Choosing Freedom - Her Own Words : Irene's Story

"Irene-Maus:Gravenhorst sits down to set the record straight regarding the events that led to the Choosing Freedom series, and workshop. In ... all » ... all » this half hour interview, Irene tells her story, explaining her journey of discovery, challenges and freedom. A must see companion piece for the Choosing Freedom series! Understanding our rights and WHO it is we really are, and how much power we really have when we understand the difference between Common Law jurisdiction, aka "The Law of the Land" ; and Marine/Admiralty Law jurisdiction, aka "The Law of Money/Commerce/The High Seas"...YOU are a soul with flesh and blood that makes you human. You are not a "person", which in Law is defined as a corporate entity, a company, a fictional character, a souless slave to be controlled by it's author, which is another Corporate entity known as the Government. This is not conspiracy theory... It is the system that is in place. The conspiracy is the one that took place 90 or so, and 138 years ago when this system was brought upon us. Wake up! Piece by piece this system is being tightened like a noose meant on restricting our actual freedoms! Tip toe totalitarianism"

The Criminal Banksters must be exposed..........
DYOR and find your own Truth!
RR


Choosing Freedom - Her Own Words : Irene's Story

Poverty and Wealth in America: Senate Millionaires Kill Citizen Mortgage Relief by Michael Collins Global Research, May 2, 2009

Poverty and Wealth in America: Senate Millionaires Kill Citizen Mortgage Relief by Michael Collins Global Research, May 2, 2009 The United States Senate took a swipe at the spirit of May Day in a spectacular show of callous indifference when it voted down a bill to provide limited assistance to citizens at risk for losing their homes. The final vote was 45 in favor, 51 opposed to Senator Richard Durbin's (D-IL) mortgage assistance bill. The original version of the bill covered some but not all of those requiring assistance. The final version was even more restricted. It applied to only homeowners currently in foreclosure as a result of actions prior to the start of 2009. The denial of assistance to citizens by Senators is ironic given the fact that the origins of the current economic crisis came from Senate legislative actions in 1999 and 2000. While their avarice knows no bounds, their memory suffers. Apparently these multimillionaire aristocrats of the Senate "gentlemen's club" haven't been watching the news. The International Monetary Fund declared that the United States is in a depression almost three months ago. Delinquency and foreclosure rates around the country are rising at spectacular rates. Unemployment has jumped by 3.3 million in the last five months. Economic growth has declined at a rate of 6.3% in the first quarter of 2009. What part of economic crisis can't they understand? Apparently all of it. Memo to stingy Senators: Workers and their families are in serious trouble or about to be in trouble. That means they lack the money to pay for their homes (also known as shelter, a basic human need). These citizens did nothing to bring on this crisis. You, the members of the Senate, are largely to blame and you know it. One of the most revealing remarks came from Democrat Ben Nelson (D-NE) who said: “Do I want to have my rate go up so that somebody else might be able to cram down” their mortgage payment?" asked Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who voted against the bill. Associated Press, Apr. 30, 2009 Nelson has never been regarded as the sharpest tool in the shed but he's set a new standard for ignorance with this remark. Nelson was worth at least $7.0 million as of reporting in 2008. Obviously he needs to skimp on every penny to stay afloat. He'll offer no breaks for financially strapped citizens on the brink of ruin even if they are in trouble as a result of his support of Wall Street welfare. The bill would have no impact on his or anybody else's mortgage rate unless they qualified for help. In those cases, the rate would go down. The Durbin bill offered a reasonable change in bankruptcy law that would allow those in foreclosure to ask (simply ask) bankruptcy judges to invoke a "cramdown." In that process, the bankruptcy court would set a lower interest rates and longer terms on loans. This takes the case out of foreclosure and allows citizens to keep their homes and the lets banks collect the money owed at a lower rate over an extended period. (See this for a real cramdown to benefit all citizens) The Durbin bill provided limited options since it presumed that homeowners at risk had the money to get in bankruptcy court; that the courts would be able to handle all those in need; and that the judge would accept the request for a cramdown to keep people in their homes. But the bill might have helped as many as 1.7 million homeowners. Even with those limitations, Sen. Durbin was forced against the wall and had to negotiate the bill to a lower level of protection. The final bill rejected by the Senate. Associated Press reported: "The latest proposal would have restricted eligibility to homeowners already in foreclosure whose lender had not offered better terms. Homes would also have to be worth less than $729,000 and apply to mortgage loans originated before 2009." Apr 30, 2009 Durbin's last stand would have provided protection some homeowners but no there's now protection for anyone. William K. Black is the chief fraud investigator who untangled the 1980's Savings and Loan fiasco. His comments on the current economic meltdown are instructive and assign blame: William K. Black: 'We need some chairmen or chairwomen … in Congress, to hold the necessary hearings (on banking fraud) and we can blast this out. But if you leave the failed CEOs in place, it isn't just that they're terrible business people, though they are. It isn't just that they lack integrity, though they do. Because they were engaged in these frauds … they're not going to disclose the truth about the assets." Bill Moyers Journal, Apr 3, 2009 Senators, you allowed changes in banking regulations that turned Wall Street in to a big casino for the "in crowd" and wiped out millions of small investors and retirement funds. You failed to monitor the new freedoms you gave the banks and Wall Street after you stripped away citizen protections in law since the Great Depression. You created the current depression. And now, you're so stingy you won't even help a few of the many people victimized by the massive corporate fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes according to Black. Is there any reason why even one single Senator of the 51 who voted down this assistance should remain in office to complete his or her term? Is there any reason to hold back from recalling them where allowed or demanding their resignations in every state that they represent? I can't think of one. Can you?

