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H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention
Act of 2007
To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes. Thinking
for Yourself is Now a Crime
By Paul Craig Roberts - What was the greatest failure of 2007?
President Bush's "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the
value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest
failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress. The
American people's attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue
government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures
while running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing
Republicans with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no
difference. The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic
Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On
October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California
Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland
Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed
rights to free expression, association, and assembly. The bill
passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is
sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins and apparently faces
no meaningful opposition.
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- Harman's bill is called the "Violent Radicalization
and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. "When HR 1955 becomes
law, it will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist
people, groups, and ideas. The commission will hold hearings
around the country, taking testimony and compiling a list of
dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short, create
massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators
of terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government
agents and fellow citizens. We are beginning to see who will
be the inmates of the detention centers being built in the US
by Halliburton under government contract. Who will be on the
"extremist beliefs" list? The answer is: civil libertarians,
critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration's
wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration's use
of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of the Geneva
Conventions, and critics of the administration's spying on Americans.
Anyone in the way of a powerful interest group?such as environmentalists
opposing politically connected developers?is also a candidate
for the list.
- The "Extremist Beliefs Commission" is the mechanism
for identifying Americans who pose "a threat to domestic
security" and a threat of "homegrown terrorism"
that "cannot be easily prevented through traditional federal
intelligence or law enforcement efforts."
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- This bill is a boon for nasty people. That SOB who stole
your girlfriend, that hussy who stole your boyfriend, the gun
owner next door?just report them to Homeland Security as holders
of extreme beliefs. Homeland Security needs suspects, so they
are not going to check. Under the new regime, accusation is evidence.
Moreover, "our" elected representatives will never
admit that they voted for a bill and created an "Extremist
Belief Commission" for which there is neither need nor constitutional
basis.
- That boss who harasses you for coming late to work?he's a
good candidate to be reported; so is that minority employee that
you can't fire for any normal reason. So is the husband of that
good-looking woman you have been unable to seduce. Every kind
of quarrel and jealousy can now be settled with a phone call
to Homeland Security.
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- Soon Halliburton will be building more detention centers.
Americans are so far removed from the roots of their liberty
that they just don't get it. Most Americans don't know what habeas
corpus is or why it is important to them. But they know what
they want, and Jane Harman has given them a new way to settle
scores and to advance their own interests. Even educated liberals
believe that the US Constitution is a "living document"
that can be changed to mean whatever it needs to mean in order
to accommodate some new important cause, such as abortion and
legal privileges for minorities and the handicapped. Today it
is the "war on terror" that the Constitution must accommodate.
Tomorrow it can be the war on whomever or whatever. Think about
it. More than six years ago the World Trade Center and Pentagon
were attacked. The US government blamed it on al Qaeda. The 9/11
Commission Report has been subjected to criticism by a large
number of qualified people?including the commission's chairman
and co-chairman.
- Since 9/11 there have been no terrorist attacks in the US.
The FBI has tried to orchestrate a few, but the "terrorist
plots" never got beyond talk organized and led by FBI agents.
There are no visible extremist groups other than the neoconservatives
that control the government in Washington. But somehow the House
of Representatives overwhelmingly sees a need to create a commission
to take testimony and search out extremist views (outside of
Washington, of course).
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- This search for extremist views comes after President Bush
and the Justice (sic) Department declared that the President
can ignore habeas corpus, ignore the Geneva Conventions, seize
people without evidence, hold them indefinitely without presenting
charges, torture them until they confess to some made up crime,
and take over the government by declaring an emergency. Of course,
none of these "patriotic" views are extremist.
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- The search for extremist views follows also the granting
of contracts to Halliburton to build detention centers in the
US. No member of Congress or the executive branch ever explained
the need for the detention centers or who the detainees would
be. Of course, there is nothing extremist about building detention
centers in the US for undisclosed inmates.
- Clearly the detention centers are not meant to just stand
there empty. Thanks to 2007's greatest failure?the Democratic
Congress?there is to be an "Extremist Beliefs Commission"
to secure inmates for Bush's detention centers.
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- President Bush promises us that the wars he has launched
will cause the "untamed fire of freedom" to "reach
the darkest corners of our world." Meanwhile in America
the fire of freedom has not only been tamed but also is being
extinguished.
- The light of liberty has gone out in the United States.
- Comment: In 1963 the Prophet warned of an "Extremist
Beliefs Commission": "This Jezebel system, now blind
spiritually (I'm saying) to the Word of God, joining themselves
right into the Council of Churches. . . Everything, our great
evangelical teaching, we have to forfeit that to be an organization.
'Cause all organizations that isn't in this Council of Churches.
. . I got the paper on it, that even if your church is not in
this Council of Churches, in time of trouble, they can use your
church to store ammunition or anything they want to. And if any
man is caught having a prayer for anybody, outside of affiliating
with this Council of Churches, can be shot, as a federal offense.
That's right. I got the papers on it from Washington. See, see?
You. . . They're going to force you into it. That's why I've
been against this organizational system. That's it. I had to
keep it quiet about it being the mark of the beast, but it's
late enough now till you can know it's the truth. Uh-huh. See?
It is. It's exactly that" (Just Once More Lord, p. 10:52).
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- He taught that Rome and the non-Semitic anti-Semitic self-styled
Jews will reach an agreement to refinance the US dollar with
gold backing in the time of the second crucifixion in which Jerusalem,
"which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also
our Lord was crucified," plays a crucial part as the headquarters
of Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. The Bible is
emphatic, the tribulation will be "the time of Jacob's trouble,"
not the time of Esau's trouble, for "Esau has the dominion"
(Jeremiah 30:7; Genesis 27:40). And until Rome breaks their agreement,
the Jews will have great influence over her. The "extremist
beliefs" list will include individuals and groups likely
to oppose the ambitions of the Banksters behind the beast of
Papal Rome (Revelation 13:1-10), her (once) Protestant image,
and the United States, which is the image of Imperial Rome (Revelation
13:11-18; Five
Things You Need to Know to Understand the Latest Violence in
Iraq).
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- Dozens of organizations known as fusion centers were created
after September 11, 2001 to identify potential threats and improve
the way information is shared. The centers use law enforcement
analysts and sophisticated computer systems to compile, or fuse,
disparate tips and clues and pass along the refined information
to other agencies. They are expected to play important roles
in national information-sharing networks that link local, state
and federal authorities and enable them to automatically sift
their storehouses of records for patterns and clues. "Big
Brother" has his eyes on you. . . and the walls have
ears.
- http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955
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