- Some of you are old enough to remember to remember that
old sit-com WKRP in Cincinnati. I remember one episode where the aging
hippie DJ, Dr. Johnny Fever, was running from the Phone Cops. It was a
paranoid delusion, of course. There were no Phone Cops. But Fever was
convinced that the government was getting so fascist that Ma Bell had her
own police force, and they were coming to get him, guns blazing.
-
- Paranoid delusion, right?
-
- Phone cops? Bah.
-
- HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002
-
- SEC. 812. LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
AGENTS.
-
- (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Inspector General
Act of
- 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the
end the
- following:
- ``(e)(1) In addition to the authority otherwise
provided by
- this Act, each Inspector General appointed under
section 3,
- any Assistant Inspector General for Investigations
under such
- an Inspector General, and any special agent supervised
by
- such an Assistant Inspector General may be authorized
by the
- Attorney General to--
- (A) carry a firearm while engaged in official
duties as
- authorized under this Act or other statute, or as
expressly
- authorized by the Attorney General;
- (B) make an arrest without a warrant while engaged
in
- official duties as authorized under this Act or
other
- statute, or as expressly authorized by the Attorney
General,
- for any offense against the United States committed
in the
- presence of such Inspector General, Assistant Inspector
- General, or agent, or for any felony cognizable
under the
- laws of the United States if such Inspector General,
- Assistant Inspector General, or agent has reasonable
grounds
- to believe that the person to be arrested has committed
or is
- committing such felony; and
- (C) seek and execute warrants for arrest, search
of a
- premises, or seizure of evidence issued under the
authority
- of the United States upon probable cause to believe
that a
- violation has been committed.
- (2) The Attorney General may authorize exercise
of the
- powers under this subsection only upon an initial
- determination that--
- (A) the affected Office of Inspector General is
- significantly hampered in the performance of responsibilities
- established by this Act as a result of the lack
of such
- powers;
- (B) available assistance from other law enforcement
- agencies is insufficient to meet the need for such
powers;
- and
- (C) adequate internal safeguards and management
- procedures exist to ensure proper exercise of such
powers.
-
- Note the qualifications for arming agents of the 57 Inspector
Generals Offices. How convenient for A that the new definition of terrorism
is so broad that the government can justify going after just about anybody
on the grounds that they're connected in some way to terrorism.
-
- How convenient for B that the more work Homeland Security
shunts over to other agencies, the less likely those agencies are to have
sufficient resources. How convenient that Homeland Security itself doesn't
do any actual investigation, and only directs where the workloads are going.
-
- How convenient that C is meaningless dribble.
-
- They could argue that the qualifications existed from
day one.
-
- Until this change to the Inspector General Act of 1978,
ONLY Treasury Inspectors General of the Tax Administration division could
carry firearms.
-
- www.ignet.gov/pande/leg/igact.pdf
-
- With the stroke of a pen, Congress just authorized the
creation of an army of armed petty bureaucrats, each with his or her own
private army of pettier bureaucrats.
-
- Everybody knows what I mean when I say, "go postal".
-
- We know it means a post office employee picking up a
weapon and going on a mindless rampage.
-
- And George W Bush just gave the Post Office, and 56 other
Inspector General Offices, the right to carry guns.
-
- You don't just have the Mail Cops and the Phone Cops.
Now you've got the Amtrak Cops, and the Futures Trading Cops too. The
Pension Benefit Cops. The Tennessee Valley Authority Cops (yeah, this
one gives me the willies too). The Transportation Cops. The PBS Cops,
to ensure fair and balanced reporting. In the name of Homeland security,
of course.
-
- The Environment Cops. The Farm Credit Cops. The Election
Cops, and the Labor Relations Cops to bust them unions. The Health and
Human Services Cops, to enforce those forced vaccinations on behalf of
Wyeth Corporation. The NASA Cops, to teach those UFO conspiracy nuts a
lesson. The Veterans Affairs Cops, to silence those dang peace-loving,
fascist-hating Veterans.
-
- I am not making this up. See for yourself who Bush is
giving guns and arrest authority.
-
- www.ignet.gov/igs/homepage.html
-
- Now for the punch line.
-
- Did you catch that there's an Office of the Inspector
General of the Central Intelligence Agency?
