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This section is only applicable to On-duty/Paid Undercover Agents, Detectives, and Operatives; as well as both Paid and Unpaid "Informants", meaning such sworn civil servant personnel functioning under the guise of an "Informant" for accountability purposes, (or lack thereof.)  Persons such as yourself are entirely welcome about this site in all aspects as a valid Member, so long as you realize and respect each of your stately obligations to serve and protect this Community wholly and impartially, to defend the Constitution of these United States of America, and that you realize and respect that as U.S.  Citizens we are living within a Constitutional Republic, where each person is an individual whom is entitled to inalienable freedoms, life, and happiness.  Included below is the California Oath of Affirmation along with the related laws held to those whom have taken this Oath of trust and duty upon their good faith.
 i. Any Member whom qualifies within this section and found to be witnessed or observed acting or who has acted in an "Agent Provocateur" capacity at any time in the past shall immediately be held accountable and will have corrective actions taken upon them, (i.e.  such a Member will have their Membership privileges instantly Banned, the appropriate law enforcing agency with jurisdiction; where no conflict of interest is to occur, shalt be immediately notified, and a Class action lawsuit shalt be filed upon such an individual or individuals as appropriate.)
 ii. All Federal Agents are hereby made aware (or so reminded) that they have no actual Local or State "Policing Powers" and have no lawful authority over U.S. Citizens whom are conducting business with others when any type of to or from transaction (be it material, verbal, physical, and/or electronic), takes place within the borders and boundaries of the United States of America; so long as any such of the predefined transactions occurs outside of any and all designated "Federal Buildings", "Federal Holdings or Possessions"; outside of the designated borders and boundaries of: American Samoa, Common Wealth Of Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, Guam, and Virgin Islands.
 iii. Any Member whom qualifies within this section is additionally reminded that the Constitution is apportioned to the Bill of Rights and both exist as the supreme law of the land (these United States of America), any such other Act, Code, Executive Order, Law, Official Document of Lawful Theory, Policy, Provision, Statute that is in violation and/or conflict of the Constitution under The Rule of Law, is completely, utterly, and fully Null and Void.  As well any and all Agents whom are operating or are to act within a Martial Law, Home based Military Operation, or Counterstrike type operation involving U.S.  Citizens are reminded to fully review the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights in their entirety.

There shall not be any form of depictions relative to nude or pornographic material; extreme or distaining violence to another human being or animal, hate related symbols or images (i.e.  a Confederate Flag, Nazi Swastika (not to be confused with having any actual relation to a plain Maltese Cross), KKK ORION logo, etc.), recognized gang affiliation symbols or images, (i.e.  hand signs related to the Bloods, Crips; abbreviations related to the Nortanios (XIV, X4, 14), Soranios (XIII, X3, Sur 13), Asian Boyz Gang (ABZ), or religious extremist groups, brotherhoods, etc.), posted anywhere upon this site, whether by authorized or unauthorized upload or by any form or means of hot-linking, either publicly or privately; depictions are to be understood as any form of electronic media consisting of or as a viewable image or a viewable image file, or display of plain text, regardless of textual font or color.  In simpler terms if public broadcast television would not air the media image in question, neither will this Community permit it to be posted so as to be viewable in any fashion upon this Website.  Any such discovered images will be removed immediately upon their finding by the appropriate Administrator or Moderator.
 i. Discussions on these matters are permitted and displaying reasonable images for educational purposes within the discussion is permitted at the discretion of the Administration and assigned Moderator, though using such an image as a personal Avatar or Signature is not appropriate and will not be tolerated.

