SitRep: Critical

The good news is that authorities released Brandon Raub from confinement in a psychiatric hospital  in response to a judge's order. The bad news is that his case represents the tip of the iceberg.

John Whitehead, director of the Rutherford Institute and Raub's attorney, says that since the publicity over this case, he has received calls from veterans' groups across the country:

Whitehead said that veterans have since been contacting him from across the country claiming they too were victims of wrongful detention in psychiatric institutes like Raub.
He added,

There’s about 20,000 civil commitments alone in Virginia each year. (Article in The Blaze)
(See video of Glen Beck's interview of John Whitehead below.)

In another recent case, Scranton police arrested a Christian talk show host, and he ended up in a mental health facility where the doctors diagnosed him as psychotic, thereby depriving him of his right to own firearms. Douglas Hagman of the Northeast Intelligence Network reports:

In short, Mr. Egroff was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for evaluation due to his pro-Christian yet non-threatening religious views opposing those of the Obama regime. Of course, that’s not the official psychiatric diagnosis given to him, but after an extensive investigation into the events leading up to and following his evaluation, it might as well be. What was uncovered in subsequent investigations involving other “patients,” I am convinced that the common element in all similar cases is one’s Christian beliefs when combined with a vocal opposition to Obama agenda. I’m also convinced we’ve identified their playbook.

Further research into this tactic left me both surprised and shaken to the core. My findings have determined that the situation involving Mr. Egroff is not an isolated case, but one of a growing and effective tactic currently being used to silence the Christian “watchmen” in the U.S. The victims of these tactics are not fanatical, they do not advocate violence, and certainly do not represent any threat to themselves or others. Their common “crime” is that they believe in the Word of God, the Holy Bible, and vocally identify the transgressions of our current government as they relate to the Bible and Scripture. To the Obama regime, this has obviously become a dangerous political threat.

We can clearly see the police state closing its tentacles around the liberties of its people as it steps up its efforts to silence opposing views. I have previously documented the construction and logistical readiness of federal detention camps, the training of the military for deployment against the American populace and the purchase of about a billion-and-a-half (and counting) rounds of ammunition by DHS alone. (Note: The military has expended about "only" 70 million rounds a year in the war in Iraq.)

Federal authorities have put out bulletins to state and local law enforcement agencies that identify returning veterans, Ron Paul supporters, 9-11 truthers, Christian Reconstructionists, and Tea Party people as terrorists. In other words, they have targeted us as the enemy.

During his interview with Glen Beck, Attorney Whitehead mentioned that we live in a total surveillance society. He maintains that authorities can monitor any private conversation or communication  and use it as grounds to "disappear" you into some psychiatric hospital.

In response to that, my wife reminded me of a passage in the book Tomorrow Will Be Better, an account of one family's struggle during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia:

It is hard to describe what it was like to live under circumstances where every detail, every adt, and every word might suddenly cause one's death. Fear can destroy one's sense of proportion. (p. 130)

At this juncture, we need to close ranks. We need to have each others' backs, and we need to rise up in indignation just as so many did for Brandon Raub. 

Be willing to stand with those who are willing to stand alone.

To Tell the Players . . .

. . . you need a scorecard.

Remember when al Qaeda was the enemy? The rationale for invading Iraq and Afghanistan? Remember?

That was before the U.S. backed an al Qaeda faction in Libya to overthrow 1970's dictator bogeyman, Muammar Qaddafi. Now, al Qaeda insurgents in Syria are heroes.

Ed Husain has written an article published on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) site. He says,

The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in their ranks. By and large, Free Syrian Army (FSA) battalions are tired, divided, chaotic, and ineffective. Feeling abandoned by the West, rebel forces are increasingly demoralized as they square off with the Assad regime's superior weaponry and professional army. Al-Qaeda fighters, however, may help improve morale. The influx of jihadis brings discipline, religious fervor, battle experience from Iraq, funding from Sunni sympathizers in the Gulf, and most importantly, deadly results. In short, the FSA needs al-Qaeda now.

