Part 8:Treason,The NWO....State and Federal Police...Militias in American History

Treason 

the New World Order 

by Gurudas
Chapter XII 

State and Federal Police 

“If I told you what I really know it would be very dangerous to the country. Our whole political system could be disrupted.” 

J. Edgar Hoover 

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance....In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” 

Declaration of Independence 

Until the 20th century, law enforcement was generally a local and state responsibility as required by the Constitution. The FBI was established in July, 1908 as a branch of the Justice Department. Between 1917 and 1921 its agents compiled files on 200,000 people and organizations. Congressional critics of the government were monitored with break-ins of congressmen's offices. 1 Between 1917 and 1921 two thirds of the states enacted sedition laws that made certain speeches, writings, and associations illegal. These laws were used against many groups not advocating violence, and the corporate elite used them to block union activities. During the Palmer raids on January 2, 1920, almost 10,000 people were arrested in 30 cities, usually without warrants. Most of these people were released with all charges dropped, although some were deported. Ultimately these laws were declared a violation of the First Amendment. 

Harassment of political protestor's and minority groups has long existed and been well documented. On the rare occasion when Congress investigates these cases, the agencies often refuse to comply with requests for information or evidence is destroyed. Despite what people think, the Justice Department and FBI provided little help to the civil rights movement unless there was national attention. Mary King, closely involved in the struggle for civil rights in the South during the 1960s, said in the book, Freedom Song: “The FBI, supposed to be upholding the Constitution, was a major factor in the thwarting of constitutional rights for blacks in the South. Julian Bond and I made it a practice to report any incident or atrocity to the FBI, a formality we knew in advance would be futile, because of the frequent collusion between the FBI and local law officers....The FBI agents in the South tended to be segregationists....” 2 

COINTELPRO was a secret program established by the FBI “to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” American citizens who were political dissidents. The existence of COINTELPRO was confirmed in March,  1971, when FBI files were burglarized in Media, Pennsylvania. Hoover supported COINTELPRO, recommending that political activist be arrested on drug charges and that disinformation be used to cause confusion and disrupt political activity. 3 In 1968 Hoover signed a directive to “expose, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize the activities of various new Left organizations.” 

People were fired, mail was opened, many were audited, phones were wiretapped without warrants, propaganda and lies were fed to the media, and files were stolen. Peaceful groups were intimidated, and lawful political activities were disrupted. The FBI created violence in the ghettos and destroyed civil rights groups, discrediting them with forged documents. There were hundreds of illegal break-ins, theft of membership lists, encouragement of gang warfare, and infiltration of groups with agent provocateurs. M. Wesley Swearingen, an FBI agent for 25 years, confessed to participating in 238 break-ins. He said FBI agents had lied in many cities about their illegal activities.[Why the hell do we need criminals when we have these clowns running around breaking plenty of laws themselves under the color law? And no I do not believe the situation is any better 25 years later, with 911, and the last 3 years of this election farce, this misguided agency is well in over it's head, and it is a damn joke to claim they are working for us! DC] 

In 1971 Robert Hardy was recruited and ordered by the FBI to lead a raid on the Camden Selective Service office. Everyone was arrested but the “Camden 28” were all acquitted because the FBI had engineered the crime. During Watergate it was revealed that the FBI had disrupted the activities of The Socialist Workers party for a decade. To seek social change meant you were the enemy. All this was done in the name of national security. 

At a 1971 conference on the FBI held at Princeton University Thomas I. Emerson said: “The inescapable message of much of the material we have covered is that the FBI jeopardizes the whole system of freedom of expression which is the cornerstone of an open society....The Bureau's concept of its function, as dedicated guardian of the national security, to collect general political intelligence, to engage in preventive surveillance, to carry on warfare against potentially disruptive or dissenting groups is wholly inconsistent with a system that stipulates that the government may not discourage political dissent or efforts to achieve social change so long as the conduct does not involve the use of force, violence or similar illegal action....The government is so obsessed with its law-and-order function, so ridden with bureaucratic loyalties, so vulnerable to its own investigators that it cannot be trusted to curb its police force.” [And the past 48 years have proven this man to be a prophet DC]

When the Senate Intelligence Committee investigated COINTELPRO it rejected excuses that the program was needed to protect national security. Instead it found that the real purpose was “maintaining the existing social and political order.” Congressional investigations in the 1970s found that the CIA mail opening program contributed to a list of 1.5 million Americans in CIA computers. 4 The FBI created a list of over one million Americans from its surveillance activities, and it has a security index which lists up to 200,000 people to be arrested in a national emergency. 5 Senator Tunney in 1975 said the FBI maintained 15,000 names of people who would be arrested during an emergency. Over the years the FBI has several times ignored orders to stop keeping such lists. 6 The NSA monitored every cable sent overseas from 1947 to 1975. Army intelligence investigated over 100,000 Americans during the Vietnam War. 7 The House Un-American Activities Committee admitted that in its first 25 years it had gathered “300,000 card references to the activities and affiliations of individuals.” It would be extremely naive to think that this vast criminality stopped in the 1970s just because Congress held some investigations. 

COINTELPRO supposedly ended in the 1970s, but attacks on political activists continued with only the name changing. Ex-FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen admitted in a 1980 interview, “Nothing else changed. We just kept right on using all the same illegal techniques for repressing political dissent we'd used all along. Only we began framing what we were doing in terms of 'combating terrorism' rather than neutralizing political extremists.” The people and the press moved on to other issues, and the crimes continued in the name of protecting national security and the corporate elite. Various agents openly admitted lying before Congress. 8 “The lesson of Hoover's directorship—that a quasi-autonomous secret police agency can undermine democratic principles—has not been effectively addressed by Congress or the executive....” 9 [How long do we allow this sham of a 'free' society enslave us to what in truth is outright tyranny. No where in a true free society is any damn secret police needed. On the other hand in a tyranny, the secret police are a must to protect the tyranny. President Trump, now is the time to roll up this agency, and put law enforcement back where it belongs,in the communities effected by the crime. Please Mr President do the right thing for us a country DC]

Federal authorities also killed people under COINTELPRO. On December 4, 1969 an apartment in Illinois was raided with Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark killed. Others in the apartment were arrested and later accused of violent acts at press conferences. Then all charges were dropped. In November, 1982 after years of litigation, the government finally admitted that the FBI had violated the civil rights of the two murdered Black Panther leaders as well as others imprisoned that night, and $1.85 million was paid to the survivors of the deceased. In 1970 a car bomb killed student organizers Ralph Featherstone and Che Payne. The bomb was believed to have been planted by an FBI agent. 10 The FBI also worked with the Secret Army Organization, a right wing group that stored weapons, bombed radical groups, and tried to assassinate people targeted as radical political activists. [And we need terrorists why? What disgusting human beings,not worthy of God's free gift of life,murder, bombings carried out by a State agency, makes me want to puke DC]

George and Joseph Stiner, believed to be FBI provocateurs, murdered L.A. Panther leaders Alprentice Carter and Jon Huggins on January 17, 1969. While they were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms, they somehow escaped from San Quentin in 1974. They have not been heard from since, and they may have entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. After Carter and Huggins were murdered, FBI agent Richard Held sent a memo to FBI headquarters describing the operation as a success. On May 23, 1969 another Black Panther, John Savage, was killed, as was Black Panther Sylvester Bell in San Diego on August 14, 1969. In July, 1970 in Houston, Texas police killed Carl Hampton, black leader of the People's Party. According to released information, FBI operatives probably killed at least six to nine Black Panthers.[yeah two murderers escape,and never heard from again, happens all the time huh? DC] 

Labor activists like Karen Silkwood were also harassed or killed. Silkwood died in a bizarre car accident in 1974 while trying to give Kerr-McGee documents to a New York Times reporter. The FBI, ignoring the evidence, quickly closed the case. It sabotaged congressional inquiries and attacked Silkwood as a drug addict. In the 1970s FBI penetration of the American Indian Movement (AIM) resulted in the murders of Mae Aquash and Jancita Eagle Deer in 1976.11 In 1978 two members of the Puerto Rican independence movement were killed by a special local police unit the FBI managed. The Puerto Rican intelligence bureau acknowledged in court that files were kept on 74,000 people. 12 

During a 1976 lawsuit against the Chicago Police, it was discovered that the department's security section kept files on 800 groups including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP. Hundreds of agents were assigned to infiltrate these groups. The Feds helped a militant group, the Legion of Justice, to physically attack dissidents. In 1982 the ACLU filed a suit against the L. A. police red squad for similar activities. In 1992 Mike Rothmiller, in L.A. Secret Police:  Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network, revealed much about the L.A. secret police. 13 Illegal surveillance was common, and no suspicion of criminal activity was necessary. 

Almost no one in the government was punished for these illegal activities. Citizens should have an efficient method to complain when abused by the police, beyond the cumbersome, corrupt, and expensive judiciary. Many people who attempt to change the status quo by pointing out the problems of society are labeled terrorists. When Reagan took office he pardoned the only two jailed FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins in the 1970s. What was the high principle that Reagan spoke of when he pardoned these people? Is there a principle above the Constitution and the rule of law? 

