News Media in the 60th Year of the Nuclear Age

Norman Solomon:
"Top officials in Washington are now promoting jitters about Iran’s nuclear activities, while media outlets amplify the message. A confrontation with Tehran is on the second-term Bush agenda. So, we’re encouraged to obliquely think about the unthinkable. But no one can get very far trying to comprehend the enormity of nuclear weapons. They’ve shadowed human consciousness for six decades. From the outset, deception has been key..."
http://fornits.com/renegade/peaars.cgi?fetch=7962

Time to make signs - Fwd: freewayblogger.com

From: Scott Munson
Subject: freewayblogger.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:07:36

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1706150.php
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/1706436.php

Hello All Humans! Time to make signs to awake your zombified citizens.

Also please make stickers, photocopies, emails, costumes, art, music,
puppets. Speak now or never.

Grab your paintbrushes and signboards and create the world you wish.

Easy to make 100s of signs when they are simple: nowartax.org
eff.org aclu.org wtc7.net legitgov.org kpfa.org ewg.org 911truth.org
indymedia.org rense.com gnn.tv ezln.org earhfirst.org fas.org indybay.org
Share whatever issues are important to you... .. . .. ... .. . ... .. .

>>> the rest'o'it: indybay.org/news/2004/11/1706150.php >>>


Best meanwhile not to be seen.

We are fortunate as Americans to have the First Ammendment, for now.

Use it or lose it.

examples of signs at freewayblogger.com

psssst: [project censored] !!!

Project Censored - http://www.projectcensored.org/

Fwd: Patriot Act ll: News Gathering Is Illegal

From: Scott Munson
Subject: Patriot Act ll: News Gathering Is Illegal
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:19:36 -0800


News Gathering Is Illegal Under New Patriot Act ll
By Alex Jones 11-20-4
http://InfoWars.com

SECTION 102 of the new Patriot Act ll states clearly that any
information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities
are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence
activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.


A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003 - Also
Known as USA Patriot Act II

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member
of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed
by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was
universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars
from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for
the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by
saying that President Bush was "seizing dictatorial control." On
February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan
public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the
Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document
had been leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal
government. The document consisted of a 33 page section by section
analysis of the accompanying 87 page bill.

The bill itself is stamped "Confidential - Not for Distribution."
Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the
scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The
Justice Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had
indeed covertly transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of
the House Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United
States, Dick Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law
enforcement agencies.

It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see
the first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no debate was
tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of the
White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to
be a carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented
passage of the first Patriot Act.

There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this
new legislation:

1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker
Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would
be more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The
fact that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the
first Patriot Act, ensuring that no one was allowed to read it and
publicly threatening members of Congress that if they didn't vote in
favor of it that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack,
is by the White House's own definition terrorism. The move to
clandestinely craft and then bully passage of any legislation by the
Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable offense.

2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius
Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot
Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and
seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act
reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of
state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice
Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM
military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also
known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the
definition of dictatorship.

I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare
it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of
Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with
terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles
reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens
of all of their rights and grants the government and its private
agents total immunity. Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some
of the draconian measures encapsulated within this tyrannical
legislation:

SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush
administration's "enemy combatant" definition to all American
citizens who "may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the
first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic
terrorism, and the definition is "any action that endangers human
life that is a violation of any Federal or State law.") Section 501
of the second Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the
same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly
broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn't broad enough and
that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.

Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be
grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again.
The Justice Department states that they can do this because the
person "had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen.
Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any
violation of Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant"
terrorist designation.

SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any
member of the government or any citizen to release any information
concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also
states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who
they have arrested and they never have to release the names.

SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a
national database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the
database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups
and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group
designated as "terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA
database for anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any
crime, and orders State governments to collect the DNA for the
Federal government.

SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying
operations against the American people and would place substantial
restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil
rights across the board.

SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers
and again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant"
designation.

SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless
of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to
be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This
makes news gathering illegal.

SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law
powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring
that a state of war exists.

SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states
that broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of
secret judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an
undisclosed location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not
good enough. It states that government agents must be given immunity
for carrying out searches with no prior court approval. This section
throws out the entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches
and seizures.

SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt
charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to
incriminate themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last
vestiges of the Fifth Amendment.

SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first
Patriot Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset
clause from other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all,
the media has told us: "This is the New America. Get used to it. This
is forever."

SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant" designation.

SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of
"surveillance without a court order."

SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and
that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described
in press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One
passage reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less
precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime."

*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the
second Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be
used to fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other
types of crimes. Of course the government has already announced in
Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered
domestic terrorism.

SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire
spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records
to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow
ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to break down any
and all walls of privacy. The government states that they must look
at everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a
connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty
until proven innocent.

SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical
examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like
Bill Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled
that people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been
cut off.

SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on
Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It
also disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a
Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist
action.

SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistle blower protection for
Federal agents.

SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with
toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.

SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial
dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a
terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone
investigating Haliburton.

SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists.
The database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities."
It will share the information with state, local and foreign agencies
for the same purposes.

SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of
information sharing.

SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially
big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security,
violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are
all preventative measures - has anyone seen Minority Report? This is
the access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.

SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American
people and to share information with foreign governments.

SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows
officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American
citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to
secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.

SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The
section reads that there is no requirement to show that the
individual even had the intent to aid terrorists.

SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to
include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to
use encryption in the commission of a crime.

SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a
whole host of crimes.

SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages
in terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is
now considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.

SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they
point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any
terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death
penalty.

SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section
states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism
will result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.

SECTION 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging
in terrorist activities. There are many other sections that I did not
cover in the interest of time. The American people were shocked by
the despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act
dwarfs all police state legislation in modern world history.

There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of
time. The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the
first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state
legislation in modern world history.

Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful
rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression
covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warantless searches,
Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list.

You can understand why President Bush/Dick Cheney & Dennis Hastert
want to keep this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the
American people as well. Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center
for Public Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on my
radio show that it was obvious that they were just waiting for
another terrorist attack to opportunistically get this new bill
through. He then shocked me with an insightful comment about how the
Federal government was crafting this so that they could go after the
American people in general. He also agreed that the FBI has been
quietly demonizing patriots and Christians and those who carry around
pocket Constitutions.

I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what
really happened on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the
military-industrial complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for
control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn?t looked at the mountains
of hard evidence.

Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White
House might not care that were finding out the details of their next
phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more
buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his
lectern suppressing a smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us
that See I was right. I had to take away your rights to keep you
safe. And now it's your fault that all of these children are dead.
From that point on, if anyone criticizes tyranny they will be shouted
down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces in the
mainstream media.

You have to admit, its a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being
played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that
government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing
to stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But
our children won't deserve it.

HOW THE PATRIOT ACT COMPARES TO HITLERS ERMÄCHTIGUNGSGESETZ (ENABLING ACT):

At http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm you can read the
following 4 Articles:

1) How Patriot Act Compares to Hitler's Ermächtigungsgesetz (Enabling
Act) 2) A 21st Century Comparison of The Enabling Act and The Patriot
Act 3) Ten Key Dangers of The Patriot Act that Every American Should
Know 4) Bill Moyers' NOW Comments on the Patriot Act

~~Please tell your congress and senators to repeal the Patriot Act
and to throw out current legislation advocating a second act.

Thank You, for your support!

Source: http://www.rickieleejones.com/political/patriotact.htm

additional resources:

Citizens for Legitimate Government http://legitgov.org

American Civil Liberties Union http://aclu.org

Electronic Frontiers Foundation http://eff.org

National Lawyers Guild http://nlg.org

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/303979.shtml

PATRIOT ACT is NULL and VOID Any law that is repugnant to the
Constitution of the United States of America is NULL and VOID.
Marburry v. Madison -1803km

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