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Claudia Chandler, assistant executive director for the California Energy Commission, claims residents will be able to manually override controls in all cases, but the 2008 Building Efficiency Standards (Page 64), known as Title 24, specifically states: “The PCT shall not allow customer changes to thermostat settings during emergency events.”

Ralph Cavanagh, an energy expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in an interview that at a time of peak electricity use, “most people given a choice of 2 degrees of temperature setback and 14th-century living would happily embrace this capacity.”

Maybe someone should tell Mr. Cavanagh that most people are sick of a government who can’t resist a single opportunity to exploit and abuse it’s power.  And he can stick his “2 degree temperature setback” where the sun doesn’t shine.

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Simple Justice talks about Big Brother’s dog and pony show regarding the CIA’s destruction of incriminating video tapes…

“So, what do the very important people that run our government plan to do about the fact that they are totally incapable of controlling the CIA? They want to put on a play!”

Big Brother will do what it always does…feign concern until citizens are distracted by the next government scandal. They’ll appease ‘the people‘ by offering up a sacrificial lamb or two in the interim, and then on to the next corruption (fucking).

The ‘power of the people’ is nothing but “feel good” propaganda.

Think about it - do you honestly think the citizens of this country, - in today’s society, could or even would organize an uprising significant enough to force big government to do anything? Hell, we can’t even force accountability in local/city government agencies.

Big Brother would nip any such movement in the ass long before it gained substantial momentum.

(   I know - been a load of ‘feel good’ posts around here lately. I’ll get out of this funk soon - sure as hell hope I do.   )

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The death penalty is always a hot bed of controversy. I’ve never really understood the reasoning behind being in favor of it. Especially by those who want the killer of a loved one to be sentenced to death. If my loved one was murdered and the murderer was sentenced to death - I’d feel ripped off. A few years in a cell followed by escaping through death vs. confined to a cell every single day for the rest of their natural life…

For me the harsher punishment seems obvious. 

What do you think? 

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In a recent conversation, someone told me they don’t keep up with political news. They don’t feel their voice/vote has enough power to make a difference. That’s a hard for one for me to swallow because I’m constantly encouraging (without preaching) everyone to vote - speak out - have a voice. I want so much to believe ‘we the People’ do have the power to direct our government. I hate that my belief in that is dissipating. Every day brings another action by our government and almost every action further limits the power of the People.

Hundreds of new laws pass every year that take away our rights and liberties. Legislatures jump at the chance to turn minor annoyances into criminal acts - don’t water your lawn on certain days, your stereo’s too loud, no smoking in public, your kid’s out after curfew, and on and on it goes. The more things they criminalize - the more money$$$ they make issuing citations.

One would think less freedom, less rights, less liberties would inspire people to raise their voices, stand and say enough is enough! Doesn’t seem to be happening though. Being ignored and lied to and fed pacifications only alienates us that much more.

Nobody wants to play/participate in a game so obviously rigged. Funny how government is criminalizing everything under the sun but they sure as hell aren’t tossing around any legislation that would require citizens to vote. And why should they when the current state works so well for them. The more people who aren’t paying attention, aren’t speaking out, aren’t voting - make the job of passing new law that much easier.

It’s where this will eventually end that scares me. Wars are happening all over the world - right now - fought by people who finally tired of being oppressed. I know America isn’t even scratching the surface of that kind of oppression yet and probably won’t for many years. But can any of us look around and say it isn’t the direction we’re headed?

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OGO asked a few great questions in the comments.

Who is gonna teach them to draw blood? Forcibly. It seems that this
will be extra dangerous for the suspected drunk driver. How about the
cops? Messing with blood is dangerous business. Who will police the
police?

I’m borrowing the answers from the original entry at the Agitator.

"Ponder that in many states,
you’ve no right to ask that a physician or trained medical professional
draw the blood, either. The cops get to jab you.

It gets worse. Late last month,
the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that not only can police require
that you give up your blood, if you refuse they may use "extreme force"
to extract it. In this case, the officers inflicted permanent physical
damage on the suspect. There’s also a case pending in Arizona where a forced blood draw done by a cop resulted in a persistent infection in the suspect’s arm."

This today from the Agitator:

 

Earlier this year, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that police may forcibly take roadside blood samples from suspected drunk drivers.

and

Late last month, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that not only can police require that you give up your blood, if you refuse they may use "extreme force" to extract it.

 

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No-bills in Wichita County, published in TRN on November 8, 2007

Scroll down to the comments section below the list.

Anyone else find the reader comments just a tiny bit disturbing?

God have mercy on the poor soul who finds any of these people on their jury.

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from the Agitator

October 01, 2007 Punishing Good Samaritans

Meanwhile, remember Monica Montoya? She’s the New Jersey woman who helped a police officer translate at the scene of a car accident, then was knocked to the ground arrested when she attempted to make a phone call to check on her daughter, who was at daycare (she wasn’t involved in the accident, she just volunteered to help translate).

While it’s good that the local prosecutor’s office is investigating the conduct of the police officer in the case, the same office is also pushing forward with charges against Montoya for resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.

See this happening more and more. Police and prosecutors refusing to take responsibility for their own mistakes. Ironic considering it’s their “job” to make others accountable. They seem to believe they’ll lose all credibility and/or control if they rectify their mistakes.  You need only watch the world news to see the ramifications.

People/citizens reach a point where they no longer tolerate their governments abuses of power. It’s called war.

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Court rules school officials acted properly in strip search.…officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while looking for Ibuprofen.

This serves as a warning to any school officials who interact with my daughter: if you ever, EVER take it upon yourself to strip search my daughter in search of an Ibuprofen tablet, I PROMISE that I will personally, and very SLOWLY burn you alive. By slowly - I mean for days - many many days. Nobody will be able to protect you - not the school board, not the courts, NOBODY.

do we understand each other?

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read full story at Grits for Breakfast.

Aside from the sexual abuse -

“On Oct. 27, 2004, the nurse manager at Evins told her supervisors: “There are too many injuries resulting from youth restraints [by guards] and altercations.” Among the injuries she noted were broken teeth and fractured bones.”

TYC - Texas YOUTH Commission.

YOUTH - as in children.

The physical and sexual abuse of children was a known FACT for 2 years and the only action taken was the discussion of liability legalities. To this day - little to nothing has been done to correct the problem,  much less punish the abusers.

Child abusers.

Makes me sick to my stomach.

Sicker still that nothing much is likely to ever be done about it. Big Brother’s long outgrown any ability ‘the people’ had to hold it accountable.

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What’s your guess? Is this an excerpt from a work of fiction or a history book?

“What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever widening gap, …between the government and the people… And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security….

“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”

No. It isn’t an overview of the current state of government in the US. It’s how the Nazi’s came into power.

If you’re not scared, maybe you should be….

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1955, 1966 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved.

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