Any blatantly violent or Terroristic Statement either via Posting, Posting Reply, E-mail, or Private Message (PM) will result in an immediate Banning of the offender, locking of the Topic were the incident took place (as applicable.)  All Administrators and Moderations will work in full cooperation with law enforcement should such as so be requested by the victim to bring such an unlawful matter to a swift, timely, and justified close.  This Community will not tolerate these types of unwarranted and unjustly attacks upon any other Member.  Terrorist and Violent Statements would be those which pertain to the blatant and premeditated taking of another beings life, burning of their property by means of arson or explosive device, committing a heinous act upon another such as forcing the rape of another (a victim), holding the person (a victim) captive, holding the person (a victim) for ransom, torturing the person (a victim), etc., (Terrorist Threats are covered under: Penal Code §422; §653m; Libel and Slander are covered under Civil Code; §46; Sexual Harassment is covered under: Civil Code: §51.9; Stalking/CyberStalking is covered under: Penal Code 646.9; Civil Code: §1708.7; Injunctions to Prevent Harassment are covered under: Civil Procedure: §527.6.  For further clarity these are referenced visa vie California law, though are applicable, although potentially varied throughout all Continental States.)

Regarding, the spirit of exception would obviously preclude that of a joking statement or statements giving a potential scenario or example that could occur stated for an educational or relevant discussion within the appropriate Forum (regardless of it actually being a real-life scenario/example or not) would not uphold the same impact as a lawful violation of a Terroristic Threat and thus would not attribute to such a violation that would impact as a considered violation of this stated standard; such as stating (as an example to prove a point or potential future threat during an appropriate discussion): "Really, well how would you feel about the death penalty if I were to tie you up so that you could watch me as I torture and kill your entire family?" vs.  (matter-of-factly out of spite and anger) "You are a total idiot, I am going to come over to your house while you are asleep to tie you up, so that I can pull out every last one of your fingernails, rape your sister, and then torch your house to get rid of all the evidence!" Conclusively, neither of the above hypothetical statements (or any such statement for that matter) lends exception to alleged wrongdoing regardless if it is misinterpreted by the subject-target of the statement or not, and regardless of the Speakers/Posters actual intention within the point of their statement, whether it being intended as a joke or not, thus, discretion of such statements are left at the sole responsibly of the Speaker/Poster as are the repercussions of such statements should they be made.

Smack Talk and Flaming will be constituted by any form of discussion or topic that includes any combination of racist slurs and/or remarks, sexual references and/or innuendos, personal degradation and/or prejudgments on the part of the Speaker/Poster; or posted content that is/was primarily for the purpose of belittling another Member.  None of these violations shall be considered grounds for disbandment or disciplinary action, though these posts will be (Admin/Mod Tagged) and moved to the appropriate "Reality Check!" Forum as deemed necessary.
 i. Exception for stipulation to Disbandment or Disciplinary Action of offending Members; if a Member or Members feels they are being targeted and harassed by another Member or Members they shall advise the aggressing party(ies) either publicly or privately to thus, clearly state and iterate to them their concerns by means of a kind request and wish for the offending party(ies) to seize or limit their personal attacks upon the them, (the offended Member.)  Should the aggressing party(ies) continue violating the offended Member(s) request the offending party(ies) should then follow the guidelines stated within the 'Procedures for Reporting Discrepancies' and immediately contact their designated Staff Representative.
 ii. Addendum; to qualify for above 'Exception to Disbandment or Disciplinary Action of offending Members (i)', the offended Member(s) must remain civil towards the aggressor(s) or offending party(ies) at all times and notify their designated Staff Representative of each offending and unaltered Post.  If the Member(s) fails to do meet this qualification, it will void the alleged dispute on the grounds of "mutual combat" and could result in a qualification of the above 'Exception to Disbandment or Disciplinary Action of offending Members (i)' for all involved Members or parties.
 iii. Members are free to speak in the given manner, tone, and verbal dialect that they so wish, using their own judgment and moral taste.  This Community is one that will remain true to reasonable rights to freedoms of speech and will do so on the knowledge and understanding that at times there are certain subject matters and/or means of discussion which may be said in a given matter that will ultimately offend another Member or Members, this Community shall realize that this is a basic concept of the human nature when dealing with protecting another's freedoms and rights to expression of their innermost self, thus one must willingly expose themselves to the subjective of an ideal.
 a. Stipulation: This section does not lend any rights to any Member or party as a consideration for that Member or party or another Member or party to advance in a violation of any listed criteria within these guidelines.  Good faith and judgment are expected on the part of all Members; all Members are expected to fully comprehend the meaning of "civil" and "discretion".
 iv. Slight or light joking and poking of other members are permitted in Forums outside of the designated "Reality Check!" Forum, unless there is a violation which would be incurred on the part of the aggressor or aggressors as aforementioned; i.e.  in normal circumstances it would be acceptable to make fun of or mock another Mmember in a Forum outside of "Reality Check!", so long as that is not the obvious or sole intent of the post.  i.e.  stating: "WTF, basehead? Are you on back on the crack again? That is was not the context in which Alex Jones spoke about Zionism!  He was merely stating the scope is much more broader then you seem to currently realize, he wants the mass populous to know that they should not fixate on a such narrow perspective, that is what the NWO wants you to do.', would be acceptable as it qualifies as being a purposeful post; whereas a post stating: "WTF, basehead? Are you back on the crack again?" would not be acceptable as it is clearly and purposefully libel towards another Member with not other obvious purpose.
 v. Cursing shall be permitted freely throughout the forums, though only Smack Talking, Flaming, and Trash Talking will be permitted within the "Reality Check!" Forum.  Curse filters have been set into place to delimit the impact of any resulting over aggression on the part of any Member or Members.

