Government-Generated Plots by Andrew P. Napolitano

Government-Generated Plots by Andrew P. Napolitano

Government-Generated Plots

by Andrew P. Napolitano

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Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the federal government take credit for saving us from a plot of its own creation? Tonight, has the federal government kept us safe or does it just want us to think that it has kept us safe?

Since the tragedy of 9/11, numerous crazies and low-level copy-cats have engaged in criminal behavior which they hoped would result in the deaths of innocent Americans and somehow advance the cause of jihad. If you ask the leadership of the FBI, most of whose field agents are tireless, dedicated, Constitution-supporting professionals, it will tell you that it has foiled about seventeen plots to kill Americans during the past ten years. What it will not tell you is that there have been twenty foiled plots; and of them, three were interrupted by members of the public. The seventeen that were interrupted by the feds were created by them.


We all remember the three that were foiled by diligent Americans: The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, and the Times Square bomber. In all of these cases, the crimes charged were those of attempting to kill and conspiring with others to do so. In all three of those cases, alert Americans on transcontinental flights on or the streets of New York told authorities of bizarre behavior, or actually subdued the threats themselves. There was no foiling by the FBI. The plotters were – thankfully – bumbling fools who had poorly planned their criminal behavior, and who ended up harming no one. All three are serving life terms.

But the more curious cases are the remaining seventeen for which the federal government has taken credit. They all have a common and reprehensible thread. They were planned, plotted, controlled, and carried out by the federal government itself. In all of these seventeen cases – from the Ft. Dix Six to the Lackawanna Seven to the Portland Parade Bomber – the feds found young men of Muslim backgrounds; loners who were bitter at America. They befriended them, cajoled them, and persuaded them that they could change the world by killing Americans. In all these cases, agents worked undercover and portrayed themselves to the targets as Arabs of like un-American mind. In some cases, the federal agents used third parties to act as middlemen. The third parties are typically persons who have been convicted of crimes and who, in return for leniency at their sentencings, were willing to work with the same feds who prosecuted them in order to help entrap whomever else those feds are pursuing.


Thus, in all seventeen of these cases, because of the command and control of federal agents, no one was ever in danger, no one was harmed, no bomb went off, and no property was damaged. But in all those cases, the losers whom the feds targeted each believed that they were interacting with real plotters who would really bring them cash and bombs. As we know, sometimes the cash arrived, but the bombs never did. The defendants were essentially charged and convicted for playing a game with federal agents.


The most recent of those government-generated plots was revealed yesterday. It has a new twist as it allegedly involves agents of the intelligence apparatus of the government of Iran. It, too, was destined to go nowhere, as the feds monitored and taped every move made by the target as he interacted with federal agents whom he stupidly believed to be drug dealers and co-conspirators. Today, the feds themselves revealed that high officials of Iran's government knew nothing of this. Of course, the neocons have demanded bombs on Tehran, no matter what the government there knew. And this plot came to light the day before the Attorney General himself was subpoenaed by Congress in the Fast and Furious case.

You get the picture. Is any of this criminal? Can the government just pick and choose whom to seduce and then lower the boom at the right time and arrest its would-be confederates? Is this a proper use of law enforcement resources? The answers to these questions are obvious, and they are not good. The courts have made this legal so long as the target had a mental pre-disposition to cause harm. But none of this keeps us safe, all of it makes us less free as any of us can be entrapped, and we are fools if we praise the government for exposing a plot of its own creation and saving us from a danger that never existed.

Can the government break the law in order to enforce it? When it does, it becomes a law unto itself, and the rule of law dies, as the feds decide whom to target and whom to trap. Think about it: Are we really safe in a false sense of security? Why do we pay the government to trick us into believing it is keeping us safe? When no one is harmed, and the government controls the plot, aren't we just punishing someone for his thoughts? And in a free society, aren't people free to think as we wish? This must be so; for if the government can punish thoughts, there is no limit to its power.

From New York, defending freedom, so-long, America.

