Today under an overcast, threatening, ominous and storm cloud filled sky, people who for many the weather would describe their mood, gathered in Brandon Park of Williamsport, PA for a Tea Party political dissidence rally.For local coverage see, sungazette.com,(natl.website here,Taxed Enough Already).

I went out of curiosity, I was curious if the portrayal by the mainstream media of these people as racists, ultra-xenophobes, angry lunatics, black helicopter ranting paranoids and 911 conspiracy cooks was true.

I must say I saw only law abiding, intellectually coherent, orderly, legitimately concerned people from all walks of life with sound arguments as to why they are angry, fearful and concerned. I estimate a turnout of about, 2,000 – 3,000 but rife with implications for the state of Pennsylvania and the nation. As it was announced that a 3 million people plus march is planned on Washington, D.C. set for Sept 12, 2009. Of which I will not take part but will try and observe through the various media. I’ll continue my holding pattern of being ready to head to the hills myself.

The atmosphere was thick in frustration, tension, and a building in urgency of pressure to just finally release. There was strength and resolve in the air as well. These people seem to me anyway, keen, full of courage or bravado depending on the view, who are resolute and I suspect going to become very creative in the ways they will find to express themselves. From what I understand the rally was to continue to the Susquehanna River where participants would then throw tea into the river as a symbolic political gesture.

I also saw (photos here) protest placards with things like Audit the Fed, End unconstitutional Czars, Beware of Obamacare, End socialism, etc. wrote on them. I also saw one t-shirt with infowars.com on it.

cnn.com    I almost became physically ill when I read this headline. Talk about believing your own hype. I mean it was not all that long ago that a former Vice President, I won’t mention no names, shot a man in the face under what are questionable circumstances at the least. Only thing I could recall hearing were the country crickets, as in no one said a word or asked a question or made a peep that objectively questioned the official version of that event as far as I know. And if anyone does or did challenge anything, and this goes with more than this issue, they get bashed as conspiracy theorists, cooks, tinfoil hat loonies, bathrobe wearing, cheetos eating, agoraphic, manic depressive, flakes that should be forcibly institutionalized.

 

The world’s major mainstream medias, and law enforcement agencies and the worlds justice systems are so miserably failing the world and the collective historical legacy of humanity, that it is a matter of people having to laugh, to keep from crying, to stay sane anymore. If one were to go and look at reporters without borders, rsf.org, one would see the worlds mainstream medias does not even do that good of a job looking out for its own people. I have thought for several years now that being a good journalist has to be moving up on the list of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

 

I for some reason never cease to be amazed at how all powerful some people seem to think the tools of mass communication are. Experts, numbers and polls and statistical analysis, public service announcements, spin,talking heads, etc. will only be able to distort perceptions for so long.Our reality is what is and its not going away anytime soon!!

downsizedc.org,   I watch and read about the financial disaster that our government has us in and concluded that the meaning of democracy is now, do as we say, not as we do. It's not just the projected $9 trillion in debt they have amassed on our backs or all the scandal and the lawlessness going on in Washington DC or the glaring lack of justice in these matters that has me thinking democracy seemingly has this new meaning.

What really causes me think democracy must have a new meaning is all the rules and laws they have enacted on us, and that they will vigorously prosecute average Americans for if one of the many laws are broken, while it seems they will do whatever they want. They enacted new bankruptcy laws against average Americans, they want more tort reform; our tax laws are a labyrinth and byzantine for just a few examples. And no matter how much one plays by all the tax rules, one can still feel like a criminal with your own hard earned money and still very much fear the obligatory IRS audit. If average Americans were using the accounting rules of the government(s), they would build as many prisons as they needed to stop it. Its double standards like these that causes me to think it seems the over arching theme of the US and many state governments is do as we say, not as we do.

