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There's a lot of evidence to suggest that the people behind Bush and company and who chose Obama are pushing hard to use 9/11 and the banking crisis to transform the USA into a kind of fascist state. These are the same oligarchs and their lackeys (international financiers and CIA/Mossad) who likely perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. They even are attempting to merge the USA with Canada and Mexico into a superstate (a North American Union) in which the US Constitution will be null and void. Following Hitler's example, Bush perpetrated much of his power-grabbing quietly, often in secret. On behalf of his fellow elites he gave the office of president more and more power, while doing everything in his power to bring the USA to its knees. Now the oligarchs' new front-man, Obama, has inherited those excessive powers and has not relinquished them. On behalf of his masters Obama continues the effort to bring about a police state while pretending to be our trustworthy and intellient friend and a liberator of the downtrodden. In truth, he's ensuring their future enslavement. Caveat: I mostly stopped adding new evidence of the rising police state to this page in 2007, and since then have focused on putting it instead into my list of 4000+ links. However I do plan to update this page sometime soon. Profile of a Totalitarian Police State vs. USAWhat are the characteristics of a totalitarian police state? Does the USA fit that profile, or is it moving in that direction? Let's review the situation.Anything that threatens the oppressive state is attacked -- even people who talk about the idea of protecting their our liberties from the state.House bill HR1955 entitled "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" passed in October 2007 with 400 votes to 6. It casts a harsh and paranoid view of people seeking to protect the US Constitution, miscontruing them as violent and radical. It refers to the Internet as providing "broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda in the United States." According to this bill's writers definition of terrorism, so does the American Declaration of Independence.
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An activist was arrested in Washington DC for reading the US Constitution aloud in public. PrisonPlanet story 2007-10-02. Any attempt to keep secrets from the State will result in jail and/or torture.While we in the USA still have a right to privacy, in the UK this is no longer the case. If the UK government demands that you provide the key to your encrypted data and you don't give it, you go to jail. ArsTechnica story 2007-10-01.The Leader can use troops (not police) to suppress public demonstrations.Bush can now do this due to the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007. TowardFreedom story.Fascist goons will experiment on prisoners to find better interrogation methods.The CIA has been caught doing this. Guardian 2-Sept-2009.Fascist goons will condemn democracy and argue that the Leader should be made "president for life".The organization Family Security Matters, sometimes featured on Fox News, recently posted a column by Philip Atkinson in which he presented precisely that fascistic argument. It was discovered by web surfers and posted to populist news sites Digg, Reddit, Muvy.org and the like. In response, FSM quickly removed the article. It was then revealed that FSM is a front group for a thinktank called Center for Security Policy whose operatives include the infamous Dov Zakheim who presided over the disappearance of $1 trillion at the Pentagon. Investigation of that loss was halted when on 9/11 something hit the Pentagon, precisely at the office that was charged with looking into that disappearance. The hole in the Pentagon from the object that hit it is far too small for an airliner but looks suspiciously like those made by cruise missiles. Black box data from Flight 77 show that the airliner flew over the Pentagon (see here).
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The cached FSM column by Philip Atkinson. ImpeachmentProject mention. FSM operative appears on Fox News.
The Leader rules by decree or by the A-OK of a rubber-stamp Congress. The rubber-stamp legislature always acts to protect the Leader.This is the classic feature of a dictatorship, and now America as well.Democratic leaders Pelosi and Reid has repeatedly said they will block any attempt to impeach either criminals George W. Bush or Dick Cheney. Raw Story story. Democratic leaders Pelosi and Reid recently gave Bush the ability to perform unlimited spying on US citizens.
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Although his Republican majority rubber-stamp Congress was voted out in 2006, Bush has shown he is eager to rule by decree in their absence.
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'What this statement is saying is the president's claim of executive privilege trumps all.' Washington Post story.
Henchmen of the leader begin publicly advocating and hoping for "another 9/11" to build support for the Leader and to give him a chance to declare martial law & dictatorship.
A mountain of evidence shows that 9/11 was perpetrated by criminal elements in the US government, presumably to help the Neoconservatives set up their world empire that they drone on about on their website. But 9/11 was of course all according to a typical plan employed by dictators. They routinely stage attacks and blame them on outsiders to build public unity and increase their own power over the public.
