Birds falling from the sky

[trailhound]

Honestly, call me a sheep all you want, but I think it's just a bunch of dead nuisence birds dealt with by the ADA. these things wreck crops and make a hell of a mess.

Yes here is an article that says just that. I wonder if it was starlings my mother saw here in Ga the other day. So far the only news regarding the birds is out of somerset county NJ. Obviously this doesnt explain the pelicans, robins etc. I was thinking the current magnetic shift could be throwing them off. Just speculation im not positive their navigation is based on magnetism but could be.


 Feds apologize but insist birds had to be poisoned
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
BY BRIAN T. MURRAY
Star-Ledger Staff

Blame it on the Bard.

Hundreds of birds that dropped dead on Somerset County cars, porches and snow-covered lawns, alarming residents over the weekend, were all of a rather foul breed of fowl -- the notorious European starling, which the United States Department of Agriculture killed on purpose.
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The starling, a prominent figure in Shakespeare's "Henry IV," has become a royal nuisance in North America. They have been invading farms and pushing out native wildlife since a New York City group infatuated with the playwright released about 100 imported starlings in Central Park in 1890 and 1891.

It was part of an ill-conceived plan by the American Acclimatization Society to make European immigrants feel at home by filling America with all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's works.

Yesterday, the USDA acknowledged a few mistakes of its own in spreading the word in the area around a Princeton Township farm, where it applied a pesticide Friday to kill 3,000 to 5,000 starlings plaguing a livestock farmer.

"It was raining dead birds," said Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine, explaining how people watched starlings drop throughout the Griggstown section of his town, which borders Princeton Township in Mercer County. "People were concerned."

Everything from Avian influenza to West Nile disease, both bird-killing ailments that also affect humans, was feared. But no humans or pets were ever at risk, said the USDA, contending the pesticide, known as DRC-1339, is inert once it is eaten by the birds and becomes metabolized.

That part of the story is only now reaching residents in Somerset County's Franklin Township, where officials continued efforts yesterday to help citizens find ways to dispose of the bird corpses littering their lawns.

"Unfortunately, this was also done on a Friday, so the birds died on the weekend when no one was around to respond to calls. I can just imagine it would have been very disconcerting for people to find the birds dead," said Carol Bannerman, a USDA spokeswoman.

State agriculture and wildlife officials were notified two weeks ago, along with Somerset County officials. But Ken Daly, Franklin Township's administrator, said the township was told too little, too late.

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"The only notice we got in the municipal building was on Friday, a secondhand phone call from our county health director that somewhere, sometime the USDA would be culling birds. No one knew what that meant. If we had known it was coming, we could have gotten word out to the residents," he explained.

The pesticide was applied by the USDA on bait piles at the farm, and the USDA said there was one other miscalculation. While the pesticide has been used in the past in densely populated New Jersey, this time the starlings moved far off the Mercer County farm where they ingested it.
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"In a rural situation the birds would have concentrated in one roosting location. Apparently here, they were feeding in one location and roosting elsewhere, in areas quite dispersed and away from the farm," Bannerman explained.

The USDA said it began to help the farmer after non-lethal efforts failed.

"The farmer has a variety of livestock, and the birds would eat the seed, which takes food away from the livestock, costs the farmer money. Also, as the birds eat, they excrete droppings into the food left for the livestock to eat. It was a very unhealthy situation," Bannerman explained.

"The farmer had tried other non-lethal methods, like changing the food he was feeding his animals, dispersing the birds, trying to chase them away and having predator birds on the farm. There just wasn't any impact," she added.

Starlings, now numbering in the multi-millions in North America, move in large flocks and are very aggressive. They will push native birds, including the American kestrel, woodpeckers, martins and bluebirds from tree holes or roosts during breeding season.

They pose equally troublesome hazards for humans.

Starling flocks collide with aircraft, foul power stations and set up winter roosts in the ornate facades of old towns, defecating on shoppers below and corroding the buildings.

The Town of Dover, in Morris County, fought a long and frustrating war with a flock in the 1980s, using numerous non-lethal solutions.

"We really didn't solve the problem," said Health Officer Donald Costanzo.

