Much was at stake
for the 2000 Presidential Election in America.
Unemployment was low, seniors were financially secure, crime was low and
more Americans participated in the Stock Market through employer sponsored 401K
retirement plans than ever before.
But all that
changed December 12, 2000 when America’s love light was murdered by 5 corrupt Republican
Supreme Court justices. And, with that came the RAND Corporation’s fascist
empire of global militarized police.
From a 2010
article in Info Wars:
Excerpt:
RAND/Army Report Calls For
Militarized Police Force For U.S.
Authors admit Federal
"Stabilization Force" could be used domestically
A
recent study commissioned by the U.S. Army and written by the RAND Corporation
calls for the creation of a "hybrid"
military/law enforcement unit which could be put to use in the United States to
take charge of riot control and SWAT duties, according to the authors….
"It's
important to point out that the goal was to create a force that's deployable
overseas. If it's to be used in the United States it would be a secondary thing
and then only in an emergency."
Kelly
said that the main focus of the force would be in places like Iraq, Afghanistan
or Haiti, in light of the earthquake disaster, adding that it could operate as
a U.S. force under U.N. authority.
However,
the report itself uses language that leaves open the exact agenda of the force,
and makes it clear that domestic use has been considered at length….
Yes, that’s the
same RAND Corporation that has called for internment camps and mass executions
in Ukraine for any citizen who opposes the puppet government installed by
America’s State Department
undersecretary Victoria Nuland along with Vice President Joe Biden.
It is clear then that part of the vision is to employ a Federal military police force inside the United States.
The
report is even titled A Stability Police Force for the United States:
Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities….
"As I see it, the goal
is to do the bidding of the international cartel of central bankers and
financiers in order to assist them in building a world government police
state which would entail total surveillance, total control, and the absence of
what we think of as constitutional rights," Castle said.
The
RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex as well
as interlocking connections with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie
foundations.
December 12, 2000,
5 RAND Corporation devotees placed on the Supreme Court by Republican
presidents with the “consent” of the U.S. Senate took the life of liberty and
chopped its head off. Justice in America
was dead.
Public dissent was
now illegal unless you were in a free speech cage in a zone out of the view of
the American people and the press. The George
W. Bush Administration rammed through trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich and
the gears were set in motion for ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)
to defund all public services especially protective services. The results have been devastating not only
for everyday Americans but citizens across the world.
Early on in the GW
Bush Administration, background checks for gun purchases were on the chopping
block, retention of records on gun purchases was prohibited, and assault
weapons were available for sale. Along
with massive amounts of guns flowing freely and easily in America, the ALEC
stand your ground laws made America a giant, unaccountable shooting
gallery.
Now that ALEC had
diminished the financial capacity of state and local governments to provide
adequate safety from the armed, militarized criminals with assault weapons roaming
the streets of America, we needed a “hybrid” militarized police force to deal
with the nightmare they created.
From the ACLU:
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing.
Excerpt:
All
across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the
middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that
people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and
that homes have been ravaged.
Our
neighborhoods are not warzones, and police officers should not be treating us
like wartime enemies. And yet, every year, billions of dollars’ worth of
military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police
departments. Departments use these wartime weapons in everyday policing,
especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly
targeted people of color.
As
our new report makes clear, it’s time for American police to remember that they
are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not wage war on the people
who live in them.
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Baby burned by flash grenade in NC police raid
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Yes, sickening isn’t
it? Stolen elections have deadly consequences
for the world, from global warming to our children being mowed down in schools
by militarily armed mentally ill people who can’t get medical care thanks to a
for-profit medical insurance industry that was created on December 15, 2000.
According to
Global Research, more citizens have been killed by police than died in the Iraq
War. This article is a reprint from
2013.
Excerpt:
Increasing Police Brutality:
Americans Killed by Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed in Iraq War
The
increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the
last decade alone the number of people murdered by police has reached 5,000.
The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4,489.
What
went wrong? In the 1970’s SWAT teams were estimated to be used just a few
hundred times per year, now we are looking at over 40,000 military style “knock
and announce” police raids a year.
