Tarheel Snowden

Via Robby

 

One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.

On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.

This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.

For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.

I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.

Edward Joseph Snowden

 Monday 1st July 2013

50 years! Rolling Stones 'blew Glastonbury apart'

Roundabout via Angry Mike

Freedom Fighters & Priests

Via Broken Patriot

New Jersey Home Invasion Suspect Shawn Custis has been Captured

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Two Tyrants

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

"Deep Throat" Wasn't the Watergate Story and Snowden Isn't the Story Today

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Some goodies from Ol' Remus

 Ol' Remus

1935, the only road to Nicholson Hollow, Virginia. 

Snowden - Perhaps, that low-level agent could also get copies of the president's long-sealed personal records? Birth certificate, passport records, police records, college records, medical records, check stubs to Bill Ayres for "ghostwriting services?" The mind boggles - but it would sure help explain why Barry is suddenly so interested in every issue other than this one.
Stilton Cutcheese at hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com (a tip o' the Remus fedora to: JM) 

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  The President of the Unites States has just authorized FEMA to deploy foreign troops on U.S. soil during a mass event that encompasses an any number of disaster scenarios, including but not limited to declarations of martial law. We can now fully expect soldiers speaking broken English forcing their way through our front doors in similar fashion to what we saw in the wake of the Boston bombings, says Mac Slavo in this article, Russia To Share Military “Security Experts” With United States During Mass Disaster Incidents and Emergencies, at SHTFPlan.

NSSF Report: First-Time Gun Buyer - Most first-time buyers purchased their guns through local gun shops (43.6 percent) and mass retailers such as Walmart and Cabela's (33.6 percent). First-time gun buyers spent an average of $515 for their first gun and nearly as much as for accessories ($504). Nearly a quarter of first-time buyers bought at least one more firearm within the first year after their first purchase spending more, on average, on the later purchase.
Bill Brassard at nssf.org 

 Lily Garcia, vice president of the National Education Association, declared that supporters of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms are "going to hell." Texas Democratic Party Executive Committee member John Cobarruvias, have suggested that supporters of gun rights be shot and killed. He also wrote on Facebook that gun rights supporters need to be "wiped off the face of the earth."
Joe Newby at examiner.com

South Africa - If Malema comes to power and he succeeds in following the example set by Mugabe's Zimbabwe, don't spare South Africa an ounce of sympathy once his goal is achieved as people who are absolutely every bit as civilized as everyone else on the planet mysteriously turn out to be unable to maintain an existing agricultural system capable of feeding the country for inexplicable reasons that no rational mind could possibly discern.
Vox Day at voxday.blogspot.com

 The progressive psychosis is that anyone who is adverse to any of their bright ideas is, by definition, evil and stupid.
portle44, comment at nationaljournal.com

 On the one hand, Hillary is running for president based on her work as Secretary of State. And on the other, she's not responsible for anything that happened while she occupied that position because she was really powerless. There's a cynical posturing victimhood underlying all this. It's always someone else's fault. Hillary tried her best, but they just weren't ready to let her do the job.
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au 

 The new world order is a place where men are discriminated against, forced into a hostile environment in school and later in college, and held in contempt by society. Maybe there is no incentive to grow up anymore. It used to be that being a grown-up, responsible man was rewarded with respect, power and deference.
Helen Smith, Men on Strike, via Matt Lewis at dailycaller.com

FBI Document—“[DELETED]” Plots To Kill Occupy Leaders “If Deemed Necessary”

Via Ol' Remus

 

Would you be shocked to learn that the FBI apparently knew that some organization, perhaps even a law enforcement agency or private security outfit, had contingency plans to assassinate peaceful protestors in a major American city — and did nothing to intervene?

Would you be surprised to learn that this intelligence comes not from a shadowy whistle-blower but from the FBI itself – specifically, from a document obtained from Houston FBI office last December, as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Washington, DC-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund?

To repeat: this comes from the FBI itself. The question, then, is: What did the FBI do about it?

The Plot

Remember the Occupy Movement?

