Net Neutrality is a Bold Face Takeover of the Internet by Washington

Make no mistake Net Neutrality is obama's attempt to over throw the free flow of information on the Open and Free Internet.  Washington through their puppet the FCC is seizing control of the internet by reclassifying the Internet as a public utility.  The rules with which the FCC will RULE the Internet are Title II rules from the 1930's.  Just like obama LIED through his Kenyan teeth when he sold America the pack of lies called obamacare he's doing it again by calling the FCC's draconian assualt on the Internet Net Neutrality.  



Let me ask you..."How's your FREE Healthcare?"  All of my medical expensiveness increased 200 to 300 percent after obama and his parasites in Washington seized control of America's healthcare industry. The powers that are pushing the lie of Net Neutrality are the major cable providers and content providers who want more control over the Internet.  The real problem is the monopoly that companies like AT&T and Comcast hold over the US market. Arguing for net neutrality is just arguing for the rich cable companies to get richer. What people should be arguing for 'open access' rules that would give everyone faster, cheaper broadband.

The Internet is the driving engine of the 21st century and has been doing an incredible job all by itself with no government interference. The secret of the Internet working has always been "Hands off" from government interference.  There is no problem with the internet as it is currently.   The Administration Washington simply does not like the fact that people are no longer falling hook, line, and sinker for the propaganda on the mainstream networks.  

During the Monica Lewinsky scandal with President Clinton, Hillary Clinton stated that the "Drudge Report" should be removed from the internet.  Not because it was inflammatory or inaccurate, but because Mat Drudge has broken a story exposing the filth with in the Clinton administration.  Hillary Clinton recently said in regards to 'Net Neutrality' that Washington needs to have some control over what type of information is allowed on the Internet.  She went on to say.."that there are too many opinions and too much information on the Internet which make it hard to run a country."  In essence what she is saying is that only 'PRE-APPROVED'  sources of information should be allowed to have voices on the Internet.

Ajit Pai, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Net Neutrality is "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist," says 

Pai is an oustpoken opponent of expanding government control of the internet, including FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to regulate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) under the same Title II rules that are used to govern telephone-service providers as public utilities. Under current FCC regulations, ISPs are considered providers of "information services" and subject to essentially no federal regulation.

He is also sharply critical of President Barack Obama's very public push to influence policy at the FCC, which is technically an independent agency. Last year, it was widely believed that Wheeler, a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, would not push for Title II. Pai calls the president's actions—which included "creating a YouTube video of with very specific prescriptions as to what this agency should do"—unprecedented in his experience. Coupled with the fact that "the agency suddenly chang[ed]course from where it was to mimic the president’s plan," says Pai, "suggests that the independence of the agency has been compromised to some extent."
The FCC is scheduled to vote Thursday, February 26 on Wheeler's plan.
 
Pai explains his opposition to Title II reclassifcation to Reason's Nick Gillespie. Citing independent studies of American competitiveness and booming investment in telecommunications infrastructure compared to Europe, Pai argues that consumers are thriving and the market is doing its job.

Regulating the internet like a utility company, says Pai, will threaten the kind of innovation we've taken for granted over the past 20 years. "Do you trust the federal government to make the Internet ecosystem more vibrant than it is today?" Pai asks. "Can you think of any regulated utility like the electric company or water company that is as innovative as the Internet?"

  

The worst part is the FCC is going ahead with the vote which concerns ALL Americans without letting ANYONE see what they are voting on.  The FCC at the behest of the current Administration is refusing to allow Congress to take 30 days to look at the Net Neutrality rules. This entire Net Neutrality is being done in the dark, against the will of the American people, and is even being rushed past the United States Congress.  If this is so good for the American people then why is it being done in the dark of night behind closed doors?  I can tell you for certain that Net Neutrality is obamcare for the internet.  

One last thing I did contact my Louisiana Republican Senators David Vitter and Bill Cassidy and I was blown off like I was a mindless idiot.  In fact I was told by one that..."The Senator Bill Cassidy has no position on the matter."  The last I checked the USA was a Republic, which means the  power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen by the behest of the voting public.  Senator Bill Cassidy should represent his constituents not himself. 

National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order 13603

President obama signed executive order 13603 expanding the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” to totalitarian extremes. 

 Executive Order 13603 erases the Constitution and in a single pen stroke gives the US government total control and ownership of ALL labor, industrial, agricultrial, energy, transportation, local and state agenices.  E.O. 13603 allows the president declare a national emergency over anything.  There need be NO natural disater, no military incursion, nothing out of the ordinary.  The president simply has to declare that E.O. 13603 is in effect and the United States of America as a Republic ceases to exit. 

EO 13603 gives Obama the power over all commodities, food products, health care, gas supplies,any and all products capable of being ingested by human beings and animals; all forms of energy; all forms of civil transportation; all usable water from all sources; health resources; forces labor such as military conscription; and federal officials can issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources.”

EO 13603 is the plan to control our economy and our lives in the event of a crisis endangering our national security. There are ZERO checks and balances written into the E.O 13603. There is actually NO language written into E.O. 13603 for returning the presidents ABSOULTE power back into the hands of the 3 branches of the US government.  The US Constitution becomes null and void along with the US Congress and the US Justice Department.  

After, E.O. 13603 is enacted the president can round up US citizens and by threat of incarceration, and or starvation, compel US citizens into FORCED Labor for unspecified lengths of time.

 

Benito Mussolini defined Fascism as the “merger of government and corporatism.” We’ve witnessed the financial rape of this country by Walstreet and their Congressional lapdogs. 

In the United States it is known that the NSA/CIA/RIO/FBI are openly and pervasively  spying/surveillance on EVERY American.  Everyday, the Orwellian nightmare of recording and searching literally every single electronic communication in the country, and the world continues unabated.

Congress is worthless in protecting our interests, and even more egregious, is complicit in the destruction of this once great country.  Congress is nothing more then paid whores for the corporate moneyed interests, which have undermined the foundation of the American dream.  

