- Very little attention has been paid to the fact that
this nation has been occupied. It began with the Chicago Democratic Convention
in 1968; when The Daley Machine unleashed its thugs upon the Convention
Delegates and the demonstrators in the streets surrounding the convention-all
of which was nationally televised! Those events amounted to the death of
Freedom of political speech in the United States. From that day to this
moment, our individual rights, as US citizens, to verbally or pictorially
demand changes from our government or from any our leaders, ceased to exist.
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- I tried to find documentary footage for this article
on Google, but found instead that this too has been sanitized as part of
the current effort to erase the history of such events, on the web. Too
much history has a tendency to incriminate the current directors of our
nationwide occupation.
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- A key factor in this takeover of the Republic has been
the militarization of our civilian police and law enforcement agencies
by executive decrees that make clear the fact that this new and more lethal
subjugation of the general population, is operating undercover in ways
that enjoy blanket-protections from prosecution, at all levels, over civil
and criminal law in the US, as of this date. Beginning with the murder
of Oscar Grant in Oakland California, on New Year's Day, by a member of
Homeland Security; aided and abetted by two other officers in a BART station:
We can see a new and starling trend by Immigration & Customs (ICE),
Homeland Security, the US Border Patrol and by literally hundreds of local
police departments, nationwide. (1)
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- The common-denominator in these bizarre episodes is the
totally over-the-top behavior of uniformed officers in the way they continue
to brutalize and punish innocent people-without charges or without any
visible signs of actionable provocation. This behavior happens because
officers know they will not be held responsible for what they do, even
when the result of their actions results in the death or severe injury
of people that under the constitution should never have been involved,
much less damaged.
- This situation has continued to snowball, especially
since the Dictatorship of Cheney-Bush seized the Oval Office and began
to inflict this not-so-quiet invasion upon the public at large, here in
the United States. (2)
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- How has this been possible, when peace-officers are suppose
to be responsible to their city-councils, mayors and other "elected-officials"
for their on-the-job performance or lack thereof? It's simple: The long
and ugly arm of law-enforcement is no longer bound by the legal restrictions
that were initially put upon them by the US Constitution: Apparently they
now answer only to the whims of the Fascist Police State which is using
law-enforcement much as the Nazi's used the Brown Shirts, to terrorize
the German public, while Hitler was making his shameless climb to the top
of The Third Reich and the beginning of that chapter in history that tried
to take the world all the way back to caves of absolute barbarism.
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- The above mirrors what previous Dictatorships have done
to protect their empires; but what's happening in America now is new. We're
beginning to privatize law enforcement, which will eliminate any civilian
oversight over what the uniformed 'police' can do to those they are being
paid to "control."
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- "The United States is in the midst of the most radical
privatization agenda in its history. We see this in schools, health care,
prisons, and certainly with the US military/national security/intelligence
apparatus. There are almost 200,000 "private contractors" in
Iraq (more than US soldiers) and Obama is continuing to use mercenaries
there and in Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine. At present, 70 percent of
the US intelligence budget is going to private companies.
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- This privatization trend is hardly new, but it is accelerating.
While events such as the Nisour Square massacre committed in September
2007 by Blackwater operatives in Baghdad show the lethal danger of unleashing
mercenary forces on foreign soil, one area with the potential for extreme
abuses resulting from this privatization is in domestic law enforcement
in the US. Many people may not be aware of this, but since the 1980s, private
security guards have outnumbered police officers. "The more than 1
million contract security officers, and an equal number of guards estimated
to work directly for U.S. corporations, dwarf the nearly 700,000 sworn
law enforcement officers in the United States,"according to The Washington
Post. Some estimate that private security actually operate inside the US
at a 5-to-1 ratio with police.
