Transcript for political speech

This is my idea for what to say in the speech I'll (hopefully) be giving next week:

I am just a man, ruled by tyrant-kings who’ve taken everything. Money is taken from my paycheck to fund the corrupt and incompetent government in Washington, D.C. I pay for their waste and greed, their corporate hand-outs, and their wars. I pay for the bombs and bullets that take the lives of men, women, and children in distant lands. I pay for that corrupt government to imprison its own citizens for choosing how to live their own lives, for exercising their sacred right to liberty. I pay for all of this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I could not believe the form of tyranny, what it could take from me. I live in fear. I fear that I will not be able to afford to sustain myself. My standard of living has declined dramatically and continues to do so. I fear that I will be forced into government service, whether that be a draft or “community service” slavery. I fear the spies, the agents provocateurs, and the machines. I fear the police state that even now tightens its grip around a once free people. I fear that “change” will blind the people to their chains and allow the government to strip them of their last remaining rights. I fear the economic collapse¬¬--that it will create political instability on a scale never seen in this country. I fear that lives will be lost as the empire comes home. I fear this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I dream of falling lights and burning books. I dream of fighting wars with myself and with you and with all of us. I dream of slaving slaves and dying in chains. They want our souls. There is hope. There is life beyond this. You must find it. I must find it. I let myself forget what it means to be an American. So did you. No more, I tell you.

I spit in the face of tyranny. What can it take from me? For I believe in liberty; let freedom ring. Even if the bell must toll for me, let it be. I am free. While I live I will always be free. I stand here today, an activist, an insurgent, a revolutionary patriot. I am American not because I was born in America. I am American because I claim the blessings of liberty and the rule of law. It is time for all of us to resist the government in Washington. It is time for us to tell them that they have overstepped their bounds. It is time for us to defend the Constitution from the vultures that pick away at it. It is time for us to tell them: no more wars of aggression, no more corporate bailouts at the people’s expense, no more executive orders, no more lies, no more meddling in the affairs of the world, no more worthless paper money, no more spending without restraint, no more debt for us and our children, no more market manipulations, no more of this, no more I tell you.

It is time for us to tell the government that any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void. It is time to remind them that “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” It is time to let the government know that we retain our right to alter or abolish this government for the people and by the people.

“This is a continuation of a revolution. It is a peaceful revolution. It’s up to you to spread this message around this country. This is an American cause. It’s the cause of freedom. There’s something going on in this country, and it’s big. Spread the message. Thank You.”

Hey New People

Welcome to the blog. Sorry I didn't send the invites out last night, I got caught up after the meeting. Lets get consolidate some sources for people that don't know much about the subject matter. I'll just put two obvious ones down and the rest can come from comments.

Teach Peace database of documentaries! There are lots of them here!
From Freedom to Fascism -- This is the movie we're showing in the dragonfly. If you haven't seen it yet check it out.
IOUSA
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Money Masters
Money as Debt
Story of Stuff
Who Killed the Electric Car?

Anyone reading anything lately?

Here are a couple collections of videos on survivalist topics that I'd think y'all would be interested in.

These guys are perfect models of disaster preparedness, and I think that regardless of your financial situation, everyone should follow these guidelines to some degree or another, because I think we all fear that the proverbial excrement is headed quickly towards the fan. Man, that's a weird statement, when has anyone ever seen someone throw poop at a fan? I doubt that it has ever happened, and definitely don't want to be around when/if it does. I'd probably prefer total economic collapse to someone throwing poop at my fan, honestly.

YouChooseASide's collection of videos, who is a bit of a ranter and tries to get people to understand the situation we're presented with, but also locks down a few important topics.
Ryan has exhaustive videos on many different survival/camping topics (fire starting, knots, bug out bags) and does reviews on several products, including the Glock handgun and M15 gas mask. I haven't seen the majority of the videos yet, but I'll probably watch them all.

I'm serious, fellas, get on the ball with this stuff. The "I don't have enough money" argument is the one I hear the most, but let's be honest, would you rather drink beer (or other intoxicating hobbies, ahem), go to concerts, buy video games and cable tv, or would you rather be able to eat and survive when times get tough? Just whittle away some of that truly unproductive spending or earn some more money in a creative way (please stay legal, you don't want to be in prison when things get bad, you'll be screwed, and we need you intelligent folks out here!). I'm not saying don't enjoy your life, just don't be wasteful in a trying time.
You can buy these long-lasting, easy to prepare (low energy & resource inputs) foods little by little every time you go to the grocery store. Honestly, what is $25 a week? You can achieve this, and absolutely can't rely on anyone else to help you, your friends will be more interested in self preservation than helping you. They will feel bad for you, but they will turn you away, possibly at gun point.

