An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms

An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms

 by Jacob G. Hornberger
Future of Freedom Foundation

Dear Troops:
Yesterday – Memorial Day – some people asserted, once again, that you are “defending our freedoms” overseas.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people are just repeating tired old mantras. The reality is that you are not defending our freedoms with your actions overseas. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Your actions overseas are placing our freedoms here at home in ever-greater jeopardy.
Consider your occupation of Iraq, a country that, as you know, never attacked the United States, making it the defender in the war and the United States the aggressor. Think about that: Every single person that the troops have killed, maimed, or tortured in Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
Yet, the countless victims of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq have friends and relatives, many of whom have become filled with anger and rage and who now would stop at nothing to retaliate with terrorist attacks against Americans.
Pray tell: How does that constitute defending our freedoms?
It was no different prior to 9/11. At the end of the Persian Gulf War, the troops intentionally destroyed Iraq’s water and sewage facilities after a Pentagon study showed that this would help spread infectious illnesses among the Iraqi people.
It worked. For 11 years after that, the troops enforced the cruel and brutal sanctions on Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. (See “America’s Peacetime Crimes against Iraq” by Anthony Gregory.) You’ll recall U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright’s infamous statement that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions were “worth it.”
By “it” she meant the attempted ouster of Saddam Hussein from power. You will recall that he was a dictator who was the U.S. government’s ally and partner during the 1980s, when the United States was furnishing him with those infamous WMDs that U.S. officials later used to excite the American people into supporting your invasion of Iraq.
The truth is that 9/11 furnished U.S. officials with the excuse to do what their sanctions (and the deaths of all those Iraqi children) had failed to accomplish: ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein and replacing him with a U.S-approved regime.
That’s what your post-9/11 invasion of Iraq was all about – to achieve the regime change that the pre-9/11 deadly sanctions that killed all those children had failed to achieve.
No, not mushroom clouds, not freedom, not democracy, and certainly not defending our freedoms here at home. Just plain old regime change.
In the process, all that you – the troops – have done with your invasion and occupation of Iraq is produce even more enmity toward the United States by people in the Middle East, especially those Iraqis who have lost loved ones or friends in the process or simply watched their country be destroyed.
In principle, it’s no different with Afghanistan. I’d estimate that 99 percent of the people the troops have killed, maimed, or tortured in that country had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.
Why did you invade Afghanistan or, more precisely, why did President Bush order you to do so?
No, not because the Taliban participated in the 9/11 attacks and, no, not because the Taliban were even aware that the attacks were going to take place
President Bush ordered the troops to invade Afghanistan – and, of course, kill Afghan citizens in the process – because the Afghan government – the Taliban – refused to comply with his unconditional extradition demand. You will recall that the Taliban offered to turn bin Laden over to an independent tribunal to stand trial upon the receipt of evidence from the United States indicating his complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
Bush responded to the Taliban’s offer by issuing his order to the troops to invade Afghanistan, kill Afghans, and occupy the country. In the process, U.S. officials installed one of the most crooked, corrupt, and dictatorial rulers it could find to govern the country, one who is so incompetent he cannot even hide the manifest fraud by which he has supposedly been elected to office.
In the process of installing and defending the Karzai regime, the troops have killed brides, grooms, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, and countrymen, most of whom never attacked the United States on 9/11 or at any other time. They simply became “collateral damage” or “bad guys” for having the audacity to oppose the invasion and occupation of their country by a foreign regime. (It should be noted for the record that U.S. officials considered these types of “bad guys,” as well as Osama bin Laden and other fundamentalist Muslims, to be “good guys” when they were trying to oust Soviet troops from Afghanistan.)
Was there another way to bring bin Laden to justice? Yes, the criminal-justice route, which was the route used after the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
That’s right. Same target, different date. In fact, the accused terrorists – Ramzi Yousef in 1993 and Osama bin Laden in 2001 – were ultimately located in the same country, Pakistan.
In Yousef’s case, he was arrested some three years after the attack, brought back to the United States, prosecuted, and convicted in federal district court. He’s now serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary.
No invasions, no bombings, no occupations, no killing of countless innocent people, no torture, no war on terrorism, and no anger and rage that such actions inevitably would have produced among the victims, their families, and friends.
In bin Laden’s case, we instead got a military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, where the troops have killed, maimed, tortured, and hurt countless people who had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
How in the world have your invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq defended our freedoms here at home? Indeed, how have the assassinations and bombings in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and who knows where else defended our freedoms?
All these things have accomplished is keeping foreigners angry at us, thereby subjecting us to the constant and ever-growing threat of terrorist retaliation here at home. As I have pointed out before, the U.S. military – that is, you, the troops – have become the biggest terrorist-producing machine in history. Every time you kill some Iraqi or Afghan citizen, even when accidental, ten more offer to take his place out of anger and rage.
That’s the same thing that was happening prior to 9/11. In fact, there were some, including those of us here at The Future of Freedom Foundation, who were warning prior to 9/11 that unless the U.S. Empire stopped what it was doing to people in the Middle East (including the deadly sanctions on Iraq, the support of Middle East dictators, the stationing of U.S. troops near Islamic holy lands, and the unconditional money and armaments to the Israeli regime), Americans would be increasingly subject to terrorist attacks. On 9/11, we were proven right, unfortunately. (See Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson.)
How does the constant threat of terrorist retaliation arising from your actions in Iraq and Afghanistan make us freer here at home, especially when you – the troops – are responsible for engendering the anger and rage that culminates in such threats, owing to what you are doing to people over there?
Consider also what the U.S. government does to our freedoms here at home as a direct consequence of the terrorist threat that you, the troops, are producing over there. It uses that threat of terrorism to infringe upon our freedoms here at home! You know what I mean – the fondling at the airports, the 10-year-old Patriot Act, the illegal spying on Americans, the indefinite detention, the torture, the kangaroo tribunals, Gitmo, and the entire war on terrorism – all necessary, they tell us, to keep us safe from the terrorists – that is, the people you all are producing with your actions over there.
In other words, if you all weren’t producing an endless stream of terrorists with your invasions, occupations, torture, assassinations, bombings, and Gitmo, the U.S. government – the entity you are working for – would no longer have that excuse for taking away our freedoms.
This past Sunday, the Washington Post carried an article about American wives who were recently greeting their husbands on their return from Afghanistan. Newlywed Anne Krolicki, 24, commented to her husband on the death of one of her friends’ husband: “It’s a pointless war,” she said.
That lady has her head on straight. She’s has a grip on reality, doesn’t deal in tired old mantras, and speaks the truth. Every U.S. soldier who dies in Iraq and Afghanistan dies for nothing, which was the same thing that some 58,000 men of my generation died for in Vietnam.
Please don’t write me to tell me that you all are good people or that you’re “patriots” for simply following whatever orders you are given. All that is irrelevant. What matters is what you are doing over there. And what you are doing is not defending our freedoms, you are jeopardizing them
Sincerely,
Jacob G. Hornberger
President
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Reprinted from The Future of Freedom Foundation.

