Then... did you know the DARK SIDE BUREAUCRATS are ARMED TO THE EFFING TEETH? Well, according to the statistics more of these so-called code enforcers have those big scary guns than the Marines. This IS A STANDING ARMY AGAINST THE PEOPLE. Take a look at the second article. And whatever your particular spirituality, that's NOT THE POINT. The point is this is a good man who cares about humanity, and is talking TRUTH about what is happening in our beloved country.
ALL LOVE, the Kougar ~
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/national-guard-dea-state-police-raid-81-yo-cancer-patients-organic-garden-protect.html
National Guard, DEA, State Police Raid 81-yo Cancer Patient's Organic Garden to "Protect" You
In
a gross display of wasted taxpayer dollars, dozens of Massachusetts
National Guard personnel, operating under a grant from the DEA,
alongside Massachusetts State Police, descended into the backyard of an
81-year-old cancer patient in a raid last week — to protect society from the dangers of his four marijuana plants.
Paul Jackson, 81, of Martha’s Vineyard, grows cannabis to make medicine. His plants, along with several other plants, became the target of law enforcement last week in a crackdown on hardened criminals who’d dare to grow a plant that helps them.
Jackson was in his backyard last Tuesday when plainclothes men and a helicopter descended on his property. With no warrant, and without showing identification, these heroes ripped Jackson’s plants from the ground.
“They just come charging through and start cutting it down,” Jackson said in an interview with the The MV Times.
According to the The MV Times, Mr. Jackson, a lifelong Islander and renowned organic gardener with over 300 ribbons from the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair, expressed both bewilderment and disgust when he spoke to The Times on Friday.
“I told them they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re destroying it and it could be used for good purposes,” he said. “I know because I went through it before. You wrote about it in The Times. I had the article framed, took it out to show them; I said, ‘This is proof of what it does,’ but they didn’t want to hear it.”
As The Times reports, Mr. Jackson was referring to a February 2013 article,” Love, life, and death: A Martha’s Vineyard marijuana story,” in which he described how cannabis tea had helped Mary, his wife of 53 years, through the pain of pancreatic cancer and the ravages of chemotherapy. Mr. Jackson said they forsook the morphine prescribed by her doctors, and substituted cannabis tea for pain management.
“I never ever saw pain in her face,” he said. “She was eating and happy, right up until she died. You had to see it to believe it. People don’t understand it. It’s a beautiful plant and it works beautifully.”
For years, Jackson has been growing this beneficial plant to help his wife, himself, and other friends in the area.
“There’s another fellow I’ve given it to, his wife has cancer bad,” he said. “They mix it with her food and it’s really helping her. Another fellow had a tube down his stomach and his wife would pour [tea] down his tube for the pain. And it worked. At least there’s no damn pain in it. I gave another guy some, he was taking seven different pills a day. I talked to him a month later and he said he’d gotten rid of three of those pills. It works on all kinds of different things.”
However, these poor people will now suffer thanks to the public service provided by the government in their attempts to stamp out this miraculous plant.
While medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, to a certain extent, Jackson says he grows his own because it’s far healthier.
“The people that are selling it are using chemicals that react with the chemotherapy,” he said. “Mine is much better because it’s organically grown. I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe how well it worked.”
In
the interview, Jackson noted that he doesn’t smoke the plant and will
continue to consume it, in spite of the immoral laws that prohibit it.
“I don’t like smoke and I don’t like dust,” he said. “We just make tea out of it. But if I need to make the tea, I’ve got it. I don’t sell it. I will continue to have a certain amount in case somebody close to me needs it.”
When word began to spread about this embarrassing action to eradicate a beneficial plant, spokesmen from the agencies involved in the raid began denying they had a hand in it.
After their heroic mission to rid Martha’s Vineyard of cannabis, Colonel James Sahady, Public Affairs Officer for the Massachusetts National Guard, said in an email to The Times, “The order was initiated by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police as part of pre-planned eradication missions throughout the year.”
