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Title: Missouri “Militia” Report Withdrawn
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Published: Mar 28, 2009
Author: Chuck Baldwin
Post Date: 2009-03-28 09:46:52 by Turtle
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Well, there is still hope for liberty after all! After multiple thousands of phone calls, emails, faxes, and other communications from outraged citizens, the State of Missouri has rescinded its controversial "militia" report. This proves the point I made in this column recently that the most effective way to fight an ever-encroaching federal leviathan is to focus on our individual states. Let me review the events of the last few weeks so as to help readers familiarize themselves with this historic--and I do mean historic--episode. On February 20, 2009, the State of Missouri, via its Department of Public Safety, issued what was called "MIAC [Missouri Information Analysis Center] Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement". In this report, people who supported Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and yours truly were referenced as being connected to potentially dangerous "militia members." But the inference did not stop there. People of conservative ideology were also identified in the State Police report as being potentially dangerous. People who held political opinions opposing abortion, illegal immigration, the New World Order, the North American Union, the Income Tax, the U.N., etc., were profiled in the MIAC report. Interestingly enough, no left-leaning political ideologies were identified. No Islamic extremists. No environmental extremists. Only people holding "conservative" or "right-wing" philosophies were identified in the MIAC report. The MIAC report was categorized as "Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive," meaning the report was intended for law enforcement personnel only. Fortunately, an unidentified (for obvious reasons) Missouri law enforcement officer, who was extremely disturbed by this report, sent a copy to nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones. Of course, Jones immediately "blew the whistle" on the story. This was on March 11. On March 14, the Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune ran a story on the subject, and on March 17, I wrote my first column about it. From that point, the story went viral. Internet sites, radio talk show hosts, and bloggers all over America picked up the story, and thousands of outraged citizens began bombarding the appropriate officials in Missouri with protests. Even Fox News Channel talk show host Glenn Beck ran a feature on the story on Friday, March 20, [YouTube] and again on Monday, March 23. The Constitution Party issued a "Travel Advisory" for the State of Missouri, warning tourists and residents about the possibility of being profiled by State Police for such things as having bumper stickers with political statements on their vehicles, etc. All of this commotion was not lost on several Missouri State legislators and executive officers, either. Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder called on Governor Jay Nixon (who had previously stood by and defended the MIAC report) to place Department of Public Safety Director John Britt on administrative leave pending an investigation into the report. In addition, several Missouri State legislators said they would introduce an amendment to the Department of Public Safety's budget barring the agency from using "state or federal funds for political profiling." On March 23, DPS Director John Britt sent an apology letter to Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and me stating, "I have ordered that the offending report be edited so as to excise all reference to Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin and to any third-party political organizations." While Ron, Bob, and I appreciated the apology and retraction from Mr. Britt, the overriding offense of the report still lingered: namely, the report, with a very broad brush, linked people holding conservative political opinions to dangerous and violence-prone "militias," which Missouri law enforcement personnel were instructed to be on guard against. Therefore, public outcry against the MIAC report continued, Mr. Britt's apology notwithstanding. Then, on Wednesday, March 25, the head of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Col. James F. Keathley, ordered the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) to "permanently cease distribution" of this abysmal report. Keathley said that neither he nor Britt had read the report before it was distributed. Keathley also noted that the report was filled with numerous spelling and grammatical errors and did not cite any sources for its broad statements about "right-wing" militias. He further said that his department would now review how the MIAC distributes intelligence reports to police officers. He said the process "needs improvement." Dear readers, please take a bow! Because of tens of thousands of patriotic, freedom-loving Americans--including thousands of courageous Missourians--the long arm of totalitarianism was shortened just a bit. This sordid story is truly an embarrassment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the State of Missouri. Governor Nixon, especially, is left with egg on his face for foolishly and stupidly standing behind the report, when he had either