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Nov 21, 2005
Body Politics: Habeas corpus IS dead
according to the new "statute"
Nov 11, 2005
GRAHAM AMENDMENT PASSES: HABEAS CORPUS
SUSPENDED for "enemy
combatants" which could include anyone the President chooses. According to the New York Times: "The five Democrats voting for the
bill were Senators Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, Mary L. Landrieu
of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and
Ron Wyden of Oregon."
The GOP and these neoliberals have turned the clock back 800 years on
fundamental legal conceptions that have governed individual-state
relations. The Bush administration wants to return relations of power to
the position possibly pre-Magna Carta of 1215, and certainly pre 1640.
Article 1 of the Magna Carta states that "all freedoms set out herein
are given to all free-men of our realm, for us and our heirs forever."
Article 29 provides that "no Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or
be dispossessed of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be
enslaved or exiled, but by lawful judgment of his Peers or by the law of
the land."
In the classic text The History of English Law by Frederick Pollock and
Frederic Maitland (1923) the writers said, "[Magna Carta] becomes, and
rightly becomes a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable
`fundamental statute' that England has ever had.... For in brief it
means this, that the King is and shall be below the law."
It was in the sixteenth century that the writ of habeas corpus first
began to be used consistently as a means of testing the validity of
executive committals to imprisonment and in the seventeenth century, in
the struggle between the Crown and the emerging bourgeoisie, that its
use assumed a revolutionary dimension.
In Darnel's case in 1627, King Charles I (of the Stuart dynasty) had
imprisoned five knights as a result of their refusal to contribute to
repay a forced loan he had taken out. The knights sought their freedom
by issue of writs of habeas corpus and in response the king simply
detained them per speciale mandatum domini Regis. In the case, the court
ruled in favour of the king but in retaliation the parliament passed the
Habeas Corpus Act in 1640 to reverse that decision and curtail the power
of arbitrary executive detention. The Habeas Corpus Act of 1640 provided
that "any person imprisoned by Order of the King or Council should have
habeas corpus and be brought before the court without delay with the
cause of imprisonment shown."
See
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/habe-j05.shtml
Nov 10, 2005
Sen. Graham introduces amendment to end
habeas corpus for detainees
Not content to destroy the Bill of
Rights, Graham wishes to end rights won through the Magna Carta.
Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense
appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1042) that would strip
those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of the
ability to seek habeas review in federal courts. This is an end-run
around the Supreme Court's decision in Rasul v. Bush which held
Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge the legality of their
detentions
Nov 8, 2005
Conservatives strike back at PATRIOT Act
Nov 8, 2005
Judge questions PATRIOT Act bugs
Nov 8, 2005
Surrender Your DNA to the State New York governor
George Pataki is an enemy of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights. In particular, Amendment IV
Nov 8, 2005
White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000
'political enemies' "Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA
Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than
10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to
wage war on those who disagree with its policies."
Nov 4, 2005
Mainstream Media to American Democracy:
Drop Dead! It's been a full two weeks now since the non-partisan Government
Accountability Office (GAO came out with their
107-page report [PDF] confirming what so many of us have been trying
to
ring the bell about for so long: The Electronic Voting Machines
which are proliferating counties and states across America even as I
type, are not secure, not accountable, not recountable, not transparent,
not accurate and not adequately monitored or certified by anybody.
There has not been a single wire-service (not AP, not UPI, not
Reuters, not AFP etc.) nor a single mainstream American print newspaper
(not NYTimes, not Washington Post, not any of them) to run even a
paragraph on any of it. Not one.
I'd encourage you to do so as well by dropping a polite request to E&P
that they inquire and report on the matter. Perhaps that'll help get
some action. And some coverage. Their address is:
Letters@EditorAndPublisher.com
Oct 31, 2005
Hate Crime Laws: Criminalizing Free
Speech
Firstly, the bill is so dangerous because as ever it hands over more
power to the federal government and effectively brings local law
enforcement agencies under it's control. Allowing a centralized power
structure to determine what is and what isn't "hate speech" or a "hate
crime" is akin to tin-pot dictatorship. It means that there will be a
broad overarching definition of what kind of speech is against the law
according to which federally protected groups become offended by the
opinion of someone else
Oct 24, 2005
Internet censorship. Its real. Google is one of
its major facilitators.
How Google is
censoring in the United States and other countries
Oct 23, 2005
Fascist Ann Coulter wants to kill First
Amendment
Oct 20, 2005
Germar Rudolf, historical researcher
illegally arrested by INS
when we were ready to leave, two men from
the department of deportation showed up and escorted us upstairs. Then
they told Germar that he missed a court appointment and was going to be
detained for missing that appointment.
Germar and his attorney said that they never received notice (it is
required to send notice to counsel as well as the petitioner). They
asked for a copy of the letter and that question was never answered.
They also told the men that the 11th circuit federal court had ruled a
stay of further action and that was currently in effect, which means the
INS is not allowed to rule on anything until the federal courts rule on
them (tentative date for that is Jan).
The men said they would review the case and two hours later, they came
and took him away.
Oct 20, 2005
Are the hidden underground military bases the real HQ for the New World
Order?
Oct 18, 2005
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government
Track You
Remember when the USSR would make people register a sample of type from
their typewriters?
Oct 17, 2005
An Angry America
Pollsters say American anger is at an all-time high. You don't need a
poll to figure that out. Just wander down to the local coffee shop for
breakfast and listen to the anger spilling out over the war in Iraq,
skyrocketing energy prices and a government out of control.
Oct 9, 2005
Unauthorized Reproduction bill has been
drafted Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make
marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana, including
specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do become pregnant
"by means other than sexual intercourse
Oct 8, 2005
The Police State Is Closer Than You Think
Oct 7, 2005
Bush Wants Legal Documents Drafted to Justify
Quarantining Thousands
A 381-page plan developed by the Bush regime
to deal with any possible outbreak of pandemic flu calls for quarantine
and travel restrictions... The plan's 10 supplements suggest specific
ways that local and state governments, and hospitals and healthcare
workers should prepare now for an eventual pandemic by, for instance,
drafting legal documents now that would justify quarantining thousands.
