SMILE Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano May be Watching You
Tony Dolz
April 19, 2009
The list contains Christians, Bill of Rights and Constitution fundamentalists, American exceptionalists, border security and immigration law enforcement advocates; and beyond believe - veterans that have or are still risking their lives to protect the nation.
The Obama administration takes the position that veterans are the most dangerous potential domestic terrorists because they are trained in the use of firearms. However, to the chagrin of active soldiers and veterans, Homeland Security employees and law enforcement that is supposed to survey the veterans and who are also trained in the use of firearms are not listed in the enemies list.
Public dissatisfaction with the mastisizing power and corruption of the federal government is reaching a historical high not seen since the colonists were under the grip of the English crown. Congressional approval ratings rank as low as 11%.
Contributing to the publicīs dismay with federal government irresponsibility was passage in March of the biggest budget and spending bill in the history of the United States - without reading it. The projected budget deficit over the next 10 years is between $10 and $12 trillion, a figure that President Obamaīs own Budget Director, Peter Orszag, called unsustainable.
Another major issue is Amnesty for illegal aliens. Six times in the last 8 years, Democrats and Republicans aligned with President Bushīs open borders policies introduced Amnesty Bills all of which were defeated under heavy public opposition. As if public opinion mattered little, President Obama has promised cheap labor profiteers, illegal alien advocacy groups (particularly Mexican nationalist operating within the United States); and foreign heads of states supplying illegal alien labor, that he will push for yet another Amnesty Bill in May of this year.
With antipathy toward mob rule and having suffered under tyranny, the Founders committed the emerging nation to a government with multiple checks and balances between opposing interests with the intent of keeping the central government small and servant to the states and the people.
With that thought in mind, our Founders established a republican form of government.
The meaning and intent of the United States federal republic is illustrated in two key formative documents.
The 10th Amendment which was ratified in 1791 reads, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
The 10th Amendment was derived from the Articles of Confederation which reads, "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled".
Federal government abuse of power and arrogance has led many states to re-assert their sovereignty by the passage of resolutions. As of this year, twenty one states have passed resolutions putting the federal government on notice that they are exceeding their authority and violating states rights and citizensī Constitutional rights. The last state to re-assert its sovereignty is Texas.
The governors and legislators of 21 states who have taken a stand of State Sovereignty now fall under the Obama administrationīs label of potential domestic terrorists and would be candidates for surveillance.
The state sovereignty movement is not about seceding from the Union as much as it is a commitment to pare down the expansion and power of the federal government back to its original Constitutional intent.
The leaked enemies list is called, "Rightwing Extremists: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment".
One alarming admission in the report is that the Department of Homeland Security is conducting domestic surveillance of unsuspecting citizens in order to rout out those in categories found in the enemies list. The acknowledgement could signify that millions of peopleīs privacy may have already been compromised. Independently of the Napolitano risk assessment report, the National Security Administration admitted this week that they have been involved in domestic spying on United States citizens.
Under the influence of "intelligence" from Sec. Napolitanoīs Department of Homeland Security, the State of Missouri had under surveillance citizens with bumper stickers for 2008 Republican Presidential candidates Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter and third Party candidates, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr up until this month when public outrage following a leak brought the practice to a halt.
Equally startling is that the DHS Assessment Report admits that the Department has no credible evidence of extremist violence in any of the groups under surveillance. Some Congressmen and many citizens, including veterans are asking this question: "Where does the authority to monitor citizens exercising their Constitutional protected rights come from?"
The federal government relies on taxes to grow its power and excesses. The excesses and Constitutional violations of big intrusive government is clear evidence that we are over-taxed.
There is speculation that the DHS and other assessment reports focusing on the military style support role of veterans in a popular rebellion against corrupt big government and the perception that government is to blame for America ever becoming a failed state is an overreaction on the governmentīs part.
Harsh critics point to the Obama administration as possibly fearing that its gargantuan spending and radical political and social plans set against a background of a photograph of a president that will not hold his hand to his heart during the reciting of the national anthem, sits still for 20 years against the tirades of a mad Chicago cleric; and who bows to foreign kings and triple handshakes petty tyrants may provoke polarization and an equal-force reaction from citizens.
On tax day, April 15, over 500,000 turned out to Tea Parties around the nation, 20,000 in Atlanta alone, to protest big, corrupt and irresponsible government. The protesters have little sympathy for either of the two big Political Parties. Many citizens are beginning to believe this is a 2010 election warm-up and like the Boston Tea Party of 1773, that it may have heralded the spark of the Second American Revolution.
On a similar vein, later this year a group of citizens will hold the Continental Congress 2009 event possibly in Philadelphia, the site of the original Constitutional Convention. As part of CC 2009, delegates selected by the People from each of the fifty states will convene to discuss the Government's ongoing violations of the Constitution and strategies the People can employ to peacefully curtail the abuses. Although these violations have been widely debated for years, it is the Government's patent refusal to respond to any and all First Amendment Petitions for Redress that now compels the People to educate our Nation and begin the task of organizing to restore Constitutional Order and secure Liberty.
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"Smile - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano May Be Watching You"
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Text of the DHS Report on Extremist Surveillance
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