Apocalyptic Hope ....... mLaw part 2 .......... mLawpart 3 ..........mLaw4.................. MLaw Index- 12 Articles

" habeus corpus" = holding a person indefinitely in jail, without a trial

" posse comitatus " = military forces used over one's own countrymen

treachery = foreign forces on our own soil ( NWO -- MNF Multi-national force )

One Man Awake
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/awake.html

"They that can give away essential liberty to obtain a little safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, inscribed upon the Statue of Liberty

Martial Law----Changing Laws
"And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws".....Daniel 7:25

Newspeak :
Bush says need to secure civil liberties by eavesdropping -- Dec. 17, 2005
" President Bush said Saturday he personally has authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. more than 30 times since the Sept. 11 attacks and he lashed out at those involved in publicly revealing the program.
"This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I will continue to do as long as I am president of the United States," Bush said."
The debate over the Patriot Act was fueled anew by a New York Times report that Bush had secretly authorized eavesdropping on individuals in the United States without first gaining permission from the courts
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1416133
and
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/16/news/patriot.php
Ed : The Democrats are not Snow White. It was the Democratic President Clinton who gave the Chinese all the super computers to spy on us. This is not a Republican- Democratic issue ... this is a violation of the basic need for anonymity and privacy.

Bush raps Senators opposing Patriot Act -- Dec. 17, 2005
Opponents of renewing the law ... argue that it threatens constitutional liberties at home.
Of the 55 Republicans in the Senate, four helped to block its passage while two of the 45 Democrats pushed to pass it
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_patriot_act;_ylt=AlfW03MdwICMA0xb248eu9Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDM
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NSA trespassing -- Dec. 17, 2005
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said it was inappropriate for the super-secret National Security Agency to eavesdrop without warrants on people inside the United States. He promised hearings on Bush's NSA directive
The best overt example of this is ... the so-called libraries provision of the Patriot Act. There's no doubt in my mind that it is constitutional, but it seems offensive to the sensibilities of a lot of Americans and may be an example of how protecting our national security can go too far into the core American values," Newcomb said.

In the debate over torture, [Tom ] Newcomb said the White House may be fighting to protect executive-branch prerogatives that are not needed by the intelligence community.
"I do think that any interrogators need some broad guidelines to enable them to do their jobs," he said. "However, it's axiomatic ... that the more duress the less reliable the information is that you get."
[Tom Newcomb, assistant professor of criminal justice and security studies at Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_re_us/casualty_of_war;_ylt=AgUul4YCVhkhLgYOMazBcsWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3O
XIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
Ed : Torture is diabolical no matter what label you put on the person. To rationalize the Geneva Conventions because of the term "enemy combatants" is to justify a heinous act against any human being. There is no justification for torture.

Reading the fine print ... Dec. 17, 2005
It should have been unmitigated good news when President George W. Bush finally announced Thursday that he would back Senator John McCain's proposal to ban torture and "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment at U.S. prison camps.

But this is the president who scrapped the rules on the decent treatment of prisoners in the first place and whose lawyers concocted memos on legalizing torture.  On closer inspection, the feeling of relief faded fast.  McCain's amendment is attached to a malignant measure - introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, and now cosponsored by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee - that would do grievous harm to the rule that the government cannot just lock you up without showing cause to a court

Bush had barely announced his deal with McCain before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made it crystal clear that the administration would define torture any way it liked. He said on CNN that torture meant the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental harm, and repeated the word "severe" twice. He would not even say whether that included "waterboarding" - tormenting a prisoner by making him think he is being drowned
[ Duncan ] Hunter's legitimate concerns have already been addressed with a provision that would allow CIA agents to defend themselves against torture charges by saying they were following legal orders. That protection is already provided to uniformed soldiers. The latest objections by Hunter, who has helped Vice President Dick Cheney try to block McCain's amendment, are just a smokescreen.  
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/16/opinion/edtorture.php

Defining torture so as to do away with conscience --Dec. 17, 2005
Rationalizing, justifying, defending and denying ... Anything goes
The now notorious Justice Department Bybee memorandum prepared in 2002 for Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales had declared that acts of interrogators "may be cruel, inhumane or degrading" but still not torture. The department set the bar for torture so high that almost any cruel measure would be permissible under U.S. law.

