SOPA part II

Well, looks like I was right about one thing.

The SOPA has not even become a law yet and the DOJ and FBI are already cracking down on piracy sites. Specifically, Megaupload.

So why the heck do they need to bother passing a law to give them such powers? They’re already using existing powers to the same effect.

So, the purpose of SOPA must be something quite different…

Need I say more?

So, some anonymous group, who goes by the really original name “Anonymous”, blacked out a few sites in retaliation

Then they posted a video wearing the mask from the movie “V is for Vendetta”.

Yes, imagine the irony: a fictitious Hollywood movie character comes to combat… well, Hollywood. And if that’s not irony, I must be reading the plotline wrong.

Still, the Feds got law enforcement agents in six other countries to help with their crackdown on Megaupload. And all that without the aid of anything like a SOPA law on the books. Well, all except all those other laws we already have about copyright infringement and such.

So, they proved they don’t need the SOPA, so why are they pushing so hard for it?

Like I said, need I say more?

SOPA & PIPA Laws

As usual, a lot of people think these are very good ideas. Yes, Hollywood can be protected from people who sell movies online for cheap (and not give Hollywood a dime) if the laws just stopped at that. But the way the laws are written is a lot more foreboding than that.

It plans to not only stop the piracy but enables the government to block ANY website they want for ANY (or NO) apparent reason. Whatever reason they want to shut a site down is good enough for them.

Does that sound good?

Hell, no! But depend on our government to once again try to “protect” our rights and stoke our fears while we relinquish yet more of our freedoms to “Big Brother”. Don’t just tell your congressman “No!”, tell him/her/it “Hell, no!!”

Our freedoms are growing precious few and we have to put a stop somewhere. It obviously won’t be anyone like Ron Paul (or any other lone voice in the wilderness of Congress) to stand up against these erosions, so we are going to have to.

Every other year or so since the ’90′s, there has been some noise by the Feds in Washington to try and find a way to clamp down on the internet. Imagine, they say, a lot of people actually exercising their minds and their mouths out there. What do they think this is, free speech or something?

But thanks to a LOT of hardworking people out there at Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, and even here at WordPress.com as well as many other websites have gotten the attention of the lawmakers in DC. The danger has been averted… for NOW>

But do not think they aren’t going to try the same thing again, later. Yes, just as soon as one of the covert branches of the American government can come up with another internet scam that will strike fear into the hearts of the masses.

What? You really don’t think the boys in the shadow government are behind the internet piracy websites?

Wow! You are new here aren’t you?!

Sure, there are some “legit” piracy sites out there… you know, the guys who couldn’t get a Wall Street bailout of their own… and they do actually scam the major entertainment industry sites offering boot-leg black-market copies of the vastly overpriced offerings for people who cannot afford the “real” thing in the present depressed economy… Yes, those vile criminals.

You know, the real bad guys! They are probably based in Nigeria and use it as a cover to hide their WMD or they might be in an underground bunker in the Gaza Strip working for either the CIA or Mossad and plan to use it to frame Hamas…

And I have no problem with the Feds cracking down on those guys, even if they are on the Federal payroll. I applaud any legal maneuvers to keep those people out of business. What I object to is bowing to the FEAR they are creating with this issue in order to hand them some very high-level legal powers to combat this handful of leeches.

The SOPA and PIPA laws are like handing a feral boy scout a laser cannon to swat a few flies.

It is overkill pure and simple…

Which can, of course, only mean one thing: the focus of the law is on something else entirely. And we all can guess pretty quickly what that is: us, the free-thinking and vocal citizenry.

Yep. They cannot take away our handguns (yet) so they try and take away the only viable source of free communication left open to us. And if anyone here thinks the media (any branch or brand of that beast) is doing anything in our interest, think again.

Modern media has become nothing more than a “spin control” tool for the monied interests running the government.

Stay vigilant and keep your heads down.

(Aw, darn! Now I am even starting to sound a little paranoid!)

The Primary Tool of the Conspiracy

The primary tool of the conspiracy is misdirection.

And the main part of this is dichotomy.

We are programmed for this: left and right, up and down, male and female. It is natural, then, to assume the same is true in all things: love and hate, God and Satan, rich and poor, right and wrong.

Unfortunately, it is not entirely correct. God created Satan so I cannot conceive they could possibly be nearly equal, despite what the Christian faith may teach. And if love has an opposite, it is indifference, not hate.

