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		<description><![CDATA[A Modern Declaration of Independence By David Chen david_chen100@yahoo.com Over 230 years ago our Founding Fathers declared themselves and their colonial brethren free of the tyrannical rule of King George III. Out of their yearning for freedom came a declaration that came to be heard around the world, a declaration emulated by others, which became [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=projectfreedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4055220&amp;post=27&amp;subd=projectfreedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;">A Modern Declaration of Independence</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center">By David Chen</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><a href="mailto:david_chen100@yahoo.com">david_chen100@yahoo.com</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Over 230 years ago our Founding Fathers declared themselves and their colonial brethren free of the tyrannical rule of King George III.<span> </span>Out of their yearning for freedom came a declaration that came to be heard around the world, a declaration emulated by others, which became a solid foundation for forming free societies all throughout the world.<span> </span>However, as much as freedom has spread, in many ways it remains the rare jewel. Human nature and the course of history have shown a continual cycle – if the people’s resistance to tyranny ever did lead to a renaissance of liberty, a rare jewel in and of itself, the abundance produced from such liberty would inevitably lead to complacency and decadence, and the corrupt would enslave the people.<span> </span>While the fires of freedom have burned long in the United   States, we currently find ourselves at the final stage of returning to tyranny.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A corrupt Beast has overtaken our once great Republic by way of deception and secrecy.<span> </span>This Entity has extended its tentacles into every major facet of our lives.<span> </span>This Entity, which is comprised primarily of European royalty, prominent international banking and robber baron families, and the corrupt politicians and corporations who grasp at the power in this system, has persuaded nearly all of humanity to accept their false choices and solutions to the problems they themselves have created.<span> </span>As wolves in sheep’s clothing, they have persuaded us to give up our freedoms, to accept the wonton theft of our wealth and to love our servitude.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although our main concern is for our Constitution and Bill of Rights in the United   States, the crimes of this shadowy group are worldwide, and concern all of humanity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To ensure full accountability for these crimes, and to serve as a reminder to our descendants, the following fully documented facts are submitted for all to see.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have sought control of the population through fear.<span> </span>By creating an impending threat by way of a dangerous and shadowy enemy, they have persuaded the people to surrender their God given freedoms and their moral compass in favor of every known form of centralized control.<span> </span>Ignited by the events of September 11<sup>th</sup> 2001 (9/11), their “War on Terror” is in actuality a war of terror on the people.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the War on Terror, they have implemented warrantless searches, violated privacy, and essentially eviscerated the Fourth Amendment through the USA PATRIOT Act.<span> </span>In passing the Orwellian named USA PATRIOT Act, they intimidated Members of Congress and the population using the fear generated by 9/11.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Through Homeland Security, Continuity of Government (COG) and other similar mechanisms, they have set up a police state and martial law infrastructure, intimidating the people in the guise of fighting terror.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have instituted warrantless spying on the American people without consent, and have passed laws retroactively absolving themselves and their partners in the telecommunications industry of these crimes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have attempted to destroy the Writ of Habeas Corpus by passing the Military Commissions Act.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have preemptively invaded and occupied two sovereign nations, without a Congressional declaration of war, justified by reasons that were false, which they knew at the time to be false.<span> </span>In the case of Iraq, they portrayed Saddam Hussein as an “imminent threat” on the verge of acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).<span> </span>In doing this, they used their well placed agents in the mass media, who stand to benefit from war, to deliberately report false stories regarding Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Through these invasions of sovereign nations, they have instituted torture, and besmirched America’s name throughout the world.<span> </span>They have used false intelligence gathered from torture to continue the perception of the terror threat.<span> </span>Through their deliberate promoting of torture, they have perverted and morphed the American psyche.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have illegally looted trillions of dollars from the public treasury, the people’s hard earned wealth, to arm nations of opposing sides and give their corporations no-bid contracts.<span> </span>They have used the “War on Terror” to feed their Military-Industrial complex.