Barbara Hartwell

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Independent Investigator, Intelligence Analyst, Journalist. Former CIA (NOC, Psychological Operations) Black Ops Survivor. Sovereign Child of God. Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Ordained 1979, D.Div.) Exposing Government Lies, Crimes, Corruption, Conspiracies and Cover-ups.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Retrospective: Whistleblowers Vs. CIA & Ted Gunderson



FOREWORD

This report was posted on Rumor Mill News, October 2003. First you will find a preface written by Barbara Hartwell, followed by a letter from Stew Webb.

Much has changed since that time and it is important that I clarify a few issues which relate to the information given here.

1) I resigned my posting privileges on Rumor Mill News in November, 2003, due to attempts by the editor, Rayelan Allan, to censor my reports; as well as the offensive and intrusive behavior of the gaggle of New Agers who tried to foist their silly secular humanist pop psychology on me.

The main topic around which the conflict (and the attempted censorship) revolved was my reports exposing ex-FBI agent and COINTELPRO operative 
Ted L. Gunderson and some of his snitches and shills.

Gunderson and his flunky, Tim White, had made harassing telephone calls to Rayelan, and had also made threats of a lawsuit re my reports. They also told the usual outrageous lies about Barbara Hartwell being CIA. Rayelan caved in to the intimidation tactics and I resigned with a truthful letter outlining my reasons for calling it quits.

 A Matter of Honor; My Resignation from Rumor Mill News 

Subsequently, I was attacked by many of the "news agents", and falsely accused of being CIA (the usual), while the one and only person who had the integrity and the guts to stand up for me (and for the truth) was "banned" permanently  by Rayelan. You see, the truth is the one thing which is simply not allowed on Rumor Mill News.

Anyway, when I stood up in my own defense (and for the truth) I was then publicly accused by Rayelan herself of "running a Psy Op" on Rumor Mill News, and, naturally, she then claimed I was CIA. I was, of course, "banned" permanently from Rumor Mill News. 

As for Stew Webb: He was banned from Rumor Mill News for witnessing for Jesus Christ, because as Rayelan stated, she did not want "all that Jesus stuff" on her message board. Satan was okay, I guess, as some of the "news agents" promoted Aleister Crowley and his nefarious black magic. Witchcraft was A-OK in Rayelan's book too, and she even solicited curses from "the many witches" who read Rumor Mill News, against "the enemies of RMN", undoubtedly myself included. Truly bizarre, but true.

2) A few comments about Stew Webb. First, Stew and I broke off our association and friendship (the decision was mutual) in early 2006. Since that time I have been saddened not only by the loss of the friendship, but also by the fact that Stew has felt the need to falsely accuse me of several things: "working with the enemy, Tim White"; and, "taking money from Karl Schwarz"; and, most outlandish of all, operating in collusion with Karl Schwarz, as part of an "Israeli spy ring"!

Of course, none of these allegations are true (nor were ever true); but it left me with a dilemma. The problem was (and still is) that although in my opinion,  Stew went off the deep end by switching his allegiance from defending Liberty and restoring Constitutional government, to being willing to support Illuminati insider and NWO proponent Al Gore, obviously under pressure (and likely believing false promises) from his cohort, Tom Heneghan, a former Gore campaign manager --Stew still told the truth about many other things. And is a firsthand witness to many other things, and has a large body of evidence about many other things.

Most notably, he has told the truth about the criminal activities of Ted L. Gunderson and his cronies and minions. So, although Stew's general credibility has unfortunately taken a dive (and this is agreed upon by many others who knew him from past associations or from Stew's many radio broadcasts), he is still in possession of truthful, accurate and factual information re Gunderson and his cronies, minions, stooges and shills. What's more, Stew has the evidence to support much of what he has exposed.

All that being said, I can state that I still endorse the truth of what Stew Webb has written in this particular report, at least as much of it as I can corroborate, upon information and belief, and which I can substantiate with evidence developed through my own investigations.

3) Lastly, regarding the government stooges, snitches and shills who do Gunderson's bidding, including libel/slander campaigns against targets; stalking; threats; criminal harassment, etc. etc.  They are pretty much the same crew as they were back in 2001-2003. Most notably, Timothy Patrick White, a predicate felon who made a deal with corrupt feds in 2002 for a get-out-of-jail-free card, in return for snitching, lying about, stalking and otherwise harassing patriots and genuine whistleblowers.

Also mentioned here are Larry Lawson (another "deal-maker"); Brenda Negri, a criminal psychopath and G-Man wannabe (who seems to have disappeared, but is almost certainly still out there operating under some other alias); Shirley Anderson (still out there, but who has distanced herself from Tim White, whom she now claims is "sick").

Many new stooges have since joined up to be a part of the libel/slander campaign and to participate in the harassment (including of the criminal variety) and they are too numerous to mention here, but are certainly exposed in many other reports on this website.

However, one perp in particular should be mentioned: Todd Brendan Fahey, a malicious liar, blackmailer, porno-monger, sex pervert/predator (including targeting children); forger, plagiarist, identity thief, and most significantly for the purpose of this report, Tim White's "other half" of the demonic duo, who has been engaging in criminal harassment of Barbara Hartwell since 2004.

Fahey is also in collusion with Ted Gunderson, John DeCamp, Ken Adachi, Larry Lawson, "Xena Carpenter" and others, to libel/slander and generally destroy the life of Barbara Hartwell.

But here's the most important point: If you consider the large body of evidence I have collected (only a fraction of which I have thus far incorporated into my reports), you will begin to discern a pattern, over a period of years.

You will see that my reports (and the facts presented therein) are nothing, if not consistent, in the statements about these perps and their crimes, year in, year out.

You will also see that my statements of fact --and even the personal and professional opinions I present-- are corroborated by other legitimate people, who have often discovered the same facts (and arrived at the same conclusions) independently. In other words, disparate and totally independent, unrelated  sources, stating the same truths; presenting the same (or similar) opinions and viewpoints; and sometimes corresponding evidence, about these perps.

On the other hand, look at the libelous falsehoods these perps try to pass off as "truth"; as "exposing" Barbara Hartwell or others. Most will simply accuse me of being a "CIA agent" or "CIA disinfo agent". They'll claim I am a "liar"; a "whore"; a "government spook", and the devil only knows what all else.

Do they have even one scintilla of evidence to substantiate any of these outrageous claims? Not one. And they never will, because these are fabrications meant to destroy my personal and professional reputation, so that hopefully, the public will not believe in the truth of my reports; so that the perps can continue their crimes, hoaxes and scams with impunity; and so that consequently, I will not receive the material support, that being destitute and disabled, I need to survive.

These loathsome characters also seem to think that "exposing" someone involves invading her privacy in the most monstrous way, thus also compromising the security and endangering the safety of the target. And in the process, soliciting additional crimes of stalking and criminal harassment by like-minded thugs, a crime in and of itself.

These perps, in their monstrous invasions of privacy, have also claimed to be "exposing" personal information about Barbara Hartwell, which is actually false, even claiming that my "real name" is not Barbara Hartwell. It most certainly is, and I have no other "real name", except that of Percival, which is in fact my family name.  

The liars have claimed also to be "exposing" certain information about my background and family, which although not incriminating in and of itself in any way, is also false; and some of which presents me and my family in a false (and derogatory) light.

I do wonder though, what exactly is it that they are trying to prove?

It seems that since they can't come up with anything that is truthful AND incriminating (there is simply nothing to dig up) that they must fabricate additional falsehoods, hoping that some of the mud they are slinging will stick.