Sounds like they
learned that “knock and announce” policy from kicking in doors of homes in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
The
police presence in this country is being turned into a military with a clearly defined enemy, anyone who
questions the establishment.
If
we look at the most recent numbers of non-military US citizens killed by
terrorism worldwide, that number is 17. You have a better chance of being
killed by a bee sting, or a home repair accident than you do a terrorist. And you are 29 times more likely to be
murdered by a cop than a terrorist!
In
1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus
Cold War era military equipment to local police departments.
Yes, the peace
dividend we experience under President Clinton that allowed the Pentagon to
donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments
probably made sense in 1994. I’m sure
the equipment in 1994 was nothing like the Pentagon “surplus” equipment in a
war based economy.
In
the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has
been handed over for use on American streets…against American citizens.
The
“War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” replaced the Cold War with billions in
funding and dozens of laws geared towards this new “war” against its own
citizens.
This
militarization of the police force has created what is being called an
“epidemic of police brutality” sweeping the nation.
Where’s Congressman
Darrell Issa R-California (personal wealth over $300 million) and his Benghazi vigilantes
when you need them? According to RollCall:
Excerpt:
With
images of heavily armed police confronting protesters in Ferguson, Mo.,
sparking a national debate about police militarization, a campaign finance
research organization has released a study showing how much defense industry money House members got before a June 19 vote
that rejected Rep. Alan Grayson’s amendment to block military equipment
transfers to local law enforcement. The organization, MapLight, found that
those who voted against it got 73 percent more in defense industry donations
than those who voted in favor….
“Thus,
it appears that DLA [DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY] can simply purchase property from an equipment or weapons manufacturer
and transfer it to a local law enforcement agency free of charge,” the ACLU
report states. “Given that more than a
third of property transferred under the program is in fact new, it
appears that this practice happens with some regularity.”
“Congress
established this program out of real concern that local law enforcement
agencies were literally outgunned by drug criminals,” Levin said in a news release Friday. “We intended this equipment to keep
police officers and their communities
safe from heavily armed drug gangs and terrorist incidents.
Hummm, who is this
Defense Logistics Agency that has the authority to purchase deadly equipment from
the military industrial complex, then transfer the military equipment to local
law enforcement with no oversight?
DLA
at a Glance
As
America’s combat logistics support agency, the Defense Logistics Agency
provides the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, other federal agencies, and
combined and allied forces with the full spectrum of logistics, acquisition and
technical services.
The Agency sources and provides
nearly 100 percent of the consumable items America’s military forces need
to operate, from food,
fuel and energy, to uniforms, medical supplies, and construction and barrier
equipment. DLA also supplies more than
85 percent of the military’s spare parts….
As
a global enterprise, wherever the United
States has a military presence, DLA is likely there as well.
Yep, wherever the
U.S. military has a presence DLA has their snout in the trough. Congress justifies cuts to retirement
benefits, medical care and everything vital to the survival of our military
families, through sequestration because “America’s broke.” Bullshit, America’s been robbed. So how much money has the DLA made off
American taxpayers?
In
simple terms, in fiscal 2013 DLA provided $39
billion in sales and revenue. This
along with the dollar value of services provided would rank the agency in the top 15th percentile of the Fortune 500.
Yes, literally
making a killing off the American taxpayers and troops. Sounds like the DLA has America’s military by
the short hairs. This militarization of
the American police force isn’t “surplus” military equipment, it’s brand new equipment.
So why isn’t
congress outraged that the DLA is ordering new military equipment from the
Industrial Military Complex to send to the States to tamp down popular resistance
to the tune of $39 billion? And $39
billion is just the baseline.
The most important reason
lawmakers might have voted against Grayson’s amendment, however, and they did so in droves (355
said no; 62 said yes — once it finally came to a vote after a failed bid), is that they tend to back anything that sends
free federal equipment to cash-strapped locals.
That made the Department of Homeland Security’s grant programs for
first responders to buy equipment to respond to terrorist attacks so popular
for so long, even amid questions about wasteful spending.
And, why are the
state and local governments cash strapped?
Trillion dollar tax cuts for billion dollar public/private entities like
the DLA. Sweet gig. So Homeland Security has the DLA’s back with
a steady stream of military industrial complex profits.
