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Again
& Again Americans find themselves in the crosshairs of a government
that chooses to spend trillions to spy, record and stalk ordinary
Americans while at the same time utterly failing to do anything about
millions of people who are here illegally-to enhance the profits of a huge
number of employers. Actually, this government has proposed spending
billions to build an electronic fence along the border, while claiming
that "government" cannot keep track of any of the twelve to fourteen
million people who are here without papers. What's wrong with this
equation?
911 produced a negative income
stream of trillions of dollars in costs to the economy of the United
States; costs that continue to soar daily. Yet trillions are
simultaneously continuing to be spent to block law-abiding citizens from
their right to be different, to think independently from dictators, or to
travel - yet this same government cannot even keep lawful track of those "others" who are here without papers? The reason the undocumented workers
are not trackable is because those who employ them, whose responsibility
it is to provide that information-simply don't. Now add to this insult-the
Secret Plan of ATS-the latest outrage against Americans!
"Without their knowledge,
millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past
four years have been assigned scores generated by U.S. government
computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals.
The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk
assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years.
The government calls the system
critical to national security following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks. Some privacy advocates call it one of the most intrusive and
risky schemes yet mounted in the name of anti-terrorism efforts. Virtually
every person entering and leaving the United States by air, sea or land is
scored by the Homeland Security Department's Automated Targeting System,
or ATS. The scores are based on ATS' analysis of their travel records and
other data, including items such as where they are from, how they paid for
tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating
preference and what kind of meal they ordered.
The use of the program on
travelers was quietly disclosed earlier this month when the department put
a notice detailing ATS in the Federal Register, a fine-print compendium of
federal rules." (1)
The current U.S. Government is
doing everything it can to destroy any certainty that might remain for
Americans in any area of their lives. We have been wiretapped, spied upon,
harassed, audited, challenged and threatened at every curve in the road.
These government programs are also "jobs programs" that create more
negative income streams for a failed government that can't evaluate the
difference between real threats (bankruptcy, retirement, medical
uncertainty, and governmental lies) aided and abetted in every aspect, by
the subservient media that willfully avoids asking even the most basic
questions about anything that this government does "to-its-people."
Using double-speak to destroy any
meaning in government agencies-the US has turned our representative
government, from protecting and serving those who pay for it-into
something that spies, plots and schemes against its formerly legal
citizens. The result has been a police state under secret martial law, a
state that prosecutes and intimidates anyone that challenges this
contrived authority to censor and silence any and all criticism.
However, when the Bandits laid
out these plans they overlooked several key points that once guaranteed
their semi-military powers over the lives of the people. Police carry life
and death on their hips, in the form of tasers and guns. The use of these
instruments is supposed to be governed by rationality and a measured
response to those circumstances that may appear to be life threatening.
This is largely disappearing in major cities, as police have begun to
shoot first and ask questions later!
Civilian police were granted
their authority by those they were hired to protect, and to insure that
this privilege was not abused, there was something called Posse Comitatus
that did NOT allow the military to be used against the citizens of this
country. The Decider has now asked for and received the elimination of
Posse Comitatus - supposedly to protect Americans from "terrorists." Over
this curse of the last six years, during which the congress totally
vacated their oversight, the public has become road-kill for those
trigger-happy and often power driven people in uniform who seem to think
that they are working the streets of Baghdad. To insure that this practice
can be expanded-two different US Attorney Generals have overseen sweeps of
"10,000 of the most wanted fugitives." This: just to familiarize
local law enforcement with what it is like to "federalized."
Perhaps the third such "sweep" will not be against actual fugitives, but
will instead be directed at their critics throughout this society?
In the latest case in New York
where undercover officers murdered a 23-year-old man who was celebrating
with friends on the eve of his marriage-until the future groom became the
target of 50 bullets fired by five undercover "cops" who went on a
shooting spree. The "officials" muttered about investigations and the
difficulty of preventing these "unfortunate incidents" from continuing to
happen. The Police Commissioner of NY failed to mention that his officers
were in plain clothes and were driving unmarked vehicles. The solution to
this crime is not a mystery. If those who participated in this murder,
that night, were immediately arrested and charged for what they did-every
man or woman in uniform would begin to pay attention to circumstances and
to legal "just cause" in every case-not just in those cases that might be
examined. Good law enforcement was not the goal here: because
Terror-of-the-Police has become yet another part of the New World Order,
in the growing national-security police-state that parts of America are
trying to perfect! (2)
The unspoken rules here, that
have been shattered, have to do with the compact between government and
its people. There are too few police to truly control any city in America,
because Americans are expected to be law-abiding citizens that will be
protected from the government and the police, by the laws of the nation.
When laws no longer protect most people, then people may begin to
challenge the authority that daily begins to act more and more like the
real enemies of those that employ them. The Laws of a nation hold society
together; and while these constructs are not perfect they tend to keep
anarchy in check. When people begin to see that "our laws" only protect
the rich and persecute the poor and unconnected, within this two-tiered
system, then instead of being valued public servants the police may soon
become the targets that they seem to fear they could be seen to be.
The "law" is and always
has been a two-way street-those who pervert the laws for private profit
and ultimate power-will one day have to face the consequences. Our laws
under the Just-US-Criminal-System are a long way from perfection, but what
the Decider is continuing to do hastens the day when answers must be found
for this criminal impasse.
Why does the government continue
to seek these draconian methods when they deal with public, and not just
the flying public-but the general population-which government increasingly
tends to try and hold hostage as potentially dangerous enemies of
"the state"? This government, and the several before that, have
outlawed public political discourse, blocked demonstrations that do not
agree with their policies, and rendered the entire political process
nothing but idle gestures. The longer the public turns a deaf ear and a
blind eye to these people that flaunt their self-appointed powers, while
continuing to openly subjugate the same people they're supposed to
serve-is to court disaster for the nation and for the world that will have
to deal with our policies in the real world. If this continues, then the
death and dying that too many Americans chose not to know will come here
with a vengeance that shall not spare the innocent.
The politicians and lobbyists
here have relied on the negative to enforce their self-appointed plans.
"NO," "STOP," "ZERO-TOLERANCE" - the list is
very long and it's meant to grant safety and security to this very
fear-filled nation! Yet: For every freedom we surrender, for every idea we
refuse to ponder, there is a price that each of us will pay in blood and
treasure-whether anyone ever notices or not.
"For every action there is always
an equal and opposite reaction." That's a law of nature that cannot be
negotiated or avoided. Consign the secret ATS targeting of passengers to
the trash heap along with all those who tried to slip it past the public's
awareness. But also deal forcefully with those in civilian uniforms that
want to live out their unbridled fantasies that are not legal!
Jim Kirwan
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