PROOF! Saddam Had Weapons of Mass Destruction

Yes, that's right, I can incontrovertibly prove that Saddam Hussein not only possessed weapons of mass destruction, but that he consistently ordered and was aware of their use against the Iranians during the 1980-88 Iran/Iraq war, and that he routinely used these weapons of mass destruction in plain view of the international community. Saddam Hussein had rocket propelled grenades. I don't understand why the international community even bothers asking questions about mobile bioweapons labs that never materialized; the real danger was in Saddam passing along RPGs to Al-Qaeda.

Now, I don't know why the US government has suddenly decided to classify RPGs as weapons of mass destruction, but the very classification itself strikes me as a deliberate attempt by the Washington Establishment to dilute the English language, obfuscate history for future generations, and disgrace the memories of the brave men and women in uniform who died in a misguided pursuit to eliminate Saddam's supposed arsenal of unconventional weapons, ie. biological and chemical.

The Al-Nusra fighters in Syria are indeed Sunni terrorists; they are after all a natural response to the Shia militias that Petraus and his counterinsurgency expert Steele unleashed upon Sunni insurgents following the fall of Saddam. Mr. Eric Harroun, a former American soldier, decided to go out of his way to join Al-Nusra in Syria, posing in many pictures. As he went out of his way, it was his responsibility to investigate who he was rendering services to and as a result must pay the price, but for the Obama justice department to accuse Mr. Harroun of “conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction” only serves to perpetuate Bush-era policies in an even more nefarious way.

The American people were lied to; plain and simple. We were told that Saddam needed to be eliminated for possessing unconventional weapons. Would the American people have consented to the invasion of Iraq if we'd been told that Saddam was thinking of giving out RPGs to terrorists? By the very same definition, we are guilty of arming countless paramilitary groups and death squads from Nicaragua to Cambodia with weapons of mass destruction.

We armed the Taliban with weapons of mass destruction before they were the Taliban – when Osama was our Soviet-hating comrade. And speaking of Taliban, does anyone remember the big bad wolf from the early years of the war on terror, the American Taliban John Lindh? Well, he was convicted – in a civilian court, not Guantanamo – of “aiding the Taliban” and of “carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony.” Had John Lindh been convicted under this administration, he likely would have been charged with carrying a weapon of mass destruction in support of a terrorist group.

Using a weapon of mass destruction is a crime for any US national. If tomorrow the Dominican government starts putting Haitians in concentration camps and I decide to go and kick some ass with an RPG, the US government could go after me for using weapons of mass destruction.

The Dominican Dream

Recent data revealed that of the world's people, Dominicans are some of the most willing to relocate to the United States. If tomorrow the DR became part of the United States, more than ¼ of the adults would pack up and leave for Washington Heights. Most want to leave simply for economic reasons. I don't think I've heard of one single Dominican who moved to the US because of freedom or humanist reasons. The Dominican dream for many is the blind embrace of the American capitalist dream, often unfettered. So blinded are many by that economic pursuit, that they are willing to risk their lives.

In the Bronx, I was well acquainted with an individual who risked his life to fulfill his American dream. Unlike Cubans, Dominicans are not immediately granted residence permits if they reach US soil. Not only that, the voyage from Cuba to Florida is direct, whereas Dominicans have to traverse shark-infested waters to reach Puerto Rico, merely a layover destination for Nueva Yol, as many Dominicans refer to the United States.

My friend in the Bronx – let's call him Juan – was only 17 years old when he finally got fed up with school and decided to borrow money from a local bookie so he could book a yola to Puerto Rico. A yola is a essentially a hand-constructed boat used by smugglers to ferry people across the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico.

Juan paid 500 dollars, a bargain since the person who ferried him was relatively new and inexperienced in the game of crossing the Mona Passage; many experienced sailors charge as much as 2,000 dollars. Those 500 dollars were the biggest sum of money he'd ever seen, and he haggled with the yolero to let him keep 20 of those 500 dollars.

Along with a rag-tag bunch of strangers, the wooden, leaky boat took them across the strait for what felt like days. As a kid, I remember people telling me stories about yola trips and I saw it almost in the same light that I saw a trip across the Atlantic. And hell, the conquistadors who sailed on their way to plunder the Dominican probably did so under safer conditions, and with sturdier boats. A yola is tiny and completely exposed to the elements. Menstruating women have been rumored to get thrown overboard for fear that their blood may attract a shark that tips over the boat and devours everyone.

But Juan wasn't afraid of storms, or sharks, or getting stranded and resorting to cannibalism. He'd left his parents asleep in his childhood home – a brightly-painted wooden shack with a zinc roof. The house had been built 40 years earlier by Juan's grandfather, and was the only thing the family had inherited. He left the house in the middle of the night, and in a way also said goodbye to the termites eating away at the wood, and to the pieces of gum patching the leaky roof. If Juan was afraid of one thing, it was the termites. He had nightmares every night where a hurricane would come and wash away his life, but the termites eating his body is what frightened him most. He preferred to be devoured by sharks. There's no logic to fearing what happens to your body after death, but to him a shark was much more noble and Christian than termites after a hurricane.

“One gets used to seeing death and complete loss at every turn,” he tells me. And it was perhaps with that fatalist mentality that he saw that ride across the shark-infested Mona strait as just another night under a leaky roof.

It's hard to predict how many have died crossing the Mona strait, but sometimes it feels as if every Dominican I've encountered knows of someone who has died. Dying in the Mona Passage is in the Dominican consciousness almost a failed entry exam, as if the American hand of destiny decided to turn you back from her embrace.

“I didn't dream of dying crushed in my house that night, instead I dreamt of waking up in Nueva Yol. Nueva Yol was heaven, and Puerto Rico was purgatory,” he said.

Juan arrived in Puerto Rico with those 20 dollars. Everyone landed on a deserted beach and made a split in all directions. He had a dry change of clothes in a plastic bag, and the 20 dollars took him to a part of San Juan he'd heard of where there was a Dominican colony. The very next day, he'd already met someone willing to spot him a gram of white.

“I didn't even want to buy food, I just wanted to sell gram by gram, day by day so I could fly up to Nueva Yol.”

He slept on a park bench the first week, and then met a girl who enjoyed his product and didn't ask for a rent deposit or ID. Through her, me met some guys who dabbled in the identities of the dead, and soon Juan was reborn as a resurrected Puerto Rican man. Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth, so back in the 1990s a library card could have probably gotten you on a plane to the US. You could still be questioned by customs, and if you didn't sound Puerto Rican or got nervous, that could be the end of your Dominican dream. But Juan picked up the Puerto Rican slang and accent rather quickly, and was even choking on his Rs like a true Boricua, as Puerto Ricans charismatically call themselves.