The Leader and his henchmen must never subjected to criminal prosecution or otherwise held accountable for their crimes.Condi Rice committed treason by sharing state secrets with Israel but she'll go Scot free for sure. Pitt Law Jurist story 2007-10-30.George Bush has permitted his convicted henchman Lewis Scooter Libby to avoid prison and has threatened to pardon him. Bush and Cheney committed numerous felonies before spying on Americans was legalized by the rubber-stamp Congress. They should be impeached, tried, and incarcerated. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who has been caught lying to Congress, seems to be getting away with his crime. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has shown her malfeasance by refusing to impeach Bush or subject him to investigations, despite his many criminal acts. Thus she is allowing him to continue in his criminality and build his police state. Youtube clip. The Leader declares that he will become dictator -- as soon as he can.Bush has laid out the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive which says that in another national emergency he will act as dictator. The problem is, the evidence shows it is Bush and company who are behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11. His henchmen have promised another "series of attacks" soon. RogueGovernment blog story.You may not travel freely within your own country.Over 100,000 Americans have been put on terrorist "watch lists" and thereby prevented from travelling freely on airplanes. AfterDowningStreet mention.You may not enter or leave the country without permission. All police states have either the concept of an explicit "exit visa" or they indirectly prevent citizens from leaving.You might have trouble exiting the USA into Canada near Detroit or Buffalo, where new security towers are being installed to watch over the border. Surveillance towers planned for Detroit and Buffalo.Exit from the US to Canada was prevented by the FBI when they deliberately put anti-war protestors' identifying information into the international criminal database, barring them from entering Canada. PrisonPlanet story Oct. 2007 Department of Homeland Security now wants to have the final say on who can fly out of the USA, by forcing airline checkout counter computers to check DHS's databases before letting people board planes. DailyKos mention 2007-09-17 After January 2007 this is the letter of the law in the USA. LiberalCandy mention. Such a rule was also in effect in Nazi Germany and the USSR. The government will train key members of the community to help control the masses during martial law and act as government spies.It has been revealed that the Feds are indoctrinating clergy into Clergy Response Teams to "quell dissent" and make people willing to accept force relocation, property seizure etc. when martial law is imposed.
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PrisonPlanet story. FEMA plan to use pastors & priests to brainwash people. PrisonPlanet story and related NVOAD website.
Concentration camps are secretly set up to incarcerate large numbers of people. The obedient media keep quiet about the camps.Beginning in the 1970's during Jimmy Carter's administration, the Army began setting up at least 50 concentration camps officially called Civilian Internment Camps around the USA. Of course, we are already familiar with the World War II internment of Japanese, but this might be called a revival or expansion of the idea. Army documents show the camps exist, although an Army official has said they are for detaining illegal immigrants. You should be suspicious of that claim.
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Mindfully.com listing of camps. APFN page. Alex Jones documentary. Army Regulation 210-35 official document.
Homeland Security has contracted KBR to build detention camps for immigrants. GNN story. Citizens are stripped of basic rights.Bush has removed the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. Tribe.net commentary.Most or all of the Constitution's Amendments have been nullified by the USA/PATRIOT acts I and II, under the pretext that some citizens might be terrorists. The evidence however shows that it was probably criminal elements in the US government under the supervision the Bush Administration that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, explained here. (Even if only a scrap of evidence points to this conclusion (hundreds of such scraps do), it should be a cause for alarm given the draconian nature of anti-terror laws.) The Regime pins the label of "terrorist" on any person who disagrees with them or who questions the corporations or key players that support the fascist state.
Road blocks for inspections are everywhere.Not happening everywhere in the USA yet, but they're testing roadblocks in Texas as documented by activists, and I have seen them in New Mexico and there is a well-known roadblock between LA and San diego in southern California ostensibly to catch illegal aliens. Watch this video.Colorado motorists were outraged that at a highway checkpoint, a private company was demanding blood and saliva samples. WorldNetDaily story. In addition, some have alleged that drunk driving checkpoints are being used to perform bogus arrests and illegal searches of vehicles.
Guns will be confiscated because armed citizens and armed ex-military personnel are a risk to dictatorial rule.Indeed, the criminal Administration will use deadly force if necessary to remove guns. The US Tactical Army Command has demanded in brutal terms that all Veterans of Foreign Wars offices give an inventory of all weapons in their possession. Failure of staff to do so will result in their being arrested and imprisoned as thieves. Thus the US government is showing they don't trust their own soldiers. Infowars 9 June 2009 article.In New Orleans, it seems this has already happened. Video of old white woman being attacked by cops who want her gun. Everything you do online will be recorded and tracked.The FBI has been caught sending out illegal, fake "emergency letters" to induce ISPs to hand over information about their users. Don't expect anyone to hold them accountable, though. Inquirer story.The GOP wanted ISPs to retain information about everything you do online, calling the plan the SAFETY Act (HR 599), under the false guise of protecting children from predators or some such nonsense. It seems to have passed. CNET story. A national ID card will be required that will assist the Regime in tracking you wherever you go. Police can demand to see it whenever they like.In the USA, the government's Real ID Act of 2005 will force a national ID upon states and many mundane activities may require showing an ID, because everything you do will be tracked. (Credit cards and cell phones are also potential tracking devices.) Cards will be mandatory as of 2008 and linked to international databases.
