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alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Fri 05/15/15 03:30 PM
Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death After 10 weeks of heart-wrenching and often gruesome testimony from more than 150 witnesses, including survivors with missing limbs and an anguished father who spoke of watching his young son die on the sidewalk in front of him, a jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the death penalty for his role in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev offered no visible reaction, though he glanced toward the jurors as they were individually polled on whether they supported the penalty of death. Some of the jurors, a man and at least two women, were crying. The decision came a little over two years after a pair of pressure-cooker bombs ripped through a crowd of unsuspecting spectators near the marathon’s finish line in April 2013, killing three and injuring nearly 300. Among the injured: 17 amputees, many of whom took the stand against Tsarnaev with bomb shrapnel still embedded in their bodies. The same jurors — seven women and five men — convicted Tsarnaev on April 8 on all 30 counts related to the bombings, including the shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days after the attacks. They then heard roughly three weeks of testimony in the penalty phase of the case, in which they were asked to determine whether to sentence Tsarnaev to life in prison without parole or the death penalty for his role in the bombings Though Tsarnaev pled not guilty, Judy Clarke, his attorney, admitted her client’s role on day one of the first phase of the trial in March and repeatedly reiterated it, right up until the closing statements in the penalty phase. “I’m not asking you to excuse him,” Clark told jurors. “There are no excuses. I’m not asking you for sympathy.” But Clarke did plead for “mercy” for her client, asking jurors to spare his life in spite of the “senseless and catastrophic acts” he committed. She cast Tsarnaev, now 21, as a troubled teenager from a dysfunctional family who came under the sway of his radicalized older brother, Tamerlan. The defense argued Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died from wounds sustained during a shootout with police days after the bombings, plotted the attack and built the bombs — and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had been abandoned by his mentally ill parents and was flunking out of college, merely followed. “If not for Tamerlan, this wouldn’t have happened,” Clarke said. “Dzhokhar would never have done this but for Tamerlan. The tragedy would never have occurred but for Tamerlan. None of it.” Though Tsarnaev did not take the stand on his behalf and often appeared dispassionate in court, even during the most emotional and horrific testimony, the defense called as its final witness Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun and death penalty opponent who inspired the film “Dead Man Walking.” She told the jury of several meetings she had with the convicted bomber starting right before the trial and how, in one meeting, he had expressed sympathy for the bombing victims. “He said it emphatically. He said, ‘No one deserves to suffer like they did,’” Prejean testified. But government prosecutors ridiculed Prejean’s testimony, implying she would say anything to prevent the death penalty. Tsarnaev’s statement to her, they argued, merely echoed a note the bomber left in a Watertown, Mass., boat before he was captured, in which he wrote that he didn’t “like killing innocent people,” but that it was “allowed.” “The fact that now, while he’s on trial for his life, the defendant is willing to go so far as to say that no one should have to suffer like that doesn’t tell you much about his core beliefs,” prosecutor William Weinreb told the jury. “When you stack that up against his actions, does it really make a difference to your decision?” Throughout the trial, prosecutors painted Tsarnaev as a cold-blooded killer who deceived even his closest friends about his jihadist leanings and remains unrepentant about what he did. They argued he was an “equal partner” who walked in lockstep with his brother to carry out an attack aimed at inflicting terror and mayhem at one of Boston’s most celebrated public events to avenge the deaths of Muslims in wars overseas. The government repeatedly showed the jury surveillance video of Tsarnaev dropping a backpack that contained one of the bombs behind the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the bombings, and of him casually buying milk 20 minutes after the attack. They pointed to video of Tsarnaev flashing the middle finger to a security camera in a court holding cell before his July 2013 arraignment as proof that he remains defiant. “No remorse, no apology,” Steven Mellin, another prosecutor, argued. He insisted there was no other “just” punishment for what Tsarnaev did than the death penalty.

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Fri 05/15/15 03:32 PM Edited by alleoops on Fri 05/15/15 03:33 PM
I wonder if he will be put to death?

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/15/15 03:40 PM
A truer candidate for death by AA gun, would be tough to find.

InvictusV Joined Sun 11/23/08 Posts: 5282	Fri 05/15/15 03:52 PM
I wonder if he will be put to death? The feds execute people... His days are slim and numbered.

