The Phoenix Project Daily Journal (Phoenix Journal)
Year 22, Day 322
July 4, 2009
The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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What Happened to the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence?
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
- Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.
- Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
- Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
- Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
- They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates. Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn’t fight just the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn’t. So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July Holiday and silently thank these patriots. It’s not much to ask for the price they paid.
Rothschilds’ Real Crime: Enslavement of Nations
“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, (…). The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.” — Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Acting ‘greatly surprised’, British investment bank Rothschild ‘regrets that the firm is linked in any way to the inhumane institution of slavery.’ Supposedly big news to them, the ancient Rothschild establishment quickly mutters sounds of indignation after the report appeared in the new world order’s main media outlet, the Financial Times.
The American Revolution was essentially stillborn–because British Freemasonry along with the Rothschilds’ money power have kept Americans in bondage ever since. This time around, if the New American Revolution unfolds properly, it will be accomplished without force and in a high degree of awareness of the parasitic elite controllers. Then we might obtain government that is truly of, by and for the People.
Canadian Human Rights Commission—Gone Wild!
Ezra Levant explains the situation surrounding a teacher and a pastor that was heard by the Commission. Steven Boissoin, the pastor in question, found out the hard way that in Canada your freedom of speech is surpassed by another person’s right to not be offended.
The complainant was NOT a homosexual, was not hurt or affected in any way other than his political sensibilities were hurt—and came away with $7,000 for his efforts.
In addition to the loss of money, Pastor Boisson was ordered by the Tribunal to do 3 things:
- For the rest of his life, he is not allowed to say anything “disparaging” (not illegal, simply “disparaging”) about gays in public or private;
- He has to write a letter of contrition—a false apology—to the complainant, presumably for offending this individual’s sensibilities towards “gays”;
- He is ordered to write this letter of contrition and have it published in a local newspaper—punishment by shaming.
The HRC says the right not to be offended is more important than the right to free speech. Oh, Canada. In the end, may you be thankful for those less accepting of tyranny!
The Twin Towers were a lurking liability because of all of the asbestos used in constructing them. Some might have said it would be more economical to simply tear those towers down. But it never stopped Mr. Silverstein from buying them–and turning a nifty profit on the double-indemnification insurance payout. How lucky can a guy get?
There are nine other highly ironic ads on the linked page. Down at the bottom: Is there something less-than-subliminal (in today’s world) about the “T-Zone” in the Camel cigarettes ad? The book, Subliminal Seduction back in the early 1970s was one of this writer’s earliest introductions to a book exposing the lie.
The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM)
Offensive Operations in Cyberspace
Over the last two days we have had four separate examples of highly negative responses to those big, bad bloggers leading in the war of perceptions. In a controlled society, perception management is far too important to be left to–shudder–the bloggers.
Cyberspace favors offensive operations. These operations will deny, degrade, disrupt, destroy, or deceive an adversary.
See also: A New Tiananmen – But This Time China’s Rebels Are Online:
There has been a lot of talk about a dam bursting in China this week and it is being seen as a good thing. Only hours before the July 1 deadline that the Chinese Government had set for the mandatory installation of the “Green Dam Youth Escort” software on every new computer sold in China, there was a rare and hasty retraction from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announcing that the initiative would be delayed.
We can only imagine that in the always ongoing negotiations between the Celestial Hosts and the Lords of this World there has been a trade-off arranged to allow the Truth to go forth. The Bad Boyz might have counted on being able to use the Internet as a spider’s web, to detect and trap, paralyze and keep the prey–but instead, it has turned into THE primary tool for increasing awareness. Now that it is in the hands of the People, it will be very hard for the elite to take it away.
WHO KILLED NEDA?
Revealing Interview with the Doctor on Scene
Neda Agha Soltan’s life was snuffed out on camera in what the Iranian Police are calling an act of ‘premeditated murder’ in ‘an arranged scenario’ using a ’small-caliber gun’ and a ‘bullet of a type not available in Iran’. There remains a very large question as to whether there was just one wound or more than one. The official version as reported by the Police says Neda was shot in the HEAD. Was more than one weapon used? Was some kind of silent, frequency-based weapon employed?
Yesterday, we looked at the role of “the man in the blue shirt”, who is, apparently, “the music teacher”. In today’s update we will look at a BBC interview with Dr. Arash Hejazi (the “man in the white shirt”). He says he is afraid and that appears to be true. What he knows–which is different than what he is telling (based on obvious inconsistencies in his story)–is very dangerous knowledge. One of the best things he might have done was to “spill the beans” (sort of) during the interview.
“While I was over her body I didn’t think of anything but to do the things that a doctor has to do when he’s faced with such a situation … ” said Dr. Arash Hejazi (“the man in the white shirt”). Is that what YOU see in this frame? Why is he looking at the camera?
