Big Brother is Watching You! And He’s Taking Notes

Big Brother is Watching You!
And He’s Taking Notes
By David Glenn Cox



You know the problem with words and with the English language is that each word carries meaning or value but unlike numbers that value is relative. Words mean things but words mean nothing at all or anything you want them to mean. If I said, look at that big fat man does big mean, a large fat man? Or does it mean an extremely fat man? But then that word big changes the meaning of fat man because that is also a relative term.

Because of the chameleon nature of language we have a legal system that goes about defining definitions and terms that would draw the admiration of a worker bee or a carpenter ant. From mortgage contracts to the former Presidents famous statement “That it all depends on what your definition of is, is.” Politicians and lawyers will never accidentally leave obvious definitions out of legislation. When they do, it is a looped rope with a carrot in the middle just waiting for Bugs Bunny to stroll by.

But our politicians bat their eyes and coyly smile saying; “You can trust us.”

H.R. 1955 Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Sounds ominous doesn’t it? Have you been violently radicalizing lately? Is that sweet old woman down the street raising terrorists in the back yard with her tomatoes?
Before you answer that, the correct answer is, maybe we should investigate to be sure.

SEC. 899A. DEFINITIONS.

`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION - The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

Under definitions they include the meaning of commission, home grown terrorism and ideologically based violence. But omitted is what constitutes adopting or promoting and extremist belief system? Who decides that? After all one mans extremist is another mans conservative.

I think some vegans are extreme and some Mormons extreme and most Republicans extreme and I’m sure others feel just the opposite. But do high paid lawyers acting as our representatives in Washington leave a loop hole this big by accident. Because on closer examination the growing backyard terrorists next to the tomatoes is all ready a crime. What this law says is, thinking about it or writing about it or even asking questions about it would be against the law. This article by it self could be construed as a violation of the law. I’m trying to get you to adopt and extremist belief system namely that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights still mean something in this country. That this bill is a fascist attempt to strip citizens of their right to speak out wrapped in cellophane and red white and blue ribbons.


`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs.


Last time I checked it was all ready against the law to use violence but they said force or violence. Word play again, violence seems pretty clear unless I say your loud music does violence to my peaceful repose. But the word that grabs my attention here is force. Force when used as a noun meaning military force but it is also just as commonly used as capacity to persuade or convince. Now how could such smart people make such a glaring error with innocent intentions?

Under this bill the marchers with Martin Luther King could have been legally turned back from the Edmond Pettis bridge in Selma as their march was an attempt to force the State of Alabama to adopt extremist religious and social beliefs namely civil rights.

Judas Escariot would have been unemployed as well for Pilate would have had no need of him. The order would have been sent to pick him up! He is attempting to force citizens of the empire to adopt extremist religious and social beliefs.


`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

Do you suppose they mean FOX.com or WHITEHOUSE.gov? Who decides? They do of course.

I am a huge admirer of both Ghandi and Martin Luther King I so admire their patients and their fortitude towards non-violent change. However I also admire Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson and George Washington who worked diligently for peaceful change but when that road was exhausted took up arms. Jefferson made a point of this.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Jefferson is clear here, he minces no words or definitions, “the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” And how did we abolish the previous American government under the crown? The Declaration of Independence its self could violate H.R. 1955 as it does advocate both force and violence.

And I as an American Citizen as well, I refuse to renounce force or violence because it is my God given right guaranteed to me by the founding fathers.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

I think those words most accurately describe H.R.1955 Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,”

If that day should come when I and thousands of others stand before the Capital prepared to tear the doors off it will not be because of our failures but your failures! Not because we have overlooked you but you have overlooked us, we will not become radicalized off the Internet but because you have ignored us! And abused us and tried to take through legislation the rights granted to us by God. We will not relinquish them peaceable you will have to remove them from our corpses.

I have the right as an American to believe in any God or Deity and any political system or any social agenda I chose to believe in and I don’t threaten America half as much you do!