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Since 911 the fear of another attack has given the government or specifically its law enforcement and intel agencies a freer reighn in doing whatever it likes. Its chaos that gives license. Just like the financial crisis. The people allowed the government to do things it wouldn't have otherwise. The same chaos will finallly let the government do things its always wanted to do like tax the internet. Posse comitatus' date=' etc. will all be 'temporarily ceased' (that's what they'll say) in a major crisis. FEMA seems the likely agency to effect. It practically has powers to suspend civil liberties and rights and impart martial law if the event is serious enough. [/quote']

 

Nope.

 

 

 

yep.

 

The following executive orders, acts, etc, some going back to Kennedy, can be used to circumvent civil liberties in the even of a national emergency.

 

Executive Order #12656: Appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians.

 

Executive Order #1103: Allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

 

Executive Order #11005: Allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, public and private.

 

Executive Order #10990: Allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

 

Executive Order #10995: Allows the government to seize and control the “communication mediaâ€Â.

 

Executive Order #10997: Allows the government to take over all electric power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals, public and private.

 

Executive Order #10998: Allows the government to take over all food supplies and resources, public and private, including farms and equipment

 

Executive Order #11921: Allows the government to control the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined National Emergency. It also provides that when a state emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the declaration for a period of six months.

 

Executive Order #11051: Grants authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

 

Executive Order #11000: Authorizes the government to mobolize American civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

 

The Patriot Act: Third-party holders f your financial, library, travel, video rental, phone, medical, church, synagogue, and mosques records can be searched without your knowledge and consent.

Allows Law Enforcement to conduct warrantless searches of yoour records, place of residence and confiscate your personal property without your knowledge or consent.

 

The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003: Instructs Government to build a mammoth database of citizen DNA information, aimed at “detecting, investigating, prosecuting, preventing or responding to terrorist activitiesâ€Â.

 

The Military Commissions Act: Strips the courts of jurisdiction to hear or consider habeas corpus appeals of anyone held in US custody as an “unlawful enemy combatantâ€Â.

Defines an Unlawful Enemy combatant as “an individual engaged in hostilities against the United States who is not a lawful enemy combatant.†The definition of “Hostilities†is broad enough to include any American citizen who is acting in a way the President deems “hostile†to the United States.

Prohibits any person from invoking the Geneva Conventions or their protocols as a source of rights in any action in an US court.

 

National Security Presidential directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidentual Directive 20. Signed by President Bush in May. 2007

 

NSPD/HSPD 51, and 20: The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President’s lead agent for coordinating overall continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies

 

Allows the President to control and coordinate all three branches of government in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergencyâ€Â.

“Catastrophic Emergency means any incident, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functionsâ€Â

 

Kellog Brown and Root recently was awarded a 385 million dollar open ended contract by the Department of Homeland Security. Which provides for establishing “temporary detention†facilities and “progressing areas†on American soil.

 

As for FEMA I've read that a lot of its funding has been used for the " construction of underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency – foreign or domestic"

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[Kellog Brown and Root recently was awarded a 385 million dollar open ended contract by the Department of Homeland Security. Which provides for establishing “temporary detention†facilities and “progressing areas†on American soil.

 

Steve...I'm too lazy to look up all of the EO's, but this one is tooooooooo easy. After removing one's tin hat, it could easily be assumed that the detention facility is for wetback processing/holding pending deportation. :content:

 

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KBR aka the Evil Empire the biggest civilian contractor in Iraq. 365 Mill is a drop in the ocean compared to the unaccounted for Billions over the last few years in Iraq.

 

One of the directors is now doing 20 years for 200 Million of backhanders to get contracts in Nigeria, every KBR employee at the time the investigation was ongoing was issued with a court instructing them not to delete any emails. I worked for K M.W. Kellogg at the time, nothing to do with Brown & Root.

 

Brown & Root sold off one of its subsiduraries a few years ago, Haliburton of Dick Cheney fame, Cheney is still a non executive director of Rootie Tootie.

 

All these Goverment contracts being awarded to the same civilian contractor DOH!

 

 

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[Kellog Brown and Root recently was awarded a 385 million dollar open ended contract by the Department of Homeland Security. Which provides for establishing “temporary detention†facilities and “progressing areas†on American soil.

 

Steve...I'm too lazy to look up all of the EO's' date= but this one is tooooooooo easy. After removing one's tin hat, it could easily be assumed that the detention facility is for wetback processing/holding pending deportation. :content:

 

HH[/quote]

 

Granted, these facilities may be being built for one purpose but as often is the case, they can (and sometimes are) used for other purposes.

 

The goverment has always comandeered facilities for emergency uses. Understandable in the vast majority of cases. A football field for example to process many people in a disaster.

 

The government will find loopholes when it serves its purpose. Cuba for the terrorists for example.

 

I will admit to being one that doesn't trust the government and think it always has our best interests.

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Smugglers catapult pot over border fence

 

 

TUCSON - Smugglers using a catapult to launch marijuana across the border were observed on a remote video surveillance system, and National Guard troops coordinated with Mexican authorities to disrupt the far-flung operation.

 

On Friday evening, National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station observed several people south of the International Boundary Fence preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

 

Border Patrol agents working with the National Guard contacted Mexican authorities, who went to the location and disrupted the catapult operation. The camera showed the individuals fleeing the area before they could be intercepted by Mexican authorities.

 

The Mexican officials seized about 45 pounds of marijuana, a sport utility vehicle, and the catapult device.

