aaron schwartz, julian assange, edward snowden, chelsea manning - the deeper story

netherlands update

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What is the most important thing in the world that you feel you should be working on? Are you working on it? If not, why not?” Aaron Schwartz

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Although this quote is widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the language is too contemporary for him to have said this and the quote does not appear in any of his writings. However, it does capture the tone of this piece.

Welcome back all of you wild and woolly freedom loving, knowledge seeking heretics! Freedom is knowledge and knowledge is freedom. What are you waiting for? Let’s straighten our backs and start working on it!

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netherlands note

A reader, well versed in the world food situation, sent me a link to an article in the Children’s Health Defense Newsletter. Although this is one of numerous newsletters I subscribe to, I somehow missed this one.

The article is by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler and includes this tweet by RFK Jr.

“We should reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and make the chemical industry pay for nitrogen pollution, instead of criminalizing farmers trapped in a chemical treadmill by the industrial agriculture model."https://t.co/nE3Q7JMohZ

While I agree that the farmers are not the guilty parties, RFK Jr. doesn’t seem to understand that chemical fertilizers are not needed - at all - to produce food.

As I hope I’ve made clear in a number of recent articles, there are many regenerative solutions to the modern, energy intensive, techno-centric, chemical based, globalist farming model.

Lyons-Weiler goes on to correctly point out that the solution is not to punish farmers with harsh sanctions but to incentivize them to move to sustainable options (an idea I put forth in this earlier piece). However, his idea of a ‘sustainable solution’ completely misses the point: “They could be paid to sow wildflowers and plant groves of trees that can increase biodiversity”. It would seem that Lyons-Weiler knows nothing about farming. Livestock farmers don’t want to grow flowers and trees, they want to do what they’re passionate about, and the Dutch farmers are passionate about cattle and pigs. Furthermore, it seems that Lyons-Wieler doesn’t even realize (or does he?) that his suggestion amounts to another form of subsidizing farmers not to farm, which would serve to exacerbate starvation. Does he work for the WEF?

Seriously. Returning farm land to flowers and trees sounds like another version of the overall WEF plan to replace humanity with wilderness. Don’t get me wrong, there are few people that love hiking in wilderness areas more that I do. But more than that, I love regenrative farming and I don’t want to see people starving to death.

Regenerative farming, as practiced by those who are leading the way here in the US, not only eliminates the need for the current chemical farming model, it also incorporates a focus on local markets that further reduces the need to operate within the globalist model.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think global trade should be completely shut down. I foresee a day when sleek, modern sailing ships once again take advantage of the natural energy of earths solar powered winds to ply the seas delivering essential goods like dried meats, textiles and other artisanal goods around the world.

As I mentioned here, if the Netherlands took all of the farm land currently devoted to growing grains and beans to feed to cattle and pigs in CAFOS, and converted that land to complex, mixed pastures and incorporated cattle, pigs and chickens into rotational grazing programs on those pastures, they could raise the same amount of food without the need for any form of chemical fertilizer. This would allow Dutch farmers to continue to do what they love, and keep their markets. That solution would not only regenerate fertility in the soil, it would also clean up their nitrogen problems. Perhaps more importantly, this regenerative system would produce dried meat products that are nutritionally superior to those produced in the artificial, globalist, CAFO model, to which far too many Dutch farmers are now beholding.

But, as I pointed out in that earlier piece, cleaning up nitrogen, making farmers less dependent on the globalist model and producing healthy food are not the goals of Rutte and his fellow WEF globalists running the show in the Netherlands. Taking land, engendering mass starvation and gaining ever more control are the real goals.

onward

Perhaps a year ago I mentioned an organization known as the Friends of the Original Constitution. I originally brought them up because they have a lawsuit in the works against the current tyrannical elites who have imposed the unconstitutional events of the past several years upon us. I’ve been getting their newsletter since then and I want to lay a foundation for this post with some quotes from the author of the newsletter, Brad Erickson.

“One only needs to briefly examine Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the Federal Reserve to see the manipulation of our People and our country.  The history of the misuse of our Foundation, our Constitution, can be heard daily as we hear people say “we are a Democracy”…We are NOT a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.  The use of the word Democracy is used repeatedly in our schools, popular shows, and internet channels.”

“A majority rule or mob rule (pure democracy) is not a great way to govern unless you are the dictator or the CORPORATION that controls the mob. It’s a difficult thing to convince many who have been conditioned their entire lifetime into believing we live in a “democracy,” but the reality is that the only thing that will save this country is the return to the original Constitutional Republic form of government.”

