Supporting Documents
Some of these are old, and have theoretically been pulled. However, there are indicatiosn that some of these have been circulating among law enforcement anyway.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106890,00.html
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http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/280306trainingmanual.htm
I've seen some of these documents in print, as well as others, which all target normal everyday Ameican citizens as potential terrorists because we care about our government, and we care about our families, neighbors, friends, and we care about our crops and our world. "Nice" people are to be viewed suspiciously because their "niceness" might be a cover for terroristic activity.
We clergy are to be vigilant and report anyone who falls even the least bit outside the norms, anyone who speaks too much about the Constitution, or about our rights, or about voting, anyone who is too involved in charity work, or asks too many questions. They've just described almost every single Numenist I know and a great many Pagans and Jews and Christians and Buddhists and the farmers from whom I buy some of my food.
We can't lock every single person up in America. Even under martial law, it isn't possible.
America is not an invadable country. Destroyable, yes. We could be destroyed with the placement of several big bombs - but destroying this much landmass would lead to severe world-wide damage. It would be truly apocalyptic.
About the only avenue to attack America is through Texas and the Mexican border, and our big problem there isn't an invading army, but sneaky illegal immigrants. The coasts are too large to land invading armies anymore - it would be a sniper war worse than what America experienced in Vietnam, and is experiencing in Iraq.
No, the invasion of America will be corporate and political, not military. We have nothing to fear from invading armies. Acts of terrorism are, by their very nature, comparatively small. Yes, over 3,000 died and were injuerd during 9/11. I live in a small town that has a population just over that. It was one small city among thousands scatered across the face of America. Tragic for those involved, but not devastating for the country as a whole.
We do have much to fear from corporate take-overs - jobs, finances, owning our own homes, being debt-free (and by the way, did you know if you pay off credit cards and mortgage loans early - say throuhg a lottery win or an inheritance, you're tagged as a terrorist?), and pursuing our personal goals of happiness in freedom. We won't be free - we'll be tied to a job to pay those debts that we have to have because we don't earn enough to pay the utilities, rent/mortgage, food, and other basic necessities.
Politically, we can be searched and imprisoned at any time for any reason - no crime necessary - just look at the 14 year old girl still in prison for being the alleged victim of a crime. There are obsolete laws on the books that are coming back to bite us as our politicians insist on their enforcement - like the couple who were living together with their children but had never married being forced out of their home.
In hte eyes of our government, we are all criminals, all potential terrorists, all rebels in need of quashing, imprisoning, destruction.
That's not the way it's supposed to be. We are supposed to be free. This is America. We are a representational government, with people chosen to speak for us, not a democracy, not an emirate, not any other form of government. We have elected employees, not reigning dictators. And we certainly aren't a theocracy, with a divine leader telling what some god wants us to do. We are a republic, and we need to make our elected employees listen to us, or we fire them and hire new employees who will listen to us.
We have the technological capability to be truly, fully representational. Each of our elected employees could have a direct line to every person they represent, to hear what they have to say, to hear their concerns, their needs, their wants. Their job is to sort through all of these, find the balance that would suit the greatest number of their bosses (that's us, the voters), and pursue those. No special interest groups, because each elected employee already has a special interest group - the people who elected them.
I can see chatrooms where the elected employees spends a part of their day talking to their bosses. Emailing lists where the elected employee interacts with thier bosses. Websites with information on what's happening, what's up for voting, new laws and such under consideration. The websites could have polls going on so the elected employee could keep a close eye on what their bosses want. It wouldn't take much to get all the libraries connected to the internet, making this an achievable possibility.
Internet connectivity aside, there's the good old fashioned community picnic. There's the fact that elected employees could schedule visits in malls and large shopping centers to meet with their bosses. Paper surveys still work.
Only a small portion of our legislators' time should be spent wrangling with other legislators. Bills should be few and each should stand on their own - no riders that would force through unwanted legislation.
We could do it.
We could.