The plan details the responsibilities of top health officials in each
phase of a spreading pandemic, starting with planning and surveillance
efforts and ending with coordination with the
Department of Defense. [Note: Bush's media whores at the
New York Times have already changed the article. CLG summarized the
earlier version.]
Oct 7, 2005
Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law
power "[George W.] Bush suggested that large
numbers of troops could be needed to 'effect a quarantine,' essentially
sealing off whole cities or regions of the country in the event of an
[avian flu] outbreak... Referring to the danger of a flu pandemic, Irwin
Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at
Columbia University, warned that the US government 'is phenomenally not
prepared for this.' Describing Bush's proposal as 'extraordinarily
draconian,' Dr. Redlener added,
'The translation of
this is martial law in the United States.
Oct 6, 2005
Cheney: Prepare for Decades of Mass
Murder
...it remains to be seen if the American people care in sufficient
numbers if they were lied to, let alone put an end to the insanity of
the neocon plan for generational shock and awe (now promised to have a
nuclear dimension), invasion, and occupation. For, with each passing
day, the government, under the control of the warmongering neocon death
heads, consolidate power, minimize the opposition, trash the
Constitution, and erect an all-encompassing police state with its
intrusive high-tech Panopticon of surveillance and subversion.
Oct 5, 2005
Don't buy into American slave system; Washington
'free man' shows how to opt out
Terry Lee of Washington was tired of being a slave. Since the American
system is voluntary, he decided to become a sovereign citizen by using
the U.S. Constitution, common sense and a lot of legal hard work
Oct 4, 2005
Empowering the UN,
destroying US sovereignty
Oct 3, 2005
Clueless Americans on Democracy
Oct 2, 2005
Soldiers are not the only defenders of our
freedoms
Oct 1, 2005
Posse Comitatus: remembering why it was
deemed necessary
Sep 29, 2005
Martial Law: Police State America - We're
So Close Now
Sep 29, 2005
Martial Law: The Pretext Is Now Set
Aug 22, 2005
Rave raided in Utah - assault rifles, teargas, dog
attacks.... "This was one of the scariest things I have ever witnessed in person. I
can't even begin to describe how surreal it was. Helicopters, assault
rifles, tear gas, camouflage-wearing soldiers.... why? Was that really
necessary?"
This event was 100% legal. They had every permit the city told them they
needed. They had a 2 MILLION DOLLAR insurance policy for the event. They
had licensed security guards at the gates confiscating any alcohol or
drugs found upon entry (yes, they searched every car on the way in).
Oh another interesting fact.. the police did not have a warrant. The
owner of the land already has a lawsuit against the city for something
similar. A few months ago, she rented her land for a party and the
police raided that as well. And catch this, the police forced her to
LEAVE HER OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY. That's right. They didn't arrest her,
but made her leave her own property!!!
Aug 25, 2005
Shock And Awe In Utah militarized police raid on young
Americans peacefully attending a legal rave concert
Aug 23, 2005
Militarized Police Storm Utah Rave,
Beat Partygoers
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's
profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion
becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery,
they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs
out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the
theater." -Frank Zappa, musician and cultural iconoclast
Aug 27, 2005
LAPD accused of unprovoked attack on
minister of the Nation of Islam at Vigil
Aug 30, 2005
Gonzales Comes Out For Civil Liberty Restrictions In New Patriot Act
Oct
25, 2004
Ashcroft crafts way to intimidate
whistleblowers
Oct
21, 2004
Judge in Zundel case accused of 'misguided
approach'
running an error-plagued deportation
hearing that "cheapens and degrades" the justice system
The ugly head of Zionism screams
"Anti-Semitism!" when anyone questions their ancient propaganda. Their
ages old ploy still works in spite of its transparency.
Oct 18, 2004
Oregon police fire on bystanders watching
Presidential motorcade
Oct 16,
2004
Indymedia seizure signals clampdown on
democratic dissent
Oct 16, 2004
3 school teachers thrown out of Bush-Cheney
campaign event for wearing T-shirts that said "Protect Our Civil
Rights."
Oct 16, 2004
The Brownshirting of America
Oct 11, 2004
`More intimidation than crime-busting'
says IFJ as police target Independent Media Network
Oct 15, 2004
Bush Administration has hired two ex-KGB agents to
design an internal passport for Americans
"You will be happy to learn that the
former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union),
Gen. Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the Department
of Homeland Security. Do you think he will share his expertise in
'security' to prepare U.S. citizens for domestic internal passports
under the pretense of fighting the never-ending 'war on terrorism'?
July 15, 2005
COMCAST KILLS EMAIL FROM 'AFTERDOWNINGSTREET'
COALITION!" The BRAD BLOG has learned that cable company and Internet service
provider, Comcast Corporation has been automatically deleting email sent
to Comcast customers with the text "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the
body of the email.
July 9, 2005
Israeli experts advocate Brits give up more human
rights to obtain more security from terrorism "It's about preventing the next attack. The big challenge
the Brits are facing now is to use this chance to redefine the balance
between human rights and measures against terrorism."
That "they hate our freedoms" incantation is being
projected by those who actually do -- our governments and the Illuminati
who run them. THEY hate our freedoms, individuality, independence, and
creative life force and will do all that they can to corral us, herd us
into their holding pens for disposal at their whim and will.
June 28, 2005
Rights Groups Detail Growing Police State The government has perverted these laws to jail people the government
thinks, but can't prove, are criminals. The threat of terrorism
shouldn't change our principles. To say we can't risk investigating
people before we lock them up is to say we can no longer risk having a
republic instead of a police state."
