Author: R J Adams

My thanks to Mike at “From Chaos to Order” for bringing this to our attention.

It seems New England hasn’t advanced very far from the witch-hunting days of the early settlers. A grade school teacher is facing forty years in prison for allegedly exposing 7th-grade students to pornographic sites on the school’s computer. It seems obvious that the innocuous website being visited at the time was infected, and automatically opened the porn sites before the teacher, who was not very computer literate, could do anything about it.

Despite the defense apparently arguing that the computer was heavily infected with spyware and malware that caused it to go into an endless loop of pop-ups leading to porn sites when the browser was opened, such technological jargon was lost on the judge in Connecticut, and the teacher was found guilty.

Sentencing will take place on March 2nd.

They say ignorance is no defense in law, but that should equally apply to the law itself. No judge should be allowed to sit on a bench and pass moral, as well as legal judgments, with no knowledge of the subject matter before him.

While details in this case are still sketchy, the decision appears to have been made more on moralistic grounds than legal.

Just as was the case in the witchcraft trials of 17th century New England.

More on this case:

This from the Norwich Bulletin

This from W. Herbert Horner, computer consultant.

And three updated summaries available from THIS blog

Filed under: US legal victims

The US military is blowing hot and cold these days. Always on the look out for new and weird weapons, they have taken a leaf out of H.G Wells’ “War of the Worlds”, and invented a Martian heat-ray.

Well, that’s actually an exaggeration, given that this heat-ray isn’t lethal, but it is capable of emitting a high energy beam – up to 550 yards – that causes a burning sensation impossible to tolerate. It will penetrate clothes and heat up the victim’s skin to an unpleasant 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sounds like a useful tool for a police state.

Not yet off the drawing board, and definitely at the other end of the Fahrenheit scale, is a new idea the US military hopes will help it defeat enemies in hot, arid climates like Iraq and Afghanistan – if only they can find someone to invent it.

Spray-on plastic black ice would, say the military, confound the enemy and prevent them getting to grips when it came to fighting. As well as the plastic ice, the military will require a spray-on antidote so they aren’t ‘slip, slidin’ away’ with the enemy.

Of course, they won’t know if it works till someone invents it for them, but if all else fails they can always use it to cool down the poor devils fried by their heat-ray.

Filed under: War toys

When Adam Curtis produced the three TV documentaries, “The Power of Nightmares” for the BBC, they were an instant hit in the UK. Spread over three nights, these hour long films charted the rise of both radical Islam and American neoconservatism.

One of many obvious similarities between both opposing forces has been the efforts of the relative few in each camp to force the majority of us into lives we have no wish to live. Their reason for this is, quite simply, their own personal ideology. Politicians no longer consider themselves servants of the people, but rather our masters – decreeing our futures and how we must live our lives. Radical Islam suffers similar arrogance. Curtis highlights how the ‘Islamic state’ kills democracy by negating the need for more than one political party. After all, the law of the Koran is invariable, so there is nothing to debate.

Although the films have played in some small independent theaters in America, it seems the American public will have no opportunity to view them on national television. According to Curtis:

“Something extraordinary has happened to American TV since September 11. A head of the leading networks who had better remain nameless said to me that there was no way they could show it. He said, ‘Who are you to say this?’ and then he added, ‘We would get slaughtered if we put this out.’ When I was in New York I took a DVD to the head of documentaries at HBO. I still haven’t heard from him.”

Land of the Free?

Having watched all three films recently, I found the research impeccable and the arguments verifiable. They are fully in tune with my own research and ideas.

The last film of the three lays to rest a myth still regularly perpetrated by politicians in the West – that a dirty bomb would cause untold damage if exploded near a major city. Nothing could be further from the truth, as atomic scientists have been saying for years. Politicians, however, still use this and many other fantasies from their arsenal, to try and frighten us.

Most important of all, the films portray how “Al Qaeda” was never more than an invention of the American political psyche , and no worldwide, interlinked network of terrorism ever existed before or after 9/11.

Given the continued, hostile attitude of America towards the Middle East, however, that situation may well already be changing.

Videos of all three films have been released on the internet and may be viewed free of charge HERE.

Filed under: Political machinations