(In the UK, the national ID scheme is being opposed by activists and by about half of the population. Not getting one incurs a massive fine. Not paying that fine gets you prison. When you get the card, you have to provide lots of personal details.) Thoughts become crimes.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales proposed a new Orwellian thought crimes law that criminalizes the undetectable intent to copy a CD or DVD or download a song. AmericaBlog story May 2007.Everywhere you go you will be tracked.The FBI can now use your cell phone to silently listen to your conversations even when you aren't using the phone. CNet story.The government is planning to use face recognition will be used to identify people in crowds. USA Today story. It is believed by some that cash transactions will soon come to be discouraged since they are anonymous, and that the national ID card (Real ID) will be required for common purchases. If you print anything with your laser printer, beware that micro-dots on the paper will identify you as the source of the paper. EFF story. Some people fear that a chip implanted in your body. In European mass media there is already some talk of using "biometric" implants, meaning chip implants. Attempts to investigate government wrongdoing are systematically thwarted and punished.The CIA's director expressed an intent to thwart the CIA's internal watchdog, who has been investigating torture allegations. New York Times story 2007-10-11.Recently the Bush Administration fired or forced the resignations of several US Attorneys who were investigating wrongdoing by Republicans. RawStory article. This has led to calls for Alberto Gonzales' resignation, although some believe Karl Rove led the operation. US courts have refused to hear the case of the German citizen Khaled el-Masri who was the victim of extraordinary rendition and was tortured by the CIA. The reason? "National security". Yahoo story. They monitor your library records for books or videos they consider dangerous or threatening to their hold on power.The USA Patriot Act Reauthorization 2005 (HR 3199) allows this.Two Connecticut librarians were issued a gag order in the form of a "national security letter". Wired article. A Philadelphia man was prevented from boarding a plane because of a book he was reading, entitled "Hayduke Lives". City Paper story. The right to a fair trial will be removed.Habeas Corpus, which has been a foundation of Western law for 800 years, has been overturned by Bush and his lackeys in Congress, in the form of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S.3930).Alberto Gonzales has now declared that the US Constitution does not say that every US citizen has the right to Habeas Corpus. But this is wrong because the Constitution specifically says "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." This clearly implies we have the right. Habeas Corpus ensures that a person can see and contest the evidence against him. (Its Latin name literally means "thou hast the body".) Extremely minor things that suggest threats to the Leader will be treated very seriously.Furthermore the lapdog media are quick to publicize this fact in order to condition the masses to fear the Leader and never question him.A man from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania merely ended a "letter to the editor" to the Express-Times of Easton, Pa. about Saddam Hussein with the suggestion that the wrong man was hanged, not specifying who the correct man to hang might be and this prompted the Secret Service to visit him on the suspicion that he meant Bush. Clipmarks story. Kangaroo courts are established to kill off anyone the government dislikes.The Department of Defense has said that "enemy combatants", which is a new term meaning "anyone the Regime doesn't like" that can include any citizen, may now be tried, convicted and executed based on
Key players in previous totalitarian or police state regimes are hired to take part.Homeland Security has hired a former KGB general Yevgeni Primakov and the former head of the Stasi secret police Markus Wolfe. DissidentVoice story.Police in riot gear arrest unarmed protesters en masse. Police treated brutally and jail them in hazardous environments.This has happened several times in New York City and police there continue their abuses. The first time was during the Republican National Convention in 2004, and mass arrests since then have involved Critical Mass, as documented in the film Still We Ride.Christian protesters against the Iraq war were arrested by the hundreds. MSNBC mention. Elizabeth Ritter, an attorney, was shot by police with rubber bullets deliberately in Miami, Florida at an anti-FTAA protest. First they shot her in the back and leg when she turned away, then after they shot through her sign and hit her in the forehead. Then, the low-IQ cops grunt, snicker and make "hoo hoo" sounds about it other afterwards on TV. Later the mayor said he stood by the cops' behavior. CNN video. GNN story August 2006. The power of the Leader(s) will be expanded until it is absolute.Therefore they continually claim that the Leader(s) have such absolute power.Alberto Gonzales has declared that federal judges are unfit to rule on terror policy. MSNBC story. Efforts were made by a Cheney functionary named Addington to expand Cheney's power. Washington Post Anyone who sees something they should not will be harassed by the security services.FEMA Ground Zero videographer has been harassed by the CIA while in exile in Argentina.
The State will keep dossiers on citizens and invade their privacy.Indeed, they will do this without obtaining warrants. (As what Stasi did to East Germans.)
The Total Information Awareness (TIA) program was set up to do this.
The NSA had set up a data-collection operation at Folsom Street
in San Francisco that was discovered by whistleblower Mark Klein.
It was related to TIA.
Now, Obama (AKA OBushma) plans to spy on all Americans' Internet
traffic as well:
The Department of Public Safety is doing this.
Whistleblowers inside the government will be persecuted for trying to hold the fascists accountable.Military whiteblowers are being eliminated. Forbes article 2007-08-24Electronic surveillance of communications: All communications can be monitored without need for a proper warrant.The police state is free to wiretap anyone and their true intention is not to limit monitoring to external enemies.The NSA's secret spying program began many months before 9/11, suggesting that the police state was planned in advance of 9/11. Given that a mountain of evidence shows the government was the main actor in perpetrating the attacks of 9/11, this can be seen as more proof of Bush's intent to move the US to being a fascist state.
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Wired story October 2007.
A whistleblower has outed the NSA's secret spy room at AT&T office on Folsom Street in San Francisco etc. There are more such rooms at AT&T facilities.
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SpamDailyNews story.