"We used the sound system we use for Christmas music, playing sounds of starlings in distress, which was supposed to get them to leave," he explained. "The sound agitated the starlings, so they would start screeching even more, but they didn't leave."

Between the recorded and live squawking, humans started to complain and the city turned off the noise.

The starlings, for the most part, remained.

[sociostudent]

Is it just me or do the starlings have a lot in common with the international banking elite?
I mean:
1. they show up around a hundred years or so ago, and they were "released upon New York" in a grand scheme
2. They have been invading farms and pushing out native wildlife, and they blame it on us
3. they kick the American birds out of their houses
4. They crap on everything.

[donnay]

You'd think the state government will do an autopsy of the birds? that'll never happen. And if that does happen, will be nothing but lies and false data presented to us.

A citizen saved a couple of dead birds to be analyzed--not government. 

I have friends in this general area so I asked them to keep an eye on the local news to see if any independent information crops up and to give me a heads up if it does.

[donnay]

Federal Agency Kills Thousands of Birds with Pesticide
http://www.naturalnews.com/025472.html

(NaturalNews) A series of articles have appeared daily from January 24 to the 27, 2009, in the  Jersey Journal and Star-Ledger regarding the large numbers of dead birds falling from the sky alarming residents in Somerset County, New Jersey. The black carcasses of starling were strewn on cars, porches, lawns and snow-covered roadways. Many residents were unaware that the deaths of some 5,000 starlings were as a result of intentional culling.

Imagine going outside and counting 150 dead birds on your property. On January 24, 2009, New Jersey resident, Andrea Kepic, called the police to report this very situation. She was told she would have to clean up the birds. Police read from a prepared statement recommending using a shovel, gloves and plastic bags to get rid of them. She planned to freeze one or two and take them to Rutgers University for an autopsy. "You have to wonder, what are the ramifications, and are they telling the truth?" she said.

Spokeswoman for the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services, Donna Leusner, confirmed the dead birds were part of a USDA program to reduce the European starling population. Although the state health department was not part of the culling program, they had been notified of plans to feed the birds a "controlled substance." Leusner also read from a USDA advisory which states "the dead birds pose no hazard to people or pets because the substance has been metabolized inside the bird."

USDA spokeswoman, Carol Bannerman, said a bird-specific pesticide called DRC-1339 was used. This pesticide is commonly used to protect farms and feedlot operations from European starlings, considered an invasive species by the USDA. The starlings were troubling an area farm where they were eating feed intended for cattle and chickens and defecating in feeding bowls. Federal employees dispensed the pesticide on Friday. Bannerman said, "Birds that ingest it usually die within three days, so the die-off should have ended by yesterday." She also said the poison is not specific to starlings, but USDA workers closely monitor its application to make sure it targets only the intended bird population. Workers lure the intended birds to a designated area with bait in wooden trays. Once they are certain the bait has attracted the birds they want to cull, they mix poison in the pellets.

On January 26, the USDA acknowledged making a few mistakes by not more fully warning people around the Princeton Township farm where it applied a pesticide on Friday to kill 3,000 to 5,000 starlings. While the pesticide was used in the past in densely populated New Jersey, the starlings moved far off Mercer County farm where they ingested it.

State agriculture and wildlife officials were notified two weeks prior along with Somerset County officials. But the Franklin Township`s administrator, Ken Daly, said "The township was told too little, too late. The only notice given was a second-hand phone call from the county health director that somewhere, sometime the USDA would be culling birds. No one knew what that meant. If we had known it was coming, we could have gotten word out to residents."

Source:

Jersey Journal, January 27, 2009 " N.J. community alarmed by dead birds"
Star-Ledger, January 26, 2009 "Dead Birds by the hundreds but few answers"
January 27, 2009 "Feds apologize but insist birds had to be poisoned"

[leverForTruth]

Even if they are killing us which we know they are they are using so many ways it is impossible to stop them now.

[sociostudent]

Even if they are killing us which we know they are they are using so many ways it is impossible to stop them now.
WAAAAAAAA!

Fixed. 