June 1, 2011

Jacob Hornberger [send him mail] is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.

 

Are you a victim of Christian persecution?

 I bet you thought this piece was going to be about  some societal bias against Christians......
Well while that exists, I think that the Christian persecution of others is a much more serious problem. Yes you read that right.

With 80% of the population claiming  to be Christian, one must assume that Christians support everything that this government does. For they have the numbers to change things, and  not acting to change something is supporting it.

Go out and talk to Christians.  Almost any Christian you talk to supports the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto.

They support building codes and zoning which is the first plank of the Communist Manifesto. The abolition of private property.

They support a graduated income tax, the second plank.

They support the inheritance tax because they fall for class  warfare, the 3rd plank.

They support  the asset forfeiture laws the 4th plank.

They support a national bank (The private Federal Reserve) the 5th plank.

Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. The 6th plank exists as the FCC, DOT, and mandated drivers licenses.

The 7th, 8th, and 9th I leave to you to look up as an exercise.

And almost to a man, Christians  love the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto - government schools and would fight to the death to keep them.

I am not a scripture quoting Christian, or a bible thumping Christian, I have been know to drink to excess, and can swear like a sailor. However unlike most Christians, I know the difference between right and wrong.

Most of all, I find it very upsetting that almost all Christians support theft, murder, and rape.

They support theft to fund what they euphemistically call their public schools. They would never in a million years vote for a politician that did not promise to steal off of some group to give something  to them. And this is the primary reason we live in the screwed up world that we do.

