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!"

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 [déjà 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:

• Bill text, list of cosponsors, and status: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00418:@@@L&summ2=m&
• Contact information for your representative: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
• Good analysis of the bill by the American Immigration Lawyers Association: http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=10,911,5516,8191
• Human Rights First web page where you can send your representative an instant message

• 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-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the US or other countries

Jan 2, 2005 Pipes Favors Concentration Camps For US Muslims

Jan 1, 2005 Claiming "only for defense", the US has launched a massive new program to develop the most lethal biological and chemical weapons ever known. Oct 11, 2004 A government that lies to the people delegitimizes itself and with such a lie, the United States ceases to be a nation, and becomes a land under occupation by force

"Four sorrows ... are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative effect guarantees that the U.S. will cease to resemble the country outlined in the Constitution of 1787.

1. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a spreading reliance on nuclear weapons among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut.

2. Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta.

3. Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions.

4. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens."
   Chalmers Johnson, Sorrows of Empire

Aug 9, 2005
Neocons are parasites that latch onto Democracy until it is no longer convenient

July 27, 2005 Feds move swiftly to exploit 7/7

July 27, 2005 Here are the votes that made the USA PATRIOT Act permanent Start contacting those who voted for this despotic, anti-Constitution bill of the NWO. Remind them that they are pledged to uphold the US Constitution and defend it from all enemies domestic and foreign. They just became an domestic enemy of the US Constitution by their vote.

July 27, 2005 The Patriot Act Four Years Later: Ron Paul

July 5 2005 July 4th and the end of America, land of the free You see, our nation's forefathers understood that the greatest threat to freedom was not an enemy nation, but rather a nation's own government. The Bill of Rights was created for the sole purpose of limiting the power of government over the people. Our forefathers knew that all governments eventually get out of control and become oppressive regimes. So they purposefully created the Bill of Rights in an effort to guarantee that no government could deprive its citizens of free speech, freedom to bear arms, the right to own land, and other rights necessary for the prosperity of a free nation. July 3 2005 Trashing the Constitution in the name of 'terrorism'

January 24,2004
Political Prisoner, Warrior for his People: Leonard Peltier's annual message delivered in conjunction with the 28th anniversary of his illegal incarceration on February 6th.

Bush Pushes Plan to Permit World-wide Internet Surveillance and Loss of Sovereignty

Portions of USA PATRIOT Act Judged `Unconstitutional'

Jan. 26, 2004
Big Brother is watching you from the armpits of your Wal-Mart shirt.

Do you wonder where they put the RFID chip in jeans and underwear? If it's in any brand that Wal-Mart sells, don't trust that brand sold anywhere. Big Brother has his eyes on you wherever you go. Doesn't just make you feel warm and fuzzy all over?

Jan 8, 2004
Miami federal court has 'secret docket' to keep some cases hidden from public

A secret docketing system hiding some sensitive Miami federal court cases from public view has been exposed and is being challenged in two higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. And WE were going to teach the Iraqis something about democracy!

Jan 6, 2004
Justice denied: Judge McBryde admits not reading defense motions before dismissing them

Federal prosecutors and Judge John McBryde continued to deny all reason and justice in their quest to control the trial and ensure the conviction of non-withholding employer Dick Simkanin.

Bush declares CIA killing of American citizens legal if they are associated with suspected "al-Qaeda operatives" Since al-Qaeda was created by the US......

Why We Should Fear The Matrix
The "Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange" Program Threatens To Revive Total Information Awareness

National Endowment for Democracy's feel-good name belies its corrupt intent
"The misnamed National Endowment for Democracy is nothing more than a costly program that takes US taxpayer funds to promote favored politicians and political parties abroad. What the NED does in foreign countries ... would be rightly illegal in the United States. The NED injects Œsoft money' into the domestic elections of foreign countries in favor of one party or the other.