This is significant because the CFR has directed U.S. foreign policy since the end of WWII. Isn't it interesting how al Qaeda started out as a CIA client to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, then they transformed into the specter of worldwide terrorism, and now they're the good guys, again.

Husain says that the U.S. will deal with al Qaeda after the overthrow of Syria's Assad.

Well, if al Qaeda no longer occupies the center of attention in the war on terrorism, who replaced them? If you read Christian Warrior Online regularly, you have displaced them as the greatest threat.

A faculty member of the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth has produced a paper in which he lays out U.S. military strategy for suppressing Tea Party insurgents. Unbelievable? Read the scenario he spins in this excerpt:

The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.

In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering. In truth, this is hardly necessary. Many law enforcement officials already are sympathetic to the tea party’s agenda, know many of the people involved, and have made clear they will not challenge the takeover. The militia members are organized and have a relatively well thought-out plan of action. ("Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future")

The Establishment denies that the armed forces are training to suppress Americans, to seize private firearms, to arrest and detain those who oppose tyranny. (See here and here)  But this document shows that this is part of the policy and planning process within the military establishment.

Search Engine Co. Blocks Weapons Search, Sales

A certain search engine company which I shall not name (but it starts with "G" and rhymes with frugal), has a new policy that discriminates against any products related to firearms. The internet giant has a rep for manipulating results of unapproved searches and censoring websites unfriendly to the liberal establishment.


Today, they routed an email critical of their company directly to my spam folder. The email contained a link to the news article about the company's new antigun policy.


A coincidence? I think not.

Here's a link to the offending article:

http://tinyit.cc/939b 


To perform searches that are not traceable by the "frugal" people or anyone else, try using the search engine ixquick.com 

Gang Attack Results in Victim's Death

Here's the scene:

A 48-year-old man --an architect -- and his wife, on the way home from a Bible study have an accident because the man suffers a diabetic attack.

Sadly, some gang members arrive on the scene and take advantage of the situation. Ignoring his medical condition, they beat the man mercilessly and subjected him to torture before relieving him of his wallet. He died at the scene.

The rest of the story:

Who did this to the man? Was it members of Hell's Angels, or Crips or Bloods or some other street gang? No, this gang wore police uniforms.

They beat him with their batons and subjected him needlessly to the torture of tasers and pepper spray.

Here's the story as reported by Courthouse News:

Johnson suffered a diabetic attack sometime after 8:15 p.m. that night, after calling a friend to tell him he was leaving his Bible class, according to the complaint in Baltimore County Court.

He suffered a diabetic attack, crashed on the I-795, and his car came to rest against the guardrail in the median near the merger with I-695.

According to the complaint, when State Trooper Davon Parker arrived and tapped on the window, and Johnson managed to lower the window, Parker pepper sprayed him in the face.

Johnson then got out of his car and Parker clubbed him at least once in the knee. Defendant Officer Loss (fnu) then arrived and whacked Johnson at least twice with his club, the complaint states.

Baltimore County Police Officer Nicholas Wolferman then arrived, whacked Johnson "at least three times" with his own baton, then he and Officer Loss "grabbed Mr. Johnson and threw him over the guardrail," Johnson's widow says.

She claims the very first officer on the scene knew or should have known that her husband was suffering from a medical problem.

Nonetheless, after throwing him over the guardrail, the cops applied pressure points to his ears and armpits, she says. Three more cops arrived, including Baltimore County Officer Andrew O'Neill, who Tasered Johnson twice. Officer Loss then punched him in the face and the six officers managed to handcuff him, the widow says.

Eight more cops arrived, and someone took his wallet, which included a medical alert card about his diabetes. Nonetheless, the cops forcibly held him down, though he was not resisting, and was handcuffed, his wife says.

"Upon information and belief, there were approximately 52 individuals that responded to the scene," according to the complaint.

