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Is Military Creeping Into Domestic Law Enforcement?
9 Mar 2004 | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

IN A LITTLE-NOTICED side effect of the war on terrorism, the military is edging toward a sensitive area that has been off-limits to it historically: domestic intelligence gathering and law enforcement.
From Tommy Franks, a doomsday scenario
St. Petersburg Times - 12/08/03

Franks suggested that a "massive casualty-producing event" might cause "our population to question our own Constitution and begin to militarize our country."
Tommy Franks: Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack

Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Ukrainian Nato Troops Set Up Checkpoints in Scotland

Motorists using a public road in Wigtownshire were forced to stop by Ukrainian marines acting with French soldiers.
Pilotless plane to fly routinely in civilian airspace

The US Air Force's Global Hawk became the first pilotless aeroplane to be given permission to fly routinely in civilian airspace on Thursday. The US Federal Aviation Administration issued the USAF and Northrop Grumman, a certificate of authorisation (COA) allowing the RQ-4 Global Hawk to enter national airspace with almost as much ease as a piloted plane.
Neighbors call tactics in drug raid militaristic

The sound of heavy machinery, exploding grenades and blaring announcements cracked the early morning silence. Neighbors looked out their windows to see an armored truck rolling down the street.
Going after Tulsa's lawbreakers

They drove their tank right into the driveways of houses where they planned to serve high-risk warrants. In two cases, the suspect had left within 30 minutes of the raid.
Pact would allow U.S. troops into Canada during emergency

U.S. troops could find themselves on Canadian territory helping police and firefighters deal with emergencies under a new pact.
Pentagon can't seem to kill idea of military draft
AP | June 1, 2004

Defense officials say they don't want it. And polls show the American public doesn't either. So why do lawmakers keep suggesting that conscription be reconsidered?
The Return of the Draft, a Bipartisan Production
Counterpunch.org | June 1, 2004

Barring a sudden reversal in the direction of US foreign policy, a strong bipartisan push to reinstate the draft can be expected soon after the November elections.
Selective Service eyes women's draft
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | May 2 2004

The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
Senator says US may need military draft to boost Iraq force
AFP | April 20 2004

"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."
Kucinich: Iraq Policy Will Lead to Draft
Associated Press - 01/24/04

America's policy in Iraq will lead to a resumption of the military draft, Democrat Dennis Kucinich told high school and college students Saturday.
Preparing for the draft: Arizona registers men between 18 and 25 who sign up for drivers licenses
Arizona Daily Star - 01/01/04

America hasn't had a military draft since 1973, but Arizona intends to be ready if it ever happens again
Talk of a draft grows despite denials by White House

The United States' uneven record in Iraq has kindled a small but persistent push to reinstitute the military draft, a politically charged idea that hasn't been seriously considered since the end of the Vietnam War.
Rangel calls for mandatory military service

A Democratic lawmaker said Sunday he will introduce a bill in the next session of Congress to make military service mandatory. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, said such legislation could make members of Congress more reluctant to authorize military action.
Universal National Service Act of 2003

To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.
War On Terrorism Calls for Draft, Former Senator Says

In order for all segments of American society to participate equally in fighting the war on terrorism, the United States should reinstate the military draft and some other types of national service, such as the Peace Corps, a former senator said Wednesday.
With homeland security in mind, summer camp trains teens

Billed as one of the nation's first "homeland security training summer camps for teenagers," a program called Secure Corps in Bucks County is drilling 92 young men and women in essential skills for this new, uncertain era.
Wolfowitz on Reinstating Draft: "We need this and we are going to get it"

The White House advisors have been making discreet inquiries on the Hill about the Bush plan to reinstitute a universal draft in America.
Will U.S. bring back the draft?

