Ministry Gives New York Police State a Huge Infusion of Cash
Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
February 2, 2008
AP reports:
Teams of police officers armed with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs will soon be patrolling the busiest parts of New York City subways as part of a major increase in regional security funding.The subway initiative is one use of the $151.2 million in new grant money from the Department of Homeland Security to transit systems in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Last year, they received $98 million.
Explaining the increase, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said law enforcement officials in the three states “have to deal with vulnerabilities and threats in this region that are really second to none.”
New York’s subways have long been considered a potential terror target; police already randomly check riders’ bags, and the tunnels and ventilation systems are searched for explosives. Hidden cameras register any suspicious action.
In other words, the Ministry of Homeland Security, in league with officials and cops in New York, want the people of the tri-state area to get accustomed to the presence of heavily armed goons, sort of like Hitler wanted the German people to get accustomed to Geheimes Staatspolizei-Amt, aka the Gestapo, breaking down doors and checking papers in search of “all tendencies dangerous to the state,” that it to say ferreting out all who disagree with the state, increasingly a specialty of police departments in New York, Colorado Springs, San Francisco and elsewhere.
Of course, since there is no al-Qaeda “presence” in the United States, that is unless you consider Muslims and Arabs at large card-carrying al-Qaeda members, as the neocon do, the only logical purpose of all this exorbitantly expensive “security” activity is to send a message to the American people, sort of like the message Ari Fleischer sent soon after September 11, 2001: the commoners best “watch what they say, watch what they do,” otherwise they may run afoul of a knuckle-dragger in black who likes to pepper spray babies and taser people who ask the wrong questions or do not submit readily enough when pulled over for minor traffic violations.
Chertoff said the new security grants would be divided to address the most significant vulnerabilities, as identified by federal and regional law-enforcement and anti-terrorism authorities.Their collaboration to pinpoint security risks and take action is “a model for the entire country,” Chertoff said.
Got that? A model for the entire country. In short, expect automatic weapon toting goons in ninja black to be patrolling your neighborhood soon, and please remember that it is not about Osama or al-Qaeda, as the government now considers teenage taggers and run-of-the-mill petty criminals as terrorists. “The government is using its expanded authority under the far-reaching law to investigate suspected drug traffickers, white-collar criminals, blackmailers, child pornographers, money launderers, spies and even corrupt foreign leaders, federal officials said,” the New York Times reported in 2003.
”What the Justice Department has really done,” Elliot Mincberg, legal director for People for the American Way, said at the time,”is to get things put into the law that have been on prosecutors’ wish lists for years. They’ve used terrorism as a guise to expand law enforcement powers in areas that are totally unrelated to terrorism.”
But of course. However, it should be noted that the state really has no desire to arrest “white collar criminals,” especially those on Wall Street or the bankers that finance illegal drug importation operations. It is more interested fleecing the public over a dizzying array of lesser crimes and categorizing many of these crimes as terrorism simply increases the haul and interns more people in the prison-industrial complex, basically slave gulag run increasingly by private corporations.
It is sad to consider the fact many New Yorkers, sufficiently brainwashed by Fox News and CNN, find all of this necessary and submit to cops searching backpacks and “bomb sniffing” dogs shoving muzzles in their nether regions.
Docile and brainwashed Germans submitted to as much and look where it got them — digging charred spuds out of the saturation bombed rubble of Berlin. It looks like millions of Americans are headed down the same treacherous path, unable to learn from history.
Naturally, in order to learn form history, one has to first pick up a history book.
Not that most Americans can be bothered or even read one book every four or five years.
Comments
Nowadays, tinfoil seems to be getting scarce. :-/
You're right as far as americans wanting this. In fact I said that in response to your blog. They want it because the govt. has put it into gear under false pretenses such as homeland security, for the people. It's just a guise to control people. Rick, you should know mw better than that. I'm the biggest conspiracy nut here...lol
Time*treat, That's because these days tinfoil products have non-stick treatment to them...lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4
In 1969 the Natl Guard fired at unarmed students and the country was alarmed. If it happened again, the country would have the same reaction. I do agree many of our rights have been stripped away by recent legislation like the Patriot Act, although it has little everyday effect on most of us directly except for some minor inconveniences. Terrorism is very real and anyone who feels it isn't is foolish. I wouldn't want to board a plane tomorrow without all the extra security and that's not paranoia, it's not naivete - just common sense.