The widow claims Johnson was Tasered at least three times, while he was lying on his back, helpless, surrounded by police. He became "motionless and speechless" and was pronounced dead within an hour of cardiac arrest.

He was the 10th person to die since 2004 after being subjected to police electroshock in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reported in a story about Johnson's death.
Christian commentator Gary North wryly observes:

In earlier, more innocent days, the first trooper to arrive would have taken the man to a hospital. But that was then. This is now. First, start with pepper sprtay when he rolls down the car window. If he gets out of the car club him. Is he refuses to get back into the car, it’s taser time. That will do the trick. Usually.

If not, do it again until he stops moving.
Thirty years ago, I recognized the us-them mentality displayed by some police officers. Over the next couple of decades it seemed to become even more common.

Since 9/11, however, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies have fanned the flames of hysteria among the nation's police departments. More and more, they seem to view the general public as the enemy.

In Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, the police became tools of arbitrary power. Instead of protecting the people from criminals, they saw their mission as protecting their criminal government from citizens.

So sad that we seem to be moving in the same direction. Kudos to those officers who serve as salt and light in the midst of political corruption and administrative darkness.

Coming Soon to Electronic Devices Near You: Big Brother's Watchful Eye

I read George Orwell's 1984 way back in the early 1960's. It was one of the books that helped turned me into a lifelong opponent of statism.

(Some of the other influential material that I read in my youth included John Noble's I Was a Slave in Soviet Russia and its companion volume, I Found God in Soviet Russia, as well as Frederic Bastiat's The Law and a potpourri of material from the Christian Anti Communism Crusade & Carl McIntyre's organization.)

It was 1984 that contributed the term "Big Brother" to our vocabulary. In the novel, Big Brother was the charismatic leader of the nation who exercised total control and demanded total devotion. In popular parlance, it came to refer to any statist system that seeks to subdue the individual to its control.

I remember one scene in Orwell's novel where protagonist Winston Smith sat in a small nook of his apartment, the only place not covered by the ubiquitous surveillance cameras that spied on everyone, everywhere. As he sat there, a small drone helicopter came and hovered outside the window, reminding him that he was not safe anywhere from the party's prying eyes.

In addition, the ruling power had plastered posters everywhere with the admonition, "Big Brother is Watching You." By the time I finished reading it, the story had impressed on my psyche the dangers of the state's ever expanding tendency to monitor its citizens.

Evidently, at this point of time, I'm part of a minority. So many of my fellow-citizens seem either unaware or unmoved by recent news about the expansion of the surveillance state.

Here are just a few items that show me that Orwell's nightmare is coming true in America, today:

• The FBI has admitted tracking visitors to a preparedness website
• This administration is about to complete the Bush plan that will enable the National Security Administration to collect and store data on anyone, anywhere.
• CIA touts ability to read all your connected electronic devices
• Facial recognition technology can now be used in conjunction with the multitude of surveillance cameras
• The possibility that new HD televisions will also be used to spy on their users
• Some jurisdictions in this country have already started to use spy drones
• New policy allows feds to store intelligence data on citizens with no terrorist ties

If you happen to find that little nook in your home that Big Brother can't yet peer into, it might be a good idea to keep quiet about it.

1984 -- Are we there yet? 

Personal Security: Internet Privacy

Like colossal vacuum cleaners, internet giants like Google and Facebook suck information about tens of millions of Americans into their data banks. We already know that DHS combs facebook for some 400 terms. (CLICK HERE to find out what words and phrases could red-flag you.)

Now, it seems that the National Security Administration does not want the public to know about any secret cooperative relationship they may have with Google. The Department of Justice has sought to block a freedom of information inquiry that would bring such a partnership into the open. (CLICK HERE for article)

I'm not suggesting that I or any of my readers are doing anything wrong or illegal. But if you do research in search engines that you think is no else's business, then you may want to consider an alternative to Google.

I am going to recommend duckduckgo.com. It does not track users' searches.