A call from the U.S. Defence Department for volunteers to sit on local draft boards has sparked debate here about whether a nationwide military draft could ultimately be needed to complete Washington's Iraq mission.
Goose Creek Police tape prompts questions on school raid
WISTV - 12/11/03

Newly released videotape from inside Stratford High School shows a startling picture of the controversial November drug raid at the Goose Creek school.
The video was taken by the Goose Creek Police during the raid. It shows officers, some with guns drawn, forcing dozens of students to kneel on the floor as police dogs sniffed for drugs. Other students were bound with plastic handcuffs.
DNA sweep in Toronto alarms many

Campbell's West End home is in the heart of the most intensive part of the police investigation into the slaying of 10-year-old Holly Jones, who disappeared on her way home from a friend's house early in the evening of May 12. Police canvassed the streets where Holly was last seen, asking men "over a certain age" and who met certain criteria for saliva swabs.
DWI CHECKPOINTS SCHEDULED THIS WEEKEND AT PORT AUTHORITY BRIDGES AND TUNNELS

Drivers traveling through the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and crossing the George Washington Bridge will be subject to inspection between 10 p.m. Friday, August 29, and 6 a.m. Saturday, August 30. In addition to checking drivers, police will distribute literature on the dangers of drinking and driving.
McSting lacked franchise approval

Fort Myers police recently manned a new battle station in their fight against crime: the drive-through window at McDonald’s.
Mental health rights fears

"Nazi Germany and the USSR were probably not the only countries in which socially or politically unacceptable behaviour was regarded as a manifestation of a 'disorder of the mind'."
Milburn promises Mental Health Bill

These included plans to force mentally ill people living in the community to take their medication; and proposals to detain dangerous people with severe personality disorders even if they have not committed a crime.
BARKING NO JOKE TO COP

When a Palo Alto police dog barked at Richard Dillon, the Menlo Park man barked back. Dillon's actions didn't amuse Palo Alto police, who cited him on a misdemeanor charge of taunting a police dog.
The Pentagon's Secret Scream: Sonic devices that can inflict pain--or even permanent deafness--are being deployed
Los Angeles Times | March 8 2004

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. - Marines arriving in Iraq this month as part of a massive troop rotation will bring with them a high-tech weapon never before used in combat - or in peacekeeping
Smartuck III: Homeland Love Vehicle
Reuters | 7th March 2004
Army's secret 'people zapper' plans

Britain has been involved in secret talks with the United States over the development of so-called non-lethal weapons, including lasers that blind the enemy and microwave systems that cook the skin of human targets.
The Microwave Phaser

Allegedly designed for an Orwellian task—"humanitarian missions"—the VMAD is a giant version of your microwave oven, without the safety box surrounding it. The generals want to move it around on a humvee.
The Nazification of America

Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor even though the Nazis were only a small minority in the German government. Bush is foisted on the American public through a coup d'etat of the Supreme Court after massive election fraud perpetrated by his brother in Florida.
The Bush-Nazi Connection

Article showing Skull and Bones members, E. R. Harriman, and Prescott S. Bush(The President's Grandfather.) tied to Hitler's funding and Banking.
The IBM Link to Auschwitz

The infamous Auschwitz tattoo began as an IBM number. And now it's been revealed that IBM machines were actually based at the infamous concentration-camp complex.
Double jeopardy rule will go for 30 crimes

Defendants acquitted of any one of about 30 listed crimes could be tried again if new evidence emerged in connection with their case, under a wholesale assault by the government on the ancient, double jeopardy rule.
'Lenient' jail terms for killers upheld

The court of appeal refused to increase jail sentences yesterday for three men found guilty of manslaughter for killing their partners.
Lord Chief Justice tells courts not to jail burglars

In an attempt to reduce the record prison population, the Lord Chief Justice yesterday told judges and magistrates that burglars should not be sent to prison.
Just five years for man who raped baby

Scotland's most senior legal officer today asked for a report into whether the sentence given to a man who raped a baby girl was "unduly lenient".
Why juries could soon be forced to retire

If we carry on tinkering with the criminal justice system, the Eurovision song contest will be the only place you'll see a jury by the end of the decade, said the Labour MP Vera Baird this week.
Database Measured 'Terrorism Quotient'
AP | May 20 2004

 Before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix, a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists - sparking some investigations and arrests.
Police database called intrusive by rights group
Gannett News Service - 01/02/04