Perhaps the most ludicrous aspect of this libel campaign is when they claim to be "exposing" information about my alleged connection to CIA, some of which is related to my family. AS IF these fools (rank amateurs, all) would have access to classified documents which could possibly corroborate their claims.

The truth is, no one can ever "prove" with certainty (except perhaps the individual in question and/or the Agency) who is, or is not, CIA. And it is hard to know for sure, even when it's your own family or closest friends under suspicion.  I have been struggling with these questions all my life, and have accepted that the best I can do is to rely on my own training as an intelligence analyst, as well as the Truth spoken to me by the Holy Spirit. That's all I can do, but I've found that it is enough.

These morons are pretentious poseurs who actually seem to think they know anything about how CIA operates --but as is made clear by their plethora of foolish comments, they don't have a clue. 

Real CIA people (current or former) reading their nonsense, are howling with laughter, I can guarantee.

As for the content of my reports (information about myself as well as about the criminals I expose), I have always said that it is for "information purposes only". The readers may make of it what they will. Those with the spiritual and intellectual discernment will know the truth when they see it. Others will not. I cannot allow that to concern me, as I have no interest in "feedback" from the readers, nor in discussing my work with anyone except those friends and colleagues who have earned my trust and respect.

In any case, my primary purpose has always been to defend Liberty and put those who threaten it out of business, including the criminals I expose in my reports. As for information about my personal/professional background, it is my prerogative what to divulge and what is to remain a part of my private life. I am entitled to my privacy and anyone who invades it will face serious consequences, sooner or later.

But in all of this persecution, these lowlife scum criminals have not come up with even one piece of evidence that  Barbara Hartwell (or Geral Sosbee, or any of a number of other targets) has committed any crime; has engaged in any wrongdoing; has told any lies; has run any scams, nor done anything else that would even begin to indicate a lack of honor or integrity.

Nor will they ever be able to furnish such evidence, because there is, very simply, nothing to be found.

As for the outrageous falsehoods these demonic liars promote about Barbara Hartwell, I have mostly stopped paying attention to what's out there on the Internet. Yes, it is extremely distressing, but I have learned that it's less so to simply ignore most of it, especially if I have already exposed the liars and refuted the lies.  

Once in awhile, if I happen across an unknown perp, another malicious liar or stooge, promoting the libel, I'll refute the lies and expose the lowlife, then move on to something more important. 

Each perp has his/her own "spin" and set of lies, which they mostly keep repeating year after year; each perp parrots some of the lies of their accomplices. And then of course, they contradict each other, as well as frequently contradicting themselves --which always happens to liars, as they can't help but get tangled in the skein of their own lies. It is the occupational hazard of being a career liar.  

Sometimes the stooges fight among themselves about which lie is "the truth"; and even stranger, the same stooges will often promote two totally contradictory sets of lies, posting them on the SAME message boards.

As for the truth, it is sometimes stranger than the fictions they promote, when it comes to these government-sponsored stooges and useful (and useless) idiots!

By their fruits shall you know them.

Barbara Hartwell Percival
February 26, 2010

PREFACE TO REPORT FROM FEDERAL WHISTLEBLOWER STEW WEBB
October 2003

Following is a report written by Federal Whistleblower Stew Webb, in response to ex-FBI agent Ted L. Gunderson's false accusations against him in a letter written by Gunderson on September 27, 2003.

I am one of approximately 200 witnesses to be called in Stew's grand jury demand.

I have discussed all the issues Stew mentions here with him at length and in great detail over the past two and a half years. I do have direct personal knowledge of some of the information Stew presents here, which has been corroborated by other witnesses, including but not limited to, Stew Webb and McMartin Preschool whistleblower and activist, Jackie McGauley.

I cannot verify ALL the information Stew presents here. However Stew has posted documents on his website which CAN verify much of what he states to be true. Particularly involving Ted Gunderson's role in the sale of Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden; the CIA operation known as The Finders; and as regards money laundering and the Promis/Inslaw scandal.

Other documentation exists, not yet posted, but which will be on Stew's website soon.

As a result of my post on Ted Gunderson on Rumor Mill News, provocateur, mental case and Gunderson dupe, Brenda Negri aka Ranger Rick, came to Gunderson's defense and is endorsing Gunderson on her website, The Fifth Horseman.

Negri has now implicated herself even further in some very nefarious, criminal and felonious activities by posting all over the Internet on various message boards the following: "Stew Webb, Murder for Hire". That is, she took Gunderson's false accusation about Stew Webb and ran with it, trying to do as much damage as possible to Stew's reputation.

Her many lies and libelous allegations about myself, Stew Webb, ex-FBI agent Geral Sosbee and others, tell anyone with a functioning brain precisely WHO she is and WHAT she is.

It's obvious that Negri's REAL purpose (following along with Gunderson, whom she answers to) is to attempt to set up Stew on a false attempted murder charge.

Negri has also falsely accused me, on her website, most recently, of "making terrorist threats across state lines", which is as much a crock of Negri's usual bullshit as ever.

Now, consider this: Both Tim White and his sidekick, gov't dupe and scamster Shirley Anderson, have falsley accused me and Stew Webb of attempting to set up MURDERS, of themselves respectively. Both accuse me of working for CIA. 

Negri and Anderson, along with journalist Virginia McCollough, of NewsMakingNews (who was stupid enough to use Tim White as a "source") have also tried to implicate me and Stew Webb in the death of investigative journalist Brian Downing Quig.

In fact, these lies have been posted not only on public message boards, but on websites such as APFN, Rick Stanley's Constitutional Activist website and others.

Libel is one thing; it's bad enough. But it's hard to believe that these dupes and provocateurs could be SO STUPID as to leave themselves open for felony charges.

Making a DEATH THREAT (publicly or otherwise) is a felony (felony threatening). 

Here, as just one example, is a death threat against Barbara Hartwell, made by Brenda Negri, under the alias Ranger Rick, and posted by Larry Lawson on his newsgroup, LLNews.

"The Mexican Mafia, the gangs, the heroin junkies and the meth dealers. They'll whip your ass into a pulp if we ask them to, and thats only if you're lucky. If you're not, they'll just flat kill ya......they'll slit your throat just as soon as say fuck you" .

Do these idiots really believe that they will be PROTECTED from prosecution? 

Who do they think will protect them?

Ted Gunderson, maybe?

They need to think again.

And do they really believe that a person such as myself, or Stew Webb, will allow them to continue their criminal harassment, false accusations and felonious death threats WITH IMPUNITY?

If so, they need to make a reality check, and SOON.

These people are not only criminally insane, they are gutter trash and pond scum!

Insanity is no excuse. And let them try it, it won't be much of a defense in a court of law either.

BH
October 2003
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STEW WEBB REPORT
Sept. 30, 2003


CIA TED L. GUNDERSON & THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY CRONIES

By Stew Webb Federal Whistleblower

All the statements made regarding me, Stew Webb Federal Whistleblower, in CIA-FBI Ted L. Gunderson's letter Dated Sept 27, 2003, claiming I hired someone to murder Denver FBI Cross-Dresser, Child Porno Queen, Drug Addict Tim White; stating I am a drug user; stating I spent 7 months in a mental hospital; stating I have a criminal record, are nothing but pure LIES from a professional GOVT. OPERATIVE STILL WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT AS A PATRIOT SPY & one scared on-the-run Govt. Plant known as Ted L.Gunderson.

First: Tim White is an attempted extortionist, a slanderous punk, who will lie to anyone who will pay him.