Michael Collins is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Michael Collins

Homeland Security

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 4, 2009

A new Homeland Security document that received little attention during last week’s swine flu coverage shockingly lists the “alternative media” with other radical extremist groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media’s version of events are potential domestic terrorists.

The “official use only” document is entitled “Domestic Extremism Lexicon” and was released on March 26, two weeks before the infamous “right-wing extremists” report that generated so much media attention throughout April.

According to World Net Daily, the DHS document was almost immediately rescinded, but the groups listed alongside Neo-Nazis, Aryan prison gangs and black power extremists again prove that the federal government is targeting American citizens who are merely knowledgeable about their rights and up on current issues as potential domestic terrorists to be treated as a “threat” to law enforcement.

Click here for the PDF file.

The preamble to the document reads as follows;

“(U//FOUO) Homeland Security Reference Aids—prepared by the DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)—provide baseline information on a variety of homeland security issues. This product is one in a series of reference aids designed to provide operational and intelligence advice and assistance to other elements of DHS, as well as state, local, and regional fusions centers. DHS/I&A intends this background information to assist federal, state, local, and tribal homeland security and law enforcement officials in conducting analytic activities. This product provides definitions for key terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States. Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials and unclassified information, then further developed during facilitated workshops with DHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic, non-Islamic extremism in the United States.”

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In the same breath as radical Cuban Communists, the “decentralized terrorist movement,” “lone terrorists,” “racist skinheads” and the Mexican separatist movement, we find an entry for “alternative media,” alongside the blurb, “a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.”

That’s right folks - the federal government is training its enforcers that people who don’t believe everything they see on Fox News, CNN or read in the New York Times are to be treated as a “threat” and a potential violent domestic terrorist.

Apparently it’s not enough to treat Ron Paul supporters, people who fly U.S. flags or people who are able to accurately recite the Bill of Rights as potential mass killers, now anyone who merely questions what is reported by the corporate media is also a danger, according to the federal government.

The document also lists people who oppose abortion, people who oppose giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and states that they “can be broadly divided into those who are primarily hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. This term also may refer to rightwing extremist movements that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

The document also mentions the “patriot movement” and states that it “primarily comprises (of) violent antigovernment groups.”

As we have documented for years, we haven’t yet come across a violent member of the “patriot movement” who wasn’t also a federal provocateur or at least someone being radicalized by the feds - Timothy McVeigh being a prime example.

The conclusion at the foot of the document encourages recipients in law enforcement to “report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to DHS and the FBI.” So now according to the feds, running a news website that isn’t owned by General Electric or Rupert Murdoch is suspicious and potentially criminal.

As we reported last month, another recent Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment equates gun owners with violent terrorists and states that radical extremists are “stockpiling” weapons in fear of an Obama administration gun ban.

The document was just the latest in a long sordid line of training manuals in which the federal government characterizes millions of American citizens as potentially violent terrorists who are a threat to law enforcement.

As we have exhaustively documented with the MIAC report and a whole host of others, the federal government apparently has very little concern for any perceived terrorist threat to America coming from the MIddle East or Al-Qaeda cells within the country, and indeed if any such threat existed we are only in more danger, because the feds have been busy training law enforcement that law-abiding American citizens who exercise their legal right to purchase firearms or who exercise their first amendment right to discuss politics or run websites, are potential terrorists who want to instigate a violent revolution.

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Robert B. Reckmeyer

So............if one is exercising their brain and using their critical thinking skills, thinking, and then writing, speaking or contributing to the "Alternative" Media, then they are a terrorist threat? I think not. In Truth we must free ourselves from the "Controlled Media" and speak the truth so we might enjoy our "Inalienable" (Fundamental rights, including the right to practice religion, freedom of speech, due process, and equal protection of the laws, that cannot be transferred to another nor surrendered except by the person possessing them. See Bill of Rights. also bestowed on Hue-Man-Beings by the Creator and not by Man.)

