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As Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale and author of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism, puts it: "Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights." As for the drill being carried out by NORAD and others on the day of 9/11, on the day of the London bombings of 7/7, the powers that be were also running a simulation of an attack on on the London Underground. At the same stations as the real bombs, at the same times. I also have to ask if anyone has heard any more about the news that came out on the very morning of 9/11 before the WTC bombings, that the White House admitted that over $2, 000, 000, 000, 000 (that's Trillion) dollars in funding had disappeared and could not be accounted for? MelT |
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| http://www.dod.gov/speeches/2001/s20010716-secdef2.html SEC. RUMSFELD: "Mr. Congressman, thank you very much. Your question is, of course, right at the heart of an enormously important issue for the Department of Defense. We have a panel in the Quadrennial Defense Review on this subject. We have met with it twice in the last two weeks. We're obviously going to have to meet with it again. It is a big, broad, complicated subject. "As you know, the Department of Defense really is not in charge of its civilian workforce, in a certain sense. It's the OPM, or Office of Personnel management, I guess. There are all kinds of long- standing rules and regulations about what you can do and what you can't do. I know Dr. Zakheim's been trying to hire CPAs because the financial systems of the department are so snarled up that we can't account for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist, if that's believable. And yet we're told that we can't hire CPAs to help untangle it in many respects." MelT |
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That governments worldwide can and do perform very large actions that we never hear about is beyond question. I can give a list of very large cover-ups here that our own government has *admitted* (these are far from being just conspiracy theories) - but the public are told that any investigations and prosecutions would be pointless! Wars have been started, people have been murdered, masses of money has disappeared, and yet the perpetrators, our own government, continues to hold itself above the law and refuses us the right to both protest and investigate. No theories, no guesses based on shaky videos. Absolute proof and in some cases direct admissions of guilt; and yet nobody ever gets prosecuted. The odd Minister might loose his job and be put on a fat pension instead, but that's as far as it goes. We're now the ONLY country in the EU that has vetoed our human rights with regard to 'innocent until proven guilty. Anyone at any time can now be arrested without a warrant under the Anti-Terrorist laws and be held *indefinitely* without charge or access to legal help. All of their posessions can be confiscated and never returned, even if you're subsequently set free. The main reason that things have gone from bad to worse is that governments saw the power of protest during the 60's and 70's and have done everything to prevent people from being able to do it ever again. Protest on the scale it was at during those times changed the world, stopped wars, unjust taxes and apartheid. It worked. But, as soon as governments saw that they COULD actually be made accountable to the people they served they knew things had to change. They began to withdraw civil liberties and even went to the extent of openly shooting kids on campus for daring to protest. Our own police, shooting us??? People who just wanted to stand up and say that things weren't right in the world, being openly killed in the land of the free? If they're prepared to do that then little things like killing a few thousand to warrant a larger war and define a new enemy - for the support of the arms and oil trades that net the Bush family millions of dollars a year from - is nothing. There is no accountablity. Even if you got Bush tomorrow and proved he was the murdering little shit he is, nothing would happen. A long court case, disappearance of evidence and a long retirement to live off the millions he and his government have removed from our pockets. Be very afraid. Whether 9/11 and 7/7 were conspiracys or not isn't the question anymore. Where your civil liberties are going and why is the real concern. Protest. Be heard. MelT |
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| Protest! Missing Trillions An excerpt from: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/missing_money/ Petition To: The White House and Congress<SMALL> More than $1.1 trillion of federal government money is missing. Our government leaders say they will not account for it. However finding this money could solve all of our federal, state and local budget crises. Where is the Money? The Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General has reported that HUD has not and will not account for $59 billion of "undocumentable adjustments." The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments." The "undocumentable adjustments" made by these government agencies are much like the balance adjustments many of us make when reconciling our checkbooks. Except that the amounts are staggering: California's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is $128 billion -- more than three times its current $35 billion budget deficit. The average American's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is almost $4,000 per person. Where is the Money? The fictional New Jersey mob family of The Sopranos television program has shown how some people make money by defaulting and foreclosing on HUD homes and destroying communities. Are the episodes of TV mobsters more informative about HUD operations than HUD financial statements? A General Accounting Office report found that the U.S. Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. Are planes, tanks and missiles running away from home? </SMALL> |
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