The Police State in America
Society has drastically changed in inumerable forms. The struggle continues since fascism isn't dead yet. We have the right to promtoe the essence of individual liberty and mutual freedom for all peoples. The police state that transpires now in the West is much more sophisicated. Under the guise of "political correctness" and "security," there are biometric scanners in cities, VIPER Teams, militarized police everywhere, and the abusive treatment of Americans by some TSA workers among airports nationwide. Even the Founders (with their apparent errors) had the sense enough to oppose lighter forms of tyranny that exist commonly today. The Fourth Amendment has been abolished in a slick way again. 2 recent Supreme Court cases have virtually damaged the Fourth Amendment in America. Citizens are no longer secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. Dissenting justices called the decision as breathtaking and unnecessarily broad. The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week in a 3-2 vote that doing anything to resist police busting down your door and conducting an illegal search is now a criminal act. "[We] hold that the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law," the court ruled in the case of Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana. The dissenting Justices were Brent E. Dickson and Robert D. Rocker. They were accurate to say that the ruling represented is a total rejection of rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "In my view, the wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad," Dickson wrote. "In my view it is breathtaking that the majority deems it appropriate or even necessary to erode this constitutional protection based on a rationale addressing much different policy considerations," added Rucker. "There is simply no reason to abrogate the common law right of a citizen to resist the unlawful police entry into his or her home."
So, the ruling was made under the justification that resisting a police officer had the potential to escalate and cause violence against the officer. That means that the officer like a god-like status to do whatever they want. This is against the 220 year Fourth Amendment and the 796 year Magna Carta as well (that influenced the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution blatantly). In another case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1. The decision said that the police can now bust down a door and enter your property without a warrant if they smell marijuana or heart sounds that are suggestive of destruction of evidence. The case deals with the warrantless search of an apartment in Kentucky, Lexington. "Where, as here, the police did not create the exigency by engaging or threatening to engage in conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment, warrantless entry to prevent the destruction of evidence is reasonable and thus allowed," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority. Of course, the fact that police officers have been known to habitually lie in order to justify illegally entering a property and violating the Fourth Amendment (which is apparently now null and void anyway), was not considered. We live in a slick authoritarian tyranny in America. America is in a new era of a police state. One reason is that our constitutional rights are being eliminated. Our government in America has been hijacked by rogue criminal elements that are dismantling everything that is legitimate in the USA. The old police states of the Soviets, Nazis, etc. weren't as bad as America now, but injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. This is why we should have vigilance against evils. Evil governments have incarcerated people and murdered people for a long time. We have the right to do the right thing indeed. ....
The government wants to monitor school lunches with cameras. Numerous schools in San Antonio are being provided with government grants in order to install surveillance equipment in cafeterias as part of a government funded project to monitor every morsel of food that children eat. This action is claimed to find ways to reduce obesity and improve eating habits. Small cameras are programmed to take pictures of lunch trays before and after each student get the trays. The child is uniquely identified via a barcode attached to the tray. How many calories and nutrients that each child has consumed are then calculated via a database having 7,500 different varieties of food. The whole project is being funded by an U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the tune of $2 million. "We're trying to be as passive as possible. The kids know they're being monitored," Dr.
Roger Echon told the Associated Press. Echon, who works for the San Antonio-based Social & Health Research Center, is building the food-recognition program. The aim of the study according to researchers wants to study foods that children are likely to choose and how much they're eating. They want to see what is influencing parents to alter their child's eating habits at
home. The principals of the 5 schools involved described by researchers as "poor minority campuses" told the AP that 90% of the parents agreed to allow their children to be monitored (adding that he thinks that those who have resisted don't understand the project). The principal Mark Davis wants to track human beings. This is another example of the nanny state that violates human civil liberties. It's wrong to place barcodes on kids like rats in the lab and database everything that they eat in order to promote healthy eating. The school can easily service healthily foods free form additives and preservatives. This isn't the vision for the control freak society. People don't need to ration children calorie intake, place fines to parents about their children's eating habits (that don't match to a balanced diet). Chicago schools last month have banned parents from giving their children packed lunches. This forced kids to eat in the cafeteria in order to protect students from the potential for "unhealthy homemade lunches." Long, the government tried to use various means to control students. A Mississippi state judge ordered that state officials father the names of every single child being home schooled in the state in order that they be kept on a watch list. Mayor Bloomberg is forced food manufacturers in New York to reduce salt content in food under the National Salt Reduction Initiative. This occurred when they are spending 25 million dollars on a program to fluoridate the water supply with toxic waste or sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride has been found to lowering human IQ, cancers harming the human teeth, bones, the brain, and the thyroid gland. There are dangerous food additives like aspartame and MSG, which are far deadlier than salt. There huge regulations are done by programs and organizations. Wiffle ball, dodge ball, kick ball, freeze tag, red rover, frisbee tossing and tug of war have all been placed under the new rules. If an organization offers two or more recreational activities, with just one being on the "risky" list, it is deemed to be a summer camp and comes under state regulation which entails fees and the necessity to provide medical staff. "Classics like Capture the Flag, Steal the Bacon and Red Rover are also deemed dangerous in new state regulations for day camps," reports the New York Daily News. This is all part of the process of the state replacing the parents as guardians of the children and it is designed to ensure that kids become nothing more than drug-addled, dependent people to society. In Philadelphia, a school district found that some use concealed cameras within machines to spy on students and their parents without their knowledge or consent. The UK have surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to make sure that children go to be on time, attend school, and eat proper meals. So, we should reject a nanny state. Google wants to run things in our homes as well. I do believe in real regulations and governmental services to help human beings. I don't believe that the government should control every aspect of our lives though. We don't need to be enslaved, we should embrace our individuality, and we ought to always oppose oppression in any shape or form. I like my personal freedom and I will fight to defend it.