Members are defined as any Registered User that is logged in to their Account and that is not a designated Defend Independence Staff Representative.

Defend Independence Staff Representative or Staff Representative is defined as any Member whom is designated by Vote or Promotion with the title of Administrator, Technician, Specialty Moderator, Topic Moderator, or Assistant Moderator.

Administrators will be responsible for all policy revisions, software modifications, and all related aspects of such.  Administrators will not be assigned to Moderate any specific Forum or Thread, though will be overall responsible for ensuring all Topics and Posts meet the standards and requirements as set forth within the policy of this Community.  All Administrators will have full and complete access throughout the Forums, the Forums ACP, FTP, and the Server ACP.  All Administrators will be ultimately responsible for ensuring the continued operation of this Community, as well as maintaining this Communities integrity, spirit, and morals.

Technicians shall be responsible for ensuring the proper working order and speed of this Website and its corresponding databases.  Technicians shall be overall responsible for all software related upgrades, revisions, as well as maintaining the servers performance, speed, and functionality, handling backups/restorations, security, etc.  Technicians shall also be placed overall in charge of the continued operation and organization of the Defend Independence Community FTP Folder.  Technicians will assist in ensuring that all Members are aware of and fully understand the Defend Independence Member FTP Accessing Guidelines as stipulated within the designated FTP associated Policy.  Technicians will assist Members in learning and configuring their FTP program for accessing the Defend Independence Community Folder as requested by each individual Member.

There shall be three recognized distinctions of Moderator classification: Specialty Moderator, Topic Moderator, and Assistant Moderator.  There shall only be one Specialty Moderator or Topic Moderator at the most assigned to any single Topic.  Topic Moderators would each be assigned and placed in charge of all related Threads within their designated Forum (to be determined by a Majority Vote of the Administrators), these positions would be in addition to any Specialty Moderator positions which may be required (i.e.  a Moderator proficient in Numerology would be assigned specifically to the Numerology Thread, etc., though the actual Forum itself would require a Topic Moderator be assigned to uphold responsibility for all other Topics within that Forum.)  Should a Thread meet the requirements of needing a Specialty Moderators in addition to the Topic Moderator then the Topic Moderator will not have Moderating responsibilities assigned to them within the Specialty Moderator's Topic.  All Moderators will have full access of their assigned Forum and/or Threads.
 i. Topic Moderators positions will be openly voted upon by active members of the Community, Administrators will not be permitted to participate in the voting of Topic Moderators.  Votes for the electing of established positions will be declared annually or whenever there is a need for additional assistance do to the growth of the Community, or replacement of a Topic Moderator is required do to a loss of a Topic Moderator, regardless of the circumstances involved.  The need for additional Topic Moderators will be determined by a Majority Vote of the Administrators.
 ii. Specialty Moderators do to their special knowledge and rarity within their qualified field will not be eligible for annual voting, Specialty Moderators shall only be replaced as needed either do to the loss of a Specialty Moderator or at the requested of a Specialty Moderator.
 a. Specialty Moderators at their discretion may request an additional Specialty Moderator to be designated as an Assistant Moderator and shall be assigned to assist them as they determine necessary within their designated Thread.
 i. Members taking on the duties and responsibilities of Assistant Moderator shall be required to meet the same standards and qualifications as a Specialty Moderator for the Thread they are to be assigned to.
 ii. Assistant Moderators shall not meet the requirements for annual voting, for the same exclusions as aforementioned in above within rule (ii).

