dude, it’s been a rockstar few weeks in minnesnowta. the state fair just rolled through, the republicans had their little convention, and rage against the machine played. yeah, rage against the machine.

i usually tell people that minneapolis and saint paul are like big cities nobody has moved into, yet. they look like big cities, but traffic isn’t that bad (i’m looking at you, bay bridge), and it’s mostly just half-rich white kids getting bored and causing trouble. that safe feeling fully eroded after seeing what the police had done to our cities.

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since last saturday, 422 people have been arrested in association with the RNC, with like 280 of them happening on monday. some of those rowdy rousers were the anarchist type, and you know how dumb breeds dumb. a mini riot broke out on monday, and that set the tone for the rest of the week.

the rage concert was ok. i wish i could say it was great, but the acoustics sucked. not their fault, but at $72 a ticket, i want my f*cking acoustics. rage played a lot from the first album, a few less from evil empire, and even less from battle of la. i was ok with that. single encore, then a plea from the band to “leave peacefully, but not passively.” zach encouraged everyone to show discipline, to show the police that we can get down in peace while still saying “f*ck you, i won’t do whatchu tell me.” yeah, it’s ironic, but get over it. it’s still possible.

the papers said we were greeted outside the concert by about 50 riot police. unless they meant “per sidewalk,” that number was a bit low. whatever. point is, unless you’re insanely drunk (i wasn’t), there’s no way you can walk past that many armed and armored police and feel like sneezing won’t get you your sheat beat down.

it took about a half hour before any half-assed protest broke out. the loudest kids didn’t like being told they couldn’t sit in the middle of the street (me: let evolution do its thing). the rest of us just didn’t like the idea of being told you can’t stand on this sidewalk by police in riot gear (and now gas masks). the police stopped us about half way down the block.

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after some fat guy yelling through a loudspeaker about as clear as they do at the airport, the police blockade broke down. someone in the group said “walk that way” and everyone did. and we kept walking, probably about a few blocks, in the road, mostly because it was cleared. as soon as the block wasn’t cleared of traffic, these retired american gladiator cops on schwinns started riding people down, shoving them to the sidewalk, and almost getting a couple of the crowd to push back on them. dude, i know there are good cops, but some of the cops out that night had that look like “say what again mother f*cker.”

somewhere between the schwinns and the cops on super horses, 3 little piggies came riding up on one of those atv golf carts (didn’t see any segways) with that short stubby looking thing that usually shoots tear gas. after we heard the pop pop, we looked for the area with the least amount of cops, ran, and gtfo. police said it wasn’t tear gas, but, they were the ones wearing the gas masks.

hey man, there’s usually not shi*t to talk about in minnesota.

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....FOR FREEDOM!!!

 “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. –George Orwell

The year is 1913, Woodrow Wilson is president, and powerful banking interests, who have been trying for year, finally achieved their long term goal, of silently taking control of the American government.

     The first thing the did to accomplish their take over was convince secretary of state, Flan Denox, to lie to the American people, and tell them that the 16^th amendment [Income Tax Amendment] had been legally ratified by the states when it was not. The bankers knew that this tax would ultimately end up in their pockets.

     Because of this fraud the American people were led to believe there was a tax on their labor. Congress and the President ARE completely aware of this fraud and it was cited in a recent court case:

“If you… examined [the 16^th amendment] carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states ratified that amendment.” -U.S. District Court Judge, James C. Fox, 2003

That very same year [1913] the bankers committed their second, and by far most diabolical fraud ever perpetrated on the American people, by bribing senators to pass the Federal Reserve Act, without the required Constitutional amendment. They did this during Christmas vacation, when many senators where home celebrating Christmas with their families.

     And that is how the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act came into being. They were very clever, and understood that who ever issued the money for America controlled the government.

“Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Mayer Rothschild, Private Banker

President Wilson, who signed the Federal Reserve Act later said in regret:

“I’m a most unhappy man; I have unwittingly ruined my country a great industrial nation is now controlled by a system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinions and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Woodrow Wilson, 1919

How did America transform from being a truly free country with a servant government where our individual rights are protected by our Constitution, to being a country that talked about being free but really wasn’t?

     The change started when the Federal Reserve came into existence, and America adopted one of the major planks of the Communist Manifesto by creating for America this central bank.

     The very same people that back the Federal Reserve System also back the graduated income tax, a second plank from the Communist Manifesto.

