Accomodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft

"My name is Dr. Debra H. Freeman. I appear before the Committee as the national spokesperson for Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., to voice the strongest possible opposition to the nomination of John Ashcroft as the next Attorney General of the United States. My opposition to Mr. Ashcroft's confirmation is shaped by two considerations that go beyond the normal factors that one would weigh, in considering a candidate for the top law enforcement post in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch......the epicenter of the current phase of global monetary and physical economic disintegration is the advanced sector, specifically the United States, with our skyrocketing balance of trade deficit, negative household savings, and collapsing real industrial output. Thus, the crisis phase that we have now entered has the most profound implications for the well-being of the American population and goes to the heart of our domestic tranquility and the common good. .... The incoming Administration will be faced, immediately, with the choice between: (1) abandoning the current economic and monetary policy axioms and returning to policies that, in the past, have led the United States and the world out of the path of disaster, as during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; or, (2) under the guise of 'crisis management,' imposing a form of brutal bureaucratic fascism on the United States, that bears striking similarities to the conditions under which Adolph Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933. It was Hitler's 'crisis management' of the Reichstag fire [These remarks made January 2001 are extremely prescient. Exactly the same principle has been applied to 911, nlpwessex] and other events, real and manufactured, that established the dictatorship that no one in Germany had anticipated, even weeks before the coup was carried out. .... "
TESTIMONY BY DR. DEBRA H. FREEMAN IN OPPOSITION TO THE NOMINATION OF JOHN ASHCROFT TO THE POST OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, AS DELIVERED TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, JANUARY 16, 2001

"The Bush administration is claiming the power to decide alone and in secret whether Americans shall be imprisoned indefinitely to protect us against terrorism. It's that simple. The president claims the power to detain citizens as well as illegal immigrants as 'combatants' until the war on terrorism is over. That war, like the war on drugs, is likely to continue indefinitely; terrorism in Northern Ireland and Israel have been facts of life for 35 years. A detained person will not have access to a lawyer. The factual basis for calling a citizen a combatant on behalf of terrorism will generally be secret. There will be no judicial review of the grounds for finding that the citizen poses a danger of terrorism and often no trial on any criminal charges. Our most basic freedom now depends on the good faith of the administration in power -- the very situation the Founders meant most clearly to prevent."
The Power to Imprison
Washington Post, 7 July 2002

"Since Sept. 11, it's as if we've been terrified, not only by the terrorists, but also by an American government that demands silent acquiescence to whatever it proposes to do as part of its vague and thus far ineffective 'war on terrorism'.....Average citizens have been verbally bludgeoned into unquestioning silence by an attorney general and a vice president who have suggested that to question U.S. policy is to potentially aid the enemy — frightening thoughts from the country's chief lawyer and second in command. What will be left to win if the very rights we Americans profess to hold dear — free speech; privacy in our homes, e-mails and houses of worship; probable cause and a speedy and fair trial — are sacrificed in the name of defeating terror? A few days ago, in one of the few recent events that indicated that democracy may not crumble under the political manipulation of our fears and desire to feel safe, Santa Cruz, Calif., declared 'Barbara Lee Day' in honor of the congresswoman who alone said no to the president. Whether we agree with Lee's vote is not the issue; her right to vote her conscience is. As Lee has said, 'The lifeblood of democracy is the right to dissent.' If as Americans we no longer believe this, we have willingly given up much more than any terrorist attack could take from us."
America creates its own terrors
USA Today, 4 July 2002

".....in the latest example of how the war on terror is insinuating itself into the political landscape, questions of patriotism are cropping up in a number of [election] races. Challengers are pointedly scrutinizing incumbents' past votes on red-white-and-blue matters from defense spending to flag burning, accusing their opponents of being 'antimilitary' or failing to protect their country. While patriotism has always been a backdrop of political campaigns, analysts say that in the wake of Sept. 11 it has become a theme in its own right – and more potent grounds for attack."
Patriotism becomes nasty campaign issue
Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2002

".......'An official told me that my name had been flagged in the computer... I was targeted because the Green Party USA opposes the bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan'.... Military personnel with automatic weapons surrounded Oden and instructed all airlines to deny her passage on any flight."
'Green Party USA Coordinator Detained at Airport; Prevented by Armed Military
Personnel from Flying to Political Meeting in Chicago': 2 November 2001
CounterPunch, 2 November 2001

