Abused By Illusions

UNDERNEWS: INSIDE A BUSH GULAG ON THE MISSISSIPPI

A very interesting read from Sam over at Undernews. Is it just me or do things here in the good ol' US of A get more sad everyday? Read this and let me know what you think?

Meet Deborah Davis. She's a 50 year-old mother of four who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her kids are all grown-up: her middle son is a soldier fighting in Iraq. She leads an ordinary, middle class life. You probably never would have heard of Deb Davis if it weren't for her belief in the U.S. Constitution.


This is not America. When honest, law-abiding citizens can't commute to work on a city bus without a demand for their 'papers', something is very, very wrong.

One morning in late September 2005, Deb was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.

On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country where we must show "papers" whenever a cop demands them.

Read the full story and get further information on why requiring people to produce papers doesn't make us any safer at Papersplease.org.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Public Comment Period Closes
December 12, 2005

Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children. But the EPA's newly proposed rule, misleadingly titled "Protections for Subjects in Human Research," puts industry profits ahead of children's welfare. The rule allows for government and industry scientists to treat children as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments in the following situations:

Children who "cannot be reasonably consulted," such as those that are mentally handicapped or orphaned newborns may be tested on. With permission from the institution or guardian in charge of the individual, the child may be exposed to chemicals for the sake of research.
Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who have been neglected or abused.
Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable.

Read the full story at the Organic Consumers Association.

It is stories like this that further the gut feeling I have had for a long time. We have become a sick, twisted, demented society thats darkness now far exceeds anything that even the most evil regimes ever dreamt up. Where the Nazis had there odd Goebbles, Mengle, and Hitler we have vast bureaucracies inside government and the coporate world that carry out the same functions only a million fold. Where the old evil regimes had only a single political party with a vested interest in seeing them succeed this modern manifestation of coporatism/facism has the entire body politic with a vested interest in seeing them succeed.

Before you go and shout that you are not numbered among those I speak of do some quick research. If you own stock see what those companies in which you invest really do in order to make the return that you demand on your money. If you don't own stock how about a retirement fund of some sort? Do you know what companies that this money is invested in? If not call up the company that manages the fund and find out just what those companies do in order to assure a high enough yield so that you will have the money you expect for retirement. The scareiest part of modern evil in my opinion is that most of us do not realize that it is not a case of an evil them but in fact is an unintended evil us. The positive part of all of this is that there is something we can do about all of this. We can do the research on where our money goes and make an informed decision to divest from such companies and thereby opt out of evil which such organizations sow.

Is it just me or is everything the good old government of the US of A does these days in the name of helping here at home just smoke and mirrors? Read this story here.

This is an interesting and chilling read on what Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, says may be in store for us come the next large terrorist attacks. Read NorthJersey.com coverage of a talk he gave Sunday, November 13, 2005 here.

UNDERNEWS: LACK OF CURIOSITY AMONG STUDENTS AS WORK BECOMES MORE SPECIALIZED

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.

His paper that has been submitted for scientific peer review can be read here.

UNDERNEWS: TEENAGERS' DETACHMENT FROM SELF

The members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. Plan to secede from the U.S. gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state.
2 Nov 2005

Read the rest of the story at Artic Beacon!