Sunday, July 2, 2017

RISE UP AND BE HEARD AMERICA!!!!!



PLEASE READ BELOW AND PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING THE PETITION.  THIS IS ALL ABOUT RETAINING OUR FOUNDATIONAL RELIGIOUS RIGHTS AND PUTTING A STOP TO THE LEFTISTS CONTINUED EFFORTS TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY AND ALL ITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS AND SYMBOLS IN AMERICA.  WHY IS IT THAT A TINY MOUTHY LEFTIST MINORITY HAS THE POWER TO NULLIFY THE WISHES OF THE MAJORITY IN THIS NATION? RISE UP AND BE HEARD AMERICA!!!!! 


07/02/17
Dear  American Patriot ,

This is absolutely terrible news.

A District Court has ruled that Pensacola, Florida, must tear down a public cross from the public view.

The Bayview Cross, as the white, 34-feet- tall monument is known, has been in Bayview Park for nearly 75 years. Atheists complained to the city about it, demanding that it be removed. As a result, the court is forcing the city to take down the Cross.

Tell the City of Pensacola you are disappointed
with the removal of the cross from public view
http://www.returntoorder.org/petition/sunday-protest-cross-removed-florida-pensacola-atheism/?PKG=RTOE0341

The Cross of Christ is a symbol of our salvation, which Our Lord won through immense suffering. It is also a strong reminder of the service we owe to God. And this makes atheists furious.

And so they are doing all they can to remove the Cross from public view.

Sign our petition to the City of Pensacola
http://www.returntoorder.org/petition/sunday-protest-cross-removed-florida-pensacola-atheism/?PKG=RTOE0341

We cannot be silent while this takes place. We must show our resistance to such an outrageous act.

With that, I invite you to sign our petition to the City of Pensacola, letting them know that you stand for and with the Bayview Cross.

Thank you.

I remain,
Sincerely,

John Horvat
Vice-President, Tradition, Family and Property (TFP)
www.ReturnToOrder.org
 

Fireworks with Patriotic Music Soundtrack by U.S. Military Bands


HAPPY JULY 4TH
WITH APPRECIATION TO OUR 
US MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN
AND THEIR FAMILIES

Fireworks with Patriotic Music Soundtrack 
by U.S. Military Bands



Trey Gowdy Gives Epic Pin Drop Speech Shocks Entire Crowd With The Truth

EXPOSE MARCO RUBIO FOR THE TRAITOR THAT HE IS!


Back stabbing RUBIO CAUGHT WORKING WITH TERRORISTS To Change US Laws !!!



Senator Marco Rubio has been exposed working with known terrorists at the White House to get a bill passed that will criminalize Americans who speak out against Muslims and Islam in a shocking move of treason against the American people.
 
Marco Rubio worked alongside the Muslim terror group  EmgageUSA, whose members are currently on a terror watch list for their ties to Al Qaeda.'

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LIAR & HYPOCRITE, TOO
 
 
http://yournewswire.com/rubio-colluding-terrorist-laws/

Saturday, July 1, 2017

PRESIDENT TRUMP COMFORTS GRIEVING YOUNG 'MARINE'


PRESIDENT TRUMP COMFORTS 
GRIEVING YOUNG 'MARINE'


Here's the shot that, had Obama done it, would've put him on every front page across the country. Since it was Trump, though, the country's liberal papers decided not to print it.
 

The boy's name is Christian Jacobs, 6, and he's dressed like a Marine because his father, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, was killed during a training accident in California in 2011. A great picture of America's president on Memorial Day. And every newspaper that didn't run it -- for purely partisan reasons -- ought to be ashamed.
 
 

Gun Owners About To Be Criminals


Millions Of Gun Owners About To Be Criminals Starting July 1st

Pass A Law Banning “Art” That Promotes Violence


Demand That Congress Pass A Law Banning “Art” That Promotes Violence Aimed At Public Officials and Law Enforcement




Comedienne' Kathy Griffin’s recent mock “beheading” of President Donald Trump, and the NYC Public Theater Company’s play that “assassinates” the current sitting President are examples of how “art” crosses the line from Free Speech into Hate Speech by inciting violence.

