Bob Barr
Former Congressman from Georgia, 2008 Libertarian nominee for President, speaker and columnist.
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Bob Barr
The Food and Drug Administration, a federal regulatory agency perpetually in search of new products to regulate and new jurisdiction to conquer, last June received the gift it had coveted for decades...
Jacqueline Dillard
Jacqueline Dillard
All flavored cigarettes are banned now too, including vanilla flavored Dreams. They think that kids are attracted to "flavored" cigarettes; however sale of menthols is still legal. Good thing mint isn't considered a flavor anymore or else Philip Morris may have actually been affected by this!
Fri at 10:41am
Kevin Bryan
Kevin Bryan
Yep, more power to the government.
Fri at 12:02pm
Bob Barr
In the 2008 general election, only about 57% of the country’s voting age population actually voted. In Georgia, even fewer citizens — 54.7% of the “VAP” — felt it sufficiently important to actually cast a ballot. Although...
Chris Lusk
Chris Lusk
...or give the power back to the people and let us start voting on which laws to REMOVE! Since 98% of laws oppress the rights of business and individuals, we would have one hell of a ballot....but worth it!
Thu at 4:31am
Evan Kenney
Evan Kenney
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch."

- Benjamin Franklin
Thu at 9:29am
Bob Barr
Like the mythical phoenix that rises from the ashes, the USA PATRIOT Act just won’t go away. After signing the massive piece of legislation into law on October 26, 2001, President George W. ...
Bonnie Calcagno
Bonnie Calcagno
Please Bob Barr look into Surveillance Policy of U.S. revealed by Inspectors General Report in July, 2009.

Is COINTELPRO Back Using Organized Gang Stalking?

Some of the tactics used in gang stalking are similar to tactics used in the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) between 1956 and 1971. Brian Glick, an attorney, tells us in his book, War at Home, the four main methods used by the FBI during COINTELPRO were psychological warfare, infiltration, harassment through the legal system, and extralegal force and violence. Just as neighbors today are solicited to join in gang stalking a target, back in the fifties and sixties, the FBI would pressure parents, employers, landlords. school officials and others in the life of targets to cause problems for them. Back then the FBI used dirty tricks to discredit targets, just as today in organized gang stalking misinformation about targets is spread. Brian Glick tells us the FBI used psychological warfare in their COINTELPRO program in the 50’s and 60’s against targets; today in organized gang stalking psychological tactics are used where ordinary everyday items are repetively used to create doublebinds. Open garage doors, lawn mowers left on front lawns are repetitively used by all the gang stalkers to attract the target’s notice where to notice and report such everything things makes the target sound crazy – the intent of the gang stalkers. In the 50’s and 60’s FBI agents would infiltrate groups pretending to be members; gang stalking targets today allege infiltration is taking place again with those feigning to be gang stalking targets making outrageous claims to create the impression targets are paranoid.... Read More
Is COINTELPRO back? Let’s look at the facts. The Attorney General’s Guidelines released on May 30, 2002 rescinded anti-COINTELPRO regulations opening the door to further COINTELPRO operations. Allegations have been made that organized gang stalkers are using red cars, red trucks, wearing-carrying red. The FBI has used conspicuous surveillance before. Moreover, the Bush Administration wanted to get community groups such as the Neighborhood Watch Groups to play a broader role of surveillance in the War on Terror. Its Justice Department put forth the Terrorist Information and Prevention System, Operation TIPS, which planned to involve millions of workers nationwide as informants in the War on Terror. Through a Citizen Corp George Bush hoped to get Americans across the country engaged in homeland security. The Bill of Rights Defense Committee said the TIPS program would get citizens to “secretly provide information to the government about any persons whom they consider suspicious, and for the government to set up files on these persons.” The fear of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee was that doing that “may potentially damage someone’s record due to innocent activities that are misunderstood or are invented or enhanced by the caller because of a personal vendetta.” Under pressure from Congress the TIPS program was supposedly not put into effect. But it has been said a version of it was put into effect in secret. Regardless, a team of inspectors general in July, 2009 reported that the Bush administration did put into effect an unprecedented surveillance operation by executive order after the 9/11 attack. We don’t know what the surveillance programs were because they are classified. Representative Jane Harman expressed shock when she heard of these classified surveillance programs. Senator Patrick Leahy called for a nonpartisan inquiry into the government’s information-gathering programs. When in response to two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits the FBI published on its website its Domestic Investigations and Operations Guidelines, it deleted almost the entire section on the “undisclosed participation” by the FBI or its informants in domestic groups. So the question is who are the FBI’s informants in domestic groups? Is there a relationship between what it is trying to hide and the citizens with red cars, red trucks, wearing and carrying red who are part of the organized gang stalkers harassing American citizens.
COINTELPRO in the 50’s and 60’s targeted members of the women’s rights movement, the National Lawyer’s Guild, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, groups protesting the Vietnam War, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People among others. The Church Committee concluded our government undertook government surveillance of people because of their political beliefs even when there was no threat of violence or criminal behavior on behalf of a foreign power. The American Civil Liberties Union tells us today Section 802 of the USA Patriot Act expanded the type of conduct the government can investigate when investigating terrorism. “The definition of domestic terrorism is broad enough to encompass the activities of several prominent activist campaigns and organizations.” The ACLU names Greenpeace, Operation Rescue, Vieques Island and WTO protestors and the Environmental Liberation Front” as having engaged in activities that could be branded domestic terrorism. While the right is complaining the label domestic terrorist is being attached to supporters of Ron Paul, Bob Barr, libertarians, those who have written about the constitution, Tea Party Activists and a host of others.
Senator Feingold, the chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, before he even knew who would succeed George Bush, called on the incoming President “to pledge his commitment to restoring the rule of law” in America. In his Report Card on the First 100 Days of the Obama Administration he has given an “Incomplete” in every area of Obama’s record on Domestic Surveillance and Privacy:
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Bonnie Calcagno
Bonnie Calcagno
This is what is being done "covertly" against U.S. citizens.

