By Justin Kendall in Picket Lines, Politics, Video
Tue., Feb. 16 2010 @ 12:00PM
Kansas City was one of 11 cities targeted in the “National Red Light Protest,” a rally against the red-light “scameras” sprouting up across the country. Protesters from the Liberty Restoration Project held signs as it snowed at the intersection of 39th and Southwest Trafficway. Looks like local photographer Eric Bowers contributed to this video and local Tracy Ward helped organize the protest.

The protesters aren’t alone. St. Louis Sen. Jim Lembke is sponsoring Missouri Senate Bill 637, which would outlaw red-light cameras.

Please Join Us in New Orleans to Protest the National Fusion Center Conference!

via OPERATION: DE-FUSE / Please Join Us in New Orleans to Protest the National Fusion Center Conference!.

Had enough of the red light cameras in your city? Join others across the US in “showing your love” for them this Valentine’s Day by protesting near one of your local red light cameras. LOLA Tracy Ward from the Liberty Restoration Project has initiated this nationwide protest, in response to the growing number of cameras popping up around the country.

The Liberty Restoration Project can also provide you with pertinent information to hand out to drivers, as well as other suggestions on making your area’s protest maximally effective. To contact them, find out where your protest is in your area, or to organize one of your own, visit the Nationwide Red Light Camera Protest’s Cause page on Facebook.
Written by Leah Patrick

Operation Defuse Research Intern – Qualifications/Requirements
1. Genuinely interested in the following subjects / enjoys researching / willingness to scour government documents and websites
-fusion centers
-taser abuse
-dhs
-fbi
-databases
-data breaches
-private/public information sharing
-fema
-war on terror
-war on drugs
-surveillance
-redlight traffic cameras
-open records requests
2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and documenting your research
3. Understands good citation / research practices, or is willing to learn
4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers, and blogs
5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet
6. Can make one weekly conference call
7. Willing to dedicate 6 months
8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping
9. Good at Internet research
10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly
11. Willing to help Operation Defuse State Coordinators with research

Missouri Legislative Intern – Qualifications/Requirements
1. Genuinely interested in learning about the Missouri legislature / willing to pay close attention in 2010
2. Willing to dedicate a minimum of 5 hours per week to researching and blogging about current Missouri Legislation
3. Willing to track specific legislation (10th amendment, nullification, privacy), mobilizing folks to action through the LRP blog, facebook and twitter when needed
4. Willing to help put research into digestible formats such as power point, online wiki technology, spreadsheets, basic 1/4 page fliers
5. Has steady access to a computer with Internet
6. Can make one weekly conference call
7. Willing to dedicate 6 months
8. Willing to teach others who are interested in helping
9. Good at Internet research, willing to contact legislative offices for more details by telephone
10. Willing to document their time spent researching and submit weekly
11. Willing to network with other Missouri grassroots organizations and activists

Benefits
1. The opportunity to learn a *lot* about a subject most people in our movement aren’t yet aware of – basically within one month of research you’d be one of the top fusion center experts in the country.
2. Networking with some of the top activists in the country – great way to launch your role in the activist community.
3. Become a part of a dynamic partnership of two of the most successful grassroots organizations, LRP and TAG – see how we operate – learn how to do what we do.
4. Letters of recommendation from LRP, TAG and potentially dozens of other grassroots organizations who you interact with during the process.
5. If you are a college student, I can work with your university or college to secure you college credit for your internship – the amount of credit hours will likely depend on how many hours you give per week – I still had to pay for my internship college credits when I was in college, too..
6. Build your resume / find potential career contacts
7. Become an official part of the LRP “team” – (photo and bio up on our website!)

I am pleased to announce that the Liberty Restoration Project has partnered with Texans for Accountable Government to literally take the police state head on.

After attending the Continental Congress of 2009 John Bush, executive director of TAG, and myself realized that our movement is not aware of the intrusive and destructive relationship between DHS and our local/state law enforcement.

You see, DHS has found a back door way to both militarize and federalize every level of law enforcement, and through these “fusion centers”, all levels of law enforcement basically become pledged to the war on terror.