Oct 12, 2004
District attorney's dismissal of many charges
shows NYPD made unjustifiable arrests at GOP convention
Oct 12, 2004
Indymedia Seizure: Tracing the Censors leads to
Rome and Zurich
Oct 12, 2004
Indymedia to U.S., U.K., Swiss and Italian
Authorities: "Hands Off Our Websites"
April 17, 2004
Bush Pushes Renewal of Patriot Act See? It wasn't a fluke. George intended to gut the
Constitution. Remember his oath of office? To uphold the Constitution. A
US Constitution in form but not function is treason and George is,
without question, a traitor. The constitution of the Soviet Union
sounded good, too, but without function it was worthless and misleading.
We're slip-slidin' away.
April 8, 2004
Two Reporters Told to Erase Tapes of Scalia Speech He loves the Constitution though and
doesn't understand why so few respect if.
Mar 27, 2004 "Road
to Hell:" U.S. Court of Appeals rules 3-2 to allow searches without
warrant in Louisiana
You didn't REALLY think there was a Constitution or Bill
of Rights protecting you, did you? Just another illusion!
Tommy Franks:
Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack
High profile Illuminati operatives such
as Franks do not drop bombs like this unless they have a hidden agenda.
The real terrorists have signaled when to expect the next "attack"--just
in time for the re-election of George Bush, probably next spring. Since
Franks is talking about WMD, it will probably kill many people in contrast
to 9/11. This will substantiate in the minds of the people that there
really IS WMD "out there" to be feared and that Bush and Cohorts were
"right" to be concerned about Iraq, after all.
Franks' statement was designed to help
condition people to believe that martial law is necessary to "combat
terrorism."
Since the GOP National Convention will
be held in NYC a WMD "terrorist attack" is not likely to occur on the East
Coast. Since the GOP went to great lengths to install Arnold
Schwarzenegger as California governor with obvious help from the Corporate
Media, it would seem to be the most likely target could be ultra-liberal
San Francisco. In any case, martial law would be declared there first
before the "Constitutional Crisis" is recognized and martial law becomes
federal.
Since Sacramento is less than one
hundred miles from the Bay Area, watching the location and movements of
Governor Schwarzenegger might give a clue about the exact timing. He's not
likely to be in a photo-op elementary school reading class, though. That
might be a little too obvious.
Also watch the news offered in Newsmax for some of the best
propaganda of the NWO. Then read between the lines to get clues about the
real purpose of the propaganda. The end game is getting closer and we can
ill afford to be distracted.
February 6, 2004
AMERICA'S GREATEST CITY REJECTS THE PATRIOT ACT:
New York City says no to treason.
December 22, 2002
Bush to Propose Internet Monitoring System
A report is due out shortly about a proposal by the Bush Administration
for a system to monitor internet use. The last bastion of free speech is
on the table. Will Americans willingly give up full and un-monitored
Internet for the questionable "war on terrorism." Hasn't the Bush response
to 9/11 done MORE damage to America than the alleged "terrorists."
DOE seeks law that could tighten Yucca secrecy
Some lawmakers, watchdog groups raise
concerns about proposal
The Department of Energy is seeking a new law from Congress
that could tighten secrecy on the Yucca Mountain Project. A small piece of
legislation expands DOE control on information about unclassified
security-related aspects of nuclear waste storage facilities and factories
that enrich uranium for nuclear fuel.
Some lawmakers and watchdog groups said they fear it could lead DOE to
restrict information about transportation routes to the proposed Yucca
Mountain repository or limit disclosures about possible threats to the
Nevada site from airplane crashes.
FBI And DOJ Move To Subvert Political Process
With over 100 cities having voted
nonsupport for the Patriot Act, the government has swung into action to
influence the votes in jurisdictions that are considering such a vote, or
those that might do so.
The FBI, working in conjunction with DOJ, is now sending --through local
police forces to city councils and other local government bodies --a piece
of drivel called "US Patriot Act Myths." A
United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Mary Beth
Buchanan, prepared this document.
DRIFTING TOWARD FASCISM
June 12, 2003
What shall I call this new America in-the-making just three years into a
new century?
These days I find myself unable to swallow what I have told myself, in
both the best and worst of times, about ourselves as Americans.
All the old words have broken loose from reality. They rattle like
falsehoods in the nation's throat.
Based upon how our America now conducts itself among its fellow human
beings - including us, its own citizenry - what is our nation becoming?
What, if we're honest with ourselves, are we to call a system of
government that behaves in these ways:
* Taxes its ordinary people into unfathomable national debt, thereby
ensuring that its rich revel in even more riches, its poor regress into
even more poverty, its military rejoice in even more militarism?
* Devises and enforces policies that starve public services for its most
vulnerable citizenry - its children, its elderly, its working poor, its
racial minorities?
* Sells national and state legislation to the highest bidders from among
wealthy interest groups, while vigorously resisting reforms that would
restore democratic power to the individual?
* Exercises its contempt for the collective will of other nations by
unilaterally tearing up global arms and environmental treaties, while
dismissing both the legal and moral authority of the United
Nations?
* Invades and conquers a sovereign country by fabricating military
intelligence as a pretext for invasion, then, declares "liberation" as its
real intention all along as it expropriates that nation's oil fields?
* Turns one cataracted eye to atrocities in dozens of other countries that
have no oil wells to liberate, the other to a report by Amnesty
International critical of its own behavior as a "liberator"?
* In a work of egregious TV propaganda, lands its supreme leader "at sea"
(costumed as a fighter pilot) on the state-of-the-art USS Abraham Lincoln
to proclaim victory over a third-rate, enfeebled nation?
* Holds nameless prisoners incommunicado, without counsel or charges, for
indefinite periods of time, in addition incarcerating the highest
proportion of its own citizens (most of them black) in the world?
* Actively attempts to nullify laws intended to ensure equality for racial
and other minorities, at the same time invoking evangelical Christianity
as the primary motive for all of its policies?