SassyEuro2 Joined Wed 04/29/15 Posts: 11102	Fri 05/15/15 03:56 PM
I want an express lane

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/15/15 04:02 PM
I want an express lane Texas has an express lane. Hell... Just turn that stupid b@st@rd loose in general population at the Mass. State prison. Convicts will take care of that little "execution issue".

alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Fri 05/15/15 04:07 PM
I wonder if he will be put to death? The feds execute people... His days are slim and numbered. Hope so.

SassyEuro2 Joined Wed 04/29/15 Posts: 11102	Fri 05/15/15 04:31 PM
I want an express lane Texas has an express lane. Hell... Just turn that stupid b@st@rd loose in general population at the Mass. State prison. Convicts will take care of that little "execution issue". I'm all for public execution, in some cases.. I may Google for stats to see, if the historicaly, the murder rate dropped. ? Any one know? Of course in my 2 states, there would be rioting & then probably a block party barbeque

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/15/15 05:02 PM
Boston Bomber Injured Throat - Two years after the Boston Marathon bombing, the trial officially starts today. There was much delay to the said proceedings due to the only living suspect's "botched" suicide attempt. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had shot himself in the throat that led to an injured larynx. In April of 2013, reports of Boston bomber injured throat hit the web. Sources said that during the last stand with authorities, Tsarnaev had shot himself in the throat to avoid having to deal with questions from FBI interrogators. http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/17869/20150118/boston-bomber-injured-throat-botched-suicide-attempt-could-delay-trial-suspect-now-able-to-speak.htm Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received multiple life-threatening injuries, including a gunshot to the face before his capture, doctors revealed in grisly detail in newly unsealed court documents. "He has multiple gunshot wounds, the most severe of which appears to have entered through the left side inside of his mouth and exited the left face, lower face," Dr. Stephen Ray Odom, a trauma surgeon, told a court convened inside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the 20-year-old suspect was being treated three days after his arrest. Odom described the shot to the suspected bomber's face as a "high-powered injury" that damaged his skull, vertebrae, ear, throat and mouth, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Tsarnaev also received "multiple gunshot wounds" to his arms and legs. http://abcnews.go.com/US/boston-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-shot-face-doctors/story?id=20012945 funny, doesnt look to me like he shot himself in the face, or throat. and if this "self inflicted" gun shot wound injured his vertebrae would he really be walking? if this guy shot himself in the face/throat why doesnt he appear to be in tremendous amounts of pain. other than a little blood on his face and clothes, he doesnt really appear to be injured all that bad. so who really injured his throat? who really wanted to prevent him from talking? Sgt. Sean Murphy, Cop Who Leaked Bombing Suspect Photos, Disciplined FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — A state police photographer who released photos of the bloodied Boston Marathon bombing suspect during his capture was placed on restricted duty Tuesday. Sgt. Sean Murphy said he leaked the photos of what he called "the face of terror" to Boston magazine last week to counter a glamorized image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Three of Murphy's 14 photos show a battered and blood-streaked Tsarnaev emerging from a boat in a backyard, the red dot of a sniper's laser sight trained on his head. Murphy wasn't authorized to release the photos. He already served a one-day, unpaid suspension and has received another five-day unpaid suspension. Following a status hearing at state police headquarters Tuesday, Murphy was placed on desk duty, where he won't have contact with the public, until an internal investigation is complete. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/sgt-sean-murphy_n_3640850.html There has been much discussion over the two individuals fitted with earpieces and military-esque gear spotted at the Boston Marathon, but as it turns out they may likely be employees of the Blackwater-style private military/security firm Craft International. The two can be seen in the photo below with their hands up to their ears in what is later (second photo) confirmed to be a a wired communications device. Originally, it was thought that these men were likely some sort of military or special operations — specifically SEAL team members as indicated by an emblem on one of their black hats. After doing some digging, however, it becomes much more likely that these men are employees of Craft International — a private military/security firm similar in nature to Blackwater (Xe). Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/craft-international-private-military-forces-boston-marathon/#ixzz3aFrcYS2m can anyone say government patsy's? The Department of Homeland Security has gone public with an admission that an exercise was planned months before the Boston Marathon bombings that involved backpacks being used to detonate explosives by rogue terrorists. According to the DHS documents acquired by the Boston Globe, the agents were planning on conducting training exercises centered around a fictitious terrorist group called ‘Free America Citizens’, a group that would plant backpacks full of explosives around Boston that the detectives would be forced to track down. Ultimately, of course, this ended up happening at the Boston Marathon itself with precise accuracy. The Globe report reads that “the city was hit with a real terrorist attack executed in a frighteningly similar fashion.” And the DHS isn’t denying that the training exercise manifested itself at the Boston Marathon, as detailed in the back-end article on the Boston Globe that I discovered while browsing the news. “The real thing happened before we were able to execute,” a Boston police official told the Boston Globe in the report. The exercise, labeled as “Operation Urban Shield,” was funded by a $200,000 Homeland Security grant. It was planned months before the Boston Marathon, and it was scheduled to ‘take place’ in official capacity this weekend, according to the sources. But the exercise admission lends further credence to the ignored eyewitness account of bomb sniffing dogs and bomb squads running a training exercise during the morning of the Boston Marathon. Was this training exercise part of Operation Urban Shield? http://www.storyleak.com/dhs-boston-training-drill-backpack-explosives/#ixzz3aFsPi0OV