Might, I also remind you of the 2,770 armored personnel carriers purchased by Homeland Security, the purchase of 2 billion and counting rounds of ammunition. Also, remember there are 800 (KNOWN) FEMA reeducation camps spread through out the country?  Those 800 (KNOWN) FEMA camps, which were created to hold MILLION, add to that the US prison population, which is the largest in the world, and what you have is a nation of prisoners. 

 

When did the American people become the defacto enemy of the United States Government?  

When did the American government declare war on it's own people?  When did the survival of the corporate entity of the Government for the District of Columbia (USA) superseded the survival of the American People?   

Because E.O. 13603 states in no uncertain terms that the Government for the District of Columbia (USA) and it's survival is far more important and far exceeds the worth of the very people who are AMERICA!  




 

The Bilderberg F.Y.I.

The Bilderberg group comprise the world’s most exclusive club of the world's most powerful politicians coupled with the richest men and women i the world.  No one, no matter how rich can buy their way in. It is the Group’s Steering Committee whom decides to invite, and in all cases participants are adherents to One World Order governance run by top power elite. 

No American President since Richard Nixon has been allowed to take office without first being vetted and approved by the Bilderberg group.  Obama was quietly given a 3 hour interview by the Bilderberg group. Once he made it clear that he would enforce the policies which the Bilderberg group put forth he was allowed to become the American president.  George Bush Jr said publicy.."As long as I do what they tell me I'm safe." 

 

Objectives of the Bilderberg


– “one international governing body (observing) a single set of AGREED universal values

– centralized control of world populations by “mind control;” in other words, controlling world public opinion

– a New World Order with no middle class, only “rulers and slaves democracy will only be allowed in name only

– “a zero-growth society” without prosperity or progress, only greater wealth and power for the rulers

– manufactured crises, fake bogey men, and perpetual wars to keep the people perpetually in fear

– absolute control of education to program the children and steer global public mind

– “centralized control of all foreign and domestic policies, One single world military under the rule of the global elite

– using the UN as a de facto world government imposing a UN tax on all “world citizens”

– expanding NAFTA and WTO globally

– making NATO the single all powerful world military

– imposing a GLOBAL legal system

– a global “welfare state where obedient slaves will be rewarded and non-conformists targeted for extermination.”

 

The world is at the dawn of the worst crisis in the history of mankind.  The global elite, through their agents in the
Bilderberg group, are working to achieve their goal of starting WW III.  The reason for doing so is to cripple the world's economies and grind down the last 3 Nation states which could hold up their plans for a global New World Order.  The Russian, American, and Chinese governments will be shadows of their former selves after WWIII. 

This will allow the Global Elite using their pawns at the Bilderberg group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, to seize control and impose World Wide Fascism.  This scenario is EXACTLY what the global Elite mean when they say...

 ODOR OF ORDO AB CHAO (ORDER OUT OF CHAOS)  

The Muslim President who Hates America

As par for the course obama at the National Prayer Breakfast used his soap box to disparage both America and Christians.

 At a time of global anxiety over Islamist terrorism, Obama took a pot shot at Christian Americans.  The same Americans who make up a vast majority of this country. obama in his usual condescending tone spoke ill of Christianity. obama said Christians should perhaps not be the ones who cast the first stone at islamic jihadists who wantonly murder, rape, and rob their fellow countrymen.

obama went on to say...“Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history,” he told the group, speaking of the tension between the compassionate and murderous acts religion can inspire. “And lest Christians get on their high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

So, obama wants to compare the crusades with the ongoing islamic slaughter of innocent women and children.  obama being a muslim and a Kenyan national, obviously, NEVER studied western history.  The Crusades were in direct repsonse to muslim aggression through out the middle east and Europe.  The Crusades ended centuries ago, the muslim jihad is still on going.  obama forgets to mention that muslims are responsible for more muslim deaths then any other ethnic, religious, or political group. 


Had muhammad the lying, thieving, cowardly, pedophile not instigated the slaughter of innocent, peace loving, Christians in the middle east, the Crusades would have NEVER happened!  This of course, is glaringly absent obama's latest attempt to whitewash all the ocean's of blood islam has shed since it's inception.  

Not to miss a beat obama, who loves playing the race card, made sure to even throw in his nasty comment that slavery was also Christianity's fault as well.    

I ask you to watch the video above which gives FACTS about the Crusades versus the on going EVIL lie from the pit of hell that is islam.

Raoul Wallenberg A Life to Aspire Too

During World War Two, a young Swedish diplomat saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. But in January 1945 Soviet troops arrested him - he was never seen in public again.

Towards the end of WW II  Hitler had begun to distrust the Hungarian leader Miklos Horthy and on 19 March 1944, German forces occupied Hungary.After the invasion hundreds of thousands of Jews across Hungary were rounded up, moved into ghettos and forced on to deportation trains.
 
With the help of the Hungarian government, the Nazis deported 440,000 Jews from Hungary in the space of two months - most were sent to the largest and most infamous death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. 

During the summer of 1944, Sweden - with US backing - agreed to use its diplomatic mission in Budapest to help Hungary's remaining Jews. 
 
Thirty-one-year-old businessman Raoul Wallenberg came from one of Sweden's wealthiest and most important families - he had no diplomatic experience and had studied architecture at university, but his charisma marked him out. 

He was appointed Sweden's special envoy and arrived in Hungary in July - by that time the only Jewish community left in the country was in the capital Budapest.

The Nazi's began to immediately  the deport Jews first from the countryside then the major cities. Budapest was to be the last point of deportation.  Thankfully, there were still Jews left there for Wallenberg, the other Swedes and the other neutral diplomats to do something," 


Before Wallenberg's arrival, the Swedish embassy in Budapest was already issuing travel documents to Hungarian Jews - these special certificates functioned as a Swedish passport. The papers had no real authority in law but the Swedes managed to persuade the Hungarian authorities that people holding them were under their protection. 

