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		<title>Comment on Column: Retired ATF Official Warns that Law Enforcement Must Look Forward in the War on Terrorism by MajWilliamMartin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a totally biased writing.

It is &quot;Legal to implant Stuxnet Virus&#039;s on computers that control Nuclear Radiation, after all... It&#039;s over there! Also if the Reactor BLEW it would just Kill them &quot;Brown People.&quot;

The US Assassination has been proven to had been a HOAX, Just like how our beloved &quot;Protect and Serve FBI has Handlers that groom boys and bus them to where the FBI is making brownie points and then the Handler GIVES them a Bomb!

It is Legal for the Mossad to act like a fictional Character like 007 and have a free &quot;License to Kill&quot;. Lest we forget about the white Van&#039;s with Explosives and driven by Israeli&#039;s. Oh and the &quot;Dancing Israeli&#039;s that were gigh-5&#039;ing each other as the jet hit the WTC, They said, &quot;We were here to document it, How did they Know? Perhaps the Fox News 4 part series on &quot;Israeli&#039;s Spies in America would answer that too?

In the last few decades, the US and Allies have kill/murdered 12,000,000 Muslims. Mainly on a fake War on the American People... I mean Terror.

Afyer the Seal Tem 6 helicopter was shot down, V.P. Biden said the Taliban are &quot;Not&quot; an enemy of the US, WTF?

The CIA admits &quot;They Fabricated the Al Qaeda&quot;. Loud Mouth Hillary just confirmed that as she spoke about the Afghan&#039;s and Russians. How the US made the Mujahideen/Al Qaeda.

These same Al Qaeda killed Thousands of US Troops in Iraq, Then it was a &quot;Long Long Way to Tripoli&quot; As Obomba supported these same Al Qaeda from Iraq now in Libya then bused to meet up with US Special Forces on Syria&#039;s Border.

Then we have the 100% LIE that Ahmadinejad said he was going to &quot;Wipe Israel from the map.&quot;  Why don&#039;t people &quot;Research&quot; this and find the real Quote? Why would Muslim&#039;s destroy the &quot;Dome of the Rock&quot; One of the most Holy of Holy places for them?

Then again the Israeli DON&#039;T belong to the IAEA yet point fingers at Iran when too many people forgot about how the Israeli HID their &quot;NUKES&quot; 6 floors under where the Inspectors were looking, That was back in Kennedy&#039;s day. They have &quot;NOT&quot; been inspected since as They Bomb Saddam, Syria and Iran next? 007 ego&#039;s.

IF, the Taliban are OUR FRIENDS and the CIA &amp; Hillary admit they &quot;Invented the Al Qaeda, Then Why are about 93,000 Troop&#039;s in Afghanistan? GROWING Opium &amp; Heroin for the Afghan&#039;s that is why.

Why no Sanctions on Israel for their Nukes? Oh, They are WHITE, Almost forgot. Have to watch them Brown People that do belong to the IAEA.

I wonder what would happen if Russia and N. Korea and China played WAR GAMES off Our Coast what would happen? In fact, you don&#039;t see any of these coming to a US Port as they don&#039;t bring their Military even near our shores. However the US Military does all that and has secret Op&#039;s going on in Iran and Killing their citizens, That is A-OK too, as the US writes it&#039;s own laws as they go along. Bad enough they will Murder a US Citizen without a Trial, It is interesting as to WHO says WHO is Guilty. As for Obomba, After signing the NDAA he should have turned himself in to the &quot;LAW&quot; for his Support of Terrorist&#039;s. As it was DEMOCRACY that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. And it was &quot;Humanitarian Aid&quot; that brought the Al Qaeda/NTC to Power in Libya as NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) Bombed the Hell out of the GMR Libyan Water Project that &quot;USED&quot; to supply 5.8 Million with Fresh Water. Pipes that were 22&#039; across were turning the African Dessert into an Oasis. Can&#039;t have that. Need to STARVE them BLACKS too. Can&#039;t have WATER to help with irrigation so that 1000 of kids don&#039;t die a day. I SMELL Henry Kissinger.

In ten years, 4.6 Million Dead in Iraq. That had NOTHING to do with 9/11. The US SOLD their Bio-Weapons to Iraq under 771 Dual Use Permit&#039;s. But Saddam crossed the US when he went to the Euro of off the US Dollar. As Gaddafi did as he had 144 Tons of Gold and was starting to Mint the Dinar which would infest All Africa and again destroy the US Dollar. 

American or USreal Imperialism being wrought out against the Nations of the World. As Helicopter murder boys collection Firewood in Afghanistan, the Kill Team Murdering boys for FUN. Then there is THIS!!! obamaslibya(dot)com/child.html  These are the Rebel&#039;s the US Supports. As the shove a Metal ROD through the Nuts of a boy and completely through his Body and out his shoulder. This is WHO Obomba Supported. As the Al Qaeda FLAGS floy all over Libya.

Then we have the ATF. What a JOKE. The Banks launder 350 Billion in DRUG MONIES. NO INDICTMENTS. Great Bank WELLS FARGO. The Hundreds Murdered by US GUN&#039;S, As the Arizona Sheriff said, We call &quot;ANYONE&quot; who gives a un to someone that commits Murder an ACCOMPLICE!!!&quot;

I am so sick of the LIES.

Sick of OUR Police State as the FBI and CIA SPY on their OWN Citizens. As Janet Napolitano groups more and more American&#039;s as Domestic Terrorist&#039;s. Yet in nearly ALL Cases the ONES behind the Terror are ALL Saudi Nationals. Do you see the US Attacking the SAUDI&#039;S? NO! Why, Because VASOLINE is a Petroleum Product and OPEC uses it liberally on US.

What a JOKE of an Article.

And you WONDER &quot;WHY&quot; we are Hated? Our Government in effect by their actions have drawn a TARGET on each and every Americans BACK!

Only ONE Congressman see&#039;s this, The OTHERS are too busy with their Homosexual BOYS at their Parties to LOOK UP instead on Down.

This is WHY Ron Paul is Hated. Our Foreign Policy in Iran since 1953 has been a JOKE.

I wonder WHEN they will call it Even for the 3,000 lost on 9/11 and the 7,000 US Troops Dead, 32,322 with massive Head wounds and another 160,000 Disabled. When will avenging the 9/11 Victims be called even as we turn country after country against us. Both Russia and China said THEY WILL Defend IRAN. So what is left, The US and Israel checking the size of Iran&#039;s Penis against theirs now? Who is going to WIN?