So now that the
DLA has pumped billions of useless but lethal crap equipment into states to
terrorize their citizens with hybrid RAND Corporation “Security Police Forces”,
how’s that working out for every day American citizens? Not so well.
Seems the new “RAND’s hybrid
Security Police” have found a new revenue stream: Asset forfeiture. From Institute for Justice:
Excerpt:
Policing for Profit: The
Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Civil
forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property
rights in the nation today. Under civil
forfeiture, police and prosecutors can
seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency
budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime.
Unlike
criminal forfeiture, where property is taken after its owner has been found
guilty in a court of law, with civil
forfeiture, owners need not be charged with or convicted of a crime to lose
homes, cars, cash or other property.
Americans
are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but civil forfeiture turns
that principle on its head. With civil
forfeiture, your property is guilty until you prove it innocent.
That's
right, your property is guilty. Civil
forfeiture is what happens when billionaires get trillions in tax cuts; RAND Corporation’s
militarized police force needs to be funded by stealing from innocent
citizens. From Washington Post:
Excerpt:
Police
agencies have used hundreds of millions of dollars taken from Americans under
federal civil forfeiture law in recent years to buy guns, armored cars and
electronic surveillance gear. They have also spent money on luxury vehicles,
travel and a clown named Sparkles.
ABOVE:
In Douglasville, Ga, population 32,000, an armored personnel carrier costing
$227,000 was bought using money taken from Americans under civil forfeiture
laws.
The
details are contained in thousands of annual reports submitted by local and
state agencies to the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing Program, an
initiative that allows local and state police to keep up to 80 percent of the
assets they seize. The Washington Post obtained 43,000 of the reports dating
from 2008 through a Freedom of Information Act request….
Of
the nearly $2.5 billion in spending reported
in the forms, 81 percent came from cash
and property seizures in which no indictment was filed, according to an
analysis by The Post. Owners must prove that their money or property was
acquired legally in order to get it back.
You know all of this graft
and corruption is due to the war on drugs.
Today there is an excessive amount of unnecessary Heroine deaths. Recently police have decided to carry the
antidote drugs for Heroin overdose victims.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well to
the drug companies, it sounds like “caching.”
From the New York Times:
Excerpt:
As police look to stop
Heroine deaths, drug companies see excessive profits.
This
year, police departments across the country, including in New York City,
announced plans to stock up on a medication that reverses the effects of a
heroin or opioid painkiller overdose.
The
move signaled a shifting approach for officers more accustomed to fighting drug
abuse with arrests than with a medical antidote.
But
police and public health officials from New York to San Francisco are facing
sticker shock: Prices for a popular form of the medication, naloxone, are
spiking, in some cases by 50 percent or more….
Sounds like there’s
going to have to be a lot more civil asset forfeitures to fund drug company
profits. Pay up or die, that’s the
American dream after December 12, 2000.
And if you think there will be redress for you in American courts, think
again. From National Journal:
Excerpt:
When Judges Go Courting
Cheri
Beasley wants me to drive. This, on its own, wouldn't seem extraordinary except
when you consider that Beasley is a justice on the North Carolina Supreme
Court, and I'm someone she met an hour ago. It's a 75-mile trip from Raleigh to
Greensboro for a candidates forum, and she doesn't have a driver—or any staffer
along for that matter. It's just her and me….
In
2008, when she ran for an Appellate Court seat and won, Beasley became the
first African-American woman elected to a statewide office who hadn't first
been appointed to that office by the governor. Beasley is running for office
again, this time trying to hold on to her Supreme Court seat (which she did
secure by appointment, two years ago).
But
everything is different, and everything is harder. She's facing a stiff
challenge from Mike Robinson, a bow-tie-sporting Winston-Salem lawyer with a
background representing companies in civil lawsuits. Robinson is supported by
the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, and he self-identifies
as a "judicial conservative…..."
Still,
it's a telling four minutes. Beasley uses her moment at the lectern to deflect
a question about whether she's a judicial activist. Robinson is less
circumspect. He declares himself a "strict constructionist," talks up
"judicial restraint," and directs the audience's attention to a
dissenting opinion that Beasley wrote in 2013 that, he implies, is
antibusiness. (In the decision, the Supreme Court limited the reach of a
consumer-protection law.)