The memorandum's definition of the level of severe pain that had to be met for torture sounded particularly strange to physicians - pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." Even more extreme was the definition of psychological torture requiring that the torturer "intended to cause prolonged mental harm." Under this interpretation the interrogators could escape liability by saying that none of them specifically intended to cause the prolonged mental harms that detainees have apparently suffered.  

In January [ 2002 ] , Gonzales, by then nominee for attorney general, explained why the lines had been drawn this way. He stated that torture was forbidden but that interrogation involving cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment was not forbidden if it took place outside the United States and American citizens were not the victims [ Ed: inexcusable rationalization ] - tailor-made for Guantánamo Bay and the CIA. This was the Justice Department's interpretation of the international treaty ratified in 1994, called the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
[ this lacks the moral high ground of the Geneva Conventions ]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/16/opinion/edstone.php

"Deconstructing Mr. Farah " by John J. Parsons
Joseph Farah opens Pandora's box of torture
pragmatism, utilitarianism, Machiavellian .."ends justify the means "
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Farah/farah.html

"Christian Wimps" by Joseph Farah -- Oct. 21, 2005
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46941

House and Senate agree to extend Patriot Act -- Dec. 8, 2005
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the measure would assist "in the detection, disruption and dismantling of terrorist cells before they strike."
Important parts involve the ability of law enforcement officials to gain access to a wealth of personal data, including library records, as part of investigations into suspected terrorist activity.
The measure provides a four-year extension [ Ed : to 2010 ] of the government's ability to conduct roving wiretaps - which may involve multiple phones - and to seek access to many of the personal records covered by the bill
Taking away our rights does not make us safer," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of several lawmakers in both parties demanding changes in the measure

Under the measure announced during the day, law enforcement officials could continue to obtain secret access to a variety of personal records from businesses, hospitals and other organizations, including libraries.
Access is obtained by order of a secret court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The recipient of the request for information is subject to a gag order that cannot be challenged in court, according to officials.

On a second issue, relating to a National Security Letter, government investigators could gain access to a more limited range of personal records without a court order of any type
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2005/12/08/ap2380007.html

Biochips for Everyone ! ( will the Administration get chipped too ? ) Oct. 16, 2005
Applied CEO Scott Silverman hopes to sell chips [ Ed : VeriChips ] to the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI--feeding into X-Files-type fears of biochipped government agents lording over the citizenry.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118348,00.html

Bush considers repealing Posse Comitatus Law -- Sept. 20, 2005
82nd Airborne dispatched to Katrina area
Responding to heavy criticism over his administration’s failure to handle the disaster created by Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush is floating the idea of repealing a 127-year-old law restricting federally-controlled troops from conducting operations on United States soil.
In his address to the nation last Thursday [ Sept. 15, 2005 ] , Bush said:
"It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice."
The Pentagon created the Northern Command in 2002 to oversee domestic military deployment in the event of a terror attack or other calamity. In a statement the same year, and again in testimony to the 9/11 Commission in 2004, the ACLU warned that the creeping militarization of domestic law enforcement could easily culminate in disastrous -- and potentially deadly -- results
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2376
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5285362,00.html

Pentagon, like CIA, can spy on Americans without disclosure -- June 14, 2004
Defense officials recently slipped a provision into a bill before Congress that could vastly expand the Pentagon's ability to gather intelligence inside the United States, including recruiting citizens as informants.
The CIA always has been exempt—although by law it isn't supposed to operate inside the United States. The new provision would now extend the same exemption to Pentagon agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency—so they can help track terrorists. A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee says the provision would allow military intel agents to "approach potential sources and collect personal information from them" without disclosing they work for the government.
Among those pushing for the provision, sources say, were officials at northcom, the new Colorado-based command set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to oversee "homeland defense."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5197014/site/newsweek/

Security Forces turning D.C. into armed camp-- Feb. 2004 (+ Maryland, Virginia)
WASHINGTON D.C., Feb. 21 — An antiaircraft missile, ready for use, sits atop a federal office building near the White House. Devices that test the air for chemical and biological substances are positioned throughout the city. Subway stations are now equipped with "bomb containment" trash bins. A major highway that runs by the Pentagon is being rerouted several hundred yards away. A security wall is going up around the Washington Monument.
Day by day, the nation's capital is becoming a fortress, turning a city known for graceful beauty into a virtual armed camp. In response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, federal security agents along with their counterparts in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia governments began a huge effort to build permanent safeguards for the capital area's most important buildings and monuments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/politics/22DIST.html?ei=5062&en=4c01010c29945d6e&ex=1078030800&partner=
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Gen. Franks: crisis = martial law ( no more Constitution)-Nov. 21, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml

