Paul Craig Roberts: a new US Gestapo!
Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
THE BROWNSHIRTS ARE NOW ARMING THEMSELVES WITH A GESTAPO.
by Paul Craig Roberts - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dvzp4
January 24, 2006 - A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c44ad] - and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 - [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/burz5] - reads:
"THERE IS HEREBY CREATED AND ESTABLISHED A PERMANENT POLICE FORCE, TO BE KNOWN AS THE "UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE UNIFORMED DIVISION" (USSSUD)
[Nazi SS pictures to compare uniforms, flags, symbols etc. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bbd8g - Hitler also always shouted that "God is with us!" - The SS had the inscription on their belts - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bhpt9]
This new federal police force is "subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security."
The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony."
The new police are assigned a variety of jurisdictions, including "an event designated under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance" (SENS).
[FPF: ''The amendment would allow the Secret Service to cordon off areas and enforce exclusion zones at any event deemed a “special event of national significance,” even if no Secret Service protectee were scheduled to speak or attend. Such an expansion could have a dire impact on free speech.'' - Quote ACLU - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/845ph]
"A special event of national significance" is neither defined nor does it require the presence of a "protected person" such as the president in order to trigger it. Thus, the administration, and perhaps the police themselves, can place the SENS designation on any event. Once a SENS designation is placed on an event, the new federal police are empowered to keep out and arrest people at their discretion.
The language conveys enormous discretionary and arbitrary powers. What is "an offense against the United States"?
What are "reasonable grounds"?
YOU CAN BET THE ALITO/ROBERTS COURT WILL RULE THAT IT IS WHATEVER THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH SAYS.
The obvious purpose of the act is to prevent demonstrations at Bush/Cheney events. However, nothing in the language limits the police powers from being used only in this way. Like every law in the U.S., this law also will be expansively interpreted and abused. It has dire implications for freedom of association and First Amendment rights. We can take for granted that the new federal police will be used to suppress dissent and to break up opposition.
THE BROWNSHIRTS ARE NOW ARMING THEMSELVES WITH A GESTAPO.
[FPF: Google - Belafonte +Gestapo - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ek3u]
Many naïve Americans will write to me to explain that this new provision in the reauthorization of the "PATRIOT Act" is necessary to protect the president and other high officials from terrorists or from harm at the hands of angry demonstrators: "No one else will have anything to fear." Some will accuse me of being an alarmist, and others will say that it is unpatriotic to doubt the law's good intentions.
Americans will write such nonsense despite the fact that the president and foreign dignitaries are already provided superb protection by the Secret Service.
The naïve will not comprehend that the president cannot be endangered by demonstrators at SENS at which the president is not present. For many
Americans, the light refuses to turn on.
IN NAZI GERMANY, DID NO ONE BUT JEWS HAVE ANYTHING TO FEAR FROM THE GESTAPO?
By Stalin's time, Lenin and Trotsky had eliminated all members of the "oppressor class," but that did not stop Stalin from sending millions of "enemies of the people" to the Gulag.
[FPF: Pilger & Solzjenitsyn - 10 years in the camps - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ukcl]
It is extremely difficult to hold even local police forces accountable. Who is going to hold accountable a federal police protected by Homeland Security and the president?
Find this article at - Url.: http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8434
Karen Kwiatkowski Interviews Lew Rockwell - Read more - Url.: http://antiwar.com/
FPF: After all those horrible years NOT ONE of the hundreds of people illegally held in the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay has been charged, in court or convicted. There's no evidence of 'terrorism' by them: only terror and torture in the PNAC's Gulag*: http://tinyurl.com/caut7 - The criminals at present 'managing' and 'bleeding' The Netherlands - in the same way as the US - officially support this. Normal human beings don't.
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* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - 'The Demonic Cabal - (excellent article!) Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bvtvd
* Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush neocon administration’s harshest critics, compared the US Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8uvoe
* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj
* The Pentagon's propaganda war - BBC - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3ser2
* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful." - Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderburgers meeting. Unbeknownst to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.
* And global warcriminal Henry Kissinger and his ilk succeeded, but nobody apart from 'them' was 'grateful'. On the contrary: own US troops - even with tanks - appeared in the streets of Los Angeles: against anti-war protesters! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7qh65
* One of the best videos made: British MP George Galloway has told US senators who accused him of profiting from Iraq oil dealings their claims were the "mother of all smokescreens". - Full testimony in transcript and a video which is a great pleasure to watch, seeing Galloway sweep the floor with neocon rat Coleman - 47 Minutes - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8868.htm
* 'American Military Personnel - Know Why You're Being Sacrificed' - by Robert L. Johnson: "When I joined the United States Marines in September of 1973, I swore an oath..." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/75pl3
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: THEY ALSO STRIKE BACK." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69
* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* 'Anti-Semitism' - The Provocative Accusation - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8z6gd
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* Wayne Madsen - ''The neo-cons have done to the U.S. Intelligence Community what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. America has never been weaker. Rather than creating a "New American Century," the neo-cons have created a new global "Dark Age" of fear and constant war.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754
* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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THE BROWNSHIRTS ARE NOW ARMING THEMSELVES WITH A GESTAPO.
by Paul Craig Roberts - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dvzp4
January 24, 2006 - A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c44ad] - and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 - [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/burz5] - reads:
"THERE IS HEREBY CREATED AND ESTABLISHED A PERMANENT POLICE FORCE, TO BE KNOWN AS THE "UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE UNIFORMED DIVISION" (USSSUD)
[Nazi SS pictures to compare uniforms, flags, symbols etc. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bbd8g - Hitler also always shouted that "God is with us!" - The SS had the inscription on their belts - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bhpt9]
This new federal police force is "subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security."
