The Nazi States of America

By Darren Weeks

One of the goals of Community-Oriented Policing Services is to get neighbors to spy and collect intelligence information upon each other and to turn each other in if they find anything "suspicious". It is very similar to what was done in Nazi Germany.

In this case, it is the US government that is pulling it off in the name of keeping the American people "safe".

The Washington Post reports:

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules
More Federal Intelligence Changes Planned

By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post
Saturday, August 16, 2008; Page A01

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.

Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months. They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within U.S. borders.

Remember, "terrorism" is a ruse. Under the USA Patriot Act, terrorism has been defined so broadly that nearly anyone can fall within the definition. In short, if they don't like you, if you ask too many questions, you might just be a "terrorist".

And speaking of terrorism, and US borders, what about all of the illegal migrants that are coming into the country? If the government is really concerned about fighting "terrorism", why have our border security guards been made political prisoners, sitting in the federal penitentiary for trying to stop Mexican drug traffickers from smuggling their wares across our border?

Terrorism is a tool of despots. Plain and simple, they need the problem of terrorism to create the fear of another 9/11 (which they orchestrated to begin with), so that the population will kowtow at their feet and lick their jack boots.

Taken together, critics in Congress and elsewhere say, the moves are intended to lock in policies for Bush's successor and to enshrine controversial post-Sept. 11 approaches that some say have fed the greatest expansion of executive authority since the Watergate era.

Supporters say the measures simply codify existing counterterrorism practices and policies that are endorsed by lawmakers and independent experts such as the 9/11 Commission. They say the measures preserve civil liberties and are subject to internal oversight.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the administration agrees that it needs to do everything possible to prevent unwarranted encroachments on civil liberties, adding that it succeeds the overwhelming majority of the time.

Bush homeland security adviser Kenneth L. Wainstein said, "This is a continuum that started back on 9/11 to reform law enforcement and the intelligence community to focus on the terrorism threat."

If ever there were a time to teach your local officials to reject grant money, it is now. Every police department that accepts grant dollars are required to implement the community spying programs, which will amount to the Department of Homeland Soviets operating right in your back yard. Remember those nosy neighbors that you've always detested? Now, they will not only annoy you by being up in your business, but they will have police powers to bring in the feds, if they don't approve of what you do. If you say the wrong thing, they might just decide that you look too suspicious.

Under the Justice Department proposal for state and local police, published for public comment July 31, law enforcement agencies would be allowed to target groups as well as individuals, and to launch a criminal intelligence investigation based on the suspicion that a target is engaged in terrorism or providing material support to terrorists. They also could share results with a constellation of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and others in many cases.

Criminal intelligence data starts with sources as basic as public records and the Internet, but also includes law enforcement databases, confidential and undercover sources, and active surveillance. [Full Article Here]

Put your head between your legs and kiss your butt goodbye, America. If you don't make your local officials quit accepting federal largess, then it's over. You've lost your country. Everyone together now, "Sig Heil!"