Karl Rove and Tom DeLay's War on Democracy in Texas

Dec 4, 2003
Team of military lawyers recruited to defend alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay dismissed by Pentagon after members rebelled against unfair design of military tribunals

October 11, 2003
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ENGAGED IN PRO-BUSH/CHENEY PROPAGANDA! DoD's National Guard Bureau politicking for the GOP in Florida! IS THE PENTAGON NOW IN COLLUSION WITH KARL ROVE? Fake grass-roots "support" for Bush's war, which is killing US soldiers! See also Olympian

Criminal Conduct of Coca Cola and the Mafia Due to the complexity of this case and the verifiable evidence of judicial misconduct on the part of Coca-Cola's lawyers and Judge Manning, we recommend that you take the time to read the entire story. We are confident that you will be neither bored nor disappointed with the dramatic recounting of this tale.

Bush Violates the Law and the Constitution by the Illegal Disappearance of Joseph Padilla

The Constitution creates no executive prerogative to dispose of the liberty of the individual. Proceedings against him must be authorized by law. --United States Supreme Court, Valentine v. U.S. (1936)

Implicit in the term "national defense" is the notion of defending those values and ideals which set this Nation apart. --United States Supreme Court, U.S. v. Robel (1967)

The word "security" is a broad, vague generality [that] should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law [of the Constitution]. --Justice Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court, New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)

On June 9, 2002, commander in chief George W. Bush, acting under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Joint Resolution, sent an order to the Defense Department designating Jose Padilla, an American citizen, an "enemy combatant." The president did this all by himself, even though--quoting a friend of the court brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by a historic array of former federal judges and establishment lawyers:

"There is no constitutionally approved definition of who is an 'enemy combatant.' " Nor is there any basis in our laws for holding Jose Padilla indefinitely without charges, or access to his lawyer, Donna Newman who, "...after combing through sealed court papers the Justice Department was obliged to reveal . . . concluded that the government's case against her client relies on two informers: one with a drug problem, she said, and the other who has recanted."

Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson's concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952) that the commander in chief's power "is not such an absolute--as might be implied from that office in a militaristic system--but is subject to limitations consistent with a constitutional Republic, whose law and policy-making branch is a representative Congress. . . . No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role." (Emphasis added).

In Legal Times, 22 October, 2001, US Attorney General John Ashcroft wrote,

"We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside. If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it. We'll not be driven to abandon our freedoms by those who would seek to destroy them."

Do you agree with Ashcroft that he doesn't have the authority to set aside the Constitution? Would you agree with John Ashcroft that any government that tried to do so is a dangerous government? Would you agree with John Ashcroft that such a government was not worthy of our respect? Would you agree with John Ashcroft that we should not allow terrorists to seek to destroy our freedoms?

I agree with him on all of these points. Do you? Seems as though we must call for a regime change to prevent our own government from destroying our liberty and freedom as an answer to the insecurity and fear of terrorism. Sometimes hard choices are the only solution.

The Fox Reporting on the Chickens Again: Investigation Board on 'Intelligence Failures' tied to Neo-cons

Attorney General John Ashcroft pushing VICTORY Act to curtail still more liberties. Is he honoring his oath of office?

Libertythink has obtained from Washington contacts a draft copy of the "Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003," also known by the Orwellian sobriquet "VICTORY Act." The draft obtained by Libertythink is dated June 27, and word in the Beltway is that the VICTORY Act is still being retooled over the August recess before it is introduced in the Senate.

Although this may not be the final form of the act, Libertythink encourages its readers to study the bill and hit Ashcroft with hard questions when and if he comes to your town.

Jail John Ashcroft for contempt for violating oath

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema is expected to issue a critical sanction any day in the federal criminal case prosecution of Zacharias Moussaoui, who is charged with having conspired to participate in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The order arises out of the government's refusal to comply with the judge's order that the government produce for deposition Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected high al-Qaeda official who is currently in U.S. custody. Moussaoui is seeking Binalshibh's testimony to help establish his innocence of the charges.

Judge Brinkema's original order granted Moussaoui's request based on the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right of an accused in federal criminal prosecutions to summon witnesses in his behalf at his trial. Despite the oath that the attorney general took to support and defend the Constitution when he was sworn in office, John Ashcroft has chosen to knowingly, intentionally, and deliberately disobey Judge Brinkema's order by refusing to produce Binalshibh for testimony.