But how is this a tool for the conspiracy? It directs one’s interest in the wrong direction. If you are for something, they claim, then you must be against its “opposite”. That may sound right at first read but it really does not stand up to serious examination. I mean a lot of people are just “for” things. But it does pit a lot of people’s energies in the wrong direction.

Another tool, joining other groups. This one is the major tool they use. They joined the Templars and the Masons and now most people consider those two groups WERE the conspiracy.

Misdirection with information has also been very useful.

In the JFK assassination investigation, someone quickly came up with the notion that Oswald could not have fired that gun so quickly as to fire the three shots. Others, unwittingly, joined the chorus.

Unfortunately, a gun expert proved how easily Oswald could have done it in the time allotted.

Another said Oswald could not have walked the route he took in so short a time. Many of the CT crowd jumped on that bandwagon as well.

Again, tests on the spot proved it done quite easily.

When the test results were displayed, the media was able to “throw the baby out with the bathwater” – a trait we humans are apt to do – and label the conspiracy theorists as a bunch of kooks.

So, who brought up these two fallacious ideas? I don’t know exactly, but I assume it was minions of the conspiracy attempting to discredit the whole conspiracy theory community.

It may have been an error of the CT people to repeat accusations they could not prove but it does not mean the idea of the conspiracy is wrong. Still, it has discredited the whole concept in the public’s mind.

First, we need to check the facts before jumping on any new theories and, second, we need to double check the facts we do have (and nail them down really good before they somehow sprout legs and walk away) and, third, we have to quit accusing a bunch of different groups for being in on the fix. As with the Masons and Templars, the groups may have been around for a long time and just got conveniently large enough for their needs.

Due diligence is required, especially when someone who purports to be a Conspiracy Theorist comes up with THE damning piece of evidence. Keep that persons name foremost when promoting the idea so others can trace it back when the evidence goes pear shaped.

Understanding HOW they operate is to only way to stay on top of this thing.

Ancient Aliens

There are several CT (Conspiracy Theory) sites around on the web that seem to think some ancient aliens came among us and continue to dominate us today… Oh, and these aliens are lizards!!

David Icke is one of the major proponents of these theory, claiming to have actually seen these beings morph into their human form!!

Now, it is true that the ancient alien theories have been around far longer than Erich von Daniken gave us a glimpse of ancient astronauts but not everyone takes the lizard angle.

Some, like Zechariah Sitchin, merely think some aliens came down and actually created Man from their own loins – the Cro Magnon, perhaps – and mated these “sons of gods” with the “daughters of men”, the neanderthals, I suppose.

And the resulting cross-breed is homo sapiens… us.

As bizarre as that scenario may sound (even without the excursion into la-la lizardland) it does have some interesting support. One, obviously, is the Holy Bible which talks about exactly such a thing occurring. And you thought having a few assorted apes in our family tree was bad? (Or at least a little weird!)

And a further parallel is drawn in that the supposed brother of the megalomaniacal alien overlord felt some compassion for these minions on the earth and brought them fire and other neat tools and learning.

Since the “righteous” followers of the alien “god” shunned such activity, they simply labeled that errant brother “Lucifer”, the bringer of light.

You can see where I am going with this version of the tale… or maybe not.

So, the Church has embraced the teachings of the “god” brother and teach us to hate the followers of the benevolent brother, the “Lucifer”.

Of course, we now are taught to fear a group called the illuminati, the bringers of light.

Funny, I don’t see what they are bringing to the table very enlightening. In fact, they have to work in the dark, rather than the light.

So, Lucifer and his minions are opponents of the enlightened ones, the illuminati!

Ain’t some form of “reality” a kick in the pants? Hoo-hah!

What won’t they think of next?

Revisiting a “Return to the Confederation”

This is a response to another blog:

http://carltonwelsh.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/return-to-the-confederation/

An interesting blog and one that would make me think the guy is a closet-CT (Conspiracy Theorist) but unable to admit it and give himself over completely to the “dark side” as many people think of the Conspiracy Theorists.

He is right about the Confederation being torpedoed by a select group who did not want a namby-pamby government that couldn’t crush a few people and bleed them dry. No fooling!

They designed a new document to bind the states together – and in the dark to bind them… or was that a ring I heard of? – and they thought they had produced a fairly viable document and it was called the Constitution.

The only problem, as neatly as they had constructed the trap (and such it was) they could not get the states to ratify the damned thing!