There are several versions of the BBC interview available online. On YouTube, we find one labeled, “Part 2 of 2” with no corresponding “Part 1 of 2″ apparently due to a copyright infringement. And there is another one on YouTube labeled, “complete interview“. But the “complete interview” was obviously heavily edited because it is about one minute shorter than “Part 2 of 2″. The Washington Post article, “Doctor Tells of Neda’s Final Moments” at 19′01″ appears to contain the entire BBC Interview and is the most complete version we have found.
From the Washington Post clip:
0’40”: “Well, I just can explain from my own and what I was part of. Our office is nearby the place where this terrible thing happened. We were there with some friends who had come over there to visit me because I was in Iran just shortly, and we hear that there were things going on in the street nearby …”
1’27”: “… Neda and that man who was with her all the time, who I thought was her father at the time because they were so close and later on I hear that he was her music teacher, uh, were staying there among the crowd, uh, all of a sudden everything turned out, turned crazy because the anti-riot police threw tear gases among people …
2’25″: [This is where the “complete interview” YouTube version begins. But this version continues:]
“We hear the, a, a gunshot. Neda was standing one meter away from me. I didn’t know her; she was just one other person in the crowd [crowd?]. And I hear, I hear the sound and I asked my friend who was standing beside me, ‘What was that? Was it a gunshot?’ And he said, ‘No, they say they are using plastic bullets.’ And, uh, well, we were just standing there, all of a sudden I turned back and I saw blood gushing out of Neda’s chest and she was in a shocked situation, just looking at her chest, which—blood was gushing out. And then, she left her, she, she lost her—control. We—we ran towards her ["we"--meaning the doctor and his friend--"ran towards her": FROM ONE METER AWAY?] and lay her on the ground. I tried, I bent over there, over her and I saw the bullet wound then—which was right in the chest below the neck, and blood gushing out. Uh, my experience says that it was the aorta hit [look where the hands are] and the lung as well.
“… my experience says that it was the aorta hit” — Dr. Hejazi
[BBC Interviewer: “Because you are a trained doctor, although you’re running a publishing business now as well …”]
Yes, yes. I am a GP—I was a GP in Iran before I started this publishing house. And, uh, well, her aorta and her lung were hit by the bullet [SINGULAR]. And I don’t know because I as far as I know never an autopsy was performed on her; she was buried so fast afterwards. So, nobody knows but the bullet [SINGULAR] was—I can verify that the bullet [SINGULAR] came from in front and it didn’t leave from her back, so there were no bullet wounds [PLURAL], exit points [PLURAL], from in her back. Uh, it seem, I have never seen such a thing because the bullet [SINGULAR] seemed to be, have blasted inside her chest, that blood and later on the blood exiting from her mouth and nose. It’s, it’s, I had the impression at the time that it had hit the lung as well. Uh, her blood was draining out of her body and I was just putting pressure on the wounds [PLURAL] to try to stop the bleeding, which wasn’t successful, unfortunately, and she died in less than one minute, she was drained out of her blood.”
[Interviewer: paraphrased: Did you see or did you hear the direction from which the gun shot [SINGULAR] came? Did you see who actually did the firing?]
4’55”: “Yeah, well, things went into chaos afterwards because the man started crying, ‘My child! My child!’ That’s another thing that made me have the impression that he was her father. And well, yes, we hear the, the sound from in front of us from where, from where we were standing. Uh, we had the impression that it [SINGULAR] had come from a rooftop. But, uh, later on, a few minutes later because I was, when she died, they took her body and put her in a car, because I didn’t follow them …”
5′58″: “But afterwards, some people said they took someone with a Basij car, and they said he was on a motorcycle coming from the other way, hiding in a corner. Some people shouted that, ‘We caught him! We caught him!’ People went towards him and they disarmed him and took out his identity cards that he was a Basij member and he said, he was shouting, because people were furious and he was shouting, ‘I didn’t want to kill her! I didn’t want to kill her!’ People were hang–, they just caught him and they didn’t know what to do with him. Some people say, ‘Don’t harm him, we are not killers like them.’ … ‘What should we do?’ … And he was saying, ‘I didn’t want to kill her.’ He wasn’t saying, ‘I didn’t, I wasn’t the one to shot her.’ He was just crying because he was afraid. ‘I didn’t want to kill her.’ So they let him go. They didn’t know what to do with him … they were afraid to expose themselves to the police … so they just let him go and they took his identity card. I don’t know those people who took the identity card but I know that there are people there who know who he his … some people were taking photos of him but I don’t know who they are as well …
8’24”: [BBC Interviewer: “How did you feel after that event when you were back in your office and washing the blood from your hands. What were you thinking?”]
