While everyone’s attention was elsewhere Congress passed more police state legislation. The latest installment is entitled the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007“. It is also known as HR 1955. This is a heinous piece of work. In this latest action, they have defined “violent radicalization” means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.
Pray tell what does this mean? It could be taken to refer to anyone who takes extreme ideological stands (i.e. feels passionate about their beliefs). Extreme could be anything out of the mainstream. This could be applies to preaching, politics, and cultural actions. The very definition of radical means “to the root”. Such legislation aims at anything that challenges root or core beliefs of the establishment.
The legislation sets up a commission (with paid positions, of course, along with retirement). This in itself tells me that they plan to keep the commission for some time. The commission will explore the various groups they are concerned with and provide Congress with a report on them. They are essentially attempting to profile and identify these people. I admit I was surprised that they did not mention the need to affix yellow stars of David onto their clothing for easier identification. This is a Stasi/Gestapo policy plain and simple. The commission is a defacto thought police star chamber. The commission will be working closely with the civil rights agency to insure that the civil rights of various groups are not infringed upon. To me it sounds like many administrative groups are in a conspiracy to maintain a monopoly on government control.
The commission will be charged with collecting and distributing information and statistics to other agencies. The commission will also set up a center. This one is called (in perfect Orwellian double speak), “Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States (hereinafter referred to as `Center’)”. They have used terms straight out of quality improvement to enhance the title of this center. The center will be housed at a university. The bill claims the choice will be based on merit. At present, the University of Arizona in association with the National Science Foundation have been researching various groups associated with the “dark web“. The bill could be nothing more than ‘pork’ legislation for Arizona, yet it is more ominous. The dark web project is where they analyze links and associations among groups based on the links used and other analytic tools. The purpose of the center is “Purpose- It shall be the purpose of the Center to study the social, criminal, political, psychological, and economic roots of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism in the United States and methods that can be utilized by Federal, State, local, and tribal homeland security officials to mitigate violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.”
The center will conduct research and coordinate information about the identified groups, their ideology and funding. In clear language, this is the thought police. The dark web project is already performing semantic analysis on the postings in order to identify the authors of controversial postings.
From what I have seen in the research posted by the University of Arizona concerning the League of the South and it is sloppy at best. They used information provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and then set off to find evidence that support the SPLC claims. This is not genuine research. Genuine research would consists of exploring the numbers without pre-concieved ideas of what you will find. If the Empire uses the University of Arizona, we can expect nothing less than the production of statistics and reports that merely validate what they were looking for. In essence, it becomes a kangaroo court that provides the Empire with reports that will give empirical propaganda to persecute the groups they deem as undesirable.
Among the Co-Sponsors of this were a CONgress Critter from Mississippi (Bennie Thompson) and one from Texas. CONgress Critter Al Green has decided that thought crime needs to be implemented. The bill passed 404-6, with Ron Paul opposed to it. The cowards voted for it with just the simple yea or nay with no official record of who sold the nation out.
This legislation is a threat to the freedoms of all groups. It is a dangerous precedent toward a totalitarian police state. This provides for a new gestapo complete with informants, false charges, thought crimes, and a retirement plan for the Empire’s puppets. Such legislation is a clear indication that the Empire is losing control and is resorting to more extreme methods to maintain its status. When put in the context of Family Security Matters’ recent piece on identifying the League as dangerous, the situation makes more sense. Given that the Family Security Matters is a website posing as a resource for “security moms,” but operates as a front for the Neocon war machine. Recall it was this same group that called for the genocide of all Arabs, and for Bush to declare himself president for life. Such is the mindset of the modern empire.
Free the South!
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J Murrah
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