Someone was really going to wind up on the bosses bad side if they didn’t get the program sold to the reluctant states.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, George Mason pushed for an addition: a Bill of Rights. [Note: I said George Mason, not the Masons.]

Many of the supporters of the Constitution – especially those who really knew what was going on – howled about it not being necessary because the government they had designed would very “naturally” be nice. No need to constrain it with such niceties as guaranteed freedoms! Really, guys, we’ll play fair without such things! Really!

Some states ratified the document contingent on a Bill of Rights forthcoming. North Carolina and Rhode Island did not ratify until after the Bill of Rights was passed.

I, for one, am very thankful for George Mason and that ilk holding out for something to protect us from the behemoth they had created. And though the rights have been diluted and chipped at over the years, we still have them.

But with a little media fear tactic and governmental pressure – or pressure from certain groups within the country misguided by their own fears – any of these rights might be washed away.

And we cannot allow that to happen. Too many have already died to bring us this peace and freedom. Let’s not flush it away simply because we lack some backbone.

Marcus P. Norton? – You’re Kidding, Right?

I looked over my blog stats for this first week of the new year and saw that the #1 search string that brought visitors to my blog as “Marcus P. Norton”.

What? Really!?! Surely you’ve got to be kidding!

Who was this Marcus P. Norton, you ask?

I have mentioned him in four of my previous posts:
7/3/2009 – the Earliest Case of Going Postal on Record
5/15/2011- Yes, His Name is Still Mudd
5/16/2011- Still Mudd II
5/23/2011-Still Mudd… III

Other than my rather curious interest in this very obscure character from American history, I had no idea someone would actually be interested enough to search for the guy!

But, since the searcher left no note mentioning their interest in the guy, one can only wonder what the heck was going through their minds?! What were they thinking? Better yet, what were they smoking?

If you missed the earlier postings (or don’t want to bother looking for them) Norton is the person who implicated Dr. Mudd in the Lincoln Assassination case. And it is only his testimony that performed this act. Others saw Mudd elsewhere on the day in question and – though the defense attorneys attempted to have his testimony impeached – his testimony was allowed to override the others’ sworn word. And this even though the guy had been impeached in previous trials and was proven to have mis-remembered the day in question by none other than the Clerk of the Supreme Court!

And this does not even take into account his presence at Ford’s Theater in the week before the assassination, when the manager of the theater was forced to break the lock on the box adjacent to the one in which Lincoln would be killed in a few short days.

What has that to do with the death of Lincoln? What has his perjuring before the tribunal really covering up?

Marcus P. Norton did not tell anyone what was really going on but it is enough questions to open some sort of investigation, I should think. Especially when we are talking about the “crime of the century”.

Scott’s Standard Catalog of U. S. Stamps still lists Norton as the inventor of the first postal cancellation machine… and this even in the face of the Patent Office throwing out his patent in 1871 because he could produce no evidence to reapply for patents on that invention or any of the many other inventions he had patented.

And why did they throw it out? Norton was a patent attorney and he (and others) had been accused of stealing the inventions rather than patenting them for the rightful inventors. Since Norton had no data on any of these patents other than the original (purportedly stolen) documents, he lost all the patents.

Really?! No one thought it odd that a patent attorney was also an engineer and a machinist in his spare time!!

What were they thinking??

Anyway, we will probably never know who really invented the canceling device. Or why he perjured himself at the trial of the century.

The Reptilian Conspiracy Has Been Thwarted… For Now

It has been over a year since this event occurred and I waited patiently to hear of any further developments, but there has been nothing to add since June 2010.

That’s when the little Helms girls caused a plane to be turned around on the runway and returned to the terminal because they had brought a tiny pet turtle on board. They were told they could re-board the plane only if they ditched the turtle. When asked “where?” they were told to just throw it in the garbage.

Yes, AirTrans’ official policy on pets is to trash them, it seems. They’re a real feeling crowd over there.

How could such a security breach have occurred, you ask? Well first they checked the pet in through security, past the AirTrans ticket people, the boarding people and even had one flight attendant tell them to put the small cage under the seat.

Then the flight attendant probably told one of his/her co-workers about the “cute” story and the word got to one of those employees. You know, every place has one, the one who knows every legality in the book and were sworn to the universe’s awareness of the extreme dangers involved with allowing such behavior… imagine, next people will try to carry bombs in their shoes… or their shoebox… or their box turtles…

Anyway, this anal-retentive worker immediately informed the pilot of the breach in national security and the plane was turned back even while taxiing. AirTrans was alerted and all the hard-nosed security people came out of the woodwork to ensure that no turtle would fly. Who knows, it might have been a mutant turtle, even if it was not yet a teenager.