He is a declared mental case feeding Denver FBI with perjured information, which is a felony. He has been declared mentally unstable by the Colorado Department of Corrections (Prison) system who evaluated him after being busted on dope charges in 2001 and a convicted felon.

I had him busted after he tried to extort me for money $100,000 for boxes of documents he was storing in Colorado for me. I did not know this punk except by others who claimed it would be safe to leave these vital documents there. He has been playing snitch to the Denver FBI in exchange for his freedom and his probation dropped (Oct 2002). He had continuously lied to the Denver FBI, but after nothing checked out they dropped him, and my former father in law hired him at the direction of Denver FBI to criminally harass and stalk me on the internet, he has made death threats to myself and others, including Barbara Hartwell.

Tim White further criminally harasses and slanders, stating Stew Webb is on lithium. I am not on lithium or any medication. I have never hired nor attempted to hire anyone to murder anyone.

I was held as a Political Prisoner from 1992-1993 for exposing the Savings and Loan (Silverado Saving & Loan Scandal Neil Bush Director),the HUD Scandal, the Denver International Airport Scandal, The Keating 5 MDC Holdings 200 Illegal Political Campaign Money Laundering, involving my ex father in law The Bush Crime Family Boss Hog Leonard Millman, aka "The Denver Connection".

During the 10 1/2 months I was Illegally held as a Political Prisoner I was evaluated by the U.S. Government's Shrinks, who stated there was nothing the matter with me. This was part of The Bush Crime Family's game to try and get you declared crazy. This failed.

The charges of Death Threats that never occurred and reported by Leonard Millman were Dismissed with Prejudice, Aug 20, 1993, By U.S. Federal Judge Richard Matsch, Denver Colorado.

Third: I have been Illegally arrested 30 times on false charges for exposing the Bush Crime Family's Denver Connections. All Charges have always been dismissed.

There are no convictions against me. Yet to this day, the U.S. Government has falsified the NCIC Computer system record on me, which is part of my Federal Grand Jury indictments, ready to present.

Yes, I have given the FBI and lots of other Federal Agencies, Congressional Investigations, Inspector Generals and others information relating to "The Bush Crime Family" activities.

Yes, I gave FBI agent Robin Salvador of the Las Vegas office information relating to Bush Terrorist activities, in particular the Ft. Worth Shooting in 1999, the Alaskan Airliner Crash and other terrorist activities of The Bush Crime Family during a short time. I requested an informant number for my own protection.

I was referred by FBI Denver Agent Mark Hostlaw who I now know is running a cover-up op, working for the Bad Guys in the FBI. I even gave them this info a week before each event, to try and stop it.

During this the period of time CIA Ted Gunderson had infiltrated me, I did not know he was working for General John Singlaub and CIA George Pender, controllers for "The Bush Crime Family".

Yes, I was fooled by Criminal CIA Shadow Govt. Bush Crime Family Player Ted L. Gunderson, like many of you are and have been. Further, Gunderson has referred to a video I have called CIA Terror In America where I state I went to the FBI to report this to the Las Vegas Office. See: http://www.stewwebb.com Videos, under Table of Contents. It is a great Video, and explains a lot, one full hour. Go to my web site to get your copy.

Yes, I am a Federal Whistleblower against Government Corruption. I do not, and never have worked for the U.S. Government or any other Government, or Agency.

Except when I was in the USMC in my late teens, and received an honorable discharge.

I currently have a Federal Grand Jury Demand against The Bush Crime Family naming CIA Ted L. Gunderson as one who brought false charges to extort me out of documents with a convicted felon killer, Tom Gaule of Las Vegas. Those charges were dropped 1 month prior to a Jury Trial by the Prosecution, December, 2001. The prosecutors knew I was innocent of the false charges of robbery which is a form of assault in Nevada. They were dismissed with Prejudice.

Further, Gunderson was involved in murder of a Black Panther acting as an FBI Agent in the early 1970s.

Gunderson sold Stinger Missiles to Terrorist Bin Laden for the Bush Crime Family's Shadow Government, whom CIA Ted L. Gunderson still works for. This was why he was still working as the head of the FBI, LA.

Is the FBI supposed to supply terrorists with Stingers?? Gunderson was involved in other murders of adults who were part of CIA-Satanic Sex rings. Gunderson is involved in a wet-ops to identify and kill those who are victims, now adults who could finger Bush Crime Family Members and other Satanists. Gunderson was further involved with various illegal activities, Iran/Contra Drug & Weapons shipments Inslaw software, neutralizing of key witnesses, murder etc.

Gunderson further is a scamster for the Bush Crime Family. He offers Gold Scams with his Criminal Felon Partner Victor Hancock of Las Vegas, and steals the life savings from little old ladies. Gunderson further sells as a scam, condominiums on Baja, an Island in Mexico, to patriots, and others he can con into purchasing these so called condos to be build in 5 years, with payments now on something that does not exist.

He further owes over one million dollars to little old ladies he has conned out of the money, claiming, I need to borrow this money to break open the Nebraska case, and I have a client who will be paying me $300,000 in two months, you loan me the $50,000 I will pay you back then. He never has a client and never pays them back. Several complaints have been filed against him. He further claims he retired from the FBI, Gunderson was relieved of duty, kicked out for holding Satanic Ceremonies in his FBI Office, and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

(A NUT CASE) 2 of his adult children have been repeatedly hospitalized for this condition. This is why the FBI Alumni kicked him out.

Further Gunderson claims he is against Satanism. If this is the case, WHY DID TED L. GUNDERSON MARRY ANTON LAVEY's WIDOW, Diana Rively, IN 1998, Anton Lavey, THE FOUNDER OF THE CHURCH OF SATAN IN AMERICA ?????

For the record Tim White, Ted Gunderson, Doug Millar, Brenda Negri, Shirley Anderson, Larry Lawson, are all tied together as Agents Provocateurs working to do Criminal Harassment, slander and defamation of character, to try and ruin my reputation.

Since January 2003 when I got my internet site up http://www.stewwebb.com with evidence on The Bush Crime Family, these Criminals have all worked daily to criminally harass and slander, and threaten myself and others, including radio talk show hosts. I have proof these people are tied to Leonard Millman Bush Crime Family Boss Hog my former father in law and the Denver FBI offices for the Bush Crime Family.

Ex FBI, Now CIA Shadow Government Player Ted L. Gunderson is the ring leader of these dupes and provocateurs.

There are so many indictments to present to the grand jury regarding the above named, including information I am not yet at liberty to discuss, of criminal activities they have all participated in.

I might add that since I released the entire FULL-- not blacked out-- CIA/George H.W. BUSH/Richard CHENEY CHILD SEX RING reports "Finders" in Aug 2003 on my internet site, suddenly Ted Gunderson now claims in this letter he has been exposing The Finders.

He passed out "blacked out" 3 pages as disinformation for the gov. to discredit the operation. And John Decamp's Nebraska cover-up was not limited to Nebraska, it was nation wide, all the orphanages were used, and the operation was called "Brownstone" to blackmail congress and senate with kids.

George Pender was in charge of Brownstone, Pender was a Partner of CIA Clint Murchison and CIA-FBI Ted L. Gunderson. Gunderson was in Dallas living at the Murchison Estate for 1 year while he did a radio show on short wave late 1990s, during that time he accused Radio Talk Show Host Art Bell of being a child molester, and Gunderson was sued and Art Bell won The Case against Ted Gunderson for slander.

Therefore I am going to conclude my report, and ask that anyone reading this to visit my internet site below, and review the link associated with these Criminals named above.

