September 11th was the jumpstart for what is now an accelerated agenda by the ruthless elite: it was a staged war pretext no different from the sinking of the Lusitania, the provoking of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin lie. In fact if 9/11 wasn’t a planned war pretext, it would be the exception to the rule. It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars - one against Iraq and one against Afghanistan. However, 9/11 was a pretext for another war as well: the War against You. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, The Military Tribunals Act and other legislations are all completely and entirely designed to destroy your civil liberties and limit your ability to fight back against what is coming. Currently in the United States unannounced to most brainwashed Americans your home can be searched without a warrant without you being home, you can in turn be arrested with no charges revealed to you, detained indefinitely with no access to a lawyer, and legally tortured all under the suspicion that you might be a terrorist ... Let’s recognise how history repeats itself. Zeitgeist, 2007
To vote against the Patriot Act was a very easy vote for me. To me it was a clear violation of the civil liberties of all Americans. It was called Patriot Act because they didn’t want anybody to vote against it. Ron Paul
And what did we see in the aftermath of 9/11 of 2001: action on all fronts. The Patriot Act was passed here in the United States without public debate, without any debate by Congress. Just passed. It’s a frontal assault on the constitution. Scott Ritter
Someone forgot the fact that it’s not our government that gives us our freedoms, they are inalienable rights and they cannot be taken away. The people of the United States have simply been conditioned to give their rights away freely. The USA Patriot Act seems less of a tool to fight terrorism and more of an instrument to monitor and track and intimidate every-day law-abiding citizens in this country. One Nation Under Siege
Citizens deemed enemy combatants can be held indefinitely, with no charges against them, no right to see an attorney, no right to go before a judge. Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11
The Homeland Security Act which passed about a year later in November 2002 outlines in great detail the degree to which the government can now spy, listen in, record, get access to internet, library cards, bookstore records, medical records, school records ... ibid.
Emergency powers to imprison suspected international terrorists indefinitely using special closed courts will be announced this week. The measure, which will require exception from human rights legislation, will be used to round up about twenty suspects hiding in Britain out of the reach of existing laws. Daily Telegraph article 11th November 2001
To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists. John Ashcroft
The Levellers published their demands for human rights and democratic reform in a manifesto called the Agreement of the People. Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You? BBC 2012
Civil rights isn’t a soft option when the bricks are flying. Bloody Sunday 2002 starring James Nesbitt & Simon Mann & Tim Pigott-Smith & Nicholas Farrell & Allan Gildea & Gerard Crossan & Mary Moulds & Carmel McCallion & David Clayton Rogers et al, director Paul Greengrass, Army medium cheese
We are part of a worldwide movement for civil freedoms. ibid. Bernadette Devlin
Pledged to vote against Kennedy on civil rights. George H W Bush I, PBS 2018
When he [Kennedy] addressed a rare joint session of Congress four days later the president mentioned civil rights only glancingly. JFK: A New Perspective II, PBS 2013
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin – where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases – and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman. John F Kennedy, speech Convention Centre Philadelphia October 1960
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F Kennedy
This nation was founded by men of many nations and back- grounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. And that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. My fellow Americans, this is a problem which faces us all. In every city of the north as well as the south. Today there are Negros unemployed two or three times as many compared to whites. Inadequate education, moving into the large cities, unable to find work, denied equal rights; we cannot say to 10% of the population you can’t have that right ... We owe them, and we owe ourselves, a better country than that. John F Kennedy 19th June 1963
The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities. ibid.
And no force under the sun can stem and block and stop this civil rights revolution. Martin Luther King and the March on Washington, narrator Denzel Washington, A Philip Randolph 1963, BBC 2013
The 9/11 atrocity had a very specific design, a very specific agenda, almost planned with geometric precision. It was an atrocity; it was an exercise in chaos, but it was to bring about a very preconceived plan: which is to bring in a police state. To deprive people of their sovereign rights. But specifically to enter in the Patriot Act, which is unconstitutional, and which the American people need to resist. Michael Tsarion
Did these terrorist attacks occur in order to take away many of our civil liberties and constitutional rights in an effort to more effectively control the population, looking toward the takeover of our country and the world? I believe so. Ted Gunderson, former FBI senior agent
Songs of liberation – who can lock them up? The spirit of freedom – who can jail it? A people’s unity – what lash can beat it down? Civil rights – what doubletalk can satisfy our needs? Paul Robeson
We can make this the new civil rights movement, the new human rights movement. Bill Still, The Secret of Oz, 2009
This system has got to go. ibid.
The sit-in movement has challenged certain fundamental concepts of law and is shaking the regional traditions of the South in an entirely new way. The Sixties: A Long March to Freedom ***** Chet Huntley NBC News, CNN 2014
An angry mob just came out of nowhere. ibid. John Lewis
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. James Madison
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. Charles Austin Beard
By international standards, many of the UK’s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties – particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity – from organising street parties to helping children. Geoffrey Mulgan
It was observed half a century ago that what is a stone wall to a layman, to a corporate lawyer is a triumphant arch. Much the same might be said of civil rights and freedoms. To the layman the Bill of Rights seems to be a stone wall against the misuse of power. But in the hands of a congressional committee, or often enough of a judge, it turns out to be so full of exceptions and qualifications that it might be a whole series of arches. Henry Steele Commager, The Right of Dissent
I don’t especially like you too. I specialise in civil liberties. The People vs Larry Flint 1996 starring Woody Harrelson & Courtney Love & Cody Block & Edward Norton & Richard Paul & James Cromwell & Donna Hanover & Crispin Glover & Vincent Schiavelli & Brett Harrelson & Ryan Post et al, director Milos Forman, Norton to Harrelson
If we start throwing up walls against what some of us think is obscene, we may very well wake up one morning and realise that walls have been thrown in all kinds of places we never expected. ibid. Norton
A permanent war against a hidden enemy. A new strategy of prevention. And new perils to privacy ... The government’s secret surveillance efforts. Frontline: Spying on the Home Front, PBS 2007
Innocent people will get caught in the dragnet. ibid.
Spying on the home front had begun in the shadow of 9/11. ibid.
The NSA was accused of invading American civil liberties during the scandals of the Watergate era in the 1970s. ibid.
Privacy has become an illusion. ibid.
The government accounting office found 199 data mining projects in more than 50 government agencies. ibid.
In 2007, nearly two years after this programme was broadcast in the US, the National Intelligence Director confirmed that US telecommunication companies had played a key role in the domestic eavesdropping programme. The telecoms companies have been granted immunity by the US courts for cooperating with the government in its surveillance activities but it’s for the federal courts to decide such scheme’s constitutionality. ibid.
If Patriot II sneaks through it going to be a lot worse: Patriot II goes way beyond anything that’s ever been proposed in any remotely democratic society. Noam Chomsky, Merrimack College, The Onslaught Against Freedom and Democracy Led by the Bush Administration Reactionaries