[Banzinator]

Even if they are killing us which we know they are they are using so many ways it is impossible to stop them now.

if they were all-powerful, they wouldnt have to conspire to be all-powerful in the first place

if they were impossible to defeat, they wouldnt have to go through all of this crap... nation building, elaborate multi-generation plans, endless propaganda, information wars... they wouldnt have to do all of that stuff to begin with if they didnt have to.

in the days of yore it was all public, you knew who the king was and you knew he owned you as a piece of property... they liked that.  they hate having to go through all of this nonsense to gain world dominance and simply cant wait till it's not a conspiracy anymore and is open in-your-face tyranny.

[Banzinator]

just what i was thinking, dude.

This is kinda scary.

don't worry soon we won't even have sex either since it is too inefficient.  after the 1984 Orwellian phase, we will have the brave new world phase but it wont be nonstop orgies like in the book... everyone will be androgynous brain chipped slaves.  we wont even have genders, or belly buttons for that matter (test tube babies).

so we wont have to worry about teaching our kids about the birds and the bees everything is okay

[Joseon]

if they were all-powerful, they wouldnt have to conspire to be all-powerful in the first place

if they were impossible to defeat, they wouldnt have to go through all of this crap... nation building, elaborate multi-generation plans, endless propaganda, information wars... they wouldnt have to do all of that stuff to begin with if they didnt have to.

in the days of yore it was all public, you knew who the king was and you knew he owned you as a piece of property... they liked that.  they hate having to go through all of this nonsense to gain world dominance and simply cant wait till it's not a conspiracy anymore and is open in-your-face tyranny.

good point, and good post. they aren't all powerful as they would like to think they believe.

[leverForTruth]

Do doubt we are next!

[leverForTruth]

common is contrails lol

[zafada]

It's easy to tell the difference between the two.

Chemtrails usually end up covering the entire sky anyway so if that's not obvious I don't know what is...

[leverForTruth]

I know man i was being sarcastic! lol

[lordssyndicate]

Its no doubt Chemtrails, They are spraying heavily today here in Idaho. Go to Dvd-truth.com to find a documentary on chemtrails, very eye opening.

Agreed. They are killing the birds and the bats and the bees and other insects this way....

I also believe they are quite precise in stating this is a targeted and controlled event .
They have full control over the chemical dispersion of various substances that are  specific to certain regions and they maintain these saturation levels at these locations.

As shown by the latest article on our [sarcasm] friendly  government chemtrail info site[/sarcasm] A.K.A. WWW.ASP.BNL.GOV 4th article down from the top....

They have posted it in such a way that so that discourages the average reader because it is written in scientific language. Which, frightens or bores most people.

However please understand what they are talking about in these studies is: regionally targeted and controlled chemtrail mixture concentration data, overall concentration spread data, actual electron microscope cross sections of chemtrail material showing it's final make up at ground level as well as other very interesting chemtrail related data sets asdn studies.


So, that said here you guys go:
 

RECENT RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
A gallery of recent findings from ASP research

New instruments lead to new insights. Measurements with the aerosol mass spectrometer by many investigators show that organics are the major or dominant aerosol constituent throughout the anthropogenically influenced Northern Hemisphere. From: Zhang Q., J.L. Jimenez, M.R. Canagaratna, J.D. Allan, H. Coe, I. Ulbrich, M.R. Alfarra, A. Takami, A.M. Middlebrook, Y.L. Sun, K. Dzepina, E. Dunlea, K. Docherty, P.F. DeCarlo, D. Salcedo, T. Onasch, J.T. Jayne, T. Miyoshi, A. Shimono, S. Hatakeyama, N. Takegawa, Y. Kondo, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, S. Weimer, K. Demerjian, P. Williams, K. Bower, R. Bahreini, L. Cotrell, R.J. Griffin, J. Rautiainen, J.Y. Sun, Y.M. Zhang, and D.R. Worsnop (2007) Ubiquity and Dominance of Oxygenated Species in Organic Aerosols in Anthropogenically-Influenced Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13801, doi:10.1029/2007GL029979.