The Protect America Act seeks to transform the Internet and phone system into an infrastructure for spying on Americans.
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Wired story.
The NSA warrantless eavesdropping program was deemed outrageously illegal until the rubber-stamp whores in Congress made it legal in the recently passed spying bill, and even gave Bush more than he requested. NY Times article. The Echelon system was set up years ago to monitor all email, phone, and faxes that leave the USA, including those whose signals go up to satellites and back.
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Heise story.
In addition, Bush added in a signing statement recently that he has the power to open any piece of mail without a warrant.
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RawStory article.
As of May 14th, 2007, "cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities" must have FBI wiretap equipment installed.
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Wired article.
The Leader can designate anyone an "enemy combatant" and this allows for indefinite detention.This is now true in the US due to the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
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ZMag story.
Henchmen of the Leader attempt to censor any speech that might offend or show disrespect for the Leader.Peaceful protesters holding impeachment signs disturbingly find their charges upgraded.
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Downers Grove Sun story.
Two citizens were arrested for refusing to conceal their anti-Bush T-shirts on the 4th of July. They later won in court.
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Boston Globe story August 16th 2007.
Two citizens were terrorized by a cop, assaulted and arrested, simply for flying an upside down U.S. flag. JonesReport. A man was arrested for holding an "IMPEACH" sign in Asheville, North Carolina. LewRockwell story. AfterDowningStreet self-description. A man in Kent, Ohio was ticketed for putting a removable Impeach Bush sign in a public garden. Normally the practice is to only penalize the placement of non-removable signs.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer story.
South Dakota looks to remove anti-Bush license plate), The license plate says "MPEACHW".
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The property of the major corporations that back the Regime becomes sacrosanct -- even if that property is stolen or obtained through fraud.Severe punishments are imposed for misuse of corporate property.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales proposed a series of severe punishments for "attempted" copyright infringement (which is a thought crime), along with giving the government additional powers to wiretap individuals suspected of trying to copy something illegally i.e. 95% of teenagers. Torture is allowed (of its own citizens and others) and former torturers are given amnesty. The Leader shows a preference for torture and tells gullible legislators he is against it while he continues to do it.Bush has been exposed as having lied to Congress (which is a felony) when he said he was against torture and intending to stop it, when all along he was quietly ordering it to continue. The Seminal story 2007-10-08.American resident Majid Khan has been held at Guantanamo and says he has been extensively tortured by the military and CIA. MSNBC story. The Bush Administration has been arguing they can torture terror suspects for some time now, for instance at Abu Graib prison and at Guantanamo. But thishas now been made legal due to the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and past torture is deemed to have been legal. ZMag story. Bush has sought retroactive immunity for torturers. Correntewire mention. Also note that torture in US prisons and even prisoner deaths are now commonplace, as detailed in this Channel4 exposé. You will be surveilled by spy cameras.The city of Chicaco has hired IBM to install cameras throughout the city that will be used in conjunction with sophisticated software that they claim will be able to detect "suspicious" activity. Somehow I doubt it will be used to catch Chicago's notoriously crooked cops. IT World story.The ACLU has issued a warning that the USA is becoming a surveillance society. ACLU.org page. You will be surveilled by spy satellite.Ignoring privacy concerns completely, the Feds will now offer local law enforcement access to data from their low-orbit spy satellites. This includes the ability to see inside buildings.
You will be surveilled from the air.Lockheed is building the High Altitude Airship (or HAA) specifically to let Big Brother watch areas of 282743 square miles, or a circle 600 miles across. They plan to build 11 of them. GNN story.The documentary movie Still We Ride explains that Critical Mass bicyclists in New York City have been surveilled from the Fuji blimp, which that corporation provided for use by the NYPD to help control crowds. The government will spy on you using your own computer.It was discovered that a new computer running Microsoft Vista was being contacted by servers from Halliburton, Department of Defense, and probably Homeland Security. This phenomenon was then verified on an entirely different computer.
The US government has long been using software to watch Internet traffic. One system is called Echelon. Another was called Carnivore. Political speech bcomes illegal or dangerous.On 1/18/07, the Senate passed the infamous S.1 bill to which Joseph Lieberman had added section 220, the purpose of which was to vastly expand the category of political speakers to include anyone who speaks to over 500 people and is paid more than a few tens of thousands of dollars. Luckily section 220 was struck out at the last moment, but clearly some Democrats wanted to silence critics of Congress. Thomas.gov link.Minor civil offenses or even harmless behavior are elevated to criminal offenses with substantial jail time.
The military trains to take over cities and towns. Meanwhile laws are quietly changed to make martial law much easier.This appears to be the case in the USA. US Marines have been engaging in urban war games around the USA, barging into the cities sometimes without even telling the local police or city councils first. See my page on this.The 2007 National Defense Authorization Act was passed, which overturns the vital Posse Comitatus that prevents US military from being used against citizens. It also permits Bush to take control of the National Guard directly, without asking the governors for permission. Global Research story. The Leader and his allies makes it clear that they are spying on every citizen and especially those who oppose the agenda of the government.This is key feature of totalitarianism. Companies that help the Leader spy will be granted immunity.The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project is essentially that. Its purpose is to gather information on every single citizen, especially anti-war protesters and others who may dissent. The Pentagon wants to record your every move and to be abled rewind recorded data like with the Tivo. Wired blog. New York City spied on political activists before the 2004 GOP convention.
