Conservative Bloggers Under Attack: A LibertyColumns.com Leak

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Recent news events have shown that the Obama Administration has been targeting its political enemies, notably conservatives and libertarians.

In May, it was revealed that the IRS had been roughing up Tea Party organizations, organizations with the term “Patriot” in their name, and pro-life Catholic priests.

Around that time, there was also a leak about an anti-Obama AP reporter being wiretapped.

Sadly the only truly anti-Obama TV is the anti-American Russia Today, whose reporters have also been threatened in closed DC rooms.

Now it has broke that the NSA, through their program PRISM, has collected massive amounts of telephone, Internet, and other information on innocent Americans. Bush II’s Total Information Awareness, supposedly shut down before it could, had this same aim in mind.

It is no secret that any enemy of Obama, left or right, is a victim of the Washington machine. A recent article at TownHall.com interviews an “insider” at the Department of Homeland Security, who claims that the government has been gathering data on all independent blogs, with at least a moderate conservative audience, and not connected to the Mainstream Media 1.0 TV channels. The insider claims that Obama is creating a separate “dissident” list, unrelated to existing terrorist watchlists.

This post is an original “LibertyColumns.com Leak” which will prove that the government has been watching LibertyColumns.com, my weekly column, since at least July 2012.

Before we continue, it is important to note that almost every site with a domain name collects logs automatically, and it is included into the hardware and software which runs the site. Usually the software includes a user-friendly display with lists and graphs.

I cannot find evidence of this happening (yet) to my personal blog (danq.co). The logging software used by coredumpcentral.org (my page on the role-playing game Rogue) does not have this capability. Also, several domains containing former activities and businesses of mine going back to 2006 now redirect to LibertyColumns.com, including xcopfly.com (the political columns and podcasts from which are now part of this site), so more monitoring may have occurred.

The following pictures are based on screenshots of my logging software containing activity (first column = page loads) from .gov and .mil addresses between July 2012 and April 2012. These may either be live people viewing LibertyColumns.com from government and military buildings, or they may be “bot” software such as those related to PRISM. As you can see, the government addresses generally increase towards the end, even making the pie chart in November 2012.

Click the thumbnails below to download the full-size image files.

LibertyColumns.com Leak: July 2012
LibertyColumns.com Leak: September 2012 & October 2012
LibertyColumns.com Leak: November 2012
LibertyColumns.com Leak: December 2012 & January 2013
LibertyColumns.com Leak: February 2013 & March 2013
LibertyColumns.com Leak: April

Finally, I have made my own chart, showing the percentages of .gov and .mil hits on LibertyColumns.com each month.

LibertyColumns.com Leak: Chart

If you do a Web search on this, you will people in forums and on Web sites noticing the same type of activity. One notable example is Coinflation.com, a site listing the base metal value coins vs. their face value. Prior to a Bush-era ban on melting pennies and nickels for their often-higher-value metal content, Coinflation.com also noticed entries (story) (redacted log information) from government agencies in their logs.

“Political Dissident” Americans, who blog on other people’s domain names (Google Blogspot, etc.), need to know that if they have a moderate-to-large audience, they may be a victim of possible PRISM-like activity. The six screenshot-based images and the chart image are dedicated to the public domain according to the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Be sure that this message, and these images, get out!

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“Scientific” Studies Seek To “Prove” The Left’s Political Stereotypes

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Last week I received an e-mail from an individual named Lisa Miller of AcademicEarth.org. Ms. Miller works in “open education”, and produced a video, with information derived from several scientific studies, alleging that political ideology is genetic rather than learned. However, these studies are based on the stereotypes of liberals being creative, complex, and open-minded, and conservatives being inflexible, rigid, stuck-up, and living in irrational fear.

For those interested, here is the video:

These studies are flawed for several reasons.

First of all, what is a “conservative” and what is a “liberal”?