Is COINTELPRO Back Using Organized Gang Stalking?

Imagine what it is like to be stalked by 20, 30, or 40 people a day, to have one of them there when you leave your house in the morning, there when you come home at night. That is what organized gang stalking targets go through. They are stalked at intersections, in parks, in stores, as they walk along streets, as they enter or exit buildings, everywhere they go. Now imagine that this organized gang stalking happens not for one day or for a week or for a month, but for years.... Read More
A target’s property might have trash thrown on it. There might be car alarms set off or beeping of horns if they try to take a walk, when the go to throw out the trash. There might be noise scheduled to disrupt their sleep. Neighbors might be enlisted to join in the harassment in an attempt to socially isolate the target. Dogs might be used to intimidate, running up to the target, or jumping out of car windows. There might be wrong numbers to the target’s phone, vehicles stopping and standing in front of the target’s home.



What organized gang stalkers do is sensitize the target to a stimulus that all the gang stalkers use. The stimulus is often an everyday thing – for instance, the color “red.” The thing that makes the stimulus so aversive is the frequency with which it occurs. A group of 20 or 30 or 40 or more of organized gang stalkers might be involved in harassing the target, so the target is continuously harassed with the same stimulus but by different individuals. Every time the target enters or leaves his or her home, for instance, an organized gang stalker will be there with something red on. The target’s routines are ascertained. Neighbors – afraid of being gang stalked themselves – might alert the gang stalkers when the target is leaving his or her home. When the target walks on the beach, three or four gang stalkers wearing red might be there. When the target opens his or her blinds in the morning, the first thing he or she will see will be a gang stalker in red. It is the frequency of the stimulus and the duration of the gang stalking that makes it so aversive along with the isolation of the target.
3 hours ago
Bob Barr
With the H1N1 “swine” flu season moving into full swing, and with AIDS/HIV and other deadly diseases continuing to plague millions of Americans, one might think that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), would have its hands full. Af...
Eric Fleming
Eric Fleming
No wonder there's a delay in seasonal vaccinations!
October 31 at 2:34pm
William J. Biggert
William J. Biggert
I agree....crime is a disease that should be eradicated. Let's arm the U.S. populace and fight this horrible disease. ; )
LOL! I'm sure that's not the angle that the Obama CDC was thinking about.
October 31 at 2:58pm
Bob Barr
President Obama has declared the H1N1 or “swine” flu a “national emergency.” Exactly what this will mean to the average citizen remains unclear, as shortages of the swine flu vaccine continue; but it is unlikely that simply declaring an “emergency” will relieve bottlenecks in distributio...
David Duncan
David Duncan
If you're going to quote a movie, at least get the quote right!
October 29 at 11:10am
William
William
its all a fraud,soon there will be forced vaccanations,detentions of the people who do not comply,and matrial law emposed / civil war!you have to understand..big pharma,who has been makeing this vaccs,for over 3 years now, way before the 1st case was reported to the c.d.c will not stand by and let some people slip thru..no its all about the money..and the govt,showing the people,that through problem,crises,solution,you need & want govt run healthcare.. its for you own good..
October 31 at 7:03am
Bob Barr
The folks at United Nations headquarters in New York City, and our “allies” at Number 10 Downing Street in London, must be rubbing their hands with glee. Gun control groups here and abroad likewise are at last quietly cheering. Why? Af...
Jibbles
Jibbles
I hope William Biggert (^) is right. I really hope so.
October 26 at 9:21pm
Franklin
Franklin
Well, the Constitution is only as strong as government's---and the people's---belief in it. I mean, technically speaking, the 14th amendment requires that all constitutional protections be binding to the state's as well: Except people like to pretend that the second amendment is the only exception to this. Why? Just cause---the educated leftists say.
October 29 at 12:53pm
Bob Barr
In 2005, the United States Supreme Court struck a blow against the medicinal use of marijuana and against the notion that states can enact and enforce their own laws without being trumped by the federal government. In the Gonzalez v...
Matt Van Voorhies
Matt Van Voorhies
If you don't like drugs, don't do them. If you don't like others doing drugs, why? Because they're -likely- to affect you, but then, aren't you upset about "affecting you" not why? Why waste your time trying to read minds, -THAT- they infringed you is the problem and aught to be the focus.
October 24 at 9:57pm
Aaron
Aaron
dont you think that idiots are idiots before they do drugs? parents dont beat their kids because they are on drugs they beat their kids because they are pieces of shit, an asshole is an asshole on or off drugs and if you dont like people affecting you move to BFE because people will always affect you no matter what you do or what they are on
October 25 at 5:35pm
Bob Barr
Back when the USA PATRIOT Act (short for the complete title of the massive bill — the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act”) was being debated by the Congress in the weeks following the terrorist attacks of Septe...
Rich Gambrill
Rich Gambrill
I used to think the 9-11 truthers were wackos, but now as I see more and more how the government uses fear to control us, I think they may have some credibility and that perhaps there should be a truly independent investigation of the 9-11 attacks.
October 23 at 7:03am
Evan Kenney
Evan Kenney
What's up, Bob Barr? You voted for the PATRIOT Act on October 24, 2001. I'll offer my link for a 4th time... Bob Barr (R) voted "Yea" on H.R. 3162.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2001-398
November 4 at 7:31am
Bob Barr
Two years ago in this column, I wrote that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was deploying “Behavior Detection Officers” (BDOs) at America’s airports to watch for “suspicious” behavior exhibited by people at those facilities. The prog...
Animus
Animus
great point Andrew. also, what about non-dangerous people who are nervous or whatever for other reasons?
October 20 at 7:05am
Kevin Bryan
Kevin Bryan
I guess this means that people who are just plain scared of flying are going to have more crap to be worried about now.
October 20 at 8:06am
Bob Barr
The much-heralded and much-maligned 600-mile long border fence between the United States and Mexico, is morphing into a typical government boondoggle — way over budget, way behind schedule, and way short of its promised goals. ...
Random Butler
Random Butler
don't tread on me
October 16 at 11:50am
Miles Pipher
Miles Pipher
The most complex and expensive answer is always the correct one.
October 17 at 7:51am
Bob Barr
The federal government may not be able to balance a budget or define the goals of a foreign military operation, but it sure excels at finding ways to gather more and more private data on more and more citizens...
David Standeven
David Standeven
Somehow, Anarchy sounds a little more appealing...

