SPECIAL REPORT: Turning The Police State Apparatus Against
Dissenters
Second major phase of the coordinated destruction of freedom
in America targets those who refuse to go along with it
A sustained media propaganda campaign in support of the move to
swing the apparatus of tyranny away from phantom Muslim terrorists
and towards the American people is in full operation and may pave
the way for further attacks on US soil to be blamed on dissenting
Americans who speak out against the war and the rise of the domestic
police state.
Over the past decade we have witnessed an extreme
acceleration of the physical implementation of a framework and
infrastructure ready to receive those who will not go along with
a coordinated destruction of traditional American values and freedom.
With 9/11 came the first opportunity of the 21st century to radically
alter the mentality of America and introduce a new order of society.
The corporate media is now preparing the psyche
of the American public for a second major shift. This time the
effort will be to direct the understanding of the manufactured
and fraudulent "war on terror", away from "Islamofascists"
and "Al Qaeda" and towards dissenting American citizens.
Over the past month or so we have highlighted this
ongoing propaganda campaign in the following articles:
Establishment "news" hacks such as Glenn
Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh are raising the same
talking point ad infinitum, dubbing the global truth movement,
along with the anti-war movement, as "anarchists" and
violent individuals who are aiding terrorists.
In the event of another attack on US soil, an army
of Neo-Cons secretly sharing the same fetish, would revel in exploiting
a hollow opportunity to say "we told you so," even at
the expense of thousands of dead dads, moms, sons, daughters and
babies.
"But these are just the mindless frothings
of talking heads looking for ratings" some might say. When
you take them in context with the ongoing actions of the government,
however, a clearer more deadly picture emerges.
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The propaganda coincides with a House
Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on "Terrorism and
the Internet" held last week, broadcast on C-Span,
which featured a panel of "experts", including representatives
formerly of the RAND Corporation and the Simon Wiesenthal Center
who presented 9/11 truth websites sites alongside sites that celebrate
the attacks and offer training in terrorist tactics.
Past legislation written up and in many cases implemented
by the Bush administration has completely cleared the path for
the targeting of American citizens as "enemy combatants"
and systematically destroyed the Bill Of Rights. Here is a brief
re-cap on some of that legislation:
Back in July this year this vaguely worded EO was signed
and acts as an amendment to the National Emergencies Act. It
states that any American citizen who "threatens
the peace and stability of Iraq and undermines efforts to promote
reconstruction and reform" there may have all their property
and interests seized by the Treasury department without warning.
Many within the anti-war movement have viewed this as a move
to target protesters. it certainly is the case that anti-war
protesters have been heavily surveilled by the FBI, the NSA
and the Pentagon at meetings and rallies as many mainstream
sources have reported this year.
HR 6166 - Military Commissions
Act
Slamming the final nail in the coffin of everything
America used to stand for, the boot-licking U.S. Senate gave
President Bush the legal authority to abduct and sexually mutilate
American citizens and American children in the name of the war
on terror in passing the Military Commissions Act and officially
ending Habeas Corpus in September 2006.
There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that
protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own
government and tortured.
The
New York Times stated that the legislation introduced,
"A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy
combatant” in the bill could subject legal residents of
the United States, as well as foreign citizens living in their
own countries, to summary arrest and indefinite detention with
no hope of appeal. The president could give the power to apply
this label to anyone he wanted."
Yale
Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times,
"The compromise legislation....authorizes the president
to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they
have never left the United States. And once thrown into military
prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other
of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."
Similarly,
law Professor Marty Lederman explains: "this
[subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant']
means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant
-- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress,
and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you
have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."
Subsection 4(b) (26) of section 950v. of the bill contains
a definition of "wrongfully aiding the enemy"
which labels all American citizens who breach their "allegiance"
to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists
subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front
of a military tribunal. Section 950j of the bill also preemptively
criminalizes any challenge to the legislation's legality by
the Supreme Court or any United States court and allows the
use of torture that is, "incidental to lawful sanctions."
John Warner Defense Authorization Act
The Bush Junta quietly "tooled up" to
utilize the U.S. military in engaging American dissidents after
the next big crisis, with a frightening and overlooked piece
of legislation that was passed alongside the Military Commissions
Act, the John
Warner Defense Authorization Act, which greased
the skids for armed confrontation and abolishes posse comitatus.