After
the event, Beasley is surprised that Robinson brought up the dissent; he's
never done that before, she says. She believes Robinson was speaking in code,
that he was winking to the corporate crowd, suggesting that he would safeguard
its interests if elected to the court.
"So
much," she says, "for judicial independence."
Here in Wisconsin
we know firsthand how State Supreme Court justices are funded by the Chamber of
Commerce and if their candidate loses, they steal the seat. That was the case in the reelection of the
Chamber’s favorite justice in Wisconsin, Judge Prosser AKA the choking judge. From Fire Dog Lake:
Excerpt:
An
unconfirmed report in National Review claims that a “computer error” in
Waukesha County will net Prosser some 7,000 votes, putting him in the lead and outside of recount territory. One
Wisconsin Now, a progressive group in the state, has heavily criticized
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus for her past practices and the heavy
secrecy surrounding this election.
Waukesha
County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a former staffer for the Assembly Republican
Caucus, has been sharply criticized in recent months for her handling of recent
elections. Even the archly-conservative Waukesha County Board has sharply
condemned Nickolaus after past elections, demanding an immediate audit of her
practices following ominous red-flags that emerged regarding her lack of
oversight, failure to create backup files and her stubborn insistence to “keep
everything secret.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/18/10; 1/17/11]
The
County auditors said it was eminently possible — including historical precedent
— for Nickolaus or a rogue employee to tamper with data. Why? Nickolaus insists
on controlling password access and has unilaterally decided to move sensitive
files, like election results, onto her personal computer [...]
On
Tuesday, shockingly-large turnout suddenly emerged from Waukesha County, which
did not comport with either the results of previous spring elections, or even
internal estimates from city officials mid-day. In fact, a Waukesha City Deputy
Clerk said at 1:18pm that turnout was very typical, predicting somewhere
between 20 to 25 percent.
As Tuesday night wore on, reporting in Waukesha
County stopped altogether for hours, leaving observers to wonder what was going
on. Then suddenly, results suggesting massive turnout started to pour in
rapidly with Prosser adding dramatically to his total by a 73-27 percent
margin.
Oh, my. Wisconsin is totally screwed. Oh, and that female judge that Prosser was
choking, the Koch Brothers are waging a campaign to replace her. From Journal Sentinel
Excerpt:
Rock County judge to
challenge Ann Walsh Bradley for Supreme Court
By
Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel Updated: 2:46 p.m.
Madison
— With the state focused on next week's election for governor, a Rock County
judge announced Monday he was running against state Supreme Court Justice Ann
Walsh Bradley next year…
Bradley,
64, filed paperwork in September to seek a third, 10-year term on the court in
the April 7, 2015, election…..
The
state's high court in recent years has been riven by personal and philosophical
differences. In the clash that has drawn the most attention, Justice David Prosser put his hands on the
neck of Bradley in 2011 as the two argued in front of four other justices about
a case over Gov. Scott Walker's limits on collective bargaining for most public
workers.
Prosser
has said Bradley charged at him and his hands touched her neck when he put them
up in a defensive gesture. Bradley has denied that characterization, saying
Prosser was the aggressor.
Prosser
faced ethics charges over the incident, but
that case has stalled because Prosser, Bradley and three other justices have
declined to participate in the matter. Normally, at least four of the
court's seven justices are needed to take any action on a case.
Well, Judge
Prosser is the epitome of the “new” justice system in America brought to you by
the Supreme Court decision December 12, 2000.
Another injustice brought to you
by the 2000 Supreme Court coup in America, the FISA Court (Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court).
If you will
recall, Justice John Roberts was supposed to fill the seat left vacant by
Sandra Day O’Connor, but that royal asshole Chief Justice William Rehnquist died
and Roberts was made Chief Justice. And
guess what, the Chief Justice appoints the members of the FISA Court. From New York Times:
Excerpt:
Roberts’s Picks Reshaping
Secret Surveillance Court
WASHINGTON
— The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how
intrusive the government can be in the
name of national security. Less mentioned has been the person who has been
quietly reshaping the secret court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
Ten
of the court’s 11 judges — all assigned by Chief Justice Roberts — were
appointed to the bench by Republican presidents; six once worked for the
federal government. Since the chief justice began making assignments in 2005,
86 percent of his choices have been Republican appointees, and 50 percent have
been former executive branch officials.