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Network World story. NY Times story. Judge restricts NYPD surveillance of activists (but will they comply?)
And of course Bush has been allowed to spy on your use of phones, your library activities, and can now open your mail, all without a warrant. Bush has sought to get immunity for companies that help him spy. Blog mention. The Leader takes control of major governmental agencies.Bush has quietly taken control of the regulatory powers of several federal agencies.
Police are militarized -- meaning they receive military gear and training.Some US police departments even have tanks.This is a well-documented trend in US law enforcement that is very disturbing. While cops explain that they have reason to be gearing up, for instance because of gangs, it increasingly seems that gangs are not the real target but rather innocent people are. Testimony before Congress about militarization of police by Radley Balko is at Reason magazine. Paramilitary drug raidsIn case after case, SWAT teams have been called in to break down doors in early morning drug raids, often breaking down the wrong doors and injuring or even killing innocent people. All too often the police act on bogus tips from highly suspect informants.Examples:
SWAT killings of innocent people during bogus raids have often included the use of flash-bang grenades and battering rams, often without police ever bothering to knock on the victims' front doors. Supreme Court has ruled 8 to 1 that police can break into your home and hold a gun to your head while you're naked. Reason story. The Leader and/or his henchmen are revealed to be descended from fascistic types of the past.Research has shown the George W. Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush supported the rise of Nazism in Germany by serving as a director in one or more of the Reich's companies in the USA.Prescott Bush more than likely also took part in the 1933 plot to oust FDR and install a fascist government in Washington D.C.
An effort is made to break the will of spirited young people.The goal is to instill fear and inflict psychological damage so that they won't question the Leader's authority.
This is disturbing but has been reported again and again by local media, but stories disappear quickly from servers as well.
Civilians can be dragged into military tribunals even when no declaration of war exists.This astonishing change has just occurred thanks to Congress slipping a 5-word addition into a spending bill. Civilian government workers and journalists (including bloggers) can be brought on trial in military tribunals, which offer fewer rights than the Constitution is supposed to guarantee. UPI story. JW Harrison blog.S.1, the first US Senate law considered after the 2006 electons, would have put bloggers at risk of prison time for criticizing the government. Luckily that provision was struck at the last moment. Liberty Post story. Citizens who photograph / record video / record audio of police or public officials or public buildings will be treated like criminals.
The Leader criminalizes dissent.Bush criminalized the anti-war movement when he passed an executive order that uses overly vague language to essentially say that "certain persons" who oppose his failing Iraq war can have all their possessions "blocked" and their finances frozen, rendering them essentially penniless and homeless. Tribe.net story.Mass mind-control is commonplace.Efforts to control of Americans' minds began long ago due to the work of Edward Bernays, who was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. This is very well explained in the BBC documentary Century of the Self by Adam Curtis:Supporters of the Leader get luxury treatment.Since the new fascism in America is linked to Israel and not surprisingly Israeli firms are getting 80% of Department of Homeland Security's "security grants" according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Haaretz commentary 2007-10-07.The Leader declares himself above the law and ignores laws and court rulings that he does not like.According to some, Bush has actually said this very thing, and on some occassions has said that if Congress doesn't do his will, he will implement his plans anyway.Bush has ignored a recent court ruling stating that he does not having the power to conduct warrantless surveillance of US citizens and now says he does. NY Times story dated May 2nd 2007. Senator Dick Durbin has criticized Cheney for acting like he is above the law. CrooksAndLiars blog mention. The government clamps down on what the free press can print.Bush has prevented the New York Times from printing a complete version of a commentary about Iran by an intelligence worker, despite that document having been cleared as not sensitive by the CIA. NYT story.Police arrest journalists who ask the wrong questions.Reporter Matt Lepacek was arrested for politely asking Rudy Giuliani a question about his role on 9/11. PrisonPlanet article June 2007.The government clamps down on what you can say in public venues.Activist "Reverend Billy" was arrested in New York City for reciting the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution in the presence of NYPD officers. Gothamist blog mention.A plan is hatched to round up all dissidents and incarcertate or eliminate them.Operation FALCON appears to be that plan. At first it was about rounding up gang members and Internet predators. People increasingly suspect it is for much more than that.
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Market Oracle story. Mparent blog refers to a right-winger who claims to have a 900 page report of the plan.
Corporations (which are by definition major players in any fascist state) exert their power over the fates of individuals.