My reports and the reports by Jackie McGauley, a mother of a victim of the McMartin Preschool case, who Gunderson broke her finger, made her deaf in one ear, and forced her to file bankruptcy as a result of his stealing her credit cards and using them, and his infiltration to cover up the McMartin case, these reports are here.

http://www.stewwebb.com

I have tons of documents sent to me by Jackie, relating to CIA Ted Gunderson and his illegal activities.

Jackie McGauley's Credentials & Reputation are impeccable.

And The Reports by Former CIA Agent Barbara Hartwell.

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All these reports are detailed about the above named Criminals, they can be found on either internet site.

Barbara Hartwell's Credentials & Reputation are impeccable.

I have named some of these "Criminal Government Agents" & Government Provocateurs (Domestic Contact Services) in My Federal Grand Jury Demand Dated July 3, 2003 Case Number 95-Y-107

Filed U.S. District Court Denver Colorado.

Attached are links to my web-site http://stewwebb.com , which lay out in detail who these people, named herein, really are.

Thank You,
Stew Webb
Federal Whistleblower

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Leonard Peltier Appeal Denied



NOTE:  I am as disgusted and as heartbroken as I can be. As bad as it has been for me, these many years, as a target of the U.S. government, although I am financially destitute, although I am persecuted, although I am suffering chronic illness for lack of medical care, I am still free. 

It is so much worse for Leonard Peltier and other political prisoners who are wrongfully and unlawfully incarcerated, for crimes they did not commit.

Leonard Peltier is innocent!

Free Leonard Peltier!

BHP
February 25, 2010

INTERNATIONAL PELTIER FORUM
February 25th 2010:12438 days of WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT !!!


From: contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info
Subject: Appeal Denied
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:36:06 -0800 (PST)
LP-DOC - PO Box 7488 - Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701/235-2206; Fax:701/235-5045
 

contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info

February 24, 2010   

Appeal Denied!
 

Today we received word that the parole decision has been affirmed by the U.S. Parole Commission. The Parole Commission made no concessions except for one -- to finally recognize Leonard's "recent prison record of good conduct". 

The Parole Commission went on to say that Leonard's age, health, and release plan were all considered, but that these elements “don't warrant his release at this time”. All legal arguments made by the Peltier attorney Eric Seitz were rejected.

Once again, we're told that innocence is no defense. Yet again, the government has singled out Leonard Peltier as a scapegoat. As has always been the case, they intend to force Leonard Peltier to pay the price for the killings of their agents despite the lack of evidence against him. This is nothing short of politically motivated vengeance.

Leonard won’t receive another full parole hearing until he is nearly 80 years old. Already at risk for blindness, kidney failure, stroke, and certainly premature death given his diet, living conditions, and health care, this parole decision is also nothing less than a death sentence.

Don’t accept the unacceptable. Demand Leonard’s freedom. Call the White House comment line every day to express your outrage. Call: (202) 456-1111 or (202) 456-1112. You also can send an e-mail to the White House. Go to
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/. 


Mail or fax a letter to President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500; Fax - (202) 456-2461.
 

Benefit for the Children of Haiti

Moved by news reports about the earthquake in Haiti, Leonard Peltier has organized an art auction to help with relief efforts. Asked recently why he would do this, he said the children -- whether red, white, black or yellow -- are the future. We must care for them equally. Leonard has donated his work for the event and has reached out to other Indigenous artists to join him in this effort to give aid and comfort to earthquake victims. As of this writing Billy Warsoldier, Faron Blakely, Joanne Bird, Jo Ellis, Leslie Thunderhawk, Kenneth Hari and Chad Brady have answered the call. The benefit will be held at the Trickster Gallery at 190 South Roselle Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Saturday, March 6, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Both a live and silent auction will occur and paintings will be on exhibit beforehand.

The auction will be held in conjunction with Trickster Gallery's 5th Anniversary Benefit for the Arts. The public is invited to join Native Folk and Blues musician Keith Secola, the Mark Cleveland Band, Guia Rivera, Aztec Dancers, Native American Drum and Dancers, Native Artist Andrew Morrison, and others in a celebration of First Peoples' art.

Call 847-301-2090 or send an e-mail to trickstergallery@aic-chicago.org for ticket information.

Raffle Winners
 

John Byrn won the Peltier original, “Mystic Storyteller,” and Jody Rasmassen won the cedar wood flute hand crafted by gifted artist Leslie C. Thunderhawk. Congratulations to you both and thank you to everyone who participated in the raffles.
 

Artwork by Leonard Peltier
 

Images of new paintings by Leonard Peltier are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto your choice of canvas, fine art, or photo-base paper. Visit Leonard Peltier Art for details and order your reproduction today.

Leonard's artwork is timeless and available. These
paintings are the prime resource for the Committee to raise funds.

Statutory "Rule of Law" is NOT "Law"



NOTE:  This commentary was sent to me (2002) on a public e-mail list by Pamela Gaston, patriot extraordinaire and pioneer in the sui juris movement.

As I understand it, tragically, Pamela died of an illness for which she was unable to afford to get medical care, as the feds had driven her into financial destitution.  (I can relate to that, as the same is happening to me. With my health in a state of gradual decline, over a period of years, unable to get the medical care I desperately need, and with no one to care, no one I can rely on, my health grows more fragile by the day.)

This commentary was a response to one Leonard Henderson, of whom I must state for the public record: He is (or was, in 2002, anyway) a government stooge; as he was in collusion with one Charles Bruce Stewart, a malicious liar and defender/supporter of several government shills, most notably fed snitch and psycho stalker, Timothy Patrick White; and also including Shirley Anderson (White's one-time girlfriend), and Larry Lawson, of Indiana, another fed snitch who made a deal, as did White (in White's case, drug  trafficking), for charges to be dropped for "felony threatening of the president (George W. Bush.)

Leonard Henderson, according to Charles Bruce Stewart, was assisting these government shills/stooges in "exposing CIA Judas Goat and false patriot, Barbara Hartwell."

But this does not reflect in the slightest on Pamela Gaston.  She supported my work; I published her letters to the editor on my website, and in this case, she was only answering a question, and I find her commentary worth publishing.

There are, unfortunately,  all too many idiots out there who don't know the difference between "civil rights" and "God-given rights", as protected and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Even worse, some of these idiots are shooting off their mouths in public commentaries about a topic of which they know nothing,  all in their efforts at seeking attention and approval.

One such idiot is James F. Marino, a belligerent ignoramus who has been writing his foolish commentaries about "civil rights" for years; who has (unsuccessfully) tried to imitate the work of legitimate expositors and whistleblowers (including Geral Sosbee and Barbara Hartwell); and (again, unsuccessfully), to ride our coattails; and who has viciously and unjustly  attacked Barbara Hartwell simply for exposing him as the gate-crasher, name-dropper and government stooge he so obviously is.

Nothing new there, all the government stooges have done exactly the same thing!

Typically, Marino began to parrot (and publish) the outrageous lies of his fellow stooges, as well as fabricating his own malicious lies about Barbara Hartwell.

After being exposed (2007), Marino began reversing his position, suddenly parroting the statements of others (including Barbara Hartwell), about "The Rule of Law", etc., apparently hoping that no one would notice the sudden switch.

But Marino also mocks God (in Whom he is not a believer); and also promotes and supports the usurper "president", communist and Muslim, Barack Hussein Obama, whom Marino claims offers "new hope" for Americans.