If 2009 was the year of the Federal Reserve, we intend to make sure 2010 is the year of the Fusion Center – educating every activist in our movement and exposing their fraud against the American people.

Learn more about our initiative here: www.operationdefuse.com

This project will involve:
1. Visit every fusion center in the nation, interviewing staff for our new radio show Rise Up Radio (on micro broadcasts in cities all across the midwest including Stl, OKC, and Austin starting January 1!!!!!!).
2. Coordinate simultaneous open records requests to every fusion center in the country during National Sunshine week in March.
3. Conduct community forums in each state to educate the public while building harmonious relationships with local law enforcement (humanize) - these will be live streamed.
4. Provide a central location for each state to display their open records documents… a Patriot Fusion Center of our own www.libertyrestorationproject.org/wiki
5. Filming for a documentary on fusion centers.

How you can help!
If you want to help out in anyway please consider becoming an Operation Defused sponsor or even the coordinator for your state .

The dollars and cents:
Our biggest expense will be gas and food – So far we have arranged free housing accommodations at every location we have pursued (thank you)!  We know how to stretch a dollar, every penny will help.  (You can donate to our chipin @ http://operationdefuse.com/) Thank you Cissy for being the first to sponsor us!

We’re also in need of a donated or loaned scanner we can take on the trip to immediately upload any documents we get, a Verizon Wireless air-card so we can live stream our events and our radio show, and a donated or loaned GPS so we don’t get lost on the road!  The full estimated cost break down will be posted shortly only our website.

Save the Date Kansas City: December Tuesday 22nd, 2009
We will be kicking off “Operation Defuse” with our annual LRP Christmas Party to be held on Tuesday December 22nd from 6pm-8pm at http://thegustolounge.com/.  Big thanks to Sergio and Steven for donating the space to us and supporting our cause!  A local friend of the movement is also providing DJ services for the event!

Your $10 donation is appreciated at the door!  (if you cannot donate, please come anyway!)

Come ready to hear what LRP has in store for 2010 – we will be making waves bigger than you’ve ever seen!

We are still looking for a donor to provide finger foods and a few kegs so our supporters can mingle and learn while having some fun   Let me know if you are willing to sponsor us in that way (we can get you down as an ODF sponsor)!

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php#/event.php?eid=229388609971&index=1

Save the Date Austin: December
Our second event will be held in Austin, TX on December 28th.  TAG will be holding their annual Christmas party at Bagpipes Pub and Brewery where we will kick off the Southern tour of “Operation Defuse”.

“Operation Defuse” Southern  Tour
During the week between Christmas and New years, Catherine Bleish and John Bush plan to visit every fusion center in Texas.  On January 4the we will be testifying in the Austin City Council hearing on fusion centers and then we will take off for our next stop, Phoenix.  We will be driving through the south hitting fusion centers in AZ, OK, LA, GA, AL, MS, TX and, of course, MO.

Keep an eye on www.operationdefuse.com for the official dates/event locations as they develop.

“Operation Defuse” Missouri
Kevin Kobe, KC Area Director for LRP will be coordinating the Missouri components of Operation Defuse.  In February we plan to hold mirror MIAC hearings in the same cities our legislature held theirs.  Because LRP feels their report was nothing more than a whitewash, we intend to take liberty loving state rep candidates across the state of Missouri so they may listen to the public and develop a strategy to combat the intrusive nature of fusion centers once in office.  We will be inviting law enforcement, the media and the general public to contribute. The goal is to live stream these events on the web.

I can guarantee you the report out of this liberty-candidate committee will NOT be a white wash.

You can learn more by visiting www.operationdefuse.com

Thank you all for your support – I can’t wait to experience liberty in OUR lifetime!

Shoulder to shoulder we stand,
Catherine

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

blog: http://www.donttreadoncat.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DontTreadOnMe

Freedom reaches across party lines.

http://www.ammoland.com/2009/11/24/mayors-against-illegal-guns-wants-to-a-secret-list-to-keep-you-from-buying-guns/

The gun banning front group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, headed by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, came out with a full page ad in the Washington Post recommending that the Federal Government now link the secret No Fly list to National Instant Background Check System (NICS) and use this to prevent gun owners on the list from buying guns.