In the 1980s the FBI spied on various peace groups including the Physicians for Social Responsibility. In 1988 it was learned that the FBI had kept a file on former Rep. Phillip Burton for 18 years. 14 Ross Gelbspan, in Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI, described extensive illegal FBI activities against critics of U.S. policy in Central America. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, since 1984 there have been over 300 suspicious incidents with 150 unexplained break-ins. In 1987 Peter Dale Scott was researching a book on drugs, weapons, death squads, and the contras, with support from the International Center for Development Policy in Washington. Someone entered the center's offices and stole certain relevant files. 15 

In the summer of 1989 Congress announced that 1,600 groups had been improperly targeted and harassed. A list of these groups was never published. “Organizations that are targeted and penetrated by secret federal agents are seriously disrupted. The public record is replete with exposes of agents encouraging illegal activity, including murder, to discredit the organization in question.” 16 Then the Justice Department goes after them, and the public sees them as criminals. If individuals or groups aren't in the quiet middle class, as defined by our corporate masters, they get demonized by the press and are harassed by government agents. 

The past illegal activities of the FBI against American citizens has been well documented in many books. 17 What is less well known is that these activities continue today. In recent years environmentalists, people who want to legalize drugs like marijuana, third party movements, supporters of jury nullification, and the Patriot movement and militias are targets of government harassment. 

In the fall of 1993 the Associated Press (AP) reviewed 17 complaints of brutality by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police on six reservations. After a six month investigation, the AP concluded that excessive force was used with little discipline. In 1992 and 1993 America's Watch issued two reports on the brutality of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Homeschoolers are harassed in many states. Postal inspectors visit corporations to review company records in search of violations, and then says it is being lenient with its fines because violators could be sentenced to 30 days in jail. 

The FDA conducts numerous raids throughout the U.S. using local police. For instance, the clinic of Jonathan Wright, MD. was raided on May 6, 1992. With guns drawn police broke down the door and ordered people to raise their hands. This was a medical clinic that looked like any in America; the only “crime” here was that natural remedies were being used. In a 14 hour search dangerous items like U.S. postage stamps were seized along with S100,000 in medical supplies. An editorial in the main local newspaper, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, demanded an explanation for “the Gestapo-like tactics used in” this raid. 18 In 1995 all charges were dropped, but the medical supplies weren't returned. 

The FBI office in San Francisco has over 600 pages of documents on Earth First. It has been watching this group since it was founded in 1980. 19 In 1982 the FBI tried to get an extortion indictment against an Earth Firster who gave Interior Secretary James Watt a letter threatening civil disobedience if he continued to push policies that damaged the environment. Prosecutors said there was no case. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia trains all federal agents except the FBI and DEA. It has a domestic terrorism course that includes Earth First and the Animal Liberation Front. They also watch other supposed terrorist groups like Greenpeace. 20 

Four Earth Firsters, including the founder Dave Foreman, were arrested in Arizona in 1989 on conspiracy charges for attempting to bomb power lines. A government agent, Michael Fain, had infiltrated Earth First and urged the activists to break the law, even providing acetylene tanks to cause the destruction. Defense evidence at the trial included an FBI tape that they wanted to “pop” Foreman “to send a message.” The government spent $2 million over two years to infiltrate Earth First. A star witness for the government had a serious drug problem and was paid by the FBI in cash to avoid an IRS tax lien. 

On May 24, 1990 Earth First Activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari were injured, Bari very seriously, when a bomb exploded in the car they were driving. Within minutes of the explosion, the FBI Terrorist Squad arrived and according to court testimony said “these were the types of people who would be involved in carrying a bomb....These people, in fact, qualified as terrorists.” According to the FBI and Oakland police, the bomb was planted behind the driver's seat, which allegedly proved that the two saw it and knowingly transported a bomb. However, photos taken at the scene definitely proved that the bomb was placed under the driver's seat. Photos showed the back seat was barely damaged, while the front seat was extensively damaged. Also, the bomb was wrapped in nails and triggered to explode from motion. It would be suicide to knowingly drive with such a device. 

Bari and Cherney were immediately arrested after the bombing, Bari during surgery, and charged with illegal possession of explosives. To support this false charge, Cherney's house and van were searched without a warrant. The head of the FBI office in San Francisco at this period was Richard W. Held, who had directed many COINTELPRO programs. The prosecutor three times delayed the proceeding claiming there were no other suspects. During this period the national press slandered the two victims calling them eco-terrorists per the FBI line. As in a police state, the government announces the guilty and the controlled press follows the party line. On July 17, 1990 all charges were dropped from a lack of evidence, but for over two years the FBI continued looking for evidence to use against Bari and Cherney. 

Fifty environmental groups demanded a congressional investigation, but when Rep. Don Edward's subcommittee demanded information the FBI refused. In May, 1991 Bari and Cherney sued the FBI and Oakland police for false arrest, illegal search, and civil rights violations. They claimed that the FBI and Oakland police plotted to frame them. Held, also named as a defendant in the suit, failed to settle the case, so at 52 he retired from the FBI. The courts three times found there was sufficient evidence to proceed to trial, but the FBI continued to withhold evidence from Bari and Cherney.

Gradually the court forced the FBI to release its files to the plaintiffs. The car bombing occurred just before the start of the 1990 Redwood Summer Earth First campaign to save the redwood forest, and Earth Firsters, including Bari, had received death threats. Bari obtained 5,000 pages of FBI documents of the investigation showing there was no attempt to search for the real bomber. When the FBI finally closed its official investigation on October, 1992, it had never even investigated the death threats against the environmentalists. Death threat letters were never even sent to a lab for analysis. 21 

Even more remarkable, evidence released showed that two weeks before the bombing, the FBI held a bomb school in the redwood forest. Four Oakland police officers and two FBI teachers, including Frank Doyle, Jr., attended the school and then appeared at the car bombing just after it occurred. Doyle directed the investigation and said the bomb was behind not under the driver's seat. Evidence surrendered by the FBI in the lawsuit included a tape with one agent laughing and saying: “This is it. This was the final exam.” No one has explained why the FBI was teaching police how to plant car bombs! During the bomb school, a bomb with the same solder, tape, glue, and other components as the Bari car bomb exploded at a local timber mill. Environmentalists were blamed for this act. 

The bombing was used as an excuse to harass and establish closer surveillance over environmentalists throughout the U.S. To investigate the bombing, the FBI obtained letters-to-the editor files from North Coast California newspapers. Only the Santa Rosa Press Democrat refused to comply with this demand. Mike Geniella, a reporter for this newspaper, wrote an article criticizing the bombing investigation and the FBI's targeting of Earth First in various states. Two weeks later the Press Democratic, which is owned by the New York Times, removed this award winning reporter from the timber beat. In the new world order the definition of a free press will change dramatically. 

The FBI also gathered the names of local environmentalists from the police to build its file of names. However, the FBI did not seek the names of those harassing and assaulting environmentalists. The FBI even compiled a list of 634 people nationally who had spoken by phone with Earth First, and it gathered detailed information on these people. Here we get a peek at how the FBI quietly continues to monitor thousands of people. 22 

On August 4, 1995 a van belonging to someone in the U.S. Forest Service was destroyed by a bomb. The media uniformly described this as the work of government protestors. With the FBI teaching the police how to set car bombs and the ATF conducting exercises in setting car bombs (see Chapter XVI), did the government blow up this car so certain groups could be criticized? 

Local police also often violate people's rights. In Blood Carnage and the Agent Provocateur, Alex Constantine presented evidence that outside provocateurs were involved in the 1965 and 1992 L.A. riots. In the 1992 riot a former police dog trainer admitted that the L.A. Police Department (LAPD) sent him into Koreatown to ignite flares at Korean-owned shops, especially when blacks drove by. The LAPD has for years worked closely with the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Residents in parts of L.A. saw outsiders deliberately setting fires. Police inaction obviously made the riots worse. The delayed deployment of the National Guard was also conveniently explained. Compton city councilwoman Patricia Moore said the police and government started the riot, and the panel appointed to investigate the riots included CFR members like Warren Christopher and former CIA head John McCone. 

In 1993 New York state troopers were arrested for providing false evidence to get convictions. Now there is a police scandal in New Orleans and a massive scandal in Philadelphia with federal prosecutors subpoenaing 100,000 arrest records to identify who was falsely imprisoned. In Brunswick, Ohio on April 1, 1995, a social worker complained that John Lekan owned guns and, although no laws were broken, within an hour two police arrived. Lekan wouldn't let them in without a warrant and started singing the national anthem. When they broke down the door one was shot. Lekan and his nine year-old son were killed after a 45 hour siege involving 300 police and 200 firemen. During the assault a tank used tear gas. The police claim Lekan killed his son and himself, but no one believes this. Numerous shots were fired at the house and, once inside the home, the police removed the invalid wife and then two shots were fired. After this massacre, residents were warned to not repeat what they had witnessed, and more people joined militia units. The Cleveland Plains Dealer, one of the largest newspapers in Ohio, published a cartoon with the word “Brunswaco.” When I asked permission to use that illustration for this book I was told “They didn't want to get involved.” Perhaps it would irritate an advertiser or the government. The town hired ex-FBI agent William P. Callis to investigate the raid, and he concluded that the police were too eager to use force and an armored vehicle should not have been used. 

