Homeland Insecurity Update: Security Measures for the Celebration of our "Freedom"

News Analysis By J.J. Johnson
Published 06. 7. 02 at 23:15 Sierra Time

Frankly, if we get through Independence Day without a 'terrorist' incident, it'll be a miracle. Until then, the newest threat warning from the guys who are currently responsible for our safety (the FBI) is of a potential nerve gas attack against American subway systems. And you'll be pleased to know just how much more possible we've made this nightmare, and how much safer you can feel.

KYW in Philadelphia broke the story Friday that the FBI issued the alert to state and local law enforcement officials - its an internal warning to cops around the nation - cautioning that Al-Qaida supporters in the United States may use nerve gas to poison subway systems in New York, Washington D.C. and other major cities before or during the fourth of July.

You see, we could just do a World War II type round up and exile, but that would be 'racist'. Ahhh. White People. We'll just keep prosecuting gun cases so you will 'feel safer.'

Kinda makes you wonder what good the military is doing over there when Allah's Army is still planning more mayhem over here. According to the alert, "this activity is allegedly intended to bring America to its knees on its Independence Day."

You'll find this pasted all over your Saturday Morning fish wraps.

Now, how high was your anxiety level before you heard this one? Well, last night, our President told us once again, to get on with our lives, and so we shall. You see, subways are in BIG CITIES.

BIG CITIES where, if you saw some Jihad freak attempting to release their deadly toxin, you could drop him with one or two bullets, but oops - packing heat is taboo. In fact, many of those BIG CITIES spent the last decade trying to sue gun manufacturers.

BIG CITIES where you could just strap on a gas mask before going to work, but those silly gas masks were only novelty toys for those extremist, right-wing, antigovernment militia types. Nope, if any deadly chemical is released, you can die a 'moderate, mainstream death.' But don't forget to dial 911 before taking your last breath.

So, what's the rest of the holiday threat - planes, trains and automobiles? We could call upon Americans to take up arms and other defensive measures, but...

SACRAMENTO - How the west coast prepares for terrorism: Have the California Senate Health and Human Services Committee pass a bill to tax each bullet sold in the Golden State.

It's California, so you know we're not kidding.

A state teetering on bankruptcy with over $22 billion in red ink this year (state's can't print more money - yet anyway, remember?) has been looking for any way it can to raise revenue, disarm its population, and normalize its gun laws with that of their southern neighbor. This way, they get to kill three birds with one stone.

Can't you just see it at the California Checkpoint?

"Welcome to California. Do you have any fruits or vegetables?"

"No"

"How about any guns, ammo? Inquiring minds at the Office of Homeland Security and the California Department of Revenue and Taxation want to know."

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee approved the measure, but it now faces uphill fights in the Revenue and Taxation and Constitutional Amendments committees. Actually, slight chance of this passing - since it's an election year.

Never fear - the east coast weighs in.

In Washington it's called the Metro System, a place that - according to the FBI, would be a prime target of Jihad Joe wanting to bring the nation's capitol to its knees while folks are on the train to watch fireworks. Repeating, some folks exercising their constitutional right to keep and bear arms might stop or even be a deterrent to such a disaster.

Good thing the U.S. Department of Justice recently acquired a few brain cells and told the Supreme Court this month that it believes the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms.

Tell that to Michael Freeman and Manuel Brown.

These two folks had the unmitigated gall to walk into a District of Columbia court, and claim they have a 'second amendment right' (stop laughing) to carry firearms, and they should not be prosecuted - especially with the Bush folks giving the green light on packing heat.

But welcome to the Twilight Zone: On Thursday, the Justice Department urged the prosecution of these two men who were seeking dismissal of criminal charges for carrying a pistol without a license.

Freeman and Brown say the Justice Department's position is inconsistent with a court of appeals ruling in the District of Columbia, where they were charged.

Forget it guys, your guns might stop a terrorist. Go talk to commercial airline pilots about that. They should focus on 'flying the plane'. You should focus on 'getting on with your life'. You need not worry. The new Office of Homeland Security will take care of you.

By the way, we'll start randomly searching cars at those ferries, too - as if that wait wasn't long enough - as if your fourth amendment rights meant anything.

You should be happy. Go on - live your life as usual. Know that as you work, play and sleep, your government is doing everything it can to make sure you're safe. A new organization is being proposed, mixing so many alphabet soup agencies together they'll have to invent new alphabets. They are doing this for you.

So this holiday season, as we ransack your bags, search your cars, scan your faces, invade your political meetings, spy on the net, tax your ammo, ban most of the public from public land, disarm your pilots, raise your taxes, spend your social security, profile average Americans (to make it seem fair), enforce seat belt laws, child restraint laws, demand social security numbers from birth, declare your children wards of the state, give mind-altering drugs to children in school, analyze your finances, conduct open-ended spying operations, and prepare for mandatory vaccines, please know that we only do this so you can spend July 4th celebrating your 'freedom'.

