• The first characteristic of a National Security State is that the military is the highest authority. In a National Security State the military not only guarantees the security of the state against all internal and external enemies, it has enough power to determine the overall direction of the society. In a National Security State the military exerts important influence over political, economic, as well as military affairs.

• A second defining feature of a National Security State is that political democracy and democratic elections are viewed with suspicion, contempt, or in terms of political expediency. National Security States often maintain an appearance of democracy. However, ultimate power rests with the military or within a broader National Security Establishment.

• A third characteristic of a National Security State is that the military and related sectors wield substantial political and economic power. They do so in the context of an ideology which stresses that "freedom" and "development" are possible only when capital is concentrated in the hands of elites.

• A fourth feature of a National Security State is its obsession with enemies. There are enemies of the state everywhere. Defending against external and/or internal enemies becomes a leading preoccupation of the state, a distorting factor in the economy, and a major source of national identity and purpose.

• A fifth ideological foundation of a National Security State is that the enemies of the state are cunning and ruthless. Therefore, any means used to destroy or control these enemies is justified.

• A sixth characteristic of a National Security State is that it restricts public debate and limits popular participation through secrecy or intimidation. Authentic democracy depends on participation of the people. National Security States limit such participation in a number of ways: They sow fear and thereby narrow the range of public debate; they restrict and distort information; and they define policies in secret and implement those policies through covert channels and clandestine activities. The state justifies such actions through rhetorical pleas of "higher purpose" and vague appeals to "national security."

• Finally, the church is expected to mobilize its financial, ideological, and theological resources in service to the National Security State.

AJ_Frank_Morales_021106_MilCommAct.mp3

Frank Morales discussing Martial Law, the Mil Comm Act and the complementary Northcom order with Alex Jones, whacky commercials cut out.
Frank Morales on Philip Dru show (Libertarian).  Morales also worked with homeless squatters seizing city-stolen property in NYC and renovating it.  In some cases, they got to keep it too.

PC_Roberts_EP2006.02.07.mp3

Paul Craig Roberts from Electric Politics website.  Called "Father of Reaganomics".

Discussing the tyranny of BushCo, and how even Republicans have a hard time opposing it.

VERY insightful talk, whether you agree 100% of not.

MILITARY SOUND WEAPONS bought by US LOCAL POLICE
San Jose - infowars sound weapons
NYPD - sound weapons
Alex Jones YouTube on NYPD sound weapons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank
If you're involved in any kind of illicit commodity trade, organized crime activity like drug trafficking, there is only one requisite for success, immunity, and the CIA gave them that. As long as they were allied with the CIA, the local police and then the DEA stayed away from the drug lords.   See POWDERBURNS for more.
and from pages 461-472 in Alfred W. McCoy's bombshell book, "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity In The Drug Trade"
Nugan Hand Bank
Part Two: Nugan Hand Bank more: on MSN

Recommended downloads

JFK SPEECH on SECRET SOCIETIES and FREEDOM of the PRESS

The first big fish of Mil Comm 2006:

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar who was arrested while studying in the United States.

Al-Marri was arrested in December 2001, and held in civilian jails in Peoria, Illinois and New York City as a material witness. His brother, Jarallah al-Marri was captured in January 2002, and transported to military detention at United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.

In 2002 Ali was charged with financial crimes. Al-Marri was charged with opening bank accounts with inadequate or forged identity documents.  (wow, that could be really bad stuff -- let's say we fry him without a trial)

Evidence has been disclosed that al-Marri was in possession of a telephone card that was previously used to call a number in Dubai linked to the reputed Al Qaeda finacier, Mustafa al-Hawsawi. After searching al-Marri's computer, a folder was found labeled "jihad arena", which according to the government, contained information on hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas used in chemical weapons, along with lectures by Osama bin Laden and a cartoon of planes crashing into the World Trade Center.

OK, so I have no idea if al-Marri is a "good guy" a "bad guy" or what.  He probably hates all Jews, including me, for all I know.
But look at the charges they might execute him for:

• information on hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas used in chemical weapons  -  yeah, every bleach and ammonia bottle has warnings about mixing them
  
• lectures by Osama bin Laden - How many people have downloaded and watched them?
• cartoon of planes crashing  - OMG, I even have cartoons of Bin Laden with Bert!!  Plus, everyone's seen that hoax of the guy standing on the (closed) observation deck as the plane flies in.
• Opening up a bank account with fake ID, they already dropped that charge anyhow.
• He had a phone card that someone (perhaps al-Marri or his brother) used to call a phone number in Dubai, linked to a guy and that guy might have sent money to some organization that might have helped finance Al-Qaeda.  Maybe he called, maybe he didn't call. 
• Check this, I have the phone number of a person who funded Al-Qaeda:  202-467-5410. 
• Here's another phone number of some people who gave Al-Qaeda lots of cash and weapons:  (703) 482-0623.
• Here's a phone number of a group that gave an Al-Qaeda member high level training, weapons, and a uniform:  1-800-USA-ARMY
  

Let's be clear.  The bad thing 's not that they are tracking a potential terrorist.  The point is, before Sept 11, FBI agents were obstructed and thwarted (by superiors) from even seeking a search warrant against suspected terrorists (from Ashcroft, for example), and even theatened against pursuing leads into terrorist financing, by both Clinton and Bush admins.  Now, they want to lock people up indefinitely -- foreign and American -- and ultimately kill them without even a trial in front of Judge or Jury, if an appointed Mil Commission deems it.  This is more than overkill.  This was systematic, when you tie together the old "terrorist-aiding" rules with the new infinite crackdown.

