they are expected to behave in a very specific manner, while pedophile priests molest little children, thus violating the very essence of the trust that was given to them by these children’s parents. These priests are rarely if ever prosecuted, as they are most often simply moved to another area, where they are left to commit their crimes on new victims. Followers of these religions are told that if they misbehave, they will offend God, who will then unleash untold furies upon the sinner.

However, nothing is spoken of God’s anger toward the pedophile priests, which is a much more serious trespass than is eating pork among those of the Jewish faith, or eating meat on Friday, among those of the Christian faith. Nor have any Catholic diocese bishops told the faithful under their charge that the money they give to the collection plate has been used to pay off hundreds of families and victims of sexual molestation, to insure their remaining quiet about what happened to them as children, or what happened to their own children. Adding even more confusion to the already murky issue of pedophilia, some of those who have been accused of being pedophiles, actually are innocent of this crime, the possibility of this was raised in the riveting documentary by Andrew Jarecki, entitled ‘Capturing The Friedman’s,’ a 2003 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize winner. As a parent myself, this is one aspect of today’s world which I was certainly never told to expect.

The so-called news from the globalist-controlled mass media, conditions their audience, more than it informs them. Perhaps the best example of this is FOX-News, who has become little more than the propaganda arm of the GOP, the Gangsters of Politics, as has been said of their true motivation and behavior. The pitifully disturbing documentary by Robert Greenwald, entitled ‘OutFOXed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,’ has shown through the use of FOX’s own broadcasts and the words of their reporters and talking head news readers, that the evening’s news is more about conditioning thought, than it is about informing anyone of any given day’s events.

The politicians of today are said to be selected not because of their skill or ability to lead and manage complex situations, but because of their ability to keep silent about the bigger, hidden agenda, which has been stated by innumerable authors and researchers as a desire to bring about what the globalists themselves call their ‘New World Order.’ Such politicians must also keep quiet about the crimes in which they participate or witness. They are also selected also based on their ability to be blackmailed, and to be controlled by this blackmailing. Alex Jones of Infowars.com and Prisionplanet.com has reported that one of the purposes of Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County, California is to arrange homosexual trysts for prominent politicians and businessmen, who are then videotaped for future use, should they later prove difficult to control. In exchange for their allegiance to the larger agenda, they are rewarded with success beyond all reasonable expectations, which propels them into the upper echelon, where they become world famous and to most people, a household name.

The conditioning of the AmeriKan mind includes forced belief in many things that are obviously lies to anyone who still possesses a brain that still thinks. The first of these lies is that anyone can become President. Anyone who has royalty in their bloodline, that is. In the 1996 election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, Harold Brooks-Baker, of the preeminent genealogy service Burke’s Peerage, stated that the candidate with the most royal connections in their family, has won every Presidential race in American history!

Of the 43 Presidents thus far, 34 of them have connections all the way back to Charlemagne (742-814), the most famous of all French monarchs. Even though America has been referred to as a melting-pot of immigration, this genetic diversity has not been fairly represented among White House occupants. There have been no Presidents other than wealthy aristocratic white men -- no women, no minorities, and certainly no one from the working middle class. Thus, it must be said that America is governed ONLY by members of an oligarchic aristocracy. Bill Clinton was represented as a so-called ‘common man,’ however, his ties to the Rockefeller family have long been rumored, and he would have to possess that type of familial connection in order to have successfully commandeered the White House for two terms.

According to the Burke’s Peerage website, 26 of the first 42 Presidents are cousins to the seventh degree, at most. 28 of these men are cousins to the sixth or seventh degree at most. George Bush Sr. shares with Franklin Roosevelt, 15 cousins who were President. Gerald Ford and William Taft are related to 14, and Barbara Bush is a member of the Pierce family, and is herself related to Franklin Pierce, our 14th President. 36 of the first 42 Presidential families can be traced back to royalty from England, Scotland, or Wales. In both the 2000 and the 2004 Presidential elections, George W. Bush and both Al Gore and John Kerry are cousins. In addition to being related family members, Bush and Kerry are both members of Yale University’s Skull & Bones occult fraternity. The hidden danger of Skull & Bones is that the oath that is taken when one has been selected to join the cabal, supercedes all subsequent oaths, including the Presidential oath!