However, Sahady later issued another statement claiming that the DEA was not involved.
On top of the National Guard’s flip-flop, The Times reports:
Downing’s sentiment is a very real concern as the war on drugs has spent upwards of a trillion taxpayer dollars since its inception. Every one of those dollars spent ruining the lives of otherwise entirely innocent people.
At
any one time, 59,300 prisoners charged with or convicted of violating
marijuana laws are behind bars. Of those, 17,000 are behind bars for
possession ONLY, not trafficking.
Enforcing marijuana laws costs an estimated $10-15 billion in direct costs alone — not to mention the sustained costs of incarceration of the individual who has done nothing to harm anyone. It is estimated that the money spent enforcing useless marijuana laws is double what we spend on education in this country.
Countless lives are ruined every year as the state locks people away or worse, for possessing a plant. The time is now to end this violent ridiculousness before another innocent life is ruined or taken in the name of controlling what people can put in their own bodies.
Become a member today and help bring an end to this destructive and brutal war. Click here to join the revolution.
Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. .
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http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin920.htm
By Chuck Baldwin
August 4, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
Paul Jackson, 81, of Martha’s Vineyard, grows cannabis to make medicine. His plants, along with several other plants, became the target of law enforcement last week in a crackdown on hardened criminals who’d dare to grow a plant that helps them.
Jackson was in his backyard last Tuesday when plainclothes men and a helicopter descended on his property. With no warrant, and without showing identification, these heroes ripped Jackson’s plants from the ground.
“They just come charging through and start cutting it down,” Jackson said in an interview with the The MV Times.
According to the The MV Times, Mr. Jackson, a lifelong Islander and renowned organic gardener with over 300 ribbons from the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair, expressed both bewilderment and disgust when he spoke to The Times on Friday.
“I told them they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re destroying it and it could be used for good purposes,” he said. “I know because I went through it before. You wrote about it in The Times. I had the article framed, took it out to show them; I said, ‘This is proof of what it does,’ but they didn’t want to hear it.”
As The Times reports, Mr. Jackson was referring to a February 2013 article,” Love, life, and death: A Martha’s Vineyard marijuana story,” in which he described how cannabis tea had helped Mary, his wife of 53 years, through the pain of pancreatic cancer and the ravages of chemotherapy. Mr. Jackson said they forsook the morphine prescribed by her doctors, and substituted cannabis tea for pain management.
“I never ever saw pain in her face,” he said. “She was eating and happy, right up until she died. You had to see it to believe it. People don’t understand it. It’s a beautiful plant and it works beautifully.”
For years, Jackson has been growing this beneficial plant to help his wife, himself, and other friends in the area.
“There’s another fellow I’ve given it to, his wife has cancer bad,” he said. “They mix it with her food and it’s really helping her. Another fellow had a tube down his stomach and his wife would pour [tea] down his tube for the pain. And it worked. At least there’s no damn pain in it. I gave another guy some, he was taking seven different pills a day. I talked to him a month later and he said he’d gotten rid of three of those pills. It works on all kinds of different things.”
However, these poor people will now suffer thanks to the public service provided by the government in their attempts to stamp out this miraculous plant.
While medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, to a certain extent, Jackson says he grows his own because it’s far healthier.
“The people that are selling it are using chemicals that react with the chemotherapy,” he said. “Mine is much better because it’s organically grown. I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe how well it worked.”
In
the interview, Jackson noted that he doesn’t smoke the plant and will
continue to consume it, in spite of the immoral laws that prohibit it.“I don’t like smoke and I don’t like dust,” he said. “We just make tea out of it. But if I need to make the tea, I’ve got it. I don’t sell it. I will continue to have a certain amount in case somebody close to me needs it.”
When word began to spread about this embarrassing action to eradicate a beneficial plant, spokesmen from the agencies involved in the raid began denying they had a hand in it.