 

"The Border Patrol's partnerships with Mexican authorities, the National Guard and the public enhance our efforts to address and disrupt the organized drug trafficking threat at the border and serves to degrade the capabilities of transnational criminal organizations," states Associate Chief Jose Cruz. "With their continued support and that of the public, we will continue to more effectively address threats before they cross the International Boundary."

 

 

 

Flying high ...

 

 

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Email was first deemed the same as regular mail. The government had no right to read it as they would mail that comes to your house. Same with phone calls from your cell phone. Now that super computer reads your emails (after yahoo and the other providers sold us out) to determine if certain words are said that may be attributable to someone organizing a terrorist strike.

 

The kicker is since we know it and if we fight it the same government through the court says 'well, since you know we do it, there is no expectation of privacy'. You couldn't make it up.

 

Parts of the Patriots Act is flat out unconstitutional. No two ways about it. During the financial crisis the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chairman under Bush initially tried to give themselves powers that pretty much said, we can do what ever we need to 'fix' the problem and we can not be held legally responsible for any action. Litterally they wanted powers without any consequences whatsoever. The fact they didn't get it doesn't prove something like that couldn't happen again. They were damned close to getting that kind of power.

What some of us don't realize is an emergency is exactly what the government needs to usurp our civil liberties and 99% will go along willingly for the sake of expediency.

Going back to concept of Imminent Domain, we've slowly eroded our civil liberties over time in the name of progress or security.

I'd love to ask the founders what they think of the country now and if it fits their vision of what they aspired to. I truly wonder if they would like what they see today.

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TSA slams door on private airport screening program

 

 

Washington (CNN) -- A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was "neutral" on the program.

 

TSA chief John Pistole said Friday he has decided not to expand the program beyond the current 16 airports, saying he does not see any advantage to it.

 

Though little known, the Screening Partnership Program allowed airports to replace government screeners with private contractors who wear TSA-like uniforms, meet TSA standards and work under TSA oversight. Among the airports that have "opted out" of government screening are San Francisco and Kansas City.

 

The push to "opt out" gained attention in December amid the fury over the TSA's enhanced pat downs, which travelers called intrusive.

 

Rep. John Mica, a Republican from Florida, wrote a letter encouraging airports to privatize their airport screeners, saying they would be more responsive to the public.

 

At that time, the TSA said it neither endorsed nor opposed private screening.

 

"If airports chose this route, we are going to work with them to do it," a TSA spokesman said in late December.

 

But on Friday, the TSA denied an application by Springfield-Branson Airport in Missouri to privatize its checkpoint workforce, and in a statement, Pistole indicated other applications likewise will be denied.

 

"I examined the contractor screening program and decided not to expand the program beyond the current 16 airports as I do not see any clear or substantial advantage to do so at this time," Pistole said.

 

He said airports that currently use contractor screening will continue to be allowed to.

 

Pistole said he has been reviewing TSA policies with the goal of helping the agency "evolve into a more agile, high-performance organization."

 

[color:red]Told of the change Friday night, Mica said he intends to launch an investigation and review the matter.

 

"It's unimaginable that TSA would suspend the most successfully performing passenger screening program we've had over the last decade," Mica said Friday night. "The agency should concentrate on cutting some of the more than 3,700 administrative personnel in Washington who concocted this decision, and reduce the army of TSA employees that has ballooned to more than 62,000."[/color]

 

[color:red]"Nearly every positive security innovation since the beginning of TSA has come from the contractor screening program," Mica said.[/color]

 

A union for Transportation Security Administration employees said it supported the decision to halt the program.

 

"The nation is secure in the sense that the safety of our skies will not be left in the hands of the lowest-bidder contractor, as it was before 9/11," said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees. "We applaud Administrator Pistole for recognizing the value in a cohesive federalized screening system and work force."

 

Advocates of private screeners say it is easier to discipline and replace under-performing private screeners than government ones.

 

But Congress members have differed over the effectiveness of private screeners.

 

Mica said tests show that private screeners perform "statistically significantly better" than government screeners in tests of airport checkpoints. But the Government Accountability Office says it "did not notice any difference" during covert checkpoint testing in 2007. Both groups failed to find concealed bomb components, the GAO said.

 

Test results are not publicly disclosed.

 

On Friday, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, lauded Pistole's decision.

 

"Ending the acceptance of new applications for the program makes sense from a budgetary and counter-terrorism perspective," he said in a statement.

 

 

 

ALL YOUR AIRPORT ARE BELONG TO US!

 

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California Latinos protest Arizona push to end birthright citizenship

 

 

(CNN) -- An Arizona state lawmaker's push to end the guarantee of birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants on Saturday set off a protest hundreds of miles away in Pacoima, a Los Angeles suburb.

 

More than 1,500 people in this predominantly Latino community took part in the protest, many of them chanting "Si, se puede," the Spanish version of President Obama's 2008 campaign slogan.

 

[color:red]The protesters fear that if Arizona passes the measure, other states will follow. Arizona state Representative John Kavanagh, a Republican, has proposed that birthright citizenship, a guarantee provided by the U.S. Constitution, be taken away from children of illegal immigrants. :yikes:[/color]

 

The guarantee, courts have ruled, was established by the 14th Amendment, which extended birthright citizenship to former slaves after the Civil War.

 

Other state legislatures are considering similar measures.

 

[color:red]Kavanagh told CNN Friday, "Dispensing citizenship like a door prize is poor policy and greatly increases the costs of education, medicating and giving other benefits to the children of illegal aliens born here."[/color]

 

 

 

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