humansarefree--2020-03-17--Lawsuit: 1,000+ Children Sexually Abused in State Institutions in Michigan

A massive lawsuit representing over 1,000 children who were held and sexually abused in the Michigan corrections system was recently settled as state officials agreed to pay $ 80 million to the victims .
The lawsuit began in 2013 and has been an uphill battle for the plaintiffs as the state fought them every step of the way .
The massive payout comes after hundreds of children came forward with claims that they were sexually assaulted and harassed by corrections officers as well as incarcerated adults while in the state ’ s care in detention centers across the state .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he Michigan Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) director and a spokesperson for the current attorney general cited the costs of litigation as their reason for settling — not guilt .
“ We ’ ve got to look at the length of time that we ’ ve been dealing with this and the amount of resources that frankly will be spent continuing to draw this out , ” Heidi Washington , the MDOC director , said during the call .
Through a statement read by her spokesperson , Attorney General Dana Nessel said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defended against this lawsuit and has exhausted every single legal argument over the years , in the end , it was clear that continuing to engage in protracted litigation was not in the best interest of the people of this state.
” In response to the state ’ s inability to believe the hundreds of alleged victims , the attorney who filed the lawsuit , Deborah LaBelle said the “ state took dozens of depositions of youth who under oath told consistent and compelling reports of sexual assaults in addition to many many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never received and most of whose reports of rape were never even investigated.
” “ The only way to assert the [ defendants ] could not corroborate is to take the unsupported position that scores of young people were lying about the sexual assaults that happened to them in Michigan ’ s prisons when they were placed , without supervision , in cells and units with adults when they were 15 , 16 , and 17 years old .
To simply deny the credible and consistent reports of these young sexual abuse survivors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stopped short of admitting guilt , Nessel did concede that the state has made significant changes since 2013 during former Attorney General Bill Schuette ’ s term , in order to combat the child sex abuse .
“ I believe prisoners are entitled to be treated with respect and basic human dignity , ” Nessel said , referring to Heidi Washington , who became prisons director after the lawsuit was filed .
“ I know MDOC has made significant strides under the leadership of Director Washington and that the past seven years of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her administration or the current reality of life inside Michigan ’ s prison system.
” “ I would agree that during that the trajectory of this case the department has responded to the allegations and improved conditions , ” said LaBelle .
According to the Associated Press , LaBelle has formed a committee to determine how the money will be paid out to the victims which is a pool of around 1,000 current and former incarcerated children .
She explained that the children who received the worst abuse , like rape , will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We have heard from hundreds , so we know it was widespread and there was a great deal of harm , ” LaBelle said .
“ Youth who were subjected to penetrative assaults qualify for the most .
Those who were subjected to sexual harassment , touching , will receive less because the severity of the injuries was different.
” Also , teens who were kept in solitary confinement — which has recently been classified as torture that can make children more dangerous — are eligible to receive part of the settlement as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to incarcerate children convicted of certain crimes under Michigan law , “ what they didn ’ t have to do ” is subject children to sexual assaults by both staff and incarcerated adults , LaBelle said .
“ What they didn ’ t have to do is put children in solitary confinement for months on end .
So I think that also the fact that they paid $ 80 million in damages … means that they have to recognize the kind of harm they did.
” According to The Appeal , in addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Department of Corrections to take steps to improve safety for children in adult facilities .
According to a packet explaining the settlement to plaintiffs provided to The Appeal by LaBelle , those steps include the creation of a Youthful Offender Policy directive “ to improve conditions for any youthful offender in the custody of the MDOC , enhance a culture of humane treatment , eliminate the risk that a youth will be subject to sexual abuse by staff or adult prisoners , and work toward eliminating the use of segregation or isolation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a review of the use of force against incarcerated children ; reporting and tracking of complaints of sexual abuse , harassment , and retaliation ; and elimination of the previous requirement that incarcerated children file a grievance or exhaust administrative remedies before being able to file complaints under the Prison Rape Elimination Act .
Despite the push to reform Michigan ’ s problem of child rape in prison , LaBelle says little is being done .
“ I ’ ve heard better language from them , but … I ’ m not sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet to address issues of criminal justice and youth justice with this administration , ” LaBelle said .

A massive lawsuit representing over 1,000 children who were held and sexually abused in the Michigan corrections system was recently settled as state officials agreed to pay $80 million to the victims.
The lawsuit began in 2013 and has been an uphill battle for the plaintiffs as the state fought them every step of the way.
The massive payout comes after hundreds of children came forward with claims that they were sexually assaulted and harassed by corrections officers as well as incarcerated adults while in the state’s care in detention centers across the state.
Despite the size of the settlement, he Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) director and a spokesperson for the current attorney general cited the costs of litigation as their reason for settling — not guilt.
“We’ve got to look at the length of time that we’ve been dealing with this and the amount of resources that frankly will be spent continuing to draw this out,” Heidi Washington, the MDOC director, said during the call.
Through a statement read by her spokesperson, Attorney General Dana Nessel said that although her office had “vigorously defended against this lawsuit and has exhausted every single legal argument over the years, in the end, it was clear that continuing to engage in protracted litigation was not in the best interest of the people of this state.”
In response to the state’s inability to believe the hundreds of alleged victims, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, Deborah LaBelle said the “state took dozens of depositions of youth who under oath told consistent and compelling reports of sexual assaults in addition to many many more, who asked for help they never received and most of whose reports of rape were never even investigated.”
“The only way to assert the [defendants] could not corroborate is to take the unsupported position that scores of young people were lying about the sexual assaults that happened to them in Michigan’s prisons when they were placed, without supervision, in cells and units with adults when they were 15, 16, and 17 years old. To simply deny the credible and consistent reports of these young sexual abuse survivors is to retraumatize them.”
Though she stopped short of admitting guilt, Nessel did concede that the state has made significant changes since 2013 during former Attorney General Bill Schuette’s term, in order to combat the child sex abuse.
“I believe prisoners are entitled to be treated with respect and basic human dignity,” Nessel said, referring to Heidi Washington, who became prisons director after the lawsuit was filed.
“I know MDOC has made significant strides under the leadership of Director Washington and that the past seven years of litigation do not reflect the values of her administration or the current reality of life inside Michigan’s prison system.”
“I would agree that during that the trajectory of this case the department has responded to the allegations and improved conditions,” said LaBelle.
According to the Associated Press, LaBelle has formed a committee to determine how the money will be paid out to the victims which is a pool of around 1,000 current and former incarcerated children.
She explained that the children who received the worst abuse, like rape, will receive more of the settlement.
“We have heard from hundreds, so we know it was widespread and there was a great deal of harm,” LaBelle said.
“Youth who were subjected to penetrative assaults qualify for the most. Those who were subjected to sexual harassment, touching, will receive less because the severity of the injuries was different.”
Also, teens who were kept in solitary confinement — which has recently been classified as torture that can make children more dangerous — are eligible to receive part of the settlement as well.
Although the department was required to incarcerate children convicted of certain crimes under Michigan law, “what they didn’t have to do” is subject children to sexual assaults by both staff and incarcerated adults, LaBelle said.
“What they didn’t have to do is put children in solitary confinement for months on end. So I think that also the fact that they paid $80 million in damages … means that they have to recognize the kind of harm they did.”
According to The Appeal, in addition to monetary relief, the settlement requires the Department of Corrections to take steps to improve safety for children in adult facilities.
According to a packet explaining the settlement to plaintiffs provided to The Appeal by LaBelle, those steps include the creation of a Youthful Offender Policy directive “to improve conditions for any youthful offender in the custody of the MDOC, enhance a culture of humane treatment, eliminate the risk that a youth will be subject to sexual abuse by staff or adult prisoners, and work toward eliminating the use of segregation or isolation of youth.”
Other requirements will include a review of the use of force against incarcerated children; reporting and tracking of complaints of sexual abuse, harassment, and retaliation; and elimination of the previous requirement that incarcerated children file a grievance or exhaust administrative remedies before being able to file complaints under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Despite the push to reform Michigan’s problem of child rape in prison, LaBelle says little is being done.
“I’ve heard better language from them, but … I’m not sure that we have the kind of commitment yet to address issues of criminal justice and youth justice with this administration,” LaBelle said.
By Matt Agorist, Guest writer


humansarefree--2020-03-17--Ron Paul: “The Coronavirus Hoax”