The devastating power of a blackout; prelude to martial law --Sept. 5, 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4622.htm

National CounterTerrorism Center -- June 10, 2005
Tysons Corner, Virginia
On his visit to the nation's new facility charged with pooling and analyzing information about terrorist threats, Bush also announced his selection of retired Vice Adm. John Scott Redd, who recently held an operations post in Iraq and was executive director of the presidential commission on intelligence failures, as director.
Redd served 36 years in the U.S. Navy, commanding eight organizations at sea from a destroyer to a fleet. He founded and commanded the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Middle East in 1995 and has held top policy posts at the Pentagon. Since retiring in 1998, he has served as chief executive officer of a high-tech education company and deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

Now, more than a dozen provisions are set to expire later this year. Congress has begun working on renewing them amid fresh criticism from members of both parties that the law undermines basic freedoms.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=837190

House Votes to extend Patriot Act --July 22, 2005
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050722/D8BG64G80.html

More Patriot Act
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/200705patriotact.htm

Bush pushes for renewal of Patriot Act -- July 21, 2005
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-20-bush-renews-patriot-act-push_x.htm

Bush : Renew Patriot Act or else -- April 19, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63109,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8

PATRIOT ACT--No more Constitution, Bill of Rights----Nov. 9--2001
Bill of Rights are additions to the Constitution
"the foundations are fallen"..... Jeremiah

"The USA Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land,
has eliminated the Constitutional guarantee of probable cause when investigating a crime,
and now allows the police — at any time and for any reason — to enter and search your house,
your files, your bank account — and not even tell you about it.
Are you a patriot? Well, the fact of the matter is, you are whether you want to be or not. "
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1109-09.htm

Goodbye Freedom --- November 2001
Nov. 1- EO....All presidents' impunity; no history or accountability
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37878,00.html
Nov. 9----------------------------------End of Bill of Rights...PATRIOTS ACT
Nov. 10--------------------------------------------------Sedition Law...no dissent
Nov. 13------Secret Military Court trials for citizens; without cause
Nov. 17------Global Financial Network freezes assets of 'suspects'
Nov. 19------------------------------------------Airports officially Federalized


Patriot Act 2 -- No more safety net for American citizens -- Sept 27, 2004
Hastert, DeLay
But critics warn that the proposed law is aimed against the entire U.S. population, not a minority of Arab immigrants.
The proposal, they say, would grant the government the power to strip citizenship of native-born Americans and deport them without any evidence of wrongdoing, even though this would be contrary to the Constitution.
It would also allow for secret arrests, secret trials and secret torturing of “suspects.” Habeas corpus, Americans’ most sacred right, would be eliminated.
The law would also remove all restrictions on police spying on citizens.

Patriot Act II would create 15 new death penalties, one of which could be applied to acts of protest. Under the Hastert measure’s definitions, anti-war protesters could be deemed terrorists. In fact, any dissident could be spied on, harassed, and imprisoned indefinitely for exercising their legal and constitutionally protected rights.
This legislation would give the government the same power that Stalin and Julius Caesar gave themselves, said one detractor
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/patriot_act.html
also at
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/270904policestatepuzzle.htm

The USA Patriot Bill -- Derry Brownsfield -Sept 2002
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield6.htm

Patriot Act 2 -- Derry Brownsfield -- August 2003
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield29.htm

Bush used the same obvious strategy as the newly introduced “VICTORY” Act, intermixing the crimes of drug dealing with terrorism in order to capitalize on the extraordinary power given law enforcement for hunting down drug dealers in the terrorism offensive - as if the anti-terror Patriot Act provisions were not enough.  According to the AP, Bush said, “For the sake of the American people, Congress should change the law and give law enforcement officials the same tools they have to fight terror that they have to fight other crime.”  This is a purposeful misstatement.  By “other crime” he specifically meant drug and RICO crimes, which entail unusually
broad enforcement powers and enhanced penalties with respect to ordinary crimes.  Bush makes it appear as if law enforcement is terribly handicapped in dealing with terror.    In fact, it is the law that is being handicapped in the face of an administration out of control.  Indeed, the DOJ under AG John Ashcroft is acting as a law unto itself. 
Joel Skousen WAB Sept 12, 2003