After their heroic mission to rid Martha’s Vineyard of cannabis, Colonel James Sahady, Public Affairs Officer for the Massachusetts National Guard, said in an email to The Times, “The order was initiated by the DEA and Massachusetts State Police as part of pre-planned eradication missions throughout the year.”
However, Sahady later issued another statement claiming that the DEA was not involved.
On top of the National Guard’s flip-flop, The Times reports:
On Tuesday, two Massachusetts State Police spokesmen checked into the matter and said there was no evidence of State Police involvement. “It was not us,” Officer Tom Ryan told The Times.“The idea we’re so frivolously spending money on marijuana interdiction, especially now when it’s about to be rolled back, is extremely frustrating. How many books or school lunches could have been bought instead of having these plants ripped up?” Bill Downing, spokesman for MassCan/NORML said to The Times.
In a follow up email received on Thursday, State Police spokesman David Procopio said the operation was initiated by the State Police. “We routinely request the assistance of the National Guard in these operations,” Mr. Procopio said in an email to The Times. “Our Narcotics Inspection Section conducts these operations regularly across the state. We utilize a trained spotter in a helicopter to search for marijuana grow sites. Once one is located, the spotter directs ground units to the plants, which are confiscated and taken by State Police for eventual destruction. These seizures occasionally result in criminal prosecutions, but many times do not, if the plants are seized from rural or wooded areas that can be accessed by many people (as opposed to just growing in some homeowner’s backyard).”
Mr. Procopio said State Police seized 392 plants, “which are slated for destruction as part of our next narcotics burn.”
Although the helicopter was parked at Martha’s Vineyard Airport last Tuesday night, there are no records of landing fees or fuel purchases paid by a government agency, according to airport manager Ann Crook.
Downing’s sentiment is a very real concern as the war on drugs has spent upwards of a trillion taxpayer dollars since its inception. Every one of those dollars spent ruining the lives of otherwise entirely innocent people.
At
any one time, 59,300 prisoners charged with or convicted of violating
marijuana laws are behind bars. Of those, 17,000 are behind bars for
possession ONLY, not trafficking.Enforcing marijuana laws costs an estimated $10-15 billion in direct costs alone — not to mention the sustained costs of incarceration of the individual who has done nothing to harm anyone. It is estimated that the money spent enforcing useless marijuana laws is double what we spend on education in this country.
Countless lives are ruined every year as the state locks people away or worse, for possessing a plant. The time is now to end this violent ridiculousness before another innocent life is ruined or taken in the name of controlling what people can put in their own bodies.
Become a member today and help bring an end to this destructive and brutal war. Click here to join the revolution.
Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. .
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http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin920.htm
Chuck Baldwin -- More Government Bureaucrats With Guns Than U.S. Marines
MORE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS
WITH GUNS THAN U.S. MARINES
By Chuck Baldwin
August 4, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
Writing
for FreeBeacon.com, Elizabeth Harrington summarized a comprehensive
report by a taxpayer watchdog group that chronicles the exponential
increase in the militarization of police agencies in the United States
during the past several years.
Harrington
writes, “There are now more non-military government employees
who carry guns than there are U.S. Marines, according to a new report.
“Open
the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday [June
22, 2016] that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow
their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the
House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens
can buy.
“The
‘Militarization of America’ report found civilian agencies
spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment
between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and
EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage.
“‘Regulatory
enforcement within administrative agencies now carries the might of
military-style equipment and weapons,’ Open the Books said.
‘For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes 183
armed “special agents,” a 50 percent increase over the
ten years from 1998-2008. At Health and Human Services (HHS), “Special
Office of Inspector General Agents” are now trained with sophisticated
weaponry by the same contractors who train our military special forces
troops.’
“Open
the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers
with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel
who are actively serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.