Not to mention the 69 Cruise Missiles that dropped from the headlines that were headed to China or S.Korea. But shipped in crates marked &quot;Fireworks&quot; Ya Think! DUH! So much for Quality Control and the US making sure it&#039;s Weapons are shipped by Qualified persons.

One LAST THING, Since the US will NOT NAME WHO our Enemies are.. Then they can&#039;t say PFC Bradley Manning gave AID to our enemies. So all he did do was expose the massive WAR CRIMES from our Country in which these Generals and such should HANG for their Treason against the US Constitution.

Brovo1--- OUT!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a totally biased writing.</p>
<p>It is &#8220;Legal to implant Stuxnet Virus&#8217;s on computers that control Nuclear Radiation, after all&#8230; It&#8217;s over there! Also if the Reactor BLEW it would just Kill them &#8220;Brown People.&#8221;</p>
<p>The US Assassination has been proven to had been a HOAX, Just like how our beloved &#8220;Protect and Serve FBI has Handlers that groom boys and bus them to where the FBI is making brownie points and then the Handler GIVES them a Bomb!</p>
<p>It is Legal for the Mossad to act like a fictional Character like 007 and have a free &#8220;License to Kill&#8221;. Lest we forget about the white Van&#8217;s with Explosives and driven by Israeli&#8217;s. Oh and the &#8220;Dancing Israeli&#8217;s that were gigh-5&#8242;ing each other as the jet hit the WTC, They said, &#8220;We were here to document it, How did they Know? Perhaps the Fox News 4 part series on &#8220;Israeli&#8217;s Spies in America would answer that too?</p>
<p>In the last few decades, the US and Allies have kill/murdered 12,000,000 Muslims. Mainly on a fake War on the American People&#8230; I mean Terror.</p>
<p>Afyer the Seal Tem 6 helicopter was shot down, V.P. Biden said the Taliban are &#8220;Not&#8221; an enemy of the US, WTF?</p>
<p>The CIA admits &#8220;They Fabricated the Al Qaeda&#8221;. Loud Mouth Hillary just confirmed that as she spoke about the Afghan&#8217;s and Russians. How the US made the Mujahideen/Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>These same Al Qaeda killed Thousands of US Troops in Iraq, Then it was a &#8220;Long Long Way to Tripoli&#8221; As Obomba supported these same Al Qaeda from Iraq now in Libya then bused to meet up with US Special Forces on Syria&#8217;s Border.</p>
<p>Then we have the 100% LIE that Ahmadinejad said he was going to &#8220;Wipe Israel from the map.&#8221;  Why don&#8217;t people &#8220;Research&#8221; this and find the real Quote? Why would Muslim&#8217;s destroy the &#8220;Dome of the Rock&#8221; One of the most Holy of Holy places for them?</p>
<p>Then again the Israeli DON&#8217;T belong to the IAEA yet point fingers at Iran when too many people forgot about how the Israeli HID their &#8220;NUKES&#8221; 6 floors under where the Inspectors were looking, That was back in Kennedy&#8217;s day. They have &#8220;NOT&#8221; been inspected since as They Bomb Saddam, Syria and Iran next? 007 ego&#8217;s.</p>
<p>IF, the Taliban are OUR FRIENDS and the CIA &amp; Hillary admit they &#8220;Invented the Al Qaeda, Then Why are about 93,000 Troop&#8217;s in Afghanistan? GROWING Opium &amp; Heroin for the Afghan&#8217;s that is why.</p>
<p>Why no Sanctions on Israel for their Nukes? Oh, They are WHITE, Almost forgot. Have to watch them Brown People that do belong to the IAEA.</p>
<p>I wonder what would happen if Russia and N. Korea and China played WAR GAMES off Our Coast what would happen? In fact, you don&#8217;t see any of these coming to a US Port as they don&#8217;t bring their Military even near our shores. However the US Military does all that and has secret Op&#8217;s going on in Iran and Killing their citizens, That is A-OK too, as the US writes it&#8217;s own laws as they go along. Bad enough they will Murder a US Citizen without a Trial, It is interesting as to WHO says WHO is Guilty. As for Obomba, After signing the NDAA he should have turned himself in to the &#8220;LAW&#8221; for his Support of Terrorist&#8217;s. As it was DEMOCRACY that brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. And it was &#8220;Humanitarian Aid&#8221; that brought the Al Qaeda/NTC to Power in Libya as NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) Bombed the Hell out of the GMR Libyan Water Project that &#8220;USED&#8221; to supply 5.8 Million with Fresh Water. Pipes that were 22&#8242; across were turning the African Dessert into an Oasis. Can&#8217;t have that. Need to STARVE them BLACKS too. Can&#8217;t have WATER to help with irrigation so that 1000 of kids don&#8217;t die a day. I SMELL Henry Kissinger.</p>
<p>In ten years, 4.6 Million Dead in Iraq. That had NOTHING to do with 9/11. The US SOLD their Bio-Weapons to Iraq under 771 Dual Use Permit&#8217;s. But Saddam crossed the US when he went to the Euro of off the US Dollar. As Gaddafi did as he had 144 Tons of Gold and was starting to Mint the Dinar which would infest All Africa and again destroy the US Dollar. </p>
<p>American or USreal Imperialism being wrought out against the Nations of the World. As Helicopter murder boys collection Firewood in Afghanistan, the Kill Team Murdering boys for FUN. Then there is THIS!!! obamaslibya(dot)com/child.html  These are the Rebel&#8217;s the US Supports. As the shove a Metal ROD through the Nuts of a boy and completely through his Body and out his shoulder. This is WHO Obomba Supported. As the Al Qaeda FLAGS floy all over Libya.</p>
<p>Then we have the ATF. What a JOKE. The Banks launder 350 Billion in DRUG MONIES. NO INDICTMENTS. Great Bank WELLS FARGO. The Hundreds Murdered by US GUN&#8217;S, As the Arizona Sheriff said, We call &#8220;ANYONE&#8221; who gives a un to someone that commits Murder an ACCOMPLICE!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>I am so sick of the LIES.</p>
<p>Sick of OUR Police State as the FBI and CIA SPY on their OWN Citizens. As Janet Napolitano groups more and more American&#8217;s as Domestic Terrorist&#8217;s. Yet in nearly ALL Cases the ONES behind the Terror are ALL Saudi Nationals. Do you see the US Attacking the SAUDI&#8217;S? NO! Why, Because VASOLINE is a Petroleum Product and OPEC uses it liberally on US.</p>
<p>What a JOKE of an Article.</p>
<p>And you WONDER &#8220;WHY&#8221; we are Hated? Our Government in effect by their actions have drawn a TARGET on each and every Americans BACK!</p>
<p>Only ONE Congressman see&#8217;s this, The OTHERS are too busy with their Homosexual BOYS at their Parties to LOOK UP instead on Down.</p>
<p>This is WHY Ron Paul is Hated. Our Foreign Policy in Iran since 1953 has been a JOKE.</p>
<p>I wonder WHEN they will call it Even for the 3,000 lost on 9/11 and the 7,000 US Troops Dead, 32,322 with massive Head wounds and another 160,000 Disabled. When will avenging the 9/11 Victims be called even as we turn country after country against us. Both Russia and China said THEY WILL Defend IRAN. So what is left, The US and Israel checking the size of Iran&#8217;s Penis against theirs now? Who is going to WIN?</p>
<p>Not to mention the 69 Cruise Missiles that dropped from the headlines that were headed to China or S.Korea. But shipped in crates marked &#8220;Fireworks&#8221; Ya Think! DUH! So much for Quality Control and the US making sure it&#8217;s Weapons are shipped by Qualified persons.</p>
<p>One LAST THING, Since the US will NOT NAME WHO our Enemies are.. Then they can&#8217;t say PFC Bradley Manning gave AID to our enemies. So all he did do was expose the massive WAR CRIMES from our Country in which these Generals and such should HANG for their Treason against the US Constitution.</p>
<p>Brovo1&#8212; OUT!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Column: The Truth About the FBI&#8217;s Clyde Tolson, Hoover&#8217;s Confidante by fedupgman</title>
		<link>http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/01/20/column-the-truth-about-the-fbis-clyde-tolson-hoovers-confidante/comment-page-1/#comment-1433</link>
		<dc:creator>fedupgman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done, Larry.