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- In New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
and the flooding of the city, private security poured in. Armed operatives
from companies like Blackwater, Wackenhut, Intercon and DynCorp spread
out in the city. Within two weeks of the hurricane, the number of private
security companies registered in Louisiana jumped from 185 to 235. In New
Orleans at the time, I interviewed Israeli commandos from a company called
Instinctive Shooting International as they operated an armed checkpoint
on Charles Street after having been hired by a wealthy businessman. I also
interviewed private guards who bragged of shooting "black gangbangers."
The abuses by private security guards in New Orleans and elsewhere have
not to this day been thoroughly investigated. Moreover, the legality and
constitutionality of the deployment of these modern day Pinkertons needs
to be seriously explained to the US public.
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- Now it seems that some cities think it is a great idea
to expand the use of these private forces using tax-payer funds. The Wall
Street Journal this week reported, "Facing pressure to crack down
on crime amid a record budget deficit, Oakland is joining other U.S. cities
that are turning over more law-enforcement duties to private armed guards.
The City Council recently voted to hire International Services Inc., a
private security agency, to patrol crime-plagued districts. While a few
Oakland retail districts previously have pooled cash to pay for unarmed
security services, using public funds to pay for private armed guards would
mark a first for the city."" (3)
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- Some unanswered questions that are never asked, but should
now be demanded of the police, have to do with the mental health and intelligence
of those we have already hired to police our lives. When anyone is issued
a deadly-weapon by any government agency the qualifications of that person
to effectively use or not-to-use the weapons we have given them; should
be of the highest importance, and not just the afterthought that it apparently
is today.
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- Because we have not insisted on officers being responsible
for their actions; the public is beginning to react around the nation in
a variety of ways; ways that often result in death or major injuries to
others that have had no part in the crimes that were supposedly being investigated.
For this and many other reasons, we must force the law-enforcement community
to answer for their actions in court, just as we do for all the rest of
the population, whenever they break the laws of this country! If the cops
remain immune from prosecution, it won't be long before the public will
begin to take matters into their own hands; especially if they "know"
that they cannot expect anything but more abuse and possibly death, from
those in uniform. (4)
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- The loss of an officer was once considered a tragedy,
as they were looked to by the public for protection. But that idea is dying
rapidly, as the public comes to understand that cops can pretty much do
whatever-the-hell-they-want-to; and nothing will ever happen to them; regardless
of whatever horrific action they might have inflicted upon those people
they are supposedly being paid to protect. I haven't been able to find
any evidence of a direct link between the brutality of the troops outside
this country, and the behavior on the streets in virtually every major
city in America but there must be some. Individually in returning
individuals there is a lot of evidence that much damage has been done psychologically
to a large portion of those sent into Harm's Way since 2001. But the link
between these statistics and whatever the new secret mission of the various
policing agencies might be is apparently a whole other story. (5)
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- The United States has been openly abusing and killing
huge numbers of people, since Vietnam: and that mindset cannot be kept
compartmentalized for very much longer. Either we come together and demand
that 'our police procedures be totally overhauled', in favor of the publics'
safety from the cops: or there will be something uncontrollable that will
be let loose in the cities of North America. This total makeover needs
to be done very publicly and in full view of every citizen whose very life
might well depend upon what and how these changes are made, as well as
how they will be guaranteed to be there, in any future confrontations with
anyone in uniform.
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- Americans will begin to demand an end to this inflicted
occupation soon, and the cops ought to be clearly on the side of the public
since we no longer have the state National Guards whose job that would
have been-to protect the citizens of each state from this feral government-should
it ever come down to that. But perhaps more important we need to return
to the idea that there is only One Constitutional set of Laws for all of
us-whether in uniform or as civilians.
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) War on the Citizens of Oakland
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2009/art48.htm
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- 2) Incremental Martial Law 30 years in the making
- http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/605.html
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- 3) US Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace
Police
- http://www.opednews.com/articles/US-Cities-Increasing
-Use-o-by-Rady-Ananda-090422-408.html
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- 4) Unimaginable Tragedies the Deaths of Seven Police
Officers
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2009/art50.htm
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- 5) Open Letter to the Tens of Thousands of Rogue Cops
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2008/art27.htm
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