Hour 1 - 3

 

Hour 1 -- Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, on Obama's drumbeat for war with Syria

 

Hour 2 --  Bill Binney (former NSA whistleblower) on Obama's War Escalation and Whistleblowers

 

Hour 3 -- Adam Kokesh (Adam vs the Man) on his court case and not having to go back to jail

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September 18th, 2014

Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock

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9 a.m. - Noon (EST)

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Hour 1

2014-09-18 Hour 1 Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (Video Archive):

2014-09-18 Hour 1 Dr. Zuhdi Jasser from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.

Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Webpage: AIFDemocracy.Org

M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D. is the Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD).  A devout Muslim, Dr. Jasser founded AIFD in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States as an effort to provide an American Muslim voice advocating for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state.  Dr. Jasser is a first generation American Muslim whose parents fled the oppressive Baath regime of Syria in the mid-1960's for American freedom.  He is leading the fight to shake the hold that the Muslim Brotherhood and their network of American Islamist organizations and mosques seek to exert on organized Islam in America.

Dr. Jasser earned his medical degree on a U.S. Navy scholarship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1992. He served 11 years as a medical officer in the U. S. Navy.  His tours of duty included Medical Department Head aboard the U.S.S. El Paso which deployed to Somalia during Operation Restore Hope; Chief Resident at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and Staff Internist for the Office of the Attending Physician to the U. S. Congress.  He is a recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal. Dr. Jasser is a respected physician currently in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology.  He is a Past-President of the Arizona Medical Association.

AIFD seeks to counter political Islam the ideology that fuels radical Islamists. AIFD's current passions include the Muslim Liberty Project (MLP) and involvement in the newly formed American Islamic Leadership Coalition (AILC). The Muslim Liberty Project seeks to instill the ideas of liberty into young Muslim adults in order to inoculate them against the viral threat of political Islam. The project brought together its first class of Muslim Youth in March 2011 with tremendous success. AILC is a broad based coalition of diverse Muslim organizations that provide a stark alternative to the domestic and global network of Islamist organizations.

Dr. Jasser is also actively involved in the Syrian-American community as the co-founder of Save Syria Now! which was formed by Americans of Syrian descent to put pressure on the United States to call for immediate action to end the regime of Bashar Assad of Syria and to help bring true liberty to the people of Syria. Dr. Jasser has also been asked to play a formative role in the emerging Syrian Democracy Council which is creating an opposition roadmap for a free, secular, and non-Islamist post-Assad Syria. Dr. Jasser briefed members of the U.S. House of Representatives on the situation in Syria in July 2011.

Hour 2

Hour 2

2014-09-18 Hour 2 Bill Binney

(Video Archive):

2014-09-18 Hour 2 Bill Binney from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

Bill Binney

NSA Whistleblower
Webpage: Whistleblower.org

Binney is a former high-level National Security Agency intelligence official who, after his 2001 retirement after 30 years, blew the whistle on NSA surveillance programs. He said today: "The pattern with Ellsberg is remarkably similar to how virtually all whistleblowers are treated: They expose something that is illegal, criminal or just plain stupid. They get attacked. The problem isn't fixed, it just gets perpetuated because there's an entire complex that defends itself at all cost. You have so many culpable people in the executive, in Congress, in the courts that basically defend each other because they know if one goes down, they'll all go. And they should all go down. One great irony is that under Executive Order 13526, sec 1.7 -- this is the executive order that governs classification for the U.S. government -- you cannot use classification to cover up an illegality or abuse in any form."

    Binney's outspoken criticism of the NSA during the George W. Bush administration made him the subject of FBI investigations that included a raid on his home in 2007. Even before Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing, Binney publicly revealed that NSA had access to telecommunications companies' domestic and international billing records, and that since 9/11 the agency has intercepted some 15 to 20 trillion communications. The Snowden disclosures confirmed many of the surveillance dangers Binney -- without the benefit of documents -- had been warning about under both the Bush and Obama administrations.

Hour 3

Hour 3

2014-09-18 Hour 3 Adam Kokesh (Video Archive):

2014-09-18 Hour 3 Adam Kokesh from Ernest Hancock on Vimeo.

 

Adam Kokesh

Webpage: AdamvstheMan.Com


I'm not going back to jail!

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Adam Kokesh

To all my friends, supporters, and lovers of freedom everywhere,

On Friday I had my final sentencing hearing in VA stemming from the video I made last Independence Day and the raid on my home. Since then, my life has taken many interesting twists and turns and it's been an incredible honor have had so many of you by my side during the challenging times.

Judge Loraine Nordlund heard the case at the plea hearing almost three months ago as well as for this most recent sentencing hearing. She seemed to have completely reversed her attitude since then. As I told The Washington Post reporter who was there covering the hearing, Justiin Jouvenal, when I was in jail, I told every guard I came into contact with, "You're a free, beautiful, independent human being, and you should never let anyone tell you otherwise." Of all the virtues of civil disobedience, having a chance to bring the message to those who would never hear it otherwise, is the most satisfying.

I got the feeling from Judge Nordlund that she had spent a good part of her time since the last hearing considering the case, my activism, the political implications of what the Park Police did, if not actually watching a good chunk of our YouTube videos! At times I felt I was talking to a fan! In the end, she sentenced me to three months completely suspended and no probation, which was a pleasant surprise. The last word we got from the prosecutor was that he was going to be seeking a year of actual jail time, but even he seemed to have dramatically backed down Friday. My attorney, Graziella Bianchi did an incredible job and I would recommend her if you ever have criminal issues in Virginia.

I've learned a lot from the last year and a half and even matured in ways I didn't think were possible, most importantly, in my attitude towards activism. I hope you know that we have released the book I began writing in jail, FREEDOM!, which you can get for free in every digital format including audiobook and order in print at our new website: thefreedomline.com. I wrote it to be the ultimate way to share the message in a way that will grow the movement. If we want to achieve a free society, we must be ruthless in our efficiency at changing the way people fundamentally think. I've made some adjustments based on this principle, and have a major announcement coming on the 15th I think you'll like.

Liberated,

Adam

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