Skull & Bones exists to destroy American sovereignty, and its’ members are all traitors to this nation. If the reader cares to read about this fraternal organization, I urge that they check into the book by Antony Sutton, ‘America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones,’ which was published in 1986, and remains in print to this very day. This book contains a complete description of how Skull & Bones has infiltrated the American business establishment and its’ political system, and it makes for some extremely disturbing reading.

So, can anyone become President of the USA? The answer to this is a resounding NO!

The next canard is that AmeriKa is a free country.

This is shoved down our throats beginning when we are young children, and it continues until we die. Patriotism and nationalism enflames advertising and marketing, as well as the mental conditioning that has been carried out through the media. The patriotic genius comedian named Bill Hicks, who sadly died in February 1994, constantly referred to the television as ‘Lucifer’s Dream Box.’ As I am uniquely qualified in the area of psychology, I recognize the mind-control that is broadcast over the airwaves 24/7/365. As Jeff Rense has said many times on his radio show; “the day that you set your children down in front of the television for the first time, is the day they have begun to be taken away from you.” I certainly have no choice but to agree with this frequent statement of Mr. Rense, as nearly everyone I personally know who is a couch-potato habitual TV viewer, has their mind compromised to one degree or another.

We are said to have freedom of speech in this country, but as a point of fact, we do not have anything of the sort. All someone has to do is read or write about the wrong person, and they will have the full force of the disapproval of others upon them. The hate-crimes legislation that the Neo-Nazi-Cons are trying to ram through Congress, is further proof that AmeriKa possesses only the illusion of freedom, and not true freedom in the basic sense of the word. Those behind hate crimes legislation first focus on someone who is despised by larger society, this is how they corral support for these heinous laws. Then, once the law is passed, the definition of what a hate crime is, and who is a hate criminal, suddenly changes. The third and final turn of the screw sees a shift from hate crimes and hate criminals, to ideas with which THEY do not agree.

How long do you think a Jeff Rense, an Alex Jones, or a Jack Blood would last once these laws are successfully passed? Not only are such laws dangerous threats to free expression, they will effectively kill all forms of talk-radio, community-access television, and the Internet blog movement. Truth-telling patriots and the Internet itself have become the target of the globalists, who were observed bitching about this at the most recent Bilderberg Group meeting of May 2005. The Internet is clearly a big threat to them, as it does inform and educate. Yet, those on the Dark Side supply much disinformation and lies on the Internet. But, there is a very easy way to identify such people:

“True patriots DO NOT attack each other. They agree to disagree.”
--- Jeff Rense, November 7, 2005

So, when the reader is at a website such as the fictitious IAmATruePartriot.com, and the so-called patriot behind that website is calling Jeff Rense a CIA operative, or Alex Jones a Mossad spy (just for example), chances are pretty excellent that Mr. True Patriot, based upon his own behavior, may be the true infiltrator.

Another commonly held belief is that there are two political parties in AmeriKa, which may have been true at some point in the past, but isn’t true of today. It is said that we have the Republicans of the conservative right and the Democrats of the liberal left. However, both only serve the purpose of Hegelian dualism, and are different in name only. Both are beholden to monetary interests, and of the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, I can identify only seven honest politicians, who have not allowed themselves to become corrupted by money or criminal activity, which they have either observed or knew about, or in which they participated outright.

There is this discussion about whether AmeriKa is a democracy or a republic, because it has an elected President instead of a monarch. A democracy is little more than mob rule, while a republic sees its’ principles of governing come from a ratified constitution. Some contend that America is an oligarchy, and the Neo-Nazi-Cons are the beneficiaries of a well planned covert coup d’etat. The AmeriKa of today is none of these things.

AmeriKa of today is a kakistocracy, which means government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. I do not believe that anyone who keeps an objective mind honestly believes that the Cheney-Bush regime has the countries’ best interests at heart. From the electronic voting machines without a paper-trail, to the fact that every one of the errors in the last Presidential election being in favor of the Republi-cons only, none of this serves the interests of the larger population. These traitorous scum sacrifice the greater good in order to benefit the corporate interests which only they control, and which receive no-bid contracts, while those without these connections stand on the sidelines, slowly going bankrupt, as they wonder what, if anything, they have done wrong.

No one told me while I was in school that 98% of the entire population remains for their entire life, in the economic level into which they were born, with virtually no chance to become upwardly mobile. This is the real reason why there are such youthful fantasies of becoming the sports star, the movie star, or the rock star. Other than this, there is simply no honest way of achieving monetary success. We are just ants in the globalist ant farm, walking that maze, year after year, until we drop dead.

