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National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive makes Bush dictator in event of a terrorist attack or disaster

Former Reagan official says "something's in the works" to trigger a police state (Held over)

False flag reminders from the POAC forum

Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us: Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war, Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years, threat to the world is greater than terrorism

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Dateline 2002: "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq..."

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12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment

Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations

Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee denied access to see the court order authorizing warrantless wiretapping

Bush claims right to open people's mail: The "signing statement" is contrary to law and contradicts the bill he just signed, experts said.

Dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina -- part of a pattern across the United States

The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.

CQ National Security Editor: Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law, alters the two-centuries-old Insurrection Act.

Seven million Americans - one in every 32 adults - were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of 2005, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Speaking at annual 1st Amendment ceremony, Newt Gingrich suggests that freedom of speech be re-examined to meet the threat of terrorism

Documents Show More Pentagon Spying on Peace Activists

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which removes posse comitatus and, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law

The Bush administration - unilaterally, with no judicial authorization, and no charges being brought -- has barred 2 U.S. citizens from re-entering their own country

Judge rules it's okay for cops to lie on search/arrest warrant applications

Gonzales Says Govt May “Indefinitely” Hold Guantanamo Prisoners. Self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, unavailable for comment.

The Bush Administration: plan to revise the rules for military tribunals - They could include, regular U.S. citizens, people who are not terrorists. The plan would also allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to bar AT&T from giving the government telephone records without warrants, saying it would require disclosures that would "adversely affect our national security."

House passes warrantless domestic spying measure. 9-29

White House drafting legislation. Who needs Congress? White House has drafted legislation covering trials of terror detainees that would allow hearsay evidence

Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota. In other news the gov't has a quota to put American citizens on a terrorist watch list.

US Citizen held by US military for 55 days without being charged, even after FBI cleared him as not a threat

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say.

Bank Data Secretly Reviewed By Bush Admin. Without Warrants Or Subpoenas.

ACLU Report Condemns U.S. for Failing to Uphold Civil and Political Rights

Unconstitutional - The War On Our Civil Liberties: Video - 60 Minutes - Windows Media

Police don't have to knock, justices say.

Judge Rules That US Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely, on the basis of religion, race or national origin

Department of Justice wants detailed records kept on all web users

Librarians under gag order were not allowed to discuss FBI demands during Patriot Act debate

Riot police clamping down on a peaceful legal protest in their own words (flash presentation)

1 In Every 136 US Residents In Jail Or Prison.

Alberto Gonzales on the gov't collecting your phone records: "There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in those kinds of records,"

America: Show us proof that what you're doing is legal. Gov't: Sorry, the proof is a state secret

Atty. General Gonzales Pressures Telecoms To Record Customers' Internet Activities

The Supreme Court reaffirmed Monday that police can enter homes in emergencies without knocking or announcing their presence.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement efforts to secure corporate information about clients and suppliers have reached such levels that some companies have had to create special units that do nothing but deal with these demands, a process often called "subpoena management."

Patriot Act e-mail spying approved: The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.

The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight

The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter.

NSA has database of domestic US phone calls, It's the largest database ever assembled in the world

Former National Security Agency director Bobby Ray Inman lashed out at the Bush administration Monday night over its continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps

The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

Judge Slams Bush Admin. Arguments For Internet Wiretaps As “Gobbledygook,” “Nonsense”.

Supreme Court rules that if you get arrested as a terrorist and aren't guilty, they can still keep you in prison

Can a U.S. citizen be locked up for three-plus years without access to a court or opportunity to challenge the government’s reasons for detention? Today, the answer in America is a provisional “yes.” And last week the government took one important step toward cementing this “yes” into a permanent power.

Gonzales hints Bush could expand warrantless wiretaps.

DOJ calls for ISPs to retain all customer activity.

Cato Institute: Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by adopting an “astonishingly broad” view of presidential powers

Americans behind bars

Government cracks down on dissent in name of 'anti-terrorism': Two releases of local law enforcement files in recent days have shed new light on just how far the Bush administration, federal, and local law enforcement are going to suppress political dissent in the aftermath of 9-11.

Patriot Act renewal signed, with addendum. Bush said he did not consider himself bound to tell Congress how the Patriot Act powers were being used and that, despite the law's requirements, he could withhold the information if he decided that disclosure would "impair the deliberative process of the executive".

FBI lists Indymedia, FoodNotBombs on 'terrorist watch' list

Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites

From "pre-emptive war" to "proactive arrests": NYC's thought police

The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News that it had added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats.