The Declaration of Independence listed all the grievances the 13 original colonies had with King George, his tyrannical monarchy and his taxation without representation. Brad Erickson again - “It declared their intent to free themselves from “the long train of abuses and usurpations…(and) absolute Despotism…(and) their right…their duty, to throw off such Government.”

I’ve mentioned before how the current relationship between government and big business in the US is more akin to fascism than either a democracy or a Constitutional Republic. Corporations have now captured so many aspects of Western Society that we now have a de facto fascist, corporate/government state running our lives. One only need look at the close ties between big pharma cartels and the Trump/Biden programs to develop, advertise, pay for and distribute covid jabs, all of which made big pharma execs and their share holders extremely wealthy. That, my friends, is fascism hard at work.

I’ve also talked in the past about how the pharmaceutical industry is by far and away the most powerful - in terms of lobbyists on capital hill - of them all. Big pharma has twice as many lobbyists as its nearest competitor, big oil.

Our regulatory agencies are also in on it - they no longer work on our behalf. Leaders of those agencies represent some of the primary actors of the deep state. Administrations come and go but people like Anthony Fuaci remain behind and gain ever more power. We all watched with morbid fascination as Fauci dictated covid terms to Trump and… Trump complied.

Consider an agency like the FDA, which gets 45% of its general funding from fees paid by the corporations it’s meant to regulate. This includes corporations as diverse as Bayer/Monsanto, which makes glyphosate/Roundup, to Syngenta (now owned by ChemChina), a major producer of genetically modified crop seed, to the companies that supply much of the food you buy in the store. As for big pharma, 65% of the funding to regulate pharmaceuticals comes from the pharmaceutical industries. Here, of course, we are talking about companies like Phizer and Moderna, the makers of the gmo, bioweapon jabs. Yes, across the board foxes are guarding hen houses. Even scarier, funding from foreign owned corporations like ChemChina means these foreign entities are exerting control over US regulatory agencies and… our lives. If these hen houses did not exist there would be no foxes to guard them, no foreign intervention. All of this is unconstitutional. It must not stand. HHS, the NIAID (Fauci), the FDA, the CDC, the USDA and many other government agencies are anti-constitutional and need to be dismantled.

How did we get here? How did we lose track of the original intent of our Constitutional Republic - to allow the democratic election of representatives whose primary job was to ensure that our constitutional rights to freedom and liberty would never be taken away again? To make sure that the government worked for the people and not the other way ‘round.

Over the past few years I’ve written number of articles about how this came about. You can read the primary ones here, here and here.

Katherine Watt, another Substack writer, has also written some excellent pieces on this topic.

Taken together, our articles describe many of the bills that have been written and signed into law by presidents from both parties over the past 150 years or so. Bit by bit, they’ve tried to undermine our constitutional rights… which, in a fully operational constitutional republic, cannot occur. The only thing that makes these phony laws work is the fact that too many of our presidents, congress and senate critters bow to the powers that be - the deep state (more on this coming up). This is also completely unconstitutional. In a Constitutional Republic, they are to bow to us and the constitutional rights of we, the people.

Those rights still exist, but as I pointed out here, we have been bamboozled many times over the past 75 years into believing those rights can be taken away for various phony reasons. They cannot be taken away, they still exist, but so far, too many of us have been acquiescing. The result is, we are now living in a time of great injustices in the form of censorship, lockdowns, mandates, business closures and perhaps worst of all, restricting access to knowledge (more on this coming up). As I pointed out in many pieces over nearly two years now, the death toll from all of this is mounting.

the deeper issues

While I feel that exposing how this road to perdition came into existence was important, I now feel there is more to consider than the imposition of unconstitutional laws that have been passed and signed into law over the past 100 years. Yes, corrupt leaders who accede no importance to constitutional rights and strive to further agendas that enrich the few and remove freedoms from everyone else deserve to be punished for doing so. But in this time when justice favors the few and targets those who practice constitutional freedoms, we need to realize that there are dark forces that have been working behind the scenes to make all of this happen, to engender the slow erosion of our previously solid belief in the Constitution. And we need to shut them down.

Before we get to the puppeteers pulling the strings behind the scenes, we need to first develop a greater understanding about what is at stake - what happens to those few who have actually made great strides in exposing the reality of our unconstitutional, democratic, mob-rule existence.

While officers of criminal enterprises like Goldman Sachs have lunch with president Obama, people like Aaron Schwartz, who have a solid understanding of their constitutional rights and stood up to fight for them, were persecuted by Obama to the point of death. Obama, Trump and Biden have also all chosen to persecute Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Why? Because they were taking information that the government claims it owns. As Jacque Cousteau would say, Oww can zis be? Zis can-not be. In a Constitutional Republic there can be no such thing as ‘government domain’. It’s all public domain because we paid for it, it’s ours - the government works for us. If any stealing is taking place it’s by those deep state actors in the government who think they operate above the Constitution - which now apparently includes most everyone who’s been in the White House for the past 100 years.