We Demand That Congress Investigate This Activity and Pass A Law Banning Such Hate-Motivated Activities.


Sign the Petition below:

https://right-alerts.rallycongress.net/ctas/demand-that-congress-prosecute-art-that-promotes-violence-aimed/letter?zip=&x=56&y=21

Medical Licensing, Yankee Doodle, Inc., and the Way Things Work


By Anna Von Reitz


Licensing means that you are being given permission to do something that is otherwise unlawful for you to do.  Licensing also implies the existence of a king who stands over you and who decides whether or not to grant you the privilege of doing whatever that illegal business or activity is.
For example, acting as a pirate is against the law.  However, in England, if the King gave you Letters of Marque to act as a privateer (a pirate) then it was perfectly legal for you to engage in smuggling and robbery on the High Seas,  or wherever else the King said you could do it.   The King as Law-giver could also suspend the Law at will and grant you the privilege --  a license -- to kill as per James Bond, or to pillage or any other thing.
So, since when has it ever been against the law to be a doctor or to practice medicine in this country?  
Answer: after the Civil War laws restricting medical practices and setting standards of education for doctors began proliferating.  This was promoted by the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry that wished to get rid of homemade medicine that competed with their products. They also sponsored medical schools with their newly acquired wealth from producing such products as Bayer's aspirin and Carter's Liver Pills and then used these schools as a means of indoctrinating generations of doctors into dependence on their products. 
Then, with the rise of trade unionism we got the American Medical Association, which in effect unionized medical practitioners, and which has --- like the American Bar Association --- run a closed union shop in violation of the public law for over a hundred years.  This was also a good development in the eyes of the early pharmaceutical giants, because it placed the doctors under the thumb of the AMA and of course, the AMA leadership was already on the take from Big Pharma. 
The end result for American medicine has been mixed.  On one hand, you can be sure that your doctor has been fed exactly all the same information as any other doctor in the country and has passed exams proving that he or she took it all in and knows the standard material.  On the other hand, you can also be sure that your doctor has been indoctrinated and literally trained not to think for him or herself too deeply, and has been taught to rely on and use a panoply of Big Pharma products, and yes, is literally bribed to do so.  The influence peddling of the pharmaceutical companies has gone so far as to pay outright kickbacks to doctors for prescribing certain drugs. 
We have also suffered from "patentability losses"---- the politically correct way of saying that better and less destructive traditional medication based on herbs and essential oils and other traditional medicines are not being researched and made available because they can't be patented.  Big Pharma avoids putting any research or development money into drugs that they can't own.  Literally.  As a result, many of the most promising known cures for disease are not being investigated and billions of dollars are being spent instead on manmade molecules that often are nothing but selective poisons that alleviate some symptoms and cause others at the same time. 
This country survived at least 300 years of its history with no licensing of medical practitioners at all. It's a good guess we could survive another 300.  The better part of practical intelligence would argue that there is a need to oversee medical practices and procedures and drugs being administered--- and the larger question is who or what should do the oversight? 
Medicine at its heart is as much of an art as a science, and while it may be possible to establish our "best guess" standards for the science end of it, there is no way to uniformly package or mandate the style of the art. 
My own solution is more medical schools, an end to the AMA stranglehold, an end of the Big Pharma racketeering and kickback system, and public investment in institutions that teach and conduct research based on traditional medicine---- hopefully in tandem with our conventional medical schools.