So, there he was in NY, ready to take over the city. He landed on his feet, already having made connections back on the island. Pretty soon he was driving fly cars and his moms had a house, but in less than a year he got busted by the cops with 30k in his car and ended up serving 5 in the slammer. He had nothing stashed away, and being a Puerto Rican, he can never expect to get a passport that would secure his return to the Dominican. To the US legal system he is but a Puerto Rican felon. He can't leave and will probably never see his hometown or family again.

“I miss them everyday, but I can't go back without getting into even bigger trouble.”

Today he works an honest job in a supermarket and makes slightly above minimum wage.

Set Up by the USA

When you live next to the biggest US army base in Korea, you eventually get to meet a lot of soldiers. Some of them have been to Iraq/Afghanistan, and others worked right alongside the CIA. So you often get drunk and share stories. Many I have forgotten, but others I wish I could forget.

I presume that it would be rather impossible to find out where exactly my friend – let's call him Corporal America – was, since he was on a need-to-know basis and never really went out of his way to know. So, Corporal America is special forces, which means he's part of JSOC. It's a well known fact that the CIA has been trying to bring JSOC under its absolute control for quite some time now. That basically means that Corporal America was something more of a CIA subcontractor than he was an enlisted US soldier. This is not relevant to the story, but maybe it will make the troops seem more honorable since the raid was an article 50 operation, and thus under CIA control.

Corporal America has told me the story three times, and each time it has been different. I brought up the subject once when he was sober, but he refused to talk about it. In fact, he insisted that I never bring it up again because, “it brought back some fucking bad demons.”

It took some insistence before he allowed me to even tell part of this story. However, he refused to relate the details of what happened that fateful day in Afghanistan. My story is but a reconstruction of his three drunk re-tellings and my own sober recollection. However, it must be written for it was that day that I lost what little faith I still had in the myth of American justice.

We were smoking Jamaican cigars on some roof in Haebangchon when Corporal America and I looked over at the trucks by gate three. The vehicles are painted in jungle camo, which we felt would be completely useless if used in Seoul. But the trucks are painted in a green that reminded me of the Korean war.

The Korean war memorial is at the opposite end of the trucks, just slightly out of view. I visited once and was particularly struck to find two dead Abreus chiseled into the indoor memorial wall. It struck me because in an earlier time, I could have been one of those dead Abreus. And perhaps one of those dead Abreus could have been Corporal America; just a man doing a difficult job that he maybe didn't really want to do and couldn't really quit. And for some reason looking at the trucks while Corporal America told me the story reminded me of those dead Abreus.

One day Corporal America was doing a raid on a house and he got to charge into a room first. In all versions of the story he panics because he saw a remote control near the bed where one of two unarmed, naked men on their knees had their hands in the air. He yells to the guys to stand still, and he says that they did but that maybe he thought he saw one them reaching for the remote, so he popped two in the chest and one in the head. The other Afghani remains motionless and completely quiet as he starts crying. Somehow what feels like minutes pass and he declares the room cleared, or someone else declares the room cleared. He doesn't remember moving, nor does he remember the other Afghani guy moving, but then he sees an officer standing between him and the naked, motionless Afghani. He still had his weapon up, and that's when he lowered it, when he saw his commanding officer.

He heard someone say “we fucked up, it's the wrong house!” but he was still in shock and couldn't really process the scene. The officer exchanged some words with the naked Afghani. Then he saw someone else pull a gun and bust the head of the motionless, naked man. He fell right next to his comrade.

Corporal America shouted: “What did he say!?”

The officer looked at him and told him: “Just look at it this way, two unrelated males in one house makes it easier for us to say they were terrorists.”

A suicide vest magically appeared in the house, and the killings were more than justified. Everyone got a pat on the back for taking out an Al-Qaeda safe house.

Nation Attacked by Crips; President 50 Cent Safe in Undisclosed Bunker

Yesterday in the early evening, gangbangers in the Bronx opened fire on 4 different police precincts. About 20 Crips with AK-47s unleashed approximately 1,000 rounds in just a matter of frightening, orchestrated minutes. Almost simultaneously, 20 Crips in DC took part in similar drive-bys targeting the Capitol building and the White House. The 10 Crips who shot up the Capitol building were the only gangbanging combatants killed in the attacks; the rest managed to drive away. In total, over 40 people were killed and 80 injured in the attacks. DC Police, secret service agents, by-standers, and two members of the House of Representatives were among the wounded and killed. The government has refused to disclose full details of the attacks and has also delayed releasing information of the dead and injured under national security grounds.

President 50, who has been in office for less than a year, issued brief statements this morning from an undisclosed bunker: “Many men wish death upon us. Niggas tried to take me out, too! And you know what!? The Bible says, 'what goes around, comes around.' I didn't get hit this time, but I've been hit nine times and this diss feels like getting hit nine times eleven times.”

An emotionally moved nation tuned in to the president's speech, where he promised to drive the fight to the enemy and put the heat up on every motherfucker menacing the 'hood. The president's moving speech greatly overshadowed last night's emergency session of Congress following the early evening attacks. With many members of Congress casually glancing at blood on the floor and bullet holes in the walls and windows, legislation targeting automatic weapons passed with complete bipartisan support.

Congress also passed legislation making it easier for the FBI to issue national security letters – effectively silencing anyone asked to hand over information on suspected gangbanging combatants. Further legislation also facilitates the deployment of drones on gangbanging hotspots.

President 50 Cent told the American people in his speech that he believes the legislation congress passed at his behest “will make sure that them motherfuckers don't dare come and start shit up again.” The House of Representatives passed the legislation 533-0, and the Senate passed the legislation with no abstentions and with only one dissenting voice from Senator Rand Paul, who in a lengthy diatribe said: “If I'm working on my car and happen to wear a blue bandanna to protect my hair, does that mean that the FBI can spy on me with a drone for suspicion of Crip affiliation? If I go to a coffee shop for my birthday and all my friends are wearing blue – my favorite color – does that mean that the CIA can classify us as gangbanging combatants and take us out with a Hellfire missile? Does President 50 believe that he has the authority to take someone out if they write some rhymes repping the wrong crew? Would the president have deployed drones on Niggas with Attitude for writing 'fuck da police?'”

Senator Paul's opposition to the emergency legislation gained him some attention on Twitter, to which Senator John McCain responded angrily: “We're a Judeo-Christian nation and our duty is to prevent these attacks from happening again. I think that Senator Paul is detached from reality and is doing the American people a disservice; he's just entertaining libertarian college kids with gangbanging inclinations.”

President 50 made no mention of the squabble over the new legislation and his first order of business in the morning was to sign an executive order authorizing DHS VIPR battalions to indefinitely detain anyone wearing Crip or associated colors until the end of gangbanging hostilities. DHS secretary Dennis Rodman has taken direct command of an MRAP in the Bronx and promises swift justice.