never read it, or, if he had, was just as guilty of political profiling as the ones who wrote the report. Why DHS, you ask? Because the MIAC report is similar to several other reports currently circulating around various State police agencies courtesy of DHS-sponsored "Fusion Centers." There is another side of this story that is even more sinister, however. If we can continue to probe the details of the MIAC report, I am absolutely convinced we will find that this report actually originates with Morris Dees and his ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center. And if my hunch (a very educated hunch, I might add) is correct, it means that the DHS and various State police agencies around the country are allowing a left-wing special interest group to use them to harass, intimidate, and profile people with conservative political opinions. I would further proffer that those of us who are outraged by this event should not stop with the MIAC report being removed. While this is very good news, the fear and intimidation associated with those referenced in this report has already taken place. Are people opposed to abortion, illegal immigration, the Income Tax, the U.N., etc., now afraid to express their opinions publicly (especially in Missouri)? If so, this seems to me to be the basis for legal action, based on the abridgment of the First Amendment freedom of speech by a State (and perhaps federal) law enforcement agency. There is yet another chilling question that must be answered: by saying Missouri State Police will "review" how MIAC distributes intelligence reports to police officers, does Col. Keathley mean that the State of Missouri's law enforcement agencies will continue to promote similar reports, but simply make them "Classified"? In other words, will they (and other State police agencies around the country) simply employ greater secrecy when issuing such reports, but do nothing to change the content of future reports? Hopefully not, but we shall see. With that said, here are the lessons all of us need to take to heart: * Every police officer, deputy sheriff, and law enforcement officer in America who believes in constitutional government, individual liberty, and the Bill of Rights needs to be alert for any report that smacks of the MIAC report, and be willing to quickly "blow the whistle" on any such report they see. * Lovers of freedom should be much encouraged to see what can happen when they are willing to stand up to their State governing officials as they see abridgements to their liberties taking place. I say again, the best way to fight these mushrooming despotic tendencies of government we seem to see everywhere is to focus on our State governments. Do you now see why I say that? Even if DHS was behind the MIAC report, it was the State of Missouri that had to implement it; and it was the State of Missouri that (under pressure) killed it. See my column on this important subject here.. * Notice, too, that we did not need the major media to achieve this victory. We cut off this one branch of the tyranny tree without the help of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX NEWS (with the exception of Glenn Beck), or even the Drudge Report. Victory was achieved with the weapons of talk radio, syndicated Internet columns, Internet blogging, local news media, and word of mouth. You see, folks, we can achieve victory without the major media. But we must stay focused and actively involved in our respective State governments. "We the people" are still the power of this country. And don't let anyone deceive you into believing anything else. Therefore, take heart in knowing that your diligence convinced the State of Missouri to rescind its atrocious MIAC report. Now, don't let it stop there. Let's faithfully cut off the tentacles of tyranny wherever we find them. Amen?
Poster Comment: All the conspiracist nutters, with their buffoonish beliefs in railroad cars to take us to concentration camps, don't understand that things can be changed, and it's not all that hard. Politicians never see the light, but they feel the heat. These people immediately backed down from phone calls and emails. It's as simple as that.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
Missouri “Militia” Report Withdrawn Yet Remains in Full Force and Effect at DHS
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
Politicians never see the light, but they feel the heat. These people immediately backed down from phone calls and emails. It's as simple as that. I called Sgt. Clarke the day after this report came out. He returned my call. We discussed this training manuel for 10 minutes. Despite the headline of this article, if you think for a minute a retraction has changed the thinking of the rats who cobbled this together, you're mistaken.
Right, and now that the Chinese are in the process of refusing to finance the Judeo-American War on the Goyim, by refusing to buy our government debt and calling for a new reserve currency, we're going to see O'boingo & His jew-crew really lash out at us citizens.
Backed down, my hairy white ass. It was a tactical withdrawal, not a full retreat. They have not changed their minds.
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Have we held an auction yet where the buyers failed to show? I know it recently happened in Britain.
I think the CNBSers said it happened here this week. It doesn't really matter though, the fed just prints money and steps in.
