- "I tell you, freedom and human rights in America
are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people, and the
West in general, into an unbearable hell and a choking life." Osama
bin Laden, October, 2001 (quoted in NewsMax.com 2/1/02)
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- At 5 am in the morning on September 12, 2001 -- less
than one day after the 9/11 Attack -- a half-dozen heavily-armed federal
agents raided the home of Dr. Al-Hazmi in San Antonio, Texas. Without any
search warrant, the agents ransacked his home, while his wife and young
children (6 & 8) were held at gunpoint. Then -- without being charged
with any crime -- Dr. Al-Hazmi was shackled and thrown naked into a freezing
cold FBI holding cell. Even his eyeglasses and bronchitis medicine were
taken away. Next, Al-Hazmi was flown to a New York prison, where he says
he was repeatedly beaten while the FBI interrogated him.
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- One week later, he was finally allowed to talk to an
attorney and learned the reason for his arrest: Dr. Al-Hazmi's name (the
"Smith" of the Middle East) is similar to that of two 9/11 hijackers,
and he had booked flights through Travelocity.com, which some 9/11 hijackers
(along with a few million other people) had used.
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- On September 24th -- 12 days after he was arrested,Dr.
Al-Hazmi was released -- without his belongings and without even an apology
from the FBI. He says he may now have to quit his job and leave the U.S.
because his co-workers no longer trust him. (Source: "Justice Kept
In the Dark," Newsweek,12-10-01, p. 41.)
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- Since September 11th, over 2,000 people, including many
U.S. citizens, have been imprisoned by the FBI and police in the name of
"fighting terrorism." Only two of them have been charged with
a crime associated with 9/11. Many say they have been denied food and sleep,
access to an attorney, and have even been beaten. The FBI has even called
for legalizing torture of such "suspects."
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- In the wake of the horrific 9/11 attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon, America is a changed country. Dozens of "anti-terrorist"
laws have already been enacted by Congress and state legislatures, and
many more are on the way. As you are about to learn, these laws are a much
greater danger to you than to terrorists.
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- The USA Patriot Act authorizes an American police state
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- The centerpiece of the new "anti-terror" laws
is the USA PATRIOT ACT (Public Law 107-56). Here is how this law affects
you.
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- Cops can now rob your house or office at will: Under
Section 213, police can now secretly break into your home or business if
they merely suspect you're involved in any criminal activity involving
a computer.
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- Once they break in, they can seize your records, alter
or destroy your computer files, and even plant bugs that report every keystroke
you type. They can also secretly seize anything and everything you own,
including family heirlooms, your computer, cash, jewelry, and gold. Since
the "search" is secret, it will be impossible to legally challenge
it -- much less get your property back.
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- In effect, the USA Patriot Act legalizes home break-ins
and robberies by cops nationwide -- not unlike the corrupt LA police Rampart
Division which routinely robbed and assaulted citizens they were sworn
"to serve and protect."
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- Big Brother is Watching: Under Section 207(III) the Feds
can now eavesdrop on your phone calls, faxes, and e-mail at will -- without
any search warrant. Internet Service Providers must turn over your e-mail
records and customer information upon government demand. Telephone companies
also must turn over detailed phone records, including any credit-card or
bank-account numbers used for payments.
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- According to CBSNews.com (11/21/01), the FBI is developing
new "Magic Lantern" software that can record every keystroke
you make on your computer. It could be inserted into your PC via the Internet,
and may even be capable of real-time monitoring! [Shades of 1984]
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- Your financial privacy is being wiped out. Section 358
compels U.S. and foreign banks -- along with stockbrokers, credit-card
companies, and credit-reporting agencies -- to provide detailed information
about you to intelligence agencies on demand. You won't even be notified
that this information has been requested.
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- Section 361 greatly expands the power of the IRS Financial
Crimes Center (FINCEN) to collect financial information on you from "non-bank
networks" (like check-cashing services and barter-systems). This infor-mation
will be entered into a new federal database accessible to thousands of
cops and bureaucrats, who can use the information to criminally prosecute
you or seize your assets. The IRS has already forced MasterCard and American
Express to turn over all records of millions of U.S. citizens who have
foreign credit cards.
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- If you are a foreigner who owns U.S. assets, they can
be seized upon the mere request of a U.S. prosecutor.
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- Finally, carrying $10,000 cash in or out of the US (without
reporting it) is by itself now considered a federal crime. Your cash will
be immediately confiscated.