Integrated medicine and its practitioners take the enlightened approach of trying to discern and make use of the best of both worlds--traditional and modern--- for the benefit of their patients.  After all, if your goal is to cure or to at least effectively help someone deal with symptoms of disease, doesn't it make sense that you use all the knowledge in the whole arsenal that thousands of years of medical practice has garnered?
I think the answer is a big fat "YES!" 
As for regulation of medical practice, I think it is best done by those who practice medicine --- the doctors themselves, but I also think that closed union shops and coercion by unions is basically immoral and unlawful. So how do we do away with the bad aspects of the AMA and still retain the good?  Perhaps the better answer is a "Medical Better Business Bureau" under the auspices of the Office of the Ombudsman or other Consumer Protection agency, that collects and responsibly publishes verified complaints against doctors and medical institutions.  When you pick a doctor or a hospital you would check their ratings, just like you check the Consumer Reports on a lawn mower, and their success or failure would then depend on delivering the best prices and most effective services at the least risk to their patients.
That sort of open and public competition lets people and institutions rise and fall according to their performance and the genuine desire to provide the best health and medical care possible.
Which brings up a final point---- health in all its aspects is the true goal of all medical practice, and true health requires much more than a bottle of pills.  It requires commitment from patients and knowledgeable patients as well as committed and knowledgeable doctors.  Many of the worst and most pervasive health problems we face in this country are self-inflicted as a result of poor nutrition, poor hygiene, and addictions. 
My point is that educating the doctors and holding them to high and more or less uniform standards doesn't create better public health overall, which is the ultimate goal.  To promote that goal requires better health education in our schools and in the public venues that are open to us, and a more goal-driven public-policy perspective.  We need better health and hygiene curriculums in our schools, more education made available through public health organizations, and more support for preventive measures to preserve natural health instead of vast programs to regain what has been lost through ignorance.
The governmental services corporations we have been dealing with "as" governments have been profit-driven instead of being directed by any sincere and practical interest in the Public Good.  If it makes them a buck, directly, they go for it.  If it saves them (and us) a buck, they could care less.  Public Health Education is one of those things that the Public Good demands, but is more attuned to saving us money than costing us money.  Just like the Ombudsman's Office, health education represents an outflow for the governmental services corporations and, though the public benefits greatly, the benefit to the governmental services corporations in terms of savings does not motivate them.
After all, when the governmental services corporations provide services to you, they get to charge for those services.  When they invest in keeping you and your children healthy, they see savings in that fewer people are on the public dole or requiring medical care--- but that is all the same to them, because they just pass those costs, along with their own costs administering welfare programs, on to you.  They actually make money on sick people and criminals and drug addicts, so from their perspective, there is no motivation to decrease illness, or crime, or drug use.  Quite the opposite.
Until we replace the profit-driven governmental services corporations with actual people-based government, or otherwise devise means by which these organizations change their motivations, we will continue to see increasing ignorance, illness, drug use, and criminality burgeoning as "government industries" now depend on these negative conditions. 
As long as we fail in our job to demand good services and to place other motivations in front of these profit-driven governmental services corporations we will continue to get the same results.  One possible way to nip this whole situation in the bud is to provide Negative Rewards to the politicians and the corporations they work for-- that is, reward them for decreases in criminality, drug use, medical costs, etc., and punish them monetarily for failure to produce results. 