Patriot Act 2 :
"Domestic Security Enhancement Act"-- Feb 8-2003
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2003) -- The Bush Administration is preparing a bold, comprehensive sequel to the USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of September 11, 2001, which will give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

NYPD to have access to Interpol data -- Nov. 21, 2003
The NYPD is the first police department in the country to have direct access to a global database to track terrorists and other criminals, Interpol announced Wednesday.
The new, heavily encrypted data system, called I-24/7, allows officers to determine if a person detained for any type of offense -- including the most minor -- is wanted for any other crimes worldwide.
The system offers access to photographs, fingerprints and other information.
Interpol eventually will connect other U.S. police departments to the system, Interpol General Secretary Ronald K. Noble said at the agency's Terrorism Awareness Conference in New York.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-nypd-interpol,0,3135891.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Liberals and Christians ask Ashcroft
(will they comply ????????
The White House later held a meeting with 150 evangelicals, including Josh McDowell, James Dobson, Eugene Habecker, Erwin Lutzer, and Jay Sekulow. Some participants quoted Gordon England, deputy director of Homeland Security, as saying new threats require giving up some freedoms. "We may need to make some compromises," England said. "For example, the stop sign takes away some of our freedom. But it gives us freedom back, too, in the assurance that we can drive safely."

Restricting Missionaries

Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals worries about Patriot II's unintended consequences for overseas missionaries: "What you sanction here will be used by others overseas against you." He said mission leaders worry that foreign governments will feel greater freedom to detain and deport American missions personnel without due process.

Lori Waters, executive director of Eagle Forum, said that without changes the legislation would be overly broad. Under the government's antiterrorist proposal, she said, "Every person regardless of religion is a terrorist suspect until it is proven that you're not." Waters is especially concerned about the Pentagon's Terrorist Information Awareness Plan—formerly code-named Carnivore—to sift data on every citizen to identify potentially dangerous people.

Recalling the misapplication of laws designed to combat organized crime, prolife activists told CT (Christianity Today) that prosecutors could create sweeping, abusive definitions of terrorist or terrorist network. "With a different administration," Waters said, "a few little tweaks with a word or comma could redefine prolife groups as domestic terrorists."

Americans have, since 9/11, shown "an astonishing faith" in technology to enhance the government's ability to fight terrorism, said David Lyon, a sociologist at Queens University, Ontario. He calls such faith misplaced and possibly dangerous
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/009/7.27.html

Ashcroft Seeks New Spying Powers--Feb 10, 2003
Domestic Security Enhancement Act
According to a confidential draft dated January 9, the legislation would end an array of court-ordered restraints that prevent local police forces from spying on domestic groups or individuals suspected of terrorist activities.
It would also automatically deny bail for anyone accused of a terrorist-related crime [Ed. note: NO WAY OUT ] and bar the release of any information about individuals detained in terrorism investigations
[ Ed. note: no one would know where you went, why, or what happened to you], for fear of tipping off co-conspirators
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1042491636491&p=1012571727088

Pat Robertson, ACLJ : "My country, right or wrong" ---- Nov 5, 2002
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29537
ps. Wine is hazardous to your spiritual health...see Addictions

Changing Laws for Senate and House -- Sept 26-2002
A bipartisan House of Representatives task force led by Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, and Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, is expected to offer a resolution this week urging that governors be allowed to pass special election laws in the event of catastrophe. Still under evaluation are proposed quorum rules controlling the decisions of a House decimated by a terrorist bombing.

Thomas Mann, a Brookings Institution scholar, noted that although the 17th Amendment to the Constitution empowered governors to make temporary appointments to the Senate in a state of emergency, no similar provision had been made for the House. Vacancies there can be filled only by special elections, which can take 45 days or more to conduct.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=CONGRESS-09-23-02&cat=WW

Suspension of "habeus corpus" (jail without trial; no guilt involved)
http://zgrams.zundelsite.org/pipermail/zgrams/2001-September/000072.html

Secret enemies, secret arrests--- Aug. 21-2002
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020821-19446209.htm

136 laws changed in 2001 alone
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200202/POL20020211a.html

We have 35 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. Rapture Ready mb

A Nation Overthrown--- Aug 15-2002--- Asheville, NC
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/front/18019

Loosing our Freedoms in the name of "security"