The judicial response could be an indefinite sentence in prison.

Back to the Constitution Congress has returned from summer recess and will be addressing several pieces of legislation that directly affect your right to privacy and freedom from government surveillance.

The Senate will soon begin considering an important bill that responds to recent government actions and several of the PATRIOT Act's most grievous provisions -- including one that allows government agents to conduct "sneak and peek" searches of your home or office. Not only would the bill require a higher standard of proof before allowing government
access to highly private and sensitive data (such as library, bookstore and medical records), it also bans federal agencies from engaging in "data-mining" without explicit congressional authorization.

This legislation would correct many of the PATRIOT Act's flaws and protect constitutional rights threatened by other government actions. It deserves your full support.

Take Action! Click here to get more information and send a free fax to your Senators

The 2003 roster of the eleven member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

We call for the immediate and total repeal of the 2001 USA Patriot Act

Information to City Contacts July 3 Public Hearings to Repeal the Patriot Act

Sign the petition to Repeal The Patriot Act at this website and email any personal comments or copies of any letters to the editor to:
kelliegasink2002@lycos.com or http://www.repealnow.com /

We call for the immediate and total repeal of the 2001 USA Patriot Act for the following reasons and more:

It breaks the political backs of the judiciary and legislative branches of government.
It allows random arrests and detention without hearings or trials for anyone or any group designated by the President. Retroactive Prosecution, too!
It allows the concealment of Presidential records.
It permits secret "Military Tribunals" for presidentially-designated "terrorists".
It legalizes "sneak-n-peek" searches and seizures.
It allows the unlawful infiltration and surveillance of legal, domestic religious, labor and political organizations.
It allows the wholesale surveillance of private citizens, private business records and other materials without proof of probable cause.
It destroys all e-mail and internet privacy...

Avoiding Plato's Republic in America: Anarchy is the only hope The USA will transition to a Platonic tyranny sometime during the second term (2004-2008) of George Bush II.

That is, unless anarchy takes hold. This was not the stuff of violence that is typically associated with anarchy, but, instead, the slow disintegration of governing political and economic institutions and the gradual erosion of the policies of competition, dominance and accumulation. Godwin recognized that the ruling classes and their institutions stand as the greatest barrier to freedom. Government was nothing more than a tool of the wealthy and well-connected. Such is the state of affairs in the USA.

Juggernaut of deception: Continuity of Dictatorship

As we have seen many times, politicians, bureaucrats and special interests in Washington, D.C. are slight-of-hand practitioners without equal. The traveling carnival trickster who deceives with card tricks and shell games could learn techniques from the experts in our nation's capital.

On June 4, 2003, the Establishment launched its juggernaut of deception - the "Continuity of Government." The Establishment is working to amend the Constitution of the United States. If it succeeds, our system of government will be changed forever.

"Continuity of Government" is led by the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute. It is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

"Continuity of Government" appears to be well-intentioned and sensible. You might have read articles and commentaries expressing such impressions. Yet, in reality, "Continuity of Government" is a dangerous deception upon the American people.

The backers of the "Continuity of Government" are on a fast track to amend the Constitution. They want their proposed constitutional amendment passed by Congress and ratified by 38 states within the next 14 to 18 months.

Don't be deceived. First comes a "terrorist conspiracy" and then a move to remove the inconvenience of elections. How much more clear must the picture be before Americans stand up and say NO to dictatorship and fascism?

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell have VIOLATED the U.S.A. Patriot Act

By fabricating or misrepresenting intelligence data on terrorism, such as WMD in Iraq, Top level officials of the Bush Administration, including Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Perle, Wolfowitz and other have committed FELONY CLASS violations of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

H. R. 3162 - U.S.A. Patriot Act

... conveys or causes to be conveyed false information, knowing the information to be false, concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made or to be made, to do any act which would be a crime prohibited by this subsection ...