Bush right now has a 30% approval rate, so how can anyone say most people have been sucked in or are brainwashed? I just wish they listened to me in 2000 and 2004 :-) The people want change because they don't trust the government. Speaking of intelligence level, I lived in a mobile home community in a rural area for years. Some people lived in Fifth Wheel type RVs, and every one of them owned a shotgun and I'm sure they would blast the nuts off anyone who tried to take away their possessions. I guess it's not just Bush and his buddies who are the effete snobs. So many people use their voices to shout they are for the common people and then they turn around and use the same voices to stereotype and belittle them. I don't own a weapon and won't even step on a bug, but my experience has been that it's the squeaky clean, white collars with all the sheepskin who will be the first to be rounded up if that ever happened. They know how to read, write and blog on the internet, but when they come face to face with real danger & conflict, they always crumble.
Iraq vet exposes how he was trained to round up Americans in martial law exercise, asked if he would kill his own friends and family
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, February 4th, 2008
U.S. troops are being trained to conduct round-ups, confiscate guns and shoot American citizens, including their own friends and family members, as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the declaration of martial law, according to a soldier who recently returned from Iraq.
We received an e mail from "Scott", a member of a pipefitters union that runs an apprenticeship program called Helmets To Hard Hats, which according to its website, "Is a national program that connects National Guard, Reserve and transitioning active-duty military members with quality career training and employment opportunities within the construction industry."
Scott writes that his company hired a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, who told him that U.S. troops were being quizzed on whether or not they would be prepared to shoot their own friends and family members during a national state of emergency in America.
"I have become very close to this young man and have gained his respect and trust," writes Scott. "I want you to know that he informed me about one particular training exercise his superiors made them perform. It was concerning the rounding up of American citizens that disobey any type of martial law or in other words any type of infringement on our freedoms."
"He was asked if he could shoot his friends or family members if ordered to do so. At the time he said he could," writes Scott.
Scott says that the soldier later "had time to clear his head" and realize the truth, recanting his vow to kill his own countrymen if ordered to do so.
The issue of whether U.S. troops would be prepared to round-up, disarm and if necessary shoot Americans who disobeyed orders during a state of martial law is a question that military chiefs have been attempting to answer for at least 15 years.
Its known origins can be traced back to an October 1994 Marine questionnaire out of the Twentynine Palms Marine Base in California. Recruits were asked 46 questions, including whether they would kill U.S. citizens who refused to surrender their firearms.
Documentary film maker Alex Jones brought to light similar training programs that were taking place across the country in the late 90's which revolved around U.S. Marines being trained to arrest American citizens and take them to internment camps.
During one such program in Oakland California, dubbed "Operation Urban Warrior," Marines refused to answer if they would target American citizens for gun confiscation if ordered to do so
During hurricane Katrina, National Guard units were ordered to confiscate guns belonging to New Orleans residents.
As we first exposed in May 2006, Clergy Response Teams are being trained by the federal government and FEMA to "quell dissent" and pacify citizens to obey the government in the event of a declaration of martial law.
Pastors and other religious representatives are being taught to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
Many scoffed at our original story, which was based on the testimony of a whistleblower who was asked to participate in the program. Claims that the story was a conspiracy theory soon evaporated when a mainstream KSLA news report confirmed the existence of the program
The experiences of U.S. troops in the worst areas of Iraq, where soldiers are ordered to go door to door and arrest all men of military age as well as confiscate their weapons, is a mere portend of what is being planned for America if these training programs ever come to fruition.
Save some for the rest of us, will ya? :-)
Simon Lauder
ABC Australia
Monday February 4, 2008
Is information warfare to blame for the damage to underwater internet cables that has interrupted internet service to millions of people in India and Egypt, or is it just a series of accidents?
When two cables in the Mediterranean were severed last week, it was put down to a mishap with a stray anchor.
Now a third cable has been cut, this time near Dubai. That, along with new evidence that ships' anchors are not to blame, has sparked theories about more sinister forces that could be at work.