They support murder in our foreign policies and wars that kill millions of innocents. They support murder when they support victim disarmament laws.

They support rape when the support victim disarmament laws. They support rape when they turn a blind eye to more men being raped each year in prison,  than women being  raped in total. And they continue to be "tough on crime" and vote for "tough on crime"  candidates that keep this status quo.   They also support  the rape of  the many children that are raped by the victims of prison rapes.

Many Christians can quote scripture, and they go to church each Sunday, but have no capacity to think. (Perhaps because they joined a church to have a pastor to do their thinking for them.)  This 80% of the population is what is wrong with America, and  is the greatest threat to our liberties. 

Now answer honestly.... Does the above describe you? If so what are you going to do about it?

"Government is how we choose to treat our fellow man. Nothing more nothing less. Hence government is how we choose either to love our brothers or rape them. Unfortunately   most Christians have chosen the latter."  ~ Joe Tittiger 

 "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."  ~Albert Einstein

The Internet Nazi’s come to Seyour

This is going to be an on going story about how big business may be sniffing your Internet packets without a search warrant in violation of the 4th amendment. Their justification is that they claim to be protecting copyrights.  The  reason I am unsure about the packet sniffing is that you are not told who your accuser is nor do you have access to their supposed evidence. To get this info you have to open a can of worms that allows them with all  of their resources to more easily take legal action against you, who most likely can not even afford an attorney.  This whole thing reeks of a Star Chamber.
These people with money have had  regulations written by the FCC that was never meant to write laws, that strong arms your ISP (Mediacom in this case) into shutting down your account for supposed copyright violations with no due process, again in violation of the Constitution. There are also  laws written by congress (the real congress not the super congress)  dealing with copyright infringement.  But I think most of us know that the congress is owned bought and paid for by powerful special interests.
To top it all off, the bottom line is that they want you to do this as there is an easy solution but they run from the solution, because the intent is to stifle free speech on the Internet. They want to strike terror in your heart every time that you download anything.
Every aspect of this story does not pass the smell test. It’s complete lawlessness. Does that surprise you in a nation ruled by an illegal alien from Kenya?
Stay tuned.
One thing that I have learned is that there really is no proof as to wrongdoing and that it is machine generated.  Someone (I do not even have the right to know who my accuser is) all they go on I understand is the file name.  For instance I could have a home movie called “Star Wars” and based solely on the file name I could get flagged for copyright violation when in actuality the movie is one that I made and own. The only way to verify if this is their material is to look in the packets (without a warrant) and do what is known as a CRC check and I am fairly certain that they are not doing this. So in effect they have NO proof of a copyright infringement but they get your Internet shut down and can even get criminal convictions with no proof!  It’s amazing what money can buy these criminal thugs! They don’t even need proof and they don’t have to give you any due process as guaranteed under the Constitution.  It’s a case of guilty until found guilty because they have lots of money.
This is a criminal gang, that has bought off our congress and has laws written for their special interests. In fact there is not even a law.  It is my understanding that it is an alphabet soup agency such as the FCC that wrote the implementation of  this “law” not congress as specified in the Constitution.  Yes the more you dig the more it stinks.
What really aggravates me is the fact that by default everything is copy written. So saying that someone downloaded copy written material is really a misnomer.  What should be said is that they DL’ed material the the copyright owner wanted to be compensated for and was not. And how are you to determine this when you click on a file and DL it?  How are you to read the copyright owners mind?  This file and this file are both copy written. The first file I happen to know the owner allows anyone to copy and distribute his work. The second I believe that is the case but am not sure. He has not made YouTube take it down at least. How about this movie at HuLu? There is a FBI copyright notice. So by watching it are you DL’ing and breaking copyright law? DL this one however and you will get a notice from your ISP that you have DL’ed copywritten material and they may terminate your service. And you may even be criminally prosecuted.  How is one to know?  You don’t and they want to keep it that way!  It looks to me that this is being used to chill free speech on the Internet.
A solution to the problem would take maybe 8 hours of any competent programmers time. All that needs done is to write a Firefox plugin that when you start to DL a file that it would check against various databases to see if someone claims to have a copy right and also wants compensation, on that particular file. That would be too easy and put the companies that are paid by copyright holders out  of business over night.   It’s similar to expecting  the cure for cancer from the American cancer society. It will never happen as that would put them out of business also. ( I realize the pitfalls and false positives of this method  but it happens the be the way the   copyright violations are machine generated and your Internet is shut down. I don’t think the founders thought that machine generated accusations met the standard of due process. )
The last slap in the face is that you can not find out who your accuser is or see their so called “proof” without filling paperwork that allows the ISP to identify you and thus open you to prosecution (and they will convict you I am told) with very sketchy evidence to say the least.  Usually all they have for “proof” of a torrent download is an IP address and a file name. Not proof of anything at all…. But then again those with lots of money can purchase your being found guilty. Our legal system and legislature are for sale to the highest bidder.
There are several other scenarios where you can receive a false accusation of copyright infringement. One would be when an unauthorized person is using your network and another  would be copyrighted material under the fair use law.   If you would like to read more check out  http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/faq.html  – and thanks to commenter Jody for this link.
Enjoy the free Internet while you can. It is the plan of your government to change that fact as an educated electorate is dangerous to a criminal government.