Unfortunately, the glitterati are rarely interested in the truth as it seldom helps their cause--which, in this case, is to fill theaters with moviegoers.

Similarly, today&#039;s &quot;news media&quot; has been reduced to a mere shell of its former presence in both import and effect. That a real reporter would challenge this movie&#039;s salacious innuendo is to hope for a return to civil public discourse absent F-bombs. Keep dreaming. 

So it falls, mostly, to a cadre of retired FBI employees--or groupies--to ensure that these kinds of gross misrepresentations of JEH or Tolson do not go unchallenged.

One can only wonder, as that cohort ages and, eventually, moves on if any of the current FBI employees will fill that inevitable void?

In the meantime, watch the borders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done, Larry.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the glitterati are rarely interested in the truth as it seldom helps their cause&#8211;which, in this case, is to fill theaters with moviegoers.</p>
<p>Similarly, today&#8217;s &#8220;news media&#8221; has been reduced to a mere shell of its former presence in both import and effect. That a real reporter would challenge this movie&#8217;s salacious innuendo is to hope for a return to civil public discourse absent F-bombs. Keep dreaming. </p>
<p>So it falls, mostly, to a cadre of retired FBI employees&#8211;or groupies&#8211;to ensure that these kinds of gross misrepresentations of JEH or Tolson do not go unchallenged.</p>
<p>One can only wonder, as that cohort ages and, eventually, moves on if any of the current FBI employees will fill that inevitable void?</p>
<p>In the meantime, watch the borders.</p>
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		<title>Comment on FBI: $10 Million Payed Back to Victims by msfreeh</title>
		<link>http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/01/19/fbi-10-million-payed-back-to-victims/comment-page-1/#comment-1432</link>
		<dc:creator>msfreeh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>see link for full story
http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/fbi-informant-in-hutaree-case-was-arrested-for-firing-gun-at-wife/#sign-in-prompt
FBI informant in Hutaree case was arrested for firing gun during argument
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 

    A man wanted on federal gun and drug charges stemming from an investigation in Ypsilanti Township&#039;s West Willow neighborhood was arrested Wednesday by Washtenaw County sheriff&#039;s deputies after a high-speed chase. Roman Whitfield, 34, of ...
    Also tagged FBI: Defense attorneys seek information on FBI informants in Hutaree case
    Also tagged Hutaree: Ahead of Hutaree militia trial, jury pool gets quizzed

A key confidential informant in the FBI’s case against the Hutaree militia whom federal prosecutors intend to call as a witness at trial, was arrested while the investigation was ongoing for firing a gun near his wife during an argument, AnnArbor.com has found.

The informant pleaded no contest to discharging a firearm in a building and is serving three years of probation.

Hutaree-patch-thumb-200x230-34110.jpg

The Hutaree patch

He is expected to take the stand next month as seven Hutaree members go on trial in federal court in Detroit on charges including seditious conspiracy and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.

Prosecutors allege the group - which sometimes trained in Washtenaw County, where a few members live - discussed killing a law enforcement officer and attacking the funeral procession motorcade with homemade bombs.

Defense attorneys have said it&#039;s simply a case of hateful speech. Nine of the group&#039;s members were arrested in March 2010 as the FBI conducted raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

Records show the informant initially faced additional charges of felonious assault and possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime after being arrested Feb. 26, 2010 at his private home. In a written statement to police, he admitted to firing the gun near his wife.

“I pointed the 9 mm weapon 8’ to her right and shot…” the police report says. “In no way did I intend to harm or shoot her - I just wanted the argument to end.”

Using numerous sources, AnnArbor.com was able to identify the informant and filed a Freedom of Information Act request last month to obtain the police report on his arrest. However, AnnArbor.com is not revealing his identity, age or hometown because he is a confidential informant. He could not be reached for comment.

The FBI relied on the informant when agents asked in September 2008 to open a formal investigation into Hutaree. Defense attorneys have said in court filings that the informant made audio and video recordings of several Hutaree trainings over a 19-month period, and his work ended around February 2010.

He was arrested roughly a month before the FBI raids on Hutaree. Many Hutaree members were arrested March 27 at an Ann Arbor warehouse, where an undercover FBI agent held a phony memorial service for the informant after telling people he died.

The police report doesn&#039;t mention that the informant was doing work for the FBI or had any involvement with Hutaree or the militia movement.