The Corporate/Government that is now( in power) (Fascism) (has power) is a false construct and Hue-man-ity will establish a new model based on the Brotherhood of man and the Sovereignty of the individual, something our founders espoused and documented in our United States Constitution. This present model is a fraud and has usurped ( Usurper (lat. usurpare = to seize for use, to use) is a derogatory term used to describe either an illegitimate or controversial claimant to the throne in a monarchy, or a person who succeeds in establishing himself as a monarch without inheriting the throne, or any other person exercising authority unconstitutionally. It may also be applied to an official acting ultra vires, outside his authority or jurisdiction) the sovereignty of the citizen. Obviously the Corporate Partnership between Government and the Private Elite,( Fuedal System) is based on a false construct. The sovereignty is NOT bestowed on the system but rather on the individual. It is God given NOT a privileged given by the Corporate/Government.

Our responsibility is to disseminate information, to the public so we might make conscious well informed decisions as we exercise our God given rights. The Corporate/Government needs to be a servant of the people and not its Master. The Master/Slave dynamic can only be overturned when Hue-Man-ity Earth are Masters of their own destiny.

I encourage All to Write, Blog, Publish, make Videos, and do everything in their power to get the word out, speak the Truth, light a candle and Never Ever give in to the present danger. The Elite few will be a part of our history but Truth will conquire all and they will flee like the wind. Remember the metaphore of the light and dark; Darkness can not hold its power over even the smallest light (a candle) it flees, Yet in a room filled with light darkness has No Power! No matter how it plays out the Darkside will fail and the forces of Light will prevail.

They do not intimidate me AT ALL! Their power is a fleeting power that will be crushed by the Truth and the Light!

Peace

RR

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UNREPENTANT: KEVIN ANNETT AND CANADA'S GENOCIDE (documentary)

This documentary really speaks to my heart. The Global Elite have an Agenda to cut us off from our indigenous roots and keep us from the Truth. They have completed most all the steps to their Quest for Full and complete Control of Hue-Man-ity and our Planet Earth. This is a Cosmic battle, waged through time, and is now in its final stage.

This film draws back the curtain and exposes the Truth to the Light. The battle continues for the soul of man & wo-man. We must not let the evil Dark Side hold sway over us. Now is the time for all good people of the world to stand together and assert our God given Hue-Man potential.

What the Governments, Church, and the Globalist Corporations have done to our indigenous people throughout "civilization" is a Crime against Hue-man-ity and must be shown for all it is. Don't think for a minute that any of us are safe until this war for the consciousness of man is won.

We have the Forces of Light, aligned with us, from all corners of the Galaxy. WE ARE NOT ALONE! We will prevail and the prize will be won. Planet Earth will not be lost to the Dark Side nor will the Elite few dominate us through eternity, just the opposite.

This is the time spoken of through the Prophets.........the Kingdom of God and the Brotherhood of Man is upon us.

Meditate on the words of the Master;

Mathew: 5:16
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven."

Peace
RR

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Unconscionable Police Raid on Family's Home and Organic Food Co-Op

Unconscionable Police Raid on Family's Home and Organic Food Co-Op

Steps have been taken to start legal action against the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Lorain County Health Department for violating the constitutional rights of John and Jacqueline Stowers of LaGrange, Ohio.

The Stowers operate an organic food cooperative called Manna Storehouse. ODA and Lorain County Health Department agents forcefully raided their home and seized the family's personal food supply, cell phones and personal computers.

On the morning of December 1, 2008, law enforcement officers forcefully entered the Stowers' residence without first announcing they were police or stating the purpose of the visit. With guns drawn, they swiftly and immediately moved to the upstairs of the home, where ten children were in the middle of a home-schooling lesson. Officers then moved Jacqueline Stowers and her children to their living room, where they were held for more than six hours.

There has never been a complaint filed against Manna Storehouse or the Stowers related to the quality or healthfulness of the food distributed through the co-op.

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Seems I’ve been reporting on ever increasing, and downright shocking losses of freedom in the U.S. over the past couple of years, and listening to the Stowers’ personal account in the video above shows that this is no exception.

This is simply inexcusable government intrusion on the freedom of choice of American consumers – your right to chose nutritious, organic and locally grown foods, and to save money by buying in bulk through a community co-op.

Was the Raid on Manna Storehouse Justified?

In December last year, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) joined forces with the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law in filing a civil lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Lorrain County Health Department for performing an illegal raid on the Stowers family residence in La Grange, Ohio.

