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I am not a conspiracy theorist, this however makes me scratch my head...

Unfathomed Dangers in Patriot Act Reauthorization
By Paul Craig Roberts

A provision in the "Patriot Act" creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.

Go to House Report 109-333 -USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:

"There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ’United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’."

This new federal police force is "subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security."

The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony."

The new police are assigned a variety of jurisdictions, including "an event designated
under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance" (SENS).

"A special event of national significance" is neither defined nor does it require the presence of a "protected person" such as the president in order to trigger it. Thus, the administration, and perhaps the police themselves, can place the SENS designation on any event. Once a SENS designation is placed on an event, the new federal police are empowered to keep out and to arrest people at their discretion.

The language conveys enormous discretionary and arbitrary powers. What is "an offense against the United States"? What are "reasonable grounds"?

You can bet that the Alito/Roberts court will rule that it is whatever the executive branch says.

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I know government officials sport woodies every time they can create some new waste of taxpayer money, but why in god's name do we require yet another federal police force? Do we lack the defiitive acronym? Let's see, we have the FBI, CIA, BATF, Secret Service and I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody.

Juan Mann has more at The Immigration Blog...

Brace yourself. This DHS/USSS Praetorian Guard also doubles as…a security force for foreign consulates on American soil.

Consider this scenario:

Reacting to manufactured intelligence reports of racism, jingoism, nationalism, and/or the dreaded scourge of "xenophobia", the President of the United States assigns the new uniformed Secret Service police to guard all Mexican Consulates nationwide indefinitely. The new federal police also provides protection for the infamous "mobile consulates", a favorite of the Treason Lobby’s banking wing, which hand out the Matricula Consular card to illegal aliens from sea to shining sea.
Interestingly enough, both the mobile and fixed consulates seize the opportunity to transform their Matricula Consular operations overnight into "help centers" to facilitate nationwide "registration" of their countrymen for the future U.S. "guest worker" amnesty . . . all under the ever-vigilant protection of the uniformed Secret Service guards . . . just to make sure everything goes smoothly.

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I'm concerned about this. President Bush is pretty clearly putting the good of mexico above the good of Americans. The weak response to the border incursions speak to that along with his insistence on a guest worker program. President Bush really is like two president's rolled into one. Abroad he's tough and resolute, here at home, he won't even acknowledge the massive provocation of our southern neighbor.

Well, I don't pretend to understand it, but I do know I don't like it.

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