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Freedoms under fire!

Over the weekend, over 73,000 blogs were shut down by the empire’s police state without any warnings. These blogs were hosted on bloggetry, which uses a Wordpress platform. By shutting down the server, the empire effectively shout down the blogs themselves. The service was suspended at the request of an ‘unnamed’ law enforcement agency (how nice). The refusal of the law enforcement agency to name itself is not a good sign. When officers refuse to identify themselves, it is not a good sign, much less for the whole agency to do so. It was a common practice during the riots at Wayne State University for police officers to cover up their name badges when doing riot duty. The covering up of the names was not by accident. Such actions are intentional. Even the alleged wrong doing has not been identified other than a ‘history of abuse’. Some sources claim that the crackdown was for copyright violations, but this has not been confirmed. What has been confirmed is that other blogs are being monitored for their content and activities.


Is it any wonder that the same thing happened in China over the weekend as well
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The action represents the latest crackdown on freedoms, especially freedom of the press by this regime.

(A head’s up-The regime has begun using the term ‘Freedom of Worship’ rather than ‘Freedom of Religion’. The change occurred after the terror attack at Fort Hood. This change in wording also represents a change in the thinking of the regime in its attitude regarding religion and religious practices. Under freedom of religion, you can preach in the open and exercise your faith in public. Under freedom of worship, you can worship God anyway you want within the context of the worship service).

Liberty for Texas and the South,

J Murrah

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Challenges of the Information Age

The head of the regime spoke at a recent college graduation. In his message, he bemoaned the information age. He stated that “in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy”. His statement is worth considering. Apparently he and his advisers did not anticipate having to deal with people having access to information. Information is power and when the people have power, it interferes with his concept of democracy. His statement is also an admission that the liberal power elites still think the American population are too smart for them to deal with.

Bear in mind that the United States is NOT a democracy. It is a Constitutional Republic. Since he is reportedly a Constitutional scholar, he should know this. Did he not learn that in school or is he trying to turn us into a democracy where there is mob rule. If that is his desire, then his speech bemoaning the loss of means of manipulating the mob makes more sense.

Had he claimed that the present generation had problems with attention, he would have a point. If he said that the generation had more choices than could effectively be dealt with, that would have had some merit. When he talks about them having too much information, he is revealing that they know too much about this man who wants to keep his past a secret. I guess that he does not fully know what the information age and social networking means. He may have a blackberry, but it is clear that his staff does the social networking for him. He knew the power of information in getting himself elected, but apparently that has soured for him since he cannot control the media. He has also not allowed them to have access to him. Everyone will reap what they have sown.

Had he read R.L. Dabney, he would have known that plain increases in knowledge for the sake of cramming in information is of limited use. He commented back then that people were not being taught how to think. They had knowledge, but did not know how to think.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Blaming the blogs

During the campaign, the Usurper made full use of social media and the internet. I often chuckle at how he maintained twitter, facebook and LinkedIn accounts. The activity on those accounts stopped upon his election. it was as if now that he won, he forgot about the power or social media and blogs. Now that he has usurped the office of President, he is complaining that he is unable to get his message out and connect with the people (e.g. control the message and manipulate the masses). He claims that the media is too “diffuse”.

It seems that his campaign staff, which were supposed geniuses at social media have not been able for fool all the people all the time. Why can’t he just accept responsibility and butch up? His programs do not resonate. He does not have a good message. If his message was good, it would get out. He has already blamed Bush, now it is the blogs, and heaven knows who or what he will blame next. The reality is, his programs are not good for the people and they know it.

They do not want higher taxes (he has already raised tobacco taxes, tanning bed taxes and others), they do not want mandatory health care, they do not want a leader who subscribes to the myth of man-made global warming, they do not want mandatory taxpayer funding for abortions, they do not want a leader who bows and kowtows to foreign leaders. They want the borders protected, they want Islamic terrorist attacks investigated (e.g. Fort Hood), they do want a leader who accepts responsibility rather than blame others, they do want a leader who is legally qualified to hold office, they do want a leader who keeps his promises. They want leadership that expands liberties and leaves them alone. They want a leader who will remove the obstacles for them to do business.

