Wayne Madsen/white people wake up to fascism

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It is definitely fascism when it happens to you
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 14, 2008, 00:20

WMR -- In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's world of an
"Israelized" America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation
Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms
of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that
treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel
mistreats its own Arab citizens and Palestinians.
Sunday, this editor and his colleague faced the Chertoffian menace at
Washington's Reagan National Airport while heading to the gate to board
a flight to Houston.
It is now clear from a review of the events that unfolded that I was
pre-selected for an intensive search and battery of questions even before
arriving in line for the security screening. A Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) screener was overheard saying, "the guy with the
beard." Since I was the only person in line who also had a beard, it
was evident that a red flag had earlier been raised.
What followed, was worse than anything I had previously encountered
while leaving Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, itself a revolting display of
ingratitude to citizens of the country that bankrolls Israel, or the
Israeli-run screening process at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport.
First, I was instructed to enter a glass isolation chamber and point
out my belongings that were exiting the X-ray machine. Anyone with
claustrophobia would really enjoy being placed in such a chamber and have to
speak to the screener through small holes in the glass.
I was then led to an area where all my carry-on bags were emptied. I
was also forced to empty my pockets of everything. A bevy of screeners
then proceeded to go through my wallet examining everything: cash, credit
cards, VA medical benefits card, National Press Club card, voter's
registration card, and driver's license. Then came an examination of my
press credentials and related IDs: Investigative Reporters and Editors
(IRE) card, Society of Professional Journalists card, National Archives
research card, Library of Congress card, three press credentials, and
membership card in Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
In a blatant violation of the First and Fourth Amendments, my
reporter's notebooks, containing names of contacts in Houston and around the
world were paged through by the screeners. Another screener asked if I
minded being probed in "certain private areas." He then asked if I'd like
the examination to be conducted in private. I replied, "No, let
everyone see this." He then proceeded to examine my groin area.
Then came the battery of questions.
1. Are you feeling okay?
2. Where are you going today?
3. How long will you be there?
4. Why are you going there?
5. What story are you covering/
6. Who do you write for?
7. When did you move to Washington?
8. Where did you live before that?
9. What did you do for a living before?
10. Who was the most famous person you ever met?
11. What was the most famous event you ever covered?
12. What type of things do you write about?
13. What type of politics do you cover?
14. What is your place of birth?
My colleague, who had successfully passed through screening and was
waiting for me, was then asked to step into the holding area so she "could
see and hear what was going on." It was a ruse. She was also subjected
to a full carry-on bag examination, frisking, and a series of personal
questions:
1, Are you with him?
2. Where are you going?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. What story are you investigating?
5. How long were you in the US Air Force?
6. Where were you stationed overseas?
7. Why were you not overseas in the military?
8. When are you returning?
9. Who do you work for?
10. What is an independent journalist?
11. How long have you been working with him?
12. Do you find your job fulfilling?
13. What is your place of birth?
After this Gestapo-like of questioning, I was told that a TSA screener
was writing details in a notebook for the "paperwork." My colleague was
told TSA was going to file an "incident report."
The nature of WMR's coverage is that our sources are our lifeblood and
anything done to compromise them is a direct attack on the freedom of
the press and our rights as journalists. The notion of press freedom
does not exist in Chertoff's worldview of police state tactics and total
surveillance but his worldview is a distinctly un-American one,
something that is more properly relegated to the history books of his ancestral
Czarist Russia.
When our investigations take us beyond the Washington Beltway, it
is not within Chertoff's purview to find out details about the purpose of
the trip, even though it may shed an unwelcome light on his network of
Mossad operatives and Russian-Israeli gangsters and scam artists who are
now running rampant in these United States of America.
The antics at Washington Reagan National are not unique. Foreign
journalists have been subjected to similar invasive screening either at US
embassies when applying for the required journalist visas to visit the
United States or at immigration screening at US entry points.
The corporate media will not report on these cases as they are part of
the problem in allowing Chertoff and his American Gestapo to continue
to turn the United States into one big West Bank-style checkpoint.
One other note. This editor visited the USSR and draconian nations such
as Paul Kagame's Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni's Uganda, Hun Sen's Cambodia,
the former military junta's Thailand, surveillance society Singapore,
and Muslim monarchy Brunei Darussalam. Nothing compares to what
occurred at Washington National Airport. It is yet another sign of the fact
that the United States has entered a phase of fascist control. There's
only one question that remains: Is the slide reversible?