The Stowers had run a community co-op called Manna Storehouse since 1999. The 60 regular members pooled their resources and bought food in bulk from organic growers across the state of Ohio, which enabled them get discounts on the healthiest foods available, such as grass-fed beef, free-range poultry, organic eggs and produce, raw milk and cheese —all produced without man-made chemicals, hormones, pesticides, dyes, or additives.

Those of you who read this newsletter on a regular basis are well aware that this type of diet is a powerful way for many to achieve and maintain optimal health and longevity, especially if you eat according to your nutritional type. It’s even more important if you suffer with any type of food allergies, intolerance to chemical additives, or chronic illness.

The problem, according to the Feds, stems from the fact that the Stowers were selling foods without a retail license. However, they were not selling to the general public, only to co-op members who pay a membership fee and agree to take full responsibility for the food they purchase, which exempts them from requiring a license, according to the FTCLDF and the Buckeye Institute who are now defending them.

Said FTCLDF President Pete Kennedy,

“We joined in this suit because it furthers the mission of the Fund, which is to protect and defend the rights of farmers and consumers to have direct commerce with each other free from governmental interference and harassment.

We hope that the Lorrain County Court of Common Pleas recognizes that government is overreaching in this case and is basically engaged in intimidation tactics to frighten people into believing that they cannot provide food for themselves.”

FTCLDF General Counsel Gary Cox added,

“This is an example where, once again, the government is trying to deny people their inalienable, fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice. The purpose of our complaint is to correct that wrong.”

Violating Constitutional Rights in the Name of… What?

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and Section 14, Article 1 of the Ohio Constitution, guarantees the right of peaceful citizens to be free from paramilitary police raids, searches and seizures. And yet these types of constitutional breaches over food, nutritional supplements, and wholesome alternative remedies are performed at an ever increasing rate.

For example, just as the consumption of raw milk is growing in America, so are heavy-handed attempts by state officials in some states to kill it. They've confiscated thousands of dollars worth of food, which is often all it takes to bankrupt a business and squelch a movement.

You’re not even safe carrying organic personal care products across state or country borders, as getting caught with certain products can lead to being thrown in jail for possession of illegal drugs, due to flawed drug testing kits.

Forceful raids and sweeping searches and seizures are not “routine,” and exceed the authority granted to Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and county health departments.

The lawsuit filed by the Buckeye Institute and FTCLDF maintains that the paramilitary style execution of a search warrant against a peaceful family whose only alleged crime was failure to obtain a permit – which is a third degree misdemeanor under state law – is clearly unconstitutional.

The armed agents from the ODA, the Loraine County Department of Health, and the local police carried the type of search warrant used to bust potentially violent and dangerous drug dealers!

How You Can Help Protect Your Rights

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization made up of farmers and consumers joining together and pooling resources to:

• Protect the constitutional right of the nation’s family farms to provide processed and unprocessed farm foods directly to consumers through any legal means
• Protect the constitutional right of consumers to obtain unprocessed and processed farm foods directly from family farms
• Protect the nation’s family farms from harassment by federal, state, and local government interference with food production and on-farm food

If you want to help the fund carry out their mission, and help farmers and citizens like the Stowers with their legal defense costs, you can make a donation to the fund by going to this site.

Remember, today, conventional agriculture uses an arsenal of more than 600 pesticides – enough to ensure that about three pounds of it ends up on your plate every year, if you consume conventionally-grown produce.

And the routine use of antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and genetically modified organisms to beef up yields has created a number of serious health concerns, including early puberty and an array of new allergies.

If you want to be optimally healthy, knowing what you eat and where it comes from is of prime importance, and belonging to a co-op is a great way to save money while ensuring your family eats well.

For more information on where to find wholesome, organic and locally grown foods, please check out my Sustainable Agriculture page.

Related Links:

Federal, State Regulators Target Raw Milk Sources

FDA Continues to Harass Raw Milk Providers

Organic Consumers and Companies Harassed by Drug Agents and Police

Jacqueline and John Stowers talk about their lives before and after a police raid of their home in LaGrange, Ohio on December 1st in an interview with the Buckeye Institute.

The Buckeye Institute is filing a law suit against the Ohio Department of Agriculture and other government agencies on behalf of the freedoms guaranteed the Stowers and all Ohioans by the state Constitution.

Robert Reckmeyer;

It is time to stand up to the forces that would try and dominate our personal and collective sovereignty. Clean food? It is a crime to buy clean food in a cooperative effort? Since when does the State have the right to keep us from buying food together, to save money, to eat Organic, to be self sufficient, to be independent, to be outside of their control.

I for one reject their model and encourage all of us to keep working for Truth.

Peace
RR

The Stowers tell their story