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America’s Police State and the Forgotten Oath
“Protect and Defend” along with “Foreign and Domestic,” America’s Betrayal
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
What is an oath? An oath is a promise. Those taking an oath are selected, we are told, on the basis of public trust, that they are of sufficient character that the oath they take will be the oath they keep.
Sometimes the oathtaker is elected, sometimes chosen, sometimes the position of authority and public trust was not one sought but one “thrust” upon that “oathkeeper” out of economic necessity.
What Americans have learned is that those who take oaths and those who keep them are seldom the same folks. “Oaths” seem to come with more than a bit of “wiggle-room.”
Here is what an oath sounds like to a citizen:
“I (state your name) promise to protect and defend the constitution of the United States and to perform my duties with honor…..”
This could be a judge, a soldier, a dog warden, even a police officer. The problem of late has been that those who take oaths seem to have held what we term “mental reservations and evasions” while taking their oaths.
They think they swore to “weasel word” oaths.
“I, (state your name or alias), promise to protect and defend my own ass and screw the rest of you….”
Capt. Bologna - Some of His Pepper Spray Work
What we are talking about, of course, is police behavior against the “Occupy” movement. We don’t have to end it there but it is time we started asking some hard questions.
It’s time we started asking when we stop taking orders and when we take individual responsibility for protecting and defending the constitution of the United States.
This isn’t a perfect document but it sure as hell doesn’t allow police to pepper spray peaceful protesters nor does it allow police to try to silence dissent, especially not when we all know America has become something all of us hate.
I was just talking with Mike Harris, one of our staff writers who has a morning radio show at Republic Broadcasting.
His point is that 96% of the time, the candidate with the most money wins elections.
Thus, with corporations or certain extremely powerful groups choose to buy our congress, and I assure you, a trans-generational, trans-national organized crime conspiracy has done just that, we are not only no longer a democracy, we are no longer a republic.
If representative government is based on cash alone and ours is, we are no longer the United States of America.
Crowd Control Has Some Perks - "This One's Mine!. No, She's Mine... I Saw Her First. Go Get Your Own!"
Police seem to recognize that because so few seem to have any respect for the laws and traditions that made America what we wanted it to be and what its constitution requires.
We can stifle free speech, we can torture at will, arrest and detain without trial, and certainly love dishing out “cruel and unusual” punishment.
A month ago, here in Ohio, the police came to the people and asked them to overturn a law passed by right wing governor Kasich. Police had lost their overtime and collective bargaining rights.
What is funny about this is that police voted Kasich in. What is funny about this is that police are the “Rush Limbaugh fan club” that Kasich was catering to when he and Republicans in the legislature voted down all labor rights for police, nurses and teachers.
Who came to the support of police? “Occupy.”
In the end, Kasich and his cronies, which had included the police, only got 31% of the vote here.
Rampart - Some of LAPD Not Finest
If you want to understand police, there is one word that says it all, Rampart.
This was a 90′s scandal, that if all of it got out, showed, not dozens but hundreds, even thousands of Los Angeles police taking everything from minor bribes to operating as “hit men” for drug gangs.
After a long investigation and coverup, Los Angeles may have a better department.
It really doesn’t, it is exactly as before but more careful.
In Los Angeles, police were taking millions in bribes from Mexican drug cartels. I can almost understand that in a way. Forgive me for having a soft place, perhaps in my head, for police.
New York is another story, New York, Oakland and city after city.
Police aren’t taking drug money or “freebee’s” from whores or snorting cocaine in order to work those extra shifts each week. The new “police” take their money from corrupt banks. In comparison to banks, give me Tony Soprano every time. Give me a decent crooked cop every time.
I don’t care if a cop drops his pants in an alley with a working girl or boy or pockets a gun he finds during the search of a crack dealer. I do get angry when police attack the country I sort of fought for in Vietnam as a Marine by tasking bribes from crooked banks.
Occupy Activists Crossed Generation Lines
Then there is Janet Napolitano, the new Secretary of Homeland Security. I expected the Nazi regime of Bush to be disassembled, not strengthened.
We have to understand out times and what is at risk.
These aren’t anti-war demonstrators which, if you remember correctly stopped the 10 years slaughter in Vietnam.