 MATRIX, for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. The Intranet system combines a variety of public and law enforcement databases, allowing law enforcement agents to quickly search addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card records, criminal histories, drivers license files, property records and other databases to quickly track down suspects.
Seven-state info store a potent repository of personal data
Miami Herald - 01/23/04

A federally funded crime database run by seven states, including Ohio, is looking increasingly to privacy advocates like a potent substitute for the data.m.ining program the Pentagon scrapped after public rebuke.
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Paris bans protests ahead of Bush's visit
Financial Times | June 3 2004

Demonstrations have been banned in central Paris throughout this week to ensure no hostile protests are in evidence to disturb President George W. Bush's brief presence in the French capital.
SHOOT TO KILL ORDERED AT G8 IN GEORGIA
sf.indymedia.org | 27 May 2004

Pacifica News and the AP have both stated in the last two days that there is potential for the use of Lethal Force at the G8, DNC, and RNC this summer.
Man Goes to Jail for Putting a Sign in his Yard
WAFF | April 2 2004

"When it gets to where a man hadn't got any free speech in this world, what has he got?"
New Free Speech Zones Mock First Amendment
American Free Press - 01/31/04

“As far as I’m concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone. If the Bush administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind.”
Miami's New Police State

I watched as rubber bullets and tear gas were fired at the unarmed protestors. The police converged on the protestors, almost like a scene from the classic film Potemkin, where Russian troops marched on demonstrators in 1905.
Miami crowd control would do tyrant proud

Miami police Chief John Timoney must be mighty proud of the social order he maintained during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit a couple of weeks ago in Miami - sort of the way Saddam Hussein was proud of quieting dissension in his country.
Officials step up monitoring of anti-war groups

Peace activists and law enforcement officials agree that the monitoring of anti-war groups and other activists has stepped up since the terrorist attacks of two years ago.
Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists

An Oregon anti-terrorism bill would jail street demonstrators for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled effort to discourage anti-war protests, critics say. Actual bill states that protesters would be imprisoned in forced labor gulags.
Antiterror bill meets opposition at hearing

A bill that would define violent protesters as terrorists and subject them to possible life imprisonment came under attack Monday at a packed and sometimes tense legislative hearing.
Senate Bill 742: Sponsored by Senator MINNIS

"When a person is convicted of terrorism under this section, the court shall order that the person be confined for a minimum of 25 years without possibility of parole, release to post-prison supervision, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp."
Protest groups possible security threat: CSIS

Some Canadian animal rights, anti-globalization and white supremacist groups may pose a terrorist threat, revealed the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's latest annual report.
State monitored war protesters

Days before firing wooden slugs at protesters, police were warned of potential violence at the Port of Oakland by California's anti-terrorism intelligence center, which admits blurring the line between terrorism and political dissent.
Governor to top cop: Stop 'intimidating' protesters

After a firestorm of protest over the actions of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents at a March 5 peace protest on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen demanded that TBI Director Larry Wallace change the agency's policies concerning surveillance of public assemblies.
Ellison to pull plug on protest websites

The Federal Government plans to stop Australians gaining access to websites used to organise protests. A police ministers meeting in Darwin this week agreed it was "unacceptable websites advocating or facilitating violent protest action be accessible from Australia".
Police violence shocks activists, others at Port of Oakland protest

An anti-war demonstration at the Port of Oakland turned violent this morning when Oakland Police opened fire with wooden dowels, ``sting balls,'' concussion grendades, tear gas and other non-lethal weapons when protesters at the gates of two shipping lines refused an order to disperse.
LAPD starts quiet probe of activists

The LAPD's new anti-terrorism unit quietly opened an inquiry into a local animal rights activist group that publicized the home addresses of Mayor James Hahn and the city's animal services chief, the group charged.
Terrorism Act 'used to halt protest'

The civil liberties group Liberty claims police breached the human rights of anti-war protesters at a Gloucestershire RAF base by using powers under the Terrorism Act to stop them demonstrating.
Protesters say freedoms snapped away
St. Petersburg Times - 12/05/03