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although they have repeatedly justified their actions by invoking 9/11, every one of these Constitutional violations was planned prior to 9/11.<span> </span>While they pursued these criminal acts, they consistently obstructed any open and honest investigation in the events of 9/11.<span> </span>With regard to 9/11, they have promulgated an explanation riddled with contradictions, so as to render it completely incompatible with all known laws of physics.<span> </span>With regard to 9/11, they have fabricated false evidence, and concealed, classified, and destroyed much of the genuine evidence.<span> </span>Yet, of what little evidence remains of 9/11, the blood is on their hands.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As treacherous as they have been in the War on Terror, their tyranny against the people has had a long history.<span> </span>Like the War on Terror, in the name of protecting us, they have brought forth increasing restrictions of our Constitutional rights.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have waged what they call the War on Drugs, where in order to protect us from ourselves, they have further eroded our Fourth Amendment rights as the government has implemented illegal asset forfeiture seizures and home invasions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have waged this war, while simultaneously controlling or aiding the transport of these same drugs, often through the intelligence agencies they control.<span> </span>Like the War on Terror, the War on Drugs is, in actuality, a war on the people.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have attempted to destroy our wealth under the guise of protecting the environment.<span> </span>By attempting to install a carbon credits and trading system, they have plotted to levy taxes on human existence itself.<span> </span>They have done these drastic actions in spite of the uncertain scientific principles regarding climate change.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have violated the Second Amendment by restricting and registering the people’s right to own firearms, all in the name of protecting the people from crime.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have waged a war on our national sovereignty.<span> </span>As they have done in Europe as well as other parts of the world, in the guise of solidarity and prosperity, they have slowly but consistently eroded national sovereignty by way of trade agreements.<span> </span>These trade agreements have established supranational organizations such as NAFTA Tribunals and the WTO, which override the laws of the nations they purport to represent.<span> </span>Far from being free trade agreements, these regional organizations serve instead to manage trade for the eventual purpose of impoverishing every nation in each region.<span> </span>They have accelerated the erosion of our national sovereignty through the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Among their countless deceptions, none have been more pervasive and powerful than their control over money.<span> </span>They have financially pillaged the people’s wealth by instituting private banking cartels, known as central banks, to control the issuance of money.<span> </span>While their other crimes may affect only portions of the population, their actions of financial control affect every single human being.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have deceived the people into believing that their privately controlled banking cartels are a part of the government.<span> </span>However, in truth, they have taken over the government through their central banks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have used their central banks to foment recessions, depressions, and illusory speculative bubbles to further their wealth at the people’s expense.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have used debt, equivalent to valueless fiat money which they create from nothing, to acquire land, water, oil, political control, and all manner of physical resources of genuine value.<span> </span>Through their International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, they have impoverished humanity throughout the world at American taxpayer expense.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Their central banks have stolen the people’s wealth through an insidious and unfair tax of inflation.<span> </span>Prior to the establishment of the Federal Reserve, America experienced virtually no inflation, with the exception of wars.<span> </span>However, since the Federal Reserve was formed, the U.S. dollar has lost over 97% of its value.<span> </span>Yet, the Federal Reserve still claims to fight inflation, while being the primary creator of inflation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They have also used their financial control to fund multiple sides of every conflict.<span> </span>Through their financial treachery, they have profited from every war and brought skyrocketing debt to every nation.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At every step of the way the deception has been so great that it has been difficult for us to notice the erosion of freedom.<span> </span>However, when we opposed it by voting or writing to our Congressmen, we have been met with silence, denial or repeated injury.<span> </span>Those brave souls in the past who dared to speak out have been silenced and sometimes assassinated.<span> </span>Yet, despite their continuous propaganda and deception – despite their façade of being a mighty financial and physical juggernaut – history has shown that empires always fall, regardless of how powerful they once appeared to be.