“The
IRS spent nearly $11 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style
equipment for its 2,316 special agents. The tax collecting agency
has billed taxpayers for pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns,
semi-automatic Smith & Wesson M&P15s, and Heckler & Koch
H&K 416 rifles, which can be loaded with 30-round magazines.
“The
EPA spent $3.1 million on guns, ammo, and equipment, including drones,
night vision, ‘camouflage and other deceptive equipment,’
and body armor.”
Harrington
continues, “Open the Books appealed to both liberals like Bernie
Sanders--who has called for demilitarizing local police departments--and
conservatives in its report.
“‘Conservatives
argue that it is hypocritical for political leaders to undermine the
Second Amendment while simultaneously equipping non-military agencies
with hollow-point bullets and military style equipment,’ Open
the Books said. ‘One could argue the federal government itself
has become a gun show that never adjourns with dozens of agencies
continually shopping for new firearms.’”
See
the report: There
Are Now More Bureaucrats With Guns Than U.S. Marines
Most
Americans would be shocked if they knew how many millions of rounds
of ammunition their local and State police agencies are amassing.
And don’t let anybody tell you all of this ammunition is for
“practice.” We are talking about hollow-point pistol rounds
and military rifle rounds such as 5.56 and .308 calibers. I would
take an educated guess (based on my conversations with both ammunition
and arms suppliers and police officers themselves) that your local
police agencies have enough ammunition stockpiled to kill the entire
population of your community four or five times. But these numbers
pale in comparison to the numbers of guns and ammunition being amassed
by federal agencies--including agencies that nowhere come close to
being categorized as “police” agencies, such as those
mentioned in the above report.
To
realize that the alphabet agencies of the federal government have
more armed agents (assigned to domestic duties) than our premier combat
branch of the U.S. military (the U.S. Marines), whose job is to engage
America’s enemies in direct combat, is a staggering thought.
Tell me again exactly who it is that our federal government deems
to be the enemy. And they wonder why more and more Americans are arming
themselves?
Couple
the militarization of our domestic police (and non-police) agencies
with the increased call from many in Washington, D.C., to strip the
American people of their right to keep and bear arms--especially their
right to keep and bear semi-automatic rifles--and one can understand
why so many of the American people are “on edge” and have
lost all trust in their federal government.
Understanding
and acknowledging the Providence of God notwithstanding, the ONLY
thing standing between us and abject tyranny is a massively armed
citizenry. America is the last nation in the free world that instilled
the right to keep and bear arms not only in its Constitution but also
in the very heart and soul of its citizens. Should the American citizenry
ever cease to be an armed citizenry (and I mean armed with semi-automatic
rifles with high-capacity magazines), the entire free world would
collapse into the Dark Ages.
I’m
saying it straight out: the only reason that Canada, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, etc.,
have the modicum of freedom that they do is because the American citizenry
is an armed citizenry. It is NOT the U.S. armed forces that are keeping
this country and the rest of Western Civilization free; it is the
armed citizenry of America that is protecting whatever vestiges of
liberty Western Civilization has left. Disarm the American people
and the entire free world falls into the abyss of tyranny and oppression--maybe
for a thousand years.
Listen
to Daniel Webster: "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution
and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster,
and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold
on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world."
When
Webster talked about holding onto the Constitution, he was including
the Second Amendment to the Constitution. And Daniel Webster was not
alone in his veneration for the Second Amendment. To a man, America’s
Founding Fathers equated the preservation of liberty with the freedom
to keep and bear arms.
Listen
to our founders:
"What
country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned
from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms." (Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison,
December 20, 1787)
"Besides
the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the
people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate
governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia
officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of
ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of
any form can admit of." (James Madison, “Federalist No.
46”, January 29, 1788)
"To
disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
(George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament
by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, “The Debates in
the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.”