President Bush and his lieutenants are alleged to have lied about facts which have caused the death of many thousands of people, including American citizens, the attempted assassination of the leader of Iraq (whose fate is still unknown), the unwarranted attack against another sovereign nation, the unlawful detainment of thousands outside the reach of the U.S. justice system, all of which has cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Given that Afghanistan was not recognised by many countries, what was and continues to be done there in the name of Freedom, is left to your own description.

For the record, Bush's statements, in chronological order, were:

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." -- United Nations address, September 12, 2002

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons."

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have." -- Radio address, October 5, 2002

"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."

"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States."

"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" -- his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." -- Cincinnati, Ohio speech, October 7, 2002

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." -- State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." -- Address to the nation, March 17, 2003

The Bush Administration can try to avoid FELONY prosecution for Fabricating and Misrepresenting Intelligence data on terrorism, in this case WMD in Iraq, by proving the Patriot Act unconstitutionality in court. Don't you just love the irony of that?

Isabel Allende, Chilean author, Talks About Living in a Dictatorship and in America

"This is what happened in Germany, with the Nazis... and people thought that they could stand it. Okay, they could just tolerate it because it didn't affect their personal lives.

We have to stop it. We have to stop it now, before it gets out of hand. This government is doing things that are not allowed in our constitution. So we have to react. What are people waiting for God's sake?" -- Isabel Allende.

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Palo Alto librarians, police chief protest Patriot Act

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Librarians plan to shred documents and delete computerized records of patrons' reading habits as part of their battle against the U.S. Patriot Act, the federal anti-terrorism law that eases the way for the FBI to view library records.

The Palo Alto librarians, saying it's all part of an effort to protect reader privacy, have agreed to destroy the computer records within six days of any transaction.

The librarians say paper records, including inter-library loan requests, book reserve lists and sign-up lists for the library's public computers, are being shredded immediately after use.

"We've had a longstanding policy of confidentiality of library records, and in light of the passage of the Patriot Act, we're reviewing and tightening our business practices," said Diane Jennings, the acting city librarian.

In a separate move, Palo Alto's police chief is supporting a resolution before the Cicty Council next week that would prohibit her department from aiding the FBI in Patriot Act searches, interviews or surveillance without evidence that a crime has been committed.

"We take an oath to uphold the Constitution and that's the bottom line for us," said Chief Lynne Johnson. "We believe we are still able to protect the people of this community, but won't do so by violating people's constitutional and civil rights."

04/29/2003
The Nation's Daily Outrage: Two-Front Rumsfeld

Brace yourself. The Defense Secretary is pushing a 205-page Bill through Congress that would -- take a deep breath:

* Strip Defense Department employees of their unions, whistleblower protections, annual pay raises, and rights to appeal disciplinary actions;

* Let the Defense Secretary dole out no-bid, no-oversight, no-accountability contracts worth billions (one observer calls it "the Halliburton Bill of Rights");

* Exempt the military from environmental and wildlife protection rules on more than 23 million acres of American lands;

* Free the Pentagon from dozens of requirements it report to Congress.

JOHN ASHCROFT GOES AFTER THE INTERNET by Cheryl Seal

I am not a gambler and I think gambling is an addiction, like any other addiction. However, I am appalled to learn that John Ashcroft is "going after gambling" as a way to start dismantling the Internet as we know it. The Bush administration's greatest enemy is the Internet, because it is here that people can access the non-corporate truth, can safely communicate and organize quickly (the peace protests relied on Internet organizing). However, the popularity of the Net has made it difficult for the Bush Reich to find a chink in its armor that would not outrage the public. Now Ashcroft is trying an angle he imagines to be his "foot in the door" : gambling. To this end, he is going after PayPal as the broker of online gambling funds.

HOWEVER, if Ashcroft were really going after online gambling for what it is - a vice, then the FBI vice people should be going after it - at least what's left of the domestic crime-fighting FBI. If the issue was unregulated money transfer, then the SEC should be on the case. But no, Ashcroft is accusing PayPal of violating the PATRIOT ACTS!!! More outrageous still, the charges originate from transactions that occurred BEFORE the Patriot Act was made law!! Even more suspicious, the case is focused on Missouri - Ashcroft's home state, where, as a former corporate-fed senator, he has all sorts of "markers" he can call in to try to rig his case and make it stick.