Note the head of the regime’s concern for wanting to let the people know ‘why’ he is doing to them what he is doing. If his message regarding his reasons for doing what he does was so ‘wonderful’, then what the blogs say would not matter. They people recognize that they do not like what he is doing to them, no matter what he reasons for doing it are. President John Adams tried to control the media by outlawing any criticism of the government. Abraham Lincoln did the same.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Terrorists could use smart meters!

Well, now the news is coming out that smart meters could be used by terrorists to cause blackouts. (Duh!) It seems that terrorists can hijack the meters in order to shut off the electricity or gas that the smart meter controls. Instead of physically turning off the meter, they only have to plant a virus and send computer codes.

Doesn’t that make you feel safe? With such technology we are MORE vulnerable to terrorism. Who was it that thought that such a program was good for Texas? -CONgressmen Lloyd Doggett and Gene Green. Even though the SEA (Scientist and Engineers for America) support him (Doggett), with all that education, it seems that they did not do all their homework on this one. Let’s face it, with the policies he supported (increasing the debt, voting for the stimulus [of which the Austin area gets a large portion for smart technology], removing our incandesent light bulbs, raising the tax on pipe tobacco 775%, forcing people to buy medical insurance against their will, and removing loop holes from the tax code) who could ask for more. With the smart grids, whole communities are now at greater risk of danger. Since the grid is interconnected with a central control, it will not take much to knock them out of commission. I guess that since he voted to raise taxes on energy, now he wants to make us more vulnerable as well. Those vulnerabilities are not only to terrorist actions, but also to privacy concerns. The smart meter will be able to tell third parties how much energy you are using, what your are using, etc. which is none of their business.

Consider how Gene Green is wanting all the critical infrastructures of Houston (the medical center, port of Houston, NASA, transportation control, chemical plants and pipelines all hooked into the so-called smart grid. Having all such grids with one central control is asking for a disaster.

Experience ought to tell you that anything out of Mordor on the Potomac (Washington) that has the label ’smart’ attached to it is anything but.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Damn Strange

The south has many idioms and sayings. One that fits current events is “damn strange”. This idiom is often used when events occur that are beyond the typical out of the ordinary activities. Yesterday was one of those days, where the true colours of the regime were seen. The While House encourage its minions to “push back” against the opponents of the health care plan. This occurred with violence erupting in some locations. This kind of ‘thug’ mentality was not even disguised. While the regime was encouraging the use of strong arm and violent tactics, the minions were labeling the health care opponents as the dehumanising term ‘mobs’, even though the tactics used by the regime were reminiscent of the beer hall putsch in post-Weimar Germany. Nancy Pelosi has resorted to refering to opponents of the health care plan as “nazis”.  (This is ironic, since she and her office have strong armed the Congress into rushing through bills, especially spending items. She has also made tax cuts illegal and has forbidden Congressmen from making reference to her actions in their newsletters. It this is not micro managing and being Nazi-like, I don’t know what is). Representative Brian Baird of Washington State (3rd Congressional District of Washington) has referred to protesters as using ‘brown shirt tactics’. Representative Russ Carnahan (3rd Congressional District of Missouri) has taken things to a new level by having his staffers cause trouble at meetings. In Texas, things also have a weird angle . Representative Gene Green’s town hall meeting was disrupted. He later complained that some of those protesting “did not live in the district”.  Gee, he did not mind the contributors NOT being in his district with their monies did he:

Metro Area Total
WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV $23,822
GALVESTON-TEXAS CITY $4,800

The argument that people were not from their district does not wash with me. Having been in Tom DeLay’s district, there were meddlesome people from all over the nation trying to influence the election and politics of that part of Texas. If they want to represent their districts, QUIT taking money from people outside of the district. The way Green and other politicians are playing it, they want their cake, along with your cake and they want to eat them both.

