From Bill Brueckner: The rule of law, or else.
Time to get over your "ambivalence" folks. (JH)

These are clear violations of our rights to be secure in "the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" that is personal authority to act without control by any other authority; "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.... that shall not be violated" and the destruction of the United States of America. This is an illegal, unconstitutional, unjustified attack on the Amercian people. This is not simply applying the writ of habeas corpus for a limited time period, this is a conspiracy across the entire spectrum of government to implement a form of martial law and control of the American people.

Where is the justice dept. ? Where is the Congress? Are the American people being represented by those who are bent on destroying this country? This uncontrolled police state violates the rule of law of the United States Constitution. If the Constitution has become invalid there is no Congress and no President. What powers did Congress and the President invoke and by what means to deny us our Constitution? What are the changes and the limits of the change? How does the executive brance become judge jury and executioner, how does the defense department self empower itself to govern the according to its own designs, how do police invoke their own personal control of the public?
The march to a police state continues with no public protest, an equivalent of the ambivalence of the Jews being led to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany.

Congress and the President are not following the rule of law they swore oaths to support. They must be taken our of office they have violated the trust of the people. Where are the grand juries!

bill brueckner
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In Terror Cases, Administration Sets Own Rules

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: November 27, 2005

When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced last week that Jose Padilla would be transferred to the federal justice system from military detention, he said almost nothing about the standards the administration used in deciding whether to charge terrorism suspects like Mr. Padilla with crimes or to hold them in military facilities as enemy combatants. "We take each individual, each case, case by case," Mr. Gonzales said.

The upshot of that approach, underscored by the decision in Mr. Padilla's case, is that no one outside the administration knows just how the determination is made whether to handle a terror suspect as an enemy combatant or as a common criminal, to hold him indefinitely without charges in a military facility or to charge him in court.

Indeed, citing the need to combat terrorism, the administration has argued, with varying degrees of success, that judges should have essentially no role in reviewing its decisions. The change in Mr. Padilla's status, just days before the government's legal papers were due in his appeal to the Supreme Court, suggested to many legal observers that the administration wanted to keep the court out of the case.

"The position of the executive branch," said Eric M. Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University who has consulted with lawyers for several detainees, "is that it can be judge, jury and executioner."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/national/nationalspec

The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.

The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts -- including protecting military facilities from attack -- to one that also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.

The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the data-sharing amendment would still give the Pentagon much greater access to the FBI's massive collection of data, including information on citizens not connected to terrorism or espionage. The measure, she said, "removes one of the few existing privacy protections against the creation of secret dossiers on Americans by government intelligence agencies." She said the Pentagon's "intelligence agencies are quietly expanding their domestic presence without any public debate."

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MIAMI -- Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places to keep terrorists guessing and remind people to be vigilant.

Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez said officers might, for example, surround a bank building, check the IDs of everyone going in and out and hand out leaflets about terror threats.

"This is an in-your-face type of strategy. It's letting the terrorists know we are out there," Fernandez said.

The operations will keep terrorists off guard, Fernandez said. He said al-Qaida and other terrorist groups plot attacks by putting places under surveillance and watching for flaws and patterns in security.

Police Chief John Timoney said there was no specific, credible threat of an imminent terror attack in Miami. But he said the city has repeatedly been mentioned in intelligence reports as a potential target.
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