I have a cousin who married into a wealthy globalist family, a family that has close ties to the Bush Crime Family. When I owned my own business during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I attempted to secure even a small amount of business from them. I did not expect to get that business just because I was related to this man’s wife, and I told him so. I did, however, expect a fair chance to earn their business, as my work was of a fair price, high quality, and always delivered when needed. Beyond that, I had a reputation for being honest, and fair to my clients. If I ever made a mistake on their work, that job and the next was free of charge. Thankfully, I never had to give anyone anything for free, because I made sure it was done correctly the first time.

For my troubles, I was put through a humiliating number of business meetings with my cousin’s husband himself. Finally, I had overheard a conversation he was having with one of his real clients at a Christmas party at their lakeside mansion, where he spoke of how I was his ENTERTAINMENT AND AMUSEMENT, and that I must be a moron, because he had put me through ten or more meetings, and he never gave me a penny of his business. When I asked why, I was yelled at by my cousin, where she told me that I had a lot of nerve trying to cash in on a family connection, and they did not get their money by being nice people. Today, that company has more than one billion dollars a year in sales, and is a conglomerate of twenty-two companies in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

If I had been given a fair chance to prove myself, today, I would be a multimillionaire, with a company that itself could have been among the most successful in my city. If this is what FAMILY will do to me, then is it any wonder why at the end of work one day, I locked the door, and never came back? I was never told to expect this when I was in school, and if I had known then what I know now, I would have picked a different career, such as the research-journalism in which I engage today.

So, where IS the world I was promised as a child?

It simply doesn’t exist, and this is one of the most important life-lessons that we all should be teaching our own children.


© 2007 Kentroversy Tapes
All rights reserved. Used with permission.


Source Notes:

The following sources have been consulted in the writing of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

Burke's Peerage - U.S. Presidents Families Page; November 28, 2002.

Fetzer, James H. – Murder In Dealy Plaza; 2000, pg. 51

Gatto, John Taylor – Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling; 2002.

Gatto, John Taylor – The Underground History of American Education; 2000.

Greenwald, Robert – OutFOXed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (DVD); 2004.

Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson – The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America; 2002, pgs. 78, 218.

Jarecki, Andrew – Capturing The Friedman’s (DVD); 2003

Jones, Alex – Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove (DVD); 2001.

Jones, Alex – The Order of Death (DVD); 2005.

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Wooldridge, Frosty – English Created and Preserves America; Rense.com, September 19, 2005.

Bush Approval At New All-Time Low - Needs SUPER 9/11 Domestic Terror Event

George W. Bush, according to various reports, is having or has already had a nervous breakdown over the increasing opposition to his STOLEN PRESIDENCY. To those of us in the know, this greatly increases the chances of a near-future domestic terror attack, which the White House secretly hopes will prop up his failing administration, which is now rated as the all-time worst, as is Bush now considered by many, including myself, to be the all-time worst President.

THIS is the true legacy of George W. Bush, and it is strong evidence of there being no accidents of fate in this universe. History will treat him as the enemy he truly is, hell-bent on destroying this country, so he can bring about biblical Armageddon and usher in the globalists' precious and greatly desired New World Order.

Bush's ratings are now lower than Nixon's at the height of the Watergate scandal, which ultimately lead to his resignation. Only 36% are behind this President, which is appropriate, given that his Presidency has been built upon a mountain of lies. What is not widely known about Nixon, was that he named his successor Gerald R. Ford solely on the basis that Ford would pardon him once he got into office. This very thing kept Nixon from being prosecuted for HIGH CRIMES AND TREASON against this country, and the nation's citizens.

This matter presents a very real and present danger inasmuch as it greatly increases the potential for a SUPER 9/11, a domestic terror event on an order of magnitude many times greater than the horrendous damage inflicted on 9/11. However, it also appears that such a move will work against Bush and his Neo-Nazi-Con administration, where few will believe this future attack came from outsiders who hate this country.

What type of an attack might be in the final planning stages?

Hurricane Katrina made the Bush cabal look like morons, as they withheld rescue teams and emergency supplies for FIVE FULL DAYS. What made matters worse, were Barbara Bush's comments about the poor in the Houston Astrodome were in a situation that was "working for them." And the poor souls that were locked up in the Houston Astrodome, New Orleans' Superdome, and other similar venues, were locked behind the closed gates for several days with no food, no water, no clean bathrooms, and intolerable and inhumane conditions.