Mavericklady comments: I agree with J.J. - the government is stuck so far up orifices on Americans (where they do NOT belong) that they could not find a terrorist if one was standing right in front of them screaming "I am a terrorist." If our borders where any more open they would not exist - and then to have illegal aliens actually having the GALL to file lawsuits against America because we do NOT provide water in the desert areas they illegally enter the country thru well - I'm just going to have a wonderful 4th of July - and you???????

Arrival of the American Garrison State
          

The Pentagon is proposing the creation of a four-star command to oversee federal troops engaged in "homeland defense" activity on American soil. While CINCH regional chiefs have long coordinated deployments overseas, none exist for North America. Soon, however, the circle will be complete, and the noose will be around our necks.

Supporters defend this proposal as a way to "streamline" the command system. We should have learned by now that making government more efficient and effective only makes it easier for that institution to transgress against the rights of the people.

Traditionally, Americans have been wary of using the military for domestic law enforcement.  The 1878 Posse Cogitates Act (18 U.S.C. 1385) enshrines this principle into law. Article One, Section Eight, Clause Twelve of the Constitution attempts to curb the ability of the executive to wield domestic standing armies, by stipulating that appropriations for the military cannot be extended at any one time beyond a two-year period. Few Americans stop to think about the Third Amendment, ostensibly still in force, which prohibits the government from quartering soldiers in the peoples' homes. Taken together, these laws indicate that the aversion to standing armies is a well-established and justified part of the American way of life.

The military is not in our homes yet, but they are roaming about the country, and they are in our neighborhoods. Delta Force and Night Stalker types have terrorized a number of American communities over the years, conducting SWAT-like "training" with live ammunition near residential areas, including in Kingsville, Texas during the 1999 domestic program, "Operation Last Dance."

Extensive sales of military equipment, including armored personnel carriers and concussion grenades, to local and state police departments have also taken place.

One must ask, is this really necessary? The answer is no. They are preparing for War against the citizens of the United States.

On another front, a bill re-instituting the draft made its way into Congress just before the New Year, HR 3598 IH, the "Universal Military Training and Service Act of 2001." The militarization of American society is apparently of greater importance to our leaders than recognizing that the government was not granted the authority to conscript citizens into service, especially in light of the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude. From a market perspective, even the military should realize that a draft would be contrary to its own interests. A draft would cause military pay rates to stagnate and even plummet, since Congress would no longer feel pressure to enact pay raises when they can just press more people into service. This logic is lost on our leaders, however, as they lay the groundwork for the Garrison State.

Since 9/11, our leaders have turned the fear of the American people into a blank check to create a global prison camp. Should the reader suspect this an exaggeration, consider that we may never see a blatant headline one morning in the newspaper stating, "President Declares Police State, End to Constitution", because that has already happened. Rather, the only headlines heralding the coming of the American Garrison State will be buried deep in the hindmost pages, telling us, "Pentagon Seeks Creation of Four Star Command for North America." This is incrementalism, where our leaders silently slip each puzzle piece into place, one at a time, and has been quietly happening now for some 89 years. Most Americans, unfortunately, are so brain-dead, self-centered and materialistic that they don't recognize these trends, these events even when they are pointed out to them. They will one day win exactly what they deserve, slavery.

Incrementalism provides the government with plausible deniability about its end game, making it easier for its defenders to characterize libertarian, patriot, Christian, Militia citizens with a brain warnings as "paranoia." Not that this necessarily implies a conscious conspiracy at work---it is a well-known feature of any government to expand infinitely, however well intentioned this growth might be, unless checked by the vigilance of the people. Post 9/11, the vigilance of the people seems more scarce than usual, as they rush to cling to a State-provided security blanket. An interesting point here is that as the 4th Reich, the American Government, removes more of our Constitutional and Civil rights, these same brain-dead Americans run all about singing the National Anthem and waving their flags! Can you say, "Reichstag Fire"?

If you say of the coming Garrison State, "it'll never happen," ask yourself if you can be certain of that, since history shows that many unlikely and strange things do happen. Ask yourself what President Hillary Rodham Clinton (SHUDDER!!) might do with her newfound powers in 2008. Recall Lord Acton's famed quote: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Are you willing to take such risks with the precious jewel that is this
Republic? I'm not...............

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Homeland (In)Security - The Nazi's Have Arrived

Under Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, the Homeland Security Office will coordinate 46 government agencies against terrorist suspects (that is us, by the way) in the United States. Ridge will perform this function in conjunction with Bush's deputy national security advisor, Army Gen. Wayne Downing.

Bush Administration officials are still working out the "lines of authority" between the two new positions, but it's clear that from now on, the military is going to have a central role in domestic anti-terrorism activities.