And though the turtle was put in the plastic bin by the girls – how proud the employees must have felt to be able to scare the poop out of three little girls! Must’ve made their day… and the plane could now safely lift off. They had called their father to let them know which bin it had been thrown in. Dad raced to the airport to retrieve it but it had already been rescued by another AirTrans employee. Yes, the one such employee that was not completely heartless.

I would not be surprised if the security personnel, the boarding personnel, and the flight attendant that allowed the miniature terrorists carry forward their turtle plot, were all dismissed along with the employee that rescued the turtle from the garbage can.

PETA is involved in the case so I imagine the ACLU will soon be involved on the side of AirTrans, upholding the rights of human corporations against the reptilian revolution so obviously making headway.

So, you are warned! Be vigilant! Even of this shell game.

Still Mudd… III

A couple of people have queried me about this Post Office connection – via Marcus P Norton and the Postmasters General – involved in the trial. It seems a lot of people do not understand that it could mean very much.

Well, let’s look at a couple of facts here.

First, of all the Departments in the Federal Government, the one with the most employees – then as now – is the Post Office Department. Okay, so today it is a quasi-government department called the United States Postal Service. But stay with me.

At that time, the Post Office Department was the ONLY Department of the government that actually made money. Getting appointed a Postmaster of a local office was an extremely lucrative appointment. And the competition for such was fierce at times.

Of course, today’s U. S. Postal Service is far from the money-maker its predecessor was but that’s because of several different factors that I will not touch on here.

At the time, the Post Office was a big deal. And the canceling device purportedly invented by this Norton character, placed in every single Post Office in the country, was a lot of money.

Imagine the Post Office had ordered a complete set for all their offices, and they would be paying in installments…

Suddenly, half of the country separated from the Post Office Department. And since they were no longer involved with the Union Department, the New Confederate Postal Service had no intention of continuing the payments for the canceling devices.

And that was a tidy sum Mr. Norton was slated to lose.

Then, with the war coming to an end, Norton was hopeful that he might yet be able to recoup his losses.

And Lincoln said, no, they were going to welcome the southern brothers back without such stipulations. Norton realized the canceling devices were going to be thought of as a “spoil of war”.

He was going to out of a boatload of money.

Hm, greed… the usual motive…

Join the Illuminati!!

I saw a cute bumper sticker the other day: “Join the Illuminati and see the world… differently”.

In days past, you could join the military and see the world, and, without much luck, you would definitely see the world differently. But war does that to people.

There are many experiences to be had in this life that can change your view of many things.

But how differently do the Illuminati view the world?

I do not know for certain but one can only imagine, no?

They seem to value different things they we normal folks. And they seem to feel people are rather expendable.

Merely a paltry coin to be spent to purchase their ends.

I can’t say exactly how they view the world but I know its a view I do not wish to cultivate.

And since it seems to be tied into the mental framework of gathering enormous wealth for the power it can wield, I think I’ll pass on that as well.

Happiness is the goal of each person. Money cannot buy it and the weirdly different viewpoint that seems to come with it are not really worth it.

But that’s just my opinion.

Still Mudd… II

Marcus P. Norton was seemingly a very minor player at the Assassination trial but his name just keeps popping up.

I mentioned his connection with the Mudd conviction but he had other connections as well. He plyed his canceling machine first in Troy, NY (yes, that place again), under the direction of Assistant Postmaster General Horatio King, another witness for the prosecution at the trial.

And Norton and King had arranged all this through Postmaster General Holt, who just happened to be the Head of the Tribunal that was the Trial of the Conspirators. Yes, interesting, and he also happened to come from the little place called Troy, NY.

Maybe it’s just me but when I see a bunch of names and places keep popping up in an investigation, a bell goes off and I start digging a little deeper.

I do not know for certain that there was some sort of conspiracy surrounding the Post Office Department, Marcus P. Norton, or any of his crowd or how it was involved in the death of Lincoln but it certainly does make one wonder.

Oh, and one last note about Troy, NY. Another very pleasant part of the story also called the place his home.

And that would be Boston Corbett, the man who supposedly shot Booth at Garrett’s farm.

I wonder what else might be found that connects to all of this!