What is “conservatism”? Are conservatives the Religious Right? Are they the isolationist and cultural paleoconservatives like Pat Buchanan? Are they the neoconservatives, who were originally FDR-era Democrats, whose creativity led to the partially-private Medicare Part D? Are they free-market libertarians, who are not afraid of having little to no government? Do they embrace globalism and trade agreements, or do they reject it on Constitutional grounds? Or are they a little of everything, creative enough to come up with ideas of their own?

What is “liberalism”? Are they people who believe the UN can end world poverty, or note their ties to special interests? Are they afraid of gun rights? Are they inflexible in their belief that government can solve the world’s problems? Are they the “stuck-up” elite, like Warren Buffett and George Soros, or the truly poor who have faith in government? Do they favor a mixed market economy, or are they Marxists who would throw it all away? Or are they also a little of everything, also creative enough to come up with ideas of their own?

In most of the world, “liberal” refers to “classical liberalism” from which all American ideologies derive, and “social democrat” refers to America’s “progressivism” or “socialism”.

Second of all, here are some examples of why these studies aren’t “proof” of anything:

Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
 

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an extreme right-winger in the social spectrum, wants all Americans to be more “open-minded” about the Holocaust. Liberals, are you just as “fearful” as conservatives are to allow him as a guest speaker in your childrens’ school?

 
Ron Paul
 

Ron Paul, an extreme right-winger in the economic spectrum, frightens conservatives due to his desire to close all foreign military bases and ignore the Middle East. Liberals embrace this same foreign policy, but are they “fearful” to vote for the end of all government programs?

 

Kent Hovind

 

Creationist Kent Hovind is “inflexible” when it comes to the Bible, believing the world to be created in six days about 6,000 years ago. Hovind also believed that he was exempt from income taxes, due to his ministry being based in his home, which also doubled as Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park. Hovind certainly was not afraid to engage in armed “self-defense” against IRS agents, currently serving time in prison for this.

 

George W. Bush

 

The George W. Bush administration was probably the best chance of an end to abortion, euthanasia and the like. While this never happened due to the Republican elite’s support for pro-choice Big Pharma and pro-choice trade agreements, liberals were afraid that their genocide of the unwanted would come to an end.

 

Are these studies, dependent entirely on stereotypes, “proof” of anything? Or are they as “scientific” as the tobacco company studies of the 1990s? These studies certainly are “proof” that liberal bias dominates the field of education.

 
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True Hate In The Immigration Bill

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

The Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, currently under way in Congress, was to feature a biometric-based national ID card, required for any American to work. This proposal would require employers to scan these national ID cards, placing information into a databased owned by the federal government. Without this national ID card, no one would be able to work in the United States.

As Ron Paul points out, this may eventually be required for all Americans to make a purchase. This possibility brings to mind the biblical Book of Revelation, where under the reign of the Antichrist, “no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark” (Rev 13:17 KJV).

The amendment to the bill which contained this proposal failed to pass, but Sen. Marco Rubio intends to fight for the biometric national ID once the bill reaches the floor.

Republicans in Congress, eager to encourage and protect modern “Mexican-American Slavery” for their large corporate donors, always hop aboard these occasional “immigration bills” using marketing slogans like “a path to citizenship” to keep people in slavery a little while longer.

If these RINOs did indeed care about minorities, they would publicly acknowledge our modern “Mexican-American Slavery” and fight it, not promote it.

Republicans are constantly accused of racism and hate, most notably by the Mainstream Media 1.0. “Path to Citizenship” proposals are thus politically healthy. But what does creating a national federal database of all Americans’ fingerprints, DNA, and the like have to do with racism? Even the KKK believes in liberty for white people only, while Washington hates and destroys liberty for all – how “free country” is that?

During Bush II’s post-9/11 laws which decreased freedom in the name of national security, many quoted Ben Franklin’s statement that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Since Obama was elected, freedom has been given up in the name of access to health care and fighting bullying and obesity. Likewise, Americans need to stop falling for, or pretending to support, the belief that fighting discrimination is more important than fighting for freedom.

