Bush & The Dems: "A Police State If You Can Keep It!"

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Ward-Time President: a president who turns America into a police state via warrantless domestic wiretaps, warrantless searches and seizures, secret military tribunals, suspension of habeas corpus and indefinite detention of citizens without charge.

(Ward: the state of being under guard; custody; the act of guarding or protecting.)



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IN A FREE SOCIETY, THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SPY ON ITS CITIZENS

Bush and the Republicans couldn't do it alone. They needed some Democrats.

Enter bribe-happy Democratic powermongers Steny Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel, flush with gigantic "contributions" from the big telecoms looking for retroactive immunity for illegally spying on Americans. Hoyer and Emanuel were able to bribe and pressure enough Democrats who are unfit for office to cross the aisle with them and vote with the Republicans. Here are a list of some of the senators who seem ready to sell us out for the bribes-- and let's face it, ladies and gentlemen, these huge "contributions are bribes-- they have been given by the Telecoms this year alone:

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)- $51,500
Ted Stevens (R-AK)- $37,900
Susan Collins (R-ME)- $32,850
Mark Pryor (D-AR)- $31,350
Max Baucus (D-MT)- $28,000
Gordon Smith (R-OR)- $26,750
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)- $26,700
Roger Wicker (R-MS)- $26,600
John Sununu (R-NH)- $24,600
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)- $20,250
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)- $15,750
Sam Brownback (R-KS)- $14,200
Pat Roberts (R-KS)- $13,250

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/07/andrea-miller-d-va-in-free-society.html

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Bush’s Secret Army of Snoops and Snitches

July 9, 2008

The full scale of Bush’s assault on our civil liberties may not be known until years after he’s left office.

The “suggested duties” of these Terrorism Liaison Officers include: “source person for internal or external inquiry,” and “collecting, reporting retrieving and sharing of materials related to terrorism. Such materials might include … books journals, periodicals, and videotapes.” Photo: Stasi operative from the German film, The Lives of Others.

At the moment, all we can do is get glimpses here or there of what’s going on.

And the latest one to come to my attention is the dispatching of police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and utility workers as so-called "terrorism liaison officers," according to a report by Bruce Finley in the Denver Post.

They are entrusted with hunting for "suspicious activity," and then they report their findings, which end up in secret government databases.

What constitutes "suspicious activity," of course, is in the eye of the beholder. But a draft Justice Department memo on the subject says that such things as "taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value" or "making notes" could constitute suspicious activity, Finley wrote.

The states where this is going on include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.

Dozens more are planning to do so, Finley reports.

Colorado alone has 181 Terrorism Liaison Officers, and some of them are from the private sector, such as Xcel Energy.

Mark Silverstein of the Colorado ACLU told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! that this reminds him of the old TIPS program, which "caused so much controversy that Congress eventually shut it down. But it is reemerging in other forms." Silverstein warns that there will be thousands and thousands of "completely innocent people going about completely innocent and legal activities" who are going to end up in a government database.

by Matthew Rothschild

http://www.breakthematrix.com/BreakTheMatrix/Bush-s-Secret-Army-of-Snoops-and-Snitches