     And now our Congress so dominated by the banks, is helping them entrap people even further by passing new Bankruptcy Laws making it more difficult for the people to declare bankruptcy and get a fresh start.

“Who controls money controls the world.” -Henry Kissinger, Council of Foreign Relations

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*President Bush has signed executive orders give him sole authority to impose martial law and suspending Habeas Corpus. This gives him dictatorial power over the people without any checks or balances.

*The government can jail you for life without charges, without trial, and without a lawyer.

*Because of globalization the U.S. must accept other nations’ laws. Under the CAFTA treaty the sale of vitamins and supplements will be illegal.

*Executive Order# 10999: Allows the government to take over all modes of transportation.

*Executive Order# 11000: Allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

* Executive Order# 11921: Provides that the president can declare a state of emergency that is not defined and Congress cannot review the action for six months.

*Senate Bill# 1873: Allows the government to vaccinate you with untested vaccines against your will.

*The FDA says: Americans do not have a right to know which foods are genetically modified.

*Congressman Sensenbrenner’s Bill (HR1528): Requires you to spy on you neighbors including wearing a wire. Refusal would be punishable by a mandatory prison sentence of at least two years.

*The government claims the power to seize all financial interments: gold, silver, and everything else if they deem an emergence exists. –treasury department letter, Aug. 12, 2005

*There are 190 countries in the world; American has bases in 130 them.

The Patriot Act permits:

*Secret FBI and police searches of your home and office.

*Secret government wiretaps on you phone, computer and/or internet activity.

*Secret investigations of your bank record, credit cards and other financial records.

*Secret investigations of your library and book activities.

*Secret examinations of your metical, travel and business records.

*The freezing of funds and assets without prior notice or appeal.

*The creation of secret watch lists that ban those named from air and other travel.

“The Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper.” -George W. Bush, Nov. 2005, Capitol Hill Blue

During the 1990’s President Clinton monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens. He did this under a secret program code named: Echelon. The wide spread use of wire tapping Americans during the Clinton administration proves that this practice was not started because of 9/11 but is standard procedure.

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The new legislation for the national ID card is in and takes three to for pages to describe. It will be connected to our driver’s licenses and Social security numbers. A physical ID such as finger prints or retinal print will be on it.

This law known as the Real ID Act takes effect in May 2008. Anyone with out a card will not be permitted to board an air plain, Amtrak train, open a bank account, or enter a federal building.

The bill mandates that all drivers’ licenses contain “common readable technology. A radio frequency identification (RFID) chip will be used.

“It is time to wake up America. Those ID cards are NOT about defeating terrorism, they are all about controlling the American people.” -Aaron Russo

The latest technology for identifying people when they make purchases is the implantable chip that can be directly imbedded into human flesh. Its tiny glass capsule is about the size if a grain if rice. It contains an RFID computer chip with a coiled antenna.

Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and others have expressed great interest in being able to more closely monitor the American people. And one way to do that would be to determine who buys what and where they take these things.

     Radio frequency can travel through walls, wood, the things we normally rely on to protect our privacy. For example your backpack, your pocket, anything you’re wearing or carrying.

     They were talking about having reader devices in every airport, on every bus, every train, on every port and every dock.

     One of the most worrisome applications of RFID is proposals to put in cash. Meaning that you’d be able to track every bank note, where it has been, who it has been issued to, and create an essence an audit trail that would essentially take away the anonymity of cash, that we enjoy today.

     The ATM machine itself, as the money came through the roller device, would be reading each number. And it would know who you are; of course you identify yourself at banks or ATMs. And the ATM would tag the number, and transfer the possession name from, say Bank of America to Joe Jones.

     Once every thing you do is tied down to a single number, and there is no longer the option to pay with cash, then all it takes to render you a non citizen is to simply turn you chip off. Then you won’t be able to participate in ant function in society, including buy food.  

     Through the implementation of the Federal Reserve System, the American citizen has gone from being a private individual who had real money, and gold in possession that was private, to a citizen who has no privacy because all money is now being digitized. They can deduct however amount of money they want out of your digits when ever they want, and they can trace you when ever they want. You’ll be at there mercy. God forbid we allow this to happen in America. 

“This is outrageous! I mean your talking about the government looking over your shoulder at absolutely everything you do, every purchase you make, every place you go, every company you interact with, would be recorded back to potentially the government.” -Katherine Albrecht, author of “Spy Chips”

Have we become so controlled and ignorant about our rights, that big institution and big governments can do whatever they want with us even with out our approval?