* Alone among Western nations preserves capital punishment, even seeking
to try alleged murderers in states where, upon conviction, the likelihood
of execution is most probable?
* Threatens the civil rights of individual citizens by expanding its
surveillance and policing powers, including pressuring libraries to
release to federal authorities the reading records of library patrons?
* Conspires to consolidate media control - and thereby dissemination of
"news" information - among corporate leviathans lavishly invested in
perpetuating the incumbent party's political power?
Footnote: Fascism: "A philosophy of government that stresses the primacy
and glory of the state ... obedience to its leader, subordination of the
individual will to the state's authority ...suppression of dissent.
Martial virtues are celebrated, while liberal democratic values are
denigrated ... led by charismatic leaders who represented to their publics
the strength that could rescue their nation from political and economic
conditions." - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia.
The
Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty:
A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as Patriot Act 2
(Posted Feb 10, 2003)
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no
member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was
passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was
universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from
across the political spectrum. William Safire, while
writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers
by saying that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control.
On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public
interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security
Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them
by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document
consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying
87-page bill.
*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house
version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many
provisions of the now public Patriot Act 2 had already been introduced as
pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even
the titles of the subsections are identical to those in the House version.
This is very important because it catches the Justice Department in a
bald-faced lie. The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation
brought into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was
no intention to try and pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that
the leadership of the Senate is fully aware of the Patriot Act 2, and have
passed these riders out of their committees into the full bill. I
spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a
nightmare for anyone who loves liberty. It even contains the Our Lady of
Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all
firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much more.
There are other bills in the Senate that grant the Federal government
sweeping powers. S.45 states in section one that the office for State and
local government coordination for Homeland Security will no longer just
oversee, but that now local cities critical functions will be headed by a
Federal director. On Tuesday, February 11th, we noted a story in The
Times-Picayune with the headline: Nagin announces major overhaul of City
Hall -- New Homeland Security office to oversee cops, firemen, emergency
agency. The Federal power-grab taking place is widespread and all
Americans must mobilize to resist it.
Another interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of Federal
funding and control over local police departments and needs to be examined
closely.
S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an
authoritarian society. The description of the bill is, "To provide for the
common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service of civilian service
in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, andfor other
purposes." We have looked at some of the programs that the Federal
government has already been setting up for service here in the "homeland"
and they include East German-style tattletale squads of every type, which
are just basically a super TIPS program. The nightmare goes on and on.
Check it out for yourself.
The Patriot Act 2 bill itself is stamped "Confidential - Not for
Distribution." Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the
scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The Justice
Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed
covertly transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House
Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick
Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement agencies.
It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see the
first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no debate was tolerated by
the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of the White House and
Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a carbon copy
replay of the events that led to the unprecedented passage of the first
Patriot Act.
There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this new
legislation:
1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker
Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would be
more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The fact
that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first
Patriot Act, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly
threatening members of Congress that if they didn't vote in favor of it
that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the White
House's own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and then
bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly an
impeachable offense.
2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius
Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act
only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously
damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the
entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under
the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland
Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security
Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very
structure the definition of dictatorship.
I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it
to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.
Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead
a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our
society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the
government and its private agents total immunity.
Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures
encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:
SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush
administration's "enemy combatant' definition to all American citizens who
"may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first PatriotAct.
(Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the
definition is "any action that endangers human life that is a violation of
any Federal or State law.") Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly
connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly
claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act
isn't broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is
needed.
Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be
grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again.
The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person
"had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember
Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of
Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist
designation. [You become a non-citizen by the designation of the
executivebranch.]
SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any
member of the government or any citizen to release any information
concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states
that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have
arrested and they never have to release the names. [And throw away the
key.]
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national
database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the database to
include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone
involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as
"terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone
on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State
governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.
SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying
operations against the American people and would place substantial
restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil
rights across the board.
SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and
again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.
SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless
of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be
clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news
gathering illegal. [The only news that's legal to print is THEIR
news--propaganda.]
SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law
powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a
state of war exists.
SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that
broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges
set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location)
granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that
government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no
prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth
Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt charges
against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate
themselves or others. This section annihilates the last vestiges of the
Fifth Amendment.
SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot
Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other
subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us:
"this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."
SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant"
designation.
SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of
"surveillance without a court order."
SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that
the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in
press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage
reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than
that directed against more conventional types of crime."
*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second
Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight
international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of
course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first
USA Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.
SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of
public and private sector information from bank records to educational and
medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total
Information Awareness Network to totally break down any and all walls of
privacy.
The government states that they must look at everything to "determine" if
individuals or groups might have a connection to terrorist groups. As
you can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical
examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill
Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that
people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.
SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal
and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows
individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal subpoena. So
now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal
agents.
SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with
toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.
SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial
dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a
terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone
investigating Halliburton.
SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The
database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will
share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same
purposes.
SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of
information sharing.
SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially
big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security,
violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are
all preventative measures - has anyone seen [the movie] Minority Report?
This is the access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.
SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American
people and to share information with foreign governments.
SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows
officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens
anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take
individuals out of foreign countries.
SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The
section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual
even had the intent to aid terrorists.
SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to
include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to
use encryption in the commission of a crime.
SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole
host of crimes.
SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages
in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime
is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they
point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any
terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.
SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section
states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will
result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in
terrorist activities.
There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of
time. The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the first
Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state legislation
in modern world history.
Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights
on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From
snatch and grab operations to warrantless searches, Patriot Act 2 is an
Adolf Hitler wish list.
You can understand why President Bush, Dick Cheney and Dennis Hastert want
to keep this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the American
people as well. Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center for Public
Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on my radio show that
it was obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack to
opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with an
insightful comment about how the Federal government was crafting this so
that they could go after the American people in general. He also agreed
that the FBI has been quietly demonizing patriots and Christians and
"those who carry around pocket Constitutions."
