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In the dog days of summer 2009, a chill is descending on America. This alarming climatic phenomenon was last seen in the 1950s when a young senator waged war on the Soviet threat within the United States. Joe McCarthy, an idealistic politician, who for what may have been for all the right reasons, used methods to fight this "Red Enemy" that kindled so much fear in our land that neighbor spied on neighbor and our government kept files on its citizens for "un-American activities".
Over sixty years later, hysteria yet again permeates our country. The guardians of our government have turned from protecting it citizens to engaging in McCarthy like tactics to diminish, discredit or delete opposition. What an irony that a country that has achieved greatness primarily because of its vigorous adversarial process, now responds to critics by suppressing guaranteed right. Wars have been halted, minorities have been given Civil Rights and a monarchy was ousted because of the citizens' vigorous questioning and opposition of their government.
The McCarthy mantra of "un-American activities" has yet again been evoked to impugn the motives of Americans that are engaging law makers, demanding answers to concerns about the proposed Health Care legislation. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and her entourage, aided by liberal media outlets, have wrapped this revolutionary bill in the cloak of humanitarianism. Rude perhaps and sometime unruly town hall participants and protesters shout out in anger against the bill citing their genuine concern that an America will embrace an inferior British style health care system but having the greater fear that the legislation will plunge America into socialism.
But could it be that slurs and demonization tactics are a blinking sign - dangerous road ahead? Is America heeding a warning that the administration has begun to organize all the power of the United States government capable of suppressing dissent if it so chooses?
Two recent events have caused a stir in civil libertarians that seem to have been lost as the country's attention has been riveted on town hall meetings and the health care reform. It received coverage, almost as an aside with no major outcry.
In late July, the Federal Register published notice that the White House may lift its policy barring Federal Web sites from tracking users' online habits. In 2000, under the Clinton administration, it was opined that a ban on Federal Government's use of persistent cookies would protect citizen's privacy and prevent a potential chilling effect on citizens' online visitation of the government's various Web sites. Persistent cookies are used by the private sector to obtain information of a visitor at a web site to assist in the selling of advertisements and tracking potential buyers. One must ask the obvious, "For what purpose would the Federal Government be interested in an American's internet visitation?"
At the same time that the government was announcing the consideration of tracking the surfing habits of Americans, another bothersome invasion into American's cyber privacy was begun. On the White House website, the following was posted, "There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."
The" McCarthy-esque" solicitation for American's to spy on Americans was bold and unapologetic. Note the request was to forward the e-mail. If the White House had requested just the content of the governmentally defined "fishy" concerns, this would have been concerning in and of itself. One must look to overreaching guidance from the White House to citizens; forward e-mails. If the government were intent on suppressing opposition, consider what intelligence this endeavor collects: 1) The email addresses of the Americans that dissent. 2) Identifying information contained within email and signatures. 3) Email address of others who were sent or who forwarded the email. This would be gold mine for an intelligence collection mission.
Is it possible that conversations made in discourse of a current affair will place an American on an enemy list? The 1978 Presidential Records Act mandates the preservation of these emails so the information must be collected and maintained.
As reported at Fox News a recent clash between a Fox News Reporter and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibb revealed that hundreds of Americans had received unrequested e-mails from the White House reference the health care bill. The recipients demanded to know how the White House got their email address. Could the "Report your Neighbor" program have generated a list that resulted in the unsolicited email?
In view of what to some may be evidence that the current administration is attempting to diminish or discredit opposition to the government and its proposed changes and overt acts to identify those who utilize freedom of speech in opposition to their government, the question that must be entertained, "Is the government posturing to act in a manner to delete and remove those who lawfully question?"
July 2, 2008 in Colorado Springs, candidate Barack Obama warned us, "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
Three days after the new administration took office, DOD 1401.10 Civilian Expeditionary Workforce (CEW) Directive was re-written replacing a Presidential Directive that had been unchanged since the first Bush administration in 1992. Comparison of the two is striking in the broadening of the power given the CEW in the new directive. CEW Directive 1992 ensures that the power of the CEW is limited to an overseas theater of operation with the term "overseas" appearing at least 33 times. Reviewing the 2009 version you will not find "overseas" mentioned at all.
The comparison is of changes to the directive is a concern. The 1992 design is clearly designed to free up military personnel in areas where contract CEW perform tasks to include engineers, logistics specialists, weapons inspectors, administrative specialists and on provincial reconstruction teams. The 2009 CEW, however, states; "Civilian Expeditionary Workforce shall be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations.... Again plaguing questions arise.
Five days after the CEW was enacted, on January 26, 2009, H.R.675 was introduced into Congress by Representative Bob Filner, a California Democrat. This bill would amend title 10, United States Code, to provide police officers, criminal investigators, and game law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense with authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. This bill treats the DOD personnel as civilian employees to prevent conflict with Posse Comitatus. On 3/16/2009 the bill was referred to House subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Is there a possibility that the seemingly innocuous "changes" in our military powers portends something a bit more sinister? There is a veritable alphabet soup already of domestic Federal Law Enforcement including but not limited to the FBI, DEA, ATF even IRS and EPA. The delineated jurisdictions have been painstakingly defined by past administrations to avoid any possibility of a national police force.
An administration and a congress in lockstep to assure that their agenda must be enacted for the "good of the people" may have a real potential of addressing their non complying citizens as a road block to progress. What extraordinary powers may be used to assure adoption of "change".
The vitriolic and disrespectful attack on the demonstrators by sponsors and proponents of this bill establishes that the will of the people is of no consequence. The invasion of the administration into private emails and cyber communications show a total ignorance or arrogant disregard of the right to privacy. The rewriting of Presidential Directive 1410.10 and the side stepping of the Posse Comitatus by the introduction of H.R. 675 make a federal police force a possibility. The means to support a motive.
The pattern of facts may be a purely innocent attempt to provide a change to protect the citizens from an administration that is not knowledgeable of constitutional restrictions, in a new administration headed by a constitutional law professor. Yet it again, the patterns of facts may reveal a Machiavellian effort to not only change Washington, but to change the Constitution of the United States. CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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