<span> </span>As history goes, so their Empire of Lies must also crumble.<span> </span>Through the vigilant unending spread of truth, victory will come.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We seek to restore our Constitutional Republic through peaceful means, though we are prepared to defend ourselves. <span> </span>Just as the enemies of freedom have established their stranglehold on us by way of deception and increasingly centralized degrees of influence, so we will regain our constitutional rights by way of truth and spread our influence through decentralized methods.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We the people of the United States of America, in our alliance with free humanity, therefore stake our Declaration of Independence from their rule.<span> </span>We proclaim a declaration of truth in the face of their Empire of Lies.<span> </span>A Declaration to our would-be rulers that We the People shall not be deceived and we shall not back down.<span> </span>This is a Declaration to humanity to indicate the identities of the authors of their destruction.<span> </span>Just as our would-be rulers ruled through secrecy and hidden knowledge, We the People shall take back our rightful place in a free society through an open dissemination of knowledge.<span> </span>Through eternal vigilance, we shall counter the prevailing trend of history and turn freedom from a rare jewel to an essential cornerstone of every society on Earth.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for &#8220;change&#8221; huh? Or is it this change?  Maybe it&#8217;s this change?  Or is it Obama&#8217;s repeated votes to fund the Iraq occupation? Or is it his vote to reauthorize the USA PATRIOT Act? If the Obama supporters like this kind of stuff, then count me out. I see so many Obama people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=projectfreedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4055220&amp;post=18&amp;subd=projectfreedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">So much for <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/26/olbermann/" target="_blank">&#8220;change&#8221;</a> huh? Or is it <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4232070.ece" target="_blank">this change</a>?   Maybe it&#8217;s <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqqqF79sCN4HSE6uVrPQVBQpYZVwD91L6QS80" target="_blank">this change</a>?  Or is it Obama&#8217;s repeated votes to fund the Iraq occupation?  Or is it his vote to reauthorize the USA PATRIOT Act?  If the Obama supporters like this kind of stuff, then count me out.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">I see so many Obama people here in NYC.  I just don&#8217;t get it.  These are the same idiots that supported John &#8220;Skull and Bones&#8221; Kerry and Al &#8220;Carbon Tax&#8221; Gore (along with neo-con hawk <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/30/lieberman-says-terrorist-attack-likely/" target="_blank">Joe Lieberman</a>).  I think they just want to feel good.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">One very interesting tidbit about John Kerry and Joe Liebeman &#8211; what do they have in common?  In the late 1990s, a group of neo-conservatives (some of the same people influencing policy today &#8211; you might recognize some of the names) wrote letters urging then President Clinton to invade Iraq (yes &#8211; the push for war in Iraq began as early as 1998).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In this <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050512183751/http://newamericancentury.org/iraq_pdf_01.pdf" target="_blank">letter to the Council on Foreign Relations</a> (archived by archive.org since the Project for a New American Century has shut down), Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Solarz remind people that the warmongering towards Iraq is not just a partisan issue.  They note that their desire to invade Iraq had Democratic support.  Guess which Democrats they cite by name?  Joe Lieberman and John Kerry.  Wow &#8211; what a coincidence.  A Democratic VP candidate AND a Democratic Presidential candidate both happened to support George W. Bush&#8217;s same war.  Democrats and Republicans really are two sides of the same coin (The Project for a New American Century is another Pandora&#8217;s Box.  This organization wrote a paper in September 2000 pushing for a major weapons build-up, and they said they would have a hard time accomplishing this unless a &#8220;new Pearl Harbor&#8221; occurred).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">If you want change, you must be the agent of change.  Crash the parties of the politicos.  Become the media, and cover events.  Run for local office (like <a href="http://www.billburan.com" target="_blank">my friend here</a>).  As Gandhi said, &#8220;Be the change you want to see in the world.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Finally, a major reason for the Iraq invasion is admitted in plain site&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After swearing up and down that: Iraq had WMDs. Saddam is a bad guy. We&#8217;re there to bring them democracy. Oh well, we&#8217;re there already. Forget about how we got stuck in Iraq. We&#8217;ve got to stay there or else there will be chaos (Nevermind that there is more chaos and violence because of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=projectfreedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4055220&amp;post=8&amp;subd=projectfreedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After swearing up and down that:</p>
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<li>Iraq had WMDs.</li>
<li>Saddam is a bad guy.</li>