I know for certain that our founding fathers would resist to the death what is happening in America today. And I for one will not accept a national ID card. And if nobody accepts a national ID card, and nobody can board a plain without one, then let the airlines go bankrupt. And if you can’t open an account in a big national bank, then open one in a small local bank. And if we can’t walk into a federal building, I’d personally consider that a blessing.

Don’t allow these institutions to dictate to us how we conduct our lives. This is America, and we have free choice! We the people have the power not the government. The government gets its power from us, not the other way around.

Think of all the men and women that died in all our wars fighting for freedom, not Federal Reserve bankers. Do you think they sacrificed their lives so America could get chipped like a dog, so we can all have homing devices inside us? NO! This ID card is the last step before they implant us, and that is precisely the reason no one should accept one.

And you know what they’re going to do? They’re going to call in the propaganda machine, the media, and try to sell this RFID chip as if it was in everybody’s best interest.

“We shall have a world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether the world government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” -Paul Warburg, architect of the Federal Reserve System, 1950

The central bankers of the world are working together to create a one world government. A global police sinister was the only thing George Orwell ever wrote about. Where every person on the planet Earth will have an RFID chip implant, where the bankers and the governments have access to every transaction you make.

A chip in every in everybody would be the universal monitory system, because there would be no escape from it.

Most people don’t have a clue that these unelected private bankers, actually control the governments of the world. They have actually financed and profited from ever war since World War I, without concern for humanity. The war in Iraq is an attempt by the Federal Reserve and their partner the Bank of England to control the middle east, and make it part of the new world order.

“Military men are just dumb stupid animals, to be used as pawn in foreign policies.” -Henry Kissinger

     The war on terrorism is the war on your freedom.

“The bankers own take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take away the power to create money, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear and ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in.

But if you wish to remain slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money.” - Sir Josiah Stamp, former director of the Bank of England

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.

     It would have been impossible for us to develop our plans for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination, practiced in past centuries.” 

-David Rockefeller, private banker, council on foreign relations, June 1991

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” -Felix Frankfuter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” -Henry Ford

     Now that you do understand what happened in 1913, and how it is leading to world government, the future depends on you. Will you choose freedom or slavery? Stop living in fear of your government. Government is the servant. We are the masters.

So what are you going to do about it? Join together in civil disobedience. Be willing to take part in nationwide strikes, boycotts, and marches on Washington. Force Congress to use their power to shut down the Federal Reserve. Government has authority to issue money, without paying interest to the bankers. This will take away the power to control our government from the bankers. Only vote for candidates who have signed an affidavit to shut down the Federal Reserve System and stop world government.

If you are in the military or law enforcement, remember you swore an oath to defend the American Constitution. You didn’t swear an oath to promote world government. Honor your Oath.

DONOT accept the national ID card, even if it’s your drivers’ license. We must demand that the American peoples gold be audited, and make certain that it has not been stolen. This asset must be returned to the American people.

Abolish computer voting in the state where you live. Stop being a good Democrat, stop being a good Republican, start being good Americans.

And when the media starts telling you that the country will fall apart if this is done, don’t be fooled. This is just the Federal Reserve trying to save itself. Squash it!

“I like the old idea, where you could do what you thought you could do and what you wanted to do as long as you didn’t hurt anyone.”

 -Ron Paul

If you believe in civil disobedience and wish to organize with millions of Americans in this battle for liberty, please sign up at freedomtofascism.com, and if you choose not to help, report to Central Services immediately and we will have you fitted for an RFID chip… for you own safety, of course.

”We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
-Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

 Uninted we stand, Divided we fall.

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MY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM

Alan Perry

FIRST A SHORT ESSAY

A problem in one’s thinking or living can be magnified when thought about too much. Lamenting mistakes and accepting that one will make more blunders heavily affect self-image. Because this is a part of my personal philosophy my main problem is denying I have any issues. My way of life is perfect for my mindset. Anyone who tells me otherwise is the colonial English in Africa. However prizing my judgment over that of all others sometimes gets me in trouble. It is important that I learn to value the opinions of others as much as my own beliefs. In the meantime I will just forget that I sometimes discredit other people and it might stop.  

