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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (268066)	6/28/2002 2:27:30 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

The Bushonian Agenda: Citizen Profiling & Internal Security Three comments on the article below, which at the moment can only be found in Google's cache (thanks gao): 1) This is probably why there haven't yet been press releases of the neighborhood watch detail - it needs to be honed and made palatable, due to Martin's type of issues, before they'll let the press talk about it. 2) This is what I've been hammering on, but am now realizing that anything controlled by the government from the top down, especially by these clowns, will be simply an attempt at furthering the police state. 3) Only by honest and open government that does not have "The Bush Factor" of fear and suspicion of government, can we develop any top-down domestic defense. It looks like everyone on inside government will want to pile on to this plan, and be a controller in this juggernaut, rather than be on the outside being controlled. ------------ 216.239.33.100 by Al Martin The Bushonian Agenda: Citizen Profiling & Internal Security The House of Bush wants to use your local Neighborhood Crime Watch Association to act as a Big Brother surrogate. First, the Civilian Defense Force will coordinate the so-called Local Citizen's Profiling Program, and this is where the Neighborhood Watch comes in. They need it because they figure that these are people from the community, who have lived there a long time and they know everybody. They know who's a Republican or a Democrat, who's a Christian or a Jew, and so on. They also know people's political feelings and their dispositions. That's why the Neighborhood Watch is being used in this capacity - to begin to establish Citizen Profile sheets. It will essentially be all the usual stuff - name, date of birth, religious affiliation, political party, education, medical history, firearms ownership, memberships in organizations, etc. Then they will gather information on whether you have protested against the government in the past, if you have been known to harbor views contrary to the "security of the State" or "injurious to the domestic tranquility of the people." It can get a little confusing. The existing AmeriCorp Program is being divided. Half of it is going to become the Freedom Corp. It will have a political agenda, and it will receive federal money separately. The other half of AmeriCorp will be folded into the existing Peace Corp, but it will act as a domestic Peace Corp, supposedly without a political agenda. The Freedom Corp will then join forces with Neighborhood Watch groups because they are not well organized. The new AmeriCorp will provide the manpower and materiel to organize the Neighborhood Watch organizations into a much more effective surveillance force. It's hard to figure out how much money is being spent because of the way they keep appropriating the money. There's a $4 billion security appropriation for AmeriCorp, but they're not saying how much of it is going to each division. Then there was a $3.8 billion appropriation to effectively federalize the Neighborhood Watch Groups. Then there is a separate $15 billion for the new Civilian Defense Force. And here's the chain of command. The Freedom Corp will be amalgamated into the Neighborhood Watch Association. It will become the senior surviving partner of the amalgamation. It will be then called Freedom Corp, and not Neighborhood Watch. They're going to expand these groups tremendously in terms of personnel, not getting more neighbors to watch out for crime, but in terms of personnel. The umbrella group is Corporation for National and Community Service. Above this newly created entity, which works at the local level, will be a second newly created entity, the Civilian Defense Corp., which will operate by county and state chapters, but not local chapters. (cont.)