primitive man
12-07-2007, 08:45 AM
this may be a bit old, does anyone know if this one went through, or is it even been introduced to the floor yet?
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech
Across America
Category: News and Politics
Originally published November 28 2007
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech
Across America
by Mike Adams
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a
new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the
U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks
out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department
of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The
law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and
it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All
over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are
speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at
the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn
Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet. com
This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it
passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut
down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline
and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com
could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len
Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore
could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an
exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check
yourself here: http://thomas. loc.gov/home/ gpoxmlc110/ h1955_rfs. xml
The bill states:
'...ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or
threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to
promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social
beliefs...
Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political
or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all
hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use
of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of
the meaning of words, "force" could mean:
• A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
• A non-violent street protest
• A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
• A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
• A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of
any government department or agency
You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything.
And since the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal
act of terrorism, anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action
campaign would be engaged in terrorist acts.
If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for
example, this could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of
force to promote the individual's religious beliefs...")
If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global
warming and the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military,
this could also be considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the
individual's political beliefs...")
If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning
a sit-in protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could
also be considered an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it
out! ("...planned use of force to promote a social belief...")
The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is
working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to
criminalize any thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current
government policies regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance
and civil liberties. Simply speaking out against the war on Iraq could
soon be labeled a crime. Merely thinking thoughts against the war on
Iraq could be considered a criminal act.
Must-see video: Naomi Wolf's lecture on 10 steps to fascism
There's a video lecture you simply MUST watch. It's by Naomi Wolf,
author of The End of America. She covers this topic with great
elegance and a deep understanding of history. See her video on YouTube
at: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RjALf12PAWc
Click here to see her book on Amazon.com.
In her lecture and book, Naomi reveals the ten steps to fascist, then
reveals how the United States of America is pursuing all ten! This
S.1959 legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, represents one of the ten steps to achieve a fascist
state!
It is designed to squash all opposition to the State's ongoing march
towards blatant fascism, where secret police and secret prisons
dominate the law enforcement landscape, stripping U.S. citizens of all
civil liberties and Constitutional protections.
Thoughtcrimes are about to become a reality in the United States of
America, and Congress is pushing this through as quickly as possible
so that each individual member of Congress can claim that he or she is
"against terrorism." But this bill doesn't merely target terrorism: It
targets anyone who speaks or even thinks thoughts against the U.S.
federal government.
With this bill, the U.S. government is officially labeling the People
of the United States as criminals. It is drawing a line in the sand
and stating that from now on, it's the Government vs. the People.
If we don't stop this bill from becoming law, we are lost as a nation.
There is no turning back from tyranny once the government turns its
own citizens into criminals, enforcing only the thoughts, ideas, words
and speeches that it approves or tolerates. Everything is at stake here!
Take action now, or lose your freedoms forever
If you live in the U.S., it is urgent that you call your senators
right now and voice your strong opposition against this extremely
dangerous law.
Here are the phone numbers for the U.S. Senate switchboard:
..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />1-877-851- 6437
1-800-833-6354
1-888-355-3588
1-866-220-0044
1-866-808-0065
1-877-762-8762
1-866-340-9281
1-800-862-5530
How to do this:
1) Make sure you know the names of your Senators.
2) Call the U.S. Senate switchboard using one of the numbers above.
3) Ask to speak to the offices of your Senators.
4) Tell them you are strongly opposed to S. 1959, the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
5) Ask for their fax number.
6) Follow up your phone call with a written, signed letter that you
fax to your Senators.
Stopping this bill from becoming law is the single most important
thing all Americans can do right now. If this becomes law, all free
speech about health freedom, the crimes of the FDA, the crimes of the
Bush Administration, America's role in global warming and any other
topics could all be criminalized. YOU could be labeled a terrorist,
kidnapped by government thugs, taken from your home, thrown in a
secret prison, denied access to legal representation, denied due
process and essentially "disappeared" into a system of such corruption
and evil that it now begins to blatantly mirror Nazi Germany.
Think it couldn't happen here? It's happening right now! This is
exactly how it happened in Nazi Germany. First, burn the Reichstag and
blame it on the "enemy." Pass new police state laws. Disarm the
people. Spread fear. Erect secret prisons and secret police. Call
anyone who disagrees with you a "traitor." Control the mainstream
media. Sound familiar? This is all happening right now in the United
States of Amerika, and if we don't work to stop it, this nation will
rapidly devolve into a fascist police state where no one is truly free.