Since they are just corporations we have the ability to fire them and hire new people and new organization to provide us with the services we want and need.  At the end of the day, the Consumer rules this planet.  If the "USA, INC." isn't producing the results we need at a price we can afford, then it is time to boot up "Yankee Doodle, Inc." and see what they can do. 
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See this article and over 600 others on Anna's website here:www.annavonreitz.com

America: ARE YOU LISTENING ??!!



First Muslim Governor About To Take Over This State – Here’s The Terrifying Changes He Plans To Make Immediately

International Trade Bank?

International Trade Bank? What?


By Anna Von Reitz 
Saturday, July 1, 2017
 
 
I think there has been a misunderstanding -- internationally -- about the United States of America v. United States, and that confusion has led to a vast confusion about banking here, too.  Please let me take a few minutes to go over the situation as it stands.

The international jurisdiction naturally belonging to the now-fifty sovereign organic states of the Union is split between two entities, the United States of America and the United States. 

The United States is a corporation that has nineteen delegated and enumerated powers that it exercises in behalf of the unincorporated United States of America.

All the remaining non-delegated powers in international jurisdiction, including the powers of private and unincorporated international trade,  are retained by the states and the people and are exercised by the unincorporated United States of America. 

The confusion that currently abounds arises because:
(1) both the United States and the United States of America are often just referred to as the "United States" as if they were one in the same when they are not, and 
(2) this confusion has become even more pronounced because of the advent of a federal corporation calling itself the United States of America, Inc.

Now you have the unincorporated United States of America, which is the doing business name of the organic states and people of this country, and at the same time, you have the United States, Inc. doing business in behalf of the unincorporated United States of America, and then, the United States, Inc. has its own franchise doing business as the United States of America, Incorporated.

Visualize it like this: United States of America > United States, Inc. > United States of America, Inc.  

This is understandably very confusing, but as you can see, the unincorporated United States of America owns the United States, Inc. which in turn owns the United States of America, Inc.

With this as a background then, the unincorporated United States of America has recently established an equally unincorporated International Trade Bank called The American States and Nations Bank (ASAN).  This is the bank that the American states and people will use to trade with other nations that wish to trade in currencies backed by precious metals, and the currency we will use will be the old familiar American Silver Dollar. 

The American States and Nations Bank (ASAN) will naturally want to belong to the BRICS banking group and have access to the Cross-Border Inter-Bank Payments System (CIPS).  The American States and Nations Bank (ASAN) is chartered directly by the unincorporated United States of America, and is the private International Trade Bank equivalent of the commercial central banks. 

Please note that because unincorporated businesses are legal fictions in the same way that corporations are legal fictions, these entities can trade with each other. 

Put another way, commercial banks can only engage in business transactions between corporations, but unincorporated International Trade Banks can conduct business transactions between people, between unincorporated businesses, and between unincorporated businesses and corporations. It's the link that has been missing in the world financial markets.

The fundamental difference between commercial banks and international trade banks is a matter of insurance and user groups.  International Trade Banks have to be privately indemnified and function under complete commercial liability, while commercial banks enjoy limited liability in exchange for subjecting themselves to taxes, public reporting requirements, and statutory regulations.  

International Trade Banks are the old-fashioned banks your grandparents knew. When you deposit money in an account with them, it is a completely private matter. No government can bail itself in or out using your deposits absent your consent. Levies on private bank accounts are unknown.  A loan is a loan of actual substance, not digits written in a ledger. 

As you can see, there are fundamental advantages to doing business with an International Trade Bank and if you are an honest man or small business concerned about the safety of your deposits and the honesty of your bankers, it makes perfect sense to do your business through International Trade Banks instead of commercial banks that aren't --- strictly speaking --- supposed to be providing direct consumer services to anyone who isn't knowingly and willingly functioning as a corporation or officer of a corporation.

International Trade Banks provide lawful private banking services that are truly private and secure, and which are privately insured, to people and unincorporated businesses.  They provide the "communication channel" between unincorporated businesses and commercial corporations. They receive and deposit lawful money--that is, money that has intrinsic value, such as American Silver Dollars, and can also trade in actual money-backed certificates, such as the old Silver Certificates our grandparents used and Safe-Keeping Receipts (SKR's) that are used to trade and establish credit based on actual asset holdings.

We look forward to speaking with the BRICS alliance and to working with each one of the fifty States to open up state-level International Trade Banks. We know that the American people and small businesses are eager to have honest secure local banks available. Americans want access to the many advantages, services and business opportunities that are unique to International Trade Banks--- and with the advent of The American States and Nations Bank (ASAN) the real America will be open for business with the rest of the world.
 
