TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER

[Anonymous]

The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty


A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as Patriot Act II
By Alex Jones  http://www.infowars.com , February 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.


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, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly threatening member on Congress that if they didn?t vote in favor of it that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the White House?s own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable offence.


2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.


I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity.


Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:


SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration?s ?enemy combatant? definition to all American citizens who ?may? have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is ?any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.?) Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn?t broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.


Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person ?had inferred from conduct? that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the ?enemy combatant? terrorist designation.


SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have arrested and they never have to release the names.


SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national database of ?suspected terrorists? and radically expand the database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as ?terrorist.? These sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.


SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights across the board.

SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and again strip them of all rights under the ?enemy combatant? designation.

SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.

SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.

SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.

SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contemp charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.

SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has told us: ?this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever.?

SECTION 111 expands the definition of the ?enemy combatant? designation.

SECTION 122 restates the government?s newly announced power of ?surveillance without a court order.?

SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage reads, ?thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime.?

*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.

SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to take 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 warantless 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.

http://www.infowars.com/print_patriotact2_analysis.htm

[Does posting this message make me a terrorist? Will your local police go along, rank and file, with the new regime?]

[Anonymous]

I think that if this passes as is I will be moving to Canada and I don't even honestly believe that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks but obviously he has benefited from them far more than Osama bin Laden has.

The Constitution of United States and the Constitutions of the several states are the only law I recognize. Any act of the executive, legislature, or judiciary which violates those documents is null and void.

Perhaps there is a reason why much of the Constitution and the Bill of rights was written in mostly plain english instead of legalese. Obviously there are some exceptions but remember that Latin used to be an essential part of any European style education, even elementry level. It is so that ordinary people can understand the literal meaning of the words and their implications and can point out the hypocrisy in official interpretations that ignore both the meaning and intent of those words.  Of course no one ever imagined that a massive public education system would have stripped the population of its critical thinking skills in preperation for a tyranical reign.


Even King George did not allow the execution of Juveniles, even King George did not tax us at this level, even King George did not attempt to force a vote in Parliament without allowing the bill to be read.

I would prefer a King George to a President George Bush any day of the week and twice on sundays.

[Anonymous]

[note: Read the final paragraph.]
By Susan Cornwell
11 Feb 2003  23:40
 
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Congress moved a step closer to reining in a Pentagon computer dragnet on Tuesday as an amendment holding up funds for the program was tucked into the final version of a bill, the provision's author said.
 
Last week the Pentagon sought to head off congressional action against its fledgling Total Information Awareness project, which would scour databases for terrorist threats, by setting up two advisory committees to assuage concerns about the program's impact on privacy.
 
But Sen. Ron Wyden said he was assured by congressional leaders that his amendment suspending funding for the program had been included in a massive government spending bill by House and Senate negotiators, with minor modifications.
 
The spending package, meant to tie up the loose ends of last year's unfinished federal budget, is expected to go to the floor of both chambers by the end of this week.
 
"It looks to me like the Congress is getting the message loud and clear from the public, and that message is stop the trifling with the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans," Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
 
"We've been told by the leadership that it is now expected to be in the final bill," he said of his amendment.
 
The Pentagon says the aim of the Total Information Awareness computer project, which it revealed last year, is to seek patterns in transactions like credit card bills and travel records to stop terrorist plots.
 
But last month the Senate unanimously passed the amendment by Wyden and co-sponsor Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa after critics from across the political spectrum said they were worried about government snooping on ordinary citizens.
 
ACCOUNTABILITY
 
The amendment would ban funding for the research project, which is under the direction of former national security adviser John Poindexter, unless the administration within 90 days explains it in a report to Congress -- including its impact on civil liberties.
 
The original proposal had required a report within 60 days, but the House and Senate negotiators decided to give the Bush administration a little more time, Wyden said.
 
The final version of the amendment also bars any deployment of the technology against citizens in the United States without congressional approval, Wyden said. That was a relaxation of the original proposal, which would have barred any deployment of the systems in the United States without congressional approval.
 
The change would allow it to be deployed against non-U.S. citizens living in the United States, Wyden said.
 
"What this has been all about is whether you were going to give the government a blank check to snoop on law-abiding Americans on U.S. soil," Wyden said.
 
"Now we are saying you can't do that without congressional authorization. And you can't even go forward with the reserach without detailing what it is to be about, and the whole exercise has got to be part of a vigorous oversight regime," he said.
 
President George W. Bush's budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 calls for the TIA project to get $20 million, Pentagon officials said last week. They said it gets $10 million in the current year's budget.
 
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11180497