Learn about caching, both food and other items, and do it!
The food is on the shelves now, but it won't always be, you can bet on that. Comfort and availability of goods has lulled people into believing that life is easy and will be forever, but our economy and government are incredibly unstable and heading towards massive decline. Martin of the videos above believes christmas-time or the period immediately following it will be when we really see it all go down. Who knows, but it is undoubtedly a responsible decision right now to prepare yourself mentally and physically for what is likely to come.

I've felt redundant a lot here, but what I'm saying is important. More to come

Wake Up! Educate Yourself! Take Action!,

Some alarmist guy

Fed Notes for Protest

This is last minute, so I won't waste time talkin. Hopefully someone of ya can print a bunch of these and prepare them before we leave. After all, protest isn't till tomorrow morning.




Ideas for alternate backs??

Boom Shakalaka!

Marijuana good for memory, sort of.

That is all

Edit:
Actually, no, that's not all.
This video is scary. I haven't finished it, though.

New Poster

Let me know if this one goes to far/needs changes.

This one is also in LANDSCAPE.

Dick Cheney Indicted

This disturbs me...

I was reading an article from RawStory.com about a surge in hate crimes since the election. I have been reading a lot of articles about this lately, even in our university newspaper, and this article laid some crazy down for me.

However, the real weird stuff comes in when I decide to visit a website mentioned in the article, StormFront, a community dedicated to discuss issues and actions
related to white supremacy. Their views are downright fucking scary.

From a post in the site that was created because of the massive surge of viewers to the site after the election which is dedicated to explaining the concepts of white nationalism and its justifications:
""We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." We want a few areas on the Earth (and states in the US) that are reserved for Whites, and Whites only, where we can leave in peace apart from the horrors of the third world. Our children deserve that and we owe it to them. This is the basic principle of "White Nationalism" (WN)."
"If Blacks or Mexicans become a majority, then they will not be able to maintain the White man's social, cultural and economic systems because they do not have to minds needed to do so. Most Whites in the United States know what happens when too many Blacks get together in a community, city or country - they "pull themselves down". So, as the United States and Europe are flooded with Browns and Blacks, eventually the quality of life in these once great lands will become like that of the third world regardless of the social/economic/political system."

"Think these accusations against Jews are far fetched? How about these little tid bits:

1. The United States, at a cost several trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, went to war with Iraq for Israel, not for weapons or oil, but solely for the Jews. What?
2. The Federal Reserve central bank, which controls and issues all the money in the United States, is a privately owned corporation (no joke) to which all Americans and their government are heavily in debt because they have to pay interest on all the money in circulation - money that was created out of nothing at all by this corporation. Where is the relation here?
3. The United States and Europe are being flooded with tens of millions of third worlders who are having a lot of kids. Soon, White people will soon lose control of the countries their ancestors founded. Many Whites think this is OK as long as the immigrants work. Really? Are the immigrants going to vote? Are they going to intermarry Whites?Have any of these "facts" related in any way to Jews vying to control the world?
4. No where are these important issues seriously discussed in the mainstream media."

Man, you guys seriously need to look at this site. Maybe strangely, as you can see, these people are enlightened to the inherent slavery within our economic/political system, but see it in a much different way. It's disturbing to think that the revolution will include these armed halfwits running in the streets crying to Jesus and killing blacks and Jews. What the fuck has gotten into some people. There are so many arguments for the ignorant garbage these people spit. They are incapable of seeing deeply into and understanding any complex problem and so see only obvious and shallow "facts" that are based on just about no real data and are far from the realm of reality.

I can't do much more on this one, but if you're not afraid of tainting your IP address with a visit to the site, check that shit out. They look to be organizing for some sort of action, talking about getting armed, hand out fliers, run for local office. At least I'm seeing these people talking about boycotting the system of credit and big oil, bankers and support the constitution. It's too bad they're otherwise misguided - way misguided.

Before a blunt I take out fronts, the I start to front matter 'fact I be on a manhunt
You couldn't catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer,
that's like Malcolm X catchin' the jungle feva

Nas, why did you do it?
You know you got the mad phat phluid when ya rhyme,
hey yo, its halftime

IOUSA

This is the bite-sized version of the real movie that was mentioned in the meeting. I want to watch the full length one some time if anybody is down.