Ron Paul: “The Coronavirus Hoax”

Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them .
After 9/11 , for example , Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act ’ s hollow promises of security .
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and , as Politico writes , “ stop and seize any plane , train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.
” He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state .
State and local authoritarians love panic as well .
The mayor of Champaign , Illinois , signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas , water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state .
The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci , head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health .
Fauci is all over the media , serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic .
He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu , a claim without any scientific basis .
On Face the Nation , Fauci @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already tanking economy by stating , “ Right now , personally , myself , I wouldn ’ t go to a restaurant.
” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days .
Over what ?
A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States ?
By contrast , tuberculosis , an old disease not much discussed these days , killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017 .
Where ’ s the panic over this ?
If anything , what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are demanding will likely make the disease worse .
The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity .
The panic produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the disease , as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper .
The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community .
The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus !
Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies ?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “ pandemic ” could be a big hoax , with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic .
That is not to say the disease is harmless .
Without question people will die from coronavirus .
Those in vulnerable categories should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exposure .
But we have seen this movie before .
Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms .
When the “ threat ” is over , however , they never give us our freedoms back .

by Ron Paul
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them.
After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.” He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state.
State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas, water, or electricity to any citizen.
The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state.
The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis.
On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating, “Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant.” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days.
Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States?
By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?
If anything, what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers are demanding will likely make the disease worse.
The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity.
The panic produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the disease, as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper.
The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community.
The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus!
Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure.
But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back.
Well, what do we have here? pic.twitter.com/6HKGEsRDSK — ✭ Wayne Dupree 😷 (@WayneDupreeShow) April 21, 2020
Copyright © 2020 by RonPaul Institute.


humansarefree--2020-03-17--The First Documented Alien Abduction: Greys from Zeta Reticuli

The first abduction on record , this case was discovered almost by accident .
On September 19 , 1961 , Betty and Barney Hill were driving home on a road in rural New Hampshire .
They were a racially mixed couple : Barney was black and Betty is white .
The only reason I mention this is because in 1961 race relations were tense at best and a couple in such an environment would be less likely to want to draw any undue attention to themselves .
However , because a physician initially thought it might be the underlying cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , their incredible story came to light .
As they drove down the highway , a disk-shaped object flew over the car .
It stopped and hovered two hundred yards away from them .
They were avid birdwatchers , so they had binoculars with them in the car .
Imagine Barney ’ s shock when he got out of the car and saw through the binoculars that there were creatures in the portholes of the disk , looking back at him !
Basically , he panicked !
He ran back to the car @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they started feeling a little strange and noticed they could not remember the previous thirty miles they had just driven ; also , their watches were no longer running , they had stopped cold .
Over the next several weeks Betty began to have weird dreams and the couple began to recall other odd things that had occurred on their road trip .
Looking back , they realized their trip had taken two hours longer than normal and they couldn ’ t figure out why .
This later became the first recorded case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no recollection of what they did during this two-hour period of missing time .
The next day the Hills found twelve bright circles about the size of a half-dollar on their car .
When they placed a compass over the circles the needle spun wildly .
Barney began to exhibit a number of physical symptoms .
A doctor attributed them to stress since there seemed to be no other cause .
Barney was next referred to a psychiatrist , Dr. Benjamin Simon , in an effort to find the cause of the symptoms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barney agreed to undergo hypnosis .
After the first session , the psychiatrist decided that both Barney and Betty should be treated and hypnotized separately .
The independent sessions were set up so that neither Betty nor Barney would have any conscious recollection of what they independently said .
This was done so that neither could discuss with the other what they had told Dr. Simon .
Each session was tape recorded .
Over a period of several months , Betty and Barney told Dr. Simon a story of what really happened that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was an understatement , but both of them were telling the exact same story each from their own respective vantage point .
That is , each story corroborated the other .
They had been picked up by alien beings and taken aboard a space craft !
They were both subjected to a number of medical procedures .
Barney had sperm extracted and Betty recalled being told that the beings were performing a pregnancy test on her .
Betty had a long needle inserted into her navel .
This was decades before amniocentesis was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most remarkable things about the Hill case , besides being the first abduction case on medical record , was a star map .
The aliens had shown Betty a map consisting of stars and lines drawn between the stars .
Betty was later able to draw the map while under hypnosis .
They then asked her if she knew where her planet was on the map .
When she was unable to tell them , they abruptly ended the conversation without telling her any more .
Though Barney died in 1969 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hill ’ s case .
Entitled The UFO Incident , it starred James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons as Betty and Barney Hill .
The Little Gray Guys are Zetas Marjorie Fish , an astronomer , took Betty ’ s map and began to convert it into a three-dimensional model to see if she could find out where these beings were from .
When a new catalog of stars , the Gliese Catalog , was released she was able to come up with a final version that seemed to make sense .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between the stars .
The map indicated that the beings were from a planet circling a twin ( sun ) star system , Zeta Reticuli , Which consists of two stars , Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 .
Zeta Reticuli is very close to us in terms of space distance .
The planet is only 37 light years away ( 220 trillion miles ) .
The two stars are also a billion years older than our sun .
Fish ’ s model was later confirmed by a computer .
That is why the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are sometimes also known as Zetas .
Some contactees were told in the 1960s that intelligent life is more often found in twin star systems , and that our solar system is unusual since we have life with only one sun .
MIT astronomer Fred Rasio says , “ You get the impression that most solar systems are not like ours.
” On August 19 , 1998 , the front page of the Los Angeles Times featured an article about leading astronomer Andrea Ghez .
Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii ( the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) Ghez determined and declared that almost all new stars in the universe are , in fact , born as twins .
Betty Hill had been given additional information by her alien companions .
They told her that the lines drawn between the stars were trade routes .
The thick lines were busy trade routes , the thinner lines were routes used less often .
Dotted lines represented occasional expeditions .