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/15/15 05:11 PM
Terror to control the population There is a quote being attributed on the web to Stalin that I was unable to find a source for: "The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened" If anybody can confirm or refute Stalin as the origin of that source, it would be great to add it to the article. --217.237.39.193 10:53, 11 September 2012 (UTC) - joseph stalin http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Joseph_Stalin

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/15/15 05:39 PM
The Soviet Union Under Joseph Stalin Starting in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower. His development plan was centered on government control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of farms. Millions of farmers refused to cooperate with Stalin’s orders and were shot or exiled as punishment. The forced collectivization also led to widespread famine across the Soviet Union that killed millions. Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps. During the second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat. Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Union. Cities were renamed in his honor. Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life. He was the subject of flattering artwork, literature and music, and his name became part of the Soviet national anthem. His government also controlled the Soviet media. agriculture - On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwMT3dD This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything. The power to seize control and take over these resources is delegated to the following government authorities: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer; Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwUYZGU secret police - September 14, 2013 Snowden leaks reveal size of US Secret Police By Mark Wachtler September 14, 2013. (ONN) When Booz Allen Hamilton spy Edward Snowden leaked volumes of top secret government spy documents, it didn’t only expose the federal government’s spying on Americans and US allies. It also exposed for the first time exactly how many agencies, employees and money America’s spy apparatus enjoys. The list includes some surprising domestic spies. As it has always been for decades, specific yearly spending on America’s secret police is…a secret. But thanks to the recent intelligence leaks by Edward Snowden, the American people now know exactly how much money and manpower the federal government uses toward spying on Americans and the rest of the world. citizen spies - Stop the Government from Turning Neighbor Against Neighbor! In one of the most misguided responses to the terrorist attacks, President Bush is proposing a program to recruit one million volunteers to act as spies and informants against their neighbors. Initially, the proposed program would have recruited letter carriers, utility workers, cable installers and others whose jobs allow them access to private residences to report "suspicious" activity. Due to intense public outrage, the Administration has now announced a scaled back version that would exclude postal and utility workers. Despite what Attorney General Ashcroft and the Justice Department have said, the threat of this dangerous program, Operation TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System), has unfortunately not yet abated. As it stands now, TIPS would still recruit volunteers who work in the transportation, trucking, shipping, maritime, and mass transit industries. The only way to disable TIPS once and for all is through congressional action. https://www.aclu.org/stop-government-turning-neighbor-against-neighbor forced labor camps - SLAVE LABOR CAMPS IN AMERICA Detainment facilities are being and have been built on domestic US military bases for an emergency influx of prisoners. What kind of emergencies do they have in mind? Economic or natural disaster scenarios of course come to mind, but we must also face the everyday reality of the police state that we are living in RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. The "Military Commissions Act of 2006" effectively did away with Habeas Corpus. If you are considered to be an enemy of the state, through action or otherwise, you could be thrown in prison. Let's not forget that the pseudo-trial that you may receive will have evidence of your own confessions perhaps given up during torture, although perhaps not torture by the new definition. Also, the US Army Regulation 210-35 "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" plays a major role in the ramping up of the police state. The "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" is a revision of the regulation passed and signed by Bill Clinton in 1997. 