So that is what The American States and Nations Bank (ASAN)  is and where it fits in the grand scheme of things. It is a uniquely American bank and in the months to come we will be working in tandem with the Bank of Dene, the sovereign indigenous bank of the Athabascan people, as our federal interface.  In this way the actual Constitution and the Law of the Land is preserved for new generations to come, undergirded with lawful money and honest banking.
 
http://www.paulstramer.net/2017/07/international-trade-bank-what.html 
 
 

FBI Anon Responds to Questions




FBI Anon Responds to Questions via Victurus Libertas (@TheFreedom2Live)



FBI Anon
 
A few of our loyal viewers and readers at Victurus Libertas know we are sometimes 
able to get in touch with FBI Anon. It had been a while since we heard from our friend, 
so a few of our followers have been periodically sending me emails, asking me to 
forward questions to FBI Anon. I have been saving and collecting the questions along 
the way and I did get in touch with the now famous FBI Anon. The questions, along 
with responses are as follows:

Q:  Do you think Trump is part of the swamp now that arrests have not 
happened and it is know that Trump took Soros money?
 
FBI Anon: It’s clear Kushner has done deals with Soros, including a large
loan. Trump’s ties to Soros have not been a subject I have investigated.
 
Q:  Were you, or other FBI patriots, behind the recent FBI Twitter Vault 
tweet about corrupt FBI Director Hoover, while Sessions was testifying
about corrupt FBI Director Comey?
 
FBI Anon:  This was a bit of fun we engaged in. Not myself, but others who are 
among dozens of agents assigned to post on our social media platforms. Our old 
guide used to instruct “They should refrain from disclosing on any section of their 
user profiles that they work for the FBI or the Department of Justice,” the guide 
states. “FBI personnel must also consider each word that they post, as these posts
will remain indefinitely in cyberspace.But with the West getting wilder, 
certain agents go “rogue light”, as was the case with those tweets.
 
Q:  How do you guys get away with these tweets when traitors like Comey
and McCabe are in charge, and the Inspector General is investigating these
tweets
 
FBI Anon:  We have our own tool kits, like Socio-Spyder for instance, We realize
the bureau is under increased scrutiny;  most of us feel like we should not be painted
with the same brush being used on the top brass. We are well embedded on all the 
platforms. We can LARP with the best of them. But we are also feeling that the
public has a right to demand arrests of people in high position who have
committed crimes. No man is above the law. But, most Americans rightly feel talk
is cheap.  It’s time to bring down the pond scum on the top of the swamp and work
our way down to the monsters underneath.  As I said a year ago, how can you 
expect a corrupt Government to self investigate?

Q:  When is the “leave of absence” going to happen for Kushner?
 
FBI Anon:  It’s being arranged. Kushner has hired criminal defense 
attorneys – good ones. As long as they keep to Russia, and do not look
too deeply into his ties with AIPAC and Mossad, he will be okay.
 
Q:  How likely is an American Revolution this summer?
 
FBI Anon:  Not likely. If anything, expect more riots, soft terror, and an Israeli lobby
drumbeat to attack Iran, and overthrow Assad. But, the American people are 
making up to the plans unfolding. The sudden arming of Saudi Arabia and the so 
called “rebels” in Syria are upsetting to Americans, who generally do not trust
the Saudi government and are increasingly suspicious of Israel’s motives. Any time you
hear “Russian leaks” from main stream media, replace the word Russian with  Israel.
Israel wants Russia and America to be in a war stance. In this scenario, Israel
gets to shoot down Syrian jets, America gets to increase arms to Saudi Arabia, and US
operatives, directed by John McCain, gets to re-arm Isis. The goal is to remove Assad,
build a pipeline with Saudi funding, and ultimately leave Iran and Russia vastly 
weakened. A true revolution will occur when the citizens take a little time to study the 
French revolution.
 
Q:  Why won’t the government stop the corruption within the unconstitutional family 
courts and CPS?
 