Europe 2015: Separatist Rebellion

First Iraq collapsed. The Iraqi Shiites, embroiled in a bloody sectarian war against their Sunni neighbors, align themselves with the Iranian Ayatollahs featuring Hezbollah and their Syrian Alawites. The collapse of Iraq fractured the peace between Turkey and the Kurds, plunging Turkey into a bloody war against the Kurds. The Sunni and Shiite civil war exacerbates involvement by Iran on the side of the Shiites. The US, and by extension NATO, begin waging increasingly covert attacks against Shiite/Alawite interests in Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Saudi Arabia will continue to fuel Sunni fighters to Syria and Iraq, and possibly Iran. Turkey, forming part of NATO, is vilified by the Iranians, thus causing the Kurds to look for weapons and Iranian support.

The destabilization of Turkey further brings down the Greek and Cypriot economies. Some European states refuse to take part in NATO's affairs; especially the Greeks and Cypriots, considering their tense history with Turkey. Catalunya manages to secede from Spain, thus leading to more states withdrawing from NATO.

By 2015, European Union troops find themselves engaged in combat all along the perimeters of the increasingly militaristic union. A more powerful treaty – one dwarfing the Treaty of Lisbon – empowers the European parliament and president with emergency powers. The presidential emergency powers effectively erode national sovereignty, creating a European-wide superstate where nations cede power in order to overcome crisis.

Separatists groups increasingly see the European Union as a totalitarian oppressive government and further plunge the remaining Eurozone countries into turmoil and strife. Using the power of the internet, the separatist states wage sophisticated and coordinated strikes that further force the European Union to deploy drones across the continent. The lives of many millions are uprooted.

The Power of Rumor

Right now, I could use graphic design software to create a concept product, and with the power of the internet, cause some company in some corner of the world to produce it. How could I go about this? Attribute it to a certain corporation and convince enough of its fanbase, its fanboys, to believe that it is a real product to be released at an undetermined date. If your concept is convincing enough, pressure from the competition is enough to materialize the product into reality.

I exchanged some anonymous emails with an anonymous designer and internet personality. From his emails, I was able to ascertain that he saw himself as some sort of hacker. “I'm making shit come alive by breaking into people's minds.”

Of course, Koopmink assures me that he has never been an Apple employee, but that he is bringing the iWatch into the public consciousness. “Now another company is going to work on it just cause they can't risk falling behind Apple,” he said. Whether he actually was the first to spread the rumor of some sort of Apple watch, I am not sure. Truly, who can say for certain that they are responsible for something on the internet?

Most products never leave the concept stage, he admits, but that doesn't stop him from imagining product after product. Koopmink doesn't seem to have a job. He doesn't get paid for any of the fake products he produces, but the satisfaction of knowing that he's secretly behind a popular product is enough payment for him. He sees himself as some sort of a Banksy, a graffitti artist of the internet.

In fact, Koopmink often ventures into highways to “edit” highway signs and advertisements. He assures me that anyone who has driven around enough has seen his work. He used to work for an advertising company and often vandalized his own work. I am not sure, but he basically implied that they asked him to leave quietly instead of firing him.

Koopmink has high hopes for 3D printing. “Once I can bring out my concepts in real life, I'll go beyond just design and release fake pictures of seemingly real-looking products,” he promised.

Like Banksy, I believe that Koopmink will eventually cross into the public consciousness. It's only a question of time until someone realizes the connection between him and his rumor-mill. Like Banksy, I expect him to somehow begin profiting from his rumors and attributed works.

Argument with a Dutch friend on Cyprus

It was typical Monday morning: I was in a coffeeshop reading the news while outraged at some distant injustice. On Monday, I was angry at the European Union for forcing small depositors in Cyprus to contribute to a bailout. I expected my friend to be outraged with me, to show some sympathy with my anger, but she started parroting some of those German ideas about how Northern European countries are shouldering all the corrupt, lazy Southerners and Russian money-launderers.

And true, the North can make many legitimate complaints about the South, but there seems to be a prevailing notion in the Netherlands and Germany that their bankers were completely innocent in this global financial crisis. Beyond the contempt at German politicking during this electoral year, I have started to sense a punish-all attitude that may tear the European Union apart.

Simply put, it was wrong of faceless bureaucrats to ask for money from private depositors; and small ones too, to greater outrage. As I sat in the coffeeshop, Petra asked me: “You seem so concerned, it's almost as if you have money in Cyprus.”

I don't, but many economists have already come out talking about how the European Union has now informed the world – and especially depositors in troubled Eurozone economies – that deposits are not wholly inviolable, something which could in a future crisis spark panic and bank runs. But it didn't matter to Petra, she insisted that it was time the Southerners started taking their own finances into account.

It's been a few days, and Petra has now changed her mind. She's seen how this has affected and will affect many innocent depositors. Whereas before she criticized “Russian money launderers,” she now admitted that it's best to let “99 guilty man go free, than for an innocent one to languish.” Clearly this has been a PR failure for the EU.

I told her: “Well, it's not like you've changed politics somehow. You and I once had an argument about squatters and I remember you had very strong opinions on the subject. You called it, 'getting something for nothing.'”

I had once told Petra that I wanted to squat some rich guy's unused home. I wasn't serious, but I wanted to see how she reacted. She almost came short of publicly denouncing me as a communist and ending our friendship. I cited common law, and how ownership was not something absolutely guaranteed by law. “There should be no people without homes, no homes without people; especially if it's a rich guy's abandoned apartment,” I argued until we eventually agreed to disagree on the right for someone to squat under certain conditions.

In the squatting and banking arguments I began to notice a massive ideological rift in Europe. There is an increasingly socialist class in the south of Europe that rejects modern banking, while an industrial, capitalist North will go to any length in order to preserve the status quo.

Prelude to World War III

Alright, class, it's been nearly two centuries since the Third World War ended. Not many records survived in the West, but the North Koreans had dug enough museum-bunkers dedicated to the great eternal president Kim Il-Sung and to the eternal marshal Kim Jong-Eun to give us a clear picture of the prelude to World War Three. Today we are going to learn how ambassador Dennis Rodman tried to prevent war between the Red Axis and the North American Union. 

The North Koreans did an amazing job of preserving pictures and providing an impartial account of how events unfolded before the war. According to North Korean records, the leadership often received many powerful and respected dignitaries from the West who paid tribute to the country's power, but at the same time often had dual intentions. After two years of negotiations, the North finally accepted to meet with ambassador Dennis Rodman, who was sent personally by commander-in-chief Obama. 