It also seems that there is a whole echelon of people in and associated with D.C., like corporations, their executives, the bankers, the lobbyists/special interests, etc. that are above the law. I have watched as decade, after decade, scandals unfold and episodes of law breaking occur in D.C. and rarely does anyone go to jail or even get held to minimal standards of justice. There have been mysterious murders and suspicious suicides, bribery, kick-back schemes, black mailing episodes, insider trading, pay offs, frauds of various sorts, embezzlement scandals, child molestation, and moral turpitudes of just about every sort going on in D.C. Yet when average Americans commit crimes of any sort the harshest of penalties await and America would quickly become what is now filled with prisons to stop it.

The cruel twist is a lot of the law breaking going on by average Americans is caused by the crimes of people higher up on the food chain that leave millions of average Americans struggling so Americans are doing desperate things to survive as a result.

It is my personal opinion that when considering democracy in the future, historians will look at 2009 as a pivotal year because I humbly assert it is clear now that what we once considered as democracy is all but gone.

One thing I have not gone into here too is the level of secrecy and cover-ups going on as well. . .

The Homestead Act of 1862, by Richard Pence 

The Homesteaders The passage of the Homestead Act by Congress in 1862 was the culmination of more than 70 years of controversy over the disposition of public lands. From the inception of the United States there was a clamor for ever-increasing liberalism in the disposition of these lands. From 1830 onward, groups called for free distribution of such lands. This became a demand of the Free-Soil party, which saw such distribution as a means of stopping the spread of slavery into the territories, and it was subsequently adopted by the Republican party in its 1860 platform. The Southern states had been the most vociferous opponents of the policy, and their secession cleared the way for its adoption.

The Act, which became law on Jan. 1, 1863, allowed anyone to file for a quarter-section of free land (160 acres). The land was yours at the end of five years if you had built a house on it, dug a well, broken (plowed) 10 acres, fenced a specified amount, and actually lived there. Additionally, one could claim a quarter-section of land by "timber culture" (commonly called a "tree claim"). This required that you plant and successfully cultivate 10 acres of timber.

^Wikipedia Homestead Act was a United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title to 160 acres (one quarter section or about 65 hectares)-640 acres (one section or about 260 hectares) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, including freed slaves, could file an application and improvements to a local land office. The Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.^[1][2][3][4]

Eventually 1.6 million homesteads were granted and 270,000,000 acres (1,100,000 km²) were privatized between 1862 and 1986, a total of 10% of all lands in the United States.^[5]

latimes.com-The MicroFueler makes ethanol out of organic waste in minutes. It can be installed at individual homes, and companies are eager to supply owners with garbage.

Very few men in this world are without major flaw, including Adrew Jackson. But President Jackson stood up to central bankers and the elite to a degree that few other Presidents have. Lets face it Obama is no brave heart, and I don't blame or fault the man for whatever steps he takes to stay on the Presidential high wire. Andrew Jackson also is the only President to pay off the national debt.  

Wiki sayz, Opposition to the National Bank

The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message (written by George Bancroft), the bank needed to be abolished because:

Following Jefferson, Jackson supported an "agricultural republic" and felt the Bank improved the fortunes of an "elite circle" of commercial and industrial entrepreneurs at the expense of farmers and laborers. After a titanic struggle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by vetoing its 1832 re-charter by Congress and by withdrawing U.S. funds in 1833.

The bank's money-lending functions were taken over by the legions of local and state banks that sprang up. This fed an expansion of credit and speculation. At first, as Jackson withdrew money from the Bank to invest it in other banks, land sales, canal construction, cotton production, and manufacturing boomed.^[27] However, due to the practice of banks issuing paper banknotes that were not backed by gold or silver reserves, there was soon rapid inflation and mounting state debts.^[28] Then, in 1836, Jackson issued the Specie Circular, which required buyers of government lands to pay in "specie" (gold or silver coins). The result was a great demand for specie, which many banks did not have enough of to exchange for their notes. These banks collapsed.^[27] This was a direct cause of the Panic of 1837, which threw the national economy into a deep depression. It took years for the economy to recover from the damage.

The U.S. Senate censured Jackson on March 28, 1834, for his action in removing U.S. funds from the Bank of the United States. When the Jacksonians had a majority in the Senate, the censure was expunged.