<li>We&#8217;re there to bring them democracy.</li>
<li>Oh well, we&#8217;re there already. Forget about how we got stuck in Iraq.  We&#8217;ve got to stay there or else there will be chaos <em><strong>(Nevermind that there is more chaos and violence because of the U.S. presence)</strong></em></li>
<li>Well, OK but oil prices are high.  We need to get their oil.</li>
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<p>The truth finally comes out from the mouths of the neo-cons:</p>
<p>Check out this article from the International Herald Tribune, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/19/africa/19iraq.php">&#8220;Deals with Iraq are set to bring oil giants back&#8221;</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq&#8217;s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq&#8217;s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now some people are so arrogant that they&#8217;re even saying that &#8220;The Iraqis ought to give us a 100 year lease on their oil&#8221; and &#8220;They (Iraqis) owe us&#8221;.</p>
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<p>Notice that the Democratic Strategist is almost every bit as idiotic when she recommends further investment (READ: government subsidies) in ethanol and other biofuels.  As if the price of food weren&#8217;t high enough!</p>
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		<title>Did Anyone Catch the End of the Constitution?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My essay written in October 2006 &#8211; Reposted in light of the recent Boumediene v. Bush decision. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Buried under the Mark Foley sex scandal and the school shootings was news of far greater consequence to Americans, especially if we want to remain the “land of the free” and “home of the brave”. Last week, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=projectfreedom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4055220&amp;post=3&amp;subd=projectfreedom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">My essay written in October 2006 &#8211; Reposted in light of the recent <em>Boumediene v. Bush </em>decision.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Buried under the Mark Foley sex scandal and the school shootings was news of far greater consequence to Americans, especially if we want to remain the “land of the free” and “home of the brave”.<span> </span>Last week, a momentous piece of legislation breezed through the Senate unanimously after sailing through the House.<span> </span>When the president signs the Military Commissions Act (H.R. 6166 or the “torture bill”) into law, it will legalize the Bush Administration’s disturbing power grab, and make mince meat of freedom in America.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Military Commissions Act codifies the Bush Administration’s enormously increased powers to detain, interrogate, and prosecute alleged terrorists and who they decide to be a material supporter of the alleged terrorists.<span> </span>As Yale Law professor Bruce Ackerman stated in a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ackerman28sep28,0,619852.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail">recent Los Angeles Times editorial</a>, the legislation “authorizes the president to seize American citiz<span class="mediumtext1">ens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet, defenders of the torture bill will say that American citizens have nothing to worry about, because the bill only refers to aliens engaged in war against America.<span> </span>However, this turns out to be false, as many have pointed out that the legislation’s vague and overly arbitrary definitions for “unlawful enemy combatant” also includes American citizens.<span> </span>As Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, stated in a recent essay, the Military Commissions Act “empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’”. (<a href="http://counterpunch.org/cohn09302006.html">http://counterpunch.org/cohn09302006.html</a>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="mediumtext1">What Ackerman, Cohn, and others are saying should alarm us because our freedoms are the essence of America, and they are being forsaken for military justice, in the name of fighting terrorism.<span> </span>While we are continually inundated with threats of terror, we should fear the loss of our freedoms far more than the threat of terrorism.<span> </span>If the threat of terrorism requires us to give up our freedoms and trust the president, then why did the Founding Fathers bother to even establish a Constitution with separation of powers and a<span> </span>Bill of Rights? Any ardent student of history will remember why the Founding Fathers established 3 branches of government, with checks and balances on each other, and a Bill of Rights.<span> </span>The goal was to preserve the people’s liberties and limit the powers of the federal government.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="mediumtext1">The Founding Fathers understood that the biggest threat to a country comes not from an external enemy, but from the government itself.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="mediumtext1">It should also give us great consternation that something so important, such as the evisceration of American freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights, is not receiving the massive attention that it deserves.<span> </span></span>Everywhere, people can be heard saying “did you catch the Yankee game?”<span> </span>It is time people turned their attention to matters far weightier than any baseball game.<span> </span>Did anyone catch the end of the Constitution?</p>
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