Like many great Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Jesse Ventura, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodman had proved his genius in many areas; especially diplomacy, but also basketball. Only one picture has survived of the encounter between the eternal marshal Kim Jong-Eun and ambassador Dennis Rodman, and no records are left of what the two discussed, but historians do know that they oversaw a basketball game between their two superpowers. Basketball was the gladiatorial combat of the time, and was often enjoyed by feasting on slaughtered pigs and other extinct animals. 

The North believed that the basketball game was to be cordial; and it ended in a tie, proving that North Korea's 20 million citizens were capable of single-handedly holding their own against the powerful North American Union's 600 million citizens and subjects. Historians know that ambassador Rodman and eternal marshal Kim Jong-Eun were satisfied with the draw, but in line with the pre-emptive nuclear attack on Japan, the American commander in chief wanted absolute victory over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

Ambassador Rodamn, having seen the power of the North, and knowing that the North wanted peace, plead to his commander in chief, but to no avail. He risked execution by asking for peace, just before Obama decided to send South Korean mercenaries to invade the North. The eternal marshal had no choice but to retaliate with nuclear weapons. 

This only surviving picture is also important because we can also learn how leaders and subjects of the time dressed. Rodman wore a black USA cap, which was the official headwear of ambassadors at the time. We can also see circular pieces of metal around the face and ears of Rodman. We believe that these served to show wealth, ability to resist pain, and political devotion. We also believe that many American leaders of the time wore such metal decorations on their faces. 

We can also see that Rodman is forced to use an optic enhancement device. We are not certain, but historians believe that his eyesight was damaged while he commanded military legions in Afghanistan for commander in chief Bush, to whom Rodman proved his genius.

We can also see that ambassador Rodman is wearing a suit, which was the political uniform of the time. Behind him his bodyguard and food taster is seen wearing red commoner's wear in order to appear a civilian. No such class lines existed in the North -- which was a socialist paradise -- and the leaders lived and dressed the same as the people.

The Giant Shakeup

A lot of news stories hit with power this week. There is a new pope, NK has ratcheted up its saber-rattling, Cyprus is in the middle of a bank run, and Obama is preparing to visit Israel. 

 

Cyprus has decided to ease its economic problems by taking money out of depositor accounts, thereby causing people to dry up ATMs and vainly attempt to transfer by wire in panic. It is not clear how much panic this will ultimately cause, or if it will spread to other Eurozone countries. This was a decision which will ultimately affect trust in European banks. I certainly wouldn't keep money in a Greek, Italian, or Spanish bank knowing that the EU would be willing to agree to such a bailout plan. The medication in this case includes side effects of mistrust of banks in other European countries; probably worse than the cure.

 

Hopefully there is no panic in Europe when Biden arrives in Italy for the coronation of the new Ayatollah of the Vatican. While Obama entertains the mullahs in the Knesset, both the vice-president and commander-in-chief may be out of the country. In the event of an attack to coincide with Biden and Obama entertaining zealots, there will be no one to issue a timely response. In the same way that Obama was unreachable during the 9/11 attack in Lybia, so may happen again. 

Though most Americans are unaware, the United States is on the verge of absolute anarchy and collapse. The fear of a domestic terrorist attack has never been higher -- not since Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma. Unlike the 1990s, however, today's right-wing militia extremist is wired and disseminating his message to a global audience. For several months, I have been hearing chatter in conspiracy channels of the possibility that the government will set off an attack using a nuclear dirty bomb.

One of the problems of the internet is that there is someone predicting all sorts of horrible things. Eventually, someone is going to make the right prediction of doom, and convince enough people that there is evidence of government “foreknowledge.”

So, even if Al-Qaeda were to successfully set off an attack while Obama and Biden are abroad, the general consensus in many right-wing militia circles will be that it was a false-flag attack by the Federal government in order to justify elimination of the 2nd amendment. The US has not been this polarized by internal mistrust since 1860.

If another major terrorist attack does come during this president's term, the ensuing government and counter-government response may be far worse than the attack itself. In times of war, in times of hysteria, the need for evidence is lost: prejudices often show true.

America is in such a precarious state that one man, one Timothy McVeigh, could set off a chain of events not too dissimilar from the series of events that followed the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand and led to years of trench warfare, chemical and gas attacks, and which also lay the groundwork for the rise of Hitler. 2014 promises to be not too dissimilar from 1914. America has too many too many McVeighs and too many archdukes.

The Butcher of Antwerp

I'm a vegan and while driving into Antwerp, I casually asked my girlfriend: "So, what does our Flemish friend do?"

She replied: "He's a Kosher butcher."

"Holy shit!" I thought to myself. This promised to be my first time hanging out with a butcher.

 

I remained blank, wondering if I'd be able to relate to this guy on any level. Hell, I figured that his whole daily existence went against everything I believed. Not only that, this guy was Kosher, so I figured he spent his days putting a knife to a throat without bothering to use a stun gun for the sake of... ancient beliefs?

 

"Is that alright?" my girlfriend asked.

"Yea, of course. It's legal and it's a job," I replied, but for one of the first times in my life, my open-mindedness and unwillingness to confront someone was coming into question.

''If this butcher friend of my girlfriend starts asking me why I'm vegan, he's gonna hear it from me," I thought to myself. "I won't start it, but I'll sure finish it!"

 

It's not often that I'm ready to fight someone I've never met, especially when fully sober. But, thinking of my new Flemish friend wiping blood from his knife after slicing the throat of Kosher cow after Kosher cow, I had some flashback to Iraq, er, I mean Korea. I used to live next to US army Yongsan garrison and thus had an entire gang of friends who'd been in combat in 'Raq and 'Stan (people say 'Nam, so I've decided to say 'Raq and 'Stan.)

 

But of course, I never asked any of my army buddies if they'd killed or even shot anyone when fighting in 'Raq or 'Stan; I'm a polite American who "supports the troops," despite opposing the Washington bureaucrats. Hell, many of my friends joined the army because of "patriotism," and in my mind that sorta made their actions in 'Raq and 'Stan more noble, even if the intentions of the men who led them there were anything but noble. 

 

Some other friends, however, joined for money, or to expedite citizenship, or to provide for their families. In some weird way, I related to them when they told me: "You may not like where you are, but that's where you are, and you have a job to do." I hated my job as a teacher and wasn't quite sure why I'd chosen it either. I knew what it was like to end up somewhere random doing something totally unexpected. 

 

So, I first needed to know why this Flemish guy joined the Kosher Butcherial Forces. We arrived at his apartment in the middle of the Hasidic district, and entered his art dungeon. The dude was pretty cool and kinda broke the tension after he offered me beer. He was an artist, but art doesn't always pay the bills, so he had a part-time. In reality, hanging out with him was as casual as any of my better friends. Hell, I have vegan friends that I find so difficult to relate to, that having a beer together would be more confusing than it would be time consuming.

