Due to my flexible schedule, I have a lot of time on my hands to read a variety of sources and it seems that in the past few years part of my role has been to read, research and observe what busy people who have faster lives may not have time to keep track of. I have been sharing of these observations with close friends for several years, but I feel, at this point, that it is my duty to inform others of what I am seeing. Since April 2009 in fact, it seems that things have been speeding up considerably in the "laws that curtail freedom" department, and not in a good way. During the Bush years many could see quite clearly what was going on here in America, but now, under the (at least on the surface) more benign look of Obama, many people seem to not be aware of at all, as a host of new bills quietly make it into law under the radar. Many people seem to have just stopped paying attention, thinking that by winning the elections with Obama, all is finally well. Unfortunately it is not so, as, covertly, the agenda of the corporatocracy keeps on trucking,just as potently as it did before.
Legislation is being gradually put into place, on the back of previous horrid legislation passed under the Bush administration, such as the Patriot Acts I and II (which is still in force, as Obama has not recalled or amended it any of it), which is a real threat to freedom in this country. Each individual piece of legislation is not that bad taken on its own, but when seeing the whole comprehensive picture of all these individual laws acting together, we can see that brick by brick a trap is being built which will severely threaten freedom of speech, freedom of travel and freedom to dissent. And my feeling is that we are not going to be aware of the full extent of this erosion of liberties, at the collective level, until every single piece of legislation has been put into place. The covert rulers will only slam this trap shut when all the pieces of legislation are in place to assure full control and we may indeed find ourselves with very little room to maneuver when that happens…in a nutshell, it will be too late. So the time to be aware of this is now. As now we can still do something about it all. Many of you know that I am an intuitive/psychic and what I see is that we have time between now and September/October 2009 to turn this state of affairs around, but that later than that, we will find it harder and harder to make a change without things getting really complicated (or ugly).
So what are the laws and threats that I speak of. First of all, you need to be aware that, under the guise of stopping “homegrown terrorism” (which is a falsehood by the way, just another boogieman to frighten you with, so that you will willingly trade your freedom for the illusion of security), the DHS is expanding its potential terrorist watch list to include free thinkers and dissenters of all kinds. Look at this list (see link below) and tell me if this does not include…everybody. Anybody could be labeled as a terrorist under at least one of these definitions. Please take a look at this document.
The Department of Homeland Security Lexicon for Homegrown Terrorism/Extremism
Then after you have taken a look at that, keep in mind that the DHS is the one that draft the no fly lists, who determine who can or cannot travel by plane in the US. And after you have understood this piece, look at this video where Raul Emmanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, is promoting the extension of the no fly list to a no right to bear arms to whoever is on the list.
Now I know a lot of my UK people are going to say…good, we have no guns, people should have no guns, guns are dangerous. And in the past I used to agree. However it’s not that simple. However we feel about guns, we just need to be aware that taking the guns away from the populace is one of the classical steps that precedes the locking down of an open society into a dictatorship. A disarmed populace is much easier to take over than an armed one. Simple. And btw, limiting movement of travel ad closing borders is also a classical move of an emerging dictatorship. So as the no fly lists expand, beware.