So, if he succeeds in making online gambling a violation of the Patriot Act, you can rest assured that this will be but the toe in door. By this time next year, nearly everything short of using email to send notes of support to G.W. Bush will be considered a "violation of the Patriot Act."

Just in time for his next war.

Here's the news release...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/loot-a19.shtml

Guests:
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association
Charles Mandigo, FBI Special Agent in charge of the Seattle office

BIG BROTHER COMES TO WAL-MART
June 11, 2003

Starting this week, the nation's largest discount retailer will quietly begin selling tracking-chipped products to clueless shoppers. The first volley in their war against our privacy is set to start at their Brockton, Massachusetts store.

Wal-Mart will put Radio Frequency I.D. sensors on shelves stocked with RFID-tagged Gillette products, but they'd rather you didn't know about it, because, hey, you might not like it, and then you might make noise and then they'd have a big PR mess on their hands.

You might even stop buying Gillette products or, say, refuse to shop at Wal-Mart.

These chips, researched at M.I.T.'s Auto-ID Center are about the size of a grain of sand. Chipsters say the technology will only be used to help retailers keep track of inventory - like bar codes. But privacy-loving consumers question the very concept of a device that sends out radio waves to "readers" that not only identify the article, but where and with whom it's going.

The Big Brother implications of this thing need little hyping to get your skin crawling.

October 24, 2002
What is Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT?

Section 215 allows the FBI to order any person or entity to turn over "any tangible things," so long as the FBI "specif[ies]" that the order is "for an authorized investigation . . . to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities."

Section 215 vastly expands the FBI's power to spy on ordinary people living in the United States, including United States citizens and permanent residents.

The FBI need not show probable cause, nor even reasonable grounds to believe, that the person whose records it seeks is engaged in criminal activity.

The FBI need not have any suspicion that the subject of the investigation is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power.
The FBI can investigate United States persons based in part on their exercise of First Amendment rights, and it can investigate non-United States persons based solely on their exercise of First Amendment rights.

For example, the FBI could spy on a person because they don't like the books she reads, or because they don't like the web sites she visits. They could spy on her because she wrote a letter to the editor that criticized government policy.

Those served with Section 215 orders are prohibited from disclosing the fact to anyone else. Those who are the subjects of the surveillance are never notified that their privacy has been compromised.

If the government had been keeping track of what books a person had been reading, or what web sites she had been visiting, the person would never know.
Is Section 215 Constitutional?

Normally, the government cannot effect a search without obtaining a warrant and showing probable cause to believe that the person has committed or will commit a crime. Section 215 violates the Fourth Amendment by allowing the government to effect Fourth Amendment searches without a warrant and without showing probable cause.

The violation of the Fourth Amendment is made more egregious by the fact that Section 215 might be used to obtain information about the exercise of First Amendment rights. For example, the FBI could invoke Section 215 to require a library to produce records showing who had borrowed a particular book or to produce records showing who had visited a particular web site.

Section 215 might also be used to obtain material that implicates privacy interests other than those protected by the First Amendment. For example, the FBI could use Section 215 to obtain medical records.

The provision violates the First Amendment by prohibiting those served with Section 215 orders from disclosing that fact to others, even where there is no real need for secrecy.
The provision violates the First Amendment by effectively authorizing the FBI to investigate U.S. persons, including American citizens, based in part on their exercise of First Amendment activity, and by authorizing the FBI to investigate non-U.S. persons based solely on their exercise of First Amendment activity.

The provision violates the Fourth and Fifth Amendments by failing to require that those who are the subject of Section 215 orders be told that their privacy has been compromised.
Doesn't the government need these powers?

The government already has the authority to prosecute anyone whom it has probable cause to believe has committed or is planning to commit a crime. It also has the authority to engage in surveillance of anyone whom it has probable cause to believe is a foreign power or spy - whether or not the person is suspected of any crime.

