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Vets Arrested at Vietnam Memorial

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LOL: Flying Spaghetti Monster City Prayer

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-minister-delivers-rancho-cordova-meeting-invocation/

Vets Arrested at Vietnam Memorial

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/veterans-arrested-evening-vigil-nyc-vietnam-war-memorial/ http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39637901

President Jesse Ventura Would Pardon Snowden, Manning

http://www.newsmax.com/US/US-politics-Ventura-espionage/2013/10/07/id/529714

Sovereign Living

http://sovereignliving.tv/

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An agnostic man in Rancho Cordova was shocked to learn that every city council meeting begins with prayer. Steve Vincent thinks it’s ridiculous for people in government to spend their time praying together in a public meeting. To point that out, he offered to give an invocation as a minister of the church of the flying spaghetti monster. Since the secular government technically has to allow equal exercise of all faiths, they accepted his offer. Here are some excerpts from his prayer, which he delivered with open eyes:

“I’m not sure what the point of praying here is.

You’re an agenda item on a government meeting. It just, I’m not sure that’s what, you had in mind for prayer, God.”

I know you want us to do what’s right, and to treat our neighbors with respect, so I have to wonder if our non-believing neighbors are being respected if we pray here.”

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There’s a 70-foot granite wall in New York City which is covered in the names of the men killed during the invasion of Vietnam. This week, on the 12th anniversary of the Invasion of Afghanistan, the Vietnam Veterans gathered at their memorial to remember, to sing songs, and to read aloud the names of those who died. But police had other plans for the surviving Vets. As they read names from the wall, police began to arrest attendees, many of them senior citizens, and shove them into a paddy wagon. The attendees were calling for an end to the violence and interventionism, but were arrested because their vigil went past 10:00 p.m.  Law enforcers stood ready to pad their monthly quotas by making some arrests.

Jeff Durkin of We Are Change CT live-streamed the arrests. Another person tweeted a picture of the arrests and reported that the arrests began while the names were still being read, prompting people to sing “Which side are you on?” The Memorial Wall was built using tax dollars, but, as PoliceStateUSA.com put it, no veterans’ vigil is going to stand in the way of police racking up some arrest numbers. The right to peaceably assemble on public property evidently does not exist after 10:00 p.m.

Former wrestler Jesse Ventura is running for President in 2016. He recently said that if elected, he would immediately pardon Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Ventura also pledged to close down all US military bases overseas including the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States keeps terrorism suspects indefinitely. Obama pledged to shut down Gitmo in his first year as President, but he didn’t. “What are we doing there?” Jesse Ventura asked. He said he will only run for President in 2016 with the support of radio personality Howard Stern. The former governor vowed not to seek money from lobbyists and said the radio host could use his show to raise funds. Ventura was in Washington to promote his new book “They Killed Our President,” which alleges that the 1963 Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy in reaction to his efforts to reduce war.

In other news, the Blush family is having a fundraiser to their new, first-of-its-kind docu-reality tv-show Sovereign Living. Sovereign Living follows the Blush family as they transition from a lifestyle of hardcore political activism to the farm life. Rather than fighting a system they find tyrannical, John and Cat want to lead by example and live a sovereign lifestyle. This means providing their own food, water, energy and community defense needs. In an age of large governmental influence, the Blush family aims to explore and learn about how they can take care of themselves and their community, voluntarily. Themes include: Self-sufficiency, Resolving crime without police, Alternative economies, Alternative education, Home-birth, and Natural health. Sovereign Living is opting for “sovereign” distribution. They’ve come to viewers directly to ask for your support in making this vision a “reality”. Support the indie-go-go campaign today to reinforce these gutsy activists, and help model Sovereign Living for others.

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Utah Can Turn Off the Fed’s Water!

http://offnow.org/

Permit Now Required to Beg

http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/NJ_town_requires_beggars_to_get_permit.html

Feds Force Man To Wear “Bugged Device” While Sleeping

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/man-forced-to-wear-bugged-device-strapped-to-his-face-every-night-or-he-loses-trucking-license/#prettyPhoto

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This summer featured a flood of revelations from NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden: namely that everyday folks working for the federal government are reading the content of private emails of Americans, even their web content.