To learn more about the most common steps used in dictatorship creation I suggest you watch this excellent speech by Naomi Wolf:
The end of America by Naomi Wolf
So, getting back to the initial point… the DHS list is getting bigger, and with the new lexicon definition potentially anybody can make it on that list, as the DHS lexicon pretty much can include anybody that has any kind of opinion about anything. Now also combine that with the powers that are given to the government in dealing with terrorists, which now also include the homegrown variety, the people on the list, i.e. potentially anybody with an opinion, i.e potentially you. The gvt has the power to detain terrorist including the homegrowns, which we have already established could now be anybody, (including you) to indefinite detention on suspicion. Watch this piece on the mainstream media if you need to hear this from a non alternative source:
Rachel Maddox on Indefinite Detention
Also now add to this piece the fact that, very quietly and unbeknown to most, the supreme court on May 25th 2009 overturned the 1986 ruling that forbid the police from questioning suspects without their attorney present, creating a limitation r suspension of the Miranda rights under certain circumstances. Michigan v Jackson established the rule that if someone accused of a crime has an attorney or has requested the appointment of an attorney by the court, police may not question them without that attorney being present even if the accused agrees to waive the right to have their attorney present during that particular session of questioning. Under Jackson, any waiver of that right was presumed to be invalid because it was not made with the advice of counsel. However now that ruling as been overturned. You may ask, why is this a problem? Because now the police can try to convince a person (who may be frightened or uniformed or not the smartest tool in the box) to waive their right to an attorney, hence putting them ( especially the not smartest tools in the box) in a position where they are very vulnerable to manipulation and intimidation, which is what this ruling was designed to prevent. How many of you had even heard about this bit…most people have no clue. Find a link to this here:
Supreme Court overturns Michigan v Jackson
Ok so, now having established that basically if you make it on the DHS watch list you are (or soon will be), by rule of law, stripped of many of your rights and having established that just about anybody can now make it on the list, lets look at freedom of speech on the web, so that we can see the building blocks going into place in this arena too.
Already, anybody with a strong opinion on something, somebody writing a blog on patriot and constitutional issues and even someone writing about very personal issues such as abortion or animal rights may be unfortunate enough to land on the homegrown extremist list. But that not sufficing, we now have a bunch of laws and proposed laws, which are going to make writing on the web even more interesting.
Bills are in congress to criminalize free speech on the Internet. One of such bills is the Cyber-Bullying Act, which will now make hurting somebody’s feelings online a felony. This bill, introduced in a typical problem-reaction –solution fashion, is being ushered in with the excuse of protecting children or teenagers who have suffered emotional hurt due to things that were said about them online. Which seems sensible enough, none of us want kids to be upset by online slander or bullying. But lets look at the bigger picture: with such a law in place, anybody can claim to be emotionally hurt but something someone said online and be accused of a felony for it. And how do we define emotional hurt? Many people get very upset when anybody questions the official 911 story for example. Would all 911 truthers now be accused of a felony under the cyber-bullying act because their opinions are hurting somebody’s feelings? You can quickly see how this law can be misused. There is plenty of room here to shut down any kind of online free speech.
Fox new on the Cyber-Bullyign Act
Cyber-Bulling Act and Free Speech
This ruling aside we are also seeing many lawsuits being brought against bloggers, who are now being considered “international publishers” and therefore liable for defamation and to all the rules that apply to mainstream journalists. However mainstream journalists usually work in newspapers that have a fact-checking department or get paid a handsome salary to do so themselves. I can tell you firsthand from my experience in writing articles for magazines that there is a huge difference between writing something "off the cuff" blogger style and writing an article that will be published professionally, where sources and where all fact checking and accuracy of sources needs to be tracked. The few times in which I have had to do this for some expose articles I wrote on Antidepressants, Psychotropics and Big Pharma, it would take me almost two weeks to write that kind of article. It takes a lot of time to do the research to back up ones claims in a foolproof manner, which is why expose journalists for mainstream magazines get paid the big bucks. Most bloggers , even those of a journalistic disposition , don’t have the time nor the resources to do that kind of legwork. Treating bloggers as proper publishers, if these standards were enforced, could damage the informal informational free speech tone that has emerged from bloggers in recent years in a major way. And reduce the major impact that citizen journalism has had on changes ion our society in recent years. And of course this is not random. The corporately owned mainstream media is going bankrupt as more and more people get their information online. And even more so, the MSM has been a great mind control force used by the "rulers of the corporatocracy" in shaping opinion in their favor. They are loosing they grip of control and we are now seeing the build up of a fully fledged assault on bloggers and free speech online, as I will illustrate soon , as the Cyber-Bullying Act and the Bloggers as International Publishers is not the only thing going on.
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