Section 215 takes away a great deal of our liberty and privacy but isn't likely to get us any security in return.
There's a real possibility that setting the FBI loose on the American public will have a profound chilling effect on public discourse. If people think that their conversations and their e-mails are their reading habits are being monitored, people will inevitably feel less comfortable saying what they think, especially if what they think is not what the government wants them to think.

Is the FBI abusing its powers?

Attorney General Ashcroft has gone to great lengths to keep secret even the most basic information about the FBI's spying. For example, in answering questions posed by the House Judiciary Committee, he classified information that should not have been classified, including information that would have shown how often the FBI is spying on people based on their exercise of First Amendment rights.
The little information that we do have suggests that the FBI is abusing its powers.

For example, a survey conducted by the University of Illinois suggested that, by December 2001, the FBI had already approached 85 out of some 1500 libraries.

The ACLU has filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act to force the government to disclose more information about the FBI's use of Section 215 and about the pervasiveness of domestic spying more generally. More information about our FOIA request and related litigation can be found here.

May 21, 2003
Pentagon Details New Surveillance System: Critics Fear Proposed Extensive Use of Computer Database Raises Privacy Issues

The Pentagon yesterday detailed the development of a massive computer surveillance system that would have the power to track people as never before.

Poindexter is watching you - TIA is back! Congress tried to put the brakes on Total Information Awareness, but now it's back with a new name. Convicted Iran Contra liar Admiral Poindexter is in charge of the ultimate government surveillance program. This is likely to be about as effective for stopping terrorism as anti ballistic missiles are for stopping suitcase bombs, but that doesn't mean the government won't collect every possible detail on all citizens anyway.

June 01, 2003
Forget the CIA -- military now has its own civilian surveillance vehicles

What was foreshadowed in the July 25, 2002 UnderReported.com story Ridge: May be "forced" to use military as domestic law enforcement is gradually coming to pass. Besides the Superbowl use, dc.indymedia.org has a bevy of photos of the InfraLynx vehicles (both the SUV and the Hummer) on the street in DC.

To avoid investigation Texas agency destroyed records related to search for Democrats

One day before Democrats ended their boycott of the Texas House last week, the Texas Department of Public Safety ordered the destruction of all records and photos gathered in the search for them, documents obtained Tuesday show.

A one-sentence order sent by e-mail on the morning of May 14 was apparently carried out, a DPS spokesman said Tuesday. The revelation comes as federal authorities are investigating how a division of the federal Homeland Security Department was dragged into the hunt for the missing Democrats - at the request of the state police agency.

Attorney-Client Privilege Revoked Retroactively
The government says it can pry into the attorney-client relationship all it wants

Lynne Stewart, a New York human-rights lawyer with a taste for radical politics, is accustomed to representing unpopular clients.
She never dreamed it would become illegal.

Stewart was in Seattle on Monday as part of a national campaign to drum up support--not for a client, but for her own case. Stewart was a member of the court-appointed defense team for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in connection with the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. After his conviction, Stewart continued as one of the lawyers representing Abdel Rahman. The Seattle visit came just over a year after her arrest April 8, 2002, when she was taken from her home without warning. Federal agents combed through her office, seizing files on all of her cases, and Attorney General John Ashcroft proudly announced that Stewart had been charged in a four-count criminal indictment with aiding and abetting a terrorist organization--solely for her work in representing Abdel Rahman.

Stewart's case, now winding its way through pretrial motions toward a January trial, stands as a critical test for the Bush administration's newly reserved right to violate lawyer-client confidentiality in order to wage the war on terror. It also has a significant First Amendment component. Stewart's indictment charges her with discussing Abdel Rahman's case with a Reuters reporter--even though no gag order barred her from doing so; with talking while an interpreter was speaking with her client during a consultation in his prison cell, thereby preventing the Justice Department from taping their conversation in Arabic; and with allowing the interpreter and client to speak in Arabic about nonlegal matters. If convicted, she faces 40 years in prison.