When Wallenberg arrived, he decided that the certificates needed to look more official so he redesigned them. He introduced the colours of the Swedish flag, blue and yellow, marked the documents with government stamps and added Swedish crowns. It was known as a Schutz-Pass or protective pass. 

Wallenberg negotiated with the Hungarians to allow him to issue nearly 5,000 Schutz-Passes but according to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, he issued more than three times that number.

Some people contacted the Swedish embassy in Budapest for them, but Wallenberg and his staff also delivered passes to Jews throughout city. 

One of Wallenberg's drivers recounted how the diplomat intercepted a train about to leave Budapest for Auschwitz. " Raoul Wallenberg climbed up on the roof of the train, carrying a bundle of passports and started to hand them out, ignoring  the Nazi and Hungarian guards who were firing warning shots.   In the end, the guards ordered anyone who held a protective pass to get off the train, thus saving them from certian death." 

 Wallenberg also bought and rented more than 30 buildings in Budapest including hospitals and a soup kitchen - he hung Swedish flags from their front doors and declared that they were protected by Swedish diplomatic immunity. At least 15,000 Jews moved in for protection and hundreds more worked for Wallenberg. 

 

 Raoul Wallenberg was blessed by GOD with intelligence, power and charisma which he used with feverish intent to save as many Jews as possible. 

At the tail end of the war as Russian troops were storming into Hungry, Wallenberg's final achievement was to persuade the Nazis to stop the planned annihilation of the main Jewish ghetto in Budapest, which was home to 70,000 people. 

The German general in charge received a letter from Wallenberg - in it he promised the general would be held personally responsible for the ghetto's destruction and would be hung as a war criminal once the war was over.   The planned massacre of Jewish men, women, and children was halted with only hours to spare. 

In January 1945, after the Soviet Union captured eastern Budapest, Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by Soviet troops on the charge of espionage. It was the last time he was seen alive. 

 
Info Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30934452 and Wikipedia

The NIGHTMARE Costs of obamacare

The NIGHTMARE of obamacare will cost the federal government (THE American Taxpayer) $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Monday.

The number comes from figures buried in a 15-page section of the nonpartisan organization's new ten-year budget outlook. 

The best-case scenario described by the CBO would result in 'between 24 million and 27 million' fewer Americans being uninsured in 2025, compared to the year before the Affordable Care Act took effect.

So, obama lied and lied and lied, when he spouted that obamacare would help 30-45 million uninsured American citizens receive healthcare. 

So, obamacare will actually insure LESS American taxpayers yet cost $1.35 trillion more to do so.  Which, at present costs is over $50,000 per individual. 

The numbers are SICKENING: It will take $1.993 trillion, a number that looks like $1,993,000,000,000, to provide insurance subsidies to poor and middle-class Americans and ILLEGALS to pay for a massive expansion of Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) costs.

Offsetting that massive outlay will be $643 billion in new taxes, penalties and fees all thanks to obama's FREE healthcare. Since when is 2 TRILLION US dollars FREE Healthcare?  When did an additional $50,000 per taxpayer FREE Healthcare?

 

These numbers portend quickly escalating penalties or 'taxes,' as the traitor Justice Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court so HELPFULLY termed the new FREE Healthcare. After all it's all FREE right obama?

obama (Lying through his teeth) promised sunshine and rainbows to the United States Congress in 2009, that his fancy new FREE Healthcare would only cost around $900 billion over 10 years.

Thanks to the crocks, parasites, and vermin on Capital Hill 900 BILLION would be a dream figure now.  Presently, 900 BILLION won't even cover the 1st 2 years of obama's FREE Healthcare. 900 billion spent on those people would equate to no more than $30,000 each, Far less than what the CBO now says the program will cost. However don't get exicted, remember obama said it's all FREE
Healthcare, won't cost anyone a dime!  Some how Unicorns and rainbows will for the 2 TRILLION bill.

The CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation, a group of members from both houses of Congress, prepared Monday's report on the overall direction of the federal budget.

They estimated that 'the net costs of the coverage provisions of the ACA [Affordable Care Act] will rise sharply as the effects of the act phase in from 2015 through 2017.'

What obama ( The Liar and Chief) forgot is that the costs (FREE Healthcare) will skyrocket by 2022. By then, obamacare will cost have screwed the American taxpayer to the tune of 150 BILLION a year. That FREE Healthcare obama promised the American taxpayer will by 2035 have cost 15-20 TRILLION.  That's 15-20 TRILLION of FREE Healthcare and COUNTING! I hate to see how much it would cost if it weren't all FREE Healthcare!

 

After all that FREE Healthcare there will still be 29 million to 31 million US taxpayers without medical insurance, says the CBO.  Those 29-31 million US citizens without Healthcare will NOT include ANY illegal citizens.  ILLEGAL'S automatically qualify for FREE Healthcare all they want.  ILLEGAL'S don't have to pay a dime for any medical services at ALL!  Not to mention muslims and Congress and the President are except from obamacare and it's tax penalties.  

So, when you see obama at one of his many golf outings, vacations, get aways to Maratha's vineyard, weekends off, make sure you thank him for all your FREE Healthcare. 

When Seconds Count Police are Minutes Away

* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day.  This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.

* Even anti-gun GOVERNMENT researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606). And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year.  Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."

 

Concealed carry laws help reduce crime

* Nationwide: over a million self-defense uses. Every year, as many as one-half million citizens defend themselves with a firearm away from home.  Concealed carry laws are dropping crime rates across the country. A comprehensive national study determined in 1996 that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed firearms. The results of the study showed:

* States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%;  and * If those states not having concealed carry laws had adopted such laws in 1992, then approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and over 11,000 robberies would have been avoided yearly.

* Vermont: one of the safest five states in the country. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission... without paying a fee... or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period. And yet for ten years in a row, Vermont has remained one of the top-five, safest states in the union -- having three times received the "Safest State Award."

