I Spy With My Federal Eye....

We're in the middle of a giant spy game.  If you frequent patriot websites and alternative news sites, you are definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, being tracked.  You are "on the list".

This week, James Wesley Rawles, the "father of the Survivalist movement", released the following statement on his website.

"It has come to my attention that from August of 2011 to November of 2011, the FBI secretly redirected the web traffic of more than 10% of SurvivalBlog’s US visitors through CJIS, their sprawling data center situated on 900 acres, 10 miles from Clarksburg, West Virginia. There, the Feebees surreptitiously collected the IP addresses of my site visitors. In all, 4,906 of 35,494 selected connections ended up going to or through the FBI servers....Furthermore, we discovered that the FBI attached a long-lived cookiethat allowed them to track the sites that readers subsequently visited. I suspect that the FBI has done the same to hundreds of other web sites."

~ James Wesley Rawles, SurvivalBlog

Alternative news sites are all carrying the story, and some preppers and patriots are diving for cover, vowing not to visit these sites again. The disconcerting fact is that  the internet has been used as a tool by the nominal government to follow us, to identify us, and to catalogue us according to what type of threat we offer.

Did you ever stop to think, that is the ONLY reason we still have an accessible internet?

If the Gestapo DHS was not able to use the internet against us, you can bet that it would be locked down.  Already, sites disseminating the truth against these agencies are having myriad Denial of Service attacks.  Search engines have completely changed their parameters, causing government propaganda to show up on the first three pages of any search.  Sites that spread the word, like Infowars, have been "de-listed" from Google, meaning they only show up if you type in the word "Infowars" with any search that you do.

Consider the fact that the "Arab Spring" revolution last year was coordinated almost solely through social media:  Facebook, Twitter, blogs and web forums.  If we know this, you can bet that so do the alphabet soup agencies.  When revolution begins to be coordinated in America, our ability to communicate over the internet will cease.

When the time comes that the DHS Thought Police feel that they have accumulated enough information about us, the 'net will be locked down.  When Revolution occurs, the 'net will be locked down.  The internet is our Paul Revere - our early warning system and the fastest way to spread the word of threats.  As certain sites become more and more proactive, those sites will be shut down.

We only have the internet as long as the Gestapo DHS feels that it is more useful to them than it is to us.

Personally, I intend to use the internet to give the government spies the finger. 

• I will do everything I can to thwart their efforts to track me, including changing operating systems and installing bigger and better firewalls.
• I will continue writing to do my part to spread the word about the takeover from within of the United States government.
• I will continue to visit the alternative news sites on a daily basis to show them my support.
• I will not curtail my activities on the internet one bit. 
• I will continue to dissent and to encourage others to do so.

Go ahead: follow me around the web.  If there's a list (and we all know there is) then I'm already on it.  Changing my habits now will do nothing to remove me from this list.

So, to all you dissident rebel Patriots, use the internet now to gather all of the information that you can.  Make connections with other like-minded folks.  Organize, spread the word and resist, while always keeping in mind that both sides can play at the "dis-information" game.  When the threat of an internet-based Patriot movement outweighs the allure of being able to spy on us, the internet will be no more until we can take it back.

To quote a very wise man on a web forum:   "What we need to do is just make sure they get the proper message: There are TENS OF MILLIONS of us, we are armed, and we are PISSED!"

Freedom should not be a radical concept in America.  Fighting for freedom should not be considered a treasonous act.  Voicing opinions of dissent should be welcomed in a country founded on liberty and free speech. The true revolution begins in your own mind.

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

John Adams, Feb. 13, 1818

Thank you to Okie for the quote of the day!

Obama's Thought Gestapo

With all of the hubbub about the passing of the NDAA, a couple of little things have slid in under the radar from the desk of President Obama.

On January 4th, he rolled out the carpet for the new Bureau of Counterrorism. Apparently this shiny new expenditure of taxpayer dollars serves "no greater responsibility than to protect the American people."

Phew.  I guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief now.

Uh-oh...hang on to that sigh......a fact sheet released by the federal government more fully outlines the department, using the vague and open-to-interpretation language we are all becoming accustomed to.  Read it yourself and see if you get that warm and cozy feeling of security or if you get that itchy feeling on the back of your neck that you are witnessing the creation of a thought Gestapo.

My biggest concern comes from this section:

Countering violent extremism:  To defeat terrorists, we must undermine their ability to recruit.  The Bureau of Counterterrorism will focus the State Department in US government counter violent extremism......will work to delegitimize the violent extremist narrative, to develop positive alternatives for populations vulnerable to recruitment, and to build partner government and civil society capacity to counter violent extremism themselves.

In that section alone, I read this......

We, the government must defeat the insurgents by undermining their ability to spread the word about what we are doing.  The Bureau will focus on getting rid of people who make too much noise....will work to censor their message on the internet, in print and over the airwaves.....will endeavour to program young people to believe that we alone are looking out for their best interests......and will strive to convince the populace that those fighting for their freedom are the enemy, and must be destroyed.

The government of the United States is striving to induce Stockholm Syndrome in it's citizens.  Stockholm Syndrome is defined as " the extraordinary phenomena in which captives begin to identify with and grow sympathetic towards their captors."  When you are dependant on one source for food, shelter and permission for anything that you do, you begin to see that source as something to be revered.  You begin to feel sheltered by your very captor, as they lull you into a sense that they alone are caring for you.

When you add this new bureau to all of the rights claimed by the government through the NDAA, you can clearly begin to see the pieces falling into place for even more enslavement.  We are now at risk from the opinion police and disagreement could be very hazardous to one's health and well-being.

Let it be known that we are smarter than that.  Let it be known that we will not be drawn into a net of captivity "for our own good".    We can teach our own children, we can think critically and we can defend our liberties, as they are God-given natural rights, and not privileges extended by the government.

No thanks, State Department. We don't need another branch of the Obama Thought Gestapo.