Self-fulfilling prophecies make up one’s life. When one talks or thinks about one’s self he or she paints a picture of personality. People with low self-esteem often talk about how many problems they have. Telling another person that one has an issue allows that problem to become part of the picture. People with drug problems worry all the time that they are dependent on substances. Possibly just through concern over a problem one is more drawn to the issue. If I sat around all day worrying that I have trouble getting work done I would have never completed this essay. Sadly because I thought I could just write this up in a jiffy I may of overlooked something. Those who believe they are always in the right make more mistakes then the truly self-conscious. Because I rarely ask for help or clarity I did not know if this essay required any examples from other writings. Some people scream when they see spiders or tell people they have problems peeing. My big problem is that if this essay is without a bibliography it might receive less credit. However because my words are all my own I really should be in the clear.

My only problem is I have very few self-proclaimed problems. Some people acknowledge their problems and find they repeat mistakes regardless. I try not to ask for help because I do not want to be dependant on it. Not having much help opens the door for creativity but it can cause blunders as well. In school my ability to take direction overshadows my ability to take directions and I go without guidelines. Creative environments thrive on this kind of thinking. However, in a capitalist society such an ideology is social suicide (Or so you would think)

Now The Real Story

The answer to my problem resides within the thought that my ideology is social suicide. Until my eighteenth birthday on June 16^th 2007 my ideas were simply the ideas of a confused teenager. However, now it is important that I speak only what I know to be true and not what I think might be going on. A personal statement was asked of me when I applied to university and I wrote the truth. What I did not know was that this personal statement was not sent by the University but by the RCMP. I only know this now because I have come to terms with my past in the last three days. If my days at UPEI were the final puzzle pieces in what investigators would call the most elaborate sting in the history of man I give the administration kudos on it’s fine work. Most of the allegations against me are those of the people who would not like to be implicated. Another whole bunch of allegations are myths, unless I have video evidence I cannot imagine doing any of the things people have taken from me in points of weakness and delusion. People I wanted to be mentored by never took me seriously because I thought I was normal. When I was attending Master’s Academy all I knew was that people didn’t like me even though they didn’t know me. I could never get a strait answer so I made up a very bad persona. Now I had something to work myself back from so that maybe people would accept me. Of coarse people pretended to accept this like people had pretended to accept me for my entire life. I have no idea how long it took me to go from Junior High to high school. I remember writing the tests but being unsure about the answers, but somehow I passed. The movies I like are all movies about a stranger who did not fit in society. My all time favorite movie is an Adam Sandler movie about a young man who never went to school and when he wanted to go he was sent knowingly into an environment that he was not accepted in. But when people would ask me why I liked the movie I could never come up with an answer. My parents always told me they didn’t like Adam Sandler, but they could not produce a tangible explanation either. 

My only memory of kindergarten is being able to count higher than all the other kids. In grade one I could not understand why I thought girls were so interesting when everybody else hated them. I was in choir and enjoyed it but people told me I was gay and crazy and I thought it was because I wanted to sing. I never wanted to be a singer, or a trained money making machine but I was defiantly indoctrinated with those ideas. I never understood why my teachers would take me out of class and tell me about all my potential. I did not even understand what the word meant. All I know is that I lived with my parents Brien and Peggy who loved me so much it seemed like a joke. Paranoia was and still is my reality. Of coarse my parents have been asked if what I say is true and they look at you with horribly sad eyes and deny it. It’s the same way I have glared gloomily into the eyes of the people in this world who have lied to me. This puppy dog eye look had become a common thing in today’s youth because it gets them what they want. I always knew a man could not do such things and get away with it but I was young and able to make mistakes. I remember know my parents asking me if I wanted to meet Samual L. Jackson. I refused at the time because I thought he was just coming to Calgary to see if what people said about me was true. Of coarse when I actually did meet him I was scarred because my parents took me on what I thought was a birthday dinner. Of coarse Samual L. Jackson was there, sitting close to our table, most likely with ears as open as can be. I just walked right up to him and told him that I thought he was a great man. When he heard me say that I liked him in pulp fiction one of the women with him cried out “lame!”. I quickly thought to change my approach because it was obvious my current one was not right. So I told Mr. Jackson that his performance in Star Wars was better, how could I? Oh it was easy, I had just been re-brainwashed into believing I was going for my birthday lunch. 