Also, if you go to the lower right hand corner, you can click on the [settings] link. Then scroll down to privacy settings. There, you can make sure that sites you visit cannot back-trace your visit, and the engine will take you to encrypted https:// pages (where available).

This is the very minimum I would do to ensure that my internet searches do not become part of someone's secret database.

Beware the iPhone Snitch App

Anyone who has paid any attention at all to releases from DHS & the FBI realizes that the establishment has an agenda-driven view of what constitutes potential terrorism. Recent pronouncements against the dangers of "homegrown" terrorism include warnings against Christians who actually believe the Bible, those who oppose murdering unborn infants, people who believe in limited civil government, returning war vets, people who think public officials should obey the Constitution they've sworn to "preserve, protect and defend", gun owners, people who pay for merchandise/services with cash, people who buy night flashlights (as opposed to flashlights designed to be used in daylight?), etc. (For more indicators of terrorism, CLICK HERE)


(Isn't it interesting that the Bible and the Constitution are documents revered by potential terrorists, but not the Koran?)


The FBI has a whole series of fliers that describe these activities and encourage citizens to report those who exhibit said behavior. Now, however, the feds have devised a way to make it even easier for us to spy on each other: the iPhone spy app.


Here's the lowdown on this from Tea Party Economist:


There is a new cell phone application. It allows anyone with a smart phone to record anything suspicious and send it to the Department of Homeland Security.

There is a pilot program in West Virginia. It will spread.

Here is where it gets interesting. The DHS is using regional centers to collect and maintain this information. They are called Fusion Centers.

For more on Fusion Centers, CLICK HERE

New Orleans: Harbinger of the Police State?

In New Orleans this past Sunday, a toddler died in the crossfire of an apparent gang shootout. (see here) Now at least one Louisiana lawmaker has issued a call for the National Guard to patrol the streets to suppress crime.

In 2005, military patrols confiscated guns from citizens, leaving them helpless against marauding gangs of looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans seems to serve as a test case and precedent for martial law & the police state.

Let's recap a partial chain of events:

1. The national government has redefined terrorism to include pretty much anyone who opposes its policies (see here);
2. Federal authorities hold coordinated drills to impose martial law (see here);
3. ATF has admitted complicity in running guns into Mexico, and agency emails reveal that at least one objective was to create an excuse for stricter gun controls on American citizens (see here);
4. Civil governments at all levels have terrorized citizens just going about their business (see here and here);
5. The president now claims the authority to have any American assassinated anywhere in the world, if he alone determines that citizen is a terrorist (see here);
6. Congress has rubber-stamped the president's power to arrest and detain any citizen without due process (no trial, no charges, no warrant) for any length of time (see here)
7. FEMA has put the machinery in motion to activate its emergency detention camps (death camps? see here);
8. Now, crime in the streets may serve as an occasion to impose martial law on a U.S. city (see below).

Do you see a pattern here? Think Mitt Romney will save us?

Think again.

Who Will Staff the Concentration Camps? -- 2

Last week, I blogged a post about the fact that Congress has passed a bill that puts its stamp of approval on the detainment of citizens without formal charges or trial for an indefinite period of time. (see here) Then I posted about how FEMA has begun to solicit bids to supply everything from food to fencing & barricades for its relocation camps. (see here)

In that second article, I stated that obedient American drones would staff the camps designed to intern their fellow citizens. The following National Guard ad reveals that recruitment and training of personnel is already underway.


The danger in doing away with due process lies in how the power brokers decide who is and is not a terrorist. Remember, not too long ago one state defined people who support non-establishment candidates like Ron Paul as "potential terrorists".


So, the wheels are in motion. It remains to be seen what event will serve as the pretext to round up of Americans and put them in camps. Also, we do not yet know exactly whom the powers that be will target first.

If you are a Christian who vocally opposes statist encroachments on your faith and your liberty, then you may be at risk. Oh wait . . . I forgot . . . it can't happen here.