* Florida: concealed carry helps slash the murder rates in the state. In the fifteen years following the passage of Florida's concealed carry law in 1987, over 800,000 permits to carry firearms were issued to people in the state.  FBI reports show that the homicide rate in Florida, which in 1987 was much higher than the national average, fell 52% during that 15-year period -- thus putting the Florida rate below the national average.

* Do firearms carry laws result in chaos? No. Consider the case of Florida. A citizen in the Sunshine State is far more likely to be attacked by an alligator than to be assaulted by a concealed carry holder.

1. During the first fifteen years that the Florida law was in effect, alligator attacks outpaced the number of crimes committed by carry holders by a 229 to 155 margin.

2. And even the 155 "crimes" committed by concealed carry permit holders are somewhat misleading as most of these infractions resulted from Floridians who accidentally carried their firearms into restricted areas, such as an airport.

 Criminals avoid armed citizens

* Kennesaw, GA. In 1982, this suburb of Atlanta passed a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in the house. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89% in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4% drop in Georgia as a whole.

* Ten years later the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72% lower than it had been in 1981, before the law was passed.

* Nationwide. Statistical comparisons with other countries show that burglars in the United States are far less apt to enter an occupied home than their foreign counterparts who live in countries where fewer civilians own firearms. Consider the following rates showing how often a homeowner is present when a burglar strikes:

* Homeowner occupancy rate in the gun control countries of Great Britain, Canada and Netherlands: 45% (average of the three countries); and, * Homeowner occupancy rate in the United States: 12.7%. [18] Rapes averted when women carry or use firearms for protection

* Orlando, FL. the media highly publicized a safety course which taught Orlando women how to use guns. The result: Orlando's rape rate dropped 88%, whereas the rape rate remained constant in the rest of Florida and the nation.

* Nationwide. The Justice Department found that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful. 

Justice Department study

* 3/5 of felons polled agreed that "a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."

* 74% of felons polled agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime."

* 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police." 
  


Source:U.S., Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, "The Armed Criminal in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons," Research Report 

ELF Technology and Mind Control

 Dr. John Hall, anesthesiologist and author of "Satellite Terrorism" to discuss the facts of of Government mind control and Satellite harassment. There are many weapons programs by different branches of the US military which involve mind control.  

The US Department of Defense has stated publicly that it is seeking ways to hack the human brain.  There are multiple instances during the Iraq war where the 'Voice of God' was used against Taliban fighters. 

Make no mistake the human brain is the new frontier of modern warfare.  After all, if you can hack the enemy's brain and turn him into a cowering wreck, what ever weapons he possesses, no matter how powerful, become a mute point.  In hacking the human brain  what TPTB are really doing is perfecting slavery on a mass scale.

If your mind is highjacked, your thoughts are not your own, then you are a slave, a robot, which is exactly what TPTB have been working towards since the inception of the NWO. 

The BIBLE even speaks of the future when mankind is no longer free...

'Casting down imaginations, and every thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ...' 2 Corinthians 10:5

After all, Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil. I ask you, what is more devilish then the NWO scum who desire to enslave all of humanity? 

I truly believe that if humanity is truly enslaved by the NWO Elite there will be repercussions TPTB can not foresee nor plan for. If humanity is ever entirely enslaved the greatest threat to the existence of all mankind will be that unfettered creativity will die a conformists death. Then, there is the random factor for genius, which appears in the most unlikely of places and cannot be anticipated nor planned for.  

The death kneel for all mankind will be the stifling of the evolution of human consciousness.   Wholesale slavery of the mind can and will lead to mental degradation. Whether this be by chemical or electromagnetic means matters not.  This will ultimately lead to mass extinctions in only a few short generations.  True evolution can not be forced, coerced, or left to lesser beings who have neither the foresight, capability, or foundation for such work.  There is a reason why men have such short lives and so little influence pertaining to the over arching tapestry of humanities future.     

Black and White United in Friendship

 

Daryl Davis is no ordinary musician. He’s played with President Clinton and tours the country playing “burnin’ boogie woogie piano” and sharing musical stylings inspired by greats like Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. He’s a highly respected and electrifying performer who is currently an integral member of The Legendary Blues Band (formerly known as the Muddy Waters Band,) and he rocks the stage all over the nation.

Davis’ travels, of course, have always afforded him the opportunity to meet a huge range of diverse people, but perhaps nothing could have prepared him for the moment that would change his life.


It was 1983 and Davis was playing country western music in an (informally) all-white lounge. He was the only black musician in the place and when his set was over, a man approached him. 

“He came up to me and said he liked my piano playing,” says Davis, “then he told me this was the first time he heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis.” Davis, somewhat amused, explained to the man: “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine. He told me himself where he learned to play.” At first, Davis says, the man was skeptical that Jerry Lee Lewis had been schooled by black musicians, but Davis went on to explain in more detail. “He was fascinated,” says Davis, “but he didn’t believe me. Then, he told me he was a Klansman.”

Most people in this day and age probably would have turned and ran right out of that good ol’ boy’s bar, but not Davis. He stayed and talked with the Klansman for a long time. “At first, I thought ‘why the hell am I sitting with him?’ but we struck up a friendship and it was music that brought us together,” he says.
That friendship would lead Davis on a path almost unimaginable to most folks. Today, Davis is not only a musician, he is a person who befriends KKK members and, as a result, collects the robes and hoods of Klansmen who choose to leave the organization because of their friendship with him.

 

The road to these close and authentic friendships, Davis says, involved a lot of learning on his part. He’d had racist experiences and had long wanted to write a book about race relations, but hadn’t had the opportunity to sit down and talk to a Klansman. His upbringing was extremely diverse, and his first experience with organized racism was a shock. He explains:

I was raised overseas in integrated schools. I had had a racist experience already but I didn’t know people organized into groups whose premise was to be racist and exclude other people. It seemed unfathomable to me. My parents were in the Foreign Service and I was an American embassy brat, going to international schools overseas. My classes were filled with anyone who had an embassy: Japanese, German, French, Italian. It was multicultural but that term did not exist at that time. For me it was just the norm. Every time I would come back (to the US,) I would see people separated by race. When my father was telling me about (the KKK) at the age of 10 it didn’t make any sense to me. I had always gotten along with everyone.