210-35 is currently valid and fully operative. The regulations specify that army personnel running the prison camps will prepare an "Inmate Labor Plan" that will comply with 18 U.S.C. 4125(a), governing civilian inmate labor. That section of the U.S. Code allows the U.S. attorney general to make available to the heads of U.S. departments, including the Army, the services of U.S. prisoners to engage in labor, including "constructing or repairing roads, cleaning, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress." PRISONERS COULD ALSO BE ORDERED TO WORK FOR PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES. Who needs to pay for labor, when you can use the prison population for your slave labor? In America today anyone can be arrested for pretty much anything. Charges are optional, as long as you can be considered to be an enemy of the state. Having a dissenting opinion makes you fair game. Anyone can be thrown in prison, without trial or even a lawyer to advise them. Once an individual is in prison, they can and likely will be sent off to the "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" camps. The U.S. prison population is working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, "no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens." The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world's prison population, but only 5% of the world's people. From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was one million. Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000, according to reports. What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners? http://nstarzone.com/SYSTEM.html targeting political enemies - Bulletin claims militia may launch terrorist attacks on Patriots’ Day (Infowars) – A military bulletin called patriot groups and the militia “domestic extremists” who may launch terrorist attacks, a claim which follows a trend by the government to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists. The bulletin, an e-mail from a U.S. Coast Guard command security officer which was leaked to Infowars, lumped militia members and patriots with “white supremacists” and claimed they may launch terror attacks on April 19th because it is a “significant date to domestic extremists.” “Members of the patriot and militia movements, sovereign citizens and white supremacists recall April 19th as the date that the battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolution,” the bulletin read. “Citing (incorrectly) Title 10 USC references to the ‘unorganized militias’ and the constitutional right to bear arms, these groups believe that they are legally obligated to oppose the government should it become tyrannical.” - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf. The person who shared the bulletin with Infowars described it as unprecedented. The bulletin only adds to the growing concern over the military training to take on American citizens while the government continues to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists as “racists” and “extremists.” Over the past weekend, for example, the National Guard performed “civil unrest” drills in Richmond, Calif., which featured role players screaming right-wing rhetoric. - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf obama cult like following - Obama's cult of personality has turned US into 'a nation of enablers' By Charles Hoskinson \| February 13, 2014 \| 12:00 am Law professor Jonathan Turley said he's astonished by how passive Americans -- especially Democrats -- have been to President Obama's abuse of executive power, which he said has become so dangerous it's making the U.S. political system unstable. "I think that we've become a nation of enablers. We are turning a blind eye to a fundamental change in our system. I think many people will come to loathe that they remained silent during this period," Turley, who teaches at George Washington University, told Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the Left." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-cult-of-personality-has-turned-us-into-a-nation-of-enablers/article/2544003 is it really so hard to see whats happening here?

InvictusV Joined Sun 11/23/08 Posts: 5282	Fri 05/15/15 07:15 PM
The Soviet Union Under Joseph Stalin Starting in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower. His development plan was centered on government control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of farms. Millions of farmers refused to cooperate with Stalin’s orders and were shot or exiled as punishment. The forced collectivization also led to widespread famine across the Soviet Union that killed millions. Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps. During the second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat. Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Union. Cities were renamed in his honor. Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life. He was the subject of flattering artwork, literature and music, and his name became part of the Soviet national anthem. His government also controlled the Soviet media. agriculture - On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwMT3dD This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything. The power to seize control and take over these resources is delegated to the following government authorities: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer; Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwUYZGU secret police - September 14, 2013 Snowden leaks reveal size of US Secret Police By Mark Wachtler September 14, 2013. (ONN) When Booz Allen Hamilton spy Edward Snowden leaked volumes of top secret government spy documents, it didn’t only expose the federal government’s spying on Americans and US allies. It also exposed for the first time exactly how many agencies, employees and money America’s spy apparatus enjoys. The list includes some surprising domestic spies. As it has always been for decades, specific yearly spending on America’s secret police is…a secret. But thanks to the recent intelligence leaks by Edward Snowden, the American people now know exactly how much money and manpower the federal government uses toward spying on Americans and the rest of the world. citizen spies - Stop the Government from Turning Neighbor Against Neighbor! In one of the most misguided responses to the terrorist attacks, President Bush is proposing a program to recruit one million volunteers to act as spies and informants against their neighbors. Initially, the proposed program would have recruited