But did you know the NSA has an Achilles heel? The supercomputers they use to spy on you get hot. They use cycling water to cool them down. Just to keep operating one of their data centers, they depend on running through over a million gallons of water per day. But did you know that the people who are providing that water can Turn It Off? http://OffNow.org is filled with information you can use to help your state refuse to cooperate with the what the NSA is doing. If you think working within government is effective way to get things done, here’s your opportunity. At http://OffNow.org you’ll find legislation that you can propose to state, county, and even town governments. You can literally cut and paste and replace a few things and bam, propose some legislation to stop cooperating with the NSA’s massive spy effort. Go check it out right now and see how you can stop the NSA and help make the world a better place. http://OffNow.org

A town in New Jersey now requires beggars to get a permit to beg. The new law allows police to collect a minimum fine of $250 from those who beg without permission. If caught, a person can even serve jail time.

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From http://PoliceStateUSA.com , A man says that the federal government is forcing him to sleep with an uncomfortable and invasive device strapped to his face every night, or else he will lose his ability to support his family. Wayne Foutz is 47, and he says that his life has changed since he last went through the federal government’s licensing requirements for him to work as a commercial truck driver. He says that his last medical checkup — federally mandated every 2 years to remained licensed — left him with a hasty diagnosis of sleep apnea, and a requirement of wearing a breathing aid called a (CPAP) machine.

He’s now struggling to sleep, thanks to his obligation to wear a breathing apparatus every night, which automatically transmits data about his biological processes to a remote monitoring service.

Wayne has been driving trucks for a living for the past 17 years. He says he is healthy and had no sleeping problems before the diagnosis.

Wayne said, quote, “I don’t even snore. I am the same weight I was the day they hired me 15 years ago. I’ve never had an accident. I slept just fine until a week ago when they started strapping [this] to my face. I was diagnosed by a doctor 500 miles away by email.”

The government requirement is that he wears the device for at least 4 hours per night, and it electronically transmits his data back to a remote location. Quote “It’s bugged. It monitors my every breath. If you don’t use it, they call your dispatcher and you are pulled off the road for a minimum of seven days [even if you’re 500 miles away from home].”

Even though he doesn’t want or need it, he also has to pay annual fees for the monitoring service. And he had to pay the machine, too, or lose his commercial driver’s license. Some suspect this recent push for sleep studies and medical equipment was because of ulterior motives from federal regulators. Quote, “4% of the population has sleep apnea. But according to [the chief medical bureaucrat], that number jumps to 30-40% when you acquire a commercial driver’s license.”

Such is the result of granting people at the federal government the authority to punish people who drive without their permission.

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**UPDATE** The former title of this article incorrectly stated that Nancy Pelosi was arrested. While she was present and spoke at the protest yesterday, she was not among the 8 members of congress who were arrested yesterday.

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8 Members of Congress Arrested

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/eight-democrat-congressman-arrested-outside-capitol-building/#axzz2hDudt29v

Cop Participated in Beating, Resigns

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/update-nypd-undercover-officer-involved-biker-gang-violence-father/#axzz2h47Bcl8v

Man Who Returned 42,000 No Longer Homeless

http://intellihub.com/2013/10/08/man-returned-lost-42000-longer-homeless/

Putin Nominated for Peace Prize

http://silverunderground.com/2013/10/former-kgb-agent-vladimir-putin-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/

Nancy Pelosi arrested! But not for what you think. Wednesday, October 9th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 23 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 125 dollars. Peace News Now is brought to you by Bitcoin from friends of http://WeUseCoins.com . Love bitcoin? Share the website http://WeUseCoins.com with your friends!

In Washington DC, 8 members of Congress were arrested yesterday for protesting outside of the capital. Whoops! I guess they forgot about passing the Patriot Act.

Austin Petersen writes yesterday at http://theLibertarianRepublic.com , quote,

Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Charles Rangel (D-NY) were arrested at 4:15 p.m. today in front of the U.S. Capitol building during the Camino Americano Rally for Immigrant Dignity and Respect. The rally occurred today and featured speakers like Julian Bond, Lila Downs and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Reps Lewis and Rangel were arrested along with Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Al Green (D-TX) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).

Authorities arrested the lawmakers for creating a disruption around the streets of the Capitol during the rally. 200 people were arrested along with the legislators for causing disorder.

Rep. Pelosi said, quote, “The time for immigration reform is now. Si se puede,” she yelled –“Yes we can.”

This is Rep. Lewis’ 45th arrest. That’s great if you’re already a member of Congress. But weren’t most of the people attending illegal immigrants? How will this arrest record affect their prospects for future employment in the US? Do you think they received the same treatment from jail staff as the members of Congress?