Officers responded to the informant’s home at 12:30 a.m. Feb. 26, 2010, after his wife called 911, telling dispatchers she was having a dispute with her husband and he &quot;just shot a gun at me.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>see link for full story<br />
<a href="http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/fbi-informant-in-hutaree-case-was-arrested-for-firing-gun-at-wife/#sign-in-prompt" rel="nofollow">http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/fbi-informant-in-hutaree-case-was-arrested-for-firing-gun-at-wife/#sign-in-prompt</a><br />
FBI informant in Hutaree case was arrested for firing gun during argument<br />
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 </p>
<p>    A man wanted on federal gun and drug charges stemming from an investigation in Ypsilanti Township&#8217;s West Willow neighborhood was arrested Wednesday by Washtenaw County sheriff&#8217;s deputies after a high-speed chase. Roman Whitfield, 34, of &#8230;<br />
    Also tagged FBI: Defense attorneys seek information on FBI informants in Hutaree case<br />
    Also tagged Hutaree: Ahead of Hutaree militia trial, jury pool gets quizzed</p>
<p>A key confidential informant in the FBI’s case against the Hutaree militia whom federal prosecutors intend to call as a witness at trial, was arrested while the investigation was ongoing for firing a gun near his wife during an argument, AnnArbor.com has found.</p>
<p>The informant pleaded no contest to discharging a firearm in a building and is serving three years of probation.</p>
<p>Hutaree-patch-thumb-200&#215;230-34110.jpg</p>
<p>The Hutaree patch</p>
<p>He is expected to take the stand next month as seven Hutaree members go on trial in federal court in Detroit on charges including seditious conspiracy and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.</p>
<p>Prosecutors allege the group &#8211; which sometimes trained in Washtenaw County, where a few members live &#8211; discussed killing a law enforcement officer and attacking the funeral procession motorcade with homemade bombs.</p>
<p>Defense attorneys have said it&#8217;s simply a case of hateful speech. Nine of the group&#8217;s members were arrested in March 2010 as the FBI conducted raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.</p>
<p>Records show the informant initially faced additional charges of felonious assault and possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime after being arrested Feb. 26, 2010 at his private home. In a written statement to police, he admitted to firing the gun near his wife.</p>
<p>“I pointed the 9 mm weapon 8’ to her right and shot…” the police report says. “In no way did I intend to harm or shoot her &#8211; I just wanted the argument to end.”</p>
<p>Using numerous sources, AnnArbor.com was able to identify the informant and filed a Freedom of Information Act request last month to obtain the police report on his arrest. However, AnnArbor.com is not revealing his identity, age or hometown because he is a confidential informant. He could not be reached for comment.</p>
<p>The FBI relied on the informant when agents asked in September 2008 to open a formal investigation into Hutaree. Defense attorneys have said in court filings that the informant made audio and video recordings of several Hutaree trainings over a 19-month period, and his work ended around February 2010.</p>
<p>He was arrested roughly a month before the FBI raids on Hutaree. Many Hutaree members were arrested March 27 at an Ann Arbor warehouse, where an undercover FBI agent held a phony memorial service for the informant after telling people he died.</p>
<p>The police report doesn&#8217;t mention that the informant was doing work for the FBI or had any involvement with Hutaree or the militia movement.</p>
<p>Officers responded to the informant’s home at 12:30 a.m. Feb. 26, 2010, after his wife called 911, telling dispatchers she was having a dispute with her husband and he &#8220;just shot a gun at me.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rep. Issa Subpoenas Az Prosecutor in Fast and Furious Probe by Chris03sanchez@gmail.com</title>
		<link>http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/01/19/rep-issa-subpoenas-az-prosecutor-in-fast-and-furious-probe/comment-page-1/#comment-1431</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris03sanchez@gmail.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Fast and Furious investigation began in 2009, months before Cunningham even started at the US Attorney’s office in 2010. Cunningham is a 32 year public servant, including a JAG officer in ht US Army, a state prosecutor and a federal prosecutor. He has never been anything but a public servant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Fast and Furious investigation began in 2009, months before Cunningham even started at the US Attorney’s office in 2010. Cunningham is a 32 year public servant, including a JAG officer in ht US Army, a state prosecutor and a federal prosecutor. He has never been anything but a public servant.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rep. Issa Subpoenas Az Prosecutor in Fast and Furious Probe by rthrraye@gmail.com</title>
		<link>http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/01/19/rep-issa-subpoenas-az-prosecutor-in-fast-and-furious-probe/comment-page-1/#comment-1430</link>
		<dc:creator>rthrraye@gmail.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The record clearly indicates that the USDOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder is attempting to blame others for an investigation his justice department began, was aware of and is no disavowing. This is typical Obama Administration blame dodging.
 Republican’s in the house should see this for what it is a massive DOJ coverup.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The record clearly indicates that the USDOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder is attempting to blame others for an investigation his justice department began, was aware of and is no disavowing. This is typical Obama Administration blame dodging.<br />
 Republican’s in the house should see this for what it is a massive DOJ coverup.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Former FBI Agent New Port Authority IG by msfreeh</title>
		<link>http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/01/19/former-fbi-agent-new-port-authority-ig/comment-page-1/#comment-1428</link>
		<dc:creator>msfreeh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just finished watching the documentary A NOBLE LIE which was released in December of 2012.
It details the evidence for the FBI creating the Oklahoma City bombing.
An honor roll list of people appear in the film including law enforcement officials, politicians, lawyers , victims of the OKC bombing, a member of the OKC bombing grand jury and others.
The only thing one is left with at the end of this film is how do you now put this monster called the FBI down for the count.
see
http://anoblelie.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just finished watching the documentary A NOBLE LIE which was released in December of 2012.<br />
It details the evidence for the FBI creating the Oklahoma City bombing.<br />
An honor roll list of people appear in the film including law enforcement officials, politicians, lawyers , victims of the OKC bombing, a member of the OKC bombing grand jury and others.<br />
The only thing one is left with at the end of this film is how do you now put this monster called the FBI down for the count.<br />
see<br />
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		<description>Published on Friday, August 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
The Necessary Embrace of Conspiracy
by Robert Shetterly

Several years ago I gave a talk on Martha&#039;s Vineyard about many of the people whose portraits I&#039;ve painted in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series. I spent some time talking about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. When I talk about King, I like to focus on his last year --- the period when, defying the advice of many of his advisors in the civil rights movement, he spoke against the Vietnam War, equating racism with imperialism. King felt bound to make the point that the forces of capitalism, materialism, and militarism that were driving segregation were also driving the war, and until we confronted the source of the problem, the abuses would continue. It was April 4, 1967, in Riverside Church in New York, that he made that declaration. A year to the day before his assassination.

