*Excerpt from below:

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 con! trol 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 c! ompare 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:

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Patriot Act Was Reauthorized Today And MADE PERMANENT

It never ceases to amaze me how this Bush guy is so lucky--- having some 'terrorrists' pull something just before he wants to ram something through Congress-- if I was him I'd just buy lottery tickets for the rest of my life.....

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Patriot Act Reauthorization Set to Pass House

Infowars.com | July 19, 2005

Congressman Ron Paul’s office has notified infowars.com that the Patriot Act reauthorization is set to pass the House on Thursday or Friday. As things stand now, there may be even less votes against the legislation this time than when the first vote was taken on October 27, 2001.

EXCERPTS:

"Ron Paul’s office said July 19, 2005 that they’re throwing everything at us at once: CAFTA, the Supreme Court nomination, and making the Patriot Act permanent.

[while Americans are on vacation - CR]

"Every American needs to contact Congress and tell them to control our borders, not butcher the Bill of Rights.

Remember, Congress wasn't even allowed to read the Patriot Act in 2001. This time, they know what they’re doing. They just hope we don't."

RELATED:

Read Alex Jones' Analysis of the Secret Patriot Act II, for which he won a Project Censored 2004 award:

TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER

The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty

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

By Alex Jones www.infowars.com (Posted Feb 10, 2003)

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.

*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a House version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of the ! now public Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the subsections are identical to those in the House version.

This is very important because it catches the Justice Department in a bald-faced lie.

The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention! to try and pass it.

Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate is fully aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of their committees into the full bill.

I spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves liberty.

It even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Feder! al ballistics database, and much more.

There are other bills in the Senate that grant the Federal government sweeping powers. S.45 states in section one that the office for State and local government coordination for Homeland Security will no longer just oversee, but that now local cities critical functions will be headed by a Federal director. On Tuesday, February 11th, we noted a story in The Times-Picayune with the headline: Nagin announces major overhaul of City Hall --New Homeland Security office to oversee cops, firemen, emergency ag! ency. The Federal power-grab taking place is widespread and all Americans must mobilize to resist it.

Another interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of Federal funding and control over local police departments and needs to be examined closely.

S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an authoritarian society. The description of the bill is, "T! o provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." We have looked at some of the programs that the Federal government has already been setting up for service here in the "homeland" and they include East German-style tattletale squads of every type, which are just basically a super TIPS program. The nightmare goes on and on. Check it out for yourself.

The Patriot Act II bill itself is stamp! ed "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 Presid! ent 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 Wh! ite 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, insuring that no on! e 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 offence.

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 con! trol of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, als! o 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 governme! nt or any citizen to release any information concer! ning 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 design! ate individ! ual 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 theentire Fourth Amendment against unre! asonable searches and seizures.

SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contemp 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 sur! veillance 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 m edical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to totally 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 whistleblower 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 financialdealings 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. I! t 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: an! y 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.

SECTIONS 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.

Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying out their jack! booted 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 and Dennis Hastert want to keep this legislation secret not just from Cong! ress, 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 we’re finding out the detail! s 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, anyone who criticizes tyranny will be shouted down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces in the mainstream media.

You have to admit, it’s 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. POLICE STATE LEGISLATION -- THE USA PATRIOT ACT, PATRIOT II AND THE VICTORY ACT -- THE INFORMATION, THE DOCUMENTS -- CLICK HERE TO GO TO INFOWARS.COM'S SPECIAL SECTION

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CONCLUSION:

Paul’s office said July 19, 2005 that they’re throwing everything at us at once: CAFTA, the Supreme Court nomination, and making the Patriot Act permanent.

Every American needs to contact Congress and tell them to control our borders, not butcher the Bill of Rights. Remember, Congress wasn't even allowed to read the Patriot Act in 2001. This time, they know what they’ re doing. They just hope we don't.

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PRAYER ALERT: Bush Granted 'Absolute Power' / Creation of New "SS" (Gestapo)

URGENT! This is IMPORTANT. It is from an independent news source in Russia -- Sorcha Faal -- who has awakened millions of enlightened Netizens worldwide to many global crisis that are unreported in the monopoly media. I usually don't send her alarming material to this list because people are overwhelmed with such alarms as it is and Sorcha doesn't provide a solution oth! er than coming out of denial of the problem. But this is a definitive "wake up call" that ironically is better understood and appreciated by people outside the US media blockade. Please read and forward far and wide. Also another post on the way called "From Big Lie to Whole Truth". More comments below. -CR

• Warning from Congressman Ron Paul • American President Granted ‘Absolute’ Power by US Federal Court • Not Since Rise of Hitler Has a Western Nation Granted Such Dictatorial Rights to Leader • "Homeland Security" is the translation of the abbreviated German anagram "GESTAPO"

EXCERPT: "Where a little over a decade ago many we newly released from the Gulag celebrated our freedom, and which was won by the millions of former Soviet citizens who threw off the shackles of tyrannical communist rule, we could have never imagined that these shackles would be then taken by the American peoples to pu! t upon themselves. We could have never imagined that where in Russia today every school child is given a Bible, in America today their school children are threatened with prison if they so much as even mention the Bible, God or Jesus."

