We live in increasingly dangerous times.

As I've written elsewhere, I am dubious about "the standard evangelical model" of eschatology. Nevertheless, we live in a unique (and uniquely dangerous) period of history. What we are in is the first ramp up of a high technological civilization. We don't know what the limits are. We have no Australia, no great western frontier, and right now no moon or asteroid colonies and no way to get there -- no place to run, and no place to hide. The potential for the abuse of power is greater than ever, because the technology is more capable than ever before.

Homeland Security  

Our American KGB, from a mailing list: 

"In my office, we have a software developer who is a Russian immigrant to the 
United States.  She's not a libertarian of the anarchist bent, but having 
grown up during the era of the Soviet Union and lived through the subsequent 
fall, she naturally has a wonderful perspective on the role of government in 
one's life.

"When we happened to be chatting about the advisability of a Federal 
Department of Homeland Security, she pointed out that the closest Russian 
translation for this would, in fact, be 'KGB'.  The exact translation is 
pretty much unprintable for me and involves a couple of idiomatic 
expressions.  Suffice to say that according to her, an approximate 
translation would be something like 'Committee of Home Security' or 
'Committee of Motherland Security.'  Note that this is extremely similar to 
the Soviet "Committee of State Security" which was also KGB in Russian.

So, when translated as directly as possible, the Department of Homeland 
Security will, in fact, be 'KGB.' "

Some of these are parody sites, some are not.  Can you tell?

Disappeared, a story.  Life in a police state.

The Homeland Security Cultural Bureau.  

The Department of Homeland Security website

The Citizen Corps, and Operation TIPS  --  homegrown STASI

Secure the Homeland website

Homeland Security Directory -- make money selling stuff to the Feds.

Homeland Security Contact List  -- who you gonna call?

Know your place Homeland Security posters and t-shirts.

The National Strategy for Homeland Security  -- some light reading

Welcome to Homeland Security  --

Schools and some of the other things that get done to kids

For most of us, our children are the one thing of ours that is going to last past our lifetimes. No one's an expert. We get one chance. We usually start having and raising our kids when we're young and naive. We're all "winging it".

You can't treat kids like adults. Kids need direction, discipline, protection and education. They need to be trained to civility -- to be civilized. But they also need as time goes by to be let go into the world. The goal is to raise adults.

The weird things schools do. Public schools are teaching their subjects to exist in a police state.

The Lost Tools of Learning. You thought you got an education? Comparing myself to this, I don't think I did.

Home Schooling and Un Schooling Resources

Schoolreformers dot com

"The Appropriate and Effective Use of Security Technologies in U.S. Schools", a pleasant little document from the National Institute of Justice (or is it the Draka Directorate of Security?). PDF version from the Department of Energy (?!?).

Free Youth "Free Youth Internet (FYI) is a Web Publication and forum for the Youth Rights movement, the struggle to bring full civil rights and freedom to youth and children. "

Peacefire Outflanking the Net Nannies.

A Student's Guide to Nosy Questions That Your School Should Not Ask You. A pamphlet from Phyllis Schlafley's Eagle Forum. I don't even remember now how Phyllis Schlafley earned notoriety. Look at this anyway -- it's a good pamphlet.

Separation of School and State Education and schooling needs to be rethought, from the ground up. It doesn't make any sense to me that the best way to educate kids is to group them in age cohorts and march them in lockstep for 12 years.

Kids who shoot up schools -- bad kids, too many guns, Doom, Dungeons & Dragons, violent TV, the big evil In-ter-net or what? What the kids say about what their schools are like (and in case you've forgotten): Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth, and the Price of Being Different, all from Slashdot.

Somebody spun off the concept to it's own web site: Hellmouth.org.

Dr. Helen Smith's violentkids.com. Dr. Smith is a forensic psychologist who works with violent kids, not a media talking head.

The Nine Assumptions of Modern Education by John Taylor Gatto

The W.A.V.E. An anti-W.A.V.E website.

Guerrilla Schooling online newsletter "This is war. I'm not joking. I like to play with words, but this is no game, no drill, no prank. The purpose of Guerrilla Schooling is to explore strategies for wresting an education for your children from an educational establishment that, by accident or design, does not educate."

The Well Trained Mind a classical education, at home.

School Reformers.com

Threat Assessment. Gavin de Becker (with support from our buddies at ATF) is field testing a program called Mosaic-2000. Yet more intrusive questions, aimed at finding out which of your little tykes is going to snap. The ATF Assistant Director also has some remarks about Mosaic 2000 in this speech. (2000-mar-11 dead link, but see here.)