 

"So, what do you do?" I asked, not feigning much concern for the response but in reality waiting in anticipation.

"I work in a Kosher butchershop," he said.

"Wow, must be hard work to deal with all those screaming animals," I said, maybe pushing a button, but in reality just trying to see how ''hard'' he considered his job to be.

"Oh, I don't kill the animals, I just work in the store where they package and sell them," he replied.

 

The images in my mind of a maniac with a knife were allayed, but I felt bad in having pre-judged this guy more than my friends who casually told me the first time we were getting to know each other that they fought in 'Raq or 'Stan. I expected my Flemish friend to live in a different version of reality, but it was I who traveled through different versions of reality. In some realities it is noble to kill men, and in most it's normal to kill animals, but in many it's wrong to smoke cannabis.

 

And so, I realized that we were all victims of a warped reality.

Encouter with an Amsterdam Coke Dealer

''So, you're different from most of the other guys," I told him.

"Why's that?" he asked me with a smile, his gold tooth illuminating the whole train wagon.

''Because you approach people in the train, during broad daylight,'' I said.

 

I'd just gotten off the train from Germany, and was still rocking a swollen cheek (I fell into a fist), a Munich hat, and a half empty beer glass. Yes, I was still carrying around a glass that I forgot to return to a tent, but that's not important; I screamed tourist! And that's what he was looking for, someone that didn't look like a cop, that looked instead like a fun-loving guy.

 

So, I walked around Centraal Station after arriving from Germany and went to the platform that would take me to my place just outside of Amsterdam. I barely even noticed the guy next to me as I waited for the train to arrive. He was typical Dutch: blond hair, blue eyes, 6'4'', and well dressed. He motioned my way and said, "I like your hat."

 

I noticed his gold tooth, and it immediately changed my perception of him. All those Hollywood movies brought back images of a guy  saying in Ebonics, "hey mamacita, how's it going!?" But since we were in Holland where everyone is nice, I said, "Why, thank you." Overall, he had a bright, radiant smile that just screamed goofiness and innocence, so I didn't really mind him approaching me out of the blue and chatting up. At first it seemed like he was the one interviewing me, trying to make sure that I wasn't a cop.

 

''So, where you from?'' he asked. I prefer to identify myself exclusively as Dominican when in a sketchy situation. I've come to learn by now that people immediately want to take you for a ride when they think you're just an SVA -- a Stupid Visiting America.

 

"I'm Dominican," I said with a smile, just as soon as my newfound friend started busting out Spanish. The dude was extremely intelligent. In the process of telling me how he picked up Spanish, I learned that he was fluent in 6 languages. I only live 10 minutes away from Centraal Station, so our conversation would be brief, and I wanted to make the most of it.

 

We discussed current events, and he seemed to be more knowledgeable than most of the people I knew at Yale. A typical Amsterdam guy was talking to me about American legislation that most Americans would probably never even know exist. As soon as I told him I was a writer, he asked me to write a book about him. I said of course. And then he said: "I sell things for the nose."

 

I couldn't stop laughing. This guy had chatted me up on the train, just to tell me that he was "selling things for the nose." In a way, though, I realized that this guy was intelligent and charming enough to be a CEO. And hell, if he didn't have a gold tooth, maybe I wouldn't have trusted him to be an actual nose thing seller. In the world of ''decent'' people, his gold tooth makes him an outsider, but in his line of business, it's tantamount to a badge.

 

''I can't imagine you spend your days working the train," I told him.

"Nah, I can come to your house, I mostly do that. I'm just expanding at the moment. 3 or 4 more regulars, and I'm out of the trains. A few more months after that, and I give my business to a friend," he told me. I got the distinct impression that by ''friend'' he meant a guy working under him. By now he's probably shielded and behind some guys. Hell, if he's smart, he's probably removed his badge and gone undercover.

 

"This is your stop," he said. I started getting ready to get off the train just before I asked him: "So, how you get into this?"

He told me that his father did it and sorta just nodded confused. And there everything stood explained: he was just enjoying a game his father enjoyed.

Korean Weapon of Doom

In the 1970s, South Korea discovered a series of infiltration tunnels that had the potential to move up to 30,000 North Korean soldiers an hour. These tunnels have not all been detected, and in the event of engagement between the Koreas, the North will move people and unleash them in densely populated civilian areas in order to nullify the South's air force and heavy, modern armor. In essence, the North will bring guerrilla warfare to the South's own cities.

South Korean forces will find themselves fighting brutal street battles instead of engaging in conventional warfare. Though the North will get blanketed by the combined American/ROK air force and thus destroyed from above, the South will get destroyed from below. North Korea does not have the capacity to deploy a nuclear bomb from a rocket with guaranteed efficiency, but they can most certainly deliver one through a tunnel, potentially unleashing deadly, radioactive earthquakes in South Korea.

Even if Kim Jong-Eun only has one nuclear bomb capable of destroying a Southern city, the South may very well capitulate and try to reach the negotiation table, lest a second city be casually destroyed. The North has trained for one single purpose: to cause a maximum amount of South Korean casualties, and they will be successful. To ''win'' a war, the North only has to cause destruction and survive until its opponents ask for a ceasefire; its own losses are irrelevant.

Kim Jong-Eun is gambling on the South negotiating if one of their cities is destroyed, but only time will tell if the South will seek the unconditional surrender of the North, regardless of how many South Koreans die. The people in Korea right now are as nonchalant as they were in 2010 when the North bombed a Southern island, but the situation is different this time. The North finds itself isolated in a world where its enemies increasingly play by fewer rules and where technology continues rendering them more obsolete. If they don't break the current status quo, their ability to intimidate and blackmail the South will be reduced with each new technological development. The fight must be now or never for the North; this is the end of the road for them.

America 2014: Gays' Rebellion

The most important issue of our time will soon be decided not by elected officials, but by appointed judges in America's highest court. If the Supreme Court rules against gay marriage, it will deal a blow to America's competitive edge against our liberal allies. Countries no longer choose coveted immigrants; talented immigrants choose countries, and the gay wealth and genius is better off in today's Europe than in America.

 

Beyond dealing a blow to America's competitive edge in attracting and retaining certain individuals, there's also the damage to the American mythos of equality and liberty that is espoused around the world to promote our interests. At stake is also America's ability to morally tax citizens. As Americans are legally required to pay taxes regardless of where in the world they may live, gay Americans escaping a hostile tax environment at home may be faced with the prospect of paying taxes to a backwards homeland even while living in a gay-friendly country. There is a possibility that some case may arise in the future where a court in a progressive democracy rules as persecution attempts by the US government to tax gay individuals abroad. Imagine if the widowed American partner of a Swedish citizen were required to pay taxes on the Swedish partner's estate; such is the tyranny of American law as is currently written.