October 14, 2011

End the Fed Occupy Wall Street HE IS BACK GREAT STUFF

The young guy at Occupy Wall Street, who made a persuasive case for ending the Fed, is back on YouTube with a new video. This one is AS the first first. Awesome stuff. Thanks to Joe Silvergold.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0cp_DyfiRU&feature=player_embedded

Give me some men who are stout-hearted men,
Who will fight, for the right they adore,
Start me with ten who are stout-hearted men,
And I'll soon give you ten thousand more.
Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder,
They grow as they go to the fore.
Then there's nothing in the world can halt or mar a plan,
When stout-hearted men can stick together man to man.

OBAMA IS WRONG ON THE LAW & BANKs

There are one set of rules for the Banks , Wall Street , Big business & big government and another for the Peasants !!!


So Obama Said....

the other day that "What Wall Street did was immoral, but it wasn't illegal" in response to a question about why nobody had gone to jail.

Really Mr. President you legal know it all ??? None of the following is illegal ???

OBAMA DON'T LOOK , DON'T SEE POLICY TOWARDS THE BANKS

Perjury is a felony in most circumstances. Banksters admitted to more than 100,000 instances of it by withdrawing perjured ("robosigned") affidavits. Just as with the testimony under oath in the case of Citifinancial, in this case the violation of the law is clear. Perjury can only be cured at "no penalty" up until it is clear that the defective statement or filing will be discovered; once you're "caught" you cannot avoid liability by withdrawing the filing.

Whether someone was paying their mortgage or not is immaterial as to whether filing a false affidavit is a criminal matter -- it is OBAMA YOU JACKASS. Why are not the corrupt Judges who aided and abet perjury not run out of the courthouse on a rail ??? Where are the handcuffs ???

Falsifying documents. Banks have admitted to doing it in court. They got a "deferred prosecution agreement" and not only did nobody go to jail nobody other than a few bloggers like myself raised hell about it until days before that agreement expired. Then, magically, it got news coverage. This is a clear black-letter felony; where are the handcuffs ???

The former chief risk officer for Citifinancial testified under oath before the FCIC that the company knowingly sold loans on to investors that did not meet their quality guidelines and published claims. In fact, he testified that by 2007 80 percent of those loans were defective. This is functionally identical to selling you a car and rolling back the odometer, peddling tainted medicine or selling melamine-laced baby formula. There is nothing complicated about this and there is under-oath testimony establishing that it was not an accident or an "error in judgment" as it continued for more than a year after it became known and was the subject of internal memos to corporate officers. This is not my conjecture or analysis, it is factual sworn testimony before a government body. Called fraud and it is against the LAW. Mr. Legal scholar Prez. Where are the handcuffs ???

Bill Black, who put more than 1000 banksters behind bars during the S&L Crisis, talking about "the enormous role of fraud," "the epidemic of fraud" that drove this crisis.

"Why Elite Frauds Cause Recurrent, Intensifying Economic, Political and Moral Crises"
http://vimeo.com/10239575


Obama's only priority at this point is getting reelected. Nothing else matters.


Ponzi Schemes generally. Those are all illegal. They locked Charlie up for it (the originator of the name ) and more recently Bernie Madoff went to prison. Ok, Mr. President, how about all the stock analysts, the market callers, and pension fund managers along with the real estate industry that have been pumping 8, 10 or 11% annualized returns for the last three decades ??? These claims are all pyramid schemes and thus by the very definition of such a scheme are illegal. An 8% "annual return" for 45 years, the average working man's period of effort (20 to 65) produces a return of nearly 32 times the original amount invested. The 9% growth rate of medical cost over the last year (close to the premium increases over the last decade in annualized terms) for the person of age 50 that the government claims "will not see their Medicare harmed" has the annual cost of their medical insurance (assuming no increase due to age or greater risk) go from $5,000 a year to $100,000 by the time they're 85 ! The claims of Realtors that home prices would go up 10% "for the indefinite future" turns a $150,000 house into a $4.21 million house in 35 years. None of this was ever going to actually happen, and it still won't. Why did Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff go to prison when your administration, every member of Congress, those on Wall Street and otherwise in the "finance and investment" business community have not for the exact same offense ???

You put some bad debt in, you take some T-bills out
You watch Bernanke spin, and you shake the Congress down
You screw the people blind until their wallets empty out
That's what it's all about!----Iou


Jefferson County Alabama jailed several politicians and others for bribery and other crimes related to the infamous " sewer bond " nonsense. Why have no bankers gone to prison ??? It takes two people to commit bribery and similar offenses - someone who offers a bribe, and someone who accepts a bribe. One party went to prison while the other did not. No crimes in this case among the banksters ??? Pull the other one Mr. President; the damage here remains in that the water bills of these residents remains at ridiculously elevated levels as the financial harm done to the county was not forcibly returned from those banksters.