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Desensitization And The War On Privacy & Property Rights

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

The EFF's "Who Has Your Back?" Report

About a week ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released "Who Has Your Back?" A traditionally libertarian and anti-regulation civil liberties organization, the EFF is now making ridiculous and ludicrous claims about social networking companies and search engines. Facebook and Google are supposedly fighting for your privacy rights in Congress, Twitter requires a warrant for access to the content you publicly post, and AT&T, who was granted immunity by a bipartisan Congress after the EFF successfully sued them for illegal collusion with the NSA, is now fighting for your privacy as well.

Claims that companies like Facebook and Google, which require you give them your real first and last name and (in certain cases) your phone number, are protecting your privacy, provide a glimpse of a key weapon in the war on privacy and property: desensitization.

We often see fictional “anti-”malware programs and “Nigerian spam” make these same requests of us. Yet legitimate companies are engaging in these same tactics – a different group of unknown people, doing the exact same thing, and “it’s all OK”.

The EFF’s report also commends cloud-based and other remote backup services, an ongoing threat to private property rights being forced upon the public. If a phishing message offered to take care of your banking, will, estate, and other personal data for you, would you fall for it?

Desensitization is a very useful weapon in Washington’s fight against personal and economic freedom. With desensitization, you can make sexual abuse and manufacturing pornography valid airport security procedures. You can make plastic into money. You can make private property the “intellectual property” of someone else. You can support the Second Amendment, but “assault” weapons don’t count.

Through repeated advertising by these privacy-invasive companies, America has become desensitized to loss of privacy rights. Many of these companies, such as Facebook, serve no useful purpose – a phone call, e-mail, or simply waiting until you see the person again can do the exact same thing, and without putting a carbon copy of your life into the hands of unknown people. (It’s true – think about it!) We need to start examining the violations of freedom we have allowed to be acceptable. If we do not, there will be no freedom at all, and there will be no need for a “Who Has Your Back?” report, because no one will care.

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The Most Important Freedom In The Bill Of Rights

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Over the past few months, we have had several gun control proposals in Congress, accompanied by the United Nations national/individual disarmament treaty and a media marathon of man-made violence.

Many conservatives and libertarians believe that the 2nd Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, is the most important Amendment of the Bill of Rights. They point out that the 2nd Amendment is not merely about self-defense or hunting, but as a check on government tyranny, frequently quoting the statements by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

While the 2nd Amendment may function this way, the right to keep and bear arms is not the keystone of the Bill of Rights. This may sound strange, but the keystone of the Bill of Rights is actually part of the 1st Amendment: Freedom of Religion.

Americans stand by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights not because it is the law of the land, but because they believe in freedom. If Americans did not believe in freedom, they would not insist on freedom, and there would be no freedom.

Right now there are two major threats to freedom of religion:

  1. Modern atheism, which uses not only the court system but any means necessary to eliminate public display, discussion, or practice of religion. The ACLU, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and Americans United are the biggest repeat offenders. Removing nativity scenes, attempting to dig up religious gravestones in military cemeteries, banning teaching of Judeo-Christian creation myths, and eliminating even a moment of silence for private prayer in any religion, are notable instances in this group.
  2. Islam, which believes not in freedom, but theocracy. The sinful and unethical behaviors broadcasted from the Left Coast provide credence to their theocratic agenda. As the enabler of sin and unethical behavior, Muslim leaders often teach that freedom must be eliminated from America. Islam has no room for freedom, only the theocratic legal system outlined in the Quran. Unlike the Bible, there is no room for interpretation or apologies for a theocratic past, and also unlike the Bible, their religion is eternally mandated through force. Many people have been killed, many places have been destroyed, and many things have been censored. Islam cannot exist in its entirety under a free society, and Muslim leaders have no desire to tailor it for one.

As we can see, when people do not believe in freedom, they do not work for freedom, and they neither have nor want freedom. The basis for all freedom in the Bill of Rights is Freedom of Religion – the freedom to believe in freedom, and to ensure that freedom remains the law of the land.

