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If you've been watching the news or reading the papers lately--even the
lousy ones--you've no doubt seen images and read descriptions of black-clad
goons bursting into the homes of unsuspecting citizens. There seems to be
a trend in law enforcement hinging on nearly every federal agency and local
municipality developing its own "elite" force of shock troops.

When just such a gestapo force in Boston in March of 1994 raided an apartment in
search of drugs, they ended up bringing about the death of a respected Boston
minister, Rev. Accelynee Williams. Seems Williams was foolish enough to try to
hide in his bathroom when the goon squad kicked in his door and shoved guns in
his face. The goons grabbed the elderly minister, threw him to the floor,
subdued him, and he soon died of a heart attack.

Turns out--in what might be described on the evening news as a wacky mix-up--
the cops were one floor lower than they should have been. They goon-squad
commander had apparently misread his floorplan.

This issue is only becoming worse and worse as police forces are composed of
officers who don't live in the neighborhoods they patrol and federal, state and
local goon squads bicker and squabble over who has jurisdiction over the high-
profile cases that will bring big publicity, promotions and budgetary funding.
The next step, apparently, will be a national police force, used to "help" local
cops in times of "crisis." This will, of course, constitute a full-fledged
police state in every respect.

So if you're still convinced that sitting at home and minding your own business
protects you from government oppression--if you are stupid enough to think that
your constitutional rights are safe because you're not a drug dealer or a fan of
kiddie porn or a glue sniffer or a religious nut, think again. All it takes is a
goon in a big hurry and your house could be picked out as the wrong one from a
SWAT team map. You might be able to ask Rev. Accelynee Williams how he felt when
the Boston cops kicked his door in, but he's dead. Are you next?

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Excerpted from Jan. 24, 1994 issue of
"For the People News Reporter" (A Biweekly Newspaper)
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MARCHING TOWARD A POLICE STATE
by Robert W. Lee
[Excerpts]

The phrase "police state" has an ominous ring to those who are
not striving to impose or maintain one. From the days of fascist
Sparta to the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB, the lessons of
history teach that dictators and oligarchs must centralize police
powers in order to impose their wills and maintain control.
Often, the would-be dictators themselves incite the violence that
then serves as an excuse for centralizing police power and
disarming the citizenry in order to "solve" the problem.

That is what Adolph Hitler did to facilitate his rise to power.
One result, described by liberal historian William L. Shirer
(CFR) in *The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich*, was that on
"June 16, 1936, for the first time in German history, a unified
police was established for the whole of the Reich -- previously
the police had been organized separately by each of the states --
and Himmler was put in charge as Chief of the German Police. This
was tantamount to putting the police in the hands of the S.S.,
which since its suppression of the Roehm 'revolt' in 1934 had
been rapidly increasing its power... The Third Reich, as is
inevitable in the development of all totalitarian dictatorships,
had become a police state."

Gun control also played a crucial role in solidifying Nazi rule,
confirming that dictatorship thrives best where the people are
disarmed, since there is then little chance of mounting an
effective, broad-based challenge to those in power. Section II,
Paragraph 3, Part 5 of Hitler's March 18, 1938 "Weapons Law," for
instance, asserted that a license to manufacture guns "must not
be issued if the applicant -- or if one of the persons proposed
for the commercial or technical management of the business -- is
a Jew." In contrast, Section IV, Paragraph 12 provided that a
"firearms acquisition permit is not needed by," among others,
"Officials of the central government" and "the states." Moreover,
Paragraph 19 exempted those "to whom a firearm is supplied for
official purposes," including persons "in the service of the
central government [and] the states... the S.A. [and] the S.S."

Hitler realized that in order to establish a dictatorship he had
to control the police powers and he had to confiscate the guns.
But he did not tell the German people it was his intent to
enslave them. By the time they realized what had happened, it was
too late.

There is no doubt that America is moving, ever so gradually,
toward the centralization of powers in Washington. Police powers
are no exception. More federal involvement in law enforcement and
more restrictions on the private ownership of firearms [are
alarming trends.]

One recent manifestation of America's drift toward a national
police force is the final report of the National Performance
Review (NPR) headed by Vice President Al Gore. Said to be a
blueprint for "reinventing government," this report recommends
"the designation of the Attorney General as the Director of Law
Enforcement to coordinate federal law enforcement efforts." [Some
observers contend that this scheme] would actually create a
national police force for the first time in our history.