Organic composition systematically varies with location. Measurements with the aerosol mass spectrometer show that the fraction of secondary organic aerosol increases with increasing distance from urban sources. Area of pie is scaled to organic aerosol concentration. From: Zhang Q., J.L. Jimenez, M.R. Canagaratna, J.D. Allan, H. Coe, I. Ulbrich, M.R. Alfarra, A. Takami, A.M. Middlebrook, Y.L. Sun, K. Dzepina, E. Dunlea, K. Docherty, P.F. DeCarlo, D. Salcedo, T. Onasch, J.T. Jayne, T. Miyoshi, A. Shimono, S. Hatakeyama, N. Takegawa, Y. Kondo, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, S. Weimer, K. Demerjian, P. Williams, K. Bower, R. Bahreini, L. Cotrell, R.J. Griffin, J. Rautiainen, J.Y. Sun, Y.M. Zhang, and D.R. Worsnop (2007) Ubiquity and Dominance of Oxygenated Species in Organic Aerosols in Anthropogenically-Influenced Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13801, doi:10.1029/2007GL029979.


Organic composition systematically varies with location. Measurements with the aerosol mass spectrometer show that the fraction of secondary organic aerosol increases with increasing distance from urban sources. Area of pie is scaled to organic aerosol concentration. From: Zhang Q., J.L. Jimenez, M.R. Canagaratna, J.D. Allan, H. Coe, I. Ulbrich, M.R. Alfarra, A. Takami, A.M. Middlebrook, Y.L. Sun, K. Dzepina, E. Dunlea, K. Docherty, P.F. DeCarlo, D. Salcedo, T. Onasch, J.T. Jayne, T. Miyoshi, A. Shimono, S. Hatakeyama, N. Takegawa, Y. Kondo, J. Schneider, F. Drewnick, S. Weimer, K. Demerjian, P. Williams, K. Bower, R. Bahreini, L. Cotrell, R.J. Griffin, J. Rautiainen, J.Y. Sun, Y.M. Zhang, and D.R. Worsnop (2007) Ubiquity and Dominance of Oxygenated Species in Organic Aerosols in Anthropogenically-Influenced Northern Hemisphere Mid-latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13801, doi:10.1029/2007GL029979.


Growth of small particles during a nucleation event at Tecamac Mexico during the MILAGRO MAX-MEX campaign. Nucleation event indicated by great increase in concentration of particles below 10 nm diameter commencing about 1000 local time (upper left) is believed related to photochemical activity triggered by ultraviolet radiation. Composition of particles measured by thermal desorption chemical ionization mass spectrometry as a function of time at diameters coinciding with the peak in particle number concentration indicated by black steps in upper left is dominated by organics (upper right). Estimated rate of growth in particle diameter (lower panel, blue) exceeds that calculated for growth due to uptake of sulfuric acid vapor, as measured (red) by an order of magnitude. From: Smith, J. N., M. J. Dunn, T. M. VanReken, K. Iida, M. R. Stolzenburg, P. H. McMurry, and L. G. Huey. Chemical composition of atmospheric nanoparticles formed from nucleation in Tecamac, Mexico: Evidence for an important role for organic species in nanoparticle growth. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L04808, doi:10.1029/2007GL032523 (2008)


Evolution of single particle composition and morphology on a single day in Mexico City during the MILAGRO MAX-MEX campaign on March 22, 2006. Center panel shows size and composition of collected particles determined by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Note instances of wholly organic particles, inorganic particles surrounded by annular organic shell, and mixed organic inorganic elemental carbon particles. Right panels show systematic increase in organic composition for particles collected succesively downwind from central Mexico City (T0) to T1 to T2. Air trajectories show direction of transport and particle age. From: Moffet R., A. Tivanski, R. Hopkins, Y. Desyaterik, J. Fast, J. Barnard, A. Laskin, and M. Gilles. Aging of an Urban Aerosol Plume. ASP Science Team Meeting, Annapolis MD (2008). http://www.asp.bnl.gov/ASP_ST_mtg_pres_2008/Moffet_et.al_AgingUrbanPlume.pdf


Relation of aerosol composition and optical properties in Mexico City during the MILAGRO MAX-MEX campaign in March 2006. Left panel shows diurnal profile of composition, determined by aerosol mass spectrometry, and light scattering coefficient as function of time of day, averaged over the campaign; right panel shows diurnal profile of single scattering albedo. Increase in single scattering albedo is attributed to secondary aerosol formation due to photochemistry occurring during daytime. From: Paredes-Miranda L. and Arnott W. P. Aerosol Light Scattering and Absorption at 532 nm at IMP in Mexico City, March 2006. ASP Science Team Meeting, Annapolis MD (2008). http://www.asp.bnl.gov/ASP_ST_mtg_pres_2008/Arnott/ArnottMilagro.ppt. Aerosol mass spectrometry: J. Jimenez, A. Aiken.