There is the new behavior metrics technology that allows the government to know what we are thinking. Big Brother is wild. Big Brother has technology that wants to know what we are thinking now. The government isn't trying to force a device in our brain that divulges every thought now. Now, they want to promote behaviormetrics. This is a new omnipresent surveillance technology that is developed for the U.S. Air Force can is destined to be used in law enforcement to "monitor suspicious behavior." The deal is that the system utilizes a camera to track facial movements in order to build up a psychological profile of the individual under surveillance. "Huntsville, Alabama's Photon-X, Inc. recently received an Air Force contract to develop such a camera," reports Wired News. The company claims that with one snap, its sensor can build a three dimensional image of a person's face and the cornerstone of a distinctive "bio-signature" that can be used to track that person anywhere. IN more frame, the device can find that face's unique facial muscle motions. This capture can turn those movements into a "behaviormetric" profile that's even more accurate. This new technology is another step up from DARPA's infamous gait analysis program, which purported to be able to identity terrorists by the way they walked. The program was called as evil and an example of paranoia gone mad. The video demonstration of the technology that features on the Photon X website shows a number of different measurements changing when the subject alters his facial expression from a smile, to a frown, to an angry look. The motion of the face in the device is correlated to an uniform facial muscle model and the motion of each muscle is quantified. There is the Behaviometrics Analysis System to quantify simple data that describes the linear motion of all of the facial muscles in real-time and then interpolate this data using a psychological profiling system. The movements of the muscles in a person's face will alert Big Brother via behavior analysis (in seeing if a suspicious individual may have done a thought crime). The technology can have body posture movement, gait, and micro expressions. It can use operators to track user activity in a covert manner according to the contract description. Some want to use this technology to follow insurgent operations done by the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Law enforcement, banking, private corporations, schools, and universities can witness this technology being used inside of these places. Even casinos, themes parks, retail, and hospitality can track people. This system is made to make humans as cultural robots or objects in the state. This agenda falsely ascribe some independent behavior as equivalent to suspicious or a thought crime. George Orwell never conceived acts like this. The new breed of technology is being used now for the construction of a high tech prison grid that constantly tracks the behavior, movements, and even thoughts of an individual. This makes the world of "1984" look like a walk in the park. The Patriot Act is still a threat on our civil liberties or freedoms. Congress wants to continue as servants of the out of control national security state. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a backroom deal to reauthorizes the insidious surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act for another 4 years. The ACLU reported that Reid and McConnell introduced the bill S. 1038. This will extend the provisions until June 1, 2015. The text of the measure of now hasn't been published. The Patriot Act came almost a decade ago. It was in the wake of the 9/11 provocation and the anthrax attacks. According to the ACLU, the Senate will begin its debate on Monday with votes possible on that same night. The White House is skipping a legal deadline to seek congressional authorization of the military action in Libya under the War Powers Act. According to the Associated Press, few on the Hell are objecting to it. The White House continues to support illegal spying on Americans indefinitely as long as consultations with Congress continue. This extension of controversial parts of the Patriot Act will infringe on our civil liberties like the authorization to seize the records of libraries and other institutions. The tactic of using as little debate as possible to expand the power of the government in a false fashion is evil. Most of the surveillance powers of the Patriot Act are permanent. Yet, 3 controversial provisions have expiration dates in the law since it has serious civil rights abuses. Such suspicions were certainly warranted as dozens of reports by Congress and the Justice Department, media investigations and Freedom of Information Act and other lawsuits subsequently disclosed. The provisions set for renewal are the roving wiretap provision (that gives the FBI the power to get wiretaps from the Foreign Surveillance Court or FISC under the color of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the FISA Act), Section 215, and the lone provision. The roving wiretaps give retroactive immunity to the government's telecommunications' partners. The FBI can investigate people in some cases without a warrant. The FBI can make the say so of one warrant valid nationwide. The Fourth Amendment says explicitly that warrants are only issued particularly describing the place to be searched. Section 215 allows FISC warrants for any type of record or banking statements, etc. The government does not have to demonstrate "probable cause." Government officials need only certify to a judge, without providing evidence or proof, that the search meets the statute's overly-broad requirements and the court has been stripped of its authority to reject the state's application. Surveillance orders under Section 215 can even be based on a person's protected First Amendment activities: the books they read, web sites searched or articles they have published. In other words, exercising free speech under the Constitution can become the basis for examining personal records. The lone wolf provision is bad since it allows the feds to spy on individuals not linked to terrorist groups, but who may share ideological affinities with groups deemed suspect by the secret state. The definition of a lone wolf is ambiguous. The provision was set to expire on February 28, 2011, but the Obama White House extended it until May 27 (where it is set to expire).