 

A Supreme Court decision that perpetuates the status quo won't have any immediate repercussions, as things won't change much from the way they currently are at the moment. However, you can be sure that our leaders in powers are preparing for an escalation in social tension should the Supreme Court decide that gay marriage has come to America. Indeed, many of America's most conservative elements will see it as a declaration war against them by "liberal activist judges." There will be many municipalities and possibly states that will resist or try to curtail gay rights, forcing Obama to declare a state of insurrection and assume emergency powers. Homeland Security will be deployed in full force to expend the billion plus rounds of ammunition that they've acquired over the past year.

 

There is a possibility that gay marriage will arrive peacefully, but a violent rebellion against the federal government is more likely. There has been an 800% increase in militia activity since Obama's election, and a post-gay America will see a further increase in right-wing militias and lone wolf extremism. Though gay marriage will be the catalyst that ignites the American powder keg, it will be in the eyes of many rebels simply one item in the long list of attacks against their traditions and beliefs. And indeed, many will have valid complaints and concerns about government power and state rights, but it will be drowned out by the noise of gay marriage. Nations around the world managed to end slavery without descending into bloody civil war, and likewise many have succeeded gay-wise where the US looks likely to fail.

 

The NDAA act gave Obama the power to indefinitely detain US citizens, perhaps in preparation for a brutal repeat of the 1860s. As with Lincoln and confederate forces, history has decided that Obama be given great power and responsibility to deal with "associated forces". The Constitution will be cancelled until the "end of hostilities," and if hostilities end during this generation or the next, then perhaps the Constitution may be revived. America may not survive, but considering what Obama inherited from Bush, it's best that we go fighting for a righteous cause of equality rather than doubts concerning 9/11 and fear of  rag-tag Islamic terrorists.

The Islamic Domino

I understand the military mind rather well. You embox yourself so much so within a system that eventually all the pieces, no matter how remote from one another, seem inextricably linked and totally dependent upon the other. Perhaps the military structure can be easily described as the false belief that one item that is like the other and next to the other, will always be affected by the other. 

Reality, oftentimes, is not a neatly organized row of dominoes waiting to all collapse one after the other. However, reality can often be militaristic; and militarism is a neatly organized chain of blood waiting to collapse in unison. It is precisely that militaristic, all-causational view of life that has been behind America's history of military engagements. 

We all learned about the domino theory of communism as it pertained to the Vietnam war. We were taught in school that the reason why the US was so afraid of communist domination in Vietnam was because everyone feared that if one South East Asian country fell to communism, then the others would follow along. 

In the end, millions suffered, and the Pentagon's paranoid justification for military adventurism was all but forgiven and forgotten by the American people. And it is because of that amnesia that we have now replaced the word "communism" with "Al-Qaeda'' in our political and military thought. 

Eric Holder, the nation's top lawyer, now describes Al-Qaeda as a ''franchise'' that, like McDonald's, threatens to usurp the typical American soup for its own bitter idea of what is good. And sure, you could argue that McDonald's doesn't want to shove soup down our throats, but considering how the American media is always quick to highlight the presence of the Golden Arches in a newly "liberated" land as a sign or progress and freedom, we could argue that Al-Qaeda is the new communism: seeking to deprive their populations of the freedom to enjoy American franchises. There's still no Coca-Cola in North Korea, and if Al-Qaeda has its way, the whole Islamic world will be the same. Like one after the other, the Islamic nations of the world will be incapable of asserting their love for America's franchises, forcing us to send our military to help them.

We can already begin to predict what school books will teach kids in 50 years: ''The war on terror was fought because everyone feared that Al-Qaeda would set up franchises in every country.''

Combat on American Soil

The nation's honorable top lawyer, Eric Holder, has provided a written answer to senator Rand Paul's question about the government's ability to kill US citizens using drones. Eric Holder now says that the government does not have the power to take out Americans "not engaged in combat on American soil." However, the definition of the word combat has not been made public.

 

I'm not quite sure what the current administration defines as ''combat,'' but Obama's bombing of Lybia was in the administration's non-congressionally-challenged words merely "counterterrorism activity." Likewise, the definition of the word combat will be lost in the definition of "imminence."

 

Consider how the people taken out in Yemen were simply going about their day, not actually carrying a rifle or building a bomb to take out US interests. The fact that the drone targets could be willing to attack in the future was enough for them to get wiped off the face of Yemen. Without a doubt, we have changed the definition of the word ''imminence'' and ''war,'' and will most certainly redefine the word "combat."

 

However, the fact alone that the executive branch thinks it can take out Americans not engaged in combat outside of American soil should be reason enough to worry that China and Russia will have precedent to in the future use drones on their dissidents and defectors. Though, at the rate things are going, soon the US itself may have dissidents and defectors.

 

Let's consider if Obama had been in charge on 9/11 and been faced with the prospect of shooting down a plane. The technology of death -- a missile -- is the same as the one that would be equipped on a drone. Obama would have been able to, on 9/11, shoot down the plane that was headed for the Pentagon, even while knowing that there were innocent Americans on board.

 

However, should the president be able to take out a hijacked bus that is packed with a bomb and headed to crash into a nuclear power plant? Then the question of imminence comes into effect. Your life and right to trial may come down to how capable the local authorities are at stopping the bus, or assuring the president and public that they can stop the bus. The point is, Eric Holder's simple response of "no" is not enough. The American people have a right to know when their government thinks it can kill any of them.

 

After Rand Paul's filibuster, senator McCain criticized him for scaring Americans into thinking that their government could harm them. Though, the Founding Fathers warned that governments do just that: they usurp power and harm the interests of the majority. And Americans should be scared! Tomorrow we could have a very panicked president Joe Biden struggling to keep a traumatized nation together.

 

 

 

 

Battle for the Republic

And if the American empire should last for 1,000 years, then they will look back, not knowing exactly when it transitioned from republic to empire, and remember one senator who spoke out. Rand Paul is the main senator sticking to his constitutional principles and demanding that the Obama administration undo the imperial presidency.

I've been in situations where I've had to speak for 13 continuous hours, and can confirm personally how difficult it is. Rand Paul is, besides Senator Cruz, the only man earning his money during this time of austerity sequester. Paul is fighting not just to prevent the nomination of Brennan to CIA chief, but also to prevent Obama and any future president from killing in America. The highest lawyer in the land, attorney general Eric Holder, has just made it clear: Obama believes he can use drones on Americans inside of the US. 

The Guardian has just recently revealed how involved Petraeus was in that whole Iraq torture scene a few years back. Should we forget that Obama promoted Petraeus to be his CIA chief? Brennan, our next CIA chief, is essentially in the same loop as the rest of the imperial gang. An agency that hasn't been held accountable for its mistakes and history of torture also wants the power to kill without judge, jury, or trial; and we are supposed to just accept it? We're not just supposed to accept it, we're supposed to be outraged instead at extramarital fornication.