The first abduction on record, this case was discovered almost by accident. On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home on a road in rural New Hampshire.
They were a racially mixed couple: Barney was black and Betty is white. The only reason I mention this is because in 1961 race relations were tense at best and a couple in such an environment would be less likely to want to draw any undue attention to themselves.
However, because a physician initially thought it might be the underlying cause for emotional problems the couple later developed, their incredible story came to light.
As they drove down the highway, a disk-shaped object flew over the car. It stopped and hovered two hundred yards away from them. They were avid birdwatchers, so they had binoculars with them in the car.
Imagine Barney’s shock when he got out of the car and saw through the binoculars that there were creatures in the portholes of the disk, looking back at him!
Basically, he panicked! He ran back to the car and the two sped off.
Later they started feeling a little strange and noticed they could not remember the previous thirty miles they had just driven; also, their watches were no longer running, they had stopped cold.
Missing Time
Over the next several weeks Betty began to have weird dreams and the couple began to recall other odd things that had occurred on their road trip.
Looking back, they realized their trip had taken two hours longer than normal and they couldn’t figure out why. This later became the first recorded case of missing time. They also had no recollection of what they did during this two-hour period of missing time.
Physical Evidence
The next day the Hills found twelve bright circles about the size of a half-dollar on their car. When they placed a compass over the circles the needle spun wildly.
Better See a Doctor
Barney began to exhibit a number of physical symptoms. A doctor attributed them to stress since there seemed to be no other cause. Barney was next referred to a psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon, in an effort to find the cause of the symptoms.
As part of his treatment, Barney agreed to undergo hypnosis. After the first session, the psychiatrist decided that both Barney and Betty should be treated and hypnotized separately.
The independent sessions were set up so that neither Betty nor Barney would have any conscious recollection of what they independently said. This was done so that neither could discuss with the other what they had told Dr. Simon. Each session was tape recorded.
What Really Happened!
Over a period of several months, Betty and Barney told Dr. Simon a story of what really happened that night. To say it was startling was an understatement, but both of them were telling the exact same story each from their own respective vantage point.
That is, each story corroborated the other. They had been picked up by alien beings and taken aboard a space craft! They were both subjected to a number of medical procedures.
Barney had sperm extracted and Betty recalled being told that the beings were performing a pregnancy test on her. Betty had a long needle inserted into her navel. This was decades before amniocentesis was developed by earth scientists.
The Star Map!
One of the most remarkable things about the Hill case, besides being the first abduction case on medical record, was a star map. The aliens had shown Betty a map consisting of stars and lines drawn between the stars.
Betty was later able to draw the map while under hypnosis. They then asked her if she knew where her planet was on the map. When she was unable to tell them, they abruptly ended the conversation without telling her any more.
Movie of the Week
Though Barney died in 1969, NBC made a movie out of the Hill’s case. Entitled The UFO Incident, it starred James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons as Betty and Barney Hill.
The Little Gray Guys are Zetas
Marjorie Fish, an astronomer, took Betty’s map and began to convert it into a three-dimensional model to see if she could find out where these beings were from.
When a new catalog of stars, the Gliese Catalog, was released she was able to come up with a final version that seemed to make sense.
The catalog allowed Fish to assign accurate distances between the stars. The map indicated that the beings were from a planet circling a twin (sun) star system, Zeta Reticuli, Which consists of two stars, Zeta 1 and Zeta 2.
Zeta Reticuli is very close to us in terms of space distance. The planet is only 37 light years away (220 trillion miles). The two stars are also a billion years older than our sun.
Fish’s model was later confirmed by a computer. That is why the aliens we often call little gray guys are sometimes also known as Zetas.
Trade Routes
Some contactees were told in the 1960s that intelligent life is more often found in twin star systems, and that our solar system is unusual since we have life with only one sun.
MIT astronomer Fred Rasio says, “You get the impression that most solar systems are not like ours.”
On August 19, 1998, the front page of the Los Angeles Times featured an article about leading astronomer Andrea Ghez.
Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii (the largest of its kind in the world) Ghez determined and declared that almost all new stars in the universe are, in fact, born as twins.
Betty Hill had been given additional information by her alien companions. They told her that the lines drawn between the stars were trade routes.
The thick lines were busy trade routes, the thinner lines were routes used less often. Dotted lines represented occasional expeditions.
Source: Aliens-everything-you-want-to-know.com


humansarefree--2020-03-17--“Martial Law” Being Seen In U.S. and Europe Over COVID-19 Is The Bigger Threat

NYC ’ s governor Andrew Cuomo wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times begging President U.S. Donald Trump to enact martial law .
Meanwhile , other states have already taken shocking martial law measures without an official declaration , showing our potential unconstitutional future under fears of the coronavirus that likely won ’ t go away after the pandemic has subsided .
All over the U.S. there seems be this new trend — military and police now acting as if we are under martial law without a formal declaration of such .
Yet , here we have NYC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essentially declare martial law by utilizing the military for the COVID-19 pandemic and federalize shutdowns .
“ Slowing the spread of coronavirus is a function of testing and reducing the density of public gatherings .
“ So first , Mr. President , you must stop the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from overregulating the testing process , and authorize states to certify a wider array of testing labs and methods , ” Cuomo writes .
Cuomo goes on to express that Trump should utilize the Army Corps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ temporary medical centers .
States can not build more hospitals , acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough .
At this point , our best hope is to utilize the Army Corps of Engineers to leverage its expertise , equipment and people power to retrofit and equip existing facilities — like military bases or college dormitories — to serve as temporary medical centers .
Then we can designate existing hospital beds for the acutely ill. To sum up what Trump can do to defend against the spread of the coronavirus Cuomo writes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ federalize shutdowns and task the Army Corps of Engineers to expand hospital capacity.
