Alans
02-01-2002, 05:40 PM
CCOPS:
Concerned Citizens Opposed to Police States
January 29, 2002
Pentagon Asks for Homeland Command
Americans Sleep Through Tyranny
In September, when President Bush announced creation of the warm, fuzzy-sounding Office of Homeland Defense, the CCOPS Totalitarian Time Clock took its biggest leap ever
http://www.ccops.org/alert20010921.html
We warned that this was not a spontaneous response to the September 11 attacks, but was the foundation of an existing, but little publicized, bipartisan plan to turn the U.S. into a virtual police state. You can read that plan in full, newly dressed up in patriotic graphics, at its own U.S. government Web site:
http://www.nssg.gov/phaseIII.pdf
One of the wish-list items on this federal "Roadmap for National Security" was to turn the U.S. military into a domestic police force. Well, just four months later and here it is, folks. The Pentagon is asking the White House for authority to set up a Homeland CINC (Commander-in-Chief), giving a single four-star general authority over U.S. domestic operations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42765-2002Jan26.html
This new command would reorganize some of the legitimate military authority the Pentagon already has, like patrolling U.S. skies and waters against attack. But it bids to make the military a permanent fixture in U.S. domestic law enforcement.
Since 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act has prohibited the military from searching, seizing, and arresting anyone within the United States. Exceptions have been made for suppression of insurrections and "domestic disturbances." In the late 1990s, the Pentagon was also given authority over nuclear, biological, or chemical threats within U.S. borders.
What will happen when there's a permanent, full-time command dedicated solely to domestic uses -- and with nothing else on its mind? Have you ever heard the term "mission creep"? Expect the "emergency" presence of soldiers in U.S. airports to become permanent. Expect military roadblocks in border states. And above all, expect the already vague definition of "domestic disturbance" to broaden ... and broaden ... and broaden.
"Domestic disturbance" could be something as simple as a gun-rights rally, a gun show, a tax-day protest, or a public forum on fully informed juries. It could be a town meeting where citizens get "too angry" at their representatives. It could be an illegal fireworks display on the Fourth of July. Or a property-rights defense like the ones that have taken place all across the West in the last several years.
And remember: Gen. Colin Powell has long favored "gun-control." How would you like to have the military assisting with an "emergency" firearm-registration scheme -- or worse, helping track down and round up resisters of registration or confiscation schemes?
Government agents will reassure you, "Oh, no, that's not what 'domestic disturbance' means. Anyone who tells you things like that is hysterical." Well, if "domestic disturbance" has a specific, limited meaning, why not write the limit into law? Why not make it as clear as the difference between a red light and a green light? Vague, open-ended language in the hands of people seeking power is *dangerous* -- and most dangerous of all when backed by raw military force and an attitude in which every opponent is an enemy to be destroyed.
People, this is tyranny, pure and simple. And it's arriving, as tyranny nearly always does, packaged in the pretty pink ribbons of "safety" and "security." It's to protect the American "homeland" (a feel-good propaganda word -- like the German "fatherland" and Russian "motherland" -- that never needed to be used when America was truly the land of the free).
NO, IT ISN'T "FOR OUR OWN PROTECTION." Soldiers, permanently on law-enforcement duty in the U.S., seeing each and every one of us as a potential enemy, is NOT good.
Wake up, America! Realize what's going on, then please do two things:
Educate your friends, family, children, neighbors, and co- workers. (It might help to have them read the anti-propaganda article "How to Recognize a Skunk"
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20020126.htm
from CCOPS sister organization, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.)
Call your worthless congressperson and deliver a fierce reminder that there are plenty of other worthless politicians out there, waiting to take that one's place if this kind of thing isn't stopped, and stopped pronto.
Don't sleep your way to tyranny. Don't help those around you delude themselves any longer. Not unless you want tanks full of soldiers crashing their way into the local diner for doughnuts.
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Concerned Citizens Opposed to Police States
January 29, 2002
Pentagon Asks for Homeland Command
Americans Sleep Through Tyranny
In September, when President Bush announced creation of the warm, fuzzy-sounding Office of Homeland Defense, the CCOPS Totalitarian Time Clock took its biggest leap ever
http://www.ccops.org/alert20010921.html
We warned that this was not a spontaneous response to the September 11 attacks, but was the foundation of an existing, but little publicized, bipartisan plan to turn the U.S. into a virtual police state. You can read that plan in full, newly dressed up in patriotic graphics, at its own U.S. government Web site:
http://www.nssg.gov/phaseIII.pdf
One of the wish-list items on this federal "Roadmap for National Security" was to turn the U.S. military into a domestic police force. Well, just four months later and here it is, folks. The Pentagon is asking the White House for authority to set up a Homeland CINC (Commander-in-Chief), giving a single four-star general authority over U.S. domestic operations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42765-2002Jan26.html
This new command would reorganize some of the legitimate military authority the Pentagon already has, like patrolling U.S. skies and waters against attack. But it bids to make the military a permanent fixture in U.S. domestic law enforcement.
Since 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act has prohibited the military from searching, seizing, and arresting anyone within the United States. Exceptions have been made for suppression of insurrections and "domestic disturbances." In the late 1990s, the Pentagon was also given authority over nuclear, biological, or chemical threats within U.S. borders.
What will happen when there's a permanent, full-time command dedicated solely to domestic uses -- and with nothing else on its mind? Have you ever heard the term "mission creep"? Expect the "emergency" presence of soldiers in U.S. airports to become permanent. Expect military roadblocks in border states. And above all, expect the already vague definition of "domestic disturbance" to broaden ... and broaden ... and broaden.
"Domestic disturbance" could be something as simple as a gun-rights rally, a gun show, a tax-day protest, or a public forum on fully informed juries. It could be a town meeting where citizens get "too angry" at their representatives. It could be an illegal fireworks display on the Fourth of July. Or a property-rights defense like the ones that have taken place all across the West in the last several years.
And remember: Gen. Colin Powell has long favored "gun-control." How would you like to have the military assisting with an "emergency" firearm-registration scheme -- or worse, helping track down and round up resisters of registration or confiscation schemes?
Government agents will reassure you, "Oh, no, that's not what 'domestic disturbance' means. Anyone who tells you things like that is hysterical." Well, if "domestic disturbance" has a specific, limited meaning, why not write the limit into law? Why not make it as clear as the difference between a red light and a green light? Vague, open-ended language in the hands of people seeking power is *dangerous* -- and most dangerous of all when backed by raw military force and an attitude in which every opponent is an enemy to be destroyed.
People, this is tyranny, pure and simple. And it's arriving, as tyranny nearly always does, packaged in the pretty pink ribbons of "safety" and "security." It's to protect the American "homeland" (a feel-good propaganda word -- like the German "fatherland" and Russian "motherland" -- that never needed to be used when America was truly the land of the free).
NO, IT ISN'T "FOR OUR OWN PROTECTION." Soldiers, permanently on law-enforcement duty in the U.S., seeing each and every one of us as a potential enemy, is NOT good.
Wake up, America! Realize what's going on, then please do two things:
Educate your friends, family, children, neighbors, and co- workers. (It might help to have them read the anti-propaganda article "How to Recognize a Skunk"
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20020126.htm
from CCOPS sister organization, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.)
Call your worthless congressperson and deliver a fierce reminder that there are plenty of other worthless politicians out there, waiting to take that one's place if this kind of thing isn't stopped, and stopped pronto.
Don't sleep your way to tyranny. Don't help those around you delude themselves any longer. Not unless you want tanks full of soldiers crashing their way into the local diner for doughnuts.
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