Thursday, November 11, 2010

Fascism in the US: Thanks, Obama

Talk about betrayal. Read below the first two paragraphs of the following article on Obama's Justice Department raiding homes in Minneapolis and Chicago in September. The article was written by a lawyer for the People's Law Office in Chicago and posted on Mondoweiss. It's gonna be harder now to talk about Republicans bringing Fascism to the US. --RB

U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous expansion of law prohibiting ‘material support’ for terrorism
by Michael Deutsch on November 10, 2010 ·
In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several anti-war and community organizations. In carrying out these repressive actions, the Justice department was taking its lead from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 opinion last June in Holder v. the Humanitarian Law Project which decided that non-violent First Amendment speech and advocacy “coordinated with” or “under the direction of” a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as “terrorist” was a crime.
The search warrants and grand jury subpoenas make it quite clear that the federal prosecutors are intent on accusing public non-violent political organizers, many affiliated with Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), of providing “material support,” through their public advocacy, for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Secretary of State has determined that both the PLFP and the FARC “threaten US national security, foreign policy or economic interests,” a finding not reviewable by the Courts, and listed both groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO).
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Michael Deutsch is a lawyer with the People's Law Office in Chicago and has been representing political activists and victims of government repression for the past 40 years.
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1 comment:

Ronald said...

P.G. wrote:

It only further corroborates what I've been saying for years now: This is the Elite/Illuminati Orwellian agenda manifest. Without awakening to this, eventually the fascist state will be global--rule of the bloodline families' secret-society network via corporations/banks utilizing the offices of government for enforcement. There is no two-party system, only a grand illusion. Two sides of the same coin. Only he can feel betrayed who has embraced the illusion and indulged in blind and/or stubborn faith. How about we call it litigious Neo-Cointelpro