letter carriers, utility workers, cable installers and others whose jobs allow them access to private residences to report "suspicious" activity. Due to intense public outrage, the Administration has now announced a scaled back version that would exclude postal and utility workers. Despite what Attorney General Ashcroft and the Justice Department have said, the threat of this dangerous program, Operation TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System), has unfortunately not yet abated. As it stands now, TIPS would still recruit volunteers who work in the transportation, trucking, shipping, maritime, and mass transit industries. The only way to disable TIPS once and for all is through congressional action. https://www.aclu.org/stop-government-turning-neighbor-against-neighbor forced labor camps - SLAVE LABOR CAMPS IN AMERICA Detainment facilities are being and have been built on domestic US military bases for an emergency influx of prisoners. What kind of emergencies do they have in mind? Economic or natural disaster scenarios of course come to mind, but we must also face the everyday reality of the police state that we are living in RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. The "Military Commissions Act of 2006" effectively did away with Habeas Corpus. If you are considered to be an enemy of the state, through action or otherwise, you could be thrown in prison. Let's not forget that the pseudo-trial that you may receive will have evidence of your own confessions perhaps given up during torture, although perhaps not torture by the new definition. Also, the US Army Regulation 210-35 "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" plays a major role in the ramping up of the police state. The "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" is a revision of the regulation passed and signed by Bill Clinton in 1997. 210-35 is currently valid and fully operative. The regulations specify that army personnel running the prison camps will prepare an "Inmate Labor Plan" that will comply with 18 U.S.C. 4125(a), governing civilian inmate labor. That section of the U.S. Code allows the U.S. attorney general to make available to the heads of U.S. departments, including the Army, the services of U.S. prisoners to engage in labor, including "constructing or repairing roads, cleaning, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress." PRISONERS COULD ALSO BE ORDERED TO WORK FOR PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES. Who needs to pay for labor, when you can use the prison population for your slave labor? In America today anyone can be arrested for pretty much anything. Charges are optional, as long as you can be considered to be an enemy of the state. Having a dissenting opinion makes you fair game. Anyone can be thrown in prison, without trial or even a lawyer to advise them. Once an individual is in prison, they can and likely will be sent off to the "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" camps. The U.S. prison population is working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, "no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens." The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world's prison population, but only 5% of the world's people. From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was one million. Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000, according to reports. What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners? http://nstarzone.com/SYSTEM.html targeting political enemies - Bulletin claims militia may launch terrorist attacks on Patriots’ Day (Infowars) – A military bulletin called patriot groups and the militia “domestic extremists” who may launch terrorist attacks, a claim which follows a trend by the government to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists. The bulletin, an e-mail from a U.S. Coast Guard command security officer which was leaked to Infowars, lumped militia members and patriots with “white supremacists” and claimed they may launch terror attacks on April 19th because it is a “significant date to domestic extremists.” “Members of the patriot and militia movements, sovereign citizens and white supremacists recall April 19th as the date that the battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolution,” the bulletin read. “Citing (incorrectly) Title 10 USC references to the ‘unorganized militias’ and the constitutional right to bear arms, these groups believe that they are legally obligated to oppose the government should it become tyrannical.” - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf. The person who shared the bulletin with Infowars described it as unprecedented. The bulletin only adds to the growing concern over the military training to take on American citizens while the government continues to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists as “racists” and “extremists.” Over the past weekend, for example, the National Guard performed “civil unrest” drills in Richmond, Calif., which featured role players screaming right-wing rhetoric. - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf obama cult like following - Obama's cult of personality has turned US into 'a nation of enablers' By Charles Hoskinson \| February 13, 2014 \| 12:00 am Law professor Jonathan Turley said he's astonished by how passive Americans -- especially Democrats -- have been to President Obama's abuse of executive power, which he said has become so dangerous it's making the U.S. political system unstable. "I think that we've become a nation of enablers. We are turning a blind eye to a fundamental change in our system. I think many people will come to loathe that they remained silent during this period," Turley, who teaches at George Washington University, told Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the Left." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-cult-of-personality-has-turned-us-into-a-nation-of-enablers/article/2544003 is it really so hard to see whats happening here? Stalin blew those people up?