The government clamps down on buskers i.e. street musicians.A flutist and a singer were arrested for performing street music in Philadelphia. MSNBC story.Scapegoats of the Leader are treated poorly but their defenders are also hounded.We all know about the torture at Guantanamo and Abu Graib, but now the US general who is in charge of Guantamano is publicly attacking the lawyers of detainees. WSWS story.Any information that might harm the Dictator is made a state secret and everyone is forbidden to speak it or print it -- on pain of serious punishment.The Bush administration has consistently made classified any information that might harm it, especially information that is evidence of extreme illegaility or otherwise wrongdoing by the administration. Slate mention.The government clamps down on what scientists can say in public.The Bush administration has created new rules to prevent USGS scientists from talking about global warming, which the oil industry doesn't want the public to think is a real problem. Washington Post 12/13/06 story.The number of police officers is expanded drastically while the rules for their conduct are forgotten.All over the USA, regular unskilled security guards are being given full police authority despite their lack of training or professionalism. This is deemed necessary because of crime, even though crime rates have not increased and are actually down. Perhaps a secondary reason for it is terrorism, but that's bogus of course.By giving lowly security guards the same authority to arrest and search as cops, but none of the responsibilities to uphold the Constitution, we can see the direction that the police state is taking: it is becoming a private, corporate police state.
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Washington Post story.
Elections will be rigged and most politicians will not bother to take notice. Neither will the media.The rigging of the 2004 elections was widely covered on the Web and by local news agencies in Ohio, and indeed the House Judiciary Committee even produced a 100 page report on what went wrong in Ohio, after the election and during the recount. Yet who, besides Keith Obermann fans heard about either the rigging or the report from most politicians or the national media?Finally we are seeing some court cases about the rigging. AP story. During the 2000 election, as investigative journalist Greg Palast showed, tens of thousands of Floridians were illegally dropped from the voting roles, which meant that the popular vote went to Bush. People went to vote as always, but were told wrongly that they were dropped on suspicion of being felons. Who was behind this fraud? George W Bush's brother, Jeb Bush. Greg Palast story. Brad Blog. Black Box Voting. During the 2004 election, the Florida situation stood, even though a court told Jeb Bush to reinstate the illegally barred voters. It was only in 2006 that the unreliable and easily tampered-with electronic voting machines and computer vote tabulation software registered with the national media, and Diebold became familiar to politically astute members of the public because of continual problems with their machines. Did this change anything? No. Because both major parties stand to gain from election rigging. Top leaders begin inventing new titles for themselves.Cheney has said he no longer wants to be referred to as the Vice President but rather using the mysterious name "Senior Administration Official." Frameshop story.The government ignores existing laws the fascists do not like as well as important checks on power.They plan to eliminate them along with any other vestiges of democracy.The Bush Administration has been ignoring US laws including the Constitution, it seems, from day 1. Consider the plan to bring about the NAU or North American Union. Activists have had to use Freedom of Information Act requests to learn about it, because the media are turning a blind eye and the Congress hasn't even heard about it. NAU is initially called the SPP, or Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
Peculiar obsessions with wrongdoing will arise to justify the police state. It will later appear that the government itself instigated these crimes.School and university massacresThe tragedy at Virginia Tech was certainly a real event, but came about in large part due to the FBI's having told the cops to "stand down" after the first two shootings happened. Without that order, probably 90% of the deaths could have been avoided. Amazing but true. VA Tech was a let-it-happen-on-purpose (LIHOP) tragedy. Prison Planet story, suppressed by the mainstream media.In Indiana, a Chinese teenager has been deemed a 'terrorist threat' for making map of his school for a video game. Fort Bend Now article. In Cary, Illinois, a straight-A high school student wrote an essay that 'disturbed' the teacher, therefore he was arrested. Slashdot story. In a community college in Media, Pennsylvania (DCCC) administrators went bonkers when they received anonymous threatening emails and shut the school down. The email threats said violence would occur on certain days at certain campuses. Reality check: If you were going to, let's say, rob a bank, would you tell multiple people at the bank in advance when you were going to show up? No. More than likely the emails were sent by the government in order to scare or scapegoat people. DCCC has many poor student and Muslim students. Phoenixville News story. Those who criticize the Leader will be singled out for harrassment.It is said that many who have criticized Bush have found themselves on "No Fly" or "Terrorist Watch" lists, prevented from boarding airplanes.
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A Princeton University professor emeritus found out he couldn't fly because he was on a Terrorist Watch List. Blog mention.
The government will be exposed as engaging in deliberate and often expensive propagandizing and misinformation at the expense of taxpayers.Bush has spent $1.6 billion on propaganda inside the USA targeting the minds of Americans. This "prepackaged news" is illegal. Every act of misusing taxpayer money to produce and distribute it is a felony.
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Washington Post story.
It has recently been revealed thanks to the work of Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico that the CIA, FBI, and unethically-tainted companies such as Diebold and Fox News have been editing Wikipedia entries to reflect their political agendas.
Violations of law by police and minor authorities become commonplace.
Sexual self-expression is punished.It will be as Orwell portrayed in his novel 1984.
Every excuse is found to suggest each citizen is a dangerous criminal.Furthermore, every move he or she makes is considered suspect and indicative of terrible inner desires. Look at someone cross-eyed and you're immediately assumed to be a rapist, a stalker or a pedophile, or a criminal "casing the joint".