When Davis decided he needed to write a book about the KKK, he knew he had to find the friend he’d made in the country western bar. Davis tracked him down eight years after they had first met. “I went to his apartment unannounced,” Davis says. “He opens the door and sees me, and he says ‘Daryl! What are you doing here?’ He stepped out of his apartment and I stepped in. He said ‘what’s going on man? Are you still playing?’ I said ‘I need to talk to you about the Klan.'”


At first, his friend resisted, saying he would not give Davis the information he was seeking. “He would not do it because he was fearful,” Davis says. “He thought I would be killed. I said ‘well give me the guy’s number and address.’ He finally gave me Roger Kelly’s number and address but he told me: ‘don’t go to his house; meet him in a public place.'” Davis immediately began making plans to approach Kelly, who at the time was the leader of the KKK in Maryland.


“My secretary called him,” Davis says, “and I told her, ‘do not tell Roger Kelly I’m black. Just tell him I am writing a book on the Klan.’ I wanted her to call because she’s white. I knew enough about the mentality of the Klan that they would never think a white woman would work for a black man. She called him and he didn’t ask what color I was, so we arranged to meet at a motel.”

That meeting, says Davis, was fraught with tension from the start. Kelly arrived at the motel with a nighthawk-a bodyguard dressed in military style fatigues-complete with a firearm.

We met at a motel, and I sent my secretary down the hall to get an ice bucket and sodas so I could offer Mr. Kelly a beverage. The room, by coincidence, was set up so that if the door opened, you could not see who was inside…Right on time there’s a knock on the door. A bodyguard dressed in military gear comes in with a KKK beret and a gun on his hip. Mr. Kelly is directly behind him in a dark blue suit. The bodyguard comes in and sees me and freezes in his tracks. Mr. Kelly trips and slams into him like they were dominoes.

I saw the apprehension so I got up and walked over and said ‘Hi Mr. Kelly, come on in.’ He shook my hand, the bodyguard shook my hand, and they came in. Mr. Kelly sits down and the bodyguard stands at his right. He asked for identification and I handed him my drivers’ license. He says ‘oh you live on Flack Street in Silver Spring.’ Well, I didn’t need him coming to my house and burning a cross or whatever, and here he is calling off my street address. I wanted to let him know not to come to my house so I said ‘yes, and you live at…’ and I said his street address. I made it clear-‘let’s confine our visit to this hotel room.’
But I had no reason to be concerned. One of his Klan members lived right down the street from me. It was coincidence.

The tension, however, continued, Davis says, and eventually reached a fever pitch.

Every time my cassette would run out of tape, I would reach down into my bag and pull out another. Every time I reached down, the bodyguard would reach for his gun. He didn’t know what was in the bag. After a while he relaxed and realized nothing was in the bag but cassettes and the bible. After about an hour, there was a very loud, strange noise which was ominous, and I was apprehensive. In the back of my mind, I heard my friend in my head saying ‘Mr. Kelly will kill you.’ I stood up and slammed my hands on the table, and I felt my life was in danger. When my hands hit the table, my eyes locked with his, and he could read them. We stared into each other’s eyes. The bodyguard was looking back and forth at us, but then my secretary Mary realized what had happened.

The ice bucket had melted and the cans of soda shifted, and that’s what made the noise! We all began laughing at how stupid we all had been. In retrospect, it was a very important lesson that was taught. All because a foreign entity of which we were ignorant, entered into our comfort zone, we became fearful of each other. The lesson learned is: ignorance breeds fear. If you don’t keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don’t keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

After that defining moment, the meeting was much more relaxed. Davis became friends with Kelly and eventually went on to befriend over 20 members of the KKK. He has collected at least that many robes and hoods, which he has hanging in his closet. He also is viewed as being responsible for dismantling the entire KKK in Maryland because things “fell apart” after he began making inroads with its members there.

He says that KKK members have many misconceptions about black people, which stem mostly from intense brainwashing in the home. When the Klansmen get to know him, he says, it becomes impossible for them to hold on to their prejudices. He explains:

This Klansman and I were riding around in my car and the topic of crime came up. He made the remark that all black people had a gene that makes us violent. I said ‘Gary, what are you talking about?’ He said ‘Who’s doing all the shootings?’ I said ‘let me tell you something, I am as black as anyone you’ve ever seen and I’ve never done a drive by or a shooting.’ After a time I said ‘you know, it’s a fact that all white people have within them a gene that makes them serial killers. Name me three black serial killers.’ He could not do it. I said ‘you have the gene. It’s just latent.’ He said ‘well that’s stupid’ I said ‘it’s just as stupid as what you said to me.’ He was very quiet after that and I know it was sinking in.

Davis also became close with Robert White, a Grand Dragon in the KKK. “I respect someone’s right to air their views whether they are wrong or right,” Davis says. “Robert White was a Grand Dragon who had gone to prison numerous times. I said I wanted to interview him for my book. At first, he was very violent and very hateful but we talked for a long time. Over time, he began thinking about a lot of things he had done and said that were wrong. He quit the Klan. Toward the end he said he would follow me to hell and back. …and he gave me his robe and hood, and his police uniform.”
 

Davis recounts his experiences with the KKK in his book Klan-Destine Relationships. He says his friendships are real and intimate, and that he does typical things with his friends who are in the Klan. He has even served as a pallbearer at a Klansman’s funeral and attended another’s wedding. When asked about the fear many people feel when confronted with images of KKK members, he says “It’s just material. You have to address what’s in the person head and in their heart.”