...THAN STATISM!
October 15 at 1:45pm
Bob Hohosh
Bob Hohosh
I'm a firm believer in privacy rights. I voted for you in 2008. You sold my information to any pig that would buy it, and now I get all sorts of junk mail asking me for money. I hope you didn't sell it to the feds. And by the way.... you helped with the largest abortion this nation has yet to pass... the Patriot Act. On a more friendly note, thank you for the sunset clause. I hope my address helped in your campaign, that is the capitalist way. Keep up the good work.
October 15 at 10:20pm
Bob Barr
Several months ago, I caught an episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bull****” that showed people collecting money in parking lots from shoppers, by making them feel guilty that their vehicles were contributing to global warming. Peop...
Derek Walton
Derek Walton
These same people have the vote too.. I guess that explains why we have our current leader....
October 12 at 11:21pm
Keith Thomson
Keith Thomson
I'm just fine with people being gullible and giving their money over to people like this if that's what they like. But I don't want the government to be collecting that money with force behind them...
October 14 at 10:33am
Random Butler
Random Butler
don't tread on me
October 15 at 9:29am
Bob Barr
A grandmother of triplets in Indiana recently discovered what it means to be on the receiving end of a bad law and an overzealous, uncaring prosecutor. Sally Harpold faces jail and a criminal record not for child abuse, extortion, or grand theft auto...
Random Butler
Random Butler
don't tread on me
October 9 at 10:52pm
John Evans
John Evans
this happened to a friend of min in Miami County, Indiana. The sheriff's office came to her house at 3am to drag her to the jail to book her in. 2 bottles of cold medicine and she gets arrested. Matilda says it's ridiculous, I think it's criminal to arrest someone for buying 2 bottles of medicine.
October 11 at 5:55pm
Bob Barr
U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson, of Minnesota, last Julyissued an order in the long-simmering “water wars” between Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Th...
Random Butler
Random Butler
don't tread on me
October 7 at 7:56pm
Bob Barr
Let’s be clear – I dislike sex offenders, especially those who commit sex offenses against minors, as much as any member of the Georgia General Assembly. Th...
Random Butler
Random Butler
don't tread on me
October 6 at 12:37am
John Paul Greco
John Paul Greco
Where I live, we have them living across the street from a middle school, but you are not allowed to open carry if you are within 1000 ft of the same school that freak is living across the street from! How fair is that!? Typical Liberals running Waukesha..
October 6 at 6:16pm