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

To: MSI who wrote (268077)	6/28/2002 2:32:20 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

"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." -------- This is why this will not work, at least not without a fight. A true neighborhood watch program is each neighborhood getting together in monthly meetings to discuss issues of security. It isn't an extension of the FBI's COINTELPRO.

To: MSI who wrote (268077)	6/28/2002 2:34:28 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

"Another political agenda of the CDF will be the control of children, marketing propaganda to children, etc. They'll have their own uniforms with badges and so on. They will start going into the nation's elementary schools to "calm the fears of children": in their own words and to further teach children the "importance of patriotism and obedience to the State." "The Civilian Defense Force, in turn, reports directly to the Office of Homeland Security. But there is an intermediary, which acts as liaison and that is the Office of Internal Security. This Office will then cull everybody who is "patriotic" -- everyone who's got a flag out in front of the house and everyone who's fat, dumb, and happy and says nice things about the "war on terrorism" and George Bush. Then what will be left is a profile of the 20% who disagree. It will be the Office of Internal Security's job to classify these to make "threat assessments" for purposes of extra-legal containment of potential dissidents and to classify said individuals on a certain scale. "At the end of that scale, there will be citizens who are considered the greatest threat (not those who own the most guns or who subscribe to nazi magazines or UFO magazines) but those who have the greatest access to the truth about what the government is doing, are hostile to what the government is doing, who have the ability to disseminate that information, and who still have varying degrees of credibility left. "They will be categorized in the last category called EOTS, or Enemies of the State. It will be the job of the Office of Internal Security to monitor and to liaise with the National Security Agency, the FBI, and the CIA's new domestic division (which people seem to forget already). It will be the Office of Internal Security that recommends how much electronics surveillance, manpower, etc. gets devoted to every classification of "dangerous citizen" or "dissident citizen." (continued)

To: MSI who wrote (268077)	6/28/2002 2:38:35 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

"They will also establish "containment" methods. In other words, you can't just go out and liquidate people who have continuing access to information and who have the ability to disseminate it. They have to be "contained." In the FBI's definition, to "contain" is to surveil, harass, pressure, attempt to impede someone's ability to earn a living, discredit wherever possible, including the formulation of bogus criminal charges, and to sic other agencies like the IRS on them or, in other words, to try to bury them. This is all done under the notion that if you can prevent someone from earning a living, eventually they will become so desperate, they will do something to cross the line and you won't have to do anything to trump up charges against them. That is the key point in how you get people to discredit themselves - by impeding their ability to earn money. "Then at some point, for their own survival, they will have to enter some sort of shady transactions or shady deal. And insofar as they will be under such intense scrutiny, particularly electronic surveillance, through their computer and telephone, then Uncle's going to be waiting for them to step over the line. This is the model that the US Government has used in the post-war environment, and it has never stopped using it for the containment of internal dissidents. "And this is the real meaning of the word "dissident." It's not someone who's dangerous to the people; it's someone who's dangerous to the government. For example, the function of the FBI's COINTELPRO program of the 1960s was, not only to discredit, but to impede the ability of individuals, who were telling the truth from making money and supporting themselves. When you're trying to discredit somebody the first thing you do is try to plant a lot of false stories about them. That doesn't always work. The best type of harassment is to impede somebody's ability to earn a living, to spread rumors so that nobody else will hire them, or if they're self-employed, make sure that suddenly their corporate credit cards get knocked and suddenly no banks will extend them any more credit. If they're selling a product, the best way is to pressure the distributors of the product. This is a policy of gradual containment, until you cant get out of the box you're put in. "You can look at this with all the other ancillary security measures being undertaken. There is, for instance, a five-fold expansion in the National Security Agency's WESTAR domestic surveillance satellite system, which will increase the government's capability from monitoring 2 million phone calls simultaneously to monitoring 12 million domestic phone calls simultaneously. "Then there's the construction of the new Domestic Surveillance Hover Drones. We will need a tremendous increase in satellite communication capability. If you're going to build tens of thousands of urban hover drones that have to transmit information, you're going to need tremendous satellite capability in order to handle all the information. This will also involve the construction of new earth-bound repeater stations, another part of this $18 billion expansion in the WESTAR 7 System. "This is where it's all going - the internal security measures, setting up internal security checkpoints, which has now only begin in very sensitive installations. Then there's the establishing of internal security checkpoints at state borders for stopping public transportation. It's for people who think they can move around using the bus or interstate rail system because there will be less security restrictions and less identification processing necessary. The government already knows that and that's why they intend to set up intra-state checkpoints. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has already discussed these plans extensively in public. This is legislation, which has already been formulated and has already been passed (or will be passed) as part of the overall increase in internal transportation security. The increase in airport security is actually part of this same bill that's getting funded from this same $18 billion appropriation. There's only been about a $3 billion appropriation for the office of federal sky marshals."