If THIS is the Neo-Nazi-Cons way of HELPING PEOPLE, then clearly, prison would make for a more enticing alternative. At least then, people would get the infamous THREE HOTS AND A COT.


THE LEAKED CONFIDENTIAL GOP MEMO

One of the great things that is happening at the present time, has been the LEAKING of confidential documents by TRUE PATRIOTS who work within the government. We have seen the Downing Street Memos, and various other tidbits throughout the past two years or so. Doug Thompson of Capitol Hill Blue has reported on a recent confidential memo from the GOP, which discusses some of the positive aspects of a near-future domestic terror event.

The memo states that such an event could "restore [Bush's] image as a leader of the American people," and a devastating attack could allow Bush to "unite the country" in a "time of national shock and sorrow." The memo further states that such an event could help the GOP (gangsters of politics) from losing control of Congress in the 2006 mid-term election.

The memo further states that the following scenarios could be helpful to Bush and the Neo-Nazi-Con cabal that controls him:

01) The capture of Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

02) A drastic turnaround in the national economy.

03) A "successful resolution" of the Iraq war (no longer a VICTORY, but merely a "successful resolution.")

According to one insider: "A successful resolution would be us getting out intact and civil war not breaking out until after the midterm elections."

Which of these three scenarios is most likely to happen?

The economy is done, it is toast. So, turnaround at this time is not going to happen. GENERAL MOTORS just got caught lying about their financial condition, which is much more worse than previously thought. 22.5% of all mortgages are now in some stage of default, as millions of Americans are being switched to INTEREST-ONLY paybacks. This means that they will only pay the interest, and never the principal of their outstanding debt, the majority of which, is from home mortgages and credit cards, two instruments of financial slavery.

Success in Iraq? Also not going to happen, as they went there to stay. That was the plan, still is the plan, and pulling out does NOT meet that objective in any way, shape, or form. While Cindy Sheehan is the most vocal critic of this senseless war, it is my feeling that mass public demonstrations will soon take place, and will continue in 2006.

Osama Bin Laden? Well, first of all, Osama is already dead, and has been dead for more than ten years now. He never was present at American Hospital in Dubai in 2000 for kidney dialysis, according to one of my own sources. There is NO WAY that he can be brought in alive, so look for a trumped-up story about a shootout and his death during capture.

Also, the BIn Laden's and the Bush's are friends, business partners, and vacation buddies. With this close cronyism, the fabricated and stage-managed CAPTURE of Osama Bin Laden seems the most likely possibility here. However, I don't think it will create the turnaround the Neo-Nazi-Cons are looking for, and will push down further, Dumbya's approval rating.

Who ARE these 36% of Americans? And, if they truly still support Bush, what is it going to take to get them to wake up to reality?

Finally, high-level GOP operatives are now in-fighting as to the methods needed to turn this Bush 'Residency around, and my feeling is that a new terror event will backfire, and further expose the MALIGNANT LIES that are throwing this administration into decay.


Sources:

The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

GOP Memo Touts New Terror Attack As Way To Reverse Party's Decline - Capitol Hill Blue (November 10, 2005)

Bush Approval Rating Falls To Record Low - Bloomberg.com (November 12, 2005)

Most Americans Doubt Bush's Honesty - AT&T Worldnet Service (November 11, 2005)

Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis - Human Events Online (November 10, 2005)

BYU Professor Thinks Bombs, Not Planes, Toppled WTC

BYU Physics professor Steven E. Jones, believes that "It is quite plausable that explosives were pre-planted in all three WTC buildings." This is in line with what many others have been saying, such as the research staff from FIRE ENGINEERING magazine, and numerous academians have been saying since the very day of 9/11.

Read the following article from the UTAH NEWS website, and see if this article verifies the government's own conspiracy theory of this date, or if the government's story is laid to rest by this article and many others just like it that have appeared on the Internet during the past four years.


BYU Professor Thinks Bombs, Not Planes, Toppled WTC
Thursday, November 10, 2005
UTAH DESERTNEWS.COM
by Elaine Jarvik

The physics of 9/11 — including how fast and symmetrically one of the World Trade Center buildings fell — prove that official explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physics professor.

In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-positioned explosives" in all three buildings at ground zero, says Steven E. Jones.