"In an interview with The Times George Soros, the billionaire American financier, accused the Bush Administration of deliberately manipulating the aftermath of September 11 to promote an authoritarian right-wing agenda. Mr Soros singled out Mr Ashcroft’s treatment of [alleged 'dirty bomber']Padilla, an American citizen who is being held indefinitely as an 'enemy combatant' and denied further access to judicial process. 'I feel that what happened was that Ashcroft basically detonated a ‘dirty bomb plot’,' Mr Soros said. 'The plot is his. The detonation is his. The Bush Administration is exploiting the terrorist threat for its purposes, to generate fear and to overcome constitutional constraints on the use of force.' Mr Soros, who grew up in Hungary under the Nazis, said that the public mood in the US made it difficult to defend civil liberties, but that people should remember the lessons of the 1940s."
Padilla 'travelled in central Asia looking for bomb material'
London Times, 14 June 2002

"The Bush administration plans to enlist millions of Americans to spy on their fellow Americans, and to feed that information into a centralized database.... Even if it is limited to public places, the program is offensive. The idea of citizens spying on citizens, and the government collecting data on everyone who is accused, is a staple of totalitarian regimes..... If TIPS is ever put into effect, the first people who should be turned in as a threat to Americans' way of life are the Justice Department officials who thought up this most un-American of programs."
A Nation of Spies?
International Herald Tribune, 25 July 2002

"The huge informal surveillance network, the latest move by the Bush Administration to improve domestic security after the September 11 terrorist attacks, will mean that the United States will have a similar percentage of civilian informants as that employed by the East German Stasi police at the height of the Cold War.... Informant reports will be put on to databases and acted upon without the targeted individual being made aware of the existence of the report or its contents."
Bush plan to recruit 11m US 'spies'
London Times, 16 July 2002

"Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic states....The Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any surveillance devices that were implanted."
US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July 2002

"The FBI is now telling the American people, 'You no longer have to do anything unlawful in order to get that knock on the door.' "
Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington office
Unleashing the FBI, Village Voice, 31 June 2002

"In reality, Mr. Ashcroft, in the name of fighting terrorism, [is] giving FBI agents nearly unbridled power to poke into the affairs of anyone in the United States, even where there is no evidence of illegal activity."
Editorial, New York Times, May 31

"... It was Hitler's 'crisis management' of the Reichstag fire and other events, real and manufactured, that established the dictatorship that no one in Germany had anticipated, even weeks before the coup was carried out. .... These rather blunt words are necessary at this time. They underscore the danger represented by the confirmation of John Ashcroft, under circumstances compounded greatly by the Scalia-Rehnquist majority on the current U.S. Supreme Court, which further increases the danger of a Hitler-style crisis management dictatorship."
TESTIMONY BY DR. DEBRA H. FREEMAN IN OPPOSITION TO THE NOMINATION OF JOHN ASHCROFT TO THE POST OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, AS DELIVERED TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, JANUARY 16, 2001

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany

"US intelligence officials had tracked Padilla [the US born alleged 'dirty bomber'], or Abdullah al-Muhajir as he is now called, for months. ... They also said they had evidence, from CIA and other overseas intelligence operatives, that proved al-Muhajir was on an al-Qaeda mission on American soil. Yet since he was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on May 8, neither the courts nor the US public has seen that evidence... Nevertheless, the Justice Department revealed yesterday that it had tried to have al-Muhajir convicted in a criminal court, and had failed.... Another [civilian court] hearing was scheduled for June 11, Tuesday morning, but on Monday morning [i.e just in time for the latest scare announcment from the Bush Administration which squashed reporting of the 911 victims' press conference in Washington later that day, nlpwessex]al-Muhajir was moved to the military system where no such hearing is required, nor evidence needed to hold him indefinitely."
Precedents called on to curb legal rights
London Times, 12 June 2002

"The presidential ruling passed on November 3 last year allows the navy to imprison al-Muhajir until the War on Terror is over, whenever that may be..... David Cole, a constitutional specialist and Professor of Law at Georgetown University in Washington, said 'The process the Government has invoked is very troubling...The President assured us last year that holding people indefinitely did not apply to US citizens.”
Precedents called on to curb legal rights
London Times, 12 June 2002

"The United States is considering the unprecedented diplomatic gesture of 'unsigning' the treaty that establishes a new International Criminal Court (ICC) in protest against its imminent ratification... US opposition to the new court, which is likely to start work in its temporary buildings in The Hague next year, puts it at loggerheads with its European allies and most of the rest of the world.... Republicans in both houses of Congress have sponsored legislative amendments to retaliate against allies who ratify the tribunal by cutting off military aid or even to authorise the use of force to free any American held by the court."
US rejects world court for fear of partisan lawsuits
London Times, 30 March 2002