IOUSA

Raw Story ain't perfect, but at least they're saying this stuff

I hate to push down the pertinent posts about our membership drive and the Fed protest, but I read a great article about this financial situation that is good reading material/fodder for talking points for the protest, etc.
More on Naomi Klein, I'm getting her book Shock Doctrine for sure.

InBev completes purchase of Anheuser-Busch... Shit. I wonder what the total US and World market share is of this new monster company. Another article says it's now one of the 5 largest consumer goods companies in the world. Yowza. "The new company will have sales of about 36 billion dollars a year, offering consumers about 300 brands, including Anheuser's Budweiser and Bud Light, and InBev's Stella Artois and Beck's."
Good thing I don't drink any of that anyway... Please boycott big brewers, people. These guys really stifle creativity and diversity, and even if you don't care about beer, when you do drink it, at least make it something good. It's usually only a buck or two more.
Maybe my next photoshop job will be a Bud box... hmmm, back to you on that one.

Where you can put posters

You can put posters on the public boards in these places:

University Post Office
D.D. Dougherty
Old Belk Library
Smith-Wright Hall
Raley Hall
Edwin Duncan Hall
Rankin Hall
Holmes Convocation Center
Welborn Hall
I.G. Greer Hall
Sanford Hall
L.S. Dougherty
CAP Building
Quinn Center
Owens Field House
Broyhill Music Center
Student Union (3 copies-give to information desk)
Belk Library
Kiosk (Sanford Mall)
Kiosh (Duck Pond Field)
Residence Life-JET Bldg. (50 copies-must be pre-approved by Res Life)

I know this might suck, but we should follow the rules.

POSTER

This is a redesign of one of the posters. Print it out in LANDSCAPE, and scale it to fit.

UPDATE: I re-uploaded the poster because THE ORIGINAL HAS A TYPO. "Imperialism" is misspelled.

Phew... It's hard creating hyperinflation

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Here's the flier I made to give to students at App over the next week to promote the Campaign for Liberty and the Fed protest this weekend. Thanks to Patrick for help on this, too!!
It's not really so much club promotion, but the email is there. We could write (or print) something on the backs regarding the club (but my eyeballs are about to fall out so I'm not designing the back).
I printed on a Mac using Preview. Just set your program at "Size to Fit" or similar and print. I haven't tried B&W printing, just color, but I bet it looks about as good, since the color is subdued anyway.
Try cutting the edges off and separating the bills with a razor blade cutting over something like cardboard or a spread out newspaper (has to be sorta thick though), it's way faster than scissors, won't take too long. Print out as many as possible! I'm sure at least a few of ya have money on the AppCard you need to use! I can get up with some people to do this and hand them out at like 1 oclock for about a couple hours. I figure lunchish is a good time to get people around the Sanford Mall area, etc!

On a final note, let me know what we should put on the left side of it for handing out at the actual protest! I'd think a campaignforliberty.com reference would be a good start, as well as maybe leaving "Protest the Fed." What do you think?

Hell yea, I'm excited about it all, and now I'm goin to sleep

Holy Moly...

Anyone else see martial law on its way?
Any time Bush says something, you can be sure to receive the opposite. According to National Security Presidential Directive 51 and seemingly several other documents, Bush can without much trouble (please read the directive), supercede all branches of government and institute martial law. Either way, I see this contrived world financial "crisis" as one possible explanation for the declaration of marshal law. And where has this ~1.3 trillion dollars the Fed is giving away on our behalf without congressional approval gone? Maybe that's for some contracted labor in the war on terror or funding for the next (Iran, Venezuela, our own soil).
That, or another 9/11-style false flag attack. I really hope these things don't add up the way I see them. But I'm not optimistic.
Imagine that, George W. Bush and company (I wouldn't normally link to Alex Jones type shit, but I've begun to take him more seriously, at least keeping an open mind) for the foreseeable future. I don't think so. I'm standin' up.
Get yourselves informed for the protests coming up this weekend. Your knowledge is the most important thing you can arm yourselves with.
Skim Economics in One Lesson if you've got some time.
This article makes some really intense statements: Japanese government official opines on how to lay the groundwork, "no currency but the dollar can be used as a key currency" and of course a list must be drawn up to avoid the collapse of several key banks that would "imperil the global financial system". I wonder if JP Morgan/Chase (gotta make sure the Morgans and Rockefellers are taken care of) and Wells Fargo will make the list! I wonder what sweeping reductions of our civil liberties were talked about? Obama, my ass, he isn't even at these talks, as if it doesn't matter whether or not the president-elect attends events that aim in part to totally reframe global trade and finance. His reason for not going? That he doesn't want to project any indication of having assumed presidential power or influence before being sworn in. This is a spot of etiquette that becomes unimportant in situations like the one we find ourselves in. Simple explanation: it is not intended for Obama to be sworn in, and even he himself knows it. Sound a little out of left field? I hope I'm proven wrong.
I really liked these comments by random folks regarding the auto industry bailout extravaganza.
It don't get better than this.

