Total Police State TakeoverBy Alex Jones
InfoWars.com (website)
2/10/2003 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 II 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 II, 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, and for 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 II 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, 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 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 contempt 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 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 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.
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 II 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. Close |