In another terrific story from http://TheLibertarianRepublic.com this week is that of an off-duty NYPD cop who voluntarily gave up his badge after 7 years. The reason? He was caught participating in that gang of bikers who “break-checked” an SUV on the highway and then later beat the driver in front of his wife and child, sending him to the hospital. It turns out not one, but 6 off-duty law enforcers were riding with this gang. And most people watching the video of this terrifying random assault were wondering to themselves, “Where were the police?” Turns out they weren’t only there, but they were the attackers! This information is only coming to light thanks due to cheap video cameras which captured the incident from multiple angles. Please, carry a camera and know how to use it for your own protection. Sometimes it is your only corroborating witness when it’s your word vs a cop.
JG Vibes writes at http://Intellihub.com that quote, last month, a homeless man in Boston named Glen James found over 40 thousand dollars in a backpack and turned it in. After the story went viral many people were moved by his honesty and decided to set up a donation fund. Now he finally has a home.

27-year-old Ethan Whittington set up an online crowdfunding campaign that brought in more than $150,000 in donations to make sure Glen never again be homeless or stand in line begging. Ethan said he felt compelled to help after reading about James’ good deed. quote, “We’ll also get him the medical assistance he needs and get him some job training. I absolutely think this will be a good ending for everybody. It’s kind of restored my faith in humanity, with all the negative things we hear on a constant basis. It makes you realize there are decent people in this world.”

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Davi Barker, the Muslim Agorist, writes at http://SilverUnderground.com  this week that Former KGB Agent Vladamir Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to the United States earlier this year when Obama tried to start a war in Syria. Davi writes, quote,

However, Putin’s sudden twist towards non-interventionism seems politically motivated, as it is typically enforced through bellicose threats. He engaged in interventions of his own in Georgia and Chechnya and was a KGB agent earlier in life. Domestically, he jails and exiles political opponents and protesters. He has an openly hostile relationship with his own nation’s LGBT community.

Despite the fact that Putin’s efforts might have stopped a bombing campaign in Syria that could have escalated into a regional conflict or a world war, his unacceptable domestic policies disqualify him from being viewed as a champion of world peace. On the other hand, President Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize and bloodied it with drone and cruise missile strikes. Will the Nobel Prize squander its credibility by continuing to give out its peace award to politicians for narrow political reasons?” Why not instead support the FPP Peace Prize, a prize with a reputation for being awarded to actual peace-makers. Nominate your favorite peace-maker and cast your vote at FPP.cc

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Oakland Crowdfunding Private Police Force

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/citizens-oakland-crowdfunding-private-police-force/#axzz2h1yjdkha

NDAA Nullified in CA

http://benswann.com/breaking-california-nullifies-ndaa-indefinite-detention/

Sheep Marketplace

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/goodbye-silk-road-hello-sheep-marketplace.html

Obama Beer $702!

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/buzzfeed-explains-d-c-bartender-charges-obama-702-beer/#axzz2h47Bcl8v

Silk Road is BACK with a new name. Tuesday, October 8th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 23 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 124 dollars. Peace News Now is brought to you by Bitcoin and Silver from friends of http://WeUseCoins.com and http://SunsOfLibertyMint.com. Check out the “Fine Silver Quarters” from the Suns of Liberty Mint. That’s suns, with a “u”. The most divisible, usable silver on the planet. Order some today, that’s suns with a “u” http://SunsOfLibertyMint.com .

People in Oakland are proving a logical fallacy. You’ve probably heard it before. It goes like this: “The government provides X. Without the government, we wouldn’t have X.” It’s not true. If people value something, then they will find a way to meet their needs or desires.

“The government provides police. Without the government, we wouldn’t have police.”

Not so. The people of Oakland have been effectively living without the police for years. Today, in response to the reality around them, 3 crowdfunding campaigns have begun to fund private police. The campaigns are divided by geography and are already about half funded so far with about two weeks to go. Good for you, people of Oakland, for taking personal responsibility for your own security! You are leading by example and showing others what Libertarians have been saying for decades: that it’s not only *possible* to provide police with voluntary funding, it may actually be a cheaper and better service, too!

$82 per household buys 4 months of policing from a private firm called VMA Security. Their armed agents will patrol the streets 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. A common objection to private police is that the poor can’t afford it. But this works out to less than a dollar a day! That’s service everyone can afford. And of course there will be angels who donate more than their fair share, and others who will free-ride by contributing nothing. But note that this is already the case with policing today. Many more people receive services than pay for them.

