WRITE & CALL CONGRESS TO REPEAL THE USA PATRIOT ACT NOW

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The "PATRIOT Act" is a repressive "coordination" of the entities of force and deception, the police, intelligence and the military. It broadens, centralizes and combines the surveillance, arrest and harassment capabilities of the police and intelligence apparatus. Homeland defense is, in essence, a form of state terrorism directed against the American people and democracy itself. It is the Pentagon Inc. declaring war on America.

The "domestic war on terrorism" hinges upon the Pentagon's doctrine of homeland defense. Mountains of repressive legislation are being enacted in the name of internal security. So called "homeland security", originally set within the Pentagon's "operations other than war", is actually a case in which the Pentagon has declared war on America. Shaping up as the new battleground, this proliferating military "doctrine" seeks to justify new roles and missions for the Pentagon within America. Vast "legal" authority and funds to spy on the dissenting public, reconfigured as terrorist threats, is being lavished upon the defense, intelligence and law enforcement "community."

All this is taking place amidst an increasingly perfected "fusion" of the police and military functions both within the US and abroad, where the phenomena is referred to as "peacekeeping", or the "policization of the military". Here in America, all distinction between the military and police functions is about to be forever expunged with the looming repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act. The latter, was passed after the Civil War to rein in the military. It bars federal troops from doing police work within United States borders, although strictly speaking, the Act refers only to the Army and the Air Force, not to the Marines or the National Guard in "state status." According to the New York Times:

The Bush administration has directed lawyers in the Department of Justice and Defense to review the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and any other laws that sharply restrict the military's ability to participate in domestic law enforcement.

[Robb]

1. Ghost of 2003? nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. I said it then and I'll keep saying it until Amerika becomes America again

[aquart]

2. No. Arrest the Halliburton and BP execs UNDER the Patriot Act.

It'll be gone by next week.

[Biker13]

3. K&R

We're on the same page, my Friend.

[Swamp Rat]

5. k&r

[jotsy]

8. HA!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. we must be in Amerika. They're canning the crap! great graphic swampy

[salguine]

6. Newsflash: If you're not Wall Street, Congress doesn't give two shits what you want.

[Individualist]

10. You're absolutely correct.

[pleah]

7. K&R

http://www.asherheimermann.org

[amborin]

11. knr

[newtothegame]

12. Sorry, can't. Obama is President. He made "history," so it's ok. nt