The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony."
The new police are assigned a variety of jurisdictions, including "an event designated under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance" (SENS).
[FPF: ''The amendment would allow the Secret Service to cordon off areas and enforce exclusion zones at any event deemed a “special event of national significance,” even if no Secret Service protectee were scheduled to speak or attend. Such an expansion could have a dire impact on free speech.'' - Quote ACLU - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/845ph]
"A special event of national significance" is neither defined nor does it require the presence of a "protected person" such as the president in order to trigger it. Thus, the administration, and perhaps the police themselves, can place the SENS designation on any event. Once a SENS designation is placed on an event, the new federal police are empowered to keep out and arrest people at their discretion.
The language conveys enormous discretionary and arbitrary powers. What is "an offense against the United States"?
What are "reasonable grounds"?
YOU CAN BET THE ALITO/ROBERTS COURT WILL RULE THAT IT IS WHATEVER THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH SAYS.
The obvious purpose of the act is to prevent demonstrations at Bush/Cheney events. However, nothing in the language limits the police powers from being used only in this way. Like every law in the U.S., this law also will be expansively interpreted and abused. It has dire implications for freedom of association and First Amendment rights. We can take for granted that the new federal police will be used to suppress dissent and to break up opposition.
THE BROWNSHIRTS ARE NOW ARMING THEMSELVES WITH A GESTAPO.
[FPF: Google - Belafonte +Gestapo - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ek3u]
Many naïve Americans will write to me to explain that this new provision in the reauthorization of the "PATRIOT Act" is necessary to protect the president and other high officials from terrorists or from harm at the hands of angry demonstrators: "No one else will have anything to fear." Some will accuse me of being an alarmist, and others will say that it is unpatriotic to doubt the law's good intentions.
Americans will write such nonsense despite the fact that the president and foreign dignitaries are already provided superb protection by the Secret Service.
The naïve will not comprehend that the president cannot be endangered by demonstrators at SENS at which the president is not present. For many
Americans, the light refuses to turn on.
IN NAZI GERMANY, DID NO ONE BUT JEWS HAVE ANYTHING TO FEAR FROM THE GESTAPO?
By Stalin's time, Lenin and Trotsky had eliminated all members of the "oppressor class," but that did not stop Stalin from sending millions of "enemies of the people" to the Gulag.
[FPF: Pilger & Solzjenitsyn - 10 years in the camps - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ukcl]
It is extremely difficult to hold even local police forces accountable. Who is going to hold accountable a federal police protected by Homeland Security and the president?
Find this article at - Url.: http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8434
Karen Kwiatkowski Interviews Lew Rockwell - Read more - Url.: http://antiwar.com/
FPF: After all those horrible years NOT ONE of the hundreds of people illegally held in the US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay has been charged, in court or convicted. There's no evidence of 'terrorism' by them: only terror and torture in the PNAC's Gulag*: http://tinyurl.com/caut7 - The criminals at present 'managing' and 'bleeding' The Netherlands - in the same way as the US - officially support this. Normal human beings don't.
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - 'The Demonic Cabal - (excellent article!) Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bvtvd
* Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush neocon administration’s harshest critics, compared the US Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8uvoe
* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj
* The Pentagon's propaganda war - BBC - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3ser2
* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful." - Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderburgers meeting. Unbeknownst to Kissinger, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.
* And global warcriminal Henry Kissinger and his ilk succeeded, but nobody apart from 'them' was 'grateful'. On the contrary: own US troops - even with tanks - appeared in the streets of Los Angeles: against anti-war protesters! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7qh65
* One of the best videos made: British MP George Galloway has told US senators who accused him of profiting from Iraq oil dealings their claims were the "mother of all smokescreens". - Full testimony in transcript and a video which is a great pleasure to watch, seeing Galloway sweep the floor with neocon rat Coleman - 47 Minutes - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8868.htm
* 'American Military Personnel - Know Why You're Being Sacrificed' - by Robert L. Johnson: "When I joined the United States Marines in September of 1973, I swore an oath..." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/75pl3
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: THEY ALSO STRIKE BACK." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69
* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* 'Anti-Semitism' - The Provocative Accusation - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8z6gd
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* Wayne Madsen - ''The neo-cons have done to the U.S. Intelligence Community what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. America has never been weaker. Rather than creating a "New American Century," the neo-cons have created a new global "Dark Age" of fear and constant war.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754
* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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