Indeed, Davis says that the best way to break down barriers and improve race relations is for two people who disagree with each other to sit down and talk:

A lot of people have anti-racist groups. They get together and meet and have a diverse group and all they do and sit around and talk about how bad discrimination is. Then someone says ‘there’s a Klan group across town. Why don’t we invite them to come and talk to us?’ and the other person says ‘Oh no! We don’t want that guy here!’ Well, you’re doing the exact same thing they are. What’s the purpose of meeting with each other when we already agree? Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

Invite your enemy to talk. Give them a platform to talk because then they will reciprocate. Invite your enemies to sit down and join you. You never know; some small thing you say might give them food for thought, and you will learn from them. Establish dialogue. It’s when the talking stops that the ground becomes fertile for fighting.

Davis currently keeps busy by playing in his band and touring the country giving lectures. He is planning a second follow-up book to Klan-Destine Relationships. He says there’s no need to be afraid of the KKK because at least they make their intentions clear, whereas racism can manifest in anyone, and it is often invisible. He urges those who wish to combat racism to reach out to those who have misconceptions about race.
“When two enemies are talking,” he says, “they’re not fighting.”


Link: http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/kkk-member-walks-up-to-black-musician-in-bar-but-its-not-a-joke-and-what-happens-next-will-astound-you/

Don't TRUST the Mainstream Media

“I wasn’t going to send this email to FYM, but, the feeding frenzy on Bill Cosby’s character made my response necessary. In 1982, I had a photographer named Choice. Choice was contacted by a casting agent, I was told to meet the client at the Ritz Carlton for lunch in New York in the summer of 82’. This client wanted to talk to me about a film project. I arrived at the Ritz Carlton at 11:30 AM. Two male clients arrived; a Caucasian male (late 30s) and an Asian male (early 50s). They indicated that I’d be perfect for a film project.

I was told the project paid $5000 cash. I thought that was strange, who pays $5000 cash for a modeling job? The job was to meet Bill Cosby and to try to seduce him; it would be apart of the script. I was confused by this job request? They told me I would be recording the session to see if I was successful and believable? 

My response to them… I would like to meet Mr. Cosby first and discuss the script. They said no, it wasn’t necessary to meet him. They said it was a spontaneous casting call? I have never in my life heard of a spontaneous casting call.


As a legitimate model this seemed strange and unethical. I immediately turned down the job. The Asian man continued speaking and offered me $10,000 cash upfront and $5000 upon delivery of some seductive photos and some of his sperm. Sperm?
(I was in shock when they said sperm?) I then realized that these two men had unethical intentions. I excused myself, went to the bathroom, and then I left the hotel and went home. 

 Now, as a model in New York, I’ve been offered drugs, trips around the world, films, videos, money from rich men, casting couch and the list is endless.


As a naive model you’re offered many compromising projects, but, this blew my mind. I was offered $15,000 to seduce and destroy Bill Cosby. Why else would they need suggestive photos and sperm? I also realized that America has a history of oppressing, killing and destroying successful and poor people of color.


I wasn’t going to send this letter to FYM, but, the media lynching of one of our global icons (Bill Cosby), is simply
other news outlets blatantly misconstrue and lied about old dismissed allegations of Bill Cosby. I’m shocked by the lack of integrity of our major news media. Why would CNN, ABC, CBS, AP and the like lie about 30 year old untrue news? 


Nightline simply cut, deleted and distorted the Cosby interview– making him appear guilty. What has happened to the integrity of our nation?

I was offered $15,000 cash to discredit and ruin Bill Cosby’s good name. I’m 100% convinced that all the women coming forward have been paid off to discredit Bill Cosby as well. Why? He is simply too powerful, his intentions is to empower people of color and his net worth would anger any weak man.  

If you remember it was durinh his time as the top TV talent that Bill cosby tried to buy NBC....

 

From The New York times:
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/29/business/the-media-business-bill-cosby-trying-to-buy-nbc-from-ge.html 

Bill Cosby, NBC's biggest star of the 80's, is trying to buy the television network from its current owner, the General Electric Company. 

Norman Brokaw, the chief executive of the William Morris Agency and Mr. Cosby's personal agent for 30 years, confirmed yesterday that he had discussed Mr. Cosby's intention to make an offer for NBC with Robert C. Wright, the network's president.

Mr. Brokaw said he flew into New York last week expressly to meet with Mr. Wright. "I told him Bill is definitely interested in buying NBC, and Mr. Wright eventually said that NBC is not for sale." 

For more than two years, NBC has been the subject of continuing rumors that it is for sale, especially since its ratings have gone into a steep decline. 

Mr. Brokaw said he and Mr. Cosby had decided "to fully pursue a deal" for NBC. He added that Mr. Cosby had met with his lawyer, Herbert H. Chaice, to discuss the details of the possible purchase.

Mr. Chaice, of the Manhattan firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, said he had talked with investment houses about Mr. Cosby's becoming what he called "one of a number of principals" in such a purchase. "It's not likely that Bill will do the whole thing, nor would I consider it prudent that he try to," Mr. Chaice said.

Mr. Brokaw said Mr. Cosby had held preliminary talks with "a couple of individuals" on being partners in an NBC takeover.

Neither Mr. Brokaw nor Mr. Chaice disclosed how much Mr. Cosby might be willing to pay for NBC. 

But analysts said the asking price for NBC was likely to be about $4 billion. General Electric paid $6.5 billion when it acquired the network's parent company, the RCA Corporation, in 1986. General Electric has since sold off RCA's electronics divisions and acquired several other television properties, including the cable channel CNBC. 

It was also during this time that Bill Cosby's son was mysteriously murdered on the side of the road. Was his son's murder a message to remind Bill Cosby that TPTB don't like him meddling in their business affairs? 


I personally find it ODD that it took 30 years for this info to surface.  The other question is why now?  Why not while he was at the top of the TV networks?  There would have been a greater financial pay day if the accursers wished to bring a civil case against Bill Cosby.  Why wait till their is nothing to be gained from this information other then the character assassination of Bill Cosby's image? 