“I was just–it’s indescribable, actually, I don’t know. I have seen people dying many times, it’s my profession. I’ve seen even people hit by a bullet. While I was over her body I didn’t think of anything but to do the things that a doctor has to do when he’s faced with such a situation …” [After checking over his shoulder to see the videographer and camera.]
9’20”: “…[S]he was one meter away from me, that bullet [SINGULAR] could have hit me. [bad edit, repeats “hit me”] That guy—or that person who had shot her–could have been still there, so it was the first time in my life that I really felt the fear of death …”
10’00”: “The look in her eyes—she didn’t have time to say anything, and she just had this look in her eyes that, what has happened, why did/has this happened? [stammers] A very innocent look …”
11’38”: [Interviewer: “… By association—because you are in that footage—you are now connected to that in some way. How do you feel about that?”]
“I feel responsible. The most important thing, you know, I am putting myself in jeopardy now, talking to you—and, uh, but—it was a hard, it was a tough decision to make, to come out and talk about it. But it was responsible. I–she died for a cause and the cause is not such a simple cause like, you know, people gathering around, creating a cause as an excuse to gather. She was fighting for basic rights, human basic rights. She wanted her vote to be counted, she wanted the peace to be free, the freedom of assembly, which is, which is even mentioned in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran—freedom of assembly, freedom of protesting, freedom of speech, which is compromised now, and I don’t want her blood to be, have been shed in vain. She died on the street to say something, and the fact that the image has traveled so fast around the World, it means something, it means that there is a message there.”
[Following a question posed by the BBC Interviewer with regard to the possibility that Neda could have been hit by a random shot from a protester, the doctor takes several tortured MINUTES beating around the bush without providing a direct answer. Following another question about whether or not the doctor would feel safe returning to Iran, he says he expects to be denounced and that "they are going to put so many things on me." And then, finally, he declares:]
18’15”: “And I/nobody would believe that she was shot by a protester, she was shot from front, not from behind, she was shot by a Basij member—which are the armed people. Yes, the anti-riot police never used the firing guns, they never, they just used anti-rioting tools and tear gas. But the Basij is armed, it’s an armed force and they don’t follow the rules that are set for the police. I don’t, the police are not shooting people. These people are.”
SUMMING UP THE INCONSISTENCIES:
- He was just in Iran for a short while, visiting, but “our office is nearby”.
- “She was just one other person in the crowd.” Crowd? What crowd?
- “She left her—lost control, and THEN “we” “ran to her” (from one meter away)? But at the start of the video clip, as Neda loses control, the doctor is already right there with her.
- “While I was over her body I didn’t think of anything but to do the things that a doctor has to do when he’s faced with such a situation …” But he took time to look over his left shoulder at the videographer.
- “I saw the bullet wound [SINGULAR] then—which was right in the chest below the neck” but then the doctor goes on to say, “it was the aorta hit.”
- “… [W]e had the impression that it had come from a rooftop”–but then comes the story of the Basij motorcyclist, obviously at ground level.
- The BBC video caption describes Neda “dying from gunshot wounds”–PLURAL.
- “But the Basij is armed, it’s an armed force.” Not according to the Iranian press, which describes the Basijis as unarmed volunteers. WE DON’T KNOW–BUT it was reported that 8 of the Basijis were killed and some 30 more wounded during the Western-backed rioting and the videos we saw of Basijis made them appear to be very vulnerable, unarmed, riding on 2-stroke motorcycles in the midst of protesters throwing molotov cocktails.
MOST REVEALING OF ALL, HOWEVER, IS THE ATTRIBUTION OF NEDA’S SUPPOSED INTENT, when her own boyfriend has said she was not on either side and was basically just in the wrong place at the wrong time. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS EMBELLISHMENT?
“She was fighting for basic rights, human basic rights. She wanted her vote to be counted, she wanted the peace to be free, the freedom of assembly, which is, which is even mentioned in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran—freedom of assembly, freedom of protesting, freedom of speech, which is compromised now, and I don’t want her blood to be, have been shed in vain. She died on the street to say something … “
She wasn’t FIGHTING for anything–she wasn’t protesting at all.
IN CONCLUSION:
The doctor said many things. Much of what he said is either self-contradictory or at odds with other observable facts. It is obvious that he knows more than he has told. Based on the embellishment of Neda’s intent, Dr. Hejazi’s “coming forward” to augment the story was probably NOT of his own volition. We pray for his protection, so the truth can be known.
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Thanks for the recognition–but now I have to turn this into a mutual admiration society because without support from ones such as yourself this Mission would have been “dead in the water”. What an astonishingly great script He has written, so flexibly as to allow each one to write in and play their own part! “We are ONE” and some of us wouldn’t have it any other way.
Likewise a happy 4th to you RK! You have persevered against some tall odds. Thanks for being the example of diligence, discipline, and dedication. I am as honored as I know you are to be serving on “His” team!