I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what
really happened on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the
military-industrial complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for
control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn't looked at the mountains of
hard evidence.
Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White House
might not care that we're finding out the details of their next phase.
Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more buildings start
blowing up, the President can stand up there at his lectern suppressing a
smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us that "See I was right. I had
to take away your rights to keep you safe. And now it's your fault that
all of these children are dead." From that point on, anyone who criticizes
tyranny will be shouted down by the paid talking head government
mouthpieces in the mainstream media.
You have to admit, it's a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being
played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that
government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing to
stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get -- tyranny. But our
children won't deserve it.
It was, apparently, just a
matter of time.
Our company/website,
http://www.agitproperties.com,
the Austin progressive counter-propagandists responsible for the
nationally-famous FAUX NEWS Channel, P.N.N. (Pentagon News Network) and
Bill O'Reilly Hitler Youth Tee-shirts have been issued a
cease-and-desist order by FOX NEWS HQ in New York.
We are laid-off graphic designers and Internet professionals turned
progressive activists. In addition to political satire and humor, we
outsource the latest foreign news, op-ed pieces, headlines and articles
from many countries in order for Americans to have a truly balanced,
accurate take on U.S. foreign policy and global opinion of same - minus
the smugly simplistic, pro-Bush Republican worldview. We feel that if
we can get Americans to just think about the fairness and impartiality of
the US media and seek out additional, more diverse points of view on vital
issues and events concerning them, then our mission is accomplished.
We have an unavoidable huge red and white disclaimer clearly stating that
our tee-shirts are political parodies and we are not connected or endorsed
by FOX NEWS in any way. It is on every page of the site and takes up a
third of each page.
In spite of that disclaimer, Chris Silvestri, Senior Media Council for Fox
News, tells us that, "The Fox News Channel is in no way affiliated with
the Website and, by creating confusion as to the relationship between
Fox's programs and the Network, you harm the goodwill(?) represented by
Fox's program."
As for creating confusion in the minds of Fox News viewers, we digress
-we're sure he knows the intellectual level of the average Fox News viewer
better than we do.
Our Bill O'Reilly Hitler Youth Tee doesn't even have the word "Fox" or
"Bill O'Reilly" on it, yet according to Mr. Silvestri, "The T-shirt
'O'Reilly Youth Tee', in addition to the infringements described herein,
shows incredibly poor taste on your part, is highly offensive and clearly
demonstrates your bad faith use of the Fox Copyrights and Trademarks."
Now isn't that a hoot: to be accused of "incredibly poor taste" and being
"highly offensive" by a representative of the network responsible for such
benchmarks of good taste such as "Temptation Island 3", "Joe Millionaire"
and "Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape".
The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Without a doubt, this is a First Amendment issue and has nothing at all to
do with copyright infringement. Apparently the "patriots" at Fox believe
in the Constitution except when it comes to an unemployed graphic designer
calling them on their unrepentant, blatant Republican bias, exposing it
for what it is and striving to educate the American public about it.
Patriot, war hero and author of Born On The Fourth of July, Mr. Ron
Kovic has said that " The Agitproperties guys are doing some of the most
important work in American media today."
We have to agree.
Websites like ours are few and far between. If we get shut down, our
self-appointed mission of educating this country about the right wing
corporate takeover of the American media will be finished.
The recent FCC ruling vis-a-vis loosening restrictions on corporate
communications monopolies has, if anything, made us even more aware of how
important and vital our mission is.
We are not wealthy. With a rock-solid 70% of America still supporting the
Bushites, our products are not exactly flying out the door. We do not have
the funds to take on the Murdoch legal juggernaut that has us now in their
sights.
They are going to try to make an example of us.
We have no illusions whatsoever about the phalanxes of highly-paid
attorneys that FOX has on retainer or about the time and money this case
would require to fight them in court. Sadly, if we cannot get an attorney
to take our case pro bono, FOX will prevail over us with a minimum of
legal fees. We would be eternally grateful to you if you could publicize
our situation on your website or column in the hope
that a progressive attorney will take our case and to mobilize public
opinion for us. Thank you for your time.
Peace from Austin,
The Agitproperties Posse
Jun 10, 2003
Guantanamo a US Offshore Tribunal and Execution Facility?
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Guantanamo officials are working on plans to
provide a courtroom, a prison and an execution chamber if the order comes
to try terror suspects at the base in Cuba, the mission commander said.
Although no new directive has been given and no plan has been approved, a
handful of experts are looking at what it will take to try, imprison and,
if need be, execute detainees accused of links to Afghanistan fallen
Taliban regime or to the al-Qaida terror network.
"We have a number of plans that we work for short-term and long-term
strategies but that's all they are -- plans," Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey
Miller said in a telephone interview Monday.
Isolated on Cuba's eastern tip and out of the jurisdiction of U.S.
civilian courts, Guantanamo is a likely location for U.S. military trials.
President Bush signed an executive order adding SARS
Friday, [April 4, 2003]
to the list of communicable diseases for which quarantine can be
declared." If you've learned how to sort out disinformation and spin,
you understand the purpose of all the SARS fear-mongering. Get you
frightened enough and they can declare a SARS epidemic and round you up
for quarantine. Your friends and neighbors will just nod and accept your
imprisonment with a sigh of relief and maybe even worry about you a
little bit.
4 October 2003
eBay Demonstrates Responsiveness to Power Elite,
Cancels Offering of Schwarzenegger OUI
10/20/03
How the Moussaoui Case Crumbled
The truth is that the government would rather let
Moussaoui go than risk interviews with alleged Al Qaeda "prisoners" in
open court
A dangerous deck of cards: Politics has entered the
military
Marine Corps permits vilification of congressmen and women, senators, and
public figures who opposed war.