On June 28, 1995 Mike Hill, a militia chaplain and former policeman, was killed by a state trooper while walking towards the trooper's car at 2:30 a.m. He had been stopped because of his license plate. Three other militia members who witnessed the killing confirmed that Hill wasn't touching the weapon by his belt, and the AP quoted the local sheriff Bernie Gibson as saying: “No officer's life had been threatened.” Yet CBS Evening News on April 2, 1996 said Hill had pulled a gun.  [Lying State mouthpiece,might as well been Moscow Russia DC]

In 1992 there was a standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho between Randy Weaver and his family and federal agents. Weaver, who had no criminal record and had served with valor in Vietnam, had failed to appear in court on a charge of possessing illegal firearms. He was deliberately entrapped by a federal informant who, for three years, solicited him to cut the barrels of several shotguns a quarter-inch below the legal limit. He never manufactured firearms and had not previously possessed an illegal firearm. The ATF incorrectly believed Weaver belonged to a Nazi group, so they entrapped him; and then they said he must infiltrate and spy on this group or be indicted. Weaver, arrested and indicted after refusing, became concerned for his life and property after court personnel gave conflicting statements about the case, including false statements that he might lose his property and children. One court official sent Weaver a notice to appear in court on the wrong day, so Weaver didn't appear in court on the correct date. A Justice Department attorney, aware of this error, still issued an arrest warrant. [Justice? yeah right, another American myth DC]

The U.S. marshals made no attempt to meet with Weaver to serve the arrest warrant, but Weaver tried to negotiate a surrender if his safety was guaranteed. The marshals drafted a letter of acceptance, but the U.S. Attorney for Idaho suddenly ordered that negotiations end. 23 The marshals launched an 18 month surveillance and got military aerial reconnaissance photos taken by the Defense Mapping Agency. They even bought land next to the Weavers, intending to build a cabin and befriend him. The Weaver's mail was intercepted, psychological profiles were done, and $130,000 worth of spy cameras were installed. 

Finally, six U.S. marshals came with no warrant, gave no warning, and never identified themselves. They deliberately upset the family dog and, when it started barking, they killed it. They fired at 14 year old Samuel Weaver and a friend, Kevin Harris. Not aware who these armed strangers were, they returned the fire. U.S. marshal Degan was killed, although no one is certain who killed him. As Samuel turned to run he was shot in the back and killed. The government immediately brought in from Washington, D.C. the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. While 400 federal agents were brought in, no attempt was initially made to contact Weaver and negotiate a surrender. Bo Gritz and at least one other source said the FBI almost dropped a gasoline fire bomb on the log cabin from a helicopter to end the siege. That would have killed most of the inhabitants as at Waco. When several family members and Harris returned to the shed where they had taken Samuel's body, they were fired on by government snipers, hitting Randy and Harris. Weaver's wife Vicki was shot through the head while holding her 10 month-old baby, blowing away half her face. Dick Rodgers, an FBI official, told Bo Gritz they deliberately targeted Vicki Weaver because a psychiatrist told them she would kill the kids before surrendering to the FBI. [Real effin hero's,not DC]

These were trained marksmen. The FBI agent who killed Vicki Weaver from 200 yards testified at the trial that he could, at 200 yards, hit a target smaller than a dime. When Congress held hearings in September, 1995 this agent and others took the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions. However, several agents said that Randy Weaver had killed his son, a claim no one believed. Weaver's “paranoid fantasy” that the government was conspiring to get him was true, and the government constantly lied about the case. During congressional hearings, several federal agents said the responsibility for that atrocity resided only with Weaver because he sold illegal weapons. [Actually that is a lie,he sold no weapons DC]

The Justice Department's internal disciplinary, unit after a long delay, completed a 542-page report in April, 1994. The report concluded that the raid violated the Constitution and FBI internal procedures and recommended possible criminal prosecution of federal officials. Agents were ordered to shoot at any armed adult if they had a clear shot, which also violated Idaho law and the normal rules of engagement. Despite this report the Justice Department refused to prosecute any federal agents, saying the agents had reason to believe their lives were in danger so their actions were justified. 24 How a mother holding a baby in her arms can threaten FBI agents 200 yards away is not something that can only be explained in a free society. America should become a country where, if you blow out the brains of a mother just holding a baby in her arms, you should face criminal charges even if you are in the federal police, but this will not happen unless constitutional government is restored. No one should be above the law. 

As a result of the critical report, Larry Potts the FBI agent who supervised the raid from Washington [Of course he did,That's what to do in Washington D.C. micromanage everything D.C] received a letter of censure in his file. Although this is the mildest of reprimands, Senator Hatch strangely said on national television on April 30, 1995 that being censured is a very serious matter. Potts also received a letter of censure when he lost a cellular phone. The life of an American citizen is worth a hell of a lot more than a telephone. Then Potts was promoted to second in command of the FBI. In a May 3, 1995 complaint to the Justice Department, FBI agent Eugene Glenn the on-scene commander of the Weaver assault, said Potts had issued the shoot-on-sight order and that the FBI's review of the operation was inaccurate and a cover-up to protect top officials of the bureau. 25 In July, 1995 Potts was demoted and then suspended, partly because FBI agent E. Michael Kahoe destroyed documents that would have clarified who issued the shoot-on-sight order. However, on March 1, 1996 the U.S. Marshal's Service presented its highest award for valor to its agents involved in this raid. [smfh,valor my ass DC]

On April 19, 1993 an ATF assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas failed, and the FBI was brought in. It would have been easy to arrest the leader David Koresh outside the compound before the raid, and he had previously allowed searches of his home and peacefully surrendered in another legal case. However, the federal police wanted a show of force. Military helicopters were used during the Waco siege, because of a false report that illegal drugs were in the compound. The warrant also contained a charge of child abuse. Why did a federal warrant list what is strictly a matter for state authorities? Several FBI specialists strongly suggested not taking a very confrontational position with Koresh, but this advice was rejected. 

During the final assault, as tanks attacked the compound, the FBI said “This is not an assault.” What was it? For six hours CS gas was pumped into the compound, although this toxic chemical is illegal under the Chemical Weapons Convention signed January, 1993 by the U.S. and 100 nations. The government said this treaty banned using CS gas in international conflicts not domestically. Are we supposed to be comforted by this statement! This highly toxic gas is banned in war, but it is acceptable for the Feds to use it against Americans. CS gas is also highly flammable under certain circumstances, such as at Waco with a wooden structure, high winds, kerosene lanterns, bales of hay in the building, and very dry conditions. The evidence suggests that the fire started from the CS gas or the tank knocking over the kerosene lanterns. The FBI even blocked attempts to fight the fire, keeping the fire trucks away. 26 [Very humane DC]

Dr. Alan Stone, a Harvard professor of law and psychiatry asked by the government to investigate Waco, said medical literature, the CS gas manufacturer, and U.S. Army manuals declare CS gas dangerous especially in enclosed spaces and with children. Yet just after the Waco atrocity, Janet Reno said she believed CS gas was safe. Reno also said she ordered the raid because of concern that the children were being mistreated. Saving children by killing them is a logic that will become common in the new world order. The Justice Department report on Waco concluded: “Under the circumstances the FBI exhibited extraordinary restraint.” [ Delusional is that report  DC]

After the deaths Clinton said: “Janet Reno should not resign just because some religious fanatics murdered themselves.” Clinton on 60 Minutes said of the Davidians “Those people murdered a bunch of innocent law enforcement officials and when that raid occurred it was the people who ran that cult compound who murdered their own children, not federal officials. They made the decision to destroy the children that were there.” Adolf Hitler couldn't have said it better. In court the 11 Davidians had already been found not guilty of such charges. 

The Waco massacre expresses the contempt and fear that the secret government has against fundamental Christians, because they represent a threat to the success of the coming dictatorship. Partly because of certain Bible prophecies, such as in the Book of Revelations, the machinations of the one world government are better understood in the fundamental Christian community than by many other people. The Los Angeles Times described certain Christians as being dangerous extremists. It said the Michigan militia was led by a general who was a Baptist preacher. 27 Will the press next claim that all Baptists are extremists? 

The FBI under Louis Freeh is determined to increase its power. Freeh pushed for expanded wiretap powers, yet there have been no wiretap requests against terrorists since 1988. The FBI has even gone international, setting up offices overseas. Crimes, like money laundering, are being used to justify establishing an international police force. 28 Senator John Kerry said “Organized crime is the new communism, the new monolithic threat.” 

