TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER

The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty

A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known
as Patriot Act II
By Alex Jones
www.infowars.com
(Posted Feb 10, 2003)

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.

*Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house
version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of
the now public Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel
riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the
subsections are identical to those in the House version. This is very
important because it catches the Justice Department in a bald-faced lie. The
Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought into the House
was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention to try and
pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate
is fully aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of
their committees into the full bill. I spent two hours scanning through S. 22
and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves liberty. It even
contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the
private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much
more.

There are other bills in the Senate that grant the Federal government sweeping
powers. S.45 states in section one that the office for State and local
government coordination for Homeland Security will no longer just oversee, but
that now local cities critical functions will be headed by a Federal director.
On Tuesday, February 11th, we noted a story in The Times-Picayune with the
headline: Nagin announces major overhaul of City Hall --New Homeland Security
office to oversee cops, firemen, emergency agency. The Federal power-grab
taking place is widespread and all Americans must mobilize to resist it.

Another interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of Federal funding
and control over local police departments and needs to be examined closely.

S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an
authoritarian society. The description of the bill is, "To provide for the
common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service of civilian service in
furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other
purposes." We have looked at some of the programs that the Federal government
has already been setting up for service here in the "homeland" and they
include East German-style tattletale squads of every type, which are just
basically a super TIPS program. The nightmare goes on and on. Check it out for
yourself.

The Patriot Act II 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, insuring 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 offence.

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 contemp 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 totally 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 whistleblower 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. This
should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone investigating Haliburton.

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.

SECTIONS 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.

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 and 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 we're 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, anyone who criticizes tyranny
will be shouted down by the paid talking head government mouthpieces in the
mainstream media.

You have to admit, it's 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.

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force, and like
fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful Master" -- George Washington

"No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the
law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the
government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are
bound to obey it."