It has always confounded me every year when we celebrate Dr. King&#039;s life that no mention is made of that Riverside Church speech in the major media. We are always treated to sound bites of the 1963 I Have a Dream speech. That speech&#039;s oratory is as powerful as it is non-confrontational. Which is why it is re-played for modern audiences. Dr. King was about confrontation. Non-violence and confrontation, each ennobling and making the other effective. In 1967 he said, &quot;... my country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.&quot; And he explained how our economic system thrived on exploitation and violence, or, as Emma Goldman put it, &quot;The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.&quot; This was probably the most important speech King ever gave and not playing it when we ostensibly honor him, is tantamount to castrating him morally and intellectually. Just as there is a long history of White America castrating black men, there is an equal legacy of Elite America cutting the most important truths of our social prophets out of the history books. We pay homage to King&#039;s icon, the cardboard cutout, but not to his strongest beliefs and his most cogent analysis of our problems --- to what vision called forth his courage. And, if we think that he spoke the truth, to censor that truth is to promote a curious kind of segregation. He is segregated, not for the color of his skin, but for the accuracy of his perception, how close to the bone his words cut. We can&#039;t bear to hear the sound of truth&#039;s knife scraping on hypocrisy&#039;s bone. Only people who actually want to change the system dance to that music or want it to be heard.

Equally important, and part of the same neglect, is the intentional ignoring of the facts of his death. In my talk on Martha&#039;s Vineyard I spoke about William Pepper&#039;s book, An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pepper had been James Earl Ray&#039;s lawyer. Ray was the man convicted of killing King. But both Pepper and the King family were convinced that Ray was innocent. The King family hired Pepper to represent them in a suit; they asked only $100.00 in damages to clear Ray&#039;s name. Before the trial came to court in 1999, Ray had died in prison. The jury determined that King had been assassinated by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police, the Mafia, the FBI, and the Special Forces of the U.S. Army. Ray, the patsy, had left town before the shot was fired. Pepper had confessions from people involved from each of the organizations named. The verdict was barely mentioned in the U.S. media then and is not mentioned every year on the anniversary of his death. Why?

After my talk on Martha&#039;s Vineyard a man came up to me and said, &quot;I enjoyed your speech and was with you until you started that conspiracy stuff about MLK, Jr.&quot; I said, &quot;That&#039;s not conspiracy. What I told you are facts.&quot; End of conversation.

I think we&#039;re confronted with two conspiracies here: one to commit the crime, the other to ignore it even when the facts are known. ( Two sides of the same coin.) The man who accused me of slipping into the neurotic, aliens-are-among-us land of conspiracy nuts was unable to hear the evidence, perhaps because he was so utterly convinced by our government and media that conspiracies don&#039;t exist, people who espouse them are dangerous fruitcakes, and if you begin to think like that, your whole house of cards wobbles then topples. Who wants that? Better a standing tower of marked cards, than having to admit the game is rigged and the ground is shaking.

America is steeped in conspiracy, and even more steeped in propaganda that discredits those who try to expose the conspiracies. Whether we&#039;re talking about MLK, Jr., JFK, RFK, Iran-Contra, 9/11, or, most importantly, the status quo, anyone who works to uncover the truth is branded a &quot;conspiracy nut&quot; and discredited before any evidence has a fair hearing. The government/corporate/media version is THE VERSION. Anything else is illusory.

In fact, the cultural success of labeling investigative reporters and forensic historians, and, simply, anyone who tries to name reality, &quot;conspiracy nuts&quot; is perhaps the most successful conspiracy of our time. Well, not the most successful. That prize goes to the conspiracy to give corporations all the rights of individual persons under our Constitution. That conspiracy has codified and consolidated corporate power so that it controls our lives in almost every meaningful way. It controls the election funds of our candidates, and them once they are in office. It controls our major media including public broadcasting. It controls the content of our television programming. It controls how are tax dollars are spent making sure that the richest get the most welfare. It controls the laws, the courts, the prison system and the mind numbing propaganda that we are the greatest democracy on earth. It controls the values with which we raise our children. It controls our ability to dispense justice. It controls how we treat nature, how we deface our land with strip malls, and blow the tops off our mountains --- a form of corporate free speech. It dictates our modes of transportation. It controls our inability to respond to true crises like climate change. It attempts to create a spiritual deficiency in every person that can be filled and healed only with stuff --- and no stuff is ever enough.

As Richard Grossman puts it, &quot;Isn&#039;t it an old story? People create what looks to be a nifty machine, a robot, called the corporation. Over time, the robots get together and overpower the people. ... For a century, the robots propagandize and indoctrinate each generation of people so they grow up believing that robots are people too, gifts from God and Mother Nature; that they are inevitable and the source of all that is good. How odd that we have been so gullible, so docile, obedient.&quot;

It is obvious to say that we have been engineered into a culture that values competitive consumption and consumers instead of community cooperation and citizenship. Capitalism with its obsessive and necessary appetite for consumption, expanding markets, resource depletion, and increasing profits has consumed democracy. Have you ever watched a small snake swallow a large frog? The snake&#039;s hinged jaw stretches wider and wider, squeezing the frog millimeter by millimeter into its gullet until finally the snake looks like the Holland Tunnel might if it had devoured the Titanic. Then the acids and enzymes do their corrosive work. The frog becomes the snake. And the snake claims it is the frog. Capitalism has gulped down democracy and claimed it is democracy. When, immediately after 9/11, President Bush advised Americans to demonstrate their love of freedom and their resistance to terrorism by courageously, selflessly, hurrying to the mall to buy something, he was speaking as the snake that identifies itself as a frog. He was asking us to play a little game with our brains&#039; synapses, replace the snake icon with the frog&#039;s. Sadly, he may also have been speaking about democracy in the only way that he can understand or recognize it. And, for him, Christianity has been another tidy meal for the snake.

