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Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
Local, state police and sheriff's office join feds for
"terror" sweeps that result in hundreds of citations
for traffic violations
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Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as
well state and local police forces in three states last weekend
for a vast round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described
as "martial law training".
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi
and Arkansas took part in what was described by local
media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative"
involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local
agencies.
Given the military style name "Operation
Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers
from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints,
climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement"
programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism".
WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff's
Department arrested 332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or
"terrorists" as they now seem to be known.
Hundreds of dollars were seized and drugs recovered,
and 1,292 traffic violations were handed out to speeding terrorists
and illegally parked terrorists.
Click
here to watch a WREG Memphis news report
The authorities even raided
businesses and store owners, confiscating computers
and paperwork in an effort to "track down possible terrorists
before something big happens".
The Sheriff's Department is determining if and when they plan
another round-up.
The operation, which involved police, deputies,
the FBI, drug agents, gang units and even the coast guard, is
just one example of how law enforcement at the state and local
levels is being co-opted and centralized by the Department of
Homeland Security via massive federal grants.
It also highlights how the distinction between crime
and terrorism is becoming irrelevant.
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An Infowars reader called in to the Alex Jones show yesterday
to alert us to the story and explain that he had gleaned the information
from a his friend, a sheriff's deputy in Memphis, who had described
the operation as "training for martial law in America".
Forget innocent until proven guilty, you are now a terrorist
suspect until you are told otherwise.
It is now the norm to consider everybody equally likely to be
guilty of something than innocent. This is proactive policing,
not preventative or reactive policing, and is widely indicative
of a society that is NOT free.
This form of proactive policing is a phenomena indicative of
a once free state rapidly declining into a authoritarian police
state.
If there was a real terror threat in these states, it would surely
make sense to for law enforcement agencies to target known trouble
areas, and follow up on already existing leads. Instead we are
seeing local police and the coast guard being recruited to randomly
target anyone in any area as possible terrorists.
Surely if there was a real terror threat, this activity would
harm the effort to combat it.
Of course, such activity is clearly not related to a real and
tangible terror threat, it is related to the ongoing effort to
vastly increase the size and scope of the federal government and
increase the power it has over American citizens.
The information and intelligence from the operation will be collated
and routed through federally funded state-run
fusion centers, which are working in conjunction
with the military arm of the DHS, NORTHCOM.
Such information will soon include the DNA
and other biometric information from every person
arrested, which DHS head Michael Chertoff has
declared is no longer your personal information.
We recently reported on the fact that after 9/11 the Justice
Department advised the Bush administration that it was able to
effectively suspend
the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter terrorism
operations are concerned.
In light of this, and given that the government has begun to
class any crime as terrorism and set local and state police to
work on "anti-terror" operations, it is clear that the
protections provided by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution
are under direct threat.
We have seen how new provisions will effectively nullify the
U.S. constitution, and a recent spate of executive orders, in
particular PDD 51, outline preparations
for the implementation of open martial law in the
event of a declared national emergency.
Centralized and federally coordinated law enforcement programs
complement
nationwide FEMA programs to train Pastors and other
religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who
teach their congregations to "obey the government" in
preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and
firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
The effects of this particular program have
already been witnessed.
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