On Jose Padilla: 

Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers are locked in a tug of war over the relevancy of Mr. Padilla’s military detention to the present criminal case. Federal prosecutors have asked the judge to forbid Mr. Padilla’s lawyers from mentioning the circumstances of his military detention during the trial, maintaining that their accusations could “distract and inflame the jury.”

Mr. Padilla’s status was abruptly changed to criminal defendant from enemy combatant last fall. At the time, the Supreme Court was weighing whether to take up the legality of his military detention — and thus the issue of the president’s authority to seize an American citizen on American soil and hold him indefinitely without charges — when the Bush administration pre-empted its decision by filing criminal charges against Mr. Padilla.

Mr. Padilla was added as a defendant in a terrorism conspiracy case already under way in Miami. The strong public accusations made during his military detention — about the dirty bomb, Al Qaeda connections and supposed plans to set off natural gas explosions in apartment buildings — appear nowhere in the indictment against him. The indictment does not allege any specific violent plot against America.

Mr. Padilla is portrayed in the indictment as the recruit of a “North American terror support cell” that sent money, goods and recruits abroad to assist “global jihad” in general, with a special interest in Bosnia and Chechnya. Mr. Padilla, the indictment asserts, traveled overseas “to participate in violent jihad” and filled out an application for a mujahedin training camp in Afghanistan.

---

From Green Party candidate in Pennsylvania.
AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT
I found this article particularly interesting because I have recently returned from vacation.  Right after the election I decided to get away for a while.  I went to the airport just as I had done hundreds of times (having been a management consultant, a marketing manager and a sales representative for the last 25 years).  But this time my trip to the airport was different.  I was not permitted to check in at the curb. I could not check in at the kiosk.  I was told I had to see "the agent".  That's when I was informed that I am on "the watch list".  The "watch list", in case you are not familiar with it, is a list of names of individuals suspected of posing "a risk of air piracy or terrorism or a threat to airline or passenger safety."  While initially denying to the media that such a list existed, the TSA finally acknowledged its existence in October 2002.

I frankly knew nothing about the "watch list" or the TSA. The TSA is the Transportation Security Administration -- it is part of Homeland Security!  Being on the "watch list" is not quite as bad as being on the no-fly list.  Being on the watch list means you are simply delayed 45 minutes while airport security checks you out, you miss your flight because you only arrived an hour early and everyone looks at you wondering if you're about to blow up the place.

As soon as I got to my hotel I looked into trying to get off the "watch list".  I was given a web site and told about the list of information I would have to supply.  On my way home I chatted with the security agent as I went through the process again and told him how I was now going through the necessary procedures to get off the "watch list".  He said I shouldn't go to all that trouble since, although they tell you can get off the watch list after 60 days from the time of application, you never really get off the "watch list".  Let me tell you how wonderful this makes me feel.  Is it fascism yet?

 

John Murphy recommends this LINK
missing link 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0oq56hjms

The school of assassins that the US army has tried to hide

Bob Kerrey, The CIA and War Crimes

War crimes were a central was part of a CIA strategy for fighting the Vietnam War.

Operation Speedy Express, a Ninth Infantry sweep through Kien Hoa in the first six months of 1969, killed an estimated 11,000 civilians-supposedly VC sympathizers.

As the CIA was well aware, Ho Chi Minh boasted that with two cadre in every hamlet, he could win the war, no matter how many soldiers the Americans threw at him.

 

So the CIA adopted the Ho's strategy-but on a grander and bloodier scale. The object of Contre Coup was to identify and terrorize each and every individual VCI and his/her family, friends and fellow villagers. To this end the CIA in 1964 launched a massive intelligence operation called the Provincial Interrogation Center Program.

 

"was to take charge of execution teams that wiped out entire families."

 

This CIA strategy of committing war crimes for psychological reasons ­ to terrorize the enemy's supporters into submission

 

Yes, the CIA has a global, illegal strategy of terrorizing people, although in typical CIA lexicon it's called "anti-terrorism."

 

When you're waging illegal warfare, language is every bit as important as weaponry and the will to kill. As George Orwell or Noam Chomsky might explain, when you're deliberately killing innocent women and children, half the court-of-public-opinion battle is making it sound legal.

confessed that in 1966 he saw US soldiers massacre as many as 600 Vietnamese civilians in five fishing villages. He'd been in Vietnam for three years by then, but it didn't occur to him that he had discovered a war crime.

The CIA launched its Phoenix Program in June 1967, after 13 years of tinkering with several experimental counter-terror and psywar programs, and building its network of secret interrogation centers.

 

After an investigation in 1970, four Congresspersons concluded that the CIA's Phoenix Program violated international law. "The people of these United States," they jointly stated, "have deliberately imposed upon the Vietnamese people a system of justice which admittedly denies due process of law," and that in doing so, "we appear to have violated the 1949 Geneva Convention for the protection of civilian people."

 

During the hearings, U.S. Representative Ogden Reid said, "if the Union had had a Phoenix program during the Civil War, its targets would have been civilians like Jefferson Davis or the mayor of Macon, Georgia."

 

But the American establishment and media denied it then, and continue to deny it until today, because Phoenix was a genocidal program

The answer to that question seems to scream "psychological operations (mindfuck) on Americans".

There was nothing sophisticated about the torture employed by Battalion 316. In addition to la capucha - a piece of rubber cut from an inner tube that prevents a person from breathing through the mouth and nose - they used rope to hang victims from the ceiling and beat them, and extension cords with exposed wires for shock torture.

Gloria Esperanza Reyes, now 52, speaking in an interview at her home in Vienna, Va., describes how she was tortured with electric wires attached to her breasts and vagina. "The first jolt was so bad I just wanted to die," she said.

Jose Barrera, a former battalion torturer interviewed in Toronto, recalls such pleas from prisoners. "They always asked to be killed," he said. "Torture is worse than death."