To be certain, Bill Cosby is one of the few Black men in America who speak openly and honestly.  He often speaks about the real reason Blacks are 2nd class citizens here in America.  It's not because the white man is holding them down, but because Blacks have bought into the whole baby mama's, absent fathers, and welfare queens ruling the black family formula.  

TPTB don't want an honest, hard working, Black man speaking the truth and disrupting their plans to keep the Black community enslaved vis a vie the Welfare-Free government money system.

Open Letter to Eric Holder, Attorney General and Race Baiter

Former FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown wrote an open letter to Eric Holder. The response has been epic.

Here is the letter:


K. Dee McCown
College Station, Texas
December 28, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001 

Dear Attorney General Holder:

It is unlikely that we met while I served in the FBI. That being said, we served at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the same years and on the same “team” conceptually speaking. During my service in the FBI I worked with a number of U.S. Attorney Offices in the United States to include a tour at FBIHQ where I worked with the Department of Justice (Main) on a daily basis.

I begin my letter with this comment to highlight that I am not a bystander on the topic of law enforcement in the United States. I worked and managed a variety of federal investigations during my 12 years of service in the FBI, to include the management of several Civil Rights cases in the State of Texas. In fact, during my last tour in the Bureau, I was an FBI Supervisor responsible for managing federal investigations in nine (9) Texas counties, many of which were rural; in places where one would suspect racism to flourish given the narrative often pushed by Hollywood and urban progressive elites like yourself.

 I performed this mission diligently and under the close supervision of two FBI managers; an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) and Special Agent in Charge (SAC,) both of which happened to be African American and outstanding law enforcement professionals. I also performed this mission serving side by side with a variety of law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State and local level.



I have observed you closely during your tenure as Attorney General and notably during these last tumultuous years; watching you negotiate a number of controversial public matters to include the ATF Fast and Furious scandal, Black Panther Party intimidation at voting booths, IRS targeting of American citizens (citizen groups opposed to the Obama Administration,) the ignoring of US Immigration laws, DOJ criminal indictments of select news reporters and your management of several high profile criminal investigations involving subjects of race, notably African Americans.


Until today, I chose to hold my tongue. However, with the assassination of two NYPD Lieutenants last weekend in New York City, at the hands of a African American man with a lengthy criminal record, fresh from his participation in anti-police activities; coupled with numerous “don’t shoot, hands up,” and “black lives matter” anti-police protests (some of which are violent) occurring daily around the nation, I am compelled to write you this letter.


To be blunt Mr. Holder, I am appalled at your lack of leadership as the Attorney General of the United States and your blatant politicizing of the Department of Justice. Your actions, both publicly and privately, have done nothing to quell the complex racial issues we face in our country and have done everything to inflame them. As the “top cop” of the United States, you share in the blame for much of the violence and protests we are now witnessing against law enforcement officers honorably serving throughout our nation.
 

During one of your first public speeches as Attorney General you made it a point to call America “a nation of cowards” concerning race relations. That speech, followed by other public announcements where you emphatically opined that the odds were stacked against African Americans in regard to the enforcement of law, your intention to change the law and permit convicted felons to vote after 
incarceration, and your changes to federal law ending “racial profiling,” are poignant examples of how detached you remain from the challenges faced by law enforcement officers serving in crime ridden neighborhoods throughout the nation. These opinions are also indicative of a man that lives and works in the elitist “bubble” of Washington D.C.



Your performance, as the nation’s Attorney General, during the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri clearly highlights your myopic view on this topic. Contrary to your embarrassing prejudgment in the Brown case and evasive post trial remarks on the Martin case, neither Brown nor Martin were targeted and/or killed because of their African American race. Rather, as non-emotive investigations determined, both teens died as a consequence of their own tragic and egregious behavior; behavior that involved a violent assault on a law abiding citizen in the Trayvon Martin case, and a violent assault on a young police officer in the Michael Brown case. 

Yet you, as the number one spokesman for law enforcement in the country, blame the deaths of these men on years of institutional racism and the alleged epidemic targeting of African American men by police departments around the country; nothing could be further from the truth. Following the Michael Brown case Grand Jury decision all you could muster was the following comment:

“The Department of Justice is currently investigating not only the shooting but also the Ferguson police department in what is called a “patterns and practices” inquiry to determine if the police department has engaged in systematic racism.”




So, let’s get this straight. At a decisive moment in history when our nation required a strong and unbiased voice from its’ senior law enforcement official, you Mr. Holder, made it your personal mission to join with other racial antagonist and politicize a tragic event, accusing a young white police officer of a racially motivated killing in what we now know was a justified self-defense shooting of a predatory felon. Your behavior is unbelievable. You sir, have sacrificed your integrity on the altar of political expediency. You, Mr. Holder, are the “coward” and hypocrite you so loudly denounce when speaking of broken race relations in America.

Further to this point Mr. Holder, law enforcement officers around the country remain dismayed and shocked at the counsel you keep; that being your close relationship with none other than Al Sharpton, a racist “shake down artist” who spreads hate, divisiveness and the promotion of anti-law enforcement sentiment throughout the country; a tax evading fraudster who has unbelievably visited the White House over 80 times in recent years. It is simply beyond my comprehension as a former federal law enforcement professional, that you, the Attorney General of the United States, joined arms in common cause with a charlatan like “the Reverend” Al Sharpton; and it speaks volumes to your personal character and lack of professional judgment.


Violent crime, out of wedlock births, drug abuse, rampant unemployment and poverty found in many low-income minority neighborhoods are not a result of racist community policing and racial profiling as you so quickly assert, and frankly most law abiding Americans are exhausted of hearing this false narrative repeated time and again by you and others in the racial grievance industry. 

While no one, me included, would ever suggest that African Americans have not suffered from institutional racism in the past, I would strongly argue that we no longer live in the Mississippi of 1965, nor do we live in a country that even closely resembles the “Jim Crow” South of yesteryear. Those days, thankfully, are in the past as are the generations of Americans that supported such egregious behavior and endured such suffering.