And just last week, Attorney General Eric Holder endorsed this legislation on behalf of the Obama Administration. Fortunately for US gun owners, Congress has failed to act and that is why Bloomberg’s MAIG is now pushing to connect the two.

According to the Government Accountability Office, over the past five years people on the terrorist watch list, also called the No Fly List bought guns more than 850 times. This is a Secret List kept by the federal government that has no rhyme or reason as to who gets on it and no known way to get off it.  Remember, this is the same secret list that the late Senator Kennedy was listed on for a period of time, preventing him from flying on commercial airlines.

In addition to the No Fly list MAIG is also calling for closure of the imaginary Gun Show Loop Hole and a repeal of Tiahrt Amendments which require the FBI to destroy records of approved background checks performed on gun purchasers within 24 hours.

ACTION 1: Check the Mayors Against Illegal Guns website and see what Mayors belonging to MAIG live in your state and call them and demand they resign from a group that’s mission is banning legal gun ownership and infringing on your second amendment rights. http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/

ACTION 2: Write your congressman and demand that they Vote down any attempts by the Obama Administration and MAIG to introduce any bills that would allow the secret government No Fly list to be linked with the National Instant Background Check System.

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Kelly Owens ✆ to ronpaul-35

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There’s an $8 billion redevelopment plan for North St Louis- and city residents are footing the bill!

The developer is taking family’s homes with eminent domain and your money with an unprecedented $400 million TIF (tax incremental financing). The largest TIF is St Louis City history! And all the while we are cutting funds for police, firefighters, transportation, schools and projects like the Ballpark Village.  Everyone can agree the northside needs redevelopment but this plan just doesn’t add up.

I am working with several community groups from the city to gather signatures for the petition.  If you are a registered voter in the city of St Louis and would like to sign petition, please contact me.

Here is more info on the petition-

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=189986&catid=3

Here is the latest article on this matter-

http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/11/16/daily24.html

Please make sure your friends in St Louis city are aware of where their tax funds are going!

Thank you,

Kelly Owens

314.583.0875

http://www.iclei.org/

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development.

(READ MORE AND WHAT TO DO IN THE ARTICLE POSTED AT THE BOTTOM BY TOM DEWEESE)

Missouri Dues Paying Member Cities (paid with your tax dollars):

Olivette, MO, U.S.A.
Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
University City, MO, U.S.A.
Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Creve Coeur, MO, U.S.A.

Here are the “partners” of the organization:

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Metropolis
World Economic Forum
Clinton Climate Initiative
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
UNFCCC Logo
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Climate Group
World Bankorld Conservation Union (IUCN)
REEEP – Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Global Footprint Network
International Centre for Sustainable Cities
Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative

Remove ICLEI – Restore the Republic!
Monday, August 24, 2009
Many Americans ask how dangerous international policies can suddenly turn up in state and local government, all seemingly uniform to those in communities across the nation and around the globe.

The answer – meet ICLEI, a non-profit, private foundation, dedicated to helping your mayor implement all of his promises. Originally known as the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), today the group simply calls itself “ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability.”

In 1992, ICLEI was one of the groups instrumental in creating Agenda 21. The group’s mission is to push local communities to regulate the environment – and it’s having tremendous success.

I have included a list of 544 American cities in which ICLEI is being paid with tax dollars from city councils to implement and enforce Sustainable Development. ICLEI is there to assure that the mayors keep their promises and meet their goals. Climate change, of course, is the ICLEI mantra.

Read the rest here: http://deweesereport.com/index.php?p=post&id=2

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

blog: http://www.donttreadoncat.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DontTreadOnMe

Freedom reaches across party lines.

Update by Kevin:

Kansas Member Cities:

Lawrence
Mission
Overland Park
Prairie Village

Illinois Member Cities:

Carol Stream
Chicago
Elmhurst
Lake Forest
Northbrook
Oswego
Plainfield
Rock Island
Springfield
Urbana

For a list of all member cities, click here