Martial Law Presidential Decision Directive
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New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares
that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President
can take total control over the government and the country,
bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal,
local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring
total unprecedented dictatorial power.
The
National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive,
which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge
of domestic "security", was signed earlier this month
without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly
supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president
to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress
have the authority to "modify, rescind, or render dormant"
such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted
inappropriately.
The party line often heard from Neo-Cons in
their attempts to defend the Patriot Act either circulate
around the contention that the use of the Patriot Act has
never been abused or that it isn't being used against American
citizens. Here
is an archive of articles that disproves both
of these fallacies.
The Patriot Act was the boiler plate from
which all subsequent attacks on the Constitution were formed.
USA Patriot Act II
The second Patriot Act was 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 reorganized 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.
The once covert but now exposed "anti-terror"
domestic wiretapping program has proven that the Bush administration
has targeted American citizens in the "war on terror":
"Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President
Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop
on Americans and others inside the United States to search for
evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants
ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government
officials," reported the New
York Times on December 16, 2005
The secret warrantless spying program was a complete
violation of both the 4th Amendment and FISA.
Not content with now being lawfully allowed to force
ISP's and cell phone companies to turn over data about customers
without a warrant, the Bush administration pushed for even more
authority to spy on American citizens, and was handed
a 6 month window this August within which to impose
any surveillance policy it likes, and for that program to remain
legal in perpetuity.
These types of programs are not new of course, precursors
such as COINTELPRO and many
other incarnations of the same kind of surveillance
programs have been targeting American citizens for decades.
Getting rid of Posse Comitatus - Setting the precedent
“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….once the military
is used, however minor initially, the march toward martial law
… becomes irresistible.” - Representative Ron Paul of
Texas - June 25 1997.
The
Posse Comitatus Actis a recognition that the framers
of the constitution had a deep distrust of centralized power,
particularly centralized military power that might be used against
the people. State militias were preferred over a national army.
In times of major disaster or emergency, it has been state governors
- not the president - who call out that state's contingent of
the national guard.
We have witnessed over a long period of time how Posse Comitatus
is systematically being erased. After 9/11 this was particularly
accelerated. All the so called "experts" were calling
for changes to long standing laws, in order to "protect"
us. This led to scores of lower level government officials pleading
for exactly what the criminal elements higher up wanted all along.
"Our way of life has forever changed," wrote Sen.
John Warner, R-Va., in a letter last month to Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld. "Should this law now be changed to enable
our active-duty military to more fully join other domestic assets
in this war against terrorism?"
So let's get this right, "terrorists" attack us because
they "hate our freedoms" and the answer is to get rid
of our freedoms?
Here's another
mainstream report from 2002 documenting a senators call
to abolish Posse Comitatus and let troops arrest US civilians.
But before the war on terror it was clear that there was preparation
afoot for such eventualities. Nothing is under review, this has
always been the agenda. They were erasing Posse Comitatus 14 Years
Ago. In 911: The
Road to Tyranny Alex Jones presents footage of troops
training to put Americans into Concentration Camps. This footage
includes interrogations and a retired Marine admitting that in
1988 he was kicking down doors in Norfolk, Virginia. The Marines
would be ordered to the local Police station where they would
don Police uniforms. They would then go to the local gun shop
or dealers home and "Take Them Down."
In Alex Jones' feature Police
State 2000he covers Operation
Urban Warrior where actors posed as American citizens
who were Unconstitutionally seized from their homes by the military
and police. These Americans: were rounded up and confined behind
barbed-wire.
The actors were told to demand to be let free and state that
they had rights. They were also told to demand food and water.
The troops in turn were taught to ignore them and to order them
to behave in an orderly fashion. "Civil disobedience will
not be tolerated" was one of the many disturbing statements
heard to emanate from the military's loud speakers.
Over the years there have been countless drills of this nature.
The media simply reports them as training for dealing with foreign
enemies, yet the volunteers and the participants are always told
differently.
In 2005 details of just one of many Military operations on American
soil was exposed in the run up to Bush's second coronation. A
secret counterterrorism program code-named Power
Geyser. A small group of super-secret commandos were hidden
among 13000 police and troops and "stood ready with state-of-the-art
weaponry to swing into action.".
