By Pitchfork © 2011

Blog of Week of May 23, 2011

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Freely quote with attribution

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From the folks who brought us more inherently worthless printed money than earthlings have ever seen, a country with low inflation (if you don’t live here dependent on food and fuel), more unwon wars than Genghis Khans half-wit subs could have conjured, a president who’s spent $2MM-plus to cover-up his true national colors, a tax cheat in charge of the Treasury Department [read:  IRS, FBI, etc.],  . . . drum roll, please . . . now cometh the latest extension of ending provisions of the Patriot Act.

Huh?  Whassup with this Patriot Act thingy?  Born during Bush II, it’s just what the doctor ordered for government liberty and freedoms.  No not your individual liberty and freedoms, ninny, unless you work for government and specifically FEDERAL government.

Feel the love . . .

“Executive Order 10995: Seizure of all communications media - radio, television, newspapers, CB and Ham radio, telephones and the internet (in effect, suspension of the first amendment)

“Executive Order 10997: Seizure of all electrical power and fossil fuels

“Executive Order 10998: Seizure of all food sources, farms and farm equipment. Food will be rationed. Today some states have anti-hoarding laws on the books, stating that anything over a one week's supply of food is considered hoarding and against the law.

“Executive Order 10999: Seizure of all transportation and control of all highways, interstates and seaports. Any vehicle, public or private, can be taken.

“Executive Order 11000: Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision.

“Executive Order 11003: Seizure of all airports and aircraft, public or private.

“Executive Order 11004: Housing and Finance given authority for population relocation.

“Executive Order 12919: Directs various Cabinet officials to be ready to take over virtually all aspects of the United States economy during a ‘state of national emergency’ at the direction of the president.

“Executive Order 13010: Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in times of emergency. FEMA is under the direct control of the executive (presidential) branch of government.

“Executive Order 11490: Establishes presidential control over all United States citizens, businesses, and churches in times of ‘emergency’ ”

Source:  Off The Grid, Saturday, May 28, 2011, http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=1u15q7dlc8ea2

Barefoot, beleaguered and besieged, broke, broken, and bereft under bales, buckets, and baskets full of federal bull, bullets, and badges.  Gotcha.  Feel the love.

Can you see Bo shoving it to Lady Liberty with this arsenal of tyranny to save his butt?

See:  “Executive Orders” at http://www.buddylogan.com/newlaws.html

The real patriots [albeit, strange bedfellows, including, among others, Bush-detractors, whack-jobs, and the delusional] . . .

“Democrats who voted AGAINST four more years of George W. Bush’s Patriot Act, with no reforms:

“Gary Ackerman, Tammy Baldwin, Karen Bass, Earl Blumenauer, Robert Brady, Bruce Braley, Lois Capps, Michael Capuano, Russ Carnahan, André Carson, Judy Chu, David Cicilline, Hansen Clarke, Yvette Clarke, William Clay, Emanuel Cleaver, James Clyburn, Steve Cohen, Gerald Connolly, Jerry Costello, Joe Courtney, Joseph Crowley, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis, Peter DeFazio, Diana DeGette, Rosa DeLauro, Lloyd Doggett, Michael Doyle, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, Eliot Engel, Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, Chaka Fattah, Barney Frank, Marcia Fudge, John Garamendi, Charles Gonzalez, Al Green, Raul Grijalva, Luis Gutierrez, Colleen Hanabusa, Alcee Hastings, Martin Heinrich, James Himes, Maurice Hinchey, Mazie Hirono, Rush Holt, Michael Honda, Jay Inslee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Hank Johnson, Marcy Kaptur, Dale Kildee, Dennis Kucinich, Rick Larsen, John Larson, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, David Loebsack, Zoe Lofgren, Ben Luján, Stephen Lynch, Carolyn Maloney, Edward Markey, Doris Matsui, Betty McCollum, James McDermott, James McGovern, Jerry McNerney, Gregory Meeks, Michael Michaud, Gwen Moore, James Moran, Christopher Murphy, Jerrold Nadler, Grace Napolitano, Richard Neal, Frank Pallone, Ed Pastor, Donald Payne, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Perlmutter, Chellie Pingree, Jared Polis, David Price, Charles Rangel, Laura Richardson, Cedric Richmond, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Bobby Rush, Timothy Ryan, Linda Sanchez, John Sarbanes, Janice Schakowsky, Kurt Schrader, Robert Scott, Jose Serrano, Brad Sherman, Louise Slaughter, Jackie Speier, Pete Stark, Betty Sutton, Mike Thompson, Bennie Thompson, John Tierney, Paul Tonko, Edolphus Towns, Christopher Van Hollen, Nydia Velázquez, Peter Visclosky, Timothy Walz, Maxine Waters, Melvin Watt, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner, Peter Welch, Frederica Wilson, Lynn Woolsey, David Wu, John Yarmuth

“Republicans who voted AGAINST four more years of George W. Bush’s Patriot Act, with no reforms:
“Rep. Justin Amash, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, Rep. Rob Bishop, Paul Broun, John Campbell, Jason Chaffetz, Jeff Duncan, John Duncan, Michael Fitzpatrick, Chris Gibson, Tom Graves, Morgan Griffith, Richard Hanna, Andy Harris, Jaime Herrera, Timothy Johnson, Walter Jones, Raúl Labrador, Connie Mack, Donald Manzullo, Tom McClintock, Ron Paul, Bill Posey, Dennis Rehberg, Phil Roe, Dana Rohrabacher, Todd Rokita, Scott Tipton, Allen West, Rob Woodall, Don Young

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“Maybe you didn’t find the name of your U.S. Representative here. That’s because 28 members of Congress didn’t cast any vote on this bill at all.”

Source:  “Roll Call: U.S. House Passes Patriot Act Extension With No Reforms!” posted 26th May 2011 in Legislation, Liberty by jclifford, http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/05/26/roll-call-u-s-house-passes-patriot-act-extension-with-no-reforms/

Senators voting AGAINST the Patriot Act Extension:

Baucus (D-MT), Begich (D-AK), Brown (D-OH), Harkin (D-IA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Lee (R-UT), Merkley (D-OR), Murray (D-WA), Paul (R-KY), Sanders (I-VT), Tester (D-MT), Udall (D-NM)

Source:  “U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 1st Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate”  Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 514 As Amended), February 15, 2011

‘Fork is reminded of those salient, sentient words of a fellow countryman sorely missed and sincerely remembered . . .

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

So on this eve of Memorial Day eve, let us bow our heads and close our eyes and hold our hands steady and still to focus on whether today is about us and ours or about them and theirs.  ‘Fork knows what they’re thinking.  How about you?

Question of the day:  If your congressional cohorts are not among these litanies, then what you do reckon of them:  Stoopid?  Sycophant?  Socialist?  Psychosocial?  Schmuck or Schmuckette?