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Harman's Home-Grown Police State 11/29/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20071126/072253.html

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News Target - Dec 20, 2007
http://www.newstarget.com/022308.html
   
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books 
and Free Speech Across America 

by Mike Adams 

The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a
new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the
U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out
against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of
Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law
has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it
is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All
over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are
speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at
the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn Smith
at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com

This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it
passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut
down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline
and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com
could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len
Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore
could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an
exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check
yourself here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h1955_rfs.xml

The bill states:

'...ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or
threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote
the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs...

Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political
or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all
hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use
of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of
the meaning of words, "force" could mean:

- - A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
- - A non-violent street protest
- - A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
- - A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
- - A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of any
government department or agency

You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything. And
since the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal act of
terrorism, anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action campaign
would be engaged in terrorist acts.

If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for
example, this could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of force
to promote the individual's religious beliefs...")

If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global
warming and the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military,
this could also be considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the
individual's political beliefs...")

If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning a
sit-in protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could
also be considered an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it
out! ("...planned use of force to promote a social belief...")

The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is
working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to criminalize
any thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current government
policies regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance and civil
liberties. Simply speaking out against the war on Iraq could soon be
labeled a crime. Merely thinking thoughts against the war on Iraq could
be considered a criminal act.

Must-see video: Naomi Wolf's lecture on 10 steps to fascism  There's
a video lecture you simply MUST watch. It's by Naomi Wolf, author of
The End of America. She covers this topic with great elegance and a
deep understanding of history. See her video on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc

In her lecture and book, Naomi reveals the ten steps to fascist, then
reveals how the United States of America is pursuing all ten! This
S.1959 legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, represents one of the ten steps to achieve a fascist
state!

It is designed to squash all opposition to the State's ongoing march
towards blatant fascism, where secret police and secret prisons
dominate the law enforcement landscape, stripping U.S. citizens of all
civil liberties and Constitutional protections. 

Thoughtcrimes are about to become a reality in the United States of
America, and Congress is pushing this through as quickly as possible so
that each individual member of Congress can claim that he or she is
"against terrorism." But this bill doesn't merely target terrorism: It
targets anyone who speaks or even thinks thoughts against the U.S.
federal government.

With this bill, the U.S. government is officially labeling the People
of the United States as criminals. It is drawing a line in the sand and
stating that from now on, it's the Government vs. the People.

If we don't stop this bill from becoming law, we are lost as a nation.

There is no turning back from tyranny once the government turns its own
citizens into criminals, enforcing only the thoughts, ideas, words and
speeches that it approves or tolerates. Everything is at stake here!

Take action now, or lose your freedoms forever  If you live in the
U.S., it is urgent that you call your senators right now and voice your
strong opposition against this extremely dangerous law. 

Here are the phone numbers for the U.S. Senate switchboard:

1-877-851-6437
1-800-833-6354
1-888-355-3588
1-866-220-0044
1-866-808-0065
1-877-762-8762
1-866-340-9281
1-800-862-5530

How to do this:

1) Make sure you know the names of your Senators.
2) Call the U.S. Senate switchboard using one of the numbers above.
3) Ask to speak to the offices of your Senators.
4) Tell them you are strongly opposed to S. 1959, the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act 5) Ask for their
fax number. 6) Follow up your phone call with a written, signed letter
that you fax to your Senators.

Stopping this bill from becoming law is the single most important thing
all Americans can do right now. If this becomes law, all free speech
about health freedom, the crimes of the FDA, the crimes of the Bush
Administration, America's role in global warming and any other topics
could all be criminalized. YOU could be labeled a terrorist, kidnapped
by government thugs, taken from your home, thrown in a secret prison,
denied access to legal representation, denied due process and
essentially "disappeared" into a system of such corruption and evil
that it now begins to blatantly mirror Nazi Germany.

Think it couldn't happen here? It's happening right now! This is
exactly how it happened in Nazi Germany. First, burn the Reichstag and
blame it on the "enemy." Pass new police state laws. Disarm the people.
Spread fear. Erect secret prisons and secret police. Call anyone who
disagrees with you a "traitor." Control the mainstream media. Sound
familiar? This is all happening right now in the United States of
Amerika, and if we don't work to stop it, this nation will rapidly
devolve into a fascist police state where no one is truly free.

We are but a few small steps away from it right now. All it would take
is one dirty bomb in a major U.S. city. Bush would declare Martial Law
and take over the National Guard. Troops on the streets. Anyone who
writes a blog against the government would be arrested. Authors of
"alternative" books would be kidnapped and have their books burned on
the street. It could all happen at the stroke of a pen. The
infrastructure for tyranny is in place right now, just waiting to be
invoked.

Our best weapons: Non-violent protest and speaking the truth  How can
we fight back against this onslaught of tyranny? We must use what
remaining free speech freedoms we have right now to alert our fellow
citizens to what's happening. We must rise up and tell the truth while
urging our representatives in Washington to resist the temptation to
vote for more "anti-terrorism" legislation that only works to enslave
the American people.

We must use our phones, faxes, emails and blogs to rally our friends,
family members and anyone who will listen to oppose these police state
laws, and we must organize mass (peaceful) protests against this
government that is attempting to marginalize the rights and freedoms of
our People.

We must not be lulled into a sense of false security by the purveyors
of hatred and fear -- the Sean Hannitys, Rush Limbaughs and Bill
O'Reillys of the world. Instead, we must listen to the voices of
freedom. In terms of the upcoming election for U.S. President, there is
only one candidate that actually believes in freedom: Ron Paul. He
needs your support to win: www.RonPaul2008.com

All the other candidates are nothing more than tyrants of different
political affiliations. Ron Paul is the only candidate that truly
understands the fundamentals of freedom. That's why he's the only real
choice for our next President. Can you imagine what Hillary Clinton
would do with the police state powers that Bush has now created? That's
the danger of all laws that centralize power in Washington: It's not
necessarily what today's President will do with them, but what some
future President will do with them.

That's why it's never good enough to say, "Well, we intend to only
apply these laws to terrorists and not to U.S. citizens at home." That
may be the intention right NOW, but virtually all such laws creep into
areas of enforcement for which they were never intended. Just look at
the application of RICO laws which were originally designed to fight
organized crime operations but are now applied to virtually anyone (and
yet they are never applied to Big Pharma, which operates almost exactly
like organized crime!). All these anti-terrorism laws run the danger of
expanding in enforcement to the point where they are applied against
the People of this country. At first, it's only illegal for
"terrorists" to think thought crimes, but before long, it's illegal for
anyone to think those same thoughts. That when the domestic arrests of
authors, journalists, bloggers and thought leaders will kick off, and
the country will plunge itself into outright tyrannical fascism.

Again, we're on the track right now. This is happening, folks. You're
LIVING through an amazing chapter of history right now. You're actually
witnessing the downfall of a free nation and the rise of a superpower
fascist state. You're actually part of it.

When it's all over, will you look back and realize you did nothing? Or
will you now take a stand against tyranny and oppose these dangerous
laws and lawmakers who threaten the Constitutional freedoms of you and
your children? 



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