Banking with a federally insured bank means you're now being monitored under the Patriot Act.

What Ever Happened to the Civil Liberties Board?: Created by Congress in December 2004 as a result of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the board has never hired a staff or even held a meeting.

Highlights of the "new improved" patriot act.

Police state USA and Big Brother's most cool tool

A White House panel monitoring post-9/11 civil rights is undercut By funding doubts, delayed nominations and a failure to convene.

Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say

House approves National ID cards crammed with personal data

US plans massive data sweep: Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails.

Justice department believes W allowed to order killings in US

Your NSA at work: A program kept secret even from key insiders, false-positive rate of at least 99%, relies on inadequate technology, and generates scads of data that is being kept even after the Americans are exonerated of terrorism.

American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'"

Bush authorized warrantless domestic spying before 9/11

Congress considers letting the President spy on everyone 24x7 without any warrants.

Pentagon database of anti-war college students may have been misused

Legal Analysis of Bush's Domestic Surveillance Scandal

A group of Yukon high school students who attended a peace demonstration in Alaska last year have been labeled a threat by U.S. Homeland Security. They have been lumped in with other organizations such as the Florida Quakers and student unions from major American universities.

America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws

Data Seizure Powers Survive in Patriot Act: The government's power to seize a company's sensitive customer data without being subject to traditional standards of judicial review was one of the most controversial issues that federal lawmakers grappled with last year, and they will continue to struggle with it not only in 2006 but for years to come.

Despite Opposition, Lawmakers Push Limits to Defendants’ Rights

A coordinated campaign by conservative lawmakers and the FBI aims to label environmental protests the newest form of terrorism.

AMERICANS SURRENDERING LIBERTIES: SHADES OF GERMAN HISTORY

9/11 Intel Bill Expands Powers of Patriot Act and "Politicizes Intelligence"

U.S. Patriot Act Summary of fascist parts

EFF Analysis of "Patriot II"

Officials debate charging teens as terrorists

Detainee's Right to Be at Trial Questioned

According to the Department of Justice, almost any explosive or weapon can be considered a weapon of mass destruction

The revelations that the Bush Administration has engaged in the secret jailing and torture of people in gulag-like conditions in Eastern Europe and elsewhere while pursuing the warrantless wiretapping of Americans at home should send shivers down the spines of all who value our constitutionally protected civil liberties

FBI proves they don't need the Patriot Act to trample your rights

It could happen to you

Justice Department to declare warrantless wiretaps legal

Feds want Google search records.

Federal Grants Bring Surveillance Cameras to Small Towns: Village in Vermont Has Almost as Many as D.C.

The Other Big Brother: The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program. Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far.

Monastery's bank account frozen by Patriot Act, protecting us once again from nuns running amok

Gonzales Refuses to Answer Whether Bush Can Authorize Illegal Covert Domestic Propaganda

Is George Bush Opening Your Mail? Asked directly by the U.S. Senate, Alberto Gonzales won't say

Houston police chief wants to put surveillance cameras in private homes and apartments: "f you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"

Henry Rollins reported to Australia's national security hotline for a book he was reading on a plane

"You're a Spy: If the Bush administration's interpretation of espionage law is upheld, then everyone is breaking the law, all the time."

Republicans In Senate Say They Won’t Investigate Domestic Spying Program

White House rejects calls for domestic spying special counsel

Try to pay down your credit card debt and you will probably get a visit from homeland security while your funds and any hope of liberty are frozen

Senate to save Bush's bacon on illegal wiretaps: No felony when the rules change after the crime

U.S. terror hunt targets animal activists: Kevin Kjonaas set up a website with details about businesses that use animals for research information, and now he and five other activists have been convicted of inciting terrorism

The Treasury Department is playing target practice with American Muslim charities. On Feb. 19 Treasury seized the assets and froze the operations of KindHearts, a Toledo-based humanitarian organization, acting on the dubious allegation that it is financing terrorism.

The Justice Department is investigating its lawyers' conduct in sending terrorism suspects to jail when there was insufficient evidence to charge them with a crime.

In case you were wondering if the FBI made it a practice of spying on US citizens simply because they oppose the Iraq war... Yes they have

The recent killing of an unarmed Virginia doctor has raised concerns about what some say is an explosion in the use of military-style police Swat teams in the United States.

The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of Bush's controversial warrantless surveillance program.

National Security Letters Gag Patriot Act Debate

Bush touts domestic UAV surveillance

34 ISPs Subpoenaed By US Government

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