They were right then and demonstrators today are right now, more right than 90% of them know. We should all be with them, especially anyone who has ever sworn an oath.
The purpose of ”Occupy” is to force America, a nation that has more than “lost its way,” but something far more sinister, to enjoy a rebirth of freedom beginning with respect for the constitution and the laws it was meant to foster, laws our “bought and paid for” government has long forgotten.
The constitution has flaws. Just look at the Supreme Court. They made foreign drug cartels into “people” and have allowed them to legally buy our government, or perhaps just rent it from the Israel lobby.
Is this another joke? If only it were.
If this were a decade ago, we would be talking “left and right.” Those days are gone.
We are now down to simple survival after having our country looted by foreign corporations, banks and what we used to call the New World Order, the once popular name for a globalist conspiracy nobody really understood.
Now we see unaffordable gasoline, decade long wars, jobs disappearing, homes empty, a third of our nation filled with illegal aliens and a government that has lost touch with reality.
We all also see a pattern but few have a grasp of when and where things went over the edge.
Commissioners Admit That Witnesses Lied and Withheld Information
If you still believe that 19 hijackers were responsible for 9/11, if you don’t know about Building 7 or the missile attack on the Pentagon, that and so much more, you have been one of the millions of Americans whose brain fell victim to the controlled press.
Until you can be properly educated to be the citizen of a free nation, to be a real American again, we might as well all be living in the Soviet Union of old.
If it were only banks and only billions they are stealing.
It isn’t just the banks, its a secret world government and its hundreds of trillions of dollars they have stolen, the tuition of your great grandchildren, the home they were meant to live in, the job they were meant to have, all planned, their life set out for them, one of starvation and slavery.
When our votes were stolen, we were silent. When the Patriot Acts were passed, we were silent. What are we.
We are what Darwin would describe as a species destined for extinction.
If you have been silent, if you swore an oath but enforced the rule of un-American brutality, you did your part to bring it about.
No Hidden Weapons Here
The kids on the street are talking “peaceful.”
Those of us who have fought in wars, those of us who understand what the enemy will do before the relinquish power, know many of us will die.
“They” planned and executed 9/11. They bombed the London underground. They bomb Nigeria and Pakistan every day.
They will use a nuclear weapon on an American city someday, when they think the time is right, when there is enough money still involved.
There are people out there that evil and our police are working for them, people that make Al Capone look like a choirboy.
A week ago, Greece and Italy got new prime ministers appointed. Who did it?
Organized crime. Look into it, see who is in office now, check on an election. There was none.
Look into who German Prime Minister Merkel is.
Why would a communist spy, supposedly ”former,” we know better, be running one of the biggest countries on earth, right into the ground?
Why would the US Senate have just passed a law that allows the president to arrest any American without reason and hold them without trial forever. This just happened, 60 votes.
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window
If Obama will sign it, it represents an end to America as we know it. This is so serious it is worth giving your life over. There was no debate, nobody read it, and this is not an internet rumor out of Snopes.com.
We aren’t that kind of place and I am not that kind of writer.
The police? They are going to have to ”grow a pair,” stand up for America and, on this rare occasion of “life and death,” begin taking their oaths seriously.
If they don’ t think they are on the same list as the rest of us, they are stupider than I think.
Editing: Jim W. Dean
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=166857
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Live Free or Die. That’s what it’s coming down to. For me, Hell will freeze over before I accept the new Zionist Police State which used to be my country.
We all know where the problem is. I guess it remains to be seen how far we’re willing to go, individually, to fix the problem. Let’s hope we can talk some sense into the cops, FAST.
Gordon still does not know why he “served” in ‘Nam. To defend the US? Stand for democracy in south Vietnam? Keep the commies in north Vietnam? Stop the spread of communism in southeast Asia? None of these have anything to do with the safety of the continental United States.
Gordon, like the rest of us, served the cretinoid idiots who rule this earth. We were all just cannon fodder, dumb, stupid grunts told anything by our gubbermint. And, this malarkey is still used to dupe youngsters who think they are defending the US from the bad guys. Would you buy a used car from Stanley MacChrystal?
Would you trust an infantry guy, David Petraeus, to be the CIA head? Orwell would have loved to be here while the country hit the skids and was taken over by the mercenary tarantulas of the world.
