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The
Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty
Posted February 16, 2003
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A Brief
Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as
Patriot Act II By Alex
Jones / www.infowars.com
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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Comment:
- From Jim
- Italicsmyn@aol.com
- 2-13-3
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- Jeff,
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- Alex Jones' article, Secret Patriot Act
II Destroys What is Left of American Liberty, reminds me:
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- In the 1970's I had a friend who had
penpals all over the world. One day he wrote me that his pal in the
Soviet Union had written that he feared for his life because the KGB
were shadowing his every move. He never knew why. A stray word
perhaps? Then one day he just disappeared, as so many seemed to do.
And I thanked God that I lived in a country where that kind of thing
didn't happen.
-
- The story is told that shortly after
Nikita Khrushchev was made leader of the Soviet Union, he was
addressing a large audience on the iniquities of Joseph Stalin when
suddenly a voice shot out from the back of the hall: "You were
one of his colleagues, why didn't you stop him?"
-
- Glaring round the crowded hall,
Khrushchev bellowed: "Who said that?"
-
- No one moved in the awful silence that
followed.
-
- "WHO said that!" Still not a
man moved.
-
- And when the tension had become
unbearable,
-
- Khrushchev quietly said: "Now you
know why." Jim
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