It was a tactical withdrawal, not a full retreat. They have not changed their minds. Exactly! Some people just don't get it. turtle is one of those people. Time to make some turtle soup.
That's what I understand happened last week when Timmy asked for another trillion; they fell 30% short at an auction. I heard or read that somewhere. Time to invest in cheese whiz and saltines.
I'm disappointed. Based on my experiences with Baptist pastors, I think ALL of them should be on a list and under surveillance. Chuck's not a Southern Baptist one, though, so maybe he's somewhat okay.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
This is where Chuck was wrong in that essay. There was WAY more grassroots outrage expressed via the outlets he named last fall when the Wall Street bailout was being debated and yet it still went through, albeit only after martial law threats were clearly communicated to the recalcitrant legislators. The powers that be will appear to "cave" only on relatively insignificant issues such as this one. And even the so-called state of Missouri itself is an insignificant entity in a post-Wall Street/FedGov takeover environment and era. I would describe Missouri and the other 49 more as subsidiaries of a gigantic corporation rather than states anymore.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
exactly
United Incs of America
This reminds me of the former Soviet Union where only the communist party was allowed. Anyone not singing the party line could be deemed insane and treated as such. Here, in the US, the two main parties, for all intents an purposes, have become two branches of the same party. Anyone that thinks outside the party line is given a label with a negative connotation. In earlier times, that would have been "insane" but in today's environment, "terrorist" is more effective. This report was official oppression of people with different political leanings.
good post
Yes, very well stated.
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
Which means it had nothing to do with Paul, Barr or Baldwin. So any "apology" given to them does not apply to us and to just let it go now is unthinkable. They made us out to be the enemy, so I might as well be an enemy.
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That sick, twisted, America-hating POS is living on borrowed time imo.
Politicians never see the light, but they feel the heat. These people immediately backed down from phone calls and emails. It's as simple as that. How can you have a solution WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE FUCKING PROBLEM ??
Chuck's not a Southern Baptist one, though, so maybe he's somewhat okay. You're stupid partisan ass should be on SOMEONE's LIST !
bump
I am CERTAIN I am on THE list. I'd be disappointed not to be. I am CERTAIN that YOU are as well, unless you yourself are some sort of disinfo agent. Chuck Baldwin's probably an okay guy. The Southern Baptist pastors are NOT, though. They are aiders and abettors of Republican Party neocon Zionist war criminals. Many of them still all but worship the Chimp. The Chimp made me an anti-Chimperial partisan, and since he is associated inextricably with the GOP, YES, I am dedicated to the ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION of the Republican Party. It doesn't mean I am for the other major party, but I have to admit--as someone forced to live within a political duopoly--I would rather it misrule us than the GOPers, who are absolutely Satanic whereas the "Demon"crats are only demonic.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
I know I'm on the 'domestic terraist' list. I'd bet you're on the world socialist rat list of people that will snitch out patriots myself. ;-)
Where is he not Constitutionally sound iyo ?
They're both 100% paid for tools stuffing us into world socialist luciferian totalitarian fascism. They both have to be gutted or destroyed of any that can't hold tight to the boundaries set forth by our Founders.
I don't know ALL his views, but I would imagine he thinks there is NOT ENOUGH religion in the public square. I think there is TOO MUCH. If he is typical of Baptists (and I am a former one myself), he may have the tendency to rewrite history and declare this a "Christian" nation. It's not and the Founders carefully avoided it being that, no matter how the revisionists want to rewrite the early days of the republic. I am getting to the point where I am of the "STFU" school when it comes to any and all religions trying to influence and wield power over the political system. I think the Founders would be with me on this.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
He's a Christian Libertarian faiap. The Secular Humanist Religion should be more scary to you than some do gooders imo.
It certainly contained Christian believers in the majority. However it's obviously not a Christian nation. It's Sodom and fucking Gomorrah now.