A Majority Vote shall be declared upon a 2/3 favored vote by all participating Administrators.  Tied votes shall place the matter into contingency for negotiations until a valid 2/3 vote has been reached.  Voting shall only take place when all Administrators are available to uphold a valid poll.  All official Votes shall be held during a designated Special Meeting amongst the Administrative Staff.

All Threads or Posts which are moved or modified by any Member of Defend Independence Staff Representative shall be marked within the content of Post (at the very bottom of the Post) by the acting Administrator or Moderator this tagging will include the Administrators or Moderations Handle (Name) the date and time (locally for the Administrator or Moderator), along with the action taken and the reason or reasons for such action, (this will be referred to and titled as Admin/Mod Tagging.)  Examples 1-3 are displayed below for clarity.  Additionally, as an alternative a new Post may be made by the Staff Member to fulfill this requirement.  If a Post is to moved from one Topic to another it should be done so via either the "Split" or "Move Topic" functions.  If a Post is to be made into its own Topic then the "Move Topic" function shall be used, if the Post is to be divided into more then one Topic then the "Split" function should be used.  At no time shall a Member be expected to perform the duties of an Administrator or Moderator.
 i. If a Topic or Post is to be deleted it shall rather be Moved to the Administrative Archive Holding Bay to thus ensure Staff integrity and accountability is maintained throughout the Forums by all Members.
 a. At no time shall a Staff Member delete another Members Topic or Post.  The treatment of such a Topic or Post of concern shall at all times follow the above rule 'i'.
 b. The Staff Member moving such a Topic or Post shall split the Topic or Post to the Archive Holding Bay and shall clear out and Admin/Mod tag the originating Topic or Post as aforementioned within this section 'Admin/Mod Tagging' with the reason(s) for the action, (i.e.  inappropriate content, terroristic/threatening in nature, deemed spam, etc.)

Any Member experiencing a discrepancy or matter of concern is requested to first notify the designated Moderator of the related Forum Topic in which the matter of concern is related to, if after doing this the matter is still not resolved the Member is then requested to notify the appropriate Moderator assigned to the related Forum Category (unless this is the same Staff Representative whom is designated to the originating Forum Topic); if after doing so and the matter has still failed to reach a resolution the Member is requested to then notify an available Administrator.  All means of contact is requested to be done privately through E-mail or Private Message (PM), the Member is free to choose whichever Administrator they so wish to for contact.
 i. For convenience to the Member, the Member may discuss their concern or issue with as many Administrators as they deem necessary, so long as they notify each additional Administrator that they have prior discussed the matter of concern with other Administrators and whom those Administrators are or were; this is solely for the purpose of preventing conflicts that may result by having two or more Administrators working on a conflicting solution that could ultimately cause more problems to the matter at hand as well as the Community.
 ii. The means of contacting Staff Representatives should be thought of as a structured chain-of-command, which will be upheld and honored by all Staff Representatives at all times, Members are requested to honor this standard as well, though are not required to do so.  It will be the goal of all involved Staff Representatives to ensure all matters at hand are placed in order and that a reasonable and timely resolution will bring each concern, issue, or matter to a respectable close for all parties involved.

A Special Meeting of the Administrators shall be called to order for all Administrative duties requiring official declaration in regards to the matters of this Community, this Forum, and this website.  Each Special Meeting called to order shall be recorded via this websites databases as a permanent record within an appropriately configured Voting Poll, as applicable.  The record of each individual Special Meeting shall consist by means through a discussion of Posts combined with verbal communications as deemed appropriate and convenient for the Administrators.  At the closure of each individual Special Meeting the results shall be made available for public viewing as deemed appropriate by the Administrators.  The course of each individual Special Meeting shall otherwise at all times be held under the confidentiality of the Administrators.  i. Only Administrators may call a Special Meeting of the Administrators.