It's an Insane Society That Will Not Look at Its
Craziness
Ken Lay, who ran a company which stole billions of
dollars from hundreds of millions of people, walks around a free man, and
Tommy Chong is in prison from selling glassware. It's good to know that
Americans can go to bed at night safe and secure from the terrible scourge
of glass tubes.
Linda Tripp just won a 'settlement' from the Department of Defense of
almost $600,000. What horrible thing did DOD do to her to justify
this big payment? It invaded her privacy. You just can't make this stuff
up.
Fourteen police officers burst into a high school in South Carolina with
guns drawn, looking for illegal drugs. They didn't find any. Several
students were handcuffed when they refused to get down on the floor.
Principal George McCrackin said: "I don't think it was an overreaction on
our part. I'm sure it was an inconvenience to those individuals who were
in the hallway, but there is a valuable experience there."
Xymphora
Toledo City Council votes to express opposition to Patriot Act
Telling the Truth Comes Hard to US Government, Even after Wrongful
Conviction
Houston
Federal District Judge Lynn Hughes threw out Wilson's two-decades old
conviction. She wrote: "Government knowingly used false evidence against
him," concluding "honesty comes hard to government."
Greenspan printed $5 trillion since taking the helm of the Fed, weakening
dollar and making US vulnerable to inflation
Those who follow financial markets may be familiar with the term
"strong-dollar policy," which is used by Bush administration officials and
Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan. One might assume that such a policy entailed a
course of action designed to strengthen the value of the U.S. dollar.
However, if we judge Fed policy by Mr. Greenspan´s actions rather than his
words, it appears we have a weak-dollar policy, a policy that erodes the
value of your personal savings. The "strong-dollar policy" is nothing more
than an empty political slogan.
The inescapable truth is that the value of the U.S. dollar has fallen over
30% in the past year, which to most people would not seem indicative of
strength. There are several reasons for this decline, but the single
biggest factor
has been Greenspan´s relentless increase of the money supply. There are
roughly $16 trillion dollars in worldwide use today, $5 trillion more than
when Greenspan became Fed chair. The law of supply is immutable: When
dollars are abundant they are also cheap.
With 46% more dollars in
circulation than when he took office, the value of the dollar has dropped
over 30% in just the last year and still going down. This process is
making your buck worth less and since your wages aren't going up as fast
as the dollar is dropping....you're getting poorer and poorer and maybe
haven't even notice it...but you will, and so will the rest of America.
But don't worry, right? Bush will take care of you. After 9-11 Bush issued
a series of executive orders and Congress thinks they are just dandy. If
there is a financial "upset" Bush has Executive Order #11051 which gives
the Office of Emergency Planning authorization to put all Executive Orders
into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or
financial crisis.
Bush will let you know when he takes control of America (if he so chooses)
because then he can implement Executive Order #10995, which allows the
government to seize and control all communication media. Then he can deal
with the financial emergency with Executive Order #11921 that allows the
Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to take control of the mechanisms of
production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit
and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined
national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is
declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six
months. Executive Order #11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to
relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas
to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations, so you'll
still have a place to stay after they take your house, and since EO #11000
allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under
government supervision, you'll have plenty work to do. There will also be
plenty of food, because EO #10998 allows the government to take over all
food resources and farms. And if Bush fakes the whole thing, don't worry.
Congress can fix it...after six months since No. 11921 provides that when
a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress can not review
the action until after six months.
Free Speech, Freedom of Assembly do not exist if your boss says so: Shut
Up, You're Fired
Mike Edmondson needs your help,
financially, in order to prepare and file the necessary documents so that
he can place this issue before our U.S. Supreme Court. Time is short -
less than 30 days. For a free America - help is needed now.
This could be you!
December 17, 2003
The Bush Administration quarantines dissenters in
"Free-Speech Zones" in violation of Constitution's Bill of Rights
12. 10. 03
America is a Police State! -AND YES, WE ALL KNOW THE
MEANING OF "IS!"
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Nov 10, 2005
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way
to reverse party's decline A confidential memo
circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack
by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of
President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a
leader of the American people."
The closely-guarded
memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back
from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists
that could "validate" the President's war on terror and allow Bush to
"unite the country" in a "time of national shock and sorrow."
The memo says such a
reversal in the President's fortunes could keep the party from losing
control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections.
Nov 6, 2005
Domestic surveillance of ordinary
citizens growing exponentially under Patriot Act
Oct 23, 2005
Harper's Magazine: We now live in a
fascist state
Oct 17, 2005
The prison industry in the United States: Big
business or a new form of slavery? By Vicky Pelaez Human rights organizations,
as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are
calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where
they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and
Hispanic - are working for various industries for a pittance. Now we can
compare ourselves with Communist China.
Oct 9, 2005
IS THIS THE DEATH OF AMERICA? America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly
damaged. That's been the intent of the New World Order, just as it was
for Germany 50 years ago.
Oct 4, 2005
Civil Liberties, National Security, & State Secrets
Oct 2, 2005
American Legion declares war on peace
protesters The American Legion's rank and file voted to use any means necessary to
"ensure the united backing of the American people to support our troops
and the global war on terrorism."
Oct 2, 2005
GOP proposal to increase Pentagon surveillance of
American citizens
Republicans on the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence want to strip from the CIA its primary role as manager
of overseas collection of human intelligence, suggesting that Director
of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte take over that
responsibility. Another proposal reflected increased Pentagon interest
in intelligence operations in the United States involving American
citizens. The proposal included in the bill would give a "limited"
exemption to defense intelligence personnel,
allowing them to recruit sources and collect personal information on
U.S. citizens clandestinely, without disclosing they worked for the
government, when "significant" foreign intelligence is being
sought.
Sep 29, 2005
The Death of a Constitutional Republic Bush wants to erase yet another constitutional amendment--the Tenth,
which states "powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people"
Sep 29, 2005
Jose Padilla: Constitutional Unperson?