FBI Anon:  Because its a money making racket. It’s a sore spot with me, because the
abuse is rampant throughout the nation. Children are kidnapped by the State. Parents
arrested and courts intercede on behalf of CPS to keep parents and children 
separate. In California, it’s horrible. The criminal justice system in both New
York and California is broken, crooked, and criminal – beyond belief.  We 
took down the Los Angeles Sheriff a couple of years back. We have eyes on a 
number of small towns where public corruption has existed for decades.
You can expect some news this year when we submit our findings to DOJ. Expect
news also regarding Loretta Lynch, and John Brennan. There are more names, but I am
not at liberty to mention them.
 
http://victuruslibertas.com/2017/06/fbi-anon-responds-to-vls-viewers-and-readers/

Report: Sanctuary City San Francisco to Pay Illegal Alien $190,000 Because Police Called ICE

An illegal alien from El Salvador may be soon be receiving a $190,000 check from the City of San Francisco because “a San Francisco police officer directly contacted ICE and told them where to find [him],” KPIX 5 reported on Wednesday.

“The settlement is expected to be confirmed by San Francisco supervisors in future hearings,” the San Francisco television station reported.
Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, a native of El Salvador, has “a civil deportation order dating back to 2005,” his attorney, Zachary Nightingale, says.
According to ICE documents, Figueroa-Zarceno “served two days for a DUI in 2012.”
On December 2, 2015, according to KPIX, he “walked into the police station . . . to recover his stolen car.”
When he left the station, he was immediately taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A document from federal immigration authorities released by his attorneys indicates that a San Francisco police officer directly contacted ICE and told them where to find Figueroa-Zarceno, the man’s attorneys and representatives said Wednesday.
The apparent incident, which led to the two-month detention of Figueroa-Zarceno, could be a violation of Sanctuary City policies placing limits on local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with immigration officials, according to his attorneys.
San Francisco is one of estimated 200 to 300 local jurisdictions in the United States that have adopted “sanctuary policies” that prohibit law enforcement officers employed in those jurisdictions from fully cooperating with federal immigration officials who are implementing federal laws.  In essence, these local jurisdictions are asserting the fundamentally anti-constitutional notion that city and local laws are superior to federal laws, that these “city-states” are in fact, sovereign.
CNN, for instance, reported recently that “In 2015, more than 200 state and local jurisdictions did not honor requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain individuals, ICE Director Sarah Saldaña testified before Congress, and a subset of that group refused to give access to their jails and prisons to ICE.”
“According to tracking by the Center for Immigration Studies, ” CNN notes, “roughly 300 sanctuary jurisdictions rejected more than 17,000 detention requests, between January 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015.
If the City of San Francisco’s proposed settlement with Figueroa-Zarceno is approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, as is expected, it will set an expensive precedent that could well be replicated in all of these 200 to 300 state and local jurisdictions that have adopted some form of “sanctuary city” policy.
San Francisco was one of the first cities in the country to adopt a “sanctuary city” policy.
“The city approved a Sanctuary City policy in 1989 prohibiting city officials from enforcing immigration laws in most cases as a way to encourage immigrant communities to trust and cooperate with police. A second 2013 ordinance, Due Process for All, prohibits San Francisco law enforcement from detaining people on behalf of immigration authorities for deportation unless they are wanted for a serious crime, ” KPIX reported:
Figueroa-Zarceno’s attorneys said the ICE document released Friday indicates that the sheriff’s department contacted ICE on Dec. 2 stating that a “final order fugitive” had been contacted by San Francisco police.
At the same time, the document states, a San Francisco police officer contacted the ICE duty officer directly and told him Figueroa-Zarceno was at the police station. He was taken into custody by ICE around half an hour later.
ICE officials confirmed the detention but would not comment on the documents released Friday.
Rather than litigate against claims by Figueroa-Zarceno that this potential violation of the city’s sanctuary policy–which clearly conflicts with federal law, San Francisco officials have negotiated the $190,000 settlement with his attorneys.
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office says it acted properly, in compliance with the city’s laws.
“Eileen Hirst, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department, said a warrant for Figueroa-Zarceno was found in a national criminal database when police ran his name through the system, and the sheriff’s department called ICE to confirm that warrant, as is routinely done with all warrants,” KPIX reported:
The department did not provide his location to immigration authorities during that call, she said.
Police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said in a statement Friday that then-Police Chief Greg Suhr had informed Mayor Ed Lee that Figueroa-Zarceno “never should have been taken into custody by ICE agents after being released from Southern Police Station.”
“It is the policy of the San Francisco Police Department to foster trust and cooperation with all people of the City and to encourage them to communicate with SFPD officers without fear of inquiry regarding their immigration status,” the statement said.
Political pressures, as much as legal considerations, may have played a role in what appears to be the final resolution of the case.
“Mayor Lee said he’d spoken with officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the case last week, and is ‘pleased’ that Figueroa-Zarceno has been released,” according to KPIX.