What do you think? Is your town ready for a private police force? Had you ever considered how cheap such a service could really be? Share your thoughts on the Peace News Now facebook page.

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Bureaucrats in California passed a law nullifying the NDAA, making it the 3rd state to do so. The NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act, and it’s unpopular because it grants agents of the federal government the authority to detain anyone forever without trial. Do you want to nullify this law where *you* live? The Tenth Amendment Center has provided model legislation to nullify indefinite detention in each state.

The new law in California states, quote, “It is the policy of this state to refuse to provide material support for, or to participate in any way with, the implementation within this state of *any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention* of a person within California.” The new law not only seeks to nullify the NDAA, but any law allowing the feds to legally kidnap Californians. Go to http://TenthAmendmentCenter.com to learn what you can do to nullify federal laws in your state!

In other peaceful resistance news, it didn’t take more than a few days for former users of the Silk Road to switch to another anonymous online black market, called “Sheep Marketplace.” The website is almost identical to the Silk Road and must be accessed by the Tor browser, which is free. Vendors can set up shop on the website for $150 in bitcoin. Advocates for decriminalizing drugs say that websites like these provide customers a safer venue and better quality assurance than they would get on the street. Is the Sheep Marketplace just one of many new Silk Road copycats? Have the feds just cut off the first head of a hydra? Share your thoughts at http://PeaceNewsNow.com

A Washington D.C. bartender charges prices progressively, dependent on customers’ level of involvement in the shutdown. Steve Hadley is offering special low prices to those affected by the furlough, and special *high* prices for Obama and his gang! The same $2 beer costs members of Congress $25. And for Obama, that $2 beer costs $702, the amount Steve will be forced to pay in fines to the IRS for not buying Obamacare. Plus $2. Perhaps that’s because during this so-called Government shutdown, bureaucrats have shut down all the helpful things and kept all the wasteful things open. For example, Obama allowed his wife‘s website remain open, while forcing the closure of actual useful websites such as the Amber Alert service, which tracks missing children. What do you think? Should bar and restaurant owners charge bureaucrats more? Comment on our facebook page!

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Blue Ridge Inn Defiance

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/04/blue-ridge-parkway-pisgah-inn/2923169/

Deep Web Users Ready to Launch Silk Road 2.0

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/deep-web-users-are-ready-to-launch-silk-road-2-0/

New Trend: Jumping Fences at Natl Parks

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56963139-90/park-milligan-zion-fence.html.csp

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Bruce O’Connell and his family run the Pisgah Inn on a concession contract along the Blue Ridge Parkway since the late 1970s. A public service concession is when a private company enters into an agreement with bureaucrats to have the exclusive right to operate or maintain so-called public land. Because of the so-called “government shutdown” federal agents told Bruce to close the doors to his Inn.

Instead, he pledged to defy orders and stay open to serve his customers, drawing over 1000 “Likes” on the Inn’s facebook page. But when National Park Rangers showed up with their guns and ordered Bruce to close, Bruce quote, “decided we weren’t prepared to be a symbol, and we closed.” But after a night of sleeping on it, Bruce said, quote, “I simply decided ‘If not now, when? If not me, who?’”

The Inn serves about 20,000 tourists during a typical October, but Bruce said his defiance was not about the lost revenue. quote, “It’s about the visitors. It’s about the staff and employees who are now having to move off the mountain — they live here — with no notice. They have no jobs. That’s the concern.”

Men with guns blocked off the entrance to the Inn with their cars to prevent anyone from entering. With no way for new customers to enter, Bruce caved and shut the Inn’s doors until further notice from the benevolent overlords at the Federal Government.

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The former admins and users of the Silk Road are planning to resurrect it. User RR writes on the no-longer-operational anonymous marketplace Atlantis quote: “We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we have kept the same style of forum for your ease.”

The new SilkRoad will be sending out anonymous invites to former vendors and then open to the Tor-using public soon after.

The representatives of Atlantis wrote, quote:

From a quick scout around I’ve counted at least 5 publicly stated projects with the said aim of becoming “Silk Road 2.0″ and many many more gathering info and building alliances.

And this is what Law Enforcement is now parading as a victory? Over two years of investigation, millions of dollars spent and for what so a couple of armchair programmers can build it again in a few days while in the meantime vendors simply move to other site’s .

Users are already planning ways to keep the new site secure. The Silk Road won’t be dead for long. Hackers will produce more Silk Road variants than any government can police.