There have been literally thousands of these kind of operations
in the planning and going on for years now. Many designed to use
the military on the streets of American cities in direct violation
of Posse Comitatus. The Pentagon has a full Command in operation
working on these activities, the
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
Whilst Studying US COIN (Counter Insurgency) doctrine at University
I was subjected to weekly showings of videos where military operations
were carried out in purpose built mock American towns and cities.
We were also informed of how future Counter Insurgency would be
predominantly conducted from Military bunkers as they had developed
the technology to map out entire cities to pinpoint accuracy from
satellite images. The cities in the prototypes were of course
all American cities.
I remember asking the lecturer what the point was in developing
this technology for use in foreign insurgency wars in places such
as the mountains of Afghanistan, and why were the drills and testing
of the technology being carried out purely in American towns and
cities. The answer was of course that in the event of a major
terror attack on US soil these types of things would go into operation.
The Pentagon does indeed have
"War Plans" drafted in the event of any type
of terror attack, which would be coordinated by Northcom
in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security
and would involve martial law and thousands of troops on the streets.
According to respected military
affairs analyst William Arkin, Northcom has defined three
levels of operations, each of which triggers a larger set of authorized
activities. The levels are "extraordinary", "emergency"
and "temporary". During emergencies, the military can
provide similar support, mostly in response to specific events
such as the attacks on the World Trade Center. It is only in the
case of extraordinary domestic operations that the unique capabilities
of the Defense Department are deployed. These include not just
such things as air patrols to shoot down hijacked planes or the
defusing of bombs and other explosives, but also bringing in intelligence
collectors, special operators and even full combat troops.
But as Arkin's article makes clear, Northcom is doing more than
mere coordinating. "Under the banner of 'homeland security',
the military and intelligence communities are implementing far-reaching
changes that blur the lines between terrorism and other kinds
of crises and will break down long-established barriers to military
action and surveillance within the US."
He also said the Pentagon reviewed the Posse Comitatus Act and
determined that it would not be a violation to deploy the National
Guard to protect critical infrastructure in some circumstances.
He said he expects more presidential directives in the future
to expand the military's homeland defense role.
Then of course we have General
Tommy Franks stating that a major terror attack on US
soil would mean the constitution will likely be discarded in favor
of a military form of government.
Some say this is nothing new. In a speech to the Council on Foreign
Relations in 2005, former US senator Gary Hart said American founders
"created such an army and called it the militia: citizen-soldiers
under the immediate command of the various states that can be
deployed in times of emergency. Since the late 19th century these
militias have been known as the National Guard, and they were
created and given constitutional status as the first responders
and the first line of defense in the case of an attack on our
homeland".
This is clearly an alteration of reality. The reason why the
founding fathers employed militias and later created Posse Comitatus
was that they knew a centralized national army could be used in
a future environment to take over the country and take away the
rights of everyone.
Police State infrastructure - Already in place (and in use)
FEMA, Northcom and the tools of tyranny
We have further exposed how the infrastructure for a martial
law police state is already in place, and in many cases is in
use. We have a whole
archive on the revelations that FEMA has concentration
camps set up and ready to go in the event of any emergency that
is deemed suitable for their use. As we have also seen recently,
these camps need not have barbed wire and observation towers,
they can simply be well guarded sports stadiums.
In May 2006, we also exposed the existence of a nationwide
FEMA program which is training Pastors and other
religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who
teach their congregations to "obey the government" in
preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and
firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
A whistleblower who was secretly enrolled into the program told
us that the feds were clandestinely recruiting religious leaders
to help implement Homeland Security directives in anticipation
of a potential bio-terrorist attack, any natural disaster or a
nationally declared emergency.
Though some doubted the accuracy of this report at the time due
to its fundamentally disturbing implications, the story was
later confirmed by a KSLA 12 news report, in which
participating clergy and officials admit to the existence of the
program.
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A cursory re-cap of the actions of FEMA in the wake of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita two years ago also reveals how the infrastructure
of the police state can and has been turned on American citizens.
FEMA deliberately
sabotaged relief efforts in New Orleans, making things
worse than need be.
The federal government illegally
initiated total gun confiscation of law abiding citizens
and forcibly removed them from their property in New Orleans.
Federal forces led criminal gangs of police in an America-killing
gun grab.