We are but a few small steps away from it right now. All it would take
is one dirty bomb in a major U.S. city. Bush would declare Martial Law
and take over the National Guard. Troops on the streets. Anyone who
writes a blog against the government would be arrested. Authors of
"alternative" books would be kidnapped and have their books burned on
the street. It could all happen at the stroke of a pen. The
infrastructure for tyranny is in place right now, just waiting to be
invoked.
Our best weapons: Non-violent protest and speaking the truth
How can we fight back against this onslaught of tyranny? We must use
what remaining free speech freedoms we have right now to alert our
fellow citizens to what's happening. We must rise up and tell the
truth while urging our representatives in Washington to resist the
temptation to vote for more "anti-terrorism" legislation that only
works to enslave the American people.
We must use our phones, faxes, emails and blogs to rally our friends,
family members and anyone who will listen to oppose these police state
laws, and we must organize mass (peaceful) protests against this
government that is attempting to marginalize the rights and freedoms
of our People.
That's why it's never good enough to say, "Well, we intend to only
apply these laws to terrorists and not to U.S. citizens at home." That
may be the intention right NOW, but virtually all such laws creep into
areas of enforcement for which they were never intended. Just look at
the application of RICO laws which were originally designed to fight
organized crime operations but are now applied to virtually anyone.
All these anti-terrorism laws run the danger of expanding in
enforcement to the point where they are applied against the People of
this country. At first, it's only illegal for "terrorists" to think
thought crimes, but before long, it's illegal for anyone to think
those same thoughts. That when the domestic arrests of authors,
journalists, bloggers and thought leaders will kick off, and the
country will plunge itself into outright tyrannical fascism.
Again, we're on the track right now. This is happening, folks. You're
LIVING through an amazing chapter of history right now. You're
actually witnessing the downfall of a free nation and the rise of a
superpower fascist state. You're actually part of it.
When it's all over, will you look back and realize you did nothing? Or
will you now take a stand against tyranny and oppose these dangerous
laws and lawmakers who threaten the Constitutional freedoms of you and
your children?
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech
Across America
Category: News and Politics
Originally published November 28 2007
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech
Across America
by Mike Adams
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a
new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the
U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks
out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department
of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The
law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and
it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All
over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are
speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at
the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn
Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet. com
This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it
passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut
down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline
and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com
could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len
Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore
could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an
exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check
yourself here: http://thomas. loc.gov/home/ gpoxmlc110/ h1955_rfs. xml
The bill states:
'...ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or
threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to
promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social
beliefs...
Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political
or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all
hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use
of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of
the meaning of words, "force" could mean:
• A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
• A non-violent street protest
• A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
• A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
• A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of
any government department or agency
You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything.
And since the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal
act of terrorism, anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action
campaign would be engaged in terrorist acts.
If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for
example, this could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of
force to promote the individual's religious beliefs...")
If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global
warming and the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military,
this could also be considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the
individual's political beliefs...")
If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning
a sit-in protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could
also be considered an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it
out! ("...planned use of force to promote a social belief...")
The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is
working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to
criminalize any thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current
government policies regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance
and civil liberties. Simply speaking out against the war on Iraq could
soon be labeled a crime. Merely thinking thoughts against the war on
Iraq could be considered a criminal act.
Must-see video: Naomi Wolf's lecture on 10 steps to fascism
There's a video lecture you simply MUST watch. It's by Naomi Wolf,
author of The End of America. She covers this topic with great
elegance and a deep understanding of history. See her video on YouTube
at: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RjALf12PAWc
Click here to see her book on Amazon.com.
In her lecture and book, Naomi reveals the ten steps to fascist, then
reveals how the United States of America is pursuing all ten! This
S.1959 legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, represents one of the ten steps to achieve a fascist
state!
It is designed to squash all opposition to the State's ongoing march
towards blatant fascism, where secret police and secret prisons
dominate the law enforcement landscape, stripping U.S. citizens of all
civil liberties and Constitutional protections.
