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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 08:25 AM
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Terrorism reigns in America
THE GATE, TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION (Arizona) -- While the Lipan Apache women and elders were told of the forced occupation and takeover of their lands on the Texas border by Homeland Security yesterday, I was at the border once again being bullied by the Border Patrol.

All along the border, Homeland Security's Border Patrol is intimidating and harassing the people who have lived there all their lives. The Tohono O'odham have lived here since time immemorial. Now their land has been seized and taken over by the Border Patrol, the contractor Boeing and the invading National Guardsmen, for construction of the border wall. The graves of O'odham ancestors have been dug up.

All along the border, young people are intimidated and harassed constantly. Tailgating police, excessive force and Nazi-style prosecutors push them into rage and jails.

At the same time in Tucson, a judge has declared peace activities opposing US torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo, as a "danger to the community."

The United States government has become the terrorist it claims to oppose.

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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 09:17 AM
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1. yeah, that's some freedom we got going
not. :(
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 09:49 AM
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2. FEMA now DHS power to 'relocate'
"EO 11004: Federal seizure of all housing and finances and authority to establish forced relocation. Authority to designate areas to be abandoned as 'unsafe,' establish new locations for populations, relocate communities, build new housing with public funds."

Remember Katrina? The feds exercised their 'authority' to relocate New Orlean residents who were then labelled 'refugees'?
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 09:54 AM
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3. With the aid of Blackwater in disarming citizens
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 10:09 AM
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6. I can't find the article
but I distinctly remember reading about a DHS directive?? stating that all deaths recorded in NO after Katrina would be backdated to the date of the hurricane.

At the time, I thought "werid". Later, after learning about random shootings, it made sense.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 09:54 AM
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4. just watch... before long anyone who isn't a millionaire will be called a refugee...
mark my words.
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-09-07 10:03 AM
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5. Likely, anyone who is not in a gated community.
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