The temporary extension failed to extend it since even Tea Party people joined with 122 Democrats to defeat the bill. In fact, the demonstrated conclusively that widespread abuses by the FBI in their issuance of constitution-shredding National Security Letters, handed out without probable cause and attached with built-in secret gag orders, have been used by the Bureau to target innocent Americans. Huge domestic spying occurred in the first 2 years of the Barack Obama administration. It isn't a secret that Barack Obama's White House extended the previous regime's assault on civil liberties and political rights (that benefit the Pentagon and the national security apparatus). The White House wants to expand the power of getting records among the state. They want iPhones and Blackberries to be wiretapped as well. Meanwhile, Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall Congress and privacy advocates "demanding the release of a secret legal memo used to justify FBI access to Americans' telephone records without any legal process or oversight..." People realize that the American Empire is contrary to the interests of the real American Republic. An empire always crumbles and sometimes it will crumble from within. Either the American Empire will crumble and America will survive or the American Empire will crumble and America falls. It will be as simple as those 2 outcomes. The American Empire promotes Homeland Security. That name is an oxymoron, because it doesn't always try to protect our civil rights. The budget for Homeland Security is over 180 billion dollars. Homeland Security deals heavily with a military police response in American soil and over exaggerating so-called terrorist threats (not truly trying to protect our civil liberties. If that would be their true intension they would have opposed the Patriot Act and the USA Military Commissions Act). The Department of Homeland Security spends billions of dollars and used thousands of people to investigate, spy, and harass citizens that are only doing constitutional actions. The Pentagon used billions on overseas infrastructure, buildings, bases, camps, and over 900 billion in arms. This is hypocritical since billions are not spent in building up our infrastructure in America at all. The DHS and the Defense Department intervene forcefully with the military all over the world via overt and clandestine operations. The HS attack offensively overseas against many civilian targets, but it won't oppose TSA oppression and civil liberties violations at home. The Pentagon use interventions overseas, but won't welcome intervention in the form of community shelters, which would provide survival, security, life-saving protection and financial aid for rebuilding their lives. Moreover, Pentagon and the DHS spending on overseas infrastructure, bases and bombs results in deficits are huge, whereas investments in tornado and flood shelters would stimulate jobs, growth and investment in the US. The essence of an Empire is to have investment overseas in trying to control nations, while neglect domestic needs home. The drive toward military supremacy has lead into declines into our domestic security that deals with health, personal lives, social lives, and employment. Now, politicians want to privatize social security and Medicare. The 2 parties have given foreign aid to nations beyond just trade or charity needs and the war on terror is expanding. Soon, one way or other, this war on terror will crush the American Empire. Domestic decay is parallel with unjust military expansion. We don't need an imperial Washington that has tons of money sent to Afghanistan, but little sent to tornado relief in Joplin, Missouri. So, the empire kills its own people in the long run. That is why we should oppose this war on terror since it gives priorities in the wrong direction. Our priorities is how we should help people build their standard of living and not which nation we can conquer utilizing imperialistic methods.