For all the power of modern computing and satellites, most of the world's communications still rely on submarine cables to cross oceans
When two cables were cut off the Egyptian port city of Alexandria last week, about a 100 million internet users were affected, mainly in India and Egypt.
The cables remain broken and internet services are still compromised.
Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says the situation demonstrates how interconnected the world is.
"It clearly shows we are talking about a global network and a global world that we are living in," he said.
"So wherever something happens we all get, in one way or another, affected by it."
'Information warfare?'
It was assumed a ship's anchor severed the cables, but now that is in doubt and the conspiracy theories are coming out.
Egypt's Transport Ministry says video surveillance shows no ships were in the area at the time of the incident.
Online columnist Ian Brockwell says the cables may have been cut deliberately in an attempt by the US and Israel to deprive Iran of internet access.
Others back up that theory, saying the Pentagon has a secret strategy called 'information warfare'.
But Mr Budde says it is far more likely to be a coincidence.
"It is absolutely strange, of course, that that happens. At the moment it really looks like bad luck rather than anything else," he said.
Telecommunications professor at the University of Melbourne, Peter Gerrand, says Australia is in a far better position than India to withstand a cable breakage.
"We've got, in effect, five really major separate cables, each with high capacity, most of which have plans for upgrading their capacity in the next few years," he said.
Proffesor Gerrand does not believe Australia is vulnerable to the types of major disruptions that India and Egypt have seen.
"I gather India has most of its capacity on two cables - one's to its west and one to its east - so when the western cable got cut near Egypt, all this traffic had to then pass through a single cable and that's what's caused these very huge delays," he said.
Australia's protection zones
As it happens, Australia's protection against such incidents was boosted just last week.
Activities that could damage submarine communications cables have been prohibited off Perth's City Beach since Friday.
Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) submarine cable protection manager Robyn Meikle says the events in the Middle East highlight the importance of submarine cables to all international communications.
"Here in Australia, over 99 per cent of all of our international communications carried through these cables lie at the bottom of the sea," she said.
"That's why the Australian Communications Authority [ACMA] has played a major role in declaring protection zones over our cables of national significance in Australia.
"Each of the zones, for instance, has restrictions to do with anchoring, which are aimed at preventing the sort of damage that has happened in recent times in the Middle East.
"ACMA declares protection zones over what are considered to be the main cables of national significance, and they're the ones that carry the bulk of the traffic," she said.
"So really, they are the most important cables that the industry relies on to carry all communications in and out of Australia."
The way to stop oppression is to vehemently work against it. Whining that they're all gonna come & take us away does nothing. Sounds like that 60s song by Napoleon XIV. Remember Max Frost and Wild In The Streets? The idea that we're all going to rounded up and fed LSD or put into camps or funny farms isn't anything new. I'm too young to remember, but Joe McCarthy instilled this fear in people and everybody started to think they're neighbors were Communists.
You want me to go knocking on doors, to tell people what? That they're freedom is slowly diminishing? Have you lost it justx? I can get the message out to many more people via the internet, than knocking on doors. Besides, it really dosen't matter anyway, because unless there is a revolution before it's too late, then they'll have their way with us at the end.
Please give me a break justx, you know very well what's going on, and if you think for one moment lil ol me is gonna go out and join commities and back some politician who pretends he or she cares, then I'm not getting through to you. These are powerful forces working who have unlimited resources at their disposal. You may say...well why do even bother blogging about it?. I'm only trying to tell as many people about it as I possibly can, so they can make up their minds for themselves. Until they decide for themselves that they've been deceived, they won't take anything I post seriously. But this is the first step.
I have more peoblems of my own right now, to be activley involved, and like I said it's futile. But it makes me feel good that just even one person reading this might be aware and informed, is like I've accomplished atleast an awareness program. I would have never known about all this stuff if I didn't read about it somewhere to begin with, so I have to do my duty to pass this on.
Maybe there will be a time in the future when my resources are better and more people don't scoff at me so that I can make a rally, but I just don't have the money and time.