Perhaps this switcheroo is nowhere more obvious than in the military /industrial complex. We are told that the vulnerable frog needs protecting. The threats are grave. So we fork over our money and children&#039;s lives for war and weapons. We are told that we are building security and peace. More lives. More weapons. What we aren&#039;t told is that the largest US export to the world is weapons. What we aren&#039;t told is that enormous fortunes are being made from the arms trade. What we aren&#039;t told is that the more precarious and unstable the world is, the better the business for the arms dealers --- that the real promotion is not for security and peace but insecurity and war, that the lives of our children are the necessary collateral damage for this monster. What we aren&#039;t told is that the only real security is in cooperation, conservation, and fairness, not imperialism. The frog, who is a snake, wrapped in a flag, pleads for patriotism and counts the cash. The snake&#039;s forked tongue is a barbeque fork on which we&#039;ve all been roasted.

I&#039;d call that conspiracy.

The neocons have claimed, with some accuracy, that they can create reality faster than we can react: the deed is done, now deal with it. The troops have invaded, Halliburton, Blackwater, and Lockheed signed their contracts, the prisoners are tortured, your email is bugged, the resources for social programs are gone, the laws are changed, the Wal-Mart is built, the sludge dump has already polluted the aquifer, truth is hollowed out ---- catch me if you can! How is that not conspiracy?

The cooks &amp; the crooks create a new status quo, legalize it, propagandize it, mythologize it, fundamentalize it, slather it with fear and patriotism, and force feed it to the complacent, sedated cow we call America. How is that not conspiracy?

Of course, ever since the Constitution was signed and didn&#039;t free the slaves or give the vote to women, poor folks, Native Americans and freed blacks so that people with power and money could continue to profit, America has been a conspiracy against itself. It&#039;s been cowboy grilling his own heart over a smoke &amp; mirrors campfire, a CEO with inherited wealth and three hundred years of patrician, affirmative action crooning &quot;Only in America.&quot;

The reason we can&#039;t talk about conspiracy is because it is the modus operandi. It isn&#039;t the elephant in the room, it is the room itself. We all live there. We can impeach a few elephants, and we should, but the architecture is in place. And they control it.

When I was in school, I was reminded - repeatedly --- to avoid using an indefinite pronoun without identifying whom it refers to, as in, &quot;They are coming to get us,&quot; ... or, &quot;They control everything.&quot; Who are They? It&#039;s bad practice to think and write like that. Without reference it just sounds like paranoia. But the hell of it is that it&#039;s damned hard to say who the They are that are in conspiracy to destroy democracy and, by exploitation, nature. Did They do it on purpose or merely discover by serendipity, like cavemen seeing copper ooze out of a rock by a fire, the wondrous possibility and power of what they had found. For instance, the invention of the TV was not a conspiracy. But once the realization of how TV could be used to submerge the public in a lobotomizing swamp of advertising, sound bites, inactivity, community destruction, titillation, false history, empty myth, consumption, and complicity in making fortunes for the sponsors, the program was clear. Conspiracy was the silent partner in the euphemism good business practice. And, once they saw the implications of giving corporations First Amendment rights, they were home free.

Time to re-think conspiracy.

We need to embrace conspiracy in two ways. One, admit that it&#039;s real, its quotidian, it&#039;s the fabric of our lives, the mercury in the air, the dioxin in the water, it&#039;s filling the airwaves and the marketplace and the courts and the halls of Congress before we even get out of bed every morning. Two, counter it with a conspiracy of our own. On our side we have the fundamental fact that although the corporate They can alter many of our realities, they can&#039;t alter Reality. They can&#039;t change the behavior of Nature. They can sell off the rain forest, but they can&#039;t leverage the effect of cutting it. They can keep the mileage of cars poor so we&#039;ll buy more gas, but they can&#039;t alter the amount of oil in the ground or the damage to the atmosphere. They can privatize every human interaction and every natural resource, but they can&#039;t privatize the laws of nature. They have conspired to change reality. We must conspire to live in harmony with Reality.

In the same way, they can conspire to kill Martin Luther King, Jr., but they can&#039;t totally eradicate the truth of who did it and why.

Con + spirare, from the Latin. To breathe together. Those are the roots of conspiracy. Breathing together doesn&#039;t sound like an activity of the ideologically deracinated whispering seditiously in a dank cellar or a board room, foul breaths denting a weak flame flickering over a candle nub, gunpowder or greed blackened fingers setting a timer, the whites of creased eyes glinting like knives with treason, murder, power, and deceit. Con + spirare sounds like healthy men and women standing in the sun figuring out how in the hell they are going to take care of each other and their aging mother Earth and love life while doing it. Breathing together, sharing the same air, plotting to make sure that what&#039;s mine is yours, conspiring to save their self-respect, their ideals, the future for their children.

I want to be part of a conspiracy. Pervasive, populist, revolutionary, and totally transparent. Grassroots. Idealistic. Simplistic. Life-affirming. Community building

A conspiracy to make the common good and the love of nature the common denominator of every economic transaction.

And the simple truth is either we start breathing together, conspiring big time, right out in the open, nakedly, unashamedly, or we will have conspired in secret, by default, in our own demise.

We have let them breathe for us, and they have stolen our breath, our air, our spirit.

Secret con + spirare is death. Open con + spirare is life.

Conspiracy is dead. Long live conspiracy!