Clearly, the White House is being influenced to take a reactionary approach in Middle East affairs. The corporate media is claiming that the President Barack Obama is standing up to Israel, but he is moderate in his approach. He just wants a 2 state solution with 1967 borders as a starting approach, yet the reactionaries act like he wants the Jewish people to be thrown into the sea metaphorically. A lobbying and propaganda machine wants a one sided approach in the Middle East instead of fair deal to benefit all sides. Israel's wars in numerous cases are funded with American weapons and cash. Now, we have Social Security and Medicare being in threat of being cut (not just Republicans, but some Democrats want this under the guise of the deficit reduction commission). The safety net is under threat. Some professors and politicians have been silenced by even promoting a fair approach in handling Middle East for years. President Jimmy Carter was demonized for saying that some policies in Israel resemble the apartheid era South Africa in a book published in 2008. Both sides have made errors and both sides continue to kill each other. Even the President prostrated at the AIPAC Convention. America does nothing to assist those suffering in Gaza or Lebanon in a real fashion. Barack Obama wants a 2 state solution, but he opposes the Palestinians being recognized by the U.N. Even if the General Assembly wants to support such a measure, the United States will use its Security Council veto to squelch it. Once again, an American president makes certain that the Palestinians get nothing but the shaft. Barack Obama says stated that he made Israel's security "a top priority" and went even further: It's why we're making our most advanced technologies available to our Israeli allies. It's why, despite tough fiscal times, we've increased foreign military financing to record levels." What business does any nation have getting advanced American technology when we are in a recession? None is the answer. Some Israeli paid money to settle in Israel. Many Jewish people lived in Israel continuously for centuries and that's proven. Yet, some Israelis stole Palestinian lands and some Palestinians were forced out of their own homes in the Nakba. Both sides have imprisoned and killed each other in unjustifiable terms. American peace protesters are crushed to death by tractors or executed at sea on missions of mercy to Gaza. Even American sailors were killed on the U.S. Liberty by Israeli war planes. These undisputed facts are kept from public view in this country. Both Republicans and Democrats are in unison in agreeing with the status quo in terms of dealing with Middle Eastern matters. To have peace, both sides should make real agreements on the right of return, land, peaceful resolutions, and other matters. We shouldn't have hatred against every Israeli or Palestinian though.
The government wants to monitor school lunches with cameras. Numerous schools in San Antonio are being provided with government grants in order to install surveillance equipment in cafeterias as part of a government funded project to monitor every morsel of food that children eat. This action is claimed to find ways to reduce obesity and improve eating habits. Small cameras are programmed to take pictures of lunch trays before and after each student get the trays. The child is uniquely identified via a barcode attached to the tray. How many calories and nutrients that each child has consumed are then calculated via a database having 7,500 different varieties of food. The whole project is being funded by an U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the tune of $2 million. "We're trying to be as passive as possible. The kids know they're being monitored," Dr.
Roger Echon told the Associated Press. Echon, who works for the San Antonio-based Social & Health Research Center, is building the food-recognition program. The aim of the study according to researchers wants to study foods that children are likely to choose and how much they're eating. They want to see what is influencing parents to alter their child's eating habits at
home. The principals of the 5 schools involved described by researchers as "poor minority campuses" told the AP that 90% of the parents agreed to allow their children to be monitored (adding that he thinks that those who have resisted don't understand the project). The principal Mark Davis wants to track human beings. This is another example of the nanny state that violates human civil liberties. It's wrong to place barcodes on kids like rats in the lab and database everything that they eat in order to promote healthy eating. The school can easily service healthily foods free form additives and preservatives. This isn't the vision for the control freak society. People don't need to ration children calorie intake, place fines to parents about their children's eating habits (that don't match to a balanced diet). Chicago schools last month have banned parents from giving their children packed lunches. This forced kids to eat in the cafeteria in order to protect students from the potential for "unhealthy homemade lunches." Long, the government tried to use various means to control students. A Mississippi state judge ordered that state officials father the names of every single child being home schooled in the state in order that they be kept on a watch list. Mayor Bloomberg is forced food manufacturers in New York to reduce salt content in food under the National Salt Reduction Initiative. This occurred when they are spending 25 million dollars on a program to fluoridate the water supply with toxic waste or sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride has been found to lowering human IQ, cancers harming the human teeth, bones, the brain, and the thyroid gland. There are dangerous food additives like aspartame and MSG, which are far deadlier than salt. There huge regulations are done by programs and organizations. Wiffle ball, dodge ball, kick ball, freeze tag, red rover, frisbee tossing and tug of war have all been placed under the new rules. If an organization offers two or more recreational activities, with just one being on the "risky" list, it is deemed to be a summer camp and comes under state regulation which entails fees and the necessity to provide medical staff. "Classics like Capture the Flag, Steal the Bacon and Red Rover are also deemed dangerous in new state regulations for day camps," reports the New York Daily News. This is all part of the process of the state replacing the parents as guardians of the children and it is designed to ensure that kids become nothing more than drug-addled, dependent people to society. In Philadelphia, a school district found that some use concealed cameras within machines to spy on students and their parents without their knowledge or consent. The UK have surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to make sure that children go to be on time, attend school, and eat proper meals. So, we should reject a nanny state. Google wants to run things in our homes as well. I do believe in real regulations and governmental services to help human beings. I don't believe that the government should control every aspect of our lives though. We don't need to be enslaved, we should embrace our individuality, and we ought to always oppose oppression in any shape or form. I like my personal freedom and I will fight to defend it.