REGARDING THIS QUOTE ABOVE: This is an amazing but true statement above that I can attest to. There is an amazing spiritual revival across Russian. I have friends that have gone there with Dannion Brinkley who have participated in spiritual conferences unlike anything they have seen in the US -- an unprecedented burst of freedom-loving spirituality that puts the American state of materialistic complacency and apathy to shame. Mark my words, the "writing is on the wall" for all who have eyes to see. This article nails it. America is about to reap the whirlwind of retribution for betrayal of all we once held sacred if the REAL patriots and silent majority don't ! find their voice while we still can. - CR

"As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, [the law of karma as understood by Eastern religions –CR] Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities." --George Mason, chief sponsor of the Bill of Rights

----------- article follows: Bush Granted 'Absolute Power' By U.S. Federal Court

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by Sorcha Faal

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index781.htm

July 16, 2005

American President Granted ‘Absolute’ Power by US Federal Court. Not Since Rise of Hitler Has a Western Nation Granted Such Dictatorial Rights ! to Leader

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

In perhaps one of the most shocking events since the rise to power of Nazi Germany’s Adolph Hitler, the United States Federal Court Judges have conferred upon the American President complete dictatorial powers to wage war and rule his Empire as he, and only he, sees fit.

The facts of this US Federal Court Ruling we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service in their article titled "Federal court rules against ex-bin Laden driver" and which says:

"A federal appeals court put the Bush administration’s military commissions for terrorist suspects back on track Friday, saying a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison who once was Osama bin Laden’s driver can stand trial. A three-judge panel ruled 3-0 against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose case was halted by a federal judge on grounds that commission procedures were unlawful. “Congress authorize! d the military commission that will try Hamdan,” said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

"The protections of the 1949 Geneva Convention do not apply to al-Qaida and its members, so Hamdan does not have a right to enforce its provisions in court, the appeals judges said. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled last year that Hamdan could not be tried by a military commission until a competent tribunal determined that he was not a prisoner of war.

“We believe the military commission is such a tribunal,” said the appeals court. President Bush created the military commissions after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, opening a legal channel for alleged al-Qaida terrorists and their associates to be tried for war crimes. Hamdan’s lawyers said Bush violated the separation of powers in the Constitution when he established military commissions. The court disagreed, saying Bush relied on Congress’! s joint resolution authorizing the use of force after the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as two congressionally enacted laws. “We think it no answer to say, as Hamdan does, that this case is different because Congress did not formally declare war,” said the decision by appeals court judge A. Raymond Randolph.

"Congress authorized the president to use all necessary and appropriate force in the war on terrorism." Two lawyers representing Hamdan, Neal Katyal and Navy Lt. Commander Charles D. Swift, said the appeals court ruling “is contrary to 200 years of constitutional law.” Katyal said Hamdan will seek further appeals. “Today’s ruling places absolute trust in the president, unchecked by the Constitution, statutes of Congress, and longstanding treaties ratified by the Senate of the United States,” the two defense lawyers said in a statement.

Also repeating history is the fact that the only institution in the United States th! at have fought against these new dictatorial powers has been the United States Military, and who like their German counterpart! s during the rise of Hitler have also attempted to keep an American Dictatorship from forming. As the American Navy Lt. Commander Charles D. Swift has been quoted by the Associated Press, “[This ruling] is contrary to 200 years of constitutional law. Today’s ruling places absolute trust in the president, unchecked by the Constitution, statutes of Congress, and longstanding treaties ratified by the Senate of the United States.”

It has also not been lost upon current historians the remarkable similarities between the rise of the American Empire and the Nazi Empire of last century, and as exampled by the American writer Doris Colmes who in surviving the barbarities of life under the Nazi’s is now seeing a repeat of history, and as we can read in her commentary titled “Enabling the Patriot Act! " and which says:

"At the end of the school year of June, 1938, my parents received a polite, but firm letter from Dr. Gregor Ziemer, headmaster of "The American School of Berlin," stating that Jewish children were no longer permitted to attend. It was the only school I’d ever known, from kindergarten up through fifth grade, and I loved it. My older sisters liked it, too, because – amongst other things – there were a lot of cute American boys in attendance and everybody spoke English. It wasn’t just American School, though: Jewish kids were no longer allowed into any schools whatsoever.

This rejection was based on an edict formulated by the German "Enabling Act" of 1933, which gave the Nazi government incalculable powers over individuals, groups, and targeted population components. As a matter of fact, the German "Enabling Act" of 1933 is remarkably similar to our current Patriot Act, which – according to an Associated Pre! ss release to the Portland Oregonian of June 4, 2005 – is currently up for revisions not only giving it expanded powers well beyond those it already has, but making it permanent, just like the German Enabling Act was made permanent. (The more one compares the Nazi Germany "Enabling Act" with the U.S.A. "Patriot Act," the more they appear to be Siamese twins.)"