The truest truth we can ever see? That until we Americans in the streets and roads of America decide we have taken enough horse puckey from this Parliament of Whores, we have no right to think we are even remotely associated with that ancient term, democracy.
Cops take their orders from their civilian kapos, mere stooges of a government running wild. To see the spray cans of pepper vented into the faces of innocent, peace loving citizens is the most repulsive sight any freedom loving American can stand. When do we say we’ve had enough and we are ready to do battle with the bastards?
Laws are being passed daily that make a mockery of this country and the rule of law. Forget what this country was founded on, forget what it once was when we were younger. Now, we are facing a dying beast that is close to expiring.
And to think millions of American voters would vote for this farcical president who has pissed in the eye of a formerly great country and laughed his way to his next vacation while he has taxpayers pay to haul his pooch in a separate jet!! We had pigs on the farm when I was a kid, I know a pig when I see one.
Gordon knows why he served in VNam.. Bambidd
I Replied about Bambi’s stupid comment and had mine wiped out…
I mentioned about the Lapd Rampart Division…
Rampart waS A GROUP OF CORRUPT lapd “COPS”-Criminals in Action-CIA…Get it Criminals In Action…
You’ve made several references to Merkel in past articles. How about a lengthy feature giving us background on the German PM? Make it, at least, for guys like me just now learning the ways of the world.
The ‘Fraternal order’, the brotherhood of the fraternal order, the Blue Code of Silence
The Navy Blue Crown Vic that shows up on my tail while driving the Philipina home
This was the fifth time for that short abbrieviated post
Law is now ODOR! F YOU!
I am not done yet Cop Pricks, I can do this ALL NIGHT!
I Taught Andre Risse-A good Man, to carry the Gidon…Saw him graduate on TV coincidentally…
Federal Marshall John, ML’s “friend”, Fiend, I am watching you too
I have a mission and it is to bring the IQ of enforcement to a higher degree…
Once again Senior VT Editor Duff nails this complex subject down by distilling it to its basics, and what he has discovered is profoundly disturbing and is no less than the endemic demise of our “rule of law” in the USA starting at the top down (trickle down style). When a person violates an oath to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth in court, he/she has committed perjury and in years past many have gone to jail for such. When a top politician, high military brass or justice official breaks his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, he/she has committed treason and this has been the norm for all presidents in one way or another since JFK was assassinatwed by a high military cabal with a lot of help from their friends in intel.
When a high ranking politician becomes part of a criminal syndicate that trashes the rule of law, participates in human compromise ops such as pedophilia, massive asset stripping, bribery or misuse of public institutions for personal gain, for manufacture wars for profits only, that is sedition. So now we have rampant treason and sedition within our highest levels of govt and the military. When those that are responsible for prosecuting such traitors are themselves the traitors and perps, well then, it is easy to understand why no one is ever brought to justice and you can see why we have a very big problem that seems discouragingly unresolvable by mainstreet America and the average citizen who wants rule of law and justice for all.
What this means in real terms is that every major institution of govt, law enforcement, the military and central banking has been taken over by coercion, bribery or compromise ops directed by an offshore basic criminal syndicate. And sad to say some experts have concluded that our great nation has been bribed and compromised at the highest levels by this offshore based int’l crime syndicate which is centered around int’l banking, big oil, big narcotics and big weapons, ie an enemy outside the USA. But it has also been suggested that these high govt officials who have been compromised are now part of this syndicate and serve as its minions in high places, thus the new “enemy within” that our Founding Fathers warned us about. As many realize it is very hard to identify an “enemy within” during the early stages of the takeover such as in 1913. But when these politicians and military leaders that this int’l criminal syndicate has taken control of through bribery, human compromise ops, etc. enact the illegal interests of that syndicate in open violation of their sacred oath to the US Constitution, then their crimes of treason and sedition and their actual status as the “enemy within” begin to become obvious to the sheeple who begin waking up as everything they consider just and sacred is robbed from them right before their very eyes by these enemies of freedom. Such bold treason and sedition is almost incredulous to most folks and for some it would be easier to convince them their momma was a cannibal that cooked little children on the barbecue behind their home at night, because they so desperately want to believe that their govt is above all this evil, the ideal parent figure as the major mass media has been projecting for years as a paid govt and crime syndicate propaganda dispensor. But when insult after insult against the rule of law keeps invading their consciousness, a tipping point is eventually reached and folks get to the point where they have had enough and their denial system starts breaking down. This often occurs only as they approach the loss of everything they have ever worked for, but hopefully most of the sheeple will now start connecting the dots whule they still have something left and are not yet placed in a fema camp by orders of the new American Gestapo (homeland seeeecurity) set up by ex head of the East German stasi, Markus Wolf, two years before he died (he was allegedly hired as a “consultant” to do so). An now the US congress prepares to pass the National Defense Act of 2011 with its obviously treasonous section 1034. This is likely the equivalent of the Nazi enabling act. By he end of the week we may officially be the “fourth Reich”.