In 1994 Peg Bargon, a middle-aged mother in Illinois, gave a native American “dreamcatcher,” a small hoop with feathers to Hillary Clinton. These were feathers gathered on the ground but this violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. A Fish and Wildlife Service agent learned of this “crime,” so Bargon was prosecuted and fined about $12,000. Her neighbors now call the police to report feathers spotted on the ground. 29 One cannot be too careful. In the new world order, one must beware of the feather police. 

There was a conflict about a large fossil found by the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc. (BHI) on private land owned by an American Indian, so the Feds got involved. On May 14, 1992 the Feds raided the B.H.I in Hill City, South Dakota. School children watching sang the Star-Spangled Banner and shouted “Shame, Shame.” An FBI agent warned that “if any of those kids cause any trouble, they'll be taken down.” Federal police can never be too sure about young patriots. That the South Dakota National Guard helped in the raid caused great anger. There were two other raids and the BHI and its officers faced 156 charges. The U.S. Attorney cited the 1906 Antiquities Act, although that act has been ruled unconstitutional and it specifically exempts fossils. This didn't matter to the federal fossil police! Before the trial, the judge violated his oath of office by participating in plea negotiations that both sides had accepted. The Feds wanted to back down, but the judge felt the BHI was guilty! Although no one testified that they had been victimized by the BHI, the Feds used 92 witnesses during the seven week trial that cost almost $8 million tax dollars. Facing a biased judge, the defendants were found guilty on several counts, thus expanding federal power, which is why the suit was brought initially. 30 If the Feds weren't so concerned about bird feathers and fossils, perhaps they wouldn't need more agents to fight terrorism. 

On October 7, 1994, 70 state and federal agents armed and in flak jackets raided the Green House Fine Herbs farm near San Diego. One Fed said the action began when they received a report about a rare bird nesting near the farm on the local river. During the raid workers were asked about their religious beliefs to see if they were in a religious cult. Some workers belonged to a yoga group. Certain employees were interrogated for three hours, and 30 boxes of records were seized. Reportedly, the authorities were looking for an excuse to seize the property. After a 1993 flood washed away over 20 acres, the farm group tried to get a permit to reclaim some land but was told by local officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that one wasn't needed because the work involved farmland. After 200 truckloads of soil were deposited, a state official said the land now belonged to the state, not the farm, because the river had changed course. The flood may have been caused by state action upriver. 

A grand jury investigation of this case lasted over a year and probably cost $1 million. In August, 1995 two growers were indicted for conspiracy and pollution. They were charged with dumping illegal waste into the river and a landfill. The maximum penalty was 11 years in jail and millions in fines. The changing flow of a river can be quite expensive in the new world order. U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin said the pollution indictments were “a significant step in the government's commitment to improve the quality of life.” In January, 1996 all charges were abruptly dropped. This ridiculous case angered many and, with an election coming, Clinton needs California. 31 With the extreme hostility of the FDA towards natural healing perhaps herbal terrorist bulletins will soon be issued by the Feds. Will this also improve our lives? 

On January 8, 1994 at 7 p.m., about 139 agents from the FBI, ATF, DEA, IRS, along with state and local police blocked part of Amite, Louisiana and conducted a house-to-house search in a mainly black housing development. Was this a practice mission to conduct national house-to-house raids with state and federal police? The Shreveport Times, on September 20, 1994, described Operation Bottoms Up when 200 state, federal, and local police sealed off nine blocks of Ledbetter Heights and arrested 45 alleged members of a street gang. Reno praised the joint effort and said “the raid was the beginning of the joint federal, state, and local enforcement effort....” 

Louis Katona III is a part-time police officer and gun collector. He loaned a grenade launcher to the ATF for a criminal trial, but it wasn't returned to him and Katona complained about this. The ATF felt Katona had obtained false signatures to purchase weapons, so his home was raided in May, 1992 with his firearms and car tires intentionally damaged. When his wife came home she was roughed up; she started bleeding hours later and had a miscarriage. In September, 1992 Katona was charged with 19 federal felonies for falsifying documents regarding the purchase of his guns. In April, 1994 the judge dismissed all charges before the defense even presented its case because the government's case was so weak. He ordered that the gun collection be returned, and Katona filed a suit against the government. ATF head Magaw agreed that agents could have first asked Katona about the signatures before the raid. [The arrogance knows no level DC]

The home of Harry Lamplugh, a veteran, was raided by the ATF in May, 1994. He had no criminal record and had always carefully followed gun laws. When Lamplugh asked if they had a warrant a gun was put to his head and he was told to shut up. In eight hours they killed a kitten, opened the mail, damaged property, and seized cash, weapons, family medical records, and Lamplugh's membership list of 70,000. The warrant said “probable cause” with no other reason given for the entry. No one in the family was charged with a crime, but $18,000 of seized property was forfeited to the government. Lamplugh promotes 40 gun shows a year for groups like the American Legion and the Marine Corps League, and he openly criticizes Clinton and the ATF. The government wouldn't explain why this home was raided. It would be difficult to explain a campaign of terror against gun owners as part of the plan to remove guns from the people. In court the government said charges of harassment and brutality were “outrageous and utterly false.” After Lamplugh appeared on the Gordon Liddy radio show, the family received death threats, his office was burglarized, and Lamplugh's wife was assaulted and threatened by federal agents who killed several kittens. The Feds are also terrorizing people to testify against Lamplugh. 

At 4 a.m. on July 13, 1994 the ATF assaulted Monique Montgomery's home wearing Ninja outfits. Montgomery used a registered gun to protect herself against the unknown intruders, but of course the agents claimed that they identified themselves. Using high intensity lights the door was broken down and she was shot four times. No illegal guns or drugs were found. 

On March 13, 1995 Dr. Jed Cserna was hospitalized in Ely, Nevada after a bad accident. Only semiconscious with a broken back, he was visited by a deputy and asked if he was armed because of a report that he owned some firearms. Although this physician is a member of the Idaho National Guard and a former member of the U.S. Forest Service, his home was raided in a search for weapons. The ATF got involved, not wanting to miss an opportunity to protect us from this doctor. Still in pain Cserna was later arrested and forced to ride 300 miles to be arraigned despite his condition. The Ely Daily Times said: “All their (ATF) methods accomplished was to convince some Ely citizens that maybe they are jack-booted government thugs.” Recently Cserna was sentenced to jail for this minor weapons violation. Cserna was found guilty of not paying a transfer tax on one of the two pistols found at his home. For this “crime” he was sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison, fined $10,000, and his medical license was suspended. [Talk about terrorizing a population DC]

In one instance, several ATF agents wanted to enter a home without a warrant to look for guns. A local deputy got into a shouting argument with them, and told them they couldn't enter the home without a warrant. A backup deputy was sent to the scene with orders to disarm and arrest the ATF agents for burglary if they entered the home without a warrant, so they left. 32 The duty of police officers is to protect and serve the people. The Constitution is the highest law in the land, and if federal police commit unconstitutional acts, local police have a duty to the people to resist such unlawful intrusions to the fullest extent allowed by the law. 

Sheriff Tim Nettleton of Owyhee County, Idaho announced on May 18, 1995 that federal law enforcement officials cannot act as armed peace officers in his county; if they try they will be arrested. 33 The sheriff of Catron County, N.M. has threatened to arrest the local head of the U.S. Forest Service for interfering with the right of citizens to graze cattle on public land. Okanogan County, Washington commissioners passed a resolution that federal police need the written permission of their sheriff to enter the county on official business. Rep. Chenoweth introduced legislation requiring federal agents to get permission from the local sheriff to enter a county on official business. An ex-sheriff in the Indiana legislature has introduced a bill requiring federal agents to first notify sheriffs before taking local legal action or face criminal and civil charges. 

In January, 1994 and again in 1995 the ACLU, NRA, and other organizations petitioned Clinton to establish a national commission to investigate misconduct by federal police agencies and to take action “to reduce constitutional and human rights violations” by these agencies. Problems include improper use of deadly force, physical and verbal abuse, improper use of no-knock warrants, inadequate investigation of misconduct allegations, entrapment and improper inducement of criminal activity, use of unreliable informants, and asset forfeiture laws. Guns seized by federal agents are rarely returned, even after a person is found not guilty. So far Clinton has not responded. Attorney Robert Sanders, the former head of criminal enforcement at the ATF, said: “Instead of focusing on selected criminals, there is an indiscriminate focus on anyone who owns guns.” Some in the ATF consider Sanders a traitor which shows how dangerous the ATF is. 34 

Complaints against the ATF have continued for many years. After the 1968 Gun Control Act was passed the ATF, which was given responsibility to enforce it, took aggressive action against gun owners partly because there was little need to do its traditional work of stopping moonshining. The ATF used the vague language of the 1968 law to entrap and arrest many gun owners. In 1971 Ken Ballew suffered permanent brain damage and paralysis in one such raid. In July, 1995 he died from his injury. As it does today the ATF had focused on seizing guns not on stopping crime, and they harassed people who criticized them. The First Amendment may exist but so does the ATF, and one must be aware of this. 35 

In the early 1980s Congress held hearings on the ATF. In January, 1982 the Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee report said “It is apparent that enforcement tactics made possible by current federal firearms laws are constitutionally, legally, and practically reprehensible....” ATF violations of the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments were described. It said that about 75 percent of ATF gun prosecutions involved ordinary citizens with no criminal intent or knowledge, who were entrapped by technical violations. In some cases people were prosecuted for interpretations of the law which the ATF had not even published in the Federal Registrar. Someone was prosecuted for an act the AFT acting head said was perfectly legal. Misconduct by agents and supervisors was gathered, yet little changed as we see today. 