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil.
The one thing every man fears is the Unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
---Henry Kissinger 5-21-92 Bilderberg Meeting

"except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain" Psalm 127:1
"A socialist police-state able to give you everything you need, is able to take away everything you need." -jack-

Defining "Martial Law"
http://members.tripod.com/~Sidlinger/ml.html

No More Checks and Balances in the System of Government...July 15-2002
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cheney14.html

America: Authoritarian Police State...Ron Paul--July 2002
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul41.html

Supreme Court to decide on the Constitutionality of guns - July 15, 2003
The Supreme Court is being asked to overturn an appeals court ruling that said the Constitution does not guarantee people a personal right to own a gun.
The court's past rulings on Second Amendment gun rights — many in the 1800s — are a mess that should be straightened out when the justices return from their summer break, an appeal being filed Thursday at the court said.
The Second Amendment states, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=8&u=/ap/20030703/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_gun_rights_2

Dennis Prager articles
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=198

Taming the Boomerang --Sept, 23, 2003 by John Loeffler
The first core matter can be summed up in the lesson Democrats are learning, called the boomerang syndrome: what goes around comes around. Laws passed for one reason can easily be ported for use in all manner of other crimes, making criminals out of ordinary citizens, creating crimes where there were none or aggravating the nature of what would be lesser crimes. This happens despite all those "assurances" we receive from war-on-terror proponents. Be assured that government assurances are always assuredly forgotten.
History is on my side on this one.
http://www.newswithviews.com/loeffler/loeffler15.htm

Gov. Pataki of NY creates a tattle-tale hot line
Ashcroft's Shadowy Disciple---Nov 15-2002...... by Nat Hentoff
"The government [under the USA Patriot Act] can use [its powers] on people who aren't suspected of committing a crime. Innocent people can be deprived of any clue that they are being watched and that they may need to defend themselves." —
Lincoln Caplan, editor, Legal Affairs ("A Magazine of Yale Law School"), November-December 2002
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0247/hentoff.php

The Attack on Civil Liberties --- Village Voice
http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/civil_liberties/

Government to invoke 200-year-old- SEDITION LAW....Nov. 10-2001
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011108/us/attacks_sedition_1.html

July 4th, 2001........."Who cares what you think?"
Nov. 10....plan no dissent.
How much longer will it be before we are arrested
for merely dissenting with government policy ?
( hint: not too much longer...Nov. 13-01: secret military tribunals for citizens )
Now we know why all exit routes are controlled by the militia.
Our POLICE STATE has already arrived !

DefCon to rank five stages of terrorist threats..Dec. 15-2001
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011213/ts/attack_ridge_threat_dc_1.html

"Under the Posse Comitatus Act,
for instance, military personnel are prohibited from being used for law enforcement within the United States, Berkowsky noted. "
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2000/n01132000_20001133.html
In the above article note that "religious extremists" are considered terrorists as well as loners. and free lancers.
WOW....what an undeserving generalization.


The New America -- November 2003 (citizen spies etc.)
http://www.rense.com/general44/sdski.htm


The Associated Press (AP) will be the sole source of raw vote totals for the major news broadcasters on Election Night. However, AP spokesmen Jack Stokes and John Jones refused to explain to this journalist how the AP will receive that information. They refused to confirm or deny that the AP will receive direct feed from voting machines and central vote tabulating computers across the country. But, circumstantial evidence suggests that is exactly what will happen.
And what can be downloaded can also be uploaded. Computer experts say that signals can travel both to and from computerized voting machines through wireless technology, modems, and even simple electricity. Computer scientists have long warned that computer voting is an invitation to vote fraud and system failure. An examination of Diebold election software by several computer scientists, including Dr. Avi Rubin and his staff, proved that secret backdoors can be built into computer programs that allow votes to be easily manipulated without detection.
the age of accountability is when one knows right from wrong.
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_14675.shtml

Because of the monopoly on information, all news is suspect to design.
"Truth is fallen in the streets" --Isaiah 59: 14

A. The Executive Branch

Executivizing the Justice Department -- July 23, 2004
National Counter Terrorism Center
The national counterterrorism center, the most radical of the reform proposals set forth by the commission, would report to a new national intelligence director who would have budgetary and operational control over all 15 intelligence agencies and departments, according to the report.

