Nathan: Compared to the cave by the Congress, all this other stuff (for now) is minor stuff not to be worried much about. Or is it?
Home Front – Tyranny on an Integrated Scale
Federal Healthcare Law Used to Take Camera from Man Recording Local Police
(The Blaze) To summarize: a man was charged with crimes for videotaping a police officer making an arrest; the police officer claimed that the arrest was a “mental health check” because the person being arrested was having a mental breakdown. Therefore, the man filming the incident was violating the privacy of the man being arrested, which is (according to the cop and his bosses) a violation of HIPAA, the federal law on health insurance privacy protection.
Nathan: If I get this right, if you do something that causes you to be arrested, even if you are not later charged with anything, the action that led to your arrest is proof that you are having a deterioration in your mental health. Therefore, all records regarding this “health evaluation” (arrest) are prevented from being released to protect your “HIPAA rights” – and no one (not even a “real” reporter) can record any part of the process or anything related to that “health and welfare check.” Anyone attempting to do so will be arrested and charged with violating federal law. Apparently this is one federal law (unlike illegally crossing the border or stealing someone’s identity to get a job as an illegal) that local police CAN enforce. Your arrest (if you are arrested for video recording) is also not just an arrest, but a mental health evaluation process: you are under observation have been “confined” for a mental health problem. That means, that you now have a history of mental health problems which makes you ineligible to buy or own firearms, and for anyone in your house to have firearms. (If they fail to remove firearms because you are present, they too are subject to arrest and a concurrent “mental health evaluation” for disobeying the law, and the cycle continues.) You also of course are subject to all curtailment of rights and liberties because of your mental health condition, even if you are subsequently released and not charged with anything. If any of this occurred within the vicinity of a child (the definition of “vicinity” being very elastic, of course), you could further be identified (even without benefit of trial or even a hearing) as a child abuser and a future threat to all children, even your own. This of course is reason to remove the children from your home, and could require that you move to someplace suitably distant from any school, church building, playground, park, or athletic field, even a college campus. If any of this arrest and further arrest and all had ANYTHING at all to do with sex: for example, if you lost your temper and used the f-word, or if you grabbed your groin after being kicked between the legs by a cop, you could further be identified as a “sex offender” and required to register as such. You would, of course, lose more and more rights, until you are nothing but another cog in the great national prison and “justice” government-industrial system.
Mama’s Note: Thank goodness there are not enough cops to do this very often, though once is too much, of course. The best thing I can think of to prevent this is to stay out of the cities where these psycho cops run around loose… They can’t be everywhere. And if you do decide to video something, have a camera too small to detect, and don’t call any attention to yourself in the process. Have some way to upload the video instantly too, then the cops can’t destroy it and say it never happened.
Europe’s Collapse – Border Jumpers
EU Ratchets Up Border Security
(PressEurop) “The EU is building up a team of heavily-guarded men to help Libya stop unwanted migrants and to collect intelligence,” reveals news websiteEUobserver days after at least 34 migrants drowned after reportedly setting sail to Europe from Libya. Meanwhile, in a separate story, EUobserver also announces that EU border security agency Frontex is considering using aerial drones, which can be operated remotely or with a pilot, to monitor frontiers.
Nathan: Learning a lesson from Big Brother (the US), I guess. Cooperating and sending “police” into Libya, using drones, setting up spy networks, and meanwhile, watching people die. Of course, this being the EU, the “border security” will make even the Mexican Border in the US look like it is airtight (and being run by professionals). No doubt the EU has decided that something has to be done, because it is clear that they can no longer rely on the US to be either the man on a white horse OR the big bad boogeyman to keep the riffraff away. But we have MORE from Europe:
Europe’s Collapse – Slavery
880,000 slaves in the European Union TODAY
(PressEurop) According to the latest figures from the European parliament’s [Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering Committee(CRIM), approximately 880,000 people in the European Union are living in slavery.
They notably include “children that are forced to beg, men who are forced to work for pitifully low wages, and women who are forced to work as prostitutes,” explains De Morgen. The daily adds that CRIM has called on member states to apply the EU’s directive on human trafficking, and demanded that the European Commission implement its strategy for the eradication of trafficking in human beings.
Nathan: These are, of course, the 100 percent slaves, not the 40 or 50% slaves who are called “taxpayers” by governments, but whom are slaving for their “betters” by being forced to give significant parts of their income to the State. When you add THOSE numbers, just as here in the US, MOST of the population is living in slavery. What is worse, most of those who are do NOT CARE – they are “secure” and therefore willing to accept their chains.
Islamic wars
Malaysia: Court restricts use of “Allah” to Muslims
(The Hindu [India]) “A Malaysian appeals court ruled on Monday that only Muslims can use the word ‘Allah’ to refer to god, upholding a government ban on the word being used in a Catholic publication. The ruling reverses an earlier lower court decision. … On December 31, 2009, the Kuala Lumpur High Court lifted the prohibition, noting that the church had a constitutional right to use the word in its publication on the ground that religions other than Islam can be practiced in peace and harmony.” (10/14/13)
Nathan: This adds fuel to those that accuse the Muslims of worshiping a moon god or some such, but also shows that even so-called “secular” governments in predominantly Muslim countries are anything but. And it warns us of what is to come as the US declines more rapidly. The writer of The Last Centurion may still see his predictions come true.