The whole Petraeus scandal a few months back only proves that in America, you get a pat on the back or you get promoted for torturing, but if you have a little unchristian sex, you get shamed and fired. The country has its priorities right. Of course, if I were Obama and knew that the Guardian was investigating the Iraq war logs released by Bradley Manning -- and how they led to his CIA chief Petraeus -- I would most certainly get rid of him. But undoubtedly, the sex scandal was the real reason Petraeus was forced to resign. To believe otherwise would be a ridiculous conspiracy theory. If you believe that Petraeus resigned for anything but an extramarital affair, you are a crazy conspiracy theorist!

A Game of Conspiracies

What a powerful word, the word conspiracy. It was Tony's lawyer in the Sopranos that said, "you put three guys in a room and that's a conspiracy." And true to his words, Americans everyday are prosecuted for conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to defraud, and so on.. Hell, if you find yourself in the same vicinity as someone affiliated with Al-Qaeda -- let alone the same room -- you are likely to get taken out by a Hellfire missile; even if you are a government negotiator. So, for an American prosecutor, the ability to allege a conspiracy is very straightforward and simple.

However, something interesting happens when it is not a prosecutor, an agent of the state, that is alleging a conspiracy against a civilian, but rather a civilian alleging a conspiracy against government agents; it becomes a "conspiracy theory." For some reason, this carries a largely negative connotation in the English language. Like the phrase "alien abduction," the phrase ''conspiracy theory'' carries those elements that make us nervous and roll our eyes. But this is not the case everywhere outside of America.

If I were, for example, sitting around a table full of Dominicans and alleged that the Dominican military was working with the Haitian military to bring drugs into the country, the people around would most likely inquire further. Even if someone were to say that my allegation was a "teoria conspirativa," it would have little meaning to the Dominicans around the table.

If I were sitting around a table full of Americans and said, "the CIA is bringing crack into the inner city," most would choose not to further inquire, and if someone at the table said, "that's a conspiracy theory!" then it would be an instant indication that it's best to change the subject.

So, I asked a random Dutch woman with whom I have no romantic involvement, "when you hear the word complottheorie, what is the first thing that comes to mind?"

She answered: "I'm always suspicious of people who believe complottheories, but I guess it depends on the topic."

I asked her: "if I tell you that the government carried out 9/11 and offered you evidence to back up that assertion, would that be a complottheorie?"

She answered, ''yes.''

I continued: "what if I allege that the government killed JFK and offered evidence to back that assertion, would that be the same as the assertion about 9/11?"

She answered: "yes."

I continued: "What if I allege that the government came into contact with aliens and offered evidence to back up that assertion, would that be the same as the assertion about 9/11 and JFK?"

She answered: "no."

I asked: "why?"

She replied: ''because to me aliens are less believable."

I asked: "so, it basically comes to how believable the assertion is?''

She answered: "yes."

Now, this randomly selected Dutch woman has what I would describe as "mainstream" theories -- as they are propagated in the media. In the mainstream world, "conspiracy theories" are all lumped together and then sorted based on how believable it is to the listener. But to me this seems not only unscientific, but also problematic. In fact, I believe that there should be a new phrase: "prosecutorial theory."

Does an assertion about aliens involved a known crime for which there should be a prosecutor and an accused?

No!

Does the assertion that Bin Laden did not fully carry out 9/11 involve a known crime for which there should be a prosecutor and an accused?

Of course!

Now, it doesn't take learning many different languages to notice that culture and language greatly trains us to react emotionally to certain phrases and words. The emotions we associate with certain words and phrases affects our ability to ask questions and demand answers.

While at Yale, I was the only person I knew willing to publicly ask questions and demand answers. In private, engineering and architecture students agreed with me regarding 9/11. In public, the possibility that they could be branded as modern day blasphemers, as conspiracy theorists, was too risky for their careers, and they didn't speak publicly or ask questions. The fear of a label is not going to stop me from forcing the government speak the truth about 9/11.

Many people are skeptical and want another investigation. They want someone to be prosecuted and accused. To summarize my argument, 9/11 was a crime and there has been no proper prosecutor accusing someone in a manner that is consistent with democratic transparency.

Thomas Kean, the head of the 9/11 commission, the man who himself said he was stonewalled by the CIA, is in my opinion nothing resembling an investigator or prosecutor. In fact, my entire reason for leaving and fearing returning to the land of the free can be encapsulated in this short video.

Yes, we don't know if anyone died there, so there's no reason to investigate. It's like finding two buses and a minibus at the bottom of a ravine and neglecting to mention the minibus because no one died in the vehicle. I wouldn't hire this guy to be the prosecutor in a traffic case, much less the biggest crime in American history. No one died in that building -- to the best of our knowledge -- because the steel was shipped off to China before getting properly analyzed. Yet, people don't want to talk about 9/11 because to do so would be something that in America scares and is referred to as a "conspiracy theory."

The Enemy's Most Powerful Weapon

New ideas and beliefs are dangerous because they can undo the order of things and unseat the current establishment. As an outside observer, I have seen a rise in the number of Americans who believe anti-government theories, and who see the US government as an adversary. One of the reasons why many Americans are absolutely convinced of the evil of the United States is because of 9/11. Whether you or I believe that the government itself carried out 9/11 is irrelevant. What is scary is the number of armed Americans who believe just that and increasingly call for blood and revolution. 

From an outside point of view, there is a large segment of the American population unsure not just about their financial situation, but also the possibility of an armed confrontation against the government in the event of a worsening economic scenario, which is itself increasingly likely. Anyone who has taken basic military strategy knows that defeating an enemy is as much a physical act as a psychological act. To defeat your enemy, you must make him lose trust in the very institutions that are supposed to support him.

America's enemies are using conspiracy theories against her. Press TV, the official Iranian news agency, recently reported on the murder-suicide of Phillip Marshall, the author of The Big Bamboozle, a book that accuses the US government and the Saudis of complicity in 9/11. A large number of Iranians believe that 9/11 was a false flag attack, and when an individual with a white face and a credible title appears on TV telling them that the US government killed a man and his family for writing a book alleging something that many of them suspect, it only reinforces what they already believe.

The individuals in control of the Iranian regime are pretty smart, and they recognize the power of the mystery surrounding 9/11, and they know that they have to exploit it. Should the Iranian regime begin to assassinate within Israel and the US, it might be in their best interest to assassinate 9/11 truth activists, as this would promote uncertainty and fear. 

I'm not exactly sure what happened to Phillip Marshall, but it seems that the Iranians are benefiting. We live in a time of conspiracy, of uncertainty. We can only hope that the Iranians don't retaliate for the assassination of their scientists with politically-motivated assassinations in the US and Israel. 

