fyi, an insider detail – We can secondarily confirm the information provided within this Wall Street Journal report. Those of you who have been with the Treehouse community since the beginning may remember a conversation thread about the “new age” credit cards that allow capability of RFID transmission. [symbols: ((( )))  and Ξ ]  One of our close friends actually quit his job in disgust over the use of his computer program -a central component to the RFID system- being used to embed internally into credit cards with the expressed intent on tracking user id, location, history etc.  He knew the potential risk several years ago, and sent a warning – we shared – it appears this is now coming to light.

WASHINGTON (WSJ) —The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency’s activities.

The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc.’s phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA’s operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.

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We will not advance a position, nor attempt to sway your sentiment, around the proposition that we, collectively, have assembled thousand of hours in research.  Nor will we attempt to advocate for gun ownership, self protection, or principles around the latest fashionable requests for the general public to consider a ‘new normal’ outlook toward liberty contingent on the premise you should not leave your car;  The central tenet within such framing concedes your liberty is now based on your acceptance that you are driving through, or living in, a safari park while preferring to avoid predators.

No.   For this context we want to bring your attention to the necessary defense motion to protect witnesses.

Think about that for a second.   The defense of an accused needs to afford anonymity to the bearers of truth, because their own life or liberty may be lost as a consequence of their testimony.   The defense brings forth this request.

The defense.

Never before have we, as an assembled nation, witnessed the State Case representing the threat to liberty.   The State of Florida as the THREAT to the individual.

Again, think about that.

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…he sees you when your sleeping, he knows when you’re awake;  He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.   You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why….

WASHINGTON DC – The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.

The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.

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Several recent developments are really beginning to highlight what happens when Radical Alinskyites take hold of political power. What we are all seeing in the national headlines, and the stories the liberal media are trying to ignore, is confirmation of how anti-American the progressive left actually is.

Consider:

•  Today we shared with you how the man in charge of making sure racism is appropriately addressed in this country had to quit his job because he was told to carry out a racist leftist agenda.   Do not sell this factual story short on the importance scale.   Sure the media will not report it – But it is actually a fact.

The man in charge of insuring racism is absent from government has to quit his job because the government is now telling him it’s his job to be racist.  (link)

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Which means the potential for “insiders” doing so is more than a little affirmed.

(Via GWP)

MUST READ POST – It takes profound courage and exemplary character to do the right thing when everyone around you is willing to allow moral corruption:

Right is Right, even if nobody does it;
Wrong is Wrong, even if everybody does it.

Ondray Harris is a man of character, honor and courage – He was also the Community Relations Service Director of the Dept. of Justice / Community Relations Service (CRS) 2009/10.   In 2009 he was bright eyed and his words were filled with the sound of hope;  His outlook of opportunity was for a post-racial America.

Last week he quit….

…..because DC Board Members demanded he stop hiring “white people” –  His resignation speaks volumes to the changes now evidenced within the Dept of Justice. We have outlined those changes against the back drop of the George Zimmerman case – and we will continue to do so.

WASHINGTON DC – Ondray Harris, the African-American executive director of the Public Employee Relations Board of the District of Columbia, stepped down last week.

His resignation letter provides a disturbing look at alleged discriminatory and partisan conduct by the members of the board tasked with overseeing labor issues and the D.C. government’s relations with public employees. (more…)

Tuesday March 13th 2012, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee again told the community there was nothing discovered in factual physical or witness evidence to dispute the statements made by George Zimmerman – not was there anything found which contradicted the hours of question, answers, and statements Mr. Zimmerman had voluntarily undertaken.

The NAACP was not happy with that:

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Newly released documents to the House Reform Committee show the claim of two rogue IRS agents targeting conservative from the Cincinnati IRS office is, well, ridiculous.

When/if all investigations are complete this will be more than just the IRS;  This approach will also reconcile the example of Gibson Guitar targeting and many other rabid overreaches of this administration.

(WASHINGTON DC – VIA DAILY MAIL)  Interviews with IRS employees have  established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue  Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative  organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt  status.

Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House  Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement  on CNN Sunday morning.

‘As late as last week,’ he said, ‘the [Obama]  administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a  few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were  directly being ordered from Washington.’ (more…)

Bingo !   Watch the video to get the context of this quote – and consider, yes, that’s exactly what it was/is…. Karl didn’t want to go “there”, but you know… you just know…. looking at the facts, and watching how Plouffe frames it, that’s exactly what was taking place.

Kudos to Karl Rove (who I generally dislike – but would welcome onto my debate team) for holding his own. CHECK OUT that ABC “This Week” Panel – Good Grief: FIVE against ONE Boy Howdy, the progs are so far on the wrong side they need a 5:1 ration to try and defend themselves. (more…)