Sarbanes-Oxley criminalized false accounting statements. There have been multiple bank failures by public companies that filed balance sheets under penalty of criminal prosecution were they to be false just weeks before they blew up -- balance sheets that showed perfectly-healthy institutions. The FDIC has documented dozens of bank failures, privately-held and publicly-traded, where those balance sheets were proved factually false, as the losses have been 20, 30, 40% or even more just a few weeks later. It is beyond comprehension that the assets in question could have actually lost 30 or 40% of their value within that period of time. The only rational explanation is that these financial statements were a work of fiction. Sarbanes-Oxley makes this a criminal matter. Again, where are the handcuffs ???

All are equal under the eyes of the law and our current political system.Some are just more equal than others. George Orwell's American Barn 2011


I and many other bloggers and "alternative media outlets" have spent four years documenting these outrages and showing through simple mathematical analysis that the claims made by these charlatans, including yourself Mr. President, are mathematically impossible. That's the definition of a pyramid scheme. They're illegal because they cannot, mathematically, work. It is therefore illegal to hawk them to the public because they are by definition abusive; they will ultimately result in those who believe in them losing their money.

Your claim, Mr. President, that these acts were "morally repugnant but not illegal" is a lie. And you are truly iggnorant of the law you are suppposed to up hold.

The simple fact of the matter is that your administration is intentionally refusing to enforce long-standing law and by doing so you and your administration have lent official support to an organized effort to defraud and rob the American public.

Transparency was one of Barry's favorite words in his campaign. He was going to clean-up the fraud in the markets. But now there is no fraud or he is just stupid or beholden. All he can do is hide behind the too big to fail law and his AG. Passing the buck when you are the prez is no way to get re-elected.




" A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. " -- Mario Puzo

" It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. " -- Henry Ford

DOES ANYBODY REALLY CARE ???

At a time when 44 million Americans subsist on government food stamps and lack the kind of medical care common to other developed nations, each US soldier in Afghanistan costs $1 million per annum. CIA employs 80,000 mercenaries there, cost unknown. The Pentagon spends a staggering $20.2 billion annually air conditioning troop quarters in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The most damning assessment comes from the US-installed Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai: America’s war has been "ineffective, apart from causing civilian casualties."

Operation Enduring Freedom – the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan – has turned into Operation Enduring Misery.

After ten years of military and civil operations costing at least $450 billion, over 1,600 dead and 15,000 seriously wounded soldiers, the US has achieved none of its strategic or political goals. As for Afghanistan, it has suffered untold civilian casualties, villages shattered by US bombing, night raids by death squads, over two million refugees and a 30-year civil war.

The entire western style, democratic nation-state and financial system is in a state of collapse. The collapse began in 2000 and accelerated dramatically after the first round of money printing wore off in 2007.

Since then there have been uprisings worldwide. Even Americans have begun to awaken from their slumber with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests According to Diane Sawyer, anchor of ABC World News, the Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to "more than a thousand countries". Sure, that is about 800 more countries than exist on this planet but, hey, close enough for a newsreader.

Nonetheless, there is definitely a movement for change going on in the world and this has a number of governments scared. Most western governments are essentially bankrupt and attempting to cling to power a little longer by once again printing money.

Governments are like an organism. And, like a dying animal, governments around the world are thrashing about in their death throes finding any possible way to keep their enslavement game going a little while longer.

One of the predominant ways governments have begun to do so are to label anyone who is against their taxes, laws, welfare or wars as terrorists. The word "terrorism" has been sensationalized to the point where even saying the word scares people. So, all governments need to do to try to quell the masses is to make as many of us into terrorists as possible.

Incredible Speech By Wall Street Protester "End The Fed" 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFz1VVXsWRU&feature=player_embedded

MUST SEE THIS ONE SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL.

THANK YOU TO JOE SILVERGOLD FOR THE HAEDS UP ON THIS ONE !!!

