Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"

[feelthebreeze]

Has to go. It is him or Democracy, you make the choice.


Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
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> http://www.bushflash.com
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> Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed
> for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in
> the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to
> charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events
> including political conventions and the Olympics."
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/
> AR2005121201448.html
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> Secret Service would also be empowered to charge persons with
> "breaching security" and to charge for "entering a restricted area"
> which is "where the President or other person protected by the Secret
> Service is or will be temporarily visiting." In short, be sure to stay
> in those wired, fenced containments or free speech zones.
>
> Read More, here... Because the linked version contains more hyperlinks.
> http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954
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> Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"
> by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
>
> Wed Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:26 PM PDT
>
> Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed
> for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in
> the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to
> charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events
> including political conventions and the Olympics." Secret Service would
> also be empowered to charge persons with "breaching security" and to
> charge for "entering a restricted area" which is "where the President
> or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be
> temporarily visiting." In short, be sure to stay in those wired, fenced
> containments or free speech zones.
>
> Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse's diary :: ::
> Who is the "disruptor"? Bush Team history tells us the disruptor is an
> American citizen with the audacity to attend Bush events wearing a
> T-shirt that criticizes Bush; or a member of civil rights,
> environmental, anti-war or counter-recruiting groups who protest Bush
> policies; or a person who invades Bush's bubble by criticizing his
> policies. A disruptor is also a person who interferes in someone
> else's activity, such as interrupting Bush when he is speaking at a
> press conference or during an interview.
>
> What are the parameters of the crime of "disruptive behavior"? The
> dictionary defines "disruptive" as "characterized by unrest or disorder
> or insubordination." The American Medical Association defines
> disruptive behavior as a "style of interaction" with people that
> interferes with patient care, and can include behavior such as "foul
> language; rude, loud or offensive comments; and intimidation of
> patients and family members."
>
> What are the rules of engagement for "disruptors"? Some Bush Team
> history of their treatment of disruptors provide some clues on how this
> administration will treat disruptors in the future.
>
> (1) People perceived as disruptors may be preemptively ejected from
> events before engaging in any disruptive conduct.
>
> In the beginning of this war against disruptors, Americans were ejected
> from taxpayer funded events where Bush was speaking. At first the
> events were campaign rallies during the election, and then the
> disruptor ejectment policy was expanded to include Bush's post election
> campaign-style events on public policy issues on his agenda, such as
> informing the public on medicare reform and the like. If people drove
> to the event in a car with a bumper sticker that criticized Bush's
> policies or wore T-shirts with similar criticism, they were disruptors
> who could be ejected from the taxpayer event even before they engaged
> in any disruptive behavior. White House press secretary McClellan
> defended such ejectments as a proper preemptive strike against persons
> who may disrupt an event: "If we think people are coming to the event
> to disrupt it, obviously, they're going to be asked to leave."
>
> (2) Bush Team may check its vast array of databanks to cull out those
> persons who it deems having "disruptor" potential and then blacklist
> those persons from events.
>
> The White House even has a list of persons it deems could be
> "disruptive" to an eventand then blacklists those persons from
> attending taxpayer funded events where Bush speaks. Sounds like Bush
> not only has the power to unilaterally designate people as "enemy
> combatants" in the global "war on terror," but to unilaterally
> designate Americans as "disruptive" in the domestic war against free
> speech.
>
> (3) The use of surveillance, monitoring and legal actions against
> disruptors.
>
> Bush's war against disruptors was then elevated to surveillance,
> monitoring, and legal actions against disruptor organizations. The FBI
> conducts political surveillance and obtains intelligence filed in its
> database on Bush administration critics , such as civil rights groups
> (e.g., ACLU), antiwar protest groups (e.g., United for Peace and
> Justice) and environmental groups (e.g., Greenpeace).
>
> This surveillance of American citizens exercising their constitutional
> rights has been done under the pretext of counterterrorism activities
> surrounding protests of the Iraq war and the Republican National
> Convention. The FBI maintains it does not have the intent to monitor
> political activities and that its surveillance and intelligence
> gathering is "intended to prevent disruptive and criminal activity at
> demonstrations, not to quell free speech."
>
> Surveillance of potential disruptors then graduated to legal actions as
> a preemptive strike against potential disruptive behavior at public
> events. In addition to monitoring and surveillance of legal groups and
> legal activities, the FBI issued subpoenas for members to appear before
> grand juries based on the FBI's "intent" to prevent "disruptive
> convention protests." The Justice Dept. opened a criminal
> investigation and subpoenaed records of Internet messages posted by
> Bush`s critics. And, the Justice Dept. even indicted Greenpeace for a
> protest that was so lame the federal judge threw out the case.
>
> So now the Patriot Act, which was argued before enactment as a measure
> to fight foreign terrorists, is being amended to make clear that it
> also applies to American citizens who have the audacity to disrupt
> President Bush wherever his bubble may travel. If this provision is
> enacted into law, then Bush will have a law upon which to expand the
> type of people who constitute disruptors and the type of activities
> that constitute disruptive activities. And, then throw them all in
> jail.
> Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
>
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[marmar]

1. Back to the USSR...

This shit would be scary if it didn't piss me off so much. Enough is enough.

:grr: :argh: :dem:

[rodeodance]

2. it is one of those new provisions that Dems want out.

[annabanana]

7. If Alito is confirmed. . . . King George

will be able to do whatever he wants.. and Gonzales & Alito will see to it that it's all perfectly "legal"

The stakes are high here kids..

[atommom]

3. So if he considers them disruptors, does that mean they can be

tombstoned???

[feelthebreeze]

6. It means a fundamental disconnect as to the nature of Democracy...

And I must stress that those who still support this commander'n' thief are also equally responsible to these crimes against Democracy. Just as Gore singled out the telecommunication industries who are helping with the illegal actions of wiretap, so to are the supporters of this ghoul complicit in their denial of Democracy. I have no more kid gloves for the enemies of my freedoms.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

4. Wow. Things like this make me think that when he finally goes down,

it will be in a flaming ball of fire.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Things are a "heckova" lot easier since he has ASSumed

dictator status....

[f-bush]

8. Like I've Said....we're in the Fourth Reich

It kills me that the fucking American public can't see this for what it is. One of these days it's gonna be too late and then we're all fucked!!! Aks those who lived in Germany in 1933 about looking the other way when the government pulled it's shit. They're still recovering from that!!!