Sep 29, 2005
Heckler, 82, who dared called Straw a liar is held
under terrorist law An 82-year-old activist last night after he
was roughly thrown out of the party conference for heckling Jack Straw
on Iraq. Walter Wolfgang, a refugee from Nazi Germany [déjŕ
vu] and a Labour Party member since 1948, was immediately surrounded
by security staff in full view of the television cameras and ejected
from the hall in Brighton as officials revoked his pass. When he tried
to re-enter the secure zone, he was stopped by a police officer citing
the Terrorism Act.
Sep 19, 2005
R.I.P. Posse Comitatus It was Representative Ron Paul of Texas who read into the Congressional
Record on June 25, 1997--well before the malfeasance of George Bush, the
Constitution-bashing Patriot Act, and the reckless so-called war on
terror--the following: "In a police state the police are national,
powerful, authoritarian. Inevitably, national governments yield to the
temptation to use the military to do the heavy lifting.... [O]nce the
military is used, however minor initially, the march toward martial law
... becomes irresistible."
Sep 19, 2005
Tony and George: Authoritarian Characters If we are to believe Lance Price, the former deputy head of Downing
Street communications and BBC journalist, Tony Blair got off on "his
first blooding as PM," that is to say he liked the idea of sending
British soldiers to die horrible deaths in the nightmarish cauldron of
Iraq. "I couldn't help feeling TB was relishing his first blooding as
PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about
taking action `with a heavy heart', I think he feels it is part of his
coming of age as a leader," writes Price in The Spin Doctor's Diary, a
book subsequently censored by the British government, although
uncensored excerpts appeared in the Mail on Sunday, according to the
UK Telegraph.
Aug 28, 2005
Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen flees Washington over assassination
threats coming from inside Bush Administration Although not mentioned by name, Madsen
received credible information his life may be in serious danger from his
hard-hitting accounts revealing financial corruption in the Bush
administration.
Aug 31, 2005
12-Hour Party People:
Utah County enforced its permit, even if time was on the side of dance
party promoters
Aug 25, 2005
Countdown: The Coming UK Coup
Aug 23, 2005
In spirit of
Soviet "psikhushka" psychiatric hospitals where anti-regime dissidents
were sent, NSA is using psychologists to eliminate independent-minded
intelligence analysts and other career employees.
Adverse psychiatric evaluations of
experienced NSA professionals are being used by the neocons controlling
the agency to gut America's signals intelligence and information
security capabilities. Former NSA Director General Michael
Hayden initiated this process and he was rewarded with the post of
Deputy Director for National Intelligence where he can now extend his
psikhushkas to other U.S. intelligence agencies.
Aug 25, 2005
The leader of the Italian Jewish
community has called for public displays of crucifixes to be outlawed. Vampires would like that!
Aug 25, 2005
New Law slated to install Police State in
Canada New Aug 16, 2005
Creepy Cams Abound in NYC
Aug 8, 2005
Good-bye Posse
Comitatus!
Military Drafts War Plans In Case of Attack on
U.S.
The
U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against
[facilitating] and responding to terrorist attacks in the United
States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating
several
[Bush-engendered] simultaneous
strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters,
outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated
at as many as 3,000 ground troops per attack, a number that could easily
grow depending on the extent of the damage and the abilities of civilian
response teams. The war plans represent a historic shift for the
Pentagon, which has been reluctant to become involved in domestic
operations and is
legally constrained from engaging in law enforcement
June 15, 2005
Conservatives, Liberals Align Against PATRIOT Act
June 15, 2005
U.S. Backs Down on Biometric Passport
Apr19, 2005
Big Brother wants to get even bigger
The federal government wants to build massive databases containing
information on you, insisting that it's in your best interests. But
privacy advocates are concerned about the potential for abuse.
Apr 21, 2005
The normalization of war: America becomes
the warfare state of Orwell's 1984 Noting with regret that "the armed forces are no longer representative
of the people they serve", retired Admiral Stanley Arthur has expressed
concern that "more and more, enlisted as well as officers are beginning
to feel that they are special, better than the society they serve". Such
tendencies, concluded Arthur, are "not healthy in an armed force serving
a democracy".
June 6, 2005
Gunning for cover While President Bush blunders about the world invading countries,
bombing civilians and forcing "regime change" in sovereign nations, our
democracy here at home is dying. It is dying not because it is under
attack from foreign forces, it is dying because the Bush government has
changed America forever through its policies of secrecy, deception and
lies. No democracy can survive when its own citizens no longer trust
what their government tells them--tragically, that time has come for our
nation
Apr16, 2005
The medieval Star Chamber returns: Ottawa man
ruled to be a terrorist using secret evidence, thanks to security
certificate Vive le Canada
Apr14, 2005
NYC prosecutors caught altering video in
RNC protest case Prosecution has been caught altering the police video submitted to the
court by removing segments showing the innocence of the arrestee, only
to be caught when an unaltered video was submitted by the defense. No
charges of contempt of court or violation of oath of office?
Apr19, 2005
Videos expose false arrests at 2004
Republican Convention protests in New York Seven months after the mass arrests of over 1,800 protesters at the
Republican Convention in New York City last summer, 91 percent of the
nearly 1,700 cases that have been concluded have resulted in acquittals
or the dismissal of charges. Four hundred cases were dismissed after
video recordings made by volunteer observers and others showed that
there was no reason for the arrests, the New York Times reported last
week. Some of the videos also exposed false testimony by the police.
Apr13, 2005
The cold chill of the police state: Secret Service visits art show at
Columbia
Apr13, 2005
The new Republican herd follows
loyally to their own detriment and risks American freedoms
Apr 5, 2005
Zapper detects, destroys unwanted RFID
chips
Apr 3, 2005
The Great American Scream: slavery
camouflaged as democracy and freedom The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a
struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks. The
carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as "the American
dream" has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the
American nightmare of homelessness, and slow, early death. You no longer
work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work
to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don't lose it. You
became a slave when fear replaced incentive as your motivation to work,
but I still suggest that you work while you can, because if the company
you work for can't send your job overseas, the U.S. government is
allowing 2000 people per day to enter this country illegally, because
they're willing to do your job for less.