The reason for the military's prominence is simple: Bush wants to establish special, extra-legal military tribunals that can try suspected terrorists without the ordinary legal constraints of American justice. These military tribunals apparently would have the authority to execute terrorists within 30 days of their conviction.

The Bush Administration denied considering a national identification card system that would empower our Big Brothers with the omnipotence required to catch terrorists before they strike. They lied. You can be sure that some system will be devised to enable Ridge at Homeland Security, and Downing on behalf of the Pentagon, to keep track of every suspects every move."

The problem is that no one has yet defined "suspect". Doesn't this seem a little 'Suspect' to you?

The Usual Suspects

During the Vietnam War, under the CIA's Phoenix Program --which is the model for the Homeland Security Office -- a terrorist suspect was anyone accused by one anonymous source. Just one. The suspect was then arrested, indefinitely detained in a CIA interrogation center, and tortured until he or she (or in some cases children as young as twelve) confessed, informed on others, died, or was brought before a military tribunal (such as Bush is proposing) for disposition. I spent two years in the 5th Special Forces Group, assigned to the Phoenix Program for six months, and what I saw was simply murder. Period. EVERYONE accused, with the exception of but a few, where murdered. The CIA murdered, or had murdered 50,000 Southeast Asian men, women and children. It's coming to America, very soon.

In thousands of cases, innocent people were imprisoned and tortured based on the word of an anonymous informer who had a personal grudge, or was actually a Viet Cong double agent feeding the names of loyal citizens into the Phoenix blacklist.

At no point in the process did suspects have access to due process or lawyers, and thus, in 1971, four US Congresspersons stated their belief that the Phoenix Program violated that part of the Geneva Conventions guaranteeing protection to civilians in time of war. I repeat, in time of war. What do you think will happen to American's in time of "peace"?

But those sorts of abuses can't happen here, during Bush's newly declared war on terrorism, right?

Yeah, right.

Symbolically, the terror attacks of 11 September wiped the psychological slate clean. All the moral prohibitions on the reactionary right wing have been lifted. The same thing happened in the Fatherland after the First World War, and more importantly after the Reichstag Fire which is exactly why it was staged -- and that is the real threat of anti-terrorism we're facing in America today.

In the name of anti-terrorism, all of the nation's pent-up anger and frustration over Vietnam, and a host of other "cultural" issues, is poised to be unleashed on the Enemy Within (a very carefully analyzed and crafted move, by the way). And the Bush Administration and its propagandists (remember Joseph Gobbles?) have already defined the Enemy Within in very clear terms: "We're all Israelis now," they say, adding that, "You're with us or you're against us," in the declared war against (phony) terrorism. Precisely as Hitler said in 1933.

And being "against us" is a dangerous proposition. As noted, Bush is considering the formation of Phoenix-style military tribunals that operate beyond due process of law. The system was tested first in Nazi Germany, then in Vietnam thirty years ago, and perfected in Israel on the Palestinians, and is ready for application here and now. Frankly, it's already here, most people just don't realize it. Yet...........

The New PsyWar

As stated twelve years ago in the October 1989, Marine Corps Gazette (p 22-26a), Bush's New War will be "widely dispersed and largely undefined; the distinction between war and peace will be blurred to the vanishing point." There will be no "definable battlefields or fronts," and the distinction between "civilian" and "military" will disappear. "Success will depend heavily on effectiveness in joint operations (such as Bush proposes between Ridge at Homeland Security and Downing at the Pentagon) as lines between responsibility and mission become very blurred."

According to the Gazette article, success in the New War against undefined suspects will also depend on "psychological operations" manifest "in the form of media/information intervention." One must be "adept at manipulating the media to alter domestic and world opinion...." On the psywar battlefield, "Television news may become a more powerful operational weapon than armored divisions." If you have watched the so-called News concerning the 'War' on terrorism, you will have noticed this form perfected almost to an Art.

The TV "hawks" love to blame the anti-war movement for Americas defeat in Vietnam, and they assert in these do-or-die times that dissent promotes terrorism ( total nonsense). In terms of the psywar strategy outlined above, this is exactly how nationalists and even pacifists became equated with terrorists in Vietnam, and thus subject to indefinite detention and torture in an interrogation center, and -- in the case of some 50,000 plus individuals -- assassination under the CIA's Phoenix Program. The "Phoenix Program" is in America, today. Legislation passed last year gives the Bush Administration, the Bush Crime Family actually, the right to execute "with extreme prejudice" anyone they deem a "terrorist" or "threat to the State". Heard this rhetoric before? Nazi Germany ring a bell? That means that anyone who disagrees with them, with the 'State' can be executed on the spot. No judge, no jury, nothing. Murdered.........this is meant for people like you and me, make no mistake about it.

The Bush Administration claims that a war against terrorism requires different justice. The strategy is working in Israel, but in Vietnam it turned an entire population against its government and engendered a tragedy of epic proportions. It will only engender the same thing here.