The regime is wanting people to ‘turn in’ those who spoke out against the health care to their office. Having people turn on their neighbors was a frequent Nazi tactic. In terms of actions, and symbols, the regime uses more Nazi and communist tactics, than their opposition. They often demean their opponents by using labels that would better apply to themselves.  (Bear in mind that the Nazi regime often used derrogator terms in referring to the Jews as a way of demeaning and dehumanising them as well). As a political party, the Nazi party was opposed to smoking, pushed through health bills, wanted gun control, wanted a STRONG central government, opposed any regional or State interference with their plans,  etc. They also twisted the meanings of words around as do many of the the ruling political regime do.

Add to this the ‘odd’ timing of a denial of service attack against Twitter, Facebook and Google simultaneously. The shutting down of social network sites is one of the strategies used in Iran against those speaking out against the regime. The regime has been working on ‘cybersecurity’ for a while. It is odd that the regime wants the cybersecurity czar to be located ‘in the White House’. The timing suggests that the regime may be doing a trial run before a major crack down on liberty loving patriots. Although the regime used social media to win the election, they do not want others to use it for purposesof opposing them.

Leading democratic personalities like Barbara Boxer suddenly expresses concern that the protesters are making the President look bad. She did not seem so patriotic and concerned when the previous regime was in power. In many ways, the various groups are each claiming that they are the ones who are ‘patriotic’. The whole situation illustrates that the empire is struggling with the definition of ‘patriot’ and ‘patriotic’. Is it loyalty to a person (such as the democrats to the Obama regime), to an ideal (such as the Republicans), or to the principles of liberty/homeland (The League of the South and some libertarians).  The people will need to decide what their loyalties are directed toward.

Typically, in American history, disloyalty to the person of the President is not treason. In the British system it was, in the American legal system, it is when one is disloyal to the Constitution. The colonists destroyed images of George III due to his breaking of promises to them. Is it out of line to destroy images of the Chosen One? The democrats would have many to think so. With all the “change” and manipulation going on, many have been led astray. Many of the liberals do not understand treason, and are clinging to the cult of personality surrounding the Usurper.

Liberty for Texas and the South!
J Murrah


Comparison of Obama Health and Nazi Symbolism

PS. Although Brian Baird considers the protesters “brown shirts”, he does not mind spending other peoples monies. For New Years, he took his wife with him to the South Pole for a price tag of $103,000.  As Shakespeare would say “Thou protests overmuch”.

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Double-Standard on Social Media

In another example of double standards and hypocrisy, the White House has blocked the use of Twitter. The White House sends twitters out but NONE are allowed in.  The flow of propaganda in terms of photos and announcements is voluminous. The regime used twitter and other social media throughout their campaign. There were many personal updates from the head of the regime himself. Ironically, as soon as he won the election, the twittering stopped. What seemed to be a personal relationship ended as harshly as a one night stand. After being elected, he appointed some social media people to operate a social media blitz yet under a different name. There are twitter feeds for Barry and Michelle. The regime has been cutting edge is spewing propaganda, but unresponsive in connecting with people, especially those whose views differ from theirs.

Although his campaign used social media effectively, they are now trying to control and muzzle many aspects of this media and the internet itself. They know it is powerful and responsive. The regime just does not want to respond to the people. The social media allows constituents to have faster access to their representatives as well. I find it interesting that amoung those representatives who screen the access the people have with them is mine. He is twitter-less. He maintains ways of spewing, but no way to connect with him (convenient, eh?). When communication is only one way, it is not communication, it is indoctrination.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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Doggett, et. al voted to allow mandatory home inspections

If you value privacy, then your dander should be up with the recent passage of the climate bill in CONgress. The bill contains provisions requiring that all homes be inspected by approved energy inspectors. The inspectors will check outlets, lamps, hot tubs, ceiling fans, windows and other appliances. The inspections will be required and are enforced with a fine. They are calling it the Comprehensive Home Energy Audit. Heaven help you if the auditors find your drugs, guns, porn or other items of interest to them as they go through your home.