CAFR’s and Ending Taxation

Ending Taxation – “The Only Game in Town” The way our government can and should be.
Have you ever heard of a CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report)?   Watch the above film and start your education as to what governments are up to in the United States. You should be shocked.
Alex Jones also released a great CAFR movie a few years ago that is a little easier to follow,
perhaps this is the best one to watch first.
Alex Jones Report on The CAFR 

In short this whole topic exposes the fact that governments have enough invested money  that they do not have to collect taxes off of the citizens to pay the bills. They hide this fact by keeping a double set of books. Yes I know it sounds too far fetched to be true but so are many things that governments do. (This may not currently be true as most have lost much of this money due to poor investments in banker scams such as derivatives.)

Christians need to be responsible for their government.

Christians need to be responsible for their actions, yet they are not at all. As a group they are among the most irresponsible group  on the planet. Let me explain: My fellow Christians  are very duped and confused. They still think that we have a Caesar and  that we should do whatever this Caesar fellow tells us to do. Well I will give them that Obama thinks he is Caesar, but that's all I give them. He is not my Caesar nor my God.
Christians are 2,000 years behind the times - as this is a Constitutional  Republic that is founded upon the belief that we are Caesar, that we are the government. (See Locke, Paine, and Jefferson.)  Yet Christians still recite their  Romans 13  (also here) mantra in a catatonic manner, as their eyes roll back in their heads. They watch the world go by as if we have a king,  with divine rights, or a Caesar, as if they have not a thing to do with the sorry state of affairs in this country.

Well I hate to burst their bubble, but  this government  is a direct result  of their actions, or their inaction's. And they are responsible for it's actions.


Christians  have created the government we have through their vote,  and more importantly - through their silence. They  have created this  government -  arguably one of the  most vile, enslaving, and evil institutions to walk the face of the earth, and then like  immature children they refuse to take the responsibility of  controlling the monster they have created by falling back on their mantra that "It is of God".   They let this monster that they create and support - steal, rape, and plunder their fellow man and then acting like their reviled, Pontius Pilate -  wash their hands of it.

The land is filled with moronic pastors, many on the FEMA payroll, that tell them not to get involved in politics, to  love Caesar, and their servitude, and the Christian sheeple almost to the man listen and heed this evil, ill advised advice. George Orwell would be proud.
This is exactly the state of affairs, (Idiot pastors and gullible Christians) that allowed Adolph Hitler to steer the German Republic into evil.  Christians had better take heed and learn some history as they are going down the same path here in the US.

The situation of Christians creating this dangerous creature called government,  and then refusing like immature children to police the monster they have created by doing things as simple as going to city council meetings,  is similar to to parent that would hire a child molesting, pedophile, baby sitter to baby sit their children instead of doing due the diligence that would prevent this disaster. But that is OK, all they have to do is catatonicly chant the Romans 13 mantra and they are absolved of all responsitbilty for their actions.
Yea right.....