 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/30/report-san-francisco-to-pay-illegal-alien-190000-because-police-called-ice-in-violation-of-citys-sanctuary-policy/

$3K reward being offered for veteran’s missing service dog

SPICEWOOD, Texas (KXAN) — A veteran who served in Desert Storm is offering a $3,000 reward for his 2-year-old service dog he believes was stolen last weekend from Spicewood.

James Irwin, 49, says his 125-pound Rottweiler named Bane was trained to help him sleep at night. And while Bane doesn’t actually sleep in Irwin’s bed, he’s right next to him on the floor.

“The only reason I can go to sleep is because I know he can hear just before I do,” explains Irwin. “Some people have to take sleeping pills to fall asleep. I can lay down in my bed and put my hand off the side of my bed and Bane will come up and stick his head underneath my hand and sit there until I can’t pet him anymore.”

Irwin says after serving in the Army for four years and getting out in 1991, it has been difficult for him to sleep.

“To live in a place with a group of guys that are heavily armed you get some of the best sleep you’ll ever get in your life,” Erwin said. “And when you transition from the military to the civilian sector it’s totally different environment. Totally different.”

According to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, insomnia was the most commonly reported PTSD symptom in a survey of veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq.




Bane, a 120-pound service dog, went missing on Sunday, June 25, 2017 from Spicewood. (Courtesy: James Irvin)
Bane, a 120-pound service dog, went missing on Sunday, June 25, 2017 from Spicewood. (Courtesy: James Irvin)
On Sunday evening, Irwin says Bane and his other dog, Piper, an English Pointer, were out playing in their yard along Crawford Road. While the land isn’t fenced, Irwin says Bane has never wandered. He says the dogs were out there for a couple of hours with no problems, but when he took his eyes off of them for a few minutes to grill, they ran off.

Irwin and his wife jumped into their cars and went looking for the two dogs but after one hour, Piper came home but Bane was still missing. Irwin believes someone might have kept him because even though he might be an intimidating animal when you look at him, he’ll immediately come up to you and lie down at your feet.

They’ve also used a drone to try and spot Bane, put up signs and even brought in a professional tracker from Dallas.

“Chased some scent trails and then they just they stopped,” Irwin said.
Irwin purchased Bane through a breeder more than a year ago and started training him to be a service dog when he was 7-months-old. Bane is Irwin’s second service dog, the first one died about four years ago.

When Irwin originally put out the notice about his missing dog, he was offering a $500 reward. But, once more people found out about it, several groups, such as the Calaveras Motorcycle Club, contributed to the reward. A Facebook page has also been started to gather information and get out the word about Bane. In case you find him, Bane is microchipped.

“If you have him, I need him back. No questions asked,” Irwin said. The number to call is 512-848-9445.

Irwin said you can also contact the Pelface Veterinary Clinic at (512) 264-1700.