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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Police that don't need Warrants?

I was going to write something about Money - how it is created, the Federal Reserve, Economics, Doom(?) via Iran Oil Bourse and how it all ties together (may write about Economics in general soon), but I'd rather post this other stuff because other people have done a pretty good job already of tying it all together (link). So here we go as I drink a Natty Boh!

(link) Unfathomed Dangers in Patriot Act Reauthorization Patriot Police By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS "A provision in the "Patriot Act" creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
Go to House Report 109-333 -USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:
"There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'."
This new federal police force is "subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security."
The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony."
The new police are assigned a variety of jurisdictions, including "an event designated under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance" (SENS).
"A special event of national significance" is neither defined nor does it require the presence of a "protected person" such as the president in order to trigger it. Thus, the administration, and perhaps the police themselves, can place the SENS designation on any event. Once a SENS designation is placed on an event, the new federal police are empowered to keep out and to arrest people at their discretion.
The language conveys enormous discretionary and arbitrary powers. What is "an offense against the United States"? What are "reasonable grounds"?
You can bet that the Alito/Roberts court will rule that it is whatever the executive branch says. [...]
Comment: Some people look at me crazy when I tell them that the Jackboots or Gestapo is soon to be on the march. Speaking of which for good ole Alito - What has Alito said in the past that would make me have a nice, cozy feeling about his upcoming confirmation hearing decision? "top officials should not be subject to lawsuits in any circumstances, including when they knowingly violated the law." Ohh good, I was worried there. So who wrote this last quote about Alito? "Rosenbaum’s final Times piece, published in late December, revealed that Samuel Alito Jr., Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, had written a 1984 memorandum as a government lawyer in the Reagan administration "arguing that top officials should not be subject to lawsuits in any circumstances, including when they knowingly violated the law." (link) In case you didn't hear, Mr. Rosenbaum was murdered in a robbery(?) shortly after his article. Mighty strange robbery. (link) (link)

1 Comments:

  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122900791.html

    Forgot to add this link. This is an Lt Col in the Army voicing his views on the wiretapping issue

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1/25/2006  

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