No more sheep's clothing: Missouri Fusion Center calls right 'terrorists'

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1109096.html?pageNum=2&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container

Debacle.

If you hadn't heard (which wouldn't be a stretch because news like this goes underneath the radar), everyone from larger online and print media outlets (e.g. 'Drudge') to blogs picked up a story about the Missouri Fusion Center writing a report which recklessly associated libertarians with terrorists. This would include a major candidate like Ron Paul, and so if you decided to vote "None of the Above" in the previous election because you thought Candidate A and Candidate B were equally unpalatable, well, this would put you in the category of a militia-man or terrorist.

See the report for yourself: http://documents.scribd.com/docs/1xduds3zv8npsq67kt0c.pdf

Some of the most notorious indicators to watch for:
- Christian identity
- Anti-immigration

From what I read, the governor of Missouri distanced himself from the report.

Patrick Wood of The August Review wrote: “For unsuspecting law enforcement personnel, this MIAC training document polarizes unsuspecting [law enforcement] officers to fear peaceful, law-abiding citizens and greatly increases the risk of armed confrontation. For instance, a routine traffic stop would be escalated if the officer observes a Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin bumper sticker on the rear bumper of the car. The mere possession of printed material such as the US Constitution or Bill of Rights would be viewed as subversive, even though most officers are required to take an oath to ‘defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States’ as a condition of their employment.”

Missouri state Representative Jim Guest reportedly said he was "shocked and outraged" at the MIAC report, which Wood stated implies “paints him and many other elected state leaders, as a potential threats to law enforcement… Instead of focusing on actual criminal incidents of ‘home-grown’ terrorism, the MAIC report instead lists issues that it believes are common to the threats it perceives.”

Do some second-level analysis: Consider what's fresh from the stove on CNN and Newsweek right now: The "Meltdown of Rush etc. ad nauseam." The Orwellian 'Fairness Doctrine'. How long before an official calls Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage a terrorist? With anti-conservative sway in full motion, I am very curious as to what will be done to top this travesty now that editorializing is sanctioned as intelligence.

This report had an extensive liberal bias. As radio/t.v. host Glenn Beck says regarding a new grassroots 9/12 he popularizes http://www.the912project.com/: "Let's stop arguing about the Republicans and the Democrats. Let's stop tearing George Bush apart or putting him on a pedestal. Let's stop doing the same thing to Barack Obama. Let's talk about the principles that built this nation. Let's talk about the principles that when they're rediscovered and applied every day by individuals in this country, we will then know who to vote for and who to give our power to in Washington because we'll know and they'll know."

Cloudbusting by Kate Bush

Step outside yourself

How it feels... to be kissed?
... to be up in the middle of the night?
... to eat a spicy bowl of chili?
... to watch a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits marathon?
... to take charge of this post and all government property within view?

Circumlocution

Article: 'Normalizing Key to Political Correctness' by William Lind

Friends,


This is one of the most important and controversial articles you will ever read on Grey Complex. The precis: William Lind writes about the chilling modern practice of 'normalization' of radical behavior. Alarmingly, one of the milieu most unenlightening w.r.t. freedom of thought is said to be the college campus. Lind examines P.C.'dom's philosophic roots and offers a solution in the "conscious intellect." No matter how on/off the mark it may be, it's worth reading.


Excerpt:


As students on any politically correct campus know, this is no longer how it works. What he gets instead is personal vilification, threats, and sometimes charges before some college kangaroo court, all accompanied by a howling chorus of whatever PC "victims" group he has dared "offend." Political Correctness itself is subject to no rational examination or critique; it must be accepted as a given, like the facts that the earth is flat and the moon is made of green cheese.
How then does political correctness advance itself in an academic setting, if it will not engage in rational discourse? The answer is, through psychological conditioning.


https://web.archive.org/web/20021226093405/http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/1998/november_1998_3.html

BURGERBURGER

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Quote of the day from a friend: A sentry's supervisor greets a big-wig with a friendly, "What's up, Sir?" Sir replies, "I don't know, I guess that would be all relative. Would you like me to provide a definition of 'up' for you?"

What a stuffed shirt.

'Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun' by Walt Whitman

GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard;
Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows;
Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape;
Give me fresh corn and wheat--give me serene-moving animals, teaching content;
Give me nights perfectly quiet, as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars;
...

The Wall?

Quote of the day

According to my horoscope today (Pisces), "Today is about building your emotional core strength. If you take what other people say too seriously, it will throw you off balance. Listen for the validity in every comment, but stay centered on what you know is right."

I think that's good advice. I'm not entirely superstitious, but isn't it funny how people have a knack for telling you something important at the right time you need to hear it? What gives you away?

I was on vacation last weekend and a guy pulled up to the brew haus driving the sweetest little VW bus I'd ever seen. Even though I was about to boogey on back home, I'm into classic cars and I just had to stop and look. It was red and creme colored, polished beautifully, and even had real wooden fenders. There were U.S.M.C. and some Vietnam stickers on the windows [I've read up quite a bit on the men of Vietnam lately] and a consummately loyal looking dog inside. Without question, the bus was a real head-turner. I had to share my appreciation with him. We saw her "undergarments," which were also perfectly polished. He seemed to be very happy to show her off. I complimented the couple again and we walked away, he to the bar, and I to a relatively empty airport.

