Bush Approves Homeland Security Overhaul

Bush Approves Homeland Security Overhaul
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By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites) signed legislation Monday creating a new Department of Homeland Security devoted to preventing domestic terror attacks. He promised it "will focus the full resources of the American government on the safety of the American people."

The president picked Tom Ridge as the department's first secretary.

Bush's signature launched the most sweeping federal reorganization since the Defense Department's birth in 1947, a process that his spokesman said could take up to two years to complete.
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"On Feb. 28, 1933, the day after the fire, Hitler's dictatorship began with the enactment of a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State," which dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal, and property rights."
(USA Patriot Act, passed one month after 9/11)

" Though the ensuing elections still did not give the Nazis an outright majority, they were able to persuade the Reichstag to pass an Enabling Act (March 23) whereby all its legislative powers were transferred to the Reich Cabinet by a vote of 444 to 94, so sanctioning the dictatorship. "
(Homeland Security act, passed today)

Encyclopedia Britannica
Micropedia, Vol 9 (1987) 15th Ed

Reichstag fire, burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin, on the night of Feb. 27, 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and widely believed to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government itself to turn public opinion against its opponents and to assume emergency powers. Hitler had secured the chancellorship after the elections of November 1932, but his Nazi Party had not won an overall majority. He therefore obtained Cabinet consent to fix new elections for March 5, 1933. Meanwhile, his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is supposed to have devised the scheme whereby 10 agents led by Karl Ernst were to gain access to the Reichstag through a tunnel leading from the official residence of Hermann Goring, Reichstag president and Hitler's chief minister, who was then to conduct an official investigation, which would fix responsibility for the fire on the Communists. The supposed arsonist was a Dutchman, Marinus van der Lubbe, whom some have claimed was brought to the scene of the crime by Nazi agents. Others have contended that there was no proof of Nazi complicity in the crime, but that Hitler merely capitalized on van der Lubbe's independent act. The fire is the subject of continued debate and research.
On Feb. 28, 1933, the day after the fire, Hitler's dictatorship began with the enactment of a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State," which dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal, and property rights. Though the ensuing elections still did not give the Nazis an outright majority, they were able to persuade the Reichstag to pass an Enabling Act (March 23) whereby all its legislative powers were transferred to the Reich Cabinet by a vote of 444 to 94, so sanctioning the dictatorship. A feature of the ensuing arson trial, at which van der Lubbe was convicted, was the acquittal of the Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitrov after a strong defense.
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Hitler was elected. Bush was installed by the Supreme Court after their rigged election fell apart.
Hitler's people had the Reichstag burned. Bush's people allowed 9/11 to occur.
Hitler blamed the Communists. Bush blamed the Terrorists.
Hitler enacted a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State," which dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal, and property rights. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, doing the same thing.
Hitler wrote the Enabling Act, reorganizing the German govt so that all legislative powers were concentrated under the Reich Cabinet.
Bush wrote the Homeland Security Act, reorganizing the US govt's law enforcement, military, and domestic and foreign spying under a new White House office.

Hitler, now undisputable legal dictator of Germany, began all-out tyranny of his own people while invading other countries.

Bush, now undisputable head of all military, police, law enforcement, judicial, and surveillance powers in the US, has already invaded Afghanistan is about to invade Iraq, has declared that 250,000 Natl Guard will be deployed here at home to "maintain security", has forcibly installed federal employees at all airport security positions, has passed the Model Health Powers Act allowing citizens to be quarantined in concentration camps for refusing to take govt-mandated "emergency" vaccines, has begun building the Total Information Awareness supercomputer to database everything about everyone, has granted the CIA and NSA to spy on US citizens at home, has granted the FBI and police everywhere permission to search and "confiscate" with or without warrants, with or without victim knowledge, and even to punish victims who disobey police orders to keep such searches and seizures secret.

We are so fucked.

Meanwhile..
http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=NATIONAL&SLUG=STATES%2dMONEY%2dWOES

Woes Force States to Raise Taxes

By EUN-KYUNG KIM

WASHINGTON (AP) — State budgets are in their worst shape since World War II, prompting legislatures to institute the largest tax increases in a decade, the National Governors Association said Monday.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0206-02.htm

Published on Wednesday, February 6, 2002 by Common Dreams

Bush's $396 Billion Military Budget:

"Leave No Defense Contractor Behind"

by William D. Hartung, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute


It may seem like eons ago now, but if you search deep in your memory banks you may remember that George W. Bush campaigned for president as a Pentagon reformer who would cut back unnecessary Cold War weapons programs to make room for lighter, quicker more mobile systems. It's true that Bush mentioned the word "missile defense" at every available opportunity and spoke disparagingly about arms accords like the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, but when it came down to how much he would actually spend on the military, he pledged a modest $50 billion increase over ten years, about $5 billion per year.

Better keep that nose to the grindstone and keep making those big bucks, comrade. And tighten that belt some, you don't need luxuries when Uncle Sam needs your taxes in the War on Terror. You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists.

As the economy sinks further, the govt will use force to prop it up in every sector necessary. They already forcibly broke up the west coast port strike last month.

A new American ethic of employment == loyalty will soon rise. The unemployed will be drafted into the military to do "civil service" in "nationalized" factories, companies, and fields. Our massive and growing population of prisoners from the "war on drugs" will likewise be tapped for prison labor as a form of "community service".

A century from now historians will be fascinated by this point in American history, and political radicals will be asking "Why didn't the people DO something?" while they look at pictures of atomic bomb craters in LA, the gutted shells of NYC high rises, and the Nazi-esque mass graves of San Francisco after American-scientist engineered bioweapons killed millions of those Godless disloyal unAmerica liberals.

We are the essence, the living incarnation, the very icon of fucked.