Irresponsible Christians are the biggest threat to our liberties in this country today and have but all destroyed everything that once made this country great. Christians  have become  the engine of evil in this country.
Which side are you on? Do you sit silently, drinking the cool aide, condoning the evil? Or are you speaking up?
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I offer 2 resources to the reader that would like to investigate the proper role of government the first is a sermon on Romans 13 by Pastor Chuck Baldwin.  The second the classic by Frédéric Bastiat "The Law" Both I think you will find extremely enlightening on this topic.
"Anyone building a personal library of liberty must
include in it a copy of Frédéric Bastiat’s classic
essay, “The Law.” First published in 1850 by the
great French economist and journalist, it is as clear a statement
as has ever been made of the original American ideal
of government, as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence,
that the main purpose of any government is the
protection of the lives, liberties, and property of its citizens...."
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“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”  ~ Albert Einstein
And just as applicable:
Thomas Jefferson’s seal said “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God” but I think it is even better reversed: “Obedience to tyrants is rebellion to God.”
Finally:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
--  John F. Kennedy

The lefts Orwellian view of Capitalism

One of the lefts methodologies is an  Orwellian attempt to redefine words.

Check this out: Wikipedia is trying to redefine a word for which there is a  definition:

"Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism.[1] There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...."

If the central thesis of  an argument is to redefine words I just don't know how to respond to such a mentally defective belief system. The left is George Orwell's 1984 is  at work:  redefine words so that people can no longer reason and think.

Fascism, and mercantilism, and socialism, communism, and  criminal describe our economic system much better than capitalism. That is reality. Calling a dog a cat does not make it so.  The left can not get over the fact that what we  have is not capitalism. Not even close.  The word "free market" economic is synonymous with the word capitalism. When is the left going to redefine that word also?

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Remember:   “War is Peace” Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.”

"These words are the official slogans of the Party, and are inscribed in massive letters on the white pyramid of the Ministry of Truth, as Winston observes in Book One, Chapter I. Because it is introduced so early in the novel, this creed serves as the reader’s first introduction to the idea of doublethink. By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical—for instance, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of waging war, the Ministry of Love is in charge of political torture, and the Ministry of Truth is in charge of doctoring history books to reflect the Party’s ideology.
That the national slogan of Oceania is equally contradictory is an important testament to the power of the Party’s mass campaign of psychological control. In theory, the Party is able to maintain that “War Is Peace” because having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. “Freedom Is Slavery” because, according to the Party, the man who is independent is doomed to fail. By the same token, “Slavery Is Freedom,” because the man subjected to the collective will is free from danger and want. “Ignorance Is Strength” because the inability of the people to recognize these contradictions cements the power of the authoritarian regime."

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE LEFT DOES ON MANY FRONTS. DOUBLESPEAK (cognitive dissonance)...THEY TOOK THEIR MODUS OPERANDI RIGHT OUT OF 1984. AND THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY THE THE BANKERS THE VERY PEOPLE THAT THEY CLAIM TO DESPISE. I HAVE SEEN IT AGAIN AND AGAIN......
The tax free foundations fund the environmental movement, the Rockefeller's funded the women's movement, the original occupy wall street  was funded by the bankers as all of their demands benefited the bankers, the corporate person-hood movement seems to be banker run. The left consists of dupes and  useful idiots. (The right also just  a bit less so.)

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I really think that the left is beyond hope, they do not want to see what is going on  because it would shatter their paradigm.  Their  irrational thought is ingrained into them, so deep that you can not get it out. This irrational thought IS the religion of the left. They will not let it go even with proof, logic, and facts, it is a matter of faith to the left. Government is the God of the left. That is how they try to impose their will on everyone.

My experience is that when arguing against leftist dogma.  Is that they confuse attacking a philosophy with a personal attack and thus avoid discussing anything.  That reaction seems to be part of the leftist mental disorder. Some things are worth my effort some things are not. I am finding trying to reason with lefist dogma is about as productive as pissing on my own leg.


What  really matters is that one understands that what we have is not  free market capitalism. (We probably have never had that ever but we were a lot closer 150 years ago and the word did apply more or less.)  The second thing that really matters is that nothing is going to work, no amount of legislation aimed at whoever one thinks is the bad guy, when the government we have does not work, is corrupt and criminal to the core, and is run by a bunch of criminals. The government can not fix itself. We need to fix it and maybe take it down and created a new one from scratch. 

The left says the bankers control our government, so they want the same owned/corrupt  government  to write laws to rectify the situation? (Remember that government is the lefts God.)

Anyone believing  such bull shit belongs in a mental institution IMHO.