THE CHARGES STRIKE at the heart of the U.S. Constitution's Sixth Amendment guarantee that all people accused of a crime are entitled to effective representation by an attorney. Courts have long held that attorney-client confidentiality is essential to that right; without the ability to speak freely about what they have, and have not, done, defendants are severely impaired from learning their legal status and options, and attorneys cannot mount the best defense. But Stewart's case has broader implications. In the future, attorneys will be less willing to represent clients like Abdel Rahman.

TRUTH ABOUT THE PATRIOT ACT
Paul Copeland, Ashland
ACLU Southern Oregon Chapter Co-chair

What is the significance of Attorney General Ashcroft's latest whistle stop tour in defense of the USA PATRIOT Act? A careful review shows this latest spin campaign is consistent with an ongoing pattern of Justice Department misinformation. Over the past year FBI agents and Justice Department spokespersons have been repeating similar statements in newspaper articles, public forums and editorial pages around the country. Their main points boil down to implying that the PATRIOT Act only applies to terrorists, not citizens, and that the FBI can use these new powers only in terrorism investigations with the consent of a judge under "probable cause" standards of evidence. Oregon's former top FBI agent, Charles Matthews, was recorded saying these very things in a February forum put on by the Friends of the Ashland Library.

Incredibly, it turns out that all of these statements made by
many senior FBI agents and Justice Department officials are factually and thoroughly incorrect. The truth is that the FBI can engage in searches and surveillance activities, and obtain medical, financial, library, school, and other kinds of personal records with a mere showing of "relevance" to a terrorism investigation. This is a much lower legal standard than probable cause. The persons to whom the records pertain do not even need to be themselves suspects in an investigation.

Finally, a judge is required to issue a court order for release of such records without requiring that the FBI substantiate the basis for seeking the information. What this all means is that the PATRIOT Act allows the FBI to use broad new search and surveillance powers against American citizens who are not even suspected of involvement in terrorism
related activities. By removing the checks and balances protections of judicial oversight the PATRIOT Act undermines the very foundations of liberty. We are left to simply trust the good intentions of the FBI.

Attorney General Ashcroft is also making unsubstantiated claims that the PATRIOT Act would definitively have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

The PATRIOT Act and related Justice Department regulations have been used to justify dragnet detentions of thousands of immigrants in violation of international human rights standards. Thousands of people have been held for long periods without criminal charges and without access to
attorneys or contact with families. There is actually ample
evidence that law enforcement and intelligence agencies already had substantial powers that were not used effectively to thwart the 9/11 attacks. It may be true that changes to existing laws are needed to improve coordination between domestic law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But the PATRIOT Act goes way too far in the direction of degrading Constitutionally protected due process of justice for citizens and immigrants alike.

For more information on these points, read the ACLU report "Seeking Truth From Justice: PATRIOT Propaganda", available at this URL:

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/publications

Dec 16, 2003
While we were being distracted by Saddam's capture, Bush again introduced Patriot Act II

While CNN and other media outlets are rejoicing because of the capture of Saddam Hussein, new legislation last Saturday which increased the federal powers to investigate and reduces the privacy rights of American citizens.

December 17, 2003
Jailing 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Padilla by Bush Ruled Illegal

President Bush does NOT have power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, the former gang member seized on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision, which ordered that Padilla be released from military custody within 30 days, could force the government to try the "dirty bomb" plot suspect in civilian courts. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Padilla's detention was not authorized by Congress and that Bush could not designate him as an enemy combatant without the authorization.

[But obviously ONE of the three judges violated his oath to support the Constitution.]

01/11/2004
White House OMB seeks control of on emergency declarations to the public on health, safety

This is a huge step in centralizing the control of vital information for the public that is necessary to further develop the dictatorship. It represents a significant clue to the false conservativism of the Bush Administration.

January 10, 2004
Paranoid shift: What does it take for sheeple to wake up before they get sheared?

January 15, 2004
Lincoln, the First American Dictator: The Neocon Case for Imprisoning and Executing Congressional War Opponents

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