"The Patriot act cleverly conceived to strip constitutional rights and freedom under the guise of protecting the US from terrorists which they incited. Then with a massive propaganda blitz duped the American people."
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who
falsely believe they are free." Johann W. Von Goethe
"If the people really knew what we where up to, they
would run us out of town on a rail, after first tar
and feathering us" - George Bush Sr., in conversation
with Henry Kissenger - circa 1988 pertaining to the "New World Order".
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot
easier... [laughs]...just so long as I'm the
dictator." --George W. Bush, 12/18/00
This article quite comprehensively outlines the powers
of "patriots" act 1 & 2, or potential powers, which
can be abused. Yes, some of its provisions can (& in
one instance, concerning one provision, already has)
be declared unconstitutional. But, it is the hassle,
expense or worse of combating this that will prevent
too many from standing against it. The headline of
this indicates one abuse. "Information gathering"
becomes espionage. Yes, stretching it a bit. But power
hungry control freaks invariably always stretch their
new powers. That is why it cannot be stressed enough
to BEWARE of any power grabbing move they come up, no
matter how "good" the stated intentions may sound. We
have a bunch prone to "Orwellianizing" words, such as
"protecting our freedom" by enacting police state
measures. (Remember the Orwellian slogans, "Freedom Is
Slavery," "War Is Peace?)
News Gathering Is Illegal Under New Patriot Act 2
SECTION 102 of the new Patriot Act ll 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. A
Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement
Act 2003 - Also Known as USA Patriot Act II
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 n 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 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 inpress 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 whistle blower
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.
SECTION 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. 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 warantless searches,
Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list. You can
understand why President Bush/Dick Cheney & 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 hasnt
looked at the mountains of hard evidence. Of course, the
current group of white-collar criminals in the White House
might not care that were 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, if anyone criticizes tyranny they will be shouted
down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces
in the mainstream media. You have to admit, its 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.