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/15/15 08:48 PM Edited by tomato86 on Fri 05/15/15 08:51 PM
no stalin is dead. but the whole boston bombing thing stinks. DHS just happening to be doing drills where people put bombs in bookbags? like come on. and the younger brother, i dont see any wound to his neck that would prevent him from speaking. so who really cut his throat? the proof is right there. him standing with his hands up with no wound to his neck. and as far as the older brother... there he is alive and well in handcuffs. i only showed the stalin thing as a comparison to america today. everything stalin did, has happened in america also. america has always been involved in false flag attacks.

ciretom Joined Wed 06/18/14 Posts: 4953	Fri 05/15/15 08:52 PM
Jury sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death I skimmed through the article but didn't really see anything regarding when. Does this mean about 20-70 years of federally funded life on death row? It just reminded me of this: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-0 and how it's becoming more likely that death row inmates will die of natural causes rather than execution.

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Sat 05/16/15 06:40 PM
Just an FYI about Stalin.. "Josef Stalin" wasn't even that douche canoe's real name. He changed it.. Josef Stalin translates to "Man of steel'.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Sat 05/16/15 09:19 PM
Just an FYI about Stalin.. "Josef Stalin" wasn't even that douche canoe's real name. He changed it.. Josef Stalin translates to "Man of steel'. yea, i heard something like that, dont remember what his original name was.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sun 05/17/15 12:44 AM
I wonder if he will be put to death? The feds execute people... His days are slim and numbered. Just look at Mcvey, he was dead in less then four years. The cops would have saved the tax payers a whole lot of time and money if they would have just put one in the back of his head instead of bringing him in alive.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sun 05/17/15 12:46 AM
The Soviet Union Under Joseph Stalin Starting in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower. His development plan was centered on government control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of farms. Millions of farmers refused to cooperate with Stalin’s orders and were shot or exiled as punishment. The forced collectivization also led to widespread famine across the Soviet Union that killed millions. Stalin ruled by terror and with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps. During the second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge, a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat. Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Union. Cities were renamed in his honor. Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life. He was the subject of flattering artwork, literature and music, and his name became part of the Soviet national anthem. His government also controlled the Soviet media. agriculture - On March 16, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order entitled, "NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS." Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwMT3dD This executive order states that the President alone has the authority to take over all resources in the nation (labor, food, industry, etc.) as long as it is done "to promote the national defense" -- a phrase so vague that it could mean practically anything. The power to seize control and take over these resources is delegated to the following government authorities: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer; Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply.html#ixzz3aFwUYZGU secret police - September 14, 2013 Snowden leaks reveal size of US Secret Police By Mark Wachtler September 14, 2013. (ONN) When Booz Allen Hamilton spy Edward Snowden leaked volumes of top secret government spy documents, it didn’t only expose the federal government’s spying on Americans and US allies. It also exposed for the first time exactly how many agencies, employees and money America’s spy apparatus enjoys. The list includes some surprising domestic spies. As it has always been for decades, specific yearly spending on America’s secret police is…a secret. But thanks to the recent intelligence leaks by Edward Snowden, the American people now know exactly how much money and manpower the federal government uses toward spying on Americans and the rest of the world. citizen spies - Stop the Government from Turning Neighbor Against Neighbor! In one of the most misguided responses to the terrorist attacks, President Bush is proposing a program to recruit one million volunteers to act as spies and informants against their neighbors. Initially, the proposed program would have recruited letter carriers, utility workers, cable installers and others whose jobs allow them access to private residences to report "suspicious" activity. Due to intense public outrage, the Administration has now announced a scaled back version that would exclude postal and utility workers. Despite what Attorney General Ashcroft and the Justice Department have said, the threat of this dangerous program, Operation TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System), has unfortunately not yet abated. As it stands now, TIPS would still recruit volunteers who work in the transportation, trucking, shipping, maritime, and mass transit industries. The only way to disable TIPS once and for all is through congressional action. https://www.aclu.org/stop-government-turning-neighbor-against-neighbor forced labor camps - SLAVE LABOR CAMPS IN AMERICA Detainment facilities are being and have