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molbiogirl
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Message 1 of 17 (453366)
02-01-2008 11:39 PM


From Message 34 of our current political thread.
Chi writes:
It will be interesting whether a US attack on Iran will the the "invasion of Poland" that will lead the world to finally say that enough is enough.
Thank you, Chi.
Exactly the point I was going to make.
I recently had the chance to see Naomi Wolf's talk re: her book The End of America.
Here's Naomi's take on Germany in the early 30s and legal pressures on a democracy aka how despots crack down:
Every would-be dictator, whether on the left or the right, does the same 9 things. There is a blue print for crushing a democracy.
Each of these steps is underway in the United States today courtesy of G. W. Bush.
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external threat.
2. Create a secret prison system where torture takes place that is outside the rule of law.
3. Create a paramilitary force.
4. Create a surveillance apparatus aimed at ordinary citizens.
5. Target key individuals for punishment as a result of this surveillance.
6. Arbitrarily detain and release citizens.
7. Restrict the press.
8. Re-cast criticism as treason.
9. Subvert the rule of law.
The same is true of Italy (pre-Mussolini), Russia (pre-Stalin), Czechlovakia (pre-Ceausescu), Chile (pre-Pinochet).
GWB has only #9 left.
GWB is a threat to our national security.
What say you, EvC?
Edited by molbiogirl, : No reason given.

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molbiogirl
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Message 3 of 17 (453408)
02-02-2008 4:29 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by anglagard
02-02-2008 2:37 AM


Also, slight correction, Ceauescu was Romanian, not Czechoslovakian.
That's what I get for trying to remember the country instead of looking it up.
One could easily argue that all of these conditions have existed in US history to some extent in the South prior to the Civil War and during Reconstruction, and nationwide during the red scare of the early 1920s and 1950s.
Here's my tally.
South: 4/9
1920s/30s/50s: 6/9
GWB: 8/9
The man's hitting on all cylinders.

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molbiogirl
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Message 8 of 17 (453510)
02-02-2008 2:43 PM
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02-02-2008 5:00 AM


As to Reconstruction or even later, one must consider the tolerance and often even government support of such internal terrorist organizations as the KKK, the Mob, or hired strike-breaking goons
But they weren't created by the federal government.
They may have been ignored or even encouraged, but that's different.
Just arguing for perspective. American history is not all sweetness and light by any means, including presumed rule by law.
I agree.

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molbiogirl
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Message 9 of 17 (453517)
02-02-2008 3:21 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Shield
02-02-2008 9:14 AM