[ All snoopability ]
The new office is needed to shake up a bureaucracy that the commission said is still stuck in the Cold War era, and the office would allow a more flexible approach to modern intelligence needs. In effect, the proposal would focus much of the capabilities of the U.S. intelligence community on terrorism, making it as predominant as the Soviet Union

lawless: breaking long-established laws ( no limits )
former senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.). The recommendations would necessitate significant changes in American law and social policy, which has traditionally *limited* the role of intelligence agencies and the military in the United States.

Currently the CIA cannot conduct domestic operations, does not help plan law enforcement activities and can possess only limited information about U.S. citizens under tightly controlled procedures.

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 restricts the role of the military in domestic affairs.
The law does allow the military to aid domestic law enforcement efforts in a limited way to stop international drug smuggling and respond to emergencies involving weapons of mass destruction

" for execution "
( a deliberately loaded-word, signifying double-intent.
Remember, the president alone defines who is a terrorist "combatant".)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5491097/


Matrix Threat: Master Terror "Watch List" compiled on "combatants"- Sept. 16, 2003
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_2265164,00.html

Bush wants to expand the death penalty -- Sept. 10, 2003
He specifically called for expanding use of the federal death penalty, tougher bail restrictions and greater subpoena powers that he said are available for other crimes, such as drug trafficking and embezzling, but can't be used against terrorism. "This disparity in the law makes no sense," Bush said in a speech at the FBI Academy in nearby Quantico, Va.

Bush's appeal threw the White House into a growing debate over the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act enacted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Critics say the law is too intrusive and a threat to civil liberties and fear that the administration is trying to pass a second version of the measure in piecemeal fashion. Even some House and Senate Republicans have talked about rolling back portions of the Patriot Act.

"For the sake of the American people," Bush said, "Congress should change the law and give law enforcement officials the same tools they have to fight terror that they have to fight other crime."

Threat Matrix : On terrorist, "combatants" ...... will this become a daily monitoring of Christians?
Every morning I am briefed on the latest information on the threats to our country, and those threats are real. The enemy is wounded, but still resourceful and actively recruiting, and still dangerous," he said, addressing agents of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency, Marines and police and firefighters.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_20&printer=1

National Security Presidential Directive 16--- Feb 7, 2003
President can use cyber warfare (as of July 2002)
Government officials involved in drafting the new policy insist they are proceeding cautiously, recognizing the risks of crossing the threshold into cyber-warfare and acknowledging the difficulties still inherent in trying to model how a major cyber-attack might play out. By penetrating computer systems that control the communications, transportation, energy and other basic services in a country, cyber-weapons can have serious cascading effects, disrupting not only military operations but civilian life.

 “There are questions about collateral damage,” [ Richard A. ] Clarke said. As an example, he cited the possibility that a computer attack on an electric power grid, intended to pull the plug on military facilities, might end up turning off electricity to hospitals on the same network.
 “There also is an issue, frankly, that’s similar to the strategic nuclear issue which is: Do you ever want to do it?
Do you want to legitimize that kind of weaponry?” Clarke added.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/869751.asp?0cv=CB10

Executive Branch alone decides who is a "combatant"--- Oct 7-2002
The Justice Department cited the separation-of-powers doctrine, arguing that the judiciary "lacks institutional competence" in determining whether a prisoner is an enemy combatant. The brief said that enemy combatants, even if they are American, are not entitled to counsel under the laws of war.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2002/markr109-1.htm

Parallel system : one legal, one illegal
"combatants" lose Constitutional rights---Nov 30-2002
Those designated ‘combatants’ lose crucial legal protections
The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects — U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike — may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say......
" ... indefinite military detention for those designated “enemy combatants,” liberal use of “material witness” warrants, counterintelligence-style wiretaps and searches led by law enforcement officials and, for noncitizens, trial by military commissions or deportation after strictly closed hearings.
....secretly declare the citizen an enemy combatant, to be held indefinitely at a U.S. military base. Courts would have very limited authority to second-guess the detention, to the extent that they were aware of it.

the parallel system is meant to be used selectively, as a complement to conventional processes, not as a substitute. But, they say, the parallel system is necessary because terrorism is a form of war as well as a form of crime, and it must not only be punished after incidents occur, but also prevented and disrupted through the gathering of timely intelligence.

Jose Padilla, who is being held at a Navy brig, without the right to communicate with a lawyer or anyone else. U.S. officials have told the courts that they can detain and interrogate him until the executive branch declares an end to the war against terrorism....