been built on domestic US military bases for an emergency influx of prisoners. What kind of emergencies do they have in mind? Economic or natural disaster scenarios of course come to mind, but we must also face the everyday reality of the police state that we are living in RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. The "Military Commissions Act of 2006" effectively did away with Habeas Corpus. If you are considered to be an enemy of the state, through action or otherwise, you could be thrown in prison. Let's not forget that the pseudo-trial that you may receive will have evidence of your own confessions perhaps given up during torture, although perhaps not torture by the new definition. Also, the US Army Regulation 210-35 "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" plays a major role in the ramping up of the police state. The "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" is a revision of the regulation passed and signed by Bill Clinton in 1997. 210-35 is currently valid and fully operative. The regulations specify that army personnel running the prison camps will prepare an "Inmate Labor Plan" that will comply with 18 U.S.C. 4125(a), governing civilian inmate labor. That section of the U.S. Code allows the U.S. attorney general to make available to the heads of U.S. departments, including the Army, the services of U.S. prisoners to engage in labor, including "constructing or repairing roads, cleaning, maintaining and reforesting public lands, building levees and constructing or repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress." PRISONERS COULD ALSO BE ORDERED TO WORK FOR PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES. Who needs to pay for labor, when you can use the prison population for your slave labor? In America today anyone can be arrested for pretty much anything. Charges are optional, as long as you can be considered to be an enemy of the state. Having a dissenting opinion makes you fair game. Anyone can be thrown in prison, without trial or even a lawyer to advise them. Once an individual is in prison, they can and likely will be sent off to the "Civilian Inmate Labor Program" camps. The U.S. prison population is working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. There are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons throughout the country. According to California Prison Focus, "no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens." The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. Statistics reveal that the United States holds 25% of the world's prison population, but only 5% of the world's people. From less than 300,000 inmates in 1972, the jail population grew to 2 million by the year 2000. In 1990 it was one million. Ten years ago there were only five private prisons in the country, with a population of 2,000 inmates; now, there are 100, with 62,000 inmates. It is expected that by the coming decade, the number will hit 360,000, according to reports. What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners? http://nstarzone.com/SYSTEM.html targeting political enemies - Bulletin claims militia may launch terrorist attacks on Patriots’ Day (Infowars) – A military bulletin called patriot groups and the militia “domestic extremists” who may launch terrorist attacks, a claim which follows a trend by the government to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists. The bulletin, an e-mail from a U.S. Coast Guard command security officer which was leaked to Infowars, lumped militia members and patriots with “white supremacists” and claimed they may launch terror attacks on April 19th because it is a “significant date to domestic extremists.” “Members of the patriot and militia movements, sovereign citizens and white supremacists recall April 19th as the date that the battles of Lexington and Concord started the American Revolution,” the bulletin read. “Citing (incorrectly) Title 10 USC references to the ‘unorganized militias’ and the constitutional right to bear arms, these groups believe that they are legally obligated to oppose the government should it become tyrannical.” - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf. The person who shared the bulletin with Infowars described it as unprecedented. The bulletin only adds to the growing concern over the military training to take on American citizens while the government continues to demonize libertarians and constitutionalists as “racists” and “extremists.” Over the past weekend, for example, the National Guard performed “civil unrest” drills in Richmond, Calif., which featured role players screaming right-wing rhetoric. - See more at: http://www.teaparty.org/military-bulletin-labels-patriot-groups-militia-domestic-terrorists-94531/#sthash.zkDwJwAU.dpuf obama cult like following - Obama's cult of personality has turned US into 'a nation of enablers' By Charles Hoskinson \| February 13, 2014 \| 12:00 am Law professor Jonathan Turley said he's astonished by how passive Americans -- especially Democrats -- have been to President Obama's abuse of executive power, which he said has become so dangerous it's making the U.S. political system unstable. "I think that we've become a nation of enablers. We are turning a blind eye to a fundamental change in our system. I think many people will come to loathe that they remained silent during this period," Turley, who teaches at George Washington University, told Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday. "I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the Left." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-cult-of-personality-has-turned-us-into-a-nation-of-enablers/article/2544003 is it really so hard to see whats happening here? Stalin blew those people up? Don't feed the troll.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sun 05/17/15 12:50 AM