Even to the creation of an Elite Military Unit modeled upon the dreaded Nazi Gestapo has the American President accomplished, and as we can read as reported by the American Resistance writer Mike Whitney in his article titled "Genesis of an American Gestapo" and wherein he says: "Tyranny has very few indispensable parts; a compliant media, that will regulate information to meet the goals of the state; a “rubber-stamp” Parliament that will endorse the policies of the supreme leader; a judiciary that will adjust the law to serve the requirements of the ruling bo! dy, a strong military to seize the wealth of weaker nations; and a security apparatus, that will eliminate any domestic threats to the system. On June 29 President Bush took the great-leap forward in transforming the nation’s intelligence services by ordering a restructuring of the FBI and putting “a broad swath of the agency” under the direct control of the executive.

Bingo; Bush’s personal secret police; an American Gestapo. The formation of the new agency was presented as part of 74 recommendations made by the 9-11 Commission on Intelligence. Every member of the so-called “independent” panel was hand-picked by the Bush team and their proposals reflect the narrow interests of American elites. Bush loyalists and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) members Lawrence Silberman and Charles Robb, (both of whom were directly involved in the 9-11 whitewash) chaired the committee, and provided the rationale for the dramatic ch! anges to the existing system. Astonishingly, Bush was able to unilaterally create the National Security Service without congressional approval as part of his sweeping powers under the new anti-terror legislation.

The freshly minted National Security Service, which has been dubbed the New SS, will operate under the authority of former ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, whose involvement in overseeing the terrorist activities of death squads in Nicaragua will provide him with the necessary experience for his new task. Negroponte, the new Intelligence czar, will report directly to the President, who in turn will carefully monitor the violations of civil liberties that will naturally evolve from unsupervised investigations. The formation of the Bush Gestapo overturns long held precedents for maintaining the independence of law enforcement agencies."

To the warnings about these shocking events the American citizens themse! lves have received many, and as we can see exampled from a speech given to the United States Congress by one of their own Leaders, Congressman Ron Paul, and who on June 27, 2002, and seeing the dangers his country was facing, said;

"Mr. Speaker, what, then, is the answer to the question: "Is America a Police State?" My answer is: "Maybe not yet, but it is fast approaching." The seeds have been sown and many of our basic protections against tyranny have been and are constantly being undermi! ned. The post-9/11 atmosphere here in Congress has provided ample excuse to concentrate on safety at the expense of liberty, failing to recognize that we cannot have one without the other.

When the government keeps detailed records on every move we make and we either need advance permission for everything we do or are penalized for not knowing what the rules are, America will be declared a police state. Personal privacy for law-abiding ! citizens will be a thing of the past. Enforcement of laws against economic and political crimes will exceed that of violent crimes (just look at what's coming under the new FEC law). War will be the prerogative of the administration. Civil liberties will be suspended for suspects, and their prosecution will not be carried out by an independent judiciary. In a police state, this becomes common practice rathe! r than a rare incident.

Some argue that we already live in a police state, and Congress doesn't have the foggiest notion of what they're dealing with. So forget it and use your energy for your own survival. Some advise that the momentum towards the monolithic state cannot be reversed. Possibly that's true, but I'm optimistic that if we do the right thing and do not capitulate to popular fancy and the incessant war propaganda, the onslaught of statism can be reversed.

To do so, we as a people will once again have to dedica! te ourselves to establishing the proper role a government plays in a free society. That does not involve the redistribution of wealth through force. It does not mean that gover! nment dictates the moral and religious standards of the people. It does not allow us to police the world by involving ourselves in every conflict as if it's our responsibility to manage a world American empire.

But it does mean government has a proper role in guaranteeing free markets, protecting voluntary and religious choices and guaranteeing private property ownership, while punishing those who violate these rules- whether foreign or domestic. In a free society, the government's job is simply to protect liberty- the people do the rest. Let's not give up on a grand experiment that has provided so much for so many. Let's reject the police state."

Just two years later this same American Congressman Ron Paul tried to warn his American Citi! zens again, and as we can read in his article titled “Police State USA” and where again he said;

"Every generation must resist the temptation to believe that it lives in the most dangerous time in American history. The threat of Islamic terrorism is real, but it is not the greatest danger ever faced by our nation. This is not to dismiss the threat of terrorism, but rather to put it in perspective. Those who seek to whip the nation into a frenzy of fear do a disservice to a country that expelled the British, fought two world wars, and stared down the Soviet empire.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. Wh! en we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither main! tain nor deserve freedom for long."

Where a little over a decade ago many we newly released from the Gulag celebrated our freedom, and which was won by the millions of former Soviet citizens who threw off the shackles of tyrannical communist rule, we could have never imagined that these shackles would be then taken by the American peoples to put upon themselves. We could have never imagined that where in Russia today every school child is given a Bible, in America today their school children are threatened with prison if they so much as even mention the Bible, God or Jesus.

In all of these strange and horrible events, perhaps the on! e warning these Americans should have heeded most of all was made by their own President Bush who in December, 2000 was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

Today that statement has! come true.

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--- Christos

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"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemoeller, the Lutheran minister who lived in Hitler's Germany during the 1930s and 1940s

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