Marino also supports, defends and promotes other government stooges, including the aforementioned Tim White, along with accomplices Ken Adachi, Todd Brendan Fahey, Aaron James and "Xena Carpenter", under which name Todd Fahey and Tim White write libelous pseudo reports about Barbara Hartwell and others, which Marino has lately taken to promoting on his website.

Consider all this, should you have the misfortune of stumbling onto Marino's moronic website; or the websites run by/promoting these other morons, shills and stooges, all of whom are driven by an obsessive, white-hot hatred for Barbara Hartwell.

Why mention these lowlife characters? Because, I never let an oppportunity go by for exposing liars and evildoers. These loathsome slugs do tremendous damage to decent, legtimate people, and they richly deserve to be exposed. 

Avoid them like the plague!

By their fruits shall you know them.

Barbara Hartwell Percival
February 25, 2010

Statutory "Rule of Law" is NOT "Law" Re: Civil Rights question

By Pamela Gaston

What is the difference between civil rights and constitutional rights?

The difference is similar to "legal rights" as opposed to "Inherent Rights".

Also the difference between "legal" and "lawful".  Statute "rule of law" is NOT constitutional "law". 

Statute  'law" is created by a legislature and is an overlay being enforced OVER our constitutional foundation, which it has usurped.   The constitution has been changed so much that it violates the Bill of Rights in  its own langauge.  We are going back now to the CONCEPT of Sui Juris and the Bill of RIGHTS AS IT WAS INTENDED, AS REASONABLE PEOPLE TRUST IT TO MEAN.  Not some word game in a court and our rights violated and our property and children seized without regard to the Bill of Rights, in REAL LIFE.

Inherent Rights as opposed to "civil rights", which are "legal" "statutory" and NOT constitutional.  Inherent Rights, Sui Juris is about what is REAL - the human flesh and blood and children, not a corporate fiction "entity" that is "represented" in that courtroom, proceeding as though MONEY has rights.  They actually do that.  I have personally seen "civil" actions by the state where an amount of money was the "defendant" and the "dept of revenue" was the "claimant".......  

ONLY HUMANS CAN CONTRACT.... ONLY HUMANS CAN MAKE CLAIMS OR HAVE INHERENT RIGHTS...... see how different it is?????

Inherent Rights come from God, legal "rights" are bestowed by a legislature "in the interest of the person" which means "money off the people"  anyway, as I understand it, "civil rights" were what came in with the fraudulent Fourteenth Amendment.

What happened was Lincoln and others "rewrote the laws" (familiar theme) to "give rights" to the slaves, black, Irish, Chinese predominantly, and to provide "licenses" to control miscegenation of races and the children born of  those unions.  SO - what really happened was that we all "volunteered" to be "US CITIZENS' with priveleges instead of Inherent rights, and these are what are called "civil rights" and "civil courts".

These are progressions on the way.  The Late Robert Wangrud said "the ink was not dry on the Bill of Rights before the money priests were after ways to attach the "freeman in the state" with his new sovereignty guaranteed unalienable (as in cannot lein against) RIGHTS.  They created OVERLAYS called "districts", "regions", "zones", "municipalities", "jurisdictions", "areas", all kinds of names, to make new lines that cross through states and combine many states, and then they enforce another set of "laws" OVER these "regions" or whatever.  

ALL THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO A FREEBORN SOVEREIGN. 

The feds are supposed to prosecute TWO crimes with the people...... murder and treason.  And in order to "attach" to you, or send you a letter, or come to your home, or ask your name, they have to have probable cause to do so, and come into the state and THROUGH the state offices to come to you.  This is your protections of state rights against "foreign and unknown jurisdictions" which are unconstitutional.  No different than a guerilla army takes over your town and you are to be protected from that agression by your county sheriffs.

So the Fourteenth amendment created  a "new class" of the people and stripped their Inherent Rights and started the licensing for marriage, taxes and every other licensing program ever since....  these are NOT constitutional.......

We are learning to say it right because it really means something different.  SUI JURIS is the way to say it in a court that you are NOT a corporation and you are NOT in any represented status - you are living, flesh and blood and speaking your truth.  THAT concept is the main thing that EVERYONE needs to learn right now as fast as they can grasp it and tell everyone they know as they  learn it.......

In the past the issues of the day were cultural, race based or religious, as in the civil war and the suffagettes movement, two examples.  THIS time we are into the CORE of the fraud, whereas previously it was all peripheral..... as HUGE as those issues were, they NEVER addressed in a court room  the systemic fraud of the money priests.  The rich and corporate interests have been controllling everything for ever practically, through corrupted people for profit.  Nothing new under the sun.

But today the People have opened up areas not previously opened, in that the BAR association are the operators of the money machine, and now it is a global agenda.  The other side we see is that  it has become so fetid, so unaccountable that there are perverts and pedophiles in the offices of trust, and that is why it has opened up now like a long cancerous wound.......

So learning the difference between "civil rights" , "legal rights" and  "Inherent Rights" is critical ...... there are no "constitutional rights".  

THE CONSTITUTION RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT, IT DOES NOT GIVE ANYONE ANY RIGHTS. 

These concepts cannot be repeated often enough......  The way to think of it and say it is "constitutionally protected inherent rights".....

The other trick word with legal is Lawful ........ you say "lawfully and unlawfully" whereas they say "legal" and "illegal".......  "Legal" is statutory, "Lawful" has to do with your real body, your rights, your children, and  that being violated by the state in particular, There are so many word deceptions!  

Humpty Dumpty is the egghead with the "attractive cravat"..... the man of words who is above accountability...... but now that we are learning the difference it is like magic tricks and it doesnt work anymore ...... and we see slimy liars and "maggots that smile and fart" as our friend Michael Sieradzki said recently about the level of corruption here in Oregon.  Unbelievable but true, and thank God we are learning..... hopefully quickly enough to head it off.....

Pamela Gaston

PS - Your friend needs to file her paperwork with FACTS - that is the main thing.  Not to let them intimidate you with this form or this timeline or that it has to be some "correct" process..... that is  all charade, as we see them do ANYTHING they want to in a courtroom when the state is the one doing it.  So don't be diverted by that crap and just state your facts of fraud they have committed and that they cannot dispute.  That is ALL it has to be, and support it with documents if possible or necessary...... but the whole court process is you ask a question and you state a fact, they have to answer and they have to dispute...... NOW you are off and running building your case in the permanent record of their fraud.

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Henderson
To:  A Voice  for Children
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Fw: Civil Rights question
 

"Hey Pamela, can you answer this question?  I don't have enough brain power today to remember my own name.

Leonard"

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:21 PM
To: Leonard Henderson
From; Diane Hamilton
Subject: Re: Civil Rights question

"I thought "Civil Rights" were the liberties given to us by the 'Constitution and its subsequent amendments! What's the difference?

This "Dept of Social Services -  Civil Rights Bureau" is an agency within the California government, apparently."

War Crimes, Institutionalized Human Rights Violations



NOTE: Here is a segment from my report (2006), The Wreckers.  In keeping with my decision to break up reports into shorter segments (as suggested by my readers), I add this to my archives.

For the entire report:
 
The Wreckers: False Lights and the Nature of Evil

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; next it is violently attacked; finally, it is held to be self-evident.

--Schopenhauer

WAR CRIMES, INSTITUTIONALIZED HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Now, they have implemented treasonous legislation which allows them to commit war crimes under the color of law; as well as to be 'exonerated' from past war crimes. Not Constitutional law, the Supreme Law of the Land, to be sure, but who is going to stop them?

Now, the bastards can hold prisoners without formally charging them with any crime and with no access to legal counsel. The bastards can also torture their captives with impunity.