Secret police goons visit dissidents to beat them up and haul them away.This helps keep educated people under their thumb.Investigative reporter Chris Bollyn was beaten up and arrested by Homeland Security goons in front of his wife and child, forcing him to go into hiding. Infowars story. Corporate goons can abuse you and you have no recourse because authorities at every level routinely side with corporations and against citizens.A man was abused by security guards at a TigerDirect retail store and found himself powerless to retaliate legally. Kuro5hin story.Police engage in public acts of torture of innocent civilians to help keep the public in a submissive state.These days this typically involving a Taser electrocution gun.In Seattle, a pregnant woman needed to pee during a routine traffic stop, and when cops refused to allow her to she tried to walk to a bathroom. They used their Taser on her and the unborn child. 50,000 volts shot through her and the fetus. SeattlePI story. A video of a woman being tasered excessively during a traffic stop. Broadcaster link. An Austin, Texas cop was forced to resign for not tasering an elderly man. Austin Chronicle story. NowPublic copy of story. University of Florida student trying to put the hard questions to John Kerry and is man-handled, then brutalized and arrested before he even finishes speaking, while moronic students cheer on the cops. (Fascism in America -- possible only with public support.) YouTube video. A 17-year-old was tasered to death by police in Illinois. ZWire story. Torture of civilians by police in plain sight of civilians has been a growing phenomenon across the USA. Recently at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a student was tortured using Taser guns. These guns cause pain and paralysis for up to a minute, yet the cops will typically repeat their demand for their victim to stand up. When he or she cannot, they tasered the victim again and again.
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LA Times story.
A man was assaulted and tasered by police at Minneapolis St Paul international airport, simply for leaving the airport by bicycle. GreenCycles blog article. In Atlanta, Georgia, a historian walking to a conference was beaten up by cops in front of the hotel and then jailed. What did he do wrong? He jaywalked. HNN story. A woman was hog-tied and tasered by police in jail. She was, of course, unarmed and confined at the time. News Leader story 2007-09-18. In Los Angeles, an autistic boy was tasered for pushing a shopping cart. LA Times story. In St. Louis, Missouri, a cop angrily berated a man for parking in a parking lot in the early morning hours. Previously cops had had a run-in with this man and a death threat had appeared on a cop-specific online forum targetting him. (The Newspaper story) Unfortunately for the angry cop, the man had the foresight to install a videocamera in his car and was recording the entire encounter. The cop was subsequently fired. Officer.com story. In Georgia, a couple videotaped a cop speeding by their home. The cop retaliated by accusing them in court of "stalking" him. Daily Tribune story. In Sarasota, Florida, two officers illegally entered a man's house and were justly beaten by him. Herald Tribune story. Police engage in acts of brutality to help keep the public in a submissive state.Videos have emerged on the Internet of police brutalizing unarmed civilians, even public officials: beating them up, tackling them, tasing them, even shooting them. No doubt a few of the incidents are staged to keep the populace in a state of fear.An actual list of incidents would be too long to provide here, so this is just a few.
Foreigners entering the country will be subjected to extreme interrogations to find out their political views and sexual orientation.This invasion into privacy is happening and really shows the Nazification of the USA. Guardian story.A British mother who flew into Miami International was interrogated for no good reason. Digg story. A female British journalist received harsh interrogation upon flying into LAX (Los Angeles Intl. Airport). Guardian story. A Brazilian was mistreated at LAX as well. London Daily story. (Note: I tried to confirm this story but got no response from the author.) The government seeks to restrict freedoms of all students -- not just foreign students.The FBI has been going around telling universities to limit what students can do, using the excuse that they might be foreign spies. PressEsc story.Police gain more weapons and armor. But protesters are forbidden from protecting themselves with armor or shields.As far as I know, it's illegal for protesters to wear anything resembling protective gear in the USA.In addition, development of "stormtrooper" gear is speeding up. The Pentagon is developing a Robocop-like suit that looks extraordinarily similar to what cops use to put down protests. Daily Mail story. Every ignorant dope in a position of authority decides he is an expert on criminality and becomes a petty tyrant.He forms fantasies about bad guys. He plugs total strangers into his fantasies, or simply exploiting or breaking the rules for personal gratification.
The Leader recognizes that the middle-class and poor are the enemies of fascism. He launches attacks against them.Bush and his henchmen have joyfully used mass importation of foreign workers to attack the job prospects of poor Americans as well as white collar workers. NumbersUSA.While anti-war protests are ignored by the media and responded to with legions of cops in riot gear, mass protests by illegal foreign workers are allowed and widely covered in the media. Police and city governments declare war on the poor and especially the homeless whom they treat like inhuman brutes.Police in St. Petersburg, Florida attacked a cluster of tents owned by the homeless and it was caught on video. They did at the request of the mayor and it came after the police told all the homeless to move themselves to a specific out of the way spot, apparently because that was the best place for the police to attack them. Video of the police perpetrating crimes.Orlando, Florida man arrested for feeding homeless: ABC story. WFTV story. In Las Vegas, Nevada, the war on the homeless is declared and in the open. It's organized by the mayor, who is a former defense lawyer for the mafia. LA Times story. As the Army finds fewer and fewer citizens want to help the Leader in his crazy foreign wars of aggression his henchmen begin talking about a draft again.
