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Fascists Float ANother Trial Balloon To See How We'll React

Fascists Float Another Trial Balloon To See How We’ll React

“The NSA eavesdrops on billions of communications worldwide. Although the NSA is barred from domestic spying, it can get warrants issued with the permission of a special court called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. The court is set up specifically to issue warrants allowing wiretapping on domestic soil.
'Sad day' After hearing Bush's response, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, said there was no law allowing the president's actions and that ‘it's a sad day.’ ‘He's trying to claim somehow that the authorization for the Afghanistan attack after 9/11 permitted this, and that's just absurd,’ Feingold said. ‘There's not a single senator or member of Congress who thought we were authorizing wiretaps.’ He added that the law clearly lays out how to obtain permission for wiretaps.” CNN.com 12-17-05

The New York Times, Washington Post two of the main papers of record for the ruling elites recently carried stories revealing George W Bu$h authorized and ordered the National Security Agency to spy domestically on AmeriKKKan citizens. During his weekly propaganda op which was carried live over national television, Bu$h even admitted authorizing electronic surveillance which is clearly against the law. The fact the mass media reported it at all is a little fishy to me. I suspect it is another trial balloon. A trial balloon is a item or issue put out in the public to see if the masses are paying attention and to ascertain our reaction to whatever is said. For example Bu$h’s admission he authorized illegal surveillance on AmeriKKKan citizens should have produced howls of protest, indignation and anger from both sides of the Eurocentric political spectrum. Alas Joe and Jane Sixpack are too engrossed in shopping, weekly football pools, the latest fads, gizmos and gadgets to fully comprehend what Bu$h’s actions mean in light of his bogus War on Terror and its intentional whittling away of their civil liberties and rights. Coincidentally, the notorious PATRIOT ACT is up for renewal just as the media reveals Bu$h’s secret orders to invade the privacy of AmeriKKKa supposedly with ties to the organization more and more astute people suspect is really a CIA front, Al Qaeda. The trial balloon may actually be Bu$h’s absurd claim the media put AmeriKKKa a risk by reporting his ordering of the surveillance!! Perhaps his goals are more secrecy and suppression? Oddly the AmeriKKKan people are slow (as in comatose) to react. The Internet has been abuzz about the National Security Agency’s training of its global Echelon electronic spy system on the AmeriKKKan public. We learn this around the same time we learned the Bu$h administration is keeping tabs on over 10,000 AmeriKKKans whose political views are contrary to those of the Emperor himself.
An article in the Capital Hill Blue dated 11-08-05 disclosed the existence of the Bu$h administration’s list of dissidents and perceived enemies were far more extensive than the ones kept by Richard M Nixon or Bill Clinton during their years in the White House. Nixon as many know was president during the extremely unpopular war in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia Laos and Thailand) was being conducted by Democrats and Republicans alike under the egis of anti-communism, the forerunner of today’s war on terrorism. It was another scam using the threat of “global communism” to fuel the politicians and military- industrial complexes’ payday and attempt to establish a permanent war mentality and status in AmeriKKKa. The Capital Hill Blue article stated, “Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies. The ‘enemies list’ dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President. The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration...White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state. Those on the list include former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife, former covert CIA operative Valarie Plame, along with filmmaker and administration critic Michael Moore, Senators like California’s Barbara Boxer, media figures like liberal writer Joe Conason and left-wing bloggers like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (the Daily Kos) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette).” http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml
What we are seeing is a return to a bunker mentality of “us versus them” meaning the White House against the public; replete with the wholesale abuses of the FBI’s COINTELPRO and the CIA’s Operation Chaos of the late ‘60's and early ‘70's. Of course as Africans in AmeriKKKa we have always been subjected to state sanctioned surveillance, vigilante law, terrorism and violence. It’s just that post 9-11, working class Joe and Jane Sixpack white folks have been targeted by the ruling oligarchy who are hellbent on turning AmeriKKKa into a police state patterned after “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s 1984. The NSA is a super secret operation. No one knows their true budget but what is known is Echelon, is a global system used to eavesdrop, track and record all electronic transmissions, radio signals, television, E-mail and telephone calls all over the world. This is done in conjunction and cooperation with several other countries, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia. Bu$h has illegally ordered the NSA to train its spy system on US citizens. Under orders of a sociopath like Bu$h there is no telling the extent of abuses his orders will facilitate. If you want to see how previous administrations abused COINTELPRO and Operation Chaos, do a Web search on the Church Commission and Rockefeller Commission reports on Intelligence Abuses. The information will shock those of you who have internalized the myths about AmeriKKKa being a beacon and bastian of freedom, personal privacy and civil liberties. A trial balloon is being sent up to see just how vigorously folks will react to Bu$h’s orders; which by the way are impeachable offenses. If nothing happens or there is only a small pop on the radar screen, the ruling elites will accelerate their plans to turn AmeriKKKa into a police state. While it may not do a whole lot of good, write, FAX or E-mail your US Congressmen and Senators and local newspapers, let them know how outraged you are at Bu$h’s invasion of your privacy. The legislators are about to break for the holidays so give them something to think about as they return to their home districts. If you fail to take action on this, one day a knock on your door will be a fascist goon coming to take you to a gulag torture site or internment camp.

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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 6:24 PM