There are many reports that federal police, especially the ATF, are collecting records of who owns guns as a prelude to the registration and ultimate seizure of all guns. In the Fresno, California police department, an ATF agent used a computer to track firearms owners and fed that information into a national computer. During the militia hearings, Senator Spector openly asked for the names and addresses of militia members. Why does the government want such information? Are these people going to be arrested during a national emergency? The Feds are specifically raiding the headquarters of various organizations to collect names and addresses of members. 

Using a questionable search warrant federal police raided the national headquarters of the North American Freedom Council on October 19, 1994. Similar raids have taken place in numerous branches of this group which provides information on the IRS. Names and addresses are always seized. 36 On November 12, 1994 the FBI raided the home and headquarters of a national militia group, United States Special Field Forces (USSF) in Woodbridge, Virginia. The reason for the raid was that the back of an I.D. card said Property of United States Government instead of Properly of United States Special Field Forces. The card correctly listed the name and address of the organization, and this improper identification was not associated with any crime. Based on this error a warrant was obtained to search for USSF documents “of its members.” In a free society making a slight error on an identification card would hardly justify raiding someone's home, especially with such a broadly based warrant. Everything concerning the USSF was seized. 

While there are many problems with the police, as the anger grows, we should remember that many police would be aghast at the new world order if they understood the planned dictatorship. Anger should be directed more to the behind the-scenes corporate controllers than at government officials conveniently available, who are usually merely carrying out order. There are many decent police who believe in the Constitution and who are extremely angry at the vast criminality taking place in Washington. Michael Levine, author and former decorated DEA agent, often receives calls from frustrated agents who describe phony busts and important drug cases cancelled by politicians. The author of The Clinton Chronicles receives many calls from frustrated federal authorities. The Michigan militia reportedly has established safe houses to protect people in government coming forward with information. 

In early 1995 an issue of The Agent, the magazine of treasury agents including the FBI, ATF, and IRS, criticized management problems in the treasury bureaucracy, and said senior officials in the ATF and FBI should be indicted over Waco. ABC's Day One on September 14, 1995 described an FBI sling operation of NASA that was stopped before senior officials could be arrested for corruption. Various FBI agents were very upset and one quit the bureau. In August, 1995 FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst said the famed FBI crime lab has been fabricating evidence for years in hundreds of cases to get convictions. Holding a doctorate in chemistry he has complained for years, but there was no publicity until his statements affected the World Trade Center and O.J. cases. Refusing to comply with false lab results, he was demoted and transferred. 37 The Justice Department found serious problems with the FBI lab in the Ruby Ridge case; the FBI lab had authenticated Foster's suicide note which other experts have discounted. There have been five internal investigations against this whistleblower. 

When whistleblowers go to Congress, the press, or the Justice Department little occurs. Rodney Stich in Defrauding America named dozens of Americans, such as Gunther Russbacher and Michael Riconosciuto, who were killed or imprisoned by the government when they tried to reveal government criminal activities. Not only are people murdered, but “It is standard practice for Justice Department prosecutors to silence or discredit whistleblowers and informants, especially intelligence agency personnel, by charging them with federal offenses for carrying out what they were ordered to do by their handlers.” When someone becomes a threat the government will have them arrested on false charges, seize their assets, pay people to lie under oath against them, pressure and bribe judges, and have all evidence sealed because of national security, preventing public access to it. 38 

A typical example of how the FBI threatens agents who reveal corruption involves the 28 page confession of William R. Stringer in a deposition before a judge in 1994. Stringer had been an FBI agent in the South for many years and was 67 and dying when he gave the confession. He explained how the FBI planted evidence to set up Byron De La Beckwith to be jailed for a murder he never committed. And on orders from the FBI the local police killed someone and accidentally also killed a female FBI informant. Stringer first disclosed these activities to the Justice Department in 1976, when the Attorney General called for agents to step forward and reveal illegal activities. When the FBI learned of this they sent agents from Washington who threatened Stringer and warned him to retract his story. Even in the 1970s with the many hearings and investigations little really changed. 39 The Jackson Advocate in its December 14-20, 1995 issue reported that, with this confession and new evidence uncovered by ex-judge W.O. Dillard, De La Beckwith may get a new trial. Dillard has filed a Friend of the Court petition to free Beckwith. [Interesting considering,the liberal media's present problem with Whiteness. DC]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith

In January, 1993 the Washington Post did a six part series on persecutory abuse. Evidence is withheld from the defense, grand juries are manipulated, and witnesses are intimidated. Federal agents who terrorize or kill citizens are never punished, as in the Waco, Randy Weaver, and Judi Bari cases. Over the years people like Rep. Brooks, Senator Moynihan, and Rep. Wise, Jr. tried to learn what steps were being taken to correct such abuses, but the Justice Department refused to cooperate. This situation shows why there should be laws in place forcing government bureaucrats to provide information Congress requires. If an agency refuses to respond, give them seven days and then fire, fine, and arrest people in that department until the people's representatives can learn exactly what is going on. In a free society bureaucrats should not be allowed to withhold information from Congress. Of course one also needs representatives who will protect the people's rights. 

Another dangerous trend is the gradual federalization and militarization of state and local police into a unified national police force. The Founding Fathers warned against this. J. Edgar Hoover in 1964 opposed a national police force. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson said: “I cannot say that our country could have no central police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police....A national police...will have enough on enough people, even if it does not elect to prosecute them, so that it will find no opposition to its policies.” On June 16, 1936 Hitler established a unified police force throughout Germany. 

Federal authorities are gaining control over state and local police through federal funding, growth of federal law enforcement agencies, and more federal crimes. The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) was created by the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control Act. A leader of LEAA, Clarence Coster, openly declared on March 3, 1971 that local police needed to be centralized to be governed better. This agency was abolished in 1981 because so many were against its programs. 

With unfunded mandates and limited ability to tax citizens because of the overwhelming federal tax authority, states and localities are now being economically coerced to turn to federal authorities to financially support the police. State, local, and federal law authorities increasingly work together in multi-jurisdictional (MJTF) task forces conducting raids on people those in power deem to be a threat. The 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill established Rural Crime and Drug Task Forces in each federal judicial district to operate under the Attorney General. These federal rural task forces can work with local and state police to confiscate the property of citizens who are only under investigation. 

Federal agencies like the Justice Department, FBI, DEA, and ATF are increasingly fight local crime. The DEA's REDRUM program pairs DEA agents with local police in 21 cities to solve drug-inspired murders. The ATF has formed 21 task forces to fight local crime. 40 While this enhances federal power, many experts feel that using federal agents to fight street crime is not very efficient. 

There is also increased involvement of the military in law enforcement as the Posse Comitatus Act is weakened. This act is supposed to keep the Army and Air Force out of civilian affairs. Congress has allowed the state National Guard to participate in drug operations, if the troops are only under the state government. Congress passed 32 USC 112 (1990 and 1991) to provide federal money for state National Guard drug fighting. 41 Congress and the courts, especially since the 1980s, have increased military involvement in the war on drugs. In December, 1994 the House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on international narcotics control in which it listed a series of laws that now allow the U.S. military to stop narcotics in the U.S. U.S. v. Bacon (1988), U.S. v. Brown (1980), People v. Wells (1985), and People v. Burder (1979) have damaged the intent of the Posse Comitatus Act to separate the military from civilian policing.

During the Ruby Ridge hearings Senator Charles Grassley said “Law enforcement now cross-trains with the military's elite special operations forces. The military mission—to kill first—may have rubbed off on law enforcement....The FBI must stop thinking its the military and get back to being the FBI.” Military facilities are now used to train law enforcement officials. In 1993 Washington, D.C. had its recruits undergo training at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. Military surveillance equipment and helicopters are used in local police operations. Black Helicopters Over America by Jim Keith describes the continuous use of helicopters to harass citizens. Sarah McClendon interviewed armed forces spokesman Harvey Perrett, III, who admitted a $3 billion program helps fund a black helicopter base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The military and Justice Department have formulated a plan “Operations Other Than War” to use non-lethal weapons against civilians. This will further involve the military in civilian affairs. Lt. General J.H. Binford Peay, III, in the Army publication Tomorrow's Missions, said the military should be prepared to assist in domestic peace-keeping missions including anti-drug programs.42 

Accompanying the growing federalization of crime is a massive increase in federal police agents. In 1967 the Federal Bureau of Narcotics had 300 agents. Recently the DEA, its replacement, had 3,400 agents. Federal police now make up 10 percent of the nation's total police forces. There are now 53 federal agencies that allow agents to carry arms, and about 140 federal agencies enforce compliance with federal laws. 