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- Anything and everything you own can be seized without
trial. Section 302 allows "forfeiture of any assets in connection
with the anti-terrorist efforts of the United States." If you contribute
even $1 to an organization that the President brands "terrorist,"
everything you own can be confiscated.
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- Since September 11th, over $400 million in assets has
been seized, including all of the assets of the Global Relief Foundation
in Bridgeview, Illinois, which raises some $5 million a year for poor Muslims.
According to CBS News, FBI agents removed "furniture and fixtures
as well as records." Justice Department officials say they will also
go after large contributors to Global and 39 other Muslim charities.
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- We are all possible "domestic terrorists"
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- Section 802 of the USA Patriot Act says "domestic
terrorism" includes any illegal acts which are "dangerous to
human life" or which are "intended to intimidate or coerce a
civilian population [or] to influence the policy of a government by intimidation
or coercion."
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- This wording is so vague, that police could brand you
a 'supporter of terrorism' simply for protesting an unjust law, taking
part in a political demonstration where a fist-fight breaks out, or even
writing an article that criticizes the War on Terror! Already, similar
laws have been used to arrest protesters at anti-abortion demonstration,
seize the assets of some defense attorneys, and even arrest 6-year-old
children for making "terrorist threats."
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- Section 813 further states that such "terrorist
acts" fall under RICO (the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organizations
Act), which allows police to confiscate everything you own based upon mere
"suspicion."
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- The USA Patriot Act is just the beginning
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- In the wake of 9/11, scores of new anti-terrorist laws
and policies have already been enacted including:
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- Robbing and assaulting airline passengers. Airports (and
many other public places) are now "rights-free zones." Under
the eye of armed soldiers, thousands of airline passengers have had legal
items like toenail clippers, jewelry, and belts confiscated as potential
"weapons." Many are also being molested.
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- Columnist Rebecca Hagelin reports that a female airport
security guard "ran her hands across my breast and up my thighs."
Then her 9-year-old daughter was subjected to the same treatment.
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- WorldNetDaily.com publisher Joseph Farah says his 15-year-old
daughter was "told to unbutton her pants and roll them down below
the beltline." In Atlanta, 72 women have filed suit for sexual molestation
by male airport security screeners.
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- National ID cards and internal passports.The "Drivers
License Modernization Act of 2002" (HR 4633) mandates that all state
drivers licenses be standardized "smart cards" that would include
your Social Security number, digitized photo, and "biometric"
identifiers such as your fingerprints or retinal scan. This won't stop
criminals or terrorists, who routinely steal or forge IDs.
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- However, your license will be linked to a national database
now being created which will enable the government to control your every
movement and track every dollar you spend.
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- Some officials are even calling for these ID cards to
be mandatory for boarding a bus, train, or cruise ship -- or even to rent
a car! That would transform your driver's license into an internal passport.
Just like in the former Soviet Union, government bureaucrats could prevent
you from traveling!
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- "Star chamber" military tribunals. These tribunals
strip away your most basic legal protections. Before these tribunals, you
have no presumption of innocence, hearsay evidence can be used to convict
you, and there is no independent jury. Instead you are judged by military
officers who work for the same boss as the prosecutors trying to convict
you. Military tribunals can even order that you be summarily executed --
without appeal.
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- So far, these military tribunals are supposed to try
only foreign "terrorist" suspects. But a Presidential Executive
Order could make you subject to them in a heartbeat -- just as Lincoln
ordered during the Civil War.
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- Dictatorship is at our doorstep
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- Universal surveillance, arbitrary property seizures,
imprisonment without trial, "kangaroo-court" tribunals, and summary
execution of "suspects" were the hallmarks of the brutal dictatorships
in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia -- and continue today in repressive countries
like Saddam Hussein's Iraq. These abuses have no place in a free and civilized
society.
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- But now in America, the USA Patriot Act and the other
new anti-terror laws and edicts virtually wipe out our Bill of Rights and
give government officials absolute power over your life and property. As
Lord Acton warned: "Power corrupts -- and absolute power corrupts
absolutely".
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- We can still stop dictatorship
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- Certainly in the wake of 9/11 and the continuing terrorist
threat, government should hunt down and get rid of real terrorists. But
vicious attacks on our freedom and privacy will not make our country one
whit safer.
