A common mistake that people make when reading judges is that Israel needed a king. People believe that Israel needed that one person to tell everyone to be good and follow God. Without that one special person, everyone would do evil just because they can. Is this really the case? 

Israel’s main point of failure is that they did not really ever follow God. They followed men. Even in the time of Moses and Joshua they followed men. Sure, they might have done the right things while those men were alive, and they might have said that they were following God, but when Joshua died, the people of the nation went right back to their wickedness. When their good judges died, they went right back to doing evil. 

And it is somewhere in that cyclical pattern of going back to do evil after the good judge dies that the people of Israel demanded a king. But is that what they really needed? No! Even God told them it was a bad idea. But they demanded a king and got what they wanted. Did anything change? No! They had a handful of good kings that happened to get everyone to do the right thing. But they also had even more of the self destructive kings that brought down their nation.

Surely, modern people have learned from the past and they realize that one person can’t fix everything for them. They must follow God themselves! Sadly, this is not the case. Christians are political, and they are divided. We try to indirectly use violence to enforce their view of what’s right on others. They pray and have rallies for political change, but rarely care about the hearts and minds, much less the souls. Some churches teach of violent revolution fixing everything that’s wrong. Others teach of using voting to oppress others into their ideal way of life. Rarely have I seen a church that would take a step back and even just ask the question, “is this the right thing to do?” And while all sides are fighting to preserve their vision of a godly nation, they’ve helped to create the very thing they sought to avoid: a Godless nation.

What we really need is not another leader to tell us to right. We to follow God. Each and every one of us. We don’t need to force others to behave at the point of a gun. We need to love one another, and teach by example before we try to teach others. What was with Israel is missing today. We tend to serve men above God. And we impose our will on others instead teaching.

You may be a terrorist if you share an apartment with others. This another factoids can be derived from a documents floating around the Arizona Police computers that was made available by LulzSec last week. Many of these documents also came from other police departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. It is likely all of these documents have been shared with other police departments, and may help explain the hostile nature of the police.

Take, for instance, the document titled, “Counter-Terrorism Law Enforcement Officer Roadside/Interdiction Questioning.” (LE Roadside Questioning), indicators that you may be an Al Qaeda terrorist include telling an officer that you are on your way to Walmart or the grocery store, living with other people, or answering a question with a question.

How else can you explain a cops hostilities when they encounter someone recording them not doing anything really inappropriate? Well, aside from the desire to prevent evidence of wrong doing from being made public, they are probably rationalizing it as neutralizing a threat. What threat could a camera possibly be? According to another document (GI08002-Sovereign-Militia Information) that apparently has been emailed to AZ LEO’s, if a person tries to record a police officer, they may be a part of a group of people classified by the FBI as anti-government extremists that “engage in acts of terrorism and violence” or “Sovereign Citizens.” If they call a friend to witness their traffic stop, it is another indicator that they are terrorists.

Your iPhone can be probable cause in the document forwarded to other police, “iphone apps- used against officers.doc” Because anyone with an iPhone can have these apps installed (Trapster, caller id faker, and the parody digital scale), the officer is encouraged to look through every arrestees cell phone for evidence. Trapster in particular seems to be something they are afraid of because they think it can provide criminals with realtime police gps locations (CRIME ALERT 2009-0084.doc) that can be used to ambush or kill police officers (which it can’t). The “Find your iPhone” feature of newer iPhones also causes great concern for the police, because it allows criminals to remotely erase data on their phone if it is confiscated by the police. Because of this, they now carry faraday bags to place iPhones in to prevent a remote wipe signal from reaching the phone (Find my iPhone.pdf). Because of this, anyone with an iPhone is also potentially a criminal, and using the iPhones features for “criminal” purposes.

The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies seem to be behind many of these documents, or the ideas behind the documents. The DHS beats into the local cops head that terrorism is every where, and that the world is an incredibly dangerous place where people are just looking to kill police. This may explain the seemingly spontaneous militarization of the police, and the extreme reactions they have to people. I haven’t even gotten into the drug and illegal immigrant documents yet, and there are many of those.

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First, a thank you to everyone that pledged toward this project. It’s good to know there are people that interested in the project. There were also lots of questions and suggestions from other interested people; enough to make me really want to finish this.

So, even though funding wasn’t reached, I’ll still work on this. Right now it exists in the Onion (at this moment, actually it doesn’t. Had to shut down the server because of the weather. But it’s there). If you want to keep updated on my progress, hang around http://opends.co or http://apathyonline.net . I’ll post updates when a major section is completed, and when apps/server downloads become available.

Please keep in mind, I am one programmer with 2 jobs that pay bills. Progress may be slow. Actually, it will be slow. However, I will likely post the code to github or somewhere else when it is complete enough to remain focused on what it supposed to do.

Thanks again for the interest.

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As a reminder that newspapers really work for MiniTruth, the Keene Sentinel just published an article about the death of Thomas Ball, the man who committed suicide by lighting himself on fire outside the Cheshire County Courthouse.

Yesterday, myself and others pieced together the history of a troubled man strung along by the government for over a decade as he tried to gain legal right to visit his daughter. His suicide note confirmed our suspicions. With this mans suicide, he has directly attacked the collective conscience of the city, and the State of NH. Anyone who reads his suicide note may be left wondering if the system they support is really as horrible as it is made out to be.

However, the Keene Sentinel tries to soften the blow this man made to everyone’s consciences by assuring us he was really just a crazy person in today’s article titled: “Familiar refrain: Why?” Other articles try to remind everyone that he hit his child over a decade ago, once, which is enough for him to have suffered 10 years in the courts, and good for him if he is dead.

The newspaper may lie, the public may deceive themselves to feel better about what happened, and the city may repaint the sidewalk so that all memory of this man is erased. They cannot change what happened, and what continues to happen to countless others in the most corrupt system in this country.