I have news for all of you unconstitutional political crooks: Increasing access to knowledge is never a crime. All knowledge is public domain. No one owns knowledge, especially not the US government.

aaron schwartz

Aaron Schwartz was a freedom loving heretic and a hacktivist who was essentially persecuted to death by the Obama administration. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about him.

He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS,[3] the Markdown publishing format,[4] the organization Creative Commons,[5] the website framework web.py,[6] and joined the social news site Reddit six months after its founding.[7] He was given the title of co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. (a merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Redbrick Solutions,[8] a company run by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman). Swartz's work also focused on civic awareness and activism.[9][10] He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. In 2010, he became a research fellow at Harvard University's Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig.[11][12] He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act.

In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT.[13][14] Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,[15] carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.[16] Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison.[17]

Facing these fraudulent, unconstitutional charges, on January 11, 2013 he supposedly committed suicide.

That biased Wikipedia article fails to explain several critical points. First of all, it doesn’t explain that the charges against Schwartz were derived from the antiquated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and its overly broad, unconstitutional language that can be interpreted in just about any way a corrupt court sees fit.

Secondly, it doesn’t explain that the information that Aaron was downloading in that MIT closet was in reality, public domain, and that Aaron was not then, nor had he ever hacked into anything seeking to make a profit. He was all about taking taxpayer funded research and making it public. All too often this type of information is held by universities, NGO’s and government agencies who generate a profit from this information by only making it available to the public at a per page fee. Often this meant that the only people who had access to large volumes of information were corporations or the wealthy. This is how people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk got their start. Aaron hated that inequality.

And yes, the criminal justice system has become a big player in all of this. When people like Schwartz exercise their constitutional right to gain access to public information, the criminal justice system is brought too bear to threaten, indite and prosecute them for crimes that cannot exist in a Constitutional Republic. Don’t believe me? Why does the US have the highest rate of incarceration in the world? Why is the vast majority of that prison population poor and minorities? None of the Wall Street bankers that brought down the economy in 2008 have been prosecuted. Not a single one. And they committed actual crimes that caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes and some to die in the streets. Crimes that would be recognized as such in a Constitutional Republic. Instead, they have lunch with Obama.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986 is the law the justice system brought to bear against Aaron Schwatrtz. Never mind the fact that most of what’s in this Act is as unconstitutional as all the other laws that Katherine Watt and I have elucidated that have been used to bring about the covid pandemic.

By the time of Aaron’s prosecution, it was apparent that the provisions in this Act had become outdated and out of alignment with reality - never mind that they were unconstitutional from the get-go. Nevertheless, Obama was intent on crucifying Aaron to set an example to the freedom-of-information community.

Here’s the hypocrisy and the injustice: If you’re a Wall Street banker or CEO of a major corporation and you hack information that enriches your share holders or causes the economy to implode, well… that’s just fine. You get to have lunch with the president. If you have strong morals and you’re a freedom loving person with a good heart, you get persecuted… to death.

But there is more to Aaron’s story. You see, Aaron played a big role in motivating online activists to defeat an earlier version of the CFAA known as Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) of 2011, which was being pushed by the Obama administration. This Wikipedia link describes SOPA. Once again, a biased Wikipedia fails to tell the full story and doesn’t even mention that Aaron and other freedom loving heretics were largely responsible for its defeat. SOPA was just as unconstitutional as CFAA and most other Acts that have been passed during the past 100 years, Acts that serve only to protect the deep state and its wealthy agents in the private sector.

The Obama administration was successful. Aaron’s life ended in 2013 at the age of 27.

US Congress woman Zoe Lofgren was one of the few in government who believed in Aaron. After his death she introduced Aaron’s Law to reform the antiquated CFAA. It has not yet passed.

Julian Assange is still facing extradition to the US for disclosing government documents owned by… all of us.

Edward Snowden remains sequestered in Russia to prevent extradition to the US for disclosing - our - government documents.

Chelsea Manning is behind bars for doing the same.

This is what happens to those who oppose the deep state and exercise their constitutional rights in the US today. Let’s fix that. Seek out candidates that will uphold our constitutional rights. Make them sign a contract to do so. If they don’t, take them to court.

Thoroughly investigate who you’re voting for this fall. Vote like your life depends on it. It may.

Coming up: The puppeteers.