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- There is still time to fight back, as many people --
including some members of Congress -- are starting to do. Join us in insisting
as a free and just people, that the "rule of law" enshrined in
the Bill of Rights -- which protects the innocent -- must be strictly upheld,
and that the new "anti-terrorist" laws be repealed.
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- Allowing government to destroy our liberty in the name
of fighting terrorism will destroy everything that has made America a great,
prosperous and decent society -- and give Osama bin Laden and his wretched
ilk their final victory.
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- James R. Elwood is the executive vice-president of ISIL.
Jarret B. Wollstein is a director of ISIL, a prolific writer, and the author
of 25 books including "Surviving Terrorism, Protecting yourself, your
business and your community from terrorism and martial law." First
published May, 2002.
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- http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/dictatorship-at-doorstep.html
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- Comment
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- From Dr. James S. Mortellaro, Jr.
Jsmortell@aol.com
7-22-2
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- Thank God I won't see our end ... maybe.
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- Comparatively speaking... I am 59. There is longevity
in my family, on both sides. Grandma lived to 99 plus. My Dad will be 90
this August 2002. Mom is 86. My aunt is 87. All are still alive, more or
less well, still driving and still kicking. But at 59, my body is ill with
the sicknesses my family had in their 80's. Little good the genes will
do me. But this is my fault, not the fault of my genes. I ate wrong, smoked
too long, never got enough sleep, demanded of myself more than my body
could give and led a very stressful life. Typical am I, of the type "A"
personality.
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- Having set the stage, let me continue. This nation is
in a sever decline. It's citizens are lemmings, allowing their so-called
government to manage every aspect of their affairs without complain. And
if they do complain, they are likely to be reported to the NAZI tattle
tales now being recruited by our government. Reminds me so much of pre
and post World War Two Germany. And the fall of Rome.
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- We are no longer living that Constitution which was just
a few short years ago, itself, a living document; the writings from which
governed every aspect of law, order and government. No longer.
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- Today, our rights under the Constitution are in dire
jeopardy. The man I voted into office because I believed he was the lesser
of the two lunatics running, turned out to be the Gestapo. His police state,
now in the formative stages of development, will undo everything which
I admired, indeed, loved, about my country. Everything.
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- I love to shoot. I am now concerned over losing that
right. I love to write. I loath to wonder what will happen to this right,
the one I now exercise on this venue. I wonder indeed. And I am afraid.
Truth be told, I've never before been afraid for my country or it's citizens.
I lived and grew up in the nuclear age. I was taught to hide under my classroom
desk or hide in the shelters, which were everywhere in those days.
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- I learned that in an instant, even if I was not injured
in the initial blast, I would likely cease to exist by virtue of radiation,
fire, crumbling buildings and the like. It was not very pleasant. About
the same as we now fear from terrorism. But worse? Maybe. I don't know.
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- But even in those frightening times, I was secure in
the knowledge that our nation would survive. I had faith in the system,
in our people. Even as a kid not even 11 years of age. I had a family as
well. That level of security which is provided by an extended family (mother
AND father and mother at home to raise me) made my life more bearable.
But now, what do young people have? Not even an education. In the news
this past week, the numbers which measured our children's learning ability
were indeed terrifying. Seventy-five percent of our students (this is in
NYC) were unable to read at their grade level. As much were not able to
add, subtract or multiply. What happened to dividing? That was left for
our government.
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- Early colonists fought for Independence due primarily
to what they called, "taxation without representation." Today,
New Yorkers pay more than SEVEN DOLLARS for a pack of cigarettes. Seven
dollars.
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- In this state, you cannot use a cell phone without a
hands free kit. In this state, getting a license to carry concealed is
like going to the Spanish Inquisition. One is forced to enure a serious
_indignity_ at the hands of police officers and judges who are clearly
against having citizens carry. That right is left to police, politicians
and people with connections. Everyone else suffers.
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- It's why I am glad that I may not see the actual downfall.
I won't likely live long enough. But if I do, I may seriously blow my brains
out. It is just not worth living, if I cannot live free. Not worth living.
Live free or die. That's me.
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- I hold the truths of our Constitution to be self evident.
Who the hell else does? Not too many. And those who do are mysteriously
quiet. Why is that?
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- I don't know. Neither do I know why there are less than
5% of American flags on cars and residences than there were a week after
911. Now why is that?
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- Too many questions. Too few answers. I give up. It is
consummated.
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- Dr. James S. Mortellaro, Jr.
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