Now I have heard it all. According to the truthers the Government was behind Boston now too. They are just desperate to twist anything they can into the Governments fault.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Sun 05/17/15 01:19 AM
Now I have heard it all. According to the truthers the Government was behind Boston now too. They are just desperate to twist anything they can into the Governments fault. evidence speaks for itself, DHS just happened to be running drills with people having bombs in backpacks. gov. said younger brother had a wound to his throat that prevented him from talking, LOOK AT THE PICTURE you moron. theres nothing wrong with his neck! how gullible can you be, THERES PROOF LOOK AT THE PICTURE! so he didnt have the wound when they found him, which means someone did it after he was captured to prevent his from speaking. older brother was killed in shootout, THERES A PICTURE OF HIM IN HANDCUFFS YOU MORON, seriously how dumb can you be? and there just happened to be private security guys with the same backpacks as the terrorists. and after the bombs went off, videos show the tsarnaev brothers with backpacks still on, but yet the guys from craft are missing their packs. and the boston globe tweet about controlled explosion 1)A Drill was being performed Marathon participate Alastair Stevenson Stated “They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that were running a drill”. He also confirms that had bomb sniffing dogs and people on roof tops. 2)Then there is the tweet by the Boston Globe at 12:53 controlled explosion on 600block of Boylston st 3)DHS was conducting Operation Urban Shield a drill that was centered around a right wing militia group called the “Free American Citizens” which was reported by the Boston Globe who received the documents. Mayors office and Gov. Deval Patrick stated they had no specific Knowledge of a drill. If there isn’t any knowledge of drill why does the Boston Globe have the documents and why is there evidence of a drill. If a DHS drill is being ran the mayor’s office and BPD definitely would’ve known about it. Link below proof of the drill http://www.storyleak.com/dhs-boston-training-drill-backpack-explosives/ 4) Tsaernev brothers walked right past agents who where talking into sleeve and the younger Tsaernev still had his backpack on after explosion, here is video showing the Craft International agent left the scene running with no backpack on. Crafts mercenary backpack looks heavy and looks similar to the one that was used in bombing. 5) Abdul Alharbi a Saudi national who was once a suspect in bombing and one time on most dangerous list, was even visited by Michelle Obama in hospital and shows up at White House for 4th of July festivities. Lets get this straight Mrs Obama visited a terror suspect in the hospital that in its self is mind boggling. 6)Tamarlen Tsarnaev ‘s Mother claims FBI was following them for up to 5 years 7)Debka file out of Israel claims brothers where double agents and where allowed to travel to training camps in Dagestan. 8)Their uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev who was making a whole bunch of claims against the boys was married to former CIA head Grant Fuller’s daughter divorced in 2004. Fuller was the architect and mastermind behind the fundamentalists Mujahideen( Al Qaeda) and the war against the Soviets, and his whole job in the 80s was to create a global jihadi network. Wow you can’t make this up, link below. 9)Tamerlain Tsarnaev’s aunt Maret in several interviews claims her nephew was the naked man being arrested by authorities, while the media reported he was killed in a police shootout, If he was alive when the police arrested him then he had to been murdered after he was arrested. 10)Then there is the shootout with Dzhokhar while he was hiding in the boat, the police claimed he had a weapon and had exchanged fire with them, and shot himself in throat. That was a lie, they fired more than 100 round in a residential neighborhood at an unarmed man talk about reckless. The Mirror “Reports say the bullet passed through his throat, just missing his spinal cord, and came out the back of his neck.” This is the photo below showing there is no throat wound. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick spoke at a press conference claiming he was shot in throat and bullet exited through his neck. If the local news helicopters not have been there then this lie might not have come out. there he is, no wound to the neck! 11)Don’t forget about Ibragim Todashev 27 year old in Florida, friend of Tamarlen Tsarnaev who was shot 7 times by the FBI while being questioned about the bombing and a homicide from 2011. Initially reported Todashev and friend where being questioned, he lunged with a knife that’s when he was shot by undisclosed agent claiming self defense. Then came out that was a lie. “FBI sources say Ibragim Todashev, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamarlen Tsarnaev, was unarmed when he was shot and killed by an FBI agent during questioning at an Orlando apartment last week,” says an Orlando television station ACLU has filed suit against FBI on behalf of Todashev. These are just a few facts amongst many more that are extremely cloudy and if we are being told lie after lie how can we believe any of them.Who knows if any of what we’ve been told is the truth or a lie but it is healthy to be skeptical and to ask questions. You make your own conclusions about what happened on this tragic event one year ago to this day. Please look at all the links posted and do your own research. http://thedailyresistance.com/11-facts-about-the-boston-bombing-media-wont-talk-about-it/ theres the link, with all the photos and videos to back up what they are saying.