” While building hospital beds in existing facilities and using the military to do so isn ’ t a bad idea , forced quarantines would be expanding the police state .
NYC hasn ’ t yet gone into “ martial law mode , ” but other states have basically enacted it in the form of the National Guard being deployed in heavily infected areas .
According to reports , the National Guard has been deployed so far to six states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beyond that , there are reports that Kentucky has a patient who refused to self isolate .
As a result , the state took things into their own hands by suspending his rights and police are now guarding him armed 24/7 at his house .
If that ’ s not enough , there was a video posted online of New Orleans ’ police in several cop cars demanding citizens leave the streets and disperse immediately .
Then there is the curfew in New Jersey for residents and forced closure of restaurants and certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Ohio , Illinois , Massachusetts and Washington , with more following suit .
“ Effective tonight , all other non-essential retail , recreational , and entertainment businesses MUST CLOSE after 8:00 PM , ” said Murphy .
“ All non-essential and non-emergency travel in New Jersey is strongly discouraged between the hours of 8:00 PM and 5:00 AM This will remain in effect for the foreseeable future .
We want everyone to be home –- and not out , ” he added .
What ’ s more is the U.S. isn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Italy have declared a nationwide lockdown ; in other words , imposing martial law on its citizens , as well as France which followed suit , deploying 100,000 police to enforce a national quarantine in the country .
As this pandemic continues to spread we can expect more quarantines and police state actions across the world in other countries .
Back in the U.S. gun sales are skyrocketing in several states as fear of uncertainty from the virus and stock market collapse takes over American citizens seeking protection in the form of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yes , everywhere you look the police state is increasing all in the name of the coronavirus , arguably one of the world ’ s most infectious diseases in history .
Still , these measures being put into place now will likely remain long after the pandemic has stopped and the virus has run its course .
That ’ s the everlasting effect that COVID-19 will have on our society .
The coronavirus is now classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization , and it may very well be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around the world .
But it ’ s the government ’ s response that should worry us all more in the long run .

NYC’s governor Andrew Cuomo wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times begging President U.S. Donald Trump to enact martial law.
Meanwhile, other states have already taken shocking martial law measures without an official declaration, showing our potential unconstitutional future under fears of the coronavirus that likely won’t go away after the pandemic has subsided.
All over the U.S. there seems be this new trend — military and police now acting as if we are under martial law without a formal declaration of such.
Yet, here we have NYC’s governor Cuomo begging Trump to essentially declare martial law by utilizing the military for the COVID-19 pandemic and federalize shutdowns.
“Slowing the spread of coronavirus is a function of testing and reducing the density of public gatherings.
“So first, Mr. President, you must stop the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from overregulating the testing process, and authorize states to certify a wider array of testing labs and methods,” Cuomo writes.
Cuomo goes on to express that Trump should utilize the Army Corps of Engineers to transform existing facilities into temporary medical centers.
States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough.
At this point, our best hope is to utilize the Army Corps of Engineers to leverage its expertise, equipment and people power to retrofit and equip existing facilities — like military bases or college dormitories — to serve as temporary medical centers.
Then we can designate existing hospital beds for the acutely ill.
To sum up what Trump can do to defend against the spread of the coronavirus Cuomo writes,
“In short: Localize testing, federalize shutdowns and task the Army Corps of Engineers to expand hospital capacity.”
While building hospital beds in existing facilities and using the military to do so isn’t a bad idea, forced quarantines would be expanding the police state.
NYC hasn’t yet gone into “martial law mode,” but other states have basically enacted it in the form of the National Guard being deployed in heavily infected areas.
According to reports, the National Guard has been deployed so far to six states with many more expected to follow.
Beyond that, there are reports that Kentucky has a patient who refused to self isolate.
As a result, the state took things into their own hands by suspending his rights and police are now guarding him armed 24/7 at his house.
If that’s not enough, there was a video posted online of New Orleans’ police in several cop cars demanding citizens leave the streets and disperse immediately.
🚔 “Your actions are jeopardizing public health.” – New Orleans Police as they clear crowds from Bourbon Street. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/Q2T0M5WrcC — Brantly Keiek (@BrantlyWx) March 16, 2020
Then there is the curfew in New Jersey for residents and forced closure of restaurants and certain stores in other states like — California, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, with more following suit.
“Effective tonight, all other non-essential retail, recreational, and entertainment businesses MUST CLOSE after 8:00 PM,” said Murphy.
“All non-essential and non-emergency travel in New Jersey is strongly discouraged between the hours of 8:00 PM and 5:00 AM This will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. We want everyone to be home –- and not out,” he added.
What’s more is the U.S. isn’t the only one.
The UK and Italy have declared a nationwide lockdown; in other words, imposing martial law on its citizens, as well as France which followed suit, deploying 100,000 police to enforce a national quarantine in the country.
As this pandemic continues to spread we can expect more quarantines and police state actions across the world in other countries.
Back in the U.S. gun sales are skyrocketing in several states as fear of uncertainty from the virus and stock market collapse takes over American citizens seeking protection in the form of arming themselves, as LA Times reported.
Yes, everywhere you look the police state is increasing all in the name of the coronavirus, arguably one of the world’s most infectious diseases in history.
Still, these measures being put into place now will likely remain long after the pandemic has stopped and the virus has run its course. That’s the everlasting effect that COVID-19 will have on our society.
The coronavirus is now classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and it may very well be a legitimate health concern for all of us around the world. But it’s the government’s response that should worry us all more in the long run.
By Aaron Kesel, Guest writer