Thoughtcrimes are about to become a reality in the United States of
America, and Congress is pushing this through as quickly as possible
so that each individual member of Congress can claim that he or she is
"against terrorism." But this bill doesn't merely target terrorism: It
targets anyone who speaks or even thinks thoughts against the U.S.
federal government.
With this bill, the U.S. government is officially labeling the People
of the United States as criminals. It is drawing a line in the sand
and stating that from now on, it's the Government vs. the People.
If we don't stop this bill from becoming law, we are lost as a nation.
There is no turning back from tyranny once the government turns its
own citizens into criminals, enforcing only the thoughts, ideas, words
and speeches that it approves or tolerates. Everything is at stake here!
Take action now, or lose your freedoms forever
If you live in the U.S., it is urgent that you call your senators
right now and voice your strong opposition against this extremely
dangerous law.
Here are the phone numbers for the U.S. Senate switchboard:
..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />1-877-851- 6437
1-800-833-6354
1-888-355-3588
1-866-220-0044
1-866-808-0065
1-877-762-8762
1-866-340-9281
1-800-862-5530
How to do this:
1) Make sure you know the names of your Senators.
2) Call the U.S. Senate switchboard using one of the numbers above.
3) Ask to speak to the offices of your Senators.
4) Tell them you are strongly opposed to S. 1959, the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
5) Ask for their fax number.
6) Follow up your phone call with a written, signed letter that you
fax to your Senators.
Stopping this bill from becoming law is the single most important
thing all Americans can do right now. If this becomes law, all free
speech about health freedom, the crimes of the FDA, the crimes of the
Bush Administration, America's role in global warming and any other
topics could all be criminalized. YOU could be labeled a terrorist,
kidnapped by government thugs, taken from your home, thrown in a
secret prison, denied access to legal representation, denied due
process and essentially "disappeared" into a system of such corruption
and evil that it now begins to blatantly mirror Nazi Germany.
Think it couldn't happen here? It's happening right now! This is
exactly how it happened in Nazi Germany. First, burn the Reichstag and
blame it on the "enemy." Pass new police state laws. Disarm the
people. Spread fear. Erect secret prisons and secret police. Call
anyone who disagrees with you a "traitor." Control the mainstream
media. Sound familiar? This is all happening right now in the United
States of Amerika, and if we don't work to stop it, this nation will
rapidly devolve into a fascist police state where no one is truly free.
We are but a few small steps away from it right now. All it would take
is one dirty bomb in a major U.S. city. Bush would declare Martial Law
and take over the National Guard. Troops on the streets. Anyone who
writes a blog against the government would be arrested. Authors of
"alternative" books would be kidnapped and have their books burned on
the street. It could all happen at the stroke of a pen. The
infrastructure for tyranny is in place right now, just waiting to be
invoked.
Our best weapons: Non-violent protest and speaking the truth
How can we fight back against this onslaught of tyranny? We must use
what remaining free speech freedoms we have right now to alert our
fellow citizens to what's happening. We must rise up and tell the
truth while urging our representatives in Washington to resist the
temptation to vote for more "anti-terrorism" legislation that only
works to enslave the American people.
We must use our phones, faxes, emails and blogs to rally our friends,
family members and anyone who will listen to oppose these police state
laws, and we must organize mass (peaceful) protests against this
government that is attempting to marginalize the rights and freedoms
of our People.
That's why it's never good enough to say, "Well, we intend to only
apply these laws to terrorists and not to U.S. citizens at home." That
may be the intention right NOW, but virtually all such laws creep into
areas of enforcement for which they were never intended. Just look at
the application of RICO laws which were originally designed to fight
organized crime operations but are now applied to virtually anyone.
All these anti-terrorism laws run the danger of expanding in
enforcement to the point where they are applied against the People of
this country. At first, it's only illegal for "terrorists" to think
thought crimes, but before long, it's illegal for anyone to think
those same thoughts. That when the domestic arrests of authors,
journalists, bloggers and thought leaders will kick off, and the
country will plunge itself into outright tyrannical fascism.
Again, we're on the track right now. This is happening, folks. You're
LIVING through an amazing chapter of history right now. You're
actually witnessing the downfall of a free nation and the rise of a
superpower fascist state. You're actually part of it.
When it's all over, will you look back and realize you did nothing? Or
will you now take a stand against tyranny and oppose these dangerous
laws and lawmakers who threaten the Constitutional freedoms of you and
your children?