They can spy, violate privacy, engage in 'round-the-clock surveillance of American citizens, all the while waving the flag in their rabid, war-mongering frenzy: The War on Terror, don't you know?

Terrorists, running a war on terror. Terrorists, terrorizing anyone who dares to stand up and defy them, who dares to fight for Liberty, who dares to call them what they are: TERRORISTS. And traitors to these United States of America.

As for the wreckers who have destroyed my own life, their hideous handiwork has been wrought not by rogue gangs of thugs, but in a highly organized manner, at the behest and the expense of the U.S. Government. And their terror campaign against private citizens like myself started long, long ago, before their illegal covert operations morphed into the "war on terror" and reached the public perception as such.

I'd been writing and speaking publicly about it for many years before 9-11, attempting to warn all and sundry. Mostly, I only encountered resistance from people whose eyes glazed over at the mention of domestic terrorism by the government; who just couldn't get their minds around the fact that the U.S. government would persecute American citizens.

Moral considerations aside, not to worry, they can easily afford it. They've got the resources --in spades--gleaned from their extortion of "taxpayer dollars"; their sponsorship of pervasive corporate debt-slavery; as well as black budget funding, scavenged from drugs-for-arms deals and other criminal enterprises. Nor are they at a loss for manpower (if you could call them "men". ) They operate under plausible deniability, their methods are insidious as hell. 

Cowards, liars, traitors. Terrorists R Us.

Those of us who seek justice, who defend our individual rights and liberties, bestowed by God, fight them with every fiber of our being. We expose their evil, bringing it into the light. But to fight them, to expose them truly and well, we must first understand the nature of evil. Unless and until evil is recognized for what it actually is, all efforts to expose it, to vanquish it, are in vain.
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Barbara Hartwell Percival
Legal Defense & Research Trust

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

A New Vigilantism on Our American Borders



NOTE: This article by Carl F. Worden was sent to me by the author in 2002.  On my old website (barbarahartwell.com) I had dedicated an entire section to Carl's articles, this one included.

Generally speaking, I don't care how old an article is, but only how true it is. One thing I've noticed: Carl's articles stand the test of time and often are prescient in their  warnings about the future. As for the issue addressed here, it has become a worse problem than ever, and is of particular concern to me personally.

As I build my archives on this new site, I will be adding more articles from Carl F. Worden.

A website housing his archives is here:
  
 
THE NEW VIGILANTISM ON OUR AMERICAN BORDERS

Ladies & gentlemen:

Whenever and wherever a failure of local law enforcement and United States federal government intervention into crime against the citizens exists, a vigilantism, or Militia of common citizens, will arise.  That is the "Worden Rule".  That is the American way of doing things, so count on that response every time it happens.  That is how we were born in fire and blood as a nation, it is our independent American nature, and it is ultimately effective whenever necessary.

We American citizens have a constitutional right to bear personal firearms, and we have personal property to protect, independent of our government; therefore we are not dependent upon our government to protect us when they won't.  Such is the case with regards to our border with Mexico.

The Republicans don't want to stem the tide of illegal immigrants galloping across our border with Mexico because their corporate handlers demand the cheap labor these illegal immigrants provide.  The Democrats don't want to interfere with the illegal immigrants because they provide votes for anyone deemed a Democrat because it is always the Democrats who call for amnesty for illegal immigrants already established here.  In the afterglow of those treasonous government failures to act, the citizens' Militia has predictably filled that void.

The refusal of the American media to nationally report incidents where citizen Militias have proven effective in arresting and detaining illegal immigrants on our border with Mexico has been circumvented by Internet news organizations like WorldNetDaily, Sierra Times and Newsmax, among others, not afraid or inhibited to report these incidents.

For example, a Texas-based Militia group calling itself "Ranch Rescue" recently stopped 279 pounds of high grade Marijuana from being smuggled across a ranch owned by the Nature Conservancy in Arizona.  They were staked out on a trail on that ranch that looked like a herd of buffalo had recently crossed at 3 AM when they detected another group coming over.  When the heavily armed Militia group, largely manned by former special forces personnel yelled, "Alto!", the group tossed their cargo and scampered back from whence they came, leaving their shipment for the Militia to gather it and alert the media.

When the local sheriff was notified of the seizure, he told the media this was a very serious problem and it could have gone very badly.

Oh really?  How badly?  Where was this sheriff and his deputies when this shipment was coming through?  Home asleep, perhaps?  Yes, and what was this sheriff really complaining about?  Perhaps that he didn't get his "cut" off that shipment?  One can only speculate.

The bottom line is that America is being invaded daily on both southern and northern borders, not only by illegal immigrants looking for a better life, but by drug smugglers bringing in contraband that is a whole lot more dangerous to our American youth than 300 pounds of high-grade pot.  They are also bringing in Heroin and a number of other drugs.

A Tombstone weekly newspaper publisher recently called for the formation of a citizen militia to combat illegal immigration on the border.  They asked for vote on the issue, and 95% of the respondents were in favor of it.

But what was the response of the government officials?  According to reporter Ignacio Ibarra of the Arizona Daily Star, " Arizona leaders at the state and federal level are calling for investigations into armed civilian patrols along the state's border with Mexico."

"U.S. Rep.-elect Raúl Grijalva, a Tucson Democrat who takes office in January, said he will push for federal hearings into the activities of the civilian patrols. Grijalva's pledge echoes proposals this weekend during border forums in Mexico, made by leaders including Gov.-elect Janet Napolitano, Gov. Jane Hull and Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales."

Since when did these elected miscreants think the American citizen was some lower class not "authorized" to interdict drug trafficking?  We Americans are all members of the Militia under the United States Code, and the Constitution of the United States authorizes the Militia to "Enforce the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and to repel invasions."  As such, the American Militia is a law enforcement entity authorized by every state and federal law in the nation to make citizen arrests.

The American people are waking up and taking action, and these elected officials had better do the same.

Carl F. Worden
Liaison Officer
Southern Oregon Militia

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Barbara Hartwell Percival
Legal Defense & Research Trust

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL



The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was recently sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

America the Beautiful, or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride; I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters, Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.
Our children wander aimlessly poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts, when God has said abstain.
From sea to shining sea, our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray.
So many worldly preachers tell lies about our Rock,
Saying God is going broke so they can fleece the flock.
We've kept God in our temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool, and Heaven is His throne.
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door,
Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.
You think that God's not angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God, from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do, but stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children, will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face and mend our evil way:
Then God will hear from Heaven and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land and those who live within.
But, America the Beautiful, if you don't then you will see,
A sad but Holy God withdraw His hand from Thee.

Judge Roy Moore

THE STOOL PIGEON SNITCH/GOVERNMENT SHILL



NOTE: This is a classic, short and to the point, by one of the most knowledgable expositors of COINTELPRO who ever lived, JBS leader John Perna.

Many people today claim to be "exposing" COINTELPRO (which over the past few years has become an increasingly "trendy" topic), when in fact they don't know what they are talking about. These individuals only muddy the waters with their unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and in fact, COINTELPRO exploits just such individuals, some of whom may not even be aware that they are being used to further the nefarious agenda which they are too blind to see.


Please also see other reports by John (on this site and elsewhere) which elucidate the tactics of COINTELPRO.


BHP

February 23, 2010


By John Perna

THE STOOL PIGEON SNITCH /GOVERNMENT SHILL


There are always a few convicted criminals, who want to get out of jail by working for the government. A search for court records will often discover the convictions of these stool pigeon snitches.