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

Copyright © 2008 WayneMadenReport.com

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Being “Guarded” by Israel

Publication time: 26 September 2007, 10:27

American supporters of Israel were delighted to learn that an Israeli company, Magal Security Systems-owned in part by the government of Israel-is in charge of security for the most sensitive nuclear power and weapons storage facilities in the United States.

The largest perimeter security company in the world, Magal started out as a division of Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI)-which was owned in part by the government of Israel. In recent years, however, Magal evolved into a publicly-traded company, although IAI (and thus the government of Israel) still holds a substantial share in the highly successful firm.

What all of this means is that the government of Israel will actually have control over the security of America's nuclear weapons.

Supporters of Israel say that this is a splendid idea, since Israel is said to be perhaps America's closest ally on the face of the planet. However, there are some critics who question the propriety of America's super-sensitive nuclear security being in the hands of any foreign nation, particularly Israel which, even today, officially denies that it is engaged in the production of nuclear arms. [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Be that as it may, however, Magal's global interests are quite broad-ranging. Having secured 90 percent of Israel's borders through a wide-ranging array of super-modern "space age" technology, Magal has now branched out internationally.

Not only does Magal provide security for American nuclear facilities, but it also does likewise for most major nuclear facilities in Western Europe and Asia. In addition, the Israeli firm also provides security for Chicago's O'Hare Airport and, for the last fifteen years, has kept watch on the Queen of England's famed Buckingham Palace in London. What's more, Magal provides security for 90% of the American prisons that utilize electronic systems. Magal brags that its other clients around the globe include: borders, airports, industrial sites, communication centers, military installations, correctional facilities, government agencies, VIP estates and residences, commercial buildings and storage yards.

There is hardly a major country or major enterprise that does not have Magal's security specialists keeping a close watch on their activities.

Clearly, Magal is no small enterprise. While 27% of its total sales are in the Israeli market, its largest market is in North America, which currently accounts for 35% of its sales.

However, Magal's American outreach is expected to increase substantially, especially now that firm has set up a Washington, D.C. office which will promote its products to federal agencies and to the members of Congress who provide funding for federally-supervised security projects across the country at all levels: local, state and national. [Think corruption, think graft, think lobbying for WAR ... ]

And with current U.S. Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, not only a strong supporter of Israel but also the son of a woman who has strong Israeli ties-even including service with El Al, the national airline of Israel-Magal, owned in party by Israeli Aircraft Industries-will be a clear-cut favorite in the eyes of the power brokers in official Washington who have the power to grant lucrative security contracts.

At the moment, Magal has four U.S.-based subsidiaries: two in California, Stellar Security Products, Inc. and Perimeter Products Inc., as well as the New York-based Smart Interactive Systems, Inc., and the Virginia-based Dominion Wireless, Inc.

All told, the Israeli company holds a 40% share in the worldwide market in perimeter intrusion detection systems and is working to expand its business in the protection of oil pipelines. [Really? New ones coming to Canada soon, maybe expanding them in IRAQ .. or not ...!!]

Magal is also said to be quite interested in guarding water lines around the globe, particularly in the United States. In fact, Magal may have an inside shot at getting a monopoly in guarding America's water supplies. [think they were tipped off about the coming water diversion from outta CANADA!!??]

On July 19, the Bush administration's Environmental Protection Agency announced a "partnership" with the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures to improve what they called "water supply system security in the United States and Israel." Since Magal is so highly respected in Israel, it's an even bet that Magal will soon be guarding the U.S. water supply.

By Michael Collins Piper

Correspondent for American Free Press and author of "The New Jerusalem:Zionist Power in America", "The High Priests of War," and "Final Judgment," which details the Mossad role in the JFK assassination conspiracy.

George Orwell rolls over in his grave ...

The Daily Kos has run a very detailed look at :

Michael Jackson (DHS): "Some good has come of 9/11". I'm prompted to repost it because of a front-page story in today's WaPo; the report describes how the DHS keeps Orwellian records on travelers at home and abroad (see the diary by catfishkatfish). The DHS program I discuss here, "US-VISIT", is especially worrying because it appears to have few Congressional critics.

It ends with THIS kicker:

On this score, it's disturbing to find that Michael Chertoff still pressing for the introduction of special passport-like identification cards for Americans traveling to Canada and Mexico. It's doubly worrying that Chertoff declined to say whether or not he wants those ID cards to incorporate RFID chips—which would make it easy to track the movement of citizens at home and abroad

You can read the whole piece at the link (and you might find it unsettling if you DO). You can bet anyone who thinks that they are on the no fly list (or worse) who finds out about this article, will be reading it!!

US-VISIT:

Another Orwellian Homeland Security program