humansarefree--2020-03-18--Detect, Deter and Annihilate: How the Police State Will Deal with a Coronavirus Outbreak

“ Fear is a primitive impulse , brainless as hunger , and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears , the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection .
“ In the current crop of zombie stories , the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality , a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it ’ s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.
” — Terrence Rafferty , New York Times What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government ’ s plans for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on , and I ’ ll tell you .
The zombie narrative was popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead , in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden , post-apocalyptic world where they ’ re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans .
For a while there , zombies could be found lurking around every corner : wreaking havoc at gun shows , battling corsets in movies such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , and running for their lives in 5K charity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to our fears and paranoia , while allowing us to “ envision how we and our own would thrive if everything went to hell and we lost all our societal supports.
” Yet as journalist Syreeta McFadden points out , while dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties , now they reflect our reality , mirroring how we as a nation view the world around us , how we as citizens view each other , and most of all how our government views us .
Indeed , the U.S. government has spent a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years using zombies as the models for a variety of crisis scenarios not too dissimilar from what we are currently experiencing .
For instance , back in 2015 , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit “ that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door.
” The CDC , in conjunction with the Dept .
of Defense , even used zombies to put government agents through their paces in mock military drills @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s spinoff of its popular Walking Dead series — drove this point home by dialing back the clock to when the zombie outbreak first appears and setting viewers down in the midst of societal unrest not unlike our own experiences of recent years ( “ a bunch of weird incidents , police protests , riots , and … rapid social entropy ” ) .
Then , as Forbes reports , “ the military showed up and we fast-forwarded into an ad hoc police state with no glimpse at what was happening in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hapless survivors.
” Forbes found Fear ’ s quick shift into a police state to be far-fetched , but anyone who has been paying attention in recent years knows that the groundwork was laid long ago for the government — i.e.
, the military — to intervene and lock down the nation in the event of a national disaster .
We ’ re seeing this play out now as the coronavirus contagion spreads .
What we have yet to experience ( although it may only be a matter of time ) is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law could pose a greater threat to our safety ( and our freedoms ) than any virus .
As the Atlantic noted about Fear the Walking Dead : “ The villains aren ’ t the zombies , who rarely appear , but the U.S. military , who sweep into an L.A. suburb to quarantine the survivors .
Zombies are , after all , a recognizable threat—but Fear plumbs drama and horror from the betrayal by institutions designed to keep people safe.
” Indeed , zombie fiction perfectly embodies the government ’ s paranoia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need to be monitored , tracked , surveilled , sequestered , deterred , vanquished and rendered impotent .
Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications , track our movements , criminalize our every action , treat us like suspects , and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons ?
For years now , the government has been carrying out military training drills with zombies as the enemy .
In 2011 , the DOD created a 31-page instruction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a terrorist attack carried out by zombie forces .
In 2012 , the CDC released a guide for surviving a zombie plague .
That was followed by training drills for members of the military , police officers and first responders .
Coinciding with Halloween 2012 , a five-day national conference was put on by the HALO Corp. in San Diego for more than 1,000 first responders , military personnel and law enforcement types .
It included workshops produced by a Hollywood-affiliated firm in … overcoming a zombie invasion .
Actors were made up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Department of Homeland Security even paid the $ 1,000 entry fees for an unknown number of participants… “ Zombie disaster ” drills were held in October 2012 and ’ 13 at California ’ s Sutter Roseville Medical Center .
The exercises allowed medical center staff “ to test response to a deadly infectious disease , a mass-casualty event , terrorism event and security procedures ” … [ In October 2014 ] , REI outdoor-gear stores in Soho and around the country are to hold free classes in zombie preparedness , which the stores @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The zombie exercises appeared to be kitschy and fun — government agents running around trying to put down a zombie rebellion — but what if the zombies in the exercises were us , the citizenry , viewed by those in power as mindless , voracious , zombie hordes ?
Consider this : the government started playing around with the idea of using zombies as stand-ins for enemy combatants in its training drills right around the time the Army War College issued its 2008 report , warning that an economic crisis in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that would require the military to intervene and restore order .
That same year , it was revealed that the government had amassed more than 8 million names of Americans considered a threat to national security , to be used “ by the military in the event of a national catastrophe , a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law.
” The program ’ s name , Main Core , refers to the fact that it contains “ copies of the ‘ main core ’ or essence of each item @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.
” Also in 2008 , the Pentagon launched the Minerva Initiative , a $ 75 million military-driven research project focused on studying social behavior in order to determine how best to cope with mass civil disobedience or uprisings .
The Minerva Initiative has funded projects such as “ Who Does Not Become a Terrorist , and Why ?
” which “ conflates peaceful activists with ‘ supporters of political violence ’ who are different from terrorists only in that they do not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In 2009 , the Dept .
of Homeland Security issued its reports on Rightwing and Leftwing Extremism , in which the terms “ extremist ” and “ terrorist ” were used interchangeably to describe citizens they perceived to be disgruntled or anti-government .
Meanwhile , a government campaign was underway to spy on Americans ’ mail , email and cell phone communications .
News reports indicate that the U.S .
Postal Service has handled more than 150,000 requests by federal and state law enforcement agencies to monitor Americans ’ mail , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sent through the postal system .
Fast forward a few years more and local police were being transformed into extensions of the military , taught to view members of their community as suspects , trained to shoot first and ask questions later , and equipped with all of the technology and weaponry of a soldier on a battlefield .
The Obama administration then hired a domestic terrorism czar whose job is to focus on anti-government American “ extremists ” who have been designated a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s so-called war on right-wing extremism , the Obama administration agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program , which is training local police agencies across America in how to identify , fight and prevent extremism .
Nothing has changed for the better under the Trump Administration .
Those who believe in and exercise their rights under the Constitution ( namely , the right to speak freely , worship freely , associate with like-minded individuals who share their political views , criticize the government , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before being questioned or searched , or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government , racist , bigoted , anarchic or sovereign ) , continue to be promoted to the top of the government ’ s terrorism watch list .
“ We the people ” or , more appropriately , “ we the zombies ” are the enemy in the eyes of the government .
This coronavirus merely ups the ante .
So when presented with the Defense Department ’ s battle plan for defeating an army of the walking dead , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that a taxpayer-funded government bureaucrat actually took the time to research and write about vegetarian zombies , evil magic zombies , chicken zombies , space zombies , bio-engineered weaponized zombies , radiation zombies , symbiant-induced zombies , and pathogenic zombies .
However , in an age of extreme government paranoia , this is no laughing matter .
The DOD ’ s strategy for dealing with a zombie uprising , outlined in “ CONOP 8888 , ” is for all intents and purposes a training manual for the government in how to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least an uprising of individuals “ infected ” with a dangerous disease or dangerous ideas about freedom .
Rest assured that the tactics and difficulties outlined in the “ fictional training scenario ” are all too real , beginning with martial law .
As the DOD training manual states : “ zombies [ stand-ins for “ we the people ” ] are horribly dangerous to all human life and zombie infections have the potential to seriously undermine national security and economic activities that sustain our way of life .
Therefore having a population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at risk from their malign influence is vital to U.S. and Allied national interests.
” So how does the military plan to put down a zombie ( a.k.a .
citizen ) uprising ?
The strategy manual outlines five phases necessary for a counter-offensive : shape , deter , seize initiative , dominate , stabilize and restore civil authority .
Here are a few details : Phase 0 ( Shape ) : Conduct general zombie awareness training .
Monitor increased threats ( i.e.
, surveillance ) .
Carry out military drills .
Synchronize contingency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anticipate and prepare for a breakdown in law and order .
Phase 1 ( Deter ) : Recognize that zombies can not be deterred or reasoned with .
Carry out training drills to discourage other countries from developing or deploying attack zombies and publicly reinforce the government ’ s ability to combat a zombie threat .
Initiate intelligence sharing between federal and state agencies .
Assist the Dept .
of Homeland Security in identifying or discouraging immigrants from areas where zombie-related diseases originate .
Phase 2 ( Seize initiative ) : Recall all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fortify all military outposts .
Deploy air and ground forces for at least 35 days .
Carry out confidence-building measures with nuclear-armed peers such as Russia and China to ensure they do not misinterpret the government ’ s zombie countermeasures as preparations for war .
Establish quarantine zones .
Distribute explosion-resistant protective equipment .
Place the military on red alert .
Begin limited scale military operations to combat zombie threats .
Carry out combat operations against zombie populations within the United States that were “ previously ” U.S. citizens .
Phase 3 ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bases for 30 days .
Shelter all essential government personnel for at least 40 days .
Equip all government agents with military protective gear .
Issue orders for military to kill all non-human life on sight .
Initiate bomber and missile strikes against targeted sources of zombie infection , including the infrastructure .
Burn all zombie corpses .
Deploy military to lock down the beaches and waterways .
Phase 4 ( Stabilize ) : Send out recon teams to check for remaining threats and survey the status of basic services ( water , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and lines of communication ) .
Execute a counter-zombie ISR plan to ID holdout pockets of zombie resistance .
Use all military resources to target any remaining regions of zombie holdouts and influence .
Continue all actions from the Dominate phase .
Phase 5 ( Restore civil authority ) : Deploy military personnel to assist any surviving civil authorities in disaster zones .
Reconstitute combat capabilities at various military bases .
Prepare to redeploy military forces to attack surviving zombie holdouts .
Restore basic services in disaster areas .
As I point out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The War on the American People , if there is any lesson to be learned , it is simply this : whether the threat to national security comes in the form of imaginary zombies , actual terrorists , American citizens infected with the coronavirus , or disgruntled American citizens infected with dangerous ideas about freedom , the government ’ s response to such threats remains the same : detect , deter and annihilate .
By John W. Whitehead , constitutional attorney and author of Battlefield America : The War on the American People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of The Rutherford Institute .