Model study shows major contribution of secondary organic aerosol derived from isoprene. Because of its low molecular weight, isoprene has not been considered to be a significant source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). However recent laboratory studies have shown a small yield of SOA. Because of the large source strength of isoprene -- it is emitted by deciduous forests -- even a small yield of SOA could constitute a major source of SOA. Examination of SOA from isoprene in a global chemical transport model shows substantial enhancement of SOA in forested regions at the surface (upper right vs. upper left) and much greater relative enhancement in the free troposphere (5.2 km, lower right vs. lower left; note change of scale). From Henze, D. K. and Seinfeld, J. H. Global secondary organic aerosol from isoprene oxidation. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L09812, doi:10.1029/2006GL025976 (2006).


Influence of composition on CCN activity of aerosol particles. The ability of an aerosol particle to serve as a cloud condensation nucleus (CCN), specifically the supersaturation at which the particle activates to become a cloud droplet, depends on its size and composition. For soluble salts such as sodium chloride and ammonium sulfate a relatively low supersaturation is required for a given particle diameter, as shown in the left panel. Also shown there are data from the RICO campaign in the Caribbean and from the ASP MASE (MArine Stratus Experiment) project conducted off the coast of California north of San Francisco on July 25, 2005. The measurements in the RICO campaign indicate the presence largely of soluble salts. In the MASE measurements a somewhat higher supersaturation was required to activate particles at a given size below cloud (110-170 m above sea level) and a still greater supersaturation above cloud (400-470 m) indicative of composition other than soluble salts. This supposition is confirmed by bulk measurements with PILS (particle into liquid sampler) shown in the pie charts and by composition versus size measurements with the aerosol mass spectrometer. Measurements of J. Hudson, Y.-N. Lee, and M. Alexander.


Closure study on CCN Concentration. The expression at the lower left gives the critical supersaturation for activation of an aerosol particle as a function of its diameter Dp, surface tension taken as that of water σw, the molecular weight of water Mw, and composition, as reflected by the parameter κ that reflects particle hygroscopicity; κ is evaluated as a sum of the κ values of individual components of a mixed composition aerosol weighted by their volume fraction xi, with increasing κ indicative of increasing hygroscopicity. The accuracy of this expression is examined for data taken on nine aircraft flights during the ASP MASE (MArine Stratus Experiment) project conducted off the coast of California north of San Francisco in July, 2005 by comparisons of calculated and measured number concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei CCN, shown here for supersaturation ~0.22%, with good accuracy being indicated by the points lying on the one-to-one line. The organic fraction was determined by aerosol mass spectrometer. For particles in the free troposphere and the boundary layer, good agreement was achieved by setting the κ values for the organic fraction equal to zero. This is attributed to the rather low organic mass fraction, 50% or less. However for particles above cloud, for which the measured organic fraction was about 80%, the calculated number concentration was quite sensitive to the κ value and was substantially less than the measured concentration for κ equal to zero. When the κ value was set to 0.1, good agreement was again achieved. The dependence of the ratio of calculated to measured CCN concentration as a function of κ is shown at lower right. Wang J., Lee Y.-N.; Daum P.H., Alexander M.L., and Jayne J.


