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From the Blog of Gerald Celente….

At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pioneer Plaza on the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer. Minutes later, a crowd assembles, additional security forces arrive, and they physically assault the man holding the sign. He’s taken to the ground with force and detained.

An unidentified Alaska State Trooper arrives to physically disperse the crowd, and at several points during the conflict, crowd members yell in support of the demonstrator’s right to speak his message. The demonstrator’s personal firearm is confiscated by fair security, and he is held captive until Palmer police arrive to escort the man away in cuffs.

Sidney Hill was in jail awaiting a pre-trial at 1:00pm on August 27, 2010 at the Palmer Courthouse. He has been charged with Assault 4-Cause Fear Of Injury, Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight, and Criminal Trespass 2- Upon Premises. However, according to the Valley Frontiersman newspaper, “Assistant District Attorney Trina Sears said her office decided not to prosecute Hill on the assault charge.”

Today, from The Washington Post….

Monday, July 19, 2010; 1:53 AM

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.

The investigation’s other findings include:

* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 11/2 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet of space.
* Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and
waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.
* Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year – a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

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Can’t get troops there? Why not use the armed public?

This video disturbs me.

It disturbs me greatly. Granted, neither of the two young women should have touched the officer. That’s a simple matter of law. They were approached by the officer because they were jaywalking. However, and so far, none that I have spoken with about this video have taken into account the current environment in which the minorities of Seattle live. They live in fear, as all people across the country should, because we’re being conditioned (and have for quite some time), to cower in the presence of officials and authority figures. Jack-booted thugs that are trained to beat the public into submission at the slightest hint of disobedience. I’ve read articles where people are being arrested for video recording officers or by simply carrying a copy of the United States Constitution. By I digress.

To put the the matter of fear into perspective, here’s a recent video of the same department’s finest, in action.

These are not isolated incidents. There are documented reports of this happening all across the country. I don’t believe it will get any better. Reading the comments to the original postings of these two videos show that the majority of the commenters are violence-loving racists, ignorant to the possibility that the same scenarios could happen to them or any member of their own family. In such a short time, we have gone from helping our neighbors and having mutual respect for each other, to a society of apathetic sociopaths dominated by lawfully immune, tyrannical psychopaths.

I think what disturbs me most about those two videos were that the people witnessing both events stood by and did nothing to help those that were being wronged. This is only going to get worse, I fear, and it may come to a point where the only person in which one can rely upon is yourself.