Episode 9
Hell if I know, with a bit of awesome at the end.
 

Fight the POWA

Episode 8
In this episode, we discover that we are still alive.

By Francois Murphy

BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) – Every revolution has its losers. Libya’s new rulers, who swept to power three months ago in a revolt against Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, have promised the country a brighter future. In the biggest cities, celebratory gunfire and the war-cry “God is great” can still be heard daily.

In Bani Walid, long a stronghold for Gaddafi loyalists and one of their last bastions to fall during this year’s civil war, the mood is entirely different.

On a quiet Friday morning — the day of rest in this almost entirely Muslim country — a middle-aged man drew the metal shutters of his shop closed to speak freely about how Libya’s new leaders have brought this town nothing but empty promises.

“Under Gaddafi everything was great. And now there’s nothing,” he says, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC), which led the revolt against Gaddafi.

“They will find me,” he says, adding angrily: “Anyone who tells the truth in Libya gets slaughtered.”

Bani Walid, which sits on a rocky perch above a lush valley dotted with olive trees, is a town divided.

“Before the liberation, half the people were Gaddafi loyalists, half were with the revolution,” said Tariq Faqi, a 28-year-old doctor who works at the town’s hospital, after Friday prayers at the Abdel Nabbi bil Kheir Mosque.

“Now they accept reality and they’re waiting to see what happens … People feel they can’t trust the new government until they see improvement.”

Read the rest of the article at Reuters.

I received the following email today from the office of the Attorney General of Alabama. This response was not from Mr. Strange himself, but from one of his staff. I will leave the gentleman’s name off in respect of his own personal privacy. It reads as follows:

Dear Mr. Taylor,

Thank you for contacting the Office of the Attorney General. We always enjoy hearing feedback from constituents in our great state. As the Constituent Services Officer, I am responding to your email on behalf of General Strange. I assure you our office will do all it can to defend the laws of this State and uphold both the U.S. Constitution and the Alabama Constitution. We will keep your letter on file for future reference and I will pass along your letter so your concerns are reviewed.

Thank you again for contacting the Office of the Alabama Attorney General.

My letter to Robert Bentley and Luther Strange can be read here.

I am sending the following letter to Governor Robert Bentley and Attorney General Luther Strange. I thought it would be good to publish it publicly here as well.

On the issue of Immigration:

Governor Bentley and Attorney General Strange, I am writing you both to express my feelings about the current immigration issue that is going on between Alabama and the Federal Government.

While I agree with the sentiment of the bill in question and I do absolutely support defying our tyrannical and illegitimate Federal Government, I am concerned about the allegations of civil rights abuses. The most important, indeed, the only legitimate goal of any government is to protect its citizen’s rights. I encourage you to ensure that the rights and protections that are laid out in the Alabama Constitution are honored and respected for any suspected violators of the immigration bill. Unwarranted searches and seizures are a crime against the civil rights of all human beings. The use of fear and intimidation by government officials is nothing short of tyranny. You must do everything within your power to ensure that all persons within this state, legally or not, are not denied the precious civil rights that all Alabama and Federal officials, yourselves included, have sworn to protect.

Concerning the Federal Government, I encourage you to defy their overzealous usurpations of State powers on every level. I hope that you will adopt the American tradition of Nullification regarding ObamaCare, the Income Tax, the REAL ID Act, and all the other unconstitutional actions and legislation that Congress enacts or that the President illegally creates by way of Executive Orders. If it means that the cost of protecting the rights of the People of Alabama is meeting Federal authorities at the border by the Alabama National Guard, so be it. It is the duty of the States to keep the Federal Government in its place, as there is no other body with the capability to do so and the Federal Government has proven consistently that it cannot and will not restrain itself. So far in the history of the American Union, the States have done a fairly poor job in stopping the Federal Government. Alabama should lead the charge in a renewed effort to protect and defend our State’s Rights, even if it means resorting to outright Secession. How much longer can we allow the Federal Government to steal our wages, drown us in debt, destroy our earnings through inflation, send our children to the other side of the planet to fight wars against people who pose us no threat, destroy our economy through “free trade” agreements, harass us at airports, spy on us, and otherwise ruin our lives and condemn us all to a life of Serfdom?

Should you take the lead on these issues in resisting the Federal fascists AND respect the rights of all people within our beautiful State, you can begin the transition of Alabama becoming one of the freest and most prosperous States in the Union. That is the Alabama that I want to see. I hope you do too.

Remember the Alabama Motto: We Dare Defend Our Rights.

Sincerely,
Will Taylor, proud Alabamian

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