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Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look Huffington Post story.
Corruption and waste are endemic.This is an entire issue unto itself. Just one example:
Police-state behavior internationallyIt now seems that Western governments in general are being more and more oppressive, under the guise of fighting terrorism. Yet very often it is hard to see any connection between this oppression and any conceivable link to terrorism.There is a lot of evidence which I haven't had time to collect here. Czech RepublicHere is one link about what happened to people at a rave party in the Czech Republic: Police brutality photos.RussiaRussia is transforming under Putin back into a police state. There are many examples of how this is happening, and this webpage is not the proper place for them.Examples:
Opposition leader & chess champion Gary Kasparov was arrested at a rally. BBC story. ItalyDuring the 2001 G-8 summit in Genova, Italy, one protester was brutally murdered by a cop and many others were very seriously injured when cops stormed their building and mercilessly attacked them, despite their being unarmed.Now, it seems that key evidence needed for holding the police accountable has simply disappeared. BBC story. United KingdomnNow, if the UK government demands that a citizen provide the key to his encrypted data and doesn't give it, he goes to jail. ArsTechnica story 2007-10-01.The UK arrested two men merely for looking at police and passing a letter between them. Infowars article. A British teenager was arresting for owning a copy of an anarchist manual. The USSR and Nazi Germany had similar policies of arresting people who the books they own. BBC story. The UK government expressed a desire to collect DNA from speeders and litterbugs. Times story. Any excuse will do, it seems. The UK plans to fingerprint 5.9 million children. Daily Mail story. The UK has taken DNA samples from 4.1 million people, at least 500,000 of them children. A third of the total have no criminal records. The Register story. In the UK, there is a national ID scheme being forced upon British subjects. It is being opposed by activists and by about half of the population. People who refuse to get the new ID face a massive fine, Not paying that fine gets them put in prison. Signing up to get the card requires providing a large number of personal details. Big Brother, indeed. Also in the UK, security cameras are now being used by police to order citizens around. "You in the black jacket! Drop the traffic cone!" Etc. Bloomberg story. Now, in the UK, regular police are using torture techniques! Several cops have been charges with waterboarding a suspected drug dealer.
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Times Online 10 June 09
A woman was arrested for sitting and reading a newspaper near 10 Downing Street. A woman was arrested merely for reading aloud in public the names of dead British soldiers. BBC story 7 December 2005 European UnionISPs have been warned that "aiding and abetting" copyright violations could lead to CEOs being jailed. Ars Technica story.BelgiumAs Europe becomes more and more over-run with angry Muslims who have no respect for European culture and laws, some Europeans are taking a stand. Unfortunately, European globalist elites are responding violently, even when those taking a stand are elected partialmentarians. Brussels Journal article 2007-09-11.GermanySigns are appearing that Germany has signed on to the globalist police state agenda.
The order that gave East German border guards license to shoot and kill even women and children has been found: BBC story. CanadaThree Canadian activists were kidnapped and tortured by rogue paramilitary police for investigating the Bilderberg Group. PrisonPlanet story.Canadian cops tried to use provocateurs to infiltrate an anti-SPP rally there and cause some violence. Their goons were spotted however before he could do anything. Youtube video. In Canada, the cops have a device for automatically scanning license plates of cars from cop cars, both while driving down a road and at 90 degrees while driving in parking lots. Infowars story and video. In Edmonton, a cop was fired after using a Taser on a jaywalker. Edmonton Sun story. FranceFrance has banned citizen journalists from reporting on public violence, a la Rodney King video, presumably so that cops can't be held accountable. MacWorld story.A musician was brutalized by cops at Paris airport for wanting to take his instrument onboard as a carry-on. CBS News story. I myself observed many French police and military in Paris, both at tourist sites and train stations. SpainA disco called Baja Beach Club in Barcelona is trying to make the idea of customers getting a chip implanted in their hands trendy. The club is run by an American, Conrad Chase. CIA front? PrisonPlanet story. Expatica article.DenmarkAfter some squatters were evicted in Copenhagen, protesters rallied and 250 people were arrested. Fox News story.MaltaA cop assaulted a 70 year old French woman, luckily caught on video. Metacafe link.ChinaChina is well known as a police state, with the Tiananmen Square massacre (1400 killed) being big tip of the iceberg of human rights offenses. CBC video. BBC video.Now they even have mobile execution buses. USA Today story June 14th 2006. American companies are helping China set up security cameras everywhere that will perform automatic facial recognition.
They will also institute a national ID card, which will solve the problem of rural Chinese who migrate to cities having multiple cards. BurmaBurma is synonymous with oppression however this story is particular interesting: Christians to be 'wiped out' by racist Buddhist government.Goodbye to the US dollarSome are saying that when the US dollar collapses, which will happen when China sells off its US Treasury stockpile because it's only China now that's holding up the dollar, the President will push for a new NAFTA currency called the Amero or for a world-wide currency. StopSPP story.Documentary FilmsCheck out my favorite documentaries at zsmith.tk.
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