The CIA's black prisons has not been for U.S citizens but only for "terroists" capturede abroad. Further more, these prisons are not located within the USA.
Two words. Jose Padilla.
What paramilitary forces do the US have within its own borders?
Two words. Hurricane Katrina.
Blackwater was immediately dispatched to New Orleans.
One of GWB's signing statements says that he and he alone has the authority to dispatch the paramilitary (Blackwater, Sovereign Deed, etc.) in cases of "national emergency". And guess who gets to decide what constitutes a "national emergency"?
I cant find any instance of this happening. But ofcourse... they would cover it up.
Naomi Wolf is on the terrorist watch list. (Her boarding pass is always marked "SSSS" aka high terrorist risk.) Now why would that be?
Richard Murphy (constitutional authority/Princeton scholar), Medea Benjamin/Jodie Evans/etc. (leaders of anti-war group Code Pink), the staff of War Times (anti-war newspaper), ACLU staffers, Greenpeace leaders, are also on the terrorist watch list.
And who knows who else.
I'll tell you this much.
I posted an anti-Bush article (from the New Yorker) on a local bulletin board back in 2003.
The next day the FBI showed up at my house. I was interrogated for nearly an hour until I demanded that they leave.
I cant say to what degree the press is actually beeing restricted.
They do plant stories in the news though. See 1.
Journalists have been detained in Iraq.
Reuters soundman Waleed Khaled was killed in Baghdad, apparently by US troops, and cameraman Haider Kadhem, who was wounded in the same incident, has been held ever since by the US military for questioning. Reuters has demanded his immediate release. Iraqi police said US troops fired into the car carrying the Reuters team.
Lieutenant Colonel Rudisill said he was aware of five journalists for major news media in detention, including Mr Mashhadani and another freelance cameraman who has worked for Reuters, as well as a cameraman for the US television network CBS. Journalists for other major international organizations have recently been released without charge after many months in custody.
Journalists faced 'record censorship' in 2003
Forty-two journalists were killed around the world during 2003 and more than 750 were arrested for carrying out their profession, according to the annual report from the rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Journalists are being threatened.
"The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie.
http://www.dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/55345
Journalists are being targeted.
Reporters Without Borders accuses US military of deliberately firing at journalists
Reporters Without Borders called today on US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to provide evidence that the offices of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera and the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad were not deliberately fired at by US forces earlier in the day in attacks that killed three journalists.
"We are appalled at what happened because it was known that both places contained journalists," said the organisation’s secretary-general Robert Ménard. "Film shot by the French TV station France 3 and descriptions by journalists show the neighbourhood was very quiet at that hour and that the US tank crew took their time, waiting for a couple of minutes and adjusting its gun before opening fire."
Bienvenue sur le site de Reporters sans frontires | RSF
In all these instances, there actually was secret police heading down citizens of the country, there was 'real' propaganda and so forth.
Wrong.
Bush Administration creates "Secret State Police"
The Bush Administration is to set up a "domestic spy service", pursuant to the recommendations of a Commission led by US Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman and former Senator Charles S. Robb of Virginia, the so-called Silberman-Rob Commission.
Bush Administration creates "Secret State Police" - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
(It) was described as as a necessary step in "protecting the American public".
"It pulls together the Counterintelligence Division, the Counterterrorism Division, and the Directorate of Intelligence, enabling it to act together to develop intelligence and then to act on that intelligence, in consultation with not only Department of Justice but also the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). We look forward to working with the DNI over the next 60 days to put in place additional steps that may be required to give full implementation to the development of this National Security Service." (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The new department will be able to "spy on people in America suspected of terrorism or having critical intelligence information, even if they are not suspected of committing a crime." (NBC Tonight, 29 June 2005).
rbp writes:
What im trying to say is that the 9 points were practiced to the extreme, and that really isent happening in the US.
I disagree.

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molbiogirl
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Message 11 of 17 (453521)
02-02-2008 4:18 PM
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02-02-2008 3:59 PM


I dont think thats enough to conclude that the CIA prison are for US citizens.
Padilla is a U.S. citizen. He was arrested in the U.S. He was held incommunicado for 3 years.
The Bush administration has openly touted a series of extreme legal theories to justify holding suspects without trial or access to a lawyer. Even US citizens arrested in the United States can be held indefinitely as “enemy combatants.”
http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1562/
I would like to see a source on the GWB quote. Just for context and so forth.
Briefing Room - The White House
I would like to see a proper source on that.
Naomi Wolf herself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
At 30:12.
Also, what onsequence it actually has for the people with marked passports.
Passports aren't marked!
You really don't know much about the Patriot Act, do you?
Some of those stories are some heavy stuff, but the press is NOT beeing regulated like it was the case with Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jon Il and those other real tyrant regimes.
We still enjoy the rule of law. For now. However, it is clear from history that erosion of a democracy proceeds via tipping points. Which means a gradual restrictions of civil liberties and civil rights ... then the situation hits a sweet spot ... and BOOM. You're done. You're toast.
No more rights. No more liberties.
I havent really been able to find much information on this Secret Police. Please post links if you have.
Ferchrissake.
Message 9.
Bush Administration creates "Secret State Police"
The Bush Administration is to set up a "domestic spy service", pursuant to the recommendations of a Commission led by US Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman and former Senator Charles S. Robb of Virginia, the so-called Silberman-Rob Commission.
LOOK RIGHT HERE.
Bush Administration creates "Secret State Police" - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
(It) was described as as a necessary step in "protecting the American public".
"It pulls together the Counterintelligence Division, the Counterterrorism Division, and the Directorate of Intelligence, enabling it to act together to develop intelligence and then to act on that intelligence, in consultation with not only Department of Justice but also the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). We look forward to working with the DNI over the next 60 days to put in place additional steps that may be required to give full implementation to the development of this National Security Service."
LOOK RIGHT HERE.
(Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The new department will be able to "spy on people in America suspected of terrorism or having critical intelligence information, even if they are not suspected of committing a crime."
LOOK RIGHT HERE.
NBC Tonight, 29 June 2005

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