Charles Meeks, executive director of the National Sheriffs Association said about increased federal intervention and influence over the local police: “By passing statutes in an effort to make (the crime problem) better we're getting closer to a federal police state.” In 1993 under the reinventing government program, the National Performance Review report recommended “the designation of the Attorney General as the Director of Law Enforcement to coordinate federal law enforcement efforts.” This is one more sign of a unified national police force. 

There are many reports that federal agents have increased firepower. In May and August, 1994 the Georgia National Guard trained ATF members to use Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The September, 1993 issue of Handguns magazine said the EPA's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has replaced revolvers with Glock 19 semi-automatic pistols. An official said the CID “decided to re-evaluate its firearms policy as it reorganized to undertake its expanded responsibilities under the Pollution Prosecution Act.” In one state federal forest service officials purchased over 30,000 rounds of .45 calibre ammunition. The Washington Times reported on July 18, 1995, that the ATF had obtained 22 OV-10D aircraft. These planes were used by the Marines during the Vietnam War for gunfire and missile support of ground troops. Who in America are the federal police going to war against? 

Groups targeted by the government, such as the Patriot movement and militias, should carefully study books like War at Home by Brian Glick to understand the harassment tactics used against them. Glick described four levels of illegal government harassment: infiltration by agents and informers, psychological warfare, harassment through the legal system, and extralegal force and violence, including murder. There may be intense surveillance, interviews to scare people into becoming informants, false arrests, political trials, or grand juries where you  can be jailed for refusing to cooperate. The Feds publicly attack a group, infiltrate it, and inspire it to commit violence to discredit the entire group. 

In the fall of 1994 the ATF's Intelligence Division sent a briefing paper to police departments across the nation with disinformation on the militias, and Janet Reno sent orders to 12 states to closely watch patriotic and militia groups, especially the leaders. 

If someone in a militia group is especially keen on promoting actual violence, that person may be an undercover agent. 

Already John Parsons, head of the Tri-State's Militia, an important militia for communications, admitted under oath at a trial that he was taking $1,775 weekly to report to the FBI and that he accepted $500 a week plus certain expenses to collect information for the FBI while on a trip to militia groups in New Mexico. 43 

This group sent a fax threatening a civil war if the antiterrorism bill was passed. In other words, a militia lead by an FBI operative threatened violence against the government. 44 

The result is that the press has another reason to attack the supposed extremist views of the militia. 

An official in a Washington militia started advocating violence. That group had access to fingerprint records, and they learned he was a federal agent. He was thrown out and weeks later turned up in a Kentucky militia. 

The private security industry is another danger. It now employs over 2.5 million people, and in 1992 $52 billion was spent on private security while $30 billion was spent on the police. 

There are 1.5 million private security guards and only 554,000 state and local police. 

These private guards receive little training, and they participate in illegal activities such as union-busting and spying on people. 

Many criminals work in these agencies, and one guard made the FBI's 10 most wanted list. Some of these private security agencies work for the secret government. 

Often controlled by large corporations, this large security force could be used during a declared national emergency, although many of these people would not follow orders if they understood what was happening. 

The authorities feel it is safer to use private security companies, or foreign intelligence agencies such as from England, to commit illegal acts so the government has another level of deniability. 

This is one of the lessons from the 1970s congressional investigations. Fortune magazine presented a remarkable story of Allstate bringing in private investigators to harass its employees. 46 

The House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs said that after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the oil industry hired Wackenhut, a large private security firm, to illegally spy on various people to identify whistleblowers. Targets of this campaign included Alaska state officials, and Rep. George Miller was almost added to the list. 

Wackenhut specializes in identifying whistleblowers and has long had a close relationship with the CIA and other federal police agencies. By 1966 Wackenhut had secret files on four million Americans, and it has branches in other countries. 47 

The government supposedly needs a valid reason to spy on you, private corporations do not. All law enforcement officials should be required to study the Constitution and Bill of Rights and be tested on them at times. The best way to restore constitutional government in criminal matters is to follow the advice of the Founding Fathers—disband most federal police agencies and restore crime fighting to state and local police.

All federal police who have committed illegal acts against American citizens should face criminal charges before new independent oversight agencies with permanent special prosecutors established to prosecute such abuses. 

A new code of honor in each agency should be established. In the military academies, if one learns of cheating by fellow cadets and doesn't report it, one may be expelled from the service. People in the military have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders. Why should we expect less from the police. If anyone in the police agencies is given an order that clearly violates the Constitution or the agencies mandate, they should refuse to follow such illegal orders, without fear of reprisal, and be required to report illegal orders to new oversight agencies to resolve such issues. 

People issuing illegal orders should be punished. The rampant physical and verbal violence during police raids should be stopped. The Ku Klux Klan Act, forbidding the wearing of masks to terrorize the public, should be enforced to ban police from wearing masks. 

Increased use of volunteer police, as in the 1800s would lessen police criminality. Search warrants should be served within 30 days of being issued, and no hearsay or contradictory evidence should be used in issuing such warrants. Applications for a search warrant should include material on the reliability of witnesses. 48 

In 1924 Attorney General Harlan Stone, who appointed Hoover head of the FBI, warned “that a secret police may become a menace to free government and free institutions because it carries with it the possibility of abuses of power which are not always quickly apprehended or understood....” 

Today “An American police state has evolved, operating in the shadows side by side with the legitimate system of government....We have created a uniquely American police state, one that has managed to grow and operate within, or at least alongside, the democratic system ....It is unnerving to think that a kind of totalitarianism has taken root in America, but if we shrink from recognizing it, we shall not remove it.” 49 

The Waco and Weaver massacres represent what the government may do in the future to seize guns. The Justice Department report on the Weaver raid shows that the government expected the assault “was not going to last long” because the Weavers would be “taken down hard and fast.” 

These assaults were unique only in that so many died and there was so much publicity. Every year there are hundreds of improper raids, yet even when people are killed the police are rarely prosecuted. The Constitution is held in contempt and homes are assaulted with guns drawn, without warrants, and people and pets are often injured, tied up for hours, or killed while federal agents “protect the people.” 

Yet the Washington crowd keeps wondering why people are increasingly angry at a tyrannical federal government when the economy is supposedly good. The government attacks at Waco and Randy Weaver's home awakened many Americans to how dangerous the federal government has become. 

Since no one in law enforcement was really punished for these crimes, it only encouraged further atrocities against the people as we saw in Oklahoma. 

The police are above the law. Judges who issues vague search warrants often without probable cause bear great responsibility for damaging the Bill of Rights. 

The FBI, CIA, and other organs of the secret government never stopped closely monitoring millions of Americans in the 1970s, because no one except Congress told them to stop. 

What was publicly proclaimed about respecting the rights of citizens were lies. I don't support left or right wing violence, but I also believe that people have a legal right to peaceful political dissent without the police conducting criminal acts against them. 

The increasingly aggressive stance that the police take shows how they often do not serve or respect the people. The objective is to force people to follow harsh rules and to face the consequences, including deadly force, if there is resistance. 

Chapter XIII 

Militias in American History 

“Whenever the militia comes to an end, or is despised or neglected, I shall consider this union dissolved, and the liberties of North America lost forever.” 

President John Adams 1 

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” 

Thomas Jefferson 

Traditionally the militia was used to defend the state and to maintain law and order. It was the firm intention of the Founders to allow states to maintain militias, partly to prevent tyranny and to protect the people's rights. The nature of the militia as a legal and political institution is at the heart of the role of the militia in our society. 

Belief in an armed militia was firmly rooted in the experiences and political writings of many prominent authorities for hundreds of years before the founding of the U.S. 

In The Art of War, Machiavelli stressed that citizens should be armed. “It is certain that no subjects or citizens, when legally armed and kept in due order by their masters, ever did the least mischief to any State....Rome remained free for 400 years and Sparta for 800, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other States that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than 40 years.” 

James Harrington said: “Men accustomed unto their arms and liberties will never endure the yoke” of tyranny. Montesquieu criticized an Italian state that banned its citizens from bearing arms. William Blackstone, in Commentaries, defended the right to bear arms for self-defense as an auxiliary right belonging to the individual. 2 

The English Puritans were typical in believing that bearing arms symbolized their freedom. Every colony had militias. Militias were seen as protecting the people against the excesses of British rule; indeed they played a role in several colonial revolts, such as in Virginia. The militia was described as a “school of political democracy.” 3 

On March 23, 1775 the Continental Congress said: “That a well regulated Militia, composed of Gentlemen and Yeomen, is the natural strength and only security of a free Government.” 

While there was criticism of the untrained militia during the Revolutionary War, they played a key role in the ultimate victory. The spark that incited the Revolutionary War involved the British trying to seize arsenals used by the minutemen, local militia units. The excesses of British troops in America along with hundreds of years of similar experiences in England, had created a great fear of a standing army in the colonies. 

