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http://www.infowars.com/?p=1585
Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, April 18, 2008
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state
and
local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up
operation that one sheriff?s deputy has described as "martial law
training".
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part
in
what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism
initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local
agencies.
Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative
saw
officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic
checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing
other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism".
WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff?s Department
arrested
332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or "terrorists" as they now seem
to
be known.
Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered, and 1,292 traffic
violations were handed out to speeding terrorists and illegally parked
terrorists.
Click here to watch a WREG Memphis news report
The authorities even raided businesses and store owners, confiscating
computers and paperwork in an effort to "track down possible terrorists
before something big happens".
The Sheriff?s Department is determining if and when they plan another
round-up.
The operation, which involved police, deputies, the FBI, drug agents, gang
units and even the coast guard, is just one example of how law enforcement
at the state and local levels is being co-opted and centralized by the
Department of Homeland Security via massive federal grants.
It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is
becoming irrelevant.
An Infowars reader called in to the Alex Jones show yesterday to alert us
to
the story and explain that he had gleaned the information from a his
friend, a sheriff?s deputy in Memphis, who had described the operation
as "training for martial law in America".
Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist suspect until
you are told otherwise.
It is now the norm to consider everybody equally likely to be guilty of
something than innocent. This is proactive policing, not preventative or
reactive policing, and is widely indicative of a society that is NOT free.
This form of proactive policing is a phenomena indicative of a once free
state rapidly declining into a authoritarian police state.
If there was a real terror threat in these states, it would surely make
sense to for law enforcement agencies to target known trouble areas, and
follow up on already existing leads. Instead we are seeing local police
and
the coast guard being recruited to randomly target anyone in any area as
possible terrorists.
Surely if there was a real terror threat, this activity would harm the
effort to combat it.
Of course, such activity is clearly not related to a real and tangible
terror threat, it is related to the ongoing effort to vastly increase the
size and scope of the federal government and increase the power it has
over
American citizens.
The information and intelligence from the operation will be collated and
routed through federally funded state-run fusion centers, which are
working
in conjunction with the military arm of the DHS, NORTHCOM.
Such information will soon include the DNA and other biometric information
from every person arrested, which DHS head Michael Chertoff has declared
is
no longer your personal information.
We recently reported on the fact that after 9/11 the Justice Department
advised the Bush administration that it was able to effectively suspend
the
Fourth Amendment where domestic counter terrorism operations are
concerned.
In light of this, and given that the government has begun to class any
crime
as terrorism and set local and state police to work on "anti-terror"
operations, it is clear that the protections provided by the Bill of
Rights
and the Constitution are under direct threat.
We have seen how new provisions will effectively nullify the U.S.
constitution, and a recent spate of executive orders, in particular PDD
51,
outline preparations for the implementation of open martial law in the
event of a declared national emergency.
Centralized and federally coordinated law enforcement programs complement
nationwide FEMA programs to train Pastors and other religious
representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their
congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the
implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass
vaccination programs and forced relocation. The effects of this particular
program have already been witnessed.
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"It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is
becoming irrelevant." Will we soon have extraordinary rendition for
crimethinkng? http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=115766
http://vehme.blogspot.com/2008/04/nineelevencouk-where-banishment-is.html
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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the
masses
or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not
change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
Giordano Bruno
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