If I could clone 10,000 Christian Americans like Chuck Baldwin to run the government I'd do it yesterday. Leading one's own people in a Christian way is a high calling for men that follow Yeshua.
The Founders would have shot / hung / exiled the globalists - banksters a long time ago imo. It doesn't matter, we are the generation on the hook now.
This MIAC report apparently came from the leftist ccnspiracist nutjobs at the Southern Poverty Law Center. I am not a conspiracist and I am not a Truther (sic). Conspiracists always think other conspiracists are nutjobs, but they except themselves, of course. The SPLC really believes their conspiracist nonsense, i.e., Ron Paul, racists, homophobes, Second Amendment supporters, militias, etc., are all involved in a gigantic conspiracy. Such is the mind of the conspiracist, and I oppose ALL of them.
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
All the conspiracist nutters, with their buffoonish beliefs in railroad cars to take us to concentration camps, don't understand that things can be changed, and it's not all that hard.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
Despite the headline of this article, if you think for a minute a retraction has changed the thinking of the rats who cobbled this together, you're mistaken.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Turtle (#0)
Politicians never see the light, but they feel the heat. These people immediately backed down from phone calls and emails. It's as simple as that.
#5. To: Esso (#3)
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#5)
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#7. To: PSUSA (#4)
Backed down, my hairy white ass.
#8. To: Esso (#6)
It doesn't really matter though, the fed just prints money and steps in.
#9. To: Turtle (#0)
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#11. To: wbales, Turtle (#1)
Missouri “Militia” Report Withdrawn Yet Remains in Full Force and Effect at DHS
#12. To: Sam Houston (#10)
I would describe Missouri and the other 49 more as subsidiaries of a gigantic corporation rather than states anymore.
#13. To: Turtle (#0)
#14. To: Sonovademocrat (#13)
#15. To: Sonovademocrat (#13)
This reminds me of the former Soviet Union where only the communist party was allowed. Anyone not singing the party line could be deemed insane and treated as such. Here, in the US, the two main parties, for all intents an purposes, have become two branches of the same party. Anyone that thinks outside the party line is given a label with a negative connotation. In earlier times, that would have been "insane" but in today's environment, "terrorist" is more effective.
#16. To: Sonovademocrat (#13)
This report was official oppression of people with different political leanings.
#17. To: Turtle, *Constitution Party* (#0)
I am absolutely convinced we will find that this report actually originates with Morris Dees and his ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#18. To: Turtle (#0)
All the conspiracist nutters, with their buffoonish beliefs in railroad cars to take us to concentration camps, don't understand that things can be changed, and it's not all that hard.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#19. To: Sam Houston (#9)
I'm disappointed. Based on my experiences with Baptist pastors, I think ALL of them should be on a list and under surveillance.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#20. To: Sonovademocrat (#13)
North ameriKan Soviet Union
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#21. To: Rotara (#19)
#22. To: Sam Houston (#21)
I am CERTAIN I am on THE list. I'd be disappointed not to be. I am CERTAIN that YOU are as well, unless you yourself are some sort of disinfo agent.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#23. To: Sam Houston (#21)
Chuck Baldwin's probably an okay guy.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#24. To: Sam Houston (#21)
It doesn't mean I am for the other major party, but I have to admit--as someone forced to live within a political duopoly--I would rather it misrule us than the GOPers, who are absolutely Satanic whereas the "Demon"crats are only demonic.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#25. To: Rotara (#23)
#26. To: Sam Houston (#25)
(Edited)
I would imagine he thinks there is NOT ENOUGH religion in the public square.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#27. To: Sam Houston (#25)
he may have the tendency to rewrite history and declare this a "Christian" nation
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#28. To: Sam Houston (#25)
I am getting to the point where I am of the "STFU" school when it comes to any and all religions trying to influence and wield power over the political system. I think the Founders would be with me on this.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#29. To: Sam Houston (#25)
I think the Founders would be with me on this.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#30. To: All (#0)
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs...that's Turtle Island.
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