A convicted criminal; whose actions fit the patterns described herein, is almost certain to be working for government. If that person is a close ally of other government disinformers, then all doubt is removed.


Often you will be able to see the specific rewards that these stool pigeon snitches are receiving for their work.

An example would be an incredibly short sentence for a very serious crime. Stool pigeon snitches might have served only a few months, out of a sentence of many years.
Stool pigeon snitches might have had charges mysteriously dropped.


One of these stool pigeon snitches was sentenced to FOUR YEARS in prison, for a drug violation, in Denver, COLORADO but only served 5 months.


One of these stool pigeon snitches, was charged with felony threatening of the President, in Owen County Indiana, but mysteriously got the charges dropped all together.


One of these stool pigeon snitches is a convicted rapist;who only served FOUR MONTHS.


Of course the stool pigeon snitch/GOVERNMENT SHILL will always adhere to the GOLDEN RULE OF DISINFORMERS:


Always accuse your adversary of whatever is true about yourself.


IT WILL BE QUITE CLEAR WHO IT IS, THAT DOES THESE THINGS, IF YOU JUST THINK ABOUT IT.


It is a common tactic of FBI COINTELPRO to try to be THE FIRST ONE MAKE THE ACCUSATION.

If there is a DISINFORMER on this list, he is now asked to demonstrate THE GOLDEN RULE OF DISINFORMERS by accusing me of whatever is true about himself.


If you will study the tactics used by the FBI COINTELPRO program.THEN you will recognize FBI COINTELPRO immediately.


Visit:


Take note of the following paragraph:


"The FBI COINTELPRO program was initiated in 1956. Its purpose, as described later by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities" of those individuals and organizations whose ideas or goals he opposed. Tactics included: falsely labeling individuals as informants; infiltrating groups with persons instructed to disrupt the group; sending anonymous or forged letters designed to promote strife between groups; initiating politically motivated IRS investigations; carrying out burglaries of offices and unlawful wiretaps; and disseminating to other government agencies and to the media unlawfully obtained derogatory information on individuals and groups."


If you understand the meaning of the tactic "to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities" you will understand that the person who is most likely of being a Fed, is the one who involves patriots in activities that have no effect on those who are building tyranny, and activities that will destroy the credibility of the patriots.


Those who are building tyranny would love to convince people that we are all a bunch of paranoid nuts, so that we will be unable to warn people about the building of tyranny.


Those who are building tyranny would be more capable of convincing people that we are paranoid nuts, if they could convince a segment of the patriots to run around telling people that the clouds, and the street signs, are out to get us, or that we should ban water.


If you understand the meaning of the tactic "infiltrating groups with persons instructed to disrupt the group; sending anonymous or forged letters designed to promote strife between groups" OR OF: "disseminating to other government agencies and to the media unlawfully obtained derogatory information on individuals and groups."


THEN you will know that a campaign of personal attacks on the real patriots is a part of the FBI COINTELPRO program.


If you understand the meaning of the tactic of falsely labeling individuals as informants THEN you will know that the person;who is most likely to be a fed, is the one who calls the real patriot a fed.


You will notice that no one's name is mentioned in this. If there is anyone who thinks that this description accurately applies to himself, that person is invited to comment.

Code Name Renegade: Who Is This Man?


 
The FBI, CIA and Secret Service are closely watching a certain individual...
 
His code name is Renegade.
 
There is no record that Barry Soetoro ever officially changed his name back to Barack Obama, so he may now be operating under a false identity....
 
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama:
 
Who is this man, this alleged "president" of the U.S. of A.?
 
What is his true identity?
 
How many Social Security numbers has he used?
 
Is he (still) a citizen of Indonesia?
 
Is he a Muslim?
 
Is he a dyed-in-the-wool, born-and-bred Communist?
 
To explore these questions, and many more, see this video:
 

A Republic If You Can Keep It



NOTE:  I'm not much of a believer in preaching to the choir. I know most of the readers of this website know all this stuff. But then again, there may be those who could benefit from reading (or re-reading) this article (one of my all time favorites) by John McManus.

However, as I see it, the main problem in this country is not with those who don't have the information they need to make informed decisions, but are open-minded and willing to learn. Personally, I have absolutely no problem with such people. It is those people I and others like me hope to reach with our activism and efforts at education.

My problem is with those (and it's truly astounding how many of them are out there!) who are foolish enough, brainwashed enough, or maybe just stupid enough, to believe that they can support, endorse, even "appeal" to an organization like the United Nations; that they can support and endorse the presence of a flaming communist, such as Barack Hussein Obama, in the White House, and then, in the next breath, be spouting out comments about "the Constitution" and "The Rule of Law".

People like this are destroying this country just as surely as are the criminals in government.

They simply can't have it both ways.  There is one --and only one-- righteous and true way: Defending our God-given (natural) unalienable, Constitutionally protected and guaranteed rights.

The God-given rights of the INDIVIDUAL under the Rule of Law.

As for the "hope" of saving this country? It is not the false hope of the usurper "president," blithely touted by so many credulous fools whose ignorance is exacerbated by arrogance. 

What hope there is rests in those of us who will stand up for this country, come hell or high water, who will defend Liberty, who would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

If you know an open-minded and concerned American, a friend, relative, colleague, anybody at all, who might benefit from reading this article, please, by all means, pass it on!

BHP
February 23, 2010

A Republic, If You Can Keep It
by John F. McManus
November 6, 2000
 


Knowing that a democracy is a government of men in which the tyranny of the majority rules, America's Founding Fathers wisely created a republic - a government ruled by law.

On Constitution Day, September 17, 2000, President Bill Clinton spoke at the ground-breaking ceremony for a National Constitution Center at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. On that occasion the president remarked that the men who signed the Constitution "understood the enormity of what they were attempting to do: to create a representative democracy." He heaped praise on "Washington, Franklin, Madison" for having created our form of government.

President Clinton turned the work of the Founding Fathers on its head. 

Washington, Franklin, Madison, and the other men who gave us independence and our form of government never set out to create a "representative democracy." Those men recognized in democracy a danger to freedom just as deadly as that represented by the worst despotism. Mr. Clinton is not the first politician to claim the Founding Fathers established a democracy. But the fact that this error is widespread does not make it any more accurate.

Intent of the Founders

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." This exchange was recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry that was later reproduced in the 1906 American Historical Review. Yet in more recent years, Franklin has occassionally been misquoted as having said, "A democracy, if you can keep it." 

The NRA’s Charleton Heston quoted Franklin this way, for example, in a CBS 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace that was aired on December 20, 1998.

This misquote is a serious one, since the difference between a democracy and a republic is not merely a question of semantics but is fundamental. The word "republic" comes from the Latin res publica — which means simply "the public thing(s)," or more simply "the law(s)." "Democracy," on the other hand, is derived from the Greek words demos and kratein, which translates to "the people to rule." Democracy, therefore, has always been synonymous with majority rule.

The Founding Fathers supported the view that (in the words of the Declaration of Independence) "Men … are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." They recognized that such rights should not be violated by an unrestrained majority any more than they should be violated by an unrestrained king or monarch. In fact, they recognized that majority rule would quickly degenerate into mobocracy and then into tyranny. They had studied the history of both the Greek democracies and the Roman republic. They had a clear understanding of the relative freedom and stability that had characterized the latter, and of the strife and turmoil — quickly followed by despotism — that had characterized the former. In drafting the Constitution, they created a government of law and not of men, a republic and not a democracy.

But don’t take our word for it! Consider the words of the Founding Fathers themselves, who — one after another — condemned democracy.