Though
the two previous chief justices, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist,
were conservatives like Chief Justice Roberts, their assignments to the
surveillance court were more ideologically diverse, according to an analysis by
The New York Times of a list of every judge who has served on the court since
it was established in 1978.
According
to the analysis, 66 percent of their selections were Republican appointees, and
39 percent once worked for the executive branch.
The Roberts Court
doesn’t bode well for the world. Just
look at the U.K. our “close” ally. The
U.K. profited from Netanyahu’s killing of Palestinians. From Russia Times:
Business as usual: UK arms
factories 'profit' from Palestinian bloodshed
Against
a backdrop of widespread bloodshed and devastation in Gaza, a mounting body of
evidence indicates military equipment used by Israel during Operation
Protective Edge was made in the UK…
Britain’s
arms trade relations with Israel are extremely lucrative. Since 2010, British
authorities have presided over the sale of £42 million worth of military
produce to the Middle Eastern state. On an annual basis, the British government
grants up to £15 million worth of licenses to UK defense firms for the export
of military equipment to Israel. These figures stem from in-depth research
conducted by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), a London-based NGO
dedicated to tackling the global arms industry’s impact on human rights….
Raytheon
Israeli
bombs responsible for bloodshed in Gaza are comprised of laser-guidance systems
manufactured in Scotland, the Daily Record revealed last week. This laser-guidance technology is produced
in a factory in Fife, the parent company of which is a US-headquartered arms
manufacturer called Raytheon.
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| Israeli bombs responsible for devastation and bloodshed in Gaza |
Raytheon
have reportedly claimed in the past they “take a dumb bomb and make it into a
smart bomb.” But this “smart” technology harbors the capacity to unleash
profound destruction. One of the firm’s laser-guided Paveway II bombs was
photographed in late July as it descended onto a Gazan neighborhood, reaping
devastation upon its impact.
Wow, all those profits
from killing Palestinians must pay for a state-of-art police force, no? Well, I guess no. From The Guardian:
Excerpt:
Police budget cuts: unpaid
volunteers now used in key roles
Police
forces are quietly taking on unpaid
volunteers as scene of crime investigators, forensic experts and emergency
planning officers as 20% budget cuts bite, it can be revealed.
Forces
across the country have been taking on volunteers to fill some of the most
sensitive police staff roles and some are seeking to escalate their recruitment
drives. There are now 9,000 police
support volunteers replacing 15,000 staff jobs lost since 2010. Some forces
report plans to double or triple their voluntary staff in the next year.
Sound familiar
America? Sounds like a job for RAND’s
hybrid police force. I'm sure that smarmy
asshole Cameron is going to have to raise taxes to provide for a police
force. (I’m sorry, I just can’t stand
that guy).
Excerpt:
David Cameron pledges tax
cuts 'for 30m people'
In
a speech which ended his party's conference, the PM said he would raise the
tax-free allowance from £10,500 to £12,500 by 2020.
He
also said the threshold for the 40p income tax rate would be raised from
£41,900 to £50,000 by the end of a five-year Conservative government.
The
changes would back people who "do the right thing", he said.
Both
tax reform proposals - the timing of which the party said depends on economic
circumstances - received lengthy ovations.
They say you can’t
teach an old dog new tricks, but in Cameron’s case you can’t teach a mangy cur
not to eat its masters. So the United
Nations has called for an investigation into global police brutality. I say, start with the RAND Corporation’s
hybrid global police force and maybe it’s time to bring in the International
Criminal Court, that is if it hasn’t been filled with ALEC lunatics like the
U.S.
December 12, 2000 America’s
love light was murdered by 5 corrupt Republican Supreme Court justices and
replaced with RAND Corporation’s fascist empire of global militarized police.
May God have mercy
on the world.
By Patricia Baeten
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