The TSA has been exposed by lovers of liberty from across the political spectrum as acting like perverts and criminals. One TSA screener is named Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia. He was taught by authorities for distributing more than 100 images of child pornography via Face book. He uploaded explicit pictures of young girls including a picture of him in his TSA uniform. Gordon was arrested by Homeland Security and is being held without bail. FOX News reported on this story. Federal agents said that Gordon routinely searched airline passengers. The Drudge Report linked the story. The Philadelphia Inquirer and other sites wrote on this story, but not the larger corporate media. Ryan Hamilton Jr. wrote for Gather that this incident is troubling for the Transportation Safely Administration. There have been routine discoveries of TSA employees acting in sexually perverse and criminal ways. In February of 2010, another TSA employee (named Charles Bennett of Winter Garden, Florida) was arrested. He was charged with molestation of a minor after police say that he tried to keep a 15 year old girl as a sex slave. Bennets called him Master Charles on his MySpace page. He claimed to be into bondage dominance sadism and masochism. Sean Shanhan was a TSA worker at Logan International airport. Sean was arrested in 2010 for allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages to a 14 year old girl. The inappropriate contact escalated and Shanahan had physical sexual contact with the girl at his home in February over school break according to news reports. TSA once hired an Indianapolis TSA employee that put a man in a headlock and punched him six times in the face during a parking dispute. This man was arrested later. The TSA agents bragged about the power that they wield over the public. . In January of 2010, a TSA agent in Los Angeles proclaimed "I am god, I'm in charge." The agent was arrested after making the delusional claim, according to reports. A Miami TSA agent attacked a colleague who made fun of him in January of 2010. In February of 2011, 2 TSA employees were arrested for stealing around $40,000 in cash from a bag that was checked via a security line at John F. Kennedy Airport. The TSA admitted that over the last 3 years alone there have been 12 similar cases of thefts involving the removal of valuables and/or cash from baggage. Days before the case, a Newark TSA agent pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and kickbacks from a colleague who regularly stole money from passengers during sexual pat downs. TSA agent Quantrez Raphael Sawyer was arrested for participating n many fast food restaurant robberies in Detroit. A news report said that he was employed as a passenger screener/security officer. TSA now conducts many significant background checks like criminal history before candidates are offered a job with the government. The TSA's staff has a large number of violent criminals and sexual perverts on its staff. Tyrannies have people from controversial backgrounds. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler recruited thugs, criminals, and psychopaths to terrorize, torture, and kill anyone who resisted the state. Mao used the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution to kill people. The Red Guard was mostly made up of students and brainwashed young folks. Hitler's SS recruited from the violent Freikorps, specifically the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, a handpicked selection of street fighting thugs. The Nazis envisioned a legion of SS-Lords to rule over subjects of the Lebensraum, or land captured by the German army for the expansion of the racist Third Reich. That is why police states use criminals to try to intimidate the public. The TSA is made up of people brainwashed by the elite. The TSA's pat downs now are similar to sexual molestation. So, we should have civil liberties and rights and these rights ought to be protected.
There is the new behavior metrics technology that allows the government to know what we are thinking. Big Brother is wild. Big Brother has technology that wants to know what we are thinking now. The government isn't trying to force a device in our brain that divulges every thought now. Now, they want to promote behaviormetrics. This is a new omnipresent surveillance technology that is developed for the U.S. Air Force can is destined to be used in law enforcement to "monitor suspicious behavior." The deal is that the system utilizes a camera to track facial movements in order to build up a psychological profile of the individual under surveillance. "Huntsville, Alabama's Photon-X, Inc. recently received an Air Force contract to develop such a camera," reports Wired News. The company claims that with one snap, its sensor can build a three dimensional image of a person's face and the cornerstone of a distinctive "bio-signature" that can be used to track that person anywhere. IN more frame, the device can find that face's unique facial muscle motions. This capture can turn those movements into a "behaviormetric" profile that's even more accurate. This new technology is another step up from DARPA's infamous gait analysis program, which purported to be able to identity terrorists by the way they walked. The program was called as evil and an example of paranoia gone mad. The video demonstration of the technology that features on the Photon X website shows a number of different measurements changing when the subject alters his facial expression from a smile, to a frown, to an angry look. The motion of the face in the device is correlated to an uniform facial muscle model and the motion of each muscle is quantified. There is the Behaviometrics Analysis System to quantify simple data that describes the linear motion of all of the facial muscles in real-time and then interpolate this data using a psychological profiling system. The movements of the muscles in a person's face will alert Big Brother via behavior analysis (in seeing if a suspicious individual may have done a thought crime). The technology can have body posture movement, gait, and micro expressions. It can use operators to track user activity in a covert manner according to the contract description. Some want to use this technology to follow insurgent operations done by the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Law enforcement, banking, private corporations, schools, and universities can witness this technology being used inside of these places. Even casinos, themes parks, retail, and hospitality can track people. This system is made to make humans as cultural robots or objects in the state. This agenda falsely ascribe some independent behavior as equivalent to suspicious or a thought crime. George Orwell never conceived acts like this. The new breed of technology is being used now for the construction of a high tech prison grid that constantly tracks the behavior, movements, and even thoughts of an individual. This makes the world of "1984" look like a walk in the park. The Patriot Act is still a threat on our civil liberties or freedoms. Congress wants to continue as servants of the out of control national security state. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a backroom deal to reauthorizes the insidious surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act for another 4 years. The ACLU reported that Reid and McConnell introduced the bill S. 1038. This will extend the provisions until June 1, 2015. The text of the measure of now hasn't been published. The Patriot Act came almost a decade ago. It was in the wake of the 9/11 provocation and the anthrax attacks. According to the ACLU, the Senate will begin its debate on Monday with votes possible on that same night. The White House is skipping a legal deadline to seek congressional authorization of the military action in Libya under the War Powers Act. According to the Associated Press, few on the Hell are objecting to it. The White House continues to support illegal spying on Americans indefinitely as long as consultations with Congress continue. This extension of controversial parts of the Patriot Act will infringe on our civil liberties like the authorization to seize the records of libraries and other institutions. The tactic of using as little debate as possible to expand the power of the government in a false fashion is evil. Most of the surveillance powers of the Patriot Act are permanent. Yet, 3 controversial provisions have expiration dates in the law since it has serious civil rights abuses. Such suspicions were certainly warranted as dozens of reports by Congress and the Justice Department, media investigations and Freedom of Information Act and other lawsuits subsequently disclosed. The provisions set for renewal are the roving wiretap provision (that gives the FBI the power to get wiretaps from the Foreign Surveillance Court or FISC under the color of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the FISA Act), Section 215, and the lone provision. The roving wiretaps give retroactive immunity to the government's telecommunications' partners. The FBI can investigate people in some cases without a warrant. The FBI can make the say so of one warrant valid nationwide. The Fourth Amendment says explicitly that warrants are only issued particularly describing the place to be searched. Section 215 allows FISC warrants for any type of record or banking statements, etc. The government does not have to demonstrate "probable cause." Government officials need only certify to a judge, without providing evidence or proof, that the search meets the statute's overly-broad requirements and the court has been stripped of its authority to reject the state's application. Surveillance orders under Section 215 can even be based on a person's protected First Amendment activities: the books they read, web sites searched or articles they have published. In other words, exercising free speech under the Constitution can become the basis for examining personal records. The lone wolf provision is bad since it allows the feds to spy on individuals not linked to terrorist groups, but who may share ideological affinities with groups deemed suspect by the secret state. The definition of a lone wolf is ambiguous. The provision was set to expire on February 28, 2011, but the Obama White House extended it until May 27 (where it is set to expire).
The temporary extension failed to extend it since even Tea Party people joined with 122 Democrats to defeat the bill. In fact, the demonstrated conclusively that widespread abuses by the FBI in their issuance of constitution-shredding National Security Letters, handed out without probable cause and attached with built-in secret gag orders, have been used by the Bureau to target innocent Americans. Huge domestic spying occurred in the first 2 years of the Barack Obama administration. It isn't a secret that Barack Obama's White House extended the previous regime's assault on civil liberties and political rights (that benefit the Pentagon and the national security apparatus). The White House wants to expand the power of getting records among the state. They want iPhones and Blackberries to be wiretapped as well. Meanwhile, Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall Congress and privacy advocates "demanding the release of a secret legal memo used to justify FBI access to Americans' telephone records without any legal process or oversight..." People realize that the American Empire is contrary to the interests of the real American Republic. An empire always crumbles and sometimes it will crumble from within. Either the American Empire will crumble and America will survive or the American Empire will crumble and America falls. It will be as simple as those 2 outcomes. The American Empire promotes Homeland Security. That name is an oxymoron, because it doesn't always try to protect our civil rights. The budget for Homeland Security is over 180 billion dollars. Homeland Security deals heavily with a military police response in American soil and over exaggerating so-called terrorist threats (not truly trying to protect our civil liberties. If that would be their true intension they would have opposed the Patriot Act and the USA Military Commissions Act). The Department of Homeland Security spends billions of dollars and used thousands of people to investigate, spy, and harass citizens that are only doing constitutional actions. The Pentagon used billions on overseas infrastructure, buildings, bases, camps, and over 900 billion in arms. This is hypocritical since billions are not spent in building up our infrastructure in America at all. The DHS and the Defense Department intervene forcefully with the military all over the world via overt and clandestine operations. The HS attack offensively overseas against many civilian targets, but it won't oppose TSA oppression and civil liberties violations at home. The Pentagon use interventions overseas, but won't welcome intervention in the form of community shelters, which would provide survival, security, life-saving protection and financial aid for rebuilding their lives. Moreover, Pentagon and the DHS spending on overseas infrastructure, bases and bombs results in deficits are huge, whereas investments in tornado and flood shelters would stimulate jobs, growth and investment in the US. The essence of an Empire is to have investment overseas in trying to control nations, while neglect domestic needs home. The drive toward military supremacy has lead into declines into our domestic security that deals with health, personal lives, social lives, and employment. Now, politicians want to privatize social security and Medicare. The 2 parties have given foreign aid to nations beyond just trade or charity needs and the war on terror is expanding. Soon, one way or other, this war on terror will crush the American Empire. Domestic decay is parallel with unjust military expansion. We don't need an imperial Washington that has tons of money sent to Afghanistan, but little sent to tornado relief in Joplin, Missouri. So, the empire kills its own people in the long run. That is why we should oppose this war on terror since it gives priorities in the wrong direction. Our priorities is how we should help people build their standard of living and not which nation we can conquer utilizing imperialistic methods.