In a paper posted online Tuesday and accepted for peer-reviewed publication next year, Jones adds his voice to those of previous skeptics, including the authors of the Web site www.wtc7.net, whose research Jones quotes. Jones' article can be found at www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html.

Jones, who conducts research in fusion and solar energy at BYU, is calling for an independent, international scientific investigation "guided not by politicized notions and constraints but rather by observations and calculations.

"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three buildings and set off after the two plane crashes — which were actually a diversion tactic," he writes. "Muslims are (probably) not to blame for bringing down the WTC buildings after all," Jones writes.

As for speculation about who might have planted the explosives, Jones said, "I don't usually go there. There's no point in doing that until we do the scientific investigation."

Previous investigations, including those of FEMA, the 9/11 Commission and NIST (the National Institutes of Standards and Technology), ignore the physics and chemistry of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, to the Twin Towers and the 47-story building known as WTC 7, he says. The official explanation — that fires caused structural damage that caused the buildings to collapse — can't be backed up by either testing or history, he says.

Jones acknowledges that there have been "junk science" conspiracy theories about what happened on 9/11, but "the explosive demolition hypothesis better satisfies tests of repeatability and parsimony and therefore is not 'junk science.' "

In a 9,000-word article that Jones says will be published in the book "The Hidden History of 9/11," by Elsevier, Jones offers these arguments:

• The three buildings collapsed nearly symmetrically, falling down into their footprints, a phenomenon associated with "controlled demolition" — and even then it's very difficult, he says. "Why would terrorists undertake straight-down collapses of WTC-7 and the Towers when 'toppling over' falls would require much less work and would do much more damage in downtown Manhattan?" Jones asks. "And where would they obtain the necessary skills and access to the buildings for a symmetrical implosion anyway? The 'symmetry data' emphasized here, along with other data, provide strong evidence for an 'inside' job."

• No steel-frame building, before or after the WTC buildings, has ever collapsed due to fire. But explosives can effectively sever steel columns, he says.

• WTC 7, which was not hit by hijacked planes, collapsed in 6.6 seconds, just .6 of a second longer than it would take an object dropped from the roof to hit the ground. "Where is the delay that must be expected due to conservation of momentum, one of the foundational laws of physics?" he asks. "That is, as upper-falling floors strike lower floors — and intact steel support columns — the fall must be significantly impeded by the impacted mass. . . . How do the upper floors fall so quickly, then, and still conserve momentum in the collapsing buildings?" The paradox, he says, "is easily resolved by the explosive demolition hypothesis, whereby explosives quickly removed lower-floor material, including steel support columns, and allow near free-fall-speed collapses." These observations were not analyzed by FEMA, NIST nor the 9/11 Commission, he says.

• With non-explosive-caused collapse there would typically be a piling up of shattering concrete. But most of the material in the towers was converted to flour-like powder while the buildings were falling, he says. "How can we understand this strange behavior, without explosives? Remarkable, amazing — and demanding scrutiny since the U.S. government-funded reports failed to analyze this phenomenon."

• Horizontal puffs of smoke, known as squibs, were observed proceeding up the side the building, a phenomenon common when pre-positioned explosives are used to demolish buildings, he says.

• Steel supports were "partly evaporated," but it would require temperatures near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to evaporate steel — and neither office materials nor diesel fuel can generate temperatures that hot. Fires caused by jet fuel from the hijacked planes lasted at most a few minutes, and office material fires would burn out within about 20 minutes in any given location, he says.

• Molten metal found in the debris of the World Trade Center may have been the result of a high-temperature reaction of a commonly used explosive such as thermite, he says. Buildings not felled by explosives "have insufficient directed energy to result in melting of large quantities of metal," Jones says.

• Multiple loud explosions in rapid sequence were reported by numerous observers in and near the towers, and these explosions occurred far below the region where the planes struck, he says.

Jones says he became interested in the physics of the WTC collapse after attending a talk last spring given by a woman who had had a near-death experience. The woman mentioned in passing that "if you think the World Trade Center buildings came down just due to fire, you have a lot of surprises ahead of you," Jones remembers, at which point "everyone around me started applauding."

Following several months of study, he presented his findings at a talk at BYU in September.

Jones says he would like the government to release 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage for "independent scrutiny." He would also like to analyze a small sample of the molten metal found at Ground Zero.