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE EVERYONE MARCH IN THE STREET

And What Happens to the Perpetrators of These Crimes? Nothing. They Have Immunity.

by Bill Anderson on October 6, 2011 08:34 AM

Nearly every day, we read about new exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and in almost all of those cases, the main reason for the wrongful conviction was prosecutorial misconduct. Two exonerations in Texas and California highlight the role of prosecutors who wanted convictions more than they wanted the truth. We read:

(Obie) Anthony spent 17 years in prison after he was convicted of shooting and killing a man outside a brothel in Los Angeles. The prosecution's star witness, a pimp, eventually recanted his testimony. The pimp was offered a lighter sentence for his own crimes in order to testify against Anthony, the L.A. Times reports, and no one else at the crime positively identified Anthony as the shooter. Anthony said he was never there.

The case of Michael Morton, wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years for the murder of his wife is even worse and highlights just how callous and dishonest American prosecutors have become:

Morton, a Texan who spent nearly 25 years in prison on charges of beating his wife to death, was also released on Tuesday after a long campaign by the Innocence Project to uncover evidence they say was deliberately suppressed by the prosecution.

DNA testing on a bandana found near the scene of the crime found blood from Morton's wife and an as-yet-unnamed convict who is suspected of killing another woman in a similar way two years later, while Morton was in jail. (When Morton was convicted in 1987, current DNA testing didn't exist.) The Innocence Project says the prosecution hid from the jury that Morton's three-year-old son, who witnessed the murder, told a relative that a "monster"—not his father—was the perpetrator. The jury was also never told that Morton's wife's purse was stolen and her credit cards used in the weeks after her death, when Morton was in custody, the Innocence Project says.

Prosecutors for many years blocked DNA testing, and even after the results were made known continued to concoct wacky theories that would justify their own version of events, versions that violated the Laws of Time and Space. In other words, they wanted a conviction, and it was easier to get one against Morton than to find the real killer.

These atrocities occur for many reasons, but the main one is that prosecutors have immunity for any actions they committed while doing their "duties" as prosecutors. That means that outside people who actually have been harmed by wrongful prosecutorial actions cannot sue their tormenters and must depend upon the state apparatus itself to punish these prosecutors, something that almost NEVER happens.

This is the inevitable result of leaving matters of "justice" in the hands of the State, and specifically protected state employees who always will favor their careers more than actual justice. Lew Rockwell in an excellent commentary a few days ago wrote:

...the rise and entrenchment of the American police state are rarely questioned. Public opinion is mostly happy with the whole thing. There can never be too much prosecutorial power, never too many police, never too many prisons, never sentences that are too long. No one says: "We should not be so tough." The entire ethos is the opposite.

He then gets to the heart of the issue, and that is the granting of these powers to the State:

How could this have happened in America? Well, looking back, it seems that it all stems from a single flaw: the belief that the most essential institution in society is the state that protects us from criminality and must maintain a monopoly over justice. Some of the greatest defenders of freedom otherwise have been happy to make this one concession to the state. And this one concession is now a major source of our undoing as a free people.

People have told me that unless we grant prosecutors immunity, they "cannot do their jobs in fear of being sued." Well, if "doing their jobs" is subornation of perjury, lying to the courts, making false and inflammatory public statements and hiding exculpatory evidence — something prosecutors do on a regular basis — then maybe we might be better off if prosecutors DID have to fear the lawsuit.

NOTE: One of the prosecutors in the Morton case, Ken Anderson, now is a Texas state district judge. And people wonder why the "justice" system in this country has run off the rails?

CALL TO ACTION... MARCH ON WALL STREET.

FRIENDS IT IS TIME TO CALL TO ACTION !!!

Join the March on Wall Street !!!

What you can not get there ???

Start a march in your city , town or village !!!

UNITED WE STAND !!!

History has always vilfied the righteous and exalted the corrupt. The words of those who speak the truth are put to death and those who blasphemy and steal from the honest man are immortalized for posterity. The more that a person is slandered the more I tend to believe that person as being correct in thought and action.

That is why the Tea Party continues to be demonized. When the general USA population wakes up from their stupid lazy slumber, they will know who's words were honest and truthful and then there will be hell to pay for those who have deceived , stole & ruined America. The sheep will become wolves {OK WISHFUL THINKING ON MY PART , BUT HEY YOU NEVER KNOW }.