Canadian Politics
Canadian officials are having their secretive agreement on the North American perimeter security agreement. The CFR or the Council on Foreign Relations always had a vision for a North American border pass that would require a biometric data and security clearance to cross borders. There are those that want sovereign nations of American under treaty law to move by stealth. Many Canadians don't like this secrecy. Members of Canada's CTV shown concern that the draft agreement for the 'integrated perimeter security' between the U.S. and Canada is secret and Canadian officials have refused to release plans of it. One of the CTV's panel members said that it seems that the Canadian government has put the cart before the horse or first signing the deal then discussing it. Another panelist quid that he possessed a copy of the agreement that "doesn't exist." The person refuses to show it to viewers because officials were keeping it under wraps. The plan has been classified as a mini-NAFTA that could undermine sovereignty through its integration scheme. "Perimeter agreement could mean goodbye to the 49th parallel," as one journalist put it, emphasizing that the plan utilized the word "integrate." Panelist Robert Fife lauded one of the agreement's worst proposals: utilizing biometric data like iris scans at airport and border checkpoints. Fife has access to the draft. The draft relates directly to the CFR's recommendation for a North American Border Pass. If the CFR had its way, crossing the border would require security clearance for a smart card that would make people to have biometric identifiers and a fee.
The CFR document said that: "Only those who voluntarily seek, receive, and pay the costs for a security clearance would obtain a Border Pass." This plan if it would go into action would go beyond 'trusted traveled' measures and heavily restrict international travel. The Globe and Mail said that the federal government desires the public to accept the agenda of a Canada-U.S. perimeter, yet they want to be covert about it. CTV interviewed Canada's foreign minister named Lawrence Cannon in recent weeks. He was reluctant to speculate on the non-yet public North American perimeter security deal. Cannon told viewers to breathe easily until such an agreement is signed. He wanted people to worry about the economy instead. There has been a reason for this secrecy. The strategy is keeping with the leaked documents obtained in the U.S. from a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit (that proved plans to achieve North American integration by stealth). The concept for the North American perimeter security comes from the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit. It has been written about in CFR documents (that recommended a 2010 North American economic and security community with an external tariff and an outer security perimeter. This Task Force proposing these plans came in March of 2005 in Texas). The Canadian equivalent of FOIA has refused to release documents about the agreement. They were withheld since the government felt it related to cabinet confidence. This secrecy makes sense from the perspective that the CFR warned in Dec. 2010 that a 2011 push for U.S.-Canadian perimeter security would pose challenges: "While the initiative as outlined makes tremendous sense on both sides of the border, it will face significant opposition in Canada from those who fear that national sovereignty will be sacrificed on the altar of continental security." On March 31, the Canadian government made a site to address concerns that the Beyond the Border declaration could violation national sovereignty. Yet, full debate on this issue isn't forth coming by the Canadian government as exposed by critics like the Council of Canadians. Even the U.S. isn't enforcing its own policies on the border since the U.S. Border Patrol is told to not arrest some illegal immigrants in the border. The details of the border perimeter aren't shown until June. Stephen Harper has dissolved the Parliament with the Queen's approval. His government voted a no confidence vote of him and elections will come in May 2, 2011.
Canadian officials are having their secretive agreement on the North American perimeter security agreement. The CFR or the Council on Foreign Relations always had a vision for a North American border pass that would require a biometric data and security clearance to cross borders. There are those that want sovereign nations of American under treaty law to move by stealth. Many Canadians don't like this secrecy. Members of Canada's CTV shown concern that the draft agreement for the 'integrated perimeter security' between the U.S. and Canada is secret and Canadian officials have refused to release plans of it. One of the CTV's panel members said that it seems that the Canadian government has put the cart before the horse or first signing the deal then discussing it. Another panelist quid that he possessed a copy of the agreement that "doesn't exist." The person refuses to show it to viewers because officials were keeping it under wraps. The plan has been classified as a mini-NAFTA that could undermine sovereignty through its integration scheme. "Perimeter agreement could mean goodbye to the 49th parallel," as one journalist put it, emphasizing that the plan utilized the word "integrate." Panelist Robert Fife lauded one of the agreement's worst proposals: utilizing biometric data like iris scans at airport and border checkpoints. Fife has access to the draft. The draft relates directly to the CFR's recommendation for a North American Border Pass. If the CFR had its way, crossing the border would require security clearance for a smart card that would make people to have biometric identifiers and a fee.