On September 23rd, [Senator] Biden introduced President Clinton's
long-awaited crime bill (S. 1488)... Perhaps the singularly most
ominous provisions of the President's $6 billion crime package
are its calls for further federalization of state and local law
enforcement agencies. Although it would be virtually impossible
to convert a nation with 40,000 independent police forces into a
police-state tyranny, such despotism would become inevitable
should the central government gain control of those forces. The
pending legislation calls for the expenditure of $3.45 billion
over six years to fund 50,000 additional police officers under a
"Cops on the Beat" community policing program. The Senate bill
would also authorize college scholarships to generate a Police
Corps of up to 20,000 recruits annually. The Cops on the Beat and
Police Corps proposals would be giant steps toward ultimate
federal domination of our nation's police departments.

The best policemen come from the communities they serve and have
the interests of the local citizenry first and foremost in mind.
The President's army of federally financed policemen -- who would
have few or no established roots in the communities they serve,
and whose loyalty would run to the central government that pays
their salaries or financed their education -- would stand in
stark contrast to that ideal.

Charles "Bud" Meeks, executive director of the National Sheriff's
Association, recently noted the extent to which the federal
government has already infringed upon local police power. "By
passing statutes in an effort to make [the crime situation]
better," he observed, "we're getting closer to a federal police
state."

The U.S. Constitution lists only one federal crime, treason, yet
in recent years Congress has moved to make federal crimes of
carjacking, vandalism of biomedical research laboratories,
defacement of religious property, child pornography, and some
3,000 other offenses that were once the province of state and
local municipalities.

Step by step, the federal government, through the expansion of
federal crimes, through funding, and through the growth of the
regulatory agencies, is encroaching on local law enforcement.
Syndicated columnist Samuel Francis reminds us that "over the
last 30 years or so, the creeping federal incursion into law
enforcement has yielded some 140 agencies at the federal level
that have such a role... In addition, federal court rulings now
govern much of what local police and courts do and how they can
(and can't) do it, while more and more federal laws give more and
more police power to the feds." And what good has it done?
"...everyone knows the federal engulfment of law enforcement has
failed miserably to control crime and make the country safe.
That's because, by its very nature, effective law enforcement is
local."

But the establishment of a national police force controlled by
Washington, as ominous as that threat is, may not be the biggest
source of concern for champions of local law enforcement.
Suggestions have already been made for deploying U.N.
"peacekeeping" forces in America.

The *Chicago Tribune* for September 29th carried a column by Bob
Greene that raised just such a possibility:

The United Nations currently has multinational peacekeeping
troops stationed in 14 countries around the world.

The precise missions vary, but they all have one thing in common:
The international soldiers are there to help bring tranquility
and safety to places that can't do so on their own.

So perhaps there is one more place where a U.N. multinational
force is desperately needed: The United States.

"Preposterous?" Greene asked. "Maybe not. Maybe it is an issue
for the 184 member nations of the U.N. to discuss. Sending
soldiers from around the world onto the streets of our own
country? We probably haven't come to the point where we need such
action yet, but we're veering perilously close."

Such a step would fit perfectly with what the new world order
architects have in mind. On July 14th of this year, Senator Biden
introduced Senate Joint Resolution 112 urging the President to
initiate discussions leading to negotiations to establish a
standing United Nations army. Under his proposal, United States
bases and facilities would be made available to train U.N.
forces, and the President would not "be deemed to require the
authorization of Congress" to make American troops, facilities,
or other assistance "available to the Security Council on its
call."

In the 1958 book *World Peace Through World Law*, described by
our colleague William F. Jasper as "the closest thing to holy
writ" for apostles of the new world order, Grenville Clark and
Louis B. Sohn (CFR) proposed a socialist world government
predicated on a revised U.N. Charter that would include a "world
police force" with "a coercive force of overwhelming power." This
force would be "the only *military* force permitted anywhere in
the world after the process of national disarmament had been
completed." In the second edition of the book released in 1960,
Clark and Sohn added the warning that "it must be recognized that
even with the complete elimination of all [national] *military*
forces there would necessarily remain substantial, although
strictly limited and lightly armed, internal police forces, and
that these police forces, supplemented by civilians armed with
sporting rifles and fowling pieces, might conceivably constitute
a serious threat to a neighboring country in the absence of a
well-disciplined and heavily armed world police."

The handwriting, as they say, is on the wall, and it could hardly
be more clear where the Pied Pipers of the new world order intend
to march us. To sum up, the current and other recent presidential
administrations have [been] working with patient gradualism to:
1) strengthen the United Nations militarily; 2) reduce our
national defense capability; 3) establish a national police
apparatus; 4) finance local police with federal tax dollars (and
shackle them with accompanying federal controls); and 5) impose
gun controls that will most affect peaceful citizens.

It is time to wake up, become informed about what is going on,
and start fighting back with every remaining legal and moral
means at our command. And a good place to start would be to
support our local police and keep them independent of federal
control.

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