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby declare that the national emergency has existed since September 11, 2001, and, pursuant to the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), I intend to utilize the following statutes: sections 123, 123a, 527, 2201(c), 12006, and 12302 of title 10, United States Code, and sections 331, 359, and 367 of title 14, United States Code."
Declaration of National Emergency by Reason Of Certain Terrorist Attacks,
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Office of the Press Secretary, White House, September 14, 2001

"Here are just a few Executive Orders associated with FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990: allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995: allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997: allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998: allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000: allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001: allows the government to take over all health, education, and welfare functions.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002: designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003: allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004: allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005: allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051: specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310: grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049: assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921: allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months."
“Dr. Jekyll” Or “Mr. Hyde” - Which Is FEMA?
Spectrum Newspaper, September 2000

"Recent pronouncements from the Bush Administration and national security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see internment camps and martial law in the United States....FEMA, whose main role is disaster response, is also responsible for handling US domestic unrest..... From 1982-84 Colonel Oliver North assisted FEMA in drafting its civil defence preparations. Details of these plans emerged during the 1987 Iran-Contra scandal. They included executive orders providing for suspension of the constitution, the imposition of martial law, internment camps, and the turning over of government to the president and FEMA.... [An earlier plan had] provided for the detention 'of at least 21million American Negroes' in 'assembly centres or relocation camps'.... Following a request by the Pentagon in January that the US military be allowed the option of deploying troops on American streets, the [Anser] institute [for Homeland Security] in February published a paper by Mr Brinkerhoff arguing the legality of this..... Disturbingly, the full facts and final contents of Mr Reagan's national plan remain uncertain. This is in part because President Bush took the unusual step of sealing the Reagan presidential papers last November. However, many of the key figures of the Reagan era are part of the present administration, including John Poindexter, to whom Oliver North later reported.... On June 7 the former presidential counsel John Dean spoke of America's sliding into a 'constitutional dictatorship' and martial law."
Foundations are in place for martial law in the US
Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2002

"The US president, George Bush, last night signed an executive order that allows either a past or sitting president to block access to White House papers, a move that has angered historians, journalists and former president Bill Clinton. The order amends - and some argue, reverses - a 1978 law that allowed journalists, historians and other interested parties to read presidential papers twelve years after the term of office finished. The law, known as the Presidential Records Act, was the result of a lengthy legal battle over the papers of Watergate president Richard Nixon. Under the terms of Mr Bush's order, any sitting or former president could veto the release of presidential papers. The current president could not override a former president's veto, nor could a former president override the decision of sitting president....The immediate provocation for last night's order is believed to be an outstanding request for 68,000 pages of former president Ronald Reagan's papers, which should have been opened to public scrutiny in January. The Bush administration has delayed that release three times, and yesterday White House counsel Alberto Gonzales would not say when or if the Reagan documents will be placed in the public domain. Some historians have voiced suspicions that the Bush administration is worried about what the Reagan papers might reveal about officials now working for Mr Bush.... the order would also mean that Mr Bush's personal papers detailing the decision-making process in the current war on terrorism could remain secret in perpetuity."
Bush blocks public access to White House papers
London Guardian, 2 November, 2001

Ingredients of the US 2000/2001 'Two Bite' Coup Click here for whole coup story in one web page (large file) or use individual menu links below to view elements (recommended)
1.Why You Hear Little About It In The Mainstream Press	8. Who's Really Running Post-Coup America?
2. What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1' - Coup 2000	9. Behind The scenes - The Baker-Bush Snr effect
3. Why Was A Second Bite At The Coup Necessary?	10. The 911 Coup Smokescreen
4. Forewarned Is Forearmed For 'Bite No 2' - Coup 2001	11. Accommodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft
5. Bite No 2 - Cementing The coup With the 911 opportunity	12. Only Pretend Friends Left Now For The US
6. Election Defeat Cover-Up Not The Only Reason - A, B, C, D, E	13.Ground Prepared Back In The Reagan-Bush Era - The Iran Hostages Fix
7. Lies and Coups - 'Nothing New'	14. 911 Converts Coup Into Putsch
Time for a Genuinely Open Public Inquiry into 911 - click here 1991 - 2002: TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

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