“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
“In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it’s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.”— Terrence Rafferty, New York Times
What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government’s plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak?
Read on, and I’ll tell you.
The zombie narrative was popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans.
For a while there, zombies could be found lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc at gun shows, battling corsets in movies such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and running for their lives in 5K charity races.
Understandably, zombie fiction plays to our fears and paranoia, while allowing us to “envision how we and our own would thrive if everything went to hell and we lost all our societal supports.”
Yet as journalist Syreeta McFadden points out, while dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties, now they reflect our reality, mirroring how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.
Indeed, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time and energy in recent years using zombies as the models for a variety of crisis scenarios not too dissimilar from what we are currently experiencing.
For instance, back in 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit “that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door.”
The CDC, in conjunction with the Dept. of Defense, even used zombies to put government agents through their paces in mock military drills.
Fear the Walking Dead — AMC’s spinoff of its popular Walking Dead series — drove this point home by dialing back the clock to when the zombie outbreak first appears and setting viewers down in the midst of societal unrest not unlike our own experiences of recent years (“a bunch of weird incidents, police protests, riots, and … rapid social entropy”).
Then, as Forbes reports, “the military showed up and we fast-forwarded into an ad hoc police state with no glimpse at what was happening in the world around our main cast of hapless survivors.”
Forbes found Fear’s quick shift into a police state to be far-fetched, but anyone who has been paying attention in recent years knows that the groundwork was laid long ago for the government — i.e., the military — to intervene and lock down the nation in the event of a national disaster.
We’re seeing this play out now as the coronavirus contagion spreads.
What we have yet to experience (although it may only be a matter of time) is that the government through the imposition of martial law could pose a greater threat to our safety (and our freedoms) than any virus.
As the Atlantic noted about Fear the Walking Dead:
“The villains aren’t the zombies, who rarely appear, but the U.S. military, who sweep into an L.A. suburb to quarantine the survivors. Zombies are, after all, a recognizable threat—but Fear plumbs drama and horror from the betrayal by institutions designed to keep people safe.”
Indeed, zombie fiction perfectly embodies the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.
Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?
For years now, the government has been carrying out military training drills with zombies as the enemy.
In 2011, the DOD created a 31-page instruction manual for how to protect America from a terrorist attack carried out by zombie forces.
In 2012, the CDC released a guide for surviving a zombie plague. That was followed by training drills for members of the military, police officers and first responders.
As journalist Andrea Peyser reports:
Coinciding with Halloween 2012, a five-day national conference was put on by the HALO Corp. in San Diego for more than 1,000 first responders, military personnel and law enforcement types.
It included workshops produced by a Hollywood-affiliated firm in … overcoming a zombie invasion. Actors were made up to look like flesh-chomping monsters. The Department of Homeland Security even paid the $1,000 entry fees for an unknown number of participants…
“Zombie disaster” drills were held in October 2012 and ’13 at California’s Sutter Roseville Medical Center. The exercises allowed medical center staff “to test response to a deadly infectious disease, a mass-casualty event, terrorism event and security procedures”…
[In October 2014], REI outdoor-gear stores in Soho and around the country are to hold free classes in zombie preparedness, which the stores have been providing for about three years.
The zombie exercises appeared to be kitschy and fun — government agents running around trying to put down a zombie rebellion — but what if the zombies in the exercises were us, the citizenry, viewed by those in power as mindless, voracious, zombie hordes?
Consider this: the government started playing around with the idea of using zombies as stand-ins for enemy combatants in its training drills right around the time the Army War College issued its 2008 report, warning that an economic crisis in the U.S. could lead to massive civil unrest that would require the military to intervene and restore order.
That same year, it was revealed that the government had amassed more than 8 million names of Americans considered a threat to national security, to be used “by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law.”
The program’s name, Main Core, refers to the fact that it contains “copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.”
Also in 2008, the Pentagon launched the Minerva Initiative, a $75 million military-driven research project focused on studying social behavior in order to determine how best to cope with mass civil disobedience or uprisings.
The Minerva Initiative has funded projects such as “Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?” which “conflates peaceful activists with ‘supporters of political violence’ who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on ‘armed militancy’ themselves.”
In 2009, the Dept. of Homeland Security issued its reports on Rightwing and Leftwing Extremism, in which the terms “extremist” and “terrorist” were used interchangeably to describe citizens they perceived to be disgruntled or anti-government.
Meanwhile, a government campaign was underway to spy on Americans’ mail, email and cell phone communications. News reports indicate that the U.S. Postal Service has handled more than 150,000 requests by federal and state law enforcement agencies to monitor Americans’ mail, in addition to photographing every piece of mail sent through the postal system.
Fast forward a few years more and local police were being transformed into extensions of the military, taught to view members of their community as suspects, trained to shoot first and ask questions later, and equipped with all of the technology and weaponry of a soldier on a battlefield.
The Obama administration then hired a domestic terrorism czar whose job is to focus on anti-government American “extremists” who have been designated a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda.
As part of the government’s so-called war on right-wing extremism, the Obama administration agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program, which is training local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism.
Nothing has changed for the better under the Trump Administration.
Those who believe in and exercise their rights under the Constitution (namely, the right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share their political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), continue to be promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.
“We the people” or, more appropriately, “we the zombies” are the enemy in the eyes of the government. This coronavirus merely ups the ante.
So when presented with the Defense Department’s battle plan for defeating an army of the walking dead, you might find yourself tempted to giggle over the fact that a taxpayer-funded government bureaucrat actually took the time to research and write about vegetarian zombies, evil magic zombies, chicken zombies, space zombies, bio-engineered weaponized zombies, radiation zombies, symbiant-induced zombies, and pathogenic zombies.
However, in an age of extreme government paranoia, this is no laughing matter.
The DOD’s strategy for dealing with a zombie uprising, outlined in “CONOP 8888,” is for all intents and purposes a training manual for the government in how to put down a citizen uprising or at least an uprising of individuals “infected” with a dangerous disease or dangerous ideas about freedom.
Rest assured that the tactics and difficulties outlined in the “fictional training scenario” are all too real, beginning with martial law.
As the DOD training manual states: “zombies [stand-ins for “we the people”] are horribly dangerous to all human life and zombie infections have the potential to seriously undermine national security and economic activities that sustain our way of life. Therefore having a population that is not composed of zombies or at risk from their malign influence is vital to U.S. and Allied national interests.”
So how does the military plan to put down a zombie (a.k.a. citizen) uprising?
The strategy manual outlines five phases necessary for a counter-offensive: shape, deter, seize initiative, dominate, stabilize and restore civil authority. Here are a few details:
Phase 0 (Shape): Conduct general zombie awareness training. Monitor increased threats (i.e., surveillance). Carry out military drills. Synchronize contingency plans between federal and state agencies. Anticipate and prepare for a breakdown in law and order.
Phase 1 (Deter): Recognize that zombies cannot be deterred or reasoned with. Carry out training drills to discourage other countries from developing or deploying attack zombies and publicly reinforce the government’s ability to combat a zombie threat.
Initiate intelligence sharing between federal and state agencies. Assist the Dept. of Homeland Security in identifying or discouraging immigrants from areas where zombie-related diseases originate.
Phase 2 (Seize initiative): Recall all military personal to their duty stations. Fortify all military outposts. Deploy air and ground forces for at least 35 days.
Carry out confidence-building measures with nuclear-armed peers such as Russia and China to ensure they do not misinterpret the government’s zombie countermeasures as preparations for war. Establish quarantine zones. Distribute explosion-resistant protective equipment. Place the military on red alert.
Begin limited scale military operations to combat zombie threats. Carry out combat operations against zombie populations within the United States that were “previously” U.S. citizens.
Phase 3 (Dominate): Lock down all military bases for 30 days. Shelter all essential government personnel for at least 40 days. Equip all government agents with military protective gear. Issue orders for military to kill all non-human life on sight.
Initiate bomber and missile strikes against targeted sources of zombie infection, including the infrastructure. Burn all zombie corpses. Deploy military to lock down the beaches and waterways.
Phase 4 (Stabilize): Send out recon teams to check for remaining threats and survey the status of basic services (water, power, sewage infrastructure, air, and lines of communication).
Execute a counter-zombie ISR plan to ID holdout pockets of zombie resistance. Use all military resources to target any remaining regions of zombie holdouts and influence. Continue all actions from the Dominate phase.
Phase 5 (Restore civil authority): Deploy military personnel to assist any surviving civil authorities in disaster zones.
Reconstitute combat capabilities at various military bases. Prepare to redeploy military forces to attack surviving zombie holdouts. Restore basic services in disaster areas.
Notice the similarities?
Surveillance. Military drills. Awareness training. Militarized police forces. Martial law.
As I point out in my book, Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if there is any lesson to be learned, it is simply this: whether the threat to national security comes in the form of imaginary zombies, actual terrorists, American citizens infected with the coronavirus, or disgruntled American citizens infected with dangerous ideas about freedom, the government’s response to such threats remains the same: detect, deter and annihilate.
By John W. Whitehead, constitutional attorney and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. He is the founder and president of The Rutherford Institute.