June 14, 1788)
"Before
a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are
in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot
enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people
are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular
troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws,
but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for
they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the
inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them
unjust and oppressive." (Noah Webster, “An Examination
of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution,” October
10, 1787)
"Guard
with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches
that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright
force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.” (Patrick
Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d
ed. Philadelphia, 1836)
“The
great object is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able
might have a gun." (Patrick Henry, Debate in Virginia Ratifying
Convention, Elliot 3:380--95, 400--402, June 14, 1788)
"The
supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the
other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the
plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would
be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be
alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And
while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that
all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half
the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition
have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the
strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths,
and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
(Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania
Magazine, July 1775)
"[I]f
circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an
army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties
of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if
at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand
ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.
This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing
army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."
(Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 29, January 9, 1788)
What
could be plainer? Our Founding Fathers did not engrave the right to
keep and bear arms in our Constitution for the purpose of hunting
or target shooting or even simply as a deterrent to domestic criminals
(as necessary as those things are). No. The purpose of the Second
Amendment was to keep the American people FREE, including if our own
government was the enemy trying to enslave us.
For
the most part, utopian globalists have successfully disarmed the citizens
of Western Civilization. All over the “free world” only
governments are armed; citizens have been stripped of their right
to keep and bear arms. Even the people of Switzerland are extremely
regulated in this regard.
Again,
I’ll say it plainly: if citizens are not able to freely keep
and bear semi-automatic rifles, they are effectively DISARMED.
The
semi-automatic rifle is to us what the Roman sword was to the people
in Jesus’ day. It is the preeminent self-defense tool. It is
no coincidence that Jesus commanded His disciples to buy a Roman sword,
even if they had to sell their clothes to do so. (Luke 22:36) And
by the way, it was against the law for Jews to own a Roman sword at
that time. That’s right: when Jesus told His disciples to buy
a sword, He was telling them to break the law. Tell this to your pastor
and see what he says. His response will give you a little hint as
to 1) his honest understanding of scriptures and 2) his honest commitment
to liberty.
I
submit that we would not even be having a discussion of this issue
if the pastors of America were doing their jobs from the pulpit. Instead
of trying to mimic Joel Osteen and Rick Warren, they should be following
the example of America’s patriot pastors and equipping their
people with the Biblical Natural Law principles they need to protect
and defend their homes, communities, and country. And that requires
teaching them the God-ordained duty of self-defense.
When
Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein tried to make it illegal to possess
semi-automatic rifles back in 2013, the vast majority of America’s
pastors either said absolutely NOTHING or they actually told their
churches, “If the government outlaws your guns, Romans 13 tells
us to turn them in.” NO! Romans 13 teaches NO SUCH THING.
When
I realized the dearth of pastoral leadership regarding the Christian
duty to keep and bear arms, my attorney son and I wrote a book to
teach believers (and anyone else) the scriptural truth regarding their
responsibility of self-defense. The book is called “To Keep
Or Not To Keep: Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns.”
We show from the scriptures--all of them, including Romans 13--that
self-defense is much more than a constitutional right: it is a God-ordained
DUTY. We show that to surrender our means of self-defense (and that
especially includes the semi-automatic rifle) is to DENY the Christian
faith.
If
readers have not been taught this truth and are in any way uncertain
or confused about it, I strongly urge you to get the book. And if
you have a pastor or Sunday School teacher that doesn’t understand
and courageously teach this truth, buy a copy for them.
Thankfully,
Obama and Feinstein failed to outlaw our semi-automatic rifles back
in 2013 (no thanks to most of America’s pastors), but you can
rest assured if Hillary Clinton is elected the confiscation of our
semi-automatic rifles will be NUMBER ONE on the agenda. And even if
she isn’t elected, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are standing
in the wings to compromise away every liberty we have--including the
right to keep and bear arms.
So,
while federal agencies in Washington, D.C., are being increasingly
militarized, the American people are being told they need to surrender
their means of self-defense. It is no hyperbole to say that the fate
of the civilized world rests with the American people--not with the
U.S. armed forces, but with a free and resolute armed citizenry.
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