Apr3, 2005
U.S proclaims States that
abuse rights do not belong on U.N. human rights panel: hypocrisy hits
new low
Mar 29, 2005
US military has been preparing to turn
America into a dictatorship
Mar 29, 2005
Spying on citizens
The American tradition of free speech is under attack
across the country, as law enforcement agencies -- under the guise of
the war on terror -- intimidate ordinary citizens into silence
Mar 28, 2005
Is America the SS Titanic?
Mar 28, 2005
DEMOCRACY REDEFINED!
If George W. Bush were to hold up a carrot and call it a watermelon, the
American news media would immediately begin calling carrots watermelons.
That's an undeniable fact. Equally undeniable is the fact that we have
long passed the point when we can trust the American corporate media to
report the news. But even more distressing is the fact that we now have
reached the point when we cannot even trust them with the English
language.
Mar 23, 2005
The TRUTH about your status as a slave in
America
Mar 12, 2005
Poll: 7 in 10 Worried About Gov't
Secrecy
Mar 10, 2005
Curbing terror or menacing freedom?
Mar 10, 2005
PENTAGON SUED FOR RECORDS ON PROPAGANDA,
PSY-OPS AND "PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT" TARGETTING U.S. CIVILIANS
Mar 8, 2005
Tyranny Comes To Amerika
Mar 4, 2005
800 Years of liberty at risk
Mar 4, 2005
Padilla's indefinite
detention puts your rights at risk
Mar 4, 2005
A Fascist America
Feb 27, 2005
Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays
close to home while making a point about privacy
Feb 18, 2005
Bush signs bill curbing class-action suits
Compassionate conservatism means you can
just suffer quietly. Corporations that screw you get the compassion not
real people.
Feb 18, 2005
First, they attack the past: the
rudiments of mind-control in the New World Order
Feb 8, 2005
Democracy is NOT Freedom, just freedom for the
majority
Feb 7, 2005
GOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL
laws
Would you call
that the agenda of conservatives or of a fascist dictatorship?
Feb 7, 2005
The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up Rep.
Sensenbrenner's REAL ID Act (H.R. 418) next WEDNESDAY, with a vote
likely THURSDAY, FEB. 10 Sending refugees who have fled
torture, rape, and other brutal human rights abusers back to their
tormenters and deporting long-term residents for charity contributions
they made long ago will not make Americans safer from terrorism. Yet
sections of H.R. 418 would do just that. To avoid debate over the
bill's controversial provisions, the sponsor plans to attach his
bill to a fast-approaching "must pass" bill, such as the the Iraqi
supplemental spending bill or the relief bill for tsunami victims.
Summaries of a few troubling sections and a sample phone script
follow. Here are links for more information:
- Section 101, which enables a judge to deny a refugee asylum if she
is unable to track down specific documents that corroborate her
claims--even if the U.S. State Department confirms that the country
from which the refugee has fled never provides the documents--and bars
other judges from reversing their determinations because the
corroborating evidence is not available.
- Sections 103 and 104 would permit long-term legal U.S. residents
to be deported for having given contributions years ago to
organizations that later fit the Bush administration's profile of a
terrorist organization, even if they are not on a list of named
terrorist organizations. This is ex post facto law, a violation
of US and International Law.
Feb 7, 2005
Paranoid fascism grips Washington, DC as
Pentagon plans "extra-legal" missions to kill or arrest Americans
Feb 5, 2005
Life in the Third Reich "I am happy to inform you
about our life in Hitler's time, for today's politicians and mass media
are purposefully untruthful about that time. " Dipl. Ing. Reinhold
Leidenfrost Another perspective on history to be re-examined.
Feb 5, 2005
U.S. secretly appeals USA PATRIOT loss
Feb 4, 2005
Bush's 'perception management' plan
Feb 1, 2005
More on PNAC and that Bullet-Stopper Slavery Letter
Feb 1, 2005
Abandoning Liberty, Gaining Insecurity
Feb 1, 2005
Surfing the Web With Big Brother
Jan 20, 2005
Cheney: Bush
restored power to the Presidency
The
founding fathers were clear about NOT placing too much power in the
hands of one man. Cheney's boast is admission of his treason.
Jan 9, 2005
Ex-Stasi spy (KGB) to head Homeland
Security Wolf is the man that effectively built the East German state
intelligence operation's internal directorate," Martin continues. "He
turned half the population into informants. That is his specialty, is
taking a population, constructing the various state divisions,
mechanisms of control, in order to organize informants within the
population. That is his real specialty. And that is precisely, as
Primakov has intimated, why Wolf is being brought in. The regime knows
that once all of Patriot II is in law and they begin working on Patriot
III, they will then begin to establish the internal mechanism to
coordinate, as an official function of state, a system of informants.
Wolf's speciality was to turn East Germany into the greatest and most
efficient informant state ever created.
Jan 8, 2005
This war on terrorism is bogus
Jan 7, 2005
Defeating the Republican police state mandate
Jan 7, 2005
GOP Senator Frist pushing to emulate
Soviet tactic that filled the Gulags: psychiatric diagnosis of political
paranoia disorder
Jan 7, 2005
Gonzales also tried to give President power to
imprison Americans incommunicado
Jan 5, 2005
Americans are closing their eyes and
letting a new form of fascism get rolling
Jan 3, 2005
The Lying State-the
American people are the most lied-to people on the face of the Earth.
Jan 3, 2005
$1B Given to Faith-Based Groups in 2003
Jan 3, 2005
Today's conservatives are fascists
Jan 3, 2005
Sen. Lugar:
Lifetime detention without trial a 'bad idea'
Jan 2, 2005
Bush traitors preparing long-ra |
