On Saturday, October 30 the United States Border Patrol ran a vehicle checkpoint on US Route 1 just south of Presque Isle.

   "There are no problems," said Border Patrol officer Chuck Sill. "This is just part of our standard patrol that we run from time to time as staffing permits."

   Accompanying the Border Patrol on the Saturday road block were officers from the Presque Isle Police Department and Maine State Police. "We don't check driver's licenses or vehicle paperwork at these checkpoints," Sill said. "The other officers may ask for that paperwork, though."

   When more than two law enforcement agencies are acting concomitantly, such as this road block, it is called a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force (MJTF). MJTFs were developed prior to the merger of all federal law enforcement agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, but have "ramped up" after the consolidation of power at the federal level.

The Border Patrol has come under fire lately, figuratively from critics who allege they don't do enough to curb illegal immigration and literally from the illegals and Mexican military who have on occasion fired automatic weapons upon Border Patrol officers patrolling the southern border. The Border Patrol has jurisdiction along the entire U.S. Border and up to twenty five miles in on the U.S. side. Vehicle checkpoints have been an integral part of curbing the flow of illegal immigrants in the past.

   Road block critics argue that vehicle checkpoints are eerily reminiscent of the 1940's German-era Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), otherwise known as the "Gestapo," which ordered German citizens out of their homes and vehicles with the command; "Your papers, please." Vehicle checkpoints are instrumental in stopping the flow of illegal immigrants through our borders; beyond that, the practice does violate the fourth and fifth amendment rights of otherwise law-abiding Americans.

Skull and Bones Wins Presidency

By: David Deschesne

On November 2, 2004 Skull and Bones Alumnus, George W. Bush was reappointed President of the United States.

   Beating out his cousin and Skull and Bones Fraternity brother, John Forbes Kerry, the President now enjoys a comfortable margin of support with Republicans owning the House, Senate, Judicial Branch and a majority of state governerships.  

   The Skull and Bones fraternity, founded in 1832 by General William Russell at Yale University, is comprised of men who use positions in the financial and political realms to steer societies toward their goal of world domination via a one-world governing body.

   The Skull and Bones fraternity allegedly worships the mythical goddess, Ishtar, whom they refer to as Eulogia - which, in Greek, means "to be blessed." They believe this goddess ascended into heaven in 322 B.C. (a number that appears in their own logo) upon the death of Greek orator Demonsthenes and subsequently descended from heaven in 1832, landing at Yale University. When recently questioned on their status as "Bones" members, President Bush and candidate John F. Kerry did not dispute or deny the claim, rather they brushed the question off with a blanket statement about how secret the club is that they aren't allowed to talk about it.

   Conservatives will now get to experience just how "conservative" Republicans are by observing their voting records in the coming months and year.

Election 2004 Wrap-up

By:  Al Adask

LORD, it is worse than I feared. Worse than I'd even imagined.

It's not bad enough that Bush has won re-election--the Republicans have even gained stronger control over the House and Senate. S.O.B.! I had hoped the Democrats would at least gain enough seats in Congress to bless us with gridlock. But nooooo.

The forces of fascism and "better-living-through-police-state" are jubilant. If you have money to invest, think seriously about buying stock in cement producers and the manufacturers of concertina, razor wire--the number of prisons, detention facilities and holding camps will undoubtedly increase over the next few years. Business for prison accessories should be brisk.

For those of you who lack the capital to invest, you might want to investigate the great employment opportunities opening up for prison guards. Join now and avoid the rush. We'll probably all be in camps, one way or another, over the next four years, and it's undoubtedly better to be a guard than be guarded by one.

And if it weren't bad enough that American soldiers will be goose-stepping down Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years, there are at least four members of the Supreme Court who are due to retire or expire during the Bush administration. That means Bush will get to appoint four more fascists to the Supreme Court who will bless American with new legalistic doctrines like "Verk ist vreedom" for the next two generations.

