A post found on Mother Jones about the police state

This reply post is about the following story and is more interesting than the official story. http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/police-twitter-riots...

This is how it begins, and this is how it ends.
Submitted by anti_fascist_fr... on Fri Mar. 12, 2010 3:42 PM PST.

This is how it all begins.

"In an unexpected move, the Pittsburgh charges against Madison and Wallschlaeger were summarily dismissed. A spokesman for the Allegheny County district attorney said that the defendants' actions "may have been related to more expansive activities" and "that until further investigative activities by law enforcement agencies can be completed, it would be more prudent to have the current charges withdrawn."

Unexpected move? The cops are laughing at that one.

The arbitrary arrest and release of protesters is a completely EXPECTED move. This is exactly how the Fascist's defensive, anti-free-speech plan operates - Arrest key leaders of the protesters at critical logistic moments to disrupt the protest, or in the second case, to harass the anarchist. Hold the "suspect" until you would normally have to charge them, then release them at the last minute without charges. It's FALSE ARREST, pure and simple, designed to intimidate or to quell public speech. It's like a SLAPP lawsuit without the lawsuit. The benefit here is they get to search and copy everything in the possession of the "anarchists", and copy all the data in their personal phone books, e-mail addresses, etc., to use to build a larger lists of other "terrorists" for surveillance, arrest, torture at some point... and I suppose kill, when the "terrorist in every corner" hysteria reaches a fever pitch and the time seems right. Its right out of the South American Death Squad play list, as written by the School of the Americas. But now its aimed at you and me. The chickens have come home to roost.

The Prosecutor should have had those cops investigated and brought up on charges for wrongfully arresting and willfully violating their right to free speech of two American citizens. But the prosecutor, you see, thinks that his job is to represent the STATE, and by logical extension, the POLICE, and not the PEOPLE. The Prosecutor is a key figure in creating State Terrorism, and his move to the DARK SIDE, is the key to that slide into STATE TERRORISM. Here’s a lesson from history: The prosecutor was supposed to represent the People, because his job came from a time when the State's power came from the People. But not anymore. It used to be, all Prosecutor’s indictments began with "The People vs. so-and-so." And that was what it meant. But not anymore. Now it is the State vs. the People.

It starts innocently enough, too, for each lawyer who wants to run for prosecutor. The Prosecutor wants to win cases instead of seek justice, so he'll side with the cops each and every time, and get easy wins. Soon, he starts to believe that his job is to protect the cops from the people, not the other way around. Suddenly they are in his office, with proof that somebody is an anarchist, or maybe even (“gasp!”) a socialist. Or a porn viewer. Maybe even an anti-war protester, for god’s sake! And so Mr. Prosecutor’s head starts to bob up and down, and the little bobble-head goes to the STAR CHAMBER… er, I mean, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and gets a super secret FISC indictment to root out those terrorists…or pornographers… or protesters. And maybe next time its someone who opposes Mr. Bobble Head from the Democrat side, or from the Republican Side, as the case may be… and back to the FISC court runs Mr. Bobble Head Prosecutor. And by and by, one morning, Mr. Bobble Head Prosecutor finds himself wiping his ass with the constitution and shining his nuts with the bill of rights, since he has no other use for either, and he doesn't even know anymore why that's a bad thing. A really bad thing. But "FLUSH" - the State Prosecutor's oath of office, his ethics and conscience goes down the drain, and the STATE PROSECUTOR is born.

As a side-bar, this story also presents an interesting tactical solution to tyranny. Hypothetically, it seems the protesters have decided to counter the cops "squad mentality", by using flocking behavior, or by thinking like flash-mobs - they decentralized the leadership of their protesters, and then react to a twitter so as to swarm and disband before the cops can react. The cops with their "I've got your back" mentality always move in groups: teams, squads, platoons, battalions. I wonder if the Protesters each have a basic overall understanding of the objectives, and how to molt new leadership on the fly? Kind of an "All are leaders. All are followers." philosophy? Of course, the cops will always infiltrate and have stooges and spies mixed into the mob, so if one of them sends false messages as if they are the leader, that snitch will try to lead all to doom. Maybe the protest leaders need secret codes that change as the day goes by, I suppose. I would also imagine that the most important thing would be to review review review: strictly review who gave what commands during the day. The dolts and the cops would be quickly weeded out, as both would make the tactically worst decisions during the operation. Learn and move on.

Along that line, I wonder if Madison and Wallshlaeger have carefully reviewed who all knew they would be in that hotel room. I mean, how exactly did the cops know who Madison and Wallschlaeger were, that they were part of the hierarchy of the protest movement, and where they would be to be arrested that day? Madison and Wallshlaeger were either betrayed by a known associate (or someone within a few degrees separation) who was a government spy (very likely) or they were bagged by state electronic eavesdropping (far more likely), or both (extremely likely). I wonder if the key protest leaders know about TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS, and are smart enough to never use their cell phones? Are ordinary citizens who want to protest now acting like characters from “The Sopranos,” meeting on the street and talking out of the sides of their mouths, hidden behind newspapers or their coat lapel? And perhaps from a tactical standpoint, is it possible the protest movement is smarter than I think they are and maybe Madison and Wallshlaeger were just patsies, part of one of several fake teams of "leaders" who were meant to create a large traceable digital signal and get arrested, while the "meet-in-the-flesh" true commanders communicated via hand-delivered paper and actually fell off the cops techno-radar? I doubt it, but that might be a way to screw the cops in the future: overload their tactical units by making them chase ghosts.