To read more on the topic, read here and here and here.

Who Will Staff the Concentration Camps?

In 2009, Congress passed a bill authorizing the construction of FEMA "emergency center" camps around the country. (see here) Last week, Congress passed a bill authorizing the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without formal charges or trial. (see here)

This week, the U.S. gov't has taken steps that will make it possible to activate the camps on short notice. (see here) Who would staff such camps to imprison fellow Americans?

This video makes a powerful presentation of a concept that citizens inside and outside the Church need to hear. If you've ever had to make the choice between following orders or taking a lonely stand for what's right, then you know why simple and easy are not synonyms.

In the Python's Deadly Coils

Both in the wild and in captivity, pythons have killed human beings. If you handle one, you must take care not to let it begin to wrap its coils around your body, for once they do, they contract those coils and squeeze the breath from your body.


Last week, a number of news outlets informed Americans that the Senate's passage of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) slipped another deadly coil around the body politic. (see here and here)

Senator McCain, the author of the provision for indefinite detention of suspected terrorists without trial or formal charges confirmed that this provision would include American citizens. (see here) Again, realize that this means arrest and detention for any period of time on mere suspicion, without formal charges or a trial.

The president's threatens to veto the law, not because of its obvious violation of the Constitution, but because of a perceived curtailing of executive power:

In their current form, some of these provisions disrupt the Executive branch's ability to enforce the law and impose unwise and unwarranted restrictions on the U.S. Government's ability to aggressively combat international terrorism . . . . (Statement of Administration Policy)

Remember, this is the president who has acted on his public claim that he has the prerogative to assassinate American citizens without formal charges or trial. (see here)

In the wake of these events, FEMA yesterday announced its "National Preparedness System" which claims to centralize control of all society in an emergency:

“What makes this preparedness system unique is that it engages the whole community –individuals, businesses, community- and faith-based organizations, schools and all levels of government,” said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. “We recognize that the nation will be most prepared for threats and hazards when we work together.” (Cypress Times, see here)

And under the new guidelines, just about anything can constitute a national emergency (see Cypress Times article, op. cit.) Also, Alex Jones reports that FEMA is now taking bids to supply its emergency (detention?) camps. (see here and here).

The coils are there. Don't think everything is okay just because you don't feel the squeeze yet.

Operation Mountain Guardian: Martial Law Coming Soon to a City Near You?

Re: Terrorism, Totalitarianism

Last Friday (9/23/11), more than 100 gov't agencies participated in Operation Mountain Guardian hosted by homeland security. The exercise put Denver Colorado under simulated martial law, and most national media totally ignored it.

Alex Jones did get a two-man news team in to cover the event, and below you will find a video clip of the SWAT invasion of a public elementary school. You can hear the crying and screams of terrified children as young as six years in the background, even while helmeted, fully armed police shout at them to calm down.

My wife said that this was perhaps the most disturbing thing she has heard of the feds doing in years. That was even before she saw the video.



The children were evacuated from the building past simulated casualties (dead & bloody) and then taken to a sports stadium for processing. During a real martial law crackdown, officials could use their possession of the children to lure parents on a blacklist in for arrest and transfer to a detainment camp.

Too bad no adult showed up either during planning or execution to say, "This is a really bad idea."

There is very little available news on the subject for more of Alex Jones' coverage, click here.

To read news based on a pre-drill press release, click a link below:

Major Terrorism Drill “Operation Mountain Guardian” - The Intel Hub - Operation Mountain Guardian is a terrorism-based, full-scale emergency exercise scheduled to take place in numerous locations in the Denver metro area on Friday, September 23, 2011. The exercise will involve first ... Operation Mountain Guardian Exposed « America Gone Wrong 2.1 - First a tech note, I switched web hosts today. As such, the music is gone for the moment but I hope to bring it back soon. Now on to the main issue. Today in Denver, Homeland Security did a series of drills for several ...