I don't know whether to voluntarily pay to have my so-so security number tattooed on my forearm now, or wait to let the Vaterland tattoo me next time I'm captured. I hate to spend the money myself, but I figure that if I pay for my own tattoo, I'll at least have it applied with a clean needle. If the Vaterland tattoo's me, they'll probably use the same needle they used to tattoo YOU--and 50 or 100 others in line in front of you. (I'm a little neurotic about sharing needles.)

Besides, if I get my tattoo now--"voluntarily"--I'll be showing our Fuhrer that I'm a "good little American" who loves the Vaterland and spends his days singing, "Homeland, Homeland! Uber alles!" Maybe I could get a job as a trustee next time I go to "camp".

On the bright side (I'm a congenital optimist, you know--my credo is "every concertina wire has a silver lining"), the jobs are going overseas, the Euro is threatening to devalue the US dollar, foreign nations may soon stop buying American debt, commercial real estate is increasingly vacant, our economy has been on life support for at least three years, and Bush is the first President since HOOVER (famed for precipitating the first "Great Depression") who has caused an actual LOSS in the total number of jobs in this country. (Which raises an interesting mathematical mystery: How can we have added more people to America's population over the last four years, and subtracted somewhere around 1 million actual jobs, and still have acceptable levels of unemployment? It is a puzzlement, no?)

Anyway, if the economic crap hits the fan--and I mean if it hits BIG-TIME, like it did in the 1930s--then Republican Bush and his Republican-controlled House and Republican-controlled Senate and (soon) Republican-controlled Supreme Court will be unable to duck responsibility for the collapse. If so, while We de Peepul are rooting around in garbage cans, looking for something to eat, we'll have the satisfication of knowing that the Republican-fascists will be vilified, reviled and removed from national public office for at least two generations and be forced to survive on whatever loot they were able to steal under the Bush administration. Plus, we can look forward to A.D. 2008 when the Democrats will win in a landslide, save the world from the forces of fascism, and welcome all of us (who survived) into the warm embrace of Communism.

Is this a great country, or what?

From the Editor:

Muslims Not the Enemy

There's been a lot of talk lately about how the Muslims are our enemy. Our enemy isn't Muslims necessarily; our enemy is us. While there are many Muslims who do vehemently hate Christians, there are also many who don't (there are also unfortunately many Christians who hate each other as well).

Wiping Muslims from the face of the earth won't really solve our problems. The (global) controllers who have constructed the beautifully disguised system of slavery you and I are yoked to are neither Muslim nor Islamic in religion. Indeed if any religion, they belong to Satan. The controllers are (from least powerful to most powerful) those in the White House-regardless of political affiliation, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of International Settlements and a variety of Dutch, German and English royal families who don't like to be seen on television. They all attend clubs called the Council on Foreign Relations, G-7, G-8, Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commission, et al. The United Nations is merely the physical manifestation of their power - power that is exercised from the top all the way down to our local police who blindly follow orders, just as the Germans did. These are the people who actually steer society. They are not Muslim; most are European. Who's forcing us to render our vehicle's ownership papers to the State, submit to biometric face-scanned driver's licenses, confiscating nearly 55% of our labor via taxation and inflation, and plunging us into an unpayable national debt? Who are blocking our roads with unconstitutional (hence - illegal) roadblocks and coercing us into providing evidence that may convict ourselves of some obscure "crime" when asking for "our papers?" Who is shutting down the entire country with biosphere reserves, wilderness parks, "scenic viewsheds" and "rewilding" areas? Who took our land from us and tells us via zoning boards what we can and can't construct on it? Muslims? No. I think we're doing a good enough job of destroying ourselves without the Muslim's help.

While Muslims have been very vocal about their evil intentions, the fact that the real controllers of this world have the same goals is not negated by their silence on the issue. Indeed, the global controllers do wish to see 85% of the world's population reduced to a "sustainable" 500 million people, using genetic modification (Eugenics), birth control viruses, chemical warfare (fluoride, aspartame, thimerosal) and other assorted low intensity warfare techniques. I'd call them a pretty dangerous group of people; and, unlike the Muslims, they're in charge now.

Render Unto Caesar

By: David Deschesne

Your ability to work, your human labor/energy units plus good health is all a gift from God. Thus, your human energy is where the 10% tithe ultimately comes from. Regardless of what you convert that energy into, 10% of the product is God's. It is freely given as a testimony of the worth of His word - not to "pay the bills" of the church.