There seems to be no shortage of well educated American males in their late 20′s willing to sacrifice bright futures and their own personal liberty to highlight the downright totalitarianism being inflicted by agents of government. Make no mistake: We are witnessing a revolution in progress, and the internet is the battlefield. Are you fighting?

In other news, The Salt Lake Tribune reports this week that quote, Frustration with the partial federal shutdown literally spilled over the gates of Zion National Park on Saturday morning, with 15 protesters entering despite rangers’ objections. James Milligan is the manager of Springdale’s Zion Outfitter store, and he helped organize “Occupy Zion.” It’s part of a broader social media effort dubbed “Occupy National Parks” on Facebook and #breakthebarrier on Twitter.

James said, quote, “Obviously, I’m not too happy about it. This shop is my livelihood here, and I haven’t had a customer in a week. Rangers will get their backpay, but what will people in these communities get?”

James and his crew walked up the trail for two hours filling a garbage bag with the trash they picked up along the way. Federal Park Rangers with guns took photos of the trespassers and warned that they might receive fines in the mail. A government spokeswoman said that attempts to enter the park, quote, “are extremely taxing on us. We just don’t have the staff. I really hope it doesn’t become a trend.” She said that instead, the protesters should write their congressmen.

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Random Woman Killed by DC Police

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/everything-we-know-about-miriam-carey-the-woman-killed-after

http://www.christophercantwell.com/2013/10/03/militants-gun-down-mother-in-front-of-her-child/

Woman Jailed, Refuses Census Form

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/03/audrey-tobias-census-fine-stephen-harper_n_4034723.html

http://deanoftea.blogspot.ca/2013/10/elderly-woman-faces-jail-time-for.html

Badass Lavabit Defies FBI for Snowden

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/

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The big news today is that a random woman has been shot by law enforcers outside of the White House. Miriam Carey, who was fired as a dental assistant for being too rough with patients took her baby for on an extremely dangerous car ride around the White House this past Thursday. Despite multiple news outlets reporting a shooter in DC, she was not armed. The only shooters were the police who killed her. Her body was so badly torn apart by the gunfire, that in the end, the gunmen were not even sure who it was they had killed. At this time it is unknown what will become of her 2-year-old child who was in the back seat.

In Peaceful Resistance news, Blogger Dean Tea tipped off Peace News Now about a little old lady who is standing up to big government. Government agents in Canada are working to punish 89-year-old Audrey Tobias for failing to comply with a law called the Statistics Act. Even though the law was written in 1918 by politicians who’ve long been dead, the Statistics Act makes it a crime to refuse to submit to a government survey, and carries a penalty of 90 days in jail. Audrey refuses to comply with government demands because of American Weapons Producer Lockheed Martin is involved in the census. She says that the Canadian census should be run by Canada and not a private US weapons manufacturer. Because of that, she won’t check the boxes on their form, and she’s willing to take the maximum penalty. She says paying a fine is like admitting guilt, and she doesn’t think she’s doing anything wrong. She’s not the only one. In 2011, 54 other Canadians were targeted by their government for not filling out this piece of paper. Should people lose their freedom for refusing to fill out a census form? Share your thoughts on the Peace News Now facebook page!

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The founder of Lavabit is a total badass. Not only did whistleblower Edward Snowden use Lavabit’s secure email service, but Lavabit’s founder won’t comply with government demands to spy on its users. It’s like this: The FBI wanted certain information about Snowden’s emails. Lavabit told them that while they had the ability to decrypt their customer’s email info and send it to the government, they weren’t going to do that. A government judge threatened to jail the site’s owner, Ladar Levison, if he refused to comply with the government’s demands. Ladar refused. On July 9, government lawyers asked the judge to jail Levison for disobedience. A week later, they demanded a search warrant for the information needed to decrypt communications, such as encryption keys and SSL keys. With the SSL keys, and a wiretap, the FBI could have decrypted all web sessions between the site and it’s 400,000 users. Levison went to court on August 1st to fight the demands, but the judge ruled in favor of the government.

Now here’s why Lavabit’s founder is so awesome: Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government lawyers complained to the judge, quote, “To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters.” One wrong keystroke, and it won’t work. The judge ordered Levison to provide an electronic copy. By August 5, Lavabit was still resisting the order, and the judge ordered that Levison would be fined $5,000 a day beginning August 6 until he handed over electronic copies of the keys. Instead, on August 8, Levison closed Lavabit, making any attempt at surveillance moot. He was still under a gag order, so he posted an oblique message saying he’d been left with little choice in the matter. Quote, “I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations.”

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