Rather, Mr. Holder, we live in a day and time where the root cause of many problems faced in our African American communities can be attributed to the breakdown of civil order due to the rejection of institutional and family authority and the practice of counter-culture values; and most notably, from the absence of strong male leadership in fatherless black families. The reason that our local police officers are so often entwined in tragic events in black communities is because it is the police that have filled the void in these communities that should be occupied by moral and strong black men leading family units with Godly values. 

You, Mr. Holder, especially, should be thanking the police rather than persecuting them for the gap they fill in these communities because if it were not for the intervention of local police many African American neighborhoods would be in a state of total anarchy.
Yet tragically, you and your race-baiting colleague Al Sharpton (a paid media personality under contract with MSNBC news) choose to remain silent because to publicly speak this self-evident truth threatens to not only alienate and offend the most loyal voting constituency of the Democratic Party but diminish your and Al Sharpton’s self-serving power base in these suffering communities. 
 
God forbid that you would suggest individual citizens accept responsibility for their own behavior and the collective failure of their communities; it is so much easier for you and others like you to make excuses, play the victim card, and pander rather than address the real root causes that plague many low income neighborhoods.

 

Mr. Holder, the public is aware of FBI statistics that tell a different story than the one you and Sharpton preach. We know that young African American males, representing a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, are by far the greatest perpetrators of violent crime in America when compared to their peers in other ethnic groups, and, we know that citizens of African American descent overwhelmingly make up the majority of their victims. 

We also know that incidents where white police officers shoot and kill black perpetrators are rare and on the decline. We know further that although there are legitimate and bona fide Federal Civil Rights investigations in the United States worthy of pursuing, they are miniscule when compared to the false narrative portrayed by you, President Obama and Sharpton declaring rampant discrimination against African American men by police officers throughout the country. You are just plain wrong.


In closing Mr. Holder I will leave you with this thought; you were given a rare opportunity to lead with integrity during a variety of divisive and controversial issues during your tenure as the 82d Attorney General of the United States and rather than be a man of moral courage you chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance false narratives and play progressive political activist.
Time and again you chose to “politicize” the mission of the Department of Justice rather than pursue justice and now, tragically, we are witnessing the fruits of your irresponsible behavior in the murder of two innocent police officers in New York City, assassinated by a man motivated by the flames of racial hatred that you personally fanned. 
 
How many more police officers will be injured or die in the coming days because of the perilous conditions you helped create in this nation. You, President Obama and Al Sharpton own this problem lock, stock and barrel and now it is your legacy.


As thousands of NYPD officers turn their collective back on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another dishonest politician and Sharpton disciple, so too do countless Federal law enforcement officers turn our backs on you.

K. Dee McCown
FBI (1997 – 2008)

Issa Khaddur a Hero

Two days ago, on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, a tragedy struck my hometown. Two suicide bombers, members of the Al-Nusra Front, attacked two cafes in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood of Tripoli, Lebanon. 9 people were killed, and over 35 were wounded. Those numbers would have been much higher if not for this man, Issa "Abu Ali" Khadour. 

After the first attack, Abu Ali saw the second suicide bomber approaching the cafe saying "Allahu Akbar," and tackled him to the ground, pinning him down with his entire body. This prevented half of the explosives on the suicide vest from detonating. I can't source this, but accounts from my family members in Tripoli say that Abu Ali and the suicide bomber were the only casualties of the attempted second attack. 


Good people died and were hurt on Saturday, and we lost a great man - Issa "Abu Ali" Khaddour, 60 years old, father of seven. I leave you with these words from two of his sons, Ali and Khodr: "My father sacrificed himself in order to save the lives of others in the cafe. He would have died anyway, but he didn't die in vain." “Do not give me condolences, congratulate me ... My father was a hero and a martyr."

Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral Sunday afternoon for those killed in Jabal Mohsen, with marchers chanting "let the hero's coffin through first," in reference to Khaddur.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lebanon-army-identifies-tripoli-suicide-bombers-115333614.html

Above and Beyond a Soldier's Duty CMH

 

Captain William D. Swenson distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as embedded advisor to the Afghan National Border Police, Task Force Phoenix, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan in support of 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, during combat operations against an armed enemy in Kunar Province, Afghanistan on September 8, 2009. 

On that morning, more than 60 well-armed, well-positioned enemy fighters ambushed Captain Swenson's combat team as it moved on foot into the village of Ganjgal for a meeting with village elders. As the enemy unleashed a barrage of rocket-propelled grenade, mortar and machine gun fire, Captain Swenson immediately returned fire and coordinated and directed the response of his Afghan Border Police, while simultaneously calling in suppressive artillery fire and aviation support. 

After the enemy effectively flanked Coalition Forces, Captain Swenson repeatedly called for smoke to cover the withdrawal of the forward elements. Surrounded on three sides by enemy forces inflicting effective and accurate fire, Captain Swenson coordinated air assets, indirect fire support and medical evacuation helicopter support to allow for the evacuation of the wounded. Captain Swenson ignored enemy radio transmissions demanding surrender and maneuvered uncovered to render medical aid to a wounded fellow soldier. 

Captain Swenson stopped administering aid long enough to throw a grenade at approaching enemy forces, before assisting with moving the soldier for air evacuation. With complete disregard for his own safety, Captain Swenson unhesitatingly led a team in an unarmored vehicle into the kill zone, exposing himself to enemy fire on at least two occasions, to recover the wounded and search for four missing comrades. After using aviation support to mark locations of fallen and wounded comrades, it became clear that ground recovery of the fallen was required due to heavy enemy fire on helicopter landing zones.

 Captain Swenson’s team returned to the kill zone another time in a Humvee. Captain Swenson voluntarily exited the vehicle, exposing himself to enemy fire, to locate and recover three fallen Marines and one fallen Navy corpsman. His exceptional leadership and stout resistance against the enemy during six hours of continuous fighting rallied his teammates and effectively disrupted the enemy's assault. 

Captain William D. Swenson's extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, Task Force Phoenix, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division and the United States Army.