Along with forced gun grabs and evacuation, we have further exposed
the intricacies of the operative
federalized Police State, with the presence of foreign
troops, SWAT teams, privately employed security mercenaries, the
treatment of citizens as
"insurgents" and evacuees as "internees"
and the euthanization and inoculation of survivors.
The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was
all incompetence or part incompetence and part malevolence, the
lasting pretext is the same. When a disaster takes place, you
have no rights and the federal government can arrest you if you
don’t follow their every order.
FEMA clearly used the human catastrophe in New Orleans as a means
of executing its decade long plans and providing the pretext for
future takeover scenarios of all major American cities.
FEMA is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public
disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions
of dollars. It has more power than the president of the United
States or the congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move
entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant
and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies,
transportation systems, and can suspend the constitution. Not
only is it the most powerful entity in the United States, but
it was not even created under constitutional law by the congress.
In the aftermath of the hurricanes the police state was touted
as the savior. So called "Homeland security experts"
called for federal troops that don't need 72 hours for call-up,
as some National Guard units require, capable of dropping into
a disaster zone as the damage is being done, rather than afterward.
The media called for the TOTAL
FEDERALIZATION of America.
It was federalization and the criminal negligence and sabotage
on the part of the feds that caused the mass disruption in New
Orleans, yet the call was for MORE federalization? The call was
for troops on our streets, stopping traffic, searching people,
seizing property and making arrests?
The desperate call went up for "military authorities"
to supersede "civilian authorities". When did
we stop being people and become "civilians"?
FEMA executive orders have been paving the way for the police
State for many years. For a full synopsis of FEMA's executive
orders in light of hurricane Katrina, click
here.
FEMA is not the only entity central to the continuing crackdown
on American dissenters. After Katrina and before Rita, George
W Bush canceled a scheduled trip to Texas and instead visited
Colorado Springs, Colorado and the U.S. Northern Command
Headquarters.
Our sources informed us at that time that far from this being
a change of plan, Bush was visiting Northcom to be witness to
a martial law takeover drill which was directly connected to Granite
Shadow, which the Washington
Post reported, "is yet another new Top Secret and
compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal
powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency
military operations in the United States without civilian supervision
or control.
A joint task force for Rita was being created under the jurisdiction
of NorthCom. Operating out of Austin Texas, in liaison with NorthCom
in Colorado, under the command of Army Lt. Gen. Robert Clark.
A
"standing joint force headquarters" was established
in Austin, Texas.
Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff subsequently classified
Hurricane Rita as an "incident of national significance,"
which justifies the activation of a so-called "National Response
Plan"(NRP).
As Michael
Chossudovsky pointed out in his article on this, The National
Response Plan (NRP) is effective upon issuance with a phased implementation
process during the first year. During the first 120 days of this
implementation process, the Initial NRP (INRP), Federal Response
Plan (FRP), U.S. Government Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations
Plan (CONPLAN), and Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan
(FRERP) remain in effect. (For further details, consult the complete
document at http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf
So essentially, the period of time during which the NRP would
be in operation would extend far beyond the emergency period in
the disaster area. In all likelihood, the NRP would modify the
functions of civilian government.
The
Washington Post reported that The Northern Command would
be the lead agency in domestic terror response. The Pentagon "has
devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding
to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential
crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes
around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans."
Northcom has a history
of calling for the end of Posse Comitatus and officials
there seem to be hell bent upon a military takeover. Head of Northcom
Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart was quoted in the New York Times in 2002
as saying
"My view has been that Posse Comitatus will constantly be
under review as we mature this command, as we do our exercises,
as we interact with FEMA, F.B.I., and those lead federal agencies
out there,"
This is precisely the point, the erosion of Posse Comitatus has
been ongoing for a long time. As revealed earlier in this report,
military takeover drills and exercises have been in operation
for years.
Eberhart has also said that he is anxious to use new technology,
including unmanned surveillance blimps cruising at 70,000 feet
and Predator drones scanning American coastlines.
The general said it was also possible that the North American
Aerospace Defense Command would expand beyond the United States
and Canada to include Mexico.
"To defend this nation, we have to defend as far out as
possible...Therefore we need the support of Canada and Mexico
to be able to defend our interests."
A recent Council
On Foreign Relations document corroborates this proposed
move. The 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for
the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and
security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
The document entitled "Building a North American Community,"
asserts that George W. Bush, then Mexican President Vicente Fox,
and then Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their
governments" to this goal when they met at Bush’s ranch
and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security
and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned
"working groups" to fill in the details.