Nugent acknowledged that during that height of the antiwar movement, his deputies gathered intelligence on protesters in order to maintain order. The protesters, on the other hand, think that the practice deprived them of their constitutional rights to privacy and to protest grievances against the government.
Federal Camps For You and Your Family: Pr. George's Questions Detention Center Plan

Several companies have expressed interest in the project, including two based in Florida, Wackenhut Corrections Corp. and Correctional Services Corp., and Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America. Three sites have been suggested in Prince George's and one in Baltimore County.
Camps For Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.
General Ashcroft's Detention Camps

Under the Justice Department's new definition of "enemy combatant"—which won the enthusiastic approval of the president and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—anyone defined as an "enemy combatant," very much including American citizens, can be held indefinitely by the government, without charges, a hearing, or a lawyer. In short, incommunicado.
FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities

FEMA, the federal agency charged with disaster preparedness, is engaged in a crash effort to prepare for multiple mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities - including the creation of sprawling temporary cities to handle millions of displaced persons, NewsMax has learned.
Foundations are in place for martial law in the US

Recent pronouncements from the Bush Administration and national security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see internment camps and martial law in the United States.
FEMA’s Plan for Mass Destruction Attacks: Of Course It’s True

Let me state for the record that FEMA is moving ahead with plans to create temporary cities that could handle millions of Americans after mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities.
Rights panelist foresees internment push

A member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said Friday that he could foresee a scenario in which the public would demand internment camps for Arab Americans if Arab terrorists strike again in this country.
Vast quarantine role advocated for states

In the event of a bio-terrorist attack using a deadly and contagious disease such as smallpox, public health officials want to close roads and airports, herd people into stadiums, and, if necessary, quarantine entire infected cities.
Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?

Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz says he's convinced his county is a designated home for a "concentration camp'' in case of civil unrest.
Lawyers say post-9/11 U.S. is like police state
Jim Nichols, Plain Dealer Reporter | May 01, 2004

Americans have a fearsome new enemy since 9/11, and that enemy is their own government, a panel of prominent defense lawyers told colleagues Friday.
American Police State Goes Into High Gear
Prison Planet | April 9 2004

The past few weeks have seen an explosion of police state measures and bombshell attacks on the God-given freedoms of American citizens. It is vital that we communicate these abuses to the wider public and attempt to redress this disgusting attack on the bill of rights.
Kiss Goodbye to the 4th Amendment
Jon Christian Ryter | April 1st 2004

It's finally happened. Thanks to recent judicial decisions by the traditionally conservative 5th Circuit Court and the US Supreme Court, Americans can pretty much kiss the 4th Amendment good-bye.
Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants
The New Orleans Channel | March 27 2004

It's a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business.
In Push to Stop Drunk Driving, Police Draw Blood
Wall Street Journal | March 24 2004

BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- After police stopped Robert H. Miller for driving erratically here one afternoon in February 2001, they asked for his license and registration.Then they asked for something else: his blood.
Blunkett to Enact PreCrime Terror Law
London Evening Standard - 02/02/04

He wants terror suspects to go on trial in secret, lower the burden of proof and bring in "pre-emptive" charges - before a crime is actually committed.
Civil Contingencies Bill Gives UK Government Dictatorial Powers
BBC - 01/07/04

They fear that unless the Civil Contingencies Bill contains suitable constraints its powers could be abused by a future government.
At year's end, signs of dictatorship abound in Washington
Wayne Madsen - 12/30/03

The telltale signs of dictatorship and fascism abound in this city on the Potomac. Some of the signs—concrete barricades and 8-foot walls around monuments—are apparent. Others, like video cameras, although more subtle, are every bit as ubiquitous.
7,500 searched in London under anti-terror law

More than 7,500 people in London have been stopped and searched by police under emergency anti-terrorism powers.
Administration Creates Center for Master Terror 'Watch List'

Officials said they expected the center to be operating by December. It will track, they said, not only suspected foreign terrorists but also Americans tied to domestic events like violence at abortion clinics.
Tough antiterrorism law called 'extreme'

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