Three Former NSA officials say America is a police state
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First Bill Binney – the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, the 32-year NSA veteran widely who was the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees – told the washingtonblog that America has already become a police state.
Then Thomas Drake – one of the top NSA executives, and Senior Change Leader within the NSA – told the washingtonblog the same thing.
Now Kirk Wiebe – a 32-year NSA veteran who received the Director CIA’s Meritorious Unit Award and the NSA’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award – agrees (tweet via Jesselyn Radack, attorney for many national security whistleblowers, herself a Department of Justice whistleblower):
#Wiebe: we are no longer afraid of the police state happening. It's here. In small ways and big ways. @xposefacts
Two former U.S. Supreme Court Justices have warned that America is sliding into tyranny. A former U.S. President, and many other high-level American officials agree.
A 'white' veteran Canadian reporter says America's police frightens him:
“I don’t mind saying it: America’s police now frighten me,” Macdonald wrote, reflecting on the death of Freddie Gray and the recent riots in Baltimore."
“Their power and their impunity frighten me,” he admitted. “And I’m a white, 58-year-old middle-class man. I can’t imagine what I’d be feeling if I were a black or Latino kid in Baltimore.”
Fidel Castro's Cubans love America but hate the American police state:
"While the Cuban people love America, they absolutely hate the U.S. government, specifically the national-security state branch of the federal government.'
'That notion shocks lots of Americans because for them America and the federal government are one and the same thing. That's why, for example, they equate patriotism with love of the national-security branch of the government, specifically the military."
Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead warns 'we're in a police state now':
The government is watching everything you’re doing,” Whitehead said. “We are in a police state right now. The question is, can we push it back?”
"Why is the military partnering with local police to conduct training drills around the country? And what exactly are they training for? In Richland, South Carolina, for instance, U.S. army special forces participated in joint and secretive exercises and training with local deputies. The public was disallowed from obtaining any information about the purpose of the drills, other than being told that they might be loud and to not be alarmed. The Army and DHS also carried out similar drills and maneuvers involving Black Hawk helicopters in Texas, Florida, and other locations throughout the U.S., ostensibly in order to provide local police with “realistic” urban training."
"What’s the rationale behind turning government agencies into military outposts? There has been a notable buildup in recent years of SWAT teams within non-security-related federal agencies such as Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department. As of 2008, “73 federal law enforcement agencies… [employ] approximately 120,000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority.” Four-fifths of those officers are under the command of either the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice.'
“They’re [Americans] not getting the news,” Whitehead said. “If you watch just regular television news, you don’t realize there are 80,000 SWAT team raids (each year). There were only 3,000 of those in the early 1980s. There are 80,000 occurring annually now across the United States. Eighty percent of those SWAT team raids are for what we used to call warrant service, where a policeman would come knock on your door.”
A new $29 million police crime lab or 'Public Safety Center Complex' has a 'safe room'!
"The crime lab has a conference room that is also a safe room for the people working in the building."
How does DHS come up with this crap? Referring to police crime labs as 'Public Safety Center Complexes' is a sick joke on the public.
DHS/FEMA's 'Safe Room" definition: "The occupants of a safe room built in accordance with FEMA guidance will have a very high probability of being protected from injury or death."
A govt run building with a "safe room' built into it? Does anyone think the public will be allowed to seek shelter inside? I mean it is called a 'Public Safety Center Complex', RIGHT?
Is the 'safe room' there to protect the employees from natural disasters or are they afraid of civil unrest?
One of Whitehead’s greatest frustrations is Americans’ acceptance of limitations placed on their freedoms and an unwillingness to fight back. He said one of the biggest problems is that most Americans are unaware of how much police are spying on citizens in many different ways.
“How many Americans know that the NSA is now downloading two billion of your emails a day and American citizens’ text messages? They admit to hacking into 160,000 Facebook pages a day to see what you’re doing,” Whitehead said.
"Why is the government amassing names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation, and what criteria is the government using for this database? Keep in mind that this personal information is being acquired and kept without warrant or court order. It’s been suggested that in the event of nuclear war, the destruction of the U.S. Government, and the declaration of martial law, this Main Core database, which as of 2008 contained some 8 million names of Americans, would be used by military officials to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security, a program to be carried about by the Army and FEMA."
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/turning_america_into_a_battlefield_a_blueprint_for_locking_down_the_na