Have you ever read Boston T. Parties "Hologram of Liberty"? His thesis (and also that of Lysander Spooner) is that from the beginning the Constitution was created with enough loopholes to allow the federal government to become the monster that it has become. It was all done by design probably by agents of the banks such as Hamilton that was in on the Constitutional convention. He makes a very good case for this being so.

So far I have only used the word leftist for this article there is a much more accurate term however for these people that hold these irrational, dangerous views.  I think the term "Leftist Christians" is a much more accurate description as 80% of the American population identify with the Christian label and a huge percentage of Christians thanks to the negligent clergy also hold these leftists views. And the conundrum is that socialism is the antithesis of Christianity. Reality is stranger than fiction and most of your Christian brothers and sisters are very much your enemy.

Lying Cops

I just had a  local cop harass me over providing my name while on my homes front porch and not being under investigation in the commission of a crime in any way shape or form.

I was being nice  and generous when this so called public servant asked me my name and I  told him my first name. When he requested a last name I asked him if there was a Missouri law that required that I give him that information and that if there was would he please provide me with the the statue and then I would be more than happy to comply with the law.

Instead he tried to intimidate me.(Which to me meant he was a liar.)  Asking me if I was wanted. To which I responded to  "are you wanted?". Then he tried the "if you have nothing to hide you should tell me" to which I asked him if  he had nothing to hide would be OK if I went through his wife's underwear drawer illustrating that my stance was based on something probably foreign to him called privacy.
(And what ever happened to the 4th and 5th amendment? Are they null and void in MO?)

He keep threatening that there was such a law in Missouri, even thought he would not, or could not recite it.
I told him,  I hoped  that, he being a public servant and my employee,  would not  lie to me and relented and gave him  my last name. (Which shames me greatly that I caved in...)

Anyhow if I lied to a cop I could be put in jail for a long time.  I strongly believe that this cop (probably a Christian) lied to and manipulated me. And the sad part is that he will not go to jail like I would for a lie.  (Note: Even if there is such a law I find it in  conflict with natural law and thus null and void.)

This officer  later gave away  to someone else that they know who I am (the confrontation  was only about power as it usually is.) and that the  police department in conjunction with the Feds and their drug money suspect that I grow marijuana because the plant lights are on garden plants till 1 am.  I don't know about you, but I think we should pay more taxes to hire more of these public servants so that they can keep an eye on us  tomato growers and write tickets  for more brake lights being out rather that doing what they are supposed to be doing. (Protecting our God given Inalienable rights.)

He also made a veiled threat as he walked off: "I know where to find you." Which was obvious -- and I could not construe as anything other than a threat from an out of control public servant that thought that I was the servant.

I finally got an answer about the law from this cops supervisor.  And the reply indicates to me that not only is this officer a liar and lacking in character, his boss lies and is lacking in character also. Why do we hire these kinds of people for these positions?  It seem to be this way in every town across Amerika. Why do we live with people of such low character lording over us?

Does this person  really believe his own hyperbole?
He contradicts himself in his own reply...
Here is a snippet of the response that I indirectly got:

"Mr. XXXX was a witness to an event of yelling and screaming that was called in to the police by a resident of the same apartment building in which he lives. He was approached, not as a suspect, but rather as a witness to what happened."

He states once that I was not the suspect in a crime.

"Officer Wright noted in his report that he "did not have reasonable suspicion that [Mr. Tittiger] was involved" in the original altercation, so he did not press the matter further."

He states  the second time  that I was not the suspect in a crime.

"As to the accusation that Officer XXXX  "lied" to Mr. XXXX, he did not, in fact, do so. Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 84, Section 84.710 states, "[Police officers] shall also have the power to stop any person abroad whenever there is reasonable ground to suspect that he is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and demand of him his name, address, business abroad, and whither he is going."

Then he quotes a law that requires me to be suspected of a crime to substantiate his officers actions!

The fact still remains that this officer threatened to arrest me using a law that he could not quote and which after all did not apply to this situation. Shouldn't police know the law? And if they do not, should they go around badgering citizens with the intent of violating their rights by making up laws as they go?

This incident has made me look into starting local online  newspapers in conjunction with other people:

http://thingsyourlocalpaperwillnevertellyou.wordpress.com/

I have also discovered this great project that aims to hold police accountable for their behavior.

http://www.copblock.org/