News Gathering Is Illegal  Under New Patriot Act ll
 
SECTION 102 of the new Patriot Act ll states clearly that any  information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are  illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for  a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.

A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003  - Also Known as USA Patriot Act II

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of  Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by  the House on October 27, 2001.

The first Patriot Act was universally  decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across  the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York  Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President  Bush was "seizing dictatorial control."

On February 7, 2003 the Center  for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC,  revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003.  The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source  inside the Federal government.

The document consisted of a 33 page  section by section analysis of the accompanying 87 page bill.
 
The bill itself is stamped "Confidential - Not for Distribution." Upon  reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically  crafted tyranny contained in the legislation.

The Justice Department  Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly  transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis  Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney  as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement agencies.
 
It is important to note that no member of Congress was allowed to see  the first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no debate was  tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions of the White  House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear to be a  carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented passage  of the first Patriot Act.

There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this  new legislation:

1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker  Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would be  more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The fact that  Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first  Patriot Act, ensuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly  threatening members of Congress that if they didn't vote in favor of it  that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the White  House's own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft and  then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is clearly  an impeachable offense.

2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar  and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only  gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously  damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes  the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government  under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of  Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic  Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is  by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.

I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it  to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.  Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is  instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every  facet of our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights  and grants the government and its private agents total immunity. Here is  a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures  encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation:

SECTION 501 (Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush  administration's "enemy combatant" definition to all American citizens  who "may" have violated any provision of Section 802 of the first  Patriot Act. (Section 802 is the new definition of domestic terrorism,  and the definition is "any action that endangers human life that is a  violation of any Federal or State law.")

Section 501 of the second  Patriot Act directly connects to Section 125 of the same act. The  Justice Department boldly claims that the incredibly broad Section 802  of the First USA Patriot Act isn't broad enough and that a new,  unlimited definition of terrorism is needed.

Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be  grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The  Justice Department states that they can do this because the person "had  inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section  802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or  State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation.

SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any  member of the government or any citizen to release any information  concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also states  that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who they have  arrested and they never have to release the names.

SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a  national database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the  database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups  and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated  as "terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA database for  anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and  orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.

SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying  operations against the American people and would place substantial  restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil  rights across the board.

SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and  again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.  SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of  whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be  clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news  gathering illegal.

SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law  powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that  a state of war exists.

SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that  broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret  judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed  location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It  states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out  searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the  entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.

SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contempt charges  against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate  themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the  Fifth Amendment.

SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot  Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from  other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has  told us: "This is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."

SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant" designation.

SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of  "surveillance without a court order."

SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and  that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in  press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One passage  reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less precise than  that directed against more conventional types of crime."

*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second  Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to fight  international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of crimes.  Of course the government has already announced in Section 802 of the  first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered domestic terrorism.

SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum  of public and private sector information from bank records to  educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow  ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to break down any  and all walls of privacy. The government states that they must look at  everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a  connection to terrorist groups.
As you can now see, you are guilty until  proven innocent.

SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical  examiners' operations whenever they see fit.
See how this is like Bill  Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that  people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.

SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on Federal  and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It also  disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a Federal  subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.

SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistle blower protection for Federal  agents.

SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with  toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.

SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial  dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a  terrorist.

SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The  database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will  share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the  same purposes.

SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of  information sharing.

SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially big  businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security, violating  their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are all  preventative measures - has anyone seen Minority Report? This is the  access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.

SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people  and to share information with foreign governments.

SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows  officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens  anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take  individuals out of foreign countries.

SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The  section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual  even had the intent to aid terrorists.

SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to  include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to use  encryption in the commission of a crime.

SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole  host of crimes.

SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for anyone that engages in  terrorist actions or supports terrorists. Remember: any crime is now  considered terrorism under the first Patriot Act.

SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they  point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any  terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death  penalty.

SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section  states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will  result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.

SECTION 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in  terrorist activities. There are many other sections that I did not cover  in the interest of time. The American people were shocked by the  despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs  all police state legislation in modern world history.

There are many other sections that I did not cover in the interest of  time. The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the  first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state  legislation in modern world history.

Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful  rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression  covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warantless searches,  Patriot Act II is an Adolf Hitler wish list.

You can understand why President Bush/Dick Cheney & Dennis Hastert want  to keep this legislation secret not just from Congress, but the American  people as well. Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center for Public  Integrity, the group that broke this story, stated on my radio show that  it was obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack  to opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with  an insightful comment about how the Federal government was crafting this  so that they could go after the American people in general. He also  agreed that the FBI has been quietly demonizing patriots and Christians  and those who carry around pocket Constitutions.

I have produced two documentary films and written a book about what  really happened on September 11th. The bottom line is this: the  military-industrial complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for  control. Anyone who doubts this just hasn?t looked at the mountains of  hard evidence.

Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White  House might not care that were finding out the details of their next  phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more  buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his  lectern suppressing a smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us that  See I was right. I had to take away your rights to keep you safe. And  now it's your fault that all of these children are dead. >From that point  on, if anyone criticizes tyranny they will be shouted down by the paid  talking head government mouthpieces in the mainstream media.

You have to admit, its a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being  played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that  government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing to  stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But our  children won't deserve it.

HOW THE PATRIOT ACT COMPARES TO  HITLERS ERMÄCHTIGUNGSGESETZ (ENABLING ACT):  At http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm

you can read the following 4 Articles:

1) How Patriot Act Compares to Hitler's Ermächtigungsgesetz (Enabling Act)

2) A 21st Century Comparison of The Enabling Act and The Patriot Act

3) Ten Key Dangers of The Patriot Act that Every American Should Know

4) Bill Moyers' NOW Comments on the Patriot Act
 

Patriot Act 2 is the most vile obtrusive document to ever go  before the Legislative branch of our Government.

Get ready for the Concentration Camp, because that's where all  free-thinking and freedom-loving Americans' destinies are vested under  the Jack-boot of Puppet Act-2.