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Big Brother

A political and ideological program of "Resurgent America" is being cultivated
and guided from the highest offices in the land. Its prominent themes
- a "moral awakening of the nation" and the drive for America to be Number One in the world
by force of arms - have a distinctly fascist aura and raise the specter of a police state.

- Refuse & Resist! Founding Statement

McCarthyism Watch: A Request for Training in Relief Work Raises Suspicion
McCarthyism Watch: FBI Goes on Campus
Going Electronic, Denver Reveals Long-Term Surveillance
The NYPD Wants to Watch You
Total Information Awareness NYT
William Safire column
No more Mr Scrupulous Guy: "...The agency which Poindexter will run is called the Information Awareness Office. You want to know what that is? Think, Big Brother is Watching You. IAO will supply federal officials with "instant" analysis on what is being written on email and said on phones all over the US..."
Bush Will Keep Wartime Office Promoting U.S.: "...a permanent office of global diplomacy to spread a positive image of the United States around the world and combat anti-Americanism..."
The Nazi National ID System: "...The first stage of this monitoring process included an enforced national identififcation system of badges shown here..."
Virginia May Collect DNA in Every Arrest for a Felony: "...The plan has prompted warnings about privacy invasion and the abuse of defendants' rights. But both houses of the Legislature adopted versions of the plan this week without debate..."
Ex-C.I.A. Spy Chief to Run NYC Police Intelligence: "...The new deputy commissioner, David Cohen, spent 35 years in the C.I.A., including two years, 1995 to 1997, as director of operations, a post in which he oversaw the agency's espionage around the world...."
Break-In At The Youth Empowerment Center: "...Because of what was taken, what was left behind, and the level of vandalism, we have reason to suspect that this was not a simple burglary motivated by monetary gain..."
FBI Confirms 'Magic Lantern' Project Exists: "...An FBI spokesman confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named "Magic Lantern", which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications..."
Moving Toward A Police State (Or Have We Arrived?) by Michael Ratner: "...I wrote the above paragraph and much of the article that follows toward the end of October. At that time, the repressive machinery then being put into effect was already terrifying. Since that time the situation has gotten unimaginably worse..."
Excerpts from Interview Guidelines: "...excerpts from a memorandum from the Justice Department advising United States attorneys how to conduct interviews of 5,000 men, mostly from Middle Eastern nations..."
FBI Is Building a 'Magic Lantern': "...The FBI told companies that it will need access to voice calls sent over data networks within a few hours in some emergency situations and that any interference caused by a wiretap should be imperceptible to avoid tipping off people..."
Homeland Security Team's Key Members Announced: "...The plan is likely to have a profound impact on government, industry and the lives of average citizens, yet it will not be subject to congressional approval. While members of Congress will be asked to provide advice and input, according to Ridge aides, the final decision on the details of the plan will be left to Bush..."
Military Favors a Homeland Command: "...Although Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has yet to make a final decision, senior military officials working the issue say agreement has been reached on establishing a homeland CINC (pronounced "sink")...."
Four Commanders Seek Staff Role for the F.B.I.: "...The military's four major regional commanders have asked that F.B.I. and Treasury Department agents be assigned to their staffs to improve coordination between the military and civilian agencies in the global war against terrorism..."
U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities: "...Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities..."
ACLU Issues Multi-Lingual "Know Your Rights!" Pamphlet: "..."The ACLU created the Know Your Rights pamphlets because we are concerned that many people, especially non-citizens, are not fully aware of their rights when being questioned or detained by the government," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU..."
Text of Presidential Order on Secret Military Courts: "...the secretary of defense shall take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to this order is detained in accordance with section 3, and, if the individual is to be tried, that such individual is tried only in accordance with section 4..."
Bush to Subject Terrorism Suspects to Military Trials: "...Bush signed an order today allowing special military tribunals to try foreigners charged with terrorism..."
New Regulations for Bureau of Prisons Regarding "Homeland Security": "...this rule amends the existing regulations to provide that the Bureau is authorized to monitor mail or communications with attorneys..."
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 [380K PDF]: "...In any judicial review of a determination made under this section, if the determination was based on classified information (as defined in section 1(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act) such information may be submitted to the reviewing court ex parte and in camera. This subsection does not confer or imply any right to judicial review...."
Ashcroft Orders Justice Dept. Into New Wartime Structure: "...Ashcroft announced today that he has ordered the Justice Department to take a wartime posture and has begun to restructure the agency's priorities..."
Homeland Insecurity: "...Bush wants to establish special, extra-legal military tribunals that can try suspected terrorists without the ordinary legal constraints of American justice..."
Tom Ridge in Vietnam - Tarnished Star: "...Like Bob Kerrey, Ridge won his Bronze Star for an operation that seems to have been little more than outright murder by ambush which was almost immediately sanitized as an act of heroism..."
Tapes Indicate Johnson Doubted Attack in Tonkin Gulf: "...secret tapes President Lyndon B. Johnson made in the early days of the Vietnam War show that only weeks after Congress gave him the authority to pursue the war in 1964, he privately acknowledged that the incident that inspired the resolution probably never happened..."
