Vol. 3, No. 53 Thursday, April 24, 2014

Flocking to Free Tree DayThis morning was a most gorgeous spring morning: nary a breeze, the sun was shining and faces were smiling as Valley County residents lined up to receive their free trees. The Valley County Free Tree Day handed out a total of 1,700 lilac, choke cherry, caragana, buffaloberry, American plum and golden current trees, as well as an additional 200 Amur maple trees to the first 200 people. Sponsoring agency this year was Two Rivers Economic Growth. Sponsoring hostesses were Shelley Milles of the Valley County

Extension Service along with the Nashua Gumbo Gals. It’s been a highly successful program according to Valley County Commissioner Dave Pippin, who was instrumental in getting the program off the ground a few years ago. To date, Valley County residents have planted approximately 10,000 free trees. Although Commissioner Pippin is retiring from his position, he plans on helping out with Valley County Free Tree Day in the future and see that this program to help make Valley County greener and cleaner continues.

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BUZZJob announceMent: Full time Maintenance Worker needed for the Town of For t Peck. Supervisor: Public Works Director. Starting wage $14.49/hr. See Job Description for list of duties, available at Fort Peck Town Office. Deadline to apply is Friday, May 9, 2014 at 5:00pm. Completed applications may be dropped off at the Town Office, placed in the Town Office Drop Box after hours, or mailed to 125 Missouri Ave, Box 310, Fort Peck, MT 59223. apply at fort peck town office, or after hours contact public works director daryl keys at 526-7548.

BUZZgeneral laborer wanted: Will perform duties as directed by the Rec. Dept. Director. Requires abi l i ty to perform sustained physical duties and work in varied weather conditions. Knowledge of engine repair, turf maintenance & landscaping a plus. Requires valid MT Driver’s License. Salary is $9/hr, Hours: 40/wk, Mon-Fri. Position Open Until Filled. apply by coMpleting generic Job service application and subMitting directly to eMployer at 319 3rd st. s.

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Block Management areas only open during the fall hunting seasons Members of the public are reminded that during any other times of the year outside the fall hunting seasons, separate landowner permission is needed to access private lands enrolled in Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Region 6 Block Management Program. In FWP Region 6, Block Management contracts run from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. For public access to these properties during all other times of the year, additional permission from the owners is required to do anything on their land. During the specific Block Management contract periods, public hunting for big game, upland birds, waterfowl and turkeys is allowed if it is not restricted by the access agreements reached between FWP and individual landowners. For more information about the program, call the FWP Region 6 office in Glasgow at 406-228-3700.

The Big Sky State Games is holding an online competition to find a National Anthem singer for the Opening Ceremonies on July 18, 2014 in Billings. The deadline to enter the contest is this Friday, April 25. Contestants must...• sing the National Anthem without accompaniment• be available to sing in Billings on July 18, 2014• be a Montana resident The Big Sky State Games will provide Friday evening hotel accommodations if the winner resides out of town. How do you enter? Post a video of yourself singing the National Anthem to the Big Sky State Games Facebook page OR post a video of yourself singing the National Anthem to YouTube and email the link to nationalanthem@bigskygames.org. Either way you choose to submit your video, you are still required to send an email to nationalanthem@bigskygames.org that contains your name, address, age, phone number, email address and t-shirt size. The top FIVE finalists will be determined by a panel of judges, and the five finalists’ videos will then be posted to the Big Sky State Games Facebook page. The public will determine the winner via survey. Big Sky State Games, Box 7136 , Billings, MT 59101 (406) 254-7426 - phone (406) 254-7439 - fax

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BUZZJob opening: First Community Bank in Hinsdale has an opening for a part time Teller. 2 days/week & fill in as needed. apply at Job service. eeo/aa eMployer.

BUZZhelp wanted: Friendly & fast-paced work environment. Starting $10.00/hr. walk in for an application at subway in glasgow.

BUZZbox office person needed for the fort peck suMMer theatre: Position runs 5/26/2014 thru 8/31/2014, though this can be negotiable. Hours are Wednesday – Sunday Noon to 4pm and additional hours of 6pm-8pm Friday & Saturday. contact the fort peck fine arts council for More inforMation, 228-9216.

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The Bundy Paradigm: Will You Be a Rebel, Revolutionary or a Slave?By John W. Whitehead

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F. Kennedy

Those tempted to write off the standoff at the Bundy Ranch as little more than a show of force by militia-minded citizens would do well to reconsider their easy dismissal of this brewing rebellion. This goes far beyond concerns about grazing rights or the tension between the state and the federal government. Few conflicts are ever black and white, and the Bundy situation, with its abundance of gray areas, is no exception. Yet the question is not whether Cliven Bundy and his supporters are domestic terrorists, as Harry Reid claims, or patriots, or something in between. Nor is it a question of whether the Nevada rancher is illegally grazing his cattle on federal land or whether that land should rightfully belong to the government. Nor is it even a question of who’s winning the showdown— the government with its arsenal of SWAT teams, firepower and assault vehicles, or Bundy’s militia supporters with their assortment of weapons—because if such altercations end in bloodshed, everyone loses. What we’re really faced with, and what we’ll see more of before long, is a growing dissatisfaction with the government and its heavy-handed tactics by people who are tired of being used and abused and are ready to say “enough is enough.” And it won’t matter what the issue is—whether it’s a rancher standing his ground over grazing rights, a minister jailed for holding a Bible study in his own home, or a community outraged over police shootings of unarmed citizens—these are the building blocks of a political powder keg. Now all that remains is a spark, and it need not be a very big one, to set the whole powder keg aflame. As I show in my book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there’s a subtext to this incident that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is a pressure cooker with no steam valve, and things are about to blow. This is what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent. The government has been anticipating and preparing for such an uprising for years. For example, in 2008, a U.S. Army War College report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order”—all related to dissent and protests over America’s economic and political disarray. Consequently, predicted the report, the “widespread civil violence would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” One year later, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama issued its infamous reports on