You may recall that lately I've hit some rough patches. Well, walking away and seemingly for no reason this wizened vet told me, "You do the best you can and that's all you can do." Having an idea of what he has been through, that lightened my load that day. Hopefully I do the same for someone soon.

ONTOLOGY

Engage robot brain

Maybe I felt like I was just 'going through the motions' that day.

Treasure Box

Quote of the day

I'll keep my guns, money and freedom.

You can keep your change.

Article: The Year the Media Died

I used to admire journalists as champions of truth.

It would be nice if one day, we would collectively wake up and come to our senses what propaganda-pushers the American media have become. I don't think my understanding of journalism is naive; journalists are supposed to be objective and support a free society by being truthful. However, there are limits to objectivity; first, we are all human, the sum of our own experiences, and therefore fallible and subjectively-minded. Second, it's o.k. to cheer for the home team. It's o.k. to be civic-minded. We're on the good guys' side, for crissake. See this 2002 story by Dave Gilson:

Excerpt:
...[After Sept. 11th,] KOMU in Columbia, Missouri, bucked the trend when less than a week after the tragedy. The station decreed that its staff would be prohibited from wearing flag pins or ribbons on the air.

KOMU said the no-flag rule was meant to ensure its journalistic neutrality and "to deliver the news as free from outside influences as possible." But critics immediately accused it of stifling free expression and snubbing the national mood of patriotic unity. Beth Malicki, an evening news anchor at KOMU, received e-mails calling her a terrorist and a murderer. "Suddenly, I was thrust in the middle of a patriotic war," she says. "My suit jacket was the battleground."

WTF??!?! So somehow people at KOMU thought that by showing solidarity with their country in a time of national crisis with a simple flag pin, they ran the risk of a departure from objectivity? This cowardice and warped world-view defies comprehension.

Today, some seek to swing the balance of objectivity further left beyond the point of no return with an idea Orwell could hardly have conceived -- the 'fairness doctrine'-- an aged idea whose return is owed to liberal phonies like Pelosi who would like to completely squelch conservative outlets by dictating equal time. (See http://www.imprimis.org/, search for 'Fairness Doctrine.') That is the height of irony. The mass media with the most exposure, the t.v. media suffers no such scrutiny. Fortunately, awareness is growing against the scourge of those who seek to shackle journalistic integrity through publications like Whistleblower.

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76890

I've often said that no group in America is more responsible for making evil look good and good look evil than the news media," said Kupelian. "This issue of Whistleblower documents something truly astounding – the death of the Old Media before our very eyes, and the rapid growth of the New. In my view, it's the single most positive trend in America today. Without a truly free press, it's really hard to have a free country,"said WND Managing Editor and author David Kupelian.

Something deep and intuitive told me to get away from journalism, I'm glad it did. I chose to do something more constructive. In 2008, the pendulum swung far to the left, as journalists such as Chris Matthews championed socialist-leaning policymakers and openly praised them on television. Trashing Palin and gushing sugar for Obama, it was an incestuous lovefest and despite this, no retort from the station owners, no demand for impartiality from politicians, just business as usual.

Hipster bingo

Too funny.

Look out, happenin' hepcats!

I like 'Grandpa' (over 30 hipster).

Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Great essay by author Dave Droar conceived around the existential decision the protagonist Neo faced in the Matrix movies:

http://www.arrod.co.uk/essays/matrix.php

Excerpt:

The central character of the film, Neo, is presented to us in the opening part of the film as a loner who is searching for a mysterious character called Morpheus (named after the Greek god of dreams and sleep). He is also trying to discover the answer to the question "What is the Matrix?"
Morpheus contacts Neo just as the machines (posing as sinister 'agents') are trying to keep Neo from finding out any more. When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "what is the Matrix?" (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo, "Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

Tour of Duty

Check out this great fan-site on the phenomenal Vietnam War t.v. series, 'Tour of Duty.'

http://www.page-creations.net/todmain.html

"The series was best appreciated not only for its illustration of the tragedies of the war but also for its portrayal of the personal lives of the individual platoon members and their interaction with each other," according to the site's commentary.  Music - phenomenal. the music, for what it was in the 1980s, is full of layered synth, pan flute (think how half the Karate Kid soundtrack came off), evoking many moods extremely well.  Pay attention to it. 


 I really loved the platoon sergeant "Zeke" and the lieutenant, love the nickname "L.T."  Unfortunately, season two brought waaaayyy too much romance between L.T. and some nurse babe, but at least other dimensions in human relationships were acknowledged.  Vietnam is such a painful moment of our living history.  God bless all the veterans.

One more note on Tour of Duty -
I'm not into war shows, nor war movies, with the exception of documentaries or things like the Dirty Dozen.  They're just too depressing.  I can't really get all these kids out there that like the ultra-realistic shoot 'em up games.  Now it's fine and dandy if they want to go enlist, but know what you're getting into, for all that is holy.  I'll find the clip art one day, there's a classic one, of a scene from the game Call of Duty captioned, "The U.S. Army:  Like Call of Duty, except you can really die."