I think I can give people my opinion without having to be scrutinized. If people are that blind to whats going on, and want me to spoon feed them everytime, then we have even more of a problem than I originally thought. I give thhem the tools, and they should run with it. Not to expect me to run in the streets with a bull horn. I'd love to do that eventually, but I can't afford to.. Just because I don't hit the streets , holding signs and protesting, dosen't mean I don't want to. I only wish I had enough money and time to do these things, but I don't.
Just remember, in order to have a revolution, you have to start it with hints. Do you really believe that the french people announced to the queen that they were going to storm the gates and behead her?
Also, if you read my other blogs you'd know that most people really don't care because they're out in the malls shopping for the next gadget, or buying the next fad of whatever. They worry more about Britney Spears than their own freedom. But it's fun telling them how dumbed down they have become. Not because they're stupid, but because all the distraction the media and commercialismed hype fueled it.
Pass it on baby!...lol
WCI, a local real estate giant fired about a thousand workers last year. The market is slowed down and everyone is worried about their next bill, including me. This si why I got my class A license. I knew this was coming. Construction on new homes has come to a halt. Even the mexican laborers ahve left dodge for lack of work. The highways here are much more sparce than the past two busy seasons. I see people up and down the roads here having for sale signs on their cars, boats, 4 wheelers, houses, etc...
If they rid of the middle class, then there will only be slaves left who will have no power but to get on a line and beg for food and shelter. They'll have to be subject to a Nazi regime with no say in how corrupt the show is. This is a slow pace plan that is in the works. I just heard that gas is going to go to 3.50 a gallon soon. The trucking companies will raise their delivery prices and the food establishments will pass that expense down to the masses. They have the technology to make more affordable fueled engines, but the fat cats want more and more. Was it Exxon who just recently released their profit for the last quarter? It was something like 40 billion. HMMMM
This is serious my friends. Don't think for a moment that it's just isolated accounts you read here.
A forest fire always starts with a spark.
I knew I was right, Pac. You are just like so many people who complain about the way things are and don't do a darn thing to change them. People died for the right to vote and they are still do that around the world. Of course I know how terrible the economy is and that people are losing their homes. But let's say the homeowner you are talking about didn't go to the polls last week to vote on the tax amendment and then says "my taxes are too high." I would say to him "Maybe your vote would have made a difference." In fact, I voted for the presidential candidate too even though the news said it doesn't count. When you have a voice, no matter who is there to silence it, no matter what freedoms have been taken away, no matter how corrupt you believe the system is, you still need to scream as loudly as you can or nobody will hear you.
Of course this country is in a lot trouble. Of course we need change and it might take a revolution to do it. But I would never sacrifice my freedom or my life to fight for a cause that someone who won't even register to vote, who won't spend 30 seconds (that's all it took) to cast a vote. Excuse me, I need to go throw a sh**load of tea overboard now.
In the 2004 election, 50% of the voters voted Bush back into office. This was after the illegal invasion and occupation of a foreign country and after the Patriot Act and other post 9/11 repressive laws (in the 'fear-name' of terrorism) were in full force. His fear mongering was eaten up by the public because they voted him BACK into office in 2004 on the sole platform of increasing their security. Yes, 50% of the people are not only allowing it to happen, but are supporting it and begging for for it.
400 out of 406 (98.5%) of the members of the House of Representatives passed the Homegrown Terrorist Prevention Act. I PLEAD with you and other readers to read this act (link is in my blog) and decide if it's for protecting us from Islamic terrorists or can this law as written be used to label any protester as a terrorist.
The reason you're not hearing anyone else talk about it is because they don't know and they don't care. They don't have time to read those laws, they're too boring and besides, the Weekly World News doesn't cover that stuff.
I think my 50% figure was a very conservative estimate.
WOW!....You really have been brainwashed.
These politicians are just puppets. They don't run the show, even though they make you think they do.
I give up. When you take the orange pill, we'll talk. Until then, It's just a waste of my time. Keep believing what you believe. They love you for it.
Pac, you can disagree with me all you want, but even if I was on death row, if I were innocent and was asked for my last words, I would still want to be heard. As long as we are breathing, there's always hope. There are people, maybe on this board, who have lived in other countries and through times of war and seen horrors we can only imagine. But giving up isn't the answer. Giving up is giving in. I won't make any personal attacks, Pac, but I don't think I'm the one taking the orange pill.
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