Jim how do write a Novel and everthing I post dissappears….??!
Planned Manipulation???!
It’s all about penalties ladies and gent’s. There are none, and I don’t see any comming. You were raised by a couple of people once (hopefully) and they raised you with penalties, and you payed heed to them for a while I’m sure. Once you went out in to the world I’m sure there were examples thrust in your face whereby you could take advantage of a situation if you wanted to. Over time, you kept seeing the same scenarios comming up, and you did the right thing. And you thought about corruption at that time when you saw it. Absolute power corrupts… and all that.
Your article may have opened a similar issue with the Sheriffs here in L.A. It may explain what some Mexican girls meant when they told me not to bother reporting the robbery because there will be no action,
“they know the cops” They will say you are an old woman that forgets things. And nothing did happen not even a report. That made me a target, Just got robbed again, so I called my Congressman Office, this time it went beyond robbery “they made me a target” is the issue, no point me even reporting this robbery just pay the taxes for their salary. Thanks for the info. now I know where to look especially since the most likely robber went to Colorado with my collection of old silver dollars and came back with heavy gold chains, The Mexican community here is also wise to the fact that Mr. Fox, Bush friend had ties to the Cartel. How dirty can it get?? enough to get the 99% involved.
Everyone talks about “when America wakes up” – but with all that coffee Americans drink one would suppose that they never really went to sleep….so I guess that it is in the coffee why Americans arent waking up! Maybe someone should check out the ingredients.
A more serious situation of catastrophe does not exist – with all those Fema camps and railroad stock that will transit upto 15 million people to probable death camps…only Stalin had more people killed and he was a commie. All this is going to kill children too…very young innocent un-protected and old people without the ability to fight back. America will be a big genocide nation too…it might all tip the scale because the europeans may well take up the cudgel if the states goes ape-shit.
WOW Pablo, is this example of “disconnected, nonsensical, pointless rambling with no clear conclusion” what you consider to be “appropriate, non-boring commentary”? Let me “get out of the way” for more of YOUR concise, well thought out dribble. How does anything you didn’t say here connect with the article whatsoever? LOL.
Join an “organized religion” that will gladly “tell you” what is in the scriptures so you can skip straight to the commentary where your opinion will be formulated for you. “Everyone talks about when America wakes up”! Who the hell is “everyone”?
“They will use a nuclear weapon on an American city someday, when they think the time is right, when there is enough money still involved.” Probably the most horrifying and devastating predictive comments in the article. Apparently not to you. Either you don’t believe it, or didn’t bother to read it.
My apologies Pablo. Dawn of a new day and clearer head. My petulant alter-ego has been rechained.
The reason for my being here is to glean the gold provided, not engage in “commentary wars” with those of a different viewpoint of “my perspective”. Onward, through the fog.
Pablo, You got sucked in on this silly Fema death camps.
There are groups on the Net who put this stuff out just to test who stupid people are. The so called camps are immigration detention camps, some extra capacity for which was built just in case the Federal government started enforcing illegal immigration laws.
What they are doing here with this stuff is just wasting people time chasing ghosts, so they are no threat to the really bad thing they are doing. Time to wise up and be aware for this old con.
Jim, I’d seen reference to the FEMA camps all over YouTube, Alex Jones’ stuff, etc. and was waiting to have it confirmed in VT! It sounds so plausible, no wonder every conspiracy theorist is ready to hop on the bandwagon. Thanks for the warning.