[P2P-F] Fwd: "Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely"

Fri Dec 2 13:21:03 CET 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Subject: "Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely"
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com

unfortunately, only the beginning, as confirmed by recent a recent law
passing the senate in the US ?

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/senate-votes-to-let-military-detain-americans-indefinitely_n_1119473.html

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/senate-military-detention/

also see :

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-signs-that-the-united-states-of-america-is-being-turned-into-a-giant-prison

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> *From:* Dante-Gabryell Monson [mailto:dante.monson at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 27, 2011 1:14 PM
> *To:* undisclosed-recipients
> *Subject:* Article : "Why on earth would Congress advise violent
> militarised reactions against its own peaceful constituents? "
>
>   The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
>
> The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has
> touched the third rail of our political class's venality
>
>
>    - Naomi Wolf <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/naomiwolf>
>    - guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Friday 25 November 2011
>    17.25 GMT
>    -
>    -
>    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?newsfeed=true
>    -
>    - large excerpts :
>    -
>    - "US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from
>    images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown
>    against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week<http://www.alternet.org/story/153134/caught_on_camera:_10_shockingly_violent_police_assaults_on_occupy_protesters/>."
>
>    -
>    - "The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect
>    Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate
>    possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared
>    to target journalists. The New York Times reported<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/nyregion/nypd-stops-reporters-with-badges-and-fists.html> that
>    "New York <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/new-york> cops have
>    arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at
>    reporters and photographers" covering protests. "
>
>   "Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo<http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/19/8896362-exclusive-lobbying-firms-memo-spells-out-plan-to-undermine-occupy-wall-street-video> that
> revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message
> coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the
> top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors',
> city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky
> campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination
> against OWS at the highest national levels."
>
> "The DHS cannot say, on its own initiative, "we are going after these
> scruffy hippies". Rather, DHS is answerable up a chain of command"
>
> "for the DHS to be on a call with mayors, the logic of its chain of
> command and accountability implies that congressional overseers, with the
> blessing of the White House, told the DHS to authorise mayors to order
> their police forces – pumped up with millions of dollars of hardware and
> training from the DHS – to make war on peaceful citizens."
>
> "The mainstream media was declaring continually "OWS has no message".
> Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online "What is it you
> want?" answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100
> answers. These were truly eye-opening.
>
> The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was
> legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets
> boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system
> to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to
> restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by
> President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks.
> This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment
> banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of
> thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.
>
> No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole
> that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting
> Delaware-based corporations in which *they themselves are investors*."
>
> "why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against
> its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in recent
> years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members of
> the middle class (or upper middle class) – but they are leaving DC privy to
> vast personal wealth, as we see from the "scandal" of presidential
> contender Newt Gingrich's having been paid $1.8m for a few hours'
> "consulting" to special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers who turn
> lobbyists are common knowledge, but the notion that *congressmen and
> women are legislating their own companies' profits*is less widely known –
> and if the books were to be opened, they would surely reveal corruption on
> a Wall Street spectrum. Indeed, we do already know that congresspeople
> are massively profiting from trading on non-public information<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323221/congress-insiders-above-the-law/> they
> have on companies about which they are legislating "
>
>  "Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that
> the DHS and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its
> emerging agenda is going to look like. If legislating away lobbyists'
> privileges to earn boundless fees once they are close to the legislative
> process, reforming the banks so they can't suck money out of fake
> derivatives products, and, most critically, opening the books on a system
> that allowed members of Congress to profit personally – and immensely –
> from their own legislation, are two beats away from the grasp of an
> electorally organised Occupy movement<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/occupy-movement> …
> well, you will call out the troops on stopping that advance.
>
> So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this
> week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now,
> only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of
> Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent,
> organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent.
> Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams.
> Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their
> movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform
> are not."
>
>
>
>

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