Here is a list of the CONgress critters that voted for higher energy bills, mandatory home inspections and other silliness.

Henry Cuellar
Lloyd Doggett
Charlie Gonzalez
Al Green
Gene Green
(who sold out the refineries of Texas)
Ruben Hinojosa
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Sheila Jackson Lee
Silvestre Reyes

If any of these are your CONgress Critter, you will know who to blame when there is a knock at your door for your inspection, when you pay more for fuel and electricity, and other maladies. Do not cry about the oil companies, rising taxes, gasoline prices-Vote them out of office. They are the ones to blame and hold accountable!
They sold you out. They do not value your freedom. They do not care about the sanctity of your home. They do not care about whose privacy they invade. They do not care about Texas or Texans. Remember them come 2010.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
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FTC meddling again

They can’t help it. The Yankee mindset to meddle and tell others how to live their lives is something that the empire can not resist. In the latest (as of this morning), the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is planning on scrutinizing blogs that make false claims. The agency wants the power to go after bloggers and the companies that support them. On the surface, the power grab looks like consumer protection. Rather than allow the free market to do its thing, they interfere. I suspect it is really about increasing government control and wanting to circumvent any way people have found of making money that they do not have a way to control. In many ways, it is a backdoor way to monitor and control the content on the internet, all in the name of “Consumer Protection”. The agency is trying to find ways of watering down free speech.

It is not by accident that in front of this agency, there are two large statues of men restraining strong horses. This is to symbolize the restraint of trade. Well, that is what they are seeking to do, to restrain and control trade, in areas they have no business meddling in.

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Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah

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We’re from the government, and we are here to help-RIGHT!

Has anyone noticed that some of the most dangerous places are the ones operated by the federal government? Schools and other government entities are notorious for being the location of shootings. Although there have been some shootings in churches, the number of shootings in government schools is far greater. Now, in the latest escapade of the government is the discovery in Dallas of airplane mechanics that can not read and speak English working on the airplanes. What makes it bad is that all the airline manuals are written in English. Mind you, that these mechanics have to be approved by the government before they can work on planes. The government even caters to them by providing testing in Spanish.  Although in some professions, the issue of language is not a major concern, with aviation it is. The international language of aviation is English. The language of aviation repair manuals is English. Not having a proficiency in English is disastrous (or as the commercials say, priceless, but in a negative way).

Although in the eyes of the public, there are many screening and safety proceedures which passengers are required to submit to, behind the scenes, the people working on the planes do not go through such through inspections and accountability.

This is another case of how government safety, especially federal government is not what it seems to be.

Liberty for Texas and the South

J Murrah

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GPS

The Obama regime is currently undertaking the task of logging the GPS coordinates of the front door of every home in the nation. The league addressed this issues when the pilot of this program was tested in Texas.  Before giving into the thugs demanding to ‘paint’ your front door GPS coordinate, consider what GPS is used for. The census is for counting the number of people. GPS coordinates are used for finding exact locations and pinpointing targets. One of the largest consumers of GPS coordinates is the military. Soldiers have risked their lives obtaining accurate GPS coordinates so they could take out targets with pinpoint accuracy.

Are there other government uses for GPS?  Although it is numbering, it is not counting. Rest assured that when governments start numbering, it is not for a good purpose. Numbering, no matter what type has always been associated with control. With a new type of numbering, it only represents a new type of control.

Know your rights. The federal law addresses census information, NOT GPS coordinating. The census will not take place for another year. This is not the census, it is GPS tracking. The government officials involved in this effort will try thier best to obfuscate their actions. Cooperating with them only encourages them. Imagine the exact coordinates of the homes of every Southron and Texian in the wrong hands.

Liberty for Texas!

J Murrah

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