Robert Shetterly lives in Brooksville, Maine www.americanswhotellthetruth.org</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Published on Friday, August 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org<br />
The Necessary Embrace of Conspiracy<br />
by Robert Shetterly</p>
<p>Several years ago I gave a talk on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard about many of the people whose portraits I&#8217;ve painted in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series. I spent some time talking about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. When I talk about King, I like to focus on his last year &#8212; the period when, defying the advice of many of his advisors in the civil rights movement, he spoke against the Vietnam War, equating racism with imperialism. King felt bound to make the point that the forces of capitalism, materialism, and militarism that were driving segregation were also driving the war, and until we confronted the source of the problem, the abuses would continue. It was April 4, 1967, in Riverside Church in New York, that he made that declaration. A year to the day before his assassination.</p>
<p>It has always confounded me every year when we celebrate Dr. King&#8217;s life that no mention is made of that Riverside Church speech in the major media. We are always treated to sound bites of the 1963 I Have a Dream speech. That speech&#8217;s oratory is as powerful as it is non-confrontational. Which is why it is re-played for modern audiences. Dr. King was about confrontation. Non-violence and confrontation, each ennobling and making the other effective. In 1967 he said, &#8220;&#8230; my country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.&#8221; And he explained how our economic system thrived on exploitation and violence, or, as Emma Goldman put it, &#8220;The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.&#8221; This was probably the most important speech King ever gave and not playing it when we ostensibly honor him, is tantamount to castrating him morally and intellectually. Just as there is a long history of White America castrating black men, there is an equal legacy of Elite America cutting the most important truths of our social prophets out of the history books. We pay homage to King&#8217;s icon, the cardboard cutout, but not to his strongest beliefs and his most cogent analysis of our problems &#8212; to what vision called forth his courage. And, if we think that he spoke the truth, to censor that truth is to promote a curious kind of segregation. He is segregated, not for the color of his skin, but for the accuracy of his perception, how close to the bone his words cut. We can&#8217;t bear to hear the sound of truth&#8217;s knife scraping on hypocrisy&#8217;s bone. Only people who actually want to change the system dance to that music or want it to be heard.</p>
<p>Equally important, and part of the same neglect, is the intentional ignoring of the facts of his death. In my talk on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard I spoke about William Pepper&#8217;s book, An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pepper had been James Earl Ray&#8217;s lawyer. Ray was the man convicted of killing King. But both Pepper and the King family were convinced that Ray was innocent. The King family hired Pepper to represent them in a suit; they asked only $100.00 in damages to clear Ray&#8217;s name. Before the trial came to court in 1999, Ray had died in prison. The jury determined that King had been assassinated by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police, the Mafia, the FBI, and the Special Forces of the U.S. Army. Ray, the patsy, had left town before the shot was fired. Pepper had confessions from people involved from each of the organizations named. The verdict was barely mentioned in the U.S. media then and is not mentioned every year on the anniversary of his death. Why?</p>
<p>After my talk on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard a man came up to me and said, &#8220;I enjoyed your speech and was with you until you started that conspiracy stuff about MLK, Jr.&#8221; I said, &#8220;That&#8217;s not conspiracy. What I told you are facts.&#8221; End of conversation.</p>
<p>I think we&#8217;re confronted with two conspiracies here: one to commit the crime, the other to ignore it even when the facts are known. ( Two sides of the same coin.) The man who accused me of slipping into the neurotic, aliens-are-among-us land of conspiracy nuts was unable to hear the evidence, perhaps because he was so utterly convinced by our government and media that conspiracies don&#8217;t exist, people who espouse them are dangerous fruitcakes, and if you begin to think like that, your whole house of cards wobbles then topples. Who wants that? Better a standing tower of marked cards, than having to admit the game is rigged and the ground is shaking.</p>
<p>America is steeped in conspiracy, and even more steeped in propaganda that discredits those who try to expose the conspiracies. Whether we&#8217;re talking about MLK, Jr., JFK, RFK, Iran-Contra, 9/11, or, most importantly, the status quo, anyone who works to uncover the truth is branded a &#8220;conspiracy nut&#8221; and discredited before any evidence has a fair hearing. The government/corporate/media version is THE VERSION. Anything else is illusory.</p>
<p>In fact, the cultural success of labeling investigative reporters and forensic historians, and, simply, anyone who tries to name reality, &#8220;conspiracy nuts&#8221; is perhaps the most successful conspiracy of our time. Well, not the most successful. That prize goes to the conspiracy to give corporations all the rights of individual persons under our Constitution. That conspiracy has codified and consolidated corporate power so that it controls our lives in almost every meaningful way. It controls the election funds of our candidates, and them once they are in office. It controls our major media including public broadcasting. It controls the content of our television programming. It controls how are tax dollars are spent making sure that the richest get the most welfare. It controls the laws, the courts, the prison system and the mind numbing propaganda that we are the greatest democracy on earth. It controls the values with which we raise our children. It controls our ability to dispense justice. It controls how we treat nature, how we deface our land with strip malls, and blow the tops off our mountains &#8212; a form of corporate free speech. It dictates our modes of transportation. It controls our inability to respond to true crises like climate change. It attempts to create a spiritual deficiency in every person that can be filled and healed only with stuff &#8212; and no stuff is ever enough.</p>
<p>As Richard Grossman puts it, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it an old story? People create what looks to be a nifty machine, a robot, called the corporation. Over time, the robots get together and overpower the people. &#8230; For a century, the robots propagandize and indoctrinate each generation of people so they grow up believing that robots are people too, gifts from God and Mother Nature; that they are inevitable and the source of all that is good. How odd that we have been so gullible, so docile, obedient.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is obvious to say that we have been engineered into a culture that values competitive consumption and consumers instead of community cooperation and citizenship. Capitalism with its obsessive and necessary appetite for consumption, expanding markets, resource depletion, and increasing profits has consumed democracy. Have you ever watched a small snake swallow a large frog? The snake&#8217;s hinged jaw stretches wider and wider, squeezing the frog millimeter by millimeter into its gullet until finally the snake looks like the Holland Tunnel might if it had devoured the Titanic. Then the acids and enzymes do their corrosive work. The frog becomes the snake. And the snake claims it is the frog. Capitalism has gulped down democracy and claimed it is democracy. When, immediately after 9/11, President Bush advised Americans to demonstrate their love of freedom and their resistance to terrorism by courageously, selflessly, hurrying to the mall to buy something, he was speaking as the snake that identifies itself as a frog. He was asking us to play a little game with our brains&#8217; synapses, replace the snake icon with the frog&#8217;s. Sadly, he may also have been speaking about democracy in the only way that he can understand or recognize it. And, for him, Christianity has been another tidy meal for the snake.</p>