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“Un-American Version” of LibertyColumns.com Library: Volume III released

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

From the post announcing the original version:

 

LibertyColumns.com Library are books containing columns from the blog LibertyColumns.com, with all copyrighted content removed (brief footnotes and occasional bracketed summaries are added when needed). The books are available at the Internet Archive in PDF and other formats, and they are dedicated to the public domain according to the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Volume III contains all columns on LibertyColumns.com written from September 2012 through December 2012. It is the “Doomsday Edition” of LibertyColumns.com Library, as it is published on on December 20, 2012, the day before the end of the Mayan Calendar, concluding with the post Armageddon is Here. The final week of December will begin Volume IV, with December 30th (Sunday) being the week of January 1, 2013 (Tuesday).

 

The “Un-American Version” of LibertyColumns.com Library: Volume III was released on April 16, 2013. From the Preface to the Un-American Version:

 

This edition of LibertyColumns.com Library: Volume III is intended for nations where the “Farewell Speech” of Ron Paul would be copyrighted, either by Ron Paul or the US Federal Government, and could be used to seize this book and prosecute and intimidate lovers of liberty.

Why did I use the term “un-American”? Not as an insult toward people of other nations. This book is “un-American” because life, liberty, property, and the US Constitution itself, is increasingly becoming “un-American”. Politicians of both parties continue to destroy and ignore the US Constitution, while portraying its supporters as violent, crazy, and intolerant.

This book has not been updated for the times – the columns (and footnotes) are presented identically to the original LibertyColumns.com Library: Volume III (2012, September through December). This “Un-American Version” lacks two columns: “Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech” and “Why Libertarianism Fails: Thoughts On Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech”.

 
 

This book is intended only for countries where Ron Paul’s Farewell Speech is copyrighted. Everyone else should use the original version.

 

Download LibertyColumns.com Library: Volume III: 2012, September through December at the Internet Archive (Original Version) (Un-American Version)

 
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Are We Dealing With A Greater Evil?

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Much has happened since Obama took office. Politicians, Democrat and Republican, have stolen America’s freedoms and compromised its defense. Thieves have stolen our money and sent it to foreign corporations, crooks have destroyed health care to made Americans tax evaders at birth, and a twisted, violent theology has been entering our courts.

Frequently we engage in activism to regain our stolen freedoms, values, prosperity, and integrity, whether it be the Tea Party Movement on the right or the Occupy Wall Street Movement on the left.

Every time, however, an individual from our personal groups are elected, there is a sudden and unexpected change to their values, unanimously supporting destructive policies and lying that they are fighting against them.

But is there more to this story?

Note the following:

  • Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, which slaughters millions in their genocide against the unwanted, continues to receive funding from “pro-life” politicians. Often trade agreements, supported unanimously by both parties, encourage or mandate legalized abortion and penalize nations that stand against it (frequently nations in Latin America). Recall also the 2012 Republican ticket: Mitt Romney is pro-choice, and Paul Ryan refuses to discuss “social issues”.
  • Invasive security procedures at airports border on sexual abuse of children.
  • “End-of-life counseling” encourages the euthanasia of the elderly.
  • Mainstream doctors in a post-Obamacare nation are now discouraging preventative screening for breast and prostate cancer.
  • The American banking system operates in the interest of every country, except America, which they deliberately destroy.
  • Supposed advocates for freedom (liberals, feminists) encourage Islam’s treatment of women as a valid personal choice. Islam’s inhumane and violent laws are being used in court cases against non-Muslims.

As we can see, the elderly, children, the pre-born, Jews, Christians, freedom of religion, and the justice system are the targets of our politicians. Feminists promote violent treatment of women, atheists ensure that no religion is visible in public, liberals support death sentences for people they can’t afford, and Christians are basing their faith on psychology rather than the Bible (or sacred traditions, or other testaments of Christ).

The targets in America seem not to be the enemies of special interests, but the enemies and beliefs of the Judeo-Christian God.

Are we fighting against crooks being paid off by special interests, or are we fighting the actual Devil, a murderer, a liar, the enemy of God, fighting God’s chosen people and their heirs?

This issue is crucial to American politics and society and needs to be examined.

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