Members may request that a Special Meeting be called to discuss concerns regarding the actions or such of an active Staff Representative.  To qualify for a Special Meeting a minimum of four Member requests must be received by the designated Staff Representatives via Private Message (PM) following the guidelines as set forth under the 'Discrepancies Involving other Members or Staff Representatives' Policy.  Both Administrators and Moderators are subject to removal of their designated position if so deemed by a favored Majority 2/3 Vote made during a valid meeting.  During this meeting the received concerns of the Community will be discussed and a decision will be made by the participating Administrators.  The course and guidelines of a meeting called to order as a "Special Meeting on the Communities Behalf" shall consist as aforementioned within the "Special Meeting of the Administrators" Policy.

 i. Designated UserGroup Topics will only be visible to those with Posting privileges within the Forum Topic or Thread.
 ii. All Members will be able to Edit and/or Delete their own Posts.
 iii. All Members will be able to create Voting Polls and participate in Voting in Forum Topics that permit Voting.
 a. Some Forum Topics do not permit Voting do to the nature of the Topic or require the designated Moderator to initially start the Voting Poll.
 iv. All Members will have full-level access within the 'Reality Check!' Forum.
 a. Full-level access – meaning, all Members will be capable of Posting Sticky's, Announcements, and cast Voting Polls within the Reality Check! Forum.
 v. All Members may display images as they wish, so long as the image meets the requirements as set for the 'General Outline of Posting Guidelines' Policy.
 vi. There will be a cursing filter applied to all Posts, which will only maintain the first letter as a capital letter all other letters will be asterisked out '*' the ending of each curse word will be trailed with an explanation point '!'.
 vii. No Post shall ever be Edited, Deleted, Moved, or Modified by any Staff Representative without proper justification and cause to do so, (i.e.  deleting an advertisement, etc.)
 a. Staff Representatives will Move unwarranted Forum Topics and Posts to a designated hidden storage archive rather then Delete it, this is in a proactive effort to maintain good record keeping, while upholding this websites integrity.
  b. Forum Posts may only be Moved or Altered by the actively assigned Topic Moderator and only if it determined that the Post is in the wrong Forum Topic or if the content with the Post deems the need for modification, (i.e.  removing an image, correcting misinformation, etc.)  If the designated Moderator is not available within a reasonable period of time then an available Administrator will be authorized to Move or Alter the Post themselves.
 i.Stipulation, if an Administrator deems the need they may themselves take immediate action upon a Forum Topic or Post that is in direct violation of this Communities Policy and Standards.
 ix. No Topic will be Locked, unless it is a time sensitive Topic such as for a Voting related Forum Topic, etc., or the Forum Topic has become a Virtual Crime Scene as so described under the 'The Smack Talk, Flaming Consideration' Policy.
 x. When dealing with unforeseen circumstances Administrators may lend exception to any of the aforementioned guidelines as they deem necessary so long as the end result is appropriate and upholds the spirit of this Community.
 a In an unforeseen circumstance designated Moderators shall take no action without first consulting with their designated Administrator.  Moderators may consult with another Administrator should their designated Administrator not be available within a reasonable period of time.
 xi.Moderators are to always act within the good faith of their appointed Administrators, whom shall both be bound to uphold the spirit and intent of this Community and these Defend Independence Forums and Website.
 xii. All Administrators and Moderators are free to engage in open discussion and under the same expectations and following the same guidelines and policies, and as in the same manner as any other Member within this Community.  All Staff Representative positions are voluntary and are non-paying.  All Forum Topic Moderating positions will be Voted for Annually by an open ballet by all participating Members, (Specialty Moderators and Assistant Moderators are exempt from this action.) Administrators are not eligible to participate in these annual Topic Moderator Community Voting events.

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