What freedoms are we loosing? Too many I am afraid. The Patriot II Act
that is due to hit the Congress in the weeks ahead should send a chill
down all of us. This is for real and most Americans will still say it cannot
happen here. Why? Take a look and think about it!
TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER
The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty
A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as Patriot Act II
By Alex Jones
www.infowars.com
(Posted Feb 10, 2003)
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of
Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House
on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians
and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while
writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying
that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control.
On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest
think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act
of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source
inside the Federal government. The document consisted of a 33-page section by
section analysis of the accompanying 87-page bill.
*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house version that
had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of the now public
Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22.
Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the subsections are identical to those
in the House version. This is very important because it catches the Justice Department
in a bald-faced lie. The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought
into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention to try
and pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate is fully
aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of their committees into the
full bill. I spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare
for anyone who loves liberty. It even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers
all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database,
and much more.
There are other bills in the Senate that grant the Federal government sweeping powers. S.45
states in section one that the office for State and local government coordination for Homeland
Security will no longer just oversee, but that now local cities critical functions will be headed
by a Federal director. On Tuesday, February 11th, we noted a story in The Times-Picayune
with the headline: Nagin announces major overhaul of City Hall --New Homeland Security office
to oversee cops, firemen, emergency agency. The Federal power-grab taking place is
widespread and all Americans must mobilize to resist it.
Another interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of Federal funding and control over
local police departments and needs to be examined closely.
S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an authoritarian society.
The description of the bill is, "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young
persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service of civilian
service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.
" We have looked at some of the programs that the Federal government has already been
setting up for service here in the "homeland" and they include East German-style tattletale
squads of every type, which are just basically a super TIPS program. The nightmare goes
on and on. Check it out for yourself.
The Patriot Act II bill itself is stamped "Confidential -Not for Distribution."
Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation.
The Justice Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly transmitted a copy
of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States,
Dick Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement agencies.
It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see the first Patriot Act before its
passage, and that no debate was tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of
the White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a carbon copy replay
of the events that led to the unprecedented passage of the first Patriot Act.
There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this new legislation:
1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker Hastert to keep even the
existence of this legislation secret would be more at home in Communist China than in the
United States. The fact that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first
Patriot Act, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly threatening members of
Congress that if they didn’t vote in favor of it that they would be blamed for the next terrorist
attack, is by the White House’s own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and
then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable offence.
2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler
gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act
reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under
the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the
FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also
known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.
I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it to the Constitution,
Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with
terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of
our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its
private agents total immunity.
Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures encapsulated within
this tyrannical legislation:
SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration’s “enemy combatant”
definition to all American citizens who “may” have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first
Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is “any
action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.”) Section 501 of
the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department
boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn’t broad enough
and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.
Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown
into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the
person “had inferred from conduct” that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the
First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the “enemy
combatant” terrorist designation.
SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any member of the government
or any citizen to release any information concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees.
It also states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have arrested and
they never have to release the names.
SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a national database of “suspected
terrorists” and radically expand the database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist
groups and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated as “terrorist.” These
sections also set up a national DNA database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation
for any crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.
SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying operations against the American
people and would place substantial restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil rights
across the board.
SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and again strip them of all rights under the
“enemy combatant” designation.
SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities
are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news
gathering illegal.
SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law powers domestically and
internationally without Congress declaring that a state of war exists.
SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that broad general warrants by the
secret FSIA court (a panel of secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an
undisclosed location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It states that government
agents must be given immunity for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section
throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contemp charges against any individual
or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last
vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.
SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot Act were not sunsetted
and removes the five year sunset clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all,
the media has told us: “this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever.”
SECTION 111 expands the definition of the “enemy combatant” designation.
SECTION 122 restates the government’s newly announced power of “surveillance without a court order.”
SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and that the investigations can
be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in press reports about the Total Information Awareness
Network. One passage reads, “thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than that
directed against more conventional types of crime.”
*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second Patriot Act states that its new
Soviet-type powers will be used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types
of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the first USA Patriot
act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.
SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private
sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting
law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to totally break down any
and all walls of privacy.
The government states that they must look at everything to “determine” if individuals or groups
might have a connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty until proven innocent.
SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners’ and medical examiners’ operations
whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill Clinton’s special medical examiner he had in
Arkansas that ruled that people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.
SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal and State Grand
Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also disallows individuals or organizations to even try
to quash a Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.
SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal agents.
SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with toxic biological, chemical
or radiological materials.
SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone
investigating them can be considered a terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to
stop anyone investigating Haliburton.
SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The database will also be
used to “stop other unlawful activities.” It will share the information with state, local and foreign
agencies for the same purposes.
SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of information sharing.
SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big businesses that spy on
their customers for Homeland Security, violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that
these are all preventative measures – has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the access hub for
the Total Information Awareness Network.
SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share
information with foreign governments.
SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland
Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland
Security to secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.
SECTION 402 is titled “Providing Material Support to Terrorism.” The section reads that there is no
requirement to show that the individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.
SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to include any activity that
affects interstate or foreign commerce.
SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or “other criminals” to use encryption in the commission
of a crime.
SECTION 408 creates “lifetime parole” (basically, slavery) for a whole host of crimes.
SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in terrorist actions or
supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.
SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they point to Section 802
of the first Patriot Act and state that any terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death penalty.
SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section states that any type of
financial activity connected to terrorism will result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.
SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in terrorist activities.
There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of time. The American people
were shocked by the despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all
police state legislation in modern world history.
Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying
out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warantless
searches, Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list.
You can understand why President Bush, Dick Cheney and Dennis Hastert want to keep
this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the American people as well. Bill Allison,
Managing Editor of the Center for Public Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on
my radio show that it was obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack to
opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with an insightful comment
about how the Federal government was crafting this so that they could go after the
American people in general. He also agreed that the FBI has been quietly demonizing
patriots and Christians and “those who carry around pocket Constitutions.”
I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what really happened
on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the military-industrial complex carried the
attacks out as a pretext for control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn’t looked at the mountains of
hard evidence.
Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White House might not care
that we’re finding out the details of their next phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released,
or more buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his lectern suppressing a
smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us that “See I was right. I had to take away your rights
to keep you safe. And now it’s your fault that all of these children are dead.” From that point on,
anyone who criticizes tyranny will be shouted down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces
in the mainstream media.
You have to admit, it’s a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it’s being played out in the real world.
If we don’t get the word out that government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing
to stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But our children won’t deserve it.
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