By Baldknobber
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/warningnewamerica07nov03.shtml
Nov. 7, 2003
Warning To The World About The New America
For years I have told Americans to wake up and see what was happening to
their country before it was too late for America. Now it is time for me
to tell the world to wake up about America before it is too late for them.
I have been aware of a disturbing change in the US government for the last
12 years. It seems that the world has slept through this change and does
not realize what America has become. I will outline some major problems,
go into specific subjects and cite examples of how America has changed,
yes, we are indeed no longer free. Much of what is written in this report
is from my own personal experience.
This is a warning to the world to watch out for the new America. America
is no longer the moral guardian you knew it to be, in recent years America
has become a tyrant unprecedented.
Control Of Media
The American press can no longer be trusted. When the Government passed
the Telecommunications act of 1996, it allowed consolidation of the media
and control of all information received by the people to a small group of
sources. This showed itself as large media mergers and virtually all information
was soon controlled by the same small group of people. In June of 2003 additional
legislation was passed which now allows all the news to be controlled from
a single source. The day I typed this I called CN8 live, a national cable
news program to speak on the air. They took my personal information including
name, address and phone number. They then hung up and called me back to
verify that I really was at that address. They then said something that
scared me half to death, They said that if I did not stay on subject and
say what I told them I would say that they would "notify the authorities".
I am someone who has called news programs frequently in the past, and that
never happened before. Itís obviously a new policy. So much for a
free press.
Police Brutality
I know a man who manages a store close to where I live. His brother has
a sixteen year old boy and seven year old girl. Outside his brother's house
some police were beating a man who was laying down on the road and not fighting
back. The sixteen year old opened the window and shouted at the police,
telling them that they were doing too much and that they did not need to
beat the man so hard.
They did not let up, instead they kicked in the door to the house and assaulted
the boy. So now they were beating up the man on the street and beating up
the kid in the house. The seven year old girl ran to the officer who kicked
in the door and tried pulling him off her brother. The officer pushed her
away so hard that she hit the wall and broke her arm. It never made the
news. This is not an isolated incident, it is the new America. Contrast
this with the glossy happy-go-lucky "police are great and accountable
for their actions" media coverage on shows like Real TV and "Cops",
there is much more to the truth than we are allowed to see.
In the past, I had heard stories like this from strangers, but did not believe
them until I heard it from someone I knew well. Indeed the foreign governments
who have started to call the US a police state are much more correct than
they realize. I am waiting for them to have the courage to say it without
retracting comment.
Asset Forfeiture
America has a new policy towards personal property called "asset forfeiture".
This is the act of confiscating property without a trial. The way it works
is this: The police accuse you of a crime and take whatever they say you
had in your possession when the alleged crime was committed. This could
be a vehicle such as a boat or car, or a computer, or even your house. You
have to go to court to prove your innocence to get it back, and if you win
your case you have to pay a return fee which is usually 50% of the property
value. If they take a car that was worth 12,000 you will have to pay 6,000
to get it back. If you cannot afford the 6,000 they will sell it at auction
to "recover" their "funds". If you have a loan or mortgage
on the property they sell at auction, you are still obligated to pay the
bank for what you no longer have.
This happens frequently and the evidence is easy to find. Go to Google and
type the search term "US government auctions" or "asset forfeiture
auction" or pick any state and add the word auction. The auctions are
everywhere, selling property seized from people who were often judged by
the courts innocent.
If you are a property owner with tenants in a 200 room apartment complex
and one of the tenants gets arrested in an apartment for possession of drugs
or stolen property, or committing a crime such as calling a prostitute to
his room, the city or state can take the apartment building away from the
owner who was not involved in any way and say that the property committed
the crime and therefore needed to be taken. Confiscation of large complexes
has happened more than once, confiscation of single family rental houses
and private homes is frequent.
Forcing A Crime
It has become common for a judge to force a crime. The way this is done
is to issue a civil judgement that cannot possibly be implemented by the
person the judgement is against. When the person the judgement is issued
against fails to implement the judgement, a civil matter becomes criminal
due to "contempt of court". This is commonplace in family law
when a man is forced to pay "child support". Child support judgements
often leave a man with less than 20 percent of his income after taxes, despite
the 50% rule. This forces the person the judgement is against to make a
decision - pay "child support" as ordered and suffer severe hardship,
often including dependence on friends or being homeless or living in a car
or camper, or get behind on "child support" and become a "criminal"
due to contempt of court.
Violation Of Ex Post Facto
In the constitutional republic the United States used to be, there was a
rule of ex post fato which prevented any government, be it federal state
or local from writing retroactive laws. But since 1987 there has been a
new and disturbing trend.
The federal government along with many states and municipalities has started
to write and enact retroactive laws. As an example, let's say that in 1998
you painted your house and at that time it was legal to paint your house
without a permit. If in 2003 your municipality writes a retroactive law
that states that you now needed a permit to paint your house, and makes
it retroactive to 1995, you will be in violation and guilty of breaking
the law in 1998.