What's sad is that the police are forcing the people to militarize, to think tactically, to conspire so they can speak freely. And the cops hate that, but why, exactly? Is it because the cops can't think beyond their short-term fascist this-is-war battle tendencies, so they need an enemy, and can only find it in the citizens? The police therefore cast themselves as the enemy of the people - the very people they allegedly swore to defend and protect. And viola: State Terrorism gets its army. If the cops instead saw themselves as protecting the right of the People to speak out and protest (I mean, its an INALIENABLE RIGHT - ITS RIGHT THERE IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS!), they would instead support the right to protests, and be surprised to see that this would defuse the people's move to militarization, not increase it. Of course, the elites would not like that. They want the cops scared of the People, so the cops do what the Elites want. And the cops are scared. Their police stations are fortresses. They wear body armor. They hide in "Cruisers" and are afraid to walk a beat alongside the People. They see the People as their enemy. If the police ever woke up to how the banksters and multinational corporations have robbed the country blind and sold us all (including all the cops children) into debt slavery, they'd be aiming their guns and sound cannons at the criminals going into and out of the G20, not at the protesters. But, the Cops are tools. Tools of the rich. Not here to protect people, but to protect property.

And now the local police are tools of the feds - The merger took place in the last five years, a gift of Bush - look up the Fusion Centers - they are a high tech (and instantly erasable) version of the data-collection methods used by the Chilean Death Squads, they collect data - not only on the activists, unionists, organizers and protesters, but on everyone - you, me, your mother, you wife, your mistress (uh-oh!). They know you go to that swinger's web site. They know how many times you viewed "High Times" online, or if you have a subscription. Behold the new Political Thought Police of America. And how do they use this information? However it helps them.

These protesters remind me of the revolutionaries during the civil war. The police are like the British troops - defending the imperialistic, globalist elite, led by multinational corporations. Just what is the G20 if not a Royalist, Wealth-mongering Elite, which enriches itself to the detriment of the other 85% of the world's people? In the 1700's the Redcoats defended the East India Bay Company for the crown. Today, the cops use anti-personal weaponry manufactured by DynCorp, Lockheed, Colt... The cops are the new Redcoats, defending their masters in Corporatocracy. The cops attacking Protesters at the G20 are a live, real-time example. What more proof do you need?

So the lesson is: Hide behind your curtains. Say what you are expected to say. Do only what the State wants you to do. If you salute the Flag, keep your mouth shut, don't go to protests, never complain on the internet, or view porn... Well, then, the cops might not be contacting you.

But if you dare to object, or heaven forbid to actually protest... well then, as this story shows, your door will be broken down and the JTTF anti-terrorist agents will put their boot on your back while they handcuff you and search your home. And maybe right now, that's enough. If they don't find some pot, or an old 22 rifle that isn't registered... well, then maybe they'll be "good guys" and won't charge you. "Shucks, hippy..." they'll say as they suppress a smirk, "Sorry about handcuffing you for 18 hours and keeping you in a cell for two days..." Yeah. Right. Like these kinds of cops ever apologize.

And then there is the use of the Fusion Center information I spoke of earlier. The “Total Information Awareness” data base created by one of the greatest fascist enemies of the People: John Poindexter.

So maybe you won't be so lucky. Maybe the Joint Terrorist Task Force will find something, or maybe not, but maybe that won't even matter. Maybe what you've written, or said, or thought, or maybe who you've received an e-mail from... maybe that will be enough for the Joint Terrorist Task Force. Maybe soon, right here in America, right in your own home state, that JTTF soldier who kicked in your door will search your data base, your bookshelves, the pictures on your wall… and decide that from now on, you are to be called a "terrorist" and from there on out, no charges will be needed. Instead of being let go, you will "disappear," and as we've all learned, terrorists don't get Mirandized, or get the right to a speedy trial, or even get to hear the charges against them. They just get locked up forever. Or get renditioned to a secret prison, where nobody knows where you are, and no law applies to you, except that of the Joint Terrorism Taks Force.

And one morning you will be lead naked into a little cell, and the JTTF interrogator will look at his Fusion Center screen and read off your thought crimes - everything you wrote on the internet, every telephone call you made, every book you read or ordered off of Amazon, every protester you met or talked to, every protest you were filmed at - it is all right there, collected in the INFOCORP Database (which the STATE doesn't collect - because that would unconstitutional - but no worries, because the State has an account, and shares all its data files with them, as does ATT, Google, and Microsoft, and... well.. everybody). And as the interrogator (who has no name, no badge, no ID) pins the electrodes to your nipples, or to your scrotum... you will confess, by god, you will confess. But that confession, even if true, won't be enough... it will never be enough.

And that's how it all ends, folks. We are almost there.