The Zenzoid Files

Crisis creation; crisis solution: this is a favorite tactic that governments around the globe have, at one time or another, unleashed on its citizen-victims… and the Ameedican gubmint has taken it to a fine art. Jim Babka, of DownsizeDC.org, nails it right on:

Please share with concerned friends . . .

Subject: Making illegal things legal using fear and fraud, plus other urgent stuff

President Bush wants Congress to legalize his illegal spying on Americans. The current vehicle for doing this is HR 3138. The fuel for driving this vehicle is fear and fraud.

Recently, the TSA reported that terrorists have been conducting dry runs in airports preparatory to a new attack. These supposed dry runs were no such thing. One involved a leaky ice-bottle, the other involved Wisconsin cheese in a suitcase next to cell phone equipment.

The TSA determined immediately that they were NOT dry runs, but a report was leaked to the media saying the exact opposite. We assert that these false reports were designed to induce fear.

If Americans can be made to feel fear, another power grab can be justified. Legalizing illegal spying is the power grab that’s on the table at the moment. There’s a push to pass HR 3138 before the Congressional recess. If we can keep this from happening now we have a great chance of preventing it forever.

Reject fear. Reject fraud. Make Congress fear you instead. Send them a message telling them you oppose HR 3138.

The campaign we have for this issue is somewhat obsolete, and we don’t have time to update it. But it doesn’t matter — you can still use it to send a message to Congress. Just add to your personal comments that you oppose HR 3138.

You can send your message here.

Meanwhile, the heat is still on with regard to the two issues we mentioned yesterday. We need to keep telling Congress that they must NOT add grassroots regulations to the ethics bill.

You can do that here.

We must also keep telling Congress we want them to restore habeas corpus and dismantle the military tribunals. Tell them you support . . .

* S. 576 to dismantle the military tribunals
* S. 185 to restore habeas corpus

You can do that here.

Time is short. Votes are near. Please hit Congress on all three issues if you possibly can.

Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light, nearer than my wife, father, mother, daughter, son or friend. I live in Him, soul and body. I breathe in Him, think in Him, feel, consider, intend, speak, undertake, work in Him. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being’ (Acts 17:28).

St. John of Kronstadt
“My Life in Christ”

True wisdom is gazing at God. Gazing at God is silence of the thoughts. Stillness of mind is tranquillity which comes from discernment.

St. Isaac the Syrian

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Hiked up Edmands path and then picked up the southern saints from Ignatius, Theodosia, Neon, and traversed around Sava. Returned the same way. Caught the sunset show while hiking back from Neon to Ignatius. (More about the Saints Range of the White Mountains here.)

Some views from the top below. For most of these, the ooo-ahh effect is enhanced in the larger-sized photo, which you can see if you click the pic. And you can see the rest of the pics here.

Blue Ripples

Tuckerman’s Ravine at the Top

North View at Dusk

Profile of Some Northern Saints

Orange Dusk

Blue Dusk

Half Empty or Half Full?

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