Laboratory studies of activation of mixed adipic acid - ammonium sulfate particles. The two graphs give critical supersaturation vs. particle dry diameter for particles of different composition. For a soluble salt such as ammonium sulfate a low critical supersaturation at any given diameter is expected according to Koehler theory (red line); for a sparingly soluble organic acid such as adipic acid a somewhat higher supersaturation is expected, tan line; and for an insoluble but wettable particle a considerably greater supersaturation is expected. Experimentally it is seen (left) that initially wet adipic acid particles exhibit the expected behavior. However for particles which are initially dry, the behavior exhibits a transition from that expected for adipic acid (small particles) to that expected for insoluble wettable particles (larger particles) because activation occurs prior to dissolution; these results demonstrate the importance of prior history in governing particle behavior as a cloud condensation nucleus (CCN). Right panel shows critical supersaturation of particles consisting of ammonium sulfate cores (diameters 34, 53, and 73 nm) coated with adipic acid of varying thickness to give the indicated dry diameter. With increasing thickness of coating the particles exhibit a transition in critical supersaturation from that of ammonium sulfate to that of adipic acid. These findings suggest approaches to modeling the supersaturation behavior of inorganic particles coated with organics that are found in the ambient atmosphere. Hings S. S., W. C. Wrobel, E. S. Cross, D. R. Worsnop, P. Davidovits, and T. B. Onasch. CCN activation experiments with adipic acid: effect of particle phase and adipic acid coatings on soluble and insoluble particles. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 8, 4439-4482 (2008)



Soot-containing fraction of particles in cloudwater and interstitial air. Time series shows alternately the fraction of interstitial cloud air particles and of cloud drop residuals containing soot, as measured with single particle soot photometer during a fog event at Holme Moss, U.K. (north of Manchester). Greater soot fraction in interstitial air demonstrates that soot-containing particles are less efficiently activated to cloud drops than particles not containing soot. Andrews E., J. Ogren, J. Allan, K. Bower, H. Coe, B.Corris, M. Flynn, D. Liu, W. Morgan, P. Williams. Aerosol Properties Within and Without Clouds. ASP Science Team Meeting, Annapolis MD (2008).

[leverForTruth]

WOW! great post!

[lordssyndicate]

Thanks. Just doing my part .

[Lin Kuei]

so the pelicans falling out of the sky was January 7th 2009?

almost 2 years before to the day (January 8th, 2007) - do people remember the birds falling across the US and Australia on the same day - as well as a multitude of strange gas 'leaks' on the same day in the US, UK and Australia?  that seemed to me to be some kind of global live drills.  Not saying the pelican incident is connected necessarily but it's interesting.
January 8th 2007 info: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=627.0

[tabitha]

Thanks for all the great information on chem trails.  I heard of it before but didn't know what to look for.  I live in northern Indiana and I will be watching the sky a lot more in the future. 
I wonder if this could make somebody cough a lot.  There are times after we are out that my Mother has a terrible coughing fit and later says she couldn't get her breath.  When this happens in the future I'm going to look into the sky and see if they have been spraying.
Also, that is truly freaky about the birds falling out of the sky, I think I'll watch for dead birds as well.

[deconstructmyhouse]

Agreed. They are killing the birds and the bats and the bees and other insects this way....

I also believe they are quite precise in stating this is a targeted and controlled event .
They have full control over the chemical dispersion of various substances that are  specific to certain regions and they maintain these saturation levels at these locations.

As shown by the latest article on our [sarcasm] friendly  government chemtrail info site[/sarcasm] A.K.A. WWW.ASP.BNL.GOV 4th article down from the top....

They have posted it in such a way that so that discourages the average reader because it is written in scientific language. Which, frightens or bores most people.

However please understand what they are talking about in these studies is: regionally targeted and controlled chemtrail mixture concentration data, overall concentration spread data, actual electron microscope cross sections of chemtrail material showing it's final make up at ground level as well as other very interesting chemtrail related data sets asdn studies.


So, that said here you guys go:
 

I have read the above pretty closely (I didn't copy all the graphs and such, readers please go up several posts to this fascinating area)
and I DON'T THINK they are talking about chemtrails
It seems to me they are using the word aerosol to indicate human pollution already in the air, it seems these grafts and clocks and surmises are info gathered to study the dispersion of natural and man-made stuff spewing up and floating around in the atmosphere/stratosphere, it does not appear to illuminate a chemtrail operation in any way.
I was excited that it might be that; but after reading it does not appear to be.
Please respond?!?

[lordssyndicate]

That is what they want the average joe to think . Hence I explain the language of their mission statement which puts a proper prespective on this here on this thread: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=98219.msg579392#msg579392