• Virginia’s Edmund Randolph participated in the 1787 convention. 

Demonstrating a clear grasp of democracy’s inherent dangers, he reminded his colleagues during the early weeks of the Constitutional Convention that the purpose for which they had gathered was "to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy...."

• Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, championed the new Constitution in his state precisely because it would not create a democracy. "Democracy never lasts long," he noted. "It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself." He insisted, "There was never a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.’"

• New York’s Alexander Hamilton, in a June 21, 1788 speech urging ratification of the Constitution in his state, thundered: "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. 

Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." Earlier, at the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton stated: "We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."

• James Madison, who is rightly known as the "Father of the Constitution," wrote in The Federalist, No. 10: "... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths." The Federalist Papers, recall, were written during the time of the ratification debate to encourage the citizens of New York to support the new Constitution.

• George Washington, who had presided over the Constitutional Convention and later accepted the honor of being chosen as the first President of the United States under its new Constitution, indicated during his inaugural address on April 30, 1789, that he would dedicate himself to "the preservation … of the republican model of government."

• Fisher Ames served in the U.S. Congress during the eight years of George Washington’s presidency. A prominent member of the Massachusetts convention that ratified the Constitution for that state, he termed democracy "a government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices and ambitions of their leaders." On another occasion, he labeled democracy’s majority rule one of "the intermediate stages towards … tyranny." 

He later opined: "Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes." And in an essay entitled The Mire of Democracy, he wrote that the framers of the Constitution "intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism."

In light of the Founders’ view on the subject of republics and democracies, it is not surprising that the Constitution does not contain the word "democracy," but does mandate: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government."

20th Century Changes

These principles were once widely understood. In the 19th century, many of the great leaders, both in America and abroad, stood in agreement with the Founding Fathers. John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835 echoed the sentiments of Fisher Ames. "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos," he wrote. American poet James Russell Lowell warned that "democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." Lowell was joined in his disdain for democracy by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who remarked that "democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors." Across the Atlantic, British statesman Thomas Babington Macauly agreed with the Americans. 

"I have long been convinced," he said, "that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both." Britons Benjamin Disraeli and Herbert Spencer would certainly agree with their countryman, Lord Acton, who wrote: "The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

By the 20th century, however, the falsehoods that democracy was the epitome of good government and that the Founding Fathers had established just such a government for the United States became increasingly widespread. This misinformation was fueled by President Woodrow Wilson’s famous 1916 appeal that our nation enter World War I "to make the world safe for democracy" — and by President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1940 exhortation that America "must be the great arsenal of democracy" by rushing to England’s aid during WWII.

One indicator of the radical transformation that took place is the contrast between the War Department’s 1928 "Training Manual No. 2000-25," which was intended for use in citizenship training, and what followed. 

The 1928 U.S. government document correctly defined democracy as:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct expression." Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights. Attitude of the law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

This manual also accurately stated that the framers of the Constitution "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy … and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had formed a republic."

But by 1932, pressure against its use caused it to be withdrawn. In 1936, Senator Homer Truett Bone (D-WA) took to the floor of the Senate to call for the document’s complete repudiation. By then, even finding a copy of the manual had become almost impossible. Decades later, in an article appearing in the October 1973 issue of Military Review, Lieutenant Colonel Paul B. Parham explained that the Army ceased using the manual because of letters of protest "from private citizens." Interestingly, Parham also noted that the word democracy "appears on one hand to be of key importance to, and holds some peculiar significance for, the Communists."

By 1952 the U.S. Army was singing the praises of democracy, instead of warning against it, in Field Manual 21-13, entitled The Soldier’s Guide. This new manual incorrectly stated: "Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our Government will be organized and run...." (Emphasis in original.)

Yet important voices continued to warn against the siren song for democracy. In 1931, England’s Duke of Northumberland issued a booklet entitled The History of World Revolution in which he stated: "The adoption of Democracy as a form of Government by all European nations is fatal to good Government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must eventually produce a state of chaos from which a new world tyranny will arise."

In 1939, historians Charles and Mary Beard added their strong voices in favor of historical accuracy in their America in Midpassage: "At no time, at no place, in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it, except possibly the mention of ‘We, the People,’ in the preamble.... When the Constitution was framed no respectable person called himself or herself a democrat."

During the 1950s, Clarence Manion, the dean of Notre Dame Law School, echoed and amplified what the Beards had so correctly stated. He summarized: "The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term ‘democracy’ even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to ‘democracy’ only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system."

On September 17 (Constitution Day), 1961, John Birch Society founder Robert Welch delivered an important speech, entitled "Republics and Democracies," in which he proclaimed: "This is a Republic, not a Democracy. Let’s keep it that way!" The speech, which was later published and widely distributed in pamphlet form, amounted to a jolting wake-up call for many Americans. In his remarks, Welch not only presented the evidence to show that the Founding Fathers had established a republic and had condemned democracy, but he warned that the definitions had been distorted, and that powerful forces were at work to convert the American republic into a democracy, in order to bring about dictatorship.

Means to an End

Welch understood that democracy is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Eighteenth century historian Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, it is thought, argued that, "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." And as British writer G.K. Chesterton put it in the 20th century: "You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Communist revolutionary Karl Marx understood this principle all too well. Which is why, in The Communist Manifesto, this enemy of freedom stated that "the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy." For what purpose? To "abolish private property"; to "wrest, by degrees, capital from the bourgeoisie"; to "centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State"; etc.

Another champion of democracy was Communist Mao Tse-tung, who proclaimed in 1939 (a decade before consolidating control on the Chinese mainland): "Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society."

Still another champion of democracy is Mikhail Gorbachev, who stated in his 1987 book Perestroika that, "according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy [emphasis in the original] and revives the Leninist concept.... We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy."

This socialist revolution has been underway in America for generations. In January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson boasted in a White House address: "We are going to try to take all of the money that we think is unnecessarily being spent and take it from the ‘haves’ and give it to the ‘have nots’ that need it so much." What he advocated, of course, was a Marxist, not an American, precept. (The way Marx put it was: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.") But other presidents before and after have advanced the same goal. Of course, most who support this goal do not comprehend the totalitarian consequences of constantly transferring more power to Washington. But this lack of understanding is what makes revolution by the ballot box possible.

The push for democracy has only been possible because the Constitution is being ignored, violated, and circumvented. The Constitution defines and limits the powers of the federal government. Those powers, all of which are enumerated, do not include agricultural subsidy programs, housing programs, education assistance programs, food stamps, etc. Under the Constitution, Congress is not authorized to pass any law it chooses; it is only authorized to pass laws that are constitutional. Anybody who doubts the intent of the Founders to restrict federal powers, and thereby protect the rights of the individual, should review the language in the Bill of Rights, including the opening phrase of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law...").

As Welch explained in his 1961 speech:

... man has certain unalienable rights which do not derive from government at all.... And those … rights cannot be abrogated by the vote of a majority any more than they can by the decree of a conqueror. The idea that the vote of a people, no matter how nearly unanimous, makes or creates or determines what is right or just becomes as absurd and unacceptable as the idea that right and justice are simply whatever a king says they are. Just as the early Greeks learned to try to have their rulers and themselves abide by the laws they had themselves established, so man has now been painfully learning that there are more permanent and lasting laws which cannot be changed by either sovereign kings or sovereign people, but which must be observed by both. And that government is merely a convenience, superimposed on Divine Commandments and on the natural laws that flow only from the Creator of man and man’s universe.

Such is the noble purpose of the constitutional republic we inherited from our Founding Fathers.