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I have become an avid reader of Mr. Grigg’s column on the Lew Rockwell site. I recently wrote to Mr. Grigg because I particularly enjoyed this column, and I asked for permission to post it here. http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w148.html
As a note here, Mr. Grigg uses the original quote from the 12th Century Crusade that gave us “Kill them all. Let God sort them out.”
by William Norman Grigg
Recently by William Norman Grigg: The Death of Aiyana Jones: 'Showtime Syndrome' Claims a Child
Kevin Weeks was a career criminal employed as a Mob hitman, but even he possessed sufficient good judgment and self-restraint to avoid risking the life of a seven-year-old girl.
In Brutal, his aptly titled memoir of the years he spent working for Boston Mob boss – and protected FBI asset – James "Whitey" Bulger, Weeks describes how he was given an order to assassinate Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, who relentlessly tormented Bulger in print. Weeks set up a sniper nest near Carr's home. He had the target set up for the kill, but didn't pull the trigger because Carr's daughter, "a little girl, like seven-years-old or so," was walking hand-in-hand with her father.
"I couldn't take a chance of the bullet fragmenting and ricocheting or hitting her or just killing her father in front of her," recounts Weeks.
This episode, admittedly, is retold from the self-serving perspective of a convicted murderer. Ironically, Carr himself, in his valuable book The Brothers Bulger, relates a somewhat similar story of a proposed contract hit that was vetoed by former Boston Mob boss Raymond Patriarca.
Joe Barboza, a hitman employed by Patriarca, pointed out that the hoodlum targeted by the contract lived in a three-story house in Boston. Barboza suggested that he could "break into the basement and pour gasoline all around and torch the place, after which I either get him with the smoke inhalation or I pick him off when he's climbing out the window."
"Barboza had worked out a plan for every contingency," notes Carr. "He would bring three shooters with him, to watch each side of the house. They would cut the telephone lines to the houses, so that the victim couldn't call the fire department. And just in case one of the neighbors called, before setting the house on fire Barboza planned to phone in false alarms across the city to tie up every fire company."
Patriarca, who had few compunctions about killing when it suited him, wasn't keen on Barboza's plan, in large measure because of the potential harm to non-combatants.
"Patriarca asked Barboza if anyone else lived in [the targeted hoodlum's] house, and Barboza mentioned the victim's mother," continues Carr.
"You're gonna kill his mother too?" asked Patriarca.
"It ain't my fault she lives there," the hitman snorted by way of reply.
"Patriarca canceled the contract," Carr tersely summarizes. Barboza, not surprisingly, proved to be too ruthless and deranged for the Mob, and ended up – like Bulger – as another of the FBI's protected assets.
It is a monumental pity that the Detroit Special Response Team, or the decision-makers above them in the Detroit PD, didn't have the sense of proportionality displayed by Mob figures like Kevin Weeks and Raymond Patriarca. If they had, the murder suspect they sought – 34-year-old Chauncey Owens – could have been taken into custody without the midnight paramilitary raid that resulted in the burning and shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones.
Shortly after midnight on May 16, while Aiyana – a radiant little girl who might have grown up to resemble Zoe Saldana – was sleeping on the downstairs living room sofa where she would be killed just a few minutes later, the raid team gathered for a "safety briefing."
As described by police sources to the Detroit Free Press, that briefing dealt entirely with considerations of "officer safety," which – as any honest observer will admit – is the highest and most important consideration in any law enforcement operation.
The raid team "was told there was information that the suspect might be armed, possibly with an assault rifle and a handgun," reports the Free Press. "Someone said there also might be dangerous dogs and that the house was believed to be a possible dope den."
Another intelligence source speculated that the unprepossesing duplex might actually be the location of the missing Iraqi WMDs, which had been stored in a basement vault guarded by a basilisk.
No, not really.
But in its anxiety over officer safety, and its eagerness to stage a properly impressive raid for the benefit of the embedded A&E camera crew, the SRT did not take into account "the possibility of any children being present," despite the fact that the front yard was littered with toys – a clue that even a police officer should be able to recognize – and warnings to that effect offered by neighbors as the raid unfolded.
Street officers and homicide detectives were already on the scene when the SRT's armored personnel carrier rolled up in front of the duplex.
The APC was driven by Officer Joseph Weekley, who was also the first through the door after a flash-bang grenade had been thrown through the window. Weekley went barreling into the living room armed with a machine gun and protected by a ballistic shield.
Meanwhile, Aiyana – according to at least one eyewitness – was being severely burned by the incendiary grenade that had been thrown into her bed.
It's not clear whether Aiyana suffered her fatal gunshot wound before or after Weekley entered the house. In either case, Officer Weekley has been identified as the shooter. He initially claimed that his gun accidentally went off during a "scuffle" with Aiyana's 47-year-old grandmother.
Within a few hours that account was "clarified" by the police, who said that there was incidental "contact" between Weekley and Aiyana's grandmother; the latter denies having contact of any kind with Weekley.
Geoffrey Fieger, the attorney representing Aiyana's family, claims to have seen a videotape of the raid showing that the shot was fired into the house shortly after the grenade was hurled through the downstairs window.
Chauncey Owens, who has been charged with the ...
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It was announced today Oct. 24,2009 that President Barack Obama signed into law a Declaration. The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules.
"As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic," Obama wrote in the declaration, which the White House announced Saturday.
Lets us all hope, this isnt what we have been expecting in the last several months. Illegal Forced Vaccinations, unwarranted martial law, illegal search and seizure, detention without just cause.
Here is a list of laws Relating to National Emergency Laws.