Rightwing and Leftwing “Extremism.” According to these reports, an extremist is defined as anyone who subscribes to a particular political viewpoint. Rightwing extremists, for example, are broadly defined in the report as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely.” Despite “no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,” the DHS listed a number of scenarios that could arise as a result of so-called rightwing extremists playing on the public’s fears and discontent over various issues, including the economic downturn, real estate foreclosures and unemployment. Equally disconcerting, the reports use the words “terrorist” and “extremist” interchangeably. In other words, voicing what the government would consider to be extremist viewpoints is tantamount to being a terrorist. Under such a definition, I could very well be considered a terrorist. So too could John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Roger Baldwin (founder of the ACLU), Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams—all of these men protested and passionately spoke out against government practices with which they disagreed and would be prime targets under this document. The document also took pains to describe the political views of those who would qualify as being a rightwing extremist. For example, you are labeled a rightwing extremist if you voice concerns about a myriad of issues including: policy changes under President Obama; the economic downturn and home foreclosures; the loss of U.S. jobs in manufacturing and construction sectors; and social issues such as abortion, interracial crimes and immigration. DHS also issued a red-flag warning against anyone who promotes “conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps.” Fast forward five years, with all that has transpired, from the Occupy Protests and the targeting of military veterans to domestic surveillance, especially of activist-oriented groups and now, most recently, the Bundy Ranch showdown, and it would seem clear that the government has not veered one iota from its original playbook. Indeed, the government’s full-blown campaign of surveillance of Americans’ internet activity, phone calls, etc., makes complete sense in hindsight. All that we have been subjected to in recent years—living under the shadow of NSA spying; motorists strip searched and anally probed on the side of the road; innocent Americans spied upon while going about their daily business in schools and stores; homeowners having their doors kicked in by militarized SWAT teams serving routine warrants—illustrates how the government deals with people it views as potential “extremists”: with heavy-handed tactics designed to intimidate the populace into submission and discourage anyone from stepping out of line

or challenging the status quo. It’s not just the Cliven Bundys of the world who are being dealt with in this manner. Don Miller, a 91-year-old antiques collector, recently had his Indiana home raided by the FBI, ostensibly because it might be in the nation’s best interest if the rare and valuable antiques and artifacts Miller had collected over the course of 80 years were cared for by the government. Such tactics carried out by anyone other than the government would be considered grand larceny, and yet the government gets a free pass. In the same way, the government insists it can carry out all manner of surveillance on us—listen in on our phone calls, read our emails and text messages, track our movements, photograph our license plates, even enter our biometric information into DNA databases—but those who dare to return the favor, even a little, by filming potential police misconduct, get roughed up by the police,

arrested, charged with violating various and sundry crimes. When law enforcement officials—not just the police, but every agent of the government entrusted with enforcing laws, from the president on down—are allowed to discard the law when convenient,

and the only ones having to obey the law are the citizenry and not the enforcers, then the law becomes only a tool to punish us, rather than binding and controlling the government, as it was intended. This phenomenon is what philosopher Abraham Kaplan referred to as the law of the instrument, which essentially says that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In the scenario that has been playing out in recent years, we the citizenry have become the nails to be hammered by the government’s henchmen, a.k.a. its guns for hire, a.k.a. its standing army, a.k.a. the nation’s law enforcement agencies. Indeed, there can no longer be any doubt that militarized police officers, the end product of the government—federal, local and state—and law enforcement agencies having merged, have become a “standing” or permanent army, composed of full-time professional soldiers who do not disband. Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens. That is exactly what we are witnessing today: a war against the American citizenry. Is it any wonder then that Americans are starting to resist? More and more, Americans are tired, frustrated, anxious, and worried about the state of their country. They are afraid of an increasingly violent and oppressive federal government, and they are worried about the economic insecurity which still grips the nation. And they’re growing increasingly sick of being treated like suspects and criminals. As former law professor John Baker, who has studied the growing problem of overcriminalization, noted, “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.” To make matters worse, a recent scientific study by Princeton researchers confirms that the United States of America is not the

“There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.”— John Baker

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Travels have gone well this month, and I am thankful for your prayers through this time. Many of you have casually or more seriously asked me in recent months about what my plans are for the rest of the year. In the midst of praying about and considering what God’s plans for me are after this initial two year commitment, I came across a quote by CS Lewis that has encouraged me to rest, refocus, and trust God.

“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the

democracy that is purports to be, but rather an oligarchy, in which “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy.” As PolicyMic explains, “An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military… In other words, their statistics say your opinion literally does not matter.” So if average Americans, having largely lost all of the conventional markers of influencing government, whether through elections, petition, or protest, have no way to impact their government, no way to be heard, no assurance that their concerns are truly being represented and their government is one “by the people, of the people, and for the people,” as opposed to being engineered expressly for the benefit of the wealthy elite, then where does that leave them? To some, the choice is clear. As psychologist Erich Fromm recognized in his insightful book, On Disobedience: “If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel (not a revolutionary). He acts out of anger, disappointment, resentment, yet not in the name of a conviction or a principle.” Unfortunately, the intrepid, revolutionary American spirit that stood up to the British, blazed paths to the western territories, and prevailed despite a civil war, multiple world wars, and various economic depressions has taken quite a beating in recent years. Nevertheless, the time is coming when each American will have to decide: will you be a slave, rebel or revolutionary?

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