-
- The CIA is now more or less empowered to carry guns and
operate DOMESTICALLY through the Inspector General's Office of the CIA,
thanks to this change to the Inspector General Act of 1978, which was buried
in the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
-
- They don't make any specific exclusions relating to CIA,
so one has to assume that Bush just empowered them to act, the same as
the others. Except the CIA's not supposed to operate domestically, right?
Because they're not supposed to influence the American people, right?
Because they have no charter to operate domestically, right?
-
- Piece by piece, brick by brick, these people are dismantling
the checks and balances, the separation of powers, and the Republic itself.
They are disempowering the foundations upon which the nation was built,
and using the instruments of legality toward the illegal aim of disempowering
the Constitution of the United States of America. The instruments of legality
have themselves become the instruments of illegality. They crossed that
line when they disempowered the Constitution of the United States of America
on October 26, 2001.
-
- And with the Homeland Security Act, they've crossed the
Rubicon, and openly declared a Police State.
-
- Absurd, isn't it?
-
- And yet there it is, law of the land. All those powers
in the hands of Tom Ridge, and John Ashcroft. Fifty-seven armies for the
EXECUTIVE BRANCH, answerable to the Executive Branch, and not Congress.
-
- They were really sneaky with this one. The implications
of it just dawned on me today, and I'd read the act several times before
re-reading it today.
-
- Very soon, the Phone Cops really COULD be out to get
ya!
-
- And what, pray tell, does any of this do in terms of
securing the Homeland? Absolutely nothing, if medical experts are to be
believed. According to the people in charge of terrorism preparedness,
two years and hundreds of billions in corporate welfare later, they haven't
even been given a definition of what preparedness means.
-
- Want to bet they spend a million buying a report from
someone like RAND Corp, to get a definition of the word preparedness?
-
- www.nytimes.com/2003/08/25/opinion/25HERB.html
-
- "When the World Trade Center was attacked, Dr. Redlener
immediately sent vans from the Children's Health Fund to the triage center
that was set up on Manhattan's West Side. That sudden experience of the
intersection of medicine and terror led to an entirely new mission.
-
- Dr. Redlener is now one of the key individuals working
on the urgent task of developing strategies to care for the sick and wounded
in the event of another terrorist attack. He's the founding director of
the new National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's
Mailman School of Public Health.
-
- At the moment our state of readiness is not good.
-
- "My biggest concern," said Dr. Redlener, "is
that now, nearly two years after 9/11, the hospitals and public health
systems are absolutely unprepared for another major act of terrorism. There's
been very little improvement from two years ago. No one's really even defined
what we mean by preparedness"
-
-
- It's like a nightmare, isn't it? Revenge of the Petty
Bureaucrats.
-
- The structure of the Office of Homeland Security is virtually
identical to the US State Department's description of the structure of
the Gestapo, which you can read in the Nuremburg Trials Volume I and II.
It's an enforcement arm of the Executive branch of government, tipping
the scales against Congress and the Judicial Branch, who have no standing
army of their own.
-
- Homeland Security now accounts for 1 in every 12 federal
employees.
-
- www.post-gazette.com/pg/03237/214959.stm
-
- 8% of the government removed from Judicial and Congressional
oversight, given guns, and put in the direct control of the Executive branch.
-
- Willkommen zum Land der Aufseher.
-
- Isn't it interesting how this multi-compartmentalized
intelligence structure resembles the description of Saddam Hussein's own
multi-compartmentalized intelligence and security services?
-
- What, are they worried about a coup or something?
-
- And just think. YOUR representative probably voted for
this shit.
-
- You can check how they voted here, and if they voted
for the Patriot Act or Office of Homeland Security, KICK EM OUT IN 2004.
-
- www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
-
- www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
-
- Better yet, call up their aides and ask if your representative
voted for Homeland Security, and if they did, ask them if they're aware
that they voted for Phone Cops, and for the CIA to operate domestically
in the USA, by citing Section 812 (above) of the Homeland Security Act
of 2002.
-
- Then ask them what they intend to do about it, now that
they've been made aware.
-
- Time to get mad.
-
- Mad is good. Mad keeps you focused when hope seems slim.
Mad will kick Bush out of the White House in 2004. Mad will change the
world, when enough of us get mad enough to get off our asses.
-
- I better sign off now.
-
- I hear the Internet Cops coming.
-
- LOL
-
- Peace
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