The view of many was expressed in the Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12, 1776. “Standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty....” 

Citizen militias were considered morally superior to regular standing armies. Anti-federalists attacked the new Constitution partly because standing armies would exist under the federal government. George Mason said: “When once a standing army is established in any country the people lose their liberty.” After the revolution this view changed and many felt a limited standing army was essential. 

The British controlled Canada, the French were in the West, the Spanish ruled Florida, and the Indians were a constant problem. Many agreed that a standing army was a necessary evil to protect the country but that it must be small and carefully controlled. 

People's rights could be effectively protected by a republican form of government that protected individual rights. People like Alexander Hamilton defended the Constitution in 1787 by saying: “Nor can tyranny be introduced into this country by arms....The spirit of the country with arms in their hands and disciplined as a militia, would render it impossible.” 

The state militias and the people's right to bear arms would protect the rights of the people and prevent the federal government from becoming too oppressive. 

Hamilton also said: “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” 

George Mason said: “To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” 

Patrick Henry said in 1787 during the Constitution debate: “The militia, sir, is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it....My great objection to this Government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights; or of waging war against tyrants.” 

In 1788 Henry added: “The great object is that every man be armed.” Henry was firmly against giving the federal government any control over state militias. 

James Madison said: “Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” 

Crime was another reason why many felt the people should bear arms. John Adams said: “Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self defense.” 

In 1789 the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, a prominent newspaper, said “As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed in their right to keep and bear their private arms.” It was widely accepted in the early days of the Republic that all people had a right to bear arms, and this right was not limited to the militia or the common good. 4 

The Founding Fathers would have been horrified at how the federal government has taken control of the state militias. Despite what is now sometimes falsely claimed in the heated gun control debate, a close review of original documents from the colonial period shows that no laws existed which prohibited free citizens from bearing arms.

In every state the right of the individual to bear arms was accepted. “Legal articles and judicial opinions which deny that the right to keep and bear arms as a fundamental, personal right have no historical foundation, but rather are based on bare assertion to reach a preconceived result.” 5 

There was no serious dissent in adopting the Second Amendment. 6 To the Founders there was a close relation between the militia and the right to keep and bear arms. The idea that the Second Amendment guaranteed only a collective, not an individual, right originated in the 20th century. 7 

Most state Constitutions recognized the right to maintain a militia and the right of its citizens to bear arms. The North Carolina Constitution, Article I, Section 30 states: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed....” 

The Founders were absolutely determined that the people could bear arms and the states would maintain their own militias, with little control by the federal government over these militias in order to prevent government tyranny. 

The militia clause in the Constitution was of great concern to the antifederalists because they felt greater federal control over the state militias would develop, so the Militia Act of 1792 became law. It was renewed in 1795, with some changes in 1807. 

The states were exclusively responsible for training and maintaining their militias. The federal government couldn't even offer advise. Except when in federal service, the militia was to be governed by the states. 

During the War of 1812 New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut refused to provide its militias to invade Canada. While a state court supported this position, the Supreme Court in Martin v. Molt (1827) ruled that the states should support the president as Commander-in-Chief. 

Except in a few large cities, there were rarely full-time police officers, so the militia was used at times to assist the sheriff. As Tocqueville said, the entire community often helped catch a criminal. We see a vestige of this today in the movies, when a posse of townspeople gather to catch a criminal. 

In 1833 Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wrote, in his famous book Commentaries on the Constitution: “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a Republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary powers of rulers and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” 8 

Even after the Civil War this was a common view. In 1894 Charles E. Stevens said, in Sources of the Constitution of the United States, the right to bear arms is “a right involving the latent power of resistance to tyrannical government.” 9

In 1861 the Militia Act of 1792 was further changed to make it easier to use federal troops to enforce federal edicts. Troops could now be used in their regular military capacity to resolve local issues. Before this time, troops were used like a posse with “the powers vested in the marshals.” Troops were henceforth used like civilians under federal marshals. 

Of greater importance, federal troops could now be used by the president whenever it became impractical to enforce federal laws through normal judicial proceedings. Previously, under the 1792 Militia Act, military force was restricted to situations where resistance was “too powerful to be suppressed” by civilian authority. 

This act today stands as Title 10 U.S.C. 332. Engdahl said this broad authority has never been contested, but it could not survive a legal challenge. 10 

The Act of 1871 was even more extreme and may also be found unconstitutional if challenged. In this case, no distinction was made between “insurrection” and “violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” In any of these situations military intervention was acceptable, and now military force could be used before civilian enforcement of federal laws had been exhausted. This law is now 10 U.S.C. 333, and was used to justify federal use of force in the racial and urban disturbances of the 1960s. 

After the Civil War many people criticized the domestic utilization of federal troops, especially with the continued federal occupation of the South. In 1878 the Posse Comitatus Act was passed as a rider to an Army appropriation bill and is today 18 U.S.C. 1385. It states that except, when authorized by Congress or the Constitution, the Army—with the Air Force later added—cannot be used as a posse comitatus to execute the laws. This law blocks U.S. marshals from using federal troops as a posse to enforce federal laws. Violation of this law calls for a fine of up to $10,000 and up to two years imprisonment. Because of congressional tactics used to pass this law, the Navy and Marines are not officially limited under this act, and there have been instances in the war on drugs when Navy personnel have been used domestically. Some feel our Navy functions under admiralty law. 

During the Spanish-American War, a state militia wouldn't fight in Cuba, believing the federal government didn't have the right to order it overseas. Some states believed that being sent overseas did not involve suppressing insurrections or repelling invasions, as described in the Constitution under Article I, Section 8, Clause 15. 

After 1900 Congress and the courts greatly weakened the rights of the states and the people to maintain control over an armed militia. In 1901 the Army Reorganization Act reorganized the militia and enhanced the process of federalizing state militias. In the Dick Act of 1903 training by regular Army officers at regular Army schools with federal funding was introduced. In addition, the Militia Act of 1792 was repealed, and the militias were divided into the more professional National Guard and the “Reserve Militia,” or unenrolled militia. From 1792 to 1903 states controlled the militias in peace, and there was dual state and federal control during war. After 1903 the militia was under dual control in peace and under federal control during a war. Gradually there were no limits to how long the National Guard could be federalized, and the guard could be sent anywhere in the U.S. or overseas. With the National Defense Act of 1916 each member of the National Guard took an oath of allegiance to the federal government as well as to his state. Members of the National Guard could be drafted into the federal military when needed. Under Roosevelt's emergency rule, the 1933 National Defense Act Amendments created the National Guard of the United States with dual enlistment in the state and federal National Guards. National Guard units were considered a reserve of the active military. 

Before World War I federal courts rarely ruled on state militias, while the state courts issued some rulings that usually supported the right to bear arms and the right for the states to maintain a militia. In State v. Kerner (1921) the North Carolina Supreme Court said that the right to bear arms was “a sacred right based upon the experience of the ages in order that people may be accustomed to bear arms and be ready to use them for protection of their liberties or their country when occasion serves.” 

In the 1920s and 1930s Congress and the courts look steps to control the private ownership of certain guns to prevent criminal activity. U.S. v. Warin (1976) is especially interesting. Warin claimed that the Second Amendment should protect him from taxation because that interfered with his right to bear arms. The court rejected this position and said that only the preferred First Amendment rights were protected against license or taxes. This is a very important point that is rarely discussed. Today the government is increasing taxes in various areas of arms possession to limit the peoples right to possess arms. Ultimately an increasingly oppressive government could impose prohibitively expensive taxes on all our rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, so that these rights would become unusable. Government should not be allowed to impose a tax or fee on any of our rights. When this principle is violated with one right, as with the Second Amendment, all our rights are threatened. 

In 1986 Maine refused to send its National Guard to an exercise in Honduras. In response. Congress passed the Montgomery Amendment, which removed a governor's right to refuse to allow the National Guard to be called up for training because of objections to location, purpose, schedule, or type of training. When Massachusetts and Minnesota separately challenged the constitutionality of this new law, lower federal courts supported the federal government, as did the Supreme Court. 

Initially the Eighth Circuit of Appeals found that the militia clause of the Constitution preserved state authority over the National Guard unless “there was some sort of exigency or extraordinary need to exert federal power.” However, this court overturned itself. In the Massachusetts case, the lower court said: “The dual enlistment system makes the militia dependent upon Congress for its existence because, in a practical sense at least, the militia exists only when Congress does not want or need it as part of the army.” 

“The nation has completed a cycle, moving from a wholly state controlled militia system to a militia that, for all intents and purposes, belongs to the federal government, and is under its orders, whenever and however the national government wills and legislates.” 12 Once again Congress and the courts have gone radically against the will of the Founders. State control over the militia, as desired by the Founders, has been greatly weakened while federal control has increased. Although normally the National Guard reports to the state governors, in wartime, resistance to federal law and federal court orders, or any declared emergency they are under the Defense Department and the president. Yet the Founding Fathers established the state militias, now the National Guard, to be independent military forces as a protection against government tyranny. Moreover, the militia was considered to include all citizens. Today, the National Guard is a select group separate from the people. 