I am going to walk back to UPEI now but I will probably be picked up on the way. They will kill me in prison it’s all over TV, at first I had to be indoctrinated with the great Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, They made me believe I was really getting an education. People laughed at me when I said I was going to UPEI but I thought it was because it was not a respected school. But no, it is a respected school because it is supposed to be the place that brought the dangerous criminal Alan Perry to Justice. If you are reading this I am most likely dead or waiting to stand trial.  Sadly because I have relized this finally they probably won't give me a trial. 

I will never drink or do drugs again no matter what a drill sergeant or a Nazi, Darwinist, Rapist, Policeman says or does to me. You have broke my spirit by feeding me false kindness good work gentlemen. 

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 My favorite skater right now.

 

RIP KURT!!

 

 

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I was in San Franciso last week with Stacey visiting Dad, cos he was there for a conference.    here are 9 things I noticed about San Francisco.

1. pretty much the first thing we did was the most touristy thing we could, which was head to Fisherman's Wharf.  The best part about Fisherman's Wharf is all the carnie food they have .. Hot dogs, chili dogs, popcorn, the works.  I had some clam chowder in a sour dough bread bowl, I don't know what clam chowder is but it was pretty good.  There is a homeless guy called 'bushman' who is kindof a busker/street performer.  He camoflages himself as a bush, and when people walk past he jumps up & scares them, it was pretty hilarious.  People would pay him $5 to get their photo taken with him.  We got a ferry ride around the bay, the tour guide was telling us there was a massive earthquake in the 1930s.  Afterwards a woman tried to make breakfast on her broken stove, it caused a massive fire which eventually burned 70% of all the buildings in San Francisco.  It's known as the Great Bacon & Eggs fire of 1930.  Going under the Golden Gate bridge & looking up was phenomenal.  It's massive, and orange.   In comparison I thought Alcatrez looked pretty small, it's about the same size as our subdivision.  
   
2. I had one job to do in San Francisco - I had to get a bag of sand for my liittle brother cos hes studying geology.  Pretty easy right, it's San Francisco,  I literally thought the hotel would be a 5 minute walk from the nearest beach.  Well apparently there aren't any beaches, theres one really small beach near Fisherman's Wharf, and another beach on the west side of the bay.  So I never got any sand unfortunately,  but to be honest I wasn't too ecsatic about coming back into Canada with a bag of sand anyway.
3. On Wednesday morning we went for a walk down Market Street & we saw a genuine anti-war protest rally, with real hippies and anti-Bush posters. A lady in her 60s gave me a flyer saying why the troops in Iraq should be brought home.  the California police don't mess around, there were probably 200 protesters, and about 50 policemen, with riot gear & big machine guns. and the police have those kickass black and white police cars, they look a lot more intimidating than the Toronto police.
4. Afterwards we walked around Chinatown and Japan Town for a bit, then we got the Bart train to the Golden Gate bridge, we walked about a third of the way across … it's too bad you can't walk across one way, and then get a train back.  We got Mexican for dinner, we must have chosen the cheesiest restaurant possible, there were Mexican guys with somberos playing guantanamera, but the food was grouse enough.
5. we were watching the 10 oclock news when the newsreader came on and said 'by the way, if you just felt the ground move, you didn't imagine it, a earthquake measuring 2.4 was just reported near san some-place.' I never felt it, but it seemed pretty big, 2.4. Stacey goes 'thats on a scale of 1 to 5 right?', and I said 'ahh ... yeh it is'.
6. I did some shopping, I went to the big Apple Store to check out the Apple TV, and I got a fancy tie & shoes for prom from Macys.  I also knicked into Borders to get a book for the flight home, (I got Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut). When I went to pay for it, it was $15.27, so I gave the guy a $20, 25c, and 2 pennies. The guy gave me the pennies back and said 'you can have these, do you have any American pennies' ... I'd given him Canadian ones. I thought it was a bit cheeky to make a big deal about 2 pennies.
7. I was surprised at how short Californians are, I don't think I saw 5 people over 6 foot, most people were an inch or two taller than me, so that was pretty sweet.
8. The light bulbs in California are bright!!  The bulb in our hotel room was 250W (the light in my bedroom is only 70W, though there are 3 of them).  The lights were so bright, it felt like the sun was shining.
   
9. here in Canada you can turn right on a red light (if you stop & give way).  I don't think they have that law in California, cos a few times we were waiting for cars to turn & they just sat there.  and the drivers in California were WAY polite about giving way to pedestrians.  it got to the point we were waving drivers to go ahead, & they'd just shake their head & wave for us to go ahead and cross.

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