humansarefree--2020-03-18--Money is Infinite – Do Nothing, Get Everything

When the bank gives you a few hundred thousand dollars for your mortgage , where does the money come from ?
It used to be that the money came from the deposits of other worker bees .
But today that is an antiquated notion .
Today , the bank simply enters a negative balance in your account .
You now owe them $ 100,000 or much more , plus a massive slice of interest .
This is one of the many ways that banks create money out of thin air .
Governments love doing this as well .
Every year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future taxpayers ( that is , you when you ’ re older , your children and grandchildren , new immigrants , their children , and so on ) , simply by entering millions upon millions of dollars into their spreadsheets , and then spending that money in order to buy votes .
As cynical as all these sounds , the point is that there are massive amounts of money everywhere , and more money is being created in every instant .
And today there is even more money being created in the form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ create a cryptocurrency ( at this writing there are over 2000 cryptos with a market cap of about $ 350 billion ) and many of them are being exchanged for real things in the real world .
Another thing to remember is that money is no longer backed by gold and silver .
Money is no longer even represented by bills and coins .
Instead , money is now mostly a digital currency , a simple series of ones and zeros existing only in the cloud .
And all of this money is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any moment , how many billions of dollars are transferred through the air ?
How many millions of dollars are zipping through your body on their way from customer A to customer B ?
The point is , you are surrounded by an infinity of money at all times .
Now , I understand that unless those ones and zeros are flying into your bank account it doesn ’ t really help you .
But the point is that you are literally bathing in the energy of millions of dollars at any single @ @ @ @ @ @ @ image I would like you to embrace .
Remember this : your consciousness is immersed in a sea of consciousness created by the billions of humans on this planet .
Mostly , this is an unfocused soup of mumbling and grumbling .
But properly focussed consciousness can burn through this quantum soup in order to bring you whatever you want in life .
So properly focussing your consciousness in order to attract a small percentage of the infinite money floating around the world will dramatically improve your wealth in the real world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ available to you is a remarkably easy and effective way to begin to attract and create greater amounts of money in your own life .
There are dozens of books that explain how to do this .
I once helped publish an excellent one myself , and you might be able to read it for free here .
One of my favorites , the one on which the previous few paragraphs are based , is Stuart Wilde ’ s The Trick to Money is Having Some .
Read that if you want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In short , money is not “ real ” .
Money is no longer gold and silver .
Money is no longer even backed by gold and silver .
Money is a pure abstraction .
Money is only worth anything because we have all agreed that money is worth whatever we have agreed to .
And these days , in current year , we have agreed that the digital wealth created out of thin air by banks , governments , and programmers can be used to by “ real ” things .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of energy which can be used in any way you wish to manipulate physical reality .
And since money is energy , and energy is infinite , so money is infinite .
If you can embrace the picture I have tried to paint in relation to money , I would like you to take it waaaay further .
It isn ’ t just money that isn ’ t real .
In truth , nothing is “ real ” .
That is , there is no objective physical reality “ out there ” that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In fact , there are 7+ billion realities , because every person lives in their own subjective universe .
Don ’ t get me wrong .
I ’ m not saying there is no objective reality .
Of course , there is a real reality in which we live .
I know I ’ m delusional , but I ’ m not that delusional .
But our experience of reality is created by our interpretations of reality which are in turn created by every experience we ever have in reality .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and interprets that different experience differently , every person lives in a different reality .
Does that word salad make any sense ?
Not really .
The ancient proverb says it better : “ 20 people crossing a bridge into town are 20 people crossing 20 bridges into 20 towns.
” Science says the same thing in a few more words : ‘ Out there ’ there is no light and no colour , there are only electromagnetic waves .
‘ Out there ’ there is no sound and no music , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pressure .
‘ Out there ’ there is no heat and no cold , there are only moving molecules with more or less mean kinetic energy , and so on .
— Cyberneticist Heinz von Forster , quoted in Mind and Reality , by Wolfram Schommers .
This is no mere metaphor about how the brain perceives ( and possibly helps create ) reality .
Modern science , specifically quantum physics , discovered this over 100 years ago .
The most amazing discovery of the quantum physicists is that there is no matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As we have dissected atoms and delved into the world of subatomic particles , we discovered the atom is not a physical building block of the world , but an energetic field , a pulsating whirl of electricity , mostly “ filled ” with empty space .
Michael Talbot , in his book Mysticism and the New Physics visualized it like this : If a baseball were expanded to the size of the Earth the atoms that comprise it would be seen as roughly the size of cherries… Remarkably , if we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cherry we still would not be able to see the nucleus with the naked eye… With this image , we begin to get a small taste of the strange atomic structures that create our material world .
An atom is so small that it is invisible even when expanded to the human scale of , for example , a cherry .
But we can continue to magnify the atom and still it would appear empty .
We would need to increase the size of a single atom to that of a football stadium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it would still be only the size of a single grain of salt .
The electrons would still be invisible , spinning around this tiny nucleus over a hundred meters away .
Several thousand people would now be able to sit in the empty space of the atom and watch a football game without disturbing the particles of our now immense atom .
If we wanted this crowd of people to be able to see the nucleus of the atom we would have to continue to expand the atom to the size @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nucleus would be about the size of a football , the atom would still consist of almost entirely empty space , and the pea-sized electrons would be spinning around this nucleus 20 miles away .
This is the image James Trefil uses : Imagine putting a bowling ball in the center of a city and then scattering ten peas around the rest of the city and you will have some idea how empty an atom really is .
In terms of actual volume , the nucleus occupies only 0.00000000000000001 % of the atom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is empty space .
The material reality we perceive seems to be an optical illusion created by our senses .
Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans went so far as to say , “ The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine .
Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter ; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter… ” My sentiments exactly .
The atomic world turns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , continually shifting and changing dance of energy .
And so is our everyday world : a pulsating , vibrating , continually shifting and changing dance of energy .
So what creates the seemingly solid world we all experience ?
Consciousness .
It is your brain that collapses the infinite probabilities of the quantum field into the one consistent world which you experience .
Specifically , it is your beliefs that create the reality you experience .
This has been explained much better than I can by dozens of philosophical and psychological writers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get into it here .
If you wish to understand the mechanics by which this happens , by far the most insightful and mind-expanding book on the subject is The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts .
The fundamental theme of that book is “ You create your own reality.
” And it explains exactly how you do that , and how you can create a different physical reality if that is what you choose .
Simply put , you do this by projecting your energy into the “ outside ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aligned with whatever beliefs you have accepted from your parents , friends , society , and everywhere else throughout your life .
Generally , we are all brainwashed into accepting as real whichever “ reality ” we are experiencing .
The good news is that we can change our beliefs at every moment .
We are always free to believe whatever we wish at any time .
So , let ’ s get back to money .
You are free to believe that it is difficult to earn money , that it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is expensive and difficult .
Or you can believe that life is easy , that life is meant to be enjoyed without stress , and that all of your needs are easily met by aligning yourself with the source of all things , the creative loving energy of the intelligent universe .
Abraham Hicks puts it like this : “ You get what you think about , whether you want it or not.
” And you ’ ll say , “ But I think about having more money all the time , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money.
” Right .
You think about having more money because you want more money .
So the universe gives you the experience of wanting money .
The reason you want more money , the reason you dream about having more money all the time , is because your real belief is that you don ’ t have enough money .
Why would you want more money if you already had enough ?
And since your core belief is that you don ’ t have enough money , life says , “ Yes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money.
” And that will be your experience .
You see the nasty trick the mind plays on you ?
So how to flip it ?
How to change your core belief ?
Gratitude .
Appreciation .
That ’ s the magic key .
Appreciate all the good things in your life and more good things will come to you .
Appreciate the money that enters your life , instead of complaining about how little you have , and then mindlessly spending what little you have .
Every time money enters your life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good things are flowing to you , and open yourself up to more good things , to more money .
That ’ s the first step to increasing the abundance in your life .
How to Be Rich There is an even easier way to be rich , one that doesn ’ t require you to attract any more money than you already have .
A way to be rich that doesn ’ t require anything more than a change of perspective .
Simply , realize that you are already rich .
Maybe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planet right now , but definitely compared to 99.9999999999 % of the people who came before you .
If you live in a developed country and have a job , you are probably richer than 99 % of the people alive today .
Even if you are in the bottom 99 % percent , I ’ m sure you have enough food to eat and a safe place to sleep , or you ’ d be dead already .
That ’ s rich .
You certainly wouldn ’ t have access to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some electronic gadget to read this with .
That ’ s a luxury only the rich can afford .
Besides , being rich isn ’ t about surrounding yourself with the latest consumer goods or some ultra-extravagant bullshit .
Being rich is about being able to appreciate life — your life — fully .
Someone once said “ A thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe , ” and that is exactly right .
After all , who is richer ?
A multi-billionaire who works himself into an early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about losing his money , or a person who is happy with his life , no matter how humble , and at peace with the world ?
The answer is obvious .
Learning how to appreciate the simple things in life is true wealth .
And it ’ s the healthiest thing you can possibly do for your soul .
Appreciating the infinite free gifts of the universe .
That ’ s rich .
This is an excerpt from “ Everything Is Infinite : Do Nothing .
Get Everything ” by Andreas Ohrt @

