The New Police State: Patriot Act II
The New Police State: Patriot Act II
Towards a Total Police State Takeover
by ALEX JONES
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/patriot.htm
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.
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.
The 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 tolerate 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, ensuring
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 offence.
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 Patriot Act. (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.
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.
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.
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 contemp charges
against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves
or others. This sections annihilate 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 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 Haliburton.
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 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.
SING THE VOTE
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in song is the first step to a fascism free planet
"THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS MADE FOR YOU AND ME"
IMAGINE: WE are children of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; WE ALL have a right to be here
START SINGING THE PLANET'S ANTHEM AT ALL EVENTS TO SHOW HOW "WE" HAVE ALREADY VOTED.
This would get some air time if we did it at GOP campaign events even in congress this Summer and fall and beyond after all it is the anthem of the Age of Aquarius no. We suggested that "THIS LAND" be the Global Village Planetary anthem at Woodies celebration in San Francisco at the Geary Theater in 1967. It was seconded by three ambassadors and has become the second third fourth etc. anthems to many countries.
FOLKSAY(people say) ............ has become Our defacto Global Village Planetary anthem and in essence we voted for citizen empowerment as we sung it. Now let's get it officially on record by singing it everywhere as direct democracy.
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Raleigh Myers
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posted by Raleigh myers @ 10/21/2004
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