King George Creating East-Bloc Amerika
By Chuck Baldwin
July 19, 2002
It should be obvious to everyone by now that, wittingly or not, George W. Bush
is in the process of creating a communist-style
form of government in the United States. As details emerge regarding his new
Department of Homeland Security, we discover that Bush and his band of belligerent
brothers have begun the process of turning the federal government into a gargantuan
police state not seen since Hitler's Third Reich and Stalin's Soviet Union.
According to press reports, Bush plans to do the following:
1. Merge 22 federal police and emergency agencies into his new Department of
Homeland Security. (Say hello to the new SS
Corps.)
2. Create standardized biometric travel documents ("Show me your papers
or your iris. Sieg Heil.")
3. Develop "screening tools to predict human behavior, such as 'hostile
intent.'" (Hello Dept. of Pre-Crimes.)
4. Allow federal police to search and seize at will. (Goodbye 4th Amendment.)
5. Allow federal police to incarcerate and indefinitely hold suspects without
arrest or warrant and with no legal recourse by
the person seized. (Goodbye 5th Amendment. Hello Gestapo.)
6. Implement a national driver's license. (Hello National ID.)
7. Allow the U.S. military to conduct lethal operations on U.S. soil. (Goodbye
Posse Comitatus.)
8. Allow the President to unilaterally procure taxpayer dollars without the
consent of Congress. (Goodbye U.S. Constitution.)
9. Allow the federal government to act in secret. (Hello East German Secret
Police, Stasi. Goodbye Freedom of Information
Act.)
10. Create a "Domestic Informant" program whereby millions of Americans
are authorized to spy on their fellow citizens on behalf
of the federal government. (Hello Communist Amerika.)
According to the Sydney Morning Herald and other news outlets, Bush plans to
enlist 1 in 24 Americans into a new citizen-spy
department. This number dwarfs the number of citizen spies used by former East-Bloc
countries.
The Justice Department is scheduled to launch a pilot program next month in
10 cities using 1 million informants. The SMH rightly
stated, "Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic
states." It would seem that a "non-democratic" state is exactly
what Bush is creating.
In Nazi Germany, churches, pastors, and conservatives assisted the creation
of tyrannical government. That is exactly what is
happening right now in the United States. What we thought we needed to fear
from liberals, we find being championed by
conservatives.
Right now, George Bush and his fellow travelers compose the greatest threat
to freedom and constitutional government that
exists. Instead of fighting terrorism, they are actually destroying the very
principles of liberty that they claim to be protecting.
America survived the attacks on September 11. It may not survive the Bush administration.
© Chuck Baldwin
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