So there we have Orwell's Oceania coming to pass. A unionized
Americas under the control of a military dictatorship.
Over the years we have also exposed the development of other
police State weapons that make Tasers look like water pistols.
See this article on The
Pentagon's secret scream sonic devices that can inflict
pain--or even permanent deafness. These type of devices that are
routinely used in Iraq were also
used in New Orleans in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath.
The use of unmanned drone aircraft was also documented
in New Orleans, since then such craft have been flown over American
soil and are now routinely used by the Department of Homeland
security. Again, such weapons are being used not only in foreign
reconnaissance but also domestically for spying on "civillians"
and controlling crowds. Industry
representatives are enthusiastic about the drones' potential.
"I believe we will see Predator and Global Hawk unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) watching over major events, such as the
Olympic Games and the Super Bowl, in the not-too-distant future,"
Brad Brown, then-president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle
Systems International wrote.
Alex Jones' 2004 film Martial
Law: Rise of the Police State also documents the use of
huge corporate sponsored surveillance blimps. The Department of
Homeland Security is developing 900 ft long so called "Super
Blimps" for surveillance, intended to fly about 65,000
feet, well above commercial airliner traffic.
We have also documented the rise in use of the national guard
to break up public events. On multiple occasions we have carried
stories,
photos
and video
of tanks and armed troops on the streets of America. Such deployments
are used not only to break up protests, but even something as
insignificant as a rave
in a field.
Future technology under development includes robot
police that have the ability to run. Its like we are living
in the Twilight Zone or in a futuristic dystopian film. Yet when
you mention these kind of things to people they either don't believe
you or simply laugh at you. Well here's a wake up call, IT'S THE
YEAR 2007, not 1947, and these things are real and in place.
Winning the "war on terror"
The infrastructure is in place, the propaganda campaign
to target American dissenters is well underway as eluded to at
the beginning of this report, so what constitutes "winning"
this "war on terror" for the criminal cabal heading
the government?
Back in September
2006, we reported on a White House strategy document
for "winning the war on terror," in which conspiracy
theorists were targeted as a wellspring of terrorism. The document
threatens to "address" and "diminish" the
problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
The document states that terrorism springs from "subcultures
of conspiracy and misinformation," and that "terrorists
recruit more effectively from populations whose information about
the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy
theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out
facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving
propaganda."
Bush referred to the strategy paper as "an unclassified
version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September the
11th, 2001," that takes into account, "the changing
nature of this enemy."
The Neo-Con talking heads announcing that anti-war protesters
and 9/11 truthers are in league with terrorists are actually parroting
White House propaganda handed down to them by the Bush administration.
You can even trace the legacy right back to Bush's November 10,
2001 speech to the U.N., in which he said that "outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th"
should not be tolerated.
For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how
Martial Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and
freedoms are being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms
of control. We warned how the mechanisms of the police state would
be turned onto the average Americans who refused to go along with
it.
For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College
documents, the domestic military takeover drills, the draconian
legislation, officials left right and centre calling for more
centralized military control domestically.
For years people refuted the evidence, or passed it off as being
intended for something else, or simply refused to believe it.
Now everything we warned you about is happening.
In the wake of recent natural disasters on American soil, dangerous
precedents have been set. We have been forced to watch how in
times of crisis we must submit and follow the orders of Federal
Commanders, no matter whether they deny us basic human rights
or not.
Now the propaganda is flowing in full force, media heads are
attacking and labeling as terrorists anyone who stands up against
the new order, including Ron Paul and his supporters.
But as sure as night follows day the propaganda is also intended
to frighten and silence a hotbed of dissent and exposure that
has exploded into a mainstream movement and kept freedom in America
alive in the 21st century.
A sustained media propaganda campaign in support of the move to
swing the apparatus of tyranny away from phantom Muslim terrorists
and towards the American people is in full operation and may pave
the way for further attacks on US soil to be blamed on dissenting
Americans who speak out against the war and the rise of the domestic
police state.
In Alex Jones' feature 
In 2005 details of just one of many Military operations on American
soil was exposed in the run up to Bush's second coronation. A
secret counterterrorism program code-named 
According to respected 
Northcom has a 