While the federalists and anti-federalist had different views as to the role of a standing army and state militias, none of them wanted the federal government to completely dominate state militias, as is now the case. That the states would control their own militias was understood to be one more protection against future government tyranny. The anti-federalists were quite right to be concerned that the Constitution gave the federal government loo much power. If state sovereignty is to be restored, the original state control of the militias must be restored and federal authority over these units must end, except during serious foreign threats. 

A good solution would be for the states to take back full control and training of the National Guard, establishing regional centers to provide professional training at lower costs. Equipment from the federal government could be loaned to these regional centers to help maintain training standards. These activities would be completely outside the control of the federal government unless there was a national emergency. There should be no National Guard of the United States, and members of the guard should only lake an oath of office to their states according to the intentions of the Founders. Fortunately, while the National Guard is now dominated by the federal government, this is not true with the unenrolled militia. 

An excellent recent book that explains the role of militias in American history is Safeguarding Liberty; The Constitution & Citizen Militias, edited by Larry Pratt. 

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notes
Chapter XII State and Federal Police 
1 Athan Theoharis, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1991), p. 2. 
2 Mary King, Freedom Song (N.Y: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1987), p. 228; Howard Zinn, “Federal Bureau of Intimidation,” Covert Action, Number 47 (Winter 1993-1994), 27-31. 
3 Louis Wolf, “Bag of Dirty Tricks,” Covert Action, Number 47 (Winter 1993- 1994), 54. 
4 Ken Lawrence, “Sources and Methods: Mail Surveillance,” Covert Action, Number 12 (April, 1981), 44-45, 48. 
5 Zinn, op. cit., Note 2, p. 30; Ford Rowan, Techno Spies (N.Y: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978), p. 37. 
6 Frank J. Donner, The Age of Surveillance (N.Y: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), p. 162-168. 
7 Loch K. Johnson, America's Secret Power (N.Y: Oxford U. Press, 1989), p. 5. 
8 Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism (Boston: South End Press, 1980), p. 306. 
9 Theoharis, op. cit., Note 1, p. 357. 
10 Manning Marable, Pace, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982 (Jackson: U. of Mississippi Press, 1984), p. 125. 
11 Rex Weyler, Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement (N.Y: Everest House, 1982); Ward Churchill, “The Government's Propaganda War Against the American Indian Movement,” Extra, V (October/November, 1992), 22-24. 
12 Wolf, op. cit., Note 3, 55-56; William Steif, “Puerto Rico's Watergate,” The Progressive, 56 (October, 1992), 28-31. 
13 Mike Rothmiller, L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network (N.Y: Pocket Books, 1992). 
14 Jack Cheevers, “FBI Compiled Thick Dossier on Phil Burton,” The Tribune, September 12, 1988, p. A1, A2. 
15 Christopher Hitchens, “Minority Report,” The Nation, April 25, 1987, p. 531. 
16 John Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard (Boston: South End Press, 1991), p. 105-6. 
17 Ross Gelbspan, Break-ins Death Threats and the FBI (Boston: South End Press, 1991); Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: the FBI's Secret War Against the Black Panier Parly and the American Indian Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1988). 
18 “FDA's Strange Raid,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 11, 1992. 
19 David Helvarg, The War Against the Greens (San Francisco, Ca: Sierra Club, 1994), p. 396. 
20 Ibid., p. 400, 402. 
21 Judi Bari, “Fighting An FBI Frame-Up,” Earth Island Journal, IX (Summer, 1994), 40-41. 288 Treason The New World order 
22 Joel Bleifuss, “Dirty Tricks Are Here Again,” In These Times, October 17, 1994, p. 12-14. 
23 David Z. Nevin, “It Could Happen to Anyone,” Washington Post, July 18, 1993, p. C7. 
24 David Johnston, “Idaho Siege Report Says F.B.I. Agents Violated Procedure,” New York Times, December 13, 1994, p. Al, Al1 . 
25 David Johnston, “F.B.I. Leader at 1992 Standoff in Idaho Says Review Shielded Top Officials,” New York Times, May 10, 1995, p. A15. 
26 R. W. Bradford, “Still Smoldering,” Liberty, VIII (July, 1995), 22-24. 27 “Religious Views of Some Extremists May Fuel More Violence,” Los Angeles Times, April 29, 1995, p. B4, B5. 
28 James Bovard, “The New J. Edgar Hoover,” American Spectator, XXVIII (August, 1995), 28-35. 
29 “They Swooped,” The Economist, August 19, 1995, p. 27. 
30 David A. Burnham, “Bureaucratus Gigantus vs. Tyrannosaurus Rex,” AntiShyster, V (Spring, 1995), 14-15. 
31 Lola Sherman and Jim Okerblom, “Herb Firm Polluting is Alleged,” The San Diego Untion Tribune, August 25, 1995, p. Bl, B5. 
32 Jack Lamb, “American Treason Busters,” Aid & Abet Police Newsletter, II (July, 1994), 6. 
33 Valerie Richardson, “No Nonsense Idaho Sheriff Tells Feds to Steer Clear,” Washington Times National Weekly, September 4-10, 1995, p. Al, A15. 
34 Michael Hedges, “ATF Hunts Down Gun, Not Criminals,” The Washington Times National Weekly, April 24-30, 1995, p. 1, 15. 
35 John D. Lewis, Jr., “American Gestapo,” Reason, XI (April, 1980), 24-28, 44. 
36 Troy Underhill and David Coker, “The Feds Raid on NAFC,” Media Bypass, II (December, 1994), 40-45. 
37 Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, “One Fed's War on the FBI,” Newsweek, September 25, 1995, p. 45. 
38 Rodney Stich, Defrauding America (Alamo, Ca: Diable Western Press, Inc., 1993), p. 411-4. 
39 “'Framed' by the FBI,” AntiShyster, V (Fall, 1995), 48-55. 
40 Gordon Witkin, “Enlisting the Feds in the War on Gangs,” U.S. New & World Report, March 6, 1995, p. 38-39. 
41 Steven B. Rich, “The National Guard, Drug Interdiction and Counterdrug Activities, and Posse Comitatus: The Meaning and Implications of 'In Federal Service,'” The Army Lawyer, (June, 1994), 35-43. 
42 Peter Cassidy, “Guess Who's the Enemy,” The Progressive, 60 (January, 1996), 22-24. 
43 Bill Swindell, “Militia Coordinator On Federal Payroll,” Tulsa World, April 7, 1996, p. A15; Bill Swindell, “Militia Figure Won't Take Cash From FBI,” Tulsa World, April 17, 1996, p. A9. 
44 James Ridgeway, “The Long Arm of the Law,” Village Voice, May 21, 1996, p. 32. 
45 Mike Zielinski, “Armed and Dangerous: Private Police on the March,” Covert Action, Number 54 (Fall, 1995), 44-50. 
46 Richard Behar, “Stalked by Allstate,” Fortune, October 2, 1995, p. 128, 130- 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142. Notes 289 
47 John Connolly, “Inside the Shadow CIA,” Spy, VI (September, 1992), 46-54; Donner, op. cit., Note 6, p. 414-451. 
48 David B. Kopel, “Knock, Knock,” National Review, March 20, 1995, p. 54, 56-58. 
49 David Wise, The American Police State (N.Y: Random House, 1976), p. 398. 

Chapter XIII Militias in American History 
1 Stephen P. Hallbrook, “The Right to Bear Arms in the First State Bills of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts,” Vermont Law Review, X (Fall, 1985), 314. 
2 William S. Fields and David T. Hardy, “The Militia and the Constitution: A Legal History,” Military Law Review, 136 (Spring, 1992); James B. Whisker, “The Citizen-Soldier Under Federal and State Law,” West Virginia Law Review, 94, (Summer, 1992). 
3 Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution (N.Y: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974). 
4 Hallbrook, op cit., Note 1, p. 314-6. 
5 Ibid., p. 314, 318-9. 
6 Thomas M. Moncure, Jr., “Right To Bear Arms,” Lincoln Law Review, XIX (1990), 9. 
7 Daniel D. Polsby, “Second Reading,” Reason, (March, 1996), 35. 
8 Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, Vol. 3 (1833), p. 746-747. 
9 Charles E. Stevens, Sources of the Constitution of the United States (N.Y: MacMillian and Co., 1894; reprint ed., Littleton, Co: Fred B. Rothman and Co., 1987), p. 223-224. 
10 David Engdahl, “The New Civil Disturbance Regulations: The Threat of Military Intervention,” Indiana Law Journal, 49 (Spring 1974), 581-617. 
11 Ibid., p. 597-605; Major H.W.C. Furman, “Restrictions Upon Use of the Army Imposed by the Posse Comitatus Act,” Military Law Review, VII (January, 1960), 85-129. 
12 Whisker, op. cit., Note 2, p. 987. 

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