Taxes for Teenz "The goal of TAXinteractive is to educate teenagers about the U.S. tax system, the effect of taxes on their day-to-day lives, and new electronic ways to file tax returns. " How cool it is to pay taxes! Somehow I don't think the kids will be fooled.

The Fully Informed Jury Association. "Jury nullification" is the concept that jurors have the right to judge not only the facts of a case, but the law itself, and can convict or acquit accordingly. Illinois explicitly denies jury nullification: "Even if a juror does not agree with the law the judge has stated, he or she is still obligated to follow that law. The judge decides the law. The jury determines the facts." --from "A Handbook for Illinois Jurors"

The Jury Rights Project "The Jury Rights Project seeks to enhance the justice system by educating citizens about jury issues and by supporting legislation that empowers juries and their rights."

The Article the NRA Refused to Publish on jury nullification.

Judicial Watch "Judicial Watch, Inc., a non-partisan, non-profit conservative foundation based in Washington, D.C., was established to serve as an ethical and legal "watchdog" over our government and judicial systems to promote needed political and legal reform."

Soldiers in the Streets-- coming soon to your town?

Urban Warfare straight from the horse's mouth (a .mil domain site). " To support the national military strategy of preparing for the threats of a new century and a changing enemy. To enhance domestic national security. To conduct and refine disaster relief and humanitarian assistance operations for use in the United States and abroad. To conduct urban combat operations and ready Marines for the likelihood that battles in the 21st Century will be focused in the world's rapidly expanding urban areas." (like Oakland, CA). The Army's been doing a lot of practicing lately in U.S. cities.

Roving Sands

The War on Drugs clock. The WoD has also been a war on everything else -- lives and reputations, our liberties, our privacy -- in a cause that cannot be won. The guy in the picture below-- with the IRS jacket and the gun -- is probably doing what he's doing because of the WoD. Part of the problem with the WoD is that the distinction between police and the military is being blurred.

Presidential authority to use the military to put down domestic disturbances.

The infamous 29 Palms survey.

blurring the line -- The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments. summary with link to 75K Acrobat file.

the 1033 Program "Excess weapon stocks continue to decrease as more LEAs utilize the 1033 Program. Currently, the only weapons available for transfer are the M-14 (7.62mm) rifle, .45-caliber automatic pistol, and the .38 special revolvers with the 4-inch barrel. Additionally, existing stocks on .38 special revolvers with the 2-inch barrel and 12-gauge (riot shotgun) have been completely exhausted. However, we are still taking requests for these weapons until further notice. Please note we are no longer taking weapon requests for M-16 (5.56mm rifle), M-21 (sniper rifle), and/or M-79 (grenade launcher) due to non-availability. The types and quantities of weapons available are subject to change."

Oleg Volk's RKBA site RKBA, for those unfamiliar with the term, is an acronym for Right to Keep and Bear Arms. You know, that pesky Second Amendment thing, that some people seem to have such difficulty wrapping their brains around. "What part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand?" Check back occasionally for new images.

A contrary view (the BATF home page). What are tax men doing with responsibility for, well, alcohol, tobacco and firearms? Who are these guys with the ninja suits? Good question (Frank Ney's Abuses of the ATF page.)

More RKBA links.

Concealedcarry.org "Concealed Carry, Inc. is dedicated to passing a Conceal Carry law in the 19 states that do not have one. We are starting with Illinois." Bonzai! (A short note on carrying in Illinois).

In these United States -- Unicor "is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries, inc." The use of prison labor is supposed to be one of the nasty things about Red China. Various governments here do it too, and it ain't just license plates. See also here.

And here, an article in Parascope.

Waco is, in my opinion, the single most horrible thing that's happened in this country in my lifetime. From start to finish, it should not have happened.

Where were you? I came out of the computer shop where I worked and into the TV sales floor. Every TV in the place was on, and all you could see in any of them was a wall of fire. No question at all of where it was or what had happened.

Waco is an open wound for this country.

Waco Electronic Holocaust Museum.

Waco, the Rules of Engagement The documentary that kept the heat on. Very, very disturbing viewing. Amazon.com has it for sale. "Blockbuster has it for rent.

David Hardy's effort to get at the truth using FOIA requests.

August, 1999. Waco news continues to break. "Wednesday, 25 August 1999 22:28 (GMT) (UPI Spotlight) Rep. Barr calls for new Waco hearings WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) - Reports that the FBI fired pyrotechnic tear gas canisters during the operation that ended the 1995 Branch Davidian compound siege in Waco prompted a Congressman to call (Wednesday) for new hearings into the controversial operation. Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., sent a letter to the chairman of the House Government Reform Committee and to Attorney General Janet Reno saying the reports raise questions as to whether government officials lied to Congress about what exactly happened at Waco."