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Peace

Scooby Doo Wop Wow

Bush warns against protetionism
Of course he does. It is the JOB of the US to suck the resources away from any other resource rich country in the world and use them to maintain our unequal balance of wealth and well being. Fuckin' ridiculous. If I was representing another country in these trade talks, I would smack that asshole.
I think Gordon Brown put it best (but probably not in regards to the US) "There are a lot of countries with their own interests and their own policy directions at the moment that will have to change." Yea, just not your own, right?
I'm negative

10 Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill you.

It got a bit cut off, right click and choose view image to see the whole thing.

The DOW and Depression

Check out this page. Note how swings in the market are tied directly to the state of the economy. The huge gains and losses and intra day swings are signs that the economy is basically UNSOUND. Just look at the tables. The information is stunning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_in_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

WAKE UP!!!

What is Sovereignty?

Jake turned me on to this article this morning. There is so much to say about this, but I don't have the time to type it all out. This is just so fucked up. 15-20 countries since 2004! Violation of sovereignty, acts of terror, acts of WAR!!! WITHOUT CONSENT OR APPROVAL! I mean honestly this is insane! Apparently they waited until they had a story to distract the American public (Obama-Bush meeting) to unload all of the fucked up shit going on in the news.

"If God is just, I tremble for my country."
-Thomas Jefferson

You thought 700 Billion dollars was bad!

I went to rawstory today and a headline caught my eye...."Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose"......The Federal Reserve is giving out even more money!!!....the total is now over 2 trillion dollars....the Fed has given out even bigger rescue packages than the 700 billion dollar bailout that congress approved....congress didnt approve these new "rescue packages"....so a banking cartel is now deciding on it's own accord that it can give our money to whoever the hell it wants....and guess what.....they say the don't even have to tell us where that money is going!...so this banking cartel with no allegiance to the american people is doing whatever it wants without any of the "transparency" that was promised.......where's the outrage??......well apparently it's a much bigger deal that the Bush's are going to be hosting the Obama's at the whitehouse....cuz instead of talking about how we are being robbed, not one but four news networks i turned on this morning were covering the meeting of the former and future president.....who fucking cares????.....this is a perfect example of why we need to kill the beast we call the federal reserve and how the corporate media is good for nothing but brainwashing!

Fed won't disclose who they're giving money to

Isn't our gov't supposed to be transparent?
If they're hiding things, can't we assume wrongdoing?
More to come...

John McCain Eats Babies

Ron Paul and Alex Jones

These two fellows have an interesting conversation about the implications of an Obama Presidency.

Hooray!!!

The Obamatons soundly defeated the McCainiacs to take control of the Republicrat Party in Washington, D.C. Thank God the Bush years are soon to be behind us. Now all we need to do is spend ourselves out of this debt sinkhole that spontaneously erupted (seriously, where did all that debt come from?). Not to worry, with trillions of dollars of new spending coming down the pipe, we're sure to dig all the way to China (which, conveniently, holds so many of our dollars anyway).

I do feel bad for McCain. He tried so hard, but alas, he failed to convince the people that Neo-conservatism was different from Neo-conservatism. Maybe next time he'll get an even hotter babe to convince the people to look the other way...you know...at her.

Then there's President-Elect Obama. Hope™ and Change™ clearly sounded better to the zombie public than Country First™, and who knew that the media wouldn't even question what the fuck he meant by those vapid labels.

The Democrats won control of Congress, which means we'll continue to see accountability and responsibility like they promised us in '06.

So sit back and relax, America. You have been through a lot of crap these last eight years. Now all our worries and grievances can die as Julius Caesar gives us those grain handouts he promised. Oh, and the Republic--c'mon, man, that's been dead for ages.

Just Another Tuesday

Apparently shit is going down all over the country. Read up on it. Bradblog is following real closely. I just opened Rawstory and the page was covered in voting machines going down and "shenanigans" and whatnot.

Oprah's Vote Wasn't Counted

Hopefully the virus of electronic voting machines becomes more public now that Oprah experienced her own vote not being counted. This is happening all over the country already. Just look on the side for those stories. I wonder if anybody will notice this time...