Source:

The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

BYU Professor Thinks Bombs, Not Planes, Toppled WTC (November 10, 2005)

Confessions of a Dissident

The following article is a follow-up to my article GLOBALISTS SEEK TO SANITIZE THE INTERNET (August 11, 2005), and is by a Red Chinese blogger who tells the story of the type of censorship that will shortly come to AmeriKa, where HATE CRIMES LAWS will be used as the pretext to wage full-out censorship on what has become known as INTERNET # 1.

If the reader is unfamiliar with my previous article, please check out the link at the bottom of this article . . .


CONFESSIONS OF A DISSIDENT

WIRED 13.11 - November 2005

I first heard the word blog in 2003, when a Chinese woman using the pseudonym Muzi Mei created an uproar by blogging about her sexual experiences. At the time, few Chinese wrote or read blogs, and fewer recognized their potential. But my interest was awakened. As a Chinese citizen, I realized that blogging could unleash the power of individuals to combat our repressive regime. Predictably, the authorities arrived at the same conclusion, and they have been doing their best to censor us. The government holds more than 40 print journalists in prison, and it's only a matter of time before the first blogger joins them. Perhaps it will be me.

I've been blogging since January, criticizing despotism, corruption, ultranationalism, and the state-run media that disseminates propaganda packaged as news. I have posted more than 150 blog entries, many of them long essays, all of them written in Chinese. China will never be free unless people like me are willing to risk their own freedom.

I experienced problems almost immediately after posting my first entry on Tianyablog, a blog service hosted by a Chinese Web bulletin board called Tianyaclub. That week Zhao Ziyang, who had supported the 1989 demonstrations for democracy, died under house arrest. To express my grief I copied the official Xinhua Agency news piece announcing his death - nothing more. Yet even republishing the bland government-approved report could be construed as an expression of approval for Zhao, a dangerous view. The entry disappeared without a trace.

The authorities have numerous ways to squelch digital dissent. ISPs maintain lists of forbidden words, including the date of the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre June 4 (六四), freedom of speech (言论自由), Falungong (法轮功), former leader Jiang Zemin (江泽民), and Jiang Yanyong (蒋彦永), the doctor who first revealed the SARS crisis in 2003. They use filtering software to block posts containing these words or to replace them with asterisks. Posts that circumvent the filters are deleted, either by ISP employees or by the government's own Net police. Earlier this year, the authorities announced that all domestic Web sites operating without explicit government approval - including some 600,000 blogs - must register or face being blocked and shut down. More than 75 percent have complied so far. Many of those who resist have their pages hosted abroad on TypePad or Blogger. Still, the authorities often block their domain names and IP addresses, so people outside China can read their work but people inside can't.

For every advance in censorship, bloggers find a way around it. We replace banned words with Chinese characters that sound the same when spoken but have a different meaning when written, or we transliterate them into Roman characters. Recently I came up with another technique: After the authorities blocked one of my entries, I reposted it with the characters aligned vertically instead of horizontally. The filter couldn't recognize the words, but anyone reading them could.

Mainly we just keep moving our blogs. We take advantage of proxy servers, and as soon as the government shuts one down, we move to another. And we use the international Adopt a Blog program: Bloggers with spare server capacity tag an entry "adoptablog" or "adoptachineseblog" so Chinese people looking for a foreign host can find one through Technorati or del.icio.us.

My own cat-and-mouse game with the government is never-ending. Soon after my initial tribute to Zhao Ziyang disappeared, I moved to TypePad. At the end of June, however, the authorities blocked all TypePad blogs, regardless of content. Even after they relaxed the ban, they continued to block my page. So I switched to WordPress, an open source blogging platform. That gave me total control over my archive of posts, making it easier to move from server to server. I went to Weblogs.us, but got shut down there. Then I tried the virtual hosting service GoDaddy.com, but got swatted again. Then Budget CMS - same thing. Finally I realized that my domain name itself, wozy.net, was blocked. Recently I registered a new domain. That's working so far, but I don't know how long it will last.

Not long ago, I posted a comment to CNBlog.org, a well-known group blog that promotes Chinese blog culture: "Even if my blog is censored 100 times, I will write it for the 101st." I will never give up.

- Wozy Yin, as told to Adam L. Penenberg

Source:

The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

Wired.com - Confessions of a Dissident (November 2005, pgs. 122-124.

Globalists Seek To Sanitize Internet (August 11, 2005)


globalists

sanitize Internet

PNAC

Project For A New American Century

censorship

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