1999-9-3 Someone forwarded this interesting piece of dialog to me, caught on tape. Damning if authentic.

The FLIR Imagery Analysis

2000-may-1 The fate of Carlos Ghigliotti, FLIR expert and possible Arkancide.

The original warrant.

Who were the Branch Davidians? Branch Davidian sites: branchdavidian.com, sevenseals.com, and seventrumpets.com

Waco and liberalism.

We had hopes for a while: David Hardy on the progress of the Davidian's wrongful death trial.

I'm sure you all've heard this by now: jury returns "not guilty".

Mr. Danforth absolves the gov't of guilt.

The Interim Report to the Deputy Attorney General.

Dan Gifford (Waco, the Rules of Engagement) interview on the Waco trial outcome.

Bill Clinton feels responsible.

The FBI's Project Meggido. A 30 page report for public consumption in Acrobat format. How the US Gov't views non-mainstream variants of Christianity and other "Right Wing Nuts". Flawlessly spellchecked, suspect sources, muddled thought. I've read that there is a somewhat longer version intended for "Lawn Forcement".

Remember Uganda under Amin? Cambodia under Pol Pot? Can it happen here?

Death by Government

Freedom, Democide and War What social institution has been responsible for the most violence and death in this century?

Antiwar.com "War is the health of the State." and no one else.

There're people out there that say that Glorious Leader Bill has promulgated more executive orders than any other president. That isn't true. FDR holds the record, and Bill is actually about par with other recent presidents.

Whitehouse site on Executive Orders

Federal Registry site on Executive Orders

Executive Orders FAQ at executiveorders.org

All of the Star Spangled Banner.

Citizen's Rule Book

Mark Pitcavage's Militia Watchdog site (hint--he don like 'em.) Lots'a good links. His personal site

Anti Defamation League -- doesn't like hate speech unless they're the ones doing it to RWNs

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Deeswatch Compound. "Marc looks forward to many more years of being a thorn in the side of this evil demagogue and he won't rest until DeesWatch is listed as a "hate group" on the SPLC's "hate list"

Join the War on Right Wing Ignorance (sic)

Federal Emergency Management Administration, aka FEMA, focus of a lot of RWN paranoia.

Michigan Militia of Wayne County

Western Illinois Militia. Frames, not Lynx friendly.

General Hiram Gooberman's Militia Page. Learn about the Amish-U.N. connection, Amish run internment camps for patriots, Amish and the Black Choppers, Mind Control Rays, etc. Recommended militia supplies are mostly "more toilet paper, ammo and Jack Daniels", which makes perfect sense to me.

Psychological operations in guerilla warfare

The Montana Unorganized Militias

Civilian Internment Camps and also here for a list of locations. Take it for what it's worth, there is a persistant rumor out there that some agency of our government, usually FEMA, is preparing or has prepared internment camps for the rest of us, just in case.

"Armed Revolution Possible and Not So Difficult clearly stamped "for research purposes only".

Central Ohio Unorganized Militia

Committees of Correspondence Webpage

North American Patriot's Free Network

Soldier of Fortune magazine.

Links to military manuals

John Wesley, Rawles (not a typo) author of the evolving shareware e-book sometimes known as TEOTWAWKI. (TEOTWAWKI == The End Of The World As We Know It)

A short note on staying out of trouble

American Patriots Friends Network

Misc.activism.militia.

Terrorism Research Center"Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Domestic Preparedness a .mil domain site.

Gordon Kahl

Too Late For a Political Solution

Last but certainly not least, the Fuzzy Bunny Militia!Sign up now!

Texas Constitution 2000. Just a thought.

Vote Fraud? Wishful thinking, or is there a reason thoroughly abhorrent goobers keep getting elected?

votefraud.org

Welcome to the Gulch A work in progress, taking inspiration from the fictional "Galt's Gulch". Brainstorming the creation of low profile communities of free individuals (aka "right wing nuts"). See also I Am Not A Number for more on hiding out and low profile living.

The fun guys who run out tax system.

Psychiatry and Sanity. Peter Breggin's site.

Health Nazis

The University of Texas' site on Global Governance

Mind Control Dark nutty right wing conspiracy paranoia? Or where all the "wind up gunmen" who rampage and then conveniently suicide come from?

You have the Right To Remain Silent

Americans Against Bombing "Conservative/libertarian coalition opposed to military imperialism and particularly the blockading and bombing of nations who have done us no harm." specifically in this case Iraq.

The Jarbridge Shovel Brigade

A Pocket Guide to NSA Sabotage

Asset Seizure Database downloadable from here.

A manual on the dissection of propaganda.