According to one of my sources within ICE, the Department of Homeland Security has evidence to indicate that there is a large Mexican cartel directly under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. For now, it hasn't been revealed which cartel, but DHS fears that this cartel will carry out hits in the US once Iran goes nuclear and feels more secure in its own borders. 

My source revealed little, but he mentioned that the top three guys in the cartel are Mexican-Iranian double-agents; their followers are completely unaware that they are anything but pure Mexican ex-military. The average cartel foot soldier would never even dream that he works for anyone but Mexican elements. 

These three Iranian double-agents have succeeded in developing a nation-wide trafficking and assassination network without having ever even set foot within the United States. The trafficking allegedly provides money for the Revolutionary Guard, and the assassination network serves obvious enforcement efforts as well as future political efforts. A war with Iran will not be easy; beyond Hezbollah and Syria, Iran has Latin American proxies.

To be fully honest, however, I can't say whether my source is feeding me the truth, or the DHS version of how Marshall was killed. There is a real possibility that Iran could control a cartel near the border; after all it would be a strategically powerful weapon to have a destabilizing capability near your enemy. I can say with certainty that there is an attempt to hide the truth regarding Marshall's death.

My White Picket Fence

The American dream as it was sold to us involved a big cubic structure largely composed of wood with a white picket fence for a perimeter indicator. Inside of these cubic habitation modules, reaffirmation in success required a large metal vehicle reliant on fossil fuels for propulsion. If you had those things and perhaps a few more, then you had reached the American dream and you could be happy. And indeed, it seems that such a lifestyle was in the past not only normal, but also seemingly moral. 

However, if the 21st century has shown us anything, it is that a fossil fuel-reliant, resource-gobbling economic model is ultimately unsustainable. To survive in the 21st century, America needs to move to a new economic model, one where the country's mass appetite for fossil fuels is tempered with self-sustaining homes, renewable energy, and electric-hybrid vehicles that will allow the global economy to disassociate from tyrannical regimes currently in control of dwindling energy resources. Those resources will continue to dwindle, as the world imitates the Western model.

The world wants to emulate Americans, but we are only 5% of the population yet 25% of the energy consumers. The problem with everyone wanting a white picket fence in the suburbs is that the Chinese and Indians also want the same. The Chinese middle-class alone is larger than the population of the United States. It is only natural for people to want what makes them and their families comfortable, even if to the detriment of the common good.

Detriment to the common good is the result of blindness, and it is leading the world to an ecological apocalypse at the hands of a massive resource war. The answer to our current economic problems is not a patching of the current economy, but rather a rebooting of our entire economic model. There are more slaves alive today than were alive during the American civil war, and they make many of the products that are produced in the blind corners of the world. There will eventually be a war over slavery; it is inevitable. It will not be between countrymen, however, but rather the developing signatories of free trade agreements. The world cannot survive half slave, half consumer. 

It remains to be seen whether the developed economies of the world will eventually become energy independent and largely import independent due to 3-D printing technology, but these are the two technological developments that can most prevent massive resource wars in the 21st century. Even vast, renewable energy levels and on-demand printing of objects will not be enough to temper the appetite for precious metals and the invisible elements that drive our high-tech consumer goods. The war for precious metals promises to wreak havoc in Africa as China and America tear it apart in their quest to establish spheres of influence. I can't foresee a replacement for metals, so swords and bullets will be made for many more decades to come.

The Legal Illusion

Of what use is the law if it is only an illusion? I sometimes wish I were living in an illusion, for it would make the absurdity of America's laws all the more easy to swallow. It seems, however, that believing the illusion is easier on the heart: you don't have to stress about unpleasant truths. 

We used to be told that we had a Constitution, that we were entitled to certain protections. The Constitution goes short of saying that God gave men certain rights that cannot be taken by other men. One of those rights is the rights to be safe in your possessions, or to be allowed the privilege of your name being read out in a kangaroo court. There is increasingly more limited access to these kangaroo courts, unfortunately. You see, if you go to the border, you lose your constitutional rights, and the government can confiscate your belongings or rummage through your computer at-will. 

This is somewhat reasonable, and most governments around the world do it in one way or another, but the tyrants in Congress have decided to extend the definition of the word "border" to include nearly two-thirds of the United States. Today, there are close to 200 million Americans living within 100 miles of the border, the distance at which your rights become arbitrary privileges under control of Homeland Security.

According to a source, a national event of significant magnitude will trigger plans declaring the 100 mile Constitution-free zone into a virtual police state. The technology has already been developed and extensively tested on Muslims, who most certainly have put up a harder fight than can be expected of any American population.

Let's look at the story of the Brossart family in North Dakota-- who lived within 100 miles of the border -- and ran into some good ole' trouble with the sheriff because of 6 cows, and eventually were all apprehended using a Predator drone. Yes, the alleged theft of six cows escalated into a Predator drone and a SWAT team. DHS has gotten so many requests for drones, that soon they will start a billing system of sorts. Homeland Security has also recently purchased 2,700 MRAPs, the tank-like vehicles used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It seems that the pipes have been laid, and soon the steam of tyranny will violently make its way around America. We can in the future expect more drones and DHS checkpoints along America's massive "border." In some good news, the state of New Jersey is by federal law considered in its totality what it rightfully is: a border town.

America 2015: Homeland Security Fugitive

Homeland Security has today released a picture of Michael Viter, the insurgent who escaped last week's raid in Austin, Texas. The police found Al-Qaeda material in Viter's home, but did not specify what type of material they seized. However, it most likely pertains to drone evasion, especially considering Viter's dramatic escape in the middle of a fire fight.

"He's most likely wearing clothing lined with specialized shielding, which has made him extremely difficult to detect from the sky. I guess were are gonna have to rely on dogs and good ole' fashioned police work," said DHS Chief Snader.

When asked how the insurgents in Viter's compound were identified, Chief Snader said, "at the moment that remains classified, but it's pretty obvious to me from the Al-Qaeda material we found and from Mr. Viter's willingness and capacity to evade the law, that he constitutes a threat to public safety, and that he has prepared to be a public threat for as long as we search for him."

 

When pressed for details on the relationship between the individuals in the compound, Chief Snader stated that he was not authorized to diclose whether the insurgents were or were not of close kin affiliation. "I think the very question itself is irrelevant. What's relevant here is the safety of the American people," he added.

 

Police also found 3-D printer files for high-capacity ammunition clips in Viter's hard drives. "It's pretty clear that Viter was willing to produce felony contraband to aid him in his terrorist enterprise," further added Snader.

 

Homeland Security is offering a reward to anyone who provides information leading to the capture or targeted killing of Michael Viter.