About TPOL Nathan
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
The Price of Liberty 
Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-40B: Minor matters
Nathan: Compared to the cave by the Congress, all this other stuff (for now) is minor stuff not to be worried much about. Or is it?
Home Front – Tyranny on an Integrated Scale
Federal Healthcare Law Used to Take Camera from Man Recording Local Police
(The Blaze) To summarize: a man was charged with crimes for videotaping a police officer making an arrest; the police officer claimed that the arrest was a “mental health check” because the person being arrested was having a mental breakdown. Therefore, the man filming the incident was violating the privacy of the man being arrested, which is (according to the cop and his bosses) a violation of HIPAA, the federal law on health insurance privacy protection.
Nathan: If I get this right, if you do something that causes you to be arrested, even if you are not later charged with anything, the action that led to your arrest is proof that you are having a deterioration in your mental health. Therefore, all records regarding this “health evaluation” (arrest) are prevented from being released to protect your “HIPAA rights” – and no one (not even a “real” reporter) can record any part of the process or anything related to that “health and welfare check.” Anyone attempting to do so will be arrested and charged with violating federal law. Apparently this is one federal law (unlike illegally crossing the border or stealing someone’s identity to get a job as an illegal) that local police CAN enforce. Your arrest (if you are arrested for video recording) is also not just an arrest, but a mental health evaluation process: you are under observation have been “confined” for a mental health problem. That means, that you now have a history of mental health problems which makes you ineligible to buy or own firearms, and for anyone in your house to have firearms. (If they fail to remove firearms because you are present, they too are subject to arrest and a concurrent “mental health evaluation” for disobeying the law, and the cycle continues.) You also of course are subject to all curtailment of rights and liberties because of your mental health condition, even if you are subsequently released and not charged with anything. If any of this occurred within the vicinity of a child (the definition of “vicinity” being very elastic, of course), you could further be identified (even without benefit of trial or even a hearing) as a child abuser and a future threat to all children, even your own. This of course is reason to remove the children from your home, and could require that you move to someplace suitably distant from any school, church building, playground, park, or athletic field, even a college campus. If any of this arrest and further arrest and all had ANYTHING at all to do with sex: for example, if you lost your temper and used the f-word, or if you grabbed your groin after being kicked between the legs by a cop, you could further be identified as a “sex offender” and required to register as such. You would, of course, lose more and more rights, until you are nothing but another cog in the great national prison and “justice” government-industrial system.
Mama’s Note: Thank goodness there are not enough cops to do this very often, though once is too much, of course. The best thing I can think of to prevent this is to stay out of the cities where these psycho cops run around loose… They can’t be everywhere. And if you do decide to video something, have a camera too small to detect, and don’t call any attention to yourself in the process. Have some way to upload the video instantly too, then the cops can’t destroy it and say it never happened.
Europe’s Collapse – Border Jumpers
EU Ratchets Up Border Security
(PressEurop) “The EU is building up a team of heavily-guarded men to help Libya stop unwanted migrants and to collect intelligence,” reveals news websiteEUobserver days after at least 34 migrants drowned after reportedly setting sail to Europe from Libya. Meanwhile, in a separate story, EUobserver also announces that EU border security agency Frontex is considering using aerial drones, which can be operated remotely or with a pilot, to monitor frontiers.
Nathan: Learning a lesson from Big Brother (the US), I guess. Cooperating and sending “police” into Libya, using drones, setting up spy networks, and meanwhile, watching people die. Of course, this being the EU, the “border security” will make even the Mexican Border in the US look like it is airtight (and being run by professionals). No doubt the EU has decided that something has to be done, because it is clear that they can no longer rely on the US to be either the man on a white horse OR the big bad boogeyman to keep the riffraff away. But we have MORE from Europe:
Europe’s Collapse – Slavery
880,000 slaves in the European Union TODAY
(PressEurop) According to the latest figures from the European parliament’s [Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering Committee(CRIM), approximately 880,000 people in the European Union are living in slavery.
They notably include “children that are forced to beg, men who are forced to work for pitifully low wages, and women who are forced to work as prostitutes,” explains De Morgen. The daily adds that CRIM has called on member states to apply the EU’s directive on human trafficking, and demanded that the European Commission implement its strategy for the eradication of trafficking in human beings.
Nathan: These are, of course, the 100 percent slaves, not the 40 or 50% slaves who are called “taxpayers” by governments, but whom are slaving for their “betters” by being forced to give significant parts of their income to the State. When you add THOSE numbers, just as here in the US, MOST of the population is living in slavery. What is worse, most of those who are do NOT CARE – they are “secure” and therefore willing to accept their chains.
Islamic wars
Malaysia: Court restricts use of “Allah” to Muslims
(The Hindu [India]) “A Malaysian appeals court ruled on Monday that only Muslims can use the word ‘Allah’ to refer to god, upholding a government ban on the word being used in a Catholic publication. The ruling reverses an earlier lower court decision. … On December 31, 2009, the Kuala Lumpur High Court lifted the prohibition, noting that the church had a constitutional right to use the word in its publication on the ground that religions other than Islam can be practiced in peace and harmony.” (10/14/13)
Nathan: This adds fuel to those that accuse the Muslims of worshiping a moon god or some such, but also shows that even so-called “secular” governments in predominantly Muslim countries are anything but. And it warns us of what is to come as the US declines more rapidly. The writer of The Last Centurion may still see his predictions come true.
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About TPOL Nathan
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.