Probably the most hotly disputed element of the administration’s approach is its contention that the president alone can designate individuals, including U.S. citizens, as enemy combatants, who can be detained with no access to lawyers or family members unless and until the president determines, in effect, that hostilities between the United States and that individual have ended.

The notion that the executive branch can decide by itself that an American citizen can be put in a military camp, incommunicado, is frightening,” said Morton H. Halperin, director of the Washington office of the Open Society Institute. “They’re entitled to hold him on the grounds that he is in fact at war with the U.S., but there has to be an opportunity for him to contest those facts.”...

The administration scored a victory recently when the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ruled
3 to 0 that the USA Patriot Act, passed by Congress shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, gives the Justice Department authority to break down what had come to be known as “the wall” separating criminal investigations from investigations of foreign agents.

Yet civil libertarians say that targets of such investigations who end up being ordered out of the country or prosecuted would lose a crucial right that they would have in the ordinary criminal justice system — the right to examine the government’s evidence justifying the initial warrant.
       “So the government starts off using secret surveillance information not to gather information upon which to make policy, but to imprison or deport an individual, and then it never gives the individual a fair chance to see if the surveillance was lawful,” Martin said.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/841671.asp?0cv=CB10

Increased presidential personal power--July 26-2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-led House worked Friday to pass a bill creating an enormous Homeland Security Department, the biggest government reorganization in decades. It grants President Bush ( news - web sites) broad personnel powers he insists are key to confronting an agile, cunning terrorist threat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20020726/ap_on_go_co/homeland_security_57

US can Kill its own-- Dec 5-2002
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_120402_terror.html

Expansionist Government under Bush ... July 26-2002
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58540,00.html

Bush wants Homeland Dept. to hire, fire, discipline employees
Hours after the White House's warning, a Senate committee crafted a homeland security bill that rejected President Bush's request for unprecedented freedom to hire, fire and discipline employees, setting the stage for a contentious vote in the full Senate next week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64832-2002Jul25.html

W Bush and Chirac agree to "fight those who hate freedom" ??... May 27 -2002
I thought it was murdering terrorists they were after.
Now the word-smiths can include Jesus-only Christians who believe in freedom, but not in license to choose any and all gods . Jesus is the ONLY way.
France is especially against evangelical Christianity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2008000/2008886.stm
"There's a lot more that unites us than divides us" --- G W Bush
Chirac agrees to fight those who believe in "fanaticism" and "exclusion of others".
Can you see where this is going ?
How did it go from Al-Qaida and Ben Laden to (soon-meaning) Christians ?

Bush claims victory on Terror Bill...Dec. 7- 2001
pulls money from "other programs"
"White House officials have promised to seek more money early next year, but have said no more is needed until then".

"Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress approved $40 billion to fight terrorists.
Bush was given control of half; lawmakers must vote anew on the details of the second $20 billion.
Republicans say there was agreement to limit the spending to $40 billion, while Democrats say that was just a starting point.
The GOP-led House approved a $20 billion package last week.
Including defense funds in the anti-terror section of the bill, the measure would provide the Pentagon with $320 billion -
$21 billion over last year's spending and the same as Bush's request.
The bill also would give Bush the full $8.3 billion he sought for his prized missile defense program, though he could divert $1.3 billion of it to anti-terrorism efforts. And it would provide military personnel with a 5 percent pay raise. "http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011208/ts/congress_spending_81.html

e-Congress; line of succession by e-vote; in the works...Dec. 11-2001
A "virtual" government overnight scenario
http://www.msnbc.com/news/670173.asp?cp1=1

It's the People's White House---Helen Thomas
No trespassing. Is it due to terrorism, or just a covert government ?
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/1095648/detail.html

Oct.23-2001
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011023-260298.htm
where have all the freedoms gone ?
Rule by Emergency.....no checks nor balances

Unconstitutional Powers to the Executive Branch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35905-2001Oct22.html

Is Ridge a "stealth-VP" ?? West Wing occupant accountable to no one but the Prez
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2001/11/news1105a.html

November 1-2001
Executive Order [ EO ] presidential impunity....no history or accountability
see end of article
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ucrr/20011115/cm/extraordinary_times_secret_government_part_i__1.html

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." George W. Bush ...Dec 18-2000
Transition of Power: President-Elect Bush Meets With Congressional Leaders on Capitol Hill

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