"Caesar" did not gift you your energy, good health, or ability to labor. Therefore, that energy and the product derived from it is not "Caesar's."

All wealth is derived from the ground in the form of food, fuel, lumber, etc. When you convert your God-gifted energy into wealth directly, nothing should be "rendered to Caesar" because nothing in that process was his to begin with. Caesar did not produce the wealth contained in the ground that your labor may be impressed upon (thus storing your labor's energy within that product - like a battery stores electricity).

However, when you convert your God-gifted energy into Caesar's money, i.e. Federal Reserve Notes, that money was created by Caesar, not God, and must be rendered back to him. Thus, the scripture at Matthew 22:21 is correct, and fits. By contracting with each other, using Caesar's "money" as the medium of exchange, we are giving to Caesar through excessive, confiscatory taxation (which is used by government to make itself a "god" over the people who faith in it for their welfare, food stamps, medicine, etc.), that which belongs to God. We allow Caesar into our private contracts voluntarily and should begin considering disallowing Caesar that privilege in the future.

Witches Support 10 Commandments

A group of witches in West Virginia is publicly supporting display of the Ten Commandments.

"Widen's Own Wiccans" says the Decalogue should stay viewable in the Clay County Courthouse, as its members oppose the threat of a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union.

In a statement, the Wiccans say the county "is being bullied by the ACLU," and that the Ten Commandments "are, and have always been, an integral part of Clay's unique, one-of-a-kind culture."

The Wiccans pledged to support the county commission "in its quest to maintain our Christian/Appalachian heritage and culture."

They concluded: "We want the '10 Commands' to STAY ON THE WALL."

Heroin Taints Fruit Juice Boxes

MIAMI -- Almost one hundred fruit juice boxes containing liquid heroin were intercepted early November, in a shipment from Colombia, according to federal officials.

Customs Enforcement agents said the juice boxes were part of a private shipment and weren't destined for the United States food supply. The juice would be deadly if consumed.

The 6-ounce boxes, labeled "Hit Fruit Drink," contained a total of 38 kilograms, or about 84 pounds, of heroin worth $1.7 million.

Customs agents said the juice was initially bought from a grocery store in Colombia, then emptied and refilled with heroin. The shipment was relabeled and five pallets of boxes were shipped alongside pallets of legitimate juice boxes, the agents said.

The pallets were intercepted at an undisclosed location in Miami and federal agents are working to track the drug dealers responsible, customs agents said.

F-16 Fighter Fires At School in New Jersey

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. -- A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission Wednesday fired 25 rounds of ammunition that tore through an intermediate school. No one was injured.

The incident that damaged Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School shortly after 11 p.m. The military is conducting an investigating

A custodian was the only person in the school at the time. He called police when he heard what sounded like someone running across the roof of the school.

Police Chief Mark Siino said police officers noticed puncture holes in the roof. Ceiling tiles had fallen into classrooms and there were scratch marks in the asphalt outside the building.

"The 2-inch long bullets are made of lead and do not explode," said Col. Brian Webster, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.

The pilot fired the shots 3-1/2 miles short of Waren Grove firing range from a height of about 7,000 feet.

The military firing range covers parts of Little Egg Harbor, Bass River and Woodland townships in the southern part of the state.

"We don't know what happened that caused the gun to fire," Webster said.

The gun was an M61-A1 Vulcan cannon and is located in the plane's left wing.

"The National Guard takes this situation very seriously," said Lt. Col. Roberta Niedt, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. "The safety of our people and the surrounding communities are our foremost concern."

The fighter jet returned to the 113th Wing located at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where it is stationed.

Webster would not identify the pilot or detail possible disciplinary measures. Mike Dupuis, president of the township's Board of Education, said there were no precautions the school district could have taken to prevent such an incident.

School workers are mindful that the range is nearby, he said.

"Being so close to the range, that's always in the back of our minds. It is very scary. I have children in that school and relatives that work there," he said.

The school houses students from grades three to six.