The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance And Emergency Relief Act
13CFR123.1 Chapter I--Small Business Administration Part 123--Disaster Loan Program
United States Code TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
CHAPTER 34 - NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
Executive Orders
Executive Order 10995
Assigning Telecommunications Management Functions
Executive Order 10997
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of The Interior:
electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals
Executive Order 10998
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To the Secretary Of Agriculture
Food resources, farm equipment, fertilizer, and food resource facilities
Executive Order 10999
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Commerce
transportation, the production and distribution of all materials
Executive Order 11000
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Labor
Manpower management employment stabilization
Executive Order 11001
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Health, Education, And Welfare
health services, civilian health manpower, health resources, welfare services, and educational programs
Executive Order 11002
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Postmaster General
national emergency registration system
Executive Order 11003
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Administrator Of The Federal Aviation Agency
emergency management of the Nation's airports, operating facilities
Executive Order 11004
Assigning Certain Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Housing And Home Finance Administrator
all aspects of lodging or housing and community facilities
Executive Order 11005
Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Interstate Commerce Commission
railroad utilization, motor carrier utilization, inland waterway utilization
Executive Order 11051
Prescribing Responsibilities Of The Office Of Emergency Planning In The Executive Office Of The President
Executive Order 11490
Assigning emergency preparedness functions to Federal departments and agencies
Executive Order 12472
Assignment of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions.
In order to provide for the consolidation of assignment and responsibility for improved execution of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Executive Order 12656
Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
National Security Emergency Preparedness Policy: Continuity of Government
Executive Order 12919
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
(a) Identify requirements for national emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian demand
(b) Assess continually the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of adequate industrial resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;
(c) Be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate industrial resources and production capability, including services and critical technology for national defense requirements;
(d) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness, to defense requirements, of the domestic industrial base; and
(e) Foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for research and development and for acquisition of materials, components, and equipment to enhance industrial base efficiency and responsiveness.
Executive Order 12938
Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction
weapons of mass destruction constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Executive Order 13074
Amends Executive Order 12656 adding a new section 501(16) regarding Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all means of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...
Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.
While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Wiemar Republic."
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For anyone who has not been made up to speed on the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of the president, there have been numerous suits filed in several different courts to obtain a hearing on his qualification.
Whether the argument is pointless, or if there is something to be learned, the most crucial part of this whole miasma is that the courts are consistently telling the People that they have no right to ask, or that a questionable single document is enough to satisfy the Constitutional question.
I don’t have access to any of the records that would be considered critical, and neither does anyone I know. We are told that they are there, but none of us are allowed to see them.
Why are the president and the Democratic Party spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep his records secure? I don’t know how many of you have applied for a job recently in any critical sector, but your potential employer is doing a thorough background check on who you are, and that includes what your credit might look like.
Some apartment owners, probably most, in New York are doing background checks in accordance with standards set through Sarbanes-Oxley. You, or I, can’t even get on a plane without them, those fun folks at the airports, doing an investigation of what we have on our person, questioning everything including a tool as essential as a nail clipper.
So why is that we should just shut our mouth when it comes to the highly suspect activity surrounding Obama’s records? Is there something to hide? Congressman Trent Franks is convinced that Obama is qualified, but that there is something that must be resolved.
World Net Daily has been on the case from the outset, long before Obama even had the nomination to be president.
Congressman Franks is convinced, based on a couple of newspaper clippings that Obama is indeed qualified. For heck’s sake congressman, are you also convinced that you should be sending a 1040 to the IRS?
Let me rephrase that. Are you also convinced that you should be sending a form that violates 44 U.S.C. 3500 – 3520, to an entity that the Supreme Court once observed had not been created by an act of congress? Or should we be taxing the people of this country into oblivion in order to bail out institutions that have caused an economic crisis from which we may not be able to recover?
And maybe we should give more power to an institution, the Federal Reserve, which you pretend is actually a part of the government while we’re at it. And while we are at it, which we are, lets bail out a bunch of foreign banks to boot.
Back to the point of Obama. We know one thing for sure; government officials lie, and the major media swears to it.
The problems we face from the vetting of Obama’s qualification will not go away with a real and true copy of the original birth certificate because the issue has gone on too long with the government telling the people that we have no right to pose such questions, or to demand a response. Those are fighting words where I come from, but we are all too willing to lie down at the foot of some judge who has no more authority than does any individual sovereign.
Now another point has come to light in this struggle to find the truth. There is now information coming from Hawaii officials that Obama’s records have been amended. Devvy Kidd has written an article OBAMA'S INELIGIBILITY: HOW DEEP DOES THE CORRUPTION GO? Read it as it is important you at least understand the issue is simply not the question of eligibility, but of a broad based fraud.
I have written this short article for one purpose, and that is to address the question of the major media. I have been asked on more than one occasion, “Don’t you think that if this had any teeth, people like Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity would be all over it?”
No, I don’t believe that either would jeopardize the lucrative positions that they have attained for themselves. Nor do I believe that the American media represents in any form an honest enterprise seeking to divulge the truth to their listeners, viewers, or readers.
Scrupulous and straightforward reporting has not been part of the American landscape for decades. Journalists are no longer people of honor, but rather they are propagandists making huge sums of money to look good and deliver the information needed to keep you in the dark.
There is nothing we can do. I can’t vote for a third party because I’m throwing my vote away. You can’t fight City Hall. I have heard all the tripe for too long and far too many times. Your congress critter, and the minions that permeate government are counting on the fact that you are convinced nothing can be done. More importantly, they are counting on the fact that you have completely lost touch with the spirit of the American Revolution.
‘Nick’
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Obama's H1N1 Bill to Enact Martial Law
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