The CFR document said that: "Only those who voluntarily seek, receive, and pay the costs for a security clearance would obtain a Border Pass." This plan if it would go into action would go beyond 'trusted traveled' measures and heavily restrict international travel. The Globe and Mail said that the federal government desires the public to accept the agenda of a Canada-U.S. perimeter, yet they want to be covert about it. CTV interviewed Canada's foreign minister named Lawrence Cannon in recent weeks. He was reluctant to speculate on the non-yet public North American perimeter security deal. Cannon told viewers to breathe easily until such an agreement is signed. He wanted people to worry about the economy instead. There has been a reason for this secrecy. The strategy is keeping with the leaked documents obtained in the U.S. from a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit (that proved plans to achieve North American integration by stealth). The concept for the North American perimeter security comes from the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit. It has been written about in CFR documents (that recommended a 2010 North American economic and security community with an external tariff and an outer security perimeter. This Task Force proposing these plans came in March of 2005 in Texas). The Canadian equivalent of FOIA has refused to release documents about the agreement. They were withheld since the government felt it related to cabinet confidence. This secrecy makes sense from the perspective that the CFR warned in Dec. 2010 that a 2011 push for U.S.-Canadian perimeter security would pose challenges: "While the initiative as outlined makes tremendous sense on both sides of the border, it will face significant opposition in Canada from those who fear that national sovereignty will be sacrificed on the altar of continental security." On March 31, the Canadian government made a site to address concerns that the Beyond the Border declaration could violation national sovereignty. Yet, full debate on this issue isn't forth coming by the Canadian government as exposed by critics like the Council of Canadians. Even the U.S. isn't enforcing its own policies on the border since the U.S. Border Patrol is told to not arrest some illegal immigrants in the border. The details of the border perimeter aren't shown until June. Stephen Harper has dissolved the Parliament with the Queen's approval. His government voted a no confidence vote of him and elections will come in May 2, 2011.
Conclusion
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Clearly, the White House is being influenced to take a reactionary approach in Middle East affairs. The corporate media is claiming that the President Barack Obama is standing up to Israel, but he is moderate in his approach. He just wants a 2 state solution with 1967 borders as a starting approach, yet the reactionaries act like he wants the Jewish people to be thrown into the sea metaphorically. A lobbying and propaganda machine wants a one sided approach in the Middle East instead of fair deal to benefit all sides. Israel's wars in numerous cases are funded with American weapons and cash. Now, we have Social Security and Medicare being in threat of being cut (not just Republicans, but some Democrats want this under the guise of the deficit reduction commission). The safety net is under threat. Some professors and politicians have been silenced by even promoting a fair approach in handling Middle East for years. President Jimmy Carter was demonized for saying that some policies in Israel resemble the apartheid era South Africa in a book published in 2008. Both sides have made errors and both sides continue to kill each other. Even the President prostrated at the AIPAC Convention. America does nothing to assist those suffering in Gaza or Lebanon in a real fashion. Barack Obama wants a 2 state solution, but he opposes the Palestinians being recognized by the U.N. Even if the General Assembly wants to support such a measure, the United States will use its Security Council veto to squelch it. Once again, an American president makes certain that the Palestinians get nothing but the shaft. Barack Obama says stated that he made Israel's security "a top priority" and went even further: It's why we're making our most advanced technologies available to our Israeli allies. It's why, despite tough fiscal times, we've increased foreign military financing to record levels." What business does any nation have getting advanced American technology when we are in a recession? None is the answer. Some Israeli paid money to settle in Israel. Many Jewish people lived in Israel continuously for centuries and that's proven. Yet, some Israelis stole Palestinian lands and some Palestinians were forced out of their own homes in the Nakba. Both sides have imprisoned and killed each other in unjustifiable terms. American peace protesters are crushed to death by tractors or executed at sea on missions of mercy to Gaza. Even American sailors were killed on the U.S. Liberty by Israeli war planes. These undisputed facts are kept from public view in this country. Both Republicans and Democrats are in unison in agreeing with the status quo in terms of dealing with Middle Eastern matters. To have peace, both sides should make real agreements on the right of return, land, peaceful resolutions, and other matters. We shouldn't have hatred against every Israeli or Palestinian though.
By Timothy
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