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Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/27/homeland.security...
| Quote: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.
This comes despite the fact the Bush administration has repeatedly asserted that fighting terrorism is the central mission of DHS.
The Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse said it analyzed millions of previously undisclosed records obtained from the immigration courts under
the Freedom of Information Act.
Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said.
Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed.
"The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," said David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman. "Either there's no terrorism, or
they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us."
The TRAC analysis also found that DHS filed a minuscule number of what are called "national security" charges against people in the immigration
courts. The report stated that 114, or 0.014 percent of the total of roughly 800,000 individuals charged were charged with national security
violations.
TRAC reported more than 85 percent of the charges involved more common immigration violations such as not having a valid immigrant visa, overstaying a
student visa or entering the United States without an inspection.
According to the report by TRAC, which is affiliated with Syracuse University, the results show that there is an "apparent gap between DHS rhetoric
about its role in fighting terrorism and what it actually has been doing."
DHS spokesman Russ Knocke called the TRAC report "ill-conceived" and said the group "lacked a grasp of the DHS mission."
Knocke said that, by clamping down on all forms of immigration, DHS has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.
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and don't forget to be scared of "the terrorists".
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Same thing with the PATRIOT Act. Lots of freedoms dismissed in order to go after "terrorists"... then it mostly gets used for domestic, non-"terror"
cases (like drugs and organized crime). Oh, but don't worry, it'll only be used selectively and in rare cases...
If the American people wouldn't bury their heads in the sand and ignore what's happening, they might actually wonder what the fuck their government is
doing. The only thing that scares me more than big-government liberals is big-government conservatives.
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I used to think this administration was a bunch of fuck ups. I stood corrected a few years ago. Those pieces of shit know exactly what the fuck they
are doing.
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Totally. I've been saying that for years. Next stop is Canada unfortunately. After 9/11 a bill was hurried through Parliament here, which allows for
US troops to enter the country in the event of an attack that left the government too destabilized to maintain order. What the fuck?
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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When Bush passed that law late last year, that allows the role of a dictatorship (no interference from congress or any government faction) in a time
of "crisis" that when I knew our current President, I honestly believe, may be the last President America sees for a very long time. And that shot
will have a global impact.
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Martial Law
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| Quote: | Originally posted by upyerbum
Totally. I've been saying that for years. Next stop is Canada unfortunately. After 9/11 a bill was hurried through Parliament here, which allows for
US troops to enter the country in the event of an attack that left the government too destabilized to maintain order. What the fuck?
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More than you even know. The North American Union will be happening and the U.S., Canada & Mexico will be one. This place is going to hell in a
handbasket if shit doesn't change quick.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965
"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your goverment is in control. Here, here's
American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary
retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what
well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"-Bill Hicks
Live Fast Die Young
Push It To The Limit \'Til The Coffin Calls
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Seriously... if there's nothing else I learned from Star Wars it's to watch out for politicians that make pretenses for emergencies and then make
grabs for emergency powers. The crazy thing is... the Bush administration isn't even apologetic about it.
You know, the whole democracy thing is a sham anyways. With corporations having "personhood" status and all the rights that goes with that... they
control a vast majority of what's going on. The shit is outta hand and if we don't open our eyes and rebel by all means that become necessary... we
are going to be living under a totalitarian big business state.
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| Quote: | I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility, repetition. I enjoy them as much
as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someones death or the end of
some awful, bloody struggle are celebrated with a nice holiday.
I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and
have a little chat. There are of course those who does not want us to speak.
I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be
used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words are for the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the
enunciation of truth.
And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and depression, and where once
you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity.
How did this happen?
Who's to blame?
Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again, truth be told, if you're looking
for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a
myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to
the now high chancellor Adam Sutler.
He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that
silence. Last night, I destroyed the old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than 400 years ago, a great citizen wished to
embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words, they
are perspectives.
So if you've seen nothing. If the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then i would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass
unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight,
outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. |
and don't forget, the people who fought the British over 330 years ago were also labeled as terrorists and threats to national security. they wanted
the occupying force to leave, they had demands (bill of rights) and they killed husbands, brothers, fathers and sons on the other team as well.
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^ Indeed.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Siczine.com
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Exactly.
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