When the bank gives you a few hundred thousand dollars for your mortgage, where does the money come from? It used to be that the money came from the deposits of other worker bees. But today that is an antiquated notion. Today, the bank simply enters a negative balance in your account.
You now owe them $100,000 or much more, plus a massive slice of interest. This is one of the many ways that banks create money out of thin air.
Governments love doing this as well. Every year, they “borrow” money from future taxpayers (that is, you when you’re older, your children and grandchildren, new immigrants, their children, and so on), simply by entering millions upon millions of dollars into their spreadsheets, and then spending that money in order to buy votes.
As cynical as all these sounds, the point is that there are massive amounts of money everywhere, and more money is being created in every instant. And today there is even more money being created in the form of cryptocurrencies.
Any programming genius can create a cryptocurrency (at this writing there are over 2000 cryptos with a market cap of about $350 billion) and many of them are being exchanged for real things in the real world.
Another thing to remember is that money is no longer backed by gold and silver. Money is no longer even represented by bills and coins. Instead, money is now mostly a digital currency, a simple series of ones and zeros existing only in the cloud.
And all of this money is flying around through wireless networks. At any moment, how many billions of dollars are transferred through the air? How many millions of dollars are zipping through your body on their way from customer A to customer B?
The point is, you are surrounded by an infinity of money at all times. Now, I understand that unless those ones and zeros are flying into your bank account it doesn’t really help you.
But the point is that you are literally bathing in the energy of millions of dollars at any single moment. And it’s this image I would like you to embrace.
Remember this: your consciousness is immersed in a sea of consciousness created by the billions of humans on this planet.
Mostly, this is an unfocused soup of mumbling and grumbling. But properly focussed consciousness can burn through this quantum soup in order to bring you whatever you want in life.
So properly focussing your consciousness in order to attract a small percentage of the infinite money floating around the world will dramatically improve your wealth in the real world.
Realizing that infinite amounts of money are available to you is a remarkably easy and effective way to begin to attract and create greater amounts of money in your own life. There are dozens of books that explain how to do this.
I once helped publish an excellent one myself, and you might be able to read it for free here.
One of my favorites, the one on which the previous few paragraphs are based, is Stuart Wilde’s The Trick to Money is Having Some. Read that if you want to change the fatness of your wallet.
In short, money is not “real”. Money is no longer gold and silver. Money is no longer even backed by gold and silver.
Money is a pure abstraction. Money is only worth anything because we have all agreed that money is worth whatever we have agreed to.
And these days, in current year, we have agreed that the digital wealth created out of thin air by banks, governments, and programmers can be used to by “real” things.
These days, money is just another form of energy which can be used in any way you wish to manipulate physical reality. And since money is energy, and energy is infinite, so money is infinite.
If you can embrace the picture I have tried to paint in relation to money, I would like you to take it waaaay further.
Nothing Is Real
It isn’t just money that isn’t real. In truth, nothing is “real”. That is, there is no objective physical reality “out there” that is exactly the same for every person.
In fact, there are 7+ billion realities, because every person lives in their own subjective universe.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying there is no objective reality. Of course, there is a real reality in which we live. I know I’m delusional, but I’m not that delusional.
But our experience of reality is created by our interpretations of reality which are in turn created by every experience we ever have in reality.
And since every person lives a different experience, and interprets that different experience differently, every person lives in a different reality. Does that word salad make any sense? Not really.
The ancient proverb says it better: “20 people crossing a bridge into town are 20 people crossing 20 bridges into 20 towns.”
Science says the same thing in a few more words:
‘Out there’ there is no light and no colour, there are only electromagnetic waves. ‘Out there’ there is no sound and no music, there are only periodic variations of air pressure.
‘Out there’ there is no heat and no cold, there are only moving molecules with more or less mean kinetic energy, and so on. — Cyberneticist Heinz von Forster, quoted in Mind and Reality, by Wolfram Schommers.
This is no mere metaphor about how the brain perceives (and possibly helps create) reality. Modern science, specifically quantum physics, discovered this over 100 years ago.
The most amazing discovery of the quantum physicists is that there is no matter at the core of the physical world.
As we have dissected atoms and delved into the world of subatomic particles, we discovered the atom is not a physical building block of the world, but an energetic field, a pulsating whirl of electricity, mostly “filled” with empty space.
Michael Talbot, in his book Mysticism and the New Physics visualized it like this:
If a baseball were expanded to the size of the Earth the atoms that comprise it would be seen as roughly the size of cherries…
Remarkably, if we had an atom the size of a cherry we still would not be able to see the nucleus with the naked eye…
With this image, we begin to get a small taste of the strange atomic structures that create our material world. An atom is so small that it is invisible even when expanded to the human scale of, for example, a cherry.
But we can continue to magnify the atom and still it would appear empty. We would need to increase the size of a single atom to that of a football stadium before we could see the nucleus, and it would still be only the size of a single grain of salt.
The electrons would still be invisible, spinning around this tiny nucleus over a hundred meters away.
Several thousand people would now be able to sit in the empty space of the atom and watch a football game without disturbing the particles of our now immense atom.
If we wanted this crowd of people to be able to see the nucleus of the atom we would have to continue to expand the atom to the size of a large city.
Now the nucleus would be about the size of a football, the atom would still consist of almost entirely empty space, and the pea-sized electrons would be spinning around this nucleus 20 miles away.
This is the image James Trefil uses : Imagine putting a bowling ball in the center of a city and then scattering ten peas around the rest of the city and you will have some idea how empty an atom really is.
In terms of actual volume, the nucleus occupies only 0.00000000000000001% of the atom. In material terms, the rest is empty space. The material reality we perceive seems to be an optical illusion created by our senses.
Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans went so far as to say, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.
Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter…” My sentiments exactly.
The atomic world turns out to be a pulsating, vibrating, continually shifting and changing dance of energy. And so is our everyday world: a pulsating, vibrating, continually shifting and changing dance of energy.
So what creates the seemingly solid world we all experience? Consciousness. It is your brain that collapses the infinite probabilities of the quantum field into the one consistent world which you experience.
Specifically, it is your beliefs that create the reality you experience. This has been explained much better than I can by dozens of philosophical and psychological writers, so I’m not going to get into it here.
If you wish to understand the mechanics by which this happens, by far the most insightful and mind-expanding book on the subject is The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts.
The fundamental theme of that book is “You create your own reality.” And it explains exactly how you do that, and how you can create a different physical reality if that is what you choose.
Simply put, you do this by projecting your energy into the “outside” world and attracting to yourself whatever is aligned with whatever beliefs you have accepted from your parents, friends, society, and everywhere else throughout your life.
Generally, we are all brainwashed into accepting as real whichever “reality” we are experiencing.
The good news is that we can change our beliefs at every moment. We are always free to believe whatever we wish at any time.
The Easiest Get Rich Quick Scheme
So, let’s get back to money. You are free to believe that it is difficult to earn money, that it is a struggle to survive and that life is expensive and difficult.
Or you can believe that life is easy, that life is meant to be enjoyed without stress, and that all of your needs are easily met by aligning yourself with the source of all things, the creative loving energy of the intelligent universe.
Abraham Hicks puts it like this: “You get what you think about, whether you want it or not.”
And you’ll say, “But I think about having more money all the time, and I don’t get any more money.”
Right. You think about having more money because you want more money. So the universe gives you the experience of wanting money.
The reason you want more money, the reason you dream about having more money all the time, is because your real belief is that you don’t have enough money. Why would you want more money if you already had enough?
And since your core belief is that you don’t have enough money, life says, “Yes, you don’t have enough money.” And that will be your experience. You see the nasty trick the mind plays on you?
So how to flip it? How to change your core belief? Gratitude. Appreciation. That’s the magic key. Appreciate all the good things in your life and more good things will come to you.
Appreciate the money that enters your life, instead of complaining about how little you have, and then mindlessly spending what little you have.
Every time money enters your life, spend a moment to appreciate that good things are flowing to you, and open yourself up to more good things, to more money. That’s the first step to increasing the abundance in your life.
How to Be Rich
There is an even easier way to be rich, one that doesn’t require you to attract any more money than you already have. A way to be rich that doesn’t require anything more than a change of perspective.
Simply, realize that you are already rich. Maybe not compared to the richest people on the planet right now, but definitely compared to 99.9999999999% of the people who came before you.
If you live in a developed country and have a job, you are probably richer than 99% of the people alive today.
(Check out GlobalRichList.com to find out exactly how high up the wealth ladder you are.)
Even if you are in the bottom 99% percent, I’m sure you have enough food to eat and a safe place to sleep, or you’d be dead already.
That’s rich. You certainly wouldn’t have access to the world’s infinite data and some electronic gadget to read this with.
That’s a luxury only the rich can afford. Besides, being rich isn’t about surrounding yourself with the latest consumer goods or some ultra-extravagant bullshit. Being rich is about being able to appreciate life — your life — fully.
Someone once said “A thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe,” and that is exactly right.
After all, who is richer? A multi-billionaire who works himself into an early grave and spends his entire life worrying about losing his money, or a person who is happy with his life, no matter how humble, and at peace with the world? The answer is obvious.
Learning how to appreciate the simple things in life is true wealth. And it’s the healthiest thing you can possibly do for your soul. Appreciating the infinite free gifts of the universe. That’s rich.
This is an excerpt from “Everything Is Infinite: Do Nothing. Get Everything” by Andreas Ohrt.