Retroactive laws are commonplace now and are usually enacted in the areas
of taxes, family policy, and land usage. It is a frequent event now to have
people suddenly discover they owe huge sums of money or are now subject
to punishment for doing things that were legal when they did them.
The public tolerance of the now commonplace violations of ex post facto
has opened an avenue through which governmental bodies are prosecuting people
for violations they did not commit, collecting taxes that were never owed
and seizing properties which were "improperly used" in the past.
Legislation Without Representation
Starting in the late 1980's, most states authorized the practice of legislation
without representation. It is standard practice now for un-elected people
in state agencies to enact policy and write laws that were never voted on,
approved, or asked for by the public. Legislation without representation
often takes place in secret, with the public unaware of what is happening
until the new law is put in place and enforced. This has removed accountability
from government and allowed serious abusive practices to be implemented
without the presence of any individual or group to be held accountable.
My own personal experience with legislation without representation occurred
when I calculated that over 80 percent of my income was being taken in taxes
and "child support" for two children. I called the child support
agency and asked them who wrote the laws that made such a thing possible.
I wanted to know which senator, representative or other elected official
was responsible for enacting such a draconian policy.
The state agent replied: "The child support statutes were enacted by
this child support agency and have nothing to do with elected officials.
As for the individuals who write the policy, you are not permitted to know
who is involved".
This most serious practice, probably the one that has destroyed our freedom
the most, is occurring everywhere through many avenues, not only "child
support". Legislation without representation allows a corrupt government
to thrive because the people who write the legislation are employees of
the government who work in secret, will never be held accountable and cannot
be voted out of office.
In a democracy, the people can effect change by voting the people who are
going against their will out of power. Legislation without representation
circumvents the democratic process and takes the will of the people out
of government. Due to the now common practice of legislation without representation,
America can no longer be considered a true democracy.
Road Closures
In the back country they are closing down the roads to limit access. If
you get caught riding even a bicycle on the road beyond the barrier, having
left you car at the barrier, they will confiscate the bike, the car, and
throw you in prison, and you will lose everything 100%. I was familiar with
the back country of the intermountain west and noticed that around 1996
the road closures began to happen. I believe the closures are an attempt
to de-familiarize the public with alternate routes of escape in the event
of a police lockdown or martial law. They also closed down any road that
led to safe water in remote regions. In High School, I had a German teacher
who was alive during Hitler's reign and she said that Hitler closed down
access to the wilderness areas after the Reichstag was burned which proved
to be an effective method of eliminating resistance from the portion of
the population which did not agree with him. She warned us to never let
it happen here.
Road closures are usually done with very large immovable barriers such as
boulders or trenches and signs warning of what will happen if you get caught
attempting to travel beyond them.
Citizen Spies
In the name of fighting terrorism, the so-called "department of homeland
security" has employed a network of citizen spies who may have in reality
been hired to identify people who are upset with the new government policies.
When the Reichstag was burned, Hitler also set up his network of citizen
spies. Was Sep11 a Reichstag? One thing is certain, the videos you can download
now are not the same as the ones I downloaded on Sep12. Immediately after
Sep11 they clearly showed explosives going off in sequence, bringing the
buildings down in a perfect demolition wave. Most of the ones you can find
now no longer show the explosions, they have been "photoshopped"
out.
Terror is a common tactic or excuse used by oppressive governments to get
the people to give up their freedoms for a little bit of security. Hitler
used this tactic after the burning of the Reichstag to justify the military
actions he took in the opening days of World War II. To keep the population
safe from terror, Hitler also employed his network of citizen spies who
did little but turn their neighbors in for expressing dissenting views.
Common Police Searches
It has become commonplace now for police to stop people for no reason and
search them. This began long before Sep11. This has happened to me personally
three times, once at a roadblock, once when I was walking on my way to work,
and once when I was sleeping in my van due to homelessness caused by a divorce.
It would have happened many times, but I got good at spotting the roadblocks
- just look for a traffic jam with evenly timed cars coming toward you in
the opposite lane. Normally, the traffic jam would be long enough to allow
me to pull a u-turn without being seen. I never did anything wrong, but
I hate those road blocks.
Anonymous Accusation
In recent years, Federal, state and local law enforcement bodies have started
arresting and punishing people due to anonymous accusations. Now when you
show up in court you have no right to know who has accused you of a crime.
Without any chance of any repercussions, individuals, groups and organizations
now commonly issue accusations to get revenge, gain unfair advantage, or
simply because they were going on assumption rather than actually being
witness.
The right to know your accuser was a cornerstone of American justice; it
created an environment which brought accountability to legal prosecution.
Without it, people are now going to jail, being fined, and losing their
children in civil disputes without ever knowing why.
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the opinion of the author and is provided for educational purposes only.
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