More @ Blacklisted News

Prison Diary of Raphael Semmes

 

Arrested by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles in November 1865, Rear-Admiral Semmes of the Alabama was simply charged with not surrendering himself to his enemy after his ship was disabled, though the latter had left him to drown.  Semmes was rescued from the sea by the English yacht Deerhound, taken to England, and eventually made his way back to Richmond to serve the American Confederacy once again.

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman

North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission

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 "Unsurpassed Valor, Courage and Devotion to Liberty"

The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial

Prison Diary of Raphael Semmes

“At the close of the Civil War many of the Confederate leaders were arrested and imprisoned. [Returning to the CSA after losing the Alabama and made a brigadier-general at Danville, Rear Admiral Semmes] was subsequently paroled under the terms of the Johnston-Sherman convention of April 26, 1865. 

Diary:  On the 15^th of December, 1865, whilst sitting with my family, a lieutenant of marines and two sergeants entered my house, having first surrounded it by a guard of some 20 men, and presented me with an order for my arrest from the Secretary of the Navy . . . dated 25 November 1865.

[27 December]: Reached our dock [at New York . . . Breakfasted with [General Jubal] Early on the morning of the 28^th.

[28 December]:  Taken to headquarters of colonel of marines and thence to the navy yard, where I was put in close confinement in the dispensary . . . 

[4 January]: Judge [James] Hughes has had an interview with the President in my case. My arrest was by a cabal of the cabinet, unknown to the President. 

Tuesday, 16 [January]: The ground is covered with snow this morning . . .The unfinished Washington monument, speaking of the ingratitude of the nation is seen nearly in the same direction with Lee’s mansion and the dome of the capitol, and the latter flaunts the flag, the old flag made new by the war, which daily covers in their deliberations the faction of the Rump Congress which daily and hourly proclaims the Southern States to be conquered provinces and refuses admission to her representatives.   

My newspaper is brought in with my breakfast. It is the National Intelligencer!  But how changed from the days of Clay and Calhoun!  I read in it sometimes such a paragraph as this: “Trial of Raphael Semmes. (It does not even call me the late admiral, or the so-called admiral, or the so-called late admiral of the so-called late Confederate States), “late commander of the rebel steamer Alabama, it is generally believed, will take place very shortly.  

I do not think I will be speedily tried.  This would not be in accordance with the Bastille system imported from a by-gone age and the French Revolution . . . Nor do I think that I shall be tried at all, as the Government has no case and can make none, though it is even now scouring the “mappings” of Northern commercial cities for evidence against the pirate.  N’importe. I shall be punished.

[Friday, 26 January]:  The Yankees have are getting the people by the gills; they have passed the bill enlarging the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Silly people!  They fancy that they are governing themselves.

[Saturday, 3 March]:  [Pendleton] Colston came over to-day.  Saw the Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles] . . . Mr. Welles admitted that I had been confined too long, but that it had not been his fault. He regretted, he said, that I had returned to the country; a good deal of trouble might have been saved if I had not done so!  Humane man!”

(The Prison Diary of Raphael Semmes, Elizabeth Bethel, Journal of Southern History, Volume XXII, Number 4, November 1956, pp. 498-499, 502-506, 509)

Vietnam prisoners turned to God, not Darwin

Via Billy

AL
VERBATIM

I heard the testimony of a pilot who spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in a cell that was 6.5 feet by 7 feet.

He shared the cell with three other men.

This small space served as their bathroom, bedroom and kitchen for all of them.

They were fed twice a day, pumpkin soup and what they called sewage green soup. They were constantly hungry and were tortured on a regular basis.

One of his cellmates was a tough self-sufficient officer who had been inside a church maybe once in his life.

He came to this young pilot and started asking him questions about the Bible.

He wanted to know all about God, and all the stories in the Bible.

The men began to memorize Bible verses and tap them in code throughout the camp.

Nobody asked anything about Charles Darwin and the free thinkers.

"I will lift my eyes to the hills-
From whence cometh my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth."

Ironically, Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abby amongst the saints and martyrs of God.
You would have thought his family would have buried this free thinker in the Galapagos amongst the turtles and iguanas.

Maybe they knew something Charles didn't.

Tom L. Williams
Owens Cross Roads