Bailing Out Private Jails: "...The abuse-ridden for-profit prison industry is on the verge of bankruptcy. But the feds are jumping to the rescue by providing even more business..."
Phone Calls on Sept. 11 Led to F.B.I. Arrests: "...agents swept in and arrested them and have been holding them since, some as material witnesses, based on the information picked up in the phone calls..."
CIA Weighs 'Targeted Killing' Missions: "...the Bush administration has concluded that executive orders banning assassination do not prevent the president from lawfully singling out a terrorist for death by covert action..."
Know Your Rights!: "...constitutional rights cannot be suspended -- even during a state of emergency or wartime..."
War Cabinet: Veterans on Familiar Ground: "...Though its members have changed jobs, the cast of characters formulating the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington is much the same as the one that grappled with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990..."
John Ashcroft's New America: "...Locking up more than 7 million American Muslims is a tall order. But the racial profiling that allows the government to keep tabs on this now suspect group may be the modern equivalent of a concentration camp..."
Philly's Political Police: Spying on a New Generation: "...Civil Affairs Unit, once known as the Civil Disobedience Unit (CDU), has a long history of surveillance, covert operations, frame-ups and targeted political disruption, all in close connection with the FBI and other agencies that coordinate political repression nationally..."
Instructions for Police Spying on Electronic Information: "...detailed instructions to police agencies on procedures to follow and legal justifications that can be cited for spying on, searching and seizing electronic information and information systems..."
Many Charges Are Dismissed In G.O.P. Convention Protests: "...In another mass trial, the judge found probable cause that there were plans to disrupt the convention with acts of civil disobedience. But undercover state police officers who had infiltrated the protesters' ranks at a factory where giant street puppets were being made could not identify any of 31 defendants..."
Letter Demands End to Police Spying on R2K network in Philadelphia: "...We demand specific verification as to past and current surveillance and infiltration, and demand that all infiltration, surveillance and harassment stop immediately..."
FOP Attacks Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...Their August 11 Release...Attacks Supporters..."
The Folly Of Calling The FBI by Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...In truth, the history of the FBI shows that they have waged a secret war against Black America, and frankly, it seems kind of stupid to look to them for relief..."
The Snitch Factor by Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...In the history of every oppressed people, there was one figure who earned the hatred and enmity of that community. This was always the Snitch..."
America's Secret Police: FBI COINTELPRO In The 1990s: "...In the year before the car bombing of Bari and Cherney, a shocking and classic political disruption campaign was conducted against Earth First! in Northern California..."
US Marines Get Ready for Urban Warfare: "...the Marine Corps Warfighting Center in Quantico, Va., will run the training program with the help of Chicago police..."
Two Million Private Conversations Monitored by Government in 1997: "...The average number of conversations intercepted by each tap was 2,081..."
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Files Opened: "...Secret files from a segregation-era state spy agency were being unsealed here Tuesday...."
FISA Strikes Again: "...If ever there were a conspiracy of nine white men in a room plotting to undermine democracy, it might look something like the FISA court..."
The System vs. Geronimo: Why? - by Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...Few accounts explained why Geronimo was caged, and why the state fought so long and hard to keep him there, even using foul and unfair means to do so..."
The Militarization of 'Mayberry': "...In a nationwide survey of 690 law enforcement agencies serving cities with populations with 50,000 or more, the researchers found that 90 percent now have active SWAT teams, compared with 60 percent in the early 1980s..."
A New Day For Geronimo - by Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...Geronimo was a prisoner of a war waged by the very government he went to Viet Nam to fight for. A war against Black America, against the remnants of the Black Panther Party..."
Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt Wins New Trial: "...A judge granted a new trial for Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt on Thursday, capping a 25-year legal battle by lawyers who said his murder conviction was political retribution against the Black Panthers..."
Ex-Black Panther Imprisoned 24 Years For Murder Seeks Retrial: "...Pratt himself became a target of the FBI's COINTELPRO, aimed at undermining radicals, retired FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen said in his 1995 book "FBI Secrets, An Agent's Expose."..."
The 'Public-Private Partnership' by Tom Burghardt: "...hundreds of progressive groups, labor unions, alternative news services, and an estimated 100,000 Bay Area residents ... were targets of an illegal covert spy operation by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)..."
Bringing Back McCarthyism: "...All of the versions [of the 'counter-terrorism' laws] under consideration give the government official new powers to terrorize immigrants and citizens that mirror and codify the anti-communist crusades of the 1950s..."
Larry Pratt, the CIAS and International Fascist Networks: "...Recent allegations of anti-Semitism and racism levelled against Larry Pratt, a national co-chairman of the Buchanan for President campaign committee, is an intriguing example of media obfuscation and "truth" on the half-shell...." - reprinted from the ANTIFA BULLETIN
Common Sense Security: "...A knowledge of the strategies and tactics of your adversaries will strengthen your movement..."
How to Conduct a Political Trial: A political trial is not an ordinary trial, and the normal tactics for criminal trials will not work.

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