<p>Perhaps this switcheroo is nowhere more obvious than in the military /industrial complex. We are told that the vulnerable frog needs protecting. The threats are grave. So we fork over our money and children&#8217;s lives for war and weapons. We are told that we are building security and peace. More lives. More weapons. What we aren&#8217;t told is that the largest US export to the world is weapons. What we aren&#8217;t told is that enormous fortunes are being made from the arms trade. What we aren&#8217;t told is that the more precarious and unstable the world is, the better the business for the arms dealers &#8212; that the real promotion is not for security and peace but insecurity and war, that the lives of our children are the necessary collateral damage for this monster. What we aren&#8217;t told is that the only real security is in cooperation, conservation, and fairness, not imperialism. The frog, who is a snake, wrapped in a flag, pleads for patriotism and counts the cash. The snake&#8217;s forked tongue is a barbeque fork on which we&#8217;ve all been roasted.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d call that conspiracy.</p>
<p>The neocons have claimed, with some accuracy, that they can create reality faster than we can react: the deed is done, now deal with it. The troops have invaded, Halliburton, Blackwater, and Lockheed signed their contracts, the prisoners are tortured, your email is bugged, the resources for social programs are gone, the laws are changed, the Wal-Mart is built, the sludge dump has already polluted the aquifer, truth is hollowed out &#8212;- catch me if you can! How is that not conspiracy?</p>
<p>The cooks &amp; the crooks create a new status quo, legalize it, propagandize it, mythologize it, fundamentalize it, slather it with fear and patriotism, and force feed it to the complacent, sedated cow we call America. How is that not conspiracy?</p>
<p>Of course, ever since the Constitution was signed and didn&#8217;t free the slaves or give the vote to women, poor folks, Native Americans and freed blacks so that people with power and money could continue to profit, America has been a conspiracy against itself. It&#8217;s been cowboy grilling his own heart over a smoke &amp; mirrors campfire, a CEO with inherited wealth and three hundred years of patrician, affirmative action crooning &#8220;Only in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reason we can&#8217;t talk about conspiracy is because it is the modus operandi. It isn&#8217;t the elephant in the room, it is the room itself. We all live there. We can impeach a few elephants, and we should, but the architecture is in place. And they control it.</p>
<p>When I was in school, I was reminded &#8211; repeatedly &#8212; to avoid using an indefinite pronoun without identifying whom it refers to, as in, &#8220;They are coming to get us,&#8221; &#8230; or, &#8220;They control everything.&#8221; Who are They? It&#8217;s bad practice to think and write like that. Without reference it just sounds like paranoia. But the hell of it is that it&#8217;s damned hard to say who the They are that are in conspiracy to destroy democracy and, by exploitation, nature. Did They do it on purpose or merely discover by serendipity, like cavemen seeing copper ooze out of a rock by a fire, the wondrous possibility and power of what they had found. For instance, the invention of the TV was not a conspiracy. But once the realization of how TV could be used to submerge the public in a lobotomizing swamp of advertising, sound bites, inactivity, community destruction, titillation, false history, empty myth, consumption, and complicity in making fortunes for the sponsors, the program was clear. Conspiracy was the silent partner in the euphemism good business practice. And, once they saw the implications of giving corporations First Amendment rights, they were home free.</p>
<p>Time to re-think conspiracy.</p>
<p>We need to embrace conspiracy in two ways. One, admit that it&#8217;s real, its quotidian, it&#8217;s the fabric of our lives, the mercury in the air, the dioxin in the water, it&#8217;s filling the airwaves and the marketplace and the courts and the halls of Congress before we even get out of bed every morning. Two, counter it with a conspiracy of our own. On our side we have the fundamental fact that although the corporate They can alter many of our realities, they can&#8217;t alter Reality. They can&#8217;t change the behavior of Nature. They can sell off the rain forest, but they can&#8217;t leverage the effect of cutting it. They can keep the mileage of cars poor so we&#8217;ll buy more gas, but they can&#8217;t alter the amount of oil in the ground or the damage to the atmosphere. They can privatize every human interaction and every natural resource, but they can&#8217;t privatize the laws of nature. They have conspired to change reality. We must conspire to live in harmony with Reality.</p>
<p>In the same way, they can conspire to kill Martin Luther King, Jr., but they can&#8217;t totally eradicate the truth of who did it and why.</p>
<p>Con + spirare, from the Latin. To breathe together. Those are the roots of conspiracy. Breathing together doesn&#8217;t sound like an activity of the ideologically deracinated whispering seditiously in a dank cellar or a board room, foul breaths denting a weak flame flickering over a candle nub, gunpowder or greed blackened fingers setting a timer, the whites of creased eyes glinting like knives with treason, murder, power, and deceit. Con + spirare sounds like healthy men and women standing in the sun figuring out how in the hell they are going to take care of each other and their aging mother Earth and love life while doing it. Breathing together, sharing the same air, plotting to make sure that what&#8217;s mine is yours, conspiring to save their self-respect, their ideals, the future for their children.</p>
<p>I want to be part of a conspiracy. Pervasive, populist, revolutionary, and totally transparent. Grassroots. Idealistic. Simplistic. Life-affirming. Community building</p>
<p>A conspiracy to make the common good and the love of nature the common denominator of every economic transaction.</p>
<p>And the simple truth is either we start breathing together, conspiring big time, right out in the open, nakedly, unashamedly, or we will have conspired in secret, by default, in our own demise.</p>
<p>We have let them breathe for us, and they have stolen our breath, our air, our spirit.</p>
<p>Secret con + spirare is death. Open con + spirare is life.</p>
<p>Conspiracy is dead. Long live conspiracy!</p>
<p>Robert Shetterly lives in Brooksville, Maine <a href="http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org</a></p>
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		<description>Still waiting to see what happens to that agent in Kentucky who totaled a million dollar Ferrari, with an AUSA riding shorgun--as he took the seized car for a spin, and literally spun out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still waiting to see what happens to that agent in Kentucky who totaled a million dollar Ferrari, with an AUSA riding shorgun&#8211;as he took the seized car for a spin, and literally spun out.</p>
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		<description>Hey Steve, 
Relax...you&#039;re starting to sound like that wacky senator from across the river--Chuckie Schumer.
After 9/11 Schumer kept whining about why the FBI reduced the number of agents working bank rabbery cases. 
Yep, he was incensed that the FBI (with what 12,000 +/- agents worldwide) had the nerve to shift those folks to terrorism after, you guessed it, Congress bashed the FBI for not &quot;connecting the terrorism dots.&quot;
Of course Schumer neglected to explain why it was that the NYPD--with 38,000+ cops--could handle freaking bank robberies on its own. 
Sit down and shup up already about the FBI, Rothman, or find another issue to exploit to earn your media coverage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Steve,<br />
Relax&#8230;you&#8217;re starting to sound like that wacky senator from across the river&#8211;Chuckie Schumer.<br />
After 9/11 Schumer kept whining about why the FBI reduced the number of agents working bank rabbery cases.<br />
Yep, he was incensed that the FBI (with what 12,000 +/- agents worldwide) had the nerve to shift those folks to terrorism after, you guessed it, Congress bashed the FBI for not &#8220;connecting the terrorism dots.&#8221;<br />
Of course Schumer neglected to explain why it was that the